Chapter 52 Attacking Guyuan and Forcing General Guo Yi to Surrender

The subordinate generals who followed him heard what Li Kui meant, and they were afraid that Li Kui would come hard, so they felt that they should be reminded: "Deputy commander, the only directions we can attack are the north gate and the west gate." The terrain here is so dangerous that needless to say, the cannons in the city are bombarding us, and a single stone can kill a few people. It's not easy for our infantry artillery to advance and shoot, and I think there are too many guns on Guyuan Castle. ”

"If you want to fight, you have to bomb the cannon in their city before you fight." Li Kui said, "Don't worry, I won't force my way." As long as I want to come hard, Mr. Chen and Mr. Ouyang can't spare me when I go back. We are not in a hurry, and then think of a way. Guyuan is a turtle in an urn, and everything around it is ours, and now there are nearly 50,000 people crowded in Guyuan City, and they have run out of food, so let them eat human flesh! ”

"But we don't have time to wait!" The ministry will say.

"The general will not be subject to the orders of the foreign monarch," Li Kui said, "as a general with troops, you must find a way to go to war." Otherwise, don't care about anyone's bullshit orders! Li Kui looked very rude, but he knew it very well in his heart. This is the kind of person who is usually big and informal, and he is definitely not confused when it comes to big things.

Liu Chenghuang and the others came to Guyuan City and were also observing Guyuan. Although when they were in Yaogang, they had already learned a lot about Guyuan, and even the photos of Guyuan had been seen on the projection screen of the command center, but when they were there, they still felt that Guyuan was worthy of being the first city in the northwest, and it was extremely dangerous. If you don't recklessly bombard the outer city with artillery, it may be easy to blow up the outer city, but it is not easy to carry heavy artillery up to bombard the inner city. You have to come up with a foolproof solution.

In the evening, Liu Chenghuang and Li Kui had a conversation over the radio. Liu Chenghuang was the commander of the cavalry, and Li Kui was the deputy commander of the cavalry, and this was the first time they fought together after entering Shaanxi.

After the radio station was connected, Liu Chenghuang shouted: "Is it Uncle Kui?" Although Li Kui is his deputy, Liu Chenghuang still respects Li Kui very much and always calls Li Kui Uncle Kui.

"It's me! Commander Liu. Hehe! The two of us can fight together again. Li Kui, who is much younger than himself, Liu Chenghuang is also very convinced. Liu Chenghuang is not only an old man who follows Zhang Zhimu from south to north, but also has read books and is strong in martial arts. The main thing is that he has a lot of experience in the study of cavalry tactics. The tactics of the musketeers against the Mongol cavalry were studied by Liu Chenghuang. Now these are already the classic tactics of the Yaogang cavalry.

"Uncle Kui, I took a look at the city defense of Guyuan, and it was a little more difficult than we thought in Yaogang at the beginning. Our previous tactics of bombarding the walls with artillery fire and covering the infantry charge with mortars cannot be used here. Because they still have a wall inside them, and our soldiers rush into the mouth, and they use artillery, and they can hit us with a single cannon. Liu Chenghuang said.

"By the way, the old way doesn't work. Our soldiers are not like Li Zicheng's, who killed a group and recruited a group. Mr. Zhang said that the current soldiers must be trained according to the officers. Li Kui said the idea he came up with for two days, "I think we don't have to worry about the shells this time, we used mortars to blow up all the Dashun military artillery on the outer city for them, and blew up their people, and then we didn't rush inside, just send a small force of troops to climb the city wall, command the artillery outside the city on the city wall, and fire artillery on the inner city wall." After holding down the defenders on the inner wall, our brigade went up to the outer city. In this way, mortars and heavy machine guns are put on the outer city, and we will not be afraid. ”

"Uncle Kui's good idea!" Liu Chenghuang said in his heart, Jiang is still old and spicy, "We will use the *** that has been useless this time, so that we can quickly clear the defenders of the outer city." ”

"Yes, yes, we brought that thing with us, so don't keep it." Li Kui said, "Zhang always said, don't use that thing lightly, but now it's a special situation, don't use this thing to let our soldiers fill it with their lives?" So when used here, Mr. Zhang can't say anything! ”

"Good! Just do what Uncle Kui says. Liu Chenghuang said, "However, if Mr. Zhang is to blame, I can say that it was Uncle Kui's idea." Ha ha! ”

"Good! You just push it on me. "Li Kui is not polite.

"How can you! We have to take care of everything. Liu Chenghuang said, "Besides, we have fought the battle well, and no one can say anything." If we don't play well, we don't need to be told by others, and we don't have a place to put our faces. ”

In the end, the two agreed that tomorrow they would launch simultaneous attacks in the north and south.

Liu Chenghuang and the others pushed 130 heavy guns in front of Guyuan City in the morning. A large number of mortars were also lined up, assigned their respective targets.

But before Liu Chenghuang and them fired, Guyuan's artillery was more active than them, and they fired first, of course, their artillery accuracy was too poor, and there was hardly any big threat. Liu Chenghuang saw that he couldn't wait, and ordered 130 heavy artillery to fire first.

Ten 130 heavy guns "dong dong" a row of artillery passed, and the east gate tower of the outer city of Guyuan was blown up. Soon after the east gate was blown up, the city gate building could not stand up, and the whole collapsed with a "Hulong" sound, setting off a burst of smoke and dust.

At this time, the mortar gunners were unwilling to see the excitement, and sent the shells into the barrels one after another, and threw the shells onto the walls of the outer city in succession. The cannons and soldiers on the city walls were blown up everywhere. Most of the shells that did not hit the city wall fell between the inner city and the outer city, and the Dashun army where they were hiding was also a ghost crying wolf.

Over there, Li Kui heard Liu Chenghuang and they opened fire, and the artillery on their side also began to shoot, and the target was also to clear the artillery in the city. However, Li Kui did not bring heavy artillery on his side, but the infantry artillery, under the cover of mortars, pushed up, aimed at the north gate, and blew the north gate to smash it with a "bang".

The defenders of Guyuan were mentally prepared for today's attack on the Yaogang people. That's why they were able to fire the enemy first.

But the people of the kiln opened the city gates, and did not rush into the city as they thought. So the cannons on the walls of their inner city never had a chance to fire. What they didn't expect was that after a while, the kiln people fired another batch of shells that didn't explode loudly. But the shell, which did not explode loudly, immediately ignited the fire. After the explosion of those shells, the things that burst out ignited wherever they hit, and the horror was that they collapsed on people, and they could no longer be destroyed, and even the people who went up to help were quickly set on fire. The people around him were so frightened that they could only watch the people who were on fire crying and rolling on the ground until they were scorched.

This terrifying scene made the defenders in the outer city so frightened that they immediately fled without a trace.

Liu Chenghuang, who had been observing the situation in the city with a telescope, waved his hand to let the special forces move forward. A team of kiln gang special forces came to the outer city, threw flying claws at the city, and then grabbed the rope and climbed the city wall. The special forces who went to the city and went to the edge of the city to observe that there were indeed no living Dashun soldiers in the city, and turned over to the city. Untie the thick rope he was carrying, tie it to the battlement, and carry it out of the city. The special forces outside the city climbed to the city one by one and hid themselves, they didn't want the Dashun army on the inner city wall to find out that they had landed in the city, in that case, the artillery of various calibers on their city would come over immediately. The special forces measured the distance between the inner and outer cities and reported the parameters to the artillery outside the city by radio.

After receiving the parameters, the artillery outside the city immediately test-fired a shot. As a result, the shells flew over the inner city walls and into the city. The special forces on the city walls, according to the point where the shells landed, reported a correction deviation. As a result, the second shell came closer, and the shell fell between the inner and outer cities. After another correction, the cannonball finally landed on the walls of the inner city.

After a hit, there is a large number of cannonballs flying over, although the cannonballs that fall on the inner city wall do not fall more than outside the city, but it also lifts a lot of cannons and artillery on the inner city to the city, with the continuous fall of the cannonballs, the inner city wall, there is also a continuous explosion sound, after the dazzling flash, the human limbs are scattered and flying.

After a group of *** fell, the defenders in the inner city ran away from all those who could escape. At this time, the infantry of the kiln began to pour into the walls of the outer city. Waiting for the infantry of the kiln to climb the wall of the outer city and mount heavy machine guns and mortars on the city wall, Liu Chenghuang knew in his heart that the overall situation had been decided. However, Liu Chenghuang, who came to the city wall, was taken aback. It turns out that on the city wall, there are ** everywhere. Due to the fact that some of the boxes containing ** were blown up, the ** rolling city wall was everywhere.

Liu Chenghuang said in his heart, "There is no hard attack, otherwise, although these ** are not as powerful as their own hands**, they are too threatening to the infantry under the city." ”

However, Liu Chenghuang immediately notified him to go down, and after entering the city for a while, be careful of the ** of the Dashun army. Liu Chenghuang knew that there were so many ** on the wall of the Dashun army, and it was impossible for the defenders in the city to be without.

Li Kui in the north also followed the same routine, and almost climbed the wall of the outer city of Guyuan at the same time as the south.

The Yaogang soldiers who climbed the city wall quickly developed along the city wall to the two wings, and soon occupied the outer city of Guyuan, where Liu Chenghuang and Li Kui's men and horses converged.

At this time, Guyuan City was in a panic, although General Guo Yi had a plan to put the Yaogang people into the city to fight again, and he also made a lot of arrangements. But the soldiers who retreated from the walls into the city brought panic and were very contagious. General Guo Yi sent his own soldiers into the streets and severely suppressed those who were running around trying to take advantage of the chaos to make a rout. This brought down the chaos in the city. However, at this time, the Yaogang people had completely occupied the outer city of Guyuan. General Guo Yi understands that there is no chance of winning today, but he can kill as many kiln people as possible to worry about the emperor.

After the Yaogang people wiped out the soldiers of the Dashun Army between the inner and outer cities, they covered it with heavy machine guns, and the Yaogang people began to climb the inner city wall. On the inner city wall, the kiln guards set up heavy machine guns to directly suppress the Dashun army in the city. However, after Liu Chenghuang climbed the inner city wall, he saw that the Guyuan City was divided into pieces by the Dashun army, and it seemed that they were ready for street fighting. Although the soldiers of Yaogang did not train much in street fighting. But if you fight in a short battle, you will die after all, and the damage to the city is too great.

At this time, Li Kui brought people to Liu Chenghuang's side. The two didn't have time to be polite, Liu Chenghuang said: "Commander Liu, I see that we are monitoring them on the city wall, using heavy machine guns to suppress all the people walking on the streets, especially a few wells in the city, we use heavy machine guns to watch, and those who draw water are directly killed." I think they can hold out for a few days. ”

"Yes! We rushed in and fought them in the streets, and the fight ended quickly, but we also had to pay the price. They have a lot of ** on the city walls, and the defenders in the city cannot be less. Liu Chenghuang said, "I will immediately report the situation here to the former enemy command center, if it is not necessary to resolve the battle as soon as possible." We'll trap them for a few days. ”

Liu Chenghuang finished sending a telegram to Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He, and soon received a reply telegram. It was agreed that they should deal with all the situations at the front at their discretion. And tell them. Pingliang didn't need them to take care of it, and soon Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He led their troops through Pingliang to Guyuan, and then entered Guyuan to Lanzhou. Pingliang, when they pass by, they will directly decide.

After receiving the telegram from Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He, Liu Chenghuang and Li Kui were happy. Li Kui comforted Liu Chenghuang and said, "We just need to settle the battle before Mr. Chen and the others go to Guyuan." ”

Yoo Sung-hwang ordered the heavy machine guns and snipers to shoot at all targets within the range who dared to show their heads. The streets of the city were immediately gone. Liu Chenghuang knew that there were too many soldiers squeezed into the small Guyuan City, and they couldn't help but eat or drink. So the siege will soon bear fruit. At night, the kiln people also set up searchlights on the city walls to illuminate the main streets. Those who tried to come out at night to fetch water were killed by snipers by the well.

This tactic quickly paid off. The next day, as soon as the morning dawned, the loudspeaker of the kiln began to persuade him to surrender. And leave a door for them to come out for the soldiers who are willing to surrender, and ensure the safety of the soldiers who come out from here to surrender.

In the morning, occasionally there were soldiers of the Dashun Army, desperately rushing to the door left for them to run out and surrender, close to noon, the soldiers who came out did not have to run, one by one people came out to surrender in a row.

In the afternoon, there were more people. At this time, the voice of the soldier who came out first came from the loudspeaker of the kiln gang. They first reported their original army and their names, and then told the soldiers in the city that they had come out to surrender and were given preferential treatment, and as soon as they came out, they ate a bite of the beef buns that ran from oil.

The hungry soldiers of the Dashun Army in the city had no fighting spirit. Most of them came out to serve in the army just to get a bite to eat. How can I resist the temptation to eat a full meal now?

Seeing that it was dark again, it was reported below that more than 10,000 soldiers had gone out of the city to surrender in one day today. Sitting on the city wall, looking at the sunset, Liu Chenghuang asked, "Uncle Kui, how many days do you think our General Guoyi can survive?" ”

"Two more days." Li Kui said, "Tell the brothers in a moment that there are people on duty at each city gate at night, so that the Dashun army will not run away at night." Keep an eye on those wells. Without water, what do I see them cooking for? ”

Although Li Kui guessed it, General Guoyi organized people to break through in the evening.

General Guo Yi never thought that the battle would be like this, and he couldn't see the Yaogang people at all, and the two city walls where he lost his troops and generals were lost. I want to get some advantage in the street fighting, but people stay on the city wall and don't come in. And all the roads in the city were blocked, especially the wells, which were not close to people at all. Yesterday a large number of soldiers had already left the city to surrender, although I don't know how many there were, but the number was insignificant. In this case, there will be more surrenders tomorrow. Those who went out had enough to eat, and shouted to the soldiers in the city with their trumpets. The kiln people are too profitable. He knew that it would not be possible to stand up and wait for death like this, otherwise the officers and soldiers below would not take themselves seriously. He gathered his generals together and decided to break out. As for which direction to go after going out, they all felt uncertain, but General Guo Yi said, "If it is possible, go in the direction of Lanzhou, then there may be a way out." "In the end, the direction of the breakthrough they determined was from the West Gate.

In the evening, as soon as the hour passed, General Guo Yi knew that this was the time when people were most sleepy, and it was also their chance to break through successfully. They organized a large group of men and horses along the street against the wall and advanced towards the west gate. But they did not wait for them to come to the west gate. The searchlight of the kiln locked the pillar of light on the street where they were. I had no choice but to rush hard. The officers and soldiers rushed towards the west gate with shouts. Just as the soldiers rushed to the west gate and were about to open the city gate, the terrifying heavy machine guns rang out, and under the light of the searchlights, the soldiers were beaten one by one in a bloody mist. With the addition of two more heavy machine guns, the soldiers fell one by one. The soldiers who rushed up like a tide retreated like a tide, but they left dead bodies all over the ground. The general Guo Yi was also grazed by a bullet in his arm, and he was bleeding profusely. When he retreated to his headquarters, when the military doctor came to bandage his wounds, General Guo Yi didn't say a word, as if he didn't know the pain. He knew his destiny had arrived.

After the battle of the breakthrough at night, the officers and soldiers of Dashun, who had no food or drink and were hungry, were even more disappointed. On this day, more than 20,000 officers and soldiers lined up to go out of the city and surrender.

Before dark, General Guo Yi sent a letter to the Yaogang people outside the city, saying that if the Yaogang people could treat the surrendered Dashun soldiers and their families well, he was willing to order the Dashun soldiers to go out of the city and surrender tomorrow.

Liu Chenghuang immediately replied to him: Treating the surrendered soldiers and their families well is the military discipline that our kiln gang people must observe. If General Guo Yi can take into account the lives of the soldiers of the Dashun Army and lead the people to surrender, it will be a credit. We kiln gang people will remember your credit. On the battlefield we are the enemy, if the general surrenders. We can also be good friends. General Guo Yi is welcome to make a decision as soon as possible.

General Guo Yi sent a letter to Liu Chenghuang overnight, saying: Tomorrow all the Dashun troops in Guyuan will go out of the city and surrender.

That night, Liu Chenghuang did not let the Yaogang soldiers shoot again.

Sure enough, the soldiers of the Dashun Army lined up to go out of the city and surrender as soon as it was dawn. Of course, last night, Liu Chenghuang arranged for someone to boil porridge and wait for them. The soldiers who went out of the city rushed to the porridge bucket in a swarm. The kiln soldiers fired warning shots to stop the soldiers who were grabbing porridge.

But Liu Chenghuang waited until the end, and they didn't see General Guo Yi go out of the city and surrender. In the end, General Guo Yi's personal soldiers went out of the city and told Liu Chenghuang that General Guo Yi had committed suicide this morning. Leave a message to say: I hope General Liu will keep his promise.

Liu Chenghuang and Li Kui both sighed. Li Kui said: "Good job! has backbone and morality. fulfilled his own name, and let the soldiers of the Dashun Army live a way. ”

Kiln Gang Command Center.

After Zhang Zhimu received the telegram that Gu Yuan had taken down, he immediately asked the radio station to broadcast the news as soon as possible.

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