Chapter 70 The intelligence agent shows up and takes Suzhou at night

Before marching to Suzhou (Jiuquan), Ningde touched Zhao Jinli and Wang Yi. Wang Yi said: "If Suzhou can be like Ganzhou, many fewer people will die." ”

"It is impossible to fight a war without death, Ganzhou is for us to pick up." Zhao Jinli said, "Of course, it would be best if we could win them to surrender." It's just a fight, and it's better to let them withdraw from the scattered castles and fight together. ”

Wang Yi shook his head and said: "They are different here and my side, many of their castles are directly facing the Mongols, and they dare not let go of those castles. We still have to be ready to solve them one by one. The armies that can be put at the forefront are all elite soldiers who have been in battle for a long time, and it is difficult to persuade them to surrender. ”

"We are ready to fight, and we will do our best to persuade us to surrender." Ningde said, "The scouts we came back from the report that they were not concentrated. Let's get ready to gnaw one by one! ”

"If we have to fight, then we will fight the Acropolis first. The Acropolis is down, and then it is easy to persuade other castles to surrender. ”

Suzhou has been expanded several times and has become very large-scale. Now the whole city is square, there is a gate in the east, west, north and south, and each gate is in the center of the city wall, and the east and west, north and south are opposite. Every twenty steps on the city wall, there is a tall tower with a roof. Now there are 4,000 defenders in the Acropolis of Suzhou, and the mighty general on the gate tower in the east of Suzhou City is looking to the east. He knew it was the direction the Kiln Gang people were attacking. He had sent out a lot of scouts, but he had never found the Kiln Gang coming. The mighty general knew very well that he was unable to resist the attack of the Yaogang people, if he could fight, there were tens of thousands of horses in Ganzhou, and they would have fought a long time ago, and so many guards from Lanzhou to here would have fought a long time ago. General Weiwu has already arranged for his family to go to Jiayuguan. Tell his family that if Jiayuguan can't be defended any longer, they will all take poison and commit suicide. The obedient wife and children all nodded in agreement. Now the mighty general is ready to die for the country, and he will be loyal to the prince.

Just as Ningde and their brigade were on the way to Suzhou, the staff officer suddenly sent a telegram to Ningde. Ning De looked at it and shouted: "Great! That's great! ”

Zhao Jinli was walking side by side with Ning De, "General Ning, if there is anything good, I will listen to it too, don't you be happy alone." ”

Ning De read the telegram again and handed it to Zhao Jinli. After reading the telegram, Zhao Jinli couldn't help but say the word "good".

Zhao Jinli turned around after reading the telegram and handed it to Wang Yi who was following behind.

After reading the telegram, Wang Yi asked in surprise: "When will our people arrive in Suzhou?" ”

"Huh! From Lanzhou, they left ahead of us. Ning De turned around and said, "But they are not from our army, they are people sent by our Yaogang Intelligence Department to cooperate with us." Their task is to scout in front and wait for an opportunity to cooperate with our army as appropriate. ”

"Why didn't they show up in front of you?" Wang Yi didn't understand.

"I don't know," Ningde said, "that they show up now, that they know they can play here." Or maybe they feel that we can easily take it down without them in front. Now this is the key place, and they are going to make a move. ”

Wang Yi took a breath of cool air and said, "What are we still fighting in the war?" ”

Zhao Jinli turned around and said, "Hehe! Is this weird? We didn't have a plan to attack here before, otherwise we wouldn't have bothered to do it. We didn't have to worry about it in all the key places on the Shaanxi side. ”

After Meng Si'er and them assisted Ningde and them to conquer Suzhou, they also fought vigorously, and they also wanted to follow Ningde and them into Hexi. But Chen Yufeng informed him and asked him to return to Xi'an as soon as possible. At the same time, Li Zhi also sent a secret telegram to inform him to go to Xi'an to stand by. Meng Si'er knew that there must be another big event, and he didn't dare to slack off. But Ning De asked Chen Yufeng to ask Meng Si'er's people to cooperate with him. Chen Yufeng sent a telegram to Zhang Zhimu about this. Zhang Zhimu asked Li Zhi to inform Meng Si'er to leave some people to cooperate with Ningde and them to go west. In this way, Meng Si'er only returned to Xi'an with a few cronies, leaving more than 20 people to follow Ningde westward. When Meng Si'er was leaving, he assigned them a detailed task. They will definitely not simply assist Ningde and them in attacking a few cities when they go west this time, but they will collect all kinds of information in the entire Hexi region. That's what they're doing.

The two dozen or so of them were overjoyed to accept the task. Traditionally, they don't follow the brigade. The Ningde brigade didn't move, so they themselves made a caravan and left first. Along the way, they hid their weapons in their cargo and bought and sold along the way. However, they found that as long as there was a cannon in these cities, there was no difficulty in defeating them. So they didn't stop. When they came to Suzhou, they went further to Jiayuguan. If they arrived at Jiayuguan, they could no longer move forward, and in this troubled world, the caravan of more than 20 people was too eye-catching, so they stayed in Suzhou and did not move forward. Through a merchant I met on the road, I quietly ordered a shop. That's where they got down to business. After familiarizing themselves with the situation, they also sent people to Jiayuguan to feel the situation, and they were waiting for Ningde and their brigade here.

When they determined that Ningde had conquered Ganzhou, they sent a report to Ningde and sent them a plan they had drawn up to open the city gate at night and take Suzhou at night. Because of this kind of road, they are familiar with the road and have done it in Lanzhou and Ningxia Weidu.

Ningde and they just didn't come up with a way to break Suzhou City without destroying the city, and the telegram sent by Meng Si'er and their action team was really timely rain.

Originally, Ningde and they wanted to stay away from Suzhou and go down to the village to confuse the Suzhou defenders. But the cavalry in front was not far from Suzhou. It's no use to do such a feint now. So Ningde decided to go to Suzhou before going to the village.

But Ningde and the others had not yet arrived in Suzhou, when they suddenly heard a dense cannon sound from the direction of Suzhou.

Ningde felt very strange, and asked people to go to see what the situation was. After a while, the person who came back said: "It's the cavalry who are a little careless, they are too close to Suzhou City." The defenders of Suzhou suddenly opened fire on them, wounding several brothers. ”

Ning De scolded angrily: "These bastards, if you don't suffer a big loss, you can't accept the lesson." Why don't you blow up their regimental commander! ”

Zhao Jinli persuaded Ning De: "Don't be angry, now the whole army is too light on the enemy." Let's sum it up, otherwise it will be too late to suffer a big loss. ”

After Ningde and their camp in front of Suzhou in a big way, the army in the kiln gang in the camp opened meals as usual, and then rested on time.

After the officers and soldiers in the camp rested, Zhao Jinli sent out scouts to clean up the surrounding eyeliner.

When the time came, the soldiers quietly got up, each of them ate some dry food, and began to assemble.

The gate of the camp of Yaogang is facing the east gate of Suzhou City. The focus of Suzhou's defense is also the East Gate. However, after the officers and soldiers of the kiln gang were assembled, they set off from the back door of the camp and went around. Came to the south gate of Suzhou and hid outside.

Zhao Jinli commanded a company of soldiers, armed with ten heavy machine guns and mortars, dressed in camouflage, and took advantage of the night to crawl forward and came to the south gate of Suzhou. Hide in the grass and set up heavy machine guns and mortars.

The reason why the intelligence officers in the city chose this south gate was because the residences here were relatively close to the city gate and the city wall. As soon as it was dark, the intelligence agent came to the courtyard closest to the city wall and controlled the family in the courtyard. More than 20 of them hid in this courtyard.

Outside the south wall of this courtyard is the Suzhou city wall, and it is not far from the south gate. When it was time to arrive, they made a contact with Ningde and them by telegram to determine the time of action again.

Then the agents jumped out of the south wall of the house, and threw a flying claw wrapped in sheepskin against the wall. Grabbing the edge of the wall, one of the informants tried it, and felt that the rope was firmly grasped, and he crept up the wall to hear that there was no sound, and turned over the battlements of the wall, and leaned over the wall. But as soon as he leaned down, he was in trouble. It turned out that there was a soldier standing guard in the place where he went to the city, and the sentry had just fallen asleep, and the sound of his body falling woke the sentry awake. The sentry immediately stood up with his spear in hand. The intelligence officer in the city was so wronged in his heart, and he said in his heart that it was so coincidental. But he didn't stop in his hand, took out a *** pistol, and shot twice at the throat and heart of the sentry standing in front of his head. Then he quickly got up and helped the sentry to slowly put him down, and then signaled to the bottom of the city wall, and three more people climbed up below. They quickly leaned over the battlements of the city wall and ran quickly towards the south gate building. Dispose of several sentries along the way. When they came to the gate tower to deal with the sentinels here, something went wrong. It turned out that the sentinels here were all double posts, but when they came here, after observation, they only found one sentry. While they were disposing of the sentry, another sentry who had come to the side happened to come back and spot them. The sentry shouted the alarm. The soldiers on the gate tower heard the alarm and gathered around. As soon as the four of them saw that they were exposed, they rushed to the winch where the drawbridge was put in desperation. It's too late to slowly lower the winch. According to the plan, they took it out of their backpacks**, adjusted the timing, and rushed back to the road they came. The soldiers with broadswords and spears could stop the four of them with pistols. Not long after they left the city gate building, the ** "boom" behind them exploded. A kilogram of ***** ** blew up the Dashun soldiers who rushed over to see the situation along with the drawbridge winch, and the drawbridge fell directly with a "bang".

The four of them looked almost as good as they ran, and each of them took out a rope from his backpack behind him and put it on the battlements of the city wall, and slid down the city.

The huge explosion also woke up the entire Suzhou City. The kiln informants in the city heard the explosion and knew that the city's actions had been exposed. They opened the gate of the house, and each of them rode a horse and rushed towards the gate. The defenders below the gate were stunned by the sound of explosions on the gate tower. When they sobered up, they sent their men to rush up the city gate. At this moment, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves, and they saw a cavalry rushing towards them from afar, and they thought it was the brethren who had heard the sound of an explosion and came to their aid. The leader of the gate guard also said: "I am scared, but I came so fast today!" ”

But when they saw these horsemen approaching, they looked at the troops in human costumes by the torch under the city, and felt that something was wrong. Before they could react, the oncoming automatic rifle began firing at them. The more than 30 people guarding the city gate are not enough for more than 20 automatic rifles. After beating them, the intelligence officer did not hesitate, they jumped off their horses, and immediately according to the division of labor, some of them raised their guns to guard, and some of them rushed to the city gate, took off the top gate bar, and slowly pushed the gate open. Only then did they hear the sound of heavy machine guns outside the city. The crimson tongue of fire went straight to the upper part of the city gate. They knew that it was the archers who suppressed the city gates. When the soldiers outside the city saw the gate open, a group of cavalry quickly rushed across the drawbridge, and then rushed through the gate hole and rushed into the city. Some of the people who entered the city from behind dismounted and rushed along the side road to the city.

These offensive routines are all typical combat tactics of the Yaogang army, and they are not practiced in peacetime. Don't panic when you use it. The tactical coordination was carried out very smoothly.

When the gate tower was occupied by the cavalry. They immediately fired a dazzling flare from the mortar. This flare illuminated half of Suzhou City.

The infantry who entered the city in the back landed in the city and began to attack along the walls on both sides.

Ningde's searchlight also shone on the south gate to illuminate the troops entering the city. The cavalry on the gate tower was constantly firing flares. The shouts and gunfire in the city grew more and more intense.

Seeing that it was almost over, Zhao Jinli said to Ning De: "General Ning, let's go into the city and go to the city gate tower to see the excitement!" ”

"Good! Walk! Ningde agreed, and rode his horse towards the city gate. Wang Yi followed beside him and asked Zhao Jinli: "Commander Zhao, is this the case for you to seize a city?" ”

"Sometimes it's not so strenuous, if we use heavy artillery to blast the walls open during the day, and then cover with mortars and heavy machine guns, it's easier to enter the city, and then we can get a better eye. However, this has the advantage of being able to take over the city completely. ”

Ningde and the others came to the south gate tower and saw the continuous flickering of fire and light in the city, and they knew that it was the flame of the muzzle of an automatic rifle and the light of a flashlight.

Street fighting with broadsword spears with automatic rifles is a one-sided slaughter, there is no suspense. Until dawn, the gunfire in the city was fierce for a while, and then slowly the gunfire became quieter.

Now there is an advantage, when attacking the city, there is no longer a need to tell the soldiers not to be soft, not to be soft. Because today's soldiers have fought a few battles and seen blood, they are all veterans, and they all know what to do on the battlefield.

The soldiers followed the area and began to search for the Dashun soldiers who were hiding. The propaganda vehicles of Yaogang also entered the city and began to use loudspeakers to persuade the soldiers of the Dashun Army to surrender, telling them that the people of Yaogang were preferential to prisoners, and also warned the people of Suzhou not to take in the soldiers of the Dashun Army.

Until noon, the mighty general was searched. The mighty general looked embarrassed when he was brought to the city walls. He was found hiding in a sheepfold and was covered in sheep dung. His head was wrapped in gauze, apparently bandaged by the soldiers at the kiln post.

However, the mighty general was stunned when he saw Wang Yi standing next to Ningde. Wang Yi said: "General Zhao Heng, don't be surprised, I have already defected to the Yaogang People's Army. There is no way to do it, I have to find a way for the brothers to live. If you don't fight the prince, we don't need to fight to the death! ”

"But look at the corpses all over the city, and my soldiers are dead." The mighty general named Zhao Heng said.

"You didn't give me a chance to persuade you, so you fired at us first." Wang Yi said, "The five guards in Ganzhou are not fighting, why are you obsessed and don't leave a way for the brothers to live." ”

"I'm a soldier, and the prince asked me to defend the city, can I surrender without fighting?" Zhao Heng lowered his head and said.

"Look, the city is full of the corpses of the brothers, do you think it would be useful to fight like this?" Wang Yi said, "If you can fight, won't he fight the hundreds of thousands of troops of the prince?" ”

"Alas! This is also providential. Zhao Heng said.

"It's not providence, if you could think about it more, these brothers wouldn't have died in vain." Wang Yi said.

"It's too late to say anything now, for the sake of our acquaintance before, you can help me and give me a good time!" Zhao Heng is still a man.

"It's not too late. I know that you have sent your family to Jiayuguan. We don't want Jiayuguan to repeat the tragedy here. If you can persuade General Chen Gui of Jiayuguan to stop fighting. You've done a great job. The brothers in Jiayuguan and your family escaped this disaster. The families of several powerful generals of the Ganzhou Wuwei and my family had to be sent to live in Yaogang after the war. If you want, we can also have a partner. "The intelligence officer has already told Ning De and Wang Yi about Zhao Heng and their information.

"Can you count it if you say it?" Obviously, at this time, Zhao Heng also wanted to find a way to live.

At this time, Ning De interjected and said, "General Wang Yi will say it!" ”

Wang Yi hurriedly introduced Zhao Heng and said, "This is our General Ningde!" ”

Zhao Heng hurriedly gave Ning De a salute and said, "When I was in Tongguan, I knew General Ning De. ”

"I said brother, it's not that we can't fight Jiayuguan, I don't want to die too many people." Ningde said, "You know here that there are few people at the border gates. Let's leave more people to deal with the Mongol Tartars, and don't consume them ourselves. Look at the dead corpses all over the city, you feel sorry for us. ”

When Zhao Heng heard Ning De's words, a man actually squatted on the ground and cried.

No one laughed at him at this time. This is true temperament.

After crying for a while, Zhao Heng stopped crying and said, "Let everyone laugh." ”

"No, no!" Ningde said, "If you don't feel sad to see your brother die, then you are not human." ”

"If General Ning believes me, I will immediately go to Jiayuguan to persuade General Zhao Gui. He had a very good relationship with me, and I thought he would be able to listen to me. Zhao Heng didn't finish his words.

Ningde already liked this person very much, and said, "Okay! But there's no need to rush. You'd better deal with the surrounding castles first. ”

"Yes, yes, I'll tell them to stop fighting right away." Zhao Heng is also a very happy person.

Due to the surrender of Zhao Heng, the mighty general of Suzhou, there was a strange phenomenon in the city of Suzhou, where the soldiers of the Dashun Army who did not die and the Yaogang soldiers who had just fought to the death cleaned up the bodies of the soldiers who died in the battle. Then they washed the streets together, and brought clean soil from outside the city to pave the blood-stained streets.

After the count, there were less than a thousand soldiers left in the city, and more than 3,000 were killed. The wounded soldiers of the Dashun Army were also well healed.

However, nearly 3,000 soldiers from various castles surrendered.

There are dozens of castles in Suzhou, and Ningde is a little worried, it seems that the burden on the border is too great. He thought to himself, no wonder Mr. Zhang didn't want to implement the strategy of sticking, it seems that only active defense is the best way. Ning De left everything else to Zhao Jinli and Wang Yi to do, and began to think about the future governance and defense.

The next day, Zhao Heng was going to Jiayuguan, and Ning De wrote a handwritten letter for him to bring with him.

Ning Dexin said, "Zhao Heng had better do things well." In that case. The entire Yaogang military campaign to the west was over. ”

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Mt. Fuji erupted, Japan was earthquaked. --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".