Chapter 494: Blocking the City Gate

Inside the cave of the city gate, the bricks and stones are constantly flying and falling, and the clothed minions in the Houjin army, as well as the soldiers of the traitor army, are constantly selling the New Year to the cave of the city gate and piling up various obstacles.

Looking at the actions made by the Jin army now, it seems that it is completely like they want to block the south city gate.

The two shield carts at the city gate slowly approached the position near the city gate again, and the two sleeve poles stretched out again.

One of them, with a rope in front of a wooden pole, lassoed the foot of a wounded soldier of the Houjin Army who was about to climb back, and began to drag it backwards. The wounded soldier of the Houjin Army kept screaming loudly, and his two hands were also pulling wildly on the ground.

But where could he resist the joint efforts of several Huaxia soldiers in the shield car, and he was soon pulled by the rope sleeve and dragged into the belly of the shield car from the position under the shield car guard.

Then, immediately after a terrible scream came from inside, a headless corpse of a Houjin soldier was quickly thrown out from behind the shield cart.

After the covered shield cart squirmed back and forth twice, it was pushed forward again by the soldiers of the Huaxia Army who were hiding under the car.

In the afternoon of the same day, the troops of the 1st Mixed Brigade of the Chinese Army continued to launch another attack from the south of Fuzhou City.

Compared with Jinzhou City, the Fuzhou city wall, which is much lower, was hit by extremely fierce direct fire from the artillery of the Chinese army.

A series of cannonballs of various kinds continued to smash on the city wall, making it impossible for the Houjin soldiers above to stand on the battle wall safely.

However, the style of the Jurchen Eight Banners in the Later Jin Army has always been extremely tough when driving the clothed minions to fight.

This time, when the defensive operation was carried out in Fuzhou City, as usual, because of the large number of Baoyi and traitor troops in the city, the Houjin army's will to fight was quite tenacious.

As soon as there was a sign that the Chinese army had used a ladder to climb the city wall, they immediately drove the traitor troops and the clothed troops to the death, attacking with fire or using stones to counterattack.

Even the men and horses of the Jurchen Eight Banners would personally go into battle to meet the enemy at critical moments, and several times they repelled the soldiers of the Huaxia Army who were just about to enter the city.

There are still a lot of Tartars in Fuzhou City, and the most useful and powerful fire oil and other materials in the defense of the city are also very sufficient.

Zachdan was worried that his 1st Mixed Brigade would lose too many people, so he did not choose to storm Fuzhou City.

Then the Jin Tartars took the initiative many times, and all of them were repulsed or even eliminated, and after being beaten many times, the Houjin army was also terrified.

After discovering that rushing out could only be sent to death, the Houjin army immediately began to desperately pile up bricks, stones, wood, and sandbags inside the city gate, preparing to completely seal the south gate.

Both sides of the enemy and the enemy have some scruples about each other and dare not launch a full-scale attack, so although the confrontation at the southern gate looks very lively, but in terms of the cruelty of the battle, not only does it not surpass yesterday's battle, but it is still decreasing.

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The attack on the south gate of Fuzhou City by the 1st Mixed Brigade of the Huaxia Army has lasted for two whole days, and the siege equipment that was burned under the city wall has been piled up.

The soldiers of the Houjin Army, taking advantage of the poor vision at night, quietly climbed to the head of the city destroyed by artillery, and built bricks, sandbags, wood, or everything else they could find, restoring the bunkers on the top of the city.

The soldiers of the Houjin Army, who had been frightened by the powerful firepower of the Huaxia Army, did not dare to rush out from the south gate of Fuzhou City to send them to death, but from time to time they constantly sent cavalry from the north to contain the Huaxia Army.

But even though the Houjin army was no longer able to make an effective counterattack, they still defended the city very resolutely.

In the siege battle of the Huaxia army on the second day, as long as a battlement and bunker were missing by artillery, Houjin would immediately be forced to send out a coat to repair the gap.

The battle at the city gate in the south looked fierce, and it was impossible to be calm in the north of Fuzhou City.

To the north, on these two days, you can always see smoke billowing from time to time.

The 15 cavalry squads sent by the 1st Mixed Brigade followed the official road and post station there. The forts were burned, and grain fields, houses, and tents were burned all over the place.

These cavalry troops, which had been strengthened in number and received the high treatment of one man and two horses, came and went freely in the enemy territory.

Almost all the soldiers of the Houjin Army along the way have been transferred to Fuzhou City to act as a defensive force many days ago, and there are almost only some old, weak, sick, and disabled people left, as well as Baoyi and Aha, guarding the dungeon forts everywhere.

These people don't have the courage or ability to fight with the Chinese cavalry, if they don't get out of the bunker, they can still save their lives, but if they rush out for the sake of the food that is destined to be burned in vain, then the food is gone, and the people are gone.

Therefore, they could only watch as those foreign cavalry set fire to their year's harvest everywhere on the plain. In an area about 50 kilometers to the north of Gaizhou City, almost all the grain that was about to ripen was mostly burned.

In the evening of the next day, the cavalry units that had gone north to harass and raid returned to the 1st Mixed Brigade south of Fuzhou.

Within the scope of the patrol of the Gaizhou City Sentinel Cavalry, they had already encountered a small number of cavalry from the Eight Banners and other Niu Lu, and Zakdan could proudly say that the Huaxia Army led by him had achieved the campaign goal set before the war.

Therefore, the entire 1st Mixed Brigade suddenly withdrew from outside Fuzhou before dawn on the third day.

In the army, retreat is also an art, even an art much more complex than attacking. Because the retreat involves a series of complex moves.

The 1st Mixed Brigade first transported the logistics materials of the whole brigade through the flat-bottomed boats docked on the Fuzhou River.

In the end, the supplies will be changed boats, directly from the Fuzhou River estuary to the sea, back to Port Arthur or Jinzhou City, all depending on the logistics department's own planning.

The infantry soldiers of the whole brigade, carrying only their own equipment, evacuated in turn at a very fast marching speed.

On the morning of the third day, the 1st Mixed Brigade still sent cavalry units to inspect the area around Fuzhou City, making it a false impression that they were still going to continue to attack Fuzhou City.

It was not until four hours later that the main force of the cavalry disappeared into a mountain pass southeast of Fuzhou City.

The cavalry detachment responsible for vigilance and reconnaissance also set fire to the remaining wheat fields outside the city that the Huaxia army had not yet harvested, and then Shi Shiran left.