Under the rain-drenched northeast corner of the city wall, it is impossible to tell whether it is thunder or the roar of cannons, which is slowly moving away. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Eat more and try to eat as much as you can,。。"

The vanguard general Suo Chao is also conducting inspections and agitation after the first round of battles.

"Then move your body slowly, and you won't feel cold and wet."

The boiling hot and spicy paste soup with oil splashes floating in the vats, as well as the baked wheat rice dumplings, drizzled with fried dried shrimp and fish and sauce, made countless people who were tired and sore and unbearable couldn't help but overcome their fatigue and pain, and slowly moved over to eat.

It seems that because of the improvement of the logistical situation, although the plague is still raging in the southern provinces of Shannan in the rear, the troops sent back still play some use, coupled with the results of collecting manpower and material resources in Shuzhong nearby, so the weakest and most disadvantaged period seems to have passed.

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In order to support their offensive plan, the commander of the middle lane not only transferred two seriously absent troops, but also rested in the rear; It also replenished them with a large number of soldiers and supplies needed for the battle, including precious sub-medicines and firearms, as well as a batch of grenades used for arson or killing.

It's just that the quality of this batch of additional soldiers is a little uneven and does not make him very eye-catching, including both righteous servants from the south, as well as Tutuan and Xiangyong from the south of the Yangtze River; There are even soldiers from overseas, and it is obvious that they are foreigners with different skin and eyes.

Well, at least they can be restrained and used to garrison the city wall, so that they can be drawn from the seriously underorganized battalions, and relatively strong soldiers can be drawn from the seriously underorganized battalions, filled in Suo Chao's selection team, and once again the 3,000 posts and equipment will be replenished.

However, Suo Chao was also injured again, but this time it was not a more troublesome injury; Rather, it was hit by artillery fire nearby, and the forehead was injured by the splash of rubble.

Because of the rain and dampness, most of the firearms of the Northern Dynasty's firearms troops, the Shenbiao Army, could not be fired, but were beaten by the gunners and artillery teams from the Huai Army under the city, with accurate and dense fire and bombardment one after another, and they could not raise their heads;

Therefore, it gave them the opportunity to rush to the close quarters to fight. Thus, in the first round of battles, they won at least a hundred paces of the city wall and two arrow towers in one go; Then, across the opposite side, the northern army hastily piled up barricades and fortifications on the aisle of the city wall, and waited for the rest and replenishment of the next round of offensives to be completed.

While they were resting and eating, the sporadic sound of banging on the walls of the city never stopped; This is a precision shooter from the Huai army hiding at the top of the arrow tower, harassing and diverting sniping at the other end of the city wall.

Any figure and movement that moves on the city walls will become their target and target; Therefore, the opponent was provoked to be unable to defend himself, and some people tried to counterattack with bows and crossbows, but apparently with little success, but were led to expose their figures, killing and injuring many people with a single shot.

When the rain is too heavy for the flying boat to take to the air to monitor the battlefield, they are equipped with special equipment such as goggles with outstanding eyesight, and they are also the best sentry posts.

In the course of the battle, at least two or more warnings have been foiled, and surprise attacks and counterattacks from enemy positions have detoured back into the city.

And the artillery team of the Huai army is also impressive; Although the preparation before entering the battlefield and unfolding felt a little long, once these thick and bulky creatures began to exert their power, the noise and movement seemed to be like the thunder in the sky was about to be overpowered.

And the northern army was stationed on the city wall, and there was no way to even counterattack and threaten them, so every shot that was slow was a terrible disaster and tragic death for the defenders at the head of the city.

Where the huge iron bullets had been smashed, whether it was earth, masonry, or bluestone slabs, along with the human limbs that were already indistinguishable, they were smashed and smashed together;

And when more than a dozen cannons hit one place together, it was simply the result of the jade burning and terrible; Almost the entire edge of the city wall, the battlements, and the female wall are gone, and they are all beaten to shreds to reveal the bare inner core of the rammed earth.

Therefore, from beginning to end, to be able to get the cooperation and support of these Huai troops, Suo Chao felt that it was really a blessing and his luck.

Don't you see, among the dozen or so military orders of the Northern Expedition, who else is waiting for such combat support.

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And in the battlefield north of the city.

The sneak attack under the rain curtain ultimately failed, and the corpses lying in the muddy water and the red-black dirty ground flowing down were the best portrayal of them.

"Why can it still be used on rainy days?"

These are mostly the last moments of thoughts and questions of the war dead.

The other party was simply well-prepared and ready for battle, so as soon as he saw the face, in the unknown roar of the periphery, he turned the sneak attack looking for a flaw into a focused attack, and then turned the attack into a frontal hard attack at any cost.

When the shotguns rang out, there was no choice but to do so.

Stepping on the mud full of feet, in the rain curtain with unclear vision, relying on the guidance of blood courage and simple voices, the pieces that went forward one after another were knocked down and overturned in front of the barracks, and the corpses were lying between the trenches and the barbed wire fences; Finally someone touched the fence and under the breastwork, but there it was again.

Compared with the northern soldiers who were knocked down in the trench by the platoon and the sieve of the city by trolls and big guns, the shelling of the preset angle and direction was even more tragic, and there was almost no way to find the intact corpse.

Crawling among the slowly cold corpses in the sewage, although there were still some wounded who had not yet died, struggling and squirming in the muddy water, but the rapid bleeding and hypothermia after being penetrated were still slowly taking their lives.

It wasn't until the last stumbling back, with sporadic bangs, disappeared into the rain that a group of people with bayonets cleaned up the battlefield; Some of the wounded, who were still breathing, were rudely dragged onto the cart, and finally had a chance to survive.

And on the city wall, who temporarily took over Yang Keshi's command outside the city, the deputy capital deployed and Langya Jiedu envoy Xiang Yuanzhen, and it was difficult to hide his expression, looking at those figures who fled back to the city wall in a hurry.

Under the instructions from the Generalissimo's Palace, he was ordered to organize a five-way attack on the men and horses, and carried out a sneak attack and counterattack against the lost strongholds along the Covering City Canal; But in the end, only three roads fled with the news of the rout, and a bunch of remnants of the defeated generals.

This result made him a little unacceptable, but he was flustered, as a member of the Shannan Army, he was able to temporarily replace Yang Keshi, who refused to take the initiative, because he was confident that he could replicate the other party's previous success.

Therefore, the other two roads that are a little farther away have not been heard from until now, but they still give him a glimmer of hope.

"Send someone to investigate."

"Be sure to take the rest of the soldiers. Give the contact."

"Maybe it's just getting lost and disoriented in the rain."

In this way, as long as there is success along the way, he will have the confidence to declare in the Generalissimo's Mansion that he will achieve victory and results against the "invincible".

In this mood of suffering from gains and losses, even the other key news that the defeated soldiers brought back about "the Huai army's firearms are basically not affected by rain" was temporarily ignored.

It's just that, in the midst of almost the same methods, how can we expect to succeed again and again?

"What about the damage."

And in Kim Yong City, I casually inquired about Yu Hou, who had come to report.

"Fengchengshu, Baochenglei, Guangkouzhai and Guanghekou that were attacked all suffered very little loss,"

"Only Simendu, where a battalion of soldiers and horses were stationed in the rear, had more than 200 injuries.

"But then, the fifth battalion of the garrison who rushed nearby was outflanked and defeated on the spot."

I shook my head slightly, this result was basically in my expectations, and it was not so easy to make a sneak attack and break through in the arranged firearms position.

However, there are still too many recruits in Liu Yanqing's model rear army who have not seen the battle formation. Therefore, after encountering the enemy's sneak attack, there was even local confusion and escape.

After dealing with these emergencies, I was a little troubled by a reported emergency. Wu Mu, the lieutenant officer sent to accompany the army, actually ran to the front line with a good feeling of himself, saying that he was going to promote morale on behalf of the imperial court.

After all, the front is not the same as the Chinese army in safety, and he sees something that is not easy to explain; If you die on the front line, I'm afraid it's another trouble.