My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

And after doing this, it really has a very obvious effect.

In addition to the heavy casualties among the soldiers on the front line, even Yang Ximin, who was several kilometers away, was confused by the explosion.

Such a fierce bombardment is intended to achieve just that. If the shells are free, just fire them at will.

Of course, this is just Yang Ximin's complaint. As he has the power and territory he has today, he is certainly not a fool. He knows that the enemy must have a reason for doing this, and it is definitely not as simple as just consuming the stockpiled ammunition.

So he immediately sent people to find out what was going on and whether the enemy was going to walk out of the fortifications and launch an attack on them.

But he was sent out, but before he could figure out the situation on the front line, he received another bad news. It turned out that an army suddenly rushed out from the left wing and caught them off guard.

Since there were no defensive fortifications there and the incident happened suddenly, the enemy had already torn a hole in the left wing, and many soldiers simply fled.

At this time, another messenger brought him a bolt from the blue. It turned out that Jiang Li heard that the battle had started, so he immediately ordered the soldiers to rush out of the bunker and cooperate with Jiang Youzhong to completely defeat Yang Ximin's army.

After the front-line soldiers received the order to rush out of the fortifications, they launched a fierce attack on the enemy and quickly destroyed the last bit of the enemy's fighting spirit.

The enemies, having lost their will to fight, immediately turned into Bolt and ran for their lives with all their might.

At first, only a small number of enemies were running, but gradually their number grew, and then it turned into a great rout.

Yang Ximin only reacted at this time. It seemed that the enemy was preparing to attack him, so he decisively asked his adjutant to take people to block the attack, while he himself went to gather the defeated soldiers in an attempt to turn defeat into victory.

However, although the idea was good, the reality was that the soldiers were already dissatisfied and were unwilling to listen to him. He had no choice but to kill a group of them.

He temporarily stabilized part of the army, but before he could organize people to set up the defense line, several soldiers came to report, "Marshal, the enemy's firepower is too strong, Adjutant Zhang has been killed, and the blocking team has been dispersed!"

Before Yang Ximin could say anything, the soldier was shot in the head. Frightened, he quickly crawled down to avoid it. Then a large number of bullets swarmed in, killing and injuring a large number of soldiers who had no suitable cover.

The defeated soldiers, who had suffered heavy losses once again, could no longer control the fear in their hearts. They completely ignored Yang Ximin's orders, dropped their weapons and fled in all directions.

Seeing this, Yang Ximin knew that he was no longer able to turn the tide of the battle, so he could only join the fleeing army with his trusted men.

As he gave up resistance, the Anmin Army quickly occupied Yang Ximin's command post without encountering any decent resistance.

Afterwards, they were not in a hurry to capture the fleeing soldiers all over the mountains and plains, but continued to chase the main force until the deserters could no longer run due to exhaustion, and then they lay on the ground and surrendered.

But the situation is different for the Anmin Army, because the food is better, the training intensity is higher on weekdays, and there is a supply of meat from livestock raised with blood mushroom powder.

This makes their physical strength far stronger than these untrained soldiers.

As Yang Ximin's main force surrendered, the other two troops also learned of the situation here and began to withdraw one after another.

Firstly, they knew that if Yang Ximin was defeated, Jiang Li would definitely be able to free up manpower to attack them from both sides. Instead of being attacked from both sides, it would be better for them to return to their own territory early and build defensive fortifications to resist, which might give them some chance of winning.

Secondly, they were also thinking about whether they could gather some of Yang Ximin's remaining troops to expand their strength, and by the way, help their ally to temporarily manage his territory to prevent it from being divided up by villains due to his lack of manpower.

As the other two groups of troops retreated, Jiang Li was finally able to free up his hands to counterattack.

So he left behind 30,000 men to guard against a counterattack by the enemy, and personally led the remaining 50,000 men to quickly capture Yang Ximin's territory.

Because the main force of the enemy had been captured, the small number of remaining troops, upon seeing the army approaching, either abandoned the city and fled, or surrendered voluntarily, with no intention of resisting at all.

This also allowed Jiang Li to capture most of Yang Ximin's territory in just a few days.

However, he did not take down the remaining small part in one fell swoop, but deliberately left it to Yang Ximin, allowing him to gather the remaining troops and continue to survive.

This operation confused many officers, and Jiang Li's answer was, "Everything will turn into a corner when it reaches its limit. If we push them too hard, they might do something extreme!"

"On the contrary, if we leave them a glimmer of hope, they will not fight desperately, which is actually beneficial to us!"

And the situation was exactly as he expected. After being defeated, Yang Ximin was left with only a tiny bit of territory, and he had decided to fight to the death.

But Jiang Li did not continue to kill him. Instead, he messed around in his territory and no longer chased him, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

After calming down a little, he immediately ordered his men to gather the defeated troops and reached an agreement with Chen Jiongming, who was slightly weaker than him, to jointly resist Jiang Li's threat.

However, Jiang Like had no intention of continuing the attack, but instead ordered his soldiers to eliminate the danger in the newly occupied territory as quickly as possible and then digest it.

After hearing this, everyone nodded in understanding. According to Jiang Li's order, they selected some surrendered soldiers and took them with them to clear out and capture the soldiers hiding in the mountains. Those bandits also suffered as a result.

After all these deserters and bandits were cleared out, the Anmin Army began again, publicly trying landlords and gentry, beating the local tyrants and dividing their land, things that the common people loved to see.

After three moves, Jiang Li selected 20,000 troops from the defeated soldiers and replenished the army to 100,000.

And from the homes of the landlords, gentry and powerful people, a large amount of money, grain and land were confiscated, which made him rich again.

Then we vigorously opened mines and built cement factories. We used the produced cement to continuously build new infrastructure, repair canals and dredge rivers. These tasks took half a year each.

During this period, the conflicts between Yang Ximin and Chen Jiongming, who had originally had close contacts, continued to increase.

Because Yang Ximin had suffered a great defeat before, many of his soldiers were taken away by Chen Jiongming. What's even more infuriating is that Chen Jiongming bet that he dared not turn against him.

They took the opportunity to swallow up the territories of his two counties, causing his already limited territory to shrink further, so that he could not even support his existing army of more than 20,000.

Originally he could only endure Jiang Li's threats, but Jiang Li hadn't made any move for half a year, so he began to have some thoughts that he shouldn't have.

He joined forces with Liu Zhenhuan, the leader of another coalition army, in an attempt to attack Chen Jiongming from both sides and take back the territory that belonged to him.