Chapter 160: Under the city of Yonggu Town
Zhang Shuyuan was worried that things would change, so he marched all the way, and at half past three in the afternoon of the same day, Zhang Shuyuan had already led more than 3,000 people in the vanguard and galloped all the way to Yonggu Town, the last supply point of Zhang Xun's department directly to the bridge.
The march along the way was smooth, although it was rare to see ordinary people, but seeing so many soldiers walking by, who would dare to come out to see the excitement? Therefore, this point did not arouse Zhang Shuyuan's suspicions.
There is still some distance from Yonggu Town, seeing that Yonggu Town is in front of them, Zhang Xun's soldiers are greatly relieved in their hearts, the long and rapid march has made them too tired, and they can at least rest for a while when they enter Yonggu Town.
At this time, it has just entered October, and if it is the south now or the north in a hundred and ten years, it will naturally not feel cold, but at this time in the north, the weather is already very cold.
Everyone has been walking for so long against the autumn wind, and they are tired to death, and they already have some understanding of this small town before coming in advance, so they naturally know that there are still more than 50 Zhang Xunbu defenders guarding here.
Although Zhang Xun did not yet exercise effective jurisdiction over the Xuzhou region, he did attach great importance to the control of the town of Exie, and even if there was fighting on the front line, the fifty defenders here were still not transferred.
But now the situation is different, Li Yan has now had such a big thing, and no one dares to guarantee the safety here.
Out of caution, Zhang Shuyuan did not send someone directly into the city, but arranged for someone to check in the direction of the city from a long distance.
At this time, the gate of Yonggu Town was closed, deserted, and no one could be seen, but it did not arouse too much suspicion from Zhang Shuyuan, after all, there was a change in the front, and the news had been received that the position at the mouth of the bridge had fallen, and the defenders here should naturally be more cautious.
Sun Fu is the commander of a cavalry battalion under Zhang Shuyuan, with a team of more than 400 people, at this time he received Zhang Shuyuan's order, although he did not care about Zhang Shuyuan's decision in his heart, thinking that Zhang Shichang was too careful, but he did not dare to disobey the order, after receiving the order, but he could only honestly take his brothers to the city wall, and went forward to check the situation of Yonggu Town, and more than 400 cavalry under his command also followed behind and rushed to the direction of Yonggu Town.
When Sun Fu brought people to the front of the city wall, he found that there was no one in front of the entire city gate, and there was some hay or something not far ahead, and the city gate was closed, as if it was a dead city, which made Sun Fu feel a little depressed. However, in this season, most of the northern countryside will pack up these crops and poles for winter, so Sun Fu didn't care about these at all.
Zhang Shuyuan, who was behind, carefully looked at the terrain here with a telescope, and moved the camera as Sun Fu's troops advanced.
Yonggu Town is the first time Zhang Shuyuan has been here since he entered Xuzhou, and looking at the surrounding plain terrain, he knows why it can become an important strategic location between Xuzhou and Huaibei.
In Zhang Shuyuan's eyes, Yonggu Town at this time was exceptionally quiet, with occasional bunches of cooking smoke coming out of the city walls, and the city gates being closed, as if he was fully prepared for the coming war, which made Zhang Shuyuan secretly think in his heart: "I don't know which one is guarding here, it seems that this thing of peace and security is doing a good job." ”
When the war was coming, Yonggu Town was in the front of the town, and after a brief look, Zhang Shuyuan still had some praise for the town's defense.
The only thing that made Zhang Shuyuan a little puzzled, it is estimated that there are so many haystacks in front of the city wall, although this is a rural area, it should not be so dense, and when he had to take a closer look, a voice came from beside him and said: "Commander, the brothers are in a hurry, let's let everyone go first." “
"Okay, let's go into the city and have a good rest!" Zhang Shuyuan was interrupted from his train of thought, put his doubts aside, answered, and then led his large army to the direction of Yonggu Town.
Seeing the rear team coming up, Sun Fu didn't wait in place, but directly led his cavalry to walk a few steps, came to the city gate, and shouted to the city: "Who is the guard here?" Zhang Dashuai's reinforcements are coming, why are you so blind, you don't see that the uncles have worked so hard to arrive, why are you all closing the city gate until now! “
Soon, with the sound of scolding, several heads appeared on the city wall, and waved his hand to this side, Sun Fu thought that the other party was about to open the door, so he walked directly to the city gate, and soon entered the encirclement of haystacks.
Just as they entered the haystack without the slightest defense, a large number of tongues of fire suddenly erupted from the surrounding hay, and the sound of rifle machine guns suddenly resounded throughout Yonggu Town!
In addition, on the wall of Yonggu Town, which was quiet just now, tongues of fire were also launched, and countless bullets rained down, almost simultaneously coming to the heads of these cavalrymen!
These cavalrymen who were riding on horses without the slightest preparation became the live target of the defenders at this time, and the other cavalry did not react for a while, and the dozen or so cavalrymen who walked in front were instantly hit by gunfire, and in the muffled sound, they fell down covered in blood, and the horses neighed, wanting to escape from the master's control and get out of this terrifying battlefield!
The firepower of the soldiers lurking in the gendarmerie was well organized, and the fire was opened almost simultaneously on all sides, leaving no dead end for the enemy, let alone any chance for the enemy to escape!
More and more people fell, and at this time, all the cavalry finally reacted, and hurriedly got off their horses in Sun Fu's roar, their bodies were tightly attached to the ground, and their faces were pale, even he knew that his people seemed to have fallen into a big trap!
At this time, the crops had just been harvested, and the ground may have been used by the farmers here to dry grain, so the ground is very flat, and there are few potholes, and it is this leveling that makes Sun Fu and these people want to cry without tears, and they can really be shot while lying down!
The cavalry hid on the ground, unable to block the enemy's bullets at all, and the death toll was increasing, Sun Fu tried to take his men to the outside twice, but it was heartbreaking, leaving forty or fifty corpses, and still did not rush out, it seemed that none of the haystacks were wantonly slaughtering them.
And under the conscious expulsion of the enemy army, more and more survivors were driven back again, and gradually crowded together, and it was at this time that several heavy machine guns turned around and opened fire with all their might at the densest place where they were crowded, and with a burst of fierce fire, dozens of people died again, and the remaining survivors were completely stunned by such powerful firepower!
Fortunately, these people are also veterans of several battles, and after paying heavy casualties, they finally took the corpse of their robe as a cover and began to counterattack, but this kind of counterattack under the siege is useless, the casualties continue, the soldiers are bleeding, and it seems that they will not stop until they squeeze their last drop of blood!
Sun Fu had already been shot in the arm at this time, and it was a bullet from a heavy machine gun, which directly left a deep bullet hole in his arm, his face had been deformed because of the pain, and the sweat on his forehead was dripping down in big drops.
But this is also a ruthless man, he didn't let out any miserable howls, just pressed the wound with one hand, lay on the ground motionless, and shouted twice from time to time to make his brothers hold on!
Zhang Shuyuan's large army in the back was even more confused than the troops in front at this time, when Sun Fuying suffered a heavy blow at the beginning, they didn't react for a while, this is obviously a town in Xuzhou, how can there be an ambush again?!
However, the reality will not change because of their doubts, the casualties in front of them are getting worse and worse, but they can't rush out alive or dead, Zhang Shuyuan's face suddenly turned pale, and he finally reacted.
At this time, Zhang Shuyuan had no time to think about what kind of conspiracy was inside, what he could do at this time was to quickly send troops to meet the cavalry troops in front, and a whole battalion of soldiers rushed forward under Zhang Shuyuan's order, without even a cover, so he rashly approached the city wall.
Obviously, Zhang Shuyuan's order in a hurry was a bit too hasty, and before the heavy machine gunners behind could move over to take cover, a battalion of soldiers braved the rain of bullets to move forward.
But maybe Zhang Xun knew this, but he had to do so, because he didn't know if a battalion in front would be able to hold out when the heavy machine gunners entered the position!
However, no matter what Zhang Shuyuan thought at this time, the direct consequence of this order was that this group of people who hurried up suffered tragic casualties, and just when these people approached and wanted to charge, the soldiers of a battalion of the directly subordinate regiment ambushed in some licorice stacks on the periphery finally showed their fangs and fiercely tore a bloody hole in the throats of these enemies!
The defenders who lurked down instantly formed a tightly sealed line of fire on the periphery, knocking over Zhang Xun's troops in front of them one by one without the slightest cover to the ground, and this wave down, more than 60 people who rushed to the front of the enemy army instantly turned into bloody people, fell to the ground without saying a word, and the blood stained the ground under their feet, and then spread to the periphery.
However, these people finally showed the greatest courage at these times and rushed forward without the slightest death, which is also what Han Zhengjun wants to see! This was followed by even heavier artillery fire on these people.
The enemy forces in the encirclement were finally wiped out in a completely asymmetrical position, and finally Sun Fu led a Jedi counterattack, although it brought a lot of casualties to the defenders, but compared to the harvest, it was simply incomparable, and more importantly, it completely hit the enemy's strong morale.
This has just taken over the battle, and it was formed into an ordinary battalion to wipe out, presumably Zhang Xun will vomit blood three liters directly when he hears it!
Soon, there were hundreds of cavalry in the encirclement, and they were able to stand up, but only some of the horses were wailing, and none of their own soldiers stood up, either killed in battle, or knelt on the ground and surrendered.
Zhang Xunbu, who was answering outside, saw the situation in the encirclement, and after paying a heavy price, they were finally afraid, the kind of almost one-sided massacre, which destroyed people's nerves, at this moment, reminded them of the situation where their people were chasing the defeated army in Nanjing City and killing those defeated troops!
They collapsed and fled back to their rear in complete fright, without even giving Zhang Shuyuan a chance to prepare (to be continued. )