If it is a commander with brains, he will quickly evacuate the soldiers outside the city, and then quickly retreat or find a place outside the city to establish a defensive line, but Ma Deli is not that kind of person, maybe he has fought with the Huaxia army, maybe he has a lot of combat experience, and he has also participated in the battle between the Nanming Kingdom and the Huaxia army and the Taixi people, but he can't turn the corner now, he has angered the attack, and the defeat is unacceptable to him.

He mobilized the remaining thousands of troops of the Qing army defeated by the first and second regiments of the Guards Regiment into the city, and transferred all the soldiers of several towns and villages on the rear defense line, concentrated all the troops in this area, and wanted to fight street battles with the Huaxia army, he was very keen on street fighting, and he believed that even if the Qing army did not win in the street battle, it would cause great casualties to the Huaxia army.

This kind of casualty is not like the Huaxia army to bear, this is his understanding of the Huaxia army, especially when he learned in the past few days that the Huaxia army is fighting against him is the first brigade of the Guards Brigade of the Dadu Governor of the Huaxia army, this kind of vanity is even more powerful, and it hits his heart day by day, becoming more and more intense.

Ma Deli clenched his fists in the county hall and turned around, "What if I defeat the Guards Brigade of the Huaxia Army, even if I inflict heavy casualties on the enemy?" So even if it fails, I am in the Qing army, no, it is Hong Chengchou's status in the Lu army will be improved a lot, now he is just a general, maybe he can be a general soldier in the future, Ma Bao's kind of general who has been defeated repeatedly can be a general soldier, so what about him? ”

I have to say that the world is full of strangeness, everyone has it, once a person is swayed by a certain thought, even the most shrewd person will become confused, so Ma Bao is very strange to look at the defense line he arranged, which was evacuated in one day, and there is no force in front of him to block the Huaxia army, Ma Deli pulled all the combatants, including the village, the town, and the young and strong people in the nearby county town to Ningyang County.

The small county town is only five kilometers in radius, ten miles in the small county town is equipped with 60,000 troops, of which there are only 10,000 regular troops, the green battalion of the Qing army, the Han army flag troops, and hundreds of Mongolian cavalry, 1,000 Manchu soldiers, the others were either killed, captured, or escaped, and the soldiers who were forcibly pulled in were the Qing troops who fled and were defeated nearby, thousands of regular troops, more than 50,000 village warriors, regimental training, young and strong, strong men, these farmers who were honest and honest a few days ago, Soon they were put on a set of Qing army's soldiers' uniforms, thrown a big knife, or a bamboo spear, and then forcibly incorporated into the ranks, scattered in the city, waiting for the attack of the Huaxia army, fighting against the Huaxia army.

However, Ma Degong drove all the people out of the city because of the lack of food and weapons and equipment, and there was a Qing soldier standing in every inch of the city.

After successfully opening the city gate of Ningyang County, the Third Guards Regiment has conquered a playground-sized foothold near the city gate, and sent a battalion of infantry to defend, and the cost of nearly 200 soldiers casualties was paid in the overcome, but it was worth it, and the third regiment of the Huaxia Army has only lost 1,000 shells, hundreds of thousands of bullets, and 300 casualties, of which only more than 90 soldiers died, more than 60 soldiers were seriously injured, and the rest were slightly injured. Although it lost its combat effectiveness and was transferred to the Hushan Town Brigade Headquarters in the rear, the remaining strength still had 3,000 soldiers, which did not affect the combat effectiveness of the Third Regiment at all.

In the next few days, the 3rd Regiment of the Huaxia Army continued to expand the defensive positions at the city gates, mainly the defensive positions outside the city, some clever scout soldiers were sent to the city wall to defend and guard the other three walls of the enemy, while the two battalions of the 3rd Regiment were separated on both sides, occupied the position 600 meters outside the city, built fortifications, dug trenches, and prepared to hold it for a long time.

The artillery put down the heavy artillery 600 meters outside the city, and the other six-pounder guns and three-pounder guns went up to the city wall, set up artillery positions, bombarded the city walls on both sides with artillery, and started an artillery battle with the enemy, and at the same time the battalion in the city also established an artillery position, and deployed the nine-pounder guns and six-pounder guns in the open space at the city gate to bombard the enemy's other positions in the city.

With the passage of time, after the 1st and 2nd regiments also left their defensive forces, they led the other two battalions to advance to the outskirts of Ningyang County, established positions two kilometers outside the city wall, and repeatedly used heavy artillery to bombard the enemy's city wall, so that Ma Deli attacked the soldiers on the Huaxia army city wall from both sides of the city wall, and the plan of the troops entering the city was aborted.

The Qing troops on the city walls on both sides are still too busy to take care of themselves, how can they have the energy to attack the soldiers on the city walls and help the soldiers in the city. A hundred meters away from the city wall occupied by the Huaxia army, at the corner, the Qing army could not gain a foothold at all, and the scout cavalry who moved up the city wall from time to time gave them a headache, so they had to retreat to the side, and secretly fought with the Huaxia army with cold guns, cold bubbles.

But the ridiculous thing is that in the past few days, the total result of the Qing army in the cold guns and cold guns of the scout cavalry of the three regiments of the guards is 1, and this result is that one of their more flexible artillerymen seized the opportunity to fire such a cannon, so that a scout cavalry of the Huaxia army who was shooting was blown up, and the Huaxia army killed nearly 100 Qing soldiers in these few days.

Now Hong Chengchou's Qing army has been renamed the Lu State Army.

The shelling of the first and second regiments of the Huaxia army made it impossible for the Lu soldiers on the city wall to gain a foothold, and they had to retreat to the city wall to hold on, and soon the soldiers of the third regiment occupied the city wall, and the Lu soldiers could only hold on to that section of the city wall that was not surrounded by the Huaxia army.

A day later, the infantry of the 1st Guards Regiment and the 2nd Guards Regiment took over the defense of the infantry of the 3rd Guards Regiment, occupied the city wall, and opened the city gate, they learned from the 3rd Regiment to establish a position outside the city, and used the city gate as a cover, and fired on the opposite side of the Lu soldiers in the city, and soon captured a foothold of 100 meters, sent a platoon of infantry to defend, set up an artillery position on the city gate tower, and bombarded the Lu army within 600 meters of the city with artillery.

The Guards Brigade fought steadily, the artillery opened the way, the infantry advanced, the Lu army under the three city walls was quickly defeated, the Huaxia army occupied a position of 600 meters around a section of the city wall, both sides did not dare to deploy too many troops under the city wall, and even on the city wall, because the Lu army also has artillery, the speed is slow, solid bullets, but it is also a cannonball, if the troops are too dense, it is easy to suffer heavy casualties, so the Huaxia army only occupied a position of 200 meters, and then the remaining 400 meters is a buffer zone, and both sides only send a small number of team troops, an artillery, or two three-pounder guns to probe and engage the enemy's forces, and then greet the opponent with artillery.

Faced with such a dilemma, Ma Deli also realized that he was careless, gradually calmed down, retreated part of his troops to the outside of the city, occupied a small town in the rear, and sent thousands of troops to garrison, but there were still more than 50,000 troops in the city, and every day he would send at least a few thousand troops to launch an attack on the Huaxia army under the three city walls.

However, with the deployment of the Huaxia Army becoming more and more intensive, more and more troops, Zhang Qiang and the three regiment commanders discussed, has moved the brigade headquarters from Hushan Town to the third regiment station, the strength in the city is not much, there are only 1,000 people on the three city walls, and the troops in the city are only one company at each city gate, a total of only one battalion of troops, but on the tower behind the city wall, there are more artillery used for siege, and the six-pounder cannon on the city wall can only block a distance of 800 meters, while the nine-pounder cannon behind can block a distance of more than 1,200 meters. The earthen platform was full of heavy artillery, which could blockade almost half of the county, and no place in Ningyang County was safe.

Every day was attacked by the flowering shells of nearly 100 artillery, after the heavy artillery of the brigade headquarters joined in, the casualties of the Lu army increased sharply, at least more than 1,000 casualties every day, the pressure on Ma Deli was getting bigger and bigger, more from above, Ma Bao knew his stupid approach and flew into a rage, several times sent envoys to remove his post, but were stopped by Ma Degong in the rear, Ma Degong also sent a messenger to persuade Ma Deli to retreat quickly, withdraw the troops to the area where Ma Bao is located, or break through and Kong Youxing will make peace, However, he sent an order to Kong Youxing, asking Kong Youxing to send troops to harass or attack the rear of the Huaxia Army.

And Kong Youxing did send cavalry to harass the rear of the Huaxia army, but soon their harassment turned into suicide, and now most of their cavalry are still sabers, spears, maces, scimitar-level cold weapons, at most some cavalry can get short firearms, which were made by the Huaxia army ten years ago, but in the face of the cavalry brigade full of firearms, and the cavalry of the well-trained cavalry brigade and the cavalry of the Guards Brigade, and even the cavalry of the Guards Regiment, their cavalry is equivalent to suicide.

In the past, a arquebus was fired first, and then a short fire gun, the cavalry of the Lu army fell off their horses one after another, and the war horses were frightened and could not advance, and then they were cut off by the cavalry of the Chinese army with sabers, and some were even shot down by the lancers, and the lancers carried bows and arrows on their backs, and wanted to hang scimitars or sabers, and long swords, which were not their ability to fight.

Therefore, Kong Youxing is very depressed, he can't even find out where the garrison of the Huaxia Army is now, because most of the cavalry have been killed by the cavalry of the Huaxia Army, and some shrewd scout cavalry can attack, but they don't dare to run far, and they don't know when they will meet the scout cavalry of the Huaxia Army, and these scout cavalry are not the original cold weapon cavalry.

They carried Jinkai 2 arquebuses on their backs, bows and arrows on their backs, crossbow arrows, daggers and short swords hanging from their waists, and they were silent when they entered, and they were really haunted, compared to the scout cavalry led by Kong Youxing who had not experienced much actual combat, they were experienced.

The Huaxia army fought vigorously with Ma Deli in Ningyang County, and he also wanted to send troops to attack the back road of the Huaxia army, but he was attacked by the cavalry of the Huaxia army just out of the city, he could retreat, but he could not attack to the north, or move westward, after a few times, the 8,000 troops in his hand were less than 2,000, 1,000 were cavalry, 1,000 were new army soldiers, and 2,000 conscripted people were also defeated, and they have not been collected back until now.

In view of this, he had to think of Ma Bao's proposal to retreat, and after Ma Bao could not command the movement of the horse, he thought about it for a while, and finally agreed that he should retreat to another county town parallel to him to re-establish the defensive line, and he had no consideration for Ma Deli's life and death.

(End of chapter)