From this to that, if you figure out the opponent's motives, you will understand the goal to achieve. Zhao Bing realized that Dong Wenzhi built Gaocheng into a strong city, and the purpose was not to be an iron hedgehog to deter the Song army from siege. Instead, you should be an iron walnut and make the Song army pay a huge price.

Zhao Bing believed that Dong Wenzhi had concluded that the Song army would not stop the Northern Expedition and gave up the determination to recover the Central Plains, and of course, it would not leave a nail behind him, so this battle would be inevitable. He also understood that with his own strength, it was difficult to fight against the powerful Song army, but he had no way out and could only decide to fight.

Of course, Dong Wenzhi didn't want the Song army to obtain it easily. He also knew that the Song army's firearms were sharp and could not gain any advantage in field battles. So he built forts around the city, strengthened the city, and set up defenses layer by layer, and fought close to the enemy to offset the weapon disadvantages, which made the Song army pay a heavy price for every step.

Since you are determined to defend the city with the determination to die, you will naturally be prepared for street fighting after the city is broken. Street fighting has always been the thing that the attacking party least wants to see. The defending party can give full play to the advantages of familiar terrain, use every house and street as a battlefield, and use everything that can be used to kill and injure the enemy.

Zhao Bing knew that the current attack ability of the Song army was unquestionable. Since the battle to recover Jiangnan, it broke countless cities and was very skilled in siege tactics from top to bottom. In this era, once the city was broken, it means that the city had been lost. The defenders either abandoned the city and fled, or gave up resisting surrender. There were few street fighting, which also led to the Song army lacking experience in street fighting.

The biggest difference between field and street fighting is that the battlefield is divided by countless buildings arranged in certain rules, and any tactical unit is in a relatively closed and narrow scene, which puts restrictions on the observation and use of firepower. At the same time, for your enemies, this problem also exists, but they are more familiar with the structure of the scene and are on the defensive stage. All of this makes street tactics the most complex infantry tactics.

The distinctive characteristics of street fighting are that the enemy and us are close-killed, close-killing, and are very cruel. The second is that the enemy and us are mixed with each other, intertwined, and have strong dangers. When the enemy and the two sides are evenly matched, it is difficult to fight quickly and decide quickly. In addition to combat forms such as surrounding and close-killing, the attacking side has a complex composition of personnel participating in street fighting, making it difficult for you to distinguish between the enemy and us.

Overall, the "street battle" method of combat is basically consistent with the level of the enemy's sides. Even if they temporarily have the upper hand, they will have to fight in close combat because they cannot fight on a large scale. In this way, they will feel like a thousand pounds of strength hitting cotton, and they can't even fight. In addition, the most terrifying thing about street fighting is that you don't know who the enemy is. The addition of various factors makes the war full of uncertainty, and whoever wins and loses becomes an unknown.

However, in his previous life, Zhao Bing saw on the Internet that there would be no street fighting in ancient conditions. Because he thought that the strongest building in an ancient city was actually the city wall, the defenders mainly rely on the city defense to resist. If the city defense fortifications are broken, the city wall is destroyed, or the breakthrough is broken, the defenders in the city have no conditions to rely on other buildings to continue resisting because of the lack of solid buildings.

Secondly, in ancient times, cold weapons were mainly used in wars. Even if there were hot weapons, they were relatively bulky. They were mainly configured and used on city defense fortifications, and there were no in the city. At most, they were used to use bows and arrows, the only long-range killing weapon in the era of cold weapons, to attack the enemy, but this kind of killing would not cause too large-scale casualties to the enemy.

However, Zhao Bing also saw someone using the Battle of Hongdu in the late Ming Dynasty as a counterattack. At that time, Chen Youliang used the army of Zhu Yuanzhang, who claimed to have an army of 600,000 to attack only 20,000 defenders. However, under the command of the defending general Zhu Wenzheng, this battle lasted for 90 days and finally waited for reinforcements to arrive.

During the battle, Zhu Wenzheng reasonably arranged his generals at each city gate and arranged soldiers behind the city gate to attack in an echelon to ensure that every city gate would not be lost. At the same time, Zhu Wenzheng widely used the mass base in the city to mobilize the masses, create public opinion, and instill the idea of ​​vowing to live and die together with Hongdu City, so that everyone shared the same hatred against the enemy outside the city.

In this way, even if a certain city gate is temporarily broken, substitute soldiers will soon follow, which makes the enemy's road to advance very difficult. At the same time, the people in Hongdu City showed extraordinary courage and kept trying their best to stop Chen Youliang's army's attack, which also caused great trouble to Chen Youliang.

In other words, the Hongdu City where Zhu Wenzheng is located uses the terrain and a strong mass base, and fully utilizes the principle of "whoever is familiar with the terrain will suffer less" in street battles, which caused great trouble to Chen Youliang. The final result of this battle was that Zhu Wen was running out of ammunition and food.

In this battle, Chen Youliang originally had a very big advantage, with abundant troops and advanced weapons, but Zhu Wenzheng was pale in comparison. Not only was there a shortage of soldiers and generals, but the existing conditions were not enough to resist. However, Zhu Wenzheng cleverly used the advantages of terrain, which made Chen Youliang suffer from the suffering of "street battle", so that hundreds of thousands of troops eventually returned in vain.

Zhao Bing evaluates from the current perspective. To be honest, Zhu Wen really has the advantage of "street battle" in this battle, so he can persist for so long, and use the complex road environment in the city and the broad mass base to finally win. If it were not for being in the city, and if he changed to an open place, even if Zhu Wenzheng is powerful, he would still be eliminated by Chen Youliang one by one.

Although the current battles that broke out in history decades later have not been comparable to the equipment and strength of the offensive and defensive sides, Zhao Bing believes that they are also referenceable.

First of all, our current plan is to capture Gaocheng with the Fourth Army. Their total strength is only 30,000, which is a difference between heaven and earth from Chen Youliang's 600,000 troops. The force that Gaocheng can mobilize is at least 30,000, and street fighting can also be considered as the whole nation. Although the equipment gap can offset some of the enemy's strength, there is still a huge gap in military strength.

Secondly, in the eyes of the enemy, they were invaders who broke into their homes, burned, killed, and plundered, and had natural hostility towards them. The enemy defending the city was defending their homes and would inevitably fight to the death. In addition, Dong had been in Gaocheng for decades, and the slaves in the family were a community of interests, while the people in the city depended on their lives, or were favored and protected by their own favors and protections, and the mass base was solid.

In addition, once you enter the city, heavy weapons such as the Song army's artillery will be restricted by the terrain and will be difficult to play a role, and may even be accidentally injured due to obstruction of vision. Even if the musket has the advantage of power, it will definitely be more useful in close combat in narrow terrain than spears and big swords. Archers can shoot in the dark without exposing themselves.

Zhao Bing thought about it, but did not rashly put forward his own opinions, but asked Sun Kai to report on the detailed combat plan to capture Gaocheng. After all, he is the emperor now, so he can only grasp the direction and the overall situation. It is impossible to ask about everything in the past. He doesn't know how to fight and what tactics to use.

Although Sun Kai felt that the emperor's tone changed suddenly and asked about his troops' detailed combat plan, he felt a little puzzled, but he was not unprepared. After all, during the rest period, they were also actively preparing for the war and training the characteristics of Gaocheng in a targeted manner. So he took the city map and explained in detail how to arrange troops and organize attacks.

In fact, after years of combat, the Song army has summarized the rules for different combat activities, and only needs to make adjustments in details according to actual conditions during specific implementation. Zhao Bing listened to his report and did not deviate from this routine.

First, we will clear the surrounding strongholds tactically, use three sieges and one to encircle the enemy, and send troops to arrange attacks and ambushes to pursue the escaped enemy. After determining the main attack direction, we bombard the city with artillery to destroy its city defense, and kill and injure the enemy's living forces on the city. At the same time, we will send troops to clear obstacles in front of the city, fill in trenches, and organize troops to prepare for siege.

Then, depending on the effect of the shelling, the second or even the third round of shelling will be decided, and then the city will be attacked. Considering that the city of Gaocheng is small and although it has been renovated, it is still weak, Sun Kai is preparing to break through the weakest city gate. While organizing a commando to climb the city, he organizes forces to score.

Once the breakthrough is opened, the reserve team will be ordered to quickly climb the city and tear the gap, fight with the enemy for the city wall to expel it, or take advantage of the situation to open the city gate. Once the city defense is lost or the city gate is opened, the enemy will often lose morale at this time, abandon the city and break through the city and drill into the ambush circle that the Song army had already arranged...

After listening to the report, Zhao Bing sighed secretly. As expected, it was still the old tactics. He focused on the battle between the city walls, specifically the cannons were bombarded, infantry rushed; infantry rushed, cannons were bombarded... until the enemy in the city was unable to resist. The battle in the city was just a sentence of "After entering the city, quickly launching pursuit and eliminating the remaining enemies." In summary, there was no specific measure for street fighting, and it could even be said that there was no preparation.

When Zhao Bing proposed how to deal with the enemy's response once the city was broken, he did not give up resistance, but instead relied on the prepared barricades, houses and streets to conduct organized street battles, Sun Kai was stunned. After a while, he said embarrassedly that the enemy was too late to escape when the city was broken, so how could he resist? Besides, in the battle of siege, the main force of the enemy had been exhausted, and it was difficult to organize street battles.
Chapter completed!