Chapter 47: Welcome to the Heavenly Army
After a short battle, all the members of the Officers' League in the camp were killed by the butcher's knives of the rebels.
The officers loyal to the country of Kawa put up a desperate resistance, fighting the rebel soldiers with their bare hands to the last man, and none of them gave in and not one surrendered. However, due to the lack of armor and weapons of the officers present, and the fact that the camp was surrounded by outnumbered rebel regiments, the flame of courage was eventually extinguished.
After receiving the news that Cempas and the others were dead, Poye finally appeared outside the camp where the closed-door meeting was held, surrounded by his cronies.
"General, the corpses of all the participants are here, and not one of them has been spared, but our brethren have lost two and wounded nine." The commander of the 61st Infantry Battalion followed Poye and reported to him the results of the raid.
Poye stopped in front of Chapas's body, his lips pursed, no expression on his face.
"General!"
At this moment, the battalion commander of the 22nd Infantry Battalion ran over and reported breathlessly: "General, we have taken control of the positions around the main camp, the defenders have been eliminated by us, and sixteen people are willing to surrender, the casualties of our battalion have not yet been counted, but they are definitely within the acceptable range." ”
Poye, who was originally like a clay puppet, finally raised his head and said indifferently: "While the other troops inside and outside the city have not yet reacted, everyone has entered the position, if there is an attack, I will be strictly guarded, and I will not be allowed to take a step back!" Also, light a pentagonal bonfire in a conspicuous open area, and don't burn your tent. ”
The commander of the 61st Battalion asked with some concern: "General, in the opinion of the last general, we still have to break through first, after the defenders inside and outside Kawa City lose their command, even if they have reacted now, they will not be able to act in unison, and the probability of our success will be very high." ”
Poya looked at the sky and said, "No, just defend it with all your might, the beasts outside are about to pounce, we have to stay here and send them a signal to prove our identity, we have to stay here to prove our role to them." Otherwise, as I know about them, they will surely wipe us out as well as the rest of the defenders. ”
The two battalion commanders had already understood what Po Ye meant, and the battalion commander of the 66th battalion asked cautiously, "General, will the Cold Moon people really come to help us?" ”
Poye remained silent and said, "They will definitely come." ”
That being said, Poye's heart was completely bottomless, he didn't know if the Hanyue people would keep their promises, if the Hanyue people wanted to break the contract, then the practice of lighting a bonfire to identify themselves was undoubtedly in front of an archer who was ready to shoot, and took the initiative to hang the target around his neck.
But he really had no other choice, the hare caught by the tiger did not have the capital to negotiate with the tiger, and the only thing he could do was to hope for the tiger's integrity and benevolence, and hope that he still had value for the tiger to drive.
Seeing that Po Ye was so insistent, the two battalion commanders had no choice but to do so and arrange their own defense.
Poye stood in place, clenching his fists tightly, his palms already dripping with sweat.
After a while, the other defenders of the city finally reacted and rushed to quell the rebellion, but due to the lack of a leader, several attacks launched by the defenders were neutralized by the rebels.
In any case, the defenders stationed in and around Kawa were far outnumbered by the rebels, and the pressure on the rebels was increasing after the defenders outside the city heard the news.
Gritting his teeth, Poye finally repelled the defenders' eighth charge after personally executing two deserters who wanted to escape and drawing his sword to spearhead a counterattack.
He looked around, and there were fewer and fewer soldiers alive around him, and more and more corpses lying on the ground.
"It's time to come, it's time to come......" Poye sweated, his grip on the hilt of the knife getting harder and harder.
Several loud noises rang out in the distance, and several fireballs slashed across the sky and roared down towards the rebel-guarded Okemari field.
Only one of the fireballs hit its target accurately, and the rest of the fireballs missed their heads and landed in the empty space, but even then, the fierce fire, scattered shrapnel, and flying corpses were enough to tear many rebel soldiers apart.
The despair in Poye's heart was added to the fact that he knew very well that the 1st Artillery Battalion stationed outside the city had also joined the siege of them, and although there was only this artillery unit in the entire Kawa army, they were enough to be the winners and losers who completely overwhelmed their side in this turmoil.
As long as the Cold Moon people don't fulfill their promises in time.
Some of the rebel members on the periphery could not hold out any longer, and despite the roar of the overseers behind them, they threw down their positions and weapons and fled in all directions.
The soldiers guarding the core position were also terrified and ready to move, but fortunately, most of Poye's hardcore henchmen were here, and they could barely hold the field in a short time.
However, Poye knew in his heart that being able to coordinate the artillery attack together showed that the originally leaderless defenders had now been reorganized, and although he could still maintain the stability of the core position on the surface, as long as there were two or three more rounds of artillery bombardment, his side would definitely be defeated.
He roared to keep the army alive as he stared at the sky in the distance with bloodshot eyes.
Just when he was almost completely desperate and self-deprecatingly believing that his retribution had come, about dozens of black dots suddenly emerged from the white clouds of the southern sky.
Poye rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and after a while, when he finally confirmed the true face of those "black spots", a sense of ecstasy for the rest of his life came up.
He yelled at his subordinates: "The Cold Moon people are coming, the Heavenly Army is coming, we are going to win!" Hold on to me, hold on! ”
Coming to the skies over Kawa City were the 121st Patrol Air Boat Detachment and the 122nd Patrol Air Boat Detachment that took off from the USS Enterprise.
The three scout boats took the lead, and after observing the situation on the ground in detail, they transmitted the information they had gathered to the bombers in the rear through the Sound Stones.
After circling in a circle, the scout boat withdrew from the battlefield to the east, leaving the airspace to the 121st and 122nd detachments behind.
The thirty airboats of the two patrol airboat detachments were divided into three groups and pounced on the artillery positions stationed outside the city, the defenders who were assembling inside the city, and the troops who came to support them outside the city.
The bombs that fell from the sky disrupted all the plans of the defenders, and the troops that had just assembled to attack the rebels were forced to scatter and hide under the bombardment, and some of the new recruits even abandoned the city and fled.
The soldiers of the 1st Artillery Battalion were the most stable unit on the defenders' side during the air raids, and most of the key members of this force had been trained in Wei before joining the rebels.
But even so, they were powerless to resist the onslaught from the sky.
After confirming the location of the artillery positions, the ten empty boats formed an attack formation in a short time, and after the first wave of attacks, five of the six heavy guns in the hands of the 1st Artillery Battalion were destroyed.
The house leak happened to rain overnight, and a large fire ignited on the bombed position, and the fire soon spread to the bullet boxes stacked on the position, and after a loud bang, the last remaining heavy artillery was destroyed.
At this point, the artillery positions outside the city were completely paralyzed, and the greatest threat to Poye's rebels had been removed.
The offensive of the defenders in the city was also broken up with a visible rate, and after the frontal pressure was greatly reduced and the reinforcements were seen, the morale of the rebels increased greatly, and they changed their previous shaky scene and even began to attack some important points in the city.
Half an hour later, the rumbling of artillery was heard in the fields east of Kawa City, and the assault team of the intervention army had already rushed to the foot of Kawa City.
First the cavalry responsible for finding the way and harassing, followed by the infantry and artillery of the brigade, after setting up artillery positions outside the city, the assault team, under the cover of artillery fire, launched a final general attack on the city of Kawa, which had been completely in chaos.
With the help of the inside and outside, the defenders finally collapsed completely, and the assault team managed to take control of the entire city after paying the price of two dead and seven wounded.
Civilians in the city hid in their homes and in the bombed-out ruins, secretly watching the foreign soldiers driving into the city from the main road.
After confirming that the defenders had been defeated and that a group of foreign-looking soldiers had entered the city, these merchants hurriedly brought their cronies and neighbors, and went to greet them with gifts such as fruits and grain.
Under the frightened gaze of the civilians, Lin Gang, the chief general of the commando, met Po Ye in Keju Field.
Poye's whole person looked gray, without a hint of victory, his clothes seemed to be covered with a layer of dust, and the soldiers who followed him were the same, and even the wounds on several people were still oozing blood.
Po Ye's side did not know when there were a few more local merchants in the city, and they stood together in the most eye-catching place of Keju Field, waiting for the arrival of Lin Gang and others. Several rebel soldiers held white flags in their hands, which was also instructed by Yan Mowen before leaving, so that Po Ye and the others could use this as a letter after the success of the plan to show the intervention army that they were collaborators, so as to avoid accidental injuries.
Sure enough, when Lin Gang first arrived at Keju Field, he recognized the identities of Po Ye and the others.
Several businessmen's faces immediately showed flattering smiles, and after greeting the commandos from afar, everyone showed their expressions of crying bitterly and seeing benefactors, and quickly came up to greet Lin Gang and other commando generals.
Lin Gang smiled and said a few polite words, then set his eyes on Po Ye.
Po Ye looked quite cramped, he swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva into his throat with difficulty, his dry tongue kept squirming in his mouth, until he saw Lin Gang walking towards him, then he reacted and quickly met him.
Po Ye's hands stretched out and clasped together with Lin Gang's outstretched right hand.
His Adam's apple moved, and he finally opened his mouth, and he said in official words: "Contemptible Poye, thanks to the help of the general, I and the 400,000 people of Kawa Country are saved from fire and water." Somehow, his voice grew quieter and quieter.
"I know you, General Poye." Lin Gang smiled lightly, "Don't be nervous, everything is over, you and all the Kawa people, starting today, are free again!" ”