The sky in Dading Prefecture was gray.
The defenders who were eating swallowed the food whole without chewing it, and the soldiers who had just lay down got up again.
He Sandao spat and raised the long sword in his hand: "Brothers, let's get to work!"
"All Marines, aim and shoot them!"
Gunshots rang out again.
The kerosene on the city wall was poured down again, and the flames that had just been extinguished began to burn again.
This time, the Liao soldiers defending the city learned their lesson. They hid behind the arrow nests, shouted when they saw the enemy soldiers wearing silver armor, and shot arrows at the enemy soldiers wearing leather armor.
The arrow tower on the city wall also began to play a role. Under Yuan Biao's arrangement, thousands of people entered the arrow tower. They used the crossbows in the arrow tower to attack the enemy's leather armored soldiers. For a while, the enemy soldiers were shot to the ground.
But the enemy was too numerous, and their vanguard raised their shields to block the arrows.
They were moving closer to the burning city wall, and then... another large wave of silver-armored soldiers suddenly flew up. They gathered under the city wall in the north. In an instant, half of the soldiers defending the north of the city fell down!
That’s 60,000 people!
They actually attacked the north city wall at the same time!
There are only five thousand Marines here!
They had only fired three rounds from their rifles and had no time to reload.
"Draw your sword and kill...!"
In an instant, the battle here turned into a brutal hand-to-hand fight.
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Zuo Mu, commander of the First Army of the Great Xia Navy, led an army of 100,000 and rushed from the night to the dawn.
After receiving the emergency order from the Ministry of National Defense, they did not stop for a moment. After three days and three nights of forced march, the soldiers were already very tired.
But Zuo Mu knew that he could not stop to rest, because if they arrived at the battlefield even half a quarter of an hour earlier, more of He Sandao's Marines might survive.
"Brothers, hold on a little longer, we'll reach Dading Prefecture by evening!"
"After you destroy the Thunder Army, I'll give you two weeks of vacation!"
"You absolutely can't let me down now! We are the first navy of Daxia. We are rescuing the Marines and that bastard He Sandao. We are ahead of our army brothers. This is a military achievement. We must rush in first. If we are late, there will be no soup!"
"Don't stop for eating or drinking!"
"Whether we can rescue He Sandao and his comrades depends on our speed!"
No one slacked off, and no one complained. All the soldiers shouted loudly: "For Daxia, charge!"
Like the main force led by Bai Yulian, they passed through many cities and also did not encounter any resistance.
The city walls were filled with soldiers defending the city, but in no city did any enemy come out to stop them for even a moment.
Changning Prefecture is the provincial capital closest to Dading Prefecture.
At noon, Zuo Mu's troops passed through the outside of Changning Prefecture smoothly. There were also many defenders standing on the city wall of Changning Prefecture, including the city defender Yu Huaian.
He watched the mighty army flying by, took a deep breath, and then sighed softly.
He raised his head, looked at the gray sky, and murmured, "The weather has changed."
"Sir...are we just going to watch?" asked his chief of staff Song Biesi.
"Do you think our soldiers are a match for them?"
Song Bie Shi was silent for a long time and shook his head.
"So some things are beyond human control. The Liao Dynasty... after so many years of tyranny and oppression, the people have turned away. If only it rained, everything in the world might grow better."
"Don't worry about anything. Doesn't His Majesty have any decree?"
"Let's go back to the City Guard House. This year's wheat yield is probably even worse than last year's. So much land has been abandoned... If the landlord changes, perhaps there will be more tenants cultivating the land."
In short, in this battle of Daxia against Liao, only the Thunder Army is fighting against the Daxia Army.
Facing the Thunder Army's frenzied attack were still the 20,000 Marines guarding Dading Prefecture and the 300,000 temporarily reorganized Liao soldiers.
During the day, the Thunder Army attacked Dading Prefecture like crazy, and the city walls were in danger several times.
Twenty thousand Marines were stationed like nails in all directions, and they relied entirely on their rifles to suppress the enemy troops that rushed to the top of the city.
By noon, only a little over 100,000 of the 300,000 Liao soldiers were left, and 4,000 of the 20,000 Marines were killed.
The heart of Thunder Army Commander Lou Yingzong was bleeding.
Because only 20,000 of his 100,000 elite troops were left!
The casualties of the other 350,000 troops reached 80,000!
In other words, from the siege last night to now, he has lost a full 160,000 soldiers!
There are still nearly 300,000 people able to fight.
It was still a lot, still more than twenty times that of the Marines, but his heart gradually sank into the abyss - the enemy's guns were too powerful.
If they are unable to climb the city wall and have time to reload their bullets, the consequences will be devastating, because their guns can completely ignore the defense of the bulletproof armor!
He witnessed with his own eyes that one shot cost one life. So as long as the other side had enough bullets, his men would be killed one by one.
How should this battle be fought?
He looked at the huge city that was still burning and felt confused for the first time.
Without 100,000 elite warriors, the only way to climb the city wall was to rely on flying claws or ladders. However, he came in a hurry and there were definitely no ladders. The lack of siege equipment made him feel extremely powerless facing the city.
"Sound the retreat!"
He finally gave the order, and the soldiers under his command retreated like a tide.
"Hahahaha..." He Sandao laughed loudly on the city wall!
"No, come on," He Sandao arrogantly hooked his finger at Lou Yingzong, just like the girl in the brothel, "I'm ready, come on!"
Lou Yingzong was looking at He Sandao through a telescope, and he saw He Sandao raising his thumb, then pointing to the ground.
He put down the telescope and said, "Everyone, rest where you are. When night falls... we will continue the siege!"
Three hundred thousand exhausted soldiers dropped their weapons with a clang and lay down on the wet grass.
It’s so tiring, so frustrating, and it’s so damn uncomfortable to fight!
In the hearts of many soldiers, they have lost the faith to capture the city, also because of that gun!
That's a different gun from theirs!
That gun is really going to kill you!
They watched helplessly as their comrades died at the gunpoint. The armor that the Holy Lord said was invulnerable to swords and guns...wasn't that a lie?
The real threat on the opposite side was only those 20,000 people, but it was precisely those 20,000 people and 20,000 guns that made the city impregnable.
A feeling of war-weariness quietly arose among the army.
The hope of victory also flourished on the city walls.
The surviving soldiers were cheering, shouting, and weeping.
After his arrogance, He Sandao asked Tang Qianjun in a low voice: "How many bullets are left?"
"A lot of it was wasted. It's almost all gone."
"Damn it! We have to train these guys hard when we get back. Four hundred thousand rounds of ammunition! And only a few enemies did they kill?"
"Commander, what should we do next?"
"No big deal. Don't these guys like using knives? Next...it's a fight with the knives in our hands."
Tang Qianjun sighed and turned his head away, suddenly startled, "Commander, look!"
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