"It's dark now...we can launch a night attack on the salt field... Of course, this night attack is not a real night attack... Under the cover of night, we create momentum, launch feints at the salt field, and force the defenders of the salt field to consume the limited firearms and ammunition in our hands..."

"When the firearms in their hands are almost consumed by us, tomorrow during the day, we can concentrate our troops and launch a general attack on the salt field, and take the salt field in one battle..."

"Well said..." Zhu Dadian, who was full of expectations for this battle, was obviously very satisfied with this idea. As soon as the general finished speaking, he applauded because of his excitement...

After suppressing the excitement in his heart, he said to the general who pulled himself back from despair in front of him: "You are now a fourth-rank general in the court. After we take the salt field, I will definitely recommend you to the court as the third-rank general in the court..."

Under the gaze of envious eyes around him, the general on his back, who received the promise of Zhu Dadian, quickly knelt in front of Zhu Dadian, and said with an excited expression: "Mr. Xie will cultivate... From now on, the master will let Mo Jiang go west, but Mo Jiang will never go south..."

Night attack... Not only Zhu Dadian could not have imagined, but He Guozhong, who was cultivated by Wei Zheng, could not have imagined.

Because, in the eyes of people in this era, night attacks are not wars, but melee battles that are inseparable from the enemy and us. What's more, some generals and soldiers are afraid of talking about night attacks...

Because of the limitations of this era, almost everyone has night blindness.

In this case, it is impossible for them to launch a night attack. At that time, the night attack may not be successful. The troops that launched their night attacks have already taken one step ahead and directly bombed the battalion on the battlefield.

Therefore, He Guozhong, who was guarding the salt field, never thought that the officials outside the city would do anything at night.

After leaving a battalion in the city wall to defend the city, he returned to the military tent and prepared to rest.

Just as his eyes were just getting confused and about to fall asleep, a series of violent roars suddenly reached He Guozhong's ears. He Guozhong, who was lying on the bed, sat up from the bed like a conditioned reflex.

Then, he shouted at the door of the tent...

"Person Guard, what about my personal guard... What happened outside? What was the explosion just now?"

As soon as the words fell, a guard with a musket on his back rushed in with a nervous look on his face.

Seeing He Guozhong, he seemed to have caught a life-saving straw and quickly reported: "Teacher Commander... the official army, the official army outside the city attacked us... they were firing fire at us..."

Perhaps in order to prove what the guard said, another deafening sound of cannons followed closely to He Guozhong's ears.

When He Guozhong hurried up to the city wall, the roaring cannons outside the city had been replaced by the sound of gunfire like beans.

Through the density of gunfire, He Guozhong was sure that the number of musketeers in the officers and soldiers outside the city was at least one thousand.

Perhaps because of the lessons learned during the day, although these thousand musketeers were still standing a hundred steps outside the city, their musketeers formation was at least twice as loose as during the day.

The musketeers carried out cover, the siege team launched an attack, and the archers approached the city wall and launched a sneak attack on the defenders on the city wall.

Seeing this, the battle that had just ended during the day was like a movie, and scene after scene appeared before He Guozhong.

In order to make feinting more realistic and to avoid losing fewer and fewer troops.

The Eight Thousand Guards Army brought by Zhu Dadian of Shandong Prefecture, unsurprisingly, became the main force of the night attack tonight.

With the 100,000 taels of silver collected from his home in Shandong, Zhu Dadian took out 15,000 taels as a reward for the military troops to send troops to attack at night.

Therefore, for the sake of money, thousands of guards directly burst out with unprecedented combat power.

He held a shield in one hand and a torch in the other, and shouted slogans while rushing towards the city walls like a mountain and a field.

Looking at the government troops outside the city getting closer and closer to the city wall, listening to the constant sound of musket shooting in his ears.

He Guozhong, who was shocked, couldn't help but mutter to himself: Is the official army really planning to launch a night attack on us?... He is not afraid of his own people killing each other, which will cause the troops to bomb the camp...

After saying that, the shocked He Guozhong did not care whether the night attack was a conspiracy. With a hint of anxiety, he ordered loudly: "Milt gun camp, fight back immediately..."

"Architecturer, bomb dropper, be ready for counterattack immediately..."

"As long as the official archers appear, all muskets and artillery will be concentrated, and the official archers who pose the greatest threat to us will be eliminated..."

After He Guozhong's order was issued, in order to avoid accidents, gunshots like beans began to sound on the city walls that were illuminated by torches.

However, what He Guozhong did not expect was that because the musketeers of the official army were too scattered and the night cover, the musketeers of the Tiger and Leopard army could only counterattack based on their feelings. The lead bullets whistling down from the city walls rarely hit the target.

A round of lead bounced down, and up to five or six unlucky musketeers were hit.

Just as the siege team holding torches outside the city rushed to the foot of the city wall, erected a ladder, and began to climb the city wall. He Guozhong's long-lost official archers appeared...

Hundreds of arrows shot towards the city walls in a round, and began to kill and injure the soldiers under his command.

Seeing this, He Guozhong had to order artillery and bomb throwers to join the war.

Even the musketeers who were left on the city wall had to turn the guns and start shooting and killing the archers of the official army.

Time passed little by little, but the offensive momentum and shouts of the officers outside the city still did not weaken at all.

Faced with this situation, He Guozhong's already solemn facial expression became deeper at this moment.

He Guozhong, who knew the ammunition and equipment of his hands, knew very well that if the attack in front of him continued like this, the grenades and shells would be used up by one hour at the latest. The limited firearms would be scrapped by more than half due to long-term shooting.

At that time, I could only use cold weapons and fight close-range with the official troops outside the city.

At this moment, a staff officer who dared to come in a hurry suddenly exclaimed.

"No, something is wrong... Division Commander, this attack by the official army is not right..."

He Guozhong himself was a staff officer, so He Guozhong attached great importance to several staff officers of the garrison division. In addition to asking them to study tactics in the command center based on the enemy situation, he also made exceptions to allow them to go to the battlefield and provided himself with some feasible opinions.

So, as soon as the staff officer's exclamation reached his ears, He Guozhong quickly asked.
Chapter completed!