After a plan, when I got out of the palace, it was almost noon.

After Lin Xiao and the special operations team met, they simply ate some dry food, then went to the barracks to get horses, and instructed the platoon commander who stayed behind to be vigilant and assist in the security of Nanning.

……

When Lin Xiao and the others were still hurrying, the battle in Guohua Town had reached a fever pitch.

Just after the end of the day, Sun Kewang ordered the meal, half an hour later the whole army marched, straight to Guohua, before the time was already under the city.

Sun Kewang ordered Ma Jinzhong's battalion to be the vanguard, Bai Wenxuan's battalion to be the rearguard, and he personally led Feng Shuangli, Ma Bao and other generals to the Chinese army, taking care of the front and back, carefully searching the woods near the foot of the mountain, and after confirming that there were no ambushes, he quickly surrounded Guohua Town.

Guohua Town, built on a section of the curved river bank, because its east and north sides face the river, only need to encircle the west and south sides, no one can escape, so only with Ma Jinzhong's forward battalion, can attack both sides of the city wall at the same time, the main force of the Chinese army is far behind to watch the battle, loosely forming a larger encirclement.

Because the flat land by the river is limited, Guohua Town is not big, slightly low city wall, there are only two main streets in the town, here was originally a garrison guard, so the people's dwellings are not much, the houses on both sides are almost all barracks style, so many of these houses are made of stones, quite solid.

Li Yuanyin is not an ordinary person, in the face of the siege of tens of thousands of people, he prepared for a hard battle, and did not deploy all the soldiers on the city wall, but hid a large number of reserves.

He had 3,000 new soldiers hide in the city, some of the archers climbed on the roofs of the houses on both sides of the main street, the rest of the soldiers hid in the houses, and the remaining 1,000 or so forbidden cavalry gathered in the depths of the north of the city, ready to counterattack at any time.

On the city wall, he only arranged about 1,000 musketeers, archers and Pu Daomen, because he had Guo Jingyun's 90 or so strong troops to help, and there was no need to drive everyone to the city to be cannonballed.

In addition to one of Guo Jingyun's mortars, there are also more than a dozen light bronze tiger squat cannons arranged on the city wall, which mainly fire small lead and gravel, but unfortunately the range is less than one mile, and can only be used to bombard siege stragglers.

After arranging all this, Li Yuanyin, who had not recovered from his body injuries, ordered someone to invite Guo Jingyun and solemnly entrusted him with full authority for the defense of the city, and he ordered someone to move a chair and sit on the city tower, no matter who persuaded him, he would not listen.

Guo Jingyun was very calm, and kept lying on the head of the city to observe the movements of the enemy, the three mortar gunners around him quietly waited for orders, and all the soldiers of the reconnaissance squad lay between the battlements a little farther away, used as a reserve, and protected the flanks of the mortar crews.

This is the junction of the western and southern sections of the city wall, where mortars are erected, and both sides can be taken care of, saving the trouble of moving positions frequently.

The remaining two platoons were each equipped with a machine gun, and under the command of the platoon commander, they were scattered among the Ming army and were responsible for the defense of the two sections of the city wall; The secretary and his cooking squad stayed near the city gates, guarding and carrying ammunition, as well as assisting in the defense of the city gates.

Not long after, the cannons in the formation of the Great Western Army appeared in front of the formation.

This time, they were very cautious, and the infantry formation was all lined up two miles away, and they were not in a hurry to climb the city, and quietly waited for the roar of the cannons.

Among the artillery guns carried by Sun Kewang this time, in addition to hundreds of various light guns, there are more than 20 red-coated cannons alone, the heaviest of this kind of cannon has reached more than 5,000 catties, and it requires the cooperation of six to ten people to operate, the barrel is about three meters long, the caliber is about 100 millimeters, and the cast iron shells fired are equivalent to the 18-pounder field guns in the West, and the range of this cannon, according to the different charges, can reach more than three miles at most, plus the distance of the shells bouncing and rolling after landing, its actual threat is as high as about five miles.

In the current time and space, there are larger calibers and longer ranges than this cannon, but because it is too heavy, it is no longer suitable for field warfare, and can only be fixed on the walls of important cities and used as a weapon to defend the city.

In the West, such a heavy gun is generally used as a naval gun, such as the "Unicorn", a 24-pound main gun is used, and the caliber of that gun has reached about 130mm.

The field cannons that Sun Kewang brought were fixed on gun carriages equipped with iron wheels, so that it was much easier to drag them with horses, and the heaviest red-coated cannons could be dragged on the march by only six horses.

Looking at the black and oppressive enemy team outside the city, Guo Jingyun still felt a little nervous in his heart, although the ammunition they brought was quite sufficient, but it had consumed a lot before, and it was unrealistic to kill so many people completely by them.

Seeing that the rebels' artillery was set up outside the range of the machine guns, and the other guns were even more out of reach, Guo Jingyun turned around and said in a deep voice: "One gunner, set up the artillery, you can see it clearly, first hit the middle ones." ”

"Yes!" The first gunner answered calmly in a low voice, and then skillfully set up the cannon, he knew very well in his heart that the whole company was up to him alone at the moment.

After a while, a gunner said in a deep voice: "Report, aim complete!" ”

Guo Jingyun saw that most of the gunners of the Great Western Army below had finished setting up their guns, and they were already poking gunpowder bags into the barrel of the guns, so he immediately ordered: "One test shot, prepare, release!" ”

"Boom!"

With a muffled sound, a 60mm mortar shell flew forward rapidly, and in an instant, a red light exploded more than two meters behind the cannon in the center of the enemy line, and then a column of smoke rose into the air with dirt and pieces of minced meat.

Although this cannon did not hit the gun carriage, it happened to hit the powder canister behind the cannon and several gunners, causing an explosion like thunder.

"A little farther away."

The gunner stretched out his head to look at the explosion point, muttered, then immediately crouched down, fine-tuned the steering machine, turned his head and shouted backwards: "Cannonballs!" ”

"Boom!"

There was another muffled sound, and another cannon was hit in the distance, and this time, the entire gun carriage was blown apart, and the huge barrel was skewed to one side, and in the blink of an eye it became a lump of scrap metal.

"Well played!"

Guo Jingyun beside him shouted, "Go on, give me a hard beating!" ”

He saw that every cannon could destroy a gun wagon, and he trembled with excitement, he didn't know how to operate the artillery, and he couldn't shout artillery terms, so he cheered and cheered on the side, and according to this way of fighting, twenty shells could almost blow up the entire artillery group of the rebels.

However, this time the performance of the Great Western Army was unexpectedly good, seeing that one cannon after another was destroyed, causing only a small commotion, it quickly calmed down, and finally a few cannons began to roar.

This Sun Kewang, as the former head of the four King Kongs of Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army, is not outstanding in leading the army to fight, but he still has a very set of military governance, with him personally pressing the formation, the veterans of the Great Western Army have advanced but not retreated, and military discipline is still very strict.

With a loud sound that shook the sky, one by one the iron bullets dragging the fireworks flew towards the city wall, and a few smashed on the root of the city wall, causing the city wall to shake like an earthquake, and some crossed the city wall and fell on the roof of the houses next to the street, and several soldiers were immediately stoned to death, and one directly smashed on the city head not far from Guo Jingyun, splashing a large cloud of smoke wrapped in rubble.

Guo Jingyun got up, shook off the rubble all over his body, straightened his helmet, turned his head to see that the gunner was shocked and fell to the ground, and the mortar beside him had also fallen to one side, and hurriedly ran over to pick him up, shouting: "Are you still alive?" ”

(End of chapter)