After thinking about it again, Yang Wenan decided to stick to it and wait for help. His family has been a military general of the Great Song Dynasty for generations and belongs to the Jiangmen family. His uncle Yang Dayuan led his clan to surrender the city to Mongolia, in addition to the corruption of the court and the preservation of the family, but also because of the fear of the might of the Mongols, which was the psychology of Mu Qiang. In Yang Wen'an's view, the Mongolian army's cavalry is invincible in the world, and even the Thunderbolt army cannot compete. This time, he was besieged, but the Mongolian army was paralyzed and careless, and he fell into the plan of attacking the east and the west. As long as the Mongolian cavalry returns, the Thunderbolt army will naturally retreat.

Fortunately, a few days ago, a new batch of autumn grain was delivered from the nearby prefecture and county, enough for 3,000 people to eat for two months. As long as you hold on for a period of time, when the Mongolian army returns to help, you will be able to attack inside and outside and break the Thunderbolt army in one fell swoop. Thinking of this, Yang Wenxin rekindled a small flame of hope in his heart, and immediately ordered the construction of civil fortifications to continue to prevent the Thunderbolt army from shelling.

There is no way to shrink the defense, which is essentially just being beaten and not fighting back. Yang Wenan could only pray that reinforcements would arrive soon, and that the Thunderbolt Army would not have enough ammunition. He knew that he was powerless to stop the Thunderbolts from erecting pontoon bridges, nor could they prevent the Thunderbolts from advancing to the barracks to build artillery positions.

As Yang expected, the Thunderbolt Army's artillery positions surrounded the newly annexed army's camp on three sides and were protected by two infantry brigades and a divisional brigade. In order to prevent the enemy from a surprise attack, Huang Da'an ordered to build earthen walls and trenches around the artillery positions, spread triangular nails, and lay many mines. After the defense was done, he gave the order to open fire.

Contrary to Yang Wen'an's expectations, the ammunition brought by Huang Dagen this time was very sufficient, and these ammunition from the Pengzhou Arsenal could be transported to the front line by water, and the supply was very convenient. With sufficient ammunition, it is easy to bombard the barracks of the new annexed army. It's just that Huang Dagen doesn't plan to do this, on the one hand, because the ammunition is very expensive, and if the barrel is fired too many times, it will also be scrapped due to excessive wear and metal fatigue. The process of gun barrels and ammunition in the Pengzhou Arsenal is more advanced than that of other factories, and the cost is naturally more expensive. The so-called "when the cannon goes off, the gold is ten thousand taels", it is not nonsense.

On the other hand, it is also because Brother Xuan often says, "Good steel should be used on the blade". In Huang Dagen's view, the new annexed army of Yang Wen'an's ministry is not strong in combat power, and it is not worth wasting ammunition at all. In the eyes of the outside world, the reason why the Thunderbolt Army has won many times is because of artillery, and the Thunderbolt Army is nothing without artillery. Huang Dagen wanted to use this battle to prove that even without the support of artillery, the Thunderbolt Army was still a strong army.

In fact, the Thunderbolt firearms are sharp, but the individual combat ability is not weak, but the light of the firearms is too dazzling, overpowering the heroic performance of the soldiers. In terms of weapons, the steel quality of the spears, swords and other weapons equipped by the Thunderbolt army is much higher than that of the Mongolian army, which is quite advantageous in hand-to-hand combat. In terms of training, the Perak Army conducted actual combat training according to the standards of Wei Wushu on weekdays. Due to the extreme intensity of training, the consumption of food is also very high. It's just that the Perak Army has a fertile land in western Sichuan, and attaches great importance to agricultural production, and still has a large amount of grain stored under various consumptions, and even occasionally supplies meat.

On the other hand, in the Mongolian army, in addition to the Mongolian cavalry who had no worries about food and clothing, and the Mongolian Han army could eat and clothe warmly, the new annex army at the bottom could only barely wrap its stomach in peacetime, and could only eat enough in wartime. The lack of food not only led to inadequate training in the Yang Wen'an department, but also to chronic malnutrition among the soldiers. In comparison, the Thunderbolt soldiers were far superior to the new annex soldiers in terms of physical strength and martial arts.

More importantly, the Thunderbolts have a strong will to fight. Ouyang Xuan attaches great importance to the ideological and political education of soldiers, and has set up political deputy posts at and above the company level, which is responsible for educating soldiers on loyalty and love for the people on a daily basis, so that soldiers can understand "why they are fighting", which greatly enhances the soldiers' will to fight. Perak soldiers sign up to become death squad members, often because of their ideals and beliefs, and voluntarily undertake the most dangerous and even lifeless military operations. On the other hand, the dead soldiers of the Mongolian army and the Song army were either the personal soldiers of the generals, or they were tempted by the promotion to make a fortune.

The Perak Army has also introduced a complete system of rewarding military merits. Regular faith education coupled with clear rewards and punishments made even ordinary soldiers determined to fight to the death despite high casualty rates. Jin Wushu once lamented that "it is easy to shake the mountain, and it is difficult to shake the army of the Yue family". Coincidentally, the Mongolian general Yelumaizhu, who had died in the battle in Jianzhou, also lamented like this.

If the Thunderbolts have weaknesses, their weaknesses lie in the use of crossbows and armor. The process of making a bow and crossbow is long and expensive, and the key is to train a qualified archer, which is not possible without a year and a half. It's just that the Thunderbolt Army has artillery at a long distance, muskets at a medium range, and grenades at a short range, not to mention its high lethality, and it is extremely easy to use and train. In addition to the slightly longer gunner training time, it only takes ten days and a half months to train a qualified musketeer. The use of grenades is even simpler, and it only takes half a day to learn how to use them and skills.

As for the armor rate, the Thunderbolt army is indeed less than 30 percent, and the armor they wear is mainly leather armor and rattan armor lined with silk, and there is no high-level armor such as fish scale armor and Mingguang armor. Except for the sword and shield soldiers, spearmen, and special forces and reconnaissance units, the rest of the Thunderbolt soldiers did not wear armor, because they were not needed at all. In fact, in terms of the steel production capacity of the Thunderbolt Army, it is not difficult to equip each soldier with a set of iron armor, but it takes a lot of manpower and time, and the heavy iron armor will also increase the physical consumption of the soldiers.

Huang Dagen's battle plan was to use heavy artillery to destroy the earthen walls and fences of the new annexed army in order to open the gap in the attack; Medium guns and tiger squat cannons were used to destroy the siege equipment behind the arrow towers and earthen walls; With the platoon as an independent combat unit, it slowly encroached on the defense of the barracks, advancing step by step, and gradually forcing the Mongolian army to the center of the barracks. Doing so will conserve ammunition while minimizing casualties among soldiers.

Another important reason why Huang Dagen did this was to capture more prisoners. Unlike the tyrannical Mongol soldiers, most of the new soldiers were not the most heinous criminals, and they were either forced to go with the flow because of their generals' surrender to Mongolia, or surrendered because they were greedy for life and fear of death. For these people, Huang Dagen preferred to send them to the mines to serve as laborers. In other words, the current development of the Thunderbolt Army is extremely fast, and the demand for labor is huge.

The attacking squads of the Thunderbolts were still shieldmen, spearmen, and musketeers, advancing step by step, clearing trenches and walls, shooting muskets from afar, and throwing grenades when encountering obstacles. If you encounter a difficult bone, back off and let the artillery fire cover the problem.

This tactic worked very well, and in less than half a day, the Thunderbolts attacked the earthen wall and occupied several sections of the earthen wall and fired into the barracks. Yang Wen'an was anxious when he saw this, if he let the Thunderbolt Army gain a firm foothold by the earthen wall and strike condescendingly, would it be worth it? He hurriedly led his own troops to counterattack, trying to drive the Thunderbolts away from the earthen wall, but was blown to the ground by a grenade, and fled to the trench in the center of the camp.

Yang Wen'an has 3,000 soldiers and 5,000 people, plus grain and grass warehouses, the area of the camp is really not small, and the side length alone is more than a mile. After the Thunderbolts gained a firm foothold on several sections of the barracks' earthen walls, they brought more than a dozen tiger cannons from the rear to shoot at the center of the barracks, blowing up the soldiers of the new annex army in all directions.

In fact, due to the fact that the new annex army also built low walls and dug trenches in the barracks, the damage caused by these tiger squat cannons was actually limited, but they caused great panic, and panic would spread. Yang Wen'an saw that he could not disobey and was ready to flee with his personal army, but before he could leave, he was caught by a large group of mutinous new annex soldiers, tied up his hands and feet, and prepared to tie him up to the Thunderbolt army as a vote for fame.