In the defensive operations of Yuzhou City, the artillery of the 4th Mixed Brigade showed great effect. Before the ammunition was exhausted, if the Ming army outside the city wanted to attack Yuzhou City, they would have to pay a heavy price.

As for Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong, they actually don't want to pay a heavy price. Otherwise, in the first two days after arriving in Yuzhou City, they will directly attack regardless of casualties.

Even if there are more casualties, there is a high probability that Yuzhou City can be taken.

But they don’t want to!

But now, this situation still exists. If the Ming army wants to conquer Yuzhi City, it must either delay time and slowly consume the ammunition of the anti-thief army, or it may pay a lot of casualties and rush forward to capture Yuzhou City in one go.

Faced with this situation, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong were in a dilemma and looked sad.

But while Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong outside the city were frowning, An Yongduo on the top of the city was in a very good mood.

Although the Ming army had just attacked again and even climbed to the top of the city, they were soon driven back by their own troops.

More importantly, he had received the news that the military order had secretly crossed the blockade as early as this morning. The general had personally led his troops to Shanghe Town, and would continue to march eastward into Yuzhou City today, noon at the latest.

In due time, the general's vanguard troops will arrive outside Yuzhou City.

With the general here, their hometown defense army will definitely win this battle!

As for the fact that the Ming army stormed and captured Yuzhou City in just two or three hours before the general arrived in person with his army, this is almost negligible.

Although the Fourth Mixed Brigade under his command was besieged in Yuzhou City, it suffered heavy losses in the multi-day battle. Currently, there are only about 1,800 troops left in the entire brigade.

This number was temporarily supplemented by a group of Yuzhou garrison figures after they surrendered.

However, the core force of the Fourth Mixed Brigade to defend Yuzhou City, that is, the artillery unit, is still there.

The Fourth Mixed Brigade has a large number of artillery.

The Baoxiang Army defeated Chen Yongfu in the early stage and later captured Nanyang City, but captured a large number of Ming Army artillery pieces.

There are all kinds of miscellaneous artillery, but the largest number is the offensive artillery, and the others are large and small general artillery, tiger crouching artillery, and Folan machine.

Even if we only count these types of artillery, the sizes are very messy, ranging from dozens of kilograms to thousands of kilograms. I don’t know what the Ming army thought to make the artillery system so messy.

Faced with such a mess of artillery, the Baoxiang Army selected the captured artillery that was of acceptable quality, powerful, and valuable for use and modification.

Then they were temporarily modified and mounted on the wooden double-wheeled gun mounts proprietary to the Baoxiang Army, and incorporated into the 4th Artillery Post and the three infantry battalions under the 4th Mixed Brigade and other infantry units.

Because the Fourth Artillery Post is equipped with captured old artillery pieces, its number is larger than that of the new 600-pound artillery pieces, reaching nine.

It is equipped with two 500-jin general cannons, three 300-jin general cannons, two 300-jin franc machine guns, and two 200-jin franc machine guns.

Don't ask why a mere fourth artillery post is equipped with four different types of artillery. If you want to ask, you have to ask why the Ming army made such a mess of artillery...

The three infantry battalions under the Fourth Mixed Brigade, and even the baggage posts, are equipped with various short-barreled artillery weighing less than 200 kilograms, such as tiger crouching artillery, assault artillery, Folan machine and so on.

When the Baoxiang Army later organized and trained the Fifth Mixed Brigade, the Sixth Mixed Brigade, the Ninth Mixed Brigade, and the Tenth Mixed Brigade, it basically followed the system of the Fourth Mixed Brigade.

Each traditional mixed brigade is assigned a large-scale traditional artillery sentry, equipped with various types of traditional artillery weighing more than 200 kilograms, mainly general cannons and Folang machines.

Each battalion is equipped with various types of tiger crouching artillery, attack artillery, and Folang machine guns with a weight of less than 200 kilograms.

Of course, this is just a general standard, and it is not strictly enforced in practice, because the artillery that these traditional mixed brigades can equip depends on the artillery captured...

In short, it’s useful for whatever it is, it’s not that particular...

After all, the purpose of the Baoxiang Army's traditional mixed brigade, which focuses on training and descending troops, is to quickly form an army and fill the vacancy of too few troops in the main force.

It is impossible for them to equip infantry battalions with self-made 200-pound short robes like the new infantry brigades.

This kind of short robe is of high quality, easy to maneuver, fires two kilograms of shotgun, and has a longer range and greater power than traditional light artillery. However, although the output of this kind of short robe is not small, it is also used in large quantities, so it is quite tense now.

, the traditional mixed brigades have no turn at all.

The artillery posts of traditional mixed brigades are even less likely to be equipped with 600-pound long-barreled artillery like each field artillery post. The output of this kind of artillery is lower. Now it is not enough even for the main field artillery posts. There is no extra for traditional mixed brigades.

Use.

However, although the artillery level of the Fourth Mixed Brigade is far from being comparable to the artillery level of the main force of the Baoxiang Army, it is still artillery after all.

In fixed defensive operations, especially when deployed on city walls, it can still pose a huge threat to the attacking Ming army that lacks field heavy artillery.

Even the slow siege equipment temporarily built by the Ming army looked huge, but it could not withstand the bombardment of the city's artillery, especially those larger general cannons.

In addition to the advantages of his own artillery, Anyondo also knew that his reinforcements would arrive in just a few hours. When directing the battle, he did not consider saving ammunition at all and just started fighting.

Just like the defensive battle just now, all kinds of guns and artillery fire were fired. The attacking Ming army had to retreat after killing and wounding hundreds of people.

However, this is also related to Zuo Liangyu being very cautious. In the previous Ming army's attacks, Zuo Liangyu was actually very cautious.

When attacking, when the situation is not good, they often order a retreat, and then patiently look for opportunities again.

In this way, although the casualties of the Ming army could be controlled at a relatively low level, the attack also had little effect. They did not even climb to the top of the city a few times. Occasionally, soldiers climbed to the top of the city and were quickly defeated.

The security forces used heavy armor to drive them down.

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After these days of defensive operations, An Yongduo finally understood that the Ming army on the opposite side seemed to be tens of thousands, but the number that could be drawn out to fight was estimated to be only 10,000, and they could not bear too much loss.

Anyongduo couldn't believe that Zuo Liangyu was willing to pay huge casualties to attack Yuzhou City in just a few hours.

If this forceful attack fails, what will Zuo Liangyu do to resist the army led by the general himself?

Let alone capture Yuzhou City by then, it’s hard to say whether Zuo Liangyu can escape.

Anyongduo's guess was not wrong. After the morning attack failed again, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong discussed for a long time and finally decided to withdraw their troops first.

In short, no matter what, it is impossible to directly take human lives.

Both of them, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong, both hope that the troops under their command will be promoted and make a fortune, or even save their lives. They will throw thousands of soldiers in without any care to fill the big hole in Yuzhou City.

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The Ming army gradually withdrew its troops, but Anyongduo on the top of the city felt it was a pity.

"If they continue to fight once, it will be better to fight when the general arrives. Maybe they can directly attack their camp when they attack the city."

Fei Bingqing also said: "What a pity!"

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After Zuo Liangyu withdrew his troops and postponed the attack on Yuzhou City, he originally thought of continuing to build siege equipment, and based on the characteristics of the numerous artillery on the rebel city, he once again strengthened the defense thickness of the siege equipment in a targeted manner, so as to prepare for the next attack.

Siege the city and capture Yuzhou City in one go.

But before he could finalize the matter, a subordinate general trotted in in a hurry and looked panicked.

As soon as this man came in, he immediately attracted everyone's attention. At this time, there were more than a dozen middle- and high-level generals in the camp.

However, this man didn't care about the others, and walked quickly to Zuo Liangyu and whispered a few words in Zuo Liangyu's ear.

Immediately afterwards, Zuo Liangyu’s expression changed drastically!

But after a while, Zuo Liangyu forced himself to calm down. After his expression returned to calm, he said to everyone in the camp: "Reconnaissance cavalry reported that a large number of security guards were found ten miles west of Yuzhou!"

"There are at least ten thousand thieves!"

"However, among these ten thousand people, there are only a few thousand civilians accompanying the army. The scouts at the front estimated that there should be five or six thousand real bandit soldiers!"

"In addition, this group of thieves also brought a lot of artillery and hundreds of fine cavalry!"

After Zuo Liangyu finished speaking, he looked at a group of generals in the camp who had changed their expressions and said: "This should be the bandit protection army that is rescuing Yuzhou!"

He Renlong's expression on the side also changed sharply. He asked a few questions in succession, and after getting confirmation from Zuo Liangyu, he frowned and said: "If they are allowed to enter the city, then Yuzhou City will be even more difficult to fight.

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After hearing this, many of the other generals nodded, and one of them said: "Our army attacked Yuzhou City many times but failed to capture it, and the number of thieves protecting Yuzhou City was only two or three thousand. Now they are here again.

Tens of thousands of thieves, even if there are only five thousand real thieves among them, then Yuzhou City will not be easy to fight!"

After the other people heard this, some people muttered in their hearts: Why is it so hard to fight? There is absolutely no hope!

Another person said: "This security thief is different from ordinary robbers. Ordinary robbers don't have many guns, let alone armor and weapons. We also got some news before. In fact, the security thief army in Yuzhou City used to be

Even the surrendered troops under Chen Yongfu, the group of people under Chen Yongfu can still fight."

The Fourth Mixed Brigade is a descendant of the Ming Army. This fact cannot be concealed at all, because almost all the ordinary soldiers in the Fourth Mixed Brigade still wear the military uniforms of the previous Ming Army. Anyone who is not blind can see them at a glance.

Just know.

Even if the flag had not changed, it would not be unusual to directly identify the Fourth Mixed Brigade as Ming officers and soldiers.
Chapter completed!