In the face of a strong enemy, Duan Xuan didn't dare to have the slightest carelessness, tens of thousands of Rakshasa troops, the strength is extremely strong, he is in Weihuo City, only 8,000 troops, hard encounter, that is the act of looking for death, now the wisest choice is to urgently ask for help, and then stick to wait for help.

Duan Xuan withdrew almost all the surrounding troops to Weihuo City, leaving only cavalry scouts to inquire outside, and at the same time sent fast horses to Mobei, Monan and Hulunbuir to ask for help.

The cavalry asking for help has just gone out on the third day, the forward troops of Tsarist Russia have arrived, 20,000 Cossack elite cavalry, surrounded the city of Weihuo, Duan Xuan, who inquired about the head of the city, gasped, the Rakshasa cavalry outside the city was overwhelming, there were really no less than 20,000 people, the lineup was neat, just a glance, I knew that this force was much stronger than the Rakshasa soldiers who came to attack last time.

The fierce enemy is definitely the fierce enemy of the Tianwei Army!

"My lord, why don't we take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold and fight out of the city, and give them a bloody lesson first?"

Li Yao, a staff officer on the side, asked.

"Nonsense!"

Duan Xuan's face turned dark, and he shouted, "Kill out of the city?" We have more than 2,000 cavalry in total, and there are more than 20,000 cavalry, how can you teach others a bloody lesson? It's not enough to stuff people's teeth, this Weihuo City is the last line of defense to enter Mobei, once Weihuo City is lost, then our northern frontier will be wide open, and when the time comes, the Rakshasa soldiers can march in several directions at the same time, threatening Mobei and even Moxi outside the Ming Pass! ”

Li Yao's face turned red and asked, "Then, my lord, what should we do?" ”

"In a word, stick to the reinforcements, after several years of operation, our Weihuo City is extremely strong, and eight thousand troops are considered a lot, not to mention that there are dozens of artillery pieces in it, and the various departments are ordered to take turns to defend the city, once the Rakshasa soldiers attack, then the artillery will greet them, and in a few days, the reinforcements from Mobei and Hulunbuir will arrive!"

After all these years of tempering, Duan Xuan has already matured, the enemy is strong and I am weak, if you want to attack forcibly, it will be dead, the defeat will come second, and you will lose Weihuo City, it will be a monstrous disaster!

However, Duan Xuan does not attack, which does not mean that the Rakshasa soldiers will wait.

The next day, 50,000 Rakshasa soldiers gathered in Weihuo City, and immediately launched an attack on Weihuo City!

Chherkov brought nearly 200 pieces of artillery in one go, although most of the artillery was only 20-pound guns, but there were also some heavy guns, and even flowering cannons, and the artillery firepower was really strong.

As soon as they came up, the Rakshasa soldiers were a wave of fierce artillery bombardment!

Shells whistled and launched a fierce attack straight towards the west of Weihuo City!

Boom Boom Boom Boom ......

The cannonballs smashed on the city wall, and Weihuo City was hit with craters, the gravel was splashed, and the bombardment of hundreds of shells was really powerful.

Duan Xuan frowned and shouted: "Order, concentrate artillery fire, bomb me, aim at their artillery positions, attack!" ”

Duan Xuan did not take the initiative to attack, but it does not mean that he will not launch a counterattack, although the strength of Weihuo City is insufficient, but the artillery is no longer a few, when he first entered Mobei, Zhu Jie almost left all the artillery, thirty artillery guns of the Beijing battalion, plus forty red-coated artillery guns in Manmeng New Town, it can be said that it is already the artillery firepower of two ordinary military towns, over the years, the imperial court has continuously strengthened the defense capability of Weihuo City, and more than 50,000 shells have been stored alone, and now they are fighting according to the city, Duan Xuan is confident that he will hold on to Weihuo City for at least two months!

As soon as they came up, all the twenty flowering cannons in Xicheng were launched, and they came to the Rakshasa soldiers outside the city, and one shell after another fell on the position, blowing up the position of the Rakshasa army, and the flames of war were raging, especially the flowering shells exploded, and the shrapnel brought a huge threat to the Rakshasa soldiers.

The first wave of artillery shells brought a lot of blow to the artillery position of the Rakshasa soldiers, at least two artillery pieces under the explosion of the flowering shells, directly reimbursed, the artillery positions of the Rakshasa soldiers have been marked by Duan Xuan's artillery to shoot Zhu Yuan, for several years, the artillery of Manmeng New Town has continued to practice artillery bombardment, and the artillery technology has really improved a lot, and it has given the Rakshasa soldiers a dismount.

Cherkov in Russia, that is one of the most important students of the famous general General Gustav, won the true biography of General Gustav's strategy and tactics, originally really did not look at the border army in the Ming Dynasty, thinking that the defense force of Weihuo City would not be much stronger, did not expect, as soon as it came up, Manmeng Xinzhen first came two waves of shooting, straight on their own artillery positions, the loss of two or three artillery is nothing, but more than ten artillery directly fell to the ground in the bombardment!

"Bastard!"

Naturally, Chherkov would not think that the Ming army was blind, and the Ming army was definitely prepared!

"The herald, ordering the artillery to be careful to evade, the artillery fire of the Ming army is all flowering cannons, and the power is huge! Concentrate artillery fire and bombard their gun emplacements! Covered shelling! ”

Suddenly, the artillery fire of the Rakshasa soldiers became fierce, hundreds of artillery pieces were all pulled up, hundreds of cannons fired in a volley, and one shell after another smashed towards Weihuo City, enveloping the entire Xicheng under artillery fire!

The artillery fire on both sides returned, the first day, it was a tragic artillery battle, which lasted from morning to dusk, Weihuo City at least withstood nearly 10,000 shells of bombardment, even if Weihuo City was strong, there were already cracks like cobwebs, dense, and the soldiers at the head of the city were killed and wounded two or three hundred!

Even if Duan Xuan is a tiger general in a hundred battles, he is now shocked by such fierce artillery fire, the Rakshasa soldiers outside the city are only more than 50,000 people, including 20,000 cavalry, it is such a combat force, it can be equipped with so many artillery, it really breaks his own cognition, in his impression, even if it is the first town and the second town of the Tianwei Army with the most well-equipped, the two military towns together have more than 50,000 people, but they only have forty flowering cannons, twenty forty-pounder guns, and forty twenty-pounder infantry guns. The total is only a hundred artillery pieces, which is half the number of Russian troops!

Fortunately, the distance between the two countries is far away, if it is really two great powers close at hand, and the Rakshasa country sends 100,000 and 200,000 elite troops in one go, then unless the entire Tianwei army is pulled up, otherwise, it is really not the opponent of the Rakshasa soldiers......

Duan Xuan was shocked, and Cherkov was even more shocked, a border town, the soldiers and civilians of Weihuo City together were only tens of thousands of people, and so many artillery pieces were deployed, and they were all flowering cannons, and they didn't let people live? I heard that the main force of the army, the elite Tianwei Army, is even more powerful, how powerful it is, just look at the border army in front of you, this war seems to have been fought......

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