Chapter 403: The Secret Protection Tragedy
"Order the whole army to assault and leave no one alone." The soldiers of the Tiance Army in the city have gone crazy, and the Safavid soldiers in strange costumes are as endless as the snowflakes falling at this time, and they are simply killing endlessly, although the mortar detachment continues to fire dense shells like rain in the city, setting off bursts of explosions in the city, blowing up those Saffar Dynasty soldiers who have lost their command to pieces, but the enemy faced by the third battalion and the mountain battalion has not decreased at all, if it were not for the fire in the city being ignited by the personal guards led by Xu Ying, There are constantly new fires rising in the sky, so that these Safard generals have no way to implement effective command, so Xue Yang's move is afraid that there is really no way to succeed.
"The Guards will follow me to kill their commander." Xu Ying naturally found out that the number of opponents exceeded his expectations at the front line, and the speed of the Tiance Army's advance was greatly hindered, although with the help of new rifles, bullets burst out towards the opponent's chaotic formation like rain, stirring up a bloody rain, but this wave was constantly emerging from the large camps and houses everywhere, relying on the number of people and casualties to stop the advance of the soldiers of the third battalion and the mountain battalion. And as time passed, Xue Yang and Xu Ying became more and more worried that the other party would forcibly reverse the situation in the city regardless of casualties, and once the command of the Chinese army returned to normal, the pressure on the Tiance army would be even greater. And so far, it has been half an hour since the Tiance army broke the city, and the other party has obviously gradually recovered from the most panicked, and the resistance and counterattacks encountered along the way have also begun to invest in small-scale continuous attacks from the beginning of the no-man's land to now, so whether it is Xu Ying, who is constantly setting fire to the front line and commanding nearby, or Xue Yang, who is sitting in the rear and constantly adjusting the direction of the attack, they are all beginning to worry. For this reason, the mortar detachment has done its best, almost not caring about any ammunition consumption, pouring artillery fire downward, trying to help the infantry open the gap, while Xu Ying on the front line almost instantly thought of preparing to use the advantages of his elite squad to find the location of the opponent's Chinese army from the chaotic gaps of each army, and then knock out the opponent's command center in one fell swoop, so as to completely cut off the hope of the opposing side to counterattack.
Xu Ying took the personal guards to act immediately, and a group of more than 200 people almost instantly drilled out of the middle line of the battle between the two armies, and then searched for the opponent's Chinese army along the continuous intervals between houses and camps along the way, ignoring the assembly of Safarian soldiers along the way, and smoothly carved a passage towards the rear of the other side with the assistance of rifle bullets and grenades. At this time, Xue Yang, who was sitting in the rear, also moved from the city tower to the front line of the duel between the two armies with the mortar detachment, and began to take over the command.
"Command all armies, the three-three system tactics give me a forward assault, the mortar detachment immediately disorganized into zero to cover the actions of all units, the third battalion and the mountain battalion attack on the spot, and don't care about the formation." Xue Yang's arrival gave the soldiers of the Tiance Army on the front line the latest command brain, and the three-three system of tactics began to be quickly deployed by the soldiers of the Tiance Army who were originally attacking on the spot, like a roller-like attack one after another, grenades and mortar shells exploded along the way burst out one after another, tearing apart all the people and things in the center of the explosion, and the three-three system of tactics also allowed all the soldiers of the Tiance Army to form an attack detachment nearby, constantly calling each other to cover, and one team charging and one team shooting to cover, In this way, the drum advanced and quickly tore apart the temporary defense line spontaneously formed by the soldiers of the Safavid Dynasty, and the Tiance army that rushed up in a group of five to ten people saw that the target was directly a shuttle bullet, which was far more powerful than the cold weapon, and the Zhongzheng rifle made the Tiance army's attack at this time extremely sharp, like countless sharp arrows piercing into the boiling lard, and quickly rushed.
"Lao Wu, immediately organize the troops to set fire, don't care if there are people inside or not, they will all light it for me." Xue Yang coldly gave the order that was later considered to be the burning of the secret, so almost after half a tea hour, the billowing flames and thick smoke began to increase suddenly, the newly lit flames were not prepared in a hurry to cause chaos this time, the deputy commander of the mountain battalion personally led people around to collect all the things that ignited the fire and ignited the fire, and then, in an instant, four huge pillars of smoke rose into the sky and quickly spread towards the area occupied by the Fasar people with the help of some soldiers of the mountain battalion, Moreover, in order to quickly create the smoke of the big drums, the soldiers of the mountain battalion did not know what they found and threw them into these fires, and a choking breath quickly dispersed from the billowing smoke, which not only the Safarid people couldn't stand it, but also the soldiers of the Tiance Army who were fighting happily nearby couldn't stand it. However, the mountain battalion was summoned by the deputy capital, and more than a thousand soldiers were having a lot of fun, and after the four fires were lit, they actually directly inserted into the area where there was still a fierce battle in front, and then they didn't know where they found so many fire-starting things, and the fire was suddenly spread again in the area of the battle, and the raging fire dispersed the cold in the green onion area, but such a huge flame and smoke made the surrounding Tiance Army's own soldiers chill. The battle has been fought so far, their own grenades and bullets are not as powerful as the lethality of these fires, those who were caught off guard by the fire were almost crying and shouting in all directions, and in the process they continued to ignite everything around them that could be burned, at this time, if anyone stood on the city tower, they would definitely find that the fire in the city had turned into a swimming dragon with the struggle and chaos of these soldiers before they died.
"Order the front-line soldiers to divide into two parts, one to continue the attack mission, and the other to follow Wu Deputy Dutong to continue to set fire, and order all the soldiers who are unwilling to surrender along the way to use fire and burn." Xue Yang's order surprised everyone, this practice of burning enemy soldiers alive was too cruel, but in the face of such a difficult battle situation, several generals around Xue Yang didn't say anything, and left the command center to go to the front to personally supervise the implementation of the orders, so that the fire in the city was no longer under control, although the number of people participating in the direct attack was nearly one-third less after the Tiance army divided the troops, but the number of people who followed Deputy Commander Wu to set fire increased several times, So many soldiers were interspersed all over the city and lit fires, and soon after, a soldier of the Tiance Army inadvertently broke into the location of the heavy camp in the city, and after a fire was lit, the flames that rushed to the sky could no longer be stopped, and the smell of grain and grain in the air also made Xue Yang change slightly, and the other party's baggage was ignited by himself. Therefore, Xue Yang rushed to the location of the largest flame in the city at this time, almost non-stop, and commanded the soldiers to isolate a part of the area that had not been affected and send troops to garrison it.
"Send someone to the lieutenant marshal to see if he needs support from there." After Xue Yang did this, he began to observe the surrounding battle situation, at this time, not only the Safarid people were chaotic and unsystematic, but even the Tiance army itself was completely disorganized, but fortunately, Xue Yang continued to integrate the soldiers into battle through the generals at all levels scattered everywhere, and issued a very strange order, that is, all soldiers should not care about the establishment, do not care about the superiors and surrounding colleagues, only need to identify the clothes and uniforms, and all those wearing Safarid clothes will be killed on the spot. In this way, the chaotic establishment problem was well solved, and the combat power of the disrupted Tiance Army was not weakened at all, but because the continuous promotion of the campaign had always occupied an overwhelming advantage, it was more energetic. In this way, the soldiers of the Tiance Army gradually crossed the center of Humi City and headed towards that side.
And when Xue Yang sent people to find Xu Ying, Xu Ying, who was on the front line and led the personal guards to find the Saffar commander, also had a rough clue at this time, and the commander of the Safarid people was the Chinese army at this time, because some of the generals went out before, which led to the lack of a basic command system, so the result was that the order of the Saffar commander was not transmitted to the front at the first time, and the evil result was that the Safarid people did not organize an effective defense and counterattack in the early stage of the attack. But as the battle progresses and time goes by, in fact, the Safarid people are gradually adjusting, although the slow speed has led to too many casualties on the front line, but at least the command has begun to return to normal, and the core of the Safarid top management has recovered from the panic. It's just that at this time, the front line has completely lost its rules because of the fire. And by the time Xu Ying and the others figured out that the dome house in front of them was the headquarters of Commander Safar, Xue Yang had already ignited the location of the baggage camp, and the sky-high fire also completely made Commander Safar realize that he had lost his last chance, and the burning of the baggage meant that even if the army in his hands repelled the enemy and guarded the secret, he would face the danger of having no food in his hands, so he was also very decisive and directly took the Chinese army to prepare to evacuate from Nancheng, Although the evacuation from the guards in winter is dangerous, it is at least better than sitting in the city and waiting to die.
But what he didn't expect was that he had been targeted at this time, almost Commander Safar took a kind of general beside him out of the command headquarters under the protection of the pro-guard team and was seen by Xu Ying at a glance, more than two hundred official rifles of the pro-guard team opened fire at the same time, and the splashing bullets instantly shattered the last wish of the Safarid people, and dozens of grenades also flew up while countless soldiers fell to the ground, and continuous explosions sounded in the crowd, and the raging shrapnel roared up and tore the bodies of all the soldiers around, Even the commander who was surrounded in the middle also ate a grenade, and after a group of people were overturned to the ground, Xu Ying immediately greeted the guards, and the guards immediately stepped forward and the dense bullets roared in all directions, at this time the situation was urgent, Xu Ying was worried that the grenade just now did not eliminate the high-level of the Safar, so he almost didn't care about the swords, guns, bows and arrows of the Safar soldiers who rushed up around him, and rushed directly to the place where the explosion just now, and the few people in gold armor lay on the ground as scheduled before they let go of their thoughts, Begin to have the guards around you put up a dense defensive formation and begin to disperse the enemies around you.
Xu Ying's actions just now also made the Saffar people around him a mess, the commander was killed and they completely lost their rules, and some of the personal guards rushed forward regardless of the attempt to retrieve the commander's body but were killed on the spot by Xu Ying's men, and more Chinese soldiers began to scatter and flee. After Xu Ying and the others got through the most difficult period, they immediately launched a counterattack, drove the Safard soldiers who had been out of order towards the center of the city, and began to lead people to block the city gate, killing all the enemies near the south city gate. The city wall of the Central Plains is different, this kind of city with only two gates in the north and south, but the whole is an irregular diamond-shaped city, but it inadvertently helped Xu Ying a lot at this time.
"Go and immediately inform the marshal, send troops to Nancheng to defend this place, and you can't let go of a single soldier." When Xu Ying sent someone to inform Xue Yang, Xue Yang had already led a large group of men and horses to completely empty the center of the city, and the fire was even bigger and bigger under the tailwind, and many Saffar soldiers had been burned to death by the fire before, and the terrible situation made all the Saffar soldiers dare not approach the fire at all, lest this group of opponents who came out of nowhere set fire to death. But the Safard soldiers who were not close to the fire did not have any good treatment at this time, and the bullets of the soldiers of the Tiance Army who kept rushing up burst out as if they didn't want money, knocking them to the ground. Due to the language barrier, the soldiers of the Tiance Army didn't know how to tell these Safariads to surrender and not kill, and there was no order from Xue Yang's side to capture the prisoners. In this way, although the Saffars in the city are still killing endlessly, the Tiance army has killed far more enemies in this battle than in any previous battle. When it was almost dawn, Xue Yang led the team to meet Xu Ying before issuing the belated order to capture the prisoners, but at this time it was too late, and the battle for the whole night made the soldiers of the Tiance Army tired and at the same time made their murderous spirit completely irrepressible, a large number of Safars who did not have time to surrender were surrounded and killed by the Tiance army on the battlefield, and some of the unwilling to surrender were even directly set on fire by the group of soldiers who were addicted to setting fire to the mountain camp.
Therefore, by the time the two supreme commanders of the Third Corps gave the order, in fact, more than half of the hundreds of thousands of troops in the city had already been killed, plus those who were burned to death and a small number of jumped over the wall to escape and fell to their deaths, a total of more than 30,000 people were saved by Xue Yang's order and successfully became prisoners. After the battle, Xu Ying immediately led people to drive these prisoners to put out the fire, and slowly extinguished the vigorous fires burning in several places in the city. By the time everything was over, it was already noon the next day, and although the flames had been extinguished, it was a mess, and countless corpses and blood were piled up all over the city, and the whole ground gradually turned white under the cover of the cold wind and snowflakes.
"We've basically counted the number of battle losses and the number of enemies we killed." Xue Yang had just walked from outside to the previous Safarid headquarters, Xu Ying also happened to come in, and saw Xue Yang with a wry smile: "Our own casualties are not much, about more than 1,000 people were killed in battle, and 2,000 people were seriously injured, but the ammunition consumption is very large, the mortar detachment is currently running out of incendiary shells, and there are still two bases left in ordinary shells, and the bullet consumption is the largest. That is to say, if the other party is desperate to attack at this time, we will not be able to hold out for half a month with the bullets in our hands alone. ”
"And what about our results?" Before Xue Yang's words were finished, Xu Ying took over and said: "According to the preliminary estimate, plus the introduction of the secret guard of the Xuanying Guard that we found, there were 130,000 enemy troops plus more than 10,000 auxiliary troops in the city before, and after the war, we only captured more than 30,000 people and less than 40,000 people, and all the others were killed by us. ”
"Write an operational report now, and send someone back to the Western Expeditionary Command. In any case, we took down the secret guard, and asked the Xuanying Guard to quickly send reliable personnel to protect the secret and find a way to find out the subsequent actions of the Safarid Dynasty. Xue Yang interrupted what Xu Ying wanted to say and spoke directly.