In a corner of the south of Luodu City, Liang Jun, who had just entered the city, was also trapped in the battle of the night.

The husbands who rushed from behind had already transported lanterns, torches, soup, pancakes, steamed buns and cooked meat, so that the soldiers could take turns to eat something and take a few breaths.

At this time, a bright torch was also lit up and down, and the up and down were illuminated. Originally, the darkness of the city was used to attack the city, or the darkness of the city, was beneficial to the darkness of the city. Wuru had many things to do at this time, and it was impossible to completely darkness, so both sides had to fight at night.

In the most prominent place on the city tower, the lanterns and torches were lit like several winding dragons. During the soldiers' journey, however, in the southern army occupied a little corner of the city, it was another scene.

The enemies that kept pouring out from the yard area and sneak attacks from the front, back and left and right sides were almost everywhere, exhausting the soldiers who took turns to attack and advance;

Teams of people holding fire sticks were like trickles. After filling into this dark, deep and dim city, they never came back, as if they were swallowed by invisible giant beasts and monsters.

The northern soldiers hiding in the city yard for the final defense were not overwhelmed by this momentum. They did not put down their weapons or leave the defense ground, but created many obstacles in the opened city gate. With their flesh and blood, they built a new embankment to prevent the Song army that rushed into the city gate like a tide and drove straight in.

With some kind of tacit approval, Du Shiyi, who was sent to the Huaidong Army to watch the battle in front of the army, also looked and evaluated the subsequent night battle on the top floor of the four-story city tower.

According to the military knowledge he has,

The command efficiency in the cold weapon era has its own quantitative critical point. Once this critical point is exceeded, the effectiveness of the corresponding command will drop sharply, while the delays of various layers of transmission continue to increase.

Therefore, when it is usually claimed to be an army of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, it is possible to truly fight against the enemy, perhaps only a few thousand, tens of thousands or tens of thousands.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, as long as you focus on this part of the dynamics, it is enough to complete most of the tasks of pre-military assessment and judgment.

In this alley where the lane is distributed like a spider web, the battle faces that encounter and catch the enemy have been greatly reduced and divided, and may even be only a few hundred to dozens, or even a few people. In addition, the road is not distinguished in the night and the visibility is low, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty and difficulty of subsequent battles.

So, after the sky turned white, the troops entering the city had already lost seven or eight thousand troops in the Fang District. Although most of them were missing or lost contact, the result of being trapped in the enemy's controlled area was undoubtedly a disaster and no chance of life.

Lu Yuan, who was trapped in Yidian District, was one of the few fish that missed the net. In a sense, he was already a senior sergeant who entered Luodu and was also the lucky one who escaped to the rear in the collapse of the Northern Expedition that failed several years ago.

The Dutou Lei Silin, who led him back then, had no such luck. Because he couldn't bear to part with the woman he stolen from the city yard, he hesitated for a moment and was blocked by the northern soldiers and the city people, and was cut and slaughtered on the spot into meat sauce.

Then he ran south in the harsh winter and survived by eating raw meat of unknown origin. When he was regained by the government troops in Shandong East Road, he had lost three toes and a piece of meat as big as a bowl of meat on his butt due to frostbite and necrosis.

But compared to other wounded soldiers in the camp who woke up one night and slept in the snow, or were frostbite and amputated, and became disabled and had to be abandoned for the second time, he was lucky because he could still take up weapons and keep up with the retreating team and continue to move south.

Then in the Xiangfan land on Jinghu North Road, fight against the Fanhu outside the West that was flooding like a tide, fight against the Tutuan Township soldiers that swarmed in, and suppress the remnants of the resurrection of the vassal states...

When the murder was soft and insensitive, Lu Yuan, who was originally a little cheerful and jumpy, gradually became sturdy and firm and cruel like those promoted comrades.

Of course, after a casual stop, he would still show off with a lustful look on the Luodu women who had enjoyed so many tender skins and flesh in his drunken mood.

However, it was precisely because of the little experience of attacking Luodu that he had left some room and a backup plan after being ordered to attack the defense zone, so he fought and left after the attack, and was able to save the dozens of people around him.

Then he was blocked in this dilapidated courtyard, using various random door panels and houses to build a line of defense on the spot, and resisted dozens of tentative attacks and harassments. He persisted until the sky turned white and the shouts of killing gradually faded away, and then he dared to come out.

But I found that the environment was already changing greatly. The streets were full of abandoned flags and armored staffs. The intersections were blocked by various broken roadblocks, and the distance became quiet, as if the Southern Army had completely abandoned their area.

In fact, the Southern Army, which had already occupied a corner of the city, also regrouped under the command of Wang Duanchen, and restrained and ordered them to stop their blind actions to continue to go deep into the yard area to plunder. Instead, they gathered their troops and turned to the two wings and expanded the control area on the city wall.

For a moment, the war broke out again, and the two sides fought along the aisles and paths up and down the city walls, and fought again in full swing in the relatively narrow space.

Looking down from the city of Luodu, you can clearly see the traces of the area in the south of the city, the last Northern Expedition. Various large ruins and ruins that were burned or destroyed were like vegetable beds that were gnawed by dogs, walking one after another among hundreds of yard areas in the south of the city.

Above the ruins were the huts covered with grass, and then when the wilderness was cleared and the walls were burned, it was set on fire to drive out the poor who had never been able to get away.

Therefore, there are no real residents left in the entire urban area on the south bank of Luoshui. Only the soldiers hiding behind various streets and temporary street fortifications are waiting for the soldiers of the Northern Army who are preparing to fight in the streets.

However, Du Shiyi, who was watching the battle and instructing his subordinates to conduct surveying and mapping, found that at some point, there were rows of huge and straight flying fire thunders (Congrive-style rockets) on the city downstairs, aiming directly at the direction of the city and lined up.

As the roulette was slowly lowered, flying fire thunders rushed out one after another. Obviously, the ball head shells of these flying fire thunders were filled with burning objects such as tinder oil, fish glue, etc. Every time they fell, large splatters of fire and smoke rose up;

Then the northern soldiers hidden between the city yards were immediately driven out and fled on the streets like rats burned by smoke.

At this time, the crossbowmen and gunmen who were lying on the commanding heights outside the city yard were used. They used rounds of volleys to drive away the nearby northern soldiers who were rushing over the streets and rushed over to the ground.

Obviously, the coach Wang Duanchen, who suffered many great losses in the street battle in Luodu, no longer intends to use ordinary means to solve the enemy this time, but fights a street battle that follows the rules...

And the outfield of Jianchun Gate in the east of the city is another scene.

As the feint attack troops were reciprocating back and forth, Zhou Laoguan, the artillery captain of the Huaidong Army, was also listening to the sequence of cannons on the city wall, while making some presumptions and judgments.

As a bunch of mud and water splashed in front of the position, several observers who were crouching in the trench in front of him also moved again, nervously calculating the distance and dispersion between the previous and subsequent shellings, and then made corresponding fan marks on a white painted wooden board.

Some people risked to rush into the mud pit left by the shelling, and carried the iron balls projected on the city with both hands and feet, and carried them back in baskets.

In fact, although the cannons used on the head of Luodu City look quite large and scary in the mirror, they are old guys who are at least two or three hundred years old.

Therefore, no matter how much maintenance and repair it, it is impossible to maintain its original state. Therefore, under halving or less charge, both the range and the accuracy of walking are quite lackluster.

At this time, the iron balls that were brought back had been cleaned and placed in front of Zhou Laogong. You can see that the casting quality was extremely poor. The rough cast iron spherical surface was covered with trachoma and pores, and the weight of the weighing was quite uneven.

The weight of the sphere is uneven, which also means that the shells fired have greater deviations and metaphysical probability.

Of course, no matter how powerful it shrinks, the threat to the dense human array and siege equipment that are approaching is still real. Therefore, these discoveries and results need to be maximized at one time.

Therefore, Zhou Laoguan, who was a veteran of artillery planting artillery, also completed the initial estimate in his mind, as well.

If you rely solely on the six-inch short-barrel heavy artillery produced by Huaidong, you can easily suppress it from bottom to top outside the range. If you use the four-inch long-barrel field cannon, you can also use the advantageous launch frequency within the equal range to suppress and destroy the opponent's.

The distribution of these city cannons is not dense, and the firing angles that can rotate up and down, left and right, and the firing boundaries between adjacent artillery positions can overlap and support the range of support.

In this way, just concentrate the long-barrel field cannons in the artillery regiment and destroy the gun positions one by one. During this period, perhaps the only and limited threats are those old-fashioned bed crossbows or stone throwers hiding behind the city walls.
Chapter completed!