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Chapter 237
In the county government of Lou County, Zhou Tiebi met Fu Chaoling, the general who led the support army, who was actually a civil servant.The reason why the leader of the army will become a civil servant is still related to the last incident of the envoys of the Hanhai Empire.That incident was the catastrophe caused by that Yue Chongshan acting on his own initiative.

Therefore, in order to avoid such a situation in the future, the Daqian Empire took back the military power of most generals and sent a group of civilian officials loyal to the royal family to take over those armies.These civilian officials have far less control over the army than the previous military generals. Even if they change their minds in the future and want to cause trouble, it will be difficult to mobilize the entire army without a transfer order.The disadvantage is that it will also weaken the combat effectiveness of the army.After all, a good general can greatly increase the combat effectiveness of the army.

However, it is clear that the royal family of the Dagan Empire still feels that stability is more important, and it is acceptable to reduce the combat effectiveness of the army.

And this Fu Chaoling, who took over the garrison near Lou County, as a civil servant, has a good personal relationship with Zhou Tiebi, so he came overnight after receiving Zhou Tiebi's request for help.At this time, Fu Chaoling was also learning about the current battlefield situation from Zhou Tiebi.

Fu Chaoling couldn't help but sigh after learning that the local gang, the Blood Shark Gang, had contributed a lot in the defense of the city this time, and even the gang leader Li Dayu was killed because of this, while the dignitaries in Lou County all ran away ahead of schedule. It's really unpredictable!Those guys who usually look like dogs are not necessarily good guys, and those guys who look like bad guys are not necessarily without loyalty.

"Since the enemy army is strong now, let's focus on defense next! As long as we continue to delay for a few days, our main force will arrive, and at that time we can give the army of the Red Sun Kingdom a single blow." Annihilated!" After understanding the current battlefield situation, Fu Chaoling quickly made his own judgment.

Zhou Tiebi, Lei Hong and others did not raise any objections to this, and felt that there was nothing wrong with the general's decision.

So then the army began to strengthen the fortifications in Lou County, and even demolished some houses that were damaged in previous battles, and used these building materials as defensive weapons such as rolling logs and stones to the city.There were also several artillery pieces that were moved up together.

Unfortunately, due to the rush of time, the dozens of artillery Fu Chaoling brought over this time were all small guns with a caliber of about 500 mm, which were not very powerful and had a range of only more than [-] meters.Fortunately, the Red Sun Kingdom didn't have any powerful siege equipment, they were just a bunch of infantry, and these small cannons could still be used.

In addition to these artillery, among the more than 5000 soldiers brought by Fu Chaoling, about 5000 were already equipped with matchlock guns, and they also carried tens of thousands of large earthen grenades.

While Fu Chaoling was busy directing his soldiers to strengthen the city defense, the army of the Red Sun Kingdom was finally finished repairing. Under the encouragement of the chief general Kumamoto Saburo, the morale also rose a lot, and he also used local materials to create some Siege equipment.

So the Red Sun Kingdom soon launched an attack again, and this time the scale of the attacking force was unprecedentedly large. It actually dispatched 8 people at one time, and each city wall had 2 horses to participate in the attack.If it weren't for the fact that Lou County was too small, the Red Sun Kingdom would have been able to dispatch an entire army of more than 20 troops.

And a full [-] army has surrounded Lou County firmly. If you look around, you can't see the end of the army of the Red Sun Kingdom outside the city.

Fu Chaoling, who was commanding the army for the first time, was also frightened when he saw this scene, and his face turned pale.Fortunately, Zhou Tiebi beside him was still calm, stepped forward and reminded him in a low voice: "My lord, the enemy is about to launch an attack, it's up to you to give the order!"

"Yes! I should give the order!" Fu Chaoling was finally relieved by Zhou Tiebi's reminder, and then with the help of Zhou Tiebi, Lei Hong and others, he finally issued a series of orders. Get your soldiers ready for battle.

Now that Fu Chaoling's reinforcements have joined Zhou Tiebi's defenders, the number of defenders in Lou County has exceeded 6000.It's a pity that compared to the strength of the Red Sun Kingdom's side, it is still a weak side.Like now, each city wall can only be assigned to more than 3000 people for defense.And it's not possible to send them all at once. In order to prevent the Red Sun Kingdom from engaging in wheel wars, at least the limited defenders have to be divided into two groups.As a result, only more than [-] people are responsible for defending each city wall.

After the army of the Red Sun Kingdom approached within 500 meters, dozens of cannons above the head of Lou County opened fire one after another.

Since the formation of the Red Sun Kingdom is very dense, each shot of these shells can kill a large number of soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom.

However, the Red Sun Kingdom had too many troops, and the casualties of hundreds of people in this area could not cause any waves at all. The Red Sun Kingdom's siege army was still approaching Lou County step by step.

After the siege army of the Red Sun Kingdom approached within 100 meters, the crossbowmen and musketeers on the top of the city also opened fire one after another, and another soldier was shot down in the queue of the Red Sun Kingdom.

Facing the dense rain of arrows at the top of the city, the archers from the Red Sun Kingdom quickly rushed under the top of the city, and shot waves of arrows at the defenders at the top of the city with their bows and arrows.

Although the defenders of Lou County have a geographical advantage, the number of archers on the side of the Red Sun Kingdom is too many, more than 3, which is more than the total number of defenders of Lou County.Therefore, under the intensive arrow rain attack, the defenders at the top of the city also suffered heavy losses, and from time to time, the defenders' crossbowmen and musketeers would be shot by arrows.

Fortunately, the soldiers on the side of the Daqian Empire are better equipped, and most of them are protected by iron armor, while the bamboo bows of the Red Sun Kingdom are not very lethal. Even if they are shot, most of the soldiers are Only hurt but not die.

As a result, soldiers who were shot and wounded were carried down by the medical soldiers on the top of the city, and then treated.

After the siege army of the Red Sun Kingdom approached 20 meters, the artillery that had just finished loading on the top of the city fired another round of shotguns at the enemy troops below the city, at least clearing out more than 2000 enemy troops.

It's a pity that the army of the Red Sun Kingdom is too many. The soldiers in front were just bombarded to death by artillery, and then a large number of soldiers rushed out to fill the vacant positions and continued to approach the city wall.

"Throw grenades!" Amidst the roars of the officers, the defenders on the top of the city ignited the fuses of the earthen grenades one after another, and then smashed these native grenades at those who had rushed below the city wall and started to build ladders. A soldier of the Red Sun Kingdom.

These homemade grenades are just right for the soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom wearing light armor. As the grenades exploded one by one, the soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom who had just rushed under the city wall were immediately blown up in pieces. fly.Due to the low power of the earthen grenade, many soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom were only wounded, but not killed on the spot.The morale of the siege troops of the Red Sun Kingdom was greatly affected by lying on the ground clutching their wounds and howling continuously.

The few soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom who successfully climbed the ladder after setting up the ladder were quickly killed by the defenders at the top of the city relying on their superiority in numbers, and then threw their bodies out of the city and used them as weapons to bombard the enemies outside the city. military.

Under the fierce attack of the Red Sun Kingdom army, the tens of thousands of grenades brought by Fu Chaoling were quickly exhausted, so the city defenders had to start using building materials removed from private houses as weapons to attack the city wall. The enemy below smashed away.

Such a fierce offensive and defensive battle lasted for more than an hour. Because of the resolute resistance of the defenders, the Red Sun Kingdom suffered heavy losses. More than half of the [-] troops participating in the attack suffered casualties, and the rest were all due to the high-intensity fighting. Too tired to fight anymore.

Faced with this result, Saburo Kumamoto was very dissatisfied.Immediately began to mobilize soldiers again, ready to attack again, without giving the enemy a chance to breathe.

And just when Saburo Kumamoto was about to let the second batch of soldiers launch an attack, the small troops that had been sent out to attack the surrounding villages and towns in Lou County also returned one after another.

Naturally, those villages and towns without any defenders could not resist the attack of the regular army, and they fell one after another, and no one was spared.In addition to looting a lot of food, grass and supplies, the Red Sun Kingdom also captured thousands of civilians in the Daqian Empire.

So some generals below suggested to the coach Saburo Kumamoto that the captured civilians of the Dakan Empire could be used as shields in front of the city during the siege to see if the defenders in the city dared to shoot arrows.

Saburo Kumamoto agreed with this proposal very much, and immediately incorporated all the captured civilians of the Dagan Empire into the siege force.

Under the intimidation of the soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom with knives and guns, the civilians of the Dagan Empire had no other choice but to bite the bullet and rush towards the opposite Lou County.

And Fu Chaoling, Zhou Tiebi and others felt bad when they saw that the enemy actually took their own civilians as hostages.After all, those civilians are innocent!There may be many family members of the guarding soldiers among them. If they directly ordered the soldiers to shoot and kill the civilians, it might cause a mutiny.And if those civilians were ignored, the siege troops of the Red Sun Kingdom would be able to take advantage of the situation and attack the top of the city, and Lou County might fall because of this!
Just when Fu Chaoling and the others were caught in a dilemma, a tall, flesh-faced Blood Shark gang member found Fu Chaoling, and offered to ask Ying: "My lord, let us Blood Shark Gang do this bad guy! Anyway, our Blood Shark Gang Your reputation has long been rotten in this generation, so I'm not afraid to bear some more infamy!"

Fu Chaoling looked at the members of the Blood Shark Gang, and couldn't help being moved by these righteous Blood Shark Gang members.

"Okay! I have promised, and I will definitely go to the court later, and I will definitely not let the righteous men of the Blood Shark Gang suffer unjust injustice! Now I can only wrong you first!"

After getting Fu Chaoling's permission, the remaining 400 members of the Blood Shark Gang immediately came to the top of the city, and several of the little leaders shouted at the civilians of the Dagan Empire who were still approaching outside the city; "Stop immediately, if you get closer, we will shoot arrows! Our Blood Shark Gang will do what we say, but we will never be soft!"

And the civilians in the city were caught in a dilemma when they heard the shout. The reputation of the Blood Shark Gang, they, the local people, knew it, and they didn't doubt that these guys from the Blood Shark Gang would kill them. .

Seeing that the civilians slowed down and seemed to want to retreat, the soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom who were in charge of monitoring immediately stepped forward, raised their knives and hacked to death those civilians who fell at the back in the blink of an eye.

"Keep moving forward! Don't stop, let alone retreat! Anyone who dares to stop will be killed without mercy!"

Under the intimidation of the soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom, these civilians had no choice but to continue to approach the city wall of Lou County with a bitter face.

However, the members of the Blood Shark Gang did not show mercy at all. After the civilians entered the range, they raised their crossbows one after another and shot deadly arrows one after another.

These civilians don't have any armor on them, how can they resist the arrows shot by these blood shark gang members!Hundreds of people were shot down on the spot.

And the rest of the civilians saw that they would die if they went forward, and they would die if they retreated. They couldn't help but exploded completely. They raised the sticks and agricultural tools in their hands and killed the soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom behind them.

The soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom who were in charge of surveillance probably didn't expect that these cowardly civilians would actually dare to resist, and several of them were besieged and killed by those civilians unexpectedly.

But soon the soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom reacted and severely suppressed these civilians who dared to rebel.

Although the equipment of these soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom is very simple compared to the regular army of the Dagan Empire, they are still much better than most of the unarmed civilians. The Red Sun Kingdom soldiers were defeated.

Fu Chaoling watched the civilians in his country being massacred one by one from the top of the city. He was so angry that he finally snatched the torch from a soldier and lit the fuse of a cannon.

After the bang of the cannon, a cannonball immediately hit the ranks of both sides who were fighting. It killed many civilians and also killed several soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom.

"Fire me!"

Amidst Fu Chaoling's roar, other artillery on the top of the city also fired.The two sides who were fighting under the city head were beaten to a burst of blood and flesh.

Fu Chaoling and others can be regarded as seeing that if this continues, those civilians will not be able to kill a few soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom. Instead, they will be tortured and killed one by one by the soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom. In this case, long-term pain is better than short-term pain , it would be better to take both sides away with a blast of artillery fire, so that at least these soldiers of the Red Sun Kingdom can be buried with the civilians who died in vain.

(End of this chapter)