After selecting the vanguard army Jian Rui to seize the East City Gate Tower, he first controlled the military camp and the courtyard inside the East City Gate; when the sky suddenly appeared, the clear morning light lifted off the night twilight that shrouded Huaichuan City, and climbed the city via the ladder. After entering the inner side of the east city gate and arranging for a while, more than a thousand soldiers of the Jingsheng Army advanced toward the county government office in the city along the long street connecting the east and west gates and traversing the entire Huaichuan City.
The defenders and the defeated troops had little fighting spirit. The biggest obstacle was supporting Qu Ming's 500 garrison troops who had a strong will to resist.
After learning that Gao Teng'an, Shi Fupeng and others had been kidnapped, the captive general Zhi Quming immediately gathered his elite troops and went to the east city gate to fight. However, they ran into Jian Rui, the selected vanguard who had already captured the east city gate tower. Fierce fighting film At noon, seeing that he could not break through the defense of the Xuanfeng Army, and more and more Jingsheng Army soldiers quickly entered the city, Zhi Quming was forced to lead his troops to retreat to the county government office, thinking of occupying the central point of the county government office in order to Organize the garrison in the city more calmly.
However, although the garrison garrisoned in the area had the responsibility of monitoring the area, it generally did not interfere with the internal affairs of the Han army. Except for a few people such as Gao Teng'an and Shi Fupeng, Zhi Quming controlled most of the generals and military officials of the Huaichuan garrison. I'm not familiar with them, and I can't even recognize the faces of those commanders and generals who fled into Huaichuan and were not under each other's control.
After the East City Gate was lost, the city was in panic and chaos. Those who were a little thoughtful, even if they thought about their wife, children, and children in Wanqiu, Xuchang, thought of being captured, there would be no good fruits to eat, so they did not dare to surrender easily, and they only thought about breaking out and escaping. Huaichuan.
Zhi Quming sent orders to the envoys, and generals above centurion came to the county office to assemble, but only a few responded.
On the Jingxiang side, in addition to the elite Jingsheng Army, which quickly advanced towards the county government, there were also several groups of troops who crossed the Dongcheng wall and extended their offensive deep into Huaichuan City along the lanes on both sides of East Street.
After daylight dawned, most of the defenders discovered that the siege of Huaichuan City by Beijing and Xiangzhou was becoming more and more airtight. The people who had fled out of the city in a hurry were resolutely intercepted, killed or captured. At this time, the defenders Thinking of responding to Zhi Quming's call and resisting.
However, the siege troops led by Xuanfeng Army and Jingsheng Army have almost occupied the entire east city, forming a fan-shaped front against Huaichuan County Government and the other three cities.
Sun Yanguan, who personally commanded the siege operations at the east city gate tower, did not rush to launch a general offensive. Instead, he ordered the ministries to build barriers in the lanes to stabilize their positions and form a new line of defense in the city to curb the defenders' counterattack.
After hundreds of troops working non-stop, the bricks and stones blocking the city gate were removed in the afternoon, and the east city gate was completely opened. In addition, houses and walls were demolished in the east city area to clear a large area of empty space, so that a car could be easily moved. A catapult was pulled into the city, and a dozen heavy stone cannons were even set up in the city...
At that time, the city gates were relatively narrow. In order to further facilitate the entry of men, horses, war equipment and materials into the city, the troops also transported earth and rocks to build three ramps in and out of the city at several collapsed gaps in the east city wall.
Even if Huaichuan City was surrounded without leaving any gaps, the Han army in the west of Beijing did not have much willpower to resist stubbornly, and they surrendered one after another in the face of the attacks of scattered stone bombs and kerosene tanks.
Except for the culprit enemy, Sikong Mansion did not have any instructions to kill the enemy generals at the level of generals and battalion commanders, and even allowed generals who originally belonged to the German army to surrender with their troops.
Qu Ming's troops were stationed in the county government office and refused to surrender.
A lonely tree cannot support itself.
The county government office was less than 200 steps square. In front of the Jingsheng Army, which was well supplied with siege equipment, stone bullets, and clay pellets, no matter how impregnable it was, what did it matter?
After Sun Yanguan ordered the county government to be surrounded, he collected wood and firewood from all over the city and threw them all into the county government compound. Then he lit hundreds of fire oil cans and threw them on fire in batches.
The fire was smoky and the fire burned for a full day before Sun Yanguan ordered the courtyard wall to be ripped open. At this time, there was no one alive in the courtyard. They were either corpses burned to charcoal or died of suffocation. They all became acquaintances.
Real acquaintances.
Huaichuan was the most heavily defended city on the north bank of the middle reaches of the Huaihe River by the enemy forces in the west of Beijing. Although they did not take advantage of the defeat to rush into the city immediately and capture it with overwhelming force, it only took half a month from the time of siege.
It took a little more time, and it can be said that it was smoother and faster than expected.
This was mainly due to the fact that on the first day of the beach battle, the enemy force in the west of Beijing was defeated, which was twice as large as our own, and the enemy army had no chance to retreat into Huaichuan City in a calm and orderly manner.
Otherwise, if we really have to ask nearly 20,000 well-organized enemy troops with a complete command system to guard Huaichuan City, they will not be able to defeat them in three to five months.
This is a very normal thing - headed by Yue Hailou, Zhong Changqing and other surrendered generals, the Han army in the west of Beijing took refuge with the Chihu people. Over the years, their hands were stained with Han people's blood, and they were generally more stubborn.
What's more, Jingsheng's army was chosen between Ruying and Ruying, so it did not have an advantage at all in terms of total strength.
As time dragged on, until the Zhennan Zong Palace organized large-scale reinforcements to assemble in the Jiaopi and Quanhe areas, the Sikong Palace would no longer be able to organize a siege and attack the city leisurely.
Now it only took more than half a month to capture Huaichuan. In addition to the huge consumption of materials, the casualties were also limited to about a thousand people. Of course, it can be said that it was extremely smooth.
With few casualties, the number of enemy troops directly killed was relatively limited, only more than 2,000, but the total number of Han troops captured in the west of Beijing was more than 17,000.
At this time, the first battle across the Huaihe River was completed, and the results were impressive enough.
After occupying Huaichuan, the Shenzhou camp can move the defense lines that were previously scattered in Xinyang, Luoshan, Chushan and Qingyiling camp to the lower reaches of the Ru River, merging the two states of Shenzhou and Guang into one war zone, in Rubu and Guangzhou.
With elite troops stationed in Bu and other villages and Huaichuan City, the two prefectures of Shenguang and Guangzhou and the eleven counties along the middle and upper reaches of the Huaihe River can be shielded from the inner line.
However, the vision of the entire Sikong Mansion at this moment is no longer limited to advancing the defense line of the Shenguang Theater to the lower reaches of Ru River.
The day after the city of Huaichuan was completely captured, Xu Huai, Chen Zixiao, Han Gui, Liu Shiwang, Zhou Jing and others crossed the Huaihe River and arrived at the camp on the north bank.
Although more than 2,000 enemy soldiers were killed, and a total of more than 17,000 enemy soldiers were captured, the siege and blockade of Huaichuan City was not lifted, and was even tightened. In addition to further strengthening the surrounding company camps,
Thousands of troops were also recruited to repair the Huaichuan city wall overnight.
"The guilty generals Tang Yuan and Yu Mo pay their respects to Lord Sikong!"
In addition to Tang Yuan, there was also a battalion commander who returned to the German army in Huaichuan, Yu Mo, who had secretly served for the Military Intelligence Staff Department before the city fell. He led his troops to revolt in front of the battle, which was ultimately able to quickly break down the fighting spirit of the defenders and annihilate them all.
The key to (capturing) the Huaichuan garrison, the two of them, led by Zhou Jing and Liu Huting, entered the commander's tent to see Xu Huai.
"You fell weeds in your early years because of
Due to the pressure of livelihood, he was later coerced by Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and other bandit chiefs to surrender to the enemy. However, he kept his integrity and did not join the bandits. He even worked hard for the military intelligence department and continued to lurk among the bandits. Today, he finally made a remarkable contribution to the recovery of Huaichuan.
, what crime is there?"
Xu Huai walked to the front of the hall, helped Tang Yuan and Yu Mo up, and asked them to sit down and talk.
"Sima Yuan has drawn up two plans for your job arrangements. I think we should respect your opinions and come to you to ask..."
Tang Yuan and Yu Mo had long accepted the instigation of rebellion. In addition to their extraordinary achievements this time, they had been collecting intelligence for the Military Intelligence Staff Department and could be regarded as direct members of the Sikong Mansion.
One plan for Tang Yuan and Yu Mo's next arrangements is to strengthen their troops with more military officers and elite troops, and directly integrate them into the Jingsheng Army as battalion commanders to participate in subsequent operations.
One plan is for them to be incorporated into the Military Intelligence Staff Department and appointed as staff officers. Their troops will be dispersed together with other surrendered troops from the German army and then receive unified training and reorganization.
Of course, there are some grassroots military officers under Tang Yuan and Yu Mo who have made it clear early on that they have a desire to return to the south. They can also directly recommend them to the intermediate military command in the battalion theater.
Study in the school and enjoy the treatment of a surrendered general.
On the way here, Zhou Jing and Liu Huting informed Tang Yuan of the relevant arrangements. Yu and Mo explained it to Tang Yuan. They immediately left their seats and saluted: "The last general has little talent and little knowledge. He used to command three to five hundred people, so it is very difficult for him to do so."
Thank you very much, I would like to join the Military Intelligence Staff Department. If I can get Sikong's teachings by chance, I will be very lucky in my life!"
"..." Xu Huai laughed and said, "It's great that you all join the Military Intelligence Staff Department. I just want to ask your opinions on how to fight the next war!"
Generals like Tang Yuan and Yu Mo were known for their bravery in the German army and had a good foundation. Of course, Xu Huai also hoped that they would first enter the Military Intelligence Staff Department to familiarize themselves with the situation, and then find time to adapt and enter the Advanced Military Intelligence Command School for formal training.
a period of time.
Afterwards, whether they return to the Military Intelligence and Staff Department as a senior military official, or join the military as a mid-level and senior commanding general, it will be more suitable and more conducive to their personal development.
The reason why another choice was given was because most generals at that time had the habit of thinking that soldiers should be used for private purposes. The rioting peasant army was more obvious in this regard. If Tang and Yu could not overcome this kind of thinking at once, they would also let
They first led their troops to make the transition.
Tang Yuan and Yu Mo thought that Xu Huai's statement that he wanted to listen to their opinions on how to fight the next war was just a polite way of showing his humility, so they quickly said: "How dare you, the general, to do anything in front of Sikong and all of you?"
"For all major wars in the Sikong Mansion from now on, the Military Intelligence and Staff Department will draw up battle strategies. For small wars, the military commanders will also discuss with the Military Intelligence and Military Staff. Now that you are serving in the Military Intelligence and Staff Department, you can't be lazy if you want," Xu Huaixiao
Then he said, "With the successful capture of Huaichuan, some people in the army think that the next step is a good opportunity to capture Ruyin directly. How do you think we should fight better in the next battle?"
"Ah?" Tang Yuan and Yu Mo were both stunned. They also had guesses about the next battle arrangements of Sikong Mansion, but they never thought of Sikong Mansion's next target. It would be Yingzhou's turn to rule Ruyin City so soon, and it would be Sun Yanzhou.
, Hu Danzhou led the captives back to Ruyin City where the main force of the German army was stationed...
