Wei Yingcai's strategy was formulated according to the terrain of this small hillside of the Chihe River, because of the obstruction of the Chihe River, the Xia army in the Chihe camp was equivalent to one less way to retreat, as long as Wei Yingcai's troops blocked the remaining three sides, the Xia soldiers in the Chihe camp naturally suddenly became a turtle in the urn, and they could only be captured. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition, in order to fight cautiously, Wei Yingcai also deliberately waited until it was dark before giving the order to attack, just to wait for the right time on the premise of mastering the geographical advantage, and then use the best tactic - surprise attack, which can ensure to the greatest extent that Wei Yingcai's troops can capture the Chihe camp in one fell swoop.

When all the departments came with reports of readiness, Wei Yingcai immediately gave the order to attack.

Bang bang bang...... Thundered......

The flames of war are quickly ignited!

Followed by the Chihe camp of the Xia army, the sound of explosions could be heard all over the place.

It was a dark night with no fingers visible! The sudden explosion was even more terrifying! It shook people's hearts.

For a while, I saw that in the entire Chihe camp, all the Xia soldiers who were attacked suddenly became a pot of porridge, and the violent explosion sound made them panic.

No one knows what happened. The generals in the Xia army, even if they wanted to find one or two soldiers to ask what was going on, because the scene was chaotic and the surrounding darkness was not easy to see, and none of the soldiers knew the specific situation.

It's just that the experience of marching and fighting for many years has made Xia Jun realize the fact that their military camp was attacked!

Many Xia soldiers were in a panic, and they only knew that they had to pick up their weapons and run out of the tents, but in the dark, some soldiers could not see the people around them clearly, and they didn't know whether the enemy had attacked their barracks, and whether it was their Xia army colleagues or the enemy who were beside them.

Just when most of the Xia soldiers were hesitating, suddenly, a person's shout came from the barracks: Xinghua army attacked the camp......

At this moment, the entire Chihe camp was even more like an explosion! Unexpectedly, the Xinghua Army had already entered the camp!

Therefore, the soldiers of the Xia Army, who were already nervous and panicked, in order to protect themselves, immediately swung their knives and cut down when they saw anyone, as long as it was the person who appeared beside them, regardless of whether they were enemies or me, they all started first.

Wei Yingcai, who had been keeping an eye on the movements of the Chihe camp, was overjoyed when he saw the chaotic scene of the Xia army soldiers!

This is definitely a good opportunity for the Xinghua Army!

As a result, Wei Yingcai immediately ordered the troops to suspend the attack. Because, as facts have turned out, the Xinghua army's surprise attack has been successful! More importantly, Wei Yingcai has already realized an excellent battle plan from the chaos of the Xia army's camp that he saw in front of him.

Wei Yingcai thought that the main force of Wei Yingcai's troops could be held in advance, and when the Xia army in the Chihe camp was killing each other to the point of fragmentation, the main force would slowly move out to clean up the mess.

So, the corners of Wei Yingcai's mouth raised, a meaningful smile flashed, and then ordered more than 20 snipers to specifically aim at the officers who shot the Xia army, and at the same time, use mortars to continue to attack the Xia army's Chihe camp, and maintain a frequency of three seconds to ensure that the purpose of scaring the Xia soldiers in the Chihe camp is achieved, so that they are flustered and unable to restore calm. As long as the Xia army of the Chihe battalion can never be able to organize the army normally, Wei Yingcai's department can take advantage of the fishermen.

Therefore, Wei Yingcai did not want them to intervene too early, but made it possible for the Xia army to see the situation clearly, so as to unite and kill the enemy.

Wei Yingcai's deployment quickly played a role.

I saw that in the Chihe camp, any officer of the Xia Army, once he tried to command the soldiers and put the chaotic Xia Army in order, he would immediately become the target of the snipers of Wei Yingcai's department, and within a few seconds, the vital parts of his body must have been fatally injured.

The chaos in the Chihe camp lasted for about five or six minutes, and the soldiers of the Xia army fought each other regardless of whether they were enemies or not, and it lasted no less than three minutes.

A catastrophe led to the tragic death of a large number of Xia soldiers, many of whom died from slashing and killing each other, and many died from stampede with each other due to panic and fleeing......

Only a small number of soldiers managed to gather together despite several difficulties or at the risk of death, but none of them dared to stay in the Chihe camp any longer, and they were all desperate to escape from this barracks that had been reduced to hell.

Because they all know that this is their only chance to save their lives.

Bang bang bang......

Just when these remnants of the Xia soldiers thought that as long as they escaped from the Chihe camp, they could get a glimmer of life, but a series of gunshots suddenly rang out around the Chihe camp.

It turned out that Wei Yingcai finally gave the order for the general attack of the whole army at this time!

With Wei Yingcai's military order, the three thousand soldiers of Wei Yingcai's department instantly launched an active attack and rushed straight to the Chihe camp!

In the face of the general attack of Wei Yingcai's troops, the Chihe battalion, which was already in chaos, was unable to deal with it at all, and the soldiers of the Xia army had almost lost their defensive heart, and when they saw the Xinghua soldiers who were coming straight at them with weapons, they almost had no will to fight back except for becoming more and more afraid.

Even, some soldiers of the Xia Army declared defeat without a fight, knelt down directly in front of the Xinghua soldiers of Wei Yingcai's department and begged for mercy, and according to the rules of the Xinghua Army, they surrendered with their heads in their hands, not daring to act rashly.

Seeing that the soldiers of the Xia Army were so sensible, the Xinghua soldiers asked Wei Yingcai for instructions.

Originally, Wei Yingcai didn't plan to leave too many Xia soldiers alive, but since the enemy soldiers had already surrendered on their own initiative, it was actually not good for him to continue to kill and surrender troops. What's more, if the Xinghua Empire wants to rule Jiangzhou, it may also need some troops.

Therefore, Wei Yingcai rethought how to place these surrendered troops.

"Divide a small number of soldiers and control the enemy soldiers. Wei Yingcai agreed with the subordinate officers' suggestion to capture the prisoners.

Capturing enemy soldiers, the Xinghua Army has a set of practices. Therefore, next, the Xinghua soldiers ordered these Xia soldiers to surrender their troops and tie them up with each other on their own until they ensured that there was no possibility of counterattack for all the surrendered troops.

In fact, Wei Yingcai made this arrangement for the sake of safety, otherwise, in fact, there is no need for such complicated methods, just directly order the captives to supervise each other, once one of the captives has a dissenting situation, then take the means of Zhulian and kill them all on the spot.

Therefore, the choice of these Xia soldiers to surrender on their own initiative can be regarded as an additional possibility of survival for themselves.

Actually, this is not surprising.

The late-night raid of Wei Yingcai's department made the soldiers of the Xia Army, who had no sense of strict defense and strict defense, even more frightened and panicked in the face of the sudden situation. Therefore, after such a night, these Xia soldiers had already been frightened, and few of them had the intention of resisting. Many soldiers, even when the cannon sounded, had long since given up resistance.

Even some Xia soldiers who had tried to break through finally gave up their thoughts of counterattack and surrendered after finding that they couldn't break through when they wanted to break out of the Chihe camp.

After controlling the overall situation, Wei Yingcai, under the protection of the guards, slowly walked into the Chihe camp with a fierce and mighty momentum.

The scene in the Chihe camp can be described as a mess. Many tents were already on fire, and under the light of the fires everywhere, Wei Yingcai saw the chaotic scene and the prisoners kneeling on the ground.

"Quickly count the results and report back to me. Wei Yingcai looked around at the messy Xia army barracks, smiled slightly, and was very proud in his heart, this assault operation can be said to have been completed! Therefore, he ordered his soldiers to quickly count the situation so that they could take over in an all-round way.

A large number of captives were quickly gathered and counted.

"Sir, our army has annihilated more than 5,000 enemies and captured more than 3,800 people. "The soldier reported.

"Why are there so few enemies?" Wei Yingcai frowned, he still thought that there were 20,000 enemy troops in the Chihe camp.

"Report to the chief, last week, the 10,000 troops of the Chihe battalion received an order from the commander of the Xia army to urgently move to the county seat of Tai'an. The soldier replied.

Wei Yingcai was stunned for a moment, and said, "You mean that half of the tents in the Chihe camp are empty. "At the beginning, Wei Yingcai's reconnaissance team judged the number of soldiers in the Chihe battalion based on the size of the Chihe battalion.

Wei Yingcai nodded, he understood. The Xia army urgently transferred troops, and the tent did not have time to be dismantled, and there were nearly 10,000 Xia soldiers left behind, which led to an error in the scout's estimate.

However, Wei Yingcai did not blame the scout for his thoughts.

"Clean up the battlefield as soon as possible, we have to transfer. Wei Yingcai said to his adjutant. Wei Yingcai's adjutant would convey Wei Yingcai's orders to the various ministries in the army, and the adjutant would also convey the opinions of each ministry to Wei Yingcai.

"Report to the sir, what about the more than 3,000 captives?" asked an officer.

Wei Yingcai thought for a moment and said, "Recruit them, if they are willing to surrender, they can become vassals of the Xinghua Army." He was ready to follow the practice of Qin Zhengguo leading the Xinghua Baomin Army into Yunzhou and recruit a group of vassal troops. The role of the vassal army is not to conquer the city, but to maintain law and order. If the Xinghua Empire were to rule Jiangzhou, it would definitely need such a group of vassal troops.

The adjutant was ordered to recruit surrendered troops, Wei Yingcai thought about it, wrote his thoughts on a telegram, and sent them to the Ministry of Defense of the Reich in Lyon. Although there will be some exemptions from the foreign monarch's order, the work can be done first. Whether the empire agrees or not, Wei Yingcai has to prepare a case, this is the procedure. Leon is the superior, and Wei Yingcai also sent Leon a telegram to report his results.

However, of the more than 3,000 captives of the Xia army, only 500 were willing to become vassals of the Xinghua army.

This result made Wei Yingcai a little frustrated. Back then, when he was commanding the battle in Ganglong Kingdom, the enemy soldiers surrendered once they ran out of bullets. There are very few people who are not afraid of death, but where there is a way to live, there are few people who do not surrender.

However, the soldiers of the Xia army seemed to be a little loyal. If their leaders do not surrender, they will not surrender.

Wei Yingcai was very disdainful of this kind of foolish loyalty.

In any case, in order to completely return those vassal troops to their hearts and board the ship of the Xinghua Empire wholeheartedly, Wei Yingcai once again ordered that one of the five hundred vassal soldiers be selected and killed from among the remaining captives.

Then, with the remaining 2,000 prisoners, the Xinghua army again asked if anyone was willing to surrender.

At this moment, all 2,000 captives said they were going to surrender.

However, the officers of the Xinghua Army said that out of 2,000 prisoners, only 1,000 prisoners could live. Give each of them a knife or a spear and duel on their own.

Soon, the Xinghua vassal army, consisting of 1,500 surrendered soldiers, took shape.

Then, the staff officer of the Xinghua army quickly appointed the officers of the vassal army from among them. The commander of 500 soldiers is the battalion commander, the commander of 100 soldiers is the company commander, and the commander of nine soldiers is the platoon commander. The vassal army was divided into three parts, and it had the right to directly meet Wei Yingcai and express his opinions.

"You will be soldiers of the Xinghua Empire in the future, as long as you live up to the empire, the empire will also live up to your ......" Wei Yingcai promised them in front of the vassal army that they would have military salaries and opportunities for promotion.

Many of the soldiers of the vassal army were very surprised in their hearts, and they thought that they were at most slave soldiers, and they had no military pay. didn't expect that they could also receive military salaries, and the treatment was no worse than that of Xia Jun. Many soldiers have a lot less sense of rejection of the Xinghua Army, and they actually have a good feeling of being a soldier of the Xinghua Empire......

When Wei Yingcai's troops broke through the Chihe camp, the Lyon troops were less than fifteen kilometers away from the county seat of Tai'an.

"Commander, spot the enemy cavalry. ”

Leon's communications officer reports to him the findings of the reconnaissance soldiers.

Leon, who was riding on a horse, smiled slightly and said, "A hundred cavalry form a brigade, send five brigades, and hunt the enemy's cavalry within a radius of five kilometers from us. ”

"Yes, Commander. The communications officer immediately gave orders to the cavalry through the walkie-talkie.

The five cavalry brigades of the Lyon Department immediately attacked and swept away the Xia army outside the county seat of Tai'an.

"The whole army continued to advance, striving to capture Tai'an County before dawn. Leon said.

Leon would not give the Xia army a chance to attack the troops, and he would calmly capture the county seat of Tai'an.

Lyon's order was quickly conveyed to the whole army.

The whole army of Lyon continued to march and resolutely advanced towards the county town of Tai'an.

After another two hours, Lyon's troops approached the city of Tai'an.

Leon looked at the torches lit by the defenders of Tai'an City, smiled disdainfully, and said, "No need to rest, the artillery battalion is aimed at the city gate of Tai'an County, as well as the county government in the city." A regiment of 3,000 soldiers, ready to attack the city at any time. ”

The Xinghua Imperial Intelligence Bureau had a map of the urban area of Tai'an County early on, and the location of the county government was marked on the map.

Leon did not expect the artillery battalion's shells to hit the county government and kill the high-ranking officials in the county government, nor did he point to the shells to blow up the city walls. His purpose was to scare the officials and citizens in Tai'an County and make them have less ideas of resistance. Although Leon was not prepared to take the city of Tai'an overnight, Leon still made some preparations, using a regiment to launch a tentative attack on the city when the cannon sounded. (To be continued.) )