Chapter 855: Vulnerable to a Single Blow

"General, the defenses of Shacheng are very lax; the patrolling soldiers are dozing off."

In the night, the soldiers of the First Army and Second Army quietly completed their encirclement of Shacheng.

After the soldiers under their command scouted the area, they reported the situation to Qin Shan and Guan Tong.

The two of them then reported the intelligence to Chang Wei.

When fighting battles in normal times, the two of them are very imposing.

But with Chang Wei present, they still had to be well-behaved.

Chang Wei nodded.

During the day, he had already made contact with the Four Courts informants in Shacheng.

According to the intelligence provided by the Four Courts, there were only twenty thousand or so troops in Shacheng now.

This small number of people was not even enough to be a side dish for them.

However, attacking during the day would inevitably require some effort to take the city.

Therefore, they chose a night raid.

They prepared to use bundled Hand Grenades to blow open the gates of Shacheng directly, and then charge into Shacheng.

Having received Chang Wei's order.

Qin Shan and Guan Tong each returned to make arrangements.

Currently, the two of them were each responsible for two city gates.

Before long, a ten-man squad of soldiers moved toward each of the four city gates.

The division of labor in these ten-man squads was clear, with the soldiers carrying the bundled Hand Grenades in the middle.

Under the command of the squad leader, the other soldiers aimed their guns at the city walls to prevent any accidents.

However, the Shacheng soldiers clearly did not expect the Yan Prince Army to suddenly appear in Shacheng.

Thus, the patrols were merely going through the motions, lacking the care and vigilance of wartime.

The soldiers at the four city gates reached the outside of the gates very easily.

At this moment, they stuffed the bundled Hand Grenades under the gates and then pulled the ignition cords.

"Retreat!"

Sparks flared, and the soldiers quickly withdrew from the city walls.

In just fifteen seconds, thunderous sounds erupted from the four city gates one after another, and Flame shot into the sky.

The wooden city gates could not withstand the explosion at such close range and collapsed with a boom.

"Kill!"

Just at this moment, the shouts of the Wangfu Army rang out from all directions.

The Shizu Army soldiers in Shacheng were stunned by the explosion.

When he regained his senses, he was almost terrified out of his wits.

The Yan King Army had arrived in Shacheng.

The soldiers who reacted immediately rushed toward the city walls, attempting to block them.

But it was all too late after the city gates had been blown up.

The ten-man squads returned to the city walls, and as soon as the Shizu Army appeared, they pulled the Trigger to shoot the Shizu Army soldiers.

If many Shizu Army soldiers rushed over, they would throw Hand Grenades at them.

"Boom!" "Boom!" The sounds of explosions were incessant.

And following this, other Personal Army soldiers arrived.

They held Qin-style Rifles, firing while killing their way into the city.

The Shizu Army soldiers in Shacheng wanted to stop them, but were powerless to turn the tide.

They held their Flintlocks, clumsily loading Bullet.

During this time, they were constantly being shot by the enemy.

To ensure the density of Flintlock Bullet, they lined up in formation with their companions.

Yet the Yan King soldiers were as agile as monkeys in the mountains at this moment, without any formation.

While they marched forward in formation, the Yan King soldiers fired at them from all directions.

Before they had even taken a few steps, their companions fell one after another.

What made them even more desperate was that this attack came from beyond their own firing range.

Thus, in the confrontation between clumsiness and agility, the Shizu Army soldiers quickly felt despair.

The line formation they usually trained for was completely ineffective.

Yet the Yan King soldiers could hide in any corner in any posture; by the time they fired one shot, the other side had already fired five or six Bullet.

The casualties of six Shizu Army soldiers could not even trade for the casualty of one Yan King soldier.

As more and more Yan King soldiers poured in, they became even more desperate.

They lost the city gates, then lost the city walls, and after that, they lost every street.

After a night of fighting, the sounds of gunfire and Hand Grenade explosions ceased the next morning.

The morning sun shone into Shacheng, and the streets were filled with the corpses of Shizu Army soldiers.

More soldiers surrendered; they squatted collectively on the Drill Ground, held under guard by the Yan King soldiers.

In the civilian houses, through the gaps in the windows, the people of Shacheng saw soldiers in dark green uniforms patrolling.

This night, Shacheng had changed hands.

However, the people were not afraid at all; they were mostly pleasantly surprised.

The heavy taxes of the Shizu had made it almost impossible for them to survive, and they had long been looking forward to the arrival of the Yan Prince Army so they could live the life of Jiangbei.

"Great General, Shacheng has already been brought under our control, and the grain and supplies within the city remain intact; at this moment, the soldiers are raiding the influential clans and the Rich Clan," Qin Shan said.

Chang Wei nodded.

Most of the influential clans that fled from the southeast are in Changcheng, but some also escaped to Xiangzhou.

After this southward campaign, they will need a large amount of Silver to rebuild Jiangnan, which has been left devastated by the war.

And the war was single-handedly created by the Rich Clan and the influential clans.

Naturally, their assets must be taken to rebuild.

"Clear out the Rich Clan and the influential clans in the city as quickly as possible; we have already cut off the retreat of the Wu army, and now it is time to finish them off," Chang Wei said.

The surprise attack on Shacheng was merely to sever the retreat of the Wu army, to save them from retreating to Shacheng to put up a stubborn resistance.

But their ultimate goal is to attack from both sides and annihilate the Wu army.

As the saying goes, speed is the essence of war; they must launch their offensive before the Wu army can react.

This will bury the six-hundred-thousand-strong Wu army in Xiangzhou.

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