Liu Zhaoji never thought that the First Army would retreat, and since the afternoon he has been patrolling the troops, constantly encouraging the soldiers.

The artillery for the Qing cavalry had all been transferred back, and together with the previous artillery, it had advanced to the nearest place to the city wall, which was beyond the range of the artillery on the Qing city wall, and the officers and soldiers of the artillery regiment were building firing positions.

At the junction of the tents of the two divisions, dozens of huge ladders have been piled up, which were made by the two divisions in an afternoon, and it was helpless to attack the city with ladders, Duoduo had been operating in Guide for several years, and the city wall of Guide was built extremely tall and strong, Liu Zhaoji estimated that even if the city wall was blown up, it would be very difficult for the large army to attack the city.

Liu Zhaoji took this into account and ordered a battalion to be transferred from the cavalry brigade, and they used mounted rifles, which were much lighter and could shoot with one hand.

Everything was being prepared nervously, and by the evening all the siege equipment and firepower were basically in place.

Preparations are also being made on the city wall of Guide, and the fortifications that were damaged today have also been repaired, and rows of cauldrons have been placed under the city wall, with firewood and buckets of oil and water piled up next to them, and even some dung.

Knowing that today's Wehrmacht's siege will be a tentative attack, Hauge did not let the cavalry dispatch, but looking at the situation, tomorrow the Wehrmacht will attack with all its might, and it is time for the cavalry to be dispatched.

The siege, which was scheduled to begin at seven o'clock in the morning, was postponed by two hours. The reason was that the logistical baggage escorted from the rear was delivered in the early morning.

Chief of Staff He Ying after looking at the list of supplies. Very excitedly shouted Liu Zhaoji out of bed. Because there were five thousand grenades in these supplies.

Although the production of grenades is relatively simple, the consumption of ZHA medicine is not small, and the output of ZHA medicine in military factories is still not enough, so it can only be used first with artillery shells, so it is not distributed to the first army at the same time as changing clothes.

"How many?" As soon as the sleepy-eyed Liu Zhaoji heard that there was a grenade, he opened his mouth and asked.

"There are five thousand." He Ying hurriedly replied.

"Ordered the troops to postpone the attack for two hours tomorrow, with these guys. We're going to redeploy. Liu Zhaoji, who had come to his senses, hurriedly gave an order.

Liu Zhaoji did not wake the soldiers from their sleep, there is time tomorrow, so there is no hurry. However, Zhuang Zigu and Lou Ting and other division commanders were called.

As soon as they heard that a grenade was coming, everyone began to get excited, this thing is a sharp weapon in melee combat, as long as it reaches the bottom of the city wall, any soldier can throw this thing on it, and the accuracy is much better than artillery.

"If only there was armor, I could always defend against it." Lou Ting thought about the soldiers who died and were wounded today, and it was not easy for the bombardier to get close to the city wall. If you had armor to defend yourself, maybe the casualties would be much smaller. Only then did he say to Liu Zhaoji.

"Isn't our army without armor?" Zhuang Zigu said with some regret.

"Why not? Yucheng was only captured yesterday, and there are not a few good armors among the tens of thousands of Qing soldiers? Liu Zhaoji glared at Zhuang Zigu, this kid must not have woken up yet, and he couldn't think of such a simple thing.

"That's right! I immediately sent someone back to fetch any cotton armor and chain mail, and only those that were intact were brought to them. Listening to Liu Zhaoji's words, Zhuang Zigu shouted with some excitement.

Because there was no equipment before, the First Army did not conduct special bomb throwing training, but this thing was too simple, Liu Zhaoji ordered 200 strong soldiers from the two divisions, some of whom had used grenades before, and conducted half an hour of emergency training for these soldiers, and the problem was basically solved.

At eight o'clock in the morning, all kinds of armor retrieved from Yucheng were sent to the starting position, and the two hundred bombardiers all wore armor and carried a cloth bag on their backs, which contained five grenades, each of which looked like a general, but these bombardiers did not have armor on their right arm, and this arm was going to be used to drop bombs, and the impact of armor was not small.

The two regiments defending the cavalry of the Qing army were also sent a thousand grenades each, and this thing was a piece as soon as it was blown up, and it was the most suitable for bombing the cavalry.

Hauge and Li Guohan came to the city wall early in the morning, waited for a long time and did not see the Wehrmacht attack, ate breakfast, and waited for another half day before seeing the Wehrmacht's offensive position begin to be lively.

Looking at the gloomy sky, Hauge prayed in his heart, "God, don't let it rain." ”

Knowing that the rain had little effect on the Wehrmacht's firearms, but it had too much effect on the firearms used on the city walls, what would be done to defend the city if the artillery and guns were no longer available?

As if hearing Hauge's prayers, just after breakfast, the east wind began to blow, and the dark clouds began to slowly disperse, and the sky soon brightened.

It is not that Liu Zhaoji does not want to be surprised, but before the siege of the city, artillery preparations must be carried out, and the outside of Guide City is very open, and the artillery movement is all in the eyes of the Qing soldiers in the city.

Seeing that the Wehrmacht's offensive position was preparing in an orderly manner, but the attack was delayed, Hauge's heart became a little anxious.

"They're going to use a ladder to get to the city today!" Li Guohan pointed to the dozens of ladders lifted from behind the tent and said to Hauge in surprise.

"Then I'm not afraid of them, as long as you use the ladder to climb the city, there is always a lot of melee combat, let's be condescending, I'll see who has more people!" Haoge also saw that the difficulty of the cloud ladder siege, he personally experienced, when he attacked the city defended by the Ming army, I don't know how many Qing warriors fell under the cloud ladder.

However, the soldiers carrying the ladder did not immediately rush to the city wall, but stopped in front of the starting position, and both Hauge and Li Guohan knew that it was the Wehrmacht artillery that was about to open fire.

Soon with a burst of cannons, the whistling sound of cannonballs soon sounded over the city wall, and after an instant, there were continuous explosions inside and outside the city wall, and there were not many cannonballs that fell directly on the city wall, most of them flew into the city, watching the soldiers who were waiting to go down the city to take over the city wall were blown over piece by piece, Hauge quickly ordered them to run under the city wall, which was the dead end of the cannonballs.

After the first round of shells, the sound of artillery stopped for about half a column of incense, and just when Hauge and the others thought that the Wehrmacht artillery would not fire again, the cannon sound sounded again, and this time more shells fell on the city wall, and although they were hiding behind the sack-built fortifications, there were still a large number of soldiers who were blown to the ground, and Hauge closed his eyes in pain at the sight in front of him.

The sound of cannons seems to be able to stop any longer, the city wall on the left side of the east gate is already in disarray, cannonballs are still falling from time to time, there is no complete soldier on this section of the city wall, and seven or eight cannons of various kinds have also been blown up.

The Wehrmacht finally stopped the shelling, Hauge felt as if a year had passed, rubbed his ears that were sore from the shock, looked up at the city, and saw that the Wehrmacht soldiers of the brigade began to rush towards the city wall with a ladder, and shouted anxiously to rush up, but found that he could no longer hear his own voice, and looked back and saw that Li Guohan was ordering the soldiers under the city wall to go up the city wall to defend, and his heart was a little more steady.

What Haoge and Li Guohan didn't expect was that it was not only the ladder that rushed up with the attacking troops, but also 36 mortars, and it was 36 mountain guns that fired just now.

Running up the city wall from under the city wall is definitely much faster than running from more than a mile away, and soon the city wall was crowded with Qing soldiers who were caught up, Li Guohan personally led them to run up the city wall, and after going to the city wall, Li Guohan was not surprised, and hurriedly went to find artillery.

The artillery has been completely blown over, but it doesn't seem to be much damaged, and it is estimated that it can still be used. Li Guohan ordered the soldiers to quickly put the artillery in place, and at the same time ordered the other soldiers to carry the gunpowder and bullets under the city wall.

He had seen the fierce artillery fire of the Wehrmacht yesterday, and he knew that if these gunpowders were placed on the city wall, they would definitely be detonated, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

The bodies of the soldiers killed in the bombing on the city wall were quickly carried off the wall, and the soldiers began to lie down in front of the fortifications and watch the Wehrmacht soldiers rushing under the city, but the artillery was not ready, and they could only watch the Wehrmacht soldiers getting closer and closer.

The attacking troops stopped at a distance of three or four hundred meters from the city wall, and the mortars were quickly deployed on the spot, and just as the gunpowder and bullets of the Qing artillery were lifted up the city wall, the first mortar shells had already flown out.

Li Guohan never expected that the two kinds of artillery of the Wehrmacht were not fired at the same time, he had no chance to regret letting the soldiers now carry the gunpowder on the city wall, with the first mortar shell exploded in the city, dozens of shells flew one after another, this time the two large baskets of black medicine that had just been carried up to the city could not dodge, in the continuous crisp explosion, two dull loud noises sounded, and more than 200 Qing soldiers on the city wall were not spared, including the "Morgen" guard Li Guohan of the Qing Dynasty.

Hauge was stunned by the movement on the city wall, and got out from under the fortifications made of sacks, and looked at this section of the city wall in a daze, and only reacted for a long time, pulled over a personal soldier and shouted: "Go and find Commander Li!" ”

After a while, the personal soldiers ran to Haoge with a few pieces of armor, "Lord Qiqi, Commander Li has died in battle!" ”

Hauge, whose ears were still ringing, didn't hear the words of the pro-soldier clearly, but saw that he was holding a few pieces of broken armor in his hands, and grabbed the two shoulders of the pro-soldier, Hauge roared angrily, "What did you say? You repeat! ”

The soldiers were frightened by Haoge's hideous expression, and hurriedly pointed to the city wall and said loudly: "Lord Qiqi, Commander Li has died in battle!" ”

This time Hauge heard clearly, although he had an ominous premonition in his heart when he saw the broken armor, and now when he heard the true news, Hauge was still dizzy and almost fell to the ground.

After helping the pro-soldiers in front of him, Haoge stood firm, "Order Liu Jinzhong and Huang Ying to immediately lead people to the city wall to defend, if you lose the city wall, I will punish his whole family!" (To be continued.) )