In the roar of artillery fire, Lu Fei took a telescope to observe the situation in Huaizhou City. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, Luo Hong rode back, got off the horse, and said to Lu Fei: "General, the four walls of Huaizhou City have been broken by us now, and now none of the wealthy families in the city can escape, now do you order the soldiers to attack the city." ”

Lu Fei nodded, Huaizhou City is in the hinterland, and like Cangzhou and Laizhou, there are few local defenders, and this defeat of the Pengzhou army has already severely defeated the army of King Wei.

According to the information provided by the secret guards, the defenders of this Huaizhou city were originally only 5,000 people, but after Pengzhou City was conquered, the king of Wei urgently recruited soldiers from the local area and transferred another 30,000 people to Huaizhou to support, which was very hasty.

In his opinion, these improvised patchwork soldiers are not at all as good as the Pengzhou army.

"Evacuate the soldiers at the South Gate." After a deep groan, Lu Fei said.

Luo Hong was surprised: "General, this is exactly the opportunity to completely annihilate the Huaizhou army, why do you want to withdraw." ”

Lu Fei has read a lot of military books and war examples in Bowen College these days, and he said to Luo Hong: "Pengzhou City is lost, Huaizhou generals must be afraid in their hearts, after all, we can easily capture Pengzhou City, this Huaizhou City is no longer a problem, and the army supporting Huaizhou this time is transferred from other states and counties, they have insufficient faith in guarding Huaizhou, if we besiege on all sides, they will still jump over the wall and fight us to the death, but leave them a way to live, they will inevitably collapse." ”

Luo Hong suddenly realized, he was ashamed in his heart, he was very confident after arriving in Qingzhou, but after contacting these Qingzhou generals, he felt more and more ashamed.

Not to mention that these generals are very familiar with the use of firearms, even if they are also proficient in this art of war, which is very different from the generals in other armies of the Great Yu Kingdom.

"The last general understands, His Royal Highness asked us to take Huaizhou City as soon as possible, so we don't have to entangle with the defenders in the city." Luo Hong said.

"Exactly, but Ben General is not prepared to let them go, after the army in the south is withdrawn, immediately set up an ambush along the official road in the south, and let Bai Mu cooperate with you to annihilate this reinforcement, we have to make the King of Wei breathless."

"Yes, General."

Luo Hong was a little unconvinced by Lu Fei at first, after all, he came from the forbidden army, and Lu Fei was purely a wild man, and now he really realized that Lu Fei still had some skills.

Seeing Luo Hong leave, Lu Fei re-observed the defenders on the city wall, under the shelling of the Southern Expeditionary Army, now the city gates on all sides have been collapsed, in front of the artillery, the city gates of the city wall are no different from paper paste.

And after the city gate was blasted open, the Huaizhou army was already in chaos, and now there was no decent resistance on the city wall, and Lu Fei fell into deep thought in the face of this scene.

Whether it was Pengzhou City or Huaizhou City, these two battles made him understand that the other vassal kings now seemed to be showing their teeth and claws, but in fact they were just fat.

Moreover, in the face of firearms armies, these armies, which are still in the era of cold weapons, do not have enough ways to deal with them.

After this battle of Huaizhou, he must send a letter to Xiao Ming to explain the current situation, so that he can understand the real battle situation, so that Xiao Ming can correctly judge the current situation.

As Lu Fei expected, when Luo Hong withdrew the soldiers from the South City Gate, the resistance on the city wall weakened again.

At this time, he gave the order to charge.

The sound of the trumpet sounded, and the soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army attacked the city from the north, east and west gates like hungry wolves, and for a time the guns in the city were loud.

And the city of Huaizhou has long been in chaos, under the shelling of the Southern Expeditionary Army, the corpses of the Huaizhou Army are everywhere near the city wall.

As soon as the southern army entered the city, they immediately occupied the city wall near the tower, and then the soldiers turned the artillery on the city wall and bombarded the army in the city.

At the same time, the mortar cannon was also put on the city wall, and at this time, the Southern Expeditionary Army no longer fired lime shells, but replaced them with another kind of shells, which were not filled with lime, but marbles.

When the cannonball explodes, the marbles in the cannonball will splash out to form an area of effect, but although the effects are different, the principle of the two is the same, and this is the most primitive flowering projectile.

The only downside is that time control is difficult and it is not possible to achieve accurate explosions, but even so, it is enough to intimidate the enemy.

Moreover, this batch of shells has just been sent and has not been used yet, so Luo Xin specially asked the artillery to use it in this war.

"Boom ......"

There was a muffled sound from the mortar cannons on the city wall, and the cannonballs with wooden plugs in front fell into the resisting Huaizhou army.

Like lime shells, this kind of shells also need to cut the fire rope to determine the time, and when the shell falls into the Huaizhou army, the shell only hits one person and rolls to the ground.

The surrounding Huaizhou troops were startled by this shell, but they didn't care when they saw it falling to the ground and didn't move, but at this moment, the shells on the ground exploded with a "boom".

"Ah......h

A burst of white smoke and flames rose from the crowd, accompanied by a scream, the Huaizhou army around the shell fell, and many soldiers covered the wounds hit by marbles and screamed.

This scene frightened the other Huaizhou soldiers, but then more shells fell into the dense crowd.

In the face of heavy casualties, at this moment, the Huai army organized by the Huaizhou army and wealthy clans completely lost their will to fight and began to flee one after another.

"There are no enemy troops at the South City Gate!"

At this time, I don't know who shouted, and the Huaizhou army that learned the news immediately retreated towards the south city gate.

At this time, the Southern Expeditionary Army had completely controlled the city towers of the northern, eastern, and western city walls, and the soldiers who entered the city also drove the Wei army in the city to the south like ducks.

The official road of the city gate in the south of Huaizhou City, Luo Hong and Bai Mu were in ambush twenty miles outside the city, and there was a forest here to facilitate the ambush of soldiers.

By this time, they had been waiting here for two hours, and they had attacked since the morning, and now it was afternoon.

Just when they were a little irritable while Luo Hong was waiting, the scout came to report: "Lord Captain, the scattered enemy army has come to this side!" ”

Luo Hong and Bai Mu glanced at each other and nodded.

This time, they not only had to take Huaizhou City, but also to wipe out the soldiers and horses of King Wei to the greatest extent.

Like a falcon waiting for its prey, soon, mixed with the rout, the team of the Hao family's family appeared in Luo Hong and Bai Mu's field of vision.

Defeat in a war means that the army loses its command and organization, and such a headless fly-like team cannot organize a counterattack at all, which is why the rout has been pursued closely throughout the ages with small losses and large gains.

"Attack!"

Seeing that the rout was getting closer and closer, Luo Hong suddenly shouted loudly, at this time he only had five thousand musketeers in his hands, but for him, no matter how many routs there were, it was just a plate of loose sand, not worth mentioning.

Compared to his musketeers, Shiraki's cavalry was more flexible, leading 3,000 cavalry, and Shiraki rushed out first.