While Ye Mingsheng was working and living in the Governor's Mansion, Wang Kangxin and Yuan Song, two people who were very confident in their own affairs in Ruishan County, the palace capital, were leading their subordinates to fight bravely. Try your best to kill the opponent...
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
In Wushupo Mountain, amid a burst of intense gunfire, the soldiers of the new army in Gongdu, who had just retreated a stick of incense, once again raised their spears and swords under the urging and driving of their superiors, and marched not far away. The army's camp launched a charge.
Today is already the third day they have besieged this camp. In the previous two days, they spent twelve hours a day and basically only rested for five hours. During the remaining seven hours, they were active all the time. Charge, trying to rush into the camp and chop the Fengwu army huddled inside into pulp.
At this time, Yuan Song, the commander-in-chief of the Fengwu Army, was on a hidden observation tower. He raised the telescope in his hand with a solemn expression and observed the charging new army from Gongdu.
In the past two days, the individual combat of the new army in Gongdu and the command of the generals were almost as expected by Yuan Song. The only thing Yuan Song did not expect was that the group of Gongdu people under Wang Kangxin , I don’t know where they got thousands of Japanese iron cannons and dozens of trebuchets.
Although these Japanese iron cannons are not as powerful as the Weiyuan guns and Polu guns equipped by the Fengwu Army, they are still very powerful. Adding up to thousands of them, they also caused a lot of casualties to the First Division under Yuan Song... ·············
After observing the enemy's situation for a while, Yuan Song asked the general Guan Fei beside him:
"The gap in the northeast corner of the camp has been blocked now, right?"
Guan Fei nodded and replied:
"Commander Ye Dong already brought his manpower last night and locked a dozen large carts together to seal the gap in the northeast corner. Now there are two thousand brothers there, and Commander Ye Dong is also stationed there personally. Don’t worry, General!”
Hearing what Guan Fei said, Yuan Song's expression softened, and after thinking for a few seconds, he ordered:
"Have Ye Dong and the others been stationed there all night?"
"It has been more than ten hours since Hai hour last night!" Guan Fei thought for a moment and replied:
After receiving this answer, Yuan Song ordered directly without hesitation;
"Let Ye Dong and the others continue to hold on for another half hour. At noon, I will ask Xue Zhongyuan to lead his troops to replace them, and they will come down to rest!"
"yes!"
After taking care of the defense in the northeast corner, Yuan Song felt that his worries were relieved a lot. The Wushu Slope he chose was an easy-to-defend but difficult-to-attack place. The narrow terrain could effectively prevent the enemy's troops from spreading out, allowing the enemy to It is difficult to bring into play the advantage in military strength...
Compared with other directions of Wushu Slope, the terrain in the northeast corner is relatively flat, which is convenient for the enemy to prevent attacks. Therefore, every time the enemy attacks, the northeast corner is regarded as the focus of the attack.
Therefore, the Fengwu Army's soldiers stationed in the northeast corner suffered the heaviest casualties. Nearly half of the Fengwu Army's casualties in the past three days came from the northeast corner!
Just when Yuan Song issued the order, more than a hundred lucky men from the palace were already under the protection of shields, stepping on the corpses of their companions, and survived the firepower net composed of Fengwu Army's Weiyuan Guns and Polu Guns. He had already rushed to the gate of the village and was in close combat with the Fengwu soldiers stationed in the camp.
For these lucky few, before they could make any more moves, hundreds of bows and arrows were shot at them, and then amid a burst of wailing, the lucky ones were all shot into hedgehogs.
Although under Ye Mingsheng's intentional guidance, the Fengwu Army gradually began to transform into thermal weapons, the development of thermal weapons did not happen overnight, but required a process, so Ye Mingsheng still retained cold weapons like bows and arrows.
It's just that its overall proportion of military weapons has dropped a lot. Now it's the best way to deal with these Gongdu people...
Seeing that more than a hundred people who were at the front were completely wiped out again, the momentum of the charge of Gongdu's new army suddenly stalled. Although the generals in the crowd were still struggling to command the troops to charge forward, driven by fear, The top soldiers at the lowest level still made wise choices and retreated one after another.
Although the enemy's charge was repelled again, and the enemy retreated in dejection, leaving behind hundreds of corpses, there was no trace of happiness on Yuan Song's face. The new Gongdu army under Wang Kangxin's command, It was indeed different from the Gongdu army he had encountered before.
If the previous Gongdu army was facing such a setback at this time, they might have chosen to give up at this time. However, based on the experience of the previous two days, Yuan Song knew that it would not be long before the enemy army would launch a more violent attack again. charge·················
Sure enough, just as Yuan Song thought, after a stick of incense, about 20,000 soldiers of the new army in Gongdu began to gather around the Fengwu military camp. What made Yuan Song feel even heavier was that among these Gongdu people Next to the battle formation, tall trebuchets also appeared.
At the beginning, in order to prevent Yuan Song from occupying Ruishan County, Wang Kangxin not only sent an advance team of 5,000 people, but also led the army to advance lightly, leaving the baggage and heavy weapons at the back, because it was with It's a race against time to capture Yuan Song's Fengwu Army's First Division before Guo Zhiping's reinforcements arrive.
So on the first day of the siege, Wang Kangxin launched the attack first without waiting for the trebuchets to be in place. However, the power of the equipment of Yuan Song's first division exceeded their imagination. Under the roar of eighteen red cannons, During the bombing, hundreds of thousands of palace soldiers were either killed or had their arms and legs severed by the bombing, leaving them disabled for the rest of their lives.
On the second day of the siege, the trebuchets and other heavy equipment arrived. Because the maximum range of the trebuchets was only 80 feet, while the red cannons had a range of up to 200 feet, in order to prevent the trebuchets, they were all destroyed at once, so Wang Kangxin can only ask his men to use the trebuchets separately. Put one in this place and one in that place...
I have to say that Wang Kangxin's move is still very stupid. Although his move does not play the role of the trebuchet, in order to prevent the trebuchet from causing damage to the camp, Yuan Song can only let the red cannon mainly bombard the trebuchet. The fire of the red cannon is limited. If the trebuchet is blown up, the damage to the enemy's charging troops will undoubtedly be reduced a lot.
Therefore, compared with the first day of the siege, the new army of Gongdu achieved some results on the second day. After paying thousands of casualties in the frantic attack regardless of casualties, they almost made a gap in the northeast corner of the camp and forced Yuan Song used his reserve team in advance.
Seeing Wang Kangxin trying to repeat his old trick, using a trebuchet to attract the firepower of the red cannon, and then launching a large-scale charge, a sneer appeared on the corner of Yuan Song's mouth. How could he, Yuan, fall twice in the same pit? , and immediately asked the general beside him:
"Is the sharpshooter ready?"
After hearing this, the general nodded and introduced:
"One hundred sharpshooters are already on standby. General, please give us the order!"
"very good!
"I now order them to take their positions, wait for the enemy's trebuchet to enter the eighty-foot area, and then snipe and kill the enemy's personnel using the trebuchet!" Yuan Song ordered in a deep voice:
Faced with Wang Kangxin's trebuchet tactic last night, he thought for a long time before he came up with a way to crack it. Among the firearms equipped by the Fengwu Army, in addition to the red cannon, there are also muskets that can hit There was a target a hundred feet away, so he found a hundred people with accurate marksmanship among the fire guns who used Polu guns, and asked them to snipe.
Although the longest range of the trebuchet can reach 80 feet, in order to make the thrown stones land more accurately, the people of Gongdu will push the trebuchet to a distance of 50 feet to 70 feet, and that is where the broken stone is. The shooting range of the gun is very precise. As long as the marksmanship is good, anything is possible.
Although the shooting speed of the Polu gun is slow, its advantage lies in its long range and high power. At a distance of fifty feet, even if the opponent has a shield or armor defense, as long as it hits the vital point, it can kill him with one shot. Even if it misses the vital point, it can still render the opponent incapable of fighting...
Operating a trebuchet is a technical branch in this era, and you need to be able to measure distances and landing points. Even if you are trying to catch a duck, it will take several days to learn how to operate it. Therefore, one less soldier of this kind will die, and more of these trebuchets will die. The threat will be greatly reduced.
At this time, Wang Kangxin, who did not know Yuan Song's response measures, was five hundred feet away from Wushupo, surrounded by his subordinates, issuing orders to mobilize the troops.
"As soon as the signal sounds, Li Yongzhe, Quan Dazhong, and Zhao Zai'en, the three of you launch a feint attack from the east, west, and south. Find a few more packhorses, donkeys, and pull trebuchets. What you want to do is not to throw the stones. Instead, we moved to this area of 50 feet, so that the Fengwu Army in the camp felt threatened. Their camp was set up hastily, and many fortifications were not sound. They were most afraid that the trebuchets would hit their camp and leak wind everywhere!"
Seeing that all of his men were very cowardly and did not dare to take responsibility, Wang Kang was also very helpless in his confidence.
He had previously known that Ye Mingsheng's Fengwu Army was equipped with artillery, but he originally thought that it was an old-fashioned artillery that was not only inconvenient to move, but also very weak. It could only be used when defending the city, or that small Tiger Crouching Cannon, so he didn’t take it seriously.
During the confrontation with Yuan Song two days ago, he was completely dumbfounded when faced with the fierce red cannons. On the first day alone, his 40,000-strong army suffered casualties of more than 2,000 people. Half of them were killed in artillery fire···················
After feeling the ferocious artillery fire from the Fengwu Army, although Wang Kangxin wanted to fight Yuan Song's artillery fire and kill him, Ye Mingsheng's henchman, there was no way. The current level of firearms manufacturing in Gongdu could not produce Tiger Crouching Artillery City. Barely, let alone making a red cannon.
Although he was very helpless, Wang Kangxin racked his brains and finally figured out a way to pull out the trebuchet. Although the trebuchet was about to disappear from the stage of history in the Great Zhou Dynasty, in the palace capital It's still very powerful and a perfect siege weapon.
Because of the range, the red cannon can hit it. It cannot hit the red cannon, but it is still very good for attracting firepower. However, these people in Gongdu in front of them really have no spirit of sacrifice. No one can Don't want to pull a trebuchet and get bombed
Seeing this, Wang Kangxin looked around, and his subordinates from Gongdu said fiercely:
"Didn't I tell you clearly enough before? The Fengwu Army is a group of beasts who do all kinds of evil. If we don't kill this group of Fengwu Army here now, and wait until they enter Liujing, they will break into your home. Cut off your head, sleep with your wives and concubines, steal all your money, burn your houses..."
"So are you going to fight them to the death here, use the swords and guns in your hands to defend your homes, and protect your wives, children, and children, or are you going to choose to be like a dog and be slaughtered by the Fengwu army while pleading?"
Because Ye Mingsheng's Fengwu Army was a new force that had just emerged, the soldiers of the new army in Gongdu did not understand the Fengwu Army. In addition, their instinct was to obey their superior leaders, which led them to treat Wang Kangxin They have no ability to distinguish between lies. When Wang Kangxin said this, they naturally believed it.
Thinking again of the tragic situation described by Wang Kangxin, everyone couldn't help but feel the same hatred for the enemy, and the originally low morale was once again united.
Seeing the murderous look in everyone's eyes again, Wang Kang felt confident that his words had worked, and after threatening him, he quickly said:
"As long as we kill this group of Fengwu troops! All of us will be great contributors to the defense of the palace! Great heroes! I will personally ask the king for your merits. When the time comes, there will be gold, silver, treasures, beauties, and everything you need!"
"Kill this group of Fengwu troops! Ye Mingsheng's conspiracy to plot the palace will go bankrupt. Next year, I will personally lead you into Liaoyang, avenge Ye Mingsheng and chop off this bastard's head. By then, everything in Liaoyang will be ruined." It’s all ours, we can have whatever we want!”
Wang Kangxin said this at the top of his lungs, trying his best to incite the emotions of his men. If you didn't know better looking at his appearance, you might have thought that he was a loyal minister and good general in some palace city, but you didn't know that the man opposite him was a compatriot of flesh and blood. Dazhou is his mother country and Liaoyang is his hometown...
Although Wang Kangxin's instigation was exaggerated, it must be said that the people in Gongdu really liked his method. If this method of coercion and inducement continued, a group of people who had just been submissive and refused to take the lead suddenly became so proud. , scrambling to get the mission, wishing they could have a big fight with the Fengwu Army now, a life-or-death showdown!
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