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Sweat flowed down the neck along the back, Cheng Dayou motionless crouched and looked ahead, the largest military camp of the Nan'an City Defense Army in the coastal area was set up on the Poma Mountain less than five miles ahead, due to the topography, the Nan'an City Defense Army built the barracks camp on the mountainside close to the seashore, which can overlook the only one that can barely be called the road on the seashore, and can effectively prevent the infiltration of the enemy attack, it should be said that such an arrangement is quite safe, but everything is not absolute, there are many benefits to being set up on the mountainside, but the woods in the mountainside area are dense, in addition to the two sides of the road down the mountain are bulldozed and cleaned upMost of the rest of the place is surrounded by dense forests, which is a bit of a problem for the barracks observation posts. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although Cheng Dayou's sniper unit was established after accepting the official change of Emperor [***], before that, Cheng Dayou attached great importance to the important surname of the sniper unit, which seems to be a tradition in the Taiping Army, which attaches more importance to individual ability and ignores the role of the group. Although Cheng Dayou has been committed to correcting this tendency, it does not mean that he has gone to the other extreme all of a sudden, and there are many examples of sniper units that can play a huge role in some special environments. The fact that they are all specially equipped with sniper units is enough to prove the important surname of this branch, so after Cheng Dayou's department was reorganized into the Eighth Army of the Empire, the scale of the sniper unit was not only not reduced, but expanded and enriched, and the combat effectiveness also reached a new level, which is also an advantage that Cheng Dayou is quite proud of.

When Cheng Dayou personally led the First Division to undertake this task, he brought all the sniper units directly under the entire corps with him, and although the number was small, Cheng Dayou believed that in order to give full play to the role of surprise attacks and achieve satisfactory results, the ability of the sniper units would determine all this to a large extent.

The entire division was silently lurking in the open forest less than half a mile from the beach, and the sniper unit had quietly set off under the pressure of one wing, and the remaining four wings were like tightened bows and crossbows, ready to explode at the slightest order. Cheng Dayou silently calculated the time, half an hour has passed, the sniper unit should have arrived at the destination to start the early operation, this time is the most fragrant time after falling asleep, the average person in this situation in the accident to wake up is half a beat slower than usual, and the sniper unit is to use this to destroy the enemy's effective organization in one fell swoop, to gain valuable time for the main army in the rear.

"Let's go!" When the time reached his expected setting, Cheng Dayou jumped up and waved his hand suddenly, and more than 10,000 men stood up suddenly at the same time, putting aside all camouflage, without any disguise, and rushed forward, success or failure in one move, no matter whether the sniper unit and the wing used as the vanguard commando can achieve the expected results, he has no way to retreat, only to move forward with all his strength, desperately fight!

In fact, when Cheng Dayou led the main force of the first division to rush forward, the sniper unit had successfully completed the preliminary work to clear the peripheral outposts of the Nan'an city defense army, although the army pressed the border, and the city-state had declared a state of war, but the Nan'an city defense army, which had been accustomed to peace for too long, had obviously not really entered the state of war, at least these soldiers had not yet experienced the breath of war psychologically, of course, after this night they would have a deep experience, but they never had the opportunity to feel it again.

The sniper unit that cleared the outlying checkpoints was finally discovered by the sentries when they entered the enemy camp, which was not how vigilant the sentries of the Nan'an City Defense Army were, but because such a large-scale clearance operation was difficult to be foolproof, when a sentry was shot by a sniper with a bow and arrow, perhaps it was his natural endowment, an arrow pierced the heart and failed to kill him immediately, and the terrible screams immediately made the entire Nan'an military camp boil like a hornet that blew up the nest.

The ignorant Nan'an city defense soldiers got out of the tent and almost directly faced the sniper from the sniper from the sentry tower, and the Nan'an army, which did not know where the enemy came from, was completely confused at first, but the sniper force could not attack the city defense army divided into several large battalions at the same time, when a wing of the Tang army arrived, although the Nan'an army had not yet fully entered the state, but many city defense army officers began to mobilize their troops to meet the Tang army that broke into the camp.

After completing the first step of the task, the sniper unit began to concentrate on creating chaos, and arson was undoubtedly the most effective means, and the cotton tent was attacked by rockets soaked in fire oil and phosphorus powder, and although the tents and buildings burning everywhere did not bring much real damage to the Nan'an city defense army, the chaos brought was even more influential than the direct killing and wounding of soldiers.

The assault wing was divided into two arrows and penetrated deeply into the enemy camp from both sides, and the soldiers of the city defense army who rushed out from the front to meet the enemy found that there was no one outside the camp gate, and the two sides were filled with murderous sounds, and the city defense army woke up like a dream to send reinforcements to the two wings, but they did not expect that it was just the vanguard of the enemy, and the purpose was to attract the main force of the city defense army.

When Cheng Dayou led the main force of the first division to rush into the main gate of the Nan'an City Defense Army, the battle on the two wings was in full swing, although the Tang Army's sudden attack made the Nan'an Army suffer heavy losses, and even at the beginning it was completely in a passive situation, but the Nan'an City Defense Army can also be regarded as the elite of the Nan'an Army, even if it cannot be compared with the Tang Army, even if it suffered a sneak attack, but after all, they have several times the strength of the assault wing, and they are not concentrated in the camp, but divided into three parts, each other is horns, and the distance between them is not far, when the left and right wings are attacked at the same time and fall into chaos, the rear battalion troops follow up in time to help stabilize the positionThe huge disparity in strength also made it difficult for the assault wing to move forward after encountering stubborn resistance.

However, all this changed abruptly after Cheng Dayou led the main force to break through the middle line in one fell swoop, the two wings were not yet stable, and the enemy forced a breakthrough from the middle of the two battalions, and the Nan'an army, which was originally resisting the fear of resistance, collapsed without much suspense, and Cheng Dayou knew that this time was the best time to completely defeat the enemy, although his troops were quite tired, but once they lost this fighter and let the enemy breathe, then they had to find an opportunity to break through again, especially when the Nan'an Army had put its main forces on the northern front to defend the Fourth Army and the Kuruk Fortress, such an opportunity was simply a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity。

The scattered Nan'an City Defense Army poured thousands of miles, almost in a day from the Poma Mountain military camp to the bottom of the Nan'an City to stabilize the position, and the Tang Army, which followed the exhaustive pursuit and fierce fighting, also beat the water dogs, and chased until thirty miles away before stopping and returning, Cheng Dayou also knew that his existing strength was not enough to take Nan'an City in one fell swoop, but from Poma Mountain to Nan'an City fifty miles away, there was almost no decent obstacle, if he was alone in the depths, once the Sikkim Army landed from the rear and cut off the back road, and the progress of the Fourth Army on the Northern Front was not fast, then he would really become a turtle in the urn。 And now he only needs to choke the Poma Mountain military camp, not only has a water source, but also the Nan'an army has dropped a lot of supplies, so he can wait for work, while resting the troops, and on the other hand, he can also put on a posture of going west at any time, so that the Nan'an army has to transfer troops to garrison for prevention, and this battle has come to this point, and there is a lot more room for choice.

The loss of the Boma Mountain military camp almost put the entire Nan'an city into a desperate situation, the whole city was completely immersed in panic and chaos, and the people of Nan'an, who had always thought that the war was still a little far away from them, only then did they realize that the war was actually in front of their eyes, and they knew very well what the war would bring, and the people of Nan'an, who had not felt this taste for a long time, also began to question what was wrong with the defense policy of the city-state council. Although the Tang army attacking from the coast did not take advantage of the situation to attack Nan'an City, but this was enough to make the high-level of Nan'an City-State fidget like ants on a hot pot, such an army appeared in front of their eyes, and in one fell swoop defeated 30,000 city defense troops, although there are still more than 10,000 defeated soldiers, but this kind of defeated soldiers who have just suffered a heavy setback are not much use even if they are organized immediately, and the army that has been demoralized is even worse than the civilians, and mixing with other troops may even affect the morale of other troops.

And now there is only the last 30,000 general reserves of the city defense army in Nan'an City, and the 50,000 troops from Western Samoa have already advanced to the north, but after learning this bad news, they did not dare to go north and divert into Nan'an City to assist in defense, until this time they still did not understand how the Tang army that attacked the Pomashan military camp effortlessly passed through the swampy and miasma-filled coastal dense forest area, and since this army was able to defeat the 30,000 Nan'an army that occupied the advantageous location in one fell swoop, according to their inference, it would not be less than two divisions。

And now is not the time to think about this problem, how to block the Tang army that has been inserted into their own heart and soul to continue to march is the most urgent problem to solve, and it seems that to achieve this goal, Sikkim reinforcements are also indispensable, but the current Sikkim reinforcements seem to be a little different from the expectations of the Nan'an people in terms of quantity, which makes the Nan'an people more or less disappointed, and they are even worried that the Sikkim people will not withdraw when they see that the situation is not good, after all, they are still separated by a Sikkim Strait.

(To be continued)