Three or four hundred lead bullets roared, and the dozens of soldiers who rushed in the front responded the same as the reaction after being bombarded. Before they could do any moves, they were shot and fell to the ground and turned into corpses.

The rebels who defended on the city wall also used three-stage shooting that was most suitable for muskets.

The first round of gunfire sounded on the city wall had not stopped completely, and the second round of gunfire sounded as it was already tracked.

The same three or four hundred lead bullets flew towards the tiger and leopard army that were getting closer and closer to him...

In this way, in just twenty seconds, the rebels who were defending the city wall shot at the attacking forces of the Tiger and Leopard Army.

With the shooting of more than a thousand lead bullets, the offensive troops, which were only less than 300 left, were less than 150 people at this moment. Similarly, the cover troops, which were attacked by more than a dozen Folang machine artillery fires, had also lost as many as two or three hundred people under the attack of more than a thousand lead bullets in each round.

At this time, Zhou Yuhong's last sense of luck was also shattered with the heavy losses of the attacking troops.

Before the traitor could shoot out the fourth round of lead bullets, his anxious roar was already shouting out from Zhou Yuhong's mouth.

"Retreat, order the offensive troops to retreat immediately... Artillery, continue to bombard me against the city walls, and cover the offensive troops to retreat."

Amid the sound of the retreating horn, the remaining soldiers of the attacking troops immediately showed a look of surviving the disaster. Before the orders of the officers around him were issued, they turned their heads and ran backwards.

Of course, the traitor who stood firm on the city wall and also suffered heavy losses in the shelling attack did not miss this opportunity to beat the dog in the water.

On the city wall that stretched for more than a hundred battles, the dense rebels directly gave up the musket formation. As long as the musket in his hand was loaded with lead bullets, they pulled the trigger without hesitation at the Tiger and Leopard Army retreating outside the city wall.

Under this round of more dense lead bomb attacks, the soldiers who were frantically withdrawing from the range of the rebel musket had to drop fifty or sixty corpses again...

Failed to the first battle... Faced with this result, the face of the soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Army, who have always been invincible, showed an unprecedented expression of disappointment.

As the direct commander of the first round of attack, Zhou Yuhong also looked solemn, observing every move on the battlefield.

At this time, the deputy general who was a literati and was responsible for the logistics and supplies of the soldiers, military pay and educational thoughts appeared, and appeared in front of Zhou Yuhong with a solemn face.

After taking a deep breath, he reported to Zhou Yuhong in front of him: "General, the loss has been counted..."

"In this round of attack, we sent out 453 attacking troops, and after the final retreat, 58 people... The remaining 395 people all fell on the attack road. Life and death are uncertain..."

"In addition, the three musket battalions responsible for providing fire cover to the offensive forces also suffered heavy losses under the gunfire of the traitors... Just counted just now, 328 soldiers were killed in the three musket battalions and 83 soldiers were seriously injured..."

At this time, Zhou Yuhong was shocked by the set of data spoken by the deputy general. He asked back with an incredible look on his face: "Military advisor, you are not wrong... In less than half an hour, we lost more than 800 people, more than half a regiment of musketeers..."

The deputy general nodded and replied: 'Yes, general...'

Seeing the deputy general nodding affirmatively, Zhou Yuhong's facial expression turned pale after a flash of brush.

As a result, after the deputy general handed over the list, he murmured to himself: "The general trusted me so much that he handed over the command to me. However, I actually beat the attack like this and had no face to see the general..."

Speaking of this, Zhou Yuhong suddenly thought of something and continued to shout: "No, we failed in the first offense and suffered heavy losses. It was definitely not as simple as we thought..."

"Under the attack of so many flowering bullets, the traitors who hold the city wall can still fire lead and artillery shells at us in an orderly manner. This is absolutely a problem. The traitors stick to the city walls that we do not know... "

"Otherwise, the flowering bullets we shoot at the city walls will definitely cause unprecedented heavy losses to the rebels, making them unable to launch an orderly counterattack against our offensive troops..."

After Zhou Yuhong's series of questions, the deputy general standing in front of him also showed a thoughtful expression on his face.

He replied to Zhou Yuhong: "General, the last general also has some ideas..."

"We can clearly see that under the attack of the city wall the gangsters were bombed and fled in all directions. However, in the just-machine shell, Mo Jiang did not see the scene of the gangsters scattered and fleeing..."

"If it weren't for the fireballs that kept rising from the sky on the city wall, I would have thought that the flower bullets we shot would not hit the target..."

Hearing this, Zhou Yuhong became even more sure of the guess in his heart. He shouted loudly: "You are right. There must be something wrong with the city wall in front of you, and it is a big problem..."

Then, he ordered the military advisor directly in front of him: "Military advisor, immediately upload the order of the general... and the guard camp quickly search for materials. I will set up a three-meter-high observation deck here... I must not attack until the problem on the city wall is clear, otherwise, it will be for the soldiers to die..."

In this era, there was no phenomenon of random cuts and logging. Therefore, around Baode County, except for fertile fields, there are trees that are more than one foot thick and four or five battles high everywhere...

The personal guard camp with 500 soldiers took local materials and took less than an hour to obtain materials. Although a simple but four-horse watchtower appeared in front of Zhou Yuhong.

Zhou Yuhong, who continued to know the key to the problem, climbed up the watchtower with a monocular telescope without thinking...

With the height difference of more than three meters and the help of monocular telescopes, the squares on the city wall that were separated by sandbags appeared very clearly in Zhou Yuhong's vision, which made Zhou Yuhong stunned.

After a cup of tea, he took a breath of cold air and climbed down from the watchtower.

Before everyone could speak, Zhou Yuhong, who was shocked, had already ordered: "Battleman Wang of the Cannon Camp, go up first, bring the single-channel telescope, and see if the partition walls built by the traitors on the city wall can really weaken the power of the flowering bullets. Otherwise, if so many flowering bullets fall on the city wall and explode, why can't they suppress the traitors on the city wall yet?"

Under the gaze of everyone, the artillery battalion commander quickly climbed up the watchtower and began to observe the walls of Baode County two miles away.
Chapter completed!