I recall that during the Northern Expedition with Zhu Laosi, the artillery shells seemed to be free of charge, but they were so powerful.
Big artillery bombardment, big artillery bombardment, after the big artillery bombardment the cavalry charged... That battle was not an ordinary one.
Looking at it now, I can't bear to let go of dozens of shells.
One moment and another... Li Qing sighed.
There is no sense of security at all when defending a city like this. Every time the enemy collides, it feels like it is about to fall apart. The dust in the cracks in the wall will scatter a little bit with every impact.
Not to mention his warriors, Li Qing had no clue. The city wall was neither high nor thick. Fortunately, the Japanese were short in stature. If it were the Ming army, even two layers of Arhats could climb up.
Fortunately, the Hosokawa clan and the Yamana clan did not have any siege equipment, and the makeshift charge was not very effective. They attacked for more than an hour and lost more than 300 people, but did not gain any gains.
Seeing this situation, Hosokawa Toyohisa ordered the withdrawal of troops and went to the city to persuade them to surrender, trying to shake the morale of the troops.
However, the morale of Li Qing's armed forces is not so easy to shake. They have not suffered a defeat since joining the Great God, and they have already believed in invincibility.
Although the people below the city shouted at the top of their lungs, the nearly a thousand warriors on the city remained unmoved.
As for the warriors who had just joined, Li Qing did not let them go to the city at all, but asked them to work overtime to make defense equipment.
"Huh! It's finally clean." Saburo Inoue breathed a sigh of relief and sighed: "Master, if the Hosokawa clan's follow-up warriors arrive, we will most likely not be able to defend it!"
"Defend as much as you can. If you can't hold it, retreat to the city within the city and defend it." Li Qing withdrew his gaze and said, "Go and lead the new batch of people, organize people to gather in the city within the city, and say that the Hosokawa clan is about to break the city. People and money will be wasted.”
"For such a big city, I'm afraid it's too late!" Inoue Saburo said.
Li Qing pondered for a moment and said: "Only target the wealthy households, ask them to bring money and food to move into the inner city, tell them that they will not get any cents if they enter the inner city, and they can come back after repelling the Hosokawa clan;
If you are disobedient...then there is no need to be polite! "
These are available supplies, and Lee Sin doesn't want them to be used by the enemy.
"Start mobilizing from the rich!" Li Qing warned, "Tell the newcomers that after completing the errands, they can be promoted to the eighth level warrior. If they don't obey the order, or are half-hearted, they will be killed directly!"
After a pause, "Bring the cavalry as a deterrent!"
"Yes!" Saburo Inoue bowed and said yes, then looked at the darkness below the city, and couldn't help but worry: "Master, this way..."
"No need to worry." Li Qing said calmly, "They won't be able to get in until the Hosokawa clan's follow-up weapons arrive."
After all, it is a city, and it is not made of paper. It can still be resisted for a few days, but the city is too narrow and cannot accommodate too many people, and the defensive equipment is not satisfactory.
Otherwise, if the Xishan coalition forces attacked the city for more than an hour, they would never lose more than three hundred.
Fortunately, the opponent didn't have any siege equipment, and they didn't even prepare bows and arrows. Li Qing didn't suffer any losses, and he didn't kill many enemies, but he still made a net profit.
"Then I went?"
"Go." Li Qing nodded, "Remember, don't get jealous because of the wealth. The foreign enemies are ahead. If we force the big families in the city to rebel, we will be really unlucky. As long as they obey and move into the inner city, don't Making things difficult for others.”
"Yes!" Saburo Inoue bowed and turned around.
Li Qing stretched his body and muttered: "If I have a general's cannon in hand, it would be strange if I don't blast it and make you cry for father and mother."
In the afternoon, the Xishan coalition attacked the city again, and Li Qing continued to defend the city.
More than an hour later, the Xishan coalition forces again abandoned hundreds of people and retreated without success.
At night, they attacked again, but Li Qing adopted a two-shift system, and they still gained nothing.
After three consecutive attacks on the city and loss of thousands of people, they learned the lesson and no longer attacked the city. They just waited outside the city, waiting for follow-up reinforcements to arrive, and then they would go all out.
Li Qing was not idle. He took the time to make arrows, collect fire oil, and collect stones and logs. There were piles on top of the city. He also personally calibrated the two cannons and aimed them at the city gate directly below. …
Five days later, in the early morning, Shanshan, the follow-up force of the Hosokawa clan, arrived. Li Qing immediately notified Saburo Inoue to withdraw to the inner city, and then quickly dispatched samurai to enter the defense state.
To be honest, this speed was much slower than Li Qing expected. However, after seeing the opponent's lineup clearly, he finally understood why the opponent came so slowly.
A ram, a ladder, a catapult, three artillery pieces, a carriage of artillery shells... all the siege equipment was available, and in addition, there were five hundred cavalry warriors.
It can be said that Mr. Hosokawa worked hard for his old age and did not live according to his standards.
At this time, the number of troops under the city has reached 15,000. It is really intimidating that so many people gathered under the city. In Japan, such a scale of war is definitely a shocking battle!
This battle is enough to be recorded in Japanese history!
However, for Li Qing, this force is only average, really average.
But he also had to admit that he couldn't defend it because his troops were average, the city was average, and the defensive equipment was average.
If Li Hong knew that his godfather was in such embarrassment, he would be so distressed that he would shed tears. How could a war be so shabby?
Isn't it just artillery? He has plenty of them that he can build at will.
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Hosokawa Toyohisa held a shield in one hand, slowly came to the city, and shouted: "There is an old saying among the Han people: He who knows the current affairs is a hero! If you surrender out of the city, you will avoid death! If you persist in your stubbornness..."
"Fuck your mother..." Li Qing quickly opened his bow, nocked an arrow, and shot out suddenly.
"Whoosh!"
"Wo Ri, you're off the mark again!" Li Qing said angrily, "It's a damn waste product produced by a craftsman."
Li Qing gritted his teeth and said: "Bring me the archers and catapults! Get ready the stones, rolling logs, and kerosene. Don't let any of them come up."
'Whoosh whoosh...' Arrows poured out.
'Squeak~buzz...' The rocks whizzed away.
After issuing a series of orders, Li Qing personally lit the gunpowder fuse.
'Zi...' The fuse burned out in an instant, but it could not be launched. It turned out to be a dumb bomb.
Li Qing became more and more irritable, cursed and replaced another one, but... still no sound.
“@#￥%……”
Get another one.
"boom!"
Finally, there was an explosion.
Li Qing actually felt a sense of relief that he had finally succeeded, but... the power was really touching.
In such a dense position, people were almost touching each other, but with one shot, only one person was killed and three were injured. One of them patted the dirt on his body and was able to continue fighting.
This trump card... is just a joke.
Fortunately, the firearms of both sides were on the same level. Li Qing couldn't help but smile when he saw that the other party was loading and unloading bullets again, but none of them went off. gōΠb.ōγg
He laughed in anger, this scene was really funny.
While Li Qing was defending the city, the opponent also launched an attack, throwing stones and shooting arrows at the city; however, the damage was only average.
Without him, the level of craftsmanship is really limited. Projecting from the top of the city to the bottom of the city is okay, but projecting from the bottom of the city to the top of the city seems average.
In addition, most of the warriors guarding the city were wearing armor. As a result, the loss gap between the two sides was very large.
However, the difference in the number of defending warriors and siege warriors is even greater.
There are only nearly a thousand people on the city, but there are fifteen thousand people attacking the city. For such a huge difference in numbers, it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to rely on losses to make up for it.
In less than half an hour, the ladder reached the top of the city. At this moment, Li Qingcai suddenly discovered an unacceptable fact.
——The city wall is too low and climbs too fast!
And if you fall from a ladder, not only do you die, but you also rarely get injured. Most of them just pat the dirt off their bodies and continue climbing.
As for the water-soaked ladder, even if it is poured with kerosene, it is difficult to completely destroy it. The samurai sword is sharp but brittle, and the damage caused to this water-soaked solid wood ladder is limited.
Therefore, the best way is to push down the ladder with force and let the opponent climb up again, but this will not cause effective attrition.
As the number of people on the ladder increased, the difficulty of pushing the ladder also increased significantly. Gradually, the warriors who defended the city began to panic.
Li Qing originally thought that he could reduce the opponent's strength by 2,000 people, but in the end, he only achieved half of it, and the enemies began to attack the city one after another.
At the same time, with the support of siege vehicles and artillery, the already weak city wall became precarious.
"Retreat along the planned route!" Li Qing ordered decisively.
The warriors received the order, went underground in an orderly manner, and began to implement the second plan.
They didn't panic because God was there.
After such a long time, Li Qing seemed to have become a spiritual believer. Although the opponent's troops were terrifying, they could not break down their psychological defense.
In their minds, they can still win more with less this time.
Li Qing asked his warriors to retreat, but he did not retreat himself. The opponent had cavalry, so he had to buy enough time to retreat.
These are all elites. If they are bitten and more than 10,000 people attack from behind, it will be a disaster.
Although Li Qing defends the city alone, he has one man to guard the gate, and ten thousand men can't break it!
Come one person, kill one person, come two people, kill a pair, show your strength!
The zhenqi in his body was flowing crazily. This time, he had too much room to perform. He didn't have enough room to kill before, but now he can't kill him all.
The steel-clad knife, which weighed dozens of kilograms, quickly cracked under his frantic slashing. Then, the cracks became more and more numerous, getting bigger and bigger, and finally broke!
Li Qing still didn't retreat. The current situation was the most beneficial to him personally, because this was not a situation where everyone rushed forward at once, but a style of play similar to a wheel battle.
It is true that the people came up very quickly, but Li Qing also killed quickly and could barely maintain his balance.
"Whoosh whoosh..."
A series of arrows were shot at him, but Li Qing couldn't avoid them. At this moment, his zhenqi was flowing like crazy. The arrows shot from the city were not very powerful and he could easily carry them.
Hosokawa Toyoji stared at this scene in a daze, his eyes almost falling to the ground. Could this man be made of steel and iron?
He finally understood why Li Qing was called a great god.
Simply...inhuman!
He was not the only one who was shocked. The head of the Hosokawa clan and the generals of the Yamana clan were all shocked and dumbfounded!
What did they see?
The man grabbed a warrior's ankle with one hand. There was no force on his arms, but he could spin it wildly, like a rotating scythe of death, reaping lives one after another.
The two humanoid weapons were destroyed by it, and soon, only a calf was left, and then...
The man changed into two more humanoid weapons...
So grumpy.
