The salient features of street fighting are: first, the enemy and ourselves are in close combat, close to each other, and cruel; second, the enemy and we are mixed with each other, intertwined, and highly dangerous. The Northwest Army has always tried its best to avoid street fighting with the Xixia people. This is not to say that the Northwest Army is not good at street fighting. The main reason is that the Northwest Army is not good at street fighting. There were still too many casualties.
Street fighting is characterized by close combat and fierce competition for solid buildings, main streets, and commanding heights. The movement of the army is restricted, often resulting in many local independent battles. Once street fighting occurs, many of the advantages of the northwest army will not be able to play out, but now that it is over, people Xixia had already prepared, and the Northwest Army had to take the initiative.
The biggest difference between street fighting and field fighting is that the battlefield is divided by countless buildings arranged according to certain rules, and any tactical unit is in a relatively closed and narrow scene. This makes it difficult for the Northwest Army to observe and use long-range firepower such as bows and crossbows. This has brought about restrictions. This is also a problem for the Xixia people, but they are more familiar with the structure of the scene, and have already been prepared and are on the defensive.
Before launching the attack, the Northwest Army made special tactical adjustments, reassigned the bosses of each army type to cooperate, dispersed the sword and shield soldiers, spearmen and crossbowmen, and formed tactical squads to launch the attack.
Although preparations had been made in advance, as soon as the street fighting started, the Northwest Army's injury rate still soared. The head coach of the Northwest Army looked ugly. According to his arrangement, there should not be such a large number of casualties in the pre-war deduction!
Soon, the scouts from the front came to report, and everyone understood why the casualties were so heavy. The Xixia people made preparations in advance. Not only did they arrange some important places in advance, they also dug a lot of tunnels to connect various buildings. , those Xixia people passed through these tunnels, appearing and disappearing, making the northwest army very helpless.
Often, they would go to great lengths to capture a building, only to find that the defenders had already escaped through the tunnel. When the Northwest Army relaxed a little, the Xixia people would fight back through the tunnel.
"Tunnel warfare!" After hearing this news, these three words instantly appeared in Zeng Yi's mind. As a Chinese, Zeng Yi was very aware of the power of tunnel warfare.
When the commander of the Northwest Army heard this, he immediately said angrily, "What do you do for food? The tunnels are so difficult for you? Poison smoke, water filling, if you can't find the entrance, send me someone down!"
Zeng Yi immediately stopped the coach of the Northwest Army. The methods he just mentioned had no great effect on the tunnel. Zeng Yi knew this very well. The Xixia people must have been prepared in advance. He sent people down rashly. Tunnels only increase casualties.
"It's useless. We can think of it. It's impossible for the Xixia people not to have thought of it. They must have a way to deal with it!"
Everyone was silent after hearing this. After a while, Qinglong said: "The Xixia people don't have that much time. They said they have made preparations in advance, and it is impossible for every building to have tunnels. It is probably only those buildings with important locations." There are tunnels. If it really doesn’t work, if you encounter a building like this, just destroy it!”
According to everyone's response, the Northwest Army began to fight steadily, advancing step by step. When they encountered important locations and discovered the existence of tunnels, they immediately destroyed the buildings. Soon, thick smoke began to appear in various parts of the Xixia King's City. It was best to destroy the buildings. The best way is to attack with fire.
But there is a problem with the fire attack. On the one hand, it greatly delays the pace of the northwest army's attack. On the other hand, the fire attack is also very dangerous. The Xixia people are not stupid. Often when the northwest army attacks, the Xixia people will pass through.
They attacked in all directions to ambush the Northwest Army.
Zeng Yi also knew that the Northwest Army was in trouble, so he sent a letter to the boss and the blood-clothed guards, and studied how to deal with it. As the saying goes, three cobblers are like Zhuge Liang, and I don’t know who mentioned it,
Why not use artillery? Zeng Yi and others instantly found a solution!
Zeng Yi immediately ran to the head coach of the Northwest Army and told him how to deal with it.
"Artillery? The artillery can't be used in the city!"
"I didn't say it would be used in the city. Now that we have completely occupied the city wall, we can cover most of the Xixia King's City by placing the artillery on the city wall."
The size of the Xixia Royal City is not small, and the artillery range at this time is limited. The artillery cannot take care of the middle area, especially most of the Xixia Palace. However, the target of the Xixia people at this time is the Xixia defenders, and the Xixia Palace naturally has someone to go there.
deal with.
Soon, the firearms battalion that received the order entered the city and placed artillery on the city wall. Everyone knew the value of the artillery, and they were afraid of the Xixia people's counterattack. The Northwest Army sent heavy troops to protect these artillery placed on the city wall.
Soon hundreds of artillery were placed on the city walls. At the same time, the Xixia army also received orders. When they encountered key locations and found that there might be tunnels, they did not need to attack by force. They only needed to report the coordinates to the rear through scouts.
Already.
In order to improve the artillery hit rate and to quickly know the coordinates, the Northwest Ordnance and Firearms Battalion established the coordinates of the Xixia Royal City according to the city, city, and street. According to this coordinate map, not only the frontline soldiers can report quickly, but also the firearms battalion can
It is better to launch fire strikes quickly according to the coordinates.
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A group of Northwest Army soldiers arrived at a key location. There was a three-story building there, which had obviously been reinforced. The soldiers were about to cooperate in the attack. A scout immediately stopped everyone, "The general has an order, no need to attack by force!"
"After telling everyone about the firearm camp, the scout quickly took the coordinates and killed them back.
The firearms camp on the city wall had just been deployed, and the coordinates were passed to them. The general of the firearms camp immediately ordered the adjustment of the artillery positions.
"Coordinates, position C-8, shoot!"
The Northwest Army team on the other side immediately retreated a certain distance after the scouts left. Not long after they left, the artillery opened fire, and the building in front of everyone was instantly covered by artillery fire.
The accuracy of the artillery was not that it could hit where it was pointed, but it could not hold up too many artillery pieces. More than a dozen artillery pieces fired several rounds. All the buildings near the coordinates were attacked by the artillery and collapsed. Among the ruins, even if there were tunnels, the entrances of the tunnels had already been buried.
The Xixia people are trying to figure it out, but it’s not that easy.
If it were other places, the Northwest Army would really have to think about using this method. After all, there are still many civilians in ordinary cities. The casualties of civilians would be too great, which would also be a pressure on the Northwest Army. However, in this Xixia Royal City, all the people have already been mobilized.
By the time I reached the age of ninety-nine, even the elderly and children were moving materials for the Northwest Army, so there were no ordinary people around, so the Northwest Army naturally had no worries.
