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With the continuous sound of artillery, shells fell on the pier one after another, smashing the pier into a mess, the wounded and corpses were all over the pier, a large number of debris and corpses floated on the river near the pier, and the ships transporting people on the river in the distance had to stop, so no one dared to rush to the pier rashly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Without the continuous flow of fresh troops on the docks, the landing force of the Annam army at the front began to become weak.

In front of the shield at the front, the Annan soldiers were held up by axes and guns at the exit of the road, and the way they retreated was blocked by artillery, while sharp axes and guns were facing them in front. Many of them were crazy and directly attacked the shield array, hitting the thick shield in front of them with their bodies. Some of the shield soldiers were knocked back, and the Annan soldiers took advantage of the gap in the shield array to slash and kill the Medeno soldiers on both sides. Medeno's axemen roamed behind, and when he saw this, he rushed forward to slash the lone Annan soldiers, and at the same time raised the shield back again. In some areas, because the Medeno axemen did not arrive in time, the Annan soldiers caused a small breakthrough, but the axe-gunners in the back directly lay down or crouched, and the musketeers on the periphery opened fire in this direction, blocking the exit with heavy fire.

It was already very obvious that the two sides had fought to this extent, and although there were still six or seven hundred Annan soldiers, they could not take any advantage in front of these four or five hundred maidno shield arrays, but were killed layer by layer like onions peeled by the shield array. Although the attack of the Medeno spear and shield array was slow and the killing efficiency was not high, there were almost no casualties of their own, as long as they continued to attack forward, the Annan soldiers on the other side of the encirclement would be slaughtered sooner or later. The Annan soldiers were full of grief and indignation, and there was no anger in the air, but they were useless at all, and they could only die in front of the enemy's axes and guns.

Behind them there were still a large number of boats floating on the river, and no one wanted to go ashore anymore after several ships failed to force their way to the shore and were sunk or the landers were bloodied by shells. These Annan soldiers carried weapons one by one to block the axes and guns that stabbed them, and their bloody faces were distorted and roared in the screams of their comrades being stabbed, and the roar was full of unwillingness and anger, they already knew very well that today was the day of their burial, and this empty field in front of the pier, which they had once garrisoned, was so familiar that they could walk back and forth with their eyes closed was their burial place.

"Finally seized the initiative!" Russell breathed a sigh of relief, in this battle, his three musket squadrons were heavily damaged, and one sword and shield squadron suffered more than half of the casualties, and if it had not been for the immediate order to artillery bombardment of the docks, I am afraid that the casualties would have been doubled. Now that he had succeeded in harvesting a large number of Annam soldiers with a team of heavy shields and axes and spears without the dragoons being used, and now he was sure that it was only a matter of time before he wiped out the Northern Korean army on the southern bank.

At this moment, the sound of the cannon suddenly stopped, and Russell was stunned, "What's going on?" Why not fire? Several gunners looked helplessly at the cannon that was still emitting smoke and said to him, "General, the cannon is too hot to fire." ”

"Damn it!" Russell's heart twitched, and a strange thought popped up in his mind, this battle must be too easy, right? Although he lost more than 400 people, he eliminated more than 1,000 Annan soldiers. Since Bei Annan knew that the defense of Jiezhen was empty now, he must have known that Jiezhen was now in the hands of the Maidno people, and since they all knew about it, they would choose this time to attack Jiezhen, so they must have a back-up move.

At this moment, there was a cheer from the direction of the dock, and he hurriedly raised his binoculars to look over, and from the broken lens, he saw that the boats on the river had resumed the transportation of people and began to gather in the direction of the pier.

"Quick! Change the gun! Russell roared, "Bring the cannons to the south and east of the city through the walls!" The artillery can't be stopped! ”

"General! You can't move those cannons! Several staff officers dissuaded, "Those cannons are used to defend the city, so you can't move around!" "Yes, once these cannons start to be carried, they will not be able to shoot for a long time, and in the event of an unexpected situation, we will not even have the cannons to defend the city!" "General! Can't ......"

Russell didn't care so much, and yelled at them, "Can't I understand? Am I a general or are you generals? Now the enemy is crossing the river, and if we can't keep them on the dock, we won't be able to hold this side of the pier, and we won't be able to keep the enemy at the boundary river. Now there is no threat in other directions, the threat can only come from the north, hurry! Move the gun! ”

The artillerymen were all grim, and the twelve-pounder guns, one in the east and one in the south of the city, which were usually placed at the head of the city only as a deterrent, were now transported from the narrow walls to the north wall, which was not an easy task. But an order is an order, and now that there is an order, the soldiers shouted trumpets to remove the cannons from their emplacements, and carefully pushed these cannons along the walls.

"My lord! They're moving guns! In the woods two kilometers east of the city, a soldier with good eyesight was staring at the situation on the city wall in the distance, reporting to the hundred households around him.

Baihu nodded, "Okay! That's what we're waiting for, and when they're in position and firing, we'll get up. At the same time, he turned to a few small flags behind him and said, "You inform the horse team to prepare, and I will wait for the order to be issued, and you will lead the troops to rush forward!" ”

"Yes!" The little banners took orders to go down and make arrangements, and Baihu turned his head and continued to look at the Medeno artillerymen who were still carrying cannons on the city wall.

It took the artillerymen half an hour to move the twelve-pounder guns, and one by one they sweated profusely to put the cannons into position, finish loading, and turn their heads to look at Russell. Russell took a deep breath and yelled, "Fire!" ”

With two cannon shots, the bombardment of the pier began again. But this time the boats on the river did not hesitate in the slightest, and only made their way to the dock at an expedited pace, trying to transport more soldiers ashore before they were hit. Russell smiled, this was within his expectations. Now that only two cannons are in operation, these Annamites must have felt that something was wrong with the artillery on the walls of Jiezhen. Thinking of this, he looked at the cannons that were cooling down, the artillerymen were wiping the cannon body with a damp cloth next to them, judging from the water vapor rising from the barrel, the temperature should have dropped a lot, and it was estimated that there would be a few minutes before the cannon could be reopened, he touched his beard and smiled slightly, and in his mind he imagined the situation in his mind that those Annan soldiers were like ants doused with boiling water in the dock. At this moment, someone in the distance shouted, "Enemy! Enemy! ”

Everyone couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, isn't the enemy in the north? Why did someone in the east shout? When they looked to the east, the officers on the city wall couldn't help but be stunned. From the official road in the woods to the east rushed out a team of horses, which were not cavalry, but pack horses. The horse's back was carrying some thick black pipes, and it was impossible to guess that it must be the tiger squat cannon of the Wu Dynasty. These Tiger Squat guns do not have a standard system, they vary in size and thickness, and they are mainly loaded with shotguns for firing to deal with a large number of soft targets with little defensive capability within 50 to 100 meters. The horse team was flying the banner of North Annan, and a large number of infantry were running fast behind the horse team, and these infantry quickly overtook the position of the horse team, blocking the attack of the tiger squat artillery horse team on the city wall in front of the horse team.

There are only about **ten musketeers on the wall of Jiezhen, and now looking at the Annan infantry who are coming, I can't help but be a little nervous, because the Annan soldiers have not yet entered the firing range, and they don't dare to waste bullets, and in the face of the enemy that is pouring out from the forest official road below, there are not two thousand but one thousand eight, and it seems that there are more troops behind the back.

"Where did they come from? How did they cross the river? "Russell is going crazy, in fact, Bei Annan has started the offensive deployment since he obtained the information that the entire army of the South Shore Army was dispatched and the boundary town was empty through the Wu Dynasty Jinyi Wei a month ago, but he didn't know the losses of the South Bank Army and didn't dare to do it. It was not until Zhao Ximin, the commander of the South Bank Army, personally came to surrender with more than 10,000 people that they were completely convinced that the South Bank Army was almost completely annihilated, so they began to carry out the attack on Jiezhen, thus beginning the operation to recover the entire territory of Annam.

This horse team crossed the river from the relatively gentle downstream on both sides of the Jiehe River, and the location of the crossing was on a barren beach more than 200 miles east of Jiezhen, because the water on this river was relatively turbulent, so that the Annan army was not able to take precautions. It was not unnoticed by the Nam Annam people after crossing the river, but the towns along the way did not dare to attack them when they found them, but sent the news to Hue through the post station. Hue was also confused after receiving the information, the new Hue court is a completely new team, the people in this team have no concept of how to run a country, and the left minister who knows how to run the country has returned to his hometown because of the previous transfer of the South Bank Army, so they discussed again and again, and decided to just send this information to Jiezhen through the post station, so that the Maidno people can handle it themselves, and the post station does not know about this matter at all, but slowly sends it over through ordinary government documents, and is not in a hurry at all. Now the letter is still slowly moving along the post road more than a hundred miles south of Jiezhen. On the other hand, this surprise attack, they did not stop at all after crossing the river, but rushed all the way to the boundary town, and it only took one day and one night to rush to the outskirts of the boundary town, and after resting for the night, they were just in time for the battle of the dock.

According to their plan, the south bank army of Toucheng would attack the direction of the dock, and when the two sides reached a stalemate, the Medeno would definitely use artillery to bombard the battlefield. The cannon could not be fired forever, and every fifteen to twenty shells had to be stopped to cool the barrel, and the river would increase the frequency of the landing. The intelligence agencies of North Annan had infiltrated the town to investigate before the attack, and there were a total of eight cannons in the city, two of which were already in the town, and the other six had been brought in not long ago.

This strange army was waiting for the cannon to cool the barrel after the battle began, and the increase in the frequency of attacks on the dock over there caused the Medeno to move the only two guns in the other direction to the north, so that there was no artillery in the other directions to suppress themselves, and it was the long-awaited fighter plane, so they launched an attack according to the plan.

The appearance of this road of troops completely disrupted the layout of the Medenor people on the battlefield, there were no more artillery in the direction of this road of people and horses, and it would take more time to transfer those two guns back, and the other guns were still cooling. The troops that could be used to defend the city were still engaged in a battle with the Annan soldiers on the pier in the distance, and the troops in the city were left with only two squadrons of dragoons of more than 200 people, except for a squadron of muskets on the city walls.

"General! Let's go with the dragoons! "Yes, General, only the dragoons will be able to disperse them, and if these cannons get close to the city walls, the consequences will be unimaginable!" "General! Let the dragoons get on! The staff officers offered advice one after another, making Russell's head a mess. Dragoons are his elite, and they are naturally able to suppress these infantry in such a battle, but the enemy's infantry is inevitably too much, and they will definitely be dragged in it and consumed after a long time, so it is too reluctant to consume their own elite.

"Cavalry! The cavalry is coming! With another shout, the men on the walls shouted again, and in the direction of their fingers, a squad of cavalry rushed out of the woods and went straight into the burned and abandoned fields of the former Ito Legion. If there was water in these paddy fields, the cavalry would have slowed down, but because the Ito army had destroyed the crops in the fields and cut off the water source as they left, only hard soil remained in the fields, and the cavalry marched quickly on them, completely bypassing the infantry and horses marching on the official road.

The cavalrymen with their spears on their shoulders did not rush in the direction of Jiezhen, their target was clearly the Medeno forces in the fierce battle in the direction of the docks, which faced the onslaught in the direction of the docks and had no time to care behind them. The musketeers saw the appearance of the cavalry, and turned to shoot at the rushing cavalry, but the cavalry was fast when they charged, and the musketeers not only had difficulty aiming, but the accuracy of the smoothbore guns was low, and few cavalrymen were shot under one shot, but the distance between the cavalry and the musketeers was shortened to thirty meters.

The axegunners looked terrified, they had been fighting cavalry as their specialty, but now the long axe spears were held back by shields and the enemy and could not turn around, and they could only face the enemy's cavalry with their fragile backs.

The shock formation of the cavalry made a circle to the north, and then began to charge clockwise along the outer edge of the outer musket squadrons, and the Medeno soldiers, who had been cut down and poked to the ground, immediately lay on the ground, and then were trampled on the bodies by the horses' hooves, one by one.

"Wan Sheng! Wansheng! Wansheng! With the roar of the soldiers on the dock, the Annan soldiers in the dock area were as energetic as if they had changed, and rushed up against the shield array, and the originally fatal axe guns were killed and injured by the axe gunners at this time, or they just dropped the axe guns and fled, completely losing their combat effectiveness, and the Annan soldiers roared and pounced on the shield array, and what they saw in their eyes was the frightened Medeno soldiers behind the shield array.

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