Chapter 240: Massacre Order
The tens of millions of troops of the Beichen Kingdom entered the territory of the Shalu Kingdom in four ways. [Ran^Text^Library] Among them, the army of 7.8 million was divided into eastern, central and western routes, and attacked the Jiangnan region of Shalu from the land. In a few days, the army broke through more than 20 cities, and was blocked in Dongguan, Lisy City, and Tilati Pass, and could not advance an inch. In addition, guerrilla warfare broke out in the rear occupied areas, and countless civilians of the Sharu country attacked their own soldiers. The king of Beichen drew one million soldiers and horses from each of the three armies, gathered three million troops, and issued a slaughter order!
Xiao Chen looked at the military map angrily, there were already dozens of cities in the Shalu Kingdom occupied by the Beichen Army. The troops of the Naval Division have also reached the mouth of the Erbuna River, and the army will enter the river at any time to find the main force of the Naval Division of the Shalu State for a decisive battle. It can be said that the current situation is very good, even if the three-way army is blocked, the destruction of the million-strong army of the Shalu country is almost inevitable.
But what Xiao Chen never expected was that something big happened in the occupied area. Guerrillas appeared, attacking the transportation and logistics teams of the Beichen Kingdom everywhere, or destroying roads and other facilities. When Xiao Chen heard that there were guerrillas, his only thought was what kind of trouble was this?
As a Chinese, how could Xiao Chen not know the power of guerrilla tactics. Originally, Xiao Chen also planned to dispatch the army with great fanfare, retreat a little back, and deal with the guerrillas first. However, this idea was puzzled by the generals of the Beichen Army. Their idea was that the army would go straight to the Erbuna River first, and then mobilize the whole army to clean up the small debris.
Now the withdrawal of troops to the rear to clean up the guerrillas is completely to give the million Sharu* troops stationed in the three places and blocking the advance of the Beichen Army a chance to recuperate. Even, if you are not careful, it is very likely that the guerrillas will be supported by the million-strong army. Or maybe it's the million Sharu army, which turns around and becomes a guerrilla, and the Beichen Army is the real trouble at that time.
At that time, Xiao Chen also thought about it for a while, and decided to deal with the one million regular army of Shalu Country first. After all, the strength of the guerrillas is too poor, even in the logistics and transportation team of Beichen Kingdom, they are equipped with weapons, just in case. Of course, they never train, and only after getting the task of escorting food and grass supplies, one person is issued a knife.
But even so, the logistics transport team was not something that some local guerrillas could eat. You know, it's a transport of thousands of people at every turn, and sometimes even more. With such a numerical advantage, the guerrillas were scared to the point of being like a mouse seeing a cat. Unable to attack the convoy, the guerrillas began to do all sorts of immoral things.
It's easy to destroy the roads for you, and these guys have filled in many wells and streams. It's unbearable, don't you think you drink water, and you even fill in the well. The Chinese guerrillas during World War II were not so ruthless, and it was not until later that Xiao Chen learned that these guys actually opened a well in the village and covered it with a house, which was discovered by the Beichen Army when they were massacre again.
The transportation team of the Beichen Army will not be idle and carry water bladders with them, and they will all find water sources and station them in the local area. If the water source is destroyed by the guerrillas, it can only be replenished in the nearby city, which greatly increases the pressure on the logistics and transportation of the Beichen Army.
And the things that made Xiao Chen angry also happened because of the water source.
It was the eighth day of the Beichen Army's entry into the territory of Sharu, and a transport team of 20,000 Beichen troops was stationed at a place with a well at noon. At that time, the guerrilla war in Sharu had already begun for two days.
The team was lucky enough to find a well and set up camp. Since it was winter, it was very hard to transport supplies for the army, and the weather was cold to death. At that time, this transportation team fetched a lot of water in the well to boil, ready to warm up the big guys.
No one noticed anything unusual about the boiling water, and all the members of the convoy had drunk some water and eaten some hot food. It didn't take long for the members of the convoy to have an accident.
Almost all of the members of the convoy noticed a sudden stomach ache after eating. Then, some people foamed at the mouth and slowly fell into death. Of the more than 20,000 people in this transport team, not a single one survived.
When the transport force disappeared for two days, a small detachment of the Beichen Army stationed in the area searched for their bodies. Because this transport is to deliver supplies to a nearby army, but it has been two days beyond the arrival time of the transport team, and the supplies have not yet arrived.
The commander of the garrison sent someone to inquire to the rear, and only after asking did he know that the transport team had already departed and should have arrived at the scheduled time. No matter how stupid anyone is at this moment, they know that something must have happened to the convoy, otherwise it would not have disappeared.
So, the rear contacted the commanders of the various armies along the way and asked them to help search for this convoy. Two days after the death of the convoy members, the local Beichen soldiers found the convoy.
More than 20,000 people have been frozen into popsicles, and none of them have survived. And all the supplies of their escort team have disappeared, even the knives equipped by the transport team have disappeared. In the end, when the corpses were cleaned up, it was found that all of them were black and purple, obviously poisoned to death.
The rear quickly passed the news to Xiao Chen, and when Xiao Chen saw this letter, he was completely angry. More than 20,000 people were poisoned by the local guerrillas, and all the supplies they were escorted with were obtained by the guerrillas. These included food, armor, weapons, and arrows.
Together with more than 20,000 knives from the members of the convoy, the partisans received weapons. In this way, the guerrillas can pull up tens of thousands of people in an instant, which is too dangerous for the transportation team of the Beichen Army. Moreover, with weapons, the guerrillas can even attack the barracks and attack the city, which will definitely become a big disaster for the Beichen Kingdom.
After that, Xiao Chen hurriedly sent an order to the commander of the three-way army, requesting that a million troops be transferred to the rear to clean up the local guerrillas. Soon, the army of 3 million was scattered within more than 20 cities in the occupied area, and the war against the guerrillas began.
However, soon the results of the first round of extermination of the guerrillas came out. More than 3,000 guerrillas were killed and captured, and more than 10,000 were wounded. When Xiao Chen saw this battle report, he kicked Hua Rong, who was in charge of exterminating the guerrillas, to the side. His sister's, this is the report of the battle to exterminate the gang of guerrillas, killing not as many people as they died, and this also exterminated a yarn.
Hua Rong also listened to the lesson of his own king without saying a word, and this time he did it too badly. led an army of three million to exterminate the guerrillas, but after two or three days, the guerrillas did not kill a few, and they lost 10,000 people.
Subsequently, as soon as Xiao Chen asked, he knew the hardships that Hua Rong had encountered. The guerrillas relied on the common people, and every time they were encircled and suppressed, the people informed them in advance, so that the Beichen Army completely lost its intelligence advantage. After listening to Hua Rong's explanation, Xiao Chen was not so angry. After all, guerrilla warfare is like this, it will disgust you to death, and it will be difficult to strangle. Even if a group of civilians are killed, there will still be people who will help the guerrillas.
Because this time, because the Beichen Army was in a hurry to annihilate the million-strong army in the south of the Shalu Kingdom, it did not capture Zhuangding even if it occupied a place. Instead, they attacked quickly, intending to wait until the million-strong army was dealt with before dealing with these civilians. No one thought that since this group of guerrillas had poisoned a 20,000-strong transport convoy of the Beichen Army, they would obtain a large number of weapons.
Subsequently, Xiao Chen gave Hua Rong a move, that is, kill! Whenever you encounter a village, kill a village, and all the prime people in the village will be arrested and detained, and the rest will be killed, leaving no one behind. This time the number is a slaughter order!
After Hua Rong received the slaughter order, he immediately began to act. exterminated the guerrillas, but as a result, he instigated himself to slap himself, and Hua Rong was already very angry. Therefore, in the subsequent massacre, Hua Rongna was the one who killed to relieve his anger.
The people in the south of the Erbuna River in the Shalu Kingdom are only about 4 million, and the people in the areas occupied by the Beichen Army are only about 1.8 million. As soon as the three million troops were stationed in various places, they began to massacre. First of all, starting from the city, the Beichen army closed the city gate, and then began to search for the people in the city. Tens of thousands of civilians were arrested, and all the young and strong men were gathered in one place, waiting for them to be escorted to the rear to watch.
The rest of the old and weak women and children were all pulled out of the city and a massacre began!
Massacres began to be staged in various cities, and the guerrillas naturally got the news. In order to prevent the mass base from being wiped out, the guerrillas moved all the people living outside the city into hidden areas. However, this is not a bad thing for the Beichen Army. Before, I thought that the slaughter would be slow from village to village, but now it's better that the guerrillas themselves have organized it for us.
Subsequently, the Beichen army began to go out of the city to search for civilians and guerrillas. Everywhere he went, he saw one of the people of Sharu, and he killed one. When there were too many arrests in one go, Hua Rong sometimes set up ambushes to attract those guerrilla members to send them to death. The ploy was surprisingly good, and the effect was very obvious.
In just over ten days, Hua Rong led an army of three million to strangle more than 40,000 guerrillas, as well as more than 800,000 ordinary people, and captured more than 200,000 strong men. It can be said that more than half of the guerrillas in the area occupied by the Beichen Army have been eliminated, and the remaining ones are no longer a problem. It only takes about 10 days of encirclement and suppression to wipe out all these guerrillas.
In fact, just as Xiao Chen thought, after issuing the massacre order, Hua Rong quickly wiped out all the guerrillas in the occupied area, and even the people everywhere were almost killed. After the guerrillas were eliminated, the rear of the Beichen Army was finally stable.
The progress of the army also changed rapidly, and not long after the Beichen Army eliminated the guerrillas, two of the three major armies made significant progress. The Western Route Army had already broken through Dongguan, and the 300,000 Shalu troops stationed in Dongguan had lost more than 110,000 killed and surrendered 180,000. The Western Route Army also suffered heavy casualties, with 47,000 casualties among the servant army and 92,000 casualties among the volunteers. In addition, there were more than 30,000 people, making a total of 139,000 dead soldiers.
The Eastern Route Army also took the Tirati Pass, killing 210,000 Shalu troops and capturing more than 80,000 people. Its own casualties were as high as 200,000, including more than 40,000 wounded soldiers and nearly 160,000 killed.
When these two battle reports came, Xiao Chen had joy and sorrow in his heart. The joy is that the two armies have broken through, and the million-strong army in the south of the Shalu country is about to be completely wiped out. After fighting for more than 20 days, it was not easy for the Beichen army to break through these two places heavily guarded by the Shalu army. It's just that the casualties are also a bit bigger, and 300,000 people were killed, which is really unbearable.
Xiao Chen didn't know that in order to seize these three passes, the number of soldiers killed in the Shalu Kingdom was as high as 800,000. Otherwise, with the strength of the Sharu Kingdom, the Buni Kingdom would have been annexed long ago. It's just that I was so injured back then, and now I'm licking my wounds.
After the breakthrough of the two armies, the city of Rees of the Middle Route Army was completely encircled. Dozens of cities after the three levels were lost in just two days, and then millions of Beichen troops attacked Rees from the north. In the end, the defenders of Reece City saw that the tide was going and chose to surrender. 270,000 troops laid down their arms and walked out of the city.
Since then, after a month and four days, the Beichen Army has completely occupied the territory south of the Shalu Kingdom. Annihilated more than 600,000 of Sharu*'s troops and captured nearly 400,000. The Beichen Army's own casualties also reached 390,000, and 110,000 wounded soldiers.
The city of Rees is located between two large mountains, and there is plenty of space outside the city. In contrast, the Tilati Pass is simply a mountain pass, and the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. And Dongguan is also located between two small peaks, holding the main road, which is also easy to defend and difficult to attack. Therefore, at Dongguan and Tilati Pass, the casualties of the Beichen army were very large.
However, now that these three levels have been achieved, it means that Sharu has lost half of his territory and his army of one million. The Beichen Kingdom has already achieved a strategic victory, after all, the Shalu Kingdom with only a few dozen cities and two million troops is no longer a cause for concern. In the territory of the Shalu country north of the Erbuna River, there is no more precipitous pass like the three passes, and only one capital city may be more difficult to fight.
Then there is the Erbuna River, but now the Beichen Army Naval Division has completely mastered the Erbna River. It's just that the sailors of the Shalu country have never shown up. This made Li Ancheng, the commander of the water division, very puzzled, and after thinking about it for a long time, he had to comfort himself with the reason that the water division of Shalu Country was afraid of him, so he didn't dare to come out.
However, Li Ancheng would not think that the sailor of Shalu was really afraid of himself. Therefore, in the past month, Li Ancheng has gathered all the troops in the camp except for the army to build a water village by the river. As for the previous strategic deployment to encircle and suppress the million-sharu army in the south of the Yangtze River, Li Ancheng directly ignored it. It was really because the sailor of Shalu Country had not shown up, and Li Ancheng was worried.
I don't have any information about the Shalu Naval Division, and I don't know the scale of the Saru Division. All Li Ancheng did not dare to let the army land at all, lest the Shalu National Naval Division take the opportunity to attack him.
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