Fugou Town (near Zhoukou City, Henan Province today), located in the East Henan Plain, called "Tongqiu" in ancient times, because there are Futing in the east of the territory, there is Weishui Ditch in the west, each takes a word, so it is called "Fugou". In the 11th year of Emperor Gao of the Western Han Dynasty (196 BC), the county was established,

In this era of feudal town contention, it belonged to a typical military city under the rule of Xuzhou, and the city was mainly inhabited by thousands of military dependents or related people of the Xuchang army.

Therefore, under a certain complex of defending the welfare of the township and protecting the dependents, the will and determination of the local defenders to resist are not comparable to those prefectures and counties where ordinary people are the majority of ordinary people in the past.

It was also the left wing of the New Army that came all the way and encountered the most fierce resistance. The women of the city, old and weak, did not need to be requisitioned, so they took the initiative to go to the city to assist the defenders.

rushed up, actually rushed up, Zhao Xin or Kuroshima Ren, wiped the blood on his eyes, and looked left and right in disbelief, although more than half of the Japanese soldiers who went out with him had been killed and wounded.

A group of screaming subordinates crossed his side, and after crashing into the corridor leading to the lower floor, after the short-term rental shouted and roared, the sound suddenly stopped, leaving only the last few people who were forced out in panic by the flash of various metal blades, and then rushed back, stabbed down and slashed on the stairs.

"Tomo Uami ......"

Then, at the signal of Kuroshima Ren, a short Japanese soldier with a bowl on his head stood up, nodded his head in a loud voice, and stepped forward with a resolute attitude.

Although he was pierced by several spear tips stretched out from the corridor at the same time, a lit fire and thunderbolt tied to his arms did not fall, but under the remaining strength of his struggle, it crashed into the pile of people like a blood gourd, and then there was a bang, and a wave of flesh and blood exploded from the corridor.

Then the passage leading to the city wall was temporarily cleared, even if there were still dizzy survivors, stumbling and trying to get up again and line up, but they were no longer able to resist the attack of Kuroshima Ren, who was either stabbed through the stomach head-on, or cut his throat behind the detour.

Then he rolled down the stairs like a broken sack.

Listening to the sound of explosions on the walled city, I was also a little dumbfounded, I didn't expect the Japanese to be able to use it like this.

This is the unique way of fighting of the Japanese soldiers, when they encounter difficulties or crises, they will recommend some one-time consumption of dead soldiers, used to kill the blood path or lure away the enemy, known as the manpower pillar of the storage zài.

However, when it came across a firearm, it gave rise to new uses and tactics.

For example, in the stalemate battle node, the pig attack was used to drop human bombs, but it was a pity that the overall power of the hand-mounted fire and thunder bombs was a little smaller. A few random interspersed with it would be enough to break the defenders' defenses and catch them off guard?

At this time,

The horizontal line of fire from the cover fire under the city has also gradually shifted and concentrated to the position of the gate, which has become the last point of contention, and almost every moment, there are scuffling people or corpses, falling from above, and then quickly drowning in the surging crowd.

After just a few breaths, there was only flesh and blood mixed together.

Perhaps at the moment when I looked up, hundreds or thousands of lives were lost, but in this state, they were just numbers, but some numbers were more important, and some numbers were consumables.

The revolver cannon on the towering platform, after no threat of archers, gradually approached the city wall and entered the battle, with the unusual sound of ping-pong, patches of smoke and blood, blooming alternately on the city, gathering those densely gathered at the entrance of the city gate, the defenders who were waiting for the battle, and all kinds of shouting and calling for the mother to cry and mourn.

And our department was thunderous with joy and morale, and suddenly the momentum of the defenders who had the ambition to mourn the soldiers into the city was overwhelmed.

It's just that this kind of excitement didn't last long, and suddenly the rhythm of this kind of fire catharsis was slightly interrupted, and a squirt on the platform erupted, a burst of smoke and fire, and parts were scattered.

Later, I got a report from Captain Du Shulang of the artillery regiment, but it was a revolver gun that exploded on the spot because it was fired too quickly and overheated, and the flying gunpowder and fragments directly killed and injured several operators on the spot, and several other groups of revolvers also malfunctioned because of the heating and expansion of the parts.

But the front of the firepower suppression, finally the first move and advantage has been taken, although some of the strength is not good, but it is harmless, does not affect the trend of the battle, the jumping team has consolidated several breakthrough points on the city, some of the art masters and bold guns, also mixed with the long ladder along the wheel, climbed the battlements, began to radiate inside the city wall.

With a dull thud from inside the walls, fragments of limbs that clearly belonged to humans erupted from the holes in the walls, apparently prepared powder packets, and came into play.

Then I saw the gates that had blocked the doorway slowly rise, so that the soldiers gathered under the gatehouse, like a flood that had been accumulated for a long time, suddenly got a catharsis and poured into it with joy.

"The Seventh Brigade of the Auxiliary Army has successfully landed in the city and captured the gatehouse"

Then I got the following message.

"Tell the story of the first move"

I said without hesitation

"The Seventh Brigade Priority Replenishment and Optional Equipment ......"

"Whoever ascends first, etc., may take a share of the total spoils of war ......"

After passing through the door hole and the slightly smaller urn city, I looked at the urban area where the dust and smoke were rising under the cloudy and uncertain skylight, and all kinds of shouts and killings were gradually moving away, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Tell the Lord ......"

Suddenly, a soldier who had fallen off his horse said in a loud voice

"The remnants of the enemy and some of the people of the city are rushing towards the west gate...... The first battalion also asked for instructions"

"Explain the wind and roll the flag, and open a way for them......"

I commanded him

"Don't push too hard...... Just follow the annihilation and leave most of it behind."

Therefore, at the beginning of the siege, I deliberately released an exit outside the west gate to give them an exit that was missing one of the three in the circle, so that the soldiers and civilians in the city could have a way to run out and break their fighting spirit to defend to the end.

Now it's finally useful, not to mention, I still have to rely on them to spread the true and false news.

With this strategic point in mind, I was finally able to halt the march for a while, and ordered to rest in place for three days, so that the strings that the soldiers had been tensing and the fatigue and tension that had accumulated a little relaxation would be a little.

Compared with the dilapidated states and counties before, as the town of Xuzhou on the periphery of the capital, it is well managed, and all kinds of facilities are quite complete, especially as a military city for a long time, in addition to the basic material and equipment reserves, there are also various military craftsmen to make workshops.

There is even a crossbow workshop and a large number of semi-finished products and materials affiliated to the Northern Dynasty Ordnance Supervisor, a military medical institute and the corresponding medicine warehouse affiliated to the Medical Officer's Office, and a bunch of camps and schools for the children of military dependents to study.

Even after the city was destroyed, it didn't have time to destroy much, and it was very suitable for my troops to be reorganized and rested.

It is located on the edge of the eastern Henan Plain, with a number of tributaries crisscrossing the country, and only a small number of troops need to be deployed, and it is relatively easy to guard against the enemy situation from the capital of the Northern Dynasties.

Then

Liu Yanqing also led his troops to catch up, and took over the Taikang Zhucheng in my rear, and when we met again, he told me some of the latest news very clearly.

However, the street fighting in Xuzhou City continued, the inner city and Yacheng, as well as the Jiacheng City, were not taken as scheduled, and the soldiers in the battle city had already suffered heavy casualties and had complaints.

Therefore, he categorically will not take his subordinates and return to that big trouble, and I should find a way to avoid it here. But the corresponding consequence is that Shuai Si may not be able to provide much help to me along the way.

Immediately afterward, the messenger of the Forward Military Department also arrived in hot pursuit. According to the latest Royal Decree.

I was posthumously awarded the Chenzhou Observation Envoy and the History of the Assassin of the Prefecture of Chenzhou, and Liu Yanqing was the Governor of Chenzhou and the Guardian of the Prefecture, so that I could be regarded as crossing an important threshold and threshold for senior generals, and initially entered the rank of the guards, although it was only a small subject under the jurisdiction of a state in name, and he was still a representative of the battlefield, but even if the war was over and returned to the Southern Dynasty, or when it was used for other purposes in the future, the corresponding rank and specifications were really retained.

Of course, a large number of supplies were also delivered, but there were still no reinforcements. But in this way, I am at least qualified to ask nearby allies to initiate a coordinated operation as a temporary vassal.

Then this high-ranking military attaché, who was said to be from Shuai Si Bing Cao, and who was temporarily serving as a messenger, under my hospitality, under the pretense of drunken gaffe, knocked on the side and told me:

Among the ranking envoys who lead the commander's division, there is at least one big man from the main battle faction and the Beiren Party, who values me very much, but he can't hinder other powerful people who have the key points, and they use their power to do their best to obstruct me, so they can only help in other aspects.

Although the new reinforcements cannot be sent for the time being, there are still ways to think of other aspects, but I need to write a note to thank the two Shuai Si for their strategic guidance and make it more convenient.

Someone openly showed me favor, although it was still relatively obscure, and it was because of my record and obviously wanted to get benefits, but I still weighed the pros and cons again and again, and gladly accepted it on the spot.

As a return gift, I asked people to clip 500 flying money in the Cheng Yi given to him. In addition, I asked him to present a deed for me, but it was a very suitable manor near Gyeonggi near the sea as a personal thank you gift.

Half a day later, a hurried soldier and horse also encountered scattered residents who had fled and left.

"Fugou Town has fallen ......"

The leading general was shocked, but ordered the whole army to halt its advance, set up camp on the spot, and then sent messengers for help.