After the war, the report received by Jansen Connellis recorded the beginning of the battle like this:

".........After three minutes noon, the vanguard of the rebels arrived outside the Jade Ferry."

...

[Unknown Mountain Hill]

Luosong Jiula and others stood roughly in an arc and surrounded Winters.

The commander has made up his mind and the leadership’s ideas have been unified. The only thing to discuss next is technical issues.

"You know that the attack is not good for us, and Colonel Aldame also knows that the field is not good for him," Luosong Jiula no longer politely and expressed his opinions. "How do you pull out [steadfast]?"

"Old solution," Winters raised his lips, "strike the city first."

...

[Jade Ferry]

The news that the rebels had arrived at the city suddenly made the atmosphere in the town become tense.

There is no need for the Union Provincial People to reiterate the martial law. The residents of Jade Ferry, who have not escaped from the city, have already blocked the doors of the house, tightened the curtains, and hid in the basement with all their valuable belongings. The whole family prayed together to finish the battle outside quickly.

Lieutenant Colonel [Caspa Lobres], the captain of the Fourth Battalion who was in charge of commanding the Jade Ferry defenders, also immediately dispatched troops to the city wall to consolidate the fortifications.

The rebels set up camp on the avenue southeast of the Jade Ferry, where the cannons on the city were beyond the range of the fire.

In the afternoon of that day, several rebels, who looked like engineers and officers, came outside the city wall to measure and set up lines.

Trees near the rebel camp were also being cut down, as if they were building siege equipment.

Lieutenant Colonel Lobres sent someone to ask for help from the commander of the army, and sent reconnaissance cavalry to land on a boat upstream and downstream direction to investigate the movements of the rebels.

The scouts of both sides fought in a small-scale battle in the suburbs, and the lieutenant colonel's subordinates were slightly defeated, but brought back the key enemy situation:

[The total rebel force should be between 6,000 and 10,000, with several artillery and many cavalry]

...

[Unknown Mountain Hill]

Hearing Winters' "old methods", the officers Palatu present all looked a little strange.

"The old method you mentioned," Luosong Jiula tried his best to prevent his tone from sounding sarcastic. "Can it be the old method of Hurd Barbarians?"

"Isn't it your old method?" Andre, who had not spoken before Winters responded, suddenly spoke up and mocked without mercy, "Have you thought about using this trick to hit the Kings Castle before?"

The faces of the Palatu officers were immediately a little unhooked, and Luo Song's face began to become congested.

"No matter who's the old method is, it's always the old method," he said in a muffled voice, "use bad tricks!"

Other Palatu officers nodded in agreement.

A sneer swept across the corner of Andrea Chelini's mouth, and he groaned and wanted to retort.

However, Winters signaled Andre to be at ease. He smiled and looked at the Palatun present, and asked with a reasonable and reasonable question, "Since it is a bad old method, why are there so many people still caught?"

Then, he began to count the kings, princes, generals and ministers of Palathu who had suffered this great loss in history: "[baptized] Ishtwan, [devoted] Orti, [fair] Isham..."

"Stop talking, stop talking," Luo Song was furious, "I think Colonel Aldame may not be so easy to take the bait."

"A wise man from the East once said, 'There is no fixed way to fight, just like water does not have a fixed shape'," Winters explained. "Whether the 'old method' works does not depend on us, but on how eager Colonel Aldame is to destroy us.

"If he is like Minister Conelisborne, he is determined to retract into his shell and not show his head, then no one can do anything to him.

"But on the other hand, as long as he has the desire to eliminate our greed, he will bite it even though he knows it may be bait."

"What's more, he's holding in his hand, but [steadfast]," Winters joked, "If Minister Conellisbon had also held such a powerful team, I don't think he would be willing to play the turtle in the Kings Castle."

Several Palatus present snorted.

"So whether this move is easy to use is not the old or the situation," Winters sewed the faces of several seniors without any trace. "The stronger the combat power of the defending city side, the easier it is to be deceived; the more courageous you have, the easier it is to be deceived; the more aggressive you are, the easier it is to be deceived. If you really don't, then we will leave and we won't be hurt."

Luo Song Jiula felt a little more comfortable. After exchanging glances with others, he expressed his opinion on behalf of the officers of Baishan County and Leiqun County, "Well, you can give it a try."

"But, because this trick has been used up, we have to do a good job this time." Winters looked at Senior Mason, "I need some capital."

...

[Jade Ferry]

The rebels' artillery began in the early morning, and seven heavy artillery lines were lined up, and they kept thrusting at a point on the south wall.

The defenders also carried the six-pound long cannon to the top of the city and fired at the rebels.

Lieutenant Colonel Lobres had piled up soil on the inside of the city wall in advance, so he was not worried that the city wall would collapse directly.

However, as the rebels persevered in shelling, the mortar of the stones inside the city wall began to loosen, and the bricks and stones on the facade of the city wall also cracked one by one.

Gravel and debris fell at the foot of the wall and gradually piled up into a slope.

Jade Ferry is just a small town. The townspeople raised funds to build walls to prevent horse thieves, not to resist an army.

The city wall of Jade Ferry is only four meters high, and the chest wall is only five meters high.

If the debris outside the wall were piled up a little higher, the rebels would have saved even the ladders and rushed in by stepping on the pile of soil.

Lieutenant Colonel Lobres had already seen the khan on his back. He did not expect that the rebels' firepower would be so strong.

In less than a day, his defense line was about to be knocked out.

He urgently organized manpower, demolished houses and roads in the town, and collected building materials like crazy, desperately thickened the section of the city wall that the rebels had shelled, striving to gain more time.

The lieutenant colonel has begun to regret making bold statements in front of Colonel Aldame, and he guarantees that the Jade Ferry will not be lost with his own honor.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! That night, the soldiers of the United Provinces who were trapped outside the wall wanted to clear the mound of soil collided with the rebel engineers who were touching the edge of the city and wanted to explode.

Both sides were shocked and did not even have the intention of fighting, and retreated on the spot.

However, the musketeers at the top of the city and the rebel musketeers in the trench fought all night, leaving everyone in the city sleepless all night.

...

[Winters' tent]

"...I still think that Aldame will not take the hook," Luosong Jiu pulled his arms, leaned forward, and pressed his elbows against the edge of the table, pressing all his weight on the map table. He frowned and said in dismay, "Aldame is not a fool. He knows that we have the advantage of cavalry, he will definitely not attack rashly."

"Yes, that's right," Winters took the ruler and lay on the map table to work hard, enlarging the small map in his portable notebook onto the large paper in proportion. "If I were Colonel Aldame, as long as the enemy had a cavalry advantage, I would try my best to avoid fighting against the opponent in the field."

"What should I do?" Luo Song's knot tightened even harder and tighter. "You don't really plan to let us get off the saddle, climb the city wall, and give gifts to Colonel Aldame?"

"I'm ready," Winters looked up at Luo Song, "do nothing."

"Um?"

"Our cavalry advantage is not something we should worry about, but something Colonel Aldame should worry about," Winters said in a dashing manner, "just as we must eliminate the [steadfast] artillery advantage as much as possible, Aldame will definitely try to weaken our cavalry advantage."

Winters straightened his waist, moved his muscles and bones, pinched his sore eyes, and turned to look at Major Losson, "So, like dancing, we just need to cooperate with Colonel Ardame's pace-although I'm not sure how he intends to act.

"Our greatest advantage is not the cavalry, but Van Sgo Aldame does not know - we have the courage and determination to eat [steadfast]!"

After saying that, he moaned and started to draw pictures at the desk again.

"You are really brave," Losson picked up the lantern and came to Winters to illuminate the latter. He thoughtfully said, "That's why you keep urging us to rush? To give Colonel Aldame the impression that we are eager to return to help?"

"Not only," Winters pointed to the briefcase hanging on the back of the chair. The briefcase was filled with envelopes marked with emergency military information, and said without raising his head, "There are letters of help from General Geisa. However, not many of them were successfully intercepted by Aldame, so it is hard to say how much he could deceive him."

Upon hearing this, Luo Song picked up his briefcase, took out a few letters and took them apart and looked at them. The content was about asking the current location of the army and urging the army to return to Fengshi City as soon as possible. The closer the date, the more severe the tone. The few letters with the latest date are undoubtedly in line with Shenqi's letter.

"Of course, the most important thing is," Winters continued, "I ask General Geisa to endure the actions of the enemy in the Water Pass. In any case, do not take the initiative to attack, and create the illusion of empty troops in Maple Stone City as much as possible..."

On this side, Winters was still muttering to himself.

On the other side, Luo Song held up the lantern and stared at the figure of "Wolf Blood" for a long time. He suddenly sighed, "It is said that only the wrong name is given, and no wrong nickname is given, but today I think that your nickname may be given the wrong one."

"Hmm?" Winters was stunned for a moment. When he understood what his senior was saying, he couldn't help but smile, "What do you really think so? Actually, I think so..."

Luosong Jiula sighed again: "No wonder General Skur admires you so much."

This sentence really made Winters stunned.

"Is there any?" he raised his eyebrows.

You should know that the other three of the four pillars are the coldest and distant relationship between Skul Mecklen and Winters, and they have always been the best water to avoid the river.

Luosong Jiula just smiled and said nothing.

...

[Fengshi City]

On the day the "rebels" besieged Jade Ferry, the United Provincial Army, which had been raising energy in Shuiguan for many days, also showed its hideous face.

Four fully armed gallopy warships left the Shuiguan Wharf, sailed into the mouth of Anya River, swam upwards, and entered the heart of Xinken Land.

They shot the ships they encountered along the way, regardless of military ships or civilian ships until the other party sank; they swept across the villages and towns along the coast with grape bombs, and sent soldiers to land, sweep and set fire; they rushed to the water gate of Maple Stone City, and were blocked by iron chains that stretched across the river; so they set up a formation on the river, began to bombard Maple Leaf Fort, and sent troops to land again, burning the farmland, mills, docks, warehouses, and houses outside the city.

The cannon howled all night.

Looking down from the high walls of Maple Stone City, I saw that the moon was covered with smoke on both sides of the Mother River, and the fires were soaring into the sky, and there were scenes of hell everywhere.

Geisa Adonis stood at the top of the city, holding the bricks in his hands, almost crushing the bricks into powder.

The effect of this atrocity was also immediate.
To be continued...