Chapter 429 Brothers, make this bowl of wine (seeking a monthly ticket)
As the sun rose, the various units of the new army of the Tang Dynasty began to bury pots to make rice, and then after using them to rebel, they began to cut down nearby trees and prepare siege equipment.
The infantry began to prepare siege equipment, and the artillery roared first!
The artillery position built overnight was about 300 meters outside the city. The 5500-jin artillery and six 800-jin artillery began to gradually fire at a slow rate of fire on the artillery set up by the Ming army on the top of the city.
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When the new army of the Tang Dynasty rushed to Liping Fucheng, the Ministry of Industry in the rear rushed out another 800-jin artillery and delivered it to the artillery battalion!
For the first time, the 800 kilograms of artillery in the artillery battalion formed a team!
The artillery battalion's shelling speed is relatively slow. Basically, each artillery fires after a few minutes. After firing a few rounds, it will stop for a period of time to let the barrel cool down. This is to protect the barrel.
life, to avoid firing too fast and causing the barrel to burst.
However, although the rapid fire of each artillery piece is not fast, there are a total of eleven heavy artillery pieces in the artillery battalion. On average, one solid cannonball will still land on the wall of Lipingfu City every minute!
Most of them hit the city walls, but occasionally there were shells that hit the Ming army artillery on the battlements. It didn't take many. As long as one shell hit these artillery, it would basically destroy a gun emplacement.
After all, the Ming army's artillery was originally small guns with light weight and small caliber, which could not withstand the bombardment of heavy artillery.
Even if it does not directly hit the artillery itself, hitting the battlements can still cause sand and gravel to fly, thus killing a large number of Ming soldiers!
However, the Ming army soon learned to be smart. They did not continue to stand stupidly near the artillery positions that were being cared for, but ran to the side and hid behind the battlements. In this way, they were much safer.
However, those lonely and unattended artillery pieces continued to be violently bombarded by the puppet Tang rebels!
The artillery pieces were destroyed one after another!
The heavy artillery units of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty continued to fire, setting off the prelude to the day's general attack. The infantry of several main units of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty also began to form formations.
The temporarily gathered heavy armored sword and shield soldiers were divided into three small square formations, each square containing about two hundred heavy armored sword and shield soldiers.
These 600 heavy armored sword and shield soldiers are the key to whether the new army of the Tang Dynasty can gain a foothold on the city in the upcoming battle to climb the city!
In addition to the 600 sword and shield soldiers, many musketeers were also gathered. Their initial task was to provide medium-range firepower support for the troops ascending the city. Once the melee troops at the top of the city gained a firm foothold, they would rush forward.
, and then completely occupy the city wall, and cooperate with the heavy armor, sword and shield soldiers to open the city gate and let more troops enter the city!
Therefore, despite the tens of thousands of troops participating in the war, when the battle breaks out, most of the troops will be soy sauce. The core of the battle on both sides will be concentrated on a certain section of the city wall, and the number of participating troops will only be a few thousand at most.
In order to cover the success of the landing force, other units of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty also need to make a lot of preparations. For example, in order to reduce the burden on these heavy armored infantry and preserve their physical fitness for the battle on the city, accompanying this heavy armored infantry regiment
The charge will be initiated by thousands of light armored sword and shield soldiers, who will be carrying long ladders and heavy wooden boards.
The long ladder is used to climb the wall, and the plank is used as a bow and arrow!
At the same time, companion attacks will be launched in several other directions!
In addition, the Seventh Infantry Regiment and the Eighth Infantry Regiment, two units composed of the surrendered Ming army, will also participate in the battle. They are mainly used as cannon fodder to attract and consume the first wave of ammunition and bows and arrows of the Ming army!
The new army of the Tang Dynasty was intensively preparing to attack the city outside the city. Many senior Ming army generals on the city wall were all frowning!
There were more puppet Tang rebels outside the city than they expected!
Among them, there were nearly 6,000 surrendered soldiers wearing the Ming Army's own military uniforms!
In addition, there were tens of thousands of pseudo-Tang traitor soldiers wearing pseudo-Tang traitor army uniforms.
Adding the two together, there are more than 16,000 people!
At this time, although the total strength of the Ming army garrison in the city exceeded that of the puppet Tang rebel army outside the city, it was only about 26,000.
Among them are seven to eight thousand young and strong civilian men!
The regular army has less than 20,000 people, and the core combat strength, that is, Fubiao soldiers and other soldiers, is only 6,000 people.
I'm afraid I'm going to suffer a loss in this battle!
It’s hard to say whether Liping City can be defended!
Seeing that everyone next to him looked sad, Zhu Zhihai was also very angry!
These losers are all useless trash. Yesterday's battle outside the city cost him tens of thousands of troops. And all of this is to blame on these incompetent trash. When the battle is over, he will be ruthless.
If he doesn't help them ruthlessly and kill them all, he won't be able to live up to the emperor's trust!
However, he was just thinking about these psychological thoughts and would definitely not express them at this time.
The defenders of the city later have to rely on these incompetent and useless generals. After all, it is impossible for a dignified governor to go to the battlefield with a sword to fight. How would that be inappropriate!
But what should we do in the face of the menacing puppet Tang rebel army?
How can we defend the city?
For a moment, Zhu Zhihai, who had always boasted of his extraordinary talents, was a little confused!
You can't blame him for this. After all, his strength is studying for the imperial examination, followed by impeaching others. Fighting is really not his strength!
He can barely make some strategic judgments, but it is actually very difficult for him to make specific tactical arrangements.
But there is no solution to the dilemma. Who made him the governor of Guizhou and the supreme commander of this army?
While Zhu Zhihai frowned and thought about how to defend the city, the new army of the Tang Dynasty outside the city continued to make step-by-step preparations to attack the city!
The main force array with the first brigade as its core has already begun to move forward, but further ahead of them are the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment!
Because the first wave of attacks can be regarded as a testing attack, the purpose is to test out the average defensive strength. Such testing attacks are more dangerous and can easily cause casualties, so it is better to let the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment do this.
It's better for the cannon fodder troops to go, but as for the first brigade, they actually go to act as the supervising team to hold the battle!
The second brigade continues to stay in the rear!
At the same time, the Fifth Infantry Regiment continued to stay by Li Xuan's side, serving as a reserve force for the entire army to guard against a sudden Ming army coming from other directions.
Under the pressure of the first brigade in the rear, and even more so in the rear of more than 400 regular troops directly under the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment, although the surrendered soldiers knew that the front was very dangerous, they still started to charge!
They started their attack from a distance of two hundred meters. Along the way, they could still see many Ming army corpses left behind yesterday!
When they launched a charge, the Ming troops on the city wall naturally did not remain indifferent. They fired cannons and arrows to intercept them.
And caused certain casualties to the charging Seventh Infantry Regiment and Eighth Infantry Regiment!
However, because the distance is still far, the casualties are not too great, so these two infantry regiments can continue to charge!
But Hao Bainian at the rear could see that the distance from a few dozen meters to 70 or 80 meters outside the city was basically their limit. At that time, the lethality of the Ming army's bows and arrows would be greatly improved. Many Ming soldiers
The bowl-mouth cannon will also fire, causing relatively large casualties to the two infantry regiments!
But it didn't matter, because the senior generals of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty never expected that these two infantry regiments composed of soldiers from the Ming Army could conquer Lipingfu City.
Their mission is very simple, which is to attract and consume the artillery ammunition of the Ming army and the arrows of the archers!
The loading of artillery takes time, and there is a limit to how archers can bend their bows and shoot arrows. After these archers shoot this wave, their physical strength will basically be exhausted.
At that time, it will be time for the main force to launch an attack!
At the same time, in a small square formation on the flank of the first brigade, Cai Erhu, who was wearing heavy armor and riding a horse, so that the horse under his crotch was panting, was doing something to the six hundred heavy armored sword and shield soldiers under his command.
The final mobilization!
However, he has never been eloquent. He simply said a few words about serving His Majesty and the new army of the Tang Dynasty will be invincible. Then he stopped, and then said loudly: "Fat the wine!"
Immediately, many soldiers came forward with wine jars and large bowls, and served a bowl of wine to every heavy armored infantryman who was preparing to join the battle!
Cai Erhu also took the bowl of wine, then raised his head and drank it in one gulp. After drinking, he threw the bowl down and said loudly: "Brothers, drink this bowl of wine, and then follow me to kill!"
The heavy armored infantry also drank together and then threw their bowls. Many people also shouted "kill them".
Cai Erhu looked up at this time and saw that His Majesty's position in the Chinese army had officially issued an order for his heavy armored infantry to attack!
He immediately turned his horse's head and gave the formal order: "Let's go!"
Immediately, these 600 heavy armored infantry regiments began to advance in unison!
On their sides and rear, there were thousands of light-armored infantry. Some of them were light-armored sword and shield soldiers, some were ordinary musketeers, and there were a hundred grenadiers carrying spears and
Planks, they will assist the heavy armored infantry in launching a charge!
And these 1,600 people are the core combat force of the new army of the Tang Dynasty to attack the city this time!
While the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment continued to launch attacks, the heavy armored phalanx also officially entered the battlefield!
At this time, Hao Bainian also ordered: "Send the order, the whole army advances, the musketeers step forward, prepare to cover the city with firepower!"
For a time, the total strength of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty participating in the siege reached more than 10,000 people outside the city. Looking from the direction of the city, they were densely packed with human heads. The Ming army on the city couldn't bear to see it.
Stay terrified!
Yesterday's disastrous defeat is still fresh in our minds, but now these pseudo-Tang traitor troops are here again, and there are tens of thousands of them?
Can this be stopped?
Can this be stopped?
They don't know if they can block it, but now many Ming soldiers on the city have the same idea: Do they want to escape?