Chapter 63: A Great Harvest

Huang Xu didn't know where a martial artist like Xu Sima got so much knowledge, and how his eloquence became so good. What he didn't know was that many generals of the Shu army actually had the experience of studying at the "Ministry of Industry" college.

It's just that the priority with good grades was snare by the Hong Army, and some were sent to the imperial court as officials, like Xu Sima, who was a middle-level officer in Liu Fengjun, usually with poor academic performance, or dropped out of school for various reasons before graduating.

Although their grades in school are not good, or they dropped out of school early, their vision is still much better than that of ordinary people, and not long ago, Wu Da Niu told him a big truth, Xu Sima is actually just speculating and selling.

When he thought he was worried about his life, he played at a high level and finally said something he didn't usually think of.

Huang Xu saw that he was trying to persuade him to surrender, and he didn't come forward to disturb him. As a general of the first army, it is indeed not appropriate for him to venture to the front of the battle, the other party has hundreds of fire # guns, and if one accidentally comes to the fire or something, he will not be able to eat and walk around, so he only looks at the movement here with a telescope from a distance.

Because he saw Liu Feng's corpse with his own eyes, Cui Sima lost the arrogance he had just now, and adopted a silent attitude towards Xu Sima's words. Xu Sima became more and more excited the more he spoke, and the more he spoke, the more energetic he became, at this time he added another bargaining chip, and he pointed to the dense Hongjun soldiers in the distance behind him and said:

"Cui Sima, please take a look at the Hong army soldiers and horses over there, under the crushing of such a large army, how long do you think your barracks can hold out? You say you have fire # guns, you look at the number of fire # guns they have, there are many more than you.

Also, have you seen it, those who wear armor are the legendary invulnerable rattan armor soldiers, if these rattan armor soldiers rush up, what is the use of your fire # gun? ”

The so-called invulnerability of the vine armor refers to the sword and gun of the cold weapon, the gun here cannot be a fire # gun, but a red tassel gun, or a spear, this Xu Sima does not know whether he does not understand the situation at all, or deliberately confuses the difference between the two and misleads Cui Sima.

Cui Sima was even more stressed, and cold sweat was already breaking out on his forehead. Just as I didn't know what to do, I suddenly heard a "bang-bang" gunshot. Everyone present suddenly fell silent, and everyone listened to the source of the gunshots.

Soon, they recognized that the gunfire was coming from the direction of the government office, and Cui Sima's heart tightened when he heard the gunshot, and his face turned even paler. Xu Sima was relieved when he heard the gunshots, he knew that it was the men and horses sent by General Huang to capture the palace and the defensive troops to exchange fire.

So, Xu Sima continued to shout: "Did you hear that? This is the sound of gunfire from the direction of the government office, it is the men and horses sent by General Huang who are attacking the government office, once the government office falls, it will be your turn next, what are you hesitating about? Do you really think that the mantis arm can stop the car? ”

Cui Sima didn't expect that in addition to the dense soldiers and horses he saw in front of him, the Hong army would also divide its troops to capture the mansion, which shows the prosperity of the Hong army. He didn't know that Huang Xu had already brought most of the troops here, and only 500# people went to the mansion.

The two sides were at a stalemate for a while, and soon the gunfire in the direction of the government stopped, and after a while, I saw a group of Hong Army soldiers escorting a group of people to this side and report to Huang Xu.

It turned out that Wu Ming also received a report from Xu Sima's subordinates who had slipped away in the government and knew that an enemy had broken into the city. He was also frightened stupid at that time, and it took him a long time to react, and he immediately sent people to the barracks, intending to transfer Cui Sima's troops and horses to block the enemy.

But before the people sent out returned, the enemy killed the government. The defenders of the government were only more than 100 people, and a fierce exchange of fire broke out between the two sides. The result is not asked, one side is more powerful, and although the other side relies on geographical advantages, the number is too small.

What's more, those Liu Fengjun's contact with guns is too short, and they lack systematic training like the Hong Army system, so they are still very unfamiliar with the combat methods of hot # weapons.

The soldiers of the Hong army have been on the battlefield for a long time, many veterans have been using guns for several years, and they are much better than Liu Fengjun in terms of loading speed and accuracy.

Cui Sima looked at a group of people who were escorted by the soldiers of the Hong Army from a distance, and found that they were Wu Ming and the officials of the government, knowing that the general situation had gone, and in desperation, he had to order his subordinates to abandon their weapons and surrender.

Xu Sima cried with joy when he saw that he was finally willing to surrender, yes, although he was already a middle-aged man, a manly man who bleed without tears, but at this moment, his tears couldn't help but fall.

He was coerced by Huang Xu, and he was always worried that he would be beheaded if he couldn't complete the task, and his nerves were already tense, and when he came to the barracks, he was pointed at by hundreds of fire# guns, and he had a feeling that his life was hanging by a thread.

He was even careful to speak, searching his stomach and intestines to find words that could persuade Cui Sima, he was very afraid that he would disagree with each other and anger Cui Sima, and he was ordered to shoot him to death, and he was even worried that if a soldier accidentally fired # the gun went off, he was killed by the gun that went off.

He was so nervous that he was about to collapse under the threat of death, in fact, when it came to the back, he couldn't say any new words anymore, it was those words over and over again, he kept repeating and nagging, and even began to be a little incoherent at the end.

Fortunately, Cui Sima was more nervous, more scared, and more desperate than him, and he didn't have time to care about what he said later, and his mind was on the battle situation on the side of the mansion, so he continued to nag until now.

Now seeing that Cui Sima ordered the surrender of the equipment, Xu Sima finally knew that his life had been saved, and finally walked back from the death line, this feeling of walking through the ghost gate was really exciting, he relaxed his mind, and finally couldn't help his tears falling down.

The rest of the matter was simple, Huang Xu sent people into the barracks, seized all the weapons, and controlled all the soldiers. All the prisoners, whether they are soldiers, generals, or officials, are not something he can handle, so he can only wait for Liu Hou to come over and deal with them.

This battle Huang Xu fought beautifully, and the White Emperor City, which Liu Hou's army could not defeat before, was taken by him at a small price of several deaths and more than a dozen injuries. The casualties occurred mainly during the attack on the government.

After all, the fire # gun is an efficient lethal weapon, and the Hong army soldiers charge against the fire # gun, and it can be said that damage is inevitable. If the attacking side is not a well-trained Hong army, and any army of this era is faced with a hundred fire # guns, its losses may be ten or a hundred times greater than this.

In this battle, the Hong army captured a little more than a thousand prisoners, and in addition to the eight hundred subordinates of the two Sima, there were also several hundred of the routs who fled all the way back from Lepingli. As soon as these routs came out of the wolf's den and into the tiger's mouth, they had just returned to the city, and they became captives before their butts could be warmed.

And the biggest gain is undoubtedly a batch of captured weapons and equipment. Not to mention the weapons of cold weapons, there are 1,000 fire # guns alone, and 50 artillery pieces, which is indeed a large number, you know, there are only 10 small-caliber copper cannons and five mortar cannons in the Hong army. There were more cannons in the White Emperor City than there were Hong troops.

It seems that the Chengdu Imperial Court has really made a heavy investment in order for Liu Feng to defend the White Emperor City, but it is a pity that Liu Feng was too impulsive, gave up the strong city and did not defend it, and ran out to find death by himself, otherwise, who could help but get this strong city armed to the teeth?

By the time Liu Hou returned to White Emperor City with the main force of the Hong Army, the order of White Emperor City had already returned to normal. Huang Xu has followed Liu Hou all the way to fight in the past few years, attacking and plundering countless cities, and he has seen a lot of measures to appease the people and maintain order in the newly occupied cities.

So, he followed the cat's example, sent his subordinates to patrol everywhere to maintain law and order, and posted a notice to calm the people, released some low-level officials, and asked them to help deal with government affairs, not to mention, Huang Xu did this, and order was quickly restored in the city.

The White Emperor City has been under the rule of Shu Han for many years, and Liu Bei is a self-proclaimed monarch who is benevolent, and has always been very generous to the people, and even won the hearts of the people. These people's hearts are towards Shu Han, and now they see that the army entering the city is also under the banner of Shu Han, so it is naturally easy to accept.

The common people don't know how your upper echelons are fighting for power and profit, and no matter how your two princes fight to the death, as long as they don't interfere with their lives, they will be very satisfied.

Now it seems that these troops who entered the city not only carried the banner of Shu Han, but also did not disturb the people at all, not only did not commit any crimes in the autumn, but also sent soldiers to patrol the streets to maintain law and order, except for arresting some hooligans who took the opportunity to smash and rob, they did not harass the ordinary people at all, so the people were relieved.

After the notices were posted, some officials went to the streets and alleys to reassure the people, calling on them to continue their livelihoods, and one after another shops reopened, workshops reopened, and pedestrians took to the streets again.

Liu Hou was very happy, he had already made a long way to go to Shu Road, which was difficult to go to the blue sky, but because of Liu Feng's carelessness and Huang Xu's shrewdness and ability, he created a new situation. This time, he can finally sit on the boat, go up the Yangtze River, and go to Chengdu comfortably, quickly and safely.

The recovery of White Emperor City can save him at least a month of travel time, and if you add the time spent on the road to one city after another, or attack or persuade him to surrender, then the time saved will be even more.

According to Guo Youzhi's estimate, the time saved at least three months, three months is very precious, now Wei sent two armies to attack Shu, who knows if they will break through the defense line of the Shu army in three months, who knows if Dongwu will recover from the chaos within three months, and also take the opportunity to come over to fish in troubled waters.

Although Liu Hou was in a hurry and wanted to rush to Chengdu as soon as possible to destroy the small court in Chengdu, he did not rush immediately. He still has a lot of preparation work to do in White Emperor City.

The first major event was to dismantle the artillery erected on the city wall, carry it to the "Baling", and then install it.

The "Baling" is the medium-sized battleship of Soochow that Liu Hou captured when he was in Jingzhou in the past, and its size is about the same as that of the "Jingzhou". Later, Liu Hou ordered people to salvage it and reconstruct it with reference to the style of the "Jingzhou", making it the second "super warship" in the Hong Army.

When Liu Hou was in Baling, he named the battleship "Baling". However, this "super battleship" has no real name and can only be regarded as a super transport ship, because it lacks the most important element of being a "super battleship" - artillery.