The remaining Iron Harriers failed to bring any obstacles to the Chinese army, and all those who dared to continue to resist were stabbed to death with bayonets, and the Chinese soldiers directly stepped on the corpse of the Iron Harrier and rushed towards the east gate.

At this time, Lingzhou City had lost tens of thousands of defenders, including the most important mobile force, the Iron Harrier, and the defensive strength had dropped to a very dangerous point.

Ye Poma and Rindo Zangqing were very worried, their counterattack did not have any effect, and they did not even shake the enemy who had no artillery on the east side.

Both of the party privy envoys were old men of war, and they could see what this disparity in combat power meant—they couldn't fight without artillery, let alone the enemy at the south gate with hundreds of cannons.

In other words, they could only let the Chinese artillery ravage at will.

Fortunately, not long after the collapse of the attack force at the east gate, the Chinese artillery on the south side of the gate also stopped firing - not that they could not continue shooting, but that there were no more worthy targets in front of them.

So the troops of the Chinese army at the south gate began to advance towards the ruined Lingzhou City.

After losing a large number of fresh troops, the party was unable to fight for the city walls, and the two city gates in the southeast (in fact, there was only one city gate left) changed hands almost simultaneously, and tens of thousands of Chinese field soldiers entered Lingzhou City.

Ye Poma and Rindo Zangqing were still desperately persevering, and they built a breast wall in the middle of the city, eighty paces from the city gate—a rammed earth wall to connect the stronger buildings, with the buildings as support points.

The idea is good, but it doesn't make any sense - something like a breastwork, without strong fire support, can really only function as a fence.

The Chinese infantry suppressed the enemy with a rifle salvo at a distance of 150 paces, and then sent out Outer Sauron soldiers wearing three layers of armor (inner cotton armor, outer chain mail, and a cuirass) with explosives bags to resist the sparse counterattack of the party members, and quickly approached the breastwork.

Some of the partymen braved the flying buckshot from behind the breastwork and fired their bows and arrows at the dangerous ironclads.

However, even with a strong bow and heavy arrows, it is very difficult to penetrate the three layers of armor, not to mention that the Chinese army's riflemen attack very accurately, they are in groups of five, and at the same time shoot all the party members who dare to show their heads, usually there is always one person who can succeed.

Sauron approached the breastwork and stacked the explosives on the side of the breastwork.

A platoon of party members slammed to their feet and stabbed the Sauronites in their distance.

Several Sauron armor soldiers were stabbed, reflexively holding the barrels of their guns and screaming loudly.

The Chinese army then responded with a volley of 200 men, and most of the party spearmen who had their heads out of the way disappeared behind the breastwork with screams.

The remaining Sauron soldiers lit the explosives and fled back to their array without looking back.

Boom Boom!

The explosives bag blasted the rammed earth walls, several buildings that served as support points, and hundreds of party defenders into the sky.

The highly-anticipated chest defense line had actually collapsed, and the Sauron soldiers returned as the cold-armed vanguard of the Chinese army, wielding broadswords and heavy axes like a whirlwind into the crowd of the party that had been shaken by the explosives, slashing and killing furiously.

……

Fifty miles north of Lingzhou City, a party army of 50,000 people was rapidly approaching Lingzhou.

This is the new force of the commander of the Wuzang Commander, which is composed of the main force of the Wuzang family and some troops from the Wei famous family - Li Qianshun also knows the importance of Lingzhou, so this time the Wei famous family can't shrink behind, and he must take out the old book.

However, in order to ensure that they can enter the battle when they arrive at the battlefield, they must often rest for a period of time to conserve their physical strength, and it is impossible to maintain a state of rapid march for a long time.

Therefore, for a distance of fifty miles, they still need at least three hours.

……

On the other side, further south of Lingzhou City, the Iron Harrier led by Wei Mingrong surrounded a convoy of Chinese troops transporting ammunition and supplies to the front as he wished—a total of more than 500 oxen snail carts, including about 2,000 escorts and coachmen.

With 2,000 armored cavalry against 2,000 coachmen and logistics troops, if it was before, probably the moment the cavalry appeared, the logistics side should have collapsed.

However, the reaction of the Chinese army was different from ordinary people, when they saw the iron harriers, everyone acted quickly, and surrounded the carts with thick plates into a circular defensive line, and all the oxen, horses, and mules were concentrated in the middle of the cart formation, and some people clothed them with felt to prevent arrows.

It took only a few minutes for 500 carts to transform from a marching army into a wooden fortress.

At this speed, the fame and glory smacked his tongue: "It's too fast, it's too late." ”

He wanted to rush directly at the horseback, quickly cut down the panicked logistics troops, lead the cattle, horses and mules, and burn all the food and ammunition supplies, and then attack the second enemy.

However, in this situation, which was supposed to be an action to clean up the enemy's auxiliaries, it directly evolved into a siege ......, not to mention the next wave of Chinese convoys, and now this one can be defeated is not bad.

"My lord, what can I do about this?" The adjutant shouted angrily: "This has become a siege! ”

"The siege must also be fought." Wei Ming Rongli turned back on the horse and looked at the direction of Lingzhou City behind him: "It's almost impossible to hold it over there, if we don't make a move here, this time it will be equivalent to doing nothing." ”

"And if we don't fight this time, what should we do if the next team still turns into a car formation so quickly?"

I don't dare to bet that the next transport team will react slowly, and I can't bet like this, so I have to fight.

"Let's go!" Wei Mingrongli's eyes became firm: "You take the lead, we must eat this convoy!" ”

"Yes!" The adjutant general gritted his teeth and agreed: "The subordinates will definitely break through that car formation!" ”

"Tell the whole army to capture this cart formation, and each person will be rewarded with an ox and fifty acres of land. Whoever dares to retreat will kill his whole family! ”

……

"The Tartars are coming!"

The galloping iron harrier could hear the shouts of the Han people in the car array, but unfortunately, there was no panic in this shout.

This made the deputy general of the Iron Harrier, who took the lead in the charge, feel a little frustrated, if the enemy infantry behind the fortifications has the will to fight, then the pure cavalry troops will have to pay a lot of price even if they can win.

The adjutant general felt that many people might not be able to get the reward promised by fame and glory today.

Just as he was thinking, a crisp gunshot suddenly erupted in a circle of cars, and a lead bullet flew past the lieutenant's face, taking his helmet and cutting a deep bloody wound on the right side of his face.

"Why do the auxiliaries have so many muskets!?" The lieutenant couldn't help but exclaim.

He was answered by another volley of muskets, and the Iron Harriers fell in unison.

The only thing to be thankful for the Iron Harriers is that there are very few firing rifles in the hands of the logistics troops nowadays, and most of them are still armed with flintlock pistols.

Otherwise, they should have been taught a harsher lesson.

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