"I don't know. That's why I took you on a detour to Gangneung. The enemy forces there, not many in number, are just right for us to fight. Cao Ren said.

"Oh..."

"The general is wise." Xiahouba said casually.

.........

Led by Cao Ren, thousands of Cao troops made their way through the mountains to the vicinity of Gangneung.

Jiangling City is an important town in Jingzhou.

It was also the former capital of Jingzhou.

The location here is the closest to the main road in Jingnan.

Once Cao Ren was able to take it, he could establish a solid defensive line, and while resisting the Jingnan reinforcements, Xu Tu advanced to Xiangyang.

I have to say that Cao Ren is very witty.

But...

Huaxia's new army is not so easy to attack.

In the woods before, Cao Ren was able to use his strengths to defeat a small group of enemy troops, but now it is a siege battle, with a few thousand men, to capture the important town of Gangneung.

The chances of winning are really not very good.

"General..."

A soldier came: "General, in Gangneung City, there is only one battalion of the enemy's strength, about five hundred. ”

"Have you figured it out? It's really only five hundred? ”

"Yes."

"Okay...." Cao Ren said: "I don't believe that there are only 500 people, and I can stop our 5,000 people." ”

"The order is to go down, and the whole army will camp in the mountains and prepare enough engineering equipment."

"When it gets dark, follow me to take Gangneung."

"No..." Several lieutenants next to him answered.

The sky was getting darker.

Gangneung City, as usual, is brightly lit and the people are not extinguished.

Gangneung at night seems to be more lively than during the day.

However, there were not many soldiers defending the city.

It is no wonder that Gangneung is not a battlefield, he is located behind the side of Xiangyang, and there are few battles. Even if an enemy comes, they will attack Xiangyang first.

Gangneung City, there is really no need to be nervous day and night.

But this time, Cao Ren took great advantage and led his army deep into the mountains, spending a full five days to go around to Jiangling. Although the journey was difficult, it became a rare surprise army.

"Up!"

Outside Jiangling City, Cao Ren led his troops and rushed to Jiangling City Tower with lightning speed.

"Kill..." In the dark night, there was a sudden sound of shouting and killing.

When the soldiers defending the city heard this, they were all startled.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack.... A company commander shouted in horror.

Bang bang bang...

When Cao Ren's troops rushed out of the city, a volley of bullets came at them.

Cao Ren heard the gunshots, reacted quickly, and shouted, "Get down..." ”

Burst! Burst!

Most of the soldiers didn't have time to react.

Bullet through the chest.

"General, if we rush up like this, can we come back?" Xiahou Ba looked frightened.

"It's all rushed here, can you retreat?"

Cao Ren knew that the range of the rifle was 1,000 meters. As long as he dares to retreat, he is guaranteed to be pierced by bullets. Before leaving a thousand meters, it is all within range.

Cao Rencai wouldn't do anything like that.

Even if there are heavy casualties, he has to bite the bullet.

Only by capturing Gangneung with full strength can we gain the advantage on the battlefield.

"Brothers, kill!" After a round of gunshots, Cao Ren took the lead in standing up and running towards the city gate.

The soldiers behind him followed closely.

Although the penetrating power of the bullets is strong, after all, the number is too small to shake the three armies.

There was a fierce exchange of fire, and only a small number of soldiers were killed, and the rest quickly approached the tower. Moreover, many soldiers carried ladders, ready to break through the tower.

"Go and inform the battalion commander that the enemy is coming."

"Yes."

The garrison is also actively preparing.

The soldiers in the city, after hearing the gunshots, quickly rushed to support.

Soon gathered the strength of two companies, about 300 people.

Stand in two rows along the tower.

Take turns to release the gun.

Bullets fired non-stop, covering the outside of the city.

After strengthening the firepower, it brought huge casualties to Cao Ren's troops.

But...

Cao's army had advanced to the side of the moat, set up a ladder, and began the siege battle.

"Throw!"

Boom boom...

A round of grenades was thrown down the city, killing a large number of enemy troops outside the city.

However, this does not change the situation on the battlefield, nor does it determine victory or defeat.

They shot and bombed desperately, and they were busy for most of the day, and only killed more than 1,000 people, while Cao Ren had 5,000 people. They were about to climb up to the entrance of the city.

This was a great threat to the soldiers defending the city.

Burst!

Cao Ren climbed along the ladder net. I just crawled a few times before I was hit by a bullet. A bloody hole appeared in his left arm.

The blood flowed like a torrent, and it was terrible.

"Ahh Cao Ren screamed in pain.

"General..." The soldiers in the back screamed.

Cao Ren endured it and shouted, "Brothers, I'm fine. Rush with me! ”

"Kill..." The soldiers behind Cao Ren were very moved when they saw Cao Ren disregarding his life and death. Following Cao Ren, he went up to the city tower with full energy.

And during this period, Cao Ren was shot again.

The shot hit him in the left chest and he was seriously injured.

When he had climbed up to the tower, he lay down on the ground.

...........

This battle lasted for a long time.

Although Cao Ren attacked the city, the defenders in the city were extremely tenacious.

Probably Gangneung City was too important, and the soldiers stationed in Gangneung and Gangneung did not dare to give up easily.

After the loss of the Gangneung Castle Tower, they all retreated to the market in the city, relying on the market to fight day by day.

Until the afternoon of the second day.

Cao Ren temporarily seized some guns, as well as more than 100 handfuls of money from the last time in Xiangyang, to form a new army of 200 people. Prepare to use these two hundred people to turn defeat into victory.

Of these two hundred people, one can't shoot, the other has no tactics, and the third company can't attack the most basic.

Cao Ren, who was more injured, insisted on teaching for a long time.

Start with holding a gun and then learn to shoot a gun.

It's really a sad process.

Fortunately, the soldiers are not stupid, and they are forced by the needs of the situation to learn a little quickly.

Before it got dark, learned to shoot a gun.

As long as you know how to shoot, you can kill enemies, and that's enough!

As for tactics or anything, I don't need them now.

Night.

There was a tacit truce on both sides.

Stabilize their own defense lines and raise fires to cook.

During this period, Cao Ren took out the shrapnel in his body and bandaged it simply.

He summoned all the two hundred men who had learned how to shoot and said, "Brothers, there are not many enemies in the city, and if we try a little harder, we will be victorious." ”

"We paid a heavy price for the capture of Gangneung. I just counted the number of people, and more than half of them were killed, which means that if we don't take Gangneung, we will be in a very passive situation, and we may even be wiped out. ”

"Therefore, we are going to fight this battle to the death!"

"No matter what the price is, we must fight to the end until we capture Gangneung City!"

After Cao Ren finished speaking, the soldiers all shouted: "Capture Gangneung City, capture Gangneung City..." ”

"Okay, General Ben, please ask you."

After dinner, Cao Ren ordered that the two hundred people be the vanguard, and the rest of the troops followed, and launched the most fierce offensive battle against the Gangneung school field and the city guard.

originally thought that the Huaxia National Army defending the city no longer had much combat effectiveness. Cao Ren also calculated carefully, from the beginning of the attack on the city, to now, the Huaxia Kingdom has suffered nearly 300 casualties.

The current defenders should be less than a hundred.

All it takes is one charge for him to emerge victorious.

But...

When he took the troops and really rushed forward, he found out that this was not the case.

He felt that the Chinese National Army was fighting more and more, from a few dozen people at the beginning, to a hundred, two hundred, three hundred...

An hour later.

There were more than 1,000 people in the Huaxia Kingdom, and they formed a situation of encirclement of Cao Ren.

"It's... How can it be? Cao Ren was directly stunned.

He couldn't understand for a moment how the defenders of Gangneung could suddenly increase. Where did these soldiers come from. Why didn't it appear before, and only now?

Cao Ren couldn't figure it out.

"General, the brethren are almost overwhelmed..."

"Most of our soldiers have been killed or wounded. General, get out of the way. "Xiahou is domineering.

"Not allowed!" Cao Ren knew very well in his heart that retreating now would be tantamount to failure. He has no chance of turning the tables, and Gangneung City will never be captured by him again.

It wasn't what he wanted.

"General, the more the enemy fights, this... We really can't stand it. "Xiahou is domineering.

"It's really weird."

Cao Ren was also thinking, and he said, "You let me think about it." ”

He pondered for a moment...

Suddenly, an idea struck: "I understand." It was the people of the city who helped them. While we were making fires and cooking, the people temporarily joined the army and joined the defense of the city. The clothes of the Chinese national army on their boats, followed behind, as a feint. It was the soldiers of the Chinese National Army who actually fought with us. ”

"This gives us the illusion."

"I think there are thousands of enemies."

Xiahou Ba had to admire, at this time, Cao Ren could still calm down and think about such a complicated issue, he arched his hand and said: "The general is wise." But what do we do now? ”

"Ugh...."

Cao Ren didn't know how to decide how to advance or retreat.

Because the people of Gangneung City have already joined the war.

In the near future, thousands, or tens of thousands of people may join the war.

They don't know how to shoot, but there are a lot of them. Even in white-knuckle combat, the combat power is quite terrifying.

Cao Ren was not sure of winning.

In the final analysis, he only has one or two thousand people, and two hundred of them who have mastered rifles have just learned to shoot guns, and they don't even know tactics.

In addition, he was seriously wounded, and he was really unable to command the battle.

Cao Ren thought about it again and again, and finally said: "That's it, let's order the withdrawal of the army." ”

"What about Gangneung?"

"No matter how good Gangneung is, we can't take it..." Cao Ren knew the advance and retreat, understood the general trend, and after the people of Jiangling participated in the war, he wisely chose to retreat.

If he persists, his prophecy will really come true.

At most, before dawn, at least tens of thousands of people in Gangneung City will join in to resist Cao Ren's attack with the defenders. These people have already gathered at the North Campus and are registering and collecting their clothing.

Each citizen only has one hour to learn to shoot, and then he is sent to the battlefield.

Although it doesn't have much combat power, it can also play a role if there are more of them.

Cao Ren withdrew from Gangneung and fell short.

The defenders of Gangneung took advantage of the situation to regain lost ground.

"Don't be discouraged, everybody. We've lost, but we've done our job. Because during the retreat, we captured a lot of firearms. I just counted, plus our previous ones, there are more than 300 guns, and several boxes of bullets and grenades. With all this, our strength has not only not weakened, but has increased, don't you say? After leaving Gangneung City, Cao Ren led his troops straight into the mountains and rested on a slope, and he said to his soldiers.

Xiahou said domineeringly: "Before we came to Jingzhou, we all trained soldiers to use spears and bows and arrows, but now we know that spears and bows and arrows are useless at all." ”

"It's better to do this..." Xiahou Ba took out the captured rifle from behind his back and fiddled with it a few times.

"That's nature."

"That's why I said that our strength has not weakened, but has increased..." Cao Ren used this to inspire the soldiers.

It works very well.

The soldiers of the Cao army had never seen a new type of weapon, and now they also had it, they could kill the enemy from a distance of one thousand meters, and such a weapon against the sky, holding it in their hands, their self-confidence skyrocketed.

..........

Cao Ren boosted his morale, and when the defenders of Gangneung Fortress were about to chase him, he fled with his men to the mountains overnight.

Since it was in the mountains, the defenders of Gangneung Fortress did not dare to pursue.

They sent men to defend the pass, and they all returned.

Changan.

West.

Cao Cao's army, after leaving Hanzhong, marched for five days and camped here.

This time, he brought with him 130,000 troops.

Among them, 20,000 were iron horsemen and 10,000 chariots.

100,000 infantry troops.

Two years ago, this would have been very strong.

Even Xu Ding didn't dare to say that he would definitely win.

But now, Huaxia uses hot weapons, and who still has rare broadswords and war horses. If you really want to fight, the strength of a regiment and build a good fortification can block tens of thousands of enemy troops.

This is the difference between cold and hot weapons.

In the camp.

Cao Cao called the two brothers, Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Dun.

Give them tasks.

"This time, we are out of the nest, and there are 130,000 elites. But it can't be damaged. In order to capture Chang'an as soon as possible, we need to mobilize heavy troops, besiege on all sides, and engage the enemy with absolute superiority. At the same time, I also have to guard Wuguan and Tongguan, I am worried that Xu Ding has arranged reinforcements in these two places, and once Chang'an is surrounded, they will attack my back road. Therefore, it is necessary to deploy heavy troops to ensure that our army in Chang'an has no worries. ”

Cao Cao pointed to the map, explained to Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Xuan, and then said, "Which of you wants to attack Chang'an?" Who guards Wuguan and Tongguan? ”

"The last general is willing to attack Chang'an..." The two said in unison.

Among the generals who arrived with Cao Cao, only the Xiahou brothers could be entrusted with reuse.

However, the attack on Chang'an and the vigilance of Wuguan and Tongguan are more important than the former, and it is also a great merit.

Even if they are brothers, they have to fight.

"Big brother, you have already made great contributions in Xiliang before, this time you will fight Chang'an, don't fight with me." Xiahou said.

"Chang'an is a hard bone, can you?"

"Hmph... If I can't, who will? Xiahoudun patted his chest and said: "Please rest assured, eldest brother, please rest assured, please rest assured, within three days, I will capture Chang'an." ”

Not to mention three days, even if Chang'an can be captured within ten days, Cao Cao is a great surprise.