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Chapter 130 Capture Nanyang City

Under the intensive firepower of the rural protection army, those Ming soldiers simply hid and could not go to the top of the city. Many people even turned around and ran towards the city when they got off the top of the city.

Some of the guards took off their military uniforms while running, and then broke into houses and grabbed ordinary clothes, turning themselves into ordinary "good people".

At the beginning, the civilian officials and generals of the Ming army on the top of the city tried their best to drive those rout soldiers to the top of the city.

However, as time passed, when the casualties of the Ming army at the top of the city slowly increased to two to three hundred people, especially after a few courageous generals who refused to come down from the top of the city were killed or injured, the remaining officials, Regardless of civil servants or military generals, they all refused to go to the top of the city.

No one even drove the rout soldiers to continue to fight on the top of the city, because they had already quietly run away one after another.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, the township protection army temporarily filled a short section of the moat with sand, stone and wood boards, and completed the left and right preparations before climbing the top of the city.

The city wall on the northwest side of the city, where the Rural Protection Army focused on attacking, was already empty...

As a result, a group of heavy infantry who had planned to charge against the enemy's arrows and guns came under the city wall like a march in the countryside along the way without any counterattack.

You must know that each of these heavy infantrymen who are preparing to climb the wall is wearing heavy armor, carrying a shield and a fine steel waist knife, and their load is very heavy.

With such a heavy load, and in order to maintain their physical fitness to climb the city wall and the subsequent fight, they were not fast when they approached.

At this time, if the Ming army on the top of the city can use light artillery, muskets or even bows and arrows to cover and shoot, it will definitely bring a lot of casualties to the heavy infantry of the rural protection army.

However, the siege heavy infantry of the Rural Protection Army approached the city wall like an outing, and they were not blocked by any force during the process of climbing the city wall. The casualties during the whole process were only single digits.

This is almost unimaginable in traditional siege operations.

And when these heavy armored infantry climbed up to the top of the city carefully, they did not find many Ming soldiers hiding behind the battlements, but found a large number of Ming soldiers and young men under the inner wall of the city wall.

When the defenders saw the heavy armored infantry of the Township Protection Army appearing on the top of the city, they all turned around and fled towards the city, screaming like frightened sheep.

In such a huge city of Nanyang, with thousands of defenders, none of them dared to go to the top of the city to fight against the security guards!

Under such circumstances, there will be no tragic fighting in the subsequent so-called capture operations of Nanyang City. After the heavy infantry climbed to the top of the city, they quickly took control of the city gate, and then opened the city gate. Soldiers poured in from the city gate one after another, and began to control the four walls of the city, and at the same time, troops went deep into the city.

The first goal they went into the city was the official warehouses in the city, and the second was the important official buildings in the city, including the magistrate's yamen, the county magistrate's yamen, the school grounds in the city, and the Tang Palace.

By this time, it could basically be announced that the Rural Protectors had taken Nanyang City, but the whole process of attacking Nanyang City seemed nondescript.

To some extent, in fact, the rural protection army did not encounter actual resistance when they attacked Nanyang City.

Even in the extremely important stage of climbing the top of the city and seizing the top of the city, the Ming army did not carry out actual resistance.

All the resistance of the Ming army in the city seemed to have completely collapsed in the fierce shelling of the rural protection army and the bullets and arrows of the infantry in the early stage.

All this made Luo Zhixue a little unbelievable in his own eyes.

He expected that the attack on Nanyang City would be relatively smooth, but he never thought about attacking Nanyang City. The casualties he paid before and after were only more than 20 people.

Even the Ming army defending the city didn't have many casualties. All the casualties added up to more than 200 people died, and it is estimated that about a hundred people died in battle.

At the same time, most of these casualties on both sides were killed by their respective artillery, muskets and other long-range firepower.

As for the close combat, there was none, because there was no tragic close combat from the beginning to the end.

Luo Zhixue and the others worked hard before the battle to form a temporary commando team composed of elite heavy-armored soldiers from various units, and the whole process was paddling...

But in the initial battle plan, this temporary commando was expected to suffer certain casualties, and finally rushed to the top of the city to fight the enemy!

According to Luo Zhixue and Huang Guangmao's vision, the temporary commando team will need the rich combat experience of these elite soldiers, their extraordinary combat skills, coupled with their extraordinary courage and equipment advantages, to fight desperately and finally stand at the head of the city. Stabilize your footing, and then cover more friendly troops entering the city.

A siege of Nanyang City made Luo Zhixue feel like he had punched the cotton with a heavy punch, but it couldn't be realized, and it always made people feel light and unreal.

When the troops entering the city continued to capture the important places in the city according to the plan, Luo Zhixue, Huang Guangmao and Xu Zhixian carried out a review of the siege operations, and even called Chen Yongfu, Chen De and his son.

The reason why they are called is that today's siege operation is too weird. At the same time, what is more important is the fighting power displayed by the defenders in the city today, that is, the ordinary guard soldiers, and Luo Zhixue's influence on ordinary guards. The combat effectiveness of soldiers is different.

The defenders in the city are also guard soldiers, which are the same group as the guard soldiers in the Zhaozhuang battle yesterday, but the combat effectiveness displayed by the two is quite different.

This made Luo Zhixue a little confused.

What is the real combat effectiveness of these ordinary guards of the Ming army?
Well, he knew it was bad, but to what level?Is it the kind that can scare away with a few shots?Or just casually kill or injure a few people and collapse?Or is there some tolerance for casualties, but the soldiers' military literacy, tactics, and equipment can't keep up?
This is very important, and it is directly related to the strategic choice of the follow-up rural protection army.

If the real combat effectiveness of all ordinary guard soldiers was the same as that of the Nanyang city defenders, Luo Zhixue would not have to think too much about it, and just sent his troops around to attack the city and loot the land.

After all, in the Ming army system, although battalion sentry soldiers are the main force, the total number of troops is not many. The Ming army has more ordinary guard soldiers, especially the Ming army that performs defensive operations in the interior. Soldiers are the main ones.

Only the mobile combat field army will be dominated by battalion sentry soldiers.

Therefore, the strength of the ordinary guard soldiers in the Ming army system is also worthy of the attention of the rural protection army.

And after a replay of the siege battle, Luo Zhixue became even more confused...

Because Luo Zhixue asked Chen Yongfu to be the commander of the defenders in the city during the replay.

According to the deduction results of the replay, in the end, the rural protection army was able to attack Nanyang City, but it had to pay at least 400 casualties.

This is not normal!

There must be something wrong there.

And it wasn't that there was a problem with the deduction. During the deduction process, Luo Zhixue personally acted as the referee, Xu Zhixian was the main attacker, and Chen Yongfu was the main defender. The strength and equipment of both sides were based on the actual situation in the siege battle just now.

The only difference is that the commander of the defenders has changed.

But the result is far from the reality.

Luo Zhixue glanced at Chen Yongfu and finally sighed.

He considered many conditions, but he didn't expect a general to have such a great influence on the combat effectiveness of an army.

This is actually not in line with Luo Zhixue's consistent cognition. In his opinion, fighting a war is all about equipment and logistics, regardless of the tactics, just push it over and it's over.

However, Chen Yongfu gave him one today.

A capable general can make a mediocre army capable of fighting, and can also make a capable army more capable of fighting.

For example, in the same battle of defending the city, other generals of the Ming army sent a small number of soldiers from the ordinary guards to lead the ordinary guards to fight against the civilian husbands.

However, Chen Yongfu was not. He directly dispatched all the elite soldiers to serve as the supervisory team, and then drove the ordinary guards and guards to the top of the city.

Just like he was in the Zhaozhuang battle yesterday, the soldiers in the headquarters were all used to supervise the battle team, and those who charged were all the guards, and the guards directly killed them on a large scale when they retreated.

They were not covered with knives, but directly covered with arrows and light cannons...the killing was more ruthless than that of the Xiangbao Army.

Under such circumstances, the guards and civilians may die if they continue to fight, but if they retreat, they will definitely die. They have no choice but to die on the top of the city.

At the end of the deduction, thousands of people were killed or injured by the guards of the Ming army and civilian husbands defending the city, and 500 people were killed or injured by the rural protection army who attacked the city.

The funniest thing is that at this level of fighting, the more than 200 guard soldiers drawn by Chen Yongfu only suffered sporadic casualties, and most of them were fine.

Because Chen Yongfu didn't line them up on the battlefield from the beginning to the end, he just acted as the supervising team.

After such a deduction, Luo Zhixue understood why the combat effectiveness of the guards of the Ming Army in the Battle of Zhaozhuang and the Battle of Nanyang City was so surprising.

There is only one variable here: Chen Yongfu, a ruthless man who kills his own defeated soldiers without mercy!
It seems that in the future, we still need to focus on collecting information about enemy generals, analyzing their personalities, and predicting their behavior.

When Luo Zhixue, the General Staff Office, and Chen Yongfu were conducting rehearsals in the headquarters outside the city to study the gains and losses of the battle, most of the troops of the Rural Protection Army who had entered the city before had completed their combat missions.

Since the defenders in the city had completely lost their organized resistance, and a large number of troops were routed or surrendered or hid, the troops entering the city also entered the city smoothly and took control of various important places, and successively captured the magistrate's yamen, county yamen, city barracks, official warehouses, etc. important place.

On the contrary, when they attacked the Tang Palace, they encountered a certain degree of stubborn resistance, but when the Township Protection Army pulled the two hundred catties of artillery over, all the resistance disappeared.

(End of this chapter)