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Huazhou, Henan Province, outside Puyang City,

It had just fallen overnight, and the snow that covered the ground shallowly was then chased by countless chases, and trampled into a black and muddy sparse rot.

The flying projectiles on the head of Puyang City made a beeping sound, splashing puffs of sand and dust, leaving a large or small shallow pit and hole, although the number of accumulations on the city was not too much, but it was enough to suppress the archers on the city, and they almost did not dare to raise their heads.

Because the car formation under the city is almost always shooting at them behind the bunker, the veteran of the five-color ribbon hat with white feathers or the chasseur shooter wearing a big-brimmed hat calmly uses precision and smooth rhythm to kill the reckless people who are not cautious enough to be caught off guard.

And these defenders can only hide behind the moats, blindly throwing at the sky. They could only watch through the holes in the battlements, and watch the remnants of the large number of friendly troops who had not yet had time to retreat into the city, and who were blocked outside the city gates, in the confusion and despair, either scattered along the city walls, or reflexively rushed towards the enemies who were surrounded by fan-shaped formations.

But this is useless, it can't change the disguised slaughter that they have lost the cover and cooperation of the formation, and are knocked down and overturned in the suburbs by a **.

Looking at the fierce one-sided battle under the city, the Huazhou defense envoy with his helmet and armor, and the military Xiao Gan of Zhiguiyuan, he was both heartbroken and indignant, and he only felt that he had really suffered an unwarranted disaster.

Xiao Gan, whose name is Xiang Lie, is the son of the former privy counselor, the son of Fan Yang's observation envoy Xiao Dilu, and the descendant of the Xi people who were naturalized after the Tang Taixing Zhongxing. Therefore, after the comprehensive sinicization, the surname Xiao has been inherited from generation to generation, which has become a major feature among the many generals of the Northern Dynasties.

Under the command of Zhang Shuye, as a general, he participated in all the wars since the Chengyou period, not only with the back and forth of the princes of Anton, but also the suppression and pacification of the rebellion of the people in Hebei, and the Xi people under the command of the princes outside the Saiwai, the Xi people with the same surname as Xiao, chased and fought and fought to the experience of bloodshed.

Coupled with the tragic transfer of battles and offense and defense from Andong to Henan, from Henan to Jinnai, and even Luodu, the qualifications that survived can not be said to be a newly grown veteran.

Therefore, the new chief regent in the center of the imperial court, in order to replace Zhang Shuye, who has been promoted to the privy envoy and has worked day and night and has no time for the army, Zhang Envoy Jun shared his worries, and specially dispatched them, the young old ministers, and appointed them separately.

This is a justifiable conspiracy, and there is not much reason to oppose it from top to bottom, coupled with the generous reward from the Generalissimo's Mansion of the world's soldiers and horses and the courtesy of the knot, those generals who have a new future will naturally not oppose and resist their own way to advancement.

Xiao Gan is one of them,

As a result, not long after he was easily transferred, this kind of thing happened.

It's not that those southern Yankees are not accustomed to the scenery, water and soil of the north, and they basically have no ability to move in winter, why can they still live in the wind and snow, galloping on the ground of Hebei Province, and conquering the city.

Why can't you let yourself live a good winter in this office?

Although, because of his participation in the reorganization, he was unable to catch up with the previous wars to recover his homeland. But after seeing the prosperity and extravagance of Luodu, these relatively simple and rough border athletes, they can't help but be a little greedy and forgetful.

Therefore, Xiao Gan still hopes to take advantage of this to scrape the place and enrich his pocket. After all, the pair of ****** from the palace in the family needs luxurious clothes to provide for and set off.

But these southern barbarians from Huaidong ruined all his abacus.

With little time and effort, the cavalry of the Southern Army slaughtered from those almost unhindered friendly war zones to the territory of Huazhou under his jurisdiction.

Originally, according to the strategy and experience of the Northern Dynasty in dealing with these Nankee armies, as long as they could clear the strong walls in time, retreat into the strong fortresses to preserve the vital forces, and rely on the defense to prepare more strong bows and crossbows to fight against them, they could basically be invincible.

Because the opponent's reputation of "invincible" is almost all won in field battles and defense, and in the post-war pattern, as long as you don't take the initiative to provoke or try to avoid its sharpness, the other party has not taken the initiative to gnaw on the records of those strong cities.

Then, according to the experience of several relatively successful times in the past, compared to the northern country, which often claims to be tens of thousands of horses, after all, the scale of the army that the other side can maintain is limited, and even if it takes the initiative to attack, the number of troops that can be invested seems to be quite limited.

Only as long as they gradually wear down and frustrate their vigor in the course of holding on to the tug-of-war, and then wait for an opportunity to assault with highly mobile light horses and fast horses, and wait for their divisions to become tired and neglected, it is possible to achieve corresponding results and even thwart and repel their offensive and attempts.

Therefore, as long as the corresponding troops are damaged to a certain extent, they will take the prisoners and the wounded to retreat and move forward on their own initiative. Reporting to Luodu in this way is a great victory for defeating the enemy.

Only this time, the other party dispatched cavalry with all its might, and at least tens of thousands of cavalry were lined up in the field, so the original expectations and judgments were all gone.

Under the full force and full force to move to divide and outflank, he was almost caught off guard by being pulled away or cut off from rescue, and was divided and annihilated in the rush to and fro.

or encircled the point to send reinforcements, or attacked in several sections, or constantly harassed to the point of collapse, words, the impression and opinion of the Southern Army that was not good at horse warfare have also been unforgettable.

What's more, the enemy of Huaidong also invested in new tactics this time.

Compared with the traditional three-row firing column of the guncorps, the deep-vertical firing array temporarily synthesized by the horse infantry is mainly a batch of two more rows of shooting on horseback. As a result, with an extra one and a half times the firepower density money, the lineup they faced inevitably became Alexander.

In addition, there were twenty or thirty long and short artillery carriages with the horse-drawn army, which resounded in the field from time to time, used to gather and fire at a fortified fortress, or hide in the cavalry array, and break the formation with scattered bombs, ordinary camps could not stop this kind of attack at all, and they were almost defeated all the way, and they were routed one after another.

The enemy's scouts and small group of pioneers, almost with the messengers who ran over to report the news, chased Xiao Gan to the city of Puyang, where Xiao Gan was. Then, in the skirmish, he easily fired muskets and bombs on horseback, and routed several expulsors sent out of the city.

He kept pinning down and harassing the defenders who had been ordered to shrink from all over Huazhou, and finally cooperated with the horse teams that arrived later, and blocked most of them outside the city. Let these people from all walks of life who came to the round, the last distance and journey of several miles, become a moat between life and death in the city and under the city.

And Xiao Gan even had to restrain his subordinates not to impulsively go out of the city, but to become an opportunity for the other party to win the door and break the city. Although there were several battalion leaders among them, it took him a lot of effort to retrain them.

After all, in front of the artillery carriage pulled up by the other party's follow-up brigade, even if it was Puyang City itself, which Xiao Gan was guarding, it was not necessarily much safer.

Because as an important stronghold on the outer periphery of the Henan Plain, it was repeatedly contested and broken by the northern and southern armies in the Northern Expedition, so the newly filled gaps are basically rammed earth and reinforced with wooden piles, which gives people more psychological comfort.

Most of the money for repairing the city defense has been collected, but this money is still in Xiao Gan's own private pocket, and it has not become the expenditure of convening people to take soil and burn bricks to increase the cost of building the city.

And most of the ordnance that Luodu allocated to the local army was also piled up in the arsenal of Huazhou City. There is no other reason, it is still Brother Fang Kong who is doing it.

As a young man from the border pass, Xiao Gan did not have the intention and intention of secretly deducting and replacing or privately reselling like other old people in the army, and even strictly controlled the share of empty salary, so as not to affect the strength of his basic market.

However, he just wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of reorganizing the local armed forces and use the distribution power of this batch of ordnance to make a good profit and strengthen his authority by the way.

After all, in the process of the imperial court's recovery of the localities, it also incorporated and integrated many local armed forces, many of which had the background of the remaining local powerful families.

Originally, according to Xiao Gan's idea, it was not considered the front line, and there were at least a number of military towns and towns in Puzhou, Haozhou, Songzhou and other places east of Puyang, so there were basically no worries about preparing for land in this winter, and you could take a good rest.

Now, apparently, everything is in vain.

But if he can't get through the current difficulties, then everything he has worked hard will have no hope and no future