The continuous shelling not only restored the morale of the officers and men of the Fifth Army Battalion outside the Yumajian defensive circle, but also gave the officers and generals more reasons to encourage the elite to fight.

"Have any of you counted? How many artillery did our artillery team fire just now? At this time, Wei Yingjia personally asked those who were ready to fight, but how many people seemed hesitant.

"This... I don't know ... ”

At this time, when the staff member was about to speak, it suddenly occurred to him: It is not so easy to let many people who do not have a clear concept of logarithms explain the truth of numbers, and it can still be understood by people, so after thinking for a while, he thought of a way and said: "The shelling just now lasted for an hour, and the sound of the cannons was roughly two breaths in one breath, and one hour, that is, a twenty-mile walk, was about 1,500 to 2,000 breaths. Thousands of cannons will fall, and a bullet will fall within a radius of one zhang. Unless they all use the heavy mountain rocks of the Miyagi level to build ditches and forts, the dark pillboxes and ambushes inside will definitely not be able to withstand the blow of such heavy shells. You are all people with experience in war, and of course you know what it means to have at least a few tenths of dead and wounded. Attack with confidence! Those people inside also don't have many veterans who have been in battle for a long time, and they won't put up too effective resistance under such a bombardment. You've all seen the level of their firearms and bows before, as long as a group of ten people forms a tortoiseshell shield formation back to back, and one or two of the best archers release arrows at night, you should be able to boldly sweep and attack. Rest assured: although there are cannons inside, the enemy's cannons can only be prepared in advance to bombard the vicinity of the earthen enclosure at night. None of the brigades outside can be effectively shelled, and if you are in danger, of course you can retreat. But if no one in a team of ten is injured and escapes, the rules are also cleared, and the reward for beheading will be according to this time... ”

"These truths are understood! Rest assured, general... ”

Seeing that the morale of the family and the elites was okay, Wei Yingjia's heart was settled, and more than 600 of the nearly 1,000 elites gathered were divided into 60 squads, and this time they were all put into battle. More and more ladders were erected, and dozens of heavily armed elites could be relatively safely dispersed from a range of about 200 paces to the west after the bursts of artillery had stopped, and at the same time they climbed the wall to launch an assault.

The sporadic sound of guns rang out again, and many bows and arrows continued to fall from the night sky when the elite of the Fifth Army Camp launched an assault. However, the three-eyed guns and bows and arrows equipped by those ordinary soldiers obviously did not pose much threat to the elites of the Fifth Army Battalion, who had already made thorough preparations.

The previous battle also brought a lot of pressure to Wang Er. However, this time, there was no cannon sound, just the sound of firearms and bows and arrows that were not very powerful, and there was not much pressure. As a person in the team who has good marksmanship, the shield-like cover of the people in armor around him also makes Wang Er feel a sense of security.

Whenever the fire was shining in the darkness and the sound was not too far away, Wang Er directly touched the arrow with his senses to shoot it. No one can guarantee to hit an instantaneous target the size of a head target in such completely dark night conditions, but on average, every seven or eight to a dozen arrows can be heard, and the low screams or low moans can be heard, which makes many people around them feel reassured.

After firing at least two barrels of sixty light arrows in succession, and presumably killing and wounding at least four or five firearms in the darkness, the dense sound of guns gradually subsided in all directions under the suppression of the elite groups in the dark night. "Short spear ready!" Wang Er whispered an order to the people around him.

At least three short spears protruded from the gaps in the shields, groping their way around known bunkers like crutches for their way. The sound of firecrackers rang out again, but it didn't pose much of a lethal threat to the well-protected assault squad.

It was also at this time that the resistance of cannon light artillery, which had not been exposed before, or the Furlong machine, also continued to resist. On the western side, the enemy attacked in about 20 turtledoves, and there were only about 20 short guns.

Forty sophisticated firearms fired from the side at night, and at least three elites of the Fifth Army Battalion wearing armor and shields were knocked to the ground in the first place, and the three squads that were hit also broke up in an instant. Although when arranging and arranging firepower, after careful deduction, Xiao Xuan still summed up a set of methods: once the enemy attacked the second trench and the dark fort line, the firearms team decided on what scale and which enemy near the attacked dark fort line according to the communication method formed by the bamboo tube and kite line inside the communication trench, so as to increase the efficiency of the attack as much as possible.

However, when these attacking elites did not light torches to launch night attacks, the efficiency of shooting was greatly reduced. However, fortunately, the short cannons and turtledoves and other sophisticated firearms belonging to each team showed a threat to the ability of ordinary shield armor to protect them, and hundreds of attacking elites paid the price of more than a dozen casualties, and then gave up the plan to drill and attack the exposed dark fortress entrance. More men fired smaller and more stealthy bows and arrows in the darkness of the night to suppress the exposed points of fire and then attacked in the direction of depth.

Among the thousands of people, there are not too many really sophisticated firearms, and the weakness of the relatively thin troops when guarding the defense line for about two miles is also reflected. Xiao Xuan had to secretly order the western battalion to shrink its forces through the signals brought by the bamboo tubes and kite strings prepared in advance, while the elite firearms team of the central battalion prepared to prepare for defense. More than half of the general's guns were also reloaded with six or seven large shotguns that had been tested and specially designed to deal with heavily protected targets in the field, ready to attack.

A fierce battle broke out again, and under three rounds of continuous fire, the eight concentrated general cannons fired more than 1,000 heavy shotguns of six or seven taels at a speed that surpassed that of a strong crossbow, and the concentrated more than 70 turtledove guns and cannon guns and other relatively sophisticated firearms fired in turn, and finally stopped the night attack launched by the enemy's elite soldiers in the night. However, due to the relatively sparse elite strength of the enemy's attack, coupled with the dark night, only a dozen or so elites of the attacking five military battalions were roughly killed and wounded.

The whole war was again mired in stalemate and confrontation. When the casualties of each team roughly had a little news coming from the traffic trench, it also made Xiao Xuan feel a lot of pressure. From the dead bodies and seriously wounded brought in by the three or four squadrons to the west from the covered trenches, it was inferred that the enemy's night attack just now should have caused about 100 casualties. It is very fortunate that the left and right battalions of the rearguard in the west did not collapse. The vast majority of these casualties were killed or wounded by bows and arrows that were highly concealed in the dark.

In the past, the first batch of teenagers in the newly established guard battalion always subconsciously despised the role of bows and arrows based on the training ground and the experience of the battle at the noon gate. However, this raid has invisibly brought a lot of impact: under the level of craftsmanship and ability of this era, the significance of cold weapons cannot be ignored at all.

At this time, Xiao Xuan was also glad that in the first half month of the war, he made various preparations from the construction of fortifications to fire tests and enemy deductions. If these preparations were not made, the entire battalion, with the thousands of recruits as the absolute main body, would encounter a surprise attack by the elite of hundreds of five military camps, and the consequences would have been unimaginable.

The elite assault on the west greatly reduced the entire range of the Imperial Horse Guard's position, and after suppressing many of the exposed firepower points and bunkers during the night, more and more follow-up troops also came to reinforcements under the guidance of a few men with long poles and lanterns, and also began to build fortifications with prepared grain bags.

Although the attack encountered many twists and turns, some progress in the night attack also eased the tension in the hearts of many generals of the Fifth Army Battalion, including Wei Yingjia.

"In all fairness: the stand-in that the eunuch found was a genius. Such careful fortifications and the use of firearms should also be well summarized and recorded by our army, and perhaps it will be of great use at the border in the future. It's just that the enemy's firearms and fortifications are sharp, and it is really not worth delaying. Let the family members who have suffered at least one casualty be pushed down and replaced with those selected by the rear battalion! This also allows casualties to be as low as possible ...