Xiao Chen and the others captured Jinsha City with zero casualties.
This is of course due to Dugulou's good command and proper use of troops, but there is still a lot of luck involved.
If Olga's fleet and Vasily's cavalry were there, they would not have captured Sands City so easily.
But the process is not important anymore, what is important is the result.
The result that Xiao Chen wanted most was to achieve the greatest victory with as few casualties as possible.
Dugulou ordered people to put Ivan and the officers under house arrest first, while all the Russian soldiers were imprisoned in a dungeon in the city. This dungeon has only one exit and only requires dozens of people to guard it.
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He had the dungeon filled with fire oil and warned the surrendered soldiers inside that if anyone made a noise and caused chaos, he would immediately set a fire and burn them all to death!
Send people to take over various warehouses and houses in the city, check the property and materials, register them one by one, and then seal them all up.
He sent Huihai to lead a thousand men and escort a few officers to Bailongjiang to recover all the pass forts and garrison them on the spot.
Yue Zhonglin was ordered to lead a thousand men to block the entrance to the sea and control the dozen or so coastal defense guns there. However, he tried not to attract the attention of the maritime fleet. He was not allowed to take the initiative to fire unless absolutely necessary!
They repaired the damaged city wall overnight, re-deployed defenses at the top of the city, and sent a dozen Wing Guard brothers to conduct a thorough investigation near Shunfeng City. They also captured the scattered Ross soldiers who had escaped, and tried their best to block all news about Jinsha City.
A team of 500 light cavalry were stationed on both sides of the avenue between Shunfeng City and Jinsha City. As long as they saw anyone coming, whether they were soldiers or civilians, they would all be detained!
Finally, a light cavalry of 500 men was sent to join Wei Yuntian and assist him in attacking Vasily's 3,000 cavalry.
Although Jinsha City has been won, the real war has not actually begun yet...
Olga led more than 80 warships upstream, and the passage was almost unobstructed. They only encountered a few sporadic artillery attacks from the shore, which did not cause any harm to them at all.
It seems that my estimate is completely correct. The mob in Yanyun County has long since fled to who knows where. I am afraid that they are all huddled in Changshan City at this moment, right?
If this is the case, then there is no need to advance too far upstream. It is better to find a nearby place to dock, leave the fleet on the river, and personally lead more than a thousand marines directly ashore to attack Changshan Prefecture and capture it at night.
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After making up their minds, they immediately ordered the fleet to anchor near a river bay and drop the planks. Only fifty soldiers were left on each ship to guard them, and the rest of the troops disembarked and landed to assemble!
This was really an extremely stupid decision, so much so that Wu Hanming, who was hiding in a favorable position upstream and waiting for the enemy, was shocked when he heard the news.
Can't?
Did they really drop anchor and start landing?
Tan Ma said that we saw this with our own eyes. Now they have just set up the planks and have begun to go ashore one after another.
I heard them talking from a distance, and it seemed that they wanted to attack Changshan City directly...
Wu Hanming was shocked again, how could such a thing happen?
Is that Olga drunk or crazy?
You are only a thousand or so sailors, and you actually want to attack Changshan City?
In other words, you and Vasily have already agreed that you will attack the north city of Changshan City, and he will attack the east city of Changshan City...
I have to say that Olga's crazy move completely disrupted Wu Hanming's battle plan. I was already preparing for an ambush, but you stopped halfway and didn't come. Isn't it ridiculous?
Well, since you won't come over, I can only go find you...
The place Olga chose to go ashore was really not a good one. In the darkness, it looked like a dark patch of hard ground, but when she stepped on it, she realized it was a large pool of mud. The tall Russian people fell directly into it as soon as they stepped on it.
It took a long time to pull out the knees. They were still wearing long leather boots, and the mud and water entered the boots. The feeling was really uncomfortable!
The man was fine, but the horse was in trouble. Once it got stuck, it went directly to the horse's belly, and it was impossible to pull out the hoof. It had to be pulled by people in front and chased by people behind...
It took half an hour for more than a thousand horses to reach the shore. Olga was so angry that she beat her chest on the shore. You are a bunch of trash. I asked you to choose a landing point. What the hell did you choose?
I need to hurry up, otherwise it will be really bright when we get to Changshan City!
They were busy getting ashore, but no one noticed that countless small black spots suddenly appeared upstream. The black spots drove closer, but they turned out to be four to five hundred small warships with only one cannon installed on the bow...
Almost at the same time that the Ross sailors discovered that the enemy was quietly attacking, the dozens of warships sailing at the front had already opened fire at the same time!
By the time the Ross sailors hurriedly adjusted the ship's cannons and prepared to counterattack, at least a dozen warships had been hit and set on fire!
Yanyun County's warships are small, fast, and highly maneuverable. After one round of cannon fire, they immediately turned their bows in an S-shape and retreated quickly, waiting for the red gun barrels to cool down, while other warships behind them continued to approach and bombard them!
Although the Russian warship was large enough and its artillery fire was fierce enough, it was unable to move at all because it was anchored. Moreover, most of the sailors were transferred ashore by Olga. There was a serious shortage of gunners on the gun positions and it was impossible to proceed at all.
Effective counterattack.
Moreover, the battleships of Yanyun County are too small and too fast. It is difficult to target them in the dark night with extremely poor visibility. By the time you aim and fire, they will already be more than ten meters away.
, the shells hit it and missed directly, unable to hit at all.
The current situation is like a life-and-death fight between dozens of ferocious tigers tightly tied by iron chains and more than five hundred cunning wolves!
As the saying goes, a tiger cannot fight against a pack of wolves, let alone a locked tiger, so the outcome of this battle can be imagined.
I have to say that Yanyun Navy fought really well in this battle. During their training exercises, they hit moving targets, and their hit rate could reach over 50%!
Is it true that a fixed target like this that doesn't move is almost perfect?
After more than ten rounds of shelling, everyone felt a little embarrassed. Why didn't General Wu order a ceasefire?
Why didn't you see the other party in such miserable condition?
We really can't continue the fight. This is not a war at all, but a unilateral massacre!
Many warships no longer bombarded the opponent's warships, but extended their artillery fire and began to attack the Russian soldiers who had already come ashore.
So when the white flags were raised on the remaining forty or so Russian warships, the brothers of Yanyun Navy also let out a long sigh, and it was finally over...
These Russians are real, you should surrender as soon as possible.
It not only saves our artillery shells, but also saves your lives. It must be turned into purple as it is now.