East Factory Governor

Chapter 468 Fighting
At this time, Cao Wenzhao rushed to the south gate.

Xia Lu breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately told Cao Wenzhao about the situation at the scene, and then asked him what to do.

He tactfully threw the difficult problem to Cao Wenzhao.

Cao Wenzhao made a decisive decision and demanded that cavalry be dispatched from the west gate to reinforce the south gate!

Either create an opportunity for the brethren to retreat into the city!Or fight with them in the city to the end to see who can survive to the end!Could it be that the members of the Devil's Cult are three-headed and six-armed, invulnerable?
Soon, the south gate opened wide.Because the south gate also has a moat, it is not a big problem to have a meeting at the city gate.

Five hundred Guanning iron cavalry rushed out. The reason why only five hundred were sent out was because the space under the south gate city was too small, and it was impossible for more cavalry to use it.

Cao Wenzhao personally sat at the head of the city and commanded the army to encircle and suppress the Demon Cult crossing the river.Meanwhile, the Franc machine guns, blunderbuss, bows and arrows at the top of the city continued to show off their power, pouring ammunition and arrows at the Demon Cult who were crossing the bridge and preparing to cross the bridge.

The Demon Cult keeps increasing its troops, and there is a strong force that will not stop until the South Gate is captured.In order to speed up, they even tried to cross the river quietly from the west gate, north gate, and east gate, and then all gathered at the south gate.

However, the guards on these three sides were also extremely tight. Once the Demon Cult was discovered, they would immediately pour bullets and arrows.The Demon Sect tried a few times, but found that crossing the river through other gates was not cost-effective, because even if they crossed the river, they had to run along the city wall to the south gate, and they would be shot wildly by the Ming army at the top of the city along the way, making it impossible to reach the south gate. .

The Demon Cult doesn't know that the soldiers at the top of the city are all soldiers from the Guanning Army, Datong Army, Changping Army, and Xuanfu Army. Sufficient, of course it is not so easy for them to break through!
So the focus of the battlefield returned to the south gate again.

The two sides started a life-and-death struggle around the south gate!

Under the pale flares, the surface of the moat beside the south gate was already blood-red, and there were a large number of corpses of demon cultists floating in the river.

Under the city wall, there are more corpses, but most of these corpses are soldiers of the Ming army.Now the number of Demon Cult soldiers crossing the river has reached 4000. In the case of pure hand-to-hand combat, the officers and soldiers are not their opponents at all!
Five hundred Guanning iron cavalry arrived, and after a while of charging, they really saved the situation for the officers and soldiers.Upon seeing this, Cao Wenzhao immediately sent another thousand infantry reinforcements.

Just like adding firewood to boil water, he kept adding troops to the city, and he didn't believe that the Devil's Cult would never retreat!

Why do you do this?Because he can't abandon these soldiers who have already left the city!Now there is nothing lacking in Lanzhou City, the most important thing is to maintain the morale of the officers and soldiers!If these brothers outside the city are abandoned and guarded behind closed doors, the morale in the city will suffer a fatal blow. Once the morale is lost, then no matter how many food, grass and weapons are useless!Has Daming suffered from this kind of loss all these years?
That's why he let the Guan Ning Army, Xuanfu Army, Datong Army, and Changping Army, who were most capable of fighting, meet the enemy first. The purpose was to boost morale from the very beginning!

Cao Wenzhao swears to the death that he will not give an inch, and the Demon Cult will not give up if it fails to achieve its goal!The two sides continue to add troops and increase the size, and it depends on who will collapse first!
fierce battle!

a whole night!

The sky is gradually showing fish belly white!
Under the south gate, finally gradually quieted down!
In the 500-meter-long and 80-meter-wide open space, there were densely packed layers of corpses, and there was hardly a place to step down!
Among them, most of them are officers and soldiers.

In the moat, there were countless corpses floating, most of them were members of the Demon Cult, and the layers of corpses almost blocked the river.

In the whole night, the official army lost more than [-] people, and the demon sect lost more than [-] people.From the point of view of the death toll ratio, it is much better than that in the ambush war. This is naturally because the officers and soldiers have the advantages in terrain and weapons.

Dawn means that the sights of the cannons, bows, and blunderbuss of the army are more accurate, which is extremely unfavorable to the Demon Sect, so the Demon Sect chose to retreat.

The Demon Cult's first siege, defend it!
All the officers and soldiers in Lanzhou City breathed a sigh of relief, but no one could completely relax.

Even with the moat, cannons, bows, and guns, the battle losses of the officers and soldiers were still much higher than those of the Devil's Cult, which left everyone with lingering fears.

Although there were sufficient supplies in Lanzhou City, they fought all night. With poor visibility, they could only use a dense firepower net to prevent the Demon Cultists from crossing the river, so more than a quarter of the gunpowder stock was wiped out at once. And a third of the bow inventory!
If the Demon Cult attacked the city like this every night, the ammunition reserves of the officers and soldiers could last up to three days!Three days later, how should this battle be fought?
Cao Wenzhao panicked when he thought of this.

Under the city, officers and soldiers of the Ming army were cleaning the battlefield in an orderly manner.They not only dragged their own brothers who died in battle to the city and buried them, but also dragged away members of the Demon Cult.Now the weather is slowly getting hotter, it would be bad if there was a plague.

In addition, they also collected all the arrows that could be collected. After grinding these arrows, many of them can still be used.

Demon camp.

In one tent, the five banner owners of the Five Elements Banner of the Devil's Cult, three of the five scattered people, and Elder Zi Chu Yun were all there, which could be called an elite gathering.

On the first seat, sat an old man about sixty years old.The old man was wearing a white robe, his hair was gray, and his brows exuded a threatening aura.Wherever his gaze wandered, it was icy cold.

Zhao Wuhen, the left protector of the Demon Sect, known as the "Ghost King" by people in the world.Yan Wuyue is known as the "Devil Saint", while Zhao Wuhen is called the "Ghost King", which is enough to show his status in the Demon Cult.

From the leader Yan Wuyue down, the Demon Cult regards the Dharma protectors as the most respected.Among the left and right protectors, the left protector is the best.Therefore, Zhao Wuhen is the existence second only to the leader in the Demon Cult.

Zhao Wuhen glanced at the crowd coldly, and then said in a hoarse voice, "Why, a Lanzhou city stopped you?"

All were silent.

Even Chu Yun was silent.

Zhao Wuhen snorted coldly, and said again, "The leader has already arrived at Xiningwei, and he will come to Lanzhou soon. If we haven't captured Lanzhou City by then, I really can't lift my head to see him."

The expressions on everyone's faces were even worse.Only Chu Yun seemed to be wandering.She caressed the wound on her left shoulder, and seemed to be more concerned about whether her skin would scar.She has always loved beauty as much as her life, and she has been worrying about this issue since she was injured last night.Fortunately, the magic doctor A, B, and C personally bandaged the wound for her, and used a panacea, assuring her that there was an [-]% certainty that there would be no scars.

But Chu Yun is not satisfied with only [-]% certainty.

Seeing Chu Yun's absent-minded look, Zhao Wuhen said to her, "Elder Zi, do you have a good plan?"

Chu Yun came back to her senses and said disdainfully, "It's enough to fight again. What good strategy do you need? Elder Jin will also arrive in Lanzhou tomorrow night. Will Protector Zhao be willing to go to Lanzhou City with Elder Jin and me?" What about going around?"

(End of this chapter)