Warlords: Rising from the Northwest Border and Sweeping Across the Powers

Chapter 109: Han Jingting captured alive

The power of the 150MM heavy howitzer and the 203MM Thor's Hammer shells is simply terrifying.

In an instant, the city wall on the west side of Shangjiu City was torn and shattered, leaving a huge gap.

The city wall, which stretched for more than a mile, kept collapsing under the rumbling artillery fire.

At the command center in the city, Han Jingting gave the order with a gloomy face.

"Find the coordinates of their artillery positions, launch a counterattack, and destroy their artillery. At the same time, send troops to block the gaps in the city wall and set up a firepower network. We must not let their infantry enter the city easily!"

Beside Liu Chengxu, Gu Chenghai frowned and said, "The Koreans have long been prepared. They didn't build a defense line or a large number of firing points on the city wall. Our two rounds of artillery fire have not achieved any strategic breakthroughs except for blowing a gap in the city wall."

"Besides, our artillery positions have been exposed. The enemy is likely to launch a counterattack."

Liu Chengxu sneered, "That's why I told the artillery regiment to only use 150MM heavy artillery and Thor's Hammer. The two Korean division-level combat units in Shangjiu City only have less than 75 105MM mountain artillery and four MM howitzers that they treat like treasures. The range is far different from our heavy artillery, and they can't pose any threat to our artillery positions at all."

"I just want to tell the Koreans what dimensionality reduction strikes are!"

"Keep the artillery fire going, and be careful not to accidentally injure the civilians in the city. Keep firing at the city wall. I'm going to scare those Korean bastards to death. In half an hour, the infantry will coordinate the battle! Launch the final general attack!"

At the Korean headquarters in the city, the commander of the 117th Division's artillery regiment explained to Han Jingting with a wronged look on his face: "Their artillery positions are beyond the range of our artillery. We have no way to deal with them at all."

Han Jingting slammed the table angrily and said, "What a waste! Are we just going to watch the enemy's artillery fire continue to wreak havoc on our city walls? In this case, how can the infantry block the gaps in the city walls? Are they going to use their flesh and blood to block the enemy's artillery shells!"

Although he was furious, Han Jingting knew in his heart that this was a naked crushing defeat in terms of equipment and there was nothing he could do. He could only settle for the next best thing and have the soldiers of the 117,118th and th Divisions, working in company units, use the houses in the city and the complex terrain of the streets to build a line of defense to stop the offensive of the Northwest Revolutionary Army. This was equivalent to completely abandoning the defense of the positions on the city wall.

The sound of artillery fire continued for nearly half an hour. Gu Chenghai rolled his eyes and said, "If the commander knew that you were wasting the hard-earned shells, he would have to send you to Yihongyuan to work as a gigolo to earn military funds for us."

Liu Chengxu laughed loudly and said, "We can be willful if we have the strength. When have we ever fought such a prosperous war? The continuous bombardment has cast an indelible shadow on the Korean troops. If we rush into the city in one go, the Korean troops will be completely defeated!"

"Pass on my order! Let the 1st Brigade be the vanguard, and charge in regiment-by-regiment! Annihilate the Korean forces and capture Chen Jiahu alive!"

"Come on!"

"kill!"

The loud and melodious charge horn sounded, beep, beep, beep, beep!

The soldiers of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Combat Division rushed towards the nearby Shangjiu City like a tide, and rushed into the city along the city wall that had become a complete ruin, and engaged in a fierce firefight with the Korean troops who had established defensive positions on the streets.

One side was frightened like a frightened bird by the continuous heavy artillery bombardment, while the other side was in high spirits, with the unstoppable belief that they would win.

The outcome of this war had already been determined. The two Korean divisions in the city were defeated one after another, and the Northwest Revolutionary Army broke through one fire blockade after another. The bodies of soldiers from both sides were everywhere. The battle was extremely brutal, with bullets flying everywhere and blood flowing like a river.

After six hours of high-intensity fighting, the Korean troops finally collapsed. Whether in terms of equipment, personnel quality, individual combat capability, or coordination and cooperation ability, the Northwest Revolutionary side was crushed in all aspects.

Countless Korean soldiers surrendered or fled, and the whole situation became a mess. Under such circumstances, the First Combat Division directly advanced to the headquarters of the Korean Fifth Army in the city. After killing dozens of officers of various levels, they captured Chen Jiahu, the commander of the Fifth Army, who had not had time to escape, and Han Jingting, a Korean young master.

Liu Chengxu walked into the Fifth Army headquarters with his hands behind his back and his head held high. He looked at Chen Jiahu and others who were kneeling on the ground, tied up and already prisoners, and sneered disdainfully: "With your fucking strength, you dare to fight against our Northwest Revolutionary Army? I can put a knife to your neck in less than a day with one division of mine fighting against two of your divisions. You Han clique are really softies, no different from the Guo clique."

Chen Jiahu remained silent. Han Jingting gnashed his teeth and cursed: "Su Zhengyang is a piece of trash! He is just lucky to have the support of Heping Company! What kind of person is he? I don't accept it!"

Liu Chengxu kicked Han Jingting in the chest and said coldly, "Young Master Han, right? The commander came to me and asked me to send you to Yong'an City to reminisce with him."

"Send a message to the commander! The First and Second Combat Divisions of the Northwest Revolutionary Army have successfully recovered the Linzhou territory occupied by the Han faction and annihilated the Sixth Army of the Han faction! The commander of the Sixth Army, the chief of staff and other high-ranking officers, as well as the eldest son of the Han faction, Han Jingting, have been captured alive!"

The Northwest Revolutionary Army was like a tiger descending from the mountain, sweeping away fallen leaves like autumn wind. In just less than seven days, it annihilated an entire Korean army, shocking the major warlords in the north and south of China.

Su Zhengyang's tough style also sounded a wake-up call for them. I believe that from today on, no one will dare to look down on the Northwest Revolutionary Army.

In the Governor's Mansion of Yong'an City, four or five soldiers roughly pushed Han Jingting out of the car and escorted him to Su Zhengyang's office.

In the office, Su Zhengyang looked down at Han Jingting, who had a resentful look on his face, and said with some amusement: "Brother Han, it's been a long time since we parted in Yunzhou."

In the original body's memory, during the time at the Yunzhou Military Academy, Han Jingting was Su Zhengyang's absolute enemy. Unfortunately, Su Zhengyang at that time was an unlearned, brainless dandy, and he suffered losses repeatedly at the hands of Han Jingting and lost all his face.

There are two memories that left a deep impression on Su Zhengyang. One was when Han Jingting beat Su Zhengyang violently, stepped on his face, and demanded that he kowtow and admit his mistake. Later, it was the instructor of the Military Academy who stepped forward to calm the matter down.

Another memory is that Han Jingting gave Su Zhengyang a laxative, causing him to have a diarrhea during training, losing face and becoming the laughing stock of the entire Military Academy.

However, times have changed. Now Han Jingting has become a prisoner and kneeling in front of Su Zhengyang can be considered as revenge for his original self.