Chapter 406: It's easy to attack the city, but it's hard to attack the heart?
Sun Huchen, the chief general of the follow-up army of the Great Song Dynasty, said the reason.
It turned out that when they were passing through the Xingzhou area, they were ambushed by the local Tatar army, and dozens of people were killed and wounded in vain!
Xingzhou City is just a small city with a radius of less than ten miles, and if you don't break this city, you are worried that you will not be able to convince the public, and there may be hidden dangers to the back road of the army?!
Observing Zhao An gritted his teeth and asked:
"Even the main force of the Tatar army in Zhending City has withdrawn north, where did the Tatar army come from in the small penal state?!
You originally took the southeast road, how did the so-called Tatar army ambush you at the entrance of a village in the northwest?!
For the sake of a small Xingzhou City, delay my Great Song Dynasty to occupy Zhending City, you are a master who can bear this responsibility?!
My Great Song Dynasty has conceded so many conditions just to let them go north, how many of you dare to spoil the good things of the Great Song official family?! ”
This series of questions suddenly sobered up Sun Huchen, and his approach was exactly the stupid behavior of sacrificing the roots.
How can a small Xingzhou city show the might of my Sun Huchen?!
Before, he just asked some soldiers to go to a village in the northwest to get some big livestock, and then pull some laborers------ but he didn't expect that those northern Han people knew that I was a Great Song Heavenly Soldier here, and they really dared to resist, and set up an ambush to kill and wound more than a dozen of my soldiers!
When he arrived with a large army, the northern Han people who resisted ran away------ of course he was extremely annoyed, and in a fit of rage he set fire to the already empty village, and then prepared to attack Xingzhou City as soon as his head was hot.
As a result, it has now been attacked for a day and a night, and the northern Han people in the city of Xingzhou are really heroic, and hundreds of people have been killed and wounded, and they have not been defeated!
The main general, Sun Huchen, led the follow-up troops, and did not bring artillery and rockets, but relatively speaking, there were more other baggage.
He was sure that the other party had done everything he could, and that one day he would be able to take it easily, and that the pistols they possessed were much more powerful than their bows and arrows.
At this time, Zhao An rushed over------ how could he not know Zhao An's identity?!
The family is the Zhao family.
The main general, Sun Huchen, swallowed his saliva heavily, and arched his hand to signal that he was impulsive------ he listened to the urging of Zhao An, the observation envoy, and immediately collected his troops and marched towards Zhending City.
At this time, the two mixed independent divisions of the Federation Empire attacking Zhending City had already begun to truly attack the city.
They received a report from the Northern Secret Service Brigade that the Tatar army had no intention of rushing south to help, and the rangers released from Zhending City did not know where to go.
The county towns in Zhending Road did not organize people to come to support Zhending City at all, and they still closed the city gate and guarded themselves.
The two division commanders concluded that the Tatar bandit group had completely abandoned the true road!
Hua Yin, the commander of the first division, said: "The Tatars are really not ordinary people, just because they do not compete with us for a short time------ they really have a sense of the overall situation!" ”
Tao Mu, the commander of the second division, said: "This tactic is against Da Song Xing, against us------ hehe, they miscalculated!" ”
In this era, there is no concept of a mixed army at all, and there has never been an army as complete with all arms as theirs.
In this era, there was no such high-flying army as theirs, and it had a complete mule-horse transportation capacity.
The two independent divisions were stationed outside the city for three days and two nights, and it took them only two hours to capture the city.
They each drew only two mortar platoons and bombarded the walls directly with forty mortars!
The Air Force's non-powered hot air balloons provide them with a report on the effects.
After five rounds of continuous bombardment, the Air Force reported that the walls were empty.
Three powered hot air balloons began to fly towards the city of Zhending, and the people in the city became even more confused when they saw it.
The bombardment of 200 mortar shells was really unexpected by them, and they had never seen such a terrible scene, how could they think of resisting?!
The action of three powered hot air balloons forcing into the sky above the city is even more terrifying.
No one dared to try to shoot at them------ for fear of provoking them to drop something even more terrible.
At the same time, the engineer battalion quickly set up a folding ladder over the moat, and then after the two battalions of troops had crossed the river, they immediately re-erected it under the city walls, and then let the soldiers climb directly to the city walls.
The two division commanders watched the siege until they saw the soldiers standing on the walls------ the bayonets on their rifles shining brightly in the sun.
This Zhending city is mainly dominated by the Han people in the north, and there are very few Tatars------ so they did not launch rockets, and the damage of the uncontrollable target is too great.
If they are facing the taller Zhuozhou City, then they can also fire a few rounds of progressive rocket attacks as the warriors attack the city!
yes, that's bullying.
After one battalion of soldiers occupied the walls, three more battalions were taken up in succession.
At this time, they shouted "Lay down your arms, Rao Er will not die!" The slogan formed a five-person street battle pattern in Zhending City.
They encountered sporadic resistance in the city------ but most of the garrison chose to surrender, especially after Liu Fan, the head of the Ten Thousand Households, took the lead in surrendering.
Several soldiers in the Imperial army were wounded by swords and arrows, but none of them were killed or seriously wounded.
The defenders of Zhending City suffered only 100 casualties, right and left.
It was a drill-like battle, and it was a completely one-sided fight.
Liu Fan, the head of the Wanhu household, still wanted to lead his own soldiers to resist in the official mansion at that time, when he saw the large Kong Ming lantern hanging over his head, and the other party was firing in rows of guns, and the musketeers and archers he had arranged on the walls and roofs rolled to the ground one after another.
There are also grenades thrown by the other side, which seem to be able to blow up the wall with just a few of them.
Can you pull it down, Daru Huachi ran away with his own soldiers first, why should he resist to the end?!
So he had a flag made of white cloth waved.
The soldiers removed the debris blocking the city gates, escorted everyone out of the city------ and simply counted 40,000 people!
Almost all the warriors were dispatched, divided them into two large groups, young and old, and young and middle-aged, and ordered them to sit directly on the ground.
Then he found some buckets and dozens of young men and women, picked up well water, distributed it to them with a big water spoon, and then distributed the military biscuits in his barracks to them to eat.
The siege took only two hours, and these follow-up arrangements took more than half a day!
Fortunately, I ran part of it from the north gate before, otherwise, I don't know what it would have been.
Fortunately, they went straight to Zhending City, and if they attacked the city------ then I don't know when they would be able to hit the capital.
The two division commanders were patrolling the two groups of prisoners, and when they heard the cries of children and women, they were not in a very good mood------ we really came to rescue you, and we did not expect to scare you like this."
There are no Tatars left in the city, but these people still have the courage to resist------
PS: Thank you for the tips of Australian Lao Wu, Kite, Lao Jiang and Minriver.