Of course Zhou Benyuan would be very willing to get the Ming army's new firearms back for a look.
But the problem is that it's a bit too difficult.
"General, isn't this too dangerous?"
Zhou Benyuan was very worried.
Wang Yan looked at Zhou Benyuan.
"Apart from this, do you have any other ideas? If you have a better idea, I will change my plan immediately."
Zhou Benyuan lowered his head and stopped talking.
There was nothing he could do.
So he could only accept Wang Yan's action plan.
Wang Yan may have also felt a huge threat, so he encouraged himself.
"When Monk Shang Yuan fought against the gold thieves, I remember there were many crises. No one believed we could win, but we won, blocking the gold thieves and killing them to a great defeat!
After that, I learned that golden thieves are also human beings. If people are killed, they will die. As long as they have the courage to attack, golden thieves are not scary. Similarly, the Ming army may not be so scary! "
Wang Yan made up his mind to recreate Wu Jie's glorious history in the Sichuan-Shu War Zone and make the Ming army pay the price.
Zhou Benyuan could not stop it and could only obey his orders.
So the two selected two thousand elite soldiers without night blindness from the city and let them eat meat and dry rice. After eating, they went to bed to build up their strength and waited for them to sneak out of the city in the middle of the night when everyone was asleep to attack the Ming army.
They carried tinder and some loud firearms, trying to create large-scale noises and fires in the dark night, thereby creating the illusion of an army raid and forcing the Ming army to blow up the camp. .
They take it for granted that bombing the camp is their destiny, and it will also be the destiny of the Ming army. Bombing the camp will make both themselves and the Ming army accept a cruel test.
Therefore, the goal of the night attack is to let the Ming army blow up the camp!
In order to prevent the Ming army from discovering it, they did not even open the city gate, but used slings to lower the night raid team down the tower and let them gather under the city.
They were divided into four combat battalions, and four brave officers were selected as their commanders. The soldiers were divided into four groups and marched together toward the direction of the Ming army's camp.
Wang Yan and Zhou Benyuan prayed for the night attack troops on the tower, praying to God, hoping that God would bless them with a complete victory.
But God obviously ignored them, or in other words, there was no God at all.
The sudden light of fire in the direction of the sneak attack shattered their hopes into scraps.
The Ming army was well prepared.
Zhang Yuejing adopted Xu Tong's opinion and believed that Wang Yan would not sit still and wait for death, but would definitely take action, so he prepared crossbowmen, musketeers and melee troops in advance to give them a good one.
When the Song Army's night attack troops reached the edge of the Ming Army's frontline camp, they were just about to launch an attack. However, the Ming Army struck first, and the Song Army's night attack troops were suddenly hit as fast as a thunderstorm.
The musketeers and crossbowmen who had been prepared long ago fired together, catching the Song army's night attack troops by surprise and killing a large number of people. Then the melee troops rushed out, shouting neat slogans, divided and surrounded the night attack Song army, and defeated them one by one.
The two thousand night attack Song troops fell into the encirclement of the Ming army. No one escaped and were all annihilated by the Ming army. Only a small number surrendered in time and were captured alive without being killed.
The Song army's night attack failed.
Looking at the fire and the faint shouts of killing from a distance on the city wall, Wang Yan and Zhou Benyuan felt cold in their hearts.
The night attack failed. The Ming army was well prepared for the night attack. They were not dazzled by the victory and were already prepared for their night attack.
These two thousand soldiers and horses are destined to never return.
After this wave, the possibility of successful night attacks will become extremely low, and it can even be said to be useless.
Wang Yan held the city wall with both hands and felt great panic, but at this moment, he had no way to do anything.
How to face this group of powerful enemies?
How to face this group of enemies who are not only powerful but also have new weapons?
He was at a loss.
On the other side, Zhang Yuejing had no similar worries at all.
"To launch a night attack so quickly shows that Wang Yan is indeed not a simple enemy, but to launch a night attack so quickly shows that he really has no other options and is very anxious. He is afraid that we will soon arrive. Under Fancheng, huh, he is nothing more than this."
Xu Tong listened to Zhang Yuejing's words and felt that what Zhang Yuejing said was reasonable, but it was also very Versailles.
Who knew that the Ming army was equipped with powerful weapons such as artillery?
This kind of weapon has never appeared in history before, and no one has a way to deal with this kind of weapon. All existing defense facilities are not made with this pair of weapons, so once this kind of weapon is put on the battlefield, it will obviously be Indiscriminate killing.
Give them some time, maybe they can find a way to deal with it, but the current situation has completely restricted their ability to move. It seems that they really have no better way to deal with the artillery.
The outcome of this battle has been determined.
The rest depends on how many troops the Southern Song Dynasty court will send to support the two cities of Xiangfan, and how many of the main Song army forces the Ming army can capture and completely annihilate.
Speaking of which, Xu Tong knew that this war was not initiated by Su Yonglin, and the court should not even have had such a plan before. It was just because Zhao Yucheng did not want to continue to be encircled and suppressed, and wanted to fight out before Song Ting's fourth encirclement and suppression.
It is not Zhao Yucheng's style to always be beaten, but once the war begins, which affects the whole body, the Ming Dynasty will obviously not be able to survive alone. Seizing this opportunity, Su Yonglin directly made a plan to expand the campaign and turn a counter-encirclement and suppression campaign into a new one. The counterattack turned into a strategic decisive battle.
Su Yonglin's handiwork is really great, his determination is really big, and he is very decisive.
Of course, the emergence of artillery is probably the reason why Su Yonglin decided to launch the Battle of Xiangfan.
Xu Tong had never thought that artillery could play such a huge role in the battle situation. Now it seems that with the emergence of artillery and muskets, the entire form of war will change.
Xu Tong keenly noticed how lethal the artillery was to the current dense military formation.
Even layers of infantry holding large shields cannot stop the bombardment of a single artillery shell. Whenever a dense military formation is hit by a cannonball, just one shot can cause extremely huge casualties and directly destroy a military formation.
If they can still withstand it and have not been eliminated, then in the next infantry confrontation, the Ming army will also have musketeers.
Xu Tong took a look at what a musket was in the past two days. After trying it, he found that the musket was actually a small individual artillery piece. Once it was hit, it could not be stopped by human power.
Even if a soldier is holding a shield and can block lead bullets, his wrist may be broken due to the huge kinetic energy, and he may fall down directly and be unable to continue fighting.
This is very scary.
So when the battle comes, that guy comes to you, and the dense military formation collapses immediately. How can we still fight this battle?
The current military combat methods are facing a very urgent need for change.
Xu Tong discussed his idea with Zhang Yuejing, and Zhang Yuejing suddenly looked at Xu Tong with surprised eyes.
"Did you think of this yourself?"
Xu Tong nodded.
"Well, once guns and artillery become popular, the army's combat methods must change. The original military formations and attacks cannot persist for a long time with the presence of artillery. They must be changed. And this change requires the original cooperation between the various arms. Tactics must also change together.
Some arms may no longer be needed from now on, and some arms will play a huge role. We don’t have to worry too much now, because the enemy does not have the same equipment, but one day the enemy will have similar equipment, and we will have to reform. Rather than being If you are forced to change it, it is better to change it yourself! "
