Chapter 966 Weapons and People
Is there a war of justice in this world?
exist!
This is undisputed. For example, when a powerful empire attacks its neighbors, the resistance of its neighbors is just. But today's war has no justice. Neither the defense Gao family army nor the attacking Black Flag army are the right side.
People have good and evil, and there are also wars.
But it is also undeniable that seven or eight out of ten wars since ancient times have nothing to do with justice, but only for the sake of interests. In particular, none of the war's initiators seemed to be to maintain world peace. How miserable the walls of Liyin City were and how strong the cheers were in the artillery camp of the Black Flag Army were, these were all composed of war.
No one wants to be the wailing person.
But war is fair, and the strong laugh at the weak and cry. There are naturally many examples of the weak defeating the strong in the world, but if you think about it carefully from ancient times to the present, how many such examples are there?
How many of them were fabricated?
Xiahou Baichuan ordered the crossing of the river, and the auxiliary soldiers of the Black Flag Army began to build the crossing bridge. Although the artillery battalion was absolutely suppressed by the city wall, it was impossible to prevent the enemy from fighting any counterattack. The archers of the defenders of Liyin City began to fight back, and the large losses of the crossbow chariots turned their main weapon into feather arrows.
I have to say that Yan Zeng is really a general.
Faced with such a tragic situation, the soldiers under his command could still organize a counterattack in the shortest time. Of course, the number of soldiers participating in the counterattack was really limited. The feathered arrow flew down from the city wall and landed on the river, and some auxiliary soldiers shouted. His companions reached out to pull, holding his ankles to prevent him from being washed away by the water. The blood from the arrow kept flowing out, and a red line soon appeared in the river.
Every auxiliary soldier was tied with ropes. People on the shore immediately rescued him when they saw someone being shot. Fang Jie had been instilling a concept in every Black Flag soldier over the years, whether it was a warrior or an auxiliary soldier... On the battlefield, try not to give up any companion.
Even a corpse.
"Ask Andrew, can the number of artillery be increased a little more!"
Seeing that the auxiliary soldiers had lost a lot, Xiahou Baichuan loudly ordered the soldiers. The personal soldiers rushed out and ran to the front to ask, and then received a very affirmative answer... No!
Andrew's original words were: "The lord said that the use of artillery has not yet been fully deployed. If the number of artillery in our team is exposed too early, it will definitely not be beneficial to the future battle situation. If the lord may order an increase in the number of artillery to suppress the defenders on the city walls to fight back, but as a person commanding the artillery battalion, I will never increase artillery without authorization!"
Such an answer made Xiahou Baichuan unable to argue, so he could only order the auxiliary soldiers to carry their shields.
Finally, the first crossing bridge was set across the river.
"Cross the river!"
With a command, the soldiers of the Black Flag Army carrying the ladder began to rush to the other side of the river. The soldiers who had been through the battle formation knew very well that the most lethality of the enemy's feather arrows was the section where they ran under the city wall after crossing the river. At this time, they could not move forward in an established manner and could not form a shield formation. The only thing they could rely on was their legs, running as fast as they could. When they really got under the city wall, the enemy's archers were not easy to aim.
Teams of black flag soldiers carried the ladder and rushed towards the city wall. No one wanted to repeat what they did today the next day. Every repetition means that countless people will stay on this land forever.
puff
A Black Flag soldier was shot in the chest with an arrow, and the armor-breaking cone tore open the leather armor and drilled into his heart. He had no time to let out a muffled groan and then fell down. He fell to the ground and the ladder fell down. The soldiers behind shouted and ran forward quickly to take over his position.
What is well-trained?
The simplest manifestation is that the soldiers are extremely clear about what correct decisions to make on the battlefield.
The first ferry bridge was built, the second ferry bridge was built... After an hour, at least a dozen ferry bridges were crossed across the river. If you look down from the sky, the dozen black lines were like ants moving. They were the Black Flag Army soldiers rushing towards Liyin City. As the number reached the scale, the proportion of losses decreased.
The subsequent shield players began to block the feather arrows for other soldiers, and the artillery battalion also began to replace shells. After cleaning up the crossbow trucks on the city wall, the soldiers of the artillery battalion replaced the artillery shells with strong penetration power they used before with flowering shells. The range of the shells spread out is larger and has a stronger lethality to people.
"Splash tinder oil, don't let the Black Flag Army approach the city wall!"
Yan Zeng, with a dusty face, held the city wall and shouted loudly. The reserve team had already adjusted the turmeric oil in advance and began to pour turbid oil under the city wall, and then threw the torch down. The flames rose instantly, and the temperature made the soldiers on the city wall dare not pop out at all. Although this made the defenders very uncomfortable, they effectively separated the soldiers of the Black Flag Army who were preparing to lay the ladder on the city wall.
"Extinguish the fire!"
When the generals of the auxiliary soldiers saw the fire, they immediately commanded other auxiliary soldiers to carry the soil and rush forward. Compared with the war soldiers, although the danger of death faced by the auxiliary soldiers is much smaller, not every war requires the auxiliary soldiers to fight like this. But once they rushed to the front line, their death speed was much faster than that of the war soldiers. Because the leather armor on their bodies was not as thick as the leather armor on the war soldiers.
"Shoot!Shoot!"
The archers commanding the general on the city wall were already shouting, and the hoarse voice was like a broken bellows. Every time the thrust was pulled, the sound made was particularly uncomfortable.
The speed at which a living person becomes a corpse is so fast that it is so fast that even the god of death cannot count the number.
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"Put the nails!"
With a hoarse shout, the nails that could still be used on the city wall were put down heavily. Although most of the nails were destroyed during the bombing, the few nails still posed a death threat to the soldiers of the Black Flag Army. The nails were covered with one foot long wolf-tooth nails. After falling from the city wall, the wolf-tooth nails could easily break through the hardest skull of a person under the action of gravity.
When the nail was slapped down, the body was even hung when it was pulled up.
Xiahou Baichuan frowned. The news came from the Cavalry School that Yan Zeng was a very capable general, and Gao Kaitai's team was not as numerous as other forces, and they were ordinary people who were captured. You must know that when Gao Kaitai rebelled, he also brought pure Great Sui warriors!
Although Gao Kaitai has been conscription and expansion over the years, he has a large number of outstanding generals in the Sui army. After several years of fighting and training, the new recruits have also not weak combat power!
To be honest, this is a team that the Black Flag Army encountered in combat power that can be compared with the Black Flag Army soldiers. Only the army that has been ravaged by the Great Sui infantry can truly understand. Eastern Chu, Southern Yan, and Mongolian Yuan. Of course, it also includes Southern Chen and Northern Zheng that have been destroyed by the Great Sui.
You should know that when the Great Sui Dynasty founded that when fighting with the Mongol Yuan Wolf Cavalry in the northwest, relying on unparalleled formation changes and flawless cooperation among various troops, hundreds of thousands of Mongol Yuan cavalry left more than 100,000 corpses and their myth of winning every battle.
Some people have always suspected that the infantry led by Yang Jian had killed two or three times the number of enemies in the face of a wolf cavalry that was twice as big as that of his own. If you have truly seen the cooperation changes and formation of the elite warriors of the Great Sui Dynasty, such suspicion will be much smaller. If you have seen the founding army of the Great Sui Dynasty that fought from the south to the north and conquered the Firefox City and the Chang'an City, I am afraid no one will doubt it anymore.
No one in the Mongolian Yuan Wolf Cavalry thought that the cavalry would lose so tragically to the infantry in the plains and fields. The Great Sui Dynasty created such a myth!
Now, two real elites are fighting.
"Make the enemy feel desperate..."
Xiahou Baichuan watched his team's attack be blocked, and the large siege equipment could not get up for a moment, and couldn't help but remember Fang Jie's explanation before leaving.
"Faced with a truly elite army, the best way to defeat them is not to hit them physically, because they have learned to persevere and become tenacious. Only by making them feel desperate and lose their fighting spirit can an elite army be defeated at the fastest speed. Just like when Li Yuanshan led the Mongol Yuan wolf cavalry into the northwest battlefield, despair made the 700,000 elite Sui soldiers into the ice and melted snow."
Fang Jie's words echoed in Xiahou Baichuan's mind.
"The reason I have put all my efforts into building the artillery battalion is naturally to make it easier in the future battle, but the fundamental reason is to reduce the number of deaths of Black Flag soldiers. The power of weapons will make the soldiers' deaths lower. And you have to remember that no matter how expensive weapons are, they cannot compare to human lives."
When Xiahou Baichuan suddenly thought of this sentence, his eyes changed.
He urged the horse to rush directly to the artillery battalion. Seeing Andrew commanding the artillery battalion to open fire, he jumped off the horse's back and strode to Andrew: "Andrew! I'm going to withdraw my offensive team now, but your artillery cannot stop!"
"Why!"
Andrew was stunned, and then shouted loudly: "Your army no longer attacks, how can I continue to waste artillery? General Xiahou, do you know how expensive this shell is!"
"I only know that shells are worthless!"
Xiahou Baichuan shouted: "The artillery battalion must not stop, so that the enemy's defense will completely collapse. I want to make no complete brick on the city wall to gain a foothold, so that the enemy's soldiers will become weak when they think of going up the city!"
Andrew was startled by Xiahou Baichuan's roar and subconsciously took a step back.
He turned to look at the city wall, then looked at Xiahou Baichuan's face: "Okay, but you must contact the brigade of troops as soon as possible. The number of shells I brought is not enough to razor the city wall to the ground!"
"unnecessary."
Xiahou Baichuan suddenly discovered something and pointed at the wall of Liyin City: "Maybe, our attack direction was a little bit off at the beginning."
Andrew looked in the direction of Xiahou Baichuan's finger, and was stunned for a moment and laughed: "Yes, we should fire there!"
Liyin City
It is built according to the mountain.
The connection between the city wall and the cliff stone wall is the weakest, and there are many huge rocks protruding on the stone wall.
"I brought ten artillery over and exploded a hole from there!"
Chapter completed!