Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 52 Siege

As soon as the shelling stopped, Ye Dacheng immediately gestured to the left and right, and the two soldiers at the front, whose bodies were close to both sides of the corridor, each took out a grenade.

The two unscrewed the cover respectively, pulled the fuse, and then threw two grenades to the two sides of the inner wall, one left and one right.

Following two violent explosions, there was a burst of screams.

Sure enough, there was an ambush.

The two retreated, and then two more soldiers stepped forward, each took out a grenade, and threw it out again.

After the explosion, the two soldiers put their heads against the wall, carefully stretched out their heads to look outside, and then immediately retracted their heads to signal Ye Dacheng.

Ye Dacheng snorted heavily, "Attack..."

The two soldiers in the front immediately stuck their guns out against the wall, and while firing, they rushed out quickly while finding the opportunity.

The people behind followed immediately, and more than thirty people were divided into two teams, one left and one right, and rushed into the city quickly.

"Bang bang bang..."

For a moment, the sound of submachine gun fire mixed with the crisp sound of 98K quickly swept across the urn city, and the defenders lying in ambush on both sides of the inner wall were wiped out immediately.

Ye Dacheng dispatched six submachine gun shooters to suppress the sporadic resistance on the top of the city, and then divided the remaining personnel into two teams to attack from the horse path close to the inner wall towards the top of the city.

At this time, the morale of the defenders at the west city gate had completely collapsed, and those who survived either ran for their lives quickly or raised their hands to surrender, so Ye Dacheng's attack on the tower was very smooth.

At this moment, Tangning rushed into the city with the main force, occupying Huanggang City, and at the same time clearing out those routs.

The news of the fall of the west gate quickly spread throughout Huanggang City. When the guards at the other three gates heard it, they almost without exception made a decision to run for their lives.

In fact, they knew it at the beginning of the battle, but after a while they heard the sound of drums calling for emergency help.

Calling for emergency help so quickly shows that the enemy is coming fiercely, and the west city gate is about to lose its hold, so all parties immediately mobilized people to go to support.

But before they reached the west city gate, they encountered fleeing soldiers, and only after inquiring did they realize the crisis of the situation, and they panicked for a while.

Except for one team who finally chose to take a look, the other two teams went home directly.

As soon as the rescue team arrived, they knew that the west city gate had fallen, so they bumped into Ye Dacheng and the others, and they collapsed at the first touch. The fall of Huanggang City was inevitable.

Around noon, Tangning led his men to occupy the entire Huanggang City.

In fact, the main battle was basically over after the capture of the West City Gate, and it took less than half an hour to capture the West City Gate.

As for the remaining time, it is mainly to clean up the armed men hiding in the city.

During the entire siege battle, only three people in the new army were slightly injured, one of them was shot by a stray arrow, and the other two were wounded by stray bullets from the blunderbuss.

As for the casualties of the rebel army, it's worth not mentioning it, because to Tangning, it was the same as the last time he helped Chenghai County, and he didn't feel any sense of accomplishment.

With the advantages of weapons and training, bullying a group of peasants who lacked everything but numbers is nothing to be proud of. Tangning cared more about the city.

Therefore, in the process of chasing down the remnants of the army, Tangning specially gave the soldiers a special task, asking them to pass on the name and policies of the new army to stabilize people's hearts as soon as possible.

A while ago, Xiaowu had already spread the news of what happened in Chenghai County in Huanggang City after sneaking into the city. Coupled with the nursery rhyme that was sung, the reputation of the new army has already gained a certain influence in Huanggang City.

If it weren't for the rebels in the city who felt that they would lose their face and deliberately suppressed the spread of public opinion, I am afraid that the influence of the new army here would only be greater.

But now, the new army has easily captured Huanggang City, and the more rebels have scattered and fled. The people in the city have been filled with awe, and many people have begun to believe the content of the nursery rhyme .

More importantly, after entering the city, the new army tried to avoid disturbing the people, and did not rush into the people's homes without saying hello to search and arrest, which also won the favor of the people.

In contrast, after the rebels captured Huanggang City, they searched, ransacked, and wiped out their families.

The wealthy households in the city were basically ransacked, and a number of officials, big and small, were also killed, which made the whole city of Huanggang panic.

This time the new army invaded the city, they thought it was another catastrophe.Unexpectedly, this powerful army treated Huanggang City much more gently.

At least for now, it seems that they have no malice towards the people in the city.

After controlling Huanggang City, Tangning immediately asked Song Yuankui to lead the first company to Honglian Mountain, and cooperate with Song Yunshu's second company to transfer all the personnel of the new army to Huanggang City.

This also indicated that Tangning would give up hiding in the mountain nest and appear openly in the eyes of everyone.

Before the expedition, Tangning had already made Song Yunshu ready to move at any time, so all the things that should be dealt with had been taken care of. As soon as Song Yunkui's second company arrived, all the personnel and supplies went down the mountain directly.

That night, all the personnel of the new army successfully entered Huanggang City and were resettled.

The name Honglian Mountain will also be completely abandoned, and in the future there will only be the name Xinjun.

Although Huanggang City was not big, it was Tangning's first city and it was also the starting point for future development. Naturally, it had to be managed well.

The first thing Tangning did was to stabilize people's hearts. Nothing could stabilize people's hearts more than making people live and work in peace in troubled times.

In the next few days, people felt the kindness of this team to the people.

Due to the war, there are hungry people everywhere, and Huanggang City has suffered continuous catastrophe. Many men, women and children are trapped on the edge of life and death.

Maybe the next moment, they will die.

However, the new army did not sit idly by. On the afternoon of the day they occupied Huanggang City, they posted notices in the city, and set up relief stations in several places in the city starting tomorrow to help all the hungry people in the city.

And sent people to shout in the city to advertise this policy.

Although the hungry people who heard the news still had a lot of doubts in their hearts, they were on the verge of starvation and poverty, so they didn't care so much.

So the next day, almost everyone went to the relief station with the intention of taking a look, and sure enough, they saw that the stalls had been set up there, and all kinds of food were piled up on the stalls.

It is not gruel that can count the grains of rice, but steamed buns, noodle cakes, batter, noodles and other good things that make people mouth watering.

The main material for making these foods is flour, which Tangning took out from the arsenal.

As for the food staff, some of them were hired from the city, and the rest were of course the new army's own people.

General Tang gave them a name and called them the cooking squad. The members were mainly family members, and there were also disabled brothers who could no longer go to the battlefield.

When distributing food, there are soldiers from the new army to help, so each relief site has more or less more than a dozen soldiers to help.

(End of this chapter)