Artillery is undoubtedly the favorite thing about infantry formations that are densely located within range. In the era of aiming at artillery, such dense formations will only be a matter of more and less if they continue to hit them in one shot.

Li Jiarong's tactical thinking was still stuck in the past era, or during the fierce battle, he forgot that the artillery of the Ming people was very different from their own artillery. When he saw the artillery position that the enemy cavalry was preparing to destroy, he immediately sent infantry to protect it, but forgot that in this way, his infantry was completely exposed to the range of the artillery opposite.

The experienced artillery officers of the Ming army would miss such a good opportunity, quickly adjust the firing angle, and a round of dense cover shooting, which immediately exploded the Qi infantrymen who had just gathered.

Before Li Jiarong's face changed his expression and returned to normal, the Ming cavalry, who had escaped from the attack of the Qi cavalry, almost followed the shelling that had just come to an end. They flew over the long-range weapon position like flying, and black things were thrown out by them with their arms round.

In Li Jiarong's somewhat panicked eyes, amid the violent explosions, the cannons, catapults, and powerful crossbows were instantly flying and cracked, and more so the soldiers who operated them fell down one after another, screaming and wailing in endless ears.

Amid Li Jiarong's roar, soldiers ran out from all over the place, trying to surround the lonely cavalry and stutter.

Wulin laughed happily on the city wall. When the attacking troops under the city were in chaos, the south city gate of Tongfang opened, and teams of Ming troops rushed out of the city, quickly formed an array outside the city, and then bypassed the southern city and launched an attack on the flank of the Qi army. A few years ago, Wulin had to be pressed by Bian Wushuang in the city because of insufficient troops in his hands. Now he has ten thousand elite soldiers in his hands. How could he be trapped in the city without attacking?

After all, Li Jiarong did not completely trap this cavalry. About 700 cavalry still rushed out of the encirclement and walked around the city. Then they combined the Ming infantry who attacked from the southern city to make the flanks of the Qi army messy.

It was not until the sky got darker and the first battle in Tongfang City came to an end. The Qi army retreated for more than ten miles to set up camp, and Wulin also withdrew its troops back to the city. After the daytime battle, it seemed that Wulin had a advantage, but for the Qi army with tens of thousands of troops, it was just some minor injuries that were not painful. The only thing that made Wulin happy was this round of attack, which greatly blew up several artillery artillery of the Qi army. They could not quickly make up for this thing. As for the catapults and crossbows, a large army always brought countless craftsmen. As long as there were materials, they could quickly recreate some simple versions.

It is just a dream to capture Tongfang City, which 10,000 people guarded by 30,000 people, but it can also restrain the defenders in Tongfang City so that they cannot move at will. Wulin is actually more worried about the Qi army unit that has penetrated into Wanzhou. There is a vacuum area of ​​hundreds of miles between Tongfang and Wanzhou County. The ultimate goal of the 20,000 people is definitely not Wanzhou County, but will move towards Kunling County. However, for Wanzhou County, they dare not send the troops stationed in the county to block the city at will. Between the virtual and real, who can get the right position and will definitely not attack Wanzhou County?

At this time, Lulong, Xuzhou on the other side, Guan Ning was also confronting the Qi army. However, compared with Wulin, Guan Ning's Mingwei Camp only had a real five thousand troops, and the dilemma of both sides was similar, so Guan Ning could only watch the Qi people divide the troops.

But compared to Wulin, Guanning's fighting style was much more fierce. He mobilized all the young and strong people in Lulong City, put on armor, picked up weapons, and mixed them with some of the soldiers in Mingwei Camp to defend the city. He himself, with three thousand soldiers, camped on a mountain outside Lulong City, and supported Lulong. Whenever Lulong was attacked, he led his troops down the mountain to attack the Qi army camp. When the Qi army turned to attack him, he could use the terrain to kill and injure the Qi army on a large scale. For a moment, the Qi army was also helpless. He could only follow the pre-war strategy and tightly restrain the two troops in place, and the main force quickly penetrated into Kunling County.

The most intense battle was actually the Tianwu Camp led by Han Huafeng.

Xiaoshi City is the gate that guards Kunling County. If the Qi people can take down Xiaoshi City, the room for strategic return and the pressure on Zhou Jiyun are completely different from not taking down Xiaoshi City. Of course, Xiaoshi City is so important, the Ming army will naturally not take it lightly. After several years of construction, Xiaoshi City has changed from an isolated military fortress to a fortress cluster, and these fortress clusters echo each other after careful design. The bottom of the entire fortress has been dug up one by one to connect with each other. The military power is freely allocated inside, and the weakest defense is almost impossible to find, and the firepower here is also the most powerful. The most important thing is that Zhou Jiyun's main force is the closest one to Xiaoshi City, and even Zhou Jiyun's main force can reach Xiaoshi City in just three days.

So there is only one day left for Guo Xiancheng to attack and occupy Xiaoshi City.

In a critical place like Xiaoshi City, as soon as the war breaks out, it has always been the most dangerous place. The last time Guanning guarded this place, there were no more than a hundred people who survived. However, it was precisely because they kept it tightly that the defeat of a generation of hero Bian Wushuang. This time, Han Huafeng undoubtedly felt the feeling of Guan Ning being attacked from all sides here.

Guo Xiancheng personally visited the battle, and the small Xiaoshi City was besieged by tens of thousands of troops.

Judging from the scene, this battle can almost be said to be said to be goodbye to the Cold Weapon Age. Xiaoshi City defended one side, and each fortress had three to four artillery pieces. The entire fortress clustered in total, with more than a hundred artillery pieces, while on the Qi army, the number was more.

Although the quality of the artillery on both sides is very different, the Qi army won because of its large number and the huge artillery of tens of thousands of pounds cast regardless of cost. Even if it still fires solid bullets, the destructive power of these fortresses is still not underestimated.

On the battlefield, the sound of cannons was rumbling. Even under the supervision of Guo Xiancheng, the Qi army was still attacking the fortress one after another even though they suffered heavy casualties.

Yang Gui is a guard of a main fort. His main fort controls three sub forts. There are secret passages leading to him below the three sub forts, but less than half an hour after the war started, his three sub forts were lost one after another. In addition to the fierce shooting of artillery, the soldiers who rushed up with dead and dead with crossbows had another fearsome weapon, fierce turbulent oil. Once these fierce turbulent oil were thrown into the fortress, it would be a disaster, especially those small forts, which had little space. After being invaded by these fierce turbulent oil cans, he stood at a high place and could see the black fire tongue spraying out of the small fortress. There was no need to think about what the people inside would end up.

However, it is not easy for the attackers to use such weapons. After they have completed this goal with heavy casualties, the burning of turbulent oil also caused the fiery red explosion stored in the small forts. Under normal circumstances, these gunpowders are well kept, but under such violent burning, no matter how good the storage conditions are, they will not work. Often, while the Qi army is cheering for them to take another position, the violent explosion will swallow them up.

Such an explosion not only swallowed both sides of the enemy and us, but also buried the passage below.

The crisscrossing secret passages below the fortress connect each other, the small forts connect them, and the big forts connect to Xiaoshi City. It is through these secret passages that Han Huafeng can effectively control the form of the battlefield.

"Fire the cannon!" Yang Gui looked at the Qi army who was turning the cannon to him in the distance and ordered sternly.

Almost as the artillery on his position spewed out the flames, the Qi army artillery in the distance also made a huge roar. The Qi army did not stop their progress because of the violent bombing of artillery. Under the command of the commander, they almost ran with the shells. When the first round of shells exploded on the fortress, the Qi army infantry had already attacked the fortress.

The sound of the crossbow linoleum immediately sounded. The soldiers of Qi who had just swung their arms and were about to throw the ignition oil bombs on the ground. The ignition oil can in his hand fell to the ground and exploded, swallowing these people and their companions in the flames. Yang Gui was shocked to see that several ignition people wearing fire were still running forward and threw the ignition oil can directly at the fortress. Then he fell to the ground and roared and rolled. Unfortunately, once the ignition oil was on the body, it would not be able to solve the problem by rolling. Their final result was still a burning piece of coke.

However, Yang Gui obviously could not pity these people because his fortress began to burn, and the soldiers rushed to overturn bags of fine sand onto the flames.

Crossbow machines and powerful crossbows were firing frantically, but the enemy was still coming in endlessly. The enemy's artillery was not even afraid of accidentally hurting their own people, and they were still firing continuously.

Just as Yang Gui turned around, he saw with his own eyes that a powerful crossbow and a archer were hit by a cannonball. In the blink of an eye, the crossbow machine and several archers were all broken.

Han Huafeng on Xiaoshi City looked at the pattern on the battlefield with some concern. Guo Xiancheng obviously wanted to use human life to build a channel. He now urgently hoped that reinforcements would be reinforcements. The wired telegrams from Xiaoshi City to Kunling County had been destroyed by the Qi people, even if the Qi people didn't know what role it was used for.

What Han Huafeng most hopes is that the airships anchored in Kunling County can provide support in the air. When he found that the enemy's large-scale attack was about to begin, this was the only telegram he had to send.
Chapter completed!