Jingshengcheng changed owners overnight, and this exciting news soon made the front page headlines of major newspapers in Fengwu Town and Zhenwei Town.

Fengwu Jiedu made Shen Xiao learn that the Zhou family occupied Jingsheng City, and while shocked, he couldn't help but be a little annoyed.

For such a big military operation, the Zhou family didn't even reveal any news to the Fengwu Jiedu Mansion in advance, and they simply didn't take him, the Fengwu Jiedu envoy, in their eyes.

Didn't your Zhou family say that there were too many recruits and there was no way to rush to the front line in Jingyang City?

As a result, he turned his head and robbed a city of the Zhenwei Army, do you really think that the Jiedu Mansion can't help your Zhou family?

However, thinking of the huge fleet in the hands of the Zhou family, and Jingshengcheng fell into the hands of the Zhou family, Shen Xiao could only suppress his anger, pinched his nose and sent a telegram of commendation to the Zhou family, and asked the Zhou family to stick to Jingshengcheng.

In any case, capturing a city in Zhenwei Town at this time can be regarded as relieving some pressure on the front line of Jingyang City.

Zhenwei Jiedu Mansion learned that Jingsheng City was occupied by the Zhou family in Fengwu Town, and Zhenwei Jiedu made Xu Wanpeng drop the teapot that had been used for more than ten years.

Then Xu Wanpeng transferred the Second Mixed Brigade of the Zhenwei Army, which was preparing to participate in the attack on Jingyang City, and ordered the Second Mixed Brigade of the Zhenwei Army to immediately return to Jingshengcheng by the same route, and to recapture Jingshengcheng at all costs.

In addition, Xu Wanpeng also transferred two infantry regiments from each of the two cities closer to Jingsheng City, preparing to cooperate with the Second Mixed Brigade of the Zhenwei Army to counterattack Jingsheng City.

On the morning of August 11, 1536, three infantry regiments, one heavy cavalry battalion, one guard battalion of the Second Mixed Brigade of the Zhenwei Army, and four infantry regiments drawn from the other two cities of Zhenwei Jiedu Prefecture had arrived at Jiguanling, about 60 kilometers east of Jingsheng City.

There are only two roads that can enter Jingsheng City from the land, and the road of Jiguanling is relatively easy to walk, and it is also convenient for the army carrying heavy baggage to pass, and Jiguanling is the first danger on this road.

Cockscomb Ridge is named after its peak-like cockscomb, and if you want to climb over Cockscomb Ridge, you must pass through the winding mountain road of Cockscomb Ridge.

The 2nd Mixed Brigade of the Zhenwei Army currently has about 5,600 men, and the four infantry regiments together have about 5,000 men.

However, in the face of the tens of thousands of elite troops of the Zhenwei Army, Zhou Rui didn't care at all at this time, except because there were several dangers in the way, the most important thing was that Zhou Rui already had enough artillery in his hands!

After taking over Jingsheng City, Zhou Rui immediately received a prompt from the lottery system, telling him to complete the hidden task of "Monopolizing a City", and rewarded him with a three-star lottery card and 30 points.

After using this Samsung raffle card, Zhou Rui won four rewards.

50 kg gold bricks (20,000 pieces)

German M18 grenades (8 million)

French Type 1897 field guns of 75 (600 units)

75 mm shells (1.2 million rounds)

According to the introduction of the lottery system, the M18 grenade is a wooden-handled grenade used by Germany during World War I.

The French Type 1897 75 field gun, caliber 75 mm, maximum firing range of 8550 meters, maximum rate of fire of 15 rounds per minute, full gun weight 1544 kg.

In order to cope with the counterattack of the Zhenwei Army, Zhou Rui risked being suspected and extracted 100,000 M18 grenades, 60 Type 1897 75 field guns and 8,000 rounds of 75mm shells from the lottery system, and assigned them to the Second Infantry Regiment of the Garrison Brigade and the Second Infantry Regiment of the 22nd Independent Brigade.

After testing, the explosive power of the M18 grenade far exceeded the wooden-handled grenade imported by the Zhou family from several orc countries.

The performance of the Type 1897 Type 75 field gun in all aspects is even better than the 65mm infantry guns equipped with two infantry regiments.

Even among the artillery of the same caliber in the world, none of them can be better than the Type 1897 Type 75 field gun, especially the rate of fire of the Type 1897 Type 75 field gun, which can be called a general existence against the sky.

Counting the 20,000 gold bricks rewarded by this Samsung raffle card, more than 100,000 gold bricks have been reserved in the lottery system.

What made Zhou Rui sigh was that he felt very excited when he saw the next three rewards, but why did he feel like he was like a stop when he saw the 20,000 gold bricks of the first reward?

Is this inflated yourself?

It seems like a little!

"Boom-boom-boom-"

Under a dense artillery fire, the Zhenwei army, which launched an attack on Jiguanling, had just climbed halfway up the mountain before it was blown back.

Xu Lihai, the brigade commander of the Second Mixed Brigade of the Zhenwei Army, put down the binoculars in his hand and asked a few officers around him bitterly: "Do you have any good ideas for attacking Jiguanling?" ”

Li Zhikui, the commander of the First Advance Corps of the Second Mixed Brigade of the Zhenwei Army, sighed and said: "General, the terrain of Jiguanling is inherently easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The Fengwu Army, which guarded Jiguan Ridge, also had a large number of artillery and machine guns.

If we continue to attack so hard, even if we defeat Jiguanling, I'm afraid that our more than 10,000 people will almost be exhausted.

What's more, there are two dangerous passes behind Jiguan Ridge and Youye Valley, and I feel that it is simply unrealistic to recapture Jingsheng City with just more than 10,000 of us. ”

Xu Lihai sighed, and then asked the four regiment commanders outside the Second Mixed Brigade, "I don't know what four means?" ”

One of the regiment commanders, named Wang Hongliang, immediately said: "Our Wang family's family has a weak background, and we lost nearly 100 people in a single charge just now, and our Wang family can't fight such a battle." ”

The other three regiment commanders also complained one after another, and they were unwilling to send troops to launch a strong attack on Jiguanling.

These four infantry regiments came from four families in two cities, and none of them were willing to lose their own family's army in order to help Zhenwei Jiedu Mansion recapture Jingsheng City.

It's okay to fight a tailwind battle, but to fight this kind of tough battle with huge casualties, their four infantry regiments can't do it.

What's more, Jingsheng City is a city directly under Zhenwei Jiedu Mansion, and if you want to work hard, you have to go up to the second mixed brigade to work hard.

But the problem is that Xu Lihai also doesn't want the casualties of the Second Mixed Brigade to be too large.

Although Xu Lihai is the nephew of Xu Wanpeng, the envoy of Zhenwei Jiedu, he has won Xu Wanpeng's trust, but this trust is also based on Xu Wanpeng's ability to firmly control the Second Mixed Brigade.

If Xu Lihai fights out the second mixed brigade, even if Xu Wanpeng will not punish Xu Lihai for this matter, his trust in Xu Lihai will be greatly reduced in the future.

And without Xu Lihai, who has the second mixed brigade, he is likely to be marginalized in Zhenwei Town next.

Xu Lihai finally shook his head helplessly, "Send a telegram to Jiedu Mansion!"

Report the difficulties we are facing to the Jiedu Mansion, what to do next, and let the Jiedu Mansion get an idea. ”

After Xu Lihai's telegram was sent, Zhenwei Jiedu Mansion quickly replied with a telegram.

Tell Xu Lihai that now that the Zhenwei army has begun to launch another full-scale attack on Jingyang City, it is impossible to send additional reinforcements to Xu Lihai for the time being.

Xu Lihai was asked to overcome difficulties and use the existing forces to recapture Jingshengcheng as much as possible.

Li Zhikui, the commander of the First Infantry Corps of the Second Mixed Brigade, looked at the contents of the telegram and asked Xu Lihai: "General, are we still attacking?" ”

Xu Lihai waved his hand, "Order all troops to withdraw from Jiguan Ridge, return to the camp east of Jiguan Ridge, and wait for reinforcements from Jiedu Mansion!"

The firepower of the army of the Zhou family in Ganyang is far from being comparable to the ordinary Fengwu army, and there is no need to put the lives of the brothers on this barren mountain and wilderness. ”

After a pause, Xu Lihai said to several regiment commanders and battalion commanders under his command: "Calm the emotions of the brothers, even if I can't recapture Jingsheng City, I will find a way to take out the brothers' families in the future." ”