Improper cannon fodder for fast wear

Chapter 2074 The Innocent Woman 36
An Ran smiled and said: "You are stupid, foreign countries are thousands of miles away from us, how many people can they send here? They come across the ocean and look down on us, thinking that we are mud legs from the countryside, so don't be afraid that we won't be able to beat them. It doesn’t take many people to defeat us. It’s not bad to have tens of thousands of people. We can reach 10 people. But our current territory is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more people under our control. Fortress for fortress defense, can't stand up to 10 of them?"

"Then... what if they lose the first batch of tens of thousands of people and send more people?"

"When they send a group of more people over, it will take at least two years. According to our current speed, how big do you think we will be in two years, when we have a large territory and more people, they will even I can't move."

In the beginning, there were few people and no one built the bastion, so it occupied less space. But now, more and more people are under the rule, and more and more people are building the bastion. In this way, the speed is geometric. , if at the beginning it is one, double growth, and a batch is built every three months, the scale after two years will be 250 six times the current size!Geometric growth is just that scary.

At that time, the place she controls now will not count as geometric growth. It is estimated that she can control six or seven provinces. The scope is basically the four provinces controlled by Li Xiu before, plus two or three provinces radiated around. It's about [-] million, and they are all good places in the Central Plains with mines, food and resources. Are you afraid of those few foreigners?

Hearing what An Ran said, everyone felt good, and immediately felt relieved, not as scared as before.

Just when Dong Hanzhang and others still made no progress, but continued to suffer hundreds of casualties every day, and the bastion on the other side of Anran continued to expand in scale, the artillery battalion and foreign gun team sent by the imperial court to Dong Hanzhang came.

The two came at about the same speed. Although the artillery was not easy to delay, so they went slowly, but the foreign gun team was delayed because of the recruitment of manpower. In the end, the two arrived at about the same time, and Dong Hanzhang wrote three letters. months later.

Fortunately, they finally came, otherwise Dong Hanzhang would not be able to continue the siege, because they have lost tens of thousands of people in three months, although many of them were only injured, not dead, but those who were injured would be able to use Less, this is also a disguised reduction in staff, so can Dong Hanzhang and others not be able to siege soon?The reason why they haven’t dispersed is that the imperial court sent people here, otherwise Dong Jiajun might be better off, other generals might have run away or surrendered—anyway, surrendering won’t kill them, it’s better to surrender, it’s better than killing them in a sneak attack powerful.

Dong Hanzhang originally had a foreign gun team of 2000 people, and with the addition of 5000 people, there would be a foreign gun team of 7000 people.

The 7000 foreign gun team, plus Dong Hanzhang’s own muskets, there are almost tens of thousands of new muskets—he doesn’t count the old muskets—and the artillery battalion brought [-] cannons. This equipment, this weapon, It is impossible to beat foreigners, but if he still can't beat this small Maple Leaf Fort, he still won't believe it.

However, knowing that the Lu family likes to engage in sneak attacks, Dong Hanzhang wrote to them before these people came, telling them to take precautions in case they were attacked by the Lu family.

Before putting it aside, everyone may not take Dong Hanzhang's words to heart, but because General Wang and other generals have mentioned that the Lu family really likes to engage in sneak attacks, so after receiving Dong Hanzhang's reminder, everyone paid attention to precautions.

Although he paid great attention to precautions, he was still attacked by An Ran's people and made him feel ashamed.

It's normal for An Ran to sneak attack. After all, the moves are not afraid of old age, as long as they are easy to use.

The members of the foreign gun team are all mercenaries, one or two of them seem to be very proud and arrogant, even the people from the Huang Dynasty in it - the mercenaries come from all over the world, and naturally there are people from the Huang Dynasty - it seems that because of joining the foreign gun team, He is superior to others, and has a special sense of superiority.

But in the face of An Ran's sneak attack, their performance was also inferior to that of Dong Jiajun.

The Dong family army has gone through the baptism of blood and fire in the south of the Yangtze River, and has strict military discipline, so they were attacked by An Ran. Even if they failed, they could at least keep their formation in order and not collapse.

The military discipline of the mercenaries is much worse. At the beginning, when they saw An Ran and others sneak attacking, they were very arrogant, because everyone had guns in their hands, and they were all good guns, so they shot all over and dared to chase after them with their guns on their shoulders. Watching An Ran and others run away, he felt that it was great to have a gun.

But I never thought that the opponent also has guns, grenades, landmines, etc., and runs faster than you. Needless to say, the final fate is better if you don’t chase it. Yes, guns were snatched from the ones who didn’t die—it’s really thanks to the enemy, although An Ran used to have guns, but it’s impossible for everyone to have guns. They have guns, even if the enemy's guns are not as good as their own guns, but it doesn't matter. If the guns are not good, they can be left behind to guard the bastions. This is more than enough. Good guns are used to equip the frontline soldiers.

After the people who chased them out several times did not come back, the people of the foreign gun team began to lose their composure, and they did not dare to chase after them like Dong Hanzhang's people. Fortunately, they all had guns, and they were more courageous than General Wang's men. It still needs to be stronger, at least not collapsed, but like Dong Hanzhang's march in the later period, no longer caring about An Ran, just thinking about reaching the destination earlier.

So thanks to the fact that they didn't dare to chase after them, An Ran and the others fought all the way to pick up guns and ammunition - after the members of the foreign gun team were killed, those companions of the foreign gun team did not dare to stop to pick up guns and ammunition, for fear of bending their faces There will be accidents when they pick it up. Of course, they don't dare to pick it up. They are afraid that they will carry too many things on their backs. It's normal to have advanced guns that are better than Dong Hanzhang's guns. After all, since mercenaries are desperadoes, they naturally have to improve their equipment, so as not to be poorly equipped, fail to win battles, and lose their lives. Isn't that necessary? loss.

Fortunately, An Ran did not ambush them far away, and only sneaked into them for a day and a night, so they only suffered 1000 casualties, and 4000 people rushed to Dong Hanzhang's place smoothly.

Dong Hanzhang saw that they had lost 1000 people, but he didn't ask why. After all, the other party's smooth arrival was considered good, at least better than General Wang's men. General Wang's men were all running away at that time.

With these 4000 people joining, the foreign gun team has a total of 6000 people. Dong Hanzhang felt that he could try to attack the city in a few days.

The cannons were not good last time, this time try the traditional method - filling with human life, human life is ready-made, isn't there a lot of friendly troops who come to support, they are not good at muskets, they can't even use traditional warfare, right?If it doesn't work, you can also use some local people as cannon fodder to rush into the city and be pointed at by guns. Do those people dare to work hard to climb up?Relying on a steady stream of people and traffic, he did not believe that the defenders could hold it.

And as long as people from one place climbed up the wall, the foreign gun team followed. They all have guns, and they can't deal with the people in the city?

(End of this chapter)