Valley Emperor

In order to avoid large-scale casualties, Hao Bainian and Li Chunjing have the same opinion, that is, to show the attitude of fighting a lion against a rabbit and go all out, so that the first attack is to completely destroy the resistance confidence of the Ming army. To shake the morale of the Ming army, it is best to force the Ming army in the city to surrender voluntarily, so as to achieve the goal of defeating the enemy without fighting.

Even if the Ming army did not take the initiative to surrender, an all-out attack could defeat the Ming army in a shorter period of time, thus avoiding the casualties caused by the long-term siege operation.

Therefore, in this battle, it is not difficult to conquer Liping House, but reducing casualties is the difficulty.

After everyone discussed the tactics, the whole army began to make corresponding tactical preparations.

In the past two days, the 1st Infantry Regiment has already made a lot of preparations in advance. The long ladders used to attack the wall have been prepared a lot, and the artillery has continued to bombard the city wall for two days, but it is limited by the relatively small caliber of the 500-pound artillery. , the power is limited, although the city wall of Liping House was bombarded with holes, but after all, it failed to completely collapse the city wall of Liping House.

This made Hao Bainian and the others a little disappointed. At the same time, they were also looking forward to the 800-jin heavy artillery in the artillery battalion and the 1000-jin heavy artillery that had just been developed and were not equipped with the artillery battalion.

Early the next morning, the Ming army in the city discovered that the pseudo-Tang thieves outside the city had made a big move, and a large number of new army soldiers of the Tang Dynasty began to leave the barracks to gather, and brought a lot of siege equipment.

This made the Ming army on the top of the city immediately aware of the inappropriateness, and soon reported the relevant news to the adults in the city.

It didn't take long for many adults in official robes to appear on the top of the city. They looked at the pseudo-Tang bandit army from the top of the city, and their faces were not very good-looking.

Even if they are superficial and have not seen any large-scale war, they can see that after waiting for two days, the pseudo-Tang bandit army outside the city is obviously not ready to wait any longer, but is going to launch a general attack. .

In fact, when they found out that there were as many as 2,000 pseudo-Tang thieves arriving at the city yesterday, they could have guessed that the day when the pseudo-Tang thieves launched their general attack was not far away, and the general attack of the pseudo-Tang thieves, It will definitely be more violent than that tentative attack the other day.

A few days ago, Hao Bainian dispatched troops to conduct a small-scale tentative attack in order to test the reality of the Ming army in the city. Although there was no formal battle to climb the city, he also dispatched musket troops to attack the Ming army on the top of the city.

That day, through the firing of artillery and muskets, at least dozens of Ming troops were killed and wounded!

And now, the pseudo-Tang thieves are going to launch a general attack, and the offensive will definitely be more violent. Can they defend Liping Palace today?

Also, when will the army of the provincial capital be able to arrive?

The reinforcements have been slow to come. How could they alone, the old and weak sergeants and the young and strong, be able to stop the 4,000 pseudo-Tang thieves who were eyeing them outside the city?

An atmosphere of despair began to permeate the top of the city of Liping!

Many low-level officers, soldiers and young adults are already thinking about how to save their lives in the next battle.

Looking at the posture of the pseudo-Tang thieves outside the city, it would be **** if the city could be defended, but if they couldn't defend the city, they naturally had to give priority to their own lives.

After watching the top of the city, except for the generals, most of the other civilian officials left the city. After the battle broke out, the top of the city would definitely be a dangerous place. They had to return to the city. As for returning to the city. What to do in the city is different from person to person.

Some people asked the servants to prepare the clothes of ordinary people, ready to change into hiding at any time. As for the official government office, they must not be able to stay, because after the pseudo-Tang thieves entered the city, they would immediately capture the government office and other parties. yamen.

If you want to survive, you still have to hide in ordinary houses.

However, some people asked people to start preparing poison, ropes, etc., while they were wearing an official robe, holding poison in their right hand and white silk in their left.

Just waiting for the pseudo-Tang thief army to commit suicide as soon as possible after breaking the city!

Not to mention these officials, even most of the ordinary people in the city are terrified, for fear that the pseudo-Tang thieves will suffer disaster after entering the city, especially those big gentry who did not escape the city, many people have already begun to regret what happened. Did not flee the city.

Today, as soon as the sun rises, the entire city of Liping House is already immersed in an atmosphere of despair, like a woman who has been stripped naked and thrown on the bed, looking at the strong man who unbuttons his pants and smiles grimly in front of him. , The delicate body is trembling, and the mouth is still murmuring don't come over, don't come over.

However, the man obviously wouldn't stop his movements because of the woman's cry. After he took off his clothes, a hungry wolf rushed up, followed by the woman's shrill screams and the man's rattling laughter. The laughter was accompanied by heavy gasps.

At about 8:00 in the morning, after breakfast, the new army of the Tang Dynasty, who had completed all preparations, finally started to move. The five 500-jin artillery pieces that had been gathered were the first to fire, and then they were pushed up to a distance of only 100 meters from the city wall. The 150-pound battalion artillery also raised the elevation angle and began to spray shrapnel at the Ming army on the top of the city.

After the artillery, there were a large number of musketeers. They did not charge directly, but shot at the front of the city from outside the city.

Huge solid bullets, shrapnel from shrapnel, and lead bullets almost shattered the city head.

When the guns opened fire, many soldiers who did not hold weapons or wear armor, and only resisted a bag of sand and gravel all over their bodies, also quickly ran towards the moat.

Hundreds of soldiers acted together, which was enough to fill a passage out of the moat that was only a few meters wide under the city of Liping in a short time.

The Ming army on the top of the city obviously also wanted to fight back, but the archers of the Ming army just stood on the top of the city to fight back, and they would be beaten into a hornet's nest with bullets by the musketeers outside the city as soon as possible~www.wuxiaspot.com~ They can only hide behind the battlements and use projectiles to counterattack, but with such untargeted projectiles, it is unknown where the bow and arrow will end up.

After paying a small number of casualties, the new army of the Tang Dynasty finally filled the moat with a channel for the army to enter and exit.

At this time, the main force of the siege, the soldiers of the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers also wore heavy armor and rushed forward with shields and long swords.

The light-armored sword and shield soldiers who launched the charge with them also carried long ladders together.

When the sword and shield soldiers are dispatched, it means that the battle has entered the most critical juncture!

Because next, they will climb up the city wall through long ladders and fight hand to hand with the Ming army!

Once the Ming army can't hold it, and the city head is lost, even if it is only a small section of the city head of tens of meters, then more Datang New Army soldiers will come up in the follow-up, and at that time, Liping House can be declared lost!