When everyone's cheers stopped a little, Yang Feng said to everyone: "Okay, since we have blown out all the cowhides, then we should also fulfill our promises."

This time we dispatched 25,000 troops, and there are only 2,500 people in the city of Geranza, of which forty percent are old and weak, women and children, if we can't take down the blocker, we might as well buy a piece of tofu and die head-on, now the only thing we have to consider is how to reduce our casualties, you may as well speak freely if you have any good strategies. ”

Everyone lowered their heads and pondered, everyone here was an old man in the Jiangning Army, of course they understood that in the tradition of the Jiangning Army, they were not afraid of sacrifice, but they were also the most disgusted with senseless sacrifices.

If there are officers who disregard the lives of soldiers in order to get promoted and make a fortune, such people are the most unpopular in the Jiangning army, as long as there is one Yang Feng, one will be dealt with, and at least they will be driven out of the Jiangning army, and they will be dismissed from their posts and investigated and even punished.

Today, everyone has seen the defense of Geranza City outside, to be honest, this kind of prismatic castle is the first time that the officers of the Jiangning Army have seen it, and it is quite different from the castle that everyone has come into contact with in the past.

Not to mention, the edges and corners that protrude from the side of the city wall are enough to cause headaches, these edges and corners have a very good view and a large shooting angle, and those Dutch can hide in the angular fortifications and attack their own siege soldiers with firearms, not to mention the forts on the city walls.

Even if you think about it on your knees, everyone can imagine how fierce the counterattack will be if the city is attacked tomorrow, and it is really necessary to have corpses all over the field and rivers of blood.

Chu Maoguang, the guerrilla general of the second battalion, frowned and said: "Master Hou, the last general observed the castle of the Dutch today, and found that the castle of these red-haired devils is really very different from the city of our Ming Dynasty, and the soldiers are very unfamiliar with it.

What's even more tricky is that their fortresses are too much of a threat to our soldiers, once we start to attack, their guns and artillery can attack us unscrupulously, and the general thinks that if we attack by force, we won't be able to take this castle without seven or eight thousand people dying. ”

"Seven or eight thousand?" The crowd was speechless for a while, if they really lost seven or eight thousand people in order to take a castle, even if they took the city of Geranza, then they would lose.

"It's not right, it's not right!" Geng Bingyi shook his head again and again, "If you take just one Relanza City and lose nearly 10,000 soldiers, then what will happen to Luzon and Nanyang Islands next?" Do you have to fill it with human lives all the way through? How many soldiers in our Jiangning Army can fill in? ”

"What can I do then?" Chu Maoguang spread his hands, "Unless we still attack Shengjing two years ago, we will attack the city with poisonous smoke bombs, so that the casualties can be minimized." ”

As soon as they heard the word poisonous smoke bomb, everyone looked at Qiu Disheng, the guerrilla of the first battalion of artillery, last year the Jiangning army was able to fight the Qing army without any temper, forcing Huang Taiji to obediently send his two daughters out of the city, the poisonous smoke bomb can be said to have made a meritorious contribution, and it was from that time that the Manchurians also suffered from the problem of talking about poison and discoloration.

Even Wu Keshan looked at Chu Maoguang with a frightened face, in last year's battle, he also participated in that battle as a member of Meng Baqi, and he had witnessed the terrible power of the poison gas bomb, and he still had palpitations when he thought about it, but now that he had taken refuge in Yang Feng, his mood was naturally different.

It's just that in the face of everyone's eyes, Qiu Disheng helplessly spread his hands: "Don't look at me like that, now the artillery battalion doesn't even have a single poisonous smoke bomb, what should I ask me to fight?" ”

"No?"

Everyone was taken aback, and Chu Maoguang couldn't help but say: "Lao Qiu, don't you want to make this kind of joke, I clearly remember that when we came back last year, there were still a lot of those poisonous smoke bombs left, I dare not say that there are more, there are still hundreds, why are there no shots now, where are they gone?" Now that Master Hou is here in person, Lao Qiu, don't be confused! ”

Although Chu Maoguang was joking, the faces of the people in the big tent changed. The welfare of the Jiangning Army is naturally first-class, but the military regulations are also notoriously strict, stealing and selling ordnance and military materials without authorization, and if they are found to be beheaded.

Looking at everyone's faces, Qiu Disheng smiled bitterly, "What kind of eyes are you all in, my old Qiu dare not steal materials no matter how big he is, not to mention that it is a terrible thing like a poisonous smoke bomb." It's really that this poisonous smoke bomb is too vicious, and it is difficult to preserve, so when I returned last year, Hou Ye ordered all the remaining poisonous smoke bombs to be destroyed, and now I have no poisonous smoke bombs. ”

"What...... Without? ”

Everyone looked at each other one by one, they had witnessed the power of the poisonous smoke bombs, and last year they relied on the fire guns and poisonous smoke bombs to beat the Manchus under Shengjing City and abandon their armor.

It was precisely because they knew the power of the poisonous smoke bomb that they didn't take it seriously even after seeing the Dutch's strong castle today, because they were convinced that no matter how strong the castle was, it would not be able to block the attack of the poisonous smoke bomb, but now when they heard that there were no poisonous smoke bombs in the artillery camp, many people were dumbfounded, and then everyone looked at Yang Feng.

Seeing everyone's eyes, Yang Feng rubbed the bridge of his nose helplessly.

To be honest, he doesn't plan to do this thing anymore so far, not only because this thing is too cruel, but more importantly, it is difficult to purchase raw materials for the manufacture of poison smoke bombs on a large scale.

I don't know what the reason is, during this period of time, the government of modern society has become more and more strict in the control of these things, and it is not much of a problem to want a small amount of purchase, but it is more troublesome to want to purchase large-scale.

Moreover, Yang Feng didn't want his army to rely too much on these things, if he developed dependence, it would not be beneficial to the growth and development of the army.

"Everyone!"

Yang Feng stood up, and said with a dissatisfied face: "As the saying goes, raising troops for a thousand days is a while, we have gathered tens of thousands of troops this time, ten times the enemy's strength here, but you told Ben Hou that if there is no poisonous smoke bomb, there will be no way to take the city of Relanza without seven or eight thousand people who die, Ben Hou doesn't understand what you are all eating, have you eaten all these years into the dog's stomach?" ”

Seeing Yang Feng angry, everyone lowered their heads. Yang Feng was right, the Jiang Ning army had so many advantages, but they still had to pay such a big price to take the Resha Blockade, which was a shame for them.

There was silence in the tent, and suddenly a voice rang out.

"Master Hou, generals, we can build a platform for filling the earth, and then set up the artillery and bomb it!"

"Fill in the earth as a platform and set up artillery?"

"yes, why didn't I think of that?"

As soon as these words fell, many people's eyes suddenly lit up.