As soon as Su Jiakang arrived at the city, he ordered the Ming army to prepare to attack the city. He wanted to take advantage of the fact that the new Tang Dynasty army had just entered the city and gain a foothold in the city before a quick victory.
Soon the Ming army went out to cut down trees and even demolished some houses outside the city to build simple siege equipment.
In a small-scale siege, and the time is tight, it is naturally impossible to have any large-scale siege equipment. Like the new armies of the Tang Dynasty before, they mainly built long ladders.
What's interesting is that after the New Army of the Tang Dynasty retreated into the city in a hurry, many things were thrown directly outside the city. Some food and baggage were nothing. The key is that many of the long ladders prepared by the New Army of the Tang Dynasty were all.
It was left outside the city, but now it was captured by the Ming army.
In order to win the battle quickly, Su Jiakang did not pause for long. Just two-quarters of an hour later, he officially ordered the forwards to approach the city gate and prepare to launch a formal siege.
Li Xuan, who was standing on the city gate tower, carefully looked at the Ming army slowly approaching outside the city. He couldn't help but feel a little worried. There were more than a thousand Ming troops outside the city, which was three times more than his own.
, and there are more than 300 Ming troops coming not far away.
Our side is not only at a disadvantage in terms of military strength, but we have also just entered the city. In addition, we do not know much about the city defense of Zhengtai County, so the hastily deployed defense work is quite imperfect.
Another crucial point is that the new army of the Tang Dynasty has never been trained on how to defend the city.
Because the Tang Dynasty itself did not have any cities, Huangzhushan was said to be a village, but in fact due to the expansion of the area, there were only some fences around to prevent the intrusion of wild beasts. They had faced the Ming army's invasion several times before.
Sometimes, we always defend the enemy outside the country's borders and take the initiative to conduct indirect defense.
And even in the field of defensive operations, to be honest, they have never fought.
Based on the characteristics of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, they prefer and are better at mobile warfare, always picking on weak enemies and taking the initiative to attack.
So far, they have not fought an evenly matched defensive battle with the Ming army, let alone the current defensive battle where they are at a disadvantage several times in strength.
The only thing that makes Li Xuan feel at ease is that now he has a city wall to rely on!
In today's era, the role of a city wall in defensive operations is still quite obvious. Even in the age of muskets, it is not easy for the attacker to conquer a city.
Li Xuan was worried about the upcoming battle, but this worry was not shown.
He has been the Shangou Emperor for more than a year. Even if he is neither fish nor fowl, he is still the supreme leader of more than 4,000 people. After being the Shangou Emperor for a long time, Li Xuan has gradually figured out how to be a Shangou Emperor.
The boss’s thoughts.
One of the most important points is not to make a fuss when nothing happens. Being surprised when something happens can easily cause panic and even distrust among your subordinates.
When you are the boss, you should behave like a boss. If you want to make sure that Mount Tai collapses without changing your appearance, it is best to pretend to be calm and calm and say: "I have long said that this Mount Tai will collapse.
Look, it's going to collapse now!", or to say: "It's a big deal if Mount Tai collapses, I think the earth exploded back then, but I still didn't blink an eye!"
When others see it, they think: Wow, this boss is so awesome!
You have to give your subordinates confidence and make them feel that they can succeed by following you. The various dangers encountered along the way are nothing more than trivial matters that can be solved with a wave of your hand.
When you are the boss, you have to be able to pretend and brag. Don't tell your subordinates about the difficulty of starting a business. If you are not careful, you will die. You have to tell them, just follow me. From now on, you can be an official as you wish.
Spend whatever you want, women can play whatever you want.
After conquering the world, I will be the boss of the galaxy, and you will be the leader of the earth!
Well, the above is Li Xuan's own understanding, so he has never been stingy about official positions in the Tang Dynasty. Some time ago, military officers were given to generals, and civil servants were given to prime ministers. Now, although he has a little more control, official titles are still given casually.
The blacksmiths were all given to the Minister of Works, and a scholar who had just been snatched but had double-minded intentions was directly given to a doctor. Li Xuan even prepared the official hat of the Minister of Etiquette for Yang Xiucai, as long as Yang Xiucai did not commit any obvious acts of rebellion.
, then after returning to the mountain, Li Xuan gave him the title of Minister of Rites.
Well, all of the above can be said, and there are some that cannot be said. For example, when you are the boss, you have to behave like a boss. Don’t do the big things by yourself. You must know how to delegate power and let your subordinates do anything.
If you do it well, throw some bones as a reward, and if you do it badly, you'll be beaten, and you can shirk responsibility.
In this way, these subordinates are still grateful to you for giving them the opportunity to realize their ambitions, giving them the illusion of being valued, which leads to the foolish idea of dying for a confidant.
As for enjoying yourself, enjoy it, don't beep for nothing, and try to be a good boss who just eats and waits for death.
Li Xuan has been the emperor of Shangou for more than a year, and he claims to have found the feeling of being an emperor, so even though he is worried in his heart now, his expression remains unchanged, with a relaxed demeanor as if all the Ming troops under the city are scum.
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However, Li Xuan can do this, but the ministers around him cannot do this. Zeng Ziwen frowned at this time and said: "Their forwards are not simple. They should not be guardsmen, but the recruits we encountered last time."
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Among the Ming army outside the city, the most conspicuous ones are the more than 300 people walking in the front, many of whom are carrying long ladders. These 300 people are obviously different from the Ming army behind them, even if they are only far away.
Looking at them, one can feel that their training level and mental outlook are far superior to those of the serf guards.
"They should be coming from Fucheng. Didn't the spies report some time ago that another group of troops has come from Fucheng recently? It should be them!" Qian Mengjiu said: "But so what if they are recruiting troops, we
It’s not like they haven’t been beaten before. The last time they entered the mountain, we killed more than fifty people!”
The last time the Ming army entered the mountain, Wu Nuanzhi also led more than 200 recruited soldiers into the mountain together, and divided into several teams to conduct reconnaissance and search for Huangzhu Mountain. One of the teams of dozens of people was ambushed by the new army of the Tang Dynasty.
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At that time, under the musketeers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, these recruited soldiers did not perform much better than ordinary guard soldiers.
In the face of the muskets and bullets of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, these recruits in the Ming army were not much different from the garrison army. After several rounds of volleys of gunfire, they were still killed and injured and then completely collapsed.
As the Ming army's siege troops gradually approached, the main generals of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty who were in charge of various units on the city walls also urged the soldiers to fight.
The first to react was the main force defending the city this time: the Musketeers!
This is not only because they need to be the first to shoot to intercept the enemy, but also because the Musketeers are the most rigorously trained and best-quality soldiers in the new army of the Tang Dynasty.
Under the orders of the officers, while the archers and spearmen were still dilly-dallying, they had already begun loading and lighting the matches.
The Ming army was getting closer and closer, gradually approaching from the previous safe distance of 300 meters to 200 meters, then 100 meters.
After reaching this distance, Wang Shanxu did not hesitate at all and directly ordered: "Aim!"
A few seconds later, he suddenly waved his command knife: "Shoot!"
Immediately, the musketeers all pulled the triggers, and this time the shooting was different from the usual round fire. They used a volley fire.
The wide city wall gave them enough space to arrange their formations, and at the same time, the Ming army's siege couldn't possibly rush to the top of the city in just a few dozen seconds.
The musketeers have enough time to reload and fire repeatedly, so there is no need to keep firing in rounds. They can directly injure the enemy with round after round of volleys, while giving the enemy the greatest deterrence.
After all, the sound caused by eighty muskets firing at one time is completely different from that of less than thirty muskets firing.
However, even if it was a salvo, because the distance was really far, the casualties caused to the Ming army were very limited. They only hit a few people in total. For the Ming army forwards with hundreds of people, only a few people were hit.
The casualties were not enough to move them.
The reason why there were only three or four casualties was that on the one hand, the hit rate was relatively low, and on the other hand, it was also related to the fact that even if it hit the opponent, it would be difficult to cause effective damage to the Ming army.
In order to attack the city, most of the front row soldiers of the Ming army wore iron armor or cotton armor. Although the power of muskets is not small now, and is much larger than bows and crossbows, they want to be able to shoot them from a hundred meters away.
It is still difficult to penetrate heavy armor or cotton armor that has a good defensive effect against bullets.
But if the Ming army continues to advance, when they reach a distance of 80 meters or even 60 meters, even if the opponent's front row troops are heavily armored, they will never be able to withstand the musket blows of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, although the killing effect of the first round of shooting was not obvious, Wang Shanxu, who commanded the musketeers, did not care at all and continued to let the soldiers reload in preparation for the second round of shooting.
Next to these musketeers, dozens of archers are already ready. They will start shooting when the Ming army reaches a distance of 78 meters.
Although the damage done by arrows at this distance to the armored personnel in the front row of the Ming army was very limited, their targets were not the armored soldiers in the front row of the Ming army, but the light infantry at the back.
As the Ming army approached a distance of more than 70 meters, the archers began to bend their bows and shoot arrows, and they fired arrows continuously. The resulting dense rain of arrows immediately pounced on the Ming army outside the city!