After paying a huge sacrifice, he finally occupied the peripheral position of Yonggu Town, but at this time, Zhang Shuyuan couldn't be happy, if before, Zhang Shuyuan still wanted to occupy the peripheral position, and he would have more room to capture Yonggu Town, but looking at the city wall, and the morale of his soldiers, Zhang Shuyuan's heart was full of bitterness.

There are too many casualties among the soldiers, which naturally damages morale, and Zhang Shuyuan has no choice about this.

And what worries Zhang Shuyuan even more is that when the Northern Anhui Army retreats to the city, the fierce artillery fire at the head of Yonggu City, as well as heavy weapons, makes Zhang Shuyuan have a bad feeling in his heart, if he wants to occupy Yonggu Town, what price will he pay? !

Moreover, in the previous contact battle, a large number of casualties reminded Zhang Shuyuan of the danger and strangeness contained in it.

However, the morale of the soldiers next to Zhang Xunbu was low, but it did not hinder Zhang Xunbu, who was still in the frenzy ahead!

In the eyes of those soldiers who are already a little crazy, although they have suffered huge casualties, they still broke through the enemy's strong position, and even let the northern Anhui army run away, and even ignore their second line of defense, what is there not to be happy about?!

As for the dead, in the eyes of the soldiers who were already a little red-eyed at this time, as long as it was not themselves who died, what did it matter.

But they don't know that their madness is just covered up by fear!

Next, Zhang Shuyuan hurriedly gathered the troops, and then arranged the combat mission, at this time, Zhang Shuyuan had no time to think about the inexplicable uneasiness in his heart, the rod hit to this extent, he had no possibility of retreating, if he couldn't take Yonggu Town, he really didn't have the face to see his own Zhang Laoshuai!

Therefore, the only thing Zhang Shuyuan wants to do is to take advantage of the aftermath and take Yonggu Town in one go!

There are still more than 2,000 horses in the whole army, less than 3,000 people, this time Zhang Shuyuan learned the lesson just now, after the infantry unit paid heavy casualties, after moving to the city of Yonggu Town again, he did not let Tai not continue to seize the city.

Although Yonggu Town is not a big town, and the head of the city is not very high, if it is on weekdays, as long as the soldiers carry a ladder at a high point, they can climb to the top of the city smoothly. But at this time, it is different, there are still hundreds of soldiers of the Northern Anhui Army guarding the city wall, and there is no shortage of spears and cannons, especially the heavy machine gunners who don't know where to arrange them on the city wall, and they are the nemesis of the siege, if they are attacked, it is difficult to take them down, so Zhang Shuyuan naturally will not let his subordinates die in vain!

And what Zhang Shuyuan has to wait for now is the artillery attack on the city!

When the artillery moved up again, the attack position and coordinates had been built, and under Zhang Shuyuan's order, dozens of cannons opened fire in unison and smashed towards the city!

More than 30 cannons continued to bombard the low city wall, making a rumbling cannon sound, and hundreds of northern Anhui troops guarding the city wall, at this time, faced with Zhang Xunbu's artillery fire, could only lie on the wall honestly, desperately pressing the violently beating heart.

Fortunately, it was a battle to defend the city, everyone had already prepared, after hearing the sound of artillery, all the soldiers had covered their ears and hid in the bunkers inside the city wall, and the artillery in northern Anhui also began to counterattack, the rumbling artillery fire was intertwined in the air, and then exploded on the opponent's position, taking away a life.

After this round of attacks, this artillery battle lasted for more than twenty minutes, and under the retaliatory rapid fire of Zhang Xunbu, the only thing the soldiers defending the city could do was to cover their ears that began to buzz.

But after all, the Northern Anhui Army has long been prepared for this situation, although the artillery fire is fierce, but the casualties caused are not much, of course, the same is true of Zhang Xun's siege troops.

Most of them were wounded, and most of these wounded were caused by the bricks and stones raised by the shells, and the real injuries were caused by the direct bombardment of the artillery, but they could not affect the situation of the battle.

Because of the city wall, and the soldiers were prepared, even when the city wall was scraped off by artillery fire, they could still avoid direct artillery fire.

Han Zheng looked at the map in the big tent of his headquarters, listening to the rumbling cannons outside, without the slightest nervousness on his face, and drew ink lines one after another on the map from time to time.

At this time, Wang Xian had already arranged the city defense, and came to the commander to ask for instructions, just when he saw the thin lines drawn by the commander on the map, his eyes narrowed, and he unconsciously showed a look of surprise.

"Coming here? How's the front? Han Zheng saw Wang Xian, so he put down the pen in his hand, straightened his waist and asked.

"It's no problem for the brothers to hold on, but many soldiers are clamoring that we are being beaten passively like this, and we feel uncomfortable and want to take the initiative to attack." Wang Xian looked away from the map and replied to Han Zheng.

"Well, it's not our time yet, let's hold Master Zhang for a while, let's eat this piece of fat before the above reacts, otherwise there will be trouble in the future. By the way, has there been any news from the person who was monitoring Zhang Xun's main force in front of him? Han Zheng thought about his plan and then said.

"Well, the news has just come, but it's not too good, Mr. Zhang This afternoon, not long after we were in contact with Zhang Shuyuan, the marching speed over there suddenly accelerated, and now it is getting closer and closer to us, should we make a decision early and launch it in advance?" Wang Xian answered, and then stepped forward and marked Zhang Xun's location on the map, in a small place north of Baishi Town.

"I really didn't expect Mr. Zhang to come so quickly, it seems that he was stimulated by us, but our movements will not be slow, presumably our people have already succeeded." Han Zheng pointed his finger at the place in Baishi Town again, and said with a cold voice.

Wang Xian was not as optimistic as Han Zheng: "But those people can't waste too much time on the other party, at most they can drag Zhang Xunbu until about two o'clock in the morning tomorrow night." And it is the harassment force of more than 100 people sent, the difference in strength between the two sides is also too big, one or two hundred people drag more than 5,000 people, no one dares to guarantee how long it can be delayed, once the two armies will reconcile, Yonggu Town here is dangerous, it is the ambush of the hidden soldiers, once Yonggu Town is breached, the ultimate goal of the battle on their side will not be achieved.

"It's enough to delay until two o'clock in the morning tomorrow, and do you think they don't eat, it is estimated that it can still be delayed at three o'clock, and we will launch a general attack in the early morning of tonight, by the way, have the residents all withdrawn and hidden?"

"It's all ready, but wouldn't it be too risky? And after all, there are more than 2,000 people on the other side. Wang Xian heard Han Zheng make up his mind so quickly, and he inevitably said with some worry in his heart.

"They're in full swing right now, and once we drag them until eleven o'clock in the evening, how long do you think their courage will last? And the other party saw that we had been guarding the city, and they didn't even think how many people were guarding the city. The outside has been arranged, and we will use the three thousand people we have in our hands! ”

Han Zheng knew the other party's worries, if his army was concentrated here, it was estimated that he would be very sure to eliminate these more than 2,000 people, but now with the soldiers lurking in the city, there were only 3,000 soldiers, and it was understandable that the other party was worried.

But Han Zheng still hasn't transferred back the first and second brigades on both wings, because they still have more important things to do, and they will only show their hole cards at the most critical time!

Thinking that the first and second brigades should have moved to their respective positions, Han Zheng shook his head and walked out with Wang Xian, and on the map he left, a big cross was drawn on the large plain west of Shanghuangzhuang, Xu Gangzi and Qianjin Village, which was where Han Zheng wanted to settle Xuzhou in one fell swoop!

At the top of the city, the enemy's artillery fire has gradually stopped, and the sound of heavy machine guns has joined in again, and the siege troops of the pigtail army have begun to charge to the city!

At this time, Zhang Shuyuan seemed to have made up his mind to crush the Han Zheng defenders as soon as possible, and when the outpost losses were so heavy, he only gave the soldiers a quarter of an hour to eat, and then launched an attack, intending to take Yonggu Town while the morale was high and ensure the safety of the north of Xuzhou.

His soldiers also worked hard, and kept rushing towards the city wall, the defenders' machine guns had begun to no longer cover up, one bullet after another shot out, and the rifle bullets continued to cross the night sky with the roar of the machine guns, penetrating into the corpses of enemy soldiers one after another, blooming blood flowers in the dark night.

The low city wall, at this time for Zhang Shuyuan's siege troops, at this time seemed to have become an impassable male city, a ** attack force hit the head in the fire, fell down a wave, and then another wave followed, and the attack formation formed by more than 1,000 people continued to move in the direction of the city wall.

Originally, Zhang Shuyuan was worried that there was no siege ladder, and the other party's city gate had been blocked and difficult to climb, but at this time, no one was worried about this, because as long as you can come to the front of the city wall, then there is no obstacle to climbing the city wall.

Zhang Shuyuan has organized three waves of siege troops, but they have not achieved too good results, the only thing is to collapse the wall of Yonggu Town down to a gap about two meters long.

This was supposed to be a morale-boosting thing, but the soldiers defending the city reacted too quickly, and just as they were attacking from the place where they were temporarily undefended, two heavy machine guns that had moved up here reappeared, and they stopped in front of the attack formation.

On another occasion, when the army had occupied a small area and was about to expand its gains, it was squeezed down by a group of officers and soldiers dressed in white who appeared on the city wall.

These people in white, Zhang Shuyuan has inquired, the other party appeared at the most critical moment to resist the bandits, and they are the last officers of the enemy army!

Even though his men were squeezed out of the city and out of the enemy's position, he was happy, because he was finally sure that there were only about 500 people in the city who were now defending the city, and the opponent's large army had obviously not kept up, and the reconnaissance troops he had arranged had not found the enemy's support.

This group of troops has been regarded by Zhang Shuyuan as a tentative force for Han Zheng to move towards Xuzhou, and now they have become a lone army! (To be continued.) )