"Hand artillery team on the wall!" Yan Xu suddenly issued an order, Yan Yi was stunned for a moment, and when he came back from the nervous transfer, he realized that he almost fell into the rhythm of the other party, and immediately sighed that the old way of the other party's command was by no means the one who commanded at the beginning.

At the beginning, although the other party's command was not wrong, it was too rigid, and it was easy to find flaws to deal with, but now the commander is changing at any time, so Yan Yi must always follow the other party's footsteps to deal with it.

The hand cannon team is one of the trump cards prepared by Yan Xu, that is, the iron bell of Xiaokou is installed with a handle, like an enlarged rattle, the structure is very simple, but after filling gunpowder and iron sand, it is an iron broom, a cannon goes down, and countless disfigurements are made within ten meters, it is an absolute weapon to defend the city, and I don't know how many pockmarks and blind people are created when one cannon goes down.

A muffled sound sounded on the city wall, and a rain of iron and sand broke through the air in the gunsmoke, pouring the Liangshan soldiers besieging the city all over their faces. Even if the armor is tight, there will not be a single gap, not to mention that they only have one leather armor at most, and countless blood spots suddenly appeared on the exposed hands and faces, and the Liangshan soldiers who were blinded for a while did not know how many, they covered their faces with their hands and screamed, and then fell down from the long ladder, and the lucky ones were caught by their own people, and the unlucky ones planted on the ground were also exempted from future pain.

The Liangshan soldiers who survived were all terrified, and they didn't know what kind of murder weapon this was, and the momentum of the siege suddenly slowed down, and no one dared to take the lead easily, even if the arrow rain in the sky did not stop. If you are killed by an arrow, you will die, but this half-dead face full of flesh and blood is beyond their psychological bottom line, and they immediately hesitate.

The hand cannon team on the city wall skillfully packed the silk medicine into the handcuff, and then loaded it into the iron sand bag, pierced the medicine bag from the medicine eye and inserted the lead, and then waited for the other party to come up, and then slapped him with a face, this time the Liangshan soldiers did not dare to climb up, and the entire smooth attack momentum was stagnant with a blow.

Sure enough, this unprecedented weapon caused problems with the opponent's rhythm, although he quickly adjusted and continued to attack, but Yan Yi, who had already gotten rid of the opponent's rhythm, would not easily let go of this opportunity.

"Tell the battery that if you don't fire the cannon in the half-pillar incense, I'll shoot his head out as a cannonball!" Yan Yi said sternly to the herald.

"Obey the general!"

The artillery commander who received the order gritted his teeth and cooled the high temperature of the artillery with well water at any cost, which would reduce the service life of the artillery, and the loss was not small for the artillery that was almost piled up with money, but the military order was like a mountain, even if the cost was great, it would be used first.

After clearing the chamber and reloading the ammunition, the trialist in charge of calculating the angle quickly gave new instructions, and the gun commander followed the instructions to raise the gun to a suitable angle with his men, and immediately ignited the fuse after quickly determining it.

The turret roared again, this time using a more lethal chain bullet, throwing off the rotating chain bullet could directly stir up a flesh alley in the crowd, any human resistance was futile, even the round shield of the sword and shield soldier did not support more than half a second before it became a fragment in the minced meat.

However, compared to human damage, the damage of the chain bullet to the gun carriage wind cannon is the most important, the larger length makes the hit rate much higher, and the agitated chain can easily break the thick log, completely destroying it.

The sudden increase in losses made the Liangshan side unable to bear it at all, and if they continued in this way, they would soon lose all of them without the city wall forts as a barrier, and completely lose the possibility of attacking the city.

The Liangshan gunners hurriedly pushed the gun wagons to dodge, and even the huge wind artillery was moving with difficulty as the gunners desperately pushed the wooden wheels, and the fire cover suddenly stopped.

Seeing the opportunity, the forbidden army poured down the gold juice of the stone rolling ash bottle sent by the box soldiers, and completely knocked down the Liangshan men and horses whose momentum was blocked, and retreated two or three hundred meters one after another, until they completely withdrew from the range of bows and arrows, and as for the range of the battery, the battery did not bother to waste shells on them at all.

"It's really difficult, it seems that today can only end here." Hu Yanzhuo is not a reckless man, and he will not fight with people as soon as his mind is hot, although he has not captured Hantan County at the moment, but the original goal has been achieved. After this temptation, Hantan County's preparations were stronger than he had before, but Liangshan was not weak, so the next battle was the key.

"It seems that Hantan County has made more preparations than we expected." Zhu Wu stroked his beard and frowned slightly, today's casualties were somewhat beyond his expectations, it seems that the imperial court's support for Hantan County is not small.

"Haha, isn't this what you came to me for, a rare good opponent, order to withdraw the troops!" Hu Yanzhuo laughed, habitually waved his hand, and ordered the troops to be collected and returned to the camp.

The herald was stunned for a moment, looked at Lu Junyi, whose face remained unchanged, and then looked at the military advisor who nodded again and again with a smile on his face, and gave a salute to give the order.

Ming Jin withdrew his troops, both sides were relieved, today's battle was a severe test for both sides, fortunately no one failed the test, unfortunately no one quit because of this, and the war will continue.

Hu Yanzhuo controlled the timing very accurately, when the army collected the troops and returned to the camp, the people cleaned up the battlefield, and the Huotou army prepared the food and hot soup, just as it was dusk. Lin Chong, who has been in charge of leading the Chinese army, admired this very much, and hurriedly asked for advice, after all, compared to being a leader, being a general is more in line with Lin Chong's appetite, there was no chance before, but now that there is a chance, I naturally feel like I have it.

But I didn't know that Lu Junyi, who was ignored by everyone intentionally or unintentionally, had a gloomy face, and he was unwilling to maintain even the superficial harmony.

It's a pity that Hu Yanzhuo was busy preparing for the second day, Zhu Wu was on the side to help, although Hu Yanzhuo's command was powerful, after all, this was not the rear army, and he was still needed to help on the side, and Lin Chong was on the side while asking for advice and answering questions, after all, the Chinese army was trained by Lin Chong, and he knew the most detailed, which helped the two of them even more.

None of the three of them noticed Lu Junyi, nor did they ask for his opinion, and directly put him aside, making it difficult for Lu Junyi's face to be so ugly.

Today, more than 3,000 people were killed and wounded in the defense of the city, only a few hundred people were able to return to the battlefield in a short time, and more than 1,000 people were seriously injured.

The price paid by the Liangshan side was even more, after all, they had no city wall to rely on, so they could only resist with flesh and blood, plus the use of cannon fodder at any cost, more than 5,000 people were killed and wounded, and the logistics were insufficient, and the doctors who were captured were not willing to contribute, resulting in the death toll accounting for the vast majority.

However, there are still more than 20,000 cannon fodder, and the most elite army has not yet been used, Liangshan is not in a hurry, just waiting to use cannon fodder to consume the opponent's materials and physical strength to defend the city, and then take Hantan County in one fell swoop.

Hantan County was very busy, not only the forbidden soldiers, but even the people in the city spontaneously went to help, and the trialists were interspersed as organizers, so although the scene was very chaotic, it was busy and orderly, and the efficiency was not low.

The seriously injured have been transported to the safety of the old city, where doctors from the four counties and the medicinal herbs that arrived early have been prepared, and they will be treated here. The lightly wounded were nourished by the wounded soldiers in the barracks, and they still had to fight as soldiers when necessary.

As for the deceased, Yan Xu personally held a puja for them to transcend the souls of the dead, and the bodies would be cremated and handed over to the family members after the war, along with the military merits implemented.

Although they took advantage of a little advantage, Hantan County did not relax at all, but accelerated their pace and prepared for the next war, after all, once the city was broken, their ending would definitely not be good

Early the next morning, Liangshan attacked the city again, this intensity was a burden and a challenge for both sides, but relying on having more reserve troops, Liangshan wanted to crush the resistance of Hantan County, completely play the prestige of Liangshan, and completely dispel the unwillingness of the imperial court, so that the plan of Zhao'an could continue.

After the first day of temptation, there was nothing false on both sides, gun carriages, wind cannons, turrets, catapults, and thousands of shooters, the sky was no longer lonely, and the artificial projectiles that were about to cover the sky formed a shadow over the hearts of the soldiers on both sides, and the area could not be calculated at all.

But what's even more sad is that neither side has the ability to focus extra attention on this, the almost face-to-face bloody battle makes them dare not relax a little, any extra action will kill them, the only thing they can do is to kill the enemy in front of them, as for the rest, leave it to God.

Liangshan's attack this time was even more brutal, a large number of cannon fodder frantically attacked the city wall under the steel knives of the supervising team and the generous reward of the officials, ignoring the deadly weapons falling from the sky, and the siege equipment was only a simple long ladder, relying on this, these cannon fodder actually rushed to the city wall many times, which shows the degree of madness.

However, both sides understand that it is not impossible to rely on cannon fodder to capture the city wall, but it will require at least ten times more numbers, and more than half of the casualties will be paid. Liangshan does not have so much cannon fodder, nor is he so naïve, and the plan is very simple, that is, to consume the physical strength of the defenders.

There is no need for much on the battlefield, as long as you hack two enemies to death, the combat effectiveness of this soldier is half gone, and only veterans who know how to cherish their physical strength and ignore the tense atmosphere of the battlefield can get rid of this shortcoming. But unfortunately, although the training equipment of the forbidden army is not bad, most of them are novices who go to the battlefield for the first time, and only the forbidden army who participated in the defense of the city last time is half a rookie, but it is still 108,000 miles away from the veterans.

In addition, now the artillery is under fire and the arrows are raining down, not to mention the recruits, even if the veterans can't bear it, who can continue to maintain their physical strength calmly, who is not desperately cut down as soon as they see the enemy, for fear that they will die in the hands of the enemy in the next second.

"Let the first team come down, let the second team come up!" Ignoring the casualties in front of him, after the first team lost more than the second floor, Hu Yanzhuo indifferently issued an order to let the second echelon that had completed the rearmament replace the first echelon that was about to collapse.

He divided his cannon fodder into four echelons, each echelon of 5,000 people, and changed one every hour to maintain sufficient siege strength, and use their lives to consume the physical strength of the defending side and lay the foundation for the next victory.