Fu Mingcheng smiled again: "What's more, most of their artillery is field artillery, with a short range and small power, which is not comparable with our city defense artillery. ”

Fang Xiaoyu said: "You are really cunning enough, the Monte people are in trouble." How are our troops now? Are there any difficulties? Fu Mingcheng said: "It's not a big problem, in the past few days, the Iron and Blood Guards have suffered a total of more than 300 casualties, and the garrison battalion has only more than 2,000 casualties. There are enough personnel, but there is not much ammunition for the lever-type rifle, and it cannot be replenished here, so I am afraid it will be difficult to form a firepower advantage. ”

Fang Xiaoyu felt that he was playing a little too big this time, and he actually relied on the advanced weapons of the Iron Blood Guard to resist the opponent's 200,000 army alone, this is a 200,000 army, not to mention that his weapons and equipment are not so strong, this time he is really a little greedy.

Fang Xiaoyu frowned and said, "At night, you send some people to scatter all the corners of the nails in front of the position, and I will send you all the remaining bullets, and hold on for a few more days." Fu Mingcheng said: "Young master, I'm afraid we don't have reinforcements, if we continue to defend like this, there will always be a day when the city will be broken, after all, our troops are too small, I think it's better to take the initiative to attack." ”

"Take the initiative?" Fang Xiaoyu was puzzled: "Is this okay?" Fu Mingcheng said: "There is no problem, we can draw manpower from the other three to form a small force, as long as they can disrupt the opponent's logistics, we have a chance, if they can sneak attack and destroy the opponent's artillery, it is much safer than us using artillery bombardment." Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "Find someone to call other brigade commanders and regiment commanders, and they will all come to me to discuss it later." ”

In the city lord's mansion in Ulan City, the senior officers of the old Ninth Brigade and the officers of the Iron and Blood Guards are gathered here, Fu Mingcheng, the two leaders of the Iron and Blood Guards who protected Fang Xiaoyu this time, and his deputy Liu Mingzhao, the three brigade commanders of the old Ninth Brigade after the expansion into divisions, Feng Shichang, Lin Yangchun, and Su Zhizhen, as well as the previous nine battalion commanders, have now been promoted to regiment commanders.

Fu Mingcheng explained to everyone: "You can't defend the city, you can't just fight with the other party. The enemy has 200,000 and we only have 20,000, and if we blindly fight to consume the most, we can only lose, so we must take the initiative to attack. ”

Lin Yangchun said: "It is correct to take the initiative to attack, the question is where is the target of our attack and what are the specific arrangements." "Although the officers of the old Ninth Brigade and the officers of the Iron and Blood Guards do not know each other, but after a few days of fighting, the combat effectiveness of the Iron and Blood Guards is obvious to all, and the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Brigade still respect Fang Xiaoyu's members of this guard.

Fu Mingcheng said: "Today, the Monte army began to use artillery, which is a huge threat to our defense of the city, the primary goal of the attack is to destroy the enemy artillery, and the secondary target is other ammunition and food and other materials, in short, they must have no weapons and no food." ”

Feng Shichang and a few old comrades-in-arms glanced at each other and said: "The enemy artillery must be well defended, it is difficult for us to start, if we really want to go, I think we need to find a commander who is witty enough, I recommend the third brigade commander Su Zhizhen." Fu Mingcheng said: "You have been training in large corps operations, and for special operations, the training time of our Iron Blood Guards is longer, I recommend Liu Mingzhao to bring a thousand Iron Blood Guards." ”

Lin Yangchun said: "The Iron Blood Guards are indeed the most suitable, but the Iron Blood Guards have been in the most fierce battles in the past few days, and I am afraid that they will not be able to support sneak attacks that require high-intensity exercise." Wei Lihui added: "What's more, the current garrison of the city is tight, especially the north gate, without a backbone like the Iron Guard, it will be very difficult to defend." ”

Fu Mingcheng also knew that the reality of the North Gate for which he was responsible was indeed the case, and he did not raise any further objections. Fang Xiaoyu asked: "If you let the troops of the old Ninth Brigade attack, you can't let Liu Mingzhao command, after all, they are not familiar with each other, and it is easy to have problems." Lao Feng, you can discuss your personal choice. ”

The three brigade commanders got together and discussed, and Feng Shichang said: "Division commander, let Zhang Zhonglin go, it should be no problem to bring his fourth regiment." Zhang Zhonglin stood up and said, "I promise to kill all the artillery of the Monte Empire." Zhang Zhonglin has a lot of ghost ideas, Fang Xiaoyu knows what to say, he nodded and said: "Okay, just let Zhang Zhonglin go, remember to bring more bullets and grenades, and put some square nails on your back, in case you are targeted by others, it will be easier to escape." Zhang Zhonglin saluted: "Yes, teacher." ”

The north gate and the south gate were both places that the Monte army paid attention to, so Zhang Zhonglin took a reinforced regiment of more than 2,000 people and secretly opened the east gate and slipped out. Less than two miles outside the east gate was the woodland of the Helan Mountains, and the entire four regiments each held a rifle with a safety off, and everything that could make a noise all over the body was tightly tied to the body with bandages, and all of them also carried a small wooden stick in their mouths.

There was no sound at all, and the silent force, which was only the rustle of the soles of their shoes against the ground, quickly disappeared into the mountains and forests at the speed of a rapid march. Fang Xiaoyu, who had been watching them from the city wall, let out a sigh of relief, the attack process was quite smooth, and he was not discovered by the Monte patrol.

The next morning, the attack of the Monte army was even more crazy, with the help of more than a hundred cannons, the Monte soldiers frantically landed in the city, although Fu Mingcheng commanded the artillery to concentrate on firing and carried out a sneak attack, but unfortunately there were too many novices in the artillery, and it was good that they could launch the shells, and they were not accurate at all, so their sneak attack only ended more than 20 artillery pieces of the opponent. After this battle, the Monte army also learned to behave, and their place was large enough to scatter the artillery.

Although the density of firepower has been greatly weakened, but for these also inexperienced Monte artillery, there is not much difference between dispersion and non-dispersion, they have no artillery command at all, just take care of themselves and shoot in the general direction of Ulan City, and now the biggest advantage of the dispersion of artillery is that it is more difficult for Lanfang artillery to attack the opponent's artillery, which is not high in hit.

As the sun was about to set, a section of the city wall was finally ravaged and collapsed by the shit-lucky Monte artillery. Seeing the walls falling, the hordes of Monte soldiers came at the place with muskets and sabers.

Fu Mingcheng, who was on the city wall, looked at the green muscles, if it couldn't be blocked this time, the entire Ulan City would fall. He shouted at Liu Mingzhao under the city: "Mingzhao, lead the reserve team and plug the gap for me." Liu Mingzhao, who had been serving as a battlefield reserve under the city wall, was also sweating profusely, he held a knife in one hand and brandished a revolver in the other and said: "Reserve bayonet, follow me." Then he was the first to rush forward.

The leveraged rifles of the Iron and Blood Guards could not be loaded with bayonets, but at this moment they were all on the city wall, the reserves were all from the garrison, and following Liu Mingzhao was Qiu Yu'an, the commander of the fifth regiment. Qiu Yu'an was an anxious man, he took off the military uniform that had been open on his body, waved the big knife with his bare shoulders and said, "Give it all to me, and block the Monte cub back." Seeing that the commander was taking the lead, the soldiers also rushed forward with high morale.

The gap was more than ten meters wide, and when Liu Mingzhao rushed up, several Monte soldiers had already climbed up to the ruins formed by the collapsed city wall. Liu Mingzhao threw the pistol, six bullets fired in succession, and the six Monte soldiers were shot in the head, and Qiu Yu'an in the back was shocked by Liu Mingzhao's marksmanship, but he was not slow.

Qiu Yu'an took a step forward and picked up the big knife, a Monte soldier wanted to use a saber to block the frame, but how could the light saber used on the horse compare to Qiu Yu'an's own special thick-backed machete. The thick-backed machete sliced the saber almost unstoppably, and cut the Monte soldier in two.

The stinking internal organs mixed with the blood of the Monte soldiers were sprinkled on the ground, which frightened the few Monte soldiers behind them for a moment, and Liu Mingzhao, who loaded the bullets, shook his hand and put down several Monte soldiers. Then the two of them brandished broadswords and cooperated with each other to quickly kill the Monte soldiers at the gap, and the officers and soldiers of the garrison battalion behind also rushed over, and the bright bayonets stabbed the Monte soldiers at the gap.

Fu Mingcheng on the city wall immediately ordered: "Carry more sandbags, rifles and artillery to block and shoot, and don't let the follow-up troops of the Monte soldiers come up." The soldiers on the walls immediately split into two parts, the Predator Guards with high-rate rifles firing desperately, while the garrisons with single-mounted rifles mostly carried sandbags, ready to plug at any moment. The artillerymen also did not spare the desperate fire of ammunition, and for a moment the Monte ranks were filled with dust and smoke, and broken limbs and dirt mixed with blood were scattered in all directions.

Dadar was not in command nearby, and when he saw a gap in the wall, he rushed over, and with a twist of his saber swept away the four bayonets that were close to him, and then slashed the neck of a garrison soldier who had no time to put away his sword.