What is the land like in Shanxi? After mentioning it, the four of them all knew that it was called a ravine!

Whether this is true or not, anyway, when you talk about the Loess Plateau, you have countless ditches washed by water in your mind.

The Qin army had already surrounded Taiyuan, but the troops had not officially launched an attack on Taiyuan City, but first sent a small force to clear the surrounding guerrillas.

The Manchu Qing had a bad reputation in the hearts of the people of Shanxi. It's because of the food. When the Qin army entered Shanxi, it was fighting in the front and providing relief to the victims in the back. The newly formed Sixth Construction Corps has more than 200,000 people. Their only task in the next three to five years will be to plant trees in Shanxi, explore coal mines, dredge rivers and strengthen river embankments.

Liu Xian not only did not plan to emigrate to the empty Shanxi province, but also planned to mobilize the people of Shanxi Province to move to Inner Mongolia. Shanxi Province will let him empty there. A measure similar to closing mountains for afforestation, Liu Xian has a large area of land in the northeast to be developed, so he came up with such an idea that seems a bit unreliable.

A small village that is not big, looking at the flat fields outside, there are still some villagers in this village. It is really possible that the situation in Shanxi will be uninhabited within 100 miles, but the closer it is, the greater the population density.

Years of drought have hit Shanxi hard, and no one has built or protected the roads. Lu Xun said that there is no road in the world, and there is a road when people walk more. Qin Jun has deeply practiced it in the process of marching!

And this year, the drought in Shanxi has subsided, the rain has arrived, and the barren fields are full of weeds. In some sparsely populated places, large armies walked by, chariots and horses ran over. There is a way. Because the Qin army had to cross the chariots, horses, cannons, and baggage, not to mention the roads that the soldiers had originally leveled. It's just that so many carts, horses, and cannons have been run over and over again, and the road surface is also strong.

However, the situation of the ditches in Shanxi is extremely inconvenient for ordinary people. But for the Scouts, these ditches provide a great way to conceal them. In particular, when the Qing army guerrillas who had been scattered on a small scale were dispersed, small units of detachments and squadrons were moving quickly and covertly in the ditches. You can often kill with one hit!

Isn't that an example now? The sharp knife squad led by him moved to a place less than thirty meters away from the entrance of the village, and the sentries of the Qing army at the entrance of the village did not even find it.

The squad leader took out a small mirror, first looked at the angle of the sun, stuck the mirror on the bayonet handle, and slowly poked the mirror out of the ditch, and saw clearly from the mirror. The five Qing soldiers were basking in the sun, and the infantry were either on their shoulders or on the shelves on the side, and there seemed to be no secret sentry at the entrance of the village. "Up, kill them!" The squad leader retracted the mirror and used the dagger to draw a simple map of the position on the ground. These five words came out to the comrades behind him.

The warrior continued to move forward.

When they arrived at a straight-line distance of no more than ten meters, the soldiers waited for the squad leader's order, the squad leader took a few deep breaths, and the soldiers behind him slowly spread out in the ditch. Then he stood up against the loess. Ten people flew out of the ditch, the bayonets shining cold, and the five Qing soldiers only had time to let out a few screams before they were killed by the bayonets. I didn't even have time to hold the gun in my hand.

Killed the Qing army sentry. The Qin army's actions became even faster. The large army behind the sharp knife squad didn't care whether the sharp knife squad had alarmed the bandits in the village, and they rushed towards the village. The knife squad all stayed at the entrance of the village to monitor the movements in the village.

Soon a group of Qin troops arrived, two squadrons. Two hundred Qin soldiers surrounded the village on all sides. Mortar positions were placed on the high ground at the west end of the village, and machine-gun positions were placed on the side of the road. The whole exercise should take no more than thirty minutes. Even if the Qing army in the village rushed out of it at this time, it would be difficult to fly.

Tell the Qing soldiers in the village to surrender. The Qing soldiers were silent.

Mortars exploded at one of the villages, approaching the entrance of the village by the Sharp Knife Squad. There are also people on the high ground who are monitoring the movement in the village, and the village that is now being shelled is one of the gathering points of the Qing army.

There were at least fifty or sixty Qing soldiers in the village.

Loud explosions rang out one after another, and one by one, the assault troops in squads plunged into the village like sharp knives. The sound of gunfire and grenade explosions continued to sound, and twenty minutes later, the last handful of stragglers were rushed to the gate of a courtyard by the Qin soldiers who were surrounded on all sides, and a dozen or twenty people were huddled together. Behind him, the bullets of the Qin army whistled, shooting out patches of blood in the chaotic crowd. There was no resistance, and everyone shouted and ran into the yard. But all of them became good targets.

These people all have blood debts in their hands, and they know the rules of the Qin army, that is, if they surrender, they will be worse than dead if they are not killed. So they would rather die than surrender. But Tuzi left a large blood stain at the door.

The clean-up work in Taiyuan Prefecture took the Qin army five days. Five days later, the 3,000 Qin troops scattered in the local area returned to the establishment, and the Qin army, totaling 7,000 people, began to attack the city of Taiyuan.

A few hours later, near dawn, the moon had crept down and the whole land was pitch black!

"Are your independent regiments ready?" Under the dim kerosene lamp, Zhao Tong set his eyes on Zhang Yao. This man is really military-minded, and he graduated in the senior class of the military academy in only three months. The independent regiment formed by the reorganization of the former Songwu Army has undergone three months of training, and its appearance and armament have also taken on a better look. Of course, there are also a lot of new faces for officers. Especially among the soldiers, with high salaries, generous treatment, as well as ideological education and brainwashing, the independent regiment is already an independent regiment of the Qin army, and it is no longer Zhang Yao's Songwu army.

Zhang Yao assured: "The Inferior Independent Regiment is ready to attack at any time!" ”

"That's good." Zhao Tongyi smiled and immediately ordered: "Since everything is ready, then don't delay, order the rear artillery battalion, let them fire the artillery on time according to the plan!" Your troops are ready to attack—"

Zhao Tong looked at the pocket watch in his hand, the time was already half past five in the morning, and in about an hour, the sky would begin to shine, and at seven o'clock the sight would not be a problem.

Time passed little by little, and in the open space outside a certain forest a few miles behind, more than 30 artillery pieces were lined up, and a major officer put down the pocket watch in his hand, and then directly ordered: "According to the predetermined Zhuyuan, let's fire!" ”

With his order, the artillery position, which was still shrouded in darkness, suddenly flashed with fire, and the muzzle flames that erupted when more than 30 guns opened fire made this artillery position, which occupies a large area, look dark and bright, like a rare star in the night.

And at this time, a few sleepy Qing soldiers at the head of Taiyuan City suddenly heard something, it seemed to be a whistle, and I thought it was a boo, but this sound was so familiar, it seemed to have been heard there.

However, the thought did not last long, and then a word came to their minds: "Shelling!" ”

When they came to their senses, they quickly lay down, and at the same time they were shouting!

But even if they didn't have to shout loudly, the Qing soldiers in Taiyuan City already knew about the shelling. The first round of shells had already landed, and the sound of the explosion was loud throughout Taiyuan City.

Almost instantly, countless Qing soldiers got up from their sleep in a panic, and then they didn't even bother to put on their clothes, picked up their guns and ran to the school yard to assemble amid the shouts and scolding of the officers.

The troops here are the only remaining troops in the hands of Yu Kuan, the current governor of Shanxi. There are less than 4,000 people in total, and the gathering of Lazhuang Ding is 10,000 strong, this is the defender of Taiyuan City.

Suddenly, it was subjected to fierce shelling, and both the Qing army and Ding Zhuang were in great confusion. Zhao Tong couldn't see the situation in Taiyuan City, but as soon as he was ready, he would firmly go on as planned.

"Master Zhang, it's your turn!"

"Please rest assured." Zhang Yao gave a military salute to Zhao Tong, and the attack of the independent regiment began.

The sappers, with the cooperation and cover of a brigade of infantry, quickly advanced towards the moat.

Planks according to the width of the moat were lowered to the surface of the river, and the sappers quickly advanced. The bricks on the top of the hat that no longer fall all the time and the threat of being injured by mistake are buried in front of the Great South Gate of Taiyuan, that is, the gate of Yingze Gate.

The governor of Shanxi was a man who could not fight, and he defended Taiyuan City, and all the positions outside the city were abandoned. Of course, Yukuan himself may say that it was a last resort. The entire Taiyuan Zhengpai defenders are only 4,000, of which there are only less than 1,500 Eight Banner soldiers belonging to Taiyuan Mancheng, and he can't even guarantee the loyalty of the Zhengpai Qing soldiers, so how can he set up a position outside the city?

The loud explosion blew up the city gate of the Great South Gate, but the inside was already blocked by sandbags. This was within the scope of Qin Jun's expectations.

"Let the second team take a break. Advance the heavy machine guns and mortars and suppress the fire at the head of the city! Zhang Yao decisively gave the order. After three months in the military academy, I did not really learn modern warfare from beginning to end, but broadened my horizons and thoughts, and refreshed my mind.

In a fortified city like Taiyuan City, when Zhang Yao fought with the Taiping Army in the past, he had the most headaches. In those years, when Anqing, Tianjin, and Suzhou were attacked, in addition to besieging the city and besieging the enemy and cutting off grain and grass, it was really impossible to attack hard.

Although these cities were eventually taken by the Qing army, it was the Taiping army that trapped the Taiping army to death, not the Qing army that killed the Taiping army.

But after a tour of the military academy, Zhang Yao felt that it was really easy to fight such a tough battle again, especially when the opponent's strength was insufficient and the general was also a straw bag.

The extended fire from the artillery positions had already turned the target into the city of Taiyuan. The Qing soldiers who showed their heads on the city wall were suppressed by a very heavy machine gun fire, and were accurately eliminated by snipers one by one, and there were so many mortars, fixed-point strikes, Zhang Yao, who was very light, couldn't raise his head to beat the Qing troops on the city wall of the Great South Gate.

It was just dawn now, and it was not yet eight o'clock, and half of the sandbags in the cave of the city gate were about to be pulled out by the sappers.

Conquer Taiyuan City and take Shanxi!

A soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier. Zhang Yao is only a colonel now, and he is looking forward to the three silver stars in his rank being turned into a golden bean. (To be continued......)