Chapter 19: Attack in Longdong (II)

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Yang Tianming did not personally command the more than 80 soldiers who annihilated Gao Guangren's troops, but instead gave this combat mission to Zheng Jiantao, who had been out of quarantine for a while.

"The other party has more than 8 o'clock. I will give you 12 o'clock troops in my hand. Be prepared and not prepared. Be sure to fulfill your requirements and wipe out all the troops!" Yang Tianming said solemnly, "Not only clean, thorough, but also fast!"

"In addition, after you solved Gao Guangren's troops, you set up an ambush outside Huan County. I will bring the remaining one to the county town tonight. You move tomorrow morning, I move tomorrow at noon, and strive to solve the Huan County problem tomorrow night."

"Captain of the column, let's change it. I can enter Huan County." Zheng Jiantao was a little anxious when he heard that Yang Tianming was going to enter Huan County in person, "According to the previous statement, you can't go to the front line now."

"Where are so many things?" Yang Tianming said with a glaring eyes, "There are all kinds of people in the county town. I can go there and solve the situation nearby."

"Okay, I'll just obey the order." Zheng Jiantao saw that he couldn't resist Yang Tianming, so he had to nod.

"For these soldiers, we must try our best to achieve what our teacher said "zero casualties." Yang Tianming reminded him again, "When tomorrow afternoon, we will give Huan County J to Yuzhenshan, Wang Fengxue and others to guard the defense, and we will rush to meet with the Third Column. The battle will start on time the day after tomorrow."

"It should be no problem." Zheng Jiantao calculated, "Even if everyone has a horse, we can get enough time."

After discussing some details with Yang Tianming, Zheng Jiantao took the 12oo men assigned by Yang Tianming to the vicinity of Guxiao Pass north of Huan County, preparing to set up an ambush in this area early tomorrow morning to annihilate a troops from Gao Guangren's troops.

Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, there are several passes named after "Xiao Pass". Only the Longdong area, the "Xiao Pass" in the Qin, Han and Song dynasties has been in three different places.

Xiaoguan, more than one kilometer away from Huanxian County, was an ancient pass in the Qin Dynasty. Although it had long been abandoned, the terrain was still extremely dangerous. Xiaoguan in the Qin Dynasty was not an independent pass. It formed a complete defense system with the Qin Great Wall and the towns and forts built along the Great Wall in Huanxian County. The three major beacon towers around Guoer Mountain, Yuhuangshan, Chengdongyuan, and Chengzigang, Shenjiatai, and Chengdonggoukou city barriers are grouped together.

It is surrounded in the center and forms a solid artificial barrier. The three beacon towers are built on the commanding heights of Xiaoguan. They can not only echo each other from afar, but also overlook all the areas of Huanjiang, the west rivers of the city and the east valleys of the city. They can see the 5 square kilometers of river valleys, mountains, roads, villages, etc. inside and outside the city. They form a three-dimensional defense system with high and low height. The meticulous design and ingenious layout have moved military strategists throughout the ages and the literati are moved by it.

The important thing about Qin Xiaoguan is not only its danger, but also its guardianship of important roads and reaching all directions. From here, you can reach the east of Ningxia Hebei in the north, and the Dingbian area in northern Shaanxi in the north, and along the ancient Xiaoguan road leading to the southeast, you can directly reach Qingyang and enter the hinterland of Longdong.

Although Qin Xiaoguan is now abandoned, it is precisely because of the control of the important roads leading to Hedong, Ningxia, Dingbian, northern Shaanxi and other places that Zhao Zhenzhong asked Yang Tianming's troops to take Huanxian before the 21st and set the full start of the Longdong Battle on the 21st. As long as the Huanxian area is controlled, he will have the gateway to the hinterland of Longdong and the initiative to seize Hedong, Ningxia and northern Shaanxi and other places in the future.

However, after inspecting the terrain of Guxiaoguan, Zheng Jiantao changed his mind. The terrain here is indeed very dangerous, but the too dangerous place will also arouse the enemy's high alert. Instead, it is better to set up an ambush not far from the enemy's camping tonight. In this way, the soldiers leaving the camping site will not be much wary, and it is easier to succeed. Besides, setting up an ambush near the camping site of Gaoguangren's troops will also help Yang Tianming and others to move in Huanxian County. This is still too close to the county town, more than one kilometer away. As long as the gunfire sounds, it will definitely alarm the enemies in the county town.

After making up his mind, Zheng Jiantao sent Li Wenyong to take a few capable personnel to investigate the whereabouts of Gao's troops. In the evening, Li Wenyong and others came back to report that Gao's troops had entered a small village about 20 kilometers away from here, and it seemed that they would camp there tonight.

"Okay, let's go to a place 5 miles away from its camping site, and we will camp there tonight." Zheng Jiantao decided, "At the same time, choose the favorable terrain and solve the problem as soon as possible tomorrow morning."

The group immediately ran to the vicinity of Gaomen based on the guidance of Li Wenyong and others.

That night, Yang Tianming and others carried weapons and equipment to sneak into Huanxian County. After entering the county town, Yang Tianming changed his mind when he saw that the enemy's defense was relaxed in the city, and more people were mixed, and the enemy might take the opportunity to escape from the city, so Zheng Jiantao and others needed to cooperate outside. Now it was late at night, and the enemy's troops were transferred away, and they were relaxed in defense, so they just caught a turtle in the jar and dealt with the enemy and took Huanxian County.

Huan County's troops were empty, which was also due to the melee between Chen Guizhang and Yang Wanqing's two tribes in Zhenyuan since April this year. Yang Wanqing's tribe fought with Huang Degui, who was stationed in Guyuan at the end of February this year. Although the Huang tribe was eventually eliminated, the melee between them in Guyuan was also destroyed, and the people even fled. In this way, Guyuan could not support the thousands of soldiers under Yang Wanqing's men, so Yang Wanqing had to find another way.

In April, Bi Meixuan of Yang Wanqing's army led his troops from Guyuan to Zhenyuan, and the county town of Hepingquan, with the second town of Tun. After Chen Guizhang learned about it, he believed that Yang Wanqing was occupying the magpie's nest, so he sent Yang Zhenduo, the leader of the Guyuan Security Corps, and others to lead a delegation of three people to Pingquan Town to fight him.

However, Yang Wanqing's army was well-trained, well-trained, and with a large number of people, Yang Zhenduo's three-o-men was no match for him at all. Afterwards, Chen Guizhang increased his troops several times, but he could not do anything to Yang Wanqing's army.

In May, when Chen Guizhang saw that Yang Wanqing was difficult to take it, he personally led his troops to fight with Yang Wanqing's troops for many days at Lianhuachi outside the west gate of Zhenyuan County. While Yang Wanqing was defending the county town, he was worried that Taiping, which was adjacent to Xifeng Town, would be occupied by Chen Guizhang, so he was attacked from both sides and had no way back. So he sent troops to garrison Taiping and set up ambush in the rivers of Jkou and Langkou Junxian.

Chen Guizhang indeed ordered the Yang Shenghai Brigade stationed in Xifeng to attack Zhenyuan from the east road. Yang Shenghai Brigade caught fire with Yang Wanqing's troops when passing through Taiping. Yang Wanqing's troops were defeated by a small force, and led Yang Shenghai's troops into an ambush circle set up in Langkou Junxian, and wiped out all the brigade, without a single living person.

After Chen Guizhang learned the news, he first cried, and then ordered the troops to supervise the attack: from Xifeng to attack Taiping on the east side; from Pingquan on the west side; from Jingchuan Dangyuan to attack Tunzi on the south side, and started a life-and-death battle with Yang Wanqing. Now both sides have made real fire and are in a state of dying. Chen Guizhang has been constantly transferring troops from all over the world to Zhenyuan to attack Yang Wanqing. Yang Wanqing knows that his side has already formed a life-and-death feud with Chen Guizhang's troops, so he gritted his teeth and defended the city.

The Chen and Yang tribes fought in a melee, and each suffered heavy losses. Most of the Chen troops in Longdong were mobilized to participate in the war in Zhenyuan area, which gave Zhao Zhenzhong and others an excellent opportunity to solve the Longdong problem. In addition, Zhao Zhenzhong chose to take over Longdong by the end of May, and had other considerations: First, Yang Hucheng is still only responsible for Shaanxi affairs and did not serve as the director of the Tongguan camp to obtain the name of affairs in other provinces in the northwest, which made Zhao Zhenzhong and others not too worried about the pressure from Shaanxi in a certain period of the future; second, Nanjing has just held a National Assembly, and while busy encircling Jiangxi for the second time, he is busy fighting with the Kuomintang separatist forces that appeared in Guangzhou, and has no time to care about the Northwest.

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Yang Tianming's troops who entered Huanxian County were not only a few dog barkings, but also the actions to control Huanxian were smooth. According to the reconnaissance, Yang Tianming and others first solved several militia posts in the county, and then sent troops to disarm and tie up all the militia who were still sleeping. Then, they solved the leading figures such as county magistrates, militia leaders, and local tyrants and evil gentry in Huanxian County.

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At noon the next day, when Zheng Jiantao and 12oo attackers brought the seized spoils into Huanxian County under the guidance of the respondents sent by Yang Tianming, everything was already under their control.

"How is your situation? Is anyone injured?" Yang Tianming asked after meeting.

"There are more than 8oo soldiers, and less than 6oo guns, so it's no effort to solve them. There are no casualties on our side." Zheng Jiantao finished speaking, but complained, "It's over here too quickly, right? We rushed to hurry up but still couldn't catch up."

"What's the big smokers who bully the people in the militia who bullyed the people?" Yang Tianming said disdainfully, "To deal with them, in the words of the gentleman, is 'no technical content'. When those county magistrates, militia leaders and other figures were pulled out of the quilt and pointed at them with guns, they all turned into soft-legged shrimps."

"It feels quite boring to deal with such an enemy." Zheng Jiantao nodded in agreement, "We fought with Zhang Zongchang and Chen Diaoyuan and others at the time. Now most of Chen Guizhang's troops in Longdong are concentrated in Zhenyuan, and it is estimated that other county towns are similar to this one. Maybe the two enemies in Qingyang and Pingliang will be more decent. It is better to be lucky to be able to solve Zhenyuan with a chance to get rid of it, so there is no need to sigh like we do."

"Remind." Yang Tianming said seriously, "No matter how weak the enemy is, it is also an enemy. A lion fights a rabbit, and you have to use all your strength. We say it privately, but we cannot underestimate the enemy in our hearts, let alone in front of the soldiers!"

Seeing Zheng Jiantao nodding and understanding, Yang Tianming sighed and said, "Besides, Mingrui and Chen Hailan are both in Hexi now. Chen Zhiyuan, the deputy captain of the First Column in Hedong, is in charge of Chen Zhiyuan. The real luck is Chen Zhiyuan. Okay, let's not think about Hu Si1 here, hurry up and give Yu Zhenshan to learn from Huanxian. Wang Feng will learn from them. After lunch, we will go out to meet the Third Column and strive to win Qingyang tomorrow."

"Captain, do you think we can repeat the routine of your Huan County last night in Qingyang tonight?" Zheng Jiantao suggested, "Since the enemies here are relatively boring, we have to find something interesting for ourselves, right?"
Chapter completed!