Chapter 291: Chase and fight

The first round of artillery bombardment of Cheng Jiajun began quickly, the caliber of these mountain cannons was on the small side, and they were still using old-fashioned black powder charges, so the explosion power was not large, and the damage to the Iron Blood Army was very small.

The heavy artillery unit of the Iron Blood Army, which reacted, immediately began to suppress the Cheng Jiajun, and the mountain artillery of the Cheng Family Army, which was small in size and easy to move, changed places with one shot, and the heavy artillery unit of the Iron Blood Army caught and hidden. However, the heavy artillery of the iron-blooded army had a long range, which was not at all within the reach of the mountain artillery unit of the Cheng family's army, and as a result, the artillery battle between the two sides was extremely fierce, and it lasted for two hours but the casualties were not large.

With the interference of the artillery of the Cheng family's army, the iron-blooded army did not charge the second line of defense again, but engaged in civil engineering operations. The soldiers hid in the trenches and dug the soil with sapper shovels, allowing the trenches to advance towards the opponent's defense line little by little. Although this method is very time-consuming, it can effectively prevent the opponent's artillery fire and fire. The snipers were on the position, and the enemy soldiers who showed their heads on the opposite position were named one by one.

Snipers are equipped with ordinary combat troops, this is the first attempt in the entire Chinese territory, all the snipers were in the special operations army before, they were just divided into two sniper teams, similar to the guerrillas to cold gun activities, this time they appeared on the frontal battlefield, they gave Peng Dechao a surprise, and soon he let the snipers start the hunting game.

The outcropping soldiers of the Cheng family army were shot in the head one by one, and when the blood and brains splashed on the faces of the nearby soldiers, the soldiers of the Cheng family army collapsed, and some of the recruits were so frightened that they threw away their weapons and ran to the rear, but they broke away from the cover of the trenches and soon became the next prey of the snipers of the Iron Blood Army, and after several deserters were killed, the other soldiers no longer dared to go out of the trenches.

The civil engineering operation was very fast, but when it was still a hundred meters from the opponent's second line of defense, the trenches could not be dug any further. Since the opponent's second trench is under the city wall, the trench is too close to the wall, and the opponent can shoot into the trench from the wall, and the trench loses its cover role.

Seeing that the trench movement war did not work, Peng Dechao immediately ordered to stop the civil engineering operation, and just used snipers to wear down the opponent's morale little by little. For a whole day, the junior officers and soldiers of the Cheng family army suffered heavy losses, and no one poked their heads out of the trenches again.

In the evening, Peng Dechao decided to start a night battle, and the soldiers of the Iron Blood Army still secretly touched the trenches on the opposite side in small groups, and the soldiers of the Cheng family army who were frightened during the day were very tired, and most of them fell asleep, and even the people who were sentinels dozed off one after another.

The soldiers of the Iron Blood Army lay on the ground, slowly touching forward in a prostrate posture, and several soldiers came to a place more than 20 meters away from the opposite trench, and took out grenades and threw them over, and the successive explosions woke up the soldiers of the Cheng Family's army.

It's a pity that those soldiers of the Cheng family army have not yet woken up to what is going on, and the soldiers of the Iron Army who jumped up have already stabbed the bright bayonet in front of their chests, but the Cheng family army on the city wall could not see the target clearly because it was dark, and they were afraid of injuring their own people by mistake, even if there was a fierce battle under Zhilu Road, they did not dare to shoot.

The second trench was quickly resolved, and the warriors of the Iron Blood Army immediately began to climb the walls. The walls of Longquan Mansion have been in the world for hundreds of years, and many of the wall tiles are decayed, and the crevices are also overgrown with weeds, which makes it much easier for the Predator soldiers who often do rock climbing training.

Cheng Feng was sleeping in the City Lord's Mansion, and when he was awakened by the explosion of a grenade, he didn't know what had happened to Lu Dao. After the guards told him that the other party had launched a night attack, Cheng Feng was so frightened that he didn't even have his clothes on, so he rushed out of the house with a pistol.

Cheng Feng ran towards the south gate with dozens of guards, and just halfway to the road, he found some rout soldiers coming towards them, Cheng Feng's guards stepped forward to grab a few rout soldiers and asked, only to know that the other party had attacked the city wall.

Cheng Feng is very aware of the combat effectiveness of his troops, if these untrained soldiers fight a good battle, or if they are surrounded, they may fight to the death, and if they are broken by others like this, and there is a way to survive, they will not be able to contain the team at all. In desperation, Cheng Feng had no choice but to gather a group of his cronies, open the east gate and escape.

Cheng Feng led more than 3,000 people all the way to the east, and he planned to go to the border area of Longquan Mansion, and sneak back to the area controlled by the Cheng family along the border between Jinhua County, which was controlled by the Iron Army, and Hudong County, which was controlled by the Xia family. It's a pity that Cheng Feng's nightmare is not over yet, just more than thirty miles after they left Longquan Mansion, suddenly a burst of gunfire came from both sides of the road, and a company of people who were exploring the road in front of them were suddenly knocked down.

Cheng Feng, who was riding on a horse, was so frightened that he fell down all of a sudden, Cheng Feng, who had just retreated, had no intention of fighting, and immediately led the team to leave the main road and flee southward, the ambushed troops had only one battalion, and they did not chase, but collected the guns abandoned by the other party, and the wounded soldiers who could not escape were all caught and sent to the prisoner camp.

There are many such ambush troops, this is Liu Mingzhao's ten-sided ambush plan, he knows very well that the defeated and fleeing Cheng Jiajun must be in a panic, once it is blocked, it will never be checked in detail, so he uses this strategy to let a small number of troops ambush one by one, and consume the other party little by little.

Unbeknownst to Cheng Feng, he continued to flee, but they soon encountered an ambush again, and they escaped for a while and were killed, Cheng Feng's team slowly weakened, and by the time he pulled out the boundary of Longquan Mansion, there were only more than thirty people left around him.

Looking at the more than 30 cronies behind him, Cheng Feng wanted to cry without tears, the actions of the 200,000 elite troops, he was also proud of the spring breeze at that time, and the Xiahou family was defeated and retreated.

I didn't expect that the army of the Chinese Leader was so powerful, and in the blink of an eye, his team was killed and wounded. However, there are advantages to having fewer people, the target is small, Cheng Feng and others let the guns be buried, the horses were released, they changed into the clothes of the common people, and continued to move forward. Under the disguise of concealing people's eyes, Cheng Feng and others successfully returned to Jiaozhi County.

After eliminating the Cheng family's army, the Iron Blood Army did not continue the pursuit, but stationed in Jiuhua County and Jinhua County, exercised military control over the localities, and tightened control over these areas.

With the Iron and Blood Army to maintain local law and order, the people gradually settled down, even Fang Xiaoyu didn't expect that the reputation of the Chinese Collar was so good, when Zhilu Dao was occupied by the Chinese Collar's army, many nearby people helped the old and the young to move here, and the population of the two counties soon increased.

With such a large population, the problem of public security was naturally much more severe, Liu Mingzhao had to ask the government for help, and Huadong Xing quickly sent government officials to receive it, and Liu Junxi also sent a police force, and the two counties quickly settled down.

With the police in charge of local law and order, all the troops were able to be withdrawn, and Liu Mingzhao soon deployed most of the troops to the border between Jiuhua County and Yulin County. The movement of the iron-blooded army made the Cheng family really nervous for a while, and they immediately sent people to contact the Wa State, hoping that the Wa State could immediately send troops to contain the army of the Chinese Leader.

Seeing such a powerful attack capability of the iron-blooded army of the Chinese Lord, the Japanese government was so frightened that it retracted and no longer dared to provoke. In desperation, the Cheng family mobilized heavy troops to garrison the border area with Jiuhua County, trying to rely on the advantage of numbers to block the attack of the Iron Army.

The iron-blooded army's extraordinary advancing speed, fierce offensive style and super high soldier quality made the whole world look sideways, allowing the whole world to appreciate the peerless style of this Fang Xiaoyu private army for the first time.

Just when the Cheng family was worried about defending the iron-blooded army and desperately consolidating the position, Xia Yuhui suddenly launched an attack, due to insufficient funds, the Xia family could not prepare enough logistics materials, and only three armies were dispatched in this operation.

These troops seem to be small, but they are the absolute elite main force of the Xia family, and most of the Cheng family's army was transferred to Yulin County to guard against the attack of the Iron and Blood Army, and the troops in other counties were relatively thin.

Xia Yuhui led the army to attack quickly, the target was directly smashed into the Tongren Mansion in Anshun County, and the mountain artillery pulled by the horses made the Xia Jiajun's movement extremely fast, and they rushed from Baoxing Mansion to the territory of Tongren Mansion in just two days. Due to the excessive deployment of troops by the Cheng family, Anshun County used to maintain law and order was a garrison composed of slaves.

These slaves were already oppressed by the Cheng family, and their morale can be imagined, coupled with Cheng Yuhuan's distrust, they were mostly equipped with cold weapons, and there were no cannons, how could such morale and equipment compare with the well-trained and high-morale Xia family army.

In the rumbling sound of the Xia Jiashan artillery group, the Xia family did not need to launch an infantry charge at all, and the slaves stationed in various places raised their hands and surrendered. Xia Yuhui seized this weak link of the Cheng family, and the army was divided into dozens of units to comprehensively attack the five prefectures of Guiyang, Anshun, Chishui, Tongren, and Liping in Anshun County from multiple directions.

Wherever the Xia family army went, the slaves fell in despair, and the officials of the Cheng family who saw that the general trend had gone also swept away from the jurisdiction and went back to become rich men. Seeing that there were no officials in the local area, the Xia family transferred officials from the rear to station, and on the other hand, implemented military management in some areas, and finally did not let Anshun County have any major turmoil.

The Xia Jiajun annexed the entire Anshun County at a very fast pace, and the vanguard had already entered the Wenshan Prefecture area of Jiaozhi County. Cheng Feng, who received this situation, was taken aback, and he hurriedly asked his eldest brother Cheng Wei to rush to Wenshan Mansion with part of the reserves to defend.

Jiaozhi County can be said to be the lair of the Cheng family, once it is lost, the Cheng family will fall into a situation of no return, so under the leadership of Cheng Wei, the Cheng family army fought very fiercely in Wenshan Fucheng, and the armies of both sides of Xia Cheng fell into a tragic offensive and defensive battle.