The 10 armies of the revolutionary army under Xiao Xuan's command are to a large extent uneven, although on the whole, they are far from reaching the height of a revolutionary army, and they are only an army in the quasi-modern sense, and even a relatively perfect and decent armor rate cannot be achieved, but a small number of the main infantry regiments have become stronger and stronger in many combat tests and even in the process of selection and adjustment. Of course, Xiao Xuan knew the strength of the enemy army in the direction of Lanzhou, so not only the first regiment of the Volunteer Army, but also the two regiments of the first division of the revolutionary army that followed the battle were also very prominent, although they were still worse than the first regiment, but when the officers and soldiers of the first division were mainly responsible for loading ammunition, and the volunteer regiment was also responsible for firing while loading ammunition, the firepower of the entire team was fully exerted.

Although the enemy on the opposite side has an absolute superiority in strength, but in the face of an opponent with a range of more than 100 steps and a strength of several thousand to besiege from all sides, it can only give full play to three or four times the strength advantage at most, and the difference in the hit rate between the two sides under the deterrence of actual combat firepower is the same as the difference between the modern revolutionary army at its peak or the main force of the **** Japanese army at its peak and the opponent, and the re-understanding of the meaning of death and life has brought about a completely different effect in shooting operations, and it seems that it is more obvious than the melee hand-to-hand combat with too much weight in training. Coupled with the gap in the power of gunpowder and the quality of firearms, application skills, protection and other aspects, the casualties of the Ming army in the Lanzhou direction in front of the battle were still almost ten times that of the team led by Xiao Xuan.

Such a fierce battle did not last until nightfall, the army led by Qing Wang Zhu Zhuoyan, who was fighting away, could not hold on, and retreated one after another, which led to the gradual collapse of the siege array, which gradually evolved from encirclement to a horizontal formation confrontation of different thicknesses, and the entire horizontal array was also accurately and calmly compressed by the first regiment of the Volunteer Army and the first division of the revolutionary army, and was gradually compressed to the direction close to the city under the pressure of firepower like a shooting range. In the end, they could only rely on the fire support of the city and the strong forces to resist.

When night gradually fell, and the fire support from the city was gradually inaccurate, the brave melee assault of the 1st Regiment of the Volunteer Army and the Volunteer Division at a distance of armor-piercing distance with heavy musket projectiles began.

A steady stream of grenades accompanied the east wind of spring, and the melee soldiers of the musketeers, who were covering the double-barreled flintlock marksmen and carrying steel short spears with handles, approached the enemy forces below the city and launched a fierce blow, which soon crushed the opponent who was more than ten times his own strength. The team led by Xiao Xuan did not fall in love with the battle at this time, but immediately withdrew from the front line, preparing to launch a real offensive against Lanzhou City during the day.

After all, it is a great risk to pursue the team that flees after night when the strength of your own side is not large, and although there are many difficulties in attacking the city with less to more, the obstacles faced by the army in attacking the fortification are not as great as in the traditional cold weapon era.

When the pressure of the strong enemy dissipated, Lanzhou and the nearby Ming army group also had a disagreement on the strategic direction, some advocated fleeing westward, some advocated retreating eastward, but more people felt that although the enemy army looked very fierce, it was impossible to attack a fortified city with sufficient troops without carrying too much siege equipment. In the end, Sun Chuanting chose to gather his troops with all his might, preparing to use the remaining tens of thousands of troops to start a real decisive battle with the strong enemy in the defense of Lanzhou.

The team led by Xiao Xuan did not carry many heavy artillery, only some light field artillery and very simple siege equipment, no matter how you look at it, it is impossible to look like it can bring a great threat to Lanzhou City.

However, in front of the grenadiers, who are really maturing their blasting skills and are becoming more and more proficient. In the face of the traditional defense system that can't even talk about the fortress, many of the siege and siege equipment that seemed necessary in the past are no longer necessary.

With the help of the hundred-foot pole and the child soldiers who were specially responsible for reconnaissance with telescopes, the team that came to the city soon suppressed a place in the east of Lanzhou City with precise artillery fire and blasting attacks at the fastest speed, and easily approached a distance of only about twenty or thirty steps from the city. At this distance, the defenders, who were constantly firing or firing arrows in preparation for resistance, were increasingly suppressed, and the Demoman soon began to use blasters to blast the simple captives on the city.

Different from the previous blasting methods, this time the blasting rod warhead used by the First Regiment of the Volunteer Army and the First Division of the Revolutionary Army weighed only a few pounds and was not large, but it was simply welded and processed by expensive iron-clad lead bullets with molten iron to form six relatively heavy "prefabricated fragments", so even in the face of the bed board or door panel of the city head covered, it has the minimum lethal effect and ability. Hundreds of blasting rods and thousands of grenades quickly broke up the resistance on the top of the city within a radius of about 100 paces, and the siege team that had been prepared for a long time skillfully climbed to the top of the city, and used the firearms loaded with ammunition and the numerous loaders under the head of the city to continuously launch relay fire, so that the team that climbed to the head of the city only a few hundred people at the beginning had the ability to suppress thousands of enemy troops who launched a counterattack from all directions.

As more and more officers and soldiers of the 1st Regiment and 1st Division of the Volunteer Army ascended to the top of the city, the fortified city, which originally seemed impregnable, fell into a desperate situation in less than a day.

The city of Lanzhou was not very large, and under the pressure of being able to cover almost all parts of the city from all directions with three or two bullets of light weight from the four walls, more and more defenders had to be forced to surrender or fight against the enemy who continued to resist.

At this point, it seems that the Northwest Strategic Group, which is not too small in strength and not too bad in combat, has gradually come to an end in the face of a force that is beyond the imagination of its opponents.

Destroying the opponent was of course not the only need of Xiao Xuan's team, although the casualties and losses in the previous battle were not light, as many as nearly a thousand people, but Xiao Xuan still used melee attacks and street battles to finally solve the remnants of the enemy who chose to stay in the city and continue to resist.

"When this battle is over, the general trend of the world may be truly decided, right?" Tian Xiuying, who also participated in the battle personally, seemed to have completely let go of the stone in her heart at this moment, and she no longer had to worry about when there might be an accident on the battlefield.

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