Kai Fu Han

Chapter 592
There is a thin rope tied behind the canoe. The rope is very long and coiled in a small pile on the shore.

Soon, the boat rushed to the other side. After the soldiers got off the boat, some soldiers began to pull the rope tied behind the boat, while others raised their guns to guard the surroundings.

Thin ropes are followed by thicker ropes, then thicker ropes, and finally strong rafts tied to the ropes tied side by side.

There were inflated skin bags tied to the raft. There were many soldiers nearby who were blowing air into other skin bags. After they were inflated, they were tied to the raft.

"One, two, hey ha!"

The raft was pushed into the water, and under the pull of the rope from the other side, it floated little by little toward the other side of the river.

"One, two, hey ha!"

One raft after another was launched into the water, and the pontoon bridge was quickly built.

The soldiers who knew the water went up to reinforce the raft again.

During the construction of the pontoon bridge, the defenders of Wuzhi County also organized a charge.

More than 1000 soldiers who dared to die rushed out from the north gate and rushed towards the more than 20 advance soldiers on the south bank.

"Boom! Boom!..."

Twenty tiger crouching cannons formed a wall of shells in front of the twenty advance soldiers. After the exploding shells exploded, the flying shrapnel and iron pellets swept away more than 1000 defenders in a large area.

The shooting interval of the Tiger Crouching Cannon was very short. After being shelled once, the defenders who were still in a state of confusion were immediately hit by another round of shelling.

"Run!"

"The demon can control the thunder!"

In the chaos, the remaining defenders fled for their lives, and the "half-crossing attack" ended hastily.

Most of the defeated troops returned to Wuzhi City along the same route, and a small part fled towards the west. They were probably not optimistic that Wuzhi City could be defended.

After the defeated troops fled into the city, the north gate of Wuzhi City was immediately closed. Before closing, a laborer could be vaguely seen running over from behind the gate carrying earth bags, presumably to seal the city gate completely.

The pontoon bridge was leisurely erected and the army began to cross the river, first an infantry battalion and then a cavalry battalion.

After the cavalry battalion crossed the river, the entire army immediately dispersed and covered Wuzhi City on all sides.

The regiment headquarters was the last to cross the river and set up a headquarters on the south bank of the Qinshui River to continue directing operations.

Several of the previously scattered cavalry returned to the headquarters. After gathering the intelligence, the commander of the cavalry battalion reported to the officers the surrounding situation of Wuzhi City.

"There are defenders on all four walls, with the largest number of defenders on the north side."

The location of Wuzhi County is very advantageous. All water trade passing through the Qin River, the Yellow River and its tributaries must pass through Wuzhi County. This section of the Yellow River is relatively stable and can be sailed. Unlike the upper reaches, it is completely No shipping conditions.

Good business conditions made Wushe City relatively wealthy and could prevent more militiamen from defending the city.

"Is there any movement in Hanoi, Guofu County, Huaizhou?" the regiment leader asked the military intelligence personnel accompanying the army.

"So far, we have not received any information that Hanoi is coming to support Wuzhi County. Our southern army is marching directly towards Hanoi on the north bank of Qinhe River. They have no time to take care of themselves and should not come to support Wuzhi County."

"Then we can't go around and fight for aid." The team leader felt a little pity. "Let's attack directly." The detailed combat plan was quickly drawn up by the army staff, and the regiment commander made some fine-tuning and then notified it. After crossing the river, the army, which had been repairing, finally waited until the artillery crossed the river, and the army formation moved out again.

There is a huge gap between the weapons of the enemy and ours, with a gap of more than 800 years.There is also a huge gap in the quality of sergeants, the difference between amateurs and professional elites.

In the end, the siege process was very simple. First, the artillery was used to disperse the morale of the enemy troops, and then the muskets were lined up to suppress the city defenders from showing their faces.

After the occupation, our side still needs to govern, so we didn't use solid ammunition to bombard the city wall. More than a dozen suggested ladders were put on the wall of Wuzhi City, and a round of grenades was thrown on the wall to clear the obstacles. The soldiers took the lead and rushed to the top of the city along the ladder.

The will of the defenders to resist can be said to be quite tenacious. The generals of the defenders who persisted on the city wall were all killed before they began to surrender on a large scale.

"It shouldn't be. Why are these big soldiers defending so desperately?"

The spies from the Military Intelligence Department quickly contacted Di Ting in the city, and the whole story was figured out.

It turned out that Wuzhi County defense officials and military generals forcibly recruited civilian husbands and trapped their families in a neighborhood. There were piles of dry firewood around the neighborhood, and there were also various flammable materials in the yards inside the neighborhood, giving some important supplies. The passage was doused with kerosene.

The officers threatened the civilians that if they did not defend the city desperately, when the city was broken, the neighborhood would be set on fire.

Concerned about the safety of their families, the civilians who were forcibly conscripted fought desperately to resist the siege of the Xinghan League.

"Several officers in charge were killed on the top of the city by you. Those who were left in the city jumping over the wall and setting fire were restrained by the people who listened. Now the people are safe." Wuzhi Chengdi listened to the report.

"No wonder it wasn't until those officers were almost dead that the soldiers who defended the city gave up resistance and surrendered." The regiment leader sighed with some fear.

"The main thing is that if the city is destroyed and the city is not burned, their courage generated by being coerced will also dissipate." Leader Diting said.

"You have done a great job this time. If this fire is allowed to burn, we will all be in misery."

"These bastards are so inhumane. Their families are still here, but they killed all nine of them!"

"Yes, if they can do such a heartless thing, their whole family should be killed."

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The officers surrounding him were furious after hearing the public outcry.

"First arrest all the mastermind's family and wait for the alliance to fall." The group leader arranged.

Officials as hard-nosed as Wuzhi County who cannot see current events clearly must be in the minority.

The city of Hanoi that Liu Xinqi faced was very timid.

It is also located on the south bank of the Qinhe River. After the army arrived, they fired two rounds of heavy artillery across the river, and a white flag was raised above the city.

After the army repaired in Hanoi for a day, they continued westward into Mengzhou on the Northwest Jing Road, while the third regiment went directly south from Wuzhi County into the Northwest Jing Road, attacked Wen County on the north bank of the Yellow River in Mengzhou, and captured Wen County. After that, the third regiment will again attack Heyang in Guofu County, Mengzhou to the southwest, and finally be stationed here to defend Xijing Henan Prefecture in Southern Zhao.

It was the opinion of the staff to leave a regiment in Mengzhou. Liu Xinqi originally planned to advance the entire army westward and hand over all the prefectures and counties on the north bank of the Yellow River to the garrison for defense.However, the staff suggested that due to the repeated "stabbing in the back" of Nan Zhao, an insurance policy should be set up in Mengzhou.

A regiment of 2000 field troops stationed in Mengzhou City can defend an army of [-] men from attack for at least half a month.

Within half a month, the speed at which the Xinghan Alliance's military information was transmitted was enough to dispatch troops from other places to support them.

The westward offensive in late March went very smoothly, and it can be described in one word, that is, "the momentum is like a broken bamboo"!
(End of this chapter)