The sky began to turn white, and the Kaiping Gate of Youzhou City was already shrouded in heavy fireworks, and the gray-white wall tiles were smoked into jet-black sheets.

And the first soldiers led by Suo Chao, relying on the occupied terrain and city defense, have repelled four waves of enemies who came to recapture, but the stairs and corners have also been filled with corpses, and they can't get off their feet soaked in the flowing blood.

Although most of them were left by the Pinglu soldiers who wanted to take the opportunity to touch them, they were occasionally mixed with the pioneers who died bravely; After all, their numbers were in the midst of the accumulated casualties, not to mention the drastically depleted physical strength and ammunition.

Fortunately, the backup was still forced to squeeze in from the barely open half of the city gate before they had used up all the sub-pills and were about to pick up the spurs and start the melee battle.

And the first to rush out of the doorway were the most elite and capable old grenadiers. As soon as they appeared, they spread out to the roots of the walls on both sides, and raised the explosive bombs and fire oil bombs that had been triggered in their hands, almost as if they were flowing water, without any slogans and coordination, under some kind of natural tacit understanding and judgment of the situation, they threw them one after another; And like evenly sprinkled raindrops, it fell into the midst of the Pinglu soldiers who rushed up the stairs of the city.

In an instant, the clouds of fire and smoke that burst violently one after another suddenly blew up these enemies who had just divided their troops and turned around. Almost instantly, they threw all the grenadiers they were carrying, and then the old grenadiers, who had their backs against the city wall, drew their ammunition-filled guns again, and divided them into two rows, standing up and down, and shooting and killing them one by one against the remnants of the enemy who were still standing and especially resisting.

When they faced the flying arrows covered by the Pinglu army and did not retreat at all, and after evading the third pre-loaded bullet wheel alternately, the old grenadiers who kept rushing out of the door hole also became two platoon guns mounted on leather carts; As the handle and the front end of the tube were shaken again and again, the dull sound of "stomping and stomping" bloomed like an invisible whip and slammed into those places, screaming and roaring wildly and trampling on the corpses and wounded all over the ground, and once again pouring into the enemy of the inner urn city.

In an instant, the figures of the enemies who rushed to the front were almost torn apart by rows and pieces, and the trend did not decrease much through the second and third rows that followed, and more figures were flipped and thrown to the ground; By the time the long board of straight medicine was emptied, in the blink of an eye, the surrounding walls were covered with blood and splashes, and the wide road connecting the inner and outer urn cities in addition to the lodging corpses had been cleared out of the way without any enemies to stand on.

And the many enemies who were still gathered under the inner urn city also seemed to have been robbed of their souls and spirits in an instant, and there was a certain instinctive cringe of stagnation and dazed hesitation, and they were stunned in place for several breaths; Then, in the click of the inertial rotation of a mechanical cavity, there was an uproar and a group retreated backwards and fled.

So much so that the grenadiers and gunmen who had already installed a new platoon of bullet boards outside the doorway of the Outer Urn City and continued to wait for them suddenly got up without knowing what they were looking for in the face of the enemy who had been waiting for a long time to really shout far away.

And until this moment, Suo Chao, who had witnessed all this condescendingly in the city, also exhaled his last breath of perseverance with relief, and sat down on the ground with his whole body out of strength. And he was so tired and sleepy that when he slackened, his whole body was almost omniscient and tired, and even the smile that came from the heart of victory was dimmed by the wound that touched the side of his sideburns.

But after all, this is the first merit to take the door first, and it actually fell on him, a new general who was able to join Huaizhen at the end of the Second Northern Expedition, and his qualifications and merits are not very good, which is undoubtedly quite enviable and eye-catching. This also means that in Huaizhen, it should not be called the Beiping Metropolitan Governor's Mansion now, a better opportunity and prospect within this emerging system, and even a further starting point and beginning.

Therefore, while he grieves for his companions, he can't help but look forward to it.

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In the Yacheng of Youzhou Jiedu Envoy and Governor of Pinglu, Han Zhongyan was also looking at the fireworks and faint sounds of fighting rising in the vast city, which may represent a section of the city wall that is about to fall under the attack of the Huai army.

"It has been confirmed before the army that the Kaiping Gate has fallen."

"It is suspected that the enemy climbed the city gate at night and attacked and killed the rest of the defenders of the gate"

"Although there are reserves that rushed to the first section of the Jingluo Army and the Ring City Guard, there are also the successive attacks of the Shanyi Battalion"

"More than 1,000 soldiers were lost before and after. , still not recaptured. ”

"And the old Deng Jingluo and Zeng were in the firearms station, but unfortunately they were lost one after another, and Deputy Liu was seriously injured and retreated."

"Now most of the Huai army is pouring in along the Kaiping Gate."

"I'm afraid it's the nearest Yuzhenfang and Open Source, it's already difficult to preserve...

For Han Zhongyan, this happened too quickly, and even made him a little confused; Shouldn't this kind of siege warfare called Dayi be protracted and become a unit in months, or for more than half a year, or even for more than a year?

I used this huge Jicheng as a chessboard to carry out strategic layout and careful planning; Only then did he resist the enemy's siege until the third day, and he had already been swept away by the besieging enemy all the peripheral obstacles, and then broke through the defense of Outer Guo City, easily destroying his entire layout;

This couldn't help but make him feel a little frustrated and anxious, didn't he give up the name and righteousness represented by Youzhou City in time, retreat north of Wang Yanshan with most of his strength, and plan to stay on the spot to fight a protracted defense battle, in fact, it was a mistake.

However, he quickly became firm, although he lost a lot of mistakes, and also lost the benefits of Waiguo's city defense, but he still had most of the hole cards in Youzhou City;

After all, according to the facts he knew, no matter how good the Huai army could fight this expedition, there were only tens of thousands of people before this expedition, and it was overwhelming and unstoppable to put it in the wild, but once it entered this Youzhou City, which is claimed to be able to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people, it may not be able to go well;

At least in terms of the incomparably familiar location and the people who guard the countryside (heart), he still has enough confidence and confidence to rely on this vast and complicated city and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in it, and continue to deal with it for a long time, until a new turn and change comes, or until the season when the other party can no longer hold on and has to give up and retreat.

What's more, he still has several hands of prepared hole cards did not have time to play, was forced by those Huai troops to this step of the street battle in the city, he was extremely unwilling and reluctant, so from the stage of the world's victory, so gloomy.

However, in addition to the fact that these plans need a large amount of time to brew, there is also a very important premise, that is, it is necessary to carry out a more severe and decisive method of wartime rights and interests, and further eliminate internal noise and dissent, so that they do not start to advocate vacillation and capitulation in the face of an unfavorable situation, and thus become a potential help to the enemy.

Thinking of this, he called out to one of his tooth guards and whispered

"Shiliu, I will appoint you with an important responsibility."

"Pick some competent and reliable people to stand by on the route of the retreat and transfer of soldiers and civilians in the outer city"

"Wait for the signal to come ... Can.. ”

(End of chapter)