Zhang Lei looked at the black dots whizzing towards him and had no time to avoid them.
"puff!"
A cannonball hit the horse and exploded it!
The huge impact pushed Zhang Lei four to five meters away.
"Bang bang bang!"
A series of explosions were heard, and the place where Zhang Lei was just now was completely barren.
Not a single bit of his more than twenty personal guards was left.
That’s right, if you don’t click on one, there will be nothing left.
It was shot out with one shot, and it eroded for tens of meters.
"General! General, are you okay?"
The guards who were farther away saw Zhang Lei falling to the ground and ran over to take a look, but they still had their eyes open.
"Retreat! Retreat quickly! Hurry!" Zhang Lei shouted heartbreakingly.
The burst of artillery fire just now made him lose his soul.
The guards hurriedly helped Zhang Lei up and put him on the horse, and a group of people fled frantically.
"Shall we chase?" Cui Qiang asked Ming Ming on the top of the city as he looked at the defeated bandit soldiers.
"Send people out to chase for a while. Don't be too eager to fight. The camp behind them is not in chaos." Yu Ming put down the telescope and said.
Cui Qiang took the order and personally rushed out of the city with hundreds of cavalry and a thousand infantry.
After chasing for two or three miles, he retreated.
The main force of the bandit camp came to relieve the defeated troops.
Luo Xin is pretty good at using troops.
Even though he was shocked by the artillery, he was able to suppress the Chinese army in panic and sent a battalion of troops to support Zhang Lei into the city.
The thief is indeed a thief with some tricks.
Both sides withdrew, leaving more than 4,000 traitors outside the city.
Among them were more than 3,000 corpses and more than 1,000 wounded soldiers.
On the Fuxing Army side, more than 70 people were killed and more than 300 injured.
This contact was the first time since the Northern Expedition that more than a hundred casualties occurred.
If artillery is used from the beginning, there may be very few casualties or even no deaths.
But if this is the case, it will be difficult to kill and injure more than 4,000 elite bandit soldiers at once.
Overall, this is a great victory.
Yu Ming was not in a hurry to reply to Song Yang, he planned to win another victory.
On the other side, the bandits are encamped, and Zhang Lei has already returned.
Although he was not injured, he was extremely frightened and it took him a while to regain his consciousness.
Luo Xin's face was as dark as water at this time. Today's battle made Yu Yu's idea of restraining the Crouching Tiger Cannon come to nothing.
"Prime Minister! Is there any way to restrain that thing now?"
"It can be used in rainy days. It can shoot four to five hundred paces. Is there anything else that can restrain that thing?"
Luo Xin stared at Zhao Wenbin and asked.
Zhao Wenbin drooped his head with a constipated expression on his face and really didn't know what to say.
"Humph!" Luo Xin snorted coldly and rolled his eyes at Zhao Wenbin.
"Your Majesty, maybe there will be some way in the end." Zhang Lei opened his mouth to save Zhao Wenbin.
"A Lei has a solution? Come and tell me!" Luo Xin looked at Zhang Lei with a happy expression.
Zhang Lei is his number one general and he is relatively stable. If he says he has a way, it may be true.
Lao Zhao is unreliable!
Luo Xin was not going to listen to him on the use of troops.
Zhang Lei didn't die, but he came up with the idea of sports harassment.
According to his observations on the front line, artillery is relatively slow to turn around.
Moreover, the attack angle is limited.
After the artillery fire, most of the casualties were soldiers within a hundred meters of the city, but there were no casualties below the city walls.
"So the general believes that the large group can be broken down into small groups, with at most three to five thousand people, and as few as one or two hundred people. We don't want to fight the tiger squatting artillery head-on, and scatter the small groups out to attack their food channels and disrupt their supplies.
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Zhang Lei's military talents are good and he is quite flexible.
It was only in one fight that I came up with the method of playing mobile warfare.
"Then how can we resist if the Confederate army attacks the city all the way?" Luo Xin was a little worried that his hometown would be raided.
"The iron ball shot by the Crouching Tiger Cannon... I can see it clearly. I will realize that that thing can't break the city wall. Let's defend now how we usually defend it."
"Just describe the Crouching Tiger Cannon as a stone-throwing machine!"
Not to mention, Zhang Lei's thinking is very clear and his vision is unique, which is much more reliable than the theory of water defeating fire.
"This..." Luo Xin pinched his chin and started thinking.
After a while, Luo Xin's brows relaxed and he felt that Zhang Lei's theory seemed feasible.
"Our defeat today has lowered our morale, and the soldiers also know the power of the Crouching Tiger Cannon. Rumors will inevitably spread among the army. If the southern army goes north at this time, we have little chance of winning. It is better to withdraw to Dingcheng and Gushi
One line.”
"Firstly, it is easier to defend, and secondly, it can also verify whether the late general theory is feasible."
Zhang Lei spoke at the right time.
Luo Xin nodded and agreed with Zhang Lei's point of view.
"Then do as you say and withdraw first. I will take the Suzaku and Xuanwu camps to Dingcheng, and you will take the other two armies to Gushi!"
Luo Xin not only agreed with Zhang Lei's statement, but also acted responsibly and took away the two defeated troops who participated in the battle today.
He has to do the ideological work himself.
Luo Xin is still quite good in this regard.
Of course, Luo Xin also has some selfish motives.
Zhuque Camp was Zhang Lei's old unit. He took it away without worrying about Zhang Lei escaping from Gushi.
Zhang Lei was also an open-minded person and didn't say much about it.
That night, the bandits divided into two groups and retreated on a rainy night.
As soon as the news came that the rebels had left, Yu Ming immediately asked the cavalry to catch up.
Unfortunately, although the rebels retreated, their defenses were very tight and they found no chance.
There was another surprise attack in Mahakala, and the cavalry did not bring any firearms, so they could only watch the rebels walk away.
"This main force of thieves is indeed quite capable. At least they have a solid foundation for advancing and retreating."
Yu Ming said this after listening to the report of the cavalry who retreated.
Three days later, the rain stopped and the sky cleared.
Although it rained lightly for three days, the Renaissance troops were not idle and filled the muddy road ahead with gravel.
If it clears up today, the army can move forward.
"The rebel soldiers divided into two groups and went to Gushi and Dingcheng together. How should we march?"
Yu Ming and others set out the sand table, Cui Qiang pointed at Gushi and Dingcheng and asked.
"Gather your forces and attack Gushi first!" Yu Ming pointed at Gushi and said.
"What if the soldiers from Dingcheng attack my logistics line?" Cui Qiang asked.
"I will lead the army north to Gushi, and you will stay on the Yincheng-Macheng front line to defend. Make sure the traffic lines are open." Yu Ming assigned Cui Qiang a task.
"That's...okay."
Cui Qiang wanted to go to the front, but the boss assigned a task and he could only obey the order.
In the morning of that day, Yu Ming led 20,000 revival troops to go north to Gushi, while Cui Qiang led 10,000 people to stay at the Yincheng-Macheng line.
In Gushi, Zhang Lei spent three days to stabilize the morale of the army.
Yu Ming's army also came.
He hurriedly sent someone to contact Luo Xin about the harassment in the rear, and he focused on defending the city.
"Boom boom boom!"
Yu Ming was not idle at all, and immediately began to bombard the city as soon as the army arrived.
Gushi is one of the cities where thieves mainly operate, and its defensive capabilities are much stronger than those of Macheng and Yin.
All the city walls have been repaired and the city is tightly surrounded.
Yu Ming planned to use artillery to plow the city wall first.
At the very least, a counterattack that suppresses the city's head.
"Boom boom boom!"
The artillery shelled for more than ten rounds, and the bandit soldiers in the city could only be beaten passively.
The cannonballs hit the city wall, sending debris flying.
As soon as the artillery stopped, Yu Ming immediately organized a charge.
As a result, the thieves reacted very quickly and immediately took out thunder stones and rolling logs and threw them wildly.
The soldiers of the Renaissance Army rushed for a long time, but they still failed to rush to the city wall.
As for the city gate, although the city gate was smashed to pieces, all that was exposed inside the gate were large rocks, which were obviously filled in from the inside.
"Huh? The thieves are so tenacious? Is this a change of tactics? Ming Jin retreats!"