Chapter 401: Dangping Nanyang Town (Fourth Watch)
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After joining the fleet, Chang Wei did not rush to Nanyang Town, because now that the suddenness of the attack had been lost, it had become unrealistic to kill Xu Hongru again, and even Xu Heyu could not be caught, and the best opportunity had been lost.
As for Nanyang Town, there is no need to be anxious, anyway, it is where it is, as long as the troops are enough, it can be defeated at any time, and the later it is to fight the enemy, the less likely it is to do the battle of the trapped beasts, and the lower the difficulty.
The situation in Tengxian County was relatively calm, the Volunteer Battalion did not launch a large-scale attack, Yang Guosheng and Chen Xingyan were also unable to attack, the two could only keep clamoring and threatening in front of Huang Chongwu, and it happened that the news that Chang Wei was undercover in the enemy camp came out, and the two of them vented their anger at Huang Chongwu with the anger of being fooled and humiliated, saying that he pretended to be a minister of the imperial court, and wrote to the imperial court to impeach Chang Wei for delaying the fighter and indulging the thieves.
They impeached Chang Wei not once or twice, Huang Chongwu was depressed and could only reluctantly agree, the two thought that he had succumbed under the pressure, and immediately sent his headquarters to attack Tengxian with all his might.
The war was about to break out, Yang Guosheng and Chen Xingyan's troops fought extremely hard, but Huang Chongwu's volunteer battalion was able to deal with it, and the two suffered heavy losses in this battle, but Huang Chongwu's department was unharmed, just when the two were angry and wanted to settle accounts with him, Chang Wei's order came.
Huang Chongwu did not stop doing anything, and he was indiscriminately shelling Tengxian and the White Lotus Thief Barracks. This kind of firepower shows that Huang Chongwu's previous argument that there was not enough shells was all a lie, but when they went to Huang Chongwu to settle accounts, they suddenly found that the volunteers went to the camp empty, and they didn't even have a personal hair.
The two of them were shocked, angry, and happy to write to the imperial court to impeach Chang Wei! The reason for their anger was that Huang Chongwu actually dared to retreat without authorization, and the reason for their joy was that the attack was ineffective and he could be thrown to Chang Wei if he failed to take down the charge of Tengxian.
Chang Wei doesn't care about this situation at all, it is important to be an official in the DPRK, but merit is hard power. Since entering Weishan Lake, Chang Wei first annihilated the enemy in Huishuiwan and captured 8,000 prisoners; attacked Loucun and broke the secret base of the White Lotus Thieves; went down the river to relieve the siege of Peixian; entered the undercover White Lotus Sect regardless of his own body to obtain the military power of the Weishan Battalion and conquered Weishan; decisively entered Taiping Town to disturb Liu Yongming's mind and captured the thief army camp in Taiping Town in a battle; and then entered Zou City, the heart of the White Lotus Sect.
Then, he surrendered Yan Ruyu and helped Yuan Keli to take the Shiqiaozi camp without blood; reflexively killed Xiang Tongji to recover the military power of the Weishan battalion, burned Yishan, and defeated the 50,000 main force of the thief army; won 18 consecutive battles in the battle of Hengshan Valley and Nishan Lake, and beheaded Gaoyang City; the soldiers besieged Tengxian County, took the lead in knocking on the city gate, killed many masters of the thief army, and single-handedly directed the victory of Zou Cheng; and now they want to uproot the thief's nest in Nanyang Town.
The five major territories of the White Lotus Sect, Weishan, Taiping, Nanyang, Zou, and Teng, except for one Teng County that was doomed to ruin, the destruction of the remaining four territories were directly related to Chang Wei.
No matter how others suppressed and slandered him, Chang Wei was also the number one hero in the extermination of the White Lotus Sect! Not to mention anything else, even Cromwell, an Englishman under Sun Yuanhua, knew that he was the hero of the extermination of the cult.
It can be said that Chang Wei is full of confidence, and the coach of this battle, Yuan Keli, has a blue eye for him, so this kind of thing can be completely ignored.
The next day, Wuding's Weishan battalion arrived, and the latest news he brought was that the remnants of the enemy who had fled to the Yimeng Mountains had been defeated, and the officers and troops were searching for small groups of thieves, and their leader, Jing Yiming, the head of the Imperial Palace, had died in the chaos.
At noon, Huang Chongwen also rushed over from Jining with another unit of the Volunteer Battalion, and the remnants of the White Lotus Army that rushed to Jining were dispersed after Yuan Keli returned to the division, and according to the confession, the whereabouts of the leader of the department, 'An Minhou' Xu Jiashi, were unknown.
The combined intelligence of the two parties confirmed Chang Wei's conjecture, and they really laid out suspicious troops to cover Xu Hongru's retreat.
The Weishan battalion had lost four or five thousand men in the battles of these days, and now the two steps together totaled about thirty thousand men. Huang Chongwu's fleet consisted of 1560 ships of all sizes, and it was no problem to transport 30,000 people, and the mighty army sailed from the mouth of the Baima River to Nanyang Lake by boat.
In the winter in the north, it gets dark very early. By evening, the sky was overcast, and the sixteenth moon had shrunk into the clouds, and only a few lone stars were swaying in the canopy like broken lights. In the dark night, a huge black shadow crept in from the eastern lake, as if to hide the bean-like starlight.
The black shadow slowly approached at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the closer it went, the wider it covered, like a dark and dreary beast, and suddenly, a light lit up in the black shadow, as if it wanted to pierce the dark shadow and break through the oppressive atmosphere. As the lights grew, brighter and brighter, and the silhouette of the dark shadow gradually became clearer as the distance approached.
The ground suddenly widened in front of them, and the huge black shadow showed its true face, it was Chang Wei's fleet, they crossed Nanyang Lake along the Baima River ditch, and finally arrived at Nanyang Bay on the periphery of Nanyang Town for half a day.
Nanyang Bay is a zigzag bay, the starlight inlays a layer of gloomy bright edges to the dark clouds in the sky, but it does not illuminate the future in the inlet, there is no melodious fishing song in the evening here, and a few broken three-masted canopy boats are parked in the winding waterway, which looks like a decay and decadence.
This is the most dilapidated and declining lake town that Chang Wei has ever seen, Cheng Shiyu said that this was the most prosperous waterway in Nanyang Lake before, and it was the best fishing area and the origin of lake pearls.
Chang Wei stood at the top of the flagship building and saw the intersection of the lake and Nanyang Town with a thousand miles of tube, which was a small hillside, with a narrow piece of land sandwiched in the middle. Although the outline layout of the street is good, it is no longer visible to the original face, and it is obvious that all this is the masterpiece of the White Lotus Sect!
The places sheltered by the buildings were glowing with the light of weapons, and the followers of the White Lotus Sect were strictly guarding the passages. After watching it for a while, Chang Wei handed over the Qianli Cylinder to Chang Ping beside him, and suddenly said: "Each ship enters the attack position, prepares to cover the barrage, and first comes ten rounds of indiscriminate shelling!"
"Yes!" Chang Ping turned around and went down to give the order.
In a short time, the rumbling of artillery shelling rang out, the sound of violent explosions was incessant, the earth trembled violently, and the hillside crumbled. The flames broke through the pitch-black sky, and the fiery snakes rolled up into the sky, scaring the dark clouds away.
The entire wooden house and shattered corpses of the town turned into dark red fireballs, which were lifted high into the air by the blasting airwaves, and after rising to the top, they fell at an even faster speed, like a meteor shower.
In an instant, Nanyang Town was plunged into a large sea of fire and thick gunsmoke, and a number of houses collapsed one after another under the aftermath of the explosion and the burning fire, and the broken wood chips, damaged weapons, and flying stones mercilessly smashed into the fleeing crowd.
The remnants of the tower turned into an erupting volcano, and the blazing waves from the top lifted all the debris that could be sprayed for half a day, turning it into a dense rain of fire.
Billowing smoke rose into the air, covering the entire sky, and the scarlet flames under the smoke bloomed wildly, turning the decayed and slaughtered Nanyang Town into a human purgatory, even if Yan Ruyu had abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, looking at the tragic situation of Nanyang Town, he couldn't help but feel concerned.
After ten rounds of shelling, the soil and stones on the ground had turned black and red, and the ruined houses and broken trees were hung with long-unrecognizable limb parts.
Amid the screams of the White Lotus Sect believers, Wu Ding's order sounded in the cold wind: "The Weishan battalion is ready to land and fight, and the first battle will wipe out Nanyang Town!" (To be continued.) )