The Great Bandit in Kangxi Year

Chapter 201 Two-pronged approach
After the cannons, gunners, and ammunition were transported outside Nanchang, Wang Dashan gathered all the infantry artillery, and obtained more than 100 infantry artillery with a diameter of more than 900 mm.

dong dong dong...

The salvo of nearly a thousand cannons was as violent as landslides and ground cracks, raining iron beads on the entire Zhou army outside Nanchang City, and the shotguns fired by each cannon could cover a fan surface of tens of meters.

dong dong dong...

At this time, hundreds of large and small cannons at the top and below the city of Nanchang also rang out.

At this time, Jiang Yan, the cannon general, came to the scene in person. Seeing that the artillery positions of the Da Zhou army were exposed, he smiled instead of anger, and immediately ordered his subordinates to replace them with live ammunition, and bombarded the opponent's artillery positions.

The back-and-forth artillery battle lasted for an hour, and Da Zhou's artillery fire was turned off one after another. Obviously most of them were destroyed, and Jiang Yan's artillery also damaged more than [-] pieces, mainly destroyed by the opponent's red-clothed cannon.

"Change shotguns, fire eight rounds, target the enemy's positions outside the city, and extend in sequence!"

When General Shenpao's order was issued, the earth-shattering artillery fire rang out again.

At this time, the three sharpshooters loaded their ammunition, mounted their bayonets, and under the cover of artillery fire, rushed towards the trenches of Da Zhou.

When they rushed to 150 meters from Dazhou's position, the gunmen of each division shot in coverage, not seeking to kill Wu Sangui's army, but to suppress the opponent's mobility.

After a while, the tiger squatting guns of the sharpshooters were also carried to the front line.

dong dong dong...

Another three salvos were fired, and the soldiers hiding in the trenches couldn't stop the curved fire of the tiger squatting guns, and blood sprayed all over the place.

"Kill!"

Under the leadership of generals at all levels, the musketeers and sword and shield players of each sharpshooter division took the opportunity to charge, and when they came 20 meters in front of the trench, the grenadiers threw a large number of fire and thunder.

Boom boom boom...

All of a sudden, smoke and dust rose, and when they came to the trench, they saw dead bodies all over the place, and the rest of the living people also had dull expressions, disarmed and surrendered voluntarily, and soldiers who occasionally resisted were also dealt with by the trinity assassination technique.

The guerrilla Bai Feng in the back position was frightened and yelled at the generals under his command: "Hurry up and take back the trenches, otherwise the military law..."

dong dong dong...

Before he could finish his sentence, there was another continuous sound of shelling, and more than half of the generals under his command were knocked down immediately. Fortunately, Bai Feng escaped in time, so he survived.

He held his head until the shelling ended with great difficulty. Looking through the gap of the gunpowder smoke, he saw that most of the thousands of soldiers and horses under his command had lost half. There were shouts of killing, the Black Tiger Army hadn't arrived, but the soldiers under his command had already started to flee.

Bai Feng felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart, and with the support of his personal guards, he had no choice but to retreat.

The three sharpshooters advanced one by one, without rushing or slowing down, but Bai Feng was so lucky that he was only slightly injured, and finally successfully retreated into Nanchang City.

Thirty years later, General Bai Feng recalled this past, and still sighed. It was a shame in his life that he had worked for Wu Sangui. At this time, he had become one of the great generals of the Great Hua Empire. Of course, this is a later story .

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The battle lasted for four full hours. The Fourth Army successfully occupied the outskirts of Nanchang City, cleared [-] trenches, annihilated [-] Dazhou troops, captured [-] prisoners, and surrounded Nanchang City.

At this time, there were still [-] troops in Nanchang City, and [-] Dazhou troops fled.

Wang Dashan was not in a hurry to attack the city. Although the battle was a great victory, the three sharpshooters also suffered more than ten thousand casualties. The sharpshooter's artillery fire is fierce, and it may be extremely difficult to occupy these positions.

At this time, the gate of Jiangxi was wide open. The next day, Wang Dashan directly left an army of [-] to surround Nanchang City, and then used three sharpshooters as arrows to pursue the main force of Wu Sangui who had fled.

A few days later, Jiang Tao learned about this matter, and felt that he could not just fight blindly, but had to use two prongs, and had someone shoot a letter of surrender into Nanchang City.

Jiang Tao is not going to let Wu Sangui be a big traitor, but there is no need to wipe out all the soldiers under his command, after all, this is a civil war.

Moreover, Jiang Tao couldn't do anything. Wu Sangui has been rampant in the past two years, and his troops have swelled to a million. If they kill them all, it will be no different from Tartars!
Thousands of concise surrender letters entered the hands of the soldiers guarding Nanchang. The letter stated that as long as Nanchang City surrendered, the total would get 150 taels of silver, the thousand taels of 300 taels of silver, the guerrilla one thousand taels, and the general soldier 5000 taels of silver. Two, ordinary soldiers can get 20 two, and the previous crimes are past the past.

At this time, the top general in Nanchang City was the guerrilla Bai Feng. Originally, Wu Sangui's son-in-law Xia Xiangguo was in command of the 20-odd army. Faster than a rabbit.

This also caused Baifeng to become a guerrilla with more than [-] troops.

Bai Feng really wanted to defend to the death. His father had fought with Wu Sangui together. He didn't have much affection for Wu Sangui. His family had been generals for generations, and his father and brothers also died on the battlefield. He had long been prepared to die in battle. , but tens of thousands of soldiers heard that they don't have to die, and they still have money to receive, so who would be willing to fight to death.

He couldn't suppress it, so he had to surrender, but he put forward a condition: "King Huaxing must agree to him joining the powerful sharpshooter."

Jiang Tao agreed without even thinking about it, and threw him to Huaxing Military Academy. The rest of them all received silver rewards, and the remaining [-] soldiers and horses excluded [-] old and weak, and the remaining [-] strong were reorganized.

After all this, under the double-layer attack of shells and silver, the will to fight of the Da Zhou army in Jiangxi was gradually disintegrated, and the remaining more than [-] Zhou troops could barely survive.

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When the military report spread to Hengzhou, it caused a great disturbance in Xuanyuan. Wu Sangui became even more furious, and directly put Xia Xiangguo who had fled back into the prison.

Now he has 18 troops in Hunan, [-] in Yunnan and Guizhou, about [-] in Sichuan, more than [-] in Guangxi to defend against Wei Donglai's Third Army, and more than [-] elite troops attacking Burma , There is no way to spare extra troops to deal with the immediate predicament.

If it is transferred from Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, it will not be able to quench the near thirst at all.

Giving Jiangxi to King Huaxing, Wu Sangui couldn't bear it anymore, he looked at the officials and shouted coldly: "I'm all dumb, tell me the solution!"

All the ministers were driven into a hurry, and one of them said cautiously, "Your Majesty, you can recruit soldiers from Hunan to support Jiangxi, and quickly dispatch 20 elite soldiers from Burma to fight the Ming Dynasty to the death."

Wu Sangui shook his head again and again. The Burmese army could not withdraw. Even if they retreated, they would definitely lose half of their combat power if they ran for thousands of miles.

Now that Jiangxi is corrupt and the cannons are gone, it is of no use to send ordinary infantry there.

Seeing Wu Sangui shaking his head, another person said: "Your Majesty, you can send Guan Ning cavalry to harass the opponent, maybe it will have a good effect."

Wu Sangui's muddy eyes lit up immediately, but Jiangxi's terrain restricted large-scale cavalry battles, and he hurriedly said: "Okay, I will send 30 Guanning cavalry, divided into several groups, not to attack hard, only to harass, as long as Just hold back King Huaxing's footsteps, and order Sichuan to send [-] troops to support it, and recruit [-] civilians on the spot to build a pass on the border of Jiangxi and defend it with all our strength."

"The Division of Bingzhang expanded its scale and made every effort to manufacture all kinds of firearms. It also ordered Wu Shifan to quickly defeat the main force in Burma, wipe out all those who disobeyed, and move 300 million people to Burma to cooperate in the battle!"

With the repeated orders, all the ministers understood in their hearts that Wu Sangui was not sure of victory, but they didn't understand Wu Sangui's relocation of millions of people to fight. Could there be other meanings?

(End of this chapter)