Chapter 681 The Last Step
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At the Wuguan city wall, Dou Kuang looked at the Ma family soldiers and horses under the city, with beads of sweat appearing on his forehead. read
Due to the exchange of trade with Beidi, he got the news that Rangcheng had been captured as soon as possible.
At this time, although he was surprised, he did not pay attention to it. After all, he had never taken a liking to Ma Jin's troops.
However, Qinzhou not only has Ma Jin's troops and horses, but also Tatai leading 50,000 cavalry in Xiancheng. Ma Jin's troops and horses are vulnerable, but this does not mean that Ma Han can defeat Tatai.
Until Xiancheng was also captured, he finally felt a little uneasy, but he believed that Beidi would definitely send a large army to encircle and suppress Ma Han.
Moreover, Ma Han's purpose seems to be to regain Qinzhou and Yongzhou, and he thinks that he will not take action against Nanliang.
It wasn't until the cavalry he sent to detect that Ma Han had captured Xiao Pass and led his troops to Wuguan that he finally realized the seriousness of the problem.
So he immediately sent people to Xiangcheng to ask for help.
"Listen, you all, hold on for six days. Our reinforcements will arrive in just six days. Dou Kuang shouted to the soldiers on the city wall, "Don't be afraid, they don't have many soldiers. As long as you dare to fight, they will not It is possible to break through Wuguan. "
After his father met the third prince Zhao Mu, Zhao Mu became Dou Mu, and he suddenly had a half-brother.
And this younger brother is now the emperor of Nanliang.
When he was in the capital, he hated Zhao Mu deeply.
After the establishment of Nanliang, his father supported Dou Mu to become emperor regardless of his feelings. He felt even more desolate and abandoned.
But in Nanliang, no one could question his father's majesty. Even if he was angry, he could only obey his father's arrangements.
But every day, his heart was roasting on a flame, surrounded by pain.
Sometimes, he even wished he could raise his troops to attack Xiangcheng and cut Dou Mu into pieces.
But he also knew that no one in Nanliang would support him in doing this.
He had no choice but to stay at the five senses and work conscientiously.
He was afraid that Dou Mu would find fault and cause trouble for him.
After all, he was the only one in Nanliang who could threaten Dou Mu's position.
So when Ma family soldiers and horses appeared at Wuguan, he was very nervous.
Because once Wuguan is lost, Dou Mu will definitely take advantage of this to attack him and punish him.
When the time comes, even his father will have to make a choice between the two.
Thinking of this, he continued: "As long as we can defend until the reinforcements arrive, I, Dou Kuang, will personally host a banquet to entertain all of you brothers and reward you with ten thousand taels of silver."
""The general is mighty, the general is mighty."" After Dou Kuang finished speaking, his lieutenant raised his sword to the sky and cheered high.
The soldiers also cheered together, and their morale suddenly rose.
Under the city.
Ma Han and Dian Zhang looked at each other and sneered at the corners of their mouths.
Xiao Guan, who was guarding Beidi, was captured by him. How could the Dou family's soldiers and horses stop him?
Nodding to the regulations, he said: "Let them cry."
"Yes, my lord." Dianzhang glanced at the Nanliang soldiers on the city wall and passed on the order to attack the city.
Just like the attack on Xiaoguan, field artillery and mortar artillery first bombarded the Wuguan city wall.
The shotshells flew through the sky and exploded above the heads of the Nanliang soldiers. Countless nails flew around and pierced into the bodies of the Nanliang soldiers.
Their cheers suddenly turned into screams.
The sound of exploding lime bombs was like the dull thud of war drums.
White powder fell from the sky, and the city walls were covered with fog, blocking the view of Nanliang soldiers.
Some lime fell into the eyes of the Nanliang soldiers, and they screamed when it was burned.
Although they had learned about the power of Yanzhou firearms from rumors, this was just a legend to the soldiers of Nanliang.
After personal experience, deep fear arose in the hearts of Nanliang soldiers, and their high morale suddenly fell to the bottom.
Dou Kuang's confident expression turned into panic. His legs shook like a sieve and his crotch became wet.
He is just a young man who has been living a life of dissipation and extravagance in the capital for more than 20 years. He has never experienced a real war.
Seeing the soldiers being killed by artillery shells, with blood and internal organs covered on the ground, his mind went blank and his ears were filled with buzzing sounds.
At this moment, there seemed to be no sound in his world, and he could only see the frightened eyes, blood and broken limbs of the Nanliang soldiers.
It wasn't until he was knocked down by the deputy that he recovered slightly.
When he got up, he wanted to escape down the city wall. He didn't care about anything.
Even if he is executed by Dou Mu, he will die in Xiangcheng.
But at this moment, a bomb exploded three meters away from it.
The shock wave lifted him up and hit him hard against the city wall, causing him to faint immediately.
At the same time, under the cover of mortars and field artillery, skirmishers rushed up and threw grenades onto the Wuguan city wall.
In an instant, flowers of flame bloomed from the Wuguan city wall.
"It's really a skill that can be used all over the world." Looking at the battlefield, Ma Han shook his head gently.
This set of tactics was used from the time they entered Qinzhou to the gates of Wuguan City, without even changing the order.
This forced him to admit that this strategy was very simple and effective, invincible and invincible.
Next, the ladder team charged with the ladder.
Not long after, the Ma family soldiers climbed up the city wall.
Immediately, intensive gunshots rang out from the city wall. This was the Ma family soldiers shooting at the Nanliang soldiers who were fighting with them for the city wall.
The roar of gunfire and grenade explosions continued for a while.
After a while, the city gate of Wuguan was opened, and more Ma family soldiers rushed into Wuguan.
Ma Han smiled triumphantly and walked towards the city gate with Dian Zhang.
After half a day of fighting, the Ma family soldiers completely occupied Wuguan.
The remaining Dou family soldiers fled from the south gate.
Ma Han did not ask anyone to pursue them, as he needed these deserters to go back and spread fear.
After all, his real mission was to cooperate with the King of Yan to disintegrate the Yan coalition.
Although he hated Dou Wei, he had not lost his mind.
"With Wuguan in hand, Nanliang is a fish on the board." Standing on Wuguan, Ma Han looked to the south.
After a pause, he said to Dian Zhang: "You can't be idle yet. You have to continue to work hard for a while, lead your troops to continue to move south, and make a gesture of destroying Nanliang in one fell swoop, forcing Nanliang's troops to return."
"Master, just leave this matter to me." Dian Zhang answered decisively.
Ma Han nodded.
He would not participate in the next battle, and he would focus his main energy on restoring production in Qinzhou and Yongzhou.
Furthermore, unlike Qinzhou and Yongzhou, which were basically uninhabited, Ma Jin and the Beidi troops were mainly concentrated in Xiancheng and Rangcheng.
Jingzhou was the foundation of the Dou family for more than 200 years.
When the Ma family army entered Jingzhou, the local nobles would become the eyes of the Southern Liang, and their whereabouts would be hidden.
Even if he won the support of the people of Jingzhou, it would take time, but what he lacked was time.
After all, he wanted to make Dou Wei panic as soon as possible.
The only way to achieve this goal was to let Dianzhang and his soldiers abandon mortars and field artillery, only bring rifles and dry food bags, quickly penetrate, avoid encirclement, and arrive around Xiangcheng.
In this way, Dou Wei would inevitably panic and recall the army.