After Fang Xiaoyu finished inspecting the city wall, as soon as he returned to the command post, a person flashed out of the dark corner: "Young Master, I have something to look for you." Fang Xiaoyu fixed his eyes and saw that it was Zhao Quan, and he was surprised: "Why are you here?" Zhao Quan smiled and said: "Young Master, this battle is the foundation of our existence, how can I not come in person, I have been hiding in the Iron Blood Guard, and sent intelligence officers to the front line." ”

Only then did Fang Xiaoyu know how he came, this time Fang Xiaoyu brought two thousand iron-blooded guards with him just in case, and also brought ten elven snipers led by Egg, these are all his own people, and there is naturally no problem in hiding Zhao Quan.

Fang Xiaoyu asked, "Is there any news from the front?" Zhao Quan said: "Yes, but the situation is not good." Cheng Hub advanced lightly against the enemy, but was intercepted by Bayanger and sent troops, and all the reserve grain, grass and ammunition were burned. Fang Xiaoyu struck his left fist in his right palm and said, "This Cheng Yu is really stupid, he can't see it if he lures the enemy deep in such a simple way." His name is unlucky, Cheng Yu, this time he really let Bayan Ge fit in the chest. ”

Zhao Quan said: "Young master, what should we do?" Is it to pass the news to Charhoud. Fang Xiaoyu shook his head: "With Xiahoude's courage, if he knows about this matter, he will definitely run away immediately, and it will not be good if it causes chaos in the city." You first go and contact my father's troops and let them hold the other four mountain passes, and I will guard this Helan mountain pass. ”

Zhao Quan exclaimed: "Young master, Bayanger has 300,000 soldiers and horses, and our iron-blooded guards plus the Ninth Brigade have a total of 5,000 people, how can we defend it?" Fang Xiaoyu said: "We don't have many troops, if we spread all our troops evenly to the five mountain passes, I'm afraid it will be dangerous in a few places, it is better for us to use the garrison to defend Wulan City, it should not be a problem to have the first army of the elite garrison and so many supplies." Besides, young master, I am well prepared, and this time I want to make Bayange tremble when he thinks of me in the future. ”

Fang Xiaoyu turned his head to Zhang Tong, who came with the Iron Blood Guard, and said, "Let the guard go and invite all the blacksmiths in the city to me secretly, I will be useful." Zhang Tong went immediately. Fang Xiaoyu said to Zhao Quan: "Send an intelligence officer immediately, I want to know how many cavalry of the Monte Empire will attack here." Zhao Quan also obeyed the order. Fang Xiaoyu took out a few drawings from his arms and said to himself: "I didn't expect that if the things were really used, this war would become the first stepping stone for my rise." ”

"My lord, we are surrounded by the Monteers." An officer reported in a somewhat trembling voice. "What?" Cheng Hub was shocked when he heard that the Monte people had surrounded him so quickly: "Have all the people we sent to summon them gone?" The officer shook his head and said, "I didn't run out of the army, just now the Monte cavalry put the corpses of more than a dozen groups of men and horses that we sent to summon in front of the battle." ”

Hearing the officer's report, Cheng Hub's hand shook, and now he was really a little scared. "Attack in formation, we can't let the morale of the troops be low, we have to take the initiative to attack while there is still food." Cheng Hub wasn't stupid yet, so he decided to take a gamble.

After all, the Monte army was smaller than his own, and although more than 100,000 militia troops escorting grain and grass were wiped out, he still had a numerical advantage, and Cheng Hub felt that he still had the possibility of fighting. The militia troops were left in the camp to prevent the other side from attacking the brigade from behind, and all the 450,000 regular troops slowly drove out of the camp with their backs to the continuous camps, and formed a formation.

The musketeers were lined up in six rows in the middle, the artillery was behind, and the two wings were more than 100,000 cavalry, and Cheng Hub's formation was also decent, the only drawback was that he did not leave enough reserves for emergencies at all. "Marshal, are we still fighting?" Admiral Dadar rode to the commander of the Monte Empire, Marshal Bayanga and asked softly.

Marshal Bayange, who was smiling, looked at Lan Fangjun who was arranging in the distance and said, "What? Do you think it shouldn't be hit? Dadar said: "The Lanfang army is short of food and grass, we should hold off the other party and wait until they run out of food and grass before starting." Marshal Bayange said: "You have to remember that war does not necessarily have to be the least cost, the greatest benefit. Sometimes the improvement of morale is equally important, a strong army must be sharpened through hard battles, and morale must also be boosted by a big victory. ”

After speaking, Marshal Bayange waved his hand, pointed at the opposite Lan Fangjun with a horsewhip and said: "Although the opponent has a large number, the generals are not strong, it can be seen from his arrangement of troops that this person's ability is limited, even if he resists us head-on, he can easily win." Dadar arched his hand and said: "The marshal is far-sighted, and the end will not be in time, I don't know when we will start to rush and kill." Bayange smiled: "No, wait first, with such a highly concentrated vigilance, they will soon get tired." ”

The Monte people, who held the initiative on the battlefield, had no intention of attacking, but the Lan Fang army, which had set up a good formation, did not dare to be careless, the speed of the Monte cavalry was very fast, and once they launched a charge, they would get close at all, they did not dare to be careless.

The Monte army took turns to dismount and rest, while Bayanger leisurely looked at the formation of the Lanfang army opposite, not in a hurry at all. The soldiers of the Lan Fang Army who were in formation gradually became a little impatient, and at noon when the sun was shining, the temperature was getting higher and higher, so that the soldiers soon felt thirsty.

Cheng Hub also rode a horse and stood behind the formation, and the fact that the Monte army had not attacked made him a little irritable. Cheng Hub was a little impatient to move his mount back and forth, drinking some water from time to time, and the excessive nervousness made him feel thirsty even more. Cheng Hub's irritability seemed to affect the whole army, and the soldiers of the Lan Fang Army were a little helpless, and there was even a small commotion in the cavalry formation.

"Okay, it's time to attack." Seeing that the opponent's formation was slightly scattered, Marshal Bayanger slapped his thigh and ordered: "The whole army is divided into three ways and starts attacking." Hearing Marshal Bayange's order, the 250,000 Monte cavalry who had been standing in front of them cheered up, quickly mounted their horses, and launched an attack according to the predetermined plan.

The encirclement of the Monte army was nothing more than a bluff, and the Monte cavalry in the other three directions was even less than 20,000, they were tying branches and other debris to the tail of the horse, deliberately creating smoke and dust, and creating an illusion to the other side, but in fact, the main force of the Monte army was concentrated in this direction, so that so many cavalry could attack.

"They're coming, get ready." Seeing the dust rising in the distance, the officers shouted at the soldiers and told them to prepare for the enemy. The soldiers standing in the front row clenched their rifles tightly, the cavalry charge of the Monte army was famous all over the world, and they were also very nervous standing on the battlefield at this time, and some of them were even trembling slightly.

"First platoon raise guns, prepare, shoot." The senior commanders this time are also close associates of the Cheng family, and because the Cheng family is not strong in the army, their descendants have little combat experience, so the ability of these people to be commanders can be imagined.

The current commander was such a person, he had never been on the battlefield before with only theoretical knowledge, and he couldn't help but be a little nervous when he saw the Monte cavalry charging on the opposite side. People have a sense of self-protection, as a soldier, when nervous, the first thing that comes to mind is the gun in his hand, shooting courage is the way that most novices will choose, and as a result, he ordered the soldier to shoot far beyond the effective range.

A chaotic burst of gunfire rang out, but the barrage of bullets did not cause any effective damage. Although they used rifled rear-loading guns, the airtightness of the breech-loading guns of this modification was not good, which caused a waste of gunpowder combustion gases, so the effective range of this rifle was only 200 meters, and at this time the Monte cavalry was still 600 meters away, and the lethality can be imagined.

The sudden sound of gunfire made Cheng Hub also startled, he didn't expect that the commander would be so nervous and shoot at such a distance, even the field guns of the Lanfang Empire that were not far away were only barely able to reach this distance.

"Open fire." Seeing that the troops had already fired, Cheng Hub had no choice but to order the artillery to open fire. The artillery of the Lanfang Empire is still very backward, due to the poor materials, most of the cast iron cannons used by the Lanfang Empire are cast-iron cannons, which are harder and more difficult to deform than the copper cannons, but the texture of the cast iron is relatively brittle.

The main gun method of the Lanfang Empire is to use the mud mold casting method, the method is to make the clay outer mold first, based on the caliber of the gun mold, use the mud to make the outer mold and the inner mold, and use the lifting device to hang the outer mold outside the inner mold of the axis unity, and the gap between the two molds is the thickness of the gun barrel.

Then it is poured with calcined iron liquid, cooled, the inner and outer molds are removed, and the most pulverized is processed into a complete artillery with various accessories. The biggest defect of the artillery cast by this method is that when the clay mold is baked with charcoal fire, it is often dry on the outside and wet on the inside, and the moisture is steamed into moisture when casting, resulting in the honeycomb hole of the cast artillery, which is easy to explode when fired.