Warlords: Conquer the world from the county magistrate

Chapter 30: Siege

Hearing that the enemy only had one regiment of troops, Fang Jian did not dare to be careless. He called Zhang Wei and told him, "The Intelligence Department has heard that the defense of Fenglin East Gate is lax."

"Prepare some carriages, put food on them, hide weapons under the food, and see if we can capture the city gate by surprise."

"If we fail to capture the city, then we will storm it by force."

Zhang Wei immediately made arrangements, and Sun Yuhua led a platoon of soldiers to carry out the mission of capturing the city.

Peng Yunguang shouted unconvincedly, "I am so angry. Such an important mission was snatched away by Old Sun."

Sun Yuhua and his men changed into casual clothes and led a convoy of horse-drawn carriages towards Fenglin East City.

The horse-drawn carriages were requisitioned in Xinyuan County. Naturally, the army's supplies could not be transported by just ten trucks, so many horse-drawn carriages were prepared to follow the convoy.

Although it was wartime, the soldiers guarding the city gate were obviously not vigilant and looked lazy.

When they saw the convoy approaching, the guards at the city gate's eyes lit up, and greed filled their eyes.

"Sir, take it and drink." Sun Yuhua took out the silver dollars with a smile and handed them to the soldiers.

After receiving the silver dollars, these people lost interest in the convoy and waved their hands in disdain, saying, "Go, go, don't block the road."

"Yes, yes, yes. We'll go right away. We'll go right away." Sun Yuhua led the convoy into the city with a smile on his face.

When the last carriage entered the city gate, the carriage in front had stopped and the soldiers on the carriage took out weapons from under the rice bags.

Some people walked towards the city wall, and some started shooting at the soldiers at the city gate.

"Da da da……"

When the gunshots rang out, the soldiers guarding the city were still at a loss as to where to shoot, and someone was shot dead. Someone quickly reacted and shouted, "Enemy attack, enemy attack."

Outside the city gate, when Sun Yuhua led his men towards the city wall, a group of soldiers in the rear were also quietly approaching Fenglin City.

When the gunshots rang out, a group of soldiers no longer hid and ran quickly towards Fenglin City.

Although there were thirty or forty people guarding the city gate and the city wall, the people led by Sun Yuhua were equipped with submachine guns and light machine guns, and they easily killed all the guards.

After the large army entered the city, they quickly split into several groups, attacking the garrison in the city and rushing towards several other city gates.

"Da da da……"

“Thump, thump, thump…”

"Crack, crack, crack..."

When they arrived at the garrison in the city, they finally encountered stubborn resistance and a fierce exchange of fire was carried out between the two sides. The sounds of various guns firing were intertwined.

Overall, the soldiers of the regiment still had the advantage. They were not only well-trained, but also had much more automatic firepower than the enemy.

The enemies fell down in large numbers, while only a few of our own were knocked down sporadically.

There were two officers standing at the headquarters in the city. One of them asked, "What happened? Whose troops are attacking us?"

"I've sent people to investigate the situation." The other man shook his head.

The person who asked the question asked again: "Could it be Zhu Yaoxiang's troops?"

"Captain, Zhu Yaoxiang has been surrounded in Qingshan. They can't have so much automatic firepower. Moreover, the enemy is coming from the east." Another person said solemnly.

The regiment commander also became serious: "You mean, the enemy is likely to come from Sanjiang Province or Jiyang Province? What's going on with the garrison in Changhuan? No news has been reported."

"Commander, Chief of Staff, the enemy is large in number and has surrounded our base. None of our brothers can get out." Soon a soldier ran into the command center and said.

The head of the regiment slammed the table angrily and said, "Let's go, organize the brothers to charge and defeat the troops at the gate of the garrison first."

After saying that, the regiment commander took the chief of staff out of the command center, came to the front position, and personally commanded the soldiers to charge.

"Commander, the enemy's firepower is strong. Let's hold on first and wait for the division commander to come back for support." said the chief of staff.

The regiment commander sighed, "Only the division headquarters has a radio station. Our people can't get out and send messages. We will be trapped in the base and will die."

"But you can't just rush forward and die like this. If you hold your ground you can avoid casualties," the chief of staff advised.

Hearing the fierce exchange of fire outside the city, Francis ordered: "Quickly bring the mortars and grenade launchers into the city for support."

After half an hour of fighting, although the other side suffered heavy casualties, they still failed to break through the enemy's defense line.

"This enemy's resistance is tenacious, but it's a pity that they have no artillery, otherwise a few shots would have blown open your defense line." The one who attacked the garrison was the third battalion commander Peng Yunguang, who was cursing.

The troops that surrounded the garrison were none other than the Third Battalion. Relying on their powerful firepower, they blocked the enemy at the entrance of the garrison, killing and wounding many enemies. However, they also suffered heavy casualties of their own, which made Peng Yunguang very sad.

As he was talking, a soldier came to report: "Battalion commander, the regiment commander has sent someone with artillery to support us."

"The artillery is coming? Great, watch me bomb them to death." Peng Yunguang stood up and said in surprise.

As the mortars were set up, under the supervision of Peng Yunguang, several mortars bombarded the entrance of the enemy garrison repeatedly.

Not far from the base, the regiment commander and the chief of staff were commanding their troops in battle. A shell came over and both of them were blown away.

The place where the two men fought was some distance away from the front line and was relatively safe. They were not prepared at all, but who knew that the other side would have cannons and take their lives away just like that.

After seven or eight rounds of bombardment, the noise in the camp died down a lot. Peng Yunguang shouted and led his troops to charge towards the enemy camp: "Brothers, charge with me."

Soon gunshots were heard from inside, and the sounds of exchange of fire became much less frequent. There were fewer and fewer people resisting, and the resistance was becoming weaker and weaker.

In the absence of effective organization, many soldiers surrendered and were escorted out by soldiers from the third battalion.

At the same time, the other three city gates were also taken. Fang Jian and others were stopping outside the city gate, waiting for Fenglin City to be completely taken and the resistance to be eliminated before entering the city.

It was not until the afternoon that the resistance in the city was basically eliminated and Fang Jian and his party were able to enter the city.

In the office of the former Fenglin City garrison commander, Fang Jian sat in the conference room and asked, "How are the casualties?"

"The third battalion suffered the greatest losses, with more than a hundred people killed in battle. A total of 168 people were killed in the three battalions. 42 people were seriously injured and more than 300 people were slightly injured." Zhang Wei said with a serious expression.

Hearing this number of casualties, Francis felt a little heavy. It took more than three months to train 168 men, but only one day to kill men.

Putting aside his sadness, Fang Jian asked, "What are the results of the battle?"

"1372 enemies were killed and 1254 were captured," Zhang Wei introduced.

Fang Jian was surprised and asked, "The enemy has a regiment of more than 2,500 people?"

No wonder there were such heavy casualties. The enemy had more people than a regiment. If it weren't for their weapon advantage and mortar support, I'm afraid more people would have died.

"Immediately arrange for someone to count the money in the warehouse." Fang Jian ordered.

Afterwards, Fang Jian asked someone to notify Shao Wenli and ask him to do a good job in comforting and propaganda among the people in the city.