Liu Guojie frowned and looked at the battlefield. When he saw the Shangdu Army, which had suffered heavy casualties, was shocked. You should know that the Shangdu Army was a powerful brigade who participated in previous battles after the founding of the country. His soldiers came from Mongolia. After pacifying Jiangnan, he was ordered to station in Hangzhou and guard the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. However, such an old army was beaten to seek help in just two days of war. Nearly half of the casualties, he realized that he had encountered a tough guy. After roughly understanding the situation of the war, Liu Guojie discussed with Tuman how to defeat the enemy.

Although both of them were tens of thousands of households, they were divided into different levels. There were tens of thousands of households, and they had to obey their leadership even if they suffered defeat. Tuman naturally did not want to admit that he underestimated the enemy and caused losses. After he was eager to recover the situation, he charged to death and caused great casualties. He attributed his failure to the enemy's large number of troops and sharp firearms. Of course, under his fierce attack, the Song army suffered heavy casualties. He only asked to dispatch reinforcements to prevent the remnant Song Emperor from running away.

Liu Guojie saw Tuman's eyes flashing and knew that his words were quite watery, but he did not dare to say it out loud. But Tuman was defeated and naturally felt guilty, saying that his troops suffered heavy losses and urgently needed rest. The attack on the Song army was dominated by his troops and he was the auxiliary. Liu Guojie could only accept it and knew that if he could not get any useful things from his mouth, he had to rely on himself.

Liu Guojie fought with the Qiongzhou army and knew that his offense and defense were sharp relying on firearms, and the powerful lethality of the firearms left a deep impression on him. He first led people to survey the surrounding terrain and found that the battlefield was not conducive to the development of the troops, and there was only one way to enter. As long as the Song army sealed the path with firearms, it would be difficult to break through. This is no wonder that Shangdu Army suffered so much casualties. He understood that if the enemy's firearms could not be suppressed and the troops could be covered in close combat to the enemy, he would be unable to defeat the Song army.

Although Liu Guojie had the idea of ​​breaking the enemy, he still did not dare to act rashly. Instead, he asked someone to inquire to determine the size of the Song army in the valley, and the rewards he could get were different. Some people said that the Song army had only more than 30 warships sailing into the Yu River, and the number was estimated to be around 2,000; some people said that the Song army had two or three hundred warships passing through the canal, with a total of 20,000 troops; but some people said that the Song army warships were seen on the Qiantang River, with masts and masts, and there were no heads, and there were definitely 100,000 soldiers and horses.

Liu Guojie would never believe that the Song army had a total of 100,000. He judged that the Song army suddenly sent troops to provoke a war in an all-round way, but simply to capture and kill Yang Lianzhenjia, who was robbing the tomb, and restore the imperial tombs, and to restrain the remains of his ancestors, because the Song Shui Army had never appeared in the waters of Hangzhou before, and if it were such a large-scale ship, it would be impossible to hide traces, and it would be impossible to find them along the way. The strength of the 100,000 troops could not be gathered in one or a half days. It was enough to be a shocking event on the small island of Qiongzhou.

It is impossible to have only two thousand people. You should know that this time the remnant Song Xiao Emperor came here in person. Liu Guojie judged that there were more than one persons serving him. In addition, the Song army came from Qiongzhou, which took more than ten days to travel, and was stranded here for many days. He also had to consider the return journey. The food and grass needed for only people to eat horses and feed them was a considerable number, and a large number of ships were also required to be shipped. In addition, the losses of the Shangdu Army were there for several days. Even if they had the advantage, they did not launch a counterattack. It must be limited by insufficient troops.

Liu Guojie made a judgment since then that the Song army had two hundred warships, which were more reliable. However, the soldiers who could really fight had to go halfway, because although he had never seen the Emperor of the Song Dynasty travel, he had seen the Emperor of Khan go out, and there were tens of thousands of officials, servants, and guards around him. It is said that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty set up a bigger score. No matter how shabby the little emperor of the Song Dynasty was, he would not have too few people. If the sailors who drove the boat and the mausoleum repaired the tombs were subtracted, he would have to fight about tens of thousands of soldiers.

At present, the two sides have been fighting fiercely for several days. According to Tuman, although his side suffered heavy casualties, the enemy also suffered thousands of losses. Liu Guojie thought that even if there were bragging elements, the Song army would lose two or three thousand soldiers, and it would definitely be a time of inseparable people. However, he thought that it could not be ruled out that the Song army could respond at sea so that they could open up the waterway and withdraw smoothly.

So, Liu Guojie thought that the moment was the best time to attack. So he did not order the troops he had just arrived to rest and sent troops to the mountains on both sides to find a way to enter the valley. One could detour into the valley and expel the enemy from the stronghold; the other could force the enemy to divide his troops to defend on both wings even if he was not successful; the third could attract the attention of the enemy and cover the artillery army to set up stone throwing machines...

"Oh, the effort is in vain!" Liu Guojie watched the enemy formation behind him, as the soldiers who were about to rush to the city were blown up by the grenades thrown from the city, and had to retreat. The Song army on the city wall also used strange-shaped firearms to set off, putting the archers who were covering the city. The subsequent troops were blocked by enemy artillery fire, and the attacks in front became increasingly weak as the casualties increased. Liu Guojie sighed, knowing that he had missed the best opportunity to break through and was no longer possible, so he ordered the remaining soldiers to withdraw from the formation.

The remnants retreated, and Liu Guojie inspected the injury. A thousand-man team participating in the attack lost more than half of the attack and it was difficult to launch another attack, so he could only retreat to the rear army to rest. The artillery army suffered particularly tragic losses. The "Hui Hui Cannons" that were the key targets of the Song army were all destroyed and could not continue to participate in the war. In other cases, small stone-throwing aircraft also lost more than 40% under the cover of rockets. The soldiers were killed and injured, but they could still try their best to participate in the war.

Liu Guojie was quite in a heavy mood when he heard the news. In this battle, he wanted to seize the enemy's frontier and seize the fortifications under the cover of the artillery army. However, his artillery army was obviously inferior to the opponent's artillery, and his reaction speed was inferior to the Song army in terms of range and power. During the battle, he was simply suppressed by his opponent and had the power to fight back, making it difficult for the infantry that had lost the cover to continue to expand the results.

Regarding the small firearm used by the enemy troops in the city, Liu Guojie asked the soldiers who fled back, saying that the thing was very powerful. The shield they used was like paper, and they could not prevent them from being penetrated by one blow. Those who were injured and lost their combat power in an instant. Even officers wearing iron armor were unable to escape, and the projectiles fired could penetrate the most solid breastplate. Moreover, some of the firearms used by Song soldiers in the city were extremely powerful. Some of the people who hit the target directly within fifty steps were interrupted by the waist, and even if they were swept, they were covered in blood and died instantly.

Liu Guojie was very angry after hearing this. When he was fighting with the Song army in the early years, he saw the storm gunpowder and projectiles they used, which contained gunpowder and projectiles. After ignition, it could hurt people's faces and could not penetrate the armor. Now it is not the kind of old thing that is used. But Tuman concealed this section and did not mention that the power of the new firearm was so huge that he had saved so many lives in vain. But he was Shangguan, so he could find a reason to perfunctorily and could only bear this tone.

Now that the arrow is drawn, there is no turning back. Liu Guojie can only organize an attack again, gathering the remaining artillery troops to allow them to attack the city base first. At the same time, they sent troops to launch an attack, striving to break through the low city defense that seemed to be broken with one blow. However, it failed again. Although the soldiers on the city defense of the Song army were suppressed by the stone throwing machine, when they rushed to within 200 steps, there were firearms intercepting them, covering a range of more than ten feet wide with one shot. Those who were shot were either killed or injured. After suffering two rounds of strikes, they were already suffering heavy casualties and it was difficult to launch an effective attack.

At the same time, the Song army still had the spare energy to bombard the stone-throwing machine positions. Even if the shells were not hit directly, the shrapnel would blow up the cannon soldiers and injured them. Force the artillery army to abandon the cannon and flee. Without their suppression, the Song army guarding the city defense would once again hedge against the soldiers under the city and open the killing of the soldiers. It was impossible to go to the city.

After paying two more tuition fees, Liu Guojie realized that if he continued to fight like this, his troops would have to be given in the valley. However, the tuition fees were not paid in vain. He found that although the city of the Song army seemed simple, it was staggered and could be effectively reinforced by the artillery in the rear. Moreover, the design was without a blind spot. No matter where he landed in the city, he would be supported by other Song troops on several sides. Another lesson was that the intensive formation impact was easily caused by large-scale killing of enemy artillery, and although its artillery was powerful, it also had a large shooting gap...

"This is a smart person!" Zhao Bing put down the telescope and sighed.

"Don't Your Majesty like smart people the most!" Chen Dun said happily, although he could not see any changes in the battlefield, nor did he find out where the enemy was smart.

"I like smart people, but I don't like smart enemies!" Zhao Bing knocked on Chen Dun's helmet, "Send someone to remind Ni Liang to pay attention to the direction of Baihuling."

"Yes!" This was the first time since the war started that the young emperor had 'interference' in front command on the battlefield, but Chen Dun subconsciously stood upright.

"Your Majesty, Commander Ni replied that he had sent two soldiers to reinforce and strengthened five thunder guns." A few days later, a correspondent soldier reported.

"Well, I understand." Zhao Bing nodded and raised his hand to let him retreat.

"Scared, Commander Ni actually thought of going with His Majesty this time!" Chen Dun said in surprise.

"Did you find it surprising?" Zhao Bing asked with a frown.

"Hehe, Commander Ni is a famous honest man, and His Majesty praised his wisdom throughout the court, which is of course surprising." Chen Dun said with a smile.

"Do you know why Mr. Ying gave you the name Houping and Ni Liang's name Mingzuo?" Zhao Bing was not happy, but asked back. Speaking of which, the three of them could be called orphans, and they all studied with Ying Jieyan. When they became adults, they should have taken the name by their elders, but neither of them had any parents, so Ying Jieyan did it for them.

"The character is a name, and the character Liang has the meaning of Ming and auxiliary, and the character Ming Zuo is natural; my character Dun has a heavy meaning, and it is nothing strange!" Chen Dun replied immediately.

"The expression is indeed as you said, but it has a deep meaning." Zhao Bing explained after hearing this, "Ming Zuo, the word Ming is not just about interpreting the meaning according to the word, but also refers to his clear mind. He seems stupid, but his heart is as clear as a mirror, and he can see the subtleties; but you are indeed intelligent, but his temperament is impetuous, so that you act roughly and do not seek much understanding. The gentleman gave you a thick and flat character, hoping that you can be in a stable and down-to-earth manner, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve great things."

"This...so that's it!" Chen Dun was shocked after hearing this, lowered his head and thought for a long time before nodding.

"You and Ni Liang were taught at the same time, and they had been trained and studied in the new army, but why do you claim to be smart and can only serve as a commander? And Ni Liang and others all said that he was honest but could command the entire guard?" Zhao Bing said, "You may say that Ni Liang was kind to me, so he treated me so kindly. But you also know that the military affairs are so heavy, so how can I not understand? Will you be so stupid to repay your kindness and hand over tens of thousands of troops to a stupid person, but you have not allowed you, a smart person, to be inferior to others? Isn't trust enough to protect you by your side?"

"Only after your Majesty's teachings, I realized that I was smart and that I was the stupidest person!" Chen Dun put away his cynical little face, blushed and bowed to the little emperor.

"Hmph, it's still rescued!" Zhao Bing snorted coldly, reached out to help him up, and pointed to the battlefield and said, "Look carefully, why do I and Commander Ni pay attention to the always silent Baihu Ridge?"

"Yes!" Chen Dun agreed, picked up the telescope and looked at the battlefield. At this time, the enemy had already launched again, but the situation was not clear yet.

"Did you see something?" After a while, Zhao Bing asked again.

"Your Majesty, the enemy seems to be divided into attacks according to his subordinates!" Chen Dun put down his telescope and said, "The enemy's stone throwing aircraft has been completely damaged under several rounds of attacks by our army. The enemy generals also realized that our army relied on sharp artillery, so they no longer concentrated their troops but evacuated their formation to prevent group injuries from being injured during artillery bombardment."

"Yeah, keep talking." Zhao Bing nodded slightly and said.

"The enemy troops are evacuated in an evacuated manner, and it seems that the focus of the attack is not distinguished, but after closer inspection, you can still see the right wing that is more focused on our defense line. Therefore, the subordinates judged that the enemy on the left wing seemed to be a feint to attract our main force, and the right wing is their main attack direction." Chen Dun continued.

"Then why did the enemy choose the right wing as the breakthrough point?" Zhao Bing asked again.

"Your Majesty also knows that our defense line is shaped like a pot, with Baihuling and Wulian Mountain as the edges and building positions as the base. The two mountains are towering, but our main position is low and flat. From ordinary people's perspective, it is easier to break through in the middle, but I don't know that it is within our artillery shooting range." Chen Dun pointed to the entire battlefield and said.
Chapter completed!