Because the Sixth Division only used a mere rear-loading artillery piece, it carried out intermittent artillery bombardment of the defenders in the city, and there were not many shells out, but the problem was that it covered a wide area, and it was often hit here and there.

Anyway, the range is sufficient, even if it is deployed in the rear, it can cover all aspects.

The enemy troops in the city did not even know where the shells were coming from, and on several occasions they thought that the Sixth Division was going to launch a night attack, and at the same time, their artillery units were constantly shelling in several directions they had identified in order to strengthen their courage or intercept them.

The result was naturally a failure, and the shells they counterattacked missed.

In the second half of the night, the defenders in the city finally learned to be smart, anyway, the enemy infantry did not rush up, and the enemy only fired a few rounds of artillery, so there was no counterattack.

Sleep when it's time to sleep!

However, they had not slept for a few hours, and at dawn, when the sky was just white, a dense cannon fire could be heard outside the city.

This time, it was not an artillery bombardment of a test rear-loading gun, but at least dozens of guns firing at the same time, and no heavy artillery was fired among them.

This time, Lin Ziran directly brought over some of the lighter eighteen-pound howitzers and fourteen-pound cannons in the heavy artillery regiment directly under him.

In order to transport these guns, they set out yesterday before dawn, and a large number of service horses and men were used, and they did not arrive until late in the evening.

And now, the power of these heavy artillery pieces is being brought into play.

However, the generals of the 6th Division outside the city did not pay attention to the results of the shelling of these large numbers of artillery, but paid more attention to the results of the shelling of the experimental rear-loading guns.

Unlike the sporadic shelling at night, this time it was aimed at and then fired.

And the direction of the aiming artillery is the defender's two batteries, one large and one small.

And this test rear-loading cannon also lived up to the expectations of Lin Ziran and a large number of other generals, and directly shelled the two batteries with fast and accurate shelling.

Although this level of artillery bombardment is unlikely to cause any damage to the enemy artillery itself, the enemy's artillery cannot stop it.

Many artillerymen hid behind the fort's bunkers in fear, and they dared to come out and fire back.

At this time, the artillery regiment of the 6th Division and the artillery battalion of the 5th Mixed Brigade used intensive artillery fire to bombard the enemy's infantry line.

At the same time, the two infantry regiments on the front began to prepare for the advance, the 5th Mixed Brigade on the right also slowly stepped forward to attack, and the 1st Infantry Corps, which had only 2,000 men on the other side, also launched an attack from the left in a skirmish line.

The whole battle routine is almost the same as the battle outside Pingdan City two days ago, although the attack and defense outside Pingdan City two days ago was a field offensive and defensive battle, but the enemy army also has artillery batteries and perfect field fortifications for defensive operations.

Today's defense line of Shiyan Town is to some extent inferior to the defense line of the main force of the Eighth Division of the County Shoufu at that time, not only is the number of troops small, but even the fortifications are not as good as those repaired.

It's the same routine, but the 36th Regiment of the County Guard Mansion on the opposite side just can't resist it!

But when their artillery fire was suppressed, and their infantry direction was suppressed by a large number of front-loading guns of the 6th Division, then the victory or defeat was already decided.

After all, this was not a hundred or two hundred years ago, and the defenders could rely on castles such as bastions to defend them.

Even in the Hengao War fifty years ago, fortifications such as castles were useless in the face of increasingly advanced and powerful artillery, otherwise the original war would not have developed into a mobile battle.

Now the Sixth Division outside Shiyan Town has once again proved with actual combat that in the face of heavy artillery, any fortification is scum!

This offensive and defensive battle started at dawn, but it was basically over shortly after the sun rose, thirty minutes to be exact!

The 36th Regiment and other troops in the city, including some of the more than 1,000 troops who had retreated from the defeat of Pingdan, totaled nearly 4,000 people.

It was completely finished without holding it for half an hour!

What is even more interesting is that the first to collapse were more than 1,000 people deployed on the right flank defense line, and these more than 1,000 people were brought back from the rout outside Pyndan City two days ago, but they were met with a fierce attack by the First Infantry Corps.

Under the dense bullet strike, they had no power to fight back, and directly remembered the fiasco two days ago, when they were also beaten like this and had no power to fight back.

When the despair burst out again, they simply surrendered.

did not collapse, did not turn around and run away, more than 1,000 of them were led by a senior doctor, and they simply and decisively chose to surrender!

Note that this is not a surrender, but a surrender!

Because at that time, the attacking troops of the First Infantry Corps were still a few hundred meters away, and they did not rush up at all.

But just like that, they just surrendered!

This made Xu Zhongshu, who led the first step of the corps to fight, a little speechless!

They were still enemies just now, and now they are going to come over as allies......

And people really did this, it seems that it is to show sincerity, this front just announced the surrender of Cheng, and the officer who came over from the back of the surrender led to kill the 36th Regiment with more than 1,000 subordinates who surrendered to Cheng.

The people of the 36th Regiment were not lightly angry, and finally gritted their teeth and directly announced their surrender......

Anyway, you can't fight, you can't escape, and if you surrender, it is estimated that in the end, you will either surrender to the past or work as a coolie in a prisoner of war camp, it is better to surrender to the past.

Anyway, everyone is a big Heng person, before Cheng Lingfeng is finished, everyone is still part of Luo Anjun, and there is no psychological pressure in the past.

Lin Ziran was not surprised to be able to defeat the defenders in Shiyan Town, and even the other party was not surprised to surrender.

But the other party's direct surrender to the establishment surprised him.

The battle had just begun, the artillery unit had just completed its artillery preparations, and the infantry unit had not yet officially launched a charge, at most only the soldiers of the 1st Infantry Regiment had gone up to a distance of three or four hundred meters to shoot at a distance.

However, the officers and men of the Sixth Division on the entire front still did not launch a full-scale charge attack.

But just like that, the other party surrendered!

It's not surrender, it's surrender, and the difference between the two is big.

This once made Lin Ziran suspect that his identity as the Son of Destiny had really been completely exposed, otherwise how could they have surrendered so simply.

And the next thing is to make Lin Ziran a little difficult to deal with, this nearly 4,000-strong surrender army.

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