Chapter 419

The cold plum in early winter is still blooming, but it is more white, with a faint purple-red tone.

Jian Guo, who presided over Jiang Ningxing, was once again encouraged by the good news, and he had a great appetite and ate an extra bowl of three-mushroom soup, but this time it was the result of diplomatic negotiations from the northwest.

According to several secret envoys sent to the northwest, 800 li hastened to report the news.

From the emerging feudal towns in Kansai such as the Guangwei Army and the Fengxiang Army, to the old Shuofang princes such as the Weiyuan Army and Wuwei Town, they all expressed a certain positive willingness and attitude towards the future of the world's great beams and continued to maintain the status quo and basic pattern.

You must know that in order to prevent the Western Army from entering the customs and intervening in the battle situation in Luodu, and as a result of the repetition of history, this time the dynasty even used the two major border divisions of the Western Route Army.

In the name of the Northern Expedition, they seized the strategic points of Hanzhong and Hedong from one south and one east, and as long as they dared to cross the Tongguan, they would be attacked from both sides, or there was a risk of being cut off from the back road.

The Northwest Military Town, called the Western Army, has always been a separate system, but it is divided into several large groups according to the region, and there are many large and small military towns and vassals.

And this situation is that after the Yiwei Rebellion and the Great Army of Jiayou, as the behind-the-scenes promoter of the Western Army's eastward advance, some of the Western Liang Xia, who was beyond the reach of the whip, was especially left behind in Middle-earth.

With disguised constraints and trade-offs, the Later Tang Dynasty after Emperor Chengguang's Zhongxing will not be so dominant as to the possibility of overpowering Great Xia in turn, after all, it is the nominal suzerain. As the saying goes, "Under the sun, nothing new"

And since the Zhang clan, who was in the same vein of the Western Army, was in the Luodu dictatorship, and the source of the Western Army, which was divided across most of the world, was divided again, most of the military towns left in the northwest provinces were only in name, and they still maintained the last bit of the name of the vassal to the Northern Dynasty.

Most of the time, even if they don't listen to the announcement or the tune, only when there is some kind of normal and abnormal succession within the country, or when there is a constant dispute with each other but they are unable to fight and need to go down the stairs, will they symbolically ask for a posthumous reward from the Northern Dynasty or a paid mediation intervention.

And if the Luodu Imperial Court wants to use their strength, such as from a short-term cooperation to sweep the grassland, to a long-term garrison in the Central Plains to defend the battle, they must also pay sufficient costs and conditions.

Therefore, for the Liang, who had already gained the upper hand in the Northern Expedition, these long-term self-contained Northwest military towns were not without room and room for struggle.

The results of this secret diplomatic mission, while ensuring its interests and the status quo, also reaffirmed the basic attitude of the subordinates of some powerful feudal towns in the Western Army to continue to stay out of the matter in this Northern Expedition that won the Central Plains.

Some military towns in Kansai have even handed over symbolic hostages in the name of sending permanent envoys to the country, and they are rushing from the Daesan Pass to Xingzai in the starry night.

Although this tone and attitude is not impossible to change. However, since there are sufficient interest guarantees to drive it, and under the joint monitoring and confrontation of the two armies, it is very difficult for any variables and accidents to occur in the short term.

In this way, he can finally settle down and sleep well early......

In the secondary battlefield north of Luodu, the local offensive battle has gradually entered a certain critical stage.

When my army also appeared in the attack sequence, the defenders of Nanguan City could not raise their heads after being completely suppressed, and could only use aimless and inaccurate throws, tenaciously embodying a certain sense of helplessness.

Therefore, when the momentum of the friendly troops continuing to attack the city attracted the attention and firepower of most of the defenders, the mixed assault team composed of grenadiers, white soldiers, and engineering troops from our army, under the leadership of Yang Zaixing, the fourth general, also rushed to the city gate to carry out some kind of preset operation.

Fortunately, the city gate of Heyang Bridge South Pass, whether it is height or thickness, is not as perverted as Wujiaoguan and Luodu after all.

Therefore, they first squeezed and sprayed the iron-clad façade with fierce fire oil packed in leather bags, and then repeated incineration, and then poured condensed vinegar water, which distorted and expanded, and finally used tools to soften and deform the iron-clad iron on the city gate, and pulled it off piece by piece, revealing the wooden inside.

Immediately afterwards, these wooden surfaces were quickly chiseled out with knives, axes and drills, and several large holes were attached to the gunpowder bags specially made by the army, and then the large iron pots with large nails were fixed to make the original orientation.

The ignition withdrew from both sides, only to see the pot shattered and splashed open with a few bangs, and several cracks appeared on the thick wooden door, visible to the naked eye.

Immediately afterwards, several six-inch long guns on the loading wheel frames, and arrows and stones that also fell like rain in a hurry, were pushed to the city gate under the desperate cover of the house-shaped rushing carts, and within ten paces, fired at the crack in the city gate at close range Qizila fire.

Looking from afar, I saw the fireworks spraying and flooding the doorway, and with the clanging sound, the indestructible city gate was torn apart and shattered in the smoke and dust.

The friendly troops were crowded on the edge of the city wall, and the daring team that was ready to attack couldn't wait to rush in with their cards and blades, and the enemy defenders who hurriedly blocked the road fought almost face-to-face and close to each other.

Howling and roaring, screaming and screaming, with the fierce hand-to-hand white-knuckle battle, and wave after wave rushed out of the door. I saw a stream of slippery and greasy blood, which quickly covered the soldier's ankle and gushed out of the big canopy in the doorway.

And some of the other soldiers, using the ladder and multi-level wreckage to step on, also climbed to the top of the city again, and the defenders repeatedly tug-of-war, for a while the city under the city, the enemy defenders in the city of Nanguan were overwhelmed by the loss of one or the other.

Although the rest of the defenders in Nanguan City, especially the battle of trapped beasts, also dropped the net-shaped iron gate of a thousand catties. However, the daring team, which had already been prepared and prepared, only used two specially made unicorns and a few daredevils to hold up the gate that had fallen to the top, and let the defenders block the passage and cut off the daring fighters who entered, and the plan to make further efforts was completely in vain.

However, now that the door has been opened, it will inevitably turn into a downward trend, and gradually lose and retreat little by little.

Although the Nanguan city sent a signal for help at the critical time, so that the middle city on the sandbar of the Yellow River and the north city on the opposite bank were once again assembled and dispatched troops and horses, hurriedly crossed the bridge to come to the rescue, and reorganized the counterattack and assault from the north gate to regain the lost city section and the south gate tower, but after all, it was too late, and the inevitable general trend was gone.

On the contrary, the grenadiers who entered the city first by me piled up in the dense crowd with fire and thunder shells, and the bombers were overturned on their backs and collapsed, and with that, Du Shulang, the deputy commander of the artillery regiment, and a group of gunners, the pound of small cannons were carried up to the city gate of Nanguan City, and the enemy troops pouring out of the north gate were a burst of random bombardment.

After dispersing and annihilating the remnants of the defenders on the city wall, they took advantage of the victory to pursue, further added their cannons to the north gatehouse, and hurriedly tested several projectiles that splashed on the bridge deck and in the river, and easily interrupted and forced back the reinforcements that came from the opposite side again.

After completely capturing Nanguan City, and repelling the reinforcements from Zhongcheng and Beicheng, our army did not continue to pursue by victory, but turned into local consolidation and defense.

After the war, he cleaned and counted, but found that after breaking the pass, the specifications of the captured generals and officials were quite high.

Originally, here in Heyang Bridge, the Northern Dynasty followed the three joint envoys and a full set of subordinates of the previous dynasty, and there were tax officials, money supervisors and salt and iron inspectors, who had more than 10,000 soldiers under their jurisdiction and stationed all year round, and also represented the last elite military force outside the city of Luodu. Most of the elite troops in the three passes this time were concentrated in Nanguan City, with about 8,000 people.

This also means that after this battle, we will completely close the enemy of Luodu, the last way to obtain foreign aid, and make it a turtle in an urn.

This is also the second credit to the capture of the military prison pass, plus the seizure of a lot of accumulated things that have not had time to destroy the pass, both wealth and indispensable food and straw materials in front of the army, so for a while, I can't help but be a little happy.

I participated in the final stage of the conquest of our army, and the total casualties have not yet exceeded 100.

"A certain family should be a joint decision with the scripture to ask for merit ......"

Wang Gui, the former military commander who was covered with blood and the smell of fireworks, was already unable to hide the smile on his face.

"The harvest in the customs, please also pick what you need first......

He was obviously very upright

"I don't know if it's ...... right"

"No, our department only has a little help, and the main ones who are fighting are your soldiers."

I smiled and declined his kindness.

"Therefore, please give me a little mention and countersign it afterwards to ......"

"How did that make ......?"

He was a little stunned and a little surprised

"How can a certain family be the kind of person who doesn't know what is right and wrong......"

"An dare to rely on this merit alone......"

"Actually, I still have a reluctant request......"

I paused and said

"I hope your ministry will fulfill ......"

"Oh......"

He was stunned.

"That's the details of this battle for the gate,......"

I'm really and falsely explaining.

"The tactics in this are not yet proficient, and there are still some shortcomings......

"Therefore, please cover up for me......"

Although our army is a typical firearms projection unit, it has never lacked the ability to attack fortified positions, and even developed a number of sets of siege tactics in the form of combined fists, but they have been summed up in continuous practice and application in the course of the strategy of changing battles from Jiangbei to Hebei.

It's just that I've always had reservations about it, and I've not taken it lightly, and I've tried to maintain the reputation of being good at field battles and being good at defending the first place on the surface, which is to avoid being counted in the sequence of being good at attacking fortifications, and losing my own strength.

Therefore, I am quite satisfied with the cooperation and cooperation with friendly forces this time, and since the purpose of training troops before the battle has been achieved, it is not bad for the credit of the main and secondary auxiliaries.