The northerners have come to kill.

Although they waited for a whole year, they still killed it.

At the junction of China and Dayue, Menzhou, the most important border city of Yue, was besieged by tens of thousands of Chinese troops in an instant, and then countless caves poured out from under the city of Menzhou, like wolves, grinning to the Dayue countryside north of the Fuliang River.

They will treat all the villages of Da Viet as sheep and eat them alive!

Although there were 60,000 troops in the city, more than 20,000 of them were the remnants of the cave barbarians who fled from Huaxia Gui Province, and they still did not dare to go out of the city to fight.

Because Yongzhou lost too exaggeratedly, 800 to 200,000! With this record, who is impatient enough to dare to go out of the city?

It's good to be able to guard Menzhou City.

……

Let's try it first.

The colonel who commanded the vanguard of the Chinese army looked at the city wall of Menzhou and muttered to himself.

Of course, he knew that the instructions of the former enemy's staff were to surround Menzhou, force the Jiaozhi thieves to cross the Fuliang River to rescue, and then eliminate the main force of the thieves in the field battle, so that the subsequent operation of destroying the country would be smoother.

However, he now only has a battle group of 5,000 people in his hands, and there is no siege artillery, only a few field guns, so it should not be possible to capture an important city defended by 60,000 people at one time.

Then put some pressure on them and test them to see how well the thieves defend.

So he placed 500 troops at each of the other three gates of Menzhou to prevent the enemy from going out of the city to counterattack, and he himself led 3,500 men to attack the south gate, which was easier to block the enemy's escape route.

On the eighth day of the first month of the Republic, the advance force of the Chinese army launched a tentative attack on Menzhou.

Then Menzhou was conquered .......

The whole process was very simple, the field army deployed three 10-pound field artillery companies at the south gate of Menzhou to bombard the city wall of Menzhou.

This was the first time that the people of Jiaozhi had really seen the power of artillery.

In fact, 10 catties of cannonballs are not enough to demolish the city wall, but it is not difficult to shake the city wall like chaff, and the broken stones on the beaten city wall are flying wildly, and the power of each piece is not inferior to a shotgun.

So the Chinese infantry advanced to the foot of the southern city wall without injury, and continued to suppress the city head with half of the musketeers in turn, while the others prepared a blast under the city.

The blasting was a success, as a two-meter-wide hole was blown open in the Menzhou city wall, and the collapsed earth and rocks buried nearly 100 cross-finger soldiers, while forming a slope that could be directly stepped on.

It was common sense that the defenders of the city should draw reserves at this time to fight the Chinese for control of the top of the slope, and at the same time build a low wall behind the wall to close this dangerous gap.

The colonel commanded by the Chinese army thought that as long as the Jiaozhi people repaired the low wall, he would give up the attack - blow up the city wall, and the pressure would be enough to make the Jiaozhi thief cry and call his mother to find his mother; When the wall is repaired, you can roughly see the speed of work and the will to fight of the defenders; But he won't capture the city all at once, and he can continue the siege mission.

It was just perfect.

It's ...... weird.

Because the Jiaozhi defenders had no obligation to cooperate with the performance at all, after the city wall collapsed, the defenders in the city, who were originally not highly moraled, refused to compete with the Chinese army for the Tupo Peak Line, and those who were forced up by the knives and guns of the overseers behind simply threw away their weapons, rushed down the soil slope with their heads in their hands and surrendered to ......the Chinese army.

Seeing this, the colonel almost immediately realized that something was wrong.

But it was too late, and some people took the lead in surrendering, and those township soldiers who were requisitioned did not hesitate anymore and surrendered one after another—when the Overseers stopped them, they dared to fight with the Overseers.

About a quarter of an hour later, the south gate of Menzhou was opened from the inside, and the colonel looked at the kneeling soldiers in the city gate in amazement, and was speechless for a long time.

The field soldiers immediately took the initiative and entered the city through the open gates and gaps in the walls under the command of some junior officers.

They scattered the warlords at the South Gate with two volleys, triggering an even larger wave of surrenders, and the remaining thieves fled into the depths of the city in a panic.

The soldiers consciously pursued, and the whistles and trumpets continued to blow, guiding the troops to penetrate into the key points of Menzhou, and at the same time announcing to the defenders in other directions that the south gate had changed hands.

Half an hour after the attack was launched, the defenders of the north gate, which was closest to Huaxia, opened the city and surrendered, and 500 Chinese soldiers easily took over this important city gate.

This was followed by two other city gates, as well as the reserves of the Vietnamese army in the city.

All the thieves lost their will to resist almost at the same time, and after another quarter of an hour, one of the fastest Chinese infantry companies occupied the Menzhou Prefecture, and the Vietnamese base camp arranged here also did not resist, and smoothly knelt on the ground and surrendered.

In just one hour, Menzhou, which had 60,000 defenders, was conquered by 5,000 Chinese troops, and more than 700 defenders were killed, and the rest all surrendered or were captured, along with all the city's households and peasants who had taken refuge in the city, with a total of 200,000 prisoners.

All the grain and grass in the city, which was enough for the defenders to use for a year, fell into the hands of the Chinese army.

As the attacker, only 7 Chinese soldiers were killed and 11 were wounded.

Judging only by the exchange ratio and the capture, it was really a brilliant war victory.

However, this victory made the colonel in charge of the command smile bitterly - the plan to lure the Jiaozhi thieves out of the field battle had completely failed, and it was strange that the thieves dared to come out after this exchange than exaggerated battle.

……

"Huh? Menzhou was knocked down? Xu Daizhuo asked in surprise: "Isn't there only 5,000 in the vanguard?" ”

"Well, that's right, the five thousand vanguard launched a tentative attack, and then Menzhou changed hands." Feng Sanhu handed the battle report that had just arrived to his chief of staff: "There are nearly 60,000 prisoners not counting the people, and all the defenders have been annihilated, and I have already sent someone to verify it." ”

"In that case, the plan to lure the enemy has failed." Xu Daizhuo said with regret: "This cross-toe thief is too hard-working. ”

"That's because they've lost their hearts." Feng Sanhu shook his head: "Forget it, if the plan to lure the enemy fails, it will fail, so it seems that even if the thief is a turtle with a shrunken head, it won't take much trouble for us to attack the city one by one." ”

Xu Daizhuo thought about it and felt that this was indeed the case, 5,000 people could capture a city defended by 60,000 soldiers in one hour, with this combat effectiveness, could there be much difference between the thief soldiers being defensive or in the field?

"Okay, then, give up the plan to lure the enemy, issue commendation orders to the officers and soldiers participating in the Battle of Menzhou, and report the attack to the country." Xu Daizhuo said: "Then continue to attack and hit the Fuliangjiang position first." ”

"Well, that's it." Feng Sanhu added: "In addition, all the Jiaozhi thieves choose to kill one out of five to avenge Qin and Lian!" ”