Traveler Major League

Chapter 246 Capture of Pingliang Mansion

Outside the southern city of Pingliang Prefecture in the northwestern town of Andongzhong, the mortar fire of the People's Army hit the Ming army's stronghold outside the city with unimaginable power and accuracy. As soon as the fire started, The general was about to be beheaded and attacked by drones, and the entire military stronghold collapsed instantly. Seeing that the city gate could not be opened, the defeated soldiers fled around the city one after another.

The three-meter-high city wall of Pingliang Mansion prostrates on the ground like a winding dragon. It is extremely majestic, but at this time, the entire city seems to have been twisted and collapsed under the weight of the popular army outside the city that had just attacked violently.

When the heavily-armed siege brigade of the Fourth Army of the People's Army was transferred from Xianyang to Pingliang Mansion, it heralded the inevitable fall of the city. Although the newly appointed Trilateral Governor Zheng Chongjian concentrated more than [-] troops here, Reinforcements from various places are also coming, but they have lost the initiative to go out of the city to fight under this attack. Mortars are still bombarding continuously, especially the south city wall and the barbican city. The city wall cannot stand in this kind of explosion. It fell, but the casualties were really heavy.

The most important thing is that no general dares to command outside. The southern city wall, which was originally six miles long, no one dares to prepare for war at the top of the city. The soldiers were cut into small pieces of different sizes and hiding under the bombardment of artillery fire. In the cave where soldiers were hiding, they gathered together to avoid artillery fire and report to the group to keep warm.

During this time, a small section of the moat near the city gate had been filled in, leaving only a smooth road.

Compared with the fall of Xi'an and other cities, Pingliang Mansion's will to resist has gone up several notches. It is like the difference between civilians and ordinary soldiers. Although this soldier has a weapon, the weapon is a stick, while the enemy is a body. A warrior wearing double heavy armor and holding a sharp ax!
  Twenty mortars were lined up on the artillery position south of Pingliang Mansion. This formation can be regarded as the second most firepower after the Battle of Xi'an since this time travel. It concentrated the main heavy-armed siege force of the Fourth Army. All the heavy firepower of the brigade was intended to use tactics such as mortars and drone bombs to capture Pingliang Mansion with minimal casualties, and to shock many Ming army border military towns north of Pingliang Mansion.

Under the correction of the drone in mid-air, the power and accuracy of the mortar were greatly improved, and the rumbling explosions continued. Zheng Chongjian, who was dressed in casual clothes, immediately got off the city wall under such an attack. In his eyes, Pingliang Mansion is already a dead city. He has been worthy of the emperor and his subordinates until now.

A piece of rubble collapsed from the top of the city and hit the group of people.

"Sir, be careful." Several personal guards closely protected Zheng Chongjian.

Zheng Chongjian shook off the dust on his body and said without sadness or joy in his heart: "Don't worry about me. Let's go quickly. Get the horse and go straight to the north gate."

Another burst of explosions came, and streaks of green and black smoke emerged from the city. Zheng Chongjian knew that it must have been caused by the general who had exposed his whereabouts. Although he was self-taught, he realized that the obvious characteristics were that he was hit by bombs falling from the sky. The secret was only told to a few close subordinates. The other new generals had no choice but to pray for themselves. Occasionally, they could see pieces of broken limbs and broken arms on the streets with their entourage, and splatters of blood everywhere. , the pace accelerated a bit.

The siege troops with an honorable formation were attracted outside the city gate. The surprise artillery attack of just ten minutes passed by in the blink of an eye. The effect was astonishing. The battlefield was filled with smoke. Everyone knew that the next step was the meat show of siege. .

However, after the smoke from the artillery attack cleared, the city was still quiet. There were no Ming army generals commanding them, and they were running away to the death.

The siege troops went all out as soon as they came up. The siege troops consisting of two battalions were sent to the front line. They had already received the order, so they didn't have to hold back, just go straight!
  The officers shouted loudly: "The Ming army has been defeated, attack! Attack! Take Pingliang Mansion! Take down the south gate of Xiaoguan!"

Under the roars of commanders at all levels, including battalion commanders and instructors, more and more soldiers squeezed out their voices from their chests. Thousands of soldiers lined up in dense formations, holding onto their weapons and carrying Long ladder, follow the officer and rush towards the city wall in front.

The army surged forward, using advanced single-shot rifles. As they marched, they continued to form formations, forming a long tidal peak, a typical dense formation. An offensive of this scale would not be able to attack the machine gun positions. , it will inevitably lead to death and injury in the blink of an eye, but it is a pity that only the people's army in this world has that thing.

This time, the people's army used the gate of the south city of Pingliang Prefecture as a breakthrough point. It was the old rule. Anyway, the morale of the defenders was very low due to the shelling and unmanned attacks. Many of them escaped and fled. The remaining Ming army troops who dared to resist could not stand on all the battlements. .

Amidst the flying dust, sporadic gunshots rang out.

The Ming army in Pingliang City is not completely unopposed, but the few who dare to fight in waves are almost ineffective. Anyone who goes against the mainstream crowd will be attacked first by drones in the sky. If there are large numbers, they will also be attacked. The incoming mortar fire was concentrated. In the environment of the Ming Dynasty city, all the obvious actions on the streets could not avoid the eyes of the sky.

In just half an hour, the Ming army, which was fleeing like headless flies, had seen this scene many times. As soon as a neatly arranged army gathered together, it was hit by a sudden burst of artillery fire and fell apart. A sea of ​​fire.

After experiencing many such attacks, the Ming army became self-taught like Zheng Chongjian, so let's do it.

In this way, the people's army's troops continued to shrink the distance, crossed the city wall, the city gate opened, and entered the city!
  Under the loud command of the officers, the final attack was launched.

"Come on!" the soldiers also shouted.

There was no fierce battle, there was just a roar, and then there was an earth-shattering tiger roar!

"The city is broken! The city is broken!"

The remaining stragglers of the Ming army rushed out from the rubble buildings, waving their swords to fight, and the shouts of killing suddenly started, like small splashes of water submerging into the huge waves. As soon as the two sides came into contact, these few warriors were shot down one after another.

Brigadier Yuan Bingwen saw these scenes from the images transmitted from his tablet computer and shook his head, "Stop unnecessary killings. Send an order: Those who kneel down and surrender will not be killed!"

Soon the battlefield was filled with shouts of preferential treatment for prisoners.

Walking in the alleyway full of bricks and rubble, a class of civilian soldiers lined up in a dense formation and kept an eye on both sides. The silence here was incompatible with other places, which aroused their suspicion.

"Hit!" Yu Chengxin shouted, and several soldiers with him raised their guns. What they were holding was an improved first-year rifle. After improvements by third-world technicians, it has better sealing and more power. It was easier to produce, so he aimed at a man wearing a servant-like style who was wielding a waist knife, and pulled the trigger.
  After the gunshot, the man fell to the ground, and the doors and windows of the wings on both sides opened. A dozen Ming soldiers in the same uniform rushed out. They held shields in the front, and stood on a high ground in the back and fired intensively with three-eyed muskets and bows. This class led by Yu Chengxin was fooled.

"Min Xiong throws a grenade!" Yu Chengxin dragged Ke Huijun, whose leg was injured, and pulled him back hard. Several other wounded people were also helped up and retreated quickly.

A grenade was thrown hard by Min Xiong, and there was a loud bang. The few people holding shields in front of the Ming army were submerged in the smoke and dust. Then, another round of grenades hit them. These are other reactions. The masterpiece of the soldiers who came over, encountered an ambush attack from the front, and the soldiers immediately counterattacked.

These people's soldiers all wore armed equipment with old-fashioned steel bulletproof inserts and helmets. At most, they only had injuries to their limbs, rarely fatal ones. However, the cotton armor of the Ming army on the opposite side was useless in the face of bullets and grenades. With shrill screams, they fell down one after another, and there were two other rotating classes taking over the position of the People's Army class.

The surrounding People's Army soldiers also swarmed in after hearing the sound of exchange of fire.

Just a few minutes later, the alleyway where Yu Chengxin's squad was ambushed was already filled with Ming army corpses, lying on the ground one by one. The last few remaining people were also surrounded by the people's army and could not escape. , but these people did not have the slightest idea of ​​surrender in their hearts.

"My lord, my lord?" A Ming army softly called Mr. Qian, who was still semi-conscious just now, trying to get him to give him an idea. Seeing Mr. Qian slowly opening his eyelids while shaking, he hurriedly said: "My lord, brother They are all dead, and the bandits are surrounding us again."

"...Report...the country..." Mr. Qian made a gesture on his neck with his right hand with difficulty. He was seriously injured by a drone bomb during the first wave of siege. He leaned on his hand. The loyal soldiers and servants rushed to this private house to bandage the wounds.

He has never thought about surrendering. The military pay and land in the imperial court are not easy to obtain. If he is captured in Pingliang Mansion, even if he does not die, his family will be affected. It is better to die and leave a good reputation and be in trouble. Opportunities for future generations.

This is also the reason why many family members did not die in the city chosen by the Ming Dynasty officials in the areas occupied by the people's army to report to the king. If we want to change this situation, we can only wait until the people's army comes to the world.

As a result, the servants who could still move could only fight desperately. They had completely lost their minds and no longer thought about escaping. They had only one thought in their minds, and that was to fight to death!

However, the entire Pingliangfu battle did not last long. The resistance of a few elite and die-hard Ming troops failed to save the battle. For most of the strong soldiers, victory or defeat was far less important than their own lives.

Occasionally the explosion of grenades and the sound of gunshots could still be heard in and around the city, but everything else gradually became quiet.

Zheng Chongjian, the governor of the three sides, immediately mixed with the cavalry with his personal entourage. He neither fled to Xiaoguan in the west nor Jinghe in the east. Instead, he went directly north into the mountains, detoured through Pengyang County, and passed through Guyuan. Yan'an Prefecture, in his mind, Lanzhou to the west has no troops to mobilize, and the population is small, so the only way to survive is to take a detour to the east.

This was also the case. The people's army that had already been ambushing the official roads on the east and west sides once again missed the opportunity to seize this high-ranking official.

The Ming army in Pingliang Prefecture was almost completely wiped out, and only a handful of people escaped alive. Since the people's army attacked from Xi'an, most of the battles were extremely brutal for the top brass of the Ming army. The main force was swallowed up. Generals die for their country, but as ordinary soldiers, on the contrary, as long as they are not impulsive, they can always save their lives.

In Pingliang Prefecture, all the elite northwest mobile troops that the Ming army could mobilize were completely wiped out. The entire war was rotten and their backbone was completely broken.

From the beginning of the war to now, it has not even been a day in total, and it is already coming to an end. In the still chilly mountain wind, the cheering soldiers holding red flags on the top of the city gate did not care. The military flags were ringing, and Yuan Bingwen could clearly see He felt the excitement of those soldiers, but he was more concerned about the losses of the troops. After this fierce battle, one-third of the mortar bomb inventory had been consumed.

"Totalized, there were [-] casualties, of which [-] were sacrificed. This is due to the excessive consumption of ammunition, especially mortar shells and drone-modified bombs. The specific number has yet to be calculated. We are not going to continue Attack Xiaoguan?" The chief of staff came in a hurry.

"First send a cavalry battalion to Xiaoguan to test it out."

The scale of today's battle is so large that Xiaoguan, who is seventy miles away, will probably learn the outcome of the battle through the rout. According to the normal behavior of the Ming army, it is even possible to escape without a fight. Once Xiaoguan is captured , the first phase of the planned northern campaign will come to an end.

As a senior military officer who was quickly promoted, he obviously knew Liu Ze's strategic plan.

The development of the facts is similar to what Yuan Bingwen imagined. After the intermittent troops fled to Xiaoguan, it started at Xu time and lasted until dawn, reaching its peak in the middle of the night. During this night, a large number of deserters appeared in Xiaoguan, and Pingliang The main force of the government has been wiped out by the people's army. Why don't you run away?
  Especially when the cavalry battalion arrived at Xiaoguan at dawn holding the banner of the captured Ming army generals, this was a fatal blow to the defenders here. The already low morale could not be restored. After attacking Xiaoguan with a drone, even the defender abandoned the pass and fled.

By the time dawn came, the cavalry battalion that had originally tried to attack had completely occupied Xiao Pass.

A cry came from the medical station outside Pingliang Prefecture, "Old soldier, old soldier, the Ming army that ambushed us is dead." Min Xiong also participated in the siege just now, and when everything settled, he ran back to the medical station According to reports, they have been in the same class since the training camp, and they are still in the same class on the battlefield, so their feelings are naturally different.

"Who are these?" asked Yu Chengxin, who was cleaning the lead bullet fragments from his arm.

The doctor who was concentrating on the side also became interested and asked curiously: "There are many more casualties in this battle. What's going on?"

"They were all border troops transferred by the Ming Army. Their boss Qian was half-dead in the bombing that ambushed us. He took some servants to hide in that house. The leader Qian refused to surrender and committed suicide. Those servants They also played with their lives and ended up dead."

After bandaging the wound, Yu Chengxin came out of the tent, looked at the sunset in the distance and sighed: "Hey, dying is really meaningless."

(End of this chapter)