"Damn it, when did your old Gong reach such a high level?" Xiao Chen was surprised.
"Has Duan Fengnian started attacking the city?" Gong Shouli said, "I'm afraid many more brothers will die now."
"Well, I heard that some siege armored vehicles were also obtained. The musket fire was very powerful. Hundreds of injured brothers came down just now." Xiao Chen said.
"Then why are you still here? Why don't you go to the city?" Gong Shouli said, "You have gone, brothers, and you will feel at ease. Otherwise, you would have thought that we were all crippled by someone yesterday."
"Aren't we here to see if you are dead first?" Xiao Chen said, "But are you sure you don't want to go back? If you go back, I will arrange carriages and horses to escort you, and I will also file a memorial to ask for your merit. You have been seriously injured and have made a great contribution. You can get off the line of fire and go home to recuperate. No one can find fault with you."
"Forget it." Gong Shouli shook his head, "I am also a supervisor after all. It is unjustifiable to go back before the battle is over. Besides, I still have to monitor you. What if I leave and your boy defectes before the battle? "
"You are so kind-hearted as a donkey's liver and lungs, you will die here!" Xiao Chen got up angrily and walked away with a flick of his sleeves.
A fierce battle is going on at the top of the city.
Li Qiu, Zhang Heng, Lin Feixiong, Xu Zhisheng and other generals were all commanding the battle on the tower. With the tower as the center, Zhang Heng's department was in charge of the left city wall, and Lin Feixiong was in charge of the right wall.
The tower should be much higher than the city wall. Standing on it, you can have an overview of the battlefield and conduct better command.
Because there is a circle of urns in front of the city tower, and there are several arrow towers on the urns, so there is no need to worry about the enemy coming up with cold arrows.
As for why Duan Fengnian didn't use cannons to bombard him? They had just bombarded twice, but after just a few shots, the artillerymen of the Yanyun Army in the city were positioned. After a round of covering strikes, they were beaten to pieces. In desperation, they had to withdraw. .
Artillery has always been called the king of war, but it is not for nothing. In particular, the Yanyun Army's artillery has a long range, high accuracy, strong technology, and large numbers. It can basically completely suppress Duan Fengnian's artillery battalion.
However, no matter how powerful the Yanyun Army's artillery was, it could not bombard the enemy troops approaching the city. Because the elevation angle was too high, a person who was not careful could blast his city wall. After all, the cannons at this time were not modern artillery. The Zhuyuan signs will not be so accurate, and they will not have advanced guidance functions...
Even with modern artillery, the two armies did not dare to open fire when the two armies were so close to each other.
The corridor of the city wall is more than ten feet wide. Because horses can run back and forth to deliver orders, it is also called a horse path. There are horse-faced piers every twenty feet on the city wall.
Because the pier protrudes outside the city wall and is shaped like a horse's nose, it is called a horse face, which has nothing to do with a bull-headed horse face.
Archers, crossbowmen and musketeers are arranged on the horse-faced piers. The two piers and a section of the city wall between them form a triangular defensive posture, so that the siege can form a three-sided pincer attack from top to bottom, that is, So called crossfire.
But facing dozens of armored siege vehicles that were almost close to the city wall, the crossfire power could not be used, because the siege vehicles were surrounded by a thin layer of iron, and bows, arrows and muskets could not penetrate them from both sides.
The Langya stormtroopers who climbed up the ladder rushed up one after another. Under the cover of muskets and bows and arrows, they launched a sharp knife offensive against the city wall.
Because the city wall was relatively narrow after all, even though there were many soldiers on the city, they were unable to surround the attacking soldiers. They had to fight head-on, which resulted in huge casualties.
Duan Fengnian was also willing to go all out. In the first round of siege, he sent more than 10,000 people, including more than 2,000 archers and musketeers. Under the cover of cowhide wooden curtains and shields, they fired suppressively at the city wall.
What I hate the most is that Duan Fengnian actually set up a reverse slope position on a hillside 200 steps north of the city. He built more than 20 catapults behind it and violently attacked the city walls and walls, causing huge damage. .
This location is very bad. Because it is on a reverse slope, the cannons in the city cannot fire at all. The cannonballs are launched in a curved trajectory, and this trajectory happens to be blocked by the hillside.
With such a close distance and the angle of the hillside, Duan Fengnian's cannon couldn't be used, but the catapult was just right, within the most comfortable range.
Duan Fengnian was also very methodical in his use of troops. He ordered the armored siege vehicles to attack the left wing of the city wall, but the catapults only attacked the right wing of the city wall, thus avoiding accidental damage to his own siege vehicles.
During the gap between the catapult attacks, the soldiers below began to attack, using the oldest but most effective ladders. Hundreds of ladders were set up on the top of the city. The soldiers rushed up like they were risking their lives, one after another. There is an endless stream, and there are so many people fighting!
Even if it is consumption, the defenders will be exhausted.
Some people may ask, why do these soldiers rush up so desperately even if they know that even if they climb to the top of the city, they will have a narrow escape?
Generally speaking, there are two reasons, one active reason and one passive reason.
The reason for being passive is naturally that it is difficult to disobey military orders. If the officer orders you to charge, if you dare not charge, you are cowering in front of the battle, and he will chop off your head right in front of the battle!
It's death anyway, so it's better to die in the hands of the enemy. On the one hand, it will be heroic, and on the other hand, the family can get a pension.
The active reason is that if you are the first to attack the city, and finally your own side captures the city, you will gain a great first achievement.
In ancient battles, there were four great achievements, namely 'capture the flag, become the general, trap the enemy, and ascend first'.
Capture the flag, as the name suggests, is to seize the opponent's military flag during combat. If you are still alive after taking it back, it is a great achievement.
Of course, it also depends on what kind of flag you capture. If it is a small military flag of a ten-man team, the reward will naturally not be that generous.
But if you can capture the flag of an army of 10,000 people, even if you are just a small soldier, you will be made a general immediately. If you capture the flag of an army of 100,000 people, you may be directly knighted. .
Killing a general, as the name suggests, is to kill the opponent's general. This also depends on the status and importance of the opponent's general. For example, if you are just a corps commander, you can barely be counted as killing a general, and the reward will not be very generous. But if you kill a general, the reward will not be very generous. If you kill a Qianhu, you will be directly banned from being a Qianhu!
If you kill a general, you will be made a general. If you kill a marshal...
Assuming it was Xiao Chen, he would be awarded a knighthood directly.
In fact, "trap" cannot be as the name suggests, because "trap" here means to break. To trap is to break the formation, but it does not mean that you can't get out if you are trapped in the formation.
For example, Xiao Chen and the others charged and killed last night. Not only did they defeat more with less, but in the end they were not surrounded by enemies several times their size. They also killed hundreds of people. That was considered a charge.
It is a great achievement. Xiao Chen, Xiao Ye, Gong Shouli and the others are still ranked first in the credit book, even above Xu Zhisheng's credit for defending the city!
