EBE Chapter 350: The Battle of Xiushan Gele Begins
Chapter 350: The Battle of Xiushan Gele Begins
Seeing Xie Miao set off, the others immediately split up and soon Chongqing became lively.
The first to launch the attack was naturally the large army led by Liu Sheng. He led 5,000 soldiers and launched a surprise attack on Xiushan County under the cover of night.
Although the soldiers defending the city patrolled frequently, unfortunately their training level was not high and their ability to respond was so poor that after the exchange of fire between the two sides, the support troops were unable to climb the city walls.
The guerrillas led by Liu Sheng quickly occupied the top of the city under absolute fire suppression, and only then did the defenders in the city begin to climb up the city to defend.
However, what was waiting for them was the machine guns that the guerrillas had already set up. These reinforcements suffered heavy casualties at first sight and were defeated almost in an instant, and then fled in all directions.
This guy Xie Tianci is a fool who relied on connections to get to the top, and the soldiers he brought with him are a bunch of rabble.
After being hit head-on by the guerrillas led by Liu Sheng, they no longer obeyed orders. Some fled, some hid, and some took advantage of the chaos to kill, burn and loot.
In short, they no longer had much will to resist, which allowed Liu Sheng to easily occupy Xiushan County.
Although Xiushan County was taken, the established strategic goal was not achieved. It had been discussed before that the news should be blocked as much as possible to prevent Yang Shen from noticing it too early.
So Liu Sheng and Qiang Zhengde divided their troops into two groups. He stayed behind to guard the prisoners and hunt out the rebellious defeated soldiers, and then sent troops to occupy the surrounding villages and towns.
Qiang Zhengde immediately led his men in pursuit, trying to keep as many of these people as possible to prevent them from informing Yang Shen.
It's really outrageous. When Qiang Zhengde was leading his men in pursuit, he discovered that these soldiers, who had been exhausted by eating, drinking, gambling, whoring and smoking opium, actually burst out with extraordinary potential when they were escaping.
They chased them for two hours and finally caught up with them when they were about to enter the mountains. After a firefight, Huali successfully captured these people, but a small number of them still escaped into the mountains.
Qiang Zhengde had no choice but to search as much as possible, but he only brought less than two thousand people with him, and in the end he didn't capture many people.
But the news had to be blocked, so he sent people to set up checkpoints on the main road, forcing those who were going to report the news to cross mountains and rivers in order to buy some time.
Liu Sheng also encountered trouble. Because they had too few people, they were unable to block all the roads in Xiushan County and the twenty or so surrounding towns.
So he had no choice but to adopt the same strategy as Qiang Zhengde, sending people to set up checkpoints on the main road, forcing those who were going to report the news to take the mountain roads and trails.
However, there are so many roads in Xiushan County, and he has only more than 3,000 people under his command, so he is unable to block all the roads. In the end, he had no choice but to transfer out the people who stayed behind in the old nest.
Finally, he recruited 5,000 volunteer farmers from the people under his rule, and with their help, he finally completed the task of setting up checkpoints and intercepting the enemy.
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As for Jiang Li, he was still angrily waiting for the guerrilla list after the selection, trying to figure out what went wrong and who was cheating.
But he did not wait for such a report. Instead, he received a combat request from the political commissar of Liu Huaqiang's guerrillas, named Xie Miao.
After he took a quick look at the report requesting to fight, he almost exploded with anger. Liu Huaqiang and the other two actually wanted to rely on a guerrilla force to fight against Yang Sen, a warlord with an army of 120,000 to 130,000. Isn't this just a daydream!
So he was about to send a telegram to reprimand him, but when he saw Hua Yong's theory of six wins and six losses, he suddenly felt that what he said seemed to make some sense.
So he immediately went to the map and carefully verified the feasibility of the plan. Finally, he was surprised to find that Hua Yong's plan had a very high success rate.
If they really did not lie about the number of their troops, and with my timely support, they would not only be able to capture Chongqing, a mountain city that is easy to defend but difficult to attack, in one fell swoop, but they might also be able to take Sichuan directly into their hands in one go.
Thinking of this, Jiang Li slammed his fist on the table, then made up his mind to do it.
"It just so happens that I have been resting for two and a half years. It is time to take advantage of the fact that the surrounding forces have just swallowed up a large piece of territory and have not had time to digest it, and sweep across the four directions with the force of thunder!"
Having made up his mind, Jiang Li issued orders directly via telegram, on the one hand to assemble a large army, and on the other hand to let the Sichuan Chongqing guerrillas wait for an opportunity to launch a surprise attack on the enemy's scattered troops.
Delay their march and assembly to buy time for our main force.
At the same time, he also ordered the air force to conduct reconnaissance in the direction of Chongqing. Once a large number of enemy troops were found marching, bombers would be sent out to bomb them, thus undermining the enemy's morale and further delaying time.
As orders were issued one after another, the huge war machine of the Anmin Army began to move.
In just three days, the 200,000-strong army and supporting supplies had been assembled, and then at his command, the army began to march towards Chongqing.
As for the other 500,000 troops, they were stationed in various places to prevent being attacked by surrounding warlords.
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Let’s talk about Hua Yong two days ago. After receiving Jiang Li’s order, he was so excited that he felt like a rebirth of his ancestors. He jumped up and down in the intelligence station and kept shouting “Oh, oh, oh”.
The intelligence officers' eyes twitched wildly when they saw this scene. They were really worried that this guy would go crazy.
However, things did not turn out as they expected. Hua Yong stopped after being excited for more than ten minutes, and asked the intelligence personnel to quickly send a telegram to discuss a specific action plan.
After this discussion, they finally discovered that it was Hua Yong who persuaded the commander to send troops to Chongqing, so everyone asked about his plan.
Hua Yong was not vague either. He directly upgraded himself to an unknown number of levels and began to command this all-out sneak attack.
As a result, his move immediately knocked Yang Shen dizzy.
It turned out that Hua Yong ordered guerrillas from all over the country to launch a surprise attack on the garrisons in various towns while the enemy was unprepared, and capture them in one fell swoop, and then left a small number of soldiers to guard the prisoners.
Then, while Yang Shen was still unaware, they immediately launched a sneak attack on other villages and towns overnight to expand the results of the battle.
By the time Yang Shen realized what was happening, hundreds of towns and tens of thousands of garrison soldiers had already been lost.
So he combined the intelligence from the defeated soldiers, carefully observed the map, and finally figured out who the enemy was.
It turned out that these were none other than the bandits whom he had surrounded and suppressed several times in the past two years but failed to wipe them out.
Speaking of which, in the past two years, Yang Shen had actually already noticed that there were many bandits active under his rule, and he also sent troops to encircle and suppress them.
But these people were as slippery as loaches. They would immediately hide in the mountains as soon as the army arrived. If their own people dared to chase them into the mountains, they would surely be defeated by sneak attacks from all directions.