Chapter 351: The Year-End War (17)

Song Zhenzong in the north of Guang'an was happily eating meat, but He Zengshan in the west of Guang'an was gnawing on bones.

He Zengjiao did not have a high-level insider like Zhang Guangpei to deliver news in time, so he had to rely on his own judgment to determine the movements of the enemy in Yuechi.

The Black Tiger Mixed Sky Star Wang Gao and Wang Guangxing were not weaker than the Guang'an thieves in terms of strength and combat power, while the total strength of He Zengshan's command was only three battalions, a fire company, an artillery company, a baggage company and a Tianquan Tusi cavalry company that was later reinforced, totaling about 3,000 men and horses. Among them, two infantry battalions were formed by the battle company of the Huzhuang team mixed with Dingyuan recruits, and the other battalion was the 10th battalion that had just been defeated.

However, as a veteran of the battlefield, He Zengzhi has his own way to prevent the local thugs of Yuechi from escaping.

That's the easiest way:

Pounce on it and bite it!

On the morning of the 26th day of the 14th month of Chongzhen, when Song Zhenzong led the 3rd Regiment to join forces with the sailors of Dajiang and He Gui to encircle and annihilate the Tu Tyrant in the north of Guang'an City, the Yue Chi Tu Tyrant suddenly concentrated more than 3,000 people to launch a fierce assault on the position of the 13th Battalion of the Protector Army Sun Yingjun who occupied the western defense line of Guangmenpu.

However, after all, the flesh is no match for steel, and brute bravery is not always Turin.

In front of a line of traps, trenches, deer barriments, and breastwork, under the blows of cannons, muskets, and short spears from far and near, in the extremely bad weather of wind and snow, the Tyrants were once again defeated. The thugs attacked several times, but to no avail, leaving only more frozen corpses. They had no choice but to begin their retreat in the afternoon and slipped towards the camp on the official road outside the pass.

To the great surprise of the local tyrants, this time the Protector Army did not blindly defend, but immediately launched a front-line counterattack with the strength of ten or twelve battalions and a Tusi cavalry company.

The local thug was caught off guard and collapsed suddenly. Under the pursuit and slashing of the cavalry, it was difficult for the local tyrants to gain a foothold, so they had to abandon the camp and run to Yuechi County, thirty miles away.

But where can the infantry outrun the cavalry who have been recuperating for many days? Seeing that the situation was not good, these local thugs had no choice but to leave the official road, scatter in a hurry, and flee to the surrounding villages.

After defeating the enemy in front of them, two battalions of infantry and a company of cavalry of the Protector Army did not stop at all, and immediately began an attack on the county seat of Yuechi along the official road from Guang'an Prefecture to Shunqing Province. Not far behind them was the headquarters of the 1st Regiment and the two companies of the 13th Battalion led by He Zengzhi and Li Cunliang, as well as all the firearms and baggage troops.

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In the battle of counterattacking before the battle, He Zengzhi won cleanly, his own casualties were only more than 30 people, and the local tyrants were only taken prisoners, there were eight or nine hundred.

Suddenly, the situation on the front line took a sharp turn for the worse, and the local rioters not only lost the threat to Guangmenpu, but also ignorantly exposed Yuechi Castle naked to the front of the Protector Army.

In the process of pursuit, Li Cunliang sacrificed the secret method of Jinyiwei's interrogation, and quickly ascertained the identity and origin of this group of prisoners. As a result, as He Zengshan expected, more than eighty percent of the captives were Ding Zhuang who was coerced by the local tyrants near Yuechi.

He Zengshan immediately made a judgment that the attack of the soil rioters was just a smoke bomb they cast. The real purpose of the local rioters was to break through to Quxian in the northeast. As a result, He Zengshan only used two companies of the thirteenth battalion to stay in Guangmenpu to guard the prisoners, and all the rest of the troops rushed to Yuechi County.

The order of the 2nd Battalion of the Tianquan Tusi Cavalry was to divide into three immediately after arriving at Yuechi City, and monitor the three gates of the north, south, and west of Yuechi County to prevent any enemy from escaping.

The task of the regimental cavalry platoon was even more exciting. They need to seize the east gate of Yuechi before the enemy reacts.

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The wealthy county town of Yuechi is slightly larger than the county town of Dazhu and sits on a large flat dam in the Yuechi Basin. The city wall is covered with stones, nine feet high, about seven feet thick, seven minutes on Wednesday, totaling 666 zhang, with four gates in the south, east, west, and northwest, and there is no moat (Note 1).

About two miles outside the east city is the Yuechi water that flows in the north-south direction, and the north of the city is not high Xiangfeng Mountain. The official road from Guang'an to Shunqingfu enters from the east gate of Yuechi Castle and exits from the north gate, so there are large houses and shops on both sides of the official road of the East Gate Chengguan.

The swift and resolute attack of the Protector Army was completely unexpected by the local tyrants. When the cavalry of the Protector Army suddenly rushed into Dongguan, many local tyrants were still having fun in the wine shop. However, because the local thugs on the street ran everywhere, slowing down the advance of the cavalry platoon, the cavalry platoon failed to seize the city gate in time as planned.

But the daytime surprise attack of the Protectors was not without results: the heavy wooden gates slammed shut in front of the fleeing crowd, and those unlucky people who did not enter the city in time had to surrender to their knees to the officers and soldiers.

On the evening of the 26th of the lunar month, the Protector Army occupied the East Gate Pass of Yuechi County after a rapid march of 30 miles. Almost at the same time, the Tusi cavalry blocked the other three city gates in Yuechi County, and a battle situation of closing the gate and fighting dogs was basically formed.

The local thugs in the city panicked, and did not know how many officers and troops surrounded them. By the time they came to their senses and decided to send troops out of the city to fight back, it was already dark. In this era, for technical and nutritional reasons, there were few large-scale night battles. The local thugs had no choice but to withdraw their troops and prepare to go out of the city the next day to counterattack.

However, the local tyrant misjudged again.

Without waiting for the local rioters to counterattack, the Protector Army used the houses outside the city as a cover before dawn the next day to transport a large amount of explosives to the east gate.

At three o'clock (5:45 a.m.), there was a loud bang, and the heavy wooden door of the east gate of Yuechi was blown to pieces. The three Protector Barracks, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately rushed into the county town and started a street battle with the sleepy-eyed and fluffy local thugs.

The task assigned by each unit was that the 10th Battalion led by Yin Jialin and Zhu Pingqi strengthened the Fire Gun Company and attacked the north gate along the city wall;

Wang Huaide's 12th battalion attacked the west gate along the street. After occupying the West Gate, he turned to coordinate with the 10th Battalion to annihilate the enemy in the northern city;

Two companies of Sun Yingjun's 13th Battalion consolidated the East Gate and attacked and advanced along the wall from the East Gate to the South Gate, occupying the South Gate;

Baggage and heavy garrisons guarded the East Gate Pass;

The artillery company mounted the cannon on the city wall;

The cavalry platoon of the regiment headquarters followed He Zengshan, as the vanguard of the whole regiment, and aimed directly at the county government near the north gate, striving to capture the two big thieves, Wang Gao and Wang Guangxing.

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The sky was white. In a small basin in the hinterland of northern Sichuan, a thousand-year-old city shook the sky. The Protector Army is invincible in all directions, and the liberation of Yuechi City is coming.

At the corner from the east wall of Yuechi City to the north wall, Yang Tianbo, the new deputy company commander and deputy supervisor of the second company of the 10th Battalion, was leading a platoon of soldiers to storm the north gate.

The width of the wall here is only three people alongside each other, and there are more than two dozen ascending steps at the front corner. Just now, the team rushed too violently, and a few thugs flashed out of the corner, throwing down a few spinning throwing knives, injuring two soldiers. Yang Tianbo hurriedly withdrew his troops to the bottom of the steps and waited for the fire platoon to follow up.

Yang Tianbo was temporarily promoted by Shizi only a few days ago. The commander of the second company escaped from the battle during the night attack on Guangmenpu, and also lied that he had received an order to retreat, which led to the retreat of the third company and the first company on the left and right flanks, and finally caused the battalion commander and the supervising army to almost die in the fire.

Yin Jialin and Zhu Pingqi, who had suffered a lot of anger at the regiment headquarters, returned to the 10th Battalion and immediately organized a military court trial. The commander of the second company and more than 20 officers and soldiers who were the first to flee were sentenced to beheading and immediately executed, and more than 10 officers and non-commissioned officers were sentenced to dismissal or demotion.

The second company had suffered the greatest losses, and only one platoon without officers was retained in this reorganization, and the rest of the soldiers were all replenished to the first, third, and fourth companies. Zhu Pingjian hurriedly ran to Sanhepu to find his son brother to ask for cadres who would not flee from the battle, Zhu Pingjin didn't say a word, and immediately ordered three squad leaders and more than ten soldiers from his guard camp to be sent to the tenth battalion. Among them, there is Yang Tianbo, who took the lead in Luodu.

There was no movement at the corner of the wall. Yang Tianbo squatted on the ground with his back against the brick saucer, turned to stare at his soldier and encouraged, "How is it?" Is it a man's to follow me and rush again? ”

The few people crouching in front of them were silent. There was a soldier in the back who was originally a fugitive tenant in Xinfan County, who boasted that he and Yang Tianbo were fellow villagers and were closer than others, so he hurriedly followed the meaning of the new leader and said: "As long as the deputy company commander takes the lead, none of us will be born to my mother!" ”

It would be easy to have one person say anything. Yang Tianbo gave his fellow countryman an approving look, and was about to give the order to charge, when a skinny soldier beside him spoke:

"Deputy company commander, the corner in front of us is straight and steep, and as soon as we went up, we were thrown down with flying knives......"

The rest of the words were left silent, and the meaning was self-evident.

Yang Tianbo was a little angry. The battle was defeated only a few days ago, and this group of soldiers on the left guard still has no blood at all, and it is really muddy and can't be glued to the wall!

He suppressed his anger and retorted with a slight sarcasm: "According to you, is there any way to rush forward without dying?" ”

The soldier's eyes flickered, and after a moment a slight smile appeared. He gave Yang Tianbo an idea: "Deputy company commander, we don't dare to show our heads, and the local thugs don't dare to show our heads." It's better than this...... Hey! ”

"It's a feasible way to throw shoes and scare the enemy." Yang Tianbo held back a smile and said, "But these boots are not fire and thunder after all, and they can't kill people." If you want to rush over, you have to go up. ”

The soldier was not convinced, and retorted to Yang Tianbo with a crooked mouth: "That's not necessarily!" When we fight in the streets, we start with a handful of sand in our hands. When you get closer, you throw the sand out first, blind the other person, and then rush up and beat them up! Hey! ”

The other soldier in front of him was also from the left guard, and when he saw that this guy was talking happily, his mouth was itchy, and he immediately corrected him: "You have a fart for sprinkling sand!" You have to do what I say, lime to do it! ”

"That's it! Shut up! Yang Tianbo couldn't help but stop it. The soldiers under his command were a group of street ruffians from the city, which he never expected before taking office.

At this time, a voice came from behind, saying that the fire gun was coming up. As soon as Yang Tianbo heard the news, he hurriedly asked his subordinates to move their buttocks and let the fire platoon leader come over.

The firearm platoon commander carefully protected the deadly fire rope, squeezed through the narrow crack, and when he saw Yang Tianbo, he immediately asked him why he didn't attack.

Seeing that his comrades-in-arms had misunderstood, Yang Tianbo explained to him that there were local thugs hiding in the corner in front of them, and as soon as they went up, they threw knives and nails spears, and they had already injured two people. Just now they discussed a good solution, and so on......

"This fire gun is the treasure of the world!" The platoon commander immediately quit, "It's easy for us to line up, and it's only one person and one shot!" No one more! ”

"Just borrow one, and I'll pay you back when it's used up!"

"You ten battalions are short spearmen, so that the short spears are okay. But to make this fire, that is after a long period of training! ”

The words of the platoon commander of the fire gun were to look down on this group of infantry who played with short spears, which aroused the public indignation of all the soldiers in the first platoon of the second company of the tenth battalion. The new fellow has figured out the glorious history of their deputy company commander, and hurriedly came forward to support the new leader's platform:

"Our company commander is from the background of the prince of the world! Can ride a nine-foot horse, can make two spears, and eighteen kinds of weapons can do! A fire gun is not a problem! You firecrackers have participated in the Battle of Luodu! Have you ever heard of Yang Tianbo, the hero who first boarded Luodu? Yang Lao Linggong's Yang, Tianbo Mansion Tianbo! The name that the prince personally gave to our company commander is majestic enough! ”

Yang Tianbo's new fellow said that the platoon commander of the fire gun was really in the fourth battalion at that time, and he witnessed the scene of the guard cavalry rushing up the earthen wall of Luodu and sounding the alarm for the whole army. He had to take off the firecrackle and hand it to Yang Tianbo, telling him that the firearm had been loaded, and he would get angry as soon as he pulled the trigger.

"I don't want fire cups and sub-medicines, just bayonets!" Yang Tianbo said.

Note 1: The figures are from the "Yuechi County Chronicles". The moat of Yuechi was dug by the Qing Dynasty.

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