Chapter 458: Succeeded
At the same time as the door was moving, someone had already lurked in the shadows of the courtyard and killed the sentry high in the dock.
On one side of the courtyard is a dock by the river, and on the other side is a row of bungalows, which were once the workers' quarters and now the barracks of the guards.
Guarding the dockyard was a squad of fifty men, most of whom were sleeping soundly in the barracks, except for a few guards on duty.
The commander of the reconnaissance battalion, disguised as an ordinary soldier, made a few gestures, and immediately more than a dozen Han soldiers blocked the doors of the two barracks.
Then there was a count of one, two, three, and a dozen men gently pushed open the door and rushed into the barracks, and then there was a muffled grunt and a few slight struggles and fights in the barracks, but soon it fell silent.
Dealing with dozens of sleeping ordinary soldiers is really pediatric for these heroes who are riding on a.
The corpse of the sentry was hidden, and naturally there were soldiers of the Han army who took the place of the sentry, and light and dark double sentries were arranged at the gate and dock.
Next, the sappers and demomen in the reconnaissance battalion began to search for the explosives installed in the dock, and soon they found bags of explosives installed in strategic locations in the dock.
Wu Jun still only had black gunpowder, so in order to ensure the effect of the explosion, the amount of explosives installed was very large, and the target was still relatively obvious.
All the fuses were removed and all the explosives were collected.
The Han Army's demomen were relieved to make sure that there were no suspicious objects inside and outside the entire dock.
Next, the elites of the reconnaissance battalion began to feel for other positions in Dazhai, and it would be good to dismantle some more explosives, and the key targets were, of course, the warehouses in Dazhai and the large building ships at the wharf.
The general attack time set by Li Yan is four watch days, which is the time when people are the most sleepy, and most of the Wu army should be asleep.
As long as there is no movement on this side of the dock before the fourth watch, it means that everything is going well, and it will proceed according to the original plan.
At this time, it was less than an hour before the fourth watch, and the time was relatively urgent, and the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion tried to discover and dismantle as many explosives as possible.
As long as they infiltrate the village, the security inside will be much lax, which will give the Han army an opportunity to take advantage of.
As soon as the fourth watch arrived, Li Yan led the officers and men of the whole regiment plus the reconnaissance battalion and the marines, which was equivalent to the strength of a reinforced regiment, and touched Niuzhu Dazhai.
When the gate guards were killed, a rapid whistle sounded in the dark corner of the gate, and Wu Jun still had a well-hidden secret whistle that was not discovered.
But the offensive had already begun, and it was impossible to stop, a grenade was sent into that dark corner, and the explosion ended the whistle.
All the Han troops swarmed in, and according to the prior plan, they rushed to their respective targets.
The Wu army guarding Niuzhu Dazhai has two parts: the naval army and the infantry army, and of course most of the naval army are sailors left behind by various warships, and they also rest on the boats.
The infantry army is all from the right battalion of the Eastern Wu Infantry Army, and they are all Ding Feng's subordinates, but Ding Feng is not here tonight, but his deputy general Ma Zhong is here.
After all, the battalion of the right battalion of the infantry army is not in Niuzhu, but in Shicheng, according to which there are still twenty miles!
According to the pre-arranged plan, as soon as the gunshots rang out and any trace of the Han army was found, the fuse must be immediately lit and all explosives should be detonated.
Ma Zhong didn't sleep, he didn't even leave his armor, he was watching the comparison of the forces of the enemy and us on the map.
The strength of the Han army now has an absolute upper hand, and many divisions and regiments that participated in the war between the Han and Kushan have been successively deployed to various states and counties on the border between Soochow and the Han.
Ma Zhong had already been informed by Ding Feng that the Han army was concentrated across the river from the Niuzhu camp, so he was careful.
Just now he got a message from the gate guards, saying that a small group of soldiers from the left battalion of the Wu Army's infantry army had escorted three carriages to the dock, and there was a military order from Ling Tong, saying that they were here to deliver explosives.
He had heard Ding Feng say that the explosives in his right battalion were insufficient, so Ding Feng cheekily asked Ling Tong for some explosives, and sure enough, they were delivered, but how could they be sent to the dock?
In the dock, I have already installed explosives, which is an important part of the entire Dazhai, and it must be destroyed first.
He just sent a lieutenant to check on the situation, did he send it to the wrong place?
Suddenly, the explosion of a grenade came from the gate of Dazhai, and Ma Zhong's heart was tight, the Han army is coming?
Crossing the river so quickly? But why didn't there be any movement at the observation posts sent on the banks of the river? Can the Han army still fall from the sky?
However, no matter how the Han army crossed the Yangtze River, since they came to attack his Niuzhu Water Village, everything had to be carried out according to the pre-arrangement of the Grand Governor.
"Come on, send a signal immediately, detonate all explosives, quick!" Ma Zhong shouted loudly to his relatives outside the tent.
Immediately the sound of a rapid trumpet sounded outside the tent, far away in the silence of the night.
The entire Niuzhu village immediately boiled, and the Wu army in the barracks, as well as the Wu army resting on the ship, got out of the barracks and cabins one after another, and began to prepare to detonate explosives according to the prior arrangement.
However, not all pre-arranged explosives exploded as expected.
Before some of the Wu troops had even rushed out of the barracks, one or several grenades flew in with white smoke and nowhere to hide.
Some of the fighting ships were blown in two, but several large building ships were safe and sound, and Wu Jun lit the fuse, but did not wait for the explosion.
It turned out to be a soldier of the Marine Corps of the Han Army, who quietly boarded their building ship, cut the fuse, and kept the building ship.
The largest warehouse in Niuzhu Dazhai has stored a lot of ammunition, especially some shells unloaded from the building ship, which have not yet had time to be transported.
Hearing the sound of the horn, dozens of Wu soldiers opened the door of the warehouse, lit torches, and went to look for the fuse of explosives that had been installed in advance.
As soon as the door opened, by the light of the torches, I saw several dark shadows swaying in the warehouse.
Before these Wu soldiers could react, the black shadows had already fired first, and then, several grenades flew from the warehouse into the Wu army's pile, blowing up a piece.
Several dark shadows rushed out of the warehouse, it was the commander of the reconnaissance battalion of the special operations division and several of his men.
When they came out of the dock, their first target was this large warehouse, the explosives in it had been demolished, and the fuses had been destroyed.
In the end, when the Han army occupied Niuzhu Dazhai, only some of the warships were bombed and several small warehouses were razed to the ground.
Ma Zhong's headquarters was captured by the Han army, Ma Zhong died on the battlefield, the navy and the infantry army combined about 5,000 people, about 1,000 people were killed in battle, the rest were either wounded or captured, and only a few more than 100 people escaped.