Sweat flowed down the neck along the back of the spine. Cheng Dayou squatted motionlessly and looked forward. The largest military camp of the Nan'an City Defense Forces in the coastal area was set up on Poma Mountain less than five miles ahead. Due to the terrain, the Nan'an City Defense Forces built the military camp camp on the mountainside near the coast. It not only overlooked the only road that could barely be called a road, but also effectively prevented the infiltration of enemy attacks. It should be said that this arrangement is quite safe, but everything is not absolute. It is of course beneficial to set up on the mountainside, but the mountainside area is densely forested. Except for the two sides of the downhill road that are shoveled and cleaned, most other places are surrounded by dense forests, which is a bit troublesome for the military camp observation post.

Although Cheng Dayou's sniper troops were established after the official change of the Imperial Army, Cheng Dayou attached great importance to the importance of the sniper troops before this. This seemed to be a tradition in the Taiping Army, and he attached more importance to personal abilities and ignored the role of the group. Although Cheng Dayou has been committed to correcting this tendency, it does not mean that he has reached another extreme all of a sudden. There are many examples of sniper troops that can play a huge role in some special environments. Even the Imperial Army has specially equipped sniper troops to prove the importance of this group of troops. Therefore, after Cheng Dayou's troops were adapted into the Eighth Legion of the Imperial Army, the scale of the sniper troops was not only not reduced, but was expanded and enriched, and its combat effectiveness has also reached a new level. This is also an advantage that Cheng Dayou is proud of.

When Cheng Dayou personally led the First Division to undertake this mission, he brought all the direct sniper troops of the entire legion. Although there were not many people, Cheng Dayou believed that in order to give full play to the role of the surprise attack to achieve satisfactory results, the ability of the sniper troops would largely determine all this.

The entire division was hiding silently in the sparse forest less than half a mile away from the beach. The sniper troops had quietly set off under the pressure of a gang. The remaining four gangs were like crossbows with strings tightened, and they could suddenly explode after just a command. Cheng Dayou calculated the time silently. Half an hour had passed. The sniper troops should have arrived at the destination and started to take action in advance. This was the most fragrant time after falling asleep. In this case, most people woke up half a beat slower than usual when they encountered accidents. The sniper troops used this point to destroy the enemy's effective organization in one fell swoop and gain valuable time for the main force behind them.

"Start!" When the time reached his expected setting, Cheng Dayou jumped up and waved his hand suddenly. More than 10,000 men in deep form suddenly stood up almost at the same time. He put aside all disguises and rushed forward without any concealment. Success or failure is here. Regardless of whether the sniper troops and the corps used as the vanguard commando can achieve the expected results, he has no choice but to move forward with all his strength and fight to the death!

In fact, when Cheng Dayou led the main force of the First Division to swarm forward, the sniper troops had successfully completed the preliminary work and cleared the peripheral post of the Nan'an City Defense Force. Although the army was approaching and the city-state had declared a state of war, the Nan'an City Defense Force, which had been used to peace for too long, obviously had not really entered the state of war. At least these soldiers had not yet psychologically experienced the atmosphere of war. Of course, after this night, they would have a profound experience, but they would never have the chance to feel it again.

The sniper troops that cleared the peripheral sentry were finally discovered by the sentry when they entered the enemy camp. This was not because the sentry of the Nan'an City Defense Forces were so vigilant, but because such a large-scale clearance operation was difficult to achieve foolproof. When a sentry was shot by a sniper with a bow and arrow, perhaps because of his natural talent, he could not kill him immediately with an arrow. The shrill scream immediately made the entire Nan'an military camp boil like a hornet that exploded.

The ignorant Nan'an City Defense Army soldiers drilled out of the tent and almost faced the sniper's sniper's sniper from the sentry tower. The Nan'an army, who did not know where the enemy came from, was completely in chaos at the beginning, but the sniper army could not launch an attack on the city defense army divided into several large camps at once. When a corps of the Tang army arrived, although the Nan'an army had not yet fully entered the state, many city defense officers had already begun to mobilize their troops to fight against the Tang army that broke into the camp.

Rockets were falling in the city defense force camp. After completing the first step of the mission, the sniper troops began to concentrate their efforts to create chaos. Arson was undoubtedly the most effective method. After the cotton tantrum was attacked by rockets soaked with tinder oil and phosphorus powder, there was no way to hit the face. Although the burning tents and buildings did not cause much substantial damage to the Nan'an City Defense Force, the chaos brought about even greater impact than directly killing soldiers.

The assault corps divided into two arrows and plunged deep into the enemy camp from both sides. The soldiers of the city defense army who rushed out from the front to meet the enemy only found that there was no one outside the camp gate, but there were sounds of killing on both sides. The city defense army, who woke up from a dream, sent reinforcements to the two wings, but they did not expect that it was just the enemy's vanguard force, and the purpose was to attract the main force of the city defense army.

When Cheng Dayou led the main force of the First Division to rush into the main gate of the Nan'an City Defense Army, the war on the two wings was in full swing. Although the sudden attack of the Tang army caused heavy losses to the Nan'an army, and even at the beginning, the Nan'an City Defense Army was considered the elite of the Nan'an army. Even if it could not be compared with the Tang army, even if it suffered a loss of a sneak attack, they had several times the strength of the assault corps. Moreover, they did not concentrate on the camp, but were divided into three units, which were supporting each other and were not far apart. When the left and right corps were attacked at the same time, the rear battalion troops followed up in time to help stabilize the position. The huge gap in force also made it difficult for the assault corps to move forward after encountering tenacious resistance.

However, all this suddenly changed after Cheng Dayou led the main force to break through the middle line. The two wings had not yet stabilized, and the enemy forces broke through from the middle of the two battalions. The Nan'an army, which was originally suppressing fear and resisting, collapsed without much suspense. Cheng Dayou knew that this was the best time to completely defeat the enemy. Although his troops were quite tired, once he lost this fighter and let the enemy breathe, he had to find an opportunity to break through again, especially when the Nan'an army had placed its main forces on the Fourth Corps of the Northern Line Defense and the Kuruk Fortress. Such an opportunity was simply a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

The dispersed Nan'an City Defense Army plummeted thousands of miles, and almost ran from the Pomashan military camp to the bottom of Nan'an City within one day before stabilizing its position. The Tang army, who followed the pursuit and fierce battle, also beat the dogs and chased them until they were thirty miles away before they stopped to return. Cheng Dayou also knew that his existing troops were not enough to capture Nan'an City in one fell swoop, but there was almost no decent obstacle from Pomashan to Nan'an City for fifty miles. If he went deep alone, he would be separated by the Sikkim army.

If the rear landing was cut off, and the Fourth Corps on the Northern Line was unfast, then I would have really become a turtle in the jar. Now I only need to hold back the Poma Mountain military camp. Not only does it have a water source, but the Nan'an army also left a large amount of supplies. I could wait for the rest of the troops, and at the same time I could also take the initiative to move westward at any time, which forced the Nan'an army to draw troops to station and prevent them. When this battle came to this point, there was much more room for choice.

The loss of the Pomashan military camp almost put the entire Nan'an city in desperate situation. The entire city was completely immersed in panic and chaos. The people of Nan'an who had always thought that the war was still far away from him only realized that the war was actually in front of them. They knew very well that the people of Nan'an who had not felt this taste for a long time also began to question what the defense policy of the city-state council was wronged. Although the Tang army attacked from the coast did not take advantage of the situation to attack Nan'an City, it was enough to make the top leaders of Nan'an City-state restless like ants on a hot pan. Such an army appeared in front of them and defeated 30,000 city defense troops in one fell swoop. Although there were more than 10,000 defeated soldiers, this defeated army that had just suffered a heavy setback was not very useful even if it was organized immediately. The army that had been defeated with morale was even worse than civilians. Mixed with other troops may even affect the morale of other troops.

Now there is only the last 30,000 city defense forces in Nan'an City. The 50,000 troops from Western Samoa had already advanced northward, but after learning the bad news, they did not dare to go north and divert to Nan'an City to assist in defense. Until this time, they still did not understand how the Tang army, which had sneaked into the Pomashan military camp, passed through the coastal dense forest area with swamps and miasma, was able to defeat the 30,000 Nan'an Army, which was located in a good position, according to their inference, would not be less than two divisions. The mobilization of such a large army could actually avoid the naval reconnaissance ships patrolling along the coast, which made them puzzled.
Chapter completed!