Valley Emperor

As the sun rose, the various ministries of the new army of the Tang Dynasty began to bury their pots and make rice.

The infantrymen began to prepare siege equipment, and the artillerymen roared first!

The artillery position built overnight was about 300 meters away from the city. The 5,500-pound artillery and the six 800-pound artillery began to fire at a slow rate of fire on the Ming army's artillery on the top of the city. !

When the new army of the Tang Dynasty rushed to Liping City, the Ministry of Industry in the rear rushed out another 800-jin artillery piece and sent it to the artillery battalion!

For the first time, the eight hundred catties of artillery in the artillery battalion made up a team!

The artillery battalion's shelling speed is relatively slow. Basically, each artillery gun will be shelled after several minutes, and after a few shells, it will stop for a period of time to allow the gun barrel to cool down. This is to protect the gun barrel. Longevity, avoid hitting too fast and causing the barrel to burst.

However, although the rapid fire of each artillery piece is not fast, the artillery battalion has a total of eleven heavy artillery pieces. On average, one solid shell will still land on the city wall of Liping House every minute!

Most of them were hit on the city walls, but occasionally there were shells that hit the Ming artillery on the battlements, not many, as long as one shell hit these artillery, it was basically able to destroy an artillery position.

After all, the artillery of the Ming army was originally light in weight and small in caliber, but it could not withstand the shelling of heavy artillery.

Even if it didn't directly hit the artillery itself, but hitting the battlements can still make the sand and gravel splash, thus killing a large number of Ming soldiers!

However, the Ming army soon learned to be smart. They did not continue to stand stupidly near the gun positions that were being cared for, but ran to the side to hide behind the battlements. In this way, they were much safer.

However, those lonely and unattended artillery pieces continued to be heavily bombarded by the pseudo-Tang thieves!

Cannons were destroyed one by one!

The heavy artillery units of the Datang New Army continued to fire, and when the prelude to the day's general offensive began, the infantry of several main units of the Datang New Army also began to line up.

The temporarily gathered heavy armored sword and shield soldiers were divided into three small squares, each square had about 200 heavy armored swords and shields.

These six hundred heavy armored sword and shield soldiers are the key to whether the new army of the Tang Dynasty can gain a firm foothold on the city in the next battle to climb the city!

In addition to the six hundred sword shield soldiers, many musketeers were also gathered. Their early task was to provide medium-range firepower support for the troops who climbed the city. Once the melee troops at the head of the city gained a firm foothold, they would rush up. , and then completely occupy the city wall, and cooperate with the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers to open the city gate, allowing more troops to enter the city!

Therefore, regardless of the tens of thousands of troops on both sides, when the battle breaks out, most of the troops are fighting soy sauce.

In order to cover the smooth success of the landing force, other units of the Datang New Army also need to do a lot of preparations, for example, in order to reduce the burden of these heavy armored infantry, so as to retain their physical fitness to stay in the city to fight, accompanied by this heavy armored infantry regiment There will also be thousands of light-armored sword and shield soldiers who will launch the charge, and they will carry long ladders and heavy wooden boards.

Long ladders are used to climb walls, and wooden boards are used as bows and arrows!

At the same time, companion attacks will be launched in several other directions!

In addition, the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment, the two descending troops of the Ming Army, will also participate in the battle. They are mainly used as cannon fodder to attract and consume the first wave of ammunition and bows and arrows of the Ming Army!

The new army of the Tang Dynasty was intensively preparing for the siege outside the city, and many senior generals of the Ming army on the city head were all frowning!

There are more fake Tang bandits outside the city than they expected!

Among them, there are nearly 6,000 surrendered soldiers wearing the Ming army's own uniforms!

In addition, there are tens of thousands of pseudo-Tang thieves in uniforms.

Adding these two together, there are more than 16,000 people!

At this time, although the total strength of the Ming army defenders in the city exceeded that of the pseudo-Tang bandit army outside the city, it was only more than 26,000.

Among them, there are seven or eight thousand young and strong people!

The regular army is less than 20,000 people, and the core combat strength, that is, Fubiao and other recruits, is only 6,000.

This battle, I am afraid that it will suffer a loss!

It is really hard to say whether Liping Palace City can be defended or not!

Seeing that the people next to him were all looking sad, Zhu Zhihai was also very annoyed!

These useless wastes are all useless wastes. Yesterday, the battle outside the city actually cost him tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and all of this must be blamed on these incompetent wastes. When this battle is over, he will definitely be ruthless. If he joins them ruthlessly and doesn't kill them all, he can't bear the emperor's trust!

However, he just thought about these psychological thoughts, and it was definitely not coming out at this time.

Waiting for the defense of the city, we have to rely on these incompetent and waste generals. After all, he can't be a dignified governor of the governor holding a knife to fight on the battlefield, isn't it, how decent is that!

But what should we do in the face of the menacing army of pseudo-Tang thieves?

How can we defend the city?

For a while, Xiang Zhu Zhihai, who is famous for his talents, was also a little confused!

This can't blame him, after all, his strengths are the beginning of studying for the imperial examinations, followed by impeachment of others, this is really not his strengths in fighting!

He was barely able to make some strategic judgments, but it was actually very embarrassing for him to make specific tactical arrangements.

But there is no way to be embarrassed. Who made him the governor of Guizhou, the supreme commander of this army!

While Zhu Zhihai was frowning and trying to figure out how to defend the city, the new army of the Tang Dynasty outside the city continued to prepare to attack the city step by step!

The main array with the first brigade as the core has already begun to move forward, but in front of them are the seventh and eighth infantry regiments!

Because the first wave of attack can be regarded as a tentative attack, in order to test out the average defensive strength, such a tentative attack is more dangerous, and it is easy to cause casualties, so let the Seventh Infantry Regiment and the Eighth Infantry Regiment such as It is better for the cannon fodder troops to go, as for the first brigade, they actually go to serve as the supervising team!

The second brigade continued to stay behind!

At the same time, the 5th Infantry Regiment continued to stay by Li Xuan's side, as a reserve force of the entire army, in case a Ming army suddenly appeared in other directions.

Under the oppression of the first brigade in the rear, and even under the oppression of the more than 400 regular troops directly under the Seventh Infantry Regiment and the Eighth Infantry Regiment in the rear, the soldiers who descended even though they knew that the front was dangerous, they still started to charge!

They started their attack from a distance of 200 meters. Along the way, they could still see the many corpses of the Ming army left behind yesterday!

When they launched the charge, the Ming army on the city wall would not be indifferent, they just fired artillery and arrows to intercept.

And caused certain casualties to the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment in the charge!

However, because the distance is still far, the casualties are not too large, so the two infantry regiments can continue to charge!

But Hao Bainian from the rear could see that the distance from tens of meters to 70 or 80 meters outside the city was basically their limit. At that time, the lethality of the Ming army's bow and arrow would be greatly improved, and many Ming army The bowl gun will also fire, causing relatively large casualties to the two infantry regiments!

But this is nothing, because the senior generals of the new army of the Tang Dynasty have never expected that the infantry regiment formed by the two descendants of the Ming army would be able to conquer the city of Liping.

Their task is very simple, to attract and consume the artillery ammunition of the Ming army and the arrows of the archers!

The reloading of artillery takes time, and archers have a limit for archery. After these archers shoot this wave, their physical strength is basically consumed.

At that time, it is time for the main force to attack!

At the same time, in a small phalanx on the flank of the first brigade, wearing heavy armor and riding on a horse, Cai Erhu, who was panting on the horses under his crotch, was facing the six hundred heavily armored sword and shield soldiers under his command. With the final mobilization!

However, he never said anything about his eloquence. He simply said a few words of allegiance to His Majesty and the invincibility of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

Immediately, many soldiers came forward with wine jars and large bowls, and brought a bowl of wine to every heavy armored infantry ready to fight!

Cai Erhu also took the wine bowl, raised his head and drank it in one gulp. After drinking, he threw the bowl and said loudly, "Brothers, finish this bowl of wine, and then follow me to kill!"

The heavy armored infantrymen also drank together, and then threw their bowls, and many people also shouted 'kill up'.

Cai Erhu looked up at this time, and saw that His Majesty's position in the Chinese army had officially issued an order for his heavy armored infantry to attack!

Immediately, he turned the horse's head, and then officially ordered: "Let's go!"

Immediately, the six hundred heavily armored infantry regiments began to advance in unison!

On their sides and behind, there are thousands of light-armored infantry, some of them are light-armored sword and shield soldiers, some are ordinary musketeers~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and a hundred grenadiers, They carry spears and wooden boards, and they will assist the heavy infantry in the charge!

And these 1,600 people are the core strength of the new Tang army siege this time!

Just when the Seventh Infantry Regiment and the Eighth Infantry Regiment continued to attack, the Heavy Armored Phalanx officially entered the battlefield!

At this time, Hao Bainian also ordered: "Send the order, the whole army advances, the musketeers come forward, and prepare to cover the city with firepower!"

For a time, the new army of the Tang Dynasty outside the city, the total number of troops participating in the siege has reached more than 10,000 people. Looking from the direction of the city head, there are densely packed heads, so that the Ming army on the city head can't bear to see it. Stop trembling!

Yesterday's fiasco is still fresh in my eyes, but now these pseudo-Tang thieves are here again, and there are tens of thousands of people?

Can this stop it?

Can this stop it?

They don't know if they can stop it, but now many Ming soldiers in the city have the same idea: should we run away?