Iron Dynasty

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

At this time, Luo Hong rode his horse back and dismounted, he said to Lu Fei: General, Huaizhou City has now been breached by all four city walls, and now none of the nobles in the city can escape, do you now order soldiers to invade the city?

Lu Fei nodded. Huaizhou City was located in the hinterland. Like Cangzhou and Laizhou, there were very few defenders in the area. The defeat of the Pengzhou army this time had already brought down the King Wei's army.

According to the information provided by the Secret Guard, the defenders of Huaizhou City were originally only 5,000 people, but after Pengzhou City was captured, King Wei urgently recruited soldiers from the local area, and dispatched another 30,000 people to Huaizhou for support, which was very hasty.

In his opinion, these improvised soldiers are not as good as the Pengzhou Army at all.

Remove the soldiers from the South Gate. Lu Fei said after hesitating for a while.

Luo Hong was surprised: General, this is the opportunity to completely wipe out the Huaizhou army, why should you withdraw?

Lu Fei has read a lot of military books and examples of war in Bowen College these days, he said to Luo Hong: When Pengzhou City falls, Huaizhou generals must be afraid. After all, we can easily capture Pengzhou City. Besides, the troops supporting Huaizhou this time were transferred from other prefectures and counties. They did not have enough faith in defending Huaizhou. If we were besieged from all sides, they would jump over the wall and fight us to the death, but they would leave a way to survive. , they are bound to collapse.

Luo Hong suddenly realized, he felt ashamed, he was very confident after arriving in Qingzhou, but after contacting these Qingzhou generals, he felt more and more ashamed.

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

The last understands, His Highness asked us to take Huaizhou City as soon as possible, so there is no need to entangle with the defenders in the city. Luo Hong said.

Exactly, but this general is not going to let them go. After the army in the south is withdrawn, immediately set up an ambush along the official road in the south. In addition, let Baimu cooperate with you to destroy this reinforcement. We want to make Wei Wang take his breath away. .

Yes, General.

Luo Hong was a little dissatisfied with Lu Fei at first. After all, he came from the Imperial Army, and Lu Fei was purely a wild man. Now he really realizes that Lu Fei still has some skills.

Watching Luo Hong leave, Lu Fei re-observed the defenders on the city wall. Under the shelling of the Southern Expedition Army, the city gates on all sides were now collapsed. In front of the artillery, the city gates of the city wall were no different from paper-pasted ones. .

After the city gate was blasted open, the Huaizhou army was in chaos, and now there was no decent resistance on the city wall. Facing this scene, Lu Fei fell into contemplation.

Whether it was Pengzhou City or Huaizhou City, these two battles made him understand that the other vassal kings now seem to be showing their teeth and claws, but they are actually just puffy.

Moreover, in the face of the firearm army, these armies still in the cold weapon era do not have enough countermeasures.

After the battle of Huaizhou, he must send 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 expected by Lu Fei, when Luo Hong was withdrawing 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 charging horn sounded, and the soldiers of the Southern Expedition Army attacked the city from the north, east, and west gates like hungry wolves.

The city of Huaizhou is now in chaos. Under the shelling of the Southern Expedition Army, the corpses of the Huaizhou Army are 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, and then the soldiers turned the artillery on the city wall and bombarded the army in the city.

At the same time, the mortar was also placed on the city wall. At this time, the Southern Expedition Army no longer fired lime bullets, but replaced it with another type of shell, which was not filled with lime, but with marbles.

When the cannonball explodes, the marbles in the cannonball will splash out to form a range of damage, but although the effect is different, the principle of the two is the same, and this is the most primitive flowering bomb.

The only downside 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 has just been delivered and has not been used yet. Luo Xin deliberately let the artillerymen use it in this war.

boom……

The mortar on the city wall made a muffled sound, and the cannonball with a wooden plug in the front fell into the resisting Huaizhou army.

Like lime bombs, this kind of shell also needs to cut the match rope to judge the time. When the shell falls into the Huaizhou army, the shell just hits one person and then rolls to the ground.

The surrounding Huaizhou Army was startled by the shell, but they didn't care when they saw that it fell on the ground and didn't move, but at this moment, the shell on the ground exploded with a boom.

what……

A burst of white smoke and flames rose from the crowd, accompanied by a scream, the Huaizhou Army around the cannonball fell down, and many soldiers screamed while covering their wounds hit by the marbles.

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

In the face of heavy casualties, the Huai Army organized by the Huaizhou military nobles completely lost their will to fight at this moment and began to flee.

There are no enemy troops at the South Gate!

At this time, someone shouted, and the Huaizhou Army, who learned the news, immediately retreated to the South City Gate.

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

On the official road at the south gate of Huaizhou City, Luo Hong and Baimu were ambushed twenty miles outside the city. There was a forest here for the ambush.

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

Just when Luo Hong was waiting for a little irritability, the scout came to report: Lord Colonel, the disbanded enemy army has come this way!

Luo Hong and Baimu looked at each other and nodded.

This time they not only have to take Huaizhou City, but also eliminate the forces of King Wei as much as possible.

Like a falcon waiting for its prey, soon, mixed with defeated troops, the team of the wealthy family members appeared in Luo Hong and Baimu's field of vision.

Defeat in war means that the army has lost its command and organization. Such a team like a headless flies cannot organize a counterattack at all. Because of this, the pursuit of the defeated soldiers has always been small losses and big gains.

attack!

Seeing that the defeated soldiers were getting 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 soldiers were defeated, they were nothing but scattered sand, not worth mentioning.

Compared with his musketeers, Baimu's cavalry was more flexible, leading three thousand cavalry, Baimu rushed out first.