Chapter 363: Steady March

The fiasco of the night attack made Liu Zhen lose the heart to recapture the Divine Arm City. In this battle, only more than 300 of the 600 people returned, most of whom were newly transferred from New York. The dead and wounded under the wall were all Liu Quan's direct subordinates, especially the basic loss of a hundred personal soldiers, which made him extremely angry, not only scolded, but also personally killed several captains who took the lead in escaping.

It's just that scolding and scolding, anger and anger, the remnants of his army have become lost dogs, and now their morale is low, their fighting spirit is completely lost, and they refuse to come forward under the whip of the overseer. Liu Quan saw that these soldiers were terrified, and even their eyes were distracted, and they had an indifferent attitude even if the knife was on their necks, so they had to sigh and go to Niu Ling to return to him.

Liu Cheng was extremely brave, and his troops were one of the main forces of the Song army in Sichuan to resist Mongolia before the surrender to Mongolia, and he did not fall behind in repeated battles with Niu Ling. Seeing that his face was gloomy and depressed, Niu Ling had long lost the spirit of the previous "Sai Cun Xiao", and he also knew that his soldiers had suffered heavy losses, so he re-designated a new annex army to attack Shenjian City.

The general of the new annex army who was designated to attack the city of God's Arm was crying and mourning, but he had to take the order under the angry gaze of New. "Born Chongqing, iron-beaten Luzhou", this god arm city is extremely easy to defend and difficult to attack, there is Yu Xing's fiasco in the front, and then Liu is beaten all over the ground to find teeth, no one knows that it is not easy to deal with, and if you don't do it, your life will be filled in, how not to make difficulties in your heart.

Under the supervision of the sword and axemen, wave after wave of new annexes continued to attack the city of the Divine Arm, or rather, decapitation. Since the tiger squat ran in the city, the trebuchets of the new annex army could not be erected at all, and although the range of the adjusted heavy bed crossbow could reach two miles, it could not hurt the Thunderbolt soldiers hiding behind the base of the wall due to the upward fire and the blocking of the third wall. Without the fire cover of siege weapons, the soldiers of the new annex could only carry ladders and hooks and ropes to storm the city walls. Most of them were dressed in leather armor, paper armor, and even iron armor, and such light armored infantry were not much different from being naked under the blows of the Thunderbolt army's triangular nails, mines, grenades, and muskets.

After two days of sending their heads, the corpses of the dead soldiers of the new annex had piled up under the city walls. After the blood soaked the land, it coagulated into a thick layer of blood scabs, attracting swarms of mosquitoes and flies, which emitted a foul stench under the scorching sun. In order to prevent the corpses from spreading the disease, the Thunderbolts had to drop precious fire oil from the top of the city and disinfect the city with fierce fire. The burning momentum of the fire oil is extremely violent, and with the help of human body oil, the fire under the city is on fire for a while. Seeing the flames soaring into the sky, and thinking that the Thunderbolt Army had fire oil in addition to firearms, the soldiers of the new annex army shuddered and refused to attack again, even though the heads of dozens of deserters were hung on the stakes beside them. Those were the generals and soldiers who fled the fastest, and were killed by the Overseers.

Before the Thunderbolt army captured the Divine Arm City, the battlefield situation was favorable to the Mongolian army, and the initiative was also in the hands of the Mongolian army. Now that the offense and defense have been transposed, not only did they not capture the Banzhou military camp, but they also lost the fortified city of Shenjian City. For now, the Thunderbolts can defend against the danger and bring in a steady stream of food, grass and ammunition by water. On the other hand, the Mongolian army has a large number of soldiers, and the soldiers and military horses consume a huge amount of grain and grass every day, and they have to be transported from Zizhou, Jianzhou and other places, which not only has a long journey but also a large loss, and the Mongolian army cannot afford to consume it at all.

Due to the urgency of the military situation, the New York army did not bring much food when it set out, and now that the food is about to run out, how can he not be in a hurry. Although it is now late August, and some of the early rice has begun to be harvested, the Mongolian army is firmly pinned down under the Shenjian City. Niu Lin also tried to divide his troops to go to various places to grab food, but he was afraid that his troops would be broken by the Thunderbolt army after they were dispersed, so he had to give up.

Newland also knew that if they were persecuted too much, the new annexes would mutiny. It's just that the situation is stronger than people, and under the food shortage crisis, he had to force the new annex army to continue the attack, but he no longer killed the returning generals and colonels at every turn. As soon as the sword and axe hands of the overseer team relaxed, the new annexes began to sharpen their foreign work and row water. They often rushed to the city wall and fled for their lives as soon as they were hit, and even turned and ran as soon as the Thunderbolt artillery sounded, turning the offensive into a harassing activity. There was nothing Niu Ling and his generals could do about it, and they all understood a truth at this time, that is, as long as they didn't solve the artillery of the Thunderbolt Army, they couldn't take the Divine Arm City at all.

A letter from Lost Answers made New York even more anxious. In the letter, he replied that although he led his army to block it with all his might, the Thunderbolt army of tens of thousands of people still pressed towards Fushun Prison step by step. Niu Lin was very aware of the consequences of Fu Shunjian being controlled by the Thunderbolt Army, not only would his own food route be cut off, but he would even be attacked by the two Thunderbolt armies in front and back, and he had already begun to retreat. He originally thought that he would soon win the victory of the Divine Arm City and return to the army to take the Thunderbolt army of Fu Shun Prison, but he knew that the battle of the Divine Arm City was not going well, and the blocking operation was not going well. There were 2,000 elite cavalry in the Lost Response Division, and it was this cavalry that easily broke through the Mouse Pass and defeated the 20,000 foot soldiers led by Yu Xing in one fell swoop.

In fact, he has done his best. The main force of the Third Division led by Deputy Division Commander Hou Xing marched to Fushunjian, not only with two fully equipped infantry brigades, but also with cavalry brigades and more than 200 cavalry from Duzhangman. Not to mention that there are only two infantry brigades with 3,000 elite and hundreds of large and small artillery pieces, accompanied by 5,000 basic militiamen who transport heavy loads. Taking the cavalry as an example, although the cavalry brigade of the 3rd Division lacked war horses, there were only 1,000 men and one horse, and with the cavalry of the Dudu Barbarians, the number reached 1,300 men, which was only one-third less than the number of cavalry in Surita. Although the Mongolian cavalry was very elite, the Thunderbolt cavalry had sharp weapons such as grenades, short muskets and ultra-light artillery, and the Mongolian cavalry did not have much advantage.

In the event of a frontal field battle, the cavalry of the lost Litan could defeat the cavalry of the 3rd Division. Once there is no cavalry protection, the march of the Thunderbolt infantry will be affected, and they may even fall into the dilemma of being "punished to stand", but where will Hou Xing give the Mongolian army a chance. Along the way, the cavalry of the Perak Army tightly guarded the left and right of the infantry marching army, forming a formation of infantry and cavalry to protect each other. With the protection of the cavalry, the Thunderbolt infantry did not dare to attack the infantry array of the Thunderbolt army, not to mention that the infantry was equipped with grenades and spears, which gave the Mongolian cavalry a headache, and if the Thunderbolt cavalry attacked from the side or behind, no matter how superb the cavalry is, it will definitely suffer heavy casualties. What's even more terrifying is that once the Thunderbolt army's infantry field artillery is erected, it will be a nightmare for the Mongol cavalry. The lesson of the Mongolian cavalry defeat in the Battle of Chengdu, he had heard Kudu and Liu Heima talk about it many times.

Hou Xing knew that the Mongol cavalry was extremely fierce, so he strictly ordered the cavalry of the third division to guard around the infantry, no matter how weak the Mongol cavalry was, no matter how to lure the cavalry, the Thunderbolt cavalry did not pursue, which made the plan to lure the Thunderbolt cavalry out and then break them one by one. In desperation, he could only watch as the Thunderbolt army headed towards Fu Shunjian with billowing smoke and dust.