Valley Emperor

Brothers, kill me with a monthly pass!

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Do you want to run away?

This is a serious and confusing choice! Many soldiers of the Ming army had the idea of ​​​​running after seeing the new army of the Tang Dynasty launched a general attack outside the city.

Of course, the new army of the Tang Dynasty has not yet rushed to the city, the city has not been broken, and everyone has not suffered heavy casualties, so fleeing is just an idea, and not many people put it into action.

Seeing the attack of the new Tang army outside the city, let alone ordinary Ming soldiers tremble with fear, even Zhu Zhihai is calm on the surface, but in fact he is very nervous!

Especially the heavily armored infantry of the bandit army outside the city, such an obvious target, anyone can see them at a glance on the battlefield!

These are all heavy-armoured infantry. Once they are attacked on the city wall, if they want to drive them off the city wall, I don't know how many lives they will have to pay.

In siege warfare in this era, the power of heavy armored infantry is great!

Once they are allowed to rush into the crowd of defenders, and the terrain is small like the city wall, and the terrain cannot be swarmed by large-scale troops, then they basically encounter gods and kill gods, encounter Buddhas and kill Buddhas, and want to drive them out of the city. Head, it's very difficult!

And to stop them, the best way is to prevent them from climbing the city wall!

But can it stop them?

The pseudo-Tang thieves outside the city are aggressive, and it is not only the heavy armored infantry who come. In fact, from the entire front, the front-line infantry of the Datang New Army who launched the attack is actually more than 8,000 people, and There are more than 2,000 artillery and other auxiliary troops participating in the battle.

At this moment, the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment are rushing in the forefront. At this time, these two Infantry Regiments have about 5,000 people, and they have completely lost the tight formation when they launched the attack. It was a bit scattered, and when they rushed to the distance of only 70 to 80 meters from the city wall, they suffered relatively heavy casualties due to the intensive arrows and artillery counterattacks of the Ming army in the city.

Under the heavy casualties, these descendants of the Ming army a few days ago naturally did not have the courage to continue to charge forward. It was only a few days before they became the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and they had not even had time to receive the complete training of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, when fighting, still maintain the same habits as before!

It is normal for them to shrink back or even run away when they suffer heavy casualties. This will not make a difference because they work for the Zhu Family Dynasty or for the Li Family Dynasty.

Therefore, when the casualties gradually increased, the descending soldiers of the two infantry regiments finally could not bear the pressure of this battlefield, and then began to retreat!

However, at this time, the supervising team composed of about 400 people directly under the regular army of the Seventh Infantry Regiment and the Eighth Infantry Regiment listed a strict formation behind them, and shouted at the same time: "Retreat without authorization. Slash!"

Now is at the most critical moment of siege, and the new army of the Tang Dynasty still needs them to contain the Ming army, so as to cover the battle of the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers on the wall, how could they be defeated at once!

The supervising team listed by more than 400 people, facing the retreating soldiers in front, did not hesitate at all. Under the orders of the officers, they all raised their spears and long knives, and began to bend their bows and shoot arrows!

This is how Kankan stopped the defeat of nearly 5,000 people!

Later, when the infantry formation of the first brigade also gradually advanced, and continued to shoot the Ming army archers and gunners on the top of the city to provide cover for the attacking troops, these five thousand descendants were the officers again. Under the command, under the threat of the supervising team, even if they were reluctant, they were forced to re-launch the attack and continue to charge towards the city wall 100 meters away!

Because the rear of them is the tight formation of the first brigade, and these soldiers have fought against the regular army of the Datang New Army. They know that the regular army of the Datang New Army behind is more terrifying than the city wall in front!

You say that they were frightened by the regular army of the Datang New Army.

After watching the front line stabilize the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment and start the attack again, Li Xuan in the rear was also relieved.

Just now, he was really afraid that the Ming army of the two infantry regiments would be defeated by the surrender of the Ming army. At that time, I am afraid there will be a scene that makes him very embarrassed, that is, not many of his soldiers died in the hands of the Ming army, but instead Die at your own hands.

Fortunately, although the scene was a little chaotic just now, and the two infantry regiments also had a small-scale retreat, under the pressure of the front-line supervisor team and the first brigade, they still returned to the offensive rhythm.

This is actually a good thing for our own army and for the descendants of the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment themselves!

Because if they were defeated all the way just now, it would greatly affect their follow-up actions, and at the same time, few of these defeated Ming troops would be able to survive in the hands of the supervising team and the first brigade.

Behind these two infantry regiments, there are more than 400 supervisors and the first brigade, and these regular troops of the Tang Dynasty do not care about the lives of these soldiers. If they dare to retreat, Hao Bainian on the front line will dare to order Kill all the defeated soldiers!

On the contrary, if they rush up and help them capture Liping City, there is still a good chance of surviving.

No matter how powerful the Ming army on the top of the city is, it is impossible to kill all these 5,000 people in just a few minutes!

And once they can't, then the heavy armored infantry led by Cai Erhu will be able to rush up. Once the heavy armored infantry successfully reaches the city, then the next step is when the whole line starts to charge. The main force of the siege will be the heavy armored infantry and the first brigade. As for the Seventh Infantry Regiment and the Eighth Infantry Regiment, it's just soy sauce.

Li Xuanke never expected that these 5,000 descendants of the Ming army would be able to conquer the city wall of the Ming army!

The 5,000 soldiers on the front line and the first brigade continued to attack with great momentum, but although the high-level generals on both sides also paid attention to them, more people's eyes were on the one who was slowly approaching the city wall on the battlefield. Thousands of Great Tang New Army Infantry!

Among the more than 1,000 Tang New Army infantry, there are many types of arms. The front is the sword and shield hand with thick armor, the left and right and the rear are followed by a large number of unarmored sword and shield hands. In addition, there are about 200 carrying Grenadiers with muskets and hundreds of archers!

In order to avoid unusual command, officers and soldiers are not familiar with each other, so these units are basically drawn from each unit and maintain the most basic team-level organization.

And temporarily formed three assault battalions, each battalion has 200 heavy armored swordsmen and shields and other auxiliary troops, with a total strength of about 500 people.

This kind of temporary assault battalion was completely set up to conquer the city wall!

The three assault battalions did not go very fast when they entered the battlefield. On the contrary, they were still a little slow. This was to preserve their physical strength as much as possible!

But this slow progress ended when they were only 100 meters away from the city wall. When they entered the distance of 100 meters, Cai Erhu shouted: "Kill, rush up!"

The three assault battalions were separated by dozens of meters and launched their final charge towards the city wall in front!

At the same time, Hao Bainian also personally commanded the musket corps under the First Brigade to fire violently on any Ming army who dared to counterattack at the top of the city!

Even the battalion artillery was pushed up and shot at the city head. This kind of shooting is actually very ineffective, but at this time, it is no longer effective, and all the weapons that can be used are used. , to provide fire cover for the assault troops is the most important.

Nearly 2,000 musketeers and archers were suppressing firepower against the city head, which also greatly relieved the pressure on the troops that were charging.

At this time, not only two infantry regiments formed by the descending soldiers of the Ming army launched a charge, but also three assault battalions were charging!

Compared with the descendants of the Ming army, the Ming army obviously paid more attention to these regular new Tang troops with a large number of heavily armored units, the artillery fire on the city head, and the archers who bent their bows and shot arrows. Bows and arrows were thrown at the three assault battalions.

This will inevitably cause large casualties to these three assault battalions. In order to cover these three assault battalions, the musketeers and battalion artillery units under the first brigade have already started to fire intensively, and they have hundreds of bows and arrows. The hand also took the initiative to step up to a distance of 70 to 80 meters to cover and shoot the city head.

Only in this way can it be avoided that these three assault battalions were not immediately covered by the arrows and shells of the Ming army!

But even so, when the three assault battalions rushed under the city wall, there were already more than 100 casualties, and most of these casualties were light infantry without armor!

Without the protection of armor, their ability to protect the shrapnel fired by the bows and arrows of the Ming army and the bowl-mouth cannons is almost equal to nothing~www.wuxiaspot.com~ But the heavy armored infantry rushing in the forefront, the casualties are relatively few, only two or three The ten people fell on the charge road, because the armor on their bodies effectively protected them, unless they were hit by shrapnel fired by the artillery, otherwise the threat of simple bows and arrows to them was actually limited.

When they rushed under the city wall, the light armored soldiers who followed them were set up by the long ladders that came all the way, and then used the iron hooks on the long ladders to build the city wall!

As soon as the first long ladder was put away, I saw a very tall and heavy armored sword and shield soldier biting the back of the sword, holding the shield in one hand on top of his head, then grabbing the long ladder with the other, and then climbing straight up. climb!

He had just climbed the long ladder, and another heavy armored sword and shield soldier followed him up!

The same scene also happened on the nearby city wall. The new army of the Tang Dynasty who rushed under the city wall did not waste even a second. After arriving under the city wall, the first time they climbed to the city wall!

So looking at it now, this section of the city wall is only a few tens of meters, and there are almost dozens of long ladders on the city head. Dozens or hundreds of heavy armored sword and shield soldiers of the Datang New Army moved towards the city head for the first time. Climb up!