Chapter 149: The Capture of Shark Castle City
In the Shark Fort City not far away, the defeated troops of the Hanhai Empire who escaped back to the city were all embarrassed, although they only fought once, but everyone could see that they were not the opponents of this new Qinglong Empire at all, and the Shark Fort City was estimated to be captured soon.
So some of the routs directly turned into robbers, and began to burn and loot everywhere in the city, preparing to grab a wave and then slip away. Some officers wanted to stop it, but few people listened to them at all, after all, with the killing of the Electric Eel King, this Shark Fort City had already lost its supreme commander, and some of the remaining officers were also dissatisfied with each other, and they couldn't organize these defeated soldiers in a unified manner.
After Guo Dafu found out that the fire in Shark Fort City was on fire, he immediately guessed what was going on in the city, so he immediately asked the soldiers who had landed to surround Shark Fort City, and then let the naval guns fire at the city wall, and then attack the city after the city wall collapsed.
At this time, in Shark Fort City, some of the surviving officers of the defeated army were still debating whether to abandon the city or continue to stay and wait for reinforcements.
Most of the officers supported abandoning the city directly, after all, there were originally about 100,000 troops in this Shark Fort City, and in the previous battle, more than 30,000 people died in the artillery bombardment, and then nearly 60,000 were killed in the battle to attack the enemy's landing force, resulting in less than 10,000 defenders in the city now, just such a few people, it can't hold for long at all, so it's better to retreat early.
Most of the people who hold this view are those human officers, and the few who still want to hold on are those fierce beasts, many of these demonized beasts have long been abnormal, and they can't see the situation clearly, and they want to rely on the fortifications in the city to continue to hold on, and wait for reinforcements from other places to come to support. Although the number of these beast officers was smaller, their positions were higher, so the two sides would argue endlessly for a while, and they could not negotiate a final result.
In order to save their lives, the human officers tried to explain the current situation to their higher-ranking beast superiors.
Just as the officers were about to convince their fellow beasts who were still trying to defend themselves, a cannon shot suddenly reached their ears, and a section of the city wall was cracked in the shelling.
After the second cannon fired, the wall collapsed with a bang.
Seeing this scene, even those demonized beasts with holes in their brains understood how ridiculous their previous idea of defending the city was, those enemy artillery could actually directly hit the Shark Fort City more than 20 miles away from the port, after the city wall was collapsed, how could they defend it!
It's a pity that it's too late for them to wake up now, as the city wall was collapsed by the main guns of the battleships, a large number of Qinglong Empire soldiers who had already assembled outside the city attacked the city, and those who were still busy robbing in the city faced these enemy troops who suddenly entered the city, they couldn't organize any effective resistance at all, and they were quickly wiped out, and some of the defeated soldiers still wanted to hide in the houses, but the result was that those people reported their whereabouts to the soldiers of the Qinglong Empire who entered the city.
This can really be said to be self-inflicted, if these defeated soldiers of the Hanhai Empire did not burn and loot everywhere after returning to the city after the previous rout, the residents of the city would not hate them so much, and in order to avenge their dead relatives, they actually dared to risk their lives to report to the soldiers of the Blue Dragon Empire.
And for these rebellious soldiers who slaughtered and robbed ordinary people, Guo Dafu showed no mercy at all, and directly ordered to be beheaded on the spot once caught.
In addition to these rebels who were captured in the city, there were also some enemy troops, seeing that the city of Shark Fort was no longer defensible, they gathered a small number of elite troops to try to escape from the city.
However, Guo Dafu had already sent troops to look at the Shark Fort City on all sides, and as soon as these guys left the city, Guo Dafu learned about it, and then he personally led more than 1,000 cavalry troops who had just landed to intercept and kill these enemy troops who fled out of the city.
As such a class of troops created by Guo Dafu himself, the cavalry unit can be said to be the son of the Qinglong Empire, and the treatment is the top among all the troops, and those who can join it are at least innate masters, and the equipment on their bodies is at least the lowest grade.
If it is luxuriously prepared, it also makes the cavalry unit extremely combative.
Just like now, after Guo Dafu caught up with a group of fleeing enemy troops with more than a thousand cavalry, he didn't even give these cavalry a chance to fight in close combat, just shot all those enemy troops in a few rounds of arrow rain in the distance.
Then the cavalry did not stop for the slightest, and rushed like a whirlwind past the corpses of the enemy strewn with arrows, and continued to pursue another group of fleeing enemy troops.
It took more than two hours for all the enemy troops inside and outside the Shark Fort City to be cleared, but the casualties of the soldiers under Guo Dafu's command were not large, the most important of which was because Guo Dafu insisted on letting his soldiers change their outfits before launching an expedition, with the new armor made of fierce beast alloy, as long as it did not encounter those fierce beasts with relatively strong strength, ordinary attacks could not break through its defenses at all.
In addition, it is also related to Guo Dafu's elite soldier policy, among the field legions of the Qinglong Empire, any small soldier has at least seven times of cultivation, such a strong cultivation coupled with the sophisticated equipment, fighting the old, weak, sick and disabled troops of the Hanhai Empire, the combat effectiveness of the crotch, the casualties are naturally small.
According to statistics, only eighteen human soldiers were killed directly in this battle, one hundred and twenty were wounded, and on the war beast side, twenty-three were killed and two hundred and thirty-seven were injured.
In a fairly clean shop in Shark Fort City, Guo Dafu is arranging the next stage of combat missions to his generals.
"At present, the information of the big ears is still very accurate, the main force of the Hanhai Empire has indeed been dragged, and the defenders left in this central continent are all old and weak among them, and they are completely vulnerable! Therefore, I decided to divide my troops into two ways and attack those towns of the Hanhai Empire along the coastline, and the initial plan is to capture at least ten of its big cities within a month, so that we can completely gain a foothold in this central continent! ”
Everyone listened to Guo Dafu's explanation, and soon understood why he specifically picked those coastal cities to attack.
Because in these coastal cities, the guns of your own battleships and cruisers can be directly supported by artillery.
With these large-caliber artillery to provide fire support, if the enemy wants to fight back, it is also in vain, after all, the power of these large-caliber artillery has been verified by the previous actual combat, as long as it is used well, even the electric eel king, a five-fold beast king of the grandmaster, can be bombarded.
And Guo Dafu felt that with these powerful heavy artillery to cooperate with the battle, he even had the confidence to deal with those beast emperor-level fierce beasts.
After thoroughly comprehending Guo Dafu's battle intentions, everyone quickly dispersed and began to lead the troops to set off to capture those Hanhai Empire towns along the coast.
Among them, Guo Dafu personally led the way, with a force of 200,000, and was responsible for fighting to the west. The strength of the other road is also 200,000, its commander is number twenty-seven, and the deputy general is Gongsun Lie's kid, which can be regarded as an opportunity for Guo Dafu to give the other party an opportunity to train, after all, he also understands that not everyone is a natural general like him, and others need full training opportunities if they want to become talents.
And these two armies also have several grandmaster-level masters, among which Guo Dafu's side, because he himself is a grandmaster-level master, the lineup is relatively weak, so he brought two stone crab kings and lobster kings.
The army where Gongsun Lie was located had four grandmaster-level masters, the Golden Crow King, the Ink Tiger, the Wild Bull King, and the Deadwood King.
Finally, on the side of Shark Castle City, as the only big city of the Hanhai Empire that Guo Dafu and they now occupy, Guo Dafu also left 100,000 troops to garrison, led by Xiaoqing.
Because the Hanhai Empire transferred most of the elites to the front line, the combat effectiveness of the troops in the rear was extremely stretched, and the defenders of most towns at this time didn't even know the news that the Qinglong Empire had called, so they were not ready for battle at all, which led to Guo Dafu and their next expedition being very easy, and they could basically take a town every day.
Later, Guo Dafu even divided several armies and asked these troops to attack various cities and towns.
After all, the area of this central continent is too large, and the number of cities and towns is also extremely large, if you really rely on the two armies to fight one by one, it is indeed too slow and too troublesome.
In the process of conquering these towns, Guo Dafu and the others also learned how tragic the human suffering of the Central Continent was, the number of humans on this side of the Central Continent seemed to be much more than that on the Roaring Island, but they were basically raised as pigs.
Every town basically needs to support a beast lord, and in addition to paying heavy taxes, this offering also includes paying a certain number of humans every month to those beast lords as food.
In this case, the human beings in the Central Continent, Guo Dafu and they basically don't see any old people, and the oldest human beings are only in their thirties, after all, most of the human beings have just reached adulthood, and they will be sacrificed as tribute to those fierce beast lords and eaten, among which there are some geniuses whose cultivation talent is very good.
Because they have been so oppressed by the fierce beasts for a long time, after Guo Dafu and the others captured some towns, the first thing the human city lords and mayors inside actually came to ask Guo Dafu how much blood food they would need to pay every month in the future.
After all, there are also a lot of fierce beasts in Guo Dafu's troops, so in the eyes of those humans, it is naturally those fierce beasts who are in charge, but the flag planted at the head of the city has changed.
In order to explain to these guys that the Blue Dragon Empire is a country dominated by human beings, Guo Dafu has spent a lot of saliva, and even feels that it is even harder than fighting a big war.
And with Guo Dafu's wanton attack on the territory of the Hanhai Empire, the Blood Lion Empire and the Golden Eagle Empire did feel a huge threat as the Sea Dragon Emperor had predicted in advance.
Among them, since the Blood Lion Empire is located in the north of the Central Continent, it is far away from here, so it only sent a small force of 20,000 people to come over to check the situation.
And the Golden Eagle Empire, because the land is adjacent to here, the reaction will be greater, and the newly ascended Golden Eagle Empire Emperor Ling Feng is actually preparing to mobilize a million troops to help the neighboring countries eliminate this group of rebels who came out of nowhere.
After Guo Dafu learned the news, he also felt a lot of pressure, after all, the Golden Eagle Empire was different from the Hanhai Empire, all the elites were in the country! The combat effectiveness of the million-strong army sent by the other party is definitely not comparable to that of the old and weak people of the Hanhai Empire.
Therefore, in order to meet the enemy's next counterattack, Guo Dafu immediately ordered all troops to quickly stop attacking and expanding, and prepare to switch from offensive to defensive.