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The soldiers of the Second Brigade led by Yan Chunyu have already set up a posture and will attack the northern city of Anqing at any time, and an artillery battalion of the Taiping Army has also arrived, and at the same time, the cavalry sent out has also repelled three reinforcements rushing to Anqing.

Yan Chunyu looked at Anqing City not far away, his heart was quite excited, and He Tengjiao on the side asked, "How is it?" Spring rain, start the offensive now? ”

Yan Chunyu said with a smile: "Of course, everything is ready now, what are you waiting for if you don't attack?" Order, all the artillery will be pulled up for me, launch an attack on the northern city, and give me the shortest possible time to capture the northern city of Anqing City! ”

Yan Chunyu gave an order, and the three artillery battalions launched a full-scale attack on Anqing City, and the artillery outside Anqing City rumbled, and one shell after another flew towards Anqing City, and fell densely on the head of Anqing City, blowing up the head of Anqing City into bricks and stones, and constantly the Taiping Army was blown up.

Cai Dexing, the lieutenant general of the Western Battalion of the Taiping Army, looked at the dense artillery fire of the Qing army, and his heart was full of bitterness, sixty artillery pieces, such a lifeless attack saturation attack, even if the Anqing city wall is strong, it will definitely not be able to withstand the long-term bombardment!

"Order, transfer all the artillery fire in Anqing City to Beicheng, go all out to fight, and be sure to kill the artillery of the Qing Demon for me!"

Cai Dexing shouted.

Cai Dexing has an artillery battalion under his command, which is the artillery battalion directly under his eighth town, in addition, there are three heavy cannons on each wall of Anqing Mansion, although it is an old-fashioned heavy artillery, but above the city, condescending, his power should not be underestimated.

Cai Dexing pulled all the artillery up in one go, he knew very well that the Qing Demon had no water division, and could only attack from the north, as long as he fought with all his strength and withstood the attack of the Qing Demon, Anqing City would be as stable as Mount Tai, once there was an accident in the North City, it would really be over!

The two sides launched a fierce battle in Anqing City, the second brigade of the Lu army has 30 Western artillery, which is a lot more than the Taiping army, not only the number of artillery is above the Taiping army, but the performance of the artillery and the quality of artillery are also better than the Taiping army.

Yan Chunyu is completely a lifeless posture, the battle just began, three artillery battalions fired 3,000 shells towards Anqing City, the violent explosion made Anqing City only support two hours, it has begun to show problems, the city wall was not only blown to the ground, and even a huge crack appeared, once the city wall of the north city of Anqing City collapsed, it was a doomed disaster to meet Anqing City.

The Taiping army, under the command of Cai Dexing, did not show weakness, and with the help of the strong city wall, launched almost all of its own artillery, and began to bombard the positions of the Lu army.

It's just that Yan Chunyu is too shrewd, so good that he is similar to a ghost, he stayed in Anqing City for a day and a half before launching an attack, it was not just to wait for the army to come back with the cavalry, there was another thing to do meticulously, the position was made by him like an iron wall, tunnels, trenches, and even earth barriers, all of which were built.

Although the artillery fire in Anqing City was very fierce, it was impossible to bring huge damage to the Second Brigade in a short period of time.

However, even so, Yan Chunyu was still thunderous, if the momentum of the Lu army was suppressed by the Taiping army in Anqing City, then what face would he have to command the second brigade?

"Order, the artillery battalion is all aimed at the artillery of the Taiping Army, concentrate the firepower on me, hit hard, and solve their artillery for me first!"

The artillery battalion that got the order began to lock on the Taiping artillery at the head of the city, and fired shells intensively!

The Taiping army also continued to fight, but their artillery technology and the Lu army were not at the same level at all, the artillery shells of the Lu army were like eyes, and went straight to the Taiping army's position, not only the artillery was unlucky, but also the unlucky Taiping artillery were unlucky, with countless casualties!

The two sides went straight from the morning to the afternoon, and the artillery fire of the Lu army almost never stopped, constantly launching an attack on Anqing City, and the entire city had begun to show signs of cracking.

Cai Dexing was anxious, kept shouting, ordered the artillery to increase the intensity of the attack, and it was necessary to suppress the enemy's artillery bombardment, and suddenly, the artillery fire stopped.

Cai Dexing roared angrily: "Dog, why did you suddenly stop attacking? Fight, fight, you must suppress the demon artillery! ”

Artillery battalion commander Guo Shuai wiped the sweat on his forehead and ran over, "General, this ......"

"What's wrong?"

Cai Dexing asked.

"Our artillery battalion is left without shells......"

Cai Dexing's heart was shocked, and he shouted: "There are no more shells? And what about the shells, what about ours? Didn't we attack Anqing City with more than a thousand shells? ”

"It's all gone, it's all gone......"

Guo Shuai said bitterly.

"What, all gone? Isn't there a treasury left? ”

"The storehouse has already moved out? Now we have no shells available in our entire artillery battalion, only the dozen or so old guns that defend the city still have some shells, but they are a drop in the bucket, and they don't have anything to do at all......"

Cai Dexing's head suddenly dizzy, all gone? wiped, there are no shells, doesn't that mean that Anqing City will be beaten passively?

"******, why don't you know how to save it! Without the cannonballs, how can we compete with the Qing Demon? ”

Guo Shuai is about to cry, this is not something that can be saved if you want to save, even if you go all out to fight, your artillery battalion is not the opponent of others, if you save a little, wouldn't it be even more passive......

"General, we're already saving on the use of shells, and you're demanding that we suppress the Qing Demon's artillery attack, can that not consume a lot? Did you know? In less than a day, the Qing Demon had already poured more than 4,000 shells at us, almost twice as many as us......"

Cai Dexing was completely dumbfounded, anyway, the current shells are gone, what can you do? These shells were all bought from foreigners, and there was no superfluous at all, and without shells, those artillery pieces were not as good as a rifle! ”

"General, what now?"

Guo Shuai asked cryingly.

Cai Dexing was so sad that he said angrily: "What should I do?" Lao Tzu knows what to do? We only have seven or eight thousand people in Anqing City now, if the reinforcements can't arrive in time, then we will only have a dead end, and the city wall will definitely not be able to stop the Qing Demon for long. ”

(To be continued.) )