It was already the fifteenth day since she left the capital of Sun City. Since her last public defection, Youlan had led her soldiers from the river patrol battalion and a large number of women who voluntarily followed Lin Shuhang around the Heishui River.
Faced with the blatant defection of the river patrol battalion, the military headquarters did not take it seriously at first. After all, they were only a small number of non-staff soldiers among the 800,000 forbidden troops, and there was no need to call in the regular army to round them up. However, as time went on, a large number of city residents began to flee crazily. In just a short time
Over 100,000 people fled Tianlang City in two days.
Looking at the deserted Tianlang City, the government and the public of Zuisheng Kingdom were in an uproar. The Zhou Tianlang regime was shocked and annoyed when they learned that the soldiers and civilians had collectively defected. They began to order the mobilization of troops to hunt down the rebels and the people. You must know that if this kind of defection is not controlled in time,
If so, the situation is likely to get out of control. Not to mention that Tianlang City will become an empty city, the entire Zuisheng Kingdom may quickly collapse.
Of course, Zhou Tianlang couldn't just watch his regime collapse, so he mobilized 300,000 forbidden troops in just two days. 50,000 forbidden troops were deployed around Tianlang City to prevent the citizens from defecting, and the remaining 250,000 forbidden troops were encircled and patrolled the river.
Camp rebels.
The large-scale encirclement and suppression operation took place on the fourth day after the River Patrol Battalion and the city residents began to defect. At that time, 120,000 women, including the River Patrol Battalion soldiers, were surrounded by 250,000 elite imperial guards on one side of the Blackwater River, unarmed.
Under the temptation of survival and Lin Shuhang's call, the women fought desperately against the enemy's attack. If they didn't have weapons, they would use sticks and stones. If they didn't have sticks and stones, they would use their own bodies as weapons, with their hands, mouths, and even
Use your head.
The battle was very fierce, and the defecting women fell in batches under the bows and arrows of the Forbidden Army, and the flowing blood almost dyed the black Heishui River red. Seeing that his own personnel suffered numerous casualties, Lin Shuhang stepped forward and risked his life to fight alone.
One man broke into the enemy group, and finally used control skills to kill the Forbidden Army general and send him to the rear a hundred miles away.
As soon as the general died, more than 200,000 forbidden troops immediately became disorganized and began to abandon their helmets and flee in haste. Taking this opportunity, the rebels, who numbered less than 50,000, under the command of Lin Shuhang and the soldiers of the patrol battalion, pursued the victory and finally defeated Tianlang.
Successfully captured 180,000 imperial troops 80 miles outside the city.
Most of these captured Forbidden Army were innocent women. They also longed for men and yearned for freedom, but they had to carry out encirclement and suppression orders because they had military orders. After being captured, 170,000 of the 180,000 Forbidden Army soldiers immediately expressed their firm stance.
They joined the formation of the Free Army. The remaining Imperial Guards who swore allegiance to the Sirius regime were killed by the Free Army on the banks of the Blackwater River.
Upon learning that the encirclement and suppression operation had failed, the government and the public were in an uproar. King Zhou Tianlang was shocked and furious. He ordered all available military forces to be mobilized to prepare for a second large-scale encirclement and suppression operation against the Free Army.
In this encirclement and suppression, Zuisheng Kingdom mobilized all available military forces, including 550,000 forbidden troops and 1.2 million forcibly recruited militiamen.
On the day of the siege, more than one million well-equipped troops marched to the Blackwater River in three directions, bound to wipe out the rebels.
Facing the enemy's terrifying human wave tactics, the Free Army, which numbered only 260,000, had no chance of winning. Frustrated, many Free Army soldiers decided to abandon their weapons and surrender. After all, the enemy's strength was too strong!
As the commander-in-chief of the Free Army, Youlan, who has experienced hundreds of battles, did not give up completely, but calmly thought about the strategy of confrontation.
At Lin Shuhang's suggestion, the day before the encirclement and suppression operation, the Free Army, composed of 260,000 women who longed for freedom, was divided into 260 thousand-man teams and urgently dispersed throughout the theater to prepare for counter-encirclement and suppression tactics against the enemy.
Guerrilla tactics were originally proposed by Lin Shuhang. As a descendant who traveled to this world, Lin Shuhang drew on the guerrilla tactics used by Chairman Mao during World War II, and formulated a "surprise" plan for the Free Army by summarizing the experience of guerrilla warfare in World War II.
The counter-encirclement and suppression plan is to attack the unprepared ones, make false claims in the east and attack in the west, avoid the real and attack the fictitious.
Under the tactical attack of the enemy advancing, we retreat, the enemy stationing, we harass, the enemy tired, we attack, the enemy retreats, we pursue, the Free Army marched forward and retreat, luring the enemy deep, intercepting food routes, grabbing supplies, burning barracks, conducting surprise attacks, and then
Concentrate our forces to defeat the enemy's troops one by one. The enemy's troops were busy all over the place, unable to look at each other. In just eleven days, 1.75 million enemy troops were successfully defeated.
In this mobile war, the Free Army annihilated a total of 420,000 enemies and captured 530,000 prisoners. It not only successfully destroyed the enemy's encirclement and suppression operations, but also created a new miracle in the cold weapon era!
The enemy's army was defeated one after another. The furious Zhou Tianlang put all the blame on the generals of the Forbidden Army. He killed them all and crippled them, which made the army panic. The fighting mood of the soldiers went from bad to worse, and there were continuous collective defections of the army.
Three days later, the Free Army, whose number had expanded to 1.03 million, began to launch a large-scale counterattack against the enemy.
During the Free Army's counterattack, more than one million female soldiers fighting for freedom rushed toward the enemy troops like a tide, shouting with astonishing momentum. Less than 800,000 enemy troops were unwilling to fight.
Under the fierce offensive, they began to retreat steadily, and were finally forced to retreat inside Tianlang City.
In the afternoon, huge siege equipment was pulled outside Tianlang City by the Free Army in preparation for attacking the capital. At this time, beacon smoke was everywhere under Tianlang City.
Under the threat of the generals, countless enemy troops lay on the city wall in fear, preparing for a difficult "city defense battle"! For this battle, they had no hope. They looked at the densely packed Free Army and vehicles under the city.
Huge siege equipment, many enemy soldiers showed despair in their eyes.
In the evening, under the order of Youlan, the commander-in-chief of the Free Army, a huge trebuchet took the lead in launching an attack on Tianlang City.
The stone thrown by the catapult weighed about 2 tons. After flying over a distance of two kilometers with a dull whistling sound, it landed on the tower of Tianlang City with a bang, immediately collapsing the three-story tower.
More than half of it.
After the city tower collapsed, there was an earth-shaking loud noise, and countless soldiers were smashed into bloody corpses.
Then the Free Army's "city destruction" operation officially began. Hundreds of boulders were wildly thrown out by heavy catapults. Amidst the loud "rumbling" sound, the entire Sirius City was shaking violently.
The "city destruction" operation lasted for a total of an hour. An hour later, as night fell, most of the tall walls of Sirius City collapsed under the impact of thousands of boulders.
"Woo... Wu..." The loud horn sound suddenly sounded.
"Kill!" The Free Army gathered under Tianlang City screamed with loud horns and launched a general attack on the enemy...