Ye Lin only stayed in Gaocheng for one night, and then said goodbye the next day. Li Xin did not make things difficult for him and sent someone to send him back to the capital.

This "negotiation" did not bring any substantial progress. The day after Ye Lin returned to Beijing, Mu Ying launched a fierce attack on Luzhou City, with dozens of catapults throwing thunder, and the explosion of people could hardly stand on Luzhou City.

However, at this time, the imperial army had learned the lessons of Xiangyang City. Although there were thunders on the sky, there were always people in Luzhou City. Their strategy was that there were always people guarding the city walls, but the distribution was very scattered, which could greatly reduce the lethality of the sky thunder. At the same time, once someone was injured and killed by the bomb, someone would soon add it later, which led to a sudden reduction in the efficiency of the sky thunder, and the process was far from as smooth as the attack on Xiangyang.

Fortunately, there were not many defenders in Luzhou City, and the Southwest Army had sufficient preparations for firearms. While the court had increased its experience in dealing with firearms, Mu Ying and other Southwest Army generals had gradually increased their experience in using firearms. After bombing for a whole day, Mu Ying ordered the most elite guards around him to rush up the city tower of Luzhou City with a ladder. After losing hundreds of people, these people successfully climbed up the city tower, then stood on the city tower, and began to throw ordinary thunder down.

However, the Luzhou defender was quite determined. The Southwest Army continuously sent troops to climb the city tower, and the people from the court were also sending troops to climb the city tower. The two sides fought on the city tower for about an hour before the Southwest Army completely seized the walls of Luzhou City, opened the Luzhou city gate, and the army advanced to Luzhou.

This is just the beginning of the Battle of Luzhou.

Most of the mysterious veil of firearms has been unveiled. The generals of the court no longer regard it as a divine object. In such a large court, it is naturally impossible for them to be fools. Some smarter generals have figured out countermeasures to deal with thunder. Although it is not completely effective, it still causes great trouble for Mu Ying.

After entering the city, relying on a large amount of thunder reserves and the increasingly mature musket soldiers, Mu Ying's troops were able to advance quickly in Luzhou City. However, even so, it took almost four or five days to drive the imperial guards out of Luzhou, and it was very difficult to eat Luzhou City.

After conquering Luzhou, this originally prosperous city was already scorched earth.

After Mu Ying captured Luzhou, Li Xin rushed from the Central Army Gaocheng to the Luzhou front line. In the wounded camp of Luzhou City, he met Mu Ying who was visiting the wounded soldiers.

Mu Ying was not injured much, but the Southwest Army paid a lot of money this time, and the wounded soldiers were much more than any previous battle, even far exceeding the Battle of Xiangyang.

After seeing Li Xin, Mu Ying stood up and bowed deeply to Li Xin: "The last general has seen the general."

He has a cheerful personality and has a good personal relationship with Li Xin. When he saw Li Xin, he always had a smile on his face, but this time, General Mu had a serious face, and obviously he was in a bad mood.

Li Xin, dressed in blue clothes, first looked around in the wounded barracks, and then asked, "There are many casualties?"

Mu Ying nodded and smiled bitterly: "The specific number has not been counted yet, but initially estimated that there may be seven or eight thousand people who died in battle. In addition to the serious injury, the combat power will be more than 10,000 yuan this time."

Mu Ying started to attack Luzhou City long before Ye Lin met Li Xin. The Southwest Army attacked Luzhou three times in total. It took five or six days for the last time to barely snatch Luzhou.

The difficulty of this battle was the most difficult battle since the Southwest Army left Shu.

Li Xin nodded silently and said, "How are the casualties in the imperial court?"

"At least two or three times ours, it will only be more, not less than this number."

Mu Ying said in a deep voice: "The court sent more than once reinforcements to Luzhou. Together, the defenders in Luzhou City were estimated to have 80,000 to 90,000. When they finally captured Luzhou, they only had more than 30,000 people escaped. Many of them were injured and became prisoners of our army."

To be honest, although the proportion of this war loss is still exaggerated, it is no longer as terrible as the Battle of Xiangyang City. In other words, the ability of the imperial court to deal with firearms is gradually increasing bit by bit.

This is a very normal thing. No one in the world is a fool. Even if the technical gap between the two sides is too large, after getting to know each other, the gap will gradually narrow.

Fortunately, Li Xin was under the banner of the Prince of the Great Jin, and the Southwest Army strictly prohibited soldiers from disturbing the people along the way. Otherwise, once the Southwest Army lost the hearts of the people and stood opposite to all the people of the Great Jin, the Southwest Army's technical advantage would be cleaned up by the court for a maximum of two or three years.

Li Xin and Mu Ying looked at the injured barracks together and found that most of the injured barracks were seriously injured soldiers. There were still many slightly injured soldiers in Mu Ying's Hanzhou army, so they could only recover slowly by themselves.

After reading it, Li Xin and Mu Ying walked out of the wounded barracks. The two of them walked on the streets of Luzhou City. General Li slowly said: "I said early in the morning that thunder is not a omnipotent thing. This thing is used as a deterrent, so it is naturally a omnipotent spirit. However, it will become more and more difficult to fight with others. It is already amazing that the battle in Luzhou can be fought like this. Brother Mu doesn't need to think too much."

Mu Ying nodded and smiled bitterly: "It's not that I thought too much, but after the fight, I thought about it carefully. If my mind could be more active at that time, my Southwest Army soldiers might have died fewer people."

Li Xin shook his head and asked, "How many soldiers are there available in the Hanzhou Army under Brother Mu's tent?"

Mu Ying brought 50,000 Hanzhou troops from the southwest to Shu and conquered Ankang in Hanzhong. After Mu Ying took all the 50,000 Hanzhou troops from Hanzhong to Luzhou. Although the route was quite smooth, there would be more or less losses.

Mu Ying lowered his head and said, "Go back to the general, the Hanzhou army has 30,000 combat power at present, and can charge for the general at any time!"

"Thirty thousand..."

Li Xin narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Brother Mu brought 50,000 Hanzhou troops to fight from Hanzhong to Luzhou. It is already very difficult. According to my opinion, the Hanzhou army will take a break in Luzhou for a while, and then take Luzhou as our stronghold in the future. The Hanzhou army will defend Luzhou and leave a city for advance or retreat for my Southwest Army. What do you think?"

Speaking of this, Mu Ying naturally couldn't say much. He silently said: "The general will naturally obey the arrangements of the general!"

Li Xin reached out and patted Mu Ying on the shoulder, and said, "Brother Mu, don't you let Li Shuo come out to pick fruits. It's probably not that easy for us to take down the capital."

Mu Ying lowered her head and said, "The last general will naturally believe in the general."

Li Xin closed his eyes and thought for a while, and said, "Then, Brother Mu has accumulated a lot of experience in using firearms all the way from Hanzhong. I hope Brother Mu can bring some generals from the Hanzhou Military Arms Battalion to contact Li Shuo's Ningzhou Army and teach them some methods of using firearms. Do Brother Mu agree?"
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