Chapter three hundred and seventy first attack in the rain
Yu Ming was furious, and the thieves came with great force.
They didn't attack or harass. After spending a few days trying to attack, they actually ran away.
"Chase! Chase them! Catch them! Beat them to death!"
Yu Ming pulled his neck and shouted, even his voice broke...
The large army chased him wildly for dozens of miles, but they just couldn't catch up.
It has to be said that the thieves ran away very quickly.
Yu Ming didn't give up, and just hung on behind and followed desperately.
After following for a day, the bandits arrived at Yincheng.
Yu Ming thought they would defend the city. Yin City's city defense system had been repaired and was relatively complete.
Unexpectedly, the thieves had no intention of stopping when they arrived in Yin City. They called the defenders in the city and ran away immediately.
This guy made Yu Ming jump to his feet in anger.
After chasing for another day, Yu Ming became discouraged and had no choice but to turn around and return to Yincheng with his team.
"Yu Tou, we finally got a small city." Cui Qiang said looking at the sulky Yu Ming.
"What do you think they want to do?" Yu Mingren was already numb and couldn't understand the tactics of the thieves.
Fight or not, defend or not, is it just for fun?
Cui Qiang could only shake his head in response to this question.
Two days later, Tan Ma came to report that the bandits retreated to Dingcheng, the capital city of Guangzhou.
Yu Ming felt that they must not retreat this time, otherwise they would retreat to Henan Road.
Yu Mingzheng was planning to send his army north to fight Luo Xin the next day, but it rained that evening, and it was quite heavy.
"Holy shit! It's raining again!" Yu Ming was about to collapse.
"Why don't we go out in the rain!" Yu Ming couldn't help it anymore.
"Yu Tou, calm down! Calm down! Although going on a rainy day does not delay the use of firearms, the road is difficult and the movement of the army will be inconvenient." Cui Qiang immediately advised.
Jiangzhou’s firearms are basically rainproof.
The fire door of the artillery is equipped with a rainproof cover, and the ignition rod is added with gasoline and diesel, so it will not affect its use unless it encounters heavy rain.
The musket is made of flintlock, and it will be fine if the gun head is not pointed upward.
Of course, the range and accuracy will still be affected in rainy days, so the Renaissance Army generally does not choose to fight in rainy days.
Yu Ming sat there with a slumped face and sighed.
"Let the quartermaster check the sky and see when it will be sunny. Alas!" After a while, Yu Ming said.
Cui Qiang nodded and went out to ask.
After a while, Cui Qiang came back and brought the quartermaster over.
The quartermaster, Lao Zhou, is a middle-aged man in his fifties with a weathered face. He used to be an old farmer.
Because he had attended a private school for several years and knew a few words, he was recruited into the Yamen as a clerk after the natural disaster.
Later, his superiors discovered that he could read the sky and recommended him to be the quartermaster.
"Old Zhou, how long will it rain?"
"Go back to the general. I'm afraid it will rain for at least two days." As soon as the rain started today, Lao Zhou spent a long time thinking about the cloud pattern in his eyes.
"Oh! Another two days!" Yu Ming sighed.
"General. Although it only rained for two days,... the weather will not be good for the next few days. There is still a lot of rain this year."
Lao Zhou once again disappointed Yu Ming.
"Okay. You go down first." Yu Ming waved his hand.
"Qiangzi. When the rain subsides, let's go north. We can't stop here forever."
After Lao Zhou left, Yu Ming said to Cui Qiang.
"This... if we want to march on rainy days, we need to make careful arrangements. The daily march cannot exceed twenty miles." Cui Qiang thought for a while before saying.
If we march on weekdays, we must cover at least forty miles per day.
If you march in a hurry, you will have to cover more than fifty miles.
If we were to attack lightly, we would have traveled more than sixty miles.
On this rainy day, it is inconvenient to transmit all kinds of information, and the transportation of baggage is also limited, so the forward speed must be slowed down.
"Okay. Call everyone here and discuss it..."
"Report!"
Before Yu Ming could say anything, a shout came from outside.
The guards came in with people, who were sent out to explore the area.
"General! The bandits have left Dingcheng and headed south!"
"Um?"
Yu Ming and Cui Qiang looked at each other, both of them a little unresponsive.
"Huh? That's not right! These thieves retreat when it's sunny and attack when it rains?" Yu Ming came to his senses.
"Yes! That's what it means!" Cui Qiang also understood.
"Why is it so abnormal?" Yu Ming frowned and sat there.
"Artillery! They must think that artillery cannot be used in rainy weather!" Yu Ming suddenly stood up and suddenly thought of the key to the problem.
Normal people don't do this when commanding a battle. Marching in rainy days is not good for the attacker, but good for the defender.
The rebel soldiers abandoned their own advantages and chose to march in the rain. They must have thought that the artillery would not be used in the rain.
There is no other possibility.
"Haha! Hahaha!" Yu Ming suddenly laughed.
Cui Qiang also laughed.
The two laughed for a while before stopping.
"These thieves are so brainless! They really think our artillery is afraid of water!"
"Since they want to fight in the rain, let's let them see the power of artillery in the rain!"
"Send the order! Prepare the army for war! The artillery battalion inspects the artillery! Let me check the fire door and rainproof carefully, don't make it leaky and make the thieves laugh!"
Yu Ming arranged a row of tables and gave orders.
Cui Qiang took the order and left, and Yu Ming began to rub his hands excitedly.
The fight is finally about to begin, and this guy is more than half a month behind the people on the East and West Road.
Wei Nandu began to besiege Ruzhou, and Song Tong also took Linhuan, Yongcheng and other places.
This time it was finally his turn.
On June 20th, the vanguard of the bandits, consisting of 10,000 people, arrived outside Yincheng.
Braving the rain, the bandits kept shouting outside the city.
The vanguard did not bring any engineering equipment and only planned to harass Yincheng.
After hearing the report, Yu Ming waved his hands and said: "Ignore them! Wait for the big fish!"
As long as the vanguard troops approached the city wall, there would be a hail of arrows, and they could only scream outside.
The next day, the bandit army arrived, and Luo Xin personally held the line and took up the position five miles away.
This guy was also a member of the Guards and was always cautious when marching and fighting.
Although he found a way to "restrain" the artillery, he did not dare to place the camp too close to the Linan Army.
"Tomorrow you take the Suzaku Battalion to test it out, and be careful to avoid their black tubes."
After arriving at the camp, Luo Xin summoned Zhang Lei and told him to explore the strength of the Renaissance Army tomorrow.
Zhang Lei nodded and said: "The general must be careful and try to find out the reality of the black tube."
Luo Xin was very satisfied. Zhang Lei always acted the most safely.
His four generals, Heizi and Ma Weilai, are reckless men.
Zhang Lei and Jiang Gong are quite smart.
The next day, Zhang Lei came towards Yin City with a battalion of 20,000 Suzaku troops.
When they got to the city, Zhang Lei didn't dare to get close. He was two to three hundred meters away and looked toward the city head.
Zhang Lei saw a row of squatting tiger cannons at the top of the city, with the muzzles facing him.
"General, what should we do now? Do you want to give it a try?" the confidant next to him asked.
"Let the camp on the city charge for a moment. If the cannon fires, we will retreat!" Zhang Lei ordered after a brief movement.
He left in person, and soon the thousand warriors in the city camp prepared some siege equipment and prepared to charge the city once.
The soldiers who climbed into the city camp didn't know anything about the black tube.
They were directed to advance and retreat for several days, and now they were quite complaining.
Today we finally had a fight. Although it was raining, everyone was holding back their energy.
"Brothers, today is the day to make great achievements. The undead who climbed the city will be promoted to the third level!"
The guard general of the Dengcheng camp made a brief mobilization, waved his command flag, and the Dengcheng camp began to approach Yin City.
On the city wall, Yu Ming and a group of generals were there, and each of them had a telescope.
The situation of the thieves can be seen clearly.
"Boss, how do we fight? There are only a few people here, obviously they are here to test us," someone asked.
Yu Ming thought for a while and said: "Without artillery, people can't reach the city at this point. Bows and arrows and stones are enough."
Cui Qiang stared at Zhang Lei with his telescope for a long time.
"Yu Tou, let me just use artillery! That general is only about 300 meters away, and ten cannons can definitely hit him!!"
Yu Ming waved his hands and said: "No, three hundred meters is still too far. If you can't kill them, you've wasted an opportunity. It's better to annihilate more of their effective forces. These ten thousand people look good, they should be thieves."
Part of the main force.”
Yu Ming was considering whether to fight a mini-boss or a bunch of monsters.
Considering the cost-effectiveness, the experience value of a bunch of mobs is still higher than that of a mini-boss.
If the person coming is Luo Xin.
Yu Ming must give it a try. Zhang Lei is here, so this needs to be weighed.
The Renaissance Army captured many traitors and prisoners.
Just look for anyone and you can identify who it is with a telescope.
Since it's not Luo Xin, there's no need to bet on the hit rate.
The bandit soldiers who were encamping on the city were getting closer and closer. It seemed that there were only a thousand of them, but Yin City was not that big. They were rushing over from one direction, so it looked like there were quite a lot of them.
The rain is still falling, and it seems to be a bit heavier than before.
The thieves, however, stared at the raindrops and rushed over.
The ladder was put up on the top of the city and the battle officially started.
"Bow, arrow and javelin give me a death wish!"
Cui Qiang, as the commander of the city defense, shuttled around the city in a raincoat.
The Renaissance soldiers kept tilting their arrows and javelins.
Anyone who climbs a ladder can just poke him down with a spear.
When there is no one on the ladder, use an ax to cut off the ladder hook.
The soldiers of the Renaissance Army cooperated in an orderly manner.
Although equipped with hot weapons, cold weapon combat is also a necessary training item.
In terms of training intensity, the Renaissance Army is much stronger than the rebels.
This also proves the saying that you sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime.
Under the persistence of the Fuxing Army, the rebels never reached the top of the city.
Even the temporary gaps in the city wall were not rushed up.
The walls of Yin City are also riddled with holes, some of which were repaired by Luo Xin when he was running the business.
But they are all temporarily piled up, and they may not be able to withstand a tough battle.
Facing this small team of a thousand people, plus the elite of the Renaissance Army, they could easily resist.
After losing more than 200 people in the city camp, they finally retreated.
Zhang Lei, who was watching the battle from behind, breathed a sigh of relief. After more than an hour of fighting, he didn't see a single spark.
"It seems those black tubes are really afraid of rain!"
"Let's go! Let's go back and tell King Xin the good news!"