Chapter 36: War Strikes
The moment Duan Chong stepped ashore, he already knew that this war was inevitable, and in this battle, Duan Chong couldn't think of any reason to lose, two thousand elite "poison daggers", plus 30,000 elite Dali soldiers, plus more than 1,000 artillery pieces, plus the leadership of a grandmaster-level master, no matter how it was calculated, there was no reason to accept any defeat, and the strength at hand was enough to compete with Dali's frontal army, because these more than 30,000 soldiers did have such a terrifying ...... Might, of course, Duan Chong has always ignored the strength of his own grandmaster-level martial arts master, just by himself, I am afraid that he can come and go freely among the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Great Liang, and it is as easy as probing the head of the opponent's general, which is why grandmaster-level masters often do not participate in the disputes in the world, but Duan Chong is a special case.
As the soldiers landed on the shore in turn, and the artillery was unloaded from the ship one by one, the 30,000 soldiers were well-trained, not chaotic at all, and it took less than two hours to integrate and assemble, forming a terrible combat force, Duan Zhong touched his nose and looked at the 30,000 soldiers with high morale, nodded with great satisfaction, and then led the soldiers forward for twenty miles and stationed down.
After crossing the Yangtze River in the north, Duan Chong's task is to capture the city of the west road all the way, directly to Kaifeng Mansion, so that the army to Dali can drive straight into Yanjing, and at the same time Duan Chong swept in from the west, one can hit the Liang army by surprise, and the other can cut off the reinforcements from the west, the north Liang borders the Xiongnu and Tubo in the west, and the garrison is not weak, and it is also a military force that cannot be underestimated, and Duan Chong's army is to cut off the connection between the western army and the inland, so that The territory of the Northern Liang was cut off, leaving only the most fertile piece of land for Dali to slaughter.
This strategy is also the result of Zheng Kangdi after consulting with Duan Chong, Zheng Kangdi is still extremely talented in military affairs, and his judgment of the overall situation is extremely accurate, and he did not abandon the traditional tactical strategy because he has a terrible cannon, this time, Zheng Kangdi is to completely and leave no room to defeat the Northern Liang.
After leading the soldiers to rest for a night, Duan Chong led the soldiers to start on the road, this time the first city that Duan Chong wanted to capture was a city three hundred miles away from where he landed, Jinzhou, the location of Jinzhou is still in the northwest of Changsha Mansion Many locations, the geography seems to be remote, but it is the west side of the North Liang traffic fortress, connecting the north and the south and the east and west, is a very important military strategic base, and as long as Duan Zhong captures Jinzhou, there is no doubt that the west of the North Liang will be a mess, There are more than 8,000 garrisons in this Jinzhou city, which is already a military center for the western part of Beiliang. Although these 8,000 people were very different from the number of soldiers under Duan Chong, Duan Chong did not dare to act carelessly, because this time, Duan Chong did not intend to use the terrible weapon of cannons, hoping to capture Jinzhou City quietly.
After a long day of long-distance raiding, Dali's army finally arrived in the wilderness thirty miles away from Jinzhou at ten o'clock in the morning of the next day. Although after a day's journey, the soldiers looked extremely tired, but Duan Zhong did not have the idea of letting his soldiers rest, but chose to attack the city overnight.
There are only 8,000 soldiers defending the city, and there are only 1,000 people on duty at most at night, but Duan Chong has 32,000 troops, so he can attack from all directions, two thousand "poisonous daggers" have been hidden in the darkness and lurk up, on average, under each side of the city wall, there are a full 500 "poison daggers", and the remaining 30,000 troops are also divided into four waves, attacking the four city walls respectively, and Duan Zhong is leading Zongzi and Jiang Mingchen to watch every move that happens in the dark night, as if he is an outsider, Duan Zhong sighed slightly, it is better not to meddle in such a war, the strategy has been arranged, how to fight, naturally it is up to these officers who lead the troops to arrange it.
And at this time, two thousand "poisonous daggers" have quietly come to the city wall, the flying claw silver flashed, and it has quietly climbed to the city wall, countless hidden weapons, poison darts poured out, the soldiers defending the city did not have the slightest reaction, they were already dead to the end, and all this was only carried out in the dark, and then countless soldiers climbed up the city head along the rope connected to the flying claw, and in an instant more than a thousand people had gathered on the city head, and after the collection was completed, they all rushed to kill, For a while, the shouting of killing sounded, and when the defenders of Jinzhou reacted, the four gates of the east, west, north and south had been completely opened, and countless Dali's soldiers rushed in, like a flood and a landslide.
There are only more than 8,000 soldiers in Jinzhou City, under the deterrence of such momentum, they can not be defeated without fighting, and they directly lose their armor and flee in all directions, and finally find that there is no place to escape, so they can only surrender their weapons, this station, the Dali army captured Jinzhou City with very few casualties, and captured nearly 7,000 officers and soldiers. It was completely carried out in concealment, and after the capture of Jinzhou City, the city gate was immediately resealed, that is, not even a bird could fly out, and it was impossible for any news to leak out, and this was what Duan Zhong wanted.
So after resting for the night, Duan Chong led the army to set off again, leaving only 3,000 Dali soldiers and 100 cannons in Jinzhou City, with these 100 cannons, it was enough to defend this important town of Jinzhou City, and Duan Chong's next target was Dengzhou City, which was two hundred miles away in the northeast.
This Dengzhou city connects to the west of Beiliang to the west, and wants to go straight to Kaifeng Mansion in the east, which is a city that Duan Chong must conquer on this journey, and this Dengzhou is already approaching the hinterland of Beiliang, not only is the army of the Northern Liang of the Great Liang garrisoned, but the more than 100,000 troops of the Southern Liang are also stationed nearby, so this news is extremely easy to leak out, so it is not difficult for Duan Chong to capture Dengzhou, but after capturing Dengzhou, he will definitely face the dilemma of being surrounded on all sides.
Duan Zhong originally went deep into the enemy's belly this time. Although there are more than 1,000 cannons to support, but after all, ammunition is limited, and Duan Chong does not want to use this terrible weapon until the last resort, and Duan Chong is more worried that after capturing Dengzhou, he will have to face Xiao Beiping's army, this is the last thing Duan Chong wants to encounter, Duan Chong doesn't even know if he has the courage to raise the command flag to attack when facing the army of Southern Liang, if the commander of the opposite army is Xiao Beiping, how should he deal with it, so on this way, Duan Chong's head was very big and he had a headache, but what should have come was still coming, and in the early hours of the morning, Dali's army rushed to the outside of Dengzhou City.
Duan Chong's choice of siege method is the most direct and effective, so there is no need for any strategic changes, two thousand "poison daggers" quietly attacked the city wall and opened the city gate, the rest of the Dali soldiers rushed in, the garrison of Dengzhou is less than that of Jinzhou, so there is no suspense, Dali is a very small army to capture this city, and this time, the news can not be like Jinzhou, finally paper can not contain the fire, overnight, At the same time, the army of Northern Liang immediately reacted, and together with the 100,000 troops of Southern Liang, Xuzhou, the frontier of Kaifeng Prefecture, began to lay a line of defense to defend and snipe Dali's army.
At the same time, the 140,000 troops of Dali in Nanjing City also set off in a mighty way, and crossed the Yangtze River in a day and a night, which should have been heavily defended along the Yangtze River in Dali under a few shellings and collapsed, the garrison of the general led the army all the way north to run wildly, but fled to Xuzhou, which is also a military town in the North Liang, full of 20,000 troops and horses to defend, and when the Dali 140,000 army slowly and leisurely pulled out to the city of Xuzhou City, only to find that this Xuzhou city has become a ...... Empty city, the generals who defended the city directly abandoned the city and fled, continued to go north with the soldiers, and ran to Kaifeng Mansion, these soldiers of the Northern Liang were naturally afraid of the power of the Dali cannon, so they abandoned the city and fled, you must know that this solid Jiangnan city is also under the bombardment of Dali to become powder, not to mention the city of the North Liang?
Therefore, Dali took Xuzhou City bloodlessly, and Duan Chong's army looked at each other from afar on the east and west, taking care of each other, and approached Kaifeng Mansion, and the entire Northern Liang finally realized that this catastrophe was ...... It's finally coming.
After Duan Chong captured Dengzhou City, he was not in a hurry to attack, but confronted Daliang's army, Duan Chong had thousands of artillery pieces on hand, this Daliang's army did not dare to act rashly, and Duan Chong was naturally not in a hurry, he had successfully completed the task, divided the western part of Daliang, and the rest of the matter was to attack Kaifeng Mansion and attack the place where Xiao Beiping was.
There is no doubt that Xiao He, Emperor Wu of Liang of the Northern Liang, put Xiao Beiping here, undoubtedly acting as cannon fodder, once Dali's army attacked, the first to bear the brunt of the Southern Liang's army was naturally the army of the Southern Liang, and after the Dali army attacked, the entire Liang country was finally in a commotion, and there were constantly troops assembled and sent to the front line.
Because Duan Chong and Zheng Kangdi were waiting for a piece of news, the news of Duan Zhuang's death.
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