Chapter 11 Attack
Since last night, this damn ruined city has been filled with weirdness!
There is definitely no explanation for the carnival that is about to end. It is just a siege, and it is far from the stage of street fighting after the city is broken. There is no fighting. You should huddle at home and shiver. Even if you are not shaking at home, you will be shaking in the middle of the night. Yes, you should fucking sleep!
The commander-in-chief mobilized all the cavalry early in the morning to look for enemy reinforcements. Although his own soldiers came back to report that no trace of the enemy was found within a safe distance, the commander-in-chief still ordered a strong attack. Could it be that... the commander-in-chief... What warning did you receive from other directions?
Could it be that there is really a powerful enemy coming from other directions?
Lieutenant General Gao Tengzu looked at the city from a distance. Although it was not very clear, there were black heads everywhere, and there were only a few helmets and tassels mixed in, which was definitely the defenders were driving the people to defend the city!
This shows that the enemy's combat power has been seriously damaged.
Under normal circumstances, when ordinary people are coerced into acting as an "iron wall", they are not far from being doomed.
But something was wrong - they had only been fighting for a while, and the enemy hadn't even scratched their skin. Why were they driving the people up the wall? Logically speaking, it shouldn’t be the case!
how so?
Gao Fengdou galloped closer and took a closer look.
Something is really wrong!
Look at the enthusiasm of those people... there is no way that they look like they are being forced to work hard by a knife - this is clearly a collective demonic barrier!
Although it is an attack from above, no matter how inaccurate our own trebuchets and crossbows are, they will inevitably cause certain casualties to the defenders, especially since there are so many civilians who don't even know how to find cover. The rifles and bows that used to interfere with shooting can be effective. Killings, seeing so much blood - why don't these dead people just disperse?
"You can't rush in!"
Vice Admiral Gao hesitated and slowed down the attack pace. The storyteller once said: Zhuge was cautious in his military use throughout his life - even the famous Marquis Wu was like this. It was necessary and necessary to leave a way out for himself.
In fact, it was not Gao Tengdou who was the first to order to slow down the attack pace, but Zhang Ding, the guerrilla responsible for blocking the north gate.
Among the generals under Guan Shengyun, Zhang Ding is the most cautious one - no wonder, Gao Tengzu and You Futian are both old brothers who worked with Guan Shengyun when he was a frontier army. The former has three battalions of troops, and the latter also has Of the two battalions, the one with more capital than us is not Yixing Dian Dian, Gu Baihua's barbarian Gangfeng Battalion. Although it is only a battalion, it is a super battalion with six teams, and it is the most capable of fighting. Everyone secretly guessed that, If we really do it, maybe the Poxiao Battalion of the personal guards led by the Marshal may not be this guy's opponent. The Zhenyong Battalion of Baoding Landlord Gong Derun is also not a good opponent. Its combat power will definitely be ranked among the top three under Marshal Guan, and he is halfway there. When he joined the group, the backbone of the Pili camp was the two to three hundred bandits he had led before. Even the leader of the auxiliary soldiers, Guo Qinglin, didn't pay much attention to himself. Over the years, less than half of the old brothers were gone. Military strength is your capital. If you kill all your subordinates, it will be even more difficult to survive in the future...
The generals who were besieging other directions also discovered this strange phenomenon one after another, and everyone unanimously took the same measures.
The generals once again sent out the bodyguard riders who had not yet had time to recover their strength to ask the commander about the military situation.
Guan Shengyun, who was watching the battle from a distance outside the west gate, gritted his teeth and looked angrily at what was happening in front of him - what evil had happened to the dog officers and soldiers guarding the city? He really didn't know, but he had been in the army for decades. , whether the ministries under his command are working or exerting their strength cannot be hidden from Guan Shengyun's eyes - but there is still nothing that can be done about it.
Although he knew very well that there would be no reinforcements to defend the enemy's isolated city - this fact did not help at all. The war situation seemed to be gradually slipping out of control: generals from all over the place sent their personal guards to inquire about the enemy's reinforcements.
Where did the enemy reinforcements come from? ! Haven't you all done your own damn scouting! ! !
At first, Guan Shengyun could still answer calmly and pretended to be calm, but later he could no longer suppress the anger in his heart. After shouting loudly, he simply sent his own bodyguard to order each battalion: "There will be no enemy support, continue to attack!"
Backfired.
After receiving the order, the generals of each battalion became even more confused. But the military orders were like a mountain, the flags were waved, and the frontline troops were ordered to continue to attack vigorously. However, most of the generals still tightly held the personal barracks or the personal troops in their hands: they would rather not take the first step to the city in case of an unexpected situation. ...The personal troops piled up with a lot of money are not only the foundation for a stable life in the future, but also the capital to save one's life at critical moments!
The officers who commanded the troops on the front line also gradually discovered the problem: after fighting for so long, not to mention the casualties, the brothers' physical strength has almost reached the limit, why don't the most powerful guardsmen come up to help? ? On weekdays, these guys are well-fed and well-fed, their soldiers are fully paid, and their equipment and training are the best. Why do we have to work hard for the ants to attack the city, and then wait for them to come and take advantage? Why! Who is not born and raised by his parents! Thinking of this, everyone began to make small calculations in their minds: the battalion officers and general managers quickly communicated with each other, and they all cast meaningful glances at their general managers and fruit leaders...
Sun Jie keenly captured the subtle changes in the enemy's attack power. In order to further damage the enemy's morale, he suddenly came up with an unprecedented and almost naughty idea...
Hearing Sun Jie's request, Song Mingyi's eyes widened like bells: "Brother Xian, you, are you kidding?"
Sun Jie pointed at the city wall and the outside of the city, and smiled: "Brother, the matter has come to this, even if the worst is the worst, what can we do? At least, we can give more strength to our fathers and brothers, right?"
Unable to resist the solemn insistence of Commander-in-Chief Sun Jie, a scene unprecedented in the history of war that stunned both warring parties finally appeared:
Li Jiaban, Ruixia Society, Shuixiu Bureau...all the opera troupes and actors in Luzhou City came to the city in heavy make-up - you know, the Peking Opera that later became popular at home and abroad came to Beijing from the Hui Troupe Only then did he become the quintessence of the nation! I dare not say anything else, but there are quite a few opera troupes in Luzhou Prefecture!
Soon, under the command of a small flag, the three-way drum sounded: Dong, Dong, Dong! Then nearly a hundred men and women shouted in unison with various tunes: "The thief has been defeated!"
Immediately afterwards, the three-way gong went neatly: Dang, Dang, Dang! Nearly a hundred high-pitched voices shouted again: "Reinforcements are here!"
Boom, boom! The thief was defeated!
Clang, clang! Reinforcements have arrived!
Actors, string musicians, drummers, and extras who usually fight openly and secretly to displease everyone formed a joint performance team and walked around the city along the city wall!
The passionate devotion instantly turned into a frenzy of madness!
Everywhere the performance team went, the people and soldiers on that section of the city wall would burst into earth-shaking shouts - the chaotic shouts quickly turned into a uniform "The thieves are defeated! Reinforcements are here." !
Soon, all the women and children in the city were shouting along with the gongs and drums.
The people on the wall were even more excited, frantically throwing everything they could at hand at the enemies below the city!
a bolt from the blue!
The rhythmic shouts of thousands of people came through clearly.
The morale of the attacking party dropped to freezing point!
Lost?
Which direction failed?
Enemy reinforcements have arrived? Where did it come from?
Did the dog officer army guarding the city come out of the city on the other side to respond to the counterattack?
Will they come around the city to outflank the retreat?
The generals of each battalion no longer urged a fierce attack on the front line, but quietly issued orders to defend on the spot, and the attack momentum suddenly slowed down.
Bang, bang!
This is the roar of artillery!
There are only four squatting tiger guns in the city, and there are not many skilled gunners. The artillery of this period was fine for direct aim at close range, destroying towers and crashing cars, but most of the time it was of little use other than to frighten recruits with a sound: a big solid iron ball was hard to fool anyone or hit with shotguns. The effective distance is only twenty or thirty steps. Every time a gun is fired, it takes a long time to clear the barrel and charge the gun, which also takes up a lot of manpower. You have to bow before firing, otherwise, if you accidentally make the God of Fire lose his temper and blow up the barrel, the casualties are guaranteed to be much greater than being directly hit by the enemy's trebuchet!
At first, Sun Jie didn't even consider using the Crouching Tiger Cannon to defend the city - the iron ball shells hit one and the other was missing. As a last resort, it would be more cost-effective to destroy the siege weapons in exchange for human lives - Sun Jie divided them into two groups. , respectively, behind the two most threatening city gates: if the enemy breaks through, there is no need to aim, and a shot along the door opening will lead to a bloody alley. The two cannons can give the defenders a great chance to block the gate again.
Seeing the enemy's morale drop, Sun Jie made a quick decision and dragged the two cannons up to the top of the city. As soon as the cannon truck was set up, he couldn't wait to spit out projectiles at the bottom of the city.
Bang, bang!
Did you hit it?
Does it matter whether you hit or not? !
The important thing is: the sound of the cannon... is so loud!
Bang, bang!
Lieutenant General Shen, who was commanding the guard at another gate tower, heard the sound of the cannon and immediately followed suit.
The soldiers in the small camp outside the city gate have been fighting hard.
Today they are under the most pressure. Although there are covering firepower from divine arm bows, bows and arrows and crossbows on the tower behind, after all, there is no advantage of vision and potential energy from the condescending city wall. The soldiers mounted their spears on their horses and stabbed them mechanically, while the archers and crossbowmen kept shooting directly at the waves of thieves approaching from the gaps between the people.
There are only about a hundred people in the camp, and the soldiers in the front row have been rotated several times, and everyone's physical strength is exhausted. The replaced soldiers sat on the ground, their chests heaving violently, some poured water from the gourds on their heads, and many even had arm spasms. However, the shouts from the top of the city always inspired their high fighting spirit.
Hearing the sound of the cannon and watching the big iron ball whizzing past the head with the strong wind, everyone's fatigue was swept away! The soldiers in the front row roared with all their strength and thrust their spears farther. The soldiers who were taking turns also stood up, banged their shields with their weapons and shouted in unison: Kill the thief, kill the thief!
The momentum of the attack was completely contained!
The soldiers in the back row of the attacking side stopped and looked left and right. More and more soldiers in front began to turn around and run back. The drums urging the battle also became slow and sparse.
Guan Shengyun sighed helplessly: Today is really a fucking ghost!
Look at the sun setting in the west. It is impossible to capture this ruined city before nightfall.
"Forget it, withdraw the troops!"
I was thinking in my mind: I will convene a military meeting with the generals of each battalion tonight. I must kill one or two of the team officers who are weakest in attack to establish their authority and spread the word to each battalion!
The enemy has been going crazy all day and night. If they fight again tomorrow morning, they will definitely be paralyzed on the ground...
Tomorrow at 5 o'clock in the morning (5-7 o'clock in the morning), we will launch another general attack on all fronts and destroy the city with one drum!
kill! ! !
*The God of Fire and the Explosive Bore
The degree of superstition of the ancients is beyond our imagination today.
"Records of Sights and Sounds on the Sea" records, "There was a light in the sea, and the people who ruled the country had no water to ask for it. They got a cannon with two dragons as ears, and used a boat and cart to launch it, and the name was Longji (pronounced "Gong", which means cannon). So. Every attack will break it."
It is estimated that some Western merchant ship sank, and the self-defense artillery was fished out under someone's guidance, but in order to be deified, it must be said that there was a strange light in the sea. There are many such examples - Liu Bang, Zhu Yuanzhang and almost all outstanding people were born with five-colored auspicious clouds during the day, and if the room was filled with red light at night, I really can't figure out that the room must be full of fragrant fragrance during the day and night... But these are all This is nonsense, I can swear to God, as soon as my precious son was born, the whole house was really lit up like daylight! Well, the nurse turned on the light...
The black and white text in "Pi Hai Ji Yu" is even more interesting: "Liu Guoxuan was about to attack Quan County, but Long Ji refused to go, so he forced him to go. When he was about to attack, he did not burn. The country Xuan Wrath, the staff was eighty, and it exploded like powder with one shot!" - It is not that the cannon is too heavy to pull, but it is blamed on its unwillingness to move, its inability to ignite, and its failure to check whether the gunpowder is damp. Instead, it is solid. I beat the cannon eighty times with batons, and finally the barrel was cracked and the chamber exploded. Everyone was over!
