Chapter 615 The Dilapidated Pingliang City Has Hold On for Nearly Twenty Days!
It was the Jinyiwei who came, not the Jinyiwei, because Pingliang City was an enemy-controlled area, and it was very difficult for the Jinyiwei to come to deliver the order. Therefore, when the imperial edict was delivered to the Northwestern Shanxi Intelligence Station by fast horse, the Jinyiwei special envoy who delivered the order used his privileges to urgently recruit an officer from the front line.
The cavalry reconnaissance company escorted itself through the enemy's battlefield to deliver the message.
In order to allow this cavalry company to successfully complete its mission, the military commander in northwestern Shanxi urgently requisitioned and deployed the best equipment and best horses among the generals! This troop and horse are one man with two horses and one man with two spears.
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"Special Envoy Lin, go and communicate with General Sun about the order. I will lead the troops to block the gap here first!" The cavalry company commander who entered the gap saw that the enemy troops who had been disrupted behind him regrouped and fought towards the gap.
Come. Hurry up and explain to the accompanying Jinyiwei special envoy, let him and Sun Shoufa clearly explain the matter of passing the decree, and then lead someone to seal the gap.
A cavalry company equipped with revolvers and breech-loaded bolt-action rifles blocked the gap and quickly pushed back the Shaanxi army that was desperately charging into the formation.
Zuo Ming and Zheng Jiadong, who were commanding the siege outside the city, had long known that more than a hundred cavalry had entered the battlefield. However, facing the sharp musketeers, the Shaanxi soldiers could not stop them and could only watch them charge.
Enter the city.
"There are not many enemies coming, only about a hundred people, and the scouting horses have not found any other enemy troops nearby. General Zheng, since the gap has been blocked by them with firearms, in my opinion, we should give up the attack on the city for the time being.
, and then use heavy artillery to bombard Yitian City?" The livid-faced Zuo Ming saw that the soldiers who were rushing into the battle retreated under the pressure of muskets, and had to discuss countermeasures with Zheng Jiadong!
"There's no harm in bombarding Tiantian City. Sun Shoufa can't change the situation of the battle just by relying on the new people in the city. Just be afraid, these people are just the vanguard, and a larger number of enemy troops will come to help later."
"If we send all the cavalry we can use to the road, the enemy will at most send reinforcements around the city to help. There won't be too many troops and horses! In addition, we have to build some positions outside the city to block the enemy's charging formation.
.As long as the city can be broken within two or three days, the war situation can still be controlled."
While Zuo Ming and Zheng Jiadong were discussing countermeasures and adjusting their arrangements, Sun Shoufa in Pingliang City completed the ceremony of receiving the order! He was both excited and anxious! The imperial court was very sure of his actions anyway, and he was granted the title of General and temporarily appointed himself.
He is the general manager of the Sichuan and Shaanxi troops. But the problem is that the reinforcements have not arrived yet, and only the special envoys who have come to deliver the edict. In other words, in addition to an imperial edict and the hundred or so people who have come, they have to rely on their own existing troops.
Defend Pingliang City.
"Special envoy, when will the reinforcements sent to Shaanxi by the imperial court arrive at Pingliang City?" After receiving the order, Sun Shou quickly asked the question he was most concerned about.
"This..., General Sun, I really can't say for sure. Anyway, the general's action happened unexpectedly, and the court and the Military Command Hall were not prepared at all, even though the Military Command Hall also issued a military order to mobilize troops to northern Shaanxi when I came to deliver the order.
We arrived at the former enemy headquarters. But such a large military operation would take a lot of time from gathering troops to entering Shaanxi. In addition, there are several cities and thousands of miles between Pingliang and northwest Shanxi. Even if there is no obstacle to the normal march,
, it’s not easy to get here!” Jin Yiwei’s special envoy looked embarrassed when faced with Sun Shoufa’s question, so he had to tell the truth.
"General, Pingliang City has to hold on for at least ten more days. From a practical point of view, the main troops and horses of the imperial court entering northern Shaanxi will be gathering and crossing the river in the past few days. @ESSENTIAL\/书馆*First update~
~After crossing the river, it is estimated that Commander Ma will send one or two cavalry brigades to rush towards Pingliang City. Based on a day's march of 120 miles, it will take eight or nine days for the cavalry brigade to reach Pingliang City at best.
Nearby. This is the official's estimate based on the most optimistic scenario!" After repelling the enemy's charge at the gap, Wang Sanchao, the commander of the cavalry company who accompanied him to deliver the order, also came to Sun Shoufa and others. Seeing Jin Yiwei's special envoy Lin
Wei couldn't speak clearly, so he hurriedly interrupted to explain to Sun Shoufa.
"Can we hold on for at least ten days? Sir Envoy, I am afraid that our Pingliang City cannot be defended for that long. If the Special Envoy had not arrived today with the musketeers, the city would have been broken immediately."
Wang Sanchao didn't wait for Lin Wei's answer, and said to Sun Shoufa: "General! The reality is this, the reinforcements really can't come. There are only two options now. One is for the general to lead people to break out of the city and march towards Yan'an Prefecture.
The movement will join forces with the imperial troops and horses, and the second is to rely on the existing troops and horses to hold on for more than ten days, waiting for reinforcements. There is no other way."
"We cannot break through. There are 30,000 to 40,000 enemy troops outside the city, and most of my troops are infantry. Once they leave the city, they will be scattered and the entire army will be wiped out. (This chapter is not finished yet!)
Chapter 615 The dilapidated Pingliang City held on for nearly twenty days!
destruction!"
In fact, with the sharp firearms of the cavalry company, Sun Shoufa and his elite team of servants have a high chance of breaking through successfully. @ essence\/书馆*First update~~ But Sun Shoufa does not make such a choice, he wants to fight with himself
All soldiers will live and die together.
"We can only rely on the existing troops and horses to hold on! In fact, the official thinks that with proper arrangements, Pingliang City may not be able to be defended."
"How to arrange it?"
"Use sandbags, earthworks and trenches to set up several lines of defense in the city, and hold on step by step! In this way, even if the city wall is collapsed by artillery, we can still carry out street fighting. During street fighting, the power of the enemy's heavy artillery will be greatly affected.
There are restrictions, and we still have more than two hundred muskets available here! Using these muskets and the grenades we brought will cause a lot of damage to the enemy, and we can hope to wait for reinforcements."
Is such a strategy feasible? Sun Shoufa is full of doubts about Wang Sanchao's ideas! But now there is no other way to think of but to use this method to defend the city!
On the second day, the Shaanxi army outside the city began to bombard the city with heavy artillery, destroying several sections of the city wall, and then the army poured into these gaps. This is why the city wall of Pingliang City was too seriously damaged by civil riots, and later
It has not been really repaired and is very crude. If it were a strong and complete city wall, it would be difficult for the Shaanxi army's heavy artillery to blast away so many gaps.
After opening so many gaps, Zuo Ming and Zheng Jiadong thought that breaking the city was a matter of course! But what made them dumbfounded was that Sun Shoufa and the others actually set up a defense line in the city to stop the attack.
The defense lines set up in the city looked very simple, but when they fought, they found that they were actually more troublesome than attacking the city wall. The use of artillery was greatly restricted. The musketeers on the opposite side relied on sandbags, earthworks and trenches to cause damage to the soldiers and horses entering the city.
Inflicted huge casualties, and Sun Shoufa's soldiers were even more fearless in fighting and intercepting them. After ten days of entering the city, nearly half of the small Pingliang City was still resisting!
Nearly twenty days have passed since receiving the military order to attack the city! Sun Chuanting's military order is to break the city within ten days. It seems that this task cannot be completed!
Chapter 615 The dilapidated Pingliang City held on for nearly twenty days!