Total War Predator

After successfully mobilizing the morale of the soldiers, Zhang Zongchang led the new division towards Kailu County, Rehe!

At that time, the garrison in Kailu was led by Mi Zhenbiao, the governor of Rehe, with about 4000 people.His troops were still organized in the late Qing Dynasty, with backward equipment, lax training, chaotic military discipline, and no combat capabilities.

When Mi Zhenbiao heard that Zhang Zongchang was leading a division, he was so frightened that he wanted to run away overnight, but his staff stopped him.

"If Dutong leaves like this, even if he goes back, he will be punished by the commander. It's better for us to fight Zhang Zongchang before leaving."

"It's not like you don't know what's going on in our army. It's said that there are 1 people, but there are actually more than 4000 people. You don't know better than me how long we haven't trained. The other party has more than 2 people in a division. How do we fight this battle?" Mi Zhenbiao was annoyed when he heard what the staff officer said.

The staff officer said such and such in Mi Zhenbiao's ear, which made Mi Zhenbiao smile.

At noon, Zhang Zongchang's troops marched to Rehe for more than 20 miles, not to mention the enemy, and they didn't even see a few bird feathers.

The more the enemy was like this, the more Zhang Zongchang was afraid that they would have an ambush. At noon, the troops approached a wood to rest, eat and drink water.Hearing the cries of killing from the troops in front, Zhang Zongchang hurriedly gathered his troops to form a defensive formation.

The army stopped when it came to more than two miles in front of Zhang Zongchang's department, and then began to shoot at the sky.It crackled for a few minutes, and then the army quickly withdrew again.

That army was none other than Mi Zhenbiao's. After firing a burst of guns, Mi Zhenbiao reported to Wu Peifu that 1 of his troops encountered Zhang Zongchang's troops. Due to backward equipment and enemy surprise attacks, he suffered heavy losses and killed more than half of them. Request to rest in the rear.

Wu Peifu also knew what Mi Zhenbiao's troops were, so he had no choice but to allow them to go to Chaoyang County to rest.

"Which show is this f*** playing?" Zhang Zongchang was stunned by the burst of gunfire.

There are no fools in this world, and Zhang Zongchang's chief of staff, Wang Hanming, guessed Mi Zhenbiao's intentions.

"I heard that Mi Zhenbiao's troops are all Yijun. I guess he didn't dare to fight me and was afraid of being punished, so he fired at the sky. It's an explanation to his superiors."

"I didn't expect Mi Zhenbiao to be a coward. I thought there was a tough battle to fight." Zhang Zongchang said disdainfully after hearing Wang Hanming's explanation.

The troops took a rest and continued to march towards Kailu. On the first day, they encountered no resistance and the troops marched smoothly for more than 50 miles.

Zhang Zongchang listened to Wang Hanming's opinion and decided to march towards Kailu in a hurry!

All the way to Kailu, Zhang Zongchang's troops did not receive any resistance, and Kailu County was not guarded by the enemy. On September 9, Zhang Zongchang sent a power to Zhang Zuolin. After fierce fighting, the troops occupied Kailu County and killed thousands of enemy troops.

At this time, the other division of the Second Army, Li Jinglin's First Division, was making soy sauce in Chaoyang.

There was originally Gong Hanzhi's regiment in Chaoyang County, and Mi Zhenbiao, who was not good at fighting and ran very fast, had a regiment.Wu Peifu transferred a brigade of the 15th Division to Chaoyang County, and nearly 2 troops were stationed in a small Chaoyang County.

Li Jinglin didn't want to see his troops suffer too many casualties, so the troops have been besieging the city for three days.But he just besieged and did not attack. The troops were fighting fiercely every day, and the enemy relied on the county to resist tenaciously.In fact, he just wanted to wait for Zhang Zongchang to come to the two parts to attack together.

Zhang Zongchang didn't make him wait too long, and the new first division arrived in Chaoyang County on the 20th.

Chapter 27 Conquering Chaoyang County

"Brother, I finally waited for you to come!" Li Jinglin looked like he had been waiting for you for a long time, and enthusiastically grabbed Zhang Zongchang's hand, "Go into the tent and rest."

Li Jinglin was not pretending at all, he had indeed waited for Zhang Zongchang for a long time, and he wanted Zhang Zongchang to charge forward with the idea that a poor Taoist would be better than a dead fellow Taoist.

"I heard that my elder brother conquered Kailu County three days ago. My younger brother really admires it. I have been fighting around Chaoyang County for five days and I haven't made any achievements. It seems that this Chaoyang County cannot be conquered by my elder brother." Li Jinglin began to shoot. Zhang Zongchang's horse, after the Huaide military exercise, he and Zhang Zongchang and Guo Songling worshiped each other. Zhang Zongchang is the eldest brother. Guo Songling is two years younger than Zhang Zongchang and two years older than him.

"Old man, you are too polite. I just fought with Mi Zhenbiao and consumed a lot of ammunition. I haven't had time to resupply, and the troops are resting." Zhang Zongchang was no fool, and quickly declined.

Both of them cursed the old fox in their hearts, and then Li Jinglin showed embarrassment, "Brother, if we delay the commander-in-chief's plan, I'm afraid we won't be able to walk around. Otherwise, how about we form a regiment and attack Chaoyang County together?"

Now it seems that this is the only way to go, Zhang Zongchang nodded.

Zhang Zongchang sent Cheng Guorui's No.20 Eighth Regiment, and a regiment of Li Jinglin's to jointly attack Chaoyang County at 21 o'clock in the morning on the 6st.

The 28th regiment mainly attacked the west gate and the north gate, while Li's troops attacked the east gate and south gate.

Before the attack began, Zhang Zongchang told Cheng Guorui not to have reservations, to attack the city as much as possible, and sent Wang Dong's artillery regiment to support it.

The person in charge of the defense of the west city gate was none other than Mi Zhenbiao. The army besieged the city for the past few days, which made him fearful and kept complaining about his staff. He knew that he would never come to Chaoyang County.This time, he became the bastard in the basin, waiting for others to bleed.

On this day, he went to inspect the city wall as a routine, and found that the troops outside the city began to be mobilized. He knew that what he was worried about had finally come, and the enemy was about to attack the city.

"What should we do?" Mi Zhenbiao asked his staff, he had no idea at all.

"Look, it's a day to survive. There are more than 2 troops in Chaoyang City, and one division of Li Jinglin may not be able to eat us." The staff officer still had a little fantasy. He didn't know that there was only one division of Li Jinglin outside the city. There is also a division of Zhang Zongchang, which has a total of 5 people.

Notifying the troops to go down and prepare for defense, Mi Zhenbiao personally boarded the city wall to observe the enemy's situation.

王栋看着时间，数着秒54、55、56、57、58“开火！”

随着王栋的一声令下部署在西城门外地的王栋的炮兵团6门77口径的野战炮和15门八二迫击炮和部署在北城门的7门77口径野战炮15门八二迫击炮同时开火！

Twenty-one shells flew towards the west city wall, and one of the 21 caliber shells landed on the city tower impartially, directly blowing up half of the city tower that had been in disrepair.The lifted top of the city tower fell into the city, injuring several soldiers, and dust was everywhere.

Some of the other shells hit the city and destroyed houses.Some landed on the city wall, and the soldiers with a radius of several meters were pushed out of the city wall by the air waves.

"Everyone lie down!" The staff officer saw a shell flying towards this side, and quickly threw Mi Zhenbiao to the ground.

The shells did not fall on the city wall but fell on the inside of the city, and more than a dozen soldiers staying at the corner of the city wall were killed.

It's not that Mi Zhenbiao, who was lying on the ground in a panic, hadn't thought that Feng Jun would bomb the city wall with artillery as soon as he came up. What he didn't expect was that the shells were so powerful.Just in the first round of shelling, hundreds of soldiers died. How many times can this city wall, which has not been repaired for hundreds of years, be bombed by shells?

He didn't know that the north gate was even more unbearable. A commander of the 15th Division commanding on the city wall was directly killed.After the bombardment, the city walls were littered with broken limbs and broken arms.Rao, the stomachs of this group of soldiers who were used to seeing life and death were also tumbling, and the person in charge of the wall, who was barely able to bear it, vomited.

"I didn't expect Changlegs (Zhang Zongchang's nickname) to work so hard, and he was willing to use bombardment. He is generous and we can't be stingy, order the artillery regiment to fire two rounds of volleys to cheer up!" Li Jinglin told the staff when he heard the sound of the cannon from the opposite side .

The combat staff officer immediately passed on the order, and after a while, Li Jinglin's artillery regiments outside the east gate and south gate also began to show their power!

As soon as the sound of the cannons fell, there were another sound of cannons outside the west city gate and the north city gate.

After a round of salvo, Mi Zhenbiao couldn't take it anymore seeing the heavy casualties, and ordered the troops to wave their flags and surrender.After a while, someone stood up at the west gate, waving a large white flag.

The west city gate slowly opened, and the Zhili soldiers raised their guns above their heads with both hands.Seeing that the West Gate had surrendered, Zhang Zongchang ordered Cheng Guorui's 28th Regiment to go to the North Gate to storm the North Gate, and he personally led Chu Yupu's Fifth Regiment and Xu Kun's No.40 Fourth Regiment into the city from the West Gate.

He ordered a battalion of the 44th regiment to stay to receive equipment from Mi Zhenbiao's unit and to take prisoners.The rest rushed to the north city gate to attack the soldiers defending the city from behind, while the 55th regiment headed towards the county government to kill.

"The brigade commander is not good, the west city gate has been breached, and the Feng army has come in!" A staff officer said to the first brigade commander of the [-]th division after receiving the report.

"Mi Zhenbiao is such an idiot, how many people are there?" The brigade commander asked after cursing.

"No fewer than 5000 people." The staff officer told the brigade commander what he knew.

"5000 people! Our troops are guarding the city gates. Hurry up and send two battalions back from the east gate and the north gate!" The brigade commander heard that the other side had more than one regiment coming, so he only had one reserve regiment here. There were more than 3000 people, and if they couldn't stop it, they asked the staff to deploy troops.

At this time, Zhang Zongchang was less than 500 meters away from the county government, and several machine guns erected on the road blocked their footsteps.Being suppressed by the opponent's firepower, he couldn't take the lead at all.

"Damn it, hurry up and call someone who can fire a cannon, and blow those guns away for me!" Zhang Zongchang scolded his mother angrily.

After a while, a few mortar men came over, carrying three mortars.After proficiently setting up the cannon.They gesticulated there for a while and adjusted their direction, and then the shells flew out with a bang.Immediately afterwards, the other two guns were also developed, and all three shells hit the opponent's fortifications accurately, and those machine guns were completely silent.

"Follow me and rush! Catch a team leader and reward 1000 oceans!" Zhang Zongchang yelled and rushed out first, holding on to the crooked handle.

As soon as they heard that there were 1000 oceans, the soldiers rushed forward.