Chapter 3215 Flowers in the strange forest share the color
Judging from the results, it was a very serious mistake that Xiahou Dun gave up the small military camp outside Jinyang and retreated directly to the city.
But the problem is that Xiahou Dun does not have so many soldiers to dispatch, and the Jinyang City is not completely on the same side as Xiahou Dun. The more soldiers arranged on the outside, the more power of the city is dispersed. In order to ensure the core strength of the defense, Xiahou Dun gave up these small military camps on the outside and allowed Huang Cheng to advance to the city.
This strategy is undoubtedly correct if there is no artillery.
The emergence of artillery completely destroyed the old war mode...
The cannons that continuously blew flames and roared finally stopped.
But it seemed that there was still a terrifying roar echoing throughout the battlefield.
The smoke of gunpowder permeated the entire battlefield, and the city wall on the front was in ruins, like a clay statue of a god, revealing its inner weakness under the erosion of wind and rain.
After several rounds of artillery, the cannon body was extremely hot. Even if it was cooled with water, it would not cause the temperature in the cannon chamber to fall below the safety line. It could only stop the cannon.
『Examine carefully! Be careful of burns!』
The great craftsman shouted loudly, even if he knew it himself, others might not be able to hear it, but he still roared in the loudest voice and waved his arms.
Every launch is the best opportunity to collect and organize actual artillery data.
The soldiers poured water on the cannons, and thick white smoke suddenly rose.
The water-stained pierced handle was stabbed into the cannon chamber, making a sizzling sound.
The craftsman stepped forward, wearing thick gloves and holding an iron ruler, measured the changes caused by the cannon after continuous shooting, and checked whether the muzzle barrel was deformed and whether the iron hoop on the cannon was loose and broken...
Every Hussar soldier who passed through the artillery position could not help but pay attention to these craftsmen and artillery soldiers. For these Hussar trainers who did not understand the operation of gunpowder artillery, these craftsmen artillery soldiers were magical. They brought the thunder from heaven to the earth and could master and use it!
But immediately these Hussar soldiers focused their attention in front of them...
The artillery has opened a path of blood and fire for them, and now they need to use the steel in their hands to expand, occupy, and obtain the final victory!
『Ding—Dinging!』
Short copper whistles rang one after another.
More than a thousand Hussars had entered the reserve position and pushed the siege equipment and attacked forward in sequence.
The city was in a mess. The originally heavily displayed defending army array was torn to pieces by artillery. Now it is like a cracked clay pot that can be broken and collapsed at any time.
The flags standing on the top of the city have long since fallen.
The originally neat battlements now have few complete ones, either crushed or collapsed in violent vibrations.
The most powerful collapse is naturally the city gate tower on the front of the artillery.
The second-story wooden city gate tower was indestructible and could not resist a few cannons. It was completely lying flat, but the crooked pillars seemed to still indicate a trace of his residual stubbornness.
On the front wall of the entire artillery attack, at this moment, except for the casualties, it was empty. Even though some Cao's soldiers were lucky enough to be uninjured, they were still curled up on the ground with their heads in their arms, trembling and still controlled by fear.
The accuracy of the artillery at present is still a headache, but the deterrence is enough to make people scary.
The city walls of Jinyang did show the excellent quality of Chinese architecture under several rounds of cannons. They did not collapse directly like the walls of Shanshan Royal City. However, the tremors under the continuous roar, the groans and cracks of the city walls also made Xiahou, who had no experience in facing artillery, at a loss.
Of course, what is more important is that Xiahou Dun's direct retreat caused most of the Cao army soldiers on the front city wall to retreat down.
It’s easy to get a hindsight, but it’s not easy to do anything in the front.
If Xiahou Dun had to choose again, he would never stand down the city gate...
No, Xiahou Dun would even formulate a more targeted tactic to not arrange so many Cao's soldiers on the front.
Unfortunately, there is no if.
Xiahou Dun didn’t want to stick to it, but when the city gate tower collapsed, he would die if he didn’t leave, at least he was half-injured. What could he do?
But Xiahou Dun's move had a great impact on the military system of Cao's army, which clearly divided the top and bottom strata.
Strictly speaking, the Cao army did not know the importance of defending Jinyang?
If the army is outside and cannot be defeated in the field, isn’t it just that there is only defense in the strong city?
But this is the reason, but...
Cao's army, who was only a soldier, had no soil for survival and growth for the fearless people who defended their country.
They may also be elite, and their configurations are almost the same as those of ordinary Hussar soldiers. They also have good armor and weapons, but their fighting will has never been high.
Except when robbing places...
Therefore, when Xiahou Dun moves, the entire army will shake. Just like the automatic assembly point in the game, when Xiahou retreats, the rest of Cao's army will automatically follow.
Cao Bashi was still in full blood in history - although he was not really eighty, he had at least 300,000 troops. During the Battle of Red Cliff, even though some warships were burned, other warships and soldiers on land were in a safer position at least in the early stages of the fire, but Old Cao moved...
The same is true for Liu Bei, and there is no need to say more about Sun Shiwan.
Because the usual fighting pace is relatively slow, these disadvantages are covered up and not exposed. Once such an urgent and extreme situation occurs, the problem will be fully exposed.
The Cao army on the front wall was unable to withstand the humiliation of artillery, and their morale collapsed and retreated. However, there were Cao soldiers on the side wall, and they were not directly injured, but they did not dare to go on the ground, because without Xiahou Dun's order, they could have sufficient reasons not to fill the seats...
Even they all knew that the front wall was empty and the Hussars would rush up at any time.
"Ahhhhh! They're here! They're here!"
Until the Hussars had rushed to the city, there were only Cao's soldiers shouting in horror on the side wall.
Some Cao's soldiers shot some arrows from both sides, but because of the dust and dust, they were covered by them, so they were not accurate at all. Apart from being really unlucky to be injured by the stray arrow, their lethality was basically zero.
The ladder truck flipped over and hung the ladder on the broken city wall.
Amid the short copper whistle, the Hussars climbed up.
On the front wall, there were broken bricks and tiles everywhere, and casualties were killed and injured.
I couldn't see any standing Cao's soldiers...
Because the process of connection and coordination had been repeated many times before the war, the speed of the Hussars rushing up to the city wall was much faster than Cao's army expected.
Cao's rhythm collapsed.
As the Hussars ascended the city wall, the Cao army soldiers on both sides could only fight back passively.
Under the dust and smoke, the two sides fought together.
When one soldier falls, another one comes up.
The frontal city wall was almost lost, which was equivalent to the geographical advantage possessed by the Cao army. Both sides stood in the same position, competing for combat will and combat skills. In this regard, because the temporary loss of Xiahou Dun's central command system made the Cao army soldiers suffer a great loss. Not only did they fail to suppress the Hussar soldiers who robbed the city, but they were instead expanded the area on the top of the city.
However, Xiahou Dun then started command again, drove away a large number of Jinyang people as the front-line, and brought back the situation that was unfavorable to the Cao army...
This is used to take advantage of the conscience of Hussars.
Although the Hussars had a certain advantage in the early stage, they were lenient with the people of Jinyang and could not resist the counterattack of the Cao soldiers. Finally, a Cao soldiers broke through the line maintained by the Hussars. Although the Cao soldiers were killed quickly, the formation of the Hussars was destroyed and the entire line was constantly compressed.
The Hussars were angry and anxious, screaming and asking the people of Jinyang not to come up and hide from each other. However, the force of fear had a greater effect on the people of Jinyang. A few simple roars could not restore these people of Jinyang to their rationality. When Cao's army saw that it was effective to drive the people of Jinyang, they rushed the people up even more crazily, trying to squeeze the space of the Hussars in this way, so as to drive the Hussars down the city wall.
Hussar soldiers must attack the city gate and let subsequent troops enter the city through the city gate. This is the fastest way to invest troops and their first combat target.
At this time, the smoke and dust had slowly dissipated, and the two sides could see each other clearly.
The Hussars at the forefront used their shields to suppress the Jinyang people who were crying and begging, trying their best to prevent themselves from harming the Jinyang people. Behind these people, Cao's army forced the Jinyang people to step forward by punching, kicking, and stabbing the guns.
The Hussels shouted, wanting these Jinyang people to resist Cao's army.
After all, they have all entered, so why do these Jinyang people still dare not resist?
Strictly speaking, it is not that the ancient Chinese people did not like to resist, but because once the Chinese people resisted, the consequences would be too terrible. Therefore, the ruling class continued to suppress the resistance ability of the Chinese people to castrate them, and over time...
After all, when white people were still enslaved and accepted all kinds of unequal treatment, some people in China had already shouted, "Is there any king, prince, general, and minister?" The key is that they did it!
Therefore, for the ruling class, stability is the only element in maintaining rule.
The ruler of any superstructure of feudal dynasty is very vigilant about the people's "resistance". Therefore, not only do everything possible to prevent the occurrence of "resistance incidents" or "aggregation incidents" at the physical level, but also constantly suppress them on the spiritual level, which also leads to some very strange situations, such as "distribution for trouble", "stability overwhelms everything", "correct result", "late justice", etc., as well as various spiritual opium and nipple joys filled with the poor. In fact, the ruling class knows the harm of these things in their hearts, and they will not stop them...
What kind of rulers are the kind of ideological policies for governing the country, and the people who are influenced by these ideological policies.
Therefore, in the current situation, when facing oppression, the people of Jinyang did not resist the Cao army. They were the "merits" of the Han Dynasty's monarchy and loyalty and filial piety for three or four hundred years.
"Merits" forged with blood, courage and ignorance.
Nearly half of the Hussar soldiers were destroyed by these Jinyang people, and the subsequent Cao army soldiers were rushing up from the corridor and the side of the city wall. If the problem in front of them could not be solved, then the situation of bombardment with artillery on the front may be destroyed!
"Grenade!" Suddenly, someone shouted in the array of cavalry, "Use grenade!"
The team leader who was maintaining the line of troops was stunned and then realized that he shouted and threw a grenade from behind the shield to the rear of the Jinyang people.
Just like the appearance of a bow and arrow, which helped Yan Huang defeat Chi You, the leader of the powerful Axe Gang, the current use of grenades in Jinyang once again crossed the ladder of cold weapons to fight in a straight line, and stood on a higher dimension of curved strikes.
If it was in the previous combat mode, the Hussar soldiers had no choice but to the Cao army soldiers hiding behind the Jinyang crowd.
Although the shooting of a bow and arrow is also a curved attack, it is actually guided by a straight line. If the field of view cannot be seen, the shooting effect will be very poor. And one very important thing is that the shooting often requires a certain scale. Without more than a dozen or twenty bows and arrows, the effect of the shooting can be almost ignored, but the grenade is different. Even if there is only one, it can be shocking.
The Cao army soldiers were arrogant and drove away frantically behind the human wall. After all, human shields were also shields, and they were very useful at some point, but soon they saw black spots coming from the sky, and bursting out in a blink of an eye. The Cao army soldiers hiding behind the human wall suddenly fell to the ground, rolling and screaming on the ground.
Some Cao's soldiers in the distance were trying to hide from the wounded soldiers rolling and screaming on the ground, which made these people and Cao's soldiers a distance. When they thought about going up, another grenade fell down. They were so scared that they screamed and hugged their heads to avoid it. After the grenade exploded, they found that they were completely out of touch with the people of Jinyang.
The Jinyang people who were forced to be flesh shields were already arranged by the Hussars, either holding their heads by the city wall or retreating to the ruins of the city gate tower to hide, while the next group of Jinyang people had not yet been arrested...
The Cao army soldiers lost the cover of human walls, and their formation was originally chaotic and could not resist the attack of the hussar soldiers like wolves and tigers. More than a dozen hussar soldiers formed two rows, and cooperated to quickly defeat the chaotic Cao army soldiers. After paying the price of two or three casualties, they occupied the high point of the corridor on the front and suppressed the Cao army soldiers below the city.
The loss of the high point caused the Cao army soldiers to lose the support point of defense.
The Hussar soldiers who arrived later all lined up on the inner walls of the city, shooting the Cao army soldiers under the city, and occasionally threw grenades at places where the Cao army soldiers gathered more, making it impossible for the Cao army soldiers to gather smoothly, and even more unable to form an effective array.
Under the continuous attacks, the people of Jinyang who were seized also took the opportunity to escape from the neighborhoods and alleys in the city to avoid military disasters.
After controlling a section of the corridor, the Hussar soldiers began to attack the city gate hole along the corridor. The Cao army soldiers had originally left twenty or thirty people to resist in the city gate hole, but they collapsed instantly under two or three grenades.
Even Cao Jun was wearing iron armor, in a narrow space like the door opening, he could not resist the direct and indirect damage of the grenades.
Cao's army was completely suppressed...
Although Cao's army had the advantage of defending the city, it would normally bring great trouble and damage to the attacking party, unfortunately, Xiahou Dun had no experience in fighting head-on with artillery. He was used to being on the front line. This was originally an attempt to motivate the soldiers of the Cao army, but instead became an important reason for his complete defeat.
After Xiahou Dun's direct soldiers retreated, there were not many Cao's soldiers on the front. The Cao army, who had supplemented the support, could not withstand the continuous and dense attacks. The dead Cao's soldiers piled up on the city wall, and blood flowed on the brick and stone corridors of the city wall.
When the Hussars attacked the city wall reached a certain number, they eventually caused a qualitative change.
The Cao army that supported both sides could no longer put pressure on the attacking Hussar soldiers, and the Cao army that had arrived sporadically failed to form an effective array often had to face the attack of three or four Hussar soldiers who had formed formations, so these Cao army soldiers would be killed soon, which would lead to the next group of Cao army soldiers not being able to stand for long...
More and more Hussar soldiers appeared on the city wall, automatically forming a small three-man formation or a five-man combination to expand the results of the battle to both sides of the city wall. The last blow to Cao's morale was the Hussar soldiers who finally used grenades to clear the door hole. While resisting Cao's counterattack, they cleared the horse and stones congested in the door hole, and successfully opened the city gate!
Seeing this, Huang Cheng was overjoyed and ordered the cavalry to be dispatched to seize the important land in the city.
Watching the Hussar cavalry roar away, the leader of Bai Shiqiang scratched his head in a hurry.
"General, where are me?" The leader of Baishiqiang looked at Huang Cheng expectantly, "I want to join the attack too! I want to!"
『Well…』 Huang Cheng obviously didn't want the leader of Baishiqiang to come to grab food at this time, but he couldn't refuse it directly. After thinking about it, he said, 『I have a very important task to hand it over to you...』
The leader of Bai Shiqiang straightened his waist and slapped his chest like a horse and monkey, "Don't worry, General, I promise to complete the mission! I will send someone to the city and take the head of the dog thief!"
『Ahem...』 Huang Cheng waved his hands repeatedly, 『No...No this...』
If Bai Shiqiang really rushes into the city, it would be a bad thing.
The Hu cavalry of Baishiqiang did not undergo orthodox training, so there was no problem with the waves. However, if you want to fight in a narrow street and alley like this in the city, without skillful combat skills and tacit cooperation, Huang Cheng was almost certain that these guys would become a drag on his own troops, which would be detrimental to his own attacks.
"It's not that you can't enter the city... your people cannot enter the city..." Huang Cheng thought, "The important task I mentioned is that you can intercept the escaped Cao army outside the city... Yes, this is a very important thing. Your troops are light in their burdens, run fast, and are more flexible, so such a heavy task can only be left to you... Do you have confidence?!"
Anyway, if these Baishi Qiang people were really able to catch some escaped Cao troops, it would be a good thing, and it would be better than putting them into the city to make trouble.
Chapter completed!