Chapter 174: Bloody Battle in Nanchong 2
At night, Fang Xinyu couldn't sleep after finishing his business with his wife. He wondered if Li Dingguo, the famous general of the late Ming Dynasty, could be defeated so easily. Ma Xiangling saw that her husband was a little absent-minded, so she asked, "What's wrong with you, husband? Are you thinking about those two concubines?"
Fang Xinyu smiled and said, "A little, but that's not the main reason. I'm always worried that Li Dingguo will make some moves at night. It's very likely that they will launch a sneak attack!"
"How could that be? Didn't father and uncle say that? It takes time for him to reorganize his troops! There are Liu Wenxiu's soldiers and Ai Nengqi's soldiers here, how can they be reconciled so quickly?" Ma Xiangling said.
"They are now huddled together by our attacks, and they will definitely work together. Reorganizing their troops will make it faster, so Li Dingguo is very likely to persuade those two people to reorganize their troops! Moreover, Nanchong is the barrier of Chengdu, and they will not retreat again. They will definitely fight us to the death, so we can't be careless." After Fang Xinyu finished speaking, he got out of bed and started to get dressed.
Seeing her husband rise, Ma Xiangling also got dressed. After helping Fang Xinyu dress and armor, Fang Xinyu headed straight for the city wall. The White-Pole Soldiers were organizing manpower to repair the breaches in the wall, but there were simply too many to repair. Now the entire city of Nanchong was like a sieve, leaking air everywhere. Standing on the wall, Fang Xinyu seemed to smell a dangerous aura.
Ma Xiangling also dressed neatly, wearing armor and came to Fang Xinyu's side. Ma Xiangling asked, "What's wrong, husband?"
Fang Xinyu pointed at the collapsed areas and said, "Look, these unfinished city walls are opportunities for Li Dingguo to exploit! You can't listen to your father and uncle! Gather your troops immediately and be ready at any time!"
"Okay! I'll go right away!" Ma Xiangling listened to her husband's words and immediately went down to prepare. Of course, she could only command her own group of more than 10,000 people.
Still worried, Fang Xinyu descended the city wall and ordered his personal guards to light a hot air balloon and prepare for a takeoff. He was wearing night vision goggles, allowing him to see clearly at night. It was just too cold at this time of year, and even the sky was colder. It was the Little Ice Age again, and even Guangzhou was experiencing heavy snow, let alone Chengdu.
Despite all the dissuasion, Fang Xinyu resolutely decided to board the hot air balloon. This wasn't the kind that flew everywhere; it was tethered to the ground by a rope and lashed with countless sandbags. It could only rise to a certain height, allowing him to serve as an observation post. Fortunately, this was ancient times, with no tall buildings or anything obstructing his view. Once up in the air, he could see everything for dozens of miles around him.
At 800 meters, Fang Xinyu picked up the night vision goggles. Zhao Xiaofei had asked a friend to buy these military-grade goggles on the Russian black market, disassembled them into parts, and then sent them to Fang Xinyu and his team to assemble. In the Ming Dynasty, if anyone wanted to do something at night, they could keep their sight with this treasure.
As soon as Fang Xinyu put it in front of him, he saw a large number of Daxi soldiers outside the city crawling towards Nanchong City, and some of them had already reached the city wall. Fang Xinyu immediately opened the signal gun and fired at the central camp of the white-pole soldiers.
The red flare was very eye-catching in the air. Ma Wanchun and Qin Yiming had both seen it before. They knew it was an alarm signal and immediately emerged from their tents to organize their troops.
They saw it, and Li Dingguo saw it too. However, many of them had already reached the breach in the city wall, so they had no choice but to launch an attack in advance. Li Dingguo led the charge, grabbing his broadsword and rushing towards the breach first. Several white-pole soldiers noticed and immediately lunged at Li Dingguo. Li Dingguo ducked to avoid the attack, and the guards behind him worked together to hold the weapons of the white-pole soldiers, while the other soldiers cooperated and hacked several of them to death.
Climbing the city wall, Li Dingguo unleashed a killing spree, each strike swift and fierce. Every blow drew blood, and the White-Pole Soldiers who advanced were beheaded. He left countless corpses at his feet. Behind him, the Dashi Army surged forward, charging into Nanchong City.
At night in Nanchong City, most of the White Spear Soldiers had already rested. Even if Fang Xinyu had called the police, it would have been too late! It could only be said that they were able to assemble quickly, minimizing losses, and that it wasn't as chaotic as expected. However, there were still instances where soldiers couldn't find their generals, and generals couldn't find their soldiers. Furthermore, the White Spear Soldiers fought in coordination, not with their own comrades. When fighting alongside others, they lacked the same tacit understanding. Their combat effectiveness was significantly lower than usual.
These White-Pole Soldiers hastily assembled and engaged the attacking forces of Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu in a meat-grinder mode. It can be said that both sides were of similar strength and combat effectiveness. Li Dingguo's army had more blood and corpses than the White-Pole Soldiers, while numerous, were largely new recruits. Chongqing Prefecture, having been winning the battle, had become somewhat blindly arrogant. They were somewhat confused by the surprise attack, and some, in a fit of rage, threw grenades directly into the fighting crowd, not caring whether their companions were present or not.
The result was predictable: both the enemy and our own troops were decimated. The scene immediately became a bloody mess, a scene resembling hell. This was the result of over-rapid military expansion: insufficient coordination, too many new recruits, and emotional instability. While veterans were assigned to lead the new recruits, the consequences of one veteran leading ten new recruits were predictable. Fang Xinyu had originally intended to train the White Spear Soldiers like the Kenan Army, but Qin Liangyu firmly opposed this. Her reasoning was simple: the White Spear Soldiers were not primarily armed with firearms.
The Kenan Army wasn't an all-firearms force! They also needed to train in swordsmanship. After all, they didn't have automatic weapons like AK-47s. At best, they could be shot in a line, a bit further away than 19th-century Europe. If the enemy got close, they still had to wield their swords, white in, red out. But Fang Xinyu couldn't convince a 70-year-old woman from the 15th century.
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