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Chapter 603
At this time, there were only [-] soldiers and horses stationed in Tianlang City.Although the number of people is small, because of previous lessons, the layout of the city defense is tighter than before.In addition, Donghu also adopted Hengshan's system and established a reserve army.The tens of thousands of young men in the city can be recruited at any time to help defend the city.

Fan Qi, who was sitting in the city, welcomed the remnants of the Southern Iron Wall Pass on this day.Upon questioning, he couldn't help but be astonished, Hengshan had quietly dispatched 5 soldiers and horses in Mingzhou, and suddenly rushed out of the customs. In just one day, he broke through the camp of [-] horses and was rushing towards their Tianlang City at this time .

After receiving the tens of thousands of remnants, Fan Qi sent someone to report the situation here to His Majesty.On the one hand, they actively deployed city defenses and recruited [-] young and strong men to defend the city.

At this time, there were [-] to [-] soldiers gathered in Tianlang City, and they had some confidence in facing the [-] Hengshan Army.

However, Fan Qi still didn't dare to take it lightly. He knew that Hengshan had powerful artillery and explosives, and it was impossible to simply rely on the city wall to stop the opponent.Therefore, he spent a lot of thought on the construction of the city's defenses. Today's Tianlang City can be said to be so fortified that even Hengshan's artillery can't knock it down.Coupled with sufficient troops, Fan Qi believed that Sirius City would be strong enough to last until the day when the army returned from victory.

Finally, in the early morning of the next day, a sea of ​​people emerged on the southern horizon, slowly approaching Sirius City.

After the Hengshan Army arrived at Sirius City, they immediately launched a fierce attack.More than a hundred artillery pieces carried were concentrated at the south gate and bombed continuously.Then the next day, the stone catapults after formation were also put into the siege one after another.Taking advantage of the suppression of the city by artillery and catapults, the infantry began to clear the trenches and walls outside the city defense, and finally pushed the battle line to the moat.

At a distance of less than [-] meters from the city wall, the Hengshan Army dug a series of depressions by themselves, placed the artillery under them, and only a small section of the muzzle and the horizon were exposed.The artillery stayed in this depression, approaching and bombarding the city wall.

The artillery is more powerful at close range.On the city wall of Sirius City, the bricks and stones were cracked, the rammed earth was loose, and cracks spread, and the city wall seemed to collapse at any moment.

The stone catapults threw explosives and fire oil tanks one after another, and there were endless explosions and fires above the city head, and there was no longer a place to stand.

At this time, there was no way for people to stand on the top of the city, but it also isolated the danger of Hengshan's army climbing the city.Fan Qi was quite determined about this, since the city was unable to fight back, he placed stone catapults in the city, and launched counterattacks from time to time.However, the range of the catapult is less than 200 meters, and the Hengshan artillery is hidden in the depression, so it has little effect.

Fan Qi also knew that defending the isolated city would have a huge blow to morale, but he dared not order anyone out of the city to fight at this time.Because the most elite soldiers and horses of Donghu have all gone west despite His Majesty, the more than [-] cavalry stationed there are no opponents of the Hengshan Army at all.

Now he can only hold on here, waiting for His Majesty to return in victory.According to Hengshan's current offensive strength, he is also confident that he can stick to the end.

Just when Mingzhou's [-] troops attacked Sirius City, Huerle, who was confronting Hengshan's main force, finally received military information from Sirius City.

At this moment, there were two options before him, one was to withdraw the troops immediately, relying on the Sky Wolf City, to slowly consume the strength of the Hengshan Army.The second is to continue to confront each other here and hold the Hengshan Army back.According to the information sent by Fan Qi, today's Sirius City can be said to be impenetrable, and there is absolutely no need for him to retreat immediately to rescue.

Although there was Fan Qi's guarantee, Ku'erle was also quite worried.The Hengshan Army is not only powerful in combat, but also often good at making tricks.At this time, the Mingzhou army attacked Sirius City from the north, and there was no guarantee that there would be no hidden tricks in it.

The war should not be delayed for a long time, and Huerle had a plan in mind.Now that the Hengshan Army is approaching Tianlang City with soldiers and horses, it is equivalent to blocking the connection between the army and the rear. The situation has changed, and if it takes too long, it will be more beneficial to the Hengshan Army.Only by defeating the main force of the Hengshan Army on this route as soon as possible can the current predicament be resolved.

So, Kuerle summoned the scattered cavalry, gathered together again, and prepared to launch a decisive battle against Hengshan.

As for the movements of the Donghu people, Lin Yifan soon knew about it.It seems that the Mingzhou army has been dispatched, forcing Donghu to resolve the deadlock here as soon as possible.

Immediately, Lin Yifan summoned the generals and began to make pre-battle arrangements.

A few days later, the situation between the two armies became tense again.The Donghu army formed a huge half-moon formation, surrounding the Hengshan camp on three sides.

As the horn sounded again, nearly 30 Donghu troops immediately launched a fierce attack on the Hengshan Camp.The vanguard cavalry all carried this bundle of explosives on their horses, and rushed forward to the camp desperately.

The first contact was still the Hengshan cavalry on the left and right flanks.Nearly 20 cavalrymen had no skills at all, collided directly, fought directly, and soon got mixed together and fought together.

The remaining tens of thousands of Donghu cavalry continued to brave the bombardment of artillery and catapults, crossing the trenches and the walls with difficulty, and the lives of countless cavalry stopped on the way to charge.But under the boundless and huge charge, these things were immediately covered by the follow-up crowd.

When the Donghu people rushed to less than 50 meters from the camp, a line of fire rose from the innermost ditch, instantly cutting off the way of the charge. Some cavalry were unable to retreat and immediately fell into the fire ditch, followed by a huge roar There was a sound, flames splashed, and they were thrown down among the charging cavalry, and the momentum of the forward was stagnant.But the fire ditch also exploded in bursts, and the soil kicked up quickly extinguished a lot of the fire in the ditch.

Many Donghu cavalry were unable to retreat, so they had to be busy with the hot wall of fire, and rode their horses across the trench and passed through it.

At this time, a few Donghu people had already rushed to the camp, and were about to light the matchlocks and launch a suicide charge.Then I saw large pipes protruding from behind the fence of the camp.Before the Donghu people came back to their senses, they saw tongues of fire bursting out of the pipe, engulfing them in an instant.

The gushing flames shot out at a range of nearly ten meters, drowning all the Donghu cavalry who rushed up.The flame ignited the explosives on his horse's back, and it exploded before reaching the fence.The explosion was mixed with flames, splashing in all directions.Even the Hengshan army behind the fence suffered a catastrophe.Fortunately, behind the kerosene soldiers, some comrades had already carried bags of soil in their hands. When the kerosene stars stained the fence and comrades, they immediately attached the soil to extinguish the flames.

Immediately afterwards, the Hengshan Army launched a counterattack. One after another, grenades exploded in front of the battalion. The soft soil of the grassland was overturned, and the entire front of the camp was in chaos.The charge of the Donghu people was also wiped out in one fell swoop.

Although under such a large-scale defense, some places were still breached by Donghu people, but this did not affect the overall situation.The Hengshan engineers quickly made up for the damage and thwarted the attempts of the Donghu people time and time again.

At this time, looking around, in this area of ​​more than ten miles, there was a dark crowd of people surging, like ants returning to their nests.

Huerle tightly gripped his horsewhip, staring intently at the battlefield ahead, although at this moment, he couldn't see the situation ahead at all.

At this moment, a general from the rear hurried over and whispered something to Huerle.Kuerle immediately reined in the horse's head and shouted sharply: "Hang the horn, retreat!"

(End of this chapter)