Yue Tuo stood on the head of Chagantehao City and looked at the Phoenix Legion barracks with battle flags flying like a sea in the distance, beside him were a group of powerful generals and patriarchs of various clans, all of them had an impatient expression on their faces, in their eyes, more than 10,000 people of the Phoenix Legion were already dead, more than 10,000 muskets and dozens of Franc machine guns were more precious than gold, and everyone wanted to grab them and enhance the strength of their own clan.

The reason why Yue Tuo and the others are so confident is because the Phoenix Legion is advancing alone, and they are a full fifteen-day journey away from Hong Chengchou's main force, they can completely cut off the retreat of the Phoenix Legion, block Hong Chengchou's troops who rushed to reinforce, and have enough time to eat the Phoenix Legion with an absolute superiority in strength.

Yue Tuo was also full of confidence, he issued a series of orders, and his generals were ordered to leave, mobilize their troops and horses, and carry out military tasks, day and night, constantly attacking and harassing, making the soldiers of the Phoenix Legion tired, and low morale is only one of the steps, and it is also the first step to start the war of annihilation.

Under the city, a few miles away from the city of Chagantehao, next to a clear river, the soldiers of the Phoenix Legion are desperately building a barracks fence, the soldiers drive the wooden stakes sharpened one by one into the mud, the outer stumps are one after another, and the inner layer is a group of three, each group is spaced at a certain distance, paved with prepared wooden planks, and the middle is filled with soil to tamp, forming a fairly strong civil wall.

In addition to filling the wooden walls of the camp fence, the earth excavated from the trench was also filled with a large number of mud and sandbags, which were piled up in the camp to form a second simple fortification, so that when the camp fence was lost, the defense line could be retreated to continue the battle.

Lu Hongniang knows her own task, and she also knows that it is very risky, she wants to hold on alone here for more than a month, in addition to having sufficient food, grass and ammunition, she must also have a strong military camp that can be relied on, so she not only ordered the camp fence to be built strong, but also dug two trenches in front of the camp, which are wide and deep, and some important areas in the barracks have also built civil towers, which can be used as watchtowers, and can also be used by the blockers to condescend to block and kill the enemy.

The artillery position is divided into several places, covering the front and the left and right flanks as much as possible, the rear camp is close to the river, the mud and sand are soft, and the troops cannot be deployed, only need to prevent the Jin army from stealing the camp in the middle of the night, and several water towers have been built in the camp, and a few wells have been dug to prevent the Jin army from intercepting the water in the upper reaches.

During the construction of the camp of the Phoenix Legion, Yue Tuo sent several cavalry units to harass in order to slow down the progress of the Phoenix Legion to build a military camp.

"It is worthy of one of the three new armies of the Ming Dynasty...... Yue Tuo has been standing at the head of the city to watch the entire attack and harassment process, and has been continuously harassed by the party, losing his generals, but it has failed to cause any impact, making the soldiers of the Phoenix Legion panic, and he can't help but praise.

The three new armies of the Ming Dynasty, the wolf battalion, the Shenji battalion and the Phoenix Legion, Cao Bianjiao's wolf battalion has made a name for itself on Phi Dao, Li Xin's Shenji Battalion has also lost troops in the Xian Empire, and had to withdraw from the Xian Empire, Lu Hongniang's Phoenix Legion also performed amazingly in the defensive battle of Shanhaiguan, fighting bravely and tenaciously, even if he was encircled, he did not panic at all, it was definitely a hard bone to gnaw, he had a bad premonition in his heart, even if he could gnaw the Phoenix Legion, I am afraid he would have to break a few teeth.

However, considering the problem from another angle, no matter how much loss is paid, if he can completely annihilate the Phoenix Legion and capture Chongzhen's favorite concubine Lu Hongniang alive, whether it is military or political, it is of great significance, so even if he pays huge losses, he has to win this battle, and he must win, and he must win this battle before the arrival of the army led by Huang Taiji, otherwise he will not have the face to be the governor of this Horqin grassland.

He, the governor of the Horqin grassland, was personally sealed by Huang Taiji, and naturally Huang Taiji valued his ability, but it also made those big and small Baylors dissatisfied, this is a big fat difference with plenty of oil and water, who doesn't want to be it? are staring at it with a tiger's eye, as long as there is a mistake, he will be impeached, in the past two years, is there less trouble to impeach him? If it weren't for Huang Taiji's efforts to override public opinion and fully support him, he would have been taken down a long time ago, so he had no choice.

"What does the Ming army want to do?" The generals at the head of the city and the chiefs of the tribes suddenly exclaimed.

"Hmm......" Yue Tuo was also stunned, what did Lu Hongniang want to do?

Under the city, the soldiers of the Phoenix Legion of the four phalanxes escorted the artillery to advance slowly, and stopped after entering the range of the Franc machine gun, and the artillery was setting up cannons, as if they were going to shell Chagantehao City.

"This woman is a madman, hurry down to town." Yue Tuo was startled, and hurriedly led the crowd down the city to avoid the shelling, he didn't expect that Lu Hongniang had just arrived with a large army, and he dared to lead the army out of the camp to attack the city when he was busy building a camp, the soldiers were exhausted, and he was constantly disturbed, what is not a madman? Women, it's really unreasonable.

Lu Hongniang didn't plan to attack the city, the long-distance march, the soldiers were tired, and they had to be busy building camps, the cavalry of the Jin army harassed on three sides, she was crazy to order the siege at this time, however, pulling so many shells over, not to bombard the city of Chagantehao a few cannons, I am really sorry for the logistics auxiliaries who worked hard to transport the shells, the most important thing is to combat the arrogance of the Jin army and boost the morale of the party.

Boom Boom Boom ......

After the ten Franc cannons were erected, the test firing began, some shells flew into the city, blew up some buildings, some smashed on the city, blowing up clouds of fire and billowing smoke, some smashed on the city wall, blasting rubble everywhere, and some shells fell under the city.

Although the Royal Military Academy has set up artillery subjects, but the cadets are still studying, the gunners in the army are all while holding the "Artillery Training Manual" to study, while groping and comprehending in actual combat, the progress is quite fast, although the unit has been expanded, a large number of recruits have been recruited, but the artillery officers and observers are basically veterans who have experienced many actual combat considerations before, and the progress of the recruits is still quite fast after being taught and trained by them, and only three shells fell outside the city in the first round of test firing.

Boom Boom Boom ......

After the test firing and adjustment, the second round of shelling basically hit the target, and all ten shells fell into the city or smashed on the city head and city wall, and the target was Chaganhot City, which could not be bigger, and with a little adjustment, it could be bombarded into the city with its eyes closed.

Boom Boom Boom ......

Cannonballs rumbled, shells fell into the city, knocking down some buildings and causing fires, and the tribesmen living in the city were scrambling to dismantle tents and other structures to stop the fire.

The prairie is green grass like fungus, it is a natural pasture, but there is a lack of building materials such as stones and trees, Chaganhot City is the royal capital of the Great Khan of the Northern Plains, in order to build this royal city, a lot of manpower, material resources and money were spent, the big stones have to be excavated from a long distance, and then transported over, the cost is frighteningly high, but due to the lack of raw materials such as large stones and wood, the foundation and the city gate section of the city wall are indeed built with strong and solid large stones, but the other city walls are mostly built with mud mixed with glutinous rice, clay and other things, after perennial sun and rain, Many places have long been weathered and dilapidated, and there are not many stone, earth, and wood buildings in the city, but most of them are built with large tents, which are all flammable, and can cause a whole fire if a cannon goes down.

The fire-fighting equipment of this era is not much to say, basically relying on people to carry buckets to extinguish the fire, once a fire occurs, there must be heavy losses, although the tribesmen in the city are psychologically prepared, but one by one the shells flew in, the fire caused by the explosion still made him at a loss, and suffered heavy losses.

"Damn Female Maniac......"

Yue Tuo, his generals, and the patriarchs of various tribes could only grit their teeth and scold their mothers, hoping that God would quickly darken down.