1361 Chisel City
After the Guanning Army, who was already very excited, was bombed by this round of cannons, he lost the intention of celebrating and ran down the city and hid in a desperate situation under the leadership of the officers.
In the following time, Liu Pei launched three attacks again. Each attack was more skillful and smoother than the last time. Because the main attacking Dashun Army captured, although the other troops were injured, it was very mild. This made Liu Pei very satisfied with the results of today.
It can be confirmed that in today's attack, the Guanning Army's losses were definitely more than 2,000! Most of them died under artillery fire! Especially the flowering bullets made great contributions! The Dashun Army prisoners lost to Liu Pei here also had this number. As for Liu Pei's real losses were close to zero, only a few unlucky guys were injured.
After dinner, Liu Pei mobilized his troops and replaced a group of troops to attack overnight. In Liu Pei's plan, night was really a good time for the Guanning Army.
Because there was no sufficient light at night, in order to prevent the enemy from attacking, the people on the city had to set up torches and lanterns. They had to occasionally poke their bodies out and throw torches outside the city to see if anyone touched the city. In this case, they were the living targets of the musketeers!
The most important point is that the artillery soldiers have now fully understood the situation at the city gate, and even the width, length and specific position of the horse path are clear. They can only estimate the shooting during the day, so the killing is limited.
But at night the enemy will definitely hold a torch to light the light, so the artillery only needs to shoot at places with fire! It is definitely a place with crowds! As long as heavy flowering bullets fall into the crowd, the casualties will definitely not be a small number!
But Liu Pei’s real killer move is not to consume the opponent’s soldiers, because it takes too long. Liu Pei’s real killer move is still the old way, which is to blow up the city wall!
During the day, if a rushing car was sent to dig a wall while siegeing the city, the opponent would definitely be discovered and attacked by the other party. However, at night, several rushing carts quietly touched the darkness, and it was difficult for the Guanning Army to discover it for a while.
Sure enough, with the beginning of the night battle, Liu Pei tentatively sent out
The three-rushing car followed the large group of people quietly approached the city wall in the darkness. The three-rushing car specially wandered in the darkness and were not discovered by the person presented.
As soon as they approached the city wall, they began to chisel the city wall "ding ding dangdang". The sound of chiseling the wall was simply invisible compared to the battlefield where guns and cannons were buzzing, and they didn't find it on the top of the city!
After receiving the report, Liu Pei was overjoyed and immediately ordered the army to reduce its attack strength, work hard to delay time, and cover the troops that were drilled as much as possible.
However, there is a limit to delaying the firearm once. After all, when you are beaten, the attacking party will not last long!
As the attack ended, the three rushers quietly retreated. After these rushers came back, Liu Pei did not send them to battle. After all, their target was still too big. If the people on the city wall threw a torch at their position, they would find their intentions.
So when the second attack was launched, Liu Pei simply sent the team to the city to chisel up quietly, without sending a rushing car. He also took the risk to stay in place after the battle, and continued to chisel the city when the next battle started.
The soldiers who were chiseling the city faithfully carried out Liu Pei's order. During the battle, they simply disguised the cracks they had made, and the people were lying under the city as if they were dead. When the siege battle started again, they stood up and continued chiseling the city.
By dawn, several teams that had already dug up a small wall. After they hurriedly disguised the traces they caused, they retreated with the team. The first day of the battle ended like this!
By dawn, Liu Pei listened to the reports of the attacking officers and then yawned to make up for his sleep. Another group of soldiers replaced the men in front of the formation and launched an attack again. The artillery was also divided into two shifts and equipped them with a large number of civilians to help them carry medicine.
But in fact, what Liu Pei felt distressed was that he was afraid that after this war, all the artillery would almost be returned to the furnace! But that was the future. Now, at least before the Shanhaiguan was shot, there was no problem with artillery.
Now the only thing Liu Pei wants to be grateful for
It was the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou. With the help of the canal, a steady stream of ships brought him sufficient shells, allowing his artillery troops to continue to attack without restraint!
Liu Pei was no longer ready to command the battle during the day. In his opinion, if he wanted to break the city, it would only be at night. After Liu Pei rested, Yang Jingfa took over his command position and the army he commanded continued to attack. Now Liu Pei has enough manpower to attack continuously.
With the support of heavy mortars, every siege will bring huge losses to the Guanning Army! Especially after a staff officer proposed to use feint attacks to attract the enemy to the city and then bombard them with artillery fire. He launched two feint attacks in a row, and the effect was very successful!
Not only did the flowering bombs that repeatedly covered the city, but after confusing the enemy continuously, the sword and shield soldiers rushed to the city wall for a third time after rushing to attack! But they still repelled!
Even so, the attack was extremely successful! Because the Guanning Army almost costly to reinforce the city wall! The Guanning Army suffered heavy casualties and injuries under the bombardment of the flowering bullets! The front-line officer reported that the blood flowing out of the drainage outlet was like the effect after a heavy rain! It can be seen that there must be a lot of casualties and injuries on the city wall!
When night fell, Liu Pei accepted command again. The first order he gave was to pull two barbed wire blocking lines in front of the mortar and cannon position after it was dark. All work was done in the night, and the Guanning Army on the top of the city did not notice it.
Yang Jingfa yawned and asked, "Master, do you think the Guanning Army will attack at night?"
Liu Pei said with a smile: "They will definitely come to attack at night. Now the most harmful thing to them is the mortar cannon! If I were Wu Sangui, no matter how many people were killed or injured, I would be willing to pull out the mortar cannon position!"
When Yang Jingfa heard this, he became energetic and said, "Master, then I'll wait, let's see what troops they will send out? What a big kill! It's so annoying that they hide in this turtle shell and don't come out!"
Chapter completed!