Shangfeng Town, which is closest to Lianguan County among the six towns on the east bank of Lingchang, is a very ordinary town, and it is the smallest town among the six towns on the east bank of Lingchang.

Even because it is located in the hinterland, it does not have the same perfect city wall system as Qingshan Town in the northern part of Lianguan County, which is close to Guang'an.

The city wall of Shangfeng Town is just a thin wall, more than three meters high, but the thickness is not even one meter, and there is barely enough people standing on it.

This kind of simple city wall is more like a wall, but it is better to be a wall, and at most it is to guard against some thieves and bandits.

But in the event of an attack by the army, this kind of wall can only act as a breastwork at best, and the enemy will collapse with a casual artillery bombardment.

However, under normal circumstances, this kind of town, which is located in the hinterland, surrounded by plains, and is not a strategic location, cannot really be attacked by any enemy.

When the two armies of Luo'an and Guang'an fought before, the front line was Lianguan County and Pingdan County, and even more precisely, in the area from the defense line of Nanguangcheng to the defense line of Chongguangcheng, even the places close to the front line like Sanyang Town had not been attacked by the Guang'an army, let alone Shangfeng Town, which was dozens of kilometers away from the rear.

After the civil strife in Luo'an County, even the former safe hinterland was destroyed by the war.

In the place where the county town was before, there were many armies fighting back and forth.

There was also a war on the Lingchang side, but this still did not affect the six towns in the eastern part of Lingchang County.

But now, the town is under the threat of war.

Two months ago, there were troops of the Third Division under Feng Haozhong's command stationed in the area, and the number was not large, only one company, and the local militia also had dozens of people, adding up to more than 200 people.

It was not that the Third Division sent more people to garrison, but that the Third Division was already short of troops, and there were only more than 1,000 regular troops in the six towns on the east bank of Lingchang, most of which were stationed in Fengyan Town in the rear, and the other towns were basically garrisoned by a small number of troops.

But now, outside Shangfeng Town, there are more than 1,000 enemy troops.

They were none other than the second mixed group led by Scar.

Lin Ziran's Sixth Division went south to the vanguard of the six towns on the east bank of Lingchang.

Since Lin Ziran decided to send troops to the six towns in the east of Lingchang, on the one hand, he drew troops from the rear, and on the other hand, he directly ordered the Second Mixed Regiment stationed in the southern part of Lianguan County to go south as the vanguard force.

After receiving the order, the 2nd Mixed Regiment could not have said that it would leave immediately, but it took a day to gather troops.

Later, it took more than half a day for some of the lightly armed southward units to take over part of the defense, and it was not until yesterday afternoon that they began to move their whole army south.

By the time they arrived at Shangfeng Town, it was already the morning of the third day that Lin Ziran had announced his southward journey.

This time is actually very fast, according to the time, at this time, many people still don't know that Lin Ziran has sent troops, even if they know for a while, they can't react.

At least, the troops under Feng Haozhong in Shangfeng Town did not get this news in advance.

At this time, Scar and his chief of staff, Shi Jingyuan, were outside the city, observing the town with binoculars.

"There are less than 200 enemy troops in the city, there is no artillery, and the city walls are not systematic, so it is estimated that we will not waste too much time!" Scar still looks confident.

The strength of the 2nd Mixed Regiment under his command was already nearly 1,500 men, and in addition to the 5th Infantry Battalion, there were two additional infantry companies and a number of subordinate units.

Even the artillery company had one.

There was also a cavalry company.

Such a mixed group and clean up a small Shangfeng Town, naturally there will be no accidents.

Shi Jingyuan also nodded and said: "The staff office has just arrived, let us quickly take Shangfeng Town, open up a passage for the army, and also let us send cavalry as the vanguard to monitor the range of the six towns, especially the county guard in the south." ”

Shi Jingyuan continued: "I suggest directly letting the artillery company carry out the artillery bombardment, destroying their city walls through intensive artillery bombardment, and then let the troops test the pressure to see the situation, if possible, we should be able to fight quickly!" ”

Scar said: "The chief of staff is right! ”

Then, he said to the adjutant behind him: "Order, let the artillery company fight for a while to see the situation!" ”

As soon as the order was given, the artillerymen of the artillery company in the unit began to move forward, and with them came the partially covering infantry, and the cavalry unit was also on the side to guard against accidents.

Although the enemy is very weak, Scar does not take them lightly, and when they are ready to attack, they will act with the whole army to ensure that there will be no accidents.

The ensuing result was unmistakable, although the 2nd Mixed Regiment under Scar, like the rest of the 6th Division, had too many recruits, the training time of the unit was not long, and the quality of the officers was not good.

However, relying on absolute numerical superiority and artillery superiority, it was easy to destroy the enemy's defenses at the head of the city.

After the infantry pressed forward to 300 meters, they directly used the long range of the Mini rifle to suppress the dense firepower.

About half an hour later, the soldiers of the second mixed regiment had not directly rushed up to occupy it, and the white flag was raised on the head of the ruined city in the town.

The remnants of the defenders chose to surrender very well.

They had no artillery, no strong city defenses, and at the same time, they were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of strength.

There is simply no way to fight.

Within half an hour of the start of the war, there were already dozens of dead and wounded, and there was no way to surrender.

Seeing the enemy surrender, Scar said: "Let them come out and surrender, let the brothers be careful, lest they surrender by fraud, and prepare to send someone to take over the fortifications at the head of the city!" ”

After saying this, Scar said to the adjutant again: "Give the county guard the Pegasus Express, just say that our department has taken Shangfeng Town, the southward passage of the army has been opened, and the headquarters will continue to go south." ”

The six towns on the east bank of Lingchang are not very large, and there is not much defensive strength, except for the main force that Fengyan Town needs reinforcements from the rear, the other towns rely on the strength of the second mixed regiment to take it down.

Scar's second mixed regiment did not stop here after taking Shangfeng Town, containing prisoners of war, and leaving half a company to be stationed here to wait for the main force in the rear, Scar continued to lead the troops south.

In the evening of the same day, a second town was conquered.

At this time, more than 3,000 people from the first step corps and other main forces led by Lin Ziran had successfully arrived in Shangfeng Town.

That night, after the two troops rested, they continued to operate the next day, Lin Ziran personally led part of the main force south to Fengyan Town, and sent Xu Zhongshu to lead about 1,000 troops to the west, and Scar to lead the second mixed regiment to the east.

A total of about 5,000 troops were divided into three routes.

In the afternoon of the same day, Lin Ziran led part of the main force to arrive outside Fengyan Town, but he did not rush to attack, but built a defensive position on the spot, so that the third division in the city would be killed directly.

The other two teams also successfully completed their respective goals along the way.

The next day, the three parties met in Fengyan Town.

With an army of 5,000 men, there were four artillery companies with a total of 24 guns.

With such strength, attacking Fengyan Town, which is only guarded by more than 1,000 troops, is nine out of ten in Lin Ziran's opinion.

But when the attack was officially launched, it made Lin Ziran depressed!

On the first day of the attack, many of his soldiers were already wetting their pants before they were close to the front line.

The performance of the Eighth Infantry Battalion was particularly poor, when an infantry company of the battalion stepped forward in formation, a solid shell from the artillery unit of the Third Division fell on their side, and as a result, the entire infantry company collapsed, and ran straight back without looking back, and Lin Ziran almost vomited blood when he saw it.

This cannonball is really going to hit your company and cause heavy casualties, and if it collapses, it will collapse, but this cannonball will not hit you, you guys are running a fart!

The offensive on the first day was anticlimactic, and in addition to the normal performance of the artillery units, the performance of the infantry units was quite unbearable.

This is not the kind of combat effectiveness that is not bad, but the kind that does not even dare to rush.

On the second day of the attack, the 8th Infantry Battalion had just rushed up less than a quarter of an hour, and was still 400 meters from the city wall, when it collapsed directly after being counterattacked by enemy artillery fire with less than twenty or thirty casualties.

Even with the 1st Infantry Battalion, they were unable to advance or retreat, and in the end they were forced to retreat.

The first attack didn't even get close to 400 meters......

These bastards, you must know that some of the five-pound guns in the artillery unit are deployed higher than these infantry.

Seeing this scene, Lin Ziran finally couldn't help it: "Lao Qi, take Lao Tzu's personal army and cavalry troops to supervise the battle!" ”

"Scar, take the second mixed group to sweep the formation on the side, and support the old seven's overseer team at any time!"

"Tell the first regiment to continue the attack after it is ready, and then tell Xu Zhongshu that if he retreats without permission this time, then he doesn't have to come back!"

"Order the whole army, if you retreat without an order, you will not be killed!"

"Let the artillery units not need to save ammunition, and give all the shells that can be fired to Lao Tzu!"

After Lin Ziran's series of orders were issued, Wu Guanlin on the side was a little worried: "The first battalion and the sixth battalion are fine, but the eighth infantry battalion is demoralized now, and if they let them attack forcibly, I'm afraid it will be ......!" ”

Lin Ziran turned his head to look at him, at first he was just expressionless, and his tone was flat: "Is this a playhouse?" ”

Immediately afterwards, I heard him shout: "This is a war!" ”

After a while, Lin Ziran turned his head to Zhao Laoqi and Scar and said, "Wait a minute, if anyone dares to retreat without permission for Lao Tzu, they will all be executed on the spot!" ”

Wu Guanlin had never seen Lin Ziran's angry appearance, and he was stunned for a while, but his mouth was still habitual: "But ......"

Lin Ziran didn't look at him, but said: "No more nonsense, Lao Tzu will stuff you directly into the barrel and shoot you out!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Wu Guanlin instantly shut up!

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