Because the ladder is heavy, so it can only pick up a better road to travel, the carrying soldiers were drenched by the torrential rain and shivered, they couldn't see clearly, they were rushed by this group of archers, many of them stood unsteadily, either fell to the edge of the trench or were knocked to the ground by the heavy ladder and couldn't get up, and then they were stepped on the ladder again, and they couldn't even climb up. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

As soon as the men of the engineering corps had filled in the third trench two ways out, they were caught by the officers under their command and told them to throw away their tools and pick up the fallen weapons from the ground to attack the city. Now the ladder was blocked near the two roads of the third trench, and then it was under artillery fire, and there was no way to move forward, and the siege vehicles and building carts used to ram the city walls were basically blocked near the second and third trenches, because there were no sappers to continue the road, and they could not move an inch in the muddy and very rugged mud, and could not move any further.

"Meow! What to do? Qian Longzhou didn't know how to take the next command, there was no one around him anymore, the elders who gathered around him to watch the battle at the beginning had already dispersed, the patriarch's weapons were the most sophisticated among all the people present, and the patriarchs had to go into battle when this kind of battle had reached a fever pitch. There were only a few staff officers left next to him, and these staff officers were now all pale and embarrassed by the torrential rain.

"Commander Qian," a voice with a strange accent came out next to him, Qian Longzhou turned his head and saw that it was Maruyama, and he didn't know why he suddenly calmed down, Maruyama's face did not have the slightest flustered expression, but a stable expression. "Please don't worry too much, if you let the soldiers see it, it will inevitably disturb the morale of the army." As he spoke, Maruyama quietly nodded at the soldiers who were hurriedly reloading their bullets not far away.

Qian Longzhou also turned his head to look at the soldiers over there, the heavy rain had already drenched the white helmet, and the color of the rattan helmet inside was also highlighted because of the wet cloth, showing traces on the helmet. The uniforms on the soldiers were completely devoid of the usual neat red, but a dark red soaked in water, the clothes became crumpled because of the large movements, the white trousers also became black and gray because of the smoke and rain, and the primary color was almost invisible, the canvas combat boots were all soaked for a long time, the soles of the wooden boots were slippery on the stone slabs, and from time to time there were soldiers who would make thrilling movements on the city wall, and no one had fallen off the city wall until now.

Seeing the chaos outside, Qian Longzhou nodded, but his face was also worried, and he said to Maruyama with a wry smile, "Now that the battle outside has reached the most dangerous time, how can you not worry?" ”

"Although the battle below is fierce, the threat to our army is not great." Maruyama touched the chin of the beard that had been shaved off - he was still very unaccustomed to the feeling of not having a beard, and touched the top of the head that had also been shaved - the purification of the naturalized people was a very irritating thing for the natives, although they knew that the shaving of their hair was to protect their health and cure parasites, but these shaved guys did a good job, and almost only the eyebrows were left on the whole head, and if it was found that there were parasites and eggs in the eyebrows, even the eyebrows would not be spared. There are quite a few unlucky eggs in the Foreign Legion now, but during the purification, they were found to have something "unclean" in their eyebrows, so their whole head was as smooth as an egg.

Maruyama couldn't touch his beard, so he laughed dryly, "Commander, don't look at the city full of enemies, but these enemies don't have any weapons to threaten the defenders on the city walls, and the only ones who can kill are the archers." We've now beaten the archers to the ground, as long as we don't let the infantry of the South Shore Army climb the walls. ”

Qian Longzhou was stunned, "Chief of Staff, what you said is right, but now there are so many people below, and there are ...... in the distance" said and looked at the entrance of the official road to the west, but as the dark clouds drifted past, the light had been obscured, and even the number of people over there could not be seen clearly. "There must still be so many enemies in front of us anyway, even if we can kill all the enemies in front of us, their corpses can be piled up on the wall." As he spoke, he pointed to the siege engines near the second and third trenches, "If they bring these things to the city, we will not be able to hold them." ”

Li Yuan ran in from the outside, saw several officers and Qian Longzhou standing in the shed, paused slightly, and then leaned over to Qian Longzhou and whispered, "The ammunition is running out." ”

"What?" Qian Longzhou's eyes immediately widened, "Didn't we reserve a campaign-level ammunition reserve before the war?" How did it run out so quickly? ”

"That's normal, right?" Li Yuan looked helpless, "We have a total of 800,000 rounds of ammunition in reserve, which is equivalent to more than 700 people in Shabakri, which is about 1,000 rounds per person, which is already more than the battle-level ammunition reserves." But don't you use bullets as a machine gun? As he spoke, he pointed to the firing position of the machine gun, "Now the two machine gun groups have no spare barrels, and there is also a machine gun that has not been replaced in time and the barrel has exploded, and it is no longer usable." You know, one of our machine guns has enough spare barrel to fire 10,000 rounds, and now when it rains, every soldier's face is blackened with gunsmoke! ”

Qian Longzhou was a little hairy, the machine gun alone had already fired tens of thousands of bullets, and the enemy below was as dense as stabbing an ant's nest, as if it wasn't his father and mother, when would it take to fight like this?

"Shall we call for reinforcements?" Li Yuan was also a little worried in his heart, staring at Qian Longzhou, and Qian Longzhou was also looking at him. If you don't call for reinforcements now, right? The enemy is literally at your feet, rushing at you like no end.

Maruyama shook his head on the side, "Although the battle situation of our army is tense, it is far from critical. As he spoke, he also pointed to the chaotic siege scene outside, "The enemy has come from afar, but the army is tired, and our army is waiting for work." The losses of the other party are already very heavy, and the morale is already at its lowest. ”

Qian Longzhou didn't dare to believe this morale very much, to say that the dead corpses lying on the battlefield now were at least a few thousand, and the conclusion that more than ten percent of the casualties that the big library had sworn in the past would definitely collapse had long been thrown out of the sky by all the veterans who saw the battle situation. At present, the casualty rate of this enemy is already more than 50 percent, especially the casualty rate of the first sequence of battles is almost 90 percent, and even the Japanese army in World War II will not be able to achieve this casualty rate and will not collapse.

Zhao Ximin's heart was cold at this time, he was now riding a horse with his personal guards to watch the situation on the battlefield in a small forest that had just been opened up next to the entrance of the official road. Even if the light is terrible during the rainstorm, even a blind man can see that there is no effective command on the battlefield now, and if it weren't for his military law team and the overseer team, I am afraid that the army would have collapsed long ago.

Ruan Wei was still lying in the car not far away at this time, and he had completely lost the ability to command the legion - Zhao Ximin sent all his battle teams out, and it was basically his army that died in front, and his heart was far colder than Zhao Ximin. He didn't worry about the life and death of the soldiers, he was worried about the veterans, who he had worked so hard to cultivate, and now they were sent to the front to die. It was the same amount of gold for the same amount of dung - and the officers who had come back from the front said that they had not done any damage to the people on the walls, but were just being killed. Without these soldiers, especially without veterans, even if he replenishes new soldiers, it will take at least several years to regain his combat effectiveness. Not to mention that now that Emperor Annam has been replaced, only God knows whether the military department will replenish its troops in the future. Although he was worried, he couldn't do anything at all, he didn't even have the ability to get up and run away when his hands and feet were broken, and the staff officer was poached by Zhao Ximin, and now Zhao Ximin is still commanding his army to die in front.

Zhao Ximin didn't feel relaxed at all, the battle was all over the place - the staff officers around him were summing up and reporting to him the information collected on the battlefield, and there was not one out of ten auxiliaries sent by him to the front, and the casualty rate of Ruan Wei's combat team was also more than sixty percent, so he was not too worried. What worries him is that the Warlords are starting to suffer casualties. The guns on the walls of the city burned at the archers, causing many losses to the Overseers who followed closely behind, and even the officers of the Overseers were killed on the spot, and the archers took advantage of the chaos of the Overseers to flee, causing chaos on the battlefield.

Speaking of wars, he can be regarded as a horse all his life, and he has attacked a lot of cities, and even on the way here, he has attacked a lot of fortresses and small cities to extort military rations and money. But he had never encountered such a powerful stubble as now, and compared to his army, the enemy in front of him was simply without casualties, and their weapons were far sharper than those of the South Shore Army, and he had even begun to wonder if it was the right choice for him to attack the port of Zhancheng according to the order.

A strange thought suddenly popped up in Zhao Ximin's mind, did the Maidno people already know that the strength of these enemies was strong, so they let the 100,000 army advance eastward? Let the South Bank Army come and send it to death? If the Medenor had already calculated, they would have come to die, these enemies were far more than the weapons of the South Shore Army, and slaughtering them was as simple as drinking porridge, from his point of view, even without a clairvoyant, he could see the non-stop firing of guns and artillery, and the whole fortress was wrapped in the rain and fog of the torrential rain all morning, but the fire was still flashing with light points, as if the thunder and lightning rolling in the dark clouds made him feel cold on his vest.

Should we leave a force behind so that we don't have a chance to make a comeback? Zhao Ximin suddenly had this idea in his heart, as far as the current situation is concerned, he purely relied on the consumption of Ruan Wei's troops to get the army close to the city, and as Ruan Wei's army lost more and more, it would collapse sooner or later. When that time comes, will you let your army go up and continue to attack the city? Or just retreat and run away?

These enemies are extremely fierce, and if Nguyen Wei's army collapses, it will be up to his own army to face them. Ruan Wei's army losses are nothing at all, he definitely doesn't have to feel pain, but if it is his own army to attack, then can he afford such a casualty rate? What made him uncertain was whether such a large army would be able to occupy this fortress? And even if he was able to capture this fortress, how many such troops did Nguyen Phuc Nguyen still have? How many more such fortresses? What's even more terrifying is how many such troops will there be in the port of Champang, which is the main city of Nguyen's rebellion? Will it be as terrible as these armies? With so many dead and wounded just by besieging this small fortress, will he still have enough troops to attack by then? Not to mention attacking, Ruan Shun still has at least tens of thousands of troops, and if he comes back with the army, it is a big question whether his remaining army can hold it.

So what if you run away with your own army? Leave Ruan Wei and his army here, he takes tens of thousands of his own with him. If you can grasp these tens of thousands of people, you will be a force to be reckoned with. If he marched west to seize a city in Annan, Annan would definitely not be able to pacify himself, and in the end he could only recruit An, and by that time, he would have nothing to lose. And even if the new emperor is not happy and unwilling to recruit himself, and sends the Maidno people to attack him, it is a big deal to go north and take refuge in the north.

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"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! As the people behind shouted loudly, the soldiers who were being beaten in front looked back one after another, and it turned out that the person who was transporting the ladder behind had already rushed up with the ladder, which boosted the morale of the soldiers of the South Bank Army on the battlefield. They had been beaten before, but with the ladder, they could build the city wall, at least they could fight the enemy with real swords and guns, and they would no longer be beaten as aggrieved as they are now.

The soldiers excitedly put their hands together and sent the six or seven ladders that had just been transported to the front, and in the sound of a trumpet, they set up the ladders one after another, and some soldiers lay directly on the ladders and were directly on the top of the city wall.

Even if they were drenched in the rainstorm, the soldiers on the ladder were still excited, the first person to capture the city wall was rewarded with a hundred taels of silver, how should so much money be spent? They didn't worry about whether the enemy would resist or anything, you must know that the armies that use firearms are generally sparse with fists and feet, and if they are really in a face-to-face fight, they often lose their guns and run away, if they are the first to rush to the city, they will be the ones who will get a hundred taels of silver.

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