Chapter 398 The Southern War (5)
But this time, Yuan's army is no longer letting go, so Deyou's army's attack method is of course useless except for giving heads to the defensive side.
Feng Guozhang, the chief general of Yuan army who guarded Fengcheng County, repeatedly abandoned the city and abandoned the land some time ago. He retreated from Yichun County to Fengcheng County, and escaped more than 200 kilometers along the way. Although this was a tactical arrangement, Feng Guozhang was still very unhappy. Now he finally no longer had to give up his position and could defend and block Deyou's army with all his might. Feng Guozhang naturally accumulated enough energy and planned to give Deyou's army a head-on blow so that they knew that they were not vegetarians.
Moreover, through the previous battle, Feng Guozhang had completely understood the attack method of this Deyou army. Since the other party wanted to give him a head, he had no reason to accept it. Therefore, Feng Guozhang also made sufficient arrangements. After the Deyou army launched an attack, Feng Guozhang did not immediately order the artillery to open fire and launch a long-range attack on the Deyou army. Instead, he waited for the Deyou army to approach his position, but arranged a small number of soldiers to shoot, which was sparse, which was no different from the previous battle.
Seeing this, Deyou Army thought it was still a repetition of the previous battles, so it naturally advanced steadily, and the soldiers were all confident and just waited for Yuan's army to withdraw from their positions and flee backwards.
Until the Deyou army advanced within 300 meters of the Yuan army's position, according to the previous battle, the Yuan army should have withdrawn from the position long ago, but this time the Yuan army did not move. And the Deyou army was in a strange situation, why didn't the Yuan army escape this time? Was he scared to be silly? At this moment, Feng Guozhang saw that the time was ripe, immediately ordered the full fire to attack the Deyou army.
At this time, the Yuan army soldiers in the position were also ready to fire. All the rifles and machine guns were opened, the shooting rods were adjusted, and the grenade launchers were set with shooting parameters. The Yuan army in front of them had no resistance at all and fled. Not to mention that Feng Guozhang was angry, the soldiers felt very aggrieved. Now they were all gathering a lot of energy, and this time they must defend the position.
So after Feng Guozhang gave the order, Yuan's army immediately opened fire, and all kinds of bullets stepped in straight lines. The shells fired by the grenade launcher went arcing and attacked Deyou's army densely like raindrops.
Originally, the attack formation of the Deyou Army was very dense, but suddenly it was hit by Yuan's army with dense firepower, and it was very casualties. The soldiers in the front row were hit by airtight bullets, penetrated and torn apart. The grenade launcher shells fell into the Deyou Army's queue in a large arc, and fireworks burst out from explosions. Each firework would take away several Deyou Army soldiers.
Less than a minute after Yuan Jun opened fire, Deyou Jun suffered hundreds of casualties.
At this time, many surviving Deyou soldiers came to their senses. Although they didn't understand why Yuan Jun, who had not had a single blow in the previous few battles, had risen up this time, resisting so tenaciously and firepower was so fierce, they also knew that this battle was different from before and could not move forward any further. Only by retreating quickly can they save their lives.
But Deyou's army was attacking in a swarm, and there was no level of attack at all. The Yuan army's attack suddenly suddenly. The soldiers in front found that something was wrong and quickly turned around and retreated. The soldiers behind did not know what was going on and were still moving forward. As a result, the troops in front and behind Deyou's army collided with each other, and the formation suddenly became chaotic.
Although the chaos was not long, just 4 or 5 minutes, the attacking Deyou army realized that the Yuan army's resistance was far from comparable to the previous battles and could not attack at all, so they finally retreated on the whole line. However, in just a few minutes, the casualties of Deyou army had exceeded 1,000 people.
The Deyou army, which had retreated across the board, quickly withdrew from the Yuan army's range, but at this time the Yuan army's artillery positions also began to show their power, pursuing the defeated army of Deyou army in batches, with the artillery's range longer and greater lethality. During the Deyou army's retreat, it caused a large amount of damage to the Deyou army.
The attack was not long, only about 10 minutes before and after. On the position, a large number of corpses of Deyou soldiers, as well as a large number of wounded soldiers who fell to the ground and were unable to crawl back to their positions, screaming loudly there.
At this time, Huai Qing, the chief general of Deyou Army, had his eyes straight, his face pale, and his mind was completely empty. In fact, after Yuan Jun opened fire, Huai Qing was completely confused because he really didn't expect how this battle would be like this? Shouldn't Yuan Jun retreat immediately as soon as he launched an attack! Why didn't they play according to the routine this time! It's completely unfair to be moral!
It was not until the adjutant called him several times that Huai Qing came to his senses and remembered his responsibilities. When he looked at the retreating army, almost most of them were wounded and covered in blood. Many people fell in front of the position and cried endlessly, because although the attack just now was short, it left a deep impression on each soldier, as if they had escaped from hell. The soldiers of the Deyou Army were basically recruits. Not long after they were on the battlefield, they had never seen such a tragic scene, so many of them completely collapsed.
Seeing this, Huaiqing knew that this battle would not last, so he had to order people to take back the bodies of the dead soldiers, rescue the wounded, and then order to withdraw the troops. After withdrawing the camp and counting the losses, in just one battle, more than 800 soldiers were killed, and nearly 2,000 injured soldiers were also killed.
However, Huaiqing completely recovered his mind at this time. Although the process of this battle today was much better than he expected, the battle to attack Fengcheng County was still going to go on, because Huaiqing is now the commander of attacking Nanchang. If Fengcheng County is not captured, how can he conquer Nanchang? Besides, he has already said all the words in front of Yonggui, and he can't afford to lose face.
Of course, Huai Qing still had a sense of luck at this time. Maybe today's battle was just an accident. After a night, everything would return to normal and he could still easily take Fengcheng County.
However, the battle the next day did not return to normal as Huaiqing thought. Yuan's defense was still tight and impeccable, and his firepower was still fierce, and he did not give Deyou's army any chance. Although the soldiers of Deyou's army learned their lessons and immediately retreated when they saw Yuan's army open fire. The casualties were much smaller than the previous day, but it was nowhere near to capture Yuan's position and capture Fengcheng County.
As a result, Deyou's army could not break through the position of Yuan's army for three consecutive days, and Huaiqing became anxious because there were rumors in the army that he had previously captured Yichun County, divided Yixian County, Yuanzhou Prefecture, and Qingjiang County was simply the intention of Yuan's army to lure the enemy into depth. Now that Yuan's army has made serious defense, Huaiqing was defeated back to its original form. Otherwise, even with the ability of iron and good deeds, Huaiqing could not break through the position of Yuan's army, and what virtues are Huaiqing? He could even destroy cities and villages continuously and make repeated military achievements.
It turns out that although Huaiqing stared at Yonggui, there were actually many people who were jealous of him below, because in the eyes of many people, Huaiqing's ability is mediocre, and he would not be able to become a martial artist, so why would he be promoted to such a high position all at once? Therefore, this time when he went to the battle, many people were waiting to see Huaiqing's jokes.
However, at the beginning of the war, Huaiqing won consecutive victories and made countless contributions, which made no talk of those who were jealous of him. Now that the attack is blocked, all kinds of rumors are naturally coming, although these rumors are actually infinitely close to reality.
But the previous victory was deeply rooted in Cui Mian Huaiqing, which made him believe in his military talent and firmly believe that he could become a famous general of a generation. Therefore, he was so surprised that he failed to break through Yuan Li's position this time, not because of his command, but because the soldiers were afraid of life and refused to fight hard.
At this moment, Yonggui came to visit Huaiqing again, saying that his army had finished resting and recovered from fatigue. He only asked Huaiqing when he would break through the position of Yuan's army and capture Fengcheng County. He was still waiting to attack Nanchang! At the same time, he also said that if Huaiqing needed help to attack Fengcheng County, he could just speak.
Originally, the two armies were less than 10 miles apart, so Yonggui naturally knew the situation of the battle these days. When Yonggui learned that Huaiqing's attack on Fengcheng County was not good, and he also suffered losses in his troops and generals, he felt extremely relieved. Of course, Yonggui also heard about the rumors in Huaiqing's army. He naturally believed in these rumors, so he ran to Huaiqing's camp and said this, which was avenged the revenge of Huaiqing's arrogant attitude towards him and arrogant words when he first came.
After hearing Yonggui's words, Huaiqing felt like Yonggui had been angry a few days ago. However, the two of them were now in a state of being transferred. Because they failed to conquer Fengcheng County, Huaiqing was in a disadvantageous position, so they couldn't speak hard.
Of course, it is absolutely impossible to attack Fengcheng County by Yonggui, otherwise Huaiqing's face would be desirable. Therefore, Huaiqing could only express his gratitude to Yonggui for his kindness. He would definitely conquer Fengcheng County, so Yonggui would not be able to do anything.
Of course, Yonggui also knew that Huaiqing would never ask for help from him and attack Fengcheng County. And he said that even if Huaiqing really wanted to send troops to help and attack Fengcheng County, he would still have to take him again, but it would not be so easy to send troops. Therefore, Yonggui did not force it. He only said that if Huaiqing spoke, he would definitely help with all his strength, and even if he sent troops to capture Fengcheng County, the credit was still considered Huaiqing. Then he said goodbye and left proudly.
Chapter completed!