Seeing Ulan City, Marshal Bayanger ordered with some excitement: "Order the troops to speed up, we will sleep in the city tonight." Before the order could be passed down, a loud bang rang out in the ranks, and the men and horses in front of them were agitated.

The sudden explosion made the Monteers panic a little, and some cavalry shouted: "There is an ambush, disperse, there is an ambush." "There were more explosions in the scattered Monte cavalry group, and the scattered fragments of flesh and stumps added to the confusion, and Marshal Bayang had to lead his guards to personally suppress them, and only after killing several panicked cavalrymen did he gradually settle down the ranks.

"What the hell is going on?" Marshal Bayanger angrily asked a captain of the 10,000-strong team who had just arrived, and the captain said: "Marshal, we don't know, at first we thought it was an artillery ambush by the enemy, but after the scouts' investigation, there were no ambushes. ”

Marshal Bayange, who had never seen a mine, didn't understand what was going on, so he could only order: "Expand the search range of the scouts, let the team search carefully, and don't fall into an ambush." ”

Marshal Bayange vaguely felt that this attack had some bad premonitions, but he thought about it carefully, and thought that he would not be in any danger if he took 200,000 troops to attack those logistics troops of the Lanfang Empire.

After several mine attacks, the troops led by Bayange finally reached the city of Ulan. Marshal Bayange, who received the casualty report, had a green face, and although the death toll was not large, only more than 300 people, the number of wounded was as high as more than 5,000.

More than 700 horses were killed and tens of thousands were wounded, many of whom could not go back to battle even if they were cured.

The greatest advantage of the Monte Imperial army was cavalry, and the massive casualties of horses were as good as breaking their legs, and such a big loss was even the deep pockets of Marshal Bayange.

After a short rest, Marshal Bayange ordered 20,000 men to begin a tentative siege. After several days of marshalling and training, Ulan City has basically completed the integration of forces, and the defenders have reached more than 20,000 people.

The three regiments of the Ninth Brigade have reached 6,000 people, Fang Xiaoyu directly integrated the troops into one division and three brigades, and the officers at all levels of the Ninth Brigade were promoted one level out of thin air, although this is only a temporary formation, but if this battle is won, I am afraid that this establishment can also be recognized by the empire.

For the on-the-spot military command, Fang Xiaoyu knew that he was not this material, so he personally sat in the city and handed over the four directions to the three new brigade commanders Feng Shichang, Lin Yangchun and Su Zhizhen, as well as Fu Mingcheng, the commander of the Iron Guard. Feng Shichang guarded the east gate, Lin Yangchun guarded the west gate, Su Zhizhen guarded the south gate, and the north gate, which was the most difficult to defend, was handed over to the iron-blooded guards with the strongest firepower, guarded by Fu Mingcheng.

Due to the relatively thin strength of the Iron Guard, Fang Xiaoyu asked the other three brigades to send a regiment each to help defend the north gate, under the unified command of Fu Mingcheng. The other three brigades also drew out a battalion to form a regiment as a general reserve to sit in the city, and Fang Xiaoyu was in charge of reinforcements at any time, what made Fang Xiaoyu most happy was that he actually pieced together a cavalry battalion of more than 300 people from the defeated soldiers, and all these cavalry were also strengthened to Fu Mingcheng.

Seeing the first tentative siege of the Monte soldiers, Fu Mingcheng did not expose the firepower of the Iron Guards, but only ordered the garrison battalions of the two regiments to shoot and block, and at the same time, a quarter of the artillery fired to block the fire, and this group of enemies quickly dropped more than 300 corpses and ran back before they approached within 200 meters of the moat. Seeing that the firepower of the defense was not strong, Bayanger had a bottom in his heart, and he immediately ordered to send a team of 100,000 people to attack the city together.

Seeing a large number of Monte soldiers abandon their horses and charge forward with a ladder, the corners of Fu Mingcheng's mouth curled slightly. The tactics of these Monte soldiers are too ancient, how can such a siege be successful. This time, Fu Mingcheng did not let the soldiers start firing at the maximum range, and the artillery was still only half fired, unhurriedly consuming the follow-up troops of the Monte soldiers.

Seeing that the Monte soldiers had rushed to a place more than two hundred meters away from the moat, Marshal Bayange smiled with satisfaction. And just a few seconds later, Bayanger's smile froze on his round dark face.

The rumbling explosions continued to sound, and the mines planted by the Lanfang army by the moat began to threaten, and a large number of Monte soldiers were killed, and the rudimentary ladders were also blown up a lot. Finally came to the moat, the Monte soldiers jumped down one after another, they thought that the dry moat was not deep and could be easily crossed, but they were wrong, there were many bamboo sticks buried at the bottom of the moat, and there were some four-corner nails in the middle. The Monte soldiers who jumped into the moat were seriously wounded, and some even died directly.

After laying the corpses of hundreds of Monte soldiers in the moat, the bamboo sticks at the bottom of the river were finally covered, and the follow-up troops finally climbed the edge of the moat with the bodies of their companions. Seeing the opportunity, Fu Mingcheng waved his hand, and the guards around him began to shoot, the sound of the gun was an order, and all the soldiers guarding the city began to shoot, and the Monte soldiers who had just turned out of the bottom of the ditch were killed instantly as soon as they appeared.

As more and more Monte soldiers climbed up the moat, the gunfire became more and more intense, first from the garrison and then with lever rifles.

Watching the Monte soldiers fall in rows, Bayange's heart was like a knife, although he had already seen through life and death after so many years of fighting, but these were all precious soldiers of the Monte Empire. The population of the Monte Empire was originally small, although the nomads have always had a tradition of all the people being soldiers, and the Monte Empire only had an army of 700,000, which also had the strength to guard against the Cossack Empire and maintain domestic rule, and 300,000 troops were already their limit.

Now another 100,000 troops have been divided into four mountain passes, and there are only 200,000 troops here, which is also the only 200,000 troops of the Monte Empire on the southern front, if they are all dead, the Monte Empire can surrender. The Monte soldiers launched three more rounds of offensives, each time they were beaten back, to see that it was no longer realistic to capture Ulan City today, Bayang ordered to stop the attack, and the brigade retreated twenty miles, and set up camp close to the Helan Pass.

Seeing that the Monte soldiers had retreated, Fang Xiaoyu immediately took the people and reserves spontaneously organized in the city to go up to the city wall to rescue the wounded. Today, although the Lanfang army had the advantage of firepower, and with the help of mines and bamboo sticks, the losses were not large, but more than 300 people were killed and nearly 1,000 were wounded.

At this time, Bayange was thundering in the camp, and the death toll of the siege in one day reached tens of thousands, and more than 30,000 people were wounded. Dadar suggested: "Marshal, should we attack other mountain passes instead, the enemy's firepower here is too strong, I am afraid that they may have more than one garrison battalion of the First Army." ”

Bayange roared: "Impossible, obviously the detective reported that there is only one army here, and the main general has already fled, and a large number of soldiers have fled together, how can there be such a strong force." The adjutant said, "I heard from the spies that a brigade commander of the garrison battalion gathered men to resist here, and I think there should not be many of them." Bayange roared: "Yes, they won't have too many people, we have an army of 200,000, even if we consume them, we can consume them to death." ”

Fang Xiaoyu has been sitting in the City Lord's Mansion for three days, and he has been worried about the defense on the city wall for the past three days, but Fu Mingcheng has been gritting his teeth and insisting on not asking him for reserves, and the Monte soldiers seem to be on the same page with Fu Mingcheng, specifically attacking the north gate, and the other three gates are just using rangers to reconnoitre, and they are not even surrounded.

At night, Fang Xiaoyu once again led people up to the north city wall, which was already very dilapidated, black blood stains could be seen everywhere, and there were gaps and broken bricks shot by artillery everywhere. Fang Xiaoyu came to Fu Mingcheng, whose eyes were red, and said, "Mingcheng, how is the situation?" Fu Mingcheng said: "The situation is not very good, today the Monte soldiers suddenly have a lot of artillery, although they are not accurate, but there are a lot of them, and they have caused us a lot of damage." ”

"Got a cannon?" Fang Xiaoyu was a little surprised, the Monte Empire did not have the process of casting cannons, could it be that the Cossack Empire sold it to them, Fang Xiaoyu said: "How many?" Fu Mingcheng said: "There are about more than 100 gates, I estimate that they were captured from Cheng Yu, but the road is difficult to walk, so it will be delayed for so many days." Fang Xiaoyu nodded and said, "It seems that we have to defeat them." ”

Fu Mingcheng said: "It's not impossible to defeat them, the main thing is that I don't have many skilled gunners here." Fang Xiaoyu said: "Tomorrow, I will transfer the skilled gunners of the other three doors over and tell me about your plan." Fu Mingcheng said: "I found that their artillery has no professional knowledge, in order to facilitate the accumulation of gunpowder and projectiles near the gun position, I think we can concentrate the elite gunners to launch a dense artillery attack on the opponent's artillery position, as long as one hit can destroy a large area." ”