The Cheng Jiajun's first round of bombardment began soon. The caliber of these mountain cannons was relatively small, and they still used old-fashioned black powder charges, so the explosion power was not very powerful and the damage to the Iron-Blooded Army was very small.
The heavy artillery troops of the Iron-Blooded Army reacted and immediately began to suppress the Cheng Jiajun. The small and mobile Cheng Jiajun mountain artillery fired one shot at a time and moved to another place, playing hide and seek with the heavy artillery troops of the Iron-Blooded Army. However, the heavy artillery of the Iron-Blooded Army had a long range.
, it was not something that the Cheng Jiajun mountain artillery unit could hit. As a result, the artillery battle between the two sides was extremely fierce. It lasted for two hours but there were not many casualties. Later, Cheng Feng withdrew the artillery unit back in order to save artillery shells, and this long-distance attack ended.
Artillery dialogue.
Due to the interference of Cheng Jiajun's artillery, the Jagged Army did not charge towards the second line of defense, but started civil engineering work. The soldiers hid in the trenches and dug the soil with engineering shovels, so that the trenches could move towards the opponent's defense line bit by bit.
Advance. Although this method is very time-consuming, it can effectively prevent the opponent's artillery fire and shooting. The snipers stay on the position and call out the enemy soldiers exposed on the opposite position one by one.
This is the first time that snipers have been deployed into ordinary combat troops in the entire Chinese territory. All snipers in the past were in the special operations army. They were just divided into two-person sniper teams to carry out activities similar to guerrilla warfare.
This time they gave Peng Dechao a surprise as soon as they appeared on the frontal battlefield, and soon he had the snipers start a hunting game.
The exposed heads of the Cheng Jiajun soldiers were shot one by one. When blood and brains splashed on the faces of nearby soldiers, the Cheng Jiajun soldiers collapsed. Some recruits were so frightened that they dropped their weapons and ran to the rear, but they escaped from the cover of the trenches.
They soon became the next prey of the Jagged Army snipers. After several deserters were killed, other soldiers no longer dared to leave the trenches.
The civil engineering work was very fast, but when there was still a hundred meters away from the opponent's second line of defense, the trenches could not be dug any further. Since the opponent's second trench was under the city wall, the trench was too close to the city wall, and the opponent would
You can shoot into the trenches from the city walls, and the trenches lose their role as cover.
Seeing that the trench warfare was not working, Peng Dechao immediately ordered the civil engineering work to stop, and only used snipers to weaken the opponent's morale bit by bit. For a whole day, the lower-level officers and soldiers of the Cheng Jiajun suffered heavy losses.
He stuck his head out of the trench.
At night, Peng Dechao decided to launch a night battle. The soldiers of the Iron-Blooded Army still sneaked into the opposite trench in small groups. The soldiers of the Cheng Family Army who were frightened during the day were very tired. Most of them fell asleep, even the sentinels.
They all dozed off.
The soldiers of the Iron Blood Army lay on the ground and slowly moved forward in a crawling posture. Several soldiers came to a place more than 20 meters away from the opposite trench. They took out grenades and threw them over. Continuous explosions shook the Cheng Jiajun's
The soldier woke up.
It's a pity that the Cheng Jiajun soldiers haven't woken up to what's going on. The Jagged Army soldiers who jumped up have already stabbed their chests with shining bayonets. However, the Cheng Jiajun soldiers on the city wall couldn't see their targets clearly because of the darkness and were afraid of accidental injuries.
Our own people, even if they knew there was a fierce battle below, they would not dare to shoot.
After quickly clearing the second trench, the soldiers of the Iron-Blooded Army immediately began to climb up the city wall. The city wall of Longquan Mansion was hundreds of years old. Many of the wall bricks were rotten and the gaps were full of weeds, which often made it difficult for them to climb up.
The Predator soldiers doing rock climbing training felt much more relaxed.
Cheng Feng was sleeping in the city lord's mansion. When he was awakened by the explosion of a grenade, he didn't know what had happened. The guard told him that the opponent had launched a night attack, and Cheng Feng was so frightened that he rushed out with a pistol without even putting on his clothes.
house.
Cheng Feng led dozens of guards and ran towards the south gate. As soon as they reached the halfway point, they found some broken soldiers coming towards them. Cheng Feng's guards stepped forward, grabbed a few broken soldiers and asked them, only to know that the enemy had already attacked.
The city wall.
Cheng Feng was very aware of the combat effectiveness of his troops. If these soldiers who lacked training fought against the odds or were surrounded, they might fight to the death. If the city was breached like this and there was still a way to survive, he would not be able to survive at all.
He couldn't hold back his troops. In desperation, Cheng Feng had to gather a group of his trusted troops, opened the east gate and escaped.
Cheng Feng led more than 3,000 people to the east. He planned to go to the border area of Longquan Prefecture and sneak back to the Cheng family's control area along the junction of Jinhua County controlled by the Jagged Army and Hudong County controlled by the Xia family.
Unfortunately, Cheng Feng's nightmare was not over yet. Just over thirty miles after they left Longquan Mansion, a burst of gunfire suddenly came from both sides of the road, and a company of people who were exploring the road ahead were immediately knocked down.
Cheng Feng, who was riding on his horse, was so frightened that he fell off his horse. Cheng Feng, who had just been defeated, had no intention of fighting and immediately led his team to leave the road and flee south. There was only one battalion of troops in the ambush, and they did not pursue them. They just took the guns abandoned by the opponent.
All the wounded soldiers who could not escape were collected and sent to prisoner camps.
There are many such ambush troops. This is Liu Mingzhao's ambush plan from all sides. He knows very well that the Cheng family army who were defeated and fled must be in a panic. Once they are blocked, they will never check in detail. Therefore, he uses this strategy to let a few
The troops ambushed one after another, consuming the opponent bit by bit.
Unaware of this, Cheng Feng continued to run away, but they soon encountered an ambush again, and a group of them were killed while running away. Cheng Feng's team slowly weakened, and by the time he took out the Longquan Mansion Boundary, he was already surrounded by people.
There are only about thirty people left.
Looking at the more than 30 cronies behind him, Cheng Feng felt like crying without tears. He was also very proud of the actions of the 200,000 elite troops, and the Xiahou family was defeated step by step.
Unexpectedly, the army led by Zhonghua was so powerful. In the blink of an eye, all his troops were killed and injured. However, there are advantages to having fewer people. With fewer people, the target is smaller. Cheng Feng and others asked them to bury all the guns, let go of the horses, and replaced them with
Wearing the clothes of ordinary people, we continued to move forward. Under the cover of disguise, Cheng Feng and others successfully returned to Jiaozhi County.
After wiping out the Cheng Family Army, the Iron-Blooded Army did not continue the pursuit. Instead, they stationed themselves in Jiuhua County and Jinhua County, implemented military control over the local areas, and tightened their control over these areas.
With the iron-blooded army maintaining local security, the people gradually settled down. Even Fang Xiaoyu did not expect that the reputation of Zhonghua Ling's brand name was so good. After knowing that this place was occupied by the Zhonghua Ling's army, many nearby people helped the elderly and children to go there.
With the relocation here, the population of the two counties quickly increased.
With such a large population, the security problem naturally became much more serious. Liu Mingzhao had no choice but to ask the government for help. East China Bank quickly sent government officials to take over, and Liu Junxi also sent police troops. The two counties were quickly settled down.
With the police in charge of local security, all the troops could be mobilized. Liu Mingzhao quickly deployed most of the troops to the junction of Jiuhua County and Yulin County. The mobilization of the Iron Blood Army made the Cheng family really nervous for a while, and they immediately sent people to fight with the Japanese.
Contact, hoping that the Japanese country can send troops immediately to contain the Chinese army.
When the Japanese government saw the powerful offensive capabilities of the iron-blooded army led by the Chinese, they were so frightened that they retreated and no longer dared to provoke. In desperation, the Cheng family mobilized heavy troops to garrison the border area with Jiuhua County in an attempt to rely on their numerical advantage.
Block the Jagged Army's attack.
The Iron-Blooded Army's unusual advancement speed, fierce offensive style and super high quality of soldiers attracted the attention of the whole world, allowing the world to appreciate the peerless style of Fang Xiaoyu's private army for the first time.
Just as the Cheng family was fearfully defending the Iron-blooded Army and desperately consolidating their positions, Xia Yuhui suddenly launched an attack. Due to lack of funds, the Xia family could not prepare enough logistics materials. Only three armies were dispatched for this battle.
These troops may seem small, but they are the absolute elite main force of the Xia family. Moreover, most of the Cheng family's troops have been transferred to Yulin County to defend against the Iron-Blooded Army's attack. The forces in other counties are relatively thin.
Xia Yuhui led the army to attack quickly, aiming directly at Tongren Mansion in Anshun County. The mountain cannons pulled by horses made the Xia army move extremely fast. In just two days, they rushed from Baoxing Mansion to Tongren Mansion. Because the Cheng family
Excessive deployment of troops, Anshun County used a garrison composed of slaves to maintain law and order.
These slaves were already oppressed by the Cheng family, so one can imagine their morale. Coupled with Cheng Yuhuan's distrust, they were equipped with mostly cold weapons and not a single cannon. How could such morale and equipment be related to training?
Compared with Xia Jiajun, who always had high morale.
Amidst the rumble of the Xiajiashan artillery group, the Xia family did not even need to launch an infantry charge. The slaves stationed in various places raised their hands and surrendered. Xia Yuhui seized this weak link of the Cheng family and divided the army into dozens of groups.
An all-out attack on the five prefectures of Guiyang, Anshun, Chishui, Tongren, and Liping in Anshun County from multiple directions.
Wherever the Xia family's army went, slaves surrendered in despair, and those officials of the Cheng family who saw that the situation was over also fled the area with their finances and went back to become rich men. Seeing that there were no officials in the place, the Xia family dispatched officials from the rear to garrison.
While military control was implemented in some areas, there was no major unrest in Anshun County.
The Xia Jiajun annexed the entire Anshun County at a very fast speed, and the forwards had already entered the Wenshan Prefecture area of Jiaozhi County. Cheng Feng was shocked when he received this situation, and he quickly asked his eldest brother Cheng Wei to take some reserve teams to Wenshan Prefecture to defend.
Jiaozhi County can be said to be the last home base of the Cheng family. Once this place is lost, the Cheng family will fall into an irreversible situation. Therefore, under the leadership of Cheng Wei, the Cheng family army fought fiercely in Wenshan Fucheng, and the Xia and Cheng armies fell into a fierce attack and defense.