"Enemy Attack ......"

"Enemy Attack ......"

After a short period of panic, the entire Xinghe place quickly entered a combat state amid the sound of "enemy attack".

Seeing that the surprise attack failed, Shanba could only wait for dawn to fight again.

The town guarding Xinghe is the head of Qianlian, and he participated in the battle of Mubang. Encountering such a situation, he quickly calmed down, "Now the situation outside is unknown, everyone cheers up, the first, second, and fifth companies immediately go to the city wall to splash water, and the tenth company is responsible for releasing wolf smoke." The army is a day and a half away from us at most, and we only need to hold it for a day and a half, and we are victorious. Do you understand? ”

"Understood."

……

As soon as it was dawn, Shanba couldn't wait to attack. There are dozens of artillery pieces in the fortress of Xinghesho, but they are limited by manpower and cannot be used completely, and now the gunners of Xinghesho are only enough to operate ten guns at the same time.

And Shanba's army is all cavalry, and all of them are cold weapons, not to mention artillery, and even the return cannon has not yet had time to be made. This war was already doomed from the moment of the failure of the Shanba raid. But just like that, Shanba was not reconciled, so he decided to use the advantage of troops to attack Xinghesuo.

In the sound of "Allah", the Uliangha people abandoned their horses and officially started the first round of siege on foot, the first round of siege Shanba was from three sides of the fortress at the same time, but the direction of the main attack was east, north and south are feints, but if there is a chance in the north and south, Shanba will invest heavily at any time to open the gap.

The effective range of the artillery at the Hehwa Institute reached two miles, and Shanba's army entered the range of the artillery before it got close to the trench. The gunners of the Tiger Leaping Army were professionally trained, and they were far more accurate than the Ming troops encountered by Uliangha in the past, and almost every cannon could cause casualties to the enemy.

The Ming army repelled the first round of Shanba's attack with artillery alone. The first round of attacks by the Uliangha was originally a tentative attack, an attempt to find the weak spot of the fortress.

Soon, Shanba launched a second round of attacks, and the direction of the second attack was changed to the south of Shanba's fortress, and Shanba found that the artillery fire in the south was far less fierce than in the other two directions.

"My lord, the main direction of attack of the Tumuts has been changed to the south."

"It must be that the Tumuts just saw the sparse artillery fire in the south and thought that the defense in the south was the weakest, and they certainly did not expect that the number of artillery in the four directions of the fortress was very close." Lian Lei said proudly.

"Do you want to move some artillery to the south wall?"

"No, it's too time-consuming and laborious, give the order, wait for the enemy to enter within fifty paces before firing." Lian Lei said. In the first round of attacks just now, not only Shanba was tempting, but Lian Lei was also testing.

Fifty paces is the range of the Great Ming Shotgun. Although Lian Lei's move seems to be a bit risky, it is actually not too dangerous, and now it is the middle of winter, and after splashing the water city ice, the fortress is watered, and soon a layer of ice is formed, which makes it several times more difficult to climb the fortress.

"Allah ......"

The Uliangha people once again flocked to the bastion like a tidal wave, and in order to confuse the enemy, only a few shots were fired from the south.

"Haha, as I expected, Xinghesu has just been built, the defense of the city wall has not been completely completed, and the south is the weakest place of Xinghesuo." Shanba said proudly as he pointed at the fortress with his horsewhip.

While Shanba was talking, the Uliangha were already within range of the shotguns. Suddenly, the shotguns from the south opened fire in unison, and in an instant, the Uliangha people experienced what is called a rain of bullets? What does it mean to be confused with your face?

Shotguns are not very powerful, and if they are not hit, they can be immediately fatal, but if they are hit, they can cause injuries. As soon as the shotguns fired, the bullets were overwhelming, and it was difficult for the Uliangha people within the range to escape this catastrophe if they were not covered.

After just one round of shelling, the outside of the fortress was filled with Uliangha. The Uliangha were clearly stunned by the sudden shelling, they had never encountered such a scene, and they had not even heard of it.

"Well played!" Lian Lei was also stunned when he saw the scene outside the fortress, and only after a moment did he say excitedly, "Order, the guns and cannons are fired together." ”

At this time, the flintlock pistols and artillery on the fortress opened fire in unison, greeting the Uryanha who were still stunned. The Uliangha people lost their ability to resist in an instant, coming fast and retreating faster. Soon in front of the fortress, there were only a thousand Uliangha lying on the ground and unable to run.

Shanba is not a brute man, he can't be brute, these people are his descendants, if one dies, there will be one less, if these ten thousand people are disabled, then his Uliangha will be eaten by other tribes to the bones.

"What's going on?" Shanba forcibly suppressed his anger and asked the head of the thousand households who had just returned from the battlefield.

"I don't know what kind of artillery the Ming army used, as soon as the cannon was fired, it was all over the place with small iron, and there was nowhere to hide, and most of our people were injured under this kind of artillery fire." The head of the thousand households replied.

"Chief, there is only one day, and it seems that Xinghe can't be defeated, let's retreat!" Someone suggested. The shrapnaults caused widespread damage and cast a shadow on the hearts of the Uliangha.

"What about those who lie in front of the fortress?" Shanba said unwillingly.

"Chief, you can't save it, all those who can come back have come back, and those who are lying there have at least a few pieces of iron on their bodies, and it is a dead end to save them." The head of the thousand households said.

"No, we must snatch them back, give the order, and use cavalry to snatch them back." Shanba said loudly.

The cavalry of the Uliangha did come and go like the wind if they did not attack the city, and it was not a difficult task for them to snatch the wounded soldiers from the front of the fortress, and they only paid a small price to rob all the wounded soldiers on the ground.

……

This war came and went even more suddenly, like a farce. After leaving behind more than 300 corpses, Uliangha retreated northward in disarray.

Seeing the Uliangha retreat, a cheer rang out from the fortress. Lian Lei was even more ecstatic, he didn't expect to repel the attack of Dongtumut's people so easily, this is simply a credit from the sky.

"Report the victory, report the victory to the general immediately." Lian Lei commanded.

After the scouts roaming the grassland saw the wolf smoke of Xinghesho, they immediately reported to Zu Dashou. Receiving the news of the scouts, Zu Dashou did not dare to delay at all, and immediately sent the only 5,000 cavalry in his hands to prepare to rush to the aid of Xinghe.

Xinghesu is not far from Xuanfu, this place is very critical, there can be no mistakes, once he loses Xinghesuo, it means that his grain route will be cut off by the Eastern Tumut people.

(End of chapter)