"Now the officer should know how many soldiers we have left …"
Zhu Dadian asked a series of questions, and all the generals lowered their heads and said nothing.
Seeing this, Zhu Dadian couldn’t help but jump even though he had a premonition that the troops suffered heavy losses.
A bad feeling also came to Zhu Dadian’s mind.
Zhu Dadian looked at the lieutenant around him and had to answer, "How many troops did the ginseng attack? Except for the musketeers and archers, the siege team was almost lost."
"According to statistics, less than 100 people came back from the retreat of 4,000 siege troops."
"The musketeers who were directly shelled by the Tiger and Leopard Army lost more than 500 people … The archers who were attacked by the Tiger and Leopard arms gunmen also lost more than 400 people …"
"In addition to not participating in the war today, you have brought 10,000 troops, leaving a total of 1,300 musketeers, 900 archers … and less than 100 ordinary soldiers …"
"Even less than three thousand people, but also some musketeers and archers who don’t have much fighting capacity …" Zhu Dadian asked with a full face of incredible.
Chapter four hundred and twenty Counter-offensive
Zhu Dadian was shocked after being repeatedly confirmed by the lieutenant around him. He had to accept this very cruel fact for himself …
At present, all the ministries will look at it in a low tone and say, "That is to say, we have no military strength to attack the saltworks except those who have no fighting capacity …"
Or just speak lieutenant crustily skin of head out again to answer "adult if there is no follow-up reinforcements, our existing strength is really unable to attack saltworks, but for the attack that just failed, we are not a gain."
Speaking of which, the lieutenant directly took out a battlefield misfire Grenade.
After handing it to Zhu Dadian, he said with a serious face, "My Lord, this explosive iron knot is the weapon captured by the soldiers on the battlefield. The soldiers on the battlefield have no room to fight back. Most of the losses in our attack are caused by this weapon …"
"At the end of the day, I will understand that this is the Grenade that the Tiger and Leopard Army said."
After carefully looking at the hand grenade weighing a kilo in the handshake, Zhu Dadian asked, "Can we call a blacksmith to copy such a powerful weapon? If we are also equipped with this kind of firearm, we can throw it into the city wall and let the defenders of the city wall have a taste of being bombed …"
Lieutenant nodded his head and affirmed, "When adults get this kind of firearm, they will have shown it to military craftsmen. Give them enough iron, gunpowder, matchrope and they will be able to make it …"
"At the end, I will ask adults to temporarily stop attacking the saltworks … and then attack the saltworks after we build enough grenades for subsequent reinforcements to arrive …"
After the lieutenant finished speaking, a company commander who had just returned from the battlefield was still wearing a bit of smoke. He suggested, "At the end of the adult, in addition to reinforcements, we have to adjust more powerful artillery. It is best to transfer several red cannons in Jinan City Wall …"
"Tiger and Leopard troops’ flower bombs are too powerful. Only a red cannon that can launch flower bombs can suppress the defenders’ artillery more than directly blowing out a gap in the wall flower bombs …"
When the battle came here, Zhu Dadian, the Shandong Provincial Patrol House, lost his loyalist pride and began to face up to the fact that the tigers and leopards in the saltworks would wake up and regain their senses. Zhu Dadian agreed without thinking.
As I said just now, this attack is not only the first battle of our own, but also the gathering of too many people. All the troops and financial resources in Shandong can’t be lost …
Restore confidence Zhu Dadian Shandong wantonly mobilized soldiers and craftsmen to build grenades for a new round of attacks. After a day’s rest, He Guozhong finally got the first good news after the salt field was besieged by the imperial court …
The aid from the Governor’s Office of Shanshan has been delivered to the saltworks wharf by merchant ship, and at the same time, it has come with the aid, and the latest order from the Governor’s Office of Shanshan will …
A thousand muskets and ammunition, nine medium-sized mortars and various flowering bombs, 2,000 grenades, 15,000 grenades …
See merchant ships to send their own equipment list behind the color excited Guo-zhong He directly opened his mouth and cried, "Great, with this batch of equipment, the loyalist will not be afraid of them even if fifty thousand people come again …"
"Since the guard wants to make an example here and force his loyalists to retreat, we will take advantage of this evening to give the loyalists outside the city a night attack to wipe them out of the saltworks at one fell swoop, and once again show the imperial court that the powerful fighting capacity of our tiger and leopard forces the imperial court and the governor-general of Shanshan to escape."
Has been shrouded by the night, the battlefield saltworks closed, and the gate was suddenly opened.
Then two days ago, I went out of the city and launched a counterattack against the loyalist. One thousand soldiers filed out along the gate and disappeared into the vast night without saying a word, holding a pike and a Grenade around their waist.
About two miles away from the saltworks, Zhu Dadian, the official camp in Shandong Province, mobilized all his efforts to find out the specific strength of the defenders in the saltworks, but all their efforts were blocked by the walls around the saltworks.
In this case, in the eyes of loyalist officers such as Zhu Dadian, the defenders of Yanchang are still 500 tigers and leopards from Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces.
Those people who are extra in the battlefield are the Tiger and Leopard Army, and the saltworks army is directly called up to help the Tiger and Leopard Army defend the saltworks recruits, and the number of these recruits is no more than 1,000, otherwise there is no way to ensure the stability and war of the entire saltworks garrison battlefield only by relying on the 500 veterans in the garrison.
Since there are 1,500 defenders in the saltworks, it’s grateful that there are 1,000 left after two defensive losses.
For such a large saltworks, a thousand defenders are neither too many nor too few, just to ensure that there are no loopholes in the defense of saltworks.
In the eyes of all the officers and men, defending the saltworks, tigers and leopards, facing the attack, he has no idea or ability except passive defense
Since it is impossible for the tiger and leopard troops defending the saltworks to attack and the whole Shandong is the imperial court territory, it is said that there will never be an accident in the camp.
In this case, the camp, which is almost composed of the guards, becomes without any vigilance.
The defenders of the 1,000 saltworks kept touching the 50-step position outside the loyalist barracks under the cover of night, and they were quiet and didn’t even notice it when they came to the barracks.
See in front of him in addition to the fire has no figure loyalist barracks led garrison division head face quickly flashed a nobody wipe sneer at.
Then, at the side, I dared to come to the Ministry in a hurry and ordered, "The artillery will blow up the barracks tent in many places if they want to receive the attack order. At the shortest time, it will bring the flowering bomb department to light up …"
"Others continue to touch loyalist barracks as close as they can touch …"