Turbulent Times Chapter 1443: Dashan Pass
Wang Junlin had already confessed that all the captured soldiers from Boling County would be sent to him. Although Cui Shenggang knew that Wang Junlin had arranged for them to intercept the rout of Boling County at this place, it is very likely that he deliberately let them face the rout. The soldiers frantically desperately tried to escape, which caused them a lot of losses.
It's just that even if they understand this point, they don't dare to think too much in the current situation, and they have to hand over a lot of the thousand-odd captives to Wang Junlin.
When Dugu Changsu in the north led nearly 100,000 clan reinforcements to react and wanted to bring troops to rescue, Luo Shixin led the people from the Whirlwind Battalion to kill them suddenly from the neighboring county and intercepted them. Landmines, grenades and other sharp weapons were delayed in blocking them, and at night, except for the loss of some people in a daze, they didn't get close to the direction of Boling County City. Seeing that it was difficult to accomplish, they retreated.
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As a result, the sons of the Cui clan and Cui Shenggang, the head of the family, fell into the hands of Wang Junlin. Except for Daguan County in the north, which was occupied by Dugu Changsu, Boling County was completely occupied by the Far East Army.
After a lot of coercion and temptation, Wang Junlin agreed to Cui's three requests, to protect them Cui's prosperity and wealth, to be an official in Wang Junlin's system, and to marry Cui's daughter as a concubine.
Based on Wang Junlin's reputation in the minds of the people of the world, what he said and the guarantee he made are as good as they say. county.
Wang Junlin only left one-tenth of the million acres of fertile land under Cui's command, and the other 900,000 acres were used to resettle refugees and reward meritorious soldiers and officials.
Similar to Cui's treatment, other nobles in Boling County who had previously fought against the Far East Army also dealt with it in the same way, losing most of their land and keeping a tenth of their property.
On this day, more than 700,000 people in Boling County were extremely happy.
On this day, the remaining tens of thousands of county soldiers, county soldiers and officials in Boling County were ecstatic.
On this day, the Cui family and some nobles in Boling County were in complicated moods, almost unable to restrain themselves.
On December 7th, Wang Junlin left behind the relatively heavy losses of the Tiger Camp
Boling County personally commanded 60,000 horses from Xuanfeng Camp and Xiongwu Camp, plus 20,000 soldiers from Boling County and 20,000 troops from Xiongkuohai, making a total of 100,000 people. The border of the county confronted the coalition forces of Dugu Changsu and the 120,000 clans.
Dugu Changsu's 120,000 horsemen are mainly entrenched in Daguan County and the famous Dashan Pass.
Wang Junlin personally led the army, not only for the purpose of driving away the coveted coalition forces of powerful clansmen, but also to take over Daguan County. Instead, Dashanguan is to be snatched, because Dashanguan is the main throat from Hebei to the counties in Hedong. Its strategic position is extremely important, and it has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.
Besides, Wang Junlin was going to directly attack Dashan Pass, but Daguan County didn't plan to pay any attention to it.
Because, Wang Junlin knew that once Dashanguan was obtained, Daguan County would be just a solitary boat in the vast ocean, which could capsize at any time. The most important thing is that it also completely cut off the connection between the powerful coalition forces and the forces of Hedong Li Yuan and the transportation of grain and grass. The next step is to compete with Hedong Li Yuan and his son in terms of geographical advantages.
Dashan Pass only has more than 20,000 defenders, but the terrain is very dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Although Wang Junlin has made a lot of preparations in advance, he also knows that it will not be easy to win.
Before coming to such a powerful pass, the Military Intelligence Office had already collected a lot of information, whether it was the military strength in Dashanguan, various deployments, or even how many defense methods they had, etc., they all inquired clearly. It was precisely because he knew about the situation at Dashan Pass that Wang Junlin came in person and made full preparations.
Dashanguan is difficult to attack, mainly because in addition to the high-rise Zhazhuguan Walled City, many military forts and military forts have been built on both sides, and there are two protruding mountain ridges on both sides, which are slightly difficult to attack. People with city experience can see that the key to breaking the city lies on these two protruding mountain beams. Li Hu, the general guarding the Dashan Gate, was obviously aware of this, and there was a commanding elite soldier stationed on each of the two mountain ridges.
In fact, these military villages and military forts were all built after Li Yuan took control of the Hedong counties. Obviously, they were originally intended to prevent the Far Eastern Army from entering Hedong one day.
In order not to affect the attack on the main pass, Wang Junlin first concentrated his forces to take down the five military strongholds and two military forts on both sides.
At this time, the Far Eastern Army is attacking the city
The power of the equipment is reflected, such as giant catapults, gunpowder packs, grenades, giant nest vehicles, giant crossbow guns, sappers demolishing walls, etc., all kinds of means were used one by one. In five days, The military forts and military villages on both sides all fell into the hands of the Far East Army.
During this process, because the Dashanguan Guards had far fewer troops than the Far Eastern Army, and were afraid of the strength of the Far Eastern Army, they never dared to come out to support them, so they had to retreat to the main pass.
The powerful coalition forces in Daguan County also sent a large army to rescue them, but they were all intercepted by the Far East Army in field battles.
Under this situation, the Dashanguan defenders could only shrink back, and they could no longer pose any threat to the Far East Army.
On the sixth day, the Far Eastern Army began to concentrate its forces to attack the main pass, but at the same time, 500 special forces soldiers under the leadership of Zhang Tiangang had already crossed the mountains and ridges, and circled behind the Dashan Pass.
On the first day, the Far Eastern Army suffered nearly a thousand casualties and failed to reach the Guancheng Wall.
On the second day, the Far Eastern Army blew up half of the city wall with gunpowder, but due to the special terrain here, it still did not collapse. Unless the Far Eastern Army concentrated all the explosives quota this time, it would be possible to blow up and collapse the city wall in one fell swoop. But how could Wang Junlin be willing to use all the gunpowder here, besides, there are other ways to break through.
On the third day, in the middle of the night, five hundred special forces soldiers climbed up the mountain ridges on both sides from behind. The sound of killing suddenly shook the sky above the mountain ridge.
For the troops commanded by the two men on the two mountain ridges, Li Hu, the guard of the Dashan Pass, is quite confident, because these guards are used to fighting in the jungle and mountains, because all the soldiers and horses are from the local mountain people. The main reason for recruiting was to not shake the morale of the soldiers. Li Yuan specially took out some food and donated some food to the disaster-stricken homes of the soldiers. Therefore, the morale of the guards at Dashan Pass was also maintained. Not to mention that the two commanders had a good location during the night battle and in an environment they were familiar with. The opponent can sneak attack successfully.
However, these thousand people were facing 500 special forces soldiers, so the result would definitely exceed his expectations. In just half an hour, two crucial mountain beams fell into the hands of the special forces. Seventy-one soldiers of the Special Forces suffered losses in this battle.