The northerners came to kill.

Although they waited for a whole year, they still came to kill.

At the junction of China and Dayue, Menzhou, the most important border city of Yue, was instantly besieged by tens of thousands of Chinese troops. Then countless Dongmans rushed out from the city of Menzhou, like a wolve, and rushed towards the Dayue village north of Fuliang River with a grin.

They will regard all the countrysides of Dayue as sheep and peel them alive!

The defenders of the Menzhou Province did not dare to go out of the city to rescue the people. Although there were a total of 60,000 troops in the city, more than 20,000 of which were the remnants of Dongman who fled from Guizhou Province in China. They were as deep as the sea of ​​hatred for the northerners, but they still did not dare to go out of the city to fight in the field.

Because Yongzhou lost too much, it was over 800 and 200,000! With this record, who would be impatient to live and dare to leave the city?

It would be great if you could defend Menzhou City well.

...

Let's try attacking first.

The colonel who commanded the vanguard of the Chinese army looked at the city walls of Menzhou and murmured to himself.

Of course he knew that the instructions of the front enemy's general staff were to surround Menzhou, force the Jiaozhi thieves to cross the Fuliang River to rescue, and then eliminate the main force of the thieves in the field, so that the subsequent destruction of the country would be smoother.

However, he now has only one battle group of 5,000 people, and there are no heavy siege artillery, and only a few field artillery. He should not be able to conquer an important city with 60,000 defenses at once. In this case, launching several tentative attacks during the siege and putting more pressure on the thieves is also a good choice.

Then give them some pressure and test the thief's defense.

So he arranged 500 troops at the other three city gates in the state to prevent the enemy from leaving the city to attack, and led 3,500 people to attack the South Gate - attacking here is easier to block the enemy's escape route.

On November 8, 1796, the Chinese army launched a tentative attack on Menzhou.

Then Menzhou was conquered...

The whole process was very simple. The field army deployed three 10-jin field artillery companies at the southern gate of Menzhou to bombard the city walls of Menzhou.

This is the first time that the Jiaozhi people have truly seen the power of artillery.

In fact, 10 kilograms of shells are not enough to destroy the city wall, but it is not difficult to shake the city wall like a sieve. Moreover, the gravel on the city wall that was beaten is flying everywhere, and each piece is no less powerful than a shotgun. The Jiaozhi thief who lacks armor and protection is beaten to pieces, and he almost dares to stand on the top of the city.

So the Chinese infantry advanced to the foot of the southern city wall without any injuries, and continued to suppress the city with half of the musket handwheels, while the others prepared for a blast under the city.

The blasting was very successful. The Menzhou city wall was blown up with a two-meter-wide hole. The collapsed earth and rocks buried nearly 100 Jiaozhi soldiers, and at the same time formed a slope that could be directly stepped through.

According to common sense, the city's defenders should draw reserves at this time to compete with the Chinese army for control at the top of the slope, and at the same time build a low wall behind the city wall to block this dangerous gap.

The colonel commanded by the Chinese army was thinking that as long as the Jiaozhi people repaired the low wall, he would give up this attack - blow up the city wall, and the pressure was enough to make the Jiaozhi thief cry and ask his mother to find his mother; when the wall was repaired, he could roughly see the working speed and fighting will of the defenders; but he would not conquer the city once, so he could continue the siege mission.

It's simply perfect.

It's weird...

Because the Jiaozhi defenders had no obligation to cooperate with the performance, after the city wall collapsed, the city defenders, who were originally not very morale, refused to compete with the Chinese army for the Tupo Peak Line. The people who were forced to the swords and guns of the supervisor team behind simply threw away the weapons in their hands, rushed down the Tupo Mountains with their heads in their hands and surrendered to the Chinese army...

Seeing this scene, the colonel almost immediately realized that the situation was not good.

But it was too late, and some people took the lead in surrendering. The rural soldiers recruited did not hesitate and surrendered one after another. When the supervisor team stopped them, they dared to compete with the supervisor team.

About a quarter of an hour later, the south gate of Menzhou was opened from the inside. The colonel stared at the Jiaozhi soldiers kneeling in the city gate, speechless for a long time.

The soldiers of the field army immediately exerted their subjective initiative and entered the city from the open city gates and the gaps in the city walls under the command of some low-level officers.

They used two rounds of volleys to break up the supervision team at the South Gate, triggering a larger wave of surrender, and the remaining bandits fled to the depths of the city in panic.

The soldiers consciously pursued themselves, and the whistles and military horns kept blowing, guiding the troops into key areas in the states, and at the same time, they announced to the defenders in other directions that the South Gate had changed hands.

Half an hour after the attack was launched, the North Gate defender closest to China opened the city and surrendered, and five hundred Chinese soldiers easily took over this important city gate.

Then there were two other city gates and the Vietnamese reserve team in the city.

All the thieves lost their will to resist almost at the same time. After two quarters of an hour, the fastest Chinese infantry company occupied Menzhou Prefecture. The Vietnamese base camp arranged here also did not resist and successfully knelt down and surrendered.

In just one hour of the entire attack, the Menzhou, which had 60,000 defenders, was captured by 5,000 Chinese troops. More than 700 defenders were killed in battle, and the rest were all surrendered or captured. At the same time, all the city houses and farmers who came to take refuge in the city, and a total of 200,000 were captured.

All the food and grass reserves in the city, enough for the defenders to use for one year, fell into the hands of the Chinese army.

As the attacking party, only 7 people in the Chinese army were killed and 11 were injured.

Judging from the exchange ratio and seizure, this is a brilliant victory in the war.

However, this victory made the colonel in charge of command smile bitterly - the plan to lead the Jiaozhi thief out of the field completely failed. After this exchange and exaggerated battle, it was strange that the thief dared to come out.

...

"Ah? Menzhou was defeated?" Xu Daizhuo asked in surprise: "Don't the vanguard have only five thousand?"

"Well, that's right, the five thousand vanguards launched a tentative attack, and then the Menzhou changed hands." Feng Sanhu handed the battle report he had just arrived to his chief of staff: "The prisoners are not counted as the people, but there are nearly 60,000 people. I have sent people to verify it."

"In that case, the plan to lure the enemy has failed." Xu Daizhuo said regretfully: "This Jiaozhi is too unbearable."

"That's because they are already scared." Feng Sanhu shook his head: "Forget it, if the enemy lure plan fails, it will fail. In this way, even if the thief is a turtle, it will not take too much trouble to attack the city one by one."

Xu Daizhuo thought about it and felt that this was true. Five thousand people could capture the city guarded by 60,000 soldiers in one hour. With this combat power, is it too different for bandits to defend or fight in the field?

"Well, give up the plan to lure the enemy, and give the officers and soldiers participating in the battle in the Menzhou to report to the domestic attack." Xu Daizhuo said: "Then continue the attack and fight to the Fuliangjiang position first."
Chapter completed!