In the southern corner of Luodu City, the Liang army, which had just entered the city, was also caught in the night battle

The servants who came from the rear had already brought lanterns, torches, soup, cooking cakes, steamed buns, and cooked meat, so that the soldiers could take turns to eat something and catch their breath.

At this time, the bright torch was also lit on the castle tower, and the snow was shining brightly up and down. Originally, it was advantageous for the dark side to attack the light under the city, or vice versa to attack the light under the city. However, at this time, both the offensive and defensive sides have a lot to do, and complete darkness is impossible, so both sides have to fight at night.

In the most conspicuous place on the castle tower, lanterns and torches are lit like several long winding dragons, and the armor soldiers are rushing back and forth, but in the corner city occupied by the southern army, it is a different scene

The enemies that kept pouring out of the fang area, and the sneak attacks on the left and right sides of the front and back of themselves, almost from all directions, exhausted the soldiers who took turns to attack and advance;

The teams of men and horses carrying the fire staff were like a trickle, filling this dark and dark city with dim fire, and they never returned, as if they had been swallowed by invisible beasts and monsters.

The northern soldiers who were hiding in the city for the final defense were not overwhelmed by this momentum. They did not lay down their arms, did not leave the defensive ground, but created many obstacles in the open city gates, and with their flesh and blood, they built a new embankment to prevent the Song army from flooding into the city gates.

Du Shiyi, who received some kind of acquiescence and sent to watch the battle in front of the army, was also on the top floor of the four-story city tower, which was only half left, to observe and evaluate the situation of this follow-up night battle.

According to his military common sense,

In the era of cold weapons, the command efficiency has its own quantitative critical point, and once this critical point is exceeded, the effectiveness of the corresponding commands will drop sharply, while the delay of various layers of transmission is constantly increasing.

Therefore, when it is usually claimed that there are hundreds of thousands of troops, it may be only a few thousand, tens of thousands, or tens of thousands of people who can really engage the enemy.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, as long as the focus is on grasping the dynamics of this part, it is enough to complete most of the tasks of pre-military assessment and judgment.

And in this cobweb-like area, the battle surface for encountering and engaging the enemy has undoubtedly been greatly reduced and divided, and it may even be only a few hundred to dozens of people, or even a few people. Coupled with the lack of access to the road and low visibility at night, this undoubtedly increased the difficulty and hardship of the subsequent battle.

So, after the sky turned white in a hurry, the various armies that entered the city together had lost seven or eight thousand men and horses in the Fang area, although most of them were missing or lost, but the result of being trapped in the enemy-controlled area was undoubtedly a lot of good luck and no life.

In a sense, he is already a senior sergeant who entered Luodu for the second time, and he is also the lucky one who escaped to the rear in the collapse of the Northern Expedition a few years ago.

And Lei Silin, the head of the capital who led him back then, did not have this kind of luck, because he was reluctant to snatch the woman from the city, and after a little hesitation, he was intercepted by those northern soldiers and city people, and was cut into meat sauce on the spot.

Then he fled all the way south in the harsh winter, surviving by eating raw meat of unknown origin, and by the time he was recaptured by the officers and troops in Shannan Dongdao, he had lost three toes and a bowl of meat on his buttocks due to frostbite and necrosis.

But compared to the other battalions of wounded soldiers who woke up one night and slept in the snow, or had their limbs amputated by frostbite and became crippled, and had to be abandoned twice, he was lucky, because he could still afford to pick up his weapon and keep up with the retreating team and continue south.

Then, in the land of Xiangfan on the Jinghu North Road, he fought against those Saiwai Fanhu who came like a tide, fought against the local Tutuan and township soldiers who swarmed, and suppressed the remnants of those resurgence of feudal towns......

In the case of killing people to the point of being soft and insensitive, Lu Yuan, who was still a little cheerful and jumpy, gradually became hard-hearted and determined and cruel like those colleagues who were promoted.

Of course, after stopping by chance, he would still show off how much fine skin and tender meat he had eaten in the first place in a drunken mood.

However, it was precisely because of the little experience of attacking Luodu that he had some leeway and a backhand after being ordered to attack the defensive area, so he fought and left after the attack, and was able to save the dozens of people around him.

Then he was blocked in this dilapidated courtyard, and used all kinds of casually collected door panels and household goods to build a defense line on the spot, and resisted more than a dozen tentative attacks and harassments, and persisted until the sky turned white and the shouts of killing gradually faded away, and he dared to come out.

However, they found that the environment had changed drastically, the streets were full of abandoned flags and armor sticks, and the intersections were blocked by all kinds of broken and stacked barricades, and the near and far became quiet, as if the Southern Army had completely abandoned the area where they were.

In fact, the southern army, which had already occupied a corner of the city, also regrouped under the command of Wang Duanchen, restrained and ordered to stop their blind movement of continuing to plunder in the fang area, but gathered men and horses to turn to the two wings and expand the control area on the city wall.

For a while, the war broke out again, and the two warring sides fought again along the passageways and passages above and below the city wall, in a relatively narrow space.

Looking down from the head of the city of Luodu, you can clearly see the area south of the city, and the traces of the last Northern Expedition were attacked. All kinds of burned or destroyed large ruins and ruins, like dog-gnawed vegetable beds, walk one after another among the hundreds of square areas in the south of the city.

Above the ruins, there were huts and shacks built with grass, and then they were set on fire again during the clearing of the walls to expel the poor who could not go away.

Therefore, there are not many real residents left in the entire urban area on the south bank of Luoshui, only hidden behind the streets and alleys and temporary street fortifications, waiting solemnly for the detachments of soldiers of the Northern Army who are ready to fight in the streets.

However, Du Shiyi, who was watching the battle from the city tower and instructing his subordinates to carry out surveying and mapping, found that the city head downstairs did not know when, and rows of huge and straight flying fire mines (Congreve-type rockets) had been piled up, which were aimed directly at the direction of the city and kept arranging.

As the roulette wheel slowly lowered as the shouting and turning, one after another the flying fire thunders soared out, obviously the ball shells of these flying fire thunders were filled with burning oil, fish glue and other incendiary materials, and every time they fell, large pieces of fire and smoke rose up;

Then the northern soldiers hidden between the cities were suddenly driven out and gathered on the streets like rats burned by smoke.

At this time, the crossbowmen and gunmen who were in ambush at the commanding heights on the outskirts of the city came in handy, and they used a volley of volleys to drive the nearby northern soldiers who were driven by the fire and rushed down the street in a panic, and fell to the ground in succession.

Obviously, the coach Wang Duanchen, who has suffered many big losses in the street battles of Luodu, no longer intends to use ordinary means to solve the enemy this time, but to fight a street battle that follows the rules. ……

And in the outer field of Jianchun Gate in the east of the city, it is a different scene.

With the tactical movements of the feint troops going back and forth, Zhou Laoqi, the artillery captain of the Huaidong Army, was also listening attentively to the sequence of artillery sounds at the head of the city, while making some presumptions and judgments.

As a puddle of muddy water splashed in front of the position, several observers crouching in the trench in front of him also moved again, nervously calculating the distance and dispersion between the previous and previous shellings, and then making corresponding fan marks on a white-painted wooden board.

Others ventured into the mud pits left by the shelling, and carried back the iron balls projected from the city in baskets.

In fact, the cannons used on the head of the city of Luodu, although they looked quite large and terrifying in the mirror, were old guys who were at least two or three hundred years old.

Therefore, no matter how much maintenance and repair are carried out, there is no way to maintain the original state. Therefore, under half or less charges, both the range and the accuracy of walking are quite lackluster.

At this time, the iron ball that was brought back had also been cleaned and placed in front of Zhou Laoqi, and it could be seen that the casting quality was extremely poor, the rough cast iron sphere was full of trachoma and pores, and the weights weighed were also quite uneven.

The weight of the sphere is uneven, which also means that the shells that are shot out, the greater the deviation and the metaphysical probability.

Of course, no matter how powerful it shrinks, the threat to the approaching dense human formations and siege equipment is still real, so it is necessary to maximize the effect of these discoveries and achievements at one time.

Therefore, as a veteran of artillery planting, including the Huaidong Army, Zhou Laoqi also completed the initial estimate in his heart.

If Huaidong's self-produced six-inch short-barreled heavy artillery alone can be easily suppressed from the bottom up outside the firing range, and if the four-inch long-barreled field artillery is currently used, it can also be suppressed and destroyed by the dominant firing frequency within the equal firing range.

The distribution of these cannons at the head of the city is not dense, and the firing angles that can be rotated up, down, left and right, as well as the range of fire between adjacent gun emplacements that can overlap and support, are also pitiful.

In this way, it is good to concentrate the long-barreled field guns in the artillery regiment and destroy the artillery positions one by one. In the meantime, perhaps the only and limited threat is the old-fashioned bed-crossbows or stone-throwing machines that hide behind the walls.

Although his artillery regiment was invited by the commander of the Henan Special Army to participate in the sequence of assisting in the siege, there was a bottom limit that could never be broken, that is, the men and horses of the Huaidong Army would never participate in the direct siege of the city and the subsequent street battles.