Quick wear is not a cannon fodder

An Ran smiled and said: "You are stupid. A foreign country is thousands of miles away from us. How many people can they send here? Coming across the ocean and looking down on us, there is no need to worry about not being able to defeat us. It doesn't take many people to defeat us." If we are defeated, tens of thousands of people are considered good, and we can hold up to 100,000 people. But now our territory is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more people under our rule. In addition, there are bastions for fortress defense, and we can still withstand the sky. Can’t they accommodate 100,000 people?”

"Then... what if the first batch of tens of thousands of them comes and loses, and then sends more people?"

"It will be at least two years before they send a group of more people over. At our current rate, how big a place do you think we will have in two years? By then we will have a large territory and more people, and they will be even more I can’t fight anymore.”

In the beginning, there were few people and no one was available to build the bastion, so it occupied less space. But now, there are more and more people under the rule, and there are more and more people to repair the bastion. In this way, the speed is geometric. , if it starts from one and doubles, and one batch is built every three months, the scale after two years will be 256 times of the current size! Geometric growth is so scary.

By then, including the places she controls now, it will not count as a geometric growth. She will probably be able to control six or seven provinces. The scope is basically the four provinces controlled by Li Xiu before, plus two or three surrounding provinces. The population There are about 100 million people, and they are all good places in the Central Plains with minerals, food and resources. Are you still afraid of those foreigners?

When everyone heard what An Ran said, they felt good and immediately felt relieved, no longer as scared as before.

Just when Dong Hanzhang and others still made no progress, but continued to suffer hundreds of casualties every day, and when the bastion on the Anron side continued to expand, the artillery battalion and foreign gun teams sent by the imperial court to Dong Hanzhang arrived.

The two arrived at about the same speed. Although the artillery was difficult to tow, so it moved slowly, but the foreign gun team also delayed some time because it needed to recruit manpower. In the end, the two arrived at about the same time, and both Dong Hanzhang submitted three letters. Months later.

Fortunately, they finally came, otherwise Dong Hanzhang would have been unable to continue the siege, because they had lost tens of thousands of people in three months. Although many of them were only injured, not dead, but injured, the only ones who could be used were There is less. This is also a disguised reduction of personnel, so Dong Hanzhang and others can't stop the siege quickly? The reason why they haven't dispersed yet is that the imperial court sent people here. Otherwise, Dong's army might have been better off, and the other generals might have fled or surrendered long ago - anyway, surrendering will not kill them, so it is better to surrender than to be killed by a sneak attack. powerful.

Dong Hanzhang originally had a foreign gun team of 2,000 people. With the additional 5,000 people, there would be a foreign gun team of 7,000 people.

The foreign gun team of 7,000 people, plus Dong Hanzhang's own muskets, had almost tens of thousands of new muskets - he didn't even count the old muskets - and the artillery battalion brought 300 cannons, this equipment, this weapon , It’s impossible to defeat foreigners, but if he still can’t conquer this small Maple Leaf Fort, he won’t believe it.

However, knowing that Lu loved to carry out sneak attacks, Dong Hanzhang sent them a letter before these people came, asking them to take precautions in case they were attacked by Lu.

In the past, everyone might not have taken Dong Hanzhang's words to heart, but because General Wang and other generals had mentioned that Lu did like to conduct sneak attacks, everyone took precautions after receiving Dong Hanzhang's reminder.

Although he paid great attention to precautions, he was still attacked by An Ran's people and was disgraced.

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

The people in the Foreign Gun Team are all mercenaries, and they look very good and arrogant. Even the Wu Dynasty people inside - mercenaries come from all over the world, and naturally there are Wu Dynasty people - seem to have joined the Foreign Gun Team. I feel superior to others, and I feel particularly superior.

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

The Dong Jiajun had gone through the baptism of blood and fire in Jiangnan, and had strict military discipline, so they were attacked by An Ran. Even if they failed, they could at least keep their formation intact and not collapse.

The military discipline of the mercenaries was much worse. When they first saw An Ran and others sneaking up on them, they were very arrogant, because everyone had guns in their hands, and they were all good guns, so they started shooting and even dared to chase after them with their guns. He ran away with An Ran and others, thinking that he had a gun and was great.

But I never thought that the opponent also had guns, grenades, landmines and other items, and ran faster than you. Needless to say, the final outcome was that the one who didn't chase you was better off, and the one who chased you basically never came back. Yes, those who were not dead were also robbed of their guns - it's really thanks to the enemy. Although Enron had guns before, it was impossible for everyone to have guns. Recently, the enemy keeps sending them, and basically everyone has them. We have guns, but the enemy's guns are not as good as our own guns, but that doesn't matter. Those with bad guns can stay behind to guard the bastion, which is more than enough. Good guns are used to equip frontline soldiers.

After the people who chased them several times did not come back, the people in the foreign gun team began to lose their composure, and like Dong Hanzhang's people, they did not dare to pursue them. Fortunately, they all had guns, and they were more courageous than General Wang's people. They still need to be stronger, at least they did not collapse, but like Dong Hanzhang's later march, he no longer cared about An Ran and just wanted to reach the destination earlier.

So thanks to the fact that they didn't dare to pursue them, An Ran and others fought all the way to pick up guns and ammunition. After the members of the foreign gun team were killed, the companions of the foreign gun team did not dare to stop to pick up guns and ammunition for fear of turning their faces. Something might happen when picking them up. Of course, they didn't dare to pick them up. They were afraid that they would carry too many things and would not be able to run away when faced with danger, so they took advantage of Enron. You know, these people held, but It is normal to have an advanced rifle that is better than Dong Hanzhang's gun. After all, since mercenaries are desperadoes, they naturally need to have good equipment to avoid being poorly equipped, failing to win the battle, and losing their lives. loss.

Fortunately, An Ran did not ambush them far away and only attacked them for a day and night, so they only suffered 1,000 casualties, and 4,000 people managed to reach Dong Hanzhang's place successfully.

Dong Hanzhang saw that they were missing a thousand people, and didn't ask why. After all, it was good that the other party arrived smoothly. At least they were stronger than General Wang's men. General Wang's men all ran away and disappeared.

With these 4,000 people joining, the foreign gun team has a total of 6,000 people. Dong Hanzhang felt that he could try to attack the city in a few days.

The artillery didn't work last time, so this time we try the traditional method - using human lives. Human lives are already available. Aren't there many friendly forces coming to support them? If they can't use guns, they can't even use traditional combat, right? If that doesn't work, you can also drag some local people into the city as cannon fodder and be held at gunpoint. Do those people dare to work hard to climb up? Relying on the constant flow of people, he did not believe that the defenders could bear it.

And as long as there are people in one place climbing up the wall, the foreign gun team will follow them. Everyone has a gun, but they can't deal with the few people in the city?