RPAGF Chapter 264 Urgent Need for Information
Chapter 264 Urgent Need for Information
Shen Wansan smiled sinisterly. Even the strongest fortress can be breached from within, let alone Jincheng. Shen Wansan didn't believe that Han Sui didn't have a few disloyal people under his command. In fact, he didn't need to go through all this trouble.
Artillery can be used to directly attack the city. With the defensive strength of Jincheng, it is absolutely impossible to stop the attack of the three organizations. After all, the three organizations are the veteran teams in the self-governed area, and their combat power is still very strong.
However, Shen Wansan, who was determined to bring glory to the Third Organization, had to minimize the casualties of his own troops. Achieving the greatest victory with the fewest casualties was the only thing that would truly bring him honor.
The night passed quickly. During the day, the enemy did not attack, and even their main force did not appear. Only a small number of cavalry appeared around the city and their own scout cavalry carried out a siege. In the end, only a small number of cavalry returned to the city alive, suffering heavy casualties. However, the cavalry still brought back some information that Han Wu urgently needed.
For example, they were certain that the enemy they were facing was the self-governing organization based on the flag. Only the self-governing organization used the Crimson Golden Dragon Flag. Then, the enemy they were facing was the third organization of the self-governing organization. The cavalrymen didn't know what this flag meant, and neither did Han Wu. Han's organization's intelligence work was not good.
They only had a few scattered spies scattered around the area. Before this battle, the autonomous region did not have much interaction with each other, so naturally they did not have detailed intelligence gathering. Moreover, even if they had done their homework, it would be useless for them to know what the autonomous region's team numbers meant, because they were just code names.
"Is that all?" Han Wu asked the captain who was compiling the information. The captain replied, "Organize the team. That's all we have. The enemy has more than 30,000 men and they have the numerical advantage."
"Okay, I understand. You can go now."
While Han Wu was contemplating his next plan, undercurrents were already surging beneath the surface of Jincheng. Thanks to the espionage activities of the Liangzhou Bureau of the Autonomous Region's Intelligence Department, news that Han Sui had been killed in battle and that Han Wu was preparing to surrender quickly spread throughout the city.
The people of Dalian, as well as the high-ranking members of Han Sui's organization, all knew about Han Sui's death and Han Wu's plan to seize power. Although Han Wu tried his best to explain these things, many people still did not listen to his explanations. In particular, Han Wu destroyed the letters sent by the enemy, which further confirmed the suspicion that Han Wu had surrendered.
Under pressure from both inside and outside, Han Wu finally took action. He ordered the arrest of all members of the two most vocal families, who were thrown into prison to await the return of their lord for judgment. At the same time, Han Wu also strengthened the supervision of the city.
The situation was quickly brought under control, but this was only on the surface. More people went underground to work. Han Wu never expected that his high-pressure policy would not have much effect, but would instead have a significant negative impact. His violent suppression further confirmed the news of Han Sui's death.
Otherwise, why would Han Wu be so eager to eliminate his opponents? He must have wanted to seize power. Meanwhile, some members of smaller families who were already dissatisfied with Han Sui were secretly making more frequent contact with each other.
The next day, the large organization in the autonomous region finally appeared on the northern horizon. For some reason, when some people on the city wall saw the large red-clad organization in the distance, they breathed a sigh of relief. Did they really want the enemy to attack?
When the cannons of the self-governing district were raised high, and when the roar of artillery echoed outside Jincheng, all the people of Jincheng knew that the enemy had begun to attack!
As the main force of the Third Organization, the Third Organization was naturally well-equipped. The three divisions, plus the organization's direct artillery, had a total of 48 heavy general-level artillery pieces divided into two groups, roaring towards the walls of Jincheng.
Although these bumpkins from Liangzhou had some cannons, their old-fashioned weapons were nowhere near as powerful as the heavy General Organization Cannon, which was derived from the Frankish Cannon on Earth. The roar of the cannons echoed throughout the sky above Jincheng.
The Kim Sung-soo organization appears to have over 20,000 members, but in reality, only three or four thousand are veterans. The rest are all newly recruited soldiers who have never seen such a scene before. Not to mention them, even these veterans of the Korean organization have never witnessed dozens of cannons firing simultaneously.
Even with a low hit rate, each salvo still hit the city wall with at least twenty shells, causing it to tremble. The soldiers standing on it were terrified, and deserters began to appear after the first round of bombardment.
Han Wu quelled the large-scale escape attempt in time, but with the start of the second round of artillery bombardment, the soldiers on the city wall could no longer hold out. In particular, the rubble that flew up from the cannonballs hitting the top of the wall was like bullets flying towards the defenders on the wall.
After the splash damage was inflicted, even the veterans around them were unsteady on their feet. Their artillery couldn't reach that far, and even if it did, it wouldn't cause much damage.
The two sides were not evenly matched. Forced to take the beating and unable to fight back, even if the defenders were replaced with elite self-organized teams, they would not be able to hold out without artillery fire, because they could see no hope and only saw their comrades around them falling one after another.
The rout had begun. Through the binoculars, Shen Wansan saw that the defending forces on the city walls were collapsing. He immediately ordered an attack, and a vanguard of a division pressed forward. In his view, the outcome of this battle was already decided. The new recruits in Han's organization simply could not withstand three rounds of artillery fire.
An infantry company would set aside a squad to operate the cannons, each squad equipped with two cannons, to fire before the two groups engaged in close combat or before the siege. However, this equipment was not yet widespread in the Anxi Independent Division.
Otherwise, the Anxi Independent Division would not have suffered such heavy casualties. However, as one of the veteran teams in the self-governing area, the three organizations have already popularized this kind of formation. In an instant, countless bullets were fired from the line of more than a thousand meters and shot towards the city wall.
A chorus of wails erupted from the city walls. Seeing the enemy's firepower outside the city, Han Wu finally understood the gap between himself and the autonomous region. Despite the enemy's firepower, Han Wu ordered the cannons on the city walls to fire.
Although they only had about ten cannons, and they were the oldest type of divine weapons, which sounded impressive, these divine weapons were already outdated.
Of course, there was some damage. With more than a dozen powerful weapons firing, seven or eight gaps immediately appeared in the attacking line infantry, which were the blanks created by the shells.
However, such attacks had no effect on the line infantry of the 1st Division. The infantry, in neat rows, continued to advance towards the city wall in a slow-motion firing pattern, and they were less than thirty meters away from the wall.