Chapter 0398: Recovering Kuozhou

If it is a daytime march, it will only take more than an hour for twenty miles, but at night the whole team will stop at each section of the march. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Fortunately, it is basically a fairly wide flat road, a little gentle slope ups and downs are nothing, and after walking for two hours, it is about one mile east of Michuan County, that is, three hundred steps away.

At the end of the hour, it was almost the beginning of the hour, and it was the turn of day and night, and the night was dark, and I couldn't see my fingers. After the last formation on the road, it was spread out in battle formation, and now it is spread out horizontally towards the city wall.

The soldiers could not see each other's faces at all, only the sound of heavy and steady and powerful breathing, and at this time they could not speak loudly, or even cough, but small muttering between the horizontal teams was allowed, anyway, there was a wind in the night that could be covered, and it could not be transmitted too far.

"Fuck! The smell of sheep manure is so strong! There should be a flock of sheep here during the day......" Senator Ding Baosheng whispered.

"At this time, don't care about those who have it or not...... Keep an eye on the city wall, Song Lingguang may be in action! Li Duofu didn't ride a horse, he took his own soldiers and two senators to stand at the front, and he had sent the deputy capital envoy Song Lingguang to lead a battalion, including the scouts, to climb the city to touch the sentry.

There are braziers erected at intervals on the head of the city, and I don't know whether it is firewood or grease, and the firelight has been flickering faintly, and only a slip of battlements can be seen in the distance, and the soldiers on duty at night can not be seen, but their spears occasionally reflect the light of the fire and flash with it, and there are soldiers patrolling back and forth. Below the battlement, it was so dark that nothing could be seen.

Li Duofu stared very closely, and it felt as if a long time had passed, and there had been no movement. Seeing that the night was beginning to fall, there was a faint bright color around the corner, and the layers of military formations in the vicinity could already be seen.

I was waiting in a hurry, and finally found that at the battlement on the left side of the city gate, five or six strings of black elephant snakes were slowly squirming upward, until the battlement was directly turned up, and the enemy army was still not alarmed, and the bottom was still climbing up continuously.

I don't know how many people went up, and about the time of another cup of tea, suddenly there was a strange squeak, which spread very far in this quiet early morning. Li Duofu was startled, and suddenly his heart was ecstatic, as if the city gate had been opened.

Now he could see farther, but he still couldn't see clearly from the city gate, and he was still a little unsure. Then the sound of shouting and killing spread louder and louder as the city gate opened, it seemed that there was chaos in the city and the city, which should have been fought for a while, but it may take some time for the enemy to react.

At this time, I suddenly saw a firelight falling straight down from the city, falling to the ground with a loud bang, which was the code agreed with Song Lingguang, indicating that it could be killed and taken over the city.

"Trot forward with the battalion as a unit and take the city!" Li Duofu snorted, and without any scruples, he led his own team to rush out first.

The short distance of 300 paces was soon reached, there was no moat in front of the city gate, but there was a rejection of horses, Li Duofu led his soldiers to rush forward and wave their guns to pick them open, quickly cleared the obstacles, rushed to the half-open city gate, and saw that the door hole was a dense wall of people. It was the soldiers of the first battalion who turned their backs to the outside to resist the attack of the Tibetan soldiers.

"Brethren! Advance! Li Duofu shouted and rushed in, and the soldiers in front heard his shout, and immediately had confidence in their hearts, and immediately rushed forward to kill and make way for the door hole behind.

The storm into the city was very successful, but hundreds of soldiers were attacking with scimitars and cowhide shields in front of them, trying to retake the city gates. Li Duofu entered the city instead of rushing desperately, but gathered the whole team of soldiers at the gate, and at the same time threw continuous armor-piercing cones, which dealt a heavy blow to the Tibetan soldiers.

The soldiers followed up and began to shoot arrows with bows and arrows, gradually stabilizing in the open space in front of the city gate, until the second battalion followed up and advanced forward, and the soldiers saw that there was no hope of retaking the city gate, so they left 200 corpses and turned to flee.

Li Duofu did not order the pursuit, and assigned troops to go up to the city to seize the east city wall, and received the following three battalions of infantry into the city, and assembled the whole team in front of the gate. At the same time, he ordered Shen Nian to be careful and careful, and led the four battalions of horse troops to intercept outside the north gate.

With the fall of the East Gate, the city was in chaos, with cries and shouts everywhere, shouts and curses, followed by fires everywhere, and thick smoke filled the air. Li Duofu had to assign troops to fight in small units according to the capital, and search and clear the enemy troops along the streets and alleys.

There was almost no suspense in the ensuing battle, and by daylight, the battle was basically over in mid-hour, and several fires were extinguished. Shen Nianpan and Yan carefully killed more than 1,000 enemies outside the north gate, and continued to chase and kill to the north.

Li Duofu sent people back to the camp to give an order, so that the remaining Ma military camp could follow, and then drove thousands of people in the city to be imprisoned together for subsequent appeasement. By noon, Shen Nianru came back, and on the way to chase the enemy, he beheaded more than 1,000 levels and captured a small head of a thousand households. After interrogation, it turned out that there were only 4,000 soldiers in the city, while there were 5,000 soldiers in the city of Kuozhou.

At this time, Li Duofu finally breathed a sigh of relief, according to the situation, the enemy army did not have too many troops to counterattack, and maybe he would escape. However, due to the lack of sleep during the overnight operation, the soldiers could only be stationed to rest and recuperate, and to pacify the people in the city. In addition, two senators, Ding Baosheng and Yuan Shenming, each led 300 horsemen to Huangshashu and Diaoyao City to persuade them to surrender.

On March 3, Li Duofu led 4,000 cavalry to Zhihuacheng County, Kuozhou Prefecture, this city is only a little bigger, less than two zhang high, and the defense facilities are extremely poor, not to mention the moat.

That night, Li Duofu camped on the spot, and was going to attack the city the next day, but he didn't want to be stationed in the city that night, and the head of the Daqian household stationed in the city actually sent people to ask for surrender, but there was a condition, requiring that the tribes would still be scattered on both sides of the Yellow River in Kuozhou in the future.

This is also a helpless thing, Hehuang has been lost for hundreds of years, and there are Qiang everywhere, and there is no way to completely clean it up. Moreover, when he set out before the war, Zhang Yue also allowed his troops to persuade him to surrender on appropriate terms.

Five days later, the Fugong military city forty miles north of the city of Kuozhou, the county town of Dahua on the west bank of the Yellow River, and the military city of Jishi surrendered without a fight.

However, the north bank of the Yellow River to the west of the Jishi Military City in Kuozhou is Chiling, and the west of Lingxi is Shudun City, Dafeiling and Dafeichuan in the south of Qinghai Lake. And Shi Deyuan, Liu Xinfa, and Sun Yanshou led 7,500 troops, and there was no news at all.

The preliminary combat preparations have been completed, and the next step is to meet Shi De's division in the far north, but Li Duofu's headquarters only has 5,000 troops, and he does not dare to enter Shudun City easily. Moreover, according to the surrendered Fan, Shudun City is the nest of Khenbrang Wang, and there are seven or eight thousand soldiers from a large thousand households, and some young and strong people can be recruited, so the troops are completely insufficient.

What's even more troublesome is that the terrain on the side of Jishi Military City is already very high, and the Chiling Mountains and River Valleys are dangerous and difficult to cross, and it is necessary to beware of Khambrang Wang's knowledge that after learning about it, he will attack Kuozhou in the south, which is only more than two hundred miles away from Qingtang City in Shanzhou, and it is not a safe place.

(To be continued.) )