Here, Wan Douni received a request for help from the cavalry of Tianying, knowing that the enemy army had begun to attack towards the Phoenix Town Ferry, he stood on the city gate tower, the enemy's artillery fire had blown the city gate tower crookedly, and it could collapse at any time, but he still couldn't care about his own safety.

The battle had been going on for three hours, and the enemy still had no intention of retreating, and the fiercest assault of the enemy reached the city wall, and the members of the ordinary militia brigade on the city wall knocked the enemy down with broadswords and axes.

It is more useful to fight at close range or with a knife, now it is not the kind of pure rifle that pulls down and shoots a shot, but a flintlock pistol, and the enemy's flintlock pistol is still the kind of gun that is loaded with a single one, it is impossible to load, and it is the same here, only the cavalry company he carries has the kind of rear-loading flintlock pistol with three bullets in his hand, and the cavalry is also equipped with the kind of double-barreled short fire gun in his hand, which can shoot at least two shots, and two such guns are hung in the saddle, filled with gunpowder, compacted, and the muzzle is blocked with a wooden stopper, Even a war horse will not fall down when it runs.

The infantry company he carried had flintlock pistols developed in the early generations that could shoot three shots, but that kind of gun could not continue to reload ammunition for a lot of time, and it took a very complicated operation to continue to play a bullet after firing a bullet, and the time was very short, but the enemy was close to a few meters, and it would definitely not give you a short time to reload, so even the soldiers of the regular infantry company of the Chinese field army did not have much advantage in hand-to-hand combat.

If there is an advantage, the cuirass worn by these infantry and the helmet like the watermelon skin they wear can be much stronger than the enemy's fur hat, the north is cold and the wind is strong, so many people in Shanxi Prefecture usually like to wear a leather hat that can lower their ears, but this thing can't stop the knives, spears, and even bayonets of the Huaxia army.

Don't forget, the Chinese musketeers were equipped with bayonets very early, and there were all kinds of fancy ones, according to everyone's preferences, those who had money bought them themselves, the troops would not speak, and those who did not have the money accepted the standard bayonets of the troops, similar to the standard bayonets of five or six bayonets.

At this time, Wan Douni did not let Ruicheng's artillery fire, giving the enemy a feeling of weakness, that is, to firmly attract the enemy's forces here and relieve the pressure on the Phoenix Town ferry.

He had reported the situation to the Corps General Staff, but the Corps had not yet sent reinforcements, or simply had no ability to send them in a very short period of time.

The nearest reinforcement he received was a cavalry general banner unit sent by a battalion on the other side of the Yellow River, which was simply the same as nothing for the 10,000-strong battle, and could not change the situation of the battle at all.

He secretly calculated the strength of the enemy's hands, it is said that the enemy is no more than 10,000 people, but he looked at the enemy information taken by the garrison general, the enemy has some miscellaneous troops, all of them are some Miao soldiers, Tusi soldiers, and those foreign tribe soldiers, as well as some Xiangyong and Tuanyong, the early consumption, the enemy may only lose these troops, plus some Qing army Han army flag soldiers, it is estimated that these Han army flag soldiers are the enemy's main force, and there are some very brave guys, it is estimated that the enemy's family or generals and other soldiers and horses.

According to his judgment, the enemy's early loss of troops is not large, even if it is a loss of 10,000 people, it is just to consume the enemy's miscellaneous soldiers, plus some elite backbone soldiers and horses, but the enemy's strength is still proudly retained, if he rushes out now, then he will be greeted by the enemy's more elite, fierce Jiading general-based veterans.

Therefore, next, he was ready to use artillery to bombard most of the enemy, killing and wounding a large number of the enemy's main forces.

In the early battle, his side consumed mainly the soldiers of the ordinary militia company and the young and strong militia self-defense forces in the city, of course, a large part of the militia elite brigade, as well as the infantry company soldiers of the field regiment of dozens of people.

They held the city, and the losses of the defending side were always smaller than those of the attacking side, and his side lost 1,800 troops, which was only a third of his forces here, and he still had nearly 4,000 troops.

The enemy would never have thought that he still had so many troops, he always showed the enemy weakness, and those troops who ran out openly ran back secretly, most of them ran back, and a small number were blocked by the enemy on the road and lost.

Now he knew that the enemy's troops and horses must have been gathered back, and if he did not gather back, the enemy would have no troops to send.

And he boldly evacuated the troops of all the surrounding towns and villages, and was laying out an encirclement for the enemy, many of the soldiers and horses had already moved in a scattered way into the mountains, and the low-lying areas on the river beaches were hiding, waiting for his signal to surround them in all directions, and don't forget, the two militia forces had 25,000 soldiers and horses.

He estimated that there were more than 2,000 soldiers and horses, and there were still 14,000 soldiers and horses on the north bank of the Yellow River, that is to say, there are at least 4,000 soldiers and horses outside the city, and his soldiers and horses are about the same as the remaining soldiers and horses of the enemy, or a little more, because there are still continuous reinforcements and militia self-defense troops, although there are not many people in a village, there are less than a dozen people, and there are nearly 100 people in a village.

Then he still has nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses here.

Just when he was counting these soldiers and horses, the enemy's generals over there were also depressed, this time Shang Kexi handed over to him all the miscellaneous soldiers, and the main force also suffered casualties of nearly 2,000 soldiers and horses, even if some of the soldiers and horses sent out, the total strength was only 12,000 soldiers and horses, he received Shang Kexi's order, and immediately waved his army to the Yellow River crossing Phoenix Town, but he still couldn't swallow this breath, he decided to fight again, if he couldn't take this small mountain city, he would take the troops and the prince to make peace.

According to the courier's report, the battle over there was also very difficult to fight, the enemy lost all the territory outside the town, surrounded by more than 30,000 troops, and rushed in twice, but was still beaten out by the enemy, the enemy's tenacity exceeded the prince's imagination, so the prince hoped to send more troops over, first send a part of the people to cross the river, go to harass the enemy's ferry, and lay a ferry to open the way for the rear troops and baggage.

You can't spend all your forces here.

He kicked the groom who was waiting under his horse, drove him away, and then let the pipes and bands come around, he waved his horsewhip, pointed to the mountain town under the mountain, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the prince has an order, let our army go to the ferry, but I want to fight the enemy's county again, each of you will go down with two thousand soldiers and horses to attack the enemy, and you must take this mountain city for me."

It's the middle of the night, and there won't be too many soldiers and horses in the enemy's city, almost two or three thousand, and the enemy is just a group of farmers who have just put on the Huaxia military uniform, take it down for me, and whoever takes it after two hours, I will leave their troops here, and after taking it, you can rob it until dawn. ”

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