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A relatively cheap solid projectile hit the castle built on the hillside in front of him. Even if it was just 6 pounds of cavalry cannons, it could easily make the seemingly solid walls of the castle in front of him.
With just a few rounds of artillery bombardment, the castle wall in front of him shattered several large holes, and even caused the collapse of some areas!
The former soldiers of the Yue Family Army stationed above were buried under the corpse castle in amid the desperate shouts!
Immediately, the Shazhou Army, adapted from prisoners of war, rushed up with the original Song army equipment. The leaders were grassroots military officers who were born into prisoners of war, and behind the team were middle-level military officers who were second-class graduates from Mingguo Military Academy.
Finally, there are senior military officers who are outstanding graduates of Mingguo Military Academy who are in charge of the personal military team...
The Military Academy of Ming Kingdom is a good place. As long as you can graduate, Ming Kingdom, who lacks military officers, can immediately become the lowest middle-level military officer!
Even if you really don’t have the ability to pass the graduation exam, you can still apply to be the leader of a garrison militia in the local area.
Of course, everyone knows that once you enter the garrison militia, you will basically have to live a life of life and wait for death, and you will never think about improving by relying on military merits.
Under the bombardment of artillery, the turret, which originally had a good geographical location, suddenly lost half of its advantage. A large number of Shazhou soldiers, who were inspired by military fields and military merit promotion mechanisms, raised the crest gun to pull the trigger at the friendly forces of the past without hesitation, and raised the big blade to chop down!
In about half a day, the few defenders in the entire castle were captured by the Shazhou Army, which had several times the manpower advantage!
However, the tenacious resistance of the Yue family army refreshed Richard's understanding of the Song army in the first round of attack.
The entire castle was about to be defeated, and the soldiers of the Yue family army inside still fought to the death. In the end, less than 10% of the soldiers were captured, including those who were unconscious on the battlefield and did not surrender voluntarily!
Compared with the previous 100,000 vanguards of the Song army surrendered 80% in a battle, it is not like a soldier brought by the court...
"Master, it seems that the rumor of the Southern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei is good at governing the army and is worthy of being the number one general of the Southern Song Dynasty. The resistance of ordinary Song troops is less than 10% of the Yue family's army, and I don't know how Yue Fei did it."
Genevieve looked at the results of the summary report and Xiumei frowned slightly and said to Richard.
"Hmph, even if the Yue family army is not afraid of death, we will sooner or later be beaten by us. Yue Fei clearly has the advantage of military strength, but he is reluctant to fight but only slowly resists us with the fort defense line. Sooner or later, the Yue family army's elite will be consumed by us!"
Richard replied disdainfully.
Now he has tens of thousands of Shazhou troops to fight in the war of attrition. The castle fortress, which seems easy to defend and difficult to attack, is just a matter of how many shells are consumed in front of artillery.
Richard would not feel sorry for the Shazhou Army. Even if he fought fortresses and fought all the Shazhou Army, Richard would still make sure to make a profit!
After all, the Yue family army consumed all the troops in the headquarters, and Richard consumed all the cannon fodder adapted from prisoners of war.
Moreover, the more casualties the Shazhou Army was, the lower the logistics food and grass pressure of Richard!
This is also the reason why Richard can't wait to drive the Shazhou army to attack fiercely.
After the first fortress fortress won the tentative attack, Richard immediately divided the army into several stocks, and at the same time launched an attack on the Sichuan direction.
Several 6-pound cavalry artillery were paired with tens of thousands of Shazhou troops, and some main system infantry regiments guarded the artillery positions, while the cavalry arranged control and monitored the entire battlefield, so they could steadily push past with their lives and artillery shells!
Although this fighting method seems clumsy, it is very useful, which clearly shows that it is to use the advantages of human sea tactics and artillery to bully the Yue family army!
If Yue Fei doesn't like it, at most he can gather the main force to win or lose. If Yue Fei puts the main force in the defense line of the Fortress Fortress, Richard will also use the Congrif Rockets and howitzers, and use absolute advantageous firepower to level the Fortress Fortress, which has filled the main force of the Yue family army to the ground.
It was precisely because Yue Fei saw this that he did not gather the main force in the fortress fortress on the front line, but instead arranged it in a scattered manner...
If Yue Fei directly pulled the main force to set up a formation and fought against Richard in the wild, Richard would also use his absolute advantage in firepower and the fearless cavalry to rush forward to educate Yue Fei what military suppression is!
No matter whether you are a famous general or not, you must be passively beaten in the face of absolute advantage!
Unless you fight guerrilla warfare...
However, the people of this era cannot support guerrilla warfare at all. As long as Richard is cruel enough, he can completely kill guerrilla warfare by strengthening the walls and clearing the fields!
As long as there is a high reward, some ordinary people in this era who have low political awareness will sell the news of the guerrillas to the occupying army...
Who says there is no nationalist trend in this era?
If guerrilla warfare is to work, the most important thing is the support of the people. At least we must remain neutral and not provide information to the occupying army. Otherwise, the guerrillas will be sold a few times and will be almost done...
If Yue Fei wanted to break the deadlock, in addition to relying on the number of troops of the Yue family army to win a head-on battle, he could only break the Ming army's logistics line and let Richard retreat voluntarily because of poor food and supplies.
Otherwise, with Richard's firepower advantage, let alone the fortress fortress, even the permanent city defense fortress made of blue bricks cannot withstand the continuous bombardment of artillery!
As long as the city wall is blasted open, large groups of sandbank troops will flock in, and even if they are repelled, there will be a second and third wave...
As long as the Shazhou Army is not dead, Richard can continue to fight!
On the other hand, Yue Fei consumed all the troops of the Yue Family Army. These tens of thousands of Yue Family Army were Yue Fei's capital and the most solid city wall of the Southern Song Dynasty. Once the Yue Family Army suffered major losses, who could still stop the North and Ming Dynasties from going south?
As for why Richard had so many advanced artillery, Yue Fei was no longer in the mood to understand. Existence is the truth. Now thinking about why the other party has so many excellent artillery, it is better to think about how to break the deadlock!
With Richard's large-scale attack, completely ignoring the casualties of the Shazhou Army, news of the fortress fortress being breached almost every day came from the front line. Even if thousands of fortress fortresses were built, it would be the moment they would be wiped out sooner or later.
The most important thing is that the victims of the fortress were all the soldiers of the Yue family army!
Richard didn't care about the casualties of the Shazhou Army, but Yue Fei cared about the casualties of the Yue family army!
They are all elites who were carefully reorganized and trained, and they were instilled with the idea of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism. They can be regarded as good soldiers who were brainwashed by nationalism in the primary stage. They can't just waste their time with the enemy's cannon fodder troops...
The idea of the main force's battle was suppressed by Yue Fei. He was not sure to defeat the Ming army with absolute firepower advantages. Only by witnessing the Ming army artillery with his own eyes can he know how much advantage Richard has!
Chapter completed!