On a low mountain outside the city, Luo Zhixue said to Huang Guangmao: "The enemy's strength is not strong enough. Let's start attacking the city in the afternoon to avoid accidents if it takes too long!"
"When the artillery team is ready, they can open fire. First knock out their city artillery, and then deploy heavy armor soldiers as the main offensive force according to the plan, and strive to capture Nanyang City in one go."
Huang Guangmao, Director of the General Staff Department, said: "I obey my orders!"
Afterwards, he and Deputy Director Xu Zhixian began to discuss the plan to attack the city in detail.
Luo Zhixue's siege of a city is as simple as a few words.
But the details of the fight are not something you can just talk about casually. Even if the enemy in front of you is not very good, the staff office must also formulate a detailed battle plan.
When should we attack, and should we focus on that section of the city, or should we stage a feint attack?
Specifically, how long the artillery bombardment lasts, where the focus of the artillery bombardment is, when the infantry and light artillery advance, and when the musketeers and archers step forward to provide fire cover.
The heavy armored troops responsible for climbing up the city should be drawn from which troops, how many people they need, and divided into several waves. Should they attack several sections of the city at the same time or focus on one area.
Let some troops provide assistance to the heavy armored troops, fill in the moat, carry the long ladders used to climb the city, etc.
In a siege, there are many things to pay attention to.
Luo Zhixue didn't immediately launch an attack, and then the soldiers of the Baoxiang Army rushed forward screaming.
However, the people in the staff office have already started to formulate combat plans since yesterday, and have prepared many kinds of plans. Now they have to choose the original combat plan according to the most suitable situation, and adapt to some new situations. Make some detailed adjustments.
After more than a dozen people from the staff office discussed it, orders were quickly passed on from Luo Zhixue's headquarters.
The artillery brigade led by Zhang Malin separated its two artillery posts and launched an artillery bombardment on the Ming army at the top of the city at a distance of about 350 meters.
After the twelve 600-pound artillery pieces of the Baoxiang Army opened fire one after another, they actually did not cause many casualties to the Ming army on the city. After several rounds of artillery fire, they killed about twenty unlucky ones in the Ming army. That’s all.
However, even so, many young guardsmen and civilians still fled down the city wall crying and shouting...
Luo Zhixue outside the city looked at the Ming army on one section of the city wall. After only a few people were killed or injured, the remaining more than 100 people immediately panicked and tried to escape down the city wall. Huang Guangmao and Xu Zhixian looked at each other.
At the same time, he said: "It's a pity. If the heavy armored infantry can attack at this time, it will be easy to climb this section of the city."
Huang Guangmao looked embarrassed at this time: "Well... we have estimated that their resistance will not be too strong, but we still did not expect that they will be so vulnerable."
"When we were in Zhaozhuang before, the same guard soldiers were still able to withstand several rounds of our shelling. The final collapse was also caused by heavy casualties. Now this..."
Xu Zhixian on the side responded: "This is the fault of my subordinates. I did not expect that in the face of several rounds of artillery attacks by our army, I fled without killing a few people. In our plan, the enemy's collapse should occur in When our heavy armored infantry launches an attack."
After saying that, Xu Zhixian thought for a moment and said, "I underestimated the role of the supervising team."
As he spoke, he glanced briefly at Chen Yongfu, who was not far away.
Yesterday during the Battle of Zhaozhuang, although the performance of the guardsmen under Chen Yongfu was not very good, they were not as good as the current defenders in the city. They only suffered a few rounds of shelling, and the total number of casualties was only more than 20. The Ming army collapsed in part of the city.
At that time, the guardsmen under Chen Yongfu were actually quite tenacious. When they had no resistance and no means of resistance, they actually advanced two attacks to a distance of about 200 meters from the defense army.
This process can be said to have resulted in heavy casualties.
Previously, Xu Zhixian believed that although the combat effectiveness of these Ming army guards was a bit poor, they would not collapse at the first touch.
However, it now seems that the reason why those guardsmen were able to hold out for so long under the bombardment yesterday was simply because the supervising team behind them was ruthless enough, not because they themselves were so tenacious.
Chen Yongfu, who was not far away, happened to look here. When he saw Xu Zhixian looking at him, he immediately smiled. This was an act of releasing kindness.
Although he had only joined the Baoxiang Army for a day and only held the title of military advisor in name only, he still knew Xu Zhixian, a person who was appreciated and reused by Luo Zhixue.
If Chen Yongfu wants to survive in the Baoxiang Army and do well in the future, he will naturally need to make friends with some powerful people in the Baoxiang Army.
However, after Chen Yongfu showed a smile, the young man Xu Zhixian quickly turned his head.
At this time, Luo Zhixue also spoke again: "There will always be various accidents in combat. This is a common thing. Don't worry about it. What's more, we have underestimated the enemy as much as possible, but the opponent's combat effectiveness is poor. If this is the case, there is nothing we can do about it..."
As he said that, Luo Zhixue laughed.
Several people nearby also started laughing, but many of them laughed awkwardly, especially Huang Guangmao and Xu Zhixian!
Even Xu Zhixian is already complaining in his heart. Chen Yongfu, why did you punish the supervising team so harshly yesterday when you had nothing to do? It caused me to misjudge the true strength of the guardsmen and Qingzhuang. Otherwise, how could we be today? something happened.
Luo Zhixue didn't know what they were thinking and didn't bother to pay attention.
However, Luo Zhixue also knew that the Staff Office could not really be blamed for this matter.
When the staff office formulated the battle plan, the combat power of the defenders in Nanyang City was largely based on the combat power of the Ming Guardsmen and young men in the Zhaozhuang Battle.
After all, the generals of the Baoxiang Army were more willing to believe in the comparison of the Ming army's combat power that they had seen with their own eyes and come into contact with than hearsay.
They felt that the combat effectiveness of the defenders in Nanyang City would not be too high and that a force attack would not be a big problem, so they formulated a more radical attack plan.
There weren't even too many messy routines. After preparing for the artillery bombardment, the infantry was then used to suppress the enemy at the top of the city, and the heavy armored infantry was covered to rush up to fight.
If the defenders were replaced by Chen Yongfu's troops who had previously garrisoned Nanyang City, their staff office would definitely be careful and cautious when formulating a battle plan.
However, even though the plan formulated by the General Staff Office was relatively radical, they still did not expect that the defenders in the city would be so scumbag...
Our own side has not even dispatched its infantry. It has only used twelve 600-pound artillery pieces to carry out suppressive bombardment on the enemy forces at the top of the city. The purpose is not to kill many Ming troops, but mainly to suppress the Ming army artillery on the top of the city.
However, after the defenders on the opposite side killed and injured a mere twenty people, the defenders of two sections of the city wall fled in a swarm...
This makes the Baoxiang Army very embarrassed!
Even Zhang Malin asked the flag bearer to send a signal and asked if he should continue to bombard the original target? Or let's change the target for bombardment.
Well, the two sections of city wall they planned to target for shelling were already empty...
Keep fighting, it's a waste of ammunition...
There are also heavy armored infantry who are still mobilizing before the war and have not even put on their armor. Their temporary commander, Li Chengtong, the deputy commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion, also raised a flag to ask if they should speed up preparations. To launch an attack in advance?
This made Huang Guangmao and Xu Zhixian of the staff office very embarrassed. The long-range infantry forces they had arranged were not yet in place, and the heavy armored infantry had not yet been put on. However, the Ming army in front seemed to have escaped a lot. .
In the end, it was Luo Zhixue who made the decision himself: "Don't be in a hurry, just follow the plan!"
The strength of the defenders in the city is only that much. It is a high probability that our side will capture Nanyang City. There is no need to take any unnecessary risks.
Who knows if there is any conspiracy behind the retreat of hundreds of Ming troops!
In case there is a general who likes to play tricks on the opposite side, he retreats in covert manner, but secretly prepares a large number of archers, musketeers and the like.
When our own side is not fully prepared and the infantrymen run over excitedly, they will be covered in arrows from the opposite side and bullets will fly everywhere. Wouldn't it be a heavy loss?
Although this possibility is very small, Luo Zhixue is not prepared to take risks.
A step-by-step siege is fine.
The ensuing siege battle was also all kinds of embarrassing!
Especially Zhang Malin's artillery unit, I don't know whether it was a good fight or an embarrassing fight today.
When they first started shelling, they fired a few rounds at the intended target when the enemy ran away.
After changing the target and then bombarding, after only one or two rounds, the defenders on the target wall will basically be gone. When the Baoxiang Army's artillery fire changes the target, they will be beaten and scolded by some officers again. Let’s go up to the city again, but the number of people will be much smaller…
What’s even more interesting is that the defender’s actions made Zhang Malin very uncomfortable!
After this, the artillery unit fired more than 20 rounds of artillery, and a lot of ammunition was wasted. However, the actual results were very limited, and they only killed and injured dozens of enemy troops.
Because once a cannonball falls on a certain section of the city wall, the Ming troops on that section of the city wall will immediately run away, leaving you unable to defeat them.
After the Baoxiang Army's artillery fire shifted its target, some of the Ming troops who had originally fled would reappear. Even if they were not as numerous as before, they were still there. However, this situation soon changed.
When the light artillery in the infantry and the musketeers and archers in the infantry came forward to provide medium and close fire suppression, the casualties of the Ming army defending the city increased sharply, and they found that after retreating, it was difficult to re-emerge to fight back. not easy.
Because the infantrymen in the Baoxiang Army were always staring at them, and if they showed up, they would be hit with shotguns, bullets and arrows.
In this case, after a large number of Ming troops fled down the city wall, they refused to go to the top of the city again.
So it didn’t take long for Nanyang City to be deserted...
