On July 16, the 49th year of Yongchang, Luo'an County, Nanhai Prefecture.

Cheng Lingfeng took a group of subordinate civil and military officials to the top of the city, and took out his gold-plated single-pass telescope to look out of the city!

Just a few hundred meters outside the city, there was a long breast wall trench, which was the defense line built by the Jane family's troops, and behind these defense lines, there were a number of artillery pieces.

Most of them are five-pound field guns, but about a quarter are nine-pound field guns, and a few are fourteen-pound heavy guns and eighteen-pound mortars.

On the positions of these artillery, the artillerymen were constantly reloading, and then firing the cannonballs, one shell after another into the city.

In the line of sight of a single telescope, Cheng Lingfeng watched as a nine-pound field gun of the other party opened fire, and a huge cannonball flew over a full six or seven hundred meters, and then landed on the city.

But the shell did not hit the city walls, but exploded directly above the city.

After the explosion, people could clearly see a cloud of white smoke rising, but what people couldn't see was that at that moment, countless small steel balls shot in all directions with the explosion of the cannonballs, directly covering the area of at least ten meters below the city.

The few soldiers who showed their heads and did not hide in the bulletproof fortifications suddenly had blood holes in their bodies.

In the face of grenade shotguns, soldiers without anti-artillery fortifications had almost no resistance.

Grenade shotguns, or shīnel in some people, or shrapnel in some people, are just that.

This thing is also a new type of ammunition that appeared in the Hengao War, the shell is loaded with a lot of steel balls, the shell is launched into the air above the enemy and detonated, after detonation, a large number of steel balls cover a large number of areas, killing and injuring the enemy's living forces.

Later, with the continuous improvement of fuses and the emergence of new technologies such as wooden pallets, the technology of grenades and grenades was more perfect and more powerful.

At the same time, it is also because everyone's fortifications are very strong, and the field battles often engage in breastwork, which greatly reduces the power of traditional solid bullets, so that the grenade bomb has become the favorite cannonball used to kill and wound the enemy's living force in various feudal towns.

It's just that it has been used for a long time, and now the troops of the feudal towns also know about repairing the defensive artillery holes when they are conducting defensive operations, but then the artillerymen began to play with large-charge grenades again, and even solid ammunition did not give up.

Depending on the situation, different shells are used.

The grenade bombs fired by the enemy are nothing more than that, in Cheng Lingfeng's opinion, their city fortifications have perfect anti-artillery fortifications, and the shock wave of heavy grenades cannot be prevented, but the fragments and steel balls of anti-grenade shotguns are still okay.

As long as the soldiers don't stupidly run out of the anti-artillery fortifications.

What Cheng Lingfeng was really worried about was the heavy grenade fired by the other party.

That's the big killer!

Sure enough, their heavy artillery is also in action!

One of the eighteen-pound short-barreled howitzers, or mortars, opened fire quickly, and a huge eighteen-pound shell drew a distinct curve in the sky, and then smashed into the city.

Bang!

The violent explosion almost swept away the city at the point of impact, and the violent impact destroyed everything it could see, and directly lifted a nearby improvised anti-artillery fortification composed of sandbags and wooden beams.

You don't need to look closely to know that the soldiers hiding inside must be dead and can't die anymore.

The threat of these heavy artillery is too great, let them continue to fight like this, then the city will definitely not be able to hold it.

You have to take the initiative!

When Cheng Lingfeng saw this, he immediately looked back at a young man behind him: "Hongsui, are your cavalry ready?" ”

The young man immediately stepped out and said, "Don't worry, my lord, the cavalry brigade of the headquarters has already moved in place according to the predetermined plan, and it will be able to attack at dawn tomorrow!" ”

"Good!"

"After your cavalry attacks, I will order the whole army to counterattack, success or failure in one move, I hope you can work together!"

"Cut off the head of the traitor in Jian Minggang, and this Luo'an County will still be ours!"

At the same time, on the other side, Jian Minggang was also discussing the siege with others.

"It can't be delayed any longer, it's been almost half a month now, if it drags on any longer, it's hard to say whether Feng Haozhong's people will change, we must solve the Cheng family as soon as possible, so that we can better control the situation in the follow-up!"

"If it drags on for too long, not only Feng Haozhong and them will change, I'm afraid that there will also be changes in Guang'an and Hexi counties, once they perceive the emptiness within our Luo'an, they are very likely to take advantage of the fire to rob!"

At the same time, more than 20 kilometers north of Luo'an County, two troops, one in front and one in the rear, were marching southward with weak strength, with only a little more than 1,000 men in front and about 1,000 troops in the rear.

These two waves of people and horses naturally entangled with each other all the way from Guang'an City, and almost returned to Jian Liangzhi's temporary brigade and Cheng Hongbin's sixth brigade near the county town while fighting a dozen at the same time.

It's just that they have already lost their troops and lost their troops all the way to now, and even there are few weapons and ammunition left, but they are still entangled with each other.

When the county town of Luo'an and the surrounding area were bustling, there were only two people in a large conference room in Chongguang Castle, and there were no other staff outside the conference room, and even the surrounding houses were empty.

Within a few tens of meters around, there were only these two people in the conference room.

Among these two people, one is the actual owner of Chongguang City, Feng Haozhong, the commander of the Third Division.

The other person, dressed in inconspicuous civilian clothes, about forty years old, holding a folding fan, would listen to him: "Lord Feng, believe me, our sincerity is very sufficient. ”

"In the early stage, a one-time support of 500,000 military expenses for your troops, enough for 10,000 troops to eat half a month's food, and even enough ammunition for your troops to fight three large-scale battles, this is only part of our sincerity."

"As long as Lord Feng gives up Chongguang City and leads his troops back to the Luo An Army, our second batch of aid will be able to arrive immediately, and if you need it, we can even directly send troops to help your lord seize the position of county guard."

"We really hope that you can be the county warden of Luo'an County, because only adults know that there is no point in the war between the two armies going on!"

"The war between the two counties that has lasted for many years is just Cheng Lingfeng's will, except for increasing the casualties of the two counties, it has no meaning at all."

"Even if your Luo An army can defeat our Guang'an army for a while, just like the previous battle of Chongguangcheng, but so what."

"Hexi County, Hedong County and even Luohai County don't want to see a unified two counties, which is why the eight thousand iron horsemen of Hexi County appeared when your department stepped into the hinterland of our Guang'an!"