Frontier Army Warrior

Chapter 950: A Favorable Disguise

Pei Qiyin shook his head: "Your Majesty, they can't learn your fighting style."

Lin Feng pondered and said, "In war, we cannot rely on luck. We must go all out. As the saying goes, a lion will use all its strength to fight a rabbit. This is the truth. Every victory is not achieved by luck."

Pei Qiyin quickly waved his hand, signaling the guard to record it.

Lin Feng laughed and said, "Why, you want to write a memoir for me?"

"No, these words will be used as practical examples in future military training. Every word of yours, Your Highness, sparkles with wisdom."

"Well, you've become so slick now."

Lin Feng pointed at Pei Qiyin and said.

Pei Qiyin stuck out her tongue, shrank her neck and hid behind.

Nangong Yuan finally got the chance to speak. He stepped forward and bowed.

"Your Majesty, can you let me go and wipe out the pirates?"

Lin Feng turned and looked at him.

"Tell me about your cleanup plan."

"Your Highness, with the combat effectiveness of our Zhenxi Army, we don't need any fancy tactics. We can just push forward and surround and kill the pirates."

Lin Feng didn't say anything, knowing that Nangong Yuan had not figured out how to fight this battle, but just wanted to strive to lead this war.

Lin Feng turned around and looked at the map hanging on the wall behind him, and his finger moved along the red line of Jinjiang in front of Sanjiang Mansion for a while.

"Well, dispatch a warship. We will first go to Shanglin Prefecture, then dispatch the Zhenxi No. 2, go straight down the Jinjiang River to Jingnan Prefecture, pass Jinhao Prefecture, and disembark at the Jinjiang Chazikou to support the Zhennan Army in Nantai Prefecture."

Pei Qiyin was puzzled: "Your Majesty, the warships cannot get close to the Nantai Prefecture City, and the artillery can't reach it at all."

"This time we'll use the artillery towed by the chariot to give the pirates a barbecue."

Three days later, Lin Feng brought his escort team and boarded the Zhenxi No. 2, followed by three warships carrying various weapons and equipment. They set off from Shanglin Prefecture and sailed downstream to Sanjiang Prefecture.

Of course, Sanjiang Prefecture was not their destination. Two days later, Zhenxi No. 2 arrived at Jingxi Prefecture.

The garrison commander of Jingxi Prefecture was Xie Chong, who had once led a chariot battalion. Lin Feng pulled him onto the boat and continued his journey south together.

After passing Kancheng and Xuncheng outside Kyoto City, Zhenxi No. 2 continued to the southeast and entered the grounds of Jingnan Prefecture.

Because the navy of the Zhenxi Army was unmatched in the entire Dazong Dynasty, even though they bypassed almost half of Dazong's territory, they had smooth sailing and no obstacles.

After passing through the Jingnan Prefecture City, we entered the southern area of ​​Dazong. In the eastern area of ​​Jinhao Prefecture, there is a county town near the river called Jiliu County.

Hu Jincai's troops were stationed around this county town.

The pirates were also very smart. They knew that in the vast inland areas, the navy of the Zhenxi Army was invincible, so the places where the pirates were stationed were far away from the water systems.

The pirates' ships could not enter, and they wanted to build warships for inland waters, but they did not have enough materials and equipment. They could only unite with the Taisho court to speed up the production of warships and other weapons and equipment.

Hu Jincai took Lin Feng off the boat, looking very ashamed.

Ever since he took over Lin Qiaomei's position and led the Zhenxi Army's long-range attack battalion, he has been clearing out pirates in the southern part of Dazong.

With a force of less than 20,000 people, they were really short of manpower facing the vast southern region. In addition, the pirates were cunning, and the clearing operation had little effect.

Lin Feng led three hundred guards into Jiliu County.

I still have a positive attitude towards Hu Jincai's strategy.

"Old Hu, you did a good job. Although we didn't eliminate many pirates, we did keep the Zhenxi Army intact and there were no losses."

Hu Jincai scratched his head and said, "Boss, I, Hu, have been eating food without making any progress in the battle."

Lin Feng waved his hand: "This is progress. Don't be like Lao Luo, who was too eager to attack and was found by the pirates. In a street battle, he lost 3,000 men."

"I'm also confused. We're all familiar with street fighting, so how do pirates actually fight?"

Lin Feng sighed: "This time I came here not to study how they fight street battles, but to study how we can bombard the city of Funing."

Hu Jincai suddenly became energetic.

"Boss, how do we bombard?"

"In the city occupied by pirates, most of our people have been killed. The city is almost entirely filled with pirates. Therefore, there is no taboo. The only thing we are afraid of is not being able to attack them, but not being afraid of accidentally injuring them."

As Lin Feng spoke, he waved to Pei Qiyin to spread out the map and place it on the table.

"Look, this is Funing City. We need to find a few high points, use chariots to drag the artillery to the location, divide the direction, and bombard the city."

Lin Feng pointed at the map and said to several people.

In addition to Hu Jincai and Pei Qiyin, those gathered around the table included Xi Niang, Xie Zhong and Wen Jian.

"Xie Zhong is responsible for assembling the chariot and transporting the artillery to the designated location in the shortest possible time."

Xie nodded in agreement.

"Xiniang will be in charge of firing into the city, focusing on bombarding the buildings."

Xi Niang also smiled and nodded.

"Old Hu, you organize a long-range attack battalion, drive to the city walls, and use crossbows to indiscriminately fire into the city."

Hu Jincai stared blankly at Lin Feng and forgot to answer.

He only reacted after being stabbed in the lower back by Wen Jian.

"Oh, Boss, how many arrows does this take?"

Lin Feng waved his hand and said, "Our strategy for this war is to use our war supplies to wear down the pirates' military strength. We have 15,000 long-range attack battalions and 5,000 crossbows ready to shoot arrows at me to death."

Seeing that Hu Jincai was still dazed, Pei Qiyin explained softly.

"The structures of the houses here can't withstand the thick branches fired from our crossbows. Even if the pirates hide in the houses, they can hardly avoid our volley of arrows."

Lin Feng continued, "We've brought in twenty cannons this time to destroy the buildings in the city, leaving the pirates with nowhere to hide."

Hu Jincai let out a long breath.

"Great, Boss! Although your method is expensive, it really works."

Several people worked out a detailed attack plan in the Rapids County temporary command center, and then each person started to act separately.

Lin Feng asked a few people to prepare and called Hu Jincai alone.

"Old Hu, where's Wooden Face?"

Hu Jincai was stunned for a moment, then he understood after a moment and smiled.

"That mute seemed anxious to find you, so he left after his injuries healed a little."

Lin Feng nodded, feeling relieved knowing that Wooden Face was fine.

Jiliu County is 510 miles west of Funing Prefecture. Xie Zhong organized 1,500 engineers from the engineering battalion and assembled the tanks within one day.

The artillery was unloaded from the warships and loaded onto chariots.

The engineering battalion is responsible for dragging the artillery to the designated location.

Lin Feng brought enough artillery shells this time because he wanted to save only weapons and ammunition without sacrificing soldiers.

On the morning of the third day, outside Funing City, the Zhenxi Army had surrounded the city on three sides, leaving only the south gate open.

This is Lin Feng's usual strategy of surrounding three and letting one go.

Twenty cannons were placed outside the other three city gates. Where there was high ground, the cannons were placed on it; where there was no high ground, the height was raised as high as possible with stones.

The 15,000 soldiers of the long-range attack battalion were also divided into three groups. Each group chose a relatively spacious flat ground and lined up their troops, with three people per crossbow, waiting for the attack order.

Inside the city of Funing Prefecture, Atsumi Akiyama sat in the command center with a serious expression, staring blankly at the map on the table.