Steel Dynasty - Chapter 573

[Chapter 573 Another victory]

Amidst the roar of artillery fire, Lu Fei observed the situation in Huaizhou City with a telescope.

At this time, Luo Hong rode back, dismounted, and said to Lu Fei: “General, all four walls of Huaizhou City have been breached by us. Now none of the wealthy families in the city can escape. Do you want to order the soldiers to attack the city now?” “

Lu Fei nodded. Huaizhou City is located in the hinterland. Like Cangzhou and Laizhou cities, there are very few local defenders. This defeat of the Pengzhou Army has severely defeated the Wei King’s army.

According to the information provided by the secret guard, the garrison of Huaizhou City was originally only 5,000 people. However, after Pengzhou City was captured, the King of Wei urgently recruited soldiers from the local area and dispatched another 30,000 people to Huaizhou for support. It was very hasty.

In his opinion, these improvised soldiers were not as good as the Pengzhou Army.

“Remove the soldiers at the south gate.” Lu Fei said after thinking for a while.

Luo Hong was surprised and said: “General, this is the opportunity to completely annihilate the Huaizhou army. Why should we withdraw?”

Lu Fei had read many military books and war examples at Bowen College these days. He said to Luo Hong: “Pengzhou City The generals of Huaizhou must be afraid of losing the city. After all, we can easily capture Pengzhou City, and Huaizhou City is no longer a problem. Moreover, the troops supporting Huaizhou this time are mobilized from other prefectures and counties. They are very important to guarding Huaizhou. We don’t have enough faith. If we are surrounded from all sides, they will jump over the wall and fight to the death with us. But if we leave them a way to survive, they will definitely collapse.”

Luo Hong suddenly realized, feeling ashamed in his heart. He had been very confident after arriving in Qingzhou. But after coming into contact with these Qingzhou generals, he felt even more ashamed.

Not to mention that these generals are very familiar with the use of firearms, they are also very proficient in the art of war, which is very different from the generals in other armies of the Chongqing Kingdom.

“General, I understand. Your Highness asked us to capture Huaizhou City as soon as possible, so we don’t have to contend with the defenders in the city,” Luo Hong said.

“Exactly, but I am not ready to let them go. After the army in the south withdraws, they will immediately set up an ambush along the official road in the south. In addition, ask Bai Mu to cooperate with you to annihilate this reinforcement. We will make the King of Wei unable to breathe. “

Yes, General.”

Luo Hong was a little unconvinced with Lu Fei at first. After all, he was from the Forbidden Army, and Lu Fei was just a wild boy. Now he really realized that Lu Fei still had some abilities.

Watching Luo Hong leave, Lu Fei observed the defenders on the city wall again. Under the bombardment of the Southern Expeditionary Army, the city gates on all sides were now blown down. In front of the artillery, the city wall gates were no different from paper. .

After the city gate was blasted open, the Huaizhou army was in chaos. Now there was no decent resistance on the city wall. Faced with this scene, Lu Fei fell into deep thought.

Whether it was Pengzhou City or Huaizhou City, these two battles made him understand that other vassal kings seemed to be showing off their teeth and claws, but in fact they were just puffy.

Moreover, in the face of firearms armies, these armies, which are still in the cold weapon era, do not have sufficient response methods.

After the Battle of Huaizhou, he must write a letter to Xiao Ming explaining the current situation, so that he can understand the real fighting situation, so that Xiao Ming can correctly judge the current situation.

As Lu Fei expected, when Luo Hongcong withdrew the soldiers from the south city gate, the resistance on the city wall weakened again.

At this time, he gave the order to charge.

The sound of the charge horn sounded, and the soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army attacked the city from the north, east, and west gates like hungry wolves. For a while, there was loud gunfire in the city.

The city of Huaizhou was already in chaos. Under the shelling of the Southern Expeditionary Army, corpses of the Huaizhou Army were everywhere near the city wall.

As soon as the Southern Expeditionary Army entered the city, they immediately occupied the city wall near the city tower. Then the soldiers turned the artillery on the city wall to fire at the troops in the city.

At the same time, the mortars were also placed on the city wall. At this time, the Southern Expeditionary Army no longer fired lime bombs, but replaced them with another type of artillery shells. This kind of artillery shells were not filled with lime, but with marbles.

When the cannonball explodes, the marbles in the cannonball will splash out to cause area-wide damage. However, although the functions are different, the principle of the two is the same. This is the most primitive blooming bullet.

The only drawback is that it is difficult to control the time and cannot achieve precise explosions, but even so, it is enough to intimidate the enemy.

Moreover, this batch of artillery shells had just been delivered and had not been used yet. Luo Xin specifically asked the artillery to be used in this war.

“Boom…”

The mortars on the city wall made a muffled sound, and the shells with wooden plugs in the front fell into the resisting Huaizhou army.

Like lime bombs, this kind of cannonball also requires cutting a match rope to judge the time. When the cannonball fell into the Huaizhou Army, it just hit one person and then rolled to the ground.

The surrounding Huaizhou troops were startled by this shell, but they didn’t take it seriously when they saw it landed on the ground and didn’t move. But at this moment, the shell on the ground exploded with a “boom”.

“Ah…”

A burst of white smoke and flames rose from the crowd, and accompanied by a burst of screams, the Huaizhou Army fell down around the shells. Many soldiers covered their wounds hit by the bullets and screamed.

This scene made other Huaizhou Army soldiers pale with fear, but then more shells fell into the dense crowd.

Faced with heavy casualties, at this moment the Huai army organized by the Huaizhou military elite completely lost their will to fight and began to flee.

“There are no enemy troops at the South City Gate!”

Someone shouted at this time. After learning the news, the Huaizhou Army immediately retreated towards the South City Gate.

At this time, the Southern Expeditionary Army had completely controlled the towers on the north, east, and west walls of the city. The soldiers who entered the city also drove the Wei King’s army in the city to the south like chasing ducks.

At the official road of the south gate of Huaizhou City, Luo Hong and Bai Mu were in ambush twenty miles outside the city. There was a forest here to facilitate the ambush.

At this time, they have been waiting here for two hours. They launched the attack in the morning and it is now afternoon.

While they, Luo Hong, were getting a little impatient while waiting, a scout came to report: “Sir, Captain, the defeated enemy troops are coming this way!”

Luo Hong and Bai Mu looked at each other and nodded.

This time they not only want to capture Huaizhou City, but also destroy King Wei’s troops as much as possible.

Like a falcon waiting for its prey, soon, mixed with broken troops, a team of wealthy family members appeared in the sight of Luo Hong and Bai Mu.

A defeat in a war means that the army has lost its command and organization. Such a headless team cannot organize a counterattack at all. Because of this, through the ages, chasing the defeated army has always resulted in small losses and big gains.

“Attack!”

Seeing the defeated troops getting closer and closer, Luo Hong suddenly shouted loudly. At this time, he only had 5,000 musketeers in his hands, but to him, no matter how many defeated troops were just a pile of scattered sand, they were not worth a single blow. carry.

Compared with his musketeers, Bai Mu’s cavalry was more flexible. Leading three thousand cavalry, Bai Mu charged out first.

(End of chapter)