Chapter 189: Easy Capture
At this moment, outside the Dayao Pass, after the public opinion propaganda vehicle had withdrawn to the army, Xu Liang, Li Lianglu, Wang Yiheng and others who were beside Liu Huayun were waiting for his order.
After a long journey of more than 20 days, His Majesty the Emperor personally issued a holy decree to transfer horses, and 10,000 musket battalions equipped with war horses, finally brought more than 100 new Shenwei cannons and sufficient ammunition to join the army.
Since the successful improvement of this new type of artillery, Liu Huayun has not yet test-fired, so he took advantage of the fact that it was still early and ordered a general attack on the fortress.
Not to mention the 70,000 troops in the rear, these 100 new cannons and 10,000 muskets alone were enough to crush the Dali defenders in the city, so no one felt that there was anything wrong with such a hasty attack.
"My lord, are you going to fire now?"
Lu Feng, who ordered someone to adjust the position of the cannon, came to Liu Huayun's side and asked excitedly.
Although during the exercise in the capital, this new type of cannon that is easy to carry was test-fired, but after all, it was only a drill against the mound;
Now, a dozen cannons have easily blasted open the thick gates of the fortress with a single round of fire, and this picture makes people's blood boil when they think about it.
"No, the other party seems to have surrendered," Liu Huayun waved his hand and smiled after glancing at the group of people who walked out of the city a few hundred meters away.
"Don't open fire, we are here to surrender, princess, General Mo has already captured the traitor Duan Yaohu, and I have come to welcome the princess into Dayao City."
"We are willing to follow the princess and go to Dali to capture the thief!"
What walked out of the fortress were Ji Lifeng and others, who were detaining the middle-aged man surnamed Duan Yaohu, as well as the defenders on the eastern city wall;
When they saw the row of cannons under the black pressure and the countless Dafeng Erlang with muskets behind the cannons, these people kicked Duan Yaohu to his knees, and then knelt down in unison.
"All the soldiers obey the order, I order you to enter the city immediately, and those who descend temporarily collect their weapons, and stubbornly resist and kill them directly!"
For the sake of safety, Duan Yaoying and Ya'er, both under the protection of Yin Magu, were located in the rear of the army, and they couldn't hear Ji Lifeng's performance.
With Liu Huayun's high-pitched command, thousands of musket battalion Erlang and the elite of the Yang family army quickly rushed into the city as the vanguard.
Bang bang bang ~~~
After a while, the crisp gunshots rang out in the city one after another, but they only lasted for a small half of the incense before they gradually stopped.
Due to the public opinion offensive in the past ten days, as well as the arrest of Duan Yaohu and the middle-aged man surnamed Cong, and the leaderless army of Dali, the capture of Dayao City was even easier than Liu Huayun imagined;
Only a few thousand soldiers loyal to Duan Yan rose up to resist, and under the sneak attack of Dafeng Erlang who was like a wolf and a tiger, and his companions who had turned against him, they couldn't make much of a splash at all.
"Returning to the horse, in this battle, less than 100 of our army were wounded, and no one died, 46,000 of the enemy surrendered, more than 700 people were killed, and more than 2,000 escaped......"
An hour later, when Lu Feng and Xu Yunlong led the vanguard cavalry to chase and kill the remnants of Dali who fled to Yao'an, the three commanders commanded the men and horses to pull out the camp and enter the city;
In the hall of the City Lord's Mansion, Liu Huayun and Duan Yaoying, who were sitting in the first place, and Gao Cheng, Li Lianglu and others next to them were listening to the battle report from the army statistics.
"Liu Lang, what are you going to do with those surrendered troops?"
After all, the surrendered army was all the people of the Duan family, and in the face of such a prosperous situation, Duan Yaoying's heart couldn't be happy, and after joining the army and retreating to the side, she couldn't help but ask.
"In this way, those who took the initiative to surrender before can be incorporated into the three armies to make meritorious contributions, and as long as their merits are outstanding in the future, they will be rewarded for their meritorious deeds in general with Dafeng Erlang;
As for those who surrendered due to the situation, I just needed some mining manpower, so I put them into the engineering battalion, I don't know if you have any opinions......
Liu Huayun attacked Dali this time, saying that he wanted to restore the Jiangshan Sheji of the Duan family's lineage, but in fact, the ultimate goal was to incorporate it into the territory of Dafeng;
Mo said that Duan Lingyu might be dead, and even if he was alive, he didn't plan to give the fruits of victory to others again, so he didn't shy away from saying his thoughts.
"Well, that's good, everything depends on Liu Lang."
As the saying goes, marrying a chicken and marrying a dog is a matter of character, Duan Yaoying just wants to be his gentle little wife, as long as he doesn't kill his compatriots indiscriminately, there will be no objections.
"Okay, let Ji Lifeng and the others come in."
With a wave of his hand, Liu Huayun began to summon dozens of surrendered small leaders in Dayao City to arrange for the re-incorporation of tens of thousands of surrendered troops......
Bang bang bang~~~, "Happy, Brother Lu Feng, can this musket let me play?" ”
On the battlefield dozens of miles away from Da Yao, looking at the musket battalion around him, knocking down the enemy troops in front of him one by one, Xu Yunlong couldn't help but say to Lu Feng with itchy hands.
"Yes, but you have to return it to me later, and if you really have itchy hands, you can apply to the adults to join my musket battalion......"
Lu Feng smiled faintly, reined in the war horse, loaded a bullet, and handed it to Xu Yunlong.
In fact, after the previous pursuit, except for more than 1,000 ordinary soldiers who did not have war horses or were killed or captured and sent back to Dayao, the enemy troops who fled to another pass in front were less than 300 people;
Moreover, if it weren't for the opportunity to break into this block, they would have slaughtered it and ended this game of cat and mouse.
Touch~~~, with Lu Feng's guidance, Xu Yunlong's shot, although it did not hit the opponent's vital point, but also injured an enemy general a hundred meters away under the horse, and his face was immediately full of joy that could not be concealed.
"Open the door, open the gates!"
Throwing off his armor and fleeing all the way, watching his soldiers and horses die one by one, the sacrificial rite had already been frightened, and rushed to the city of Yao'an, and shouted loudly.
"It's big brother, hurry up and open the city gate, the archers are ready to answer."
Today's Dali, unlike Yunnan, where Liu Huayun had developed transportation in his previous life, has a total of less than 2 million people, including ordinary people, and it can be seen that the whole country cannot muster an army of 200,000;
Because the war in the southwest has not subsided, the defenders drawn from several places are all in the Great Yao City, Yao'an City has less than 5,000 defenders, and the city lord in charge of this place is the younger brother Fengxian.
In the past few days, the soldiers of Dayao City have pressed the border, he did not dare to slack off, and he was stationed at the city gate every day, seeing that the eldest brother was fleeing with people so embarrassed, he was anxious, and immediately ordered someone to open the city gate.
"Rush, kill me!"
Lu Feng and Xu Yunlong had reached an agreement before, and at this moment, they could not miss the opportunity, as the commanders of the 1,000 musket battalion and the 1,000 Yang family army, the two of them commanded loudly at the same time.
Under Xu Yunlong's swing of the bright silver spear in the lead, the Yang family's soldiers, who had only been able to watch the performance of the musket battalion before, were all madly drawn their horses and chased after them like sharp arrows.