Chapter 98: The Situation
The county seat of Longchuan is broken!
Wang Shengrong only let the tiger head cannon fire a salvo once, and the southern city wall of Longchuan County was mixed up, and the Ming army on the city wall had no morale.
After the soldiers rushed to the city gate and blew it open with explosives packs, the KPA rushed into the city to wipe out all the resistance.
Interestingly, most of the Ming soldiers who were locked out in front of the city gate expressed their desire to join the People's Army when the People's Army rushed over.
The gentry and businessmen who fled first and the team of thousands of households, the People's Army was unable to catch up, the team of the county magistrate was intercepted by the People's Army, and the People's Army completed the encirclement of Longchuan County, and no one could escape from Longchuan County.
After the 1st Mixed Brigade broke through the county seat of Longchuan, it was not until the evening that most of the resistance forces in the city were wiped out, and a small number of resistance forces hid in the mansions of large families or in the homes of ordinary people.
The county seat of Longchuan has been taken, and it is only a matter of time before the county seat of Longchuan and the entire territory of Longchuan County are controlled.
"Longchuan County has been captured by our army, in this battle, most of the Ming troops in Heyuan County and Changle County were wiped out by our army, and our army should immediately capture Heyuan County and Changle County, and then control Longchuan, Heyuan, and Changle counties." Wang Shengrong said.
"Yes." Hearing Wang Shengrong's words, Gao Wei and Xiong Jian agreed.
In the following time, Wang Shengrong, Gao Wei, Xiong Jian and others discussed the capture of Heyuan County and Changle County and the control of all areas of the three counties.
Wang Shengrong did not have many troops in his hands, and the number of casualties of the People's Army in today's battle exceeded 150, mainly in pursuit battles and siege battles.
In order to capture Heyuan County and Changle County, Wang Shengrong needed to divide his forces into three, one part stayed in Longchuan County, and then took Longchuan County as the center to control the entire Longchuan County as soon as possible, and the other two parts launched an attack on Heyuan County and Changle County, and after taking the two county seats, he controlled the entire county with the county seat as the center.
The force is divided into three roads, each road is only about 900 people, the defense of Longchuan County and the capture of the other two county towns is not a big problem, can this force to control the entire county, it is more difficult, the first mixed brigade needs the support of the rear.
The main force of the People's Army is in Guishan County, confronting the Ming army in the direction of Huizhou Prefecture, Hu Zhuang led a force into Chaozhou Mansion to deal with the Ming army in Chaozhou Prefecture, and the first mixed brigade was unable to continue to expand after capturing three counties.
The recruits did not have much combat effectiveness, but picking up broadswords and spears also had some deterrent effect, and Wang Shengrong planned to mobilize at least 1,500 recruits from the rear to cooperate with the troops' actions and conduct training at the same time.
The capture of three counties is equivalent to the expansion of the territory of the People's Army from the original three counties to six counties, and all three counties need to set up a people's military government, and personnel also need to be mobilized from the rear; fortunately, the establishment of the Yongan County People's Army Government and the Haifeng County People's Army Government is in a state of overstaffing, and there is not much problem in transferring manpower to the newly captured counties to set up the people's army.
After Wang Shengrong, Gao Wei, Xiong Jian and others set the action plan, Wang Shengrong immediately wrote two letters, one to his teacher Fang Nan and the other to Zhou Lei, reporting the achievements and action plan of the First Mixed Brigade, as well as requesting manpower support.
When the next day came, the 1st Mixed Brigade was divided into three, all the way to Changle County, all the way to Heyuan County, and at the same time Wang Shengrong sent cavalry to send the two letters back.
In just one day, more than 3,000 Ming troops were defeated, almost the entire army was annihilated, and the county seat of Longchuan fell.
In Guishan County, the senior officers of the People's Army of Fangnan 1st Road stood in front of a pair of maps, discussing the location of the Ming army to ambush.
A few days passed, after the scouts investigated the Huizhou Fucheng, it was found that the Ming army stationed in the Huizhou Fucheng area did not have more Ming troops in addition to the thousands of Ming troops who had previously supported them, and it seemed that it would take a few days for the main force of the Ming army to arrive in Huizhou Fucheng, and the People's Army had enough time to choose the location of the ambush Ming army.
Ambush the Ming army, first of all, the Ming army must pass through a route, so that the people's army can have the possibility of ambush, where the Ming army entered Guishan County, Fang Nan does not know, it may be directly advanced in a straight line nearby, or it is possible to go around a long road.
Detour, the People's Army wants to ambush the Ming Army is a lot of trouble, the People's Army wants to ambush the Ming Army, it is best to choose the official road between Huizhou Fucheng and Guishan County, after the exploration of the scouts, a number of suitable places for ambush have been selected, Fang Nan and the senior officers have also personally inspected, and then it depends on how the main force of the Ming Army will act.
Compared with his own People's Army to deal with the upcoming main force of the Ming army, Fang Nan was more worried about Hu Zhuang All the Way People's Army, Hu Zhuang all the way to the People's Army of more than 1,000 people, but it was more difficult to undertake the task of containing the Ming Army's Chaozhou Wei Yiwei.
In fact, Fang Nan could give Hu Zhuang more troops all the way, but Fang Nan did not do so, because the People's Army needed to continue to expand its territory in order to resist the Ming army, which was constantly encircled and suppressed.
After the People's Army of Fangnan 1st Road captured Guishan County, it was unable to undertake the task of expansion, Chaozhou Mansion had Chaozhou Wei, and Yongan County only had three thousand households in the north of Huizhou Wei, and the troops were much less than Chaozhou Wei, which was more suitable for the current expansion of the People's Army.
Therefore, Fang Nan did not transfer the strength of the 1st Mixed Brigade to Hu Zhuang all the way, but asked the 1st Mixed Brigade to deal with the Ming army in the north of Yong'an County, looking for an opportunity to capture several counties in the north and expand the territory of the People's Army.
Wang Shengrong's letter was still on the way, and Fang Nan did not know that the First Mixed Brigade had captured Longchuan County and wiped out most of the Ming troops in Longchuan, Heyuan, and Changle counties, and it was only a matter of time before they captured Heyuan County and Changle County.
The battle between the Fangnan 1st Road People's Army and the main force of the Ming army may not begin in 6 or 7 days, and immediately after the battle of the 1st Mixed Brigade, the Hu Zhuang 1st Road People's Army in Chaozhou Prefecture also fought with the Ming army.
The combat effectiveness of the Hu Zhuang 1st Road People's Army was not a tentative attack on the county seat as before, but when the Hu Zhuang 1st Road People's Army was fighting guerrilla attacks in Huilai County and Puning County in Chaozhou Capital, it attracted Chaozhou Wei to encircle and suppress it.
Chaozhou Wei had already received an order from the general army Ren Jianxiu to encircle the People's Army from the east side, and now found that the People's Army was operating in Chaozhou Prefecture, and soon mobilized more than 2,000 troops to encircle and suppress the People's Army on the Hu Zhuang Road Road.
Seeing that the enemy was outnumbered, Hu Zhuang Yiyi Road People's Army naturally retreated immediately, and the Ming army divided troops to encircle and chase and intercept it, and Hu Zhuang Yiyi Road People's Army looked for an opportunity to counterattack the pursuing soldiers all the way.