Ye Lan only stayed in Gaocheng for one night, and the next day he said goodbye and left, Li Xin did not embarrass him, and sent someone to send him back to the capital.

The day after Ye Lan returned to Beijing, Mu Ying launched a fierce attack on Luzhou City, dozens of catapults threw thunder, and there were almost no people standing on Luzhou City.

However, at this time, the imperial army has learned the lesson of Xiangyang City, although there is a thunder coming, there are always people in Luzhou City, their strategy is that the city wall is always guarded, but the distribution is very scattered, which can greatly reduce the lethality of the thunder, and once someone is injured and killed, someone will soon be added, which leads to a sudden reduction in the efficiency of the thunder, and the process is far from as smooth as the attack on Xiangyang.

Fortunately, the defenders of Luzhou City are not particularly many, and the firearms of the Southwest Army are also quite sufficient, and while the imperial court's experience in dealing with firearms increases, Mu Ying, the experience of the generals of the Southwest Army, in the application of firearms is gradually increasing, after a whole day of indiscriminate bombardment, Mu Ying ordered the most elite guards around him, and rushed up the city tower with a ladder, these people successfully climbed the city tower after losing hundreds of people, and then stood on the city tower and began to throw ordinary thunder down.

However, the attitude of the defenders of Luzhou to defend the city is quite resolute, the southwest army continues to send troops to climb the city tower, and the people on the court side are also constantly sending troops to climb the city tower, the two sides fought on the city tower for about an hour, the southwest army completely captured the city wall of Luzhou City, opened the gate of Luzhou City, and the army advanced to Luzhou.

This was only the beginning of the Battle of Luzhou.

The mystery of firearms has been unveiled for the most part, and the generals of the imperial court no longer regard it as a divine object, and a huge imperial court, naturally it is impossible to be all stupid, some of the smarter generals have figured out how to deal with the thunder, although it does not work completely, but it still causes a lot of trouble to Mu Ying.

After entering the city, relying on a large number of heavenly thunder reserves and the increasingly mature firearms soldiers, Mu Ying's department was able to advance quickly in Luzhou City, but even so, it took almost four or five days of effort to drive the defenders of the imperial court out of Luzhou, and it was very difficult to eat Luzhou City.

After conquering Luzhou, this originally prosperous city has been scorched everywhere.

After Mu Ying captured Luzhou, Li Xin rushed to the front line of Luzhou from Gaocheng of the Chinese army, and saw Mu Ying who was visiting the wounded soldiers in the wounded barracks of Luzhou City.

Mu Ying was not injured much, but the price paid by the Southwest Army in attacking the city this time was not small, and the wounded soldiers were much more than in any previous battle, even far exceeding the Battle of Xiangyang.

After seeing Li Xin, Mu Ying stood up and bowed deeply to Li Xin: "The last general has seen the general. ”

He is a cheerful person, and he has a good personal relationship with Li Xin, when he saw Li Xin in the past, he had a smiling expression, but this time, General Mu was full of seriousness, and he was obviously in a bad mood.

Li Xin, who was dressed in blue clothes, first looked left and right in the wounded barracks, and then asked, "There are many casualties?" ”

Mu Ying nodded, and said with a wry smile: "The specific number has not been counted yet, but it is preliminarily estimated that there are probably seven or eight thousand people killed in the battle, plus those who are seriously injured, this time the loss of combat strength will be more than 10,000." ”

Long before Ye Lan met Li Xin, Mu Ying began to attack Luzhou City, and the Southwest Army attacked Luzhou three times before and after, and the last time it took a full five or six days to barely gnaw Luzhou.

The difficulty of this battle was already the most difficult battle since the Southwest Army left Shu.

Li Xin nodded silently and said, "What about the casualties in the imperial court?" ”

"At least two or three times as much as we are, only more, not less than that."

Mu Ying said in a deep voice: "The imperial court has sent reinforcements to Luzhou more than once, and the defenders of Luzhou City are estimated to have eighty or ninety thousand people, and when the last general finally defeated Luzhou, they escaped more than 30,000 people, and many of them were injured and became prisoners of our army. ”

To be honest, although this battle loss ratio is still very exaggerated, it is no longer as terrible as the battle of Xiangyang City, which means that the imperial court's ability to deal with firearms is slowly increasing little by little.

This is a very normal thing, no one in this world is stupid, even if the technical gap between the two sides is too big, after understanding each other, this gap will slowly narrow.

Fortunately, Li Xin is under the banner of the prince of the Great Jin Dynasty, and the Southwest Army strictly prohibits soldiers from disturbing the people along the way, otherwise once the Southwest Army loses the hearts of the people and stands on the opposite side of all the people of the Great Jin Dynasty, the Southwest Army's technical advantage will be cleaned up by the imperial court after two or three years at most.

Li Xin and Mu Ying looked at the wounded barracks together, and found that most of the wounded soldiers in the camp were seriously injured, and there were still many lightly injured soldiers in Mu Ying's Hanzhou army, so they could only recover slowly by themselves.

After reading it, Li Xin and Mu Ying walked out of the wounded barracks, and the two of them walked on the street of Luzhou City, General Li slowly said: "I said early in the morning that the thunder is not a universal thing, this thing is used as a deterrent, and it is naturally a universal spirit, but if you really fight with others, it will be more and more difficult, and the battle of Luzhou can be fought like this, it is already very remarkable, Brother Mu doesn't have to think too much." ”

Mu Ying nodded and said with a wry smile: "It's not that I think too much, but after the fight, I thought about it carefully, if my mind could be more active at that time, my soldiers of the Southwest Army might be able to die less." ”

Li Xin shook his head and asked, "How many soldiers are available in the Hanzhou army under Brother Mu's account?" ”

Mu Ying brought 50,000 Hanzhou troops out of Shu from the southwest, and after laying down Hanzhong Ankang, from Hanzhong to Luzhou, more than 1,000 miles, all of which were fought by Mu Ying with these 50,000 Hanzhou troops.

Mu Ying bowed his head and said: "Back to the general, in addition to the seriously injured, the Hanzhou army still has 30,000 combat strength, and it can charge for the general at any time!" ”

"Thirty thousand, ah......"

Li Xin narrowed his eyes slightly, and said: "Brother Mu took 50,000 Hanzhou troops, all the way from Hanzhong to Luzhou, it is not easy, according to my meaning, the Hanzhou army will take a temporary rest in Luzhou, one to recuperate, and the other will take Luzhou as our stronghold in the future, the Hanzhou army will hold Luzhou, and leave a city for my southwest army that can advance and retreat, what does Brother Mu think?" ”

Speaking of which, Mu Ying naturally couldn't say anything, he said silently: "The last general will naturally obey the general's arrangement!" ”

Li Xin stretched out his hand and patted Mu Ying on the shoulder, and said, "Brother Mu, don't worry, I'm not asking Li Shuo to come out to pick fruits, let's take the capital, it is estimated that it will not be so easy." ”

Mu Ying bowed his head and said, "The last general naturally believes in the general. ”

Li Xin closed his eyes and thought for a while, and then said: "Besides, Brother Mu has come all the way from Hanzhong and has accumulated a lot of experience in using firearms, I hope that Brother Mu can take some generals of the Hanzhou Army Firearms Battalion to contact Li Shuo's Ningzhou Army and teach them some methods of using firearms, does Brother Mu agree?" ”

Mu Ying bowed his head respectfully: "Naturally, there is no problem with this, the last general will let the captain of the firearms battalion report to General Li tomorrow." ”