At this time, Jiesheng was far away in a barren countryside ten miles southwest of Nancheng, and the sniper point occupied by the soldiers and horses under his command stretched from the hills three miles away from the south gate to the southwest for fifteen miles.

According to Kabayashi's telegram, Setsui firmly believed that the Gene Humans would choose to launch an attack on the land at night, because their combat effectiveness would be greatly weakened in broad daylight, and their ghostly horror of the formation of the defenders would be greatly reduced during the day.

Moreover, the gene people not only have a large number of chariots but also strong firepower, the combat effectiveness of the Xizhou people is not worth mentioning in their eyes, and their only concern is the military aid of the steppe, so their goal is to quickly occupy the entire Xizhou continent.

For the defenders, if they just defend the city, they will only be quickly surrounded and then eliminated by the fierce artillery fire of the gene people, so Jiesheng proposed the tactic of putting heavy troops outside the city to fight an ambush battle at night, and the focus of the operation is to eliminate the infantry of the gene people, while taking into account the goal of consuming the combat power of the gene people's chariots.

Setsui's suggestion was fully supported by Kapokko, Yatani, and his elder brother.

According to Jiesheng's suggestion, Xia Poor ordered the defenders of Nancheng to be reorganized into two corps, the urban area and the suburbs, and two-thirds of the total strength was formed into the suburban corps, and Xia Poor authorized Jiesheng to serve as the supreme commander of the front line of the suburban corps.

During the day, Jiesheng only arranged for one corps to serve as a second sentry in the stronghold on the southwestern outskirts of Nancheng, in case the outpost sentry on the coastline accidentally let go of the small raiding team of the genetic people to sneak into the land.

Two hours before dusk, Jiesheng transferred all the suburban corps out of the Nancheng military camp, and then they waited in ambush according to the predetermined strongholds of each regiment and company, and hundreds of ambush strongholds were orderly scattered in these hills and valleys overgrown with weeds and trees, and it was not until dawn that the ambushed men and horses withdrew to the city in batches to rest.

With their powerful mechanized corps, and the fact that it was the first time to fight with the Xizhou people, the Gene people would not expect the defenders to dare to fight against them without any fortifications in the suburbs, so Jiesheng predicted that the Gene people would not make a detour from the southeast of Nancheng to attack, and the most likely thing was to choose a passage between the hills in front of them that the landers could not predetermine to attack Nancheng.

Jiesheng has carefully examined the topography of this area, and the hills of this land are not only scattered, but the slope of the valleys between the hills is not large, and the chariots and troop carriers of the genetic people can pass unhindered.

Considering that the enemy is a mechanized corps, the transfer is flexible and fast in wartime, in order to prevent the enemy from attacking the southern city from the southeast of the avenue or the avenue, Jiesheng also took precautions, in addition to cutting off the avenue in many places, he deployed the three cavalry regiments of the chamber of commerce on both sides of the avenue, in case of an accident, the three regiments with the strongest combat effectiveness and athleticism can snipe the enemy immediately, delay the enemy's offensive pace, and let the other corps of the defenders have enough time to rush to support.

If the enemy is attacking the southern city from the southwest as expected, the Chamber of Commerce Corps can also quickly shift positions after the battle.

In order to ensure that the ambush on the outskirts of Nancheng had sufficient combat effectiveness, in addition to the three chamber of commerce cavalry regiments led by Jiesheng himself, Xia Poor handed over two cavalry regiments in the defenders of Nancheng to Jiesheng to command, and Yagu divided twenty chariots to follow Jiesheng's cavalry regiment to act together.

In order to ensure the personal safety of the military division on the front line, Yagu asked Setsusheng to wear body armor and helmet on the front line, and Yagu sent five prairie soldiers wearing body armor to follow the military division with a telegraph.

Jiesheng and a group of guards stood on the hill, Jiesheng used the night vision binoculars given by Yagu to observe the movement in the southwest direction, tonight the night was cold and the sea breeze was wet, the moon in the sky passed between the broken clouds, the moonlight appeared and disappeared, it was an excellent time for the gene people to fight.

As he was thinking this, he couldn't help but be shaken by the sudden sound of a distant but real gunshot that was heard in the silence of the night. Then, a succession of gunshots came from the southwest skyline to the south of the city like a relay race.

This is the outpost soldier using the sound of gunfire to convey the message that the gene man is attacking.

"The undersea man is coming!" The soldiers, who had been waiting impatiently, shouted in a low voice, the sound of gunfire was like a stimulant injection for them, and the soldiers who had been listless one by one got up from the ground with enthusiasm and picked up their weapons, the cavalrymen turned over their horses, and the infantry tightened their shoelaces.

The infantry each carried a powder gun made of the steppe and a large knife stuck in their backs, and the cavalry had a powder gun in their hands and a spear tied to their horses.

The tank started the engine.

There was a constant low rumbling sound in the sky, and the earth trembled slightly in the rumble.

Jiesheng used the telescope to carefully observe the direction of the sound in the distance, and after observing for a while, Jiesheng's heart that had been hanging finally hit the ground, because the direction of the enemy's appearance was basically in line with his prediction.

This bodes well for his corps not to need large-scale long-distance movement to complete the tactical scheme of encirclement snipering.

After waiting for a while, a group of reconnaissance cavalry quickly arrived to report the enemy's whereabouts to the corps, and after confirming the enemy's route, Jiesheng immediately ordered the regiments to act according to the pre-established battle plan.

When they heard the sound of gunfire and rumbling from the sky, Yagu and his warriors couldn't help but cheer, although they had participated in many military exercises in the prairie, they had never had the opportunity to go to the real battlefield.

Instead of waiting for the battle to start all day long, it is better to work hard and make a complete break, and what should come will always come anyway.

Yaya ordered the telegraph operator to send a message to Kapok reporting the start of the battle in Nancheng.

Ten minutes later, Kapok Zi called back: "Xidi City and Shennan City, the southern city of Shenhai Kingdom, as well as the front line of Mingxi City, the western city of Minghai Kingdom, have just sent a telegram, and the people of the sea are attacking the four countries of Xizhou from the coastline in four ways at the same time. ”

The earth-shattering roar got closer and closer to Nancheng, and a dazzling fireworks rose into the night sky from a hill in front of the south gate of Nancheng, and then hundreds of rockets shot out from the river trenches surrounding Nancheng, and then ignited hundreds of fires around the city.

These fires were made up of firewood and oil on the surface of the mud piles, and these piles of earth and stones were created by the soldiers and civilians of the southern city who dug hundreds of pits on the ground outside the city, which were then set up as hundreds of traps. They are located around the fire.

Not only did the defenders hope that the fire would hinder the progress of the Genetics' chariots, but the flames would interfere with the Genetics' vision, causing them to fire less accurate cannons.

Finally, piles of moving black shadows appeared in the eyes of the soldiers and civilians defending the city, each pile of black shadows was about twenty meters apart, and the chariots of the genetic people were arranged in six columns and drove quickly from the west and south of the southern city respectively.

The artillerymen deployed in the trenches at the east and north gates received the order and pulled the cannons mounted on the wagons and moved closer to the front lines of the south and west gates, respectively.

The gunners from the steppes were very aware of the performance of their cannons, and when the enemy's tanks had just entered the range of the cannons, they immediately aimed at the target and opened fire, and the vehicles of the Gene Man immediately returned fire.

The long-awaited battle for the defense of Nancheng finally started in full swing amid the rumbling of artillery.

The mystery that Yaya was most concerned about was finally revealed, the enemy's chariots were larger than those of the savannah, and they fired the same gunpowder cannons, and the first shell fell not far from the front of the trench, and the explosion was not small, indicating that the enemy's land chariots were as effective as the chariots of the prairie.

Although his extraterrestrial chariot has unparalleled combat effectiveness on this battlefield, the limit of firing fifty laser shells in a row at a time makes Yagu dare not reveal the truth prematurely. Moreover, there were only sixty tanks in the field, and each tank carried a maximum of twenty shells, while the enemy's tanks were innumerable.

Most of the above scenarios were expected by Aya, so the predetermined tactics of his convoy were to first rely on the artillery in the trenches to repel the first few rounds of enemy chariots, and destroy as many enemy chariots as possible. Only when the artillery fire could not stop the enemy's rolling wheels, his chariot would deliver a fatal blow to the enemy.

In the dense artillery fire fired from the trenches, at least five of the Genetics' vehicles exploded and burst into flames in the first few minutes of the battle, and several enemy shells fell into the trenches, causing casualties to the defenders.

Several tanks evaded artillery fire and drove into the defensive area surrounded by fire, which also came into the range of the local regiment artillery, and dozens of cannons fired at the same time and destroyed several enemy vehicles, and the two tanks that fell into the trap and could not extricate themselves were also destroyed by the cannons in the trenches.

Xia Poor stood at the head of the city and watched the battle, and when he saw this, he breathed a sigh of relief, the combat effectiveness of the genetic people was not as terrible as he imagined. A few hundred traps created by tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians together caused no less trouble to the enemy's chariots than a hundred cannons.

However, when he saw that the enemy's chariots were still pouring out of the night and seemed endless, his nerves, which had just been relaxed, tensed again.

He looked at the black sky, and suddenly a string of red light flashed in the sky, and he was overjoyed: this is the order for the junior brother's army to launch an all-out attack!

The corps led by Jiesheng had already rushed to the route of the enemy's troop carriers and laid an ambush along the way, and the earth-shattering rumble of the enemy's hundreds of chariots and personnel carriers completely concealed the sound of the horses' hooves and the running footsteps of the soldiers.

The Gene Man attacked in two directions, each route was headed straight for Nancheng with nearly 100 chariots, followed by nearly 100 troop carriers, and every 30 or so troop carriers would be escorted by 10 chariots. The chariot is fully enclosed, and infantry sniping is useless, while the personnel carrier has a rectangular hull with a man-high enclosed metal shield on all sides, but the top is open, and the genetic infantry are hiding in the car.

Those who were ambushed on the nearby hill could see the dense helmets in the troop carrier compartments, the only weak link of the powerful enemy forces that gave the defenders a chance to win, and those genetic people under the helmets were the targets that the legions were trying to destroy.

However, the outskirts of the siege were first started by 20 chariots under the command of Jiesheng, followed by guns in the hands of tens of thousands of infantrymen who opened fire together.