Of course, there was a reason why the battalion commander was so depressed; although the main purpose of this year's combat mission was to train troops and not to expand the territory under his control, this did not mean that there was still an intention to expand the territory under his control in the plan. This year's expansion task is not large, that is, to eat the area with a large Han population in the eastern part of Gyeongwonfu and extend it south to the Laibin area.

The location of Qingyuan Mansion is west of Liucheng County, and the troops of its Hechi Institute can directly threaten Liucheng County and even Liuzhou City along the Longjiang River, and the north can go over the mountains to attack Rong County, it can be said that the strategic surname is extremely important, for such a moment can threaten the existence of the place under their rule, Deng Shifeng and Qin Er They have long regarded it as a thorn in the flesh, if it were not for the fact that last year's main combat capabilities were consumed in Rong County, Liucheng County and Liuzhou City, Deng Shifeng and Qin Er would have asked Luo Dan to extinguish the big trouble on the side of the couch.

Therefore, in this year's combat mission, Qingyuan Mansion has become the unanimous target of everyone, and has become the first target to be targeted.

Deng Shifeng is not so greedy to Qingyuan Mansion to eat all, Qingyuan Mansion population is more concentrated in the east and the middle, after Jincheng Town and then to the west and north are mountainous, and it is also the kind of mountain that is extremely difficult to climb and open up roads, although the mineral deposits are relatively rich but the transportation conditions are extremely harsh and not easy to mine, fortunately, the location of the famous Dachang tin mine in later generations is relatively close to the outside is conducive to transportation, otherwise Deng Shifeng wants to use the mineral deposits of Qingyuan Mansion just to open the road is enough to consume a lot of manpower and financial resources......

However, it is worth mentioning that although the west of Qingyuan Mansion is surrounded by mountains, there are two rivers that can directly lead to Libo, which is Libo County in Guizhou Province in later generations, and Libo is now under the jurisdiction of Qingyuan Prefecture; These two rivers are not far from the territory of Libo County, but there are several good quality anthracite coal, and the two small coal mines in Liuzhou, which are only a few meters of coal seam, are no longer enough for the various machines in the mountain villages......

It is precisely because of the important surname of Qingyuan Mansion that it has become a must to include the central and western parts of Qingyuan Mansion, which is the core of Qingyuan Mansion, so the battalion commander is depressed and depressed; His task is to garrison the local area after attacking a number of military forts in Qingyuan Prefecture, and other battalions and companies can fight all the way to the east and south, while he can only squat in the mountains and watch the battle report coming to him and scratch his heart depressed......

As for the operations on the eastern and southern fronts, the scale and movements were much larger than those in the western front, and since the guests on the southern front and several attack areas on the eastern front could be reached by waterway first, a larger fleet of ships appeared on the Liujiang River than last year's attack on Liuzhou City, and there were as many as 110 ships dispatched this time, not only the number of ships was more than last time, but the tonnage of the ships was also larger, and ships smaller than three tons could not join this fleet at all, except for the speedboats that patrolled and escorted them.

It's just that when the fleet marched to the mouth of the Qianjiang River, that is, the confluence of the Hongshui River and the Liujiang River, the fleet was divided into two routes, one turned to the Hongshui River and attacked the guests upstream, and the other was to go down the Qianjiang River to clear the military forts of the Ming Dynasty along the way.

The team attacking the guests did not encounter too much trouble, because the guests are located in the middle of the basin that is rare in Guangxi, although it is the granary of Guangxi, but the surrounding terrain is flat and there is no danger to defend, so that the Ming Dynasty does not set up military guards here, and the nearby Nandanwei and Qianjiang are also built away from the guests and the mountains, so there is only a small military fort that symbolizes the surname can not resist a round of attacks by a reinforced battalion at all, and even the attack was not carried out, but only four Thor artillery guns were used to bombard each and then surrendered. It made the battalion commander in charge of the attack feel bored......

Fortunately, his task is more exciting than attacking the brothers in Qingyuan Mansion, in addition to capturing Laibin, the granary of Guangxi, there are several tasks, one is to open up the land transportation between Beishang and Liuzhou City, and the other two tasks are to open up land transportation and then attack Nandanwei in the west of the Huomeng River in turn, and Qianjiang in the south; Although the difficulty of these two tasks is a bit great, this can only have a decent opponent for the soldiers to practice and see the blood!!

Of course, due to the important surname of the guests in terms of grain production, this is also an important part of the land under the rule of the mountain village this year, Deng Shifeng and Qin Er did not dare to be greedy, and eating these two pieces of land first was enough to digest this year.

As for the operations on the Eastern Front, although it is convenient to use waterways to supply, the combat tasks on the Eastern Front are much more complicated than those on the Western Front and the Southern Front, and in addition to the military fortresses along the many tributaries to attack, there are also many attack targets that require infantry to attack on foot. However, those are the later tasks, and the first thing to be solved in the Eastern Front operation is the Datengxia area, which is particularly famous in the history of Guangxi shortly after entering the Qianjiang River!!

As mentioned before, Datengxia is here where the people are constantly rising, and its history of the people's uprising is almost the same as the history of the Ming Dynasty, in the process of repeated civil uprisings, suppression, re-civil uprisings, and re-suppression, which is almost a tug-of-war, because the Ming Dynasty's political axe is much more abundant than the chaotic people after all, after many times of counterinsurgency, a lot of military points were gradually built along the river to control Datengxia, and there are twenty or thirty military facilities on both sides of the river bank in this short period of dozens of kilometers, of which more than a dozen are mastered by the Tusi who borrowed troops from Guixi to quell the rebellion, Even the most dangerous Bitan and several other dangerous shoals were in the hands of Cen Toast; The rest were controlled by the Ming Dynasty officials and soldiers, and the nearby Yao residents also set up a small number of military facilities here, which shows the complex surnames and important surnames of the geographical environment in this area.

It is precisely because of the complicated situation here in Datengxia that any civilian merchant ship needs to be cautious when passing through here, not only to go through various exploitations layer by layer, but also to prevent the attack of the so-called Yao barbarian rebels, but also to be careful of the "chaotic people" attacks pretended by the Tusi and the Ming Dynasty water camp officials; A few years ago, it was precisely because of the dredging of the toasts in this area that he dared to threaten Huang Zhangshi and Deng Shifeng by choking the traffic arteries.

For the mountain village, the existence of the local officials and the Ming Dynasty military fort in Datengxia is indeed annoying, not only the layers of exploitation have increased the cost of various goods and raw materials, but also limited the transportation speed of the fleet from Guangzhou to the mountain village, which is always disgusting......

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"There's someone on the hill!!"

"Rain of arrows!"

"Fire suppression!"

"Strike team, on!!"

With the sound of various orders, several modified flat-bottomed boats leaned against the narrow river beach, and in the sound of the platoon commander's order, more than a dozen attacking soldiers jumped onto the river beach with various weapons and armor, and on the mountains on both sides of the river beach, they had already discovered and noticed that these native soldiers in flowered leather clothes pulled their bowstrings and shot arrows desperately at these soldiers, and the dense rain of arrows clanged on the armor and helmets of the soldiers.

After the soldiers in charge of covering knocked down a few of the most cheerful and cheerful native soldiers with accurate shooting, the remaining native soldiers seemed to have discovered the power of the firearms in the hands of these flower skins, and no longer leaned out to shoot directly, but hid behind the stones to throw or shoot rapidly, so that the accuracy of the arrows was naturally greatly reduced, and the baptism of arrow rain received by the soldiers suddenly dropped a lot; Without the nuisance of arrows, the warriors are not only faster to climb, but also less vulnerable to attack and safer.

The final target of the soldiers' attack was actually a lookout post built on the commanding heights of this dangerous shoal and several barracks of local soldiers stationed nearby, these native soldiers were a nearby local officer set up a military fort to control the river surface, although there was no artillery on it, only two tattered bed crossbows that I don't know if they could be used, but these man-made buildings that are very discordant with the beautiful coastal scenery of Datengxia are uncomfortable for everyone to look at, if it were not for the training of more and better combat skills of the infantry, the artillerymen would have opened fire on it......

"it!!"

The soldier who was the first to climb near the barracks had just shown his head when he noticed several arrows flying head-on, and without any hesitation, the soldier lowered his head - shrank his head...... The arrow slammed into the arc of the fried egg-like helmet and the brim of the hat at a small angle, and flew away with a crisp sound......

"Grenadiers, thirty-five meters away, blow them up!!"

The soldier in front took advantage of the gap between the opponent's bow and suppressed the opponent with a pistol several bullets and reported the direction to the comrades behind, only to see that the soldier holding a short and thick grenadier in the back immediately raised the grenadier in his hand, skillfully estimated the height difference of the ridge and the wind direction and speed, after a muffled sound slightly louder than the gun, a black thing flew out of the black barrel of the grenadier, drew a beautiful parabola in the air and smashed about five meters away from the left side of the target.

After last year's actual combat test, the grenadier was reduced from the original 60 mm caliber to 51 mm caliber, because the fighters found that the 60 mm caliber ammunition was a little too powerful in actual combat, and the recoil was too large to use, and the fighters reacted that it would be more convenient if the grenadier could throw grenades, so after improvement, this shape was somewhat similar to the enlarged version of the single-shot gun grenade launcher was finally finalized.

It can not only fire special ammunition, but also throw the standard grenade currently equipped in the mountain village, when firing, the cast iron part of the grenade is loaded inward, and the cable can be fastened to the outer buckle; However, due to the presence of the handle, its quasi-head is a little worse than that of the special ammunition. However, the soldiers liked this kind of weapon with a full weight of only four and a half pounds, which did not occupy the establishment and had a long projection distance and was easy to carry, and each squad was equipped with such a weapon to provide fire output.

This special bullet is not too accurate, but the explosives contained in the special bullet are not ordinary black powder but military explosives produced in small quantities by chemical plants, and the range of five meters is not only still within its killing radius, but also the blast wave generated can also make a group of earth archers on the opposite side turn on their backs.

"Up!!"

Seizing this opportunity, several fighters climbed the high slope and began the final battle...... (To be continued.) )