Seeing Ulan City, Marshal Bayange ordered with some excitement: "Order the troops to speed up, we will sleep in the city tonight." Before the order was passed down, a loud noise rang out in the team, and the front
The people and horses became restless.
The sudden explosion made the Montes a little panicked, and some cavalry shouted: "There is an ambush, disperse quickly, there is an ambush." More explosions appeared among the fleeing Montes cavalry group, scattering pieces of flesh on their stumps.
This increased the level of chaos, and Marshal Bayange had to lead his personal guards to suppress it personally. After killing several panicked cavalry, the team gradually calmed down.
"What's going on?" Marshal Bayange asked angrily to the captain of a team of ten thousand people who had just arrived. The captain said: "Marshal, we don't know. At first we thought it was an artillery ambush by the enemy, but after passing
There was no ambush in the scout's investigation."
Marshal Bayange, who had never seen a landmine before, didn't understand what was going on. He could only order: "Expand the search range of the scouts and let the team search carefully before advancing. They must not fall into an ambush."
Marshal Bayange had a vague feeling that this attack had some bad premonitions, but he thought about it carefully and thought that if he led an army of 200,000 to attack the Lanfang Empire's logistics troops, there should be no danger.
After several landmine attacks, the troops led by Bayange finally reached the gates of Ulan City. Marshal Bayange's face turned green when he received the casualty report. Although the number of dead was only over 300, the number of injured was as high as
More than five thousand.
Horse casualties were even more severe due to the large number of targets. More than 700 horses were killed and tens of thousands were injured. Many of them would never be able to fight again even if they were cured.
The greatest advantage of the Monte Empire army was the cavalry. The large number of casualties suffered by the horses was as good as breaking their legs. Such a huge loss made the wealthy Marshal Bayange feel distressed.
After a short rest, Marshal Bayange ordered a team of 20,000 men to begin a tentative siege of the city. After several days of formation and training, Ulan City has basically completed the integration of forces, and the defenders have reached more than 20,000 people.
The three regiments of the Ninth Brigade each reached 6,000 people. Fang Xiaoyu directly integrated the troops into one division and three brigades. In the past, officers of all levels in the Ninth Brigade were promoted to one level out of thin air. Although this was only a temporary establishment, if this battle
Victory, I'm afraid this organization can also be recognized by the empire.
Regarding on-the-spot military command, Fang Xiaoyu knew that he was not the material, so he personally sat in the city and handed over the four directions to the three new brigade commanders Feng Shichang, Lin Yangchun and Su Zhizhen, as well as the commander of the Iron-blooded Guards Fu Mingcheng. Feng Shichang guarded the east gate.
, Lin Yangchun guarded the west gate, Su Zhizhen guarded the south gate, and the north gate, which was the most difficult to defend, was handed over to the Iron-blooded Guards with the strongest firepower, guarded by Fu Mingcheng.
Since the strength of the Iron-Blooded Guards was relatively weak, Fang Xiaoyu asked the other three brigades to allocate a regiment each to help defend the north gate, under the unified command of Fu Mingcheng. The other three brigades each also allocated a battalion to form a regiment and sit in the city as the general reserve team.
Fang Xiaoyu was in control of reinforcements at any time. What made Fang Xiaoyu most happy was that he actually pieced together a cavalry battalion of more than 300 people from the defeated troops, and all these cavalry were strengthened for Fu Mingcheng.
Seeing the Monte soldiers' first tentative attack on the city, Fu Mingcheng did not expose the firepower of the Iron-Blooded Guards. He just ordered the garrison battalions of the two regiments to fire and block, and at the same time a quarter of the artillery fired to block the city. These enemies still
Without getting within two hundred meters of the moat, more than 300 corpses were quickly abandoned and ran back. Seeing that the defensive firepower was not strong, Bayange felt confident, and he immediately ordered a team of 100,000 people to attack together.
city.
Seeing a large number of Monte soldiers abandoning their horses and charging forward with ladders on their shoulders, Fu Mingcheng's mouth curled up slightly. The tactics of these Monte soldiers were too old. How could such an siege be successful? This time Fu Mingcheng did not let the soldiers
They started shooting at the maximum range, and the artillery was still only half fired, slowly consuming the follow-up troops of the Monte soldiers.
Seeing that the Monte soldiers had rushed to a place more than two hundred meters away from the moat, Marshal Bayange showed a satisfied smile. And just a few seconds later, Bayange's smile solidified on his dark, round face.
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Rumbling explosions continued to sound. This was when the mines laid by Lanfang's army beside the moat began to take effect. A large number of Monte soldiers were killed, and many simple ladders were also blown up. After finally reaching the moat, the Monte soldiers
They jumped in one after another. They thought that the dry moat was not deep and could be easily climbed over. But they were wrong. There were many bamboo sticks buried at the bottom of the moat, and there were some square nails in the middle. The Monte soldiers jumped into the moat one after another.
They were seriously injured, and some even died directly.
After the corpses of hundreds of Monte soldiers were laid out in the moat, the bamboo sticks at the bottom of the river were finally covered, and the follow-up troops finally climbed up the edge of the moat on the bodies of their companions. Fu Mingcheng, who saw the opportunity, waved his hand, and the people beside him
The guards started shooting, and the sound of gunfire was the order. All the soldiers guarding the city started shooting. The Monte soldiers who had just climbed out of the ditch were killed instantly as soon as they showed their heads.
Relying on the strength of their numbers, more and more Monte soldiers climbed up the moat, and the gunfire became more and more intensive. At first, the soldiers of the garrison fired, and later the soldiers of the Iron Blood Guard also started shooting with lever-action rifles.
Shot.
Watching the Monte soldiers fall one after another, Bayange's heart was twisted. Although he had seen through life and death after fighting for so many years, these were precious soldiers of the Monte Empire. The Monte Empire had a small population to begin with.
Although the nomads have always had a tradition of all-people soldiers, the Monte Empire only had an army of 700,000 people. Among them were troops to guard against the Cossack Empire and maintain domestic rule. An army of 300,000 people was already their limit.
Now another 100,000 troops have been allocated to attack four mountain passes. There are only 200,000 troops here. This is also the only 200,000 troops the Monte Empire has on the southern front. If they are all dead, the Monte Empire can surrender.
The soldiers launched three more rounds of offensives, but were beaten back each time. Seeing that it was no longer realistic to capture Ulan City today, Bayange ordered to stop the attack. The large group retreated twenty miles and set up camp close to Helan Pass.
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Seeing that the Monte soldiers had retreated, Fang Xiaoyu immediately led the people and reserve teams organized spontaneously in the city to go to the city wall to rescue the wounded. Although the Lanfang Army had the advantage in firepower today, and with the help of landmines and bamboo sticks, the losses were not large.
However, more than 300 people were killed and nearly a thousand were injured.
At this time, Bayange was furious in the camp. The death toll in the one-day siege actually reached tens of thousands, and more than 30,000 people were injured. Dadar suggested: "Marshal, should we attack other mountain passes instead? Here
The enemy's firepower is too strong, I'm afraid they may have more than one garrison battalion of the First Army."
Bayange roared: "Impossible. The spy report clearly said that there is only one army here, and the general has already escaped, and a large number of soldiers escaped with him. How can it still be so powerful?" The adjutant said: "I heard from the spies that it was a garrison.
A brigade commander of the battalion gathered people to resist here. I think they don't have many people." Bayange roared: "That's right, they won't have too many people. We have an army of 200,000, and we can do it even with a lot of energy.
Consume them to death."
Fang Xiaoyu has been sitting in the city lord's palace for three days. During these three days, he has been worried about the defense on the city wall. However, Fu Mingcheng insisted and did not ask him for a reserve team. The Monte soldiers seemed to have joined hands with Fu Mingcheng to attack the north.
Gate, the other three gates only use rangers for reconnaissance, not even encirclement.
At night, Fang Xiaoyu once again led people up to the north city wall. The place looked very dilapidated. Black bloodstains could be seen everywhere. There were gaps and broken bricks made by artillery. Fang Xiaoyu came to Fu Mingcheng, whose eyes were red, and said: "Mingcheng
, how is the situation?" Fu Mingcheng said: "The situation is not good. Today, the Monte soldiers suddenly had a lot of cannons. Although they did not have much accuracy, they were large in number and caused us a lot of damage."
"Are there cannons?" Fang Xiaoyu was a little surprised. The Monte Empire did not have cannon casting technology. Could it be that the Cossack Empire sold them to them? Fang Xiaoyu said: "How many are there?" Fu Mingcheng said: "About a hundred or so, I estimate.
Seized from Cheng Gu, it's just that the road is difficult, which is why so much destiny has been delayed." Fang Xiaoyu nodded and said: "It seems we must destroy them."
Fu Mingcheng said: "It's not impossible to destroy them. The main reason is that I don't have many skilled gunners here." Fang Xiaoyu said: "Tomorrow I will transfer all the skilled gunners from the other three gates to tell you your plan." Fu Mingcheng said.
Ming Chengdao: "I found that their artillery had no professional knowledge. For convenience, they actually piled gunpowder and projectiles near the artillery position. I think we can concentrate our elite artillerymen to launch intensive bombardment at the opponent's artillery position. As long as one hit, we can destroy it."