Since Yang Chendong's various resolutions to benefit the people came out, the people in the city ran around telling each other. Before long, the news spread all over the city. While the people cheered bird joy, many people took the initiative to stand up and express their gratitude and guarding the city.
After sleeping for two hours, Ding Dingwei had some spirit. He also walked out of the Yamen and found Yang Chendong, representing the people in the city asking for war.
"OK, I agree." Yang Chendong thought a little and then made the decision to agree with the people to defend the city. This is not that he loves the Fifth Division, but that he intends to hide his clumsiness. That is, the other party didn't see that he led troops into the city later, so use this to confuse the other party. As for the fifth Lu Division, it may play a key role at a critical time.
Thus, after Yang Chendong agreed, 10000 people were selected as the first echelon to climb the city tower and defend the city together with 3000 Cambodian soldiers. In addition, there are 500 cold front soldiers. They take off their military uniforms and put on ordinary people's clothes to ensure that the city tower will not be broken.
Waiting for them to help prepare just now, outside suweng City, 20000 siege troops of Siamese army appeared. They were divided into four gates, and 5000 soldiers were arranged under each city, showing an array of key attacks everywhere.
The six thousand and five hundred garrisons were divided into four towers, with clear division of labor and high morale. They all know that the sixth young master is watching them not far away. This is an opportunity to do well.
Half an hour later, the siege army made all the preparations. The catapult opened the road and the boulder came. Although it was not accurate, the momentum was good. Under such momentum, 20000 Siamese troops came shouting and shouting, and the siege officially began.
This is destined to be a very tragic battle to defend the city. Considering that we can't show our cards now, the fire and guns brought by the cold Fifth Division were not used. A cold weapon struggle of knife to knife, gun to gun and spear to spear began.
Shouts of killing, shouting, screams and reprimands spread over the four towers throughout the day.
On several occasions, the Siamese army rushed to the city tower with a large number of people, but then they were cut back by the cold front soldiers of the cold Fifth Division mixed with the people. After repeated failures, because of the existence of Yang Chendong, a major bait, the impact still did not stop. When it was dark and had to withdraw, the Siamese army dropped more than 6000 bodies, and the number of wounded was unknown.
The success of guarding the city tower is not without paying a price. Three thousand Cambodian soldiers and three thousand people in the city were killed and injured. Even five hundred cold front soldiers died nearly ten people and injured more than thirty.
Yang Chendong had expected that war would kill people, not to mention giving up his advantage of fire guns. But he can afford such losses. Now all he needs is time, waiting for the reinforcements to arrive.
The waiting reinforcements refer to the first division of the world cavalry and the first division of the new army, with a total of nearly 20000 people.
From the moment he learned that the Siamese army had launched an attack, Yang Chendong sent a message to the grassland city by telegram. On the third day after receiving the telegram, the two divisions went out of the grassland with all their staff to the nuergandasi area, that is, the Liao capital, and came to Korea.
The North Korean province immediately prepared transport ships. As soon as they arrived, they set sail south and drove all the way rapidly. That is, to reach the destination port of Bachi, the telegraph operator sent the news again. The sixth young master took the initiative to enter Suong city. Now he is surrounded by 100000 Siamese legions, which may be in danger at any time.
"Spread the news to every soldier. After landing, everyone will move forward at full speed and those who are slack will be killed!" Tian Hu, division commander of the first division of the world cavalry, said with a clear light in his eyes and an indisputable tone.
LV Zhuo, the commander of the first division of the new army, also issued the same order. For a time, the cavalry of the two divisions became very nervous. They kept checking their equipment in order to get to suweng city as soon as possible after reaching the shore to solve the danger of the sixth young master being surrounded.
Yang Chendong was trapped in suweng city. When the news reached Vientiane City, governor Luan Xiaochen and others finally couldn't stay.
Luo Po, commander of the second army on the mainland, received more than a dozen requests for war from his subordinates one after another. Without exception, they all asked to lead troops to rescue suweng city. In this regard, Luo Po pressed down one by one. In front of him, the safety of Vientiane city was more important. As for suweng City, he believed that the sixth young master must have made arrangements. If he left Vientiane city because he sent troops to save suweng City, he would really become a sinner.
"Speed up the pace of troop deployment. I don't care what the reason is. The army required within seven days must assemble, otherwise it will be heavy." Luan Xiaochen rarely got angry. He can understand Yang Chendong's practice, which can indeed focus Siam's attention on Suong City, but it is also very risky.
In the final analysis, it is caused by insufficient troops. If not, why do you need the sixth young master to take risks himself? That is, Yang Chendong handed over such a large Lao province to himself. At this critical time, he will give full play to his ability to repay his kindness.
According to Luan Xiaochen's intention, he has arranged certain recruitment tasks for all cities in Laos. It is said that there are reserve soldiers in all cities. It is not difficult for more than 3 million people to mobilize 100000 young men.
The difficulty lies in the tight time and heavy task. If you want these 100000 young men to leave their homes and industries and rush to Vientiane City, you should give them some time. Now the sixth young master has ignored his life. What else are you going to prepare? If it hadn't been for the distance of the city, I'm afraid he wouldn't have given him seven days.
After the order came from the fast horse scout, Luan Xiaochen began to discuss the plan to counterattack the Siamese army with the commander of the Luo Po army, Minister long Tienan and general he Guang.
In Vientiane, there are 10000 Lao troops, the second and sixth Lu divisions of Lengfeng, with a total of about 27000 people. It is difficult to break through if we want to face 200000 well-trained Siamese veterans with these forces. On the contrary, with the addition of 100000 reservists, it is completely different. During the introduction, the second and sixth divisions of the land only need constant impact and do not care about other things. It is still possible to penetrate the enemy's army and make a huge opening to reverse the war situation.
"There is pressure on 200000 people with two divisions, but I believe the second and sixth divisions can do well." in the conference room, commander Luo Po made a direct statement. This time, even the sixth young master went to battle in person. As the commander of the second army, he had no excuse and room to retreat.
"OK, I will do my best to do the logistics work during the introduction. Please rest assured that Leng Feng's main force will move forward." Luan Xiaochen said immediately.
"I will lead the troops together with general he Guang, such as transporting grain, grass and ammunition, cleaning the battlefield, taking care of the prisoners and so on, and leave it to our reserve army." long Tienan also took the initiative to stand up. This time it happens to be his meeting, so he should do well. He just took the opportunity to lead the army.
The three protagonists have assigned tasks respectively. Next is the public management stall. They should prepare materials and mobilize morale. In Vientiane City, there is a great trend of wind and rain.
In suon city.
Since Yang Chendong appeared, he has been guarding the city for eight days.
During these eight days, there were less than 1000 Cambodian troops left, and the others were either killed or injured, unable to fight again; The people of suweng city also paid the price of more than 4000 lives and more than 5000 wounded. Even the cold front soldiers of the fifth Lu Division had more than a hundred casualties before and after.
The six-day fierce city defense war exhausted the materials originally used to defend the city. There were no fire oil, square wood, stones and even bows and arrows left. It also almost exhausted the reserve men in suweng city. More than half of the adult men have gone to the city tower and participated in the battle. The loss is not large. Although Ding Dingwei was still doing his encouraging work and wanted the other half of the men to participate in the city defense, he was politely rejected by Yang Chendong.
Suweng paid too much in this war. People's participation in the army was originally voluntary. How can they be forced? Even if such people are used, they will not play any role. And these days, he went to the square more than once. There were a lot of corpses and many wounded people, many of whom were untrained people. They were just men, so he forced them to go upstairs to fight the enemy. It was also too inhumane.
"Sixth young master, we are short of soldiers now. If we don't rely on them, the Siamese army will attack so fiercely. How can we defend the city?" Ding Dingwei can understand Yang Chendong's feeling of loving the people like a son, but for the sake of the overall situation, he still couldn't help making suggestions again.
"There are five divisions in the garrison. At worst, there are my 1000 black riding dragon guards. They are just people. Most of them just die without any training." Yang Chendong's voice was full of determination. After saying that, he waved decisively, "Well, it's settled. If vice governor Ding wants to, he can consider organizing a reserve army and preparing to go to the battlefield to catch prisoners."
"Sixth young master, are you going to?" Ding Dingwei seemed to think of something.
"Yes, I'm not going to defend the city. I'll go out and attract the enemy's attention, disrupt their plans, or increase our chances of victory." Yang Chendong nodded silently.
He doesn't like to be beaten passively. Seeing that the strength of the people in the city is almost exhausted, if he stays here, it won't play any role in addition to increasing the number of deaths. He doesn't want to win the war in the end. He's making use of the reputation of the people in the city. Of course, what's more important is that the first cavalry division and the first cavalry division of the new army have sent telegrams, and they have succeeded in fighting here After landing in the port of Bachi, he can arrive here in two or three days. That's the moment when he fought back with all his strength.