Chapter 515 The rise and fall of the country is in this battle
After the puppet Tang rebel army launched an attack outside the city, the senior generals of the Ming army, including Wang Yue, descended from the city gate tower and then ran to the city wall below to continue watching the battle!
In the past, the Puppet Tang thief army liked to bombard the city gate towers during many attacks. Now the city gate towers are in tatters. Although they are repaired every day, they will not completely collapse. But wait for the Puppet Tang Dynasty
When the bandits were bombarding the city gate tower, it was extremely dangerous, so they all got off the city gate tower in advance.
Even in order to avoid attracting the attention of the artillery of the puppet Tang rebels outside the city, Wang Yue and others did not bring too many followers. Only a few senior generals stayed behind the city wall and watched the battle through the gaps in the battlements.
I saw the puppet Tang rebels outside the city gradually approaching. No matter the formation or tactics, there was not much new idea. They always bombarded with artillery, and then the bowl-mouth cannons stepped forward a hundred steps or so to continue bombarding, and then muskets and
The archers came forward to shoot.
If nothing else goes wrong, the rebel infantry will launch a direct attack under the cover of muskets, archers and artillery!
This is an old trick used by the Tang Dynasty rebel army to attack the city. Wang Yue and everyone have seen it several times. At the beginning, due to the powerful firepower of the rebel army, it was quite difficult for them to deal with it, and they suffered a lot of casualties.
But later on, I learned to be smart. When the thieves were shooting with artillery, muskets, and bows and arrows, they obediently hid behind the battlements and used the city walls to protect themselves!
After the infantry of the Puppet Tang Dynasty rebel army rushed forward dozens of steps, they then used the bowl-mouth cannons and bows and arrows on the city wall to counterattack. They were often able to achieve considerable results, although their own side would also suffer certain casualties in the process.
But this number of casualties is controllable.
Anyway, in the past ten days or so, the puppet Tang bandits have never been able to charge into the city.
But this time, although the scale of the attack by the Pseudo-Tang thief army seems to be large, there are tens of thousands of Puppet Tang thief troops outside the west city wall, and thousands of them are continuing to approach. These thousands of people also carry a large number of weapons.
Siege equipment, such as mobile arrow towers and long ladders for climbing city walls.
However, although the bandits came in large numbers, the West City Wall, as the key defensive wall of the Ming army, also deployed intensive forces. There was no shortage of archers, bowl-mouth cannons and even handguns for close range killing. As a precautionary measure,
There are also a lot of heavy armor sword and shield bearers deployed. Once the enemy troops board the city, these heavy armor sword and shield bearers will immediately kill them and drive the rebels off the city.
If the rebels dare to attack by force, Wang Yue promises to teach these puppet Tang rebels an unforgettable lesson, letting them know that Wuzhou City is not an ordinary city like Liping City or Liuzhou City, but an easy-to-defend city.
A difficult-to-attack military fortress city!
The rebels outside the city continued to approach. At this time, Wang Yue also received the news. On other city walls, the puppet Tang rebel army also began to take action. From this look, the puppet Tang rebel army had indeed come out in full force.
Immediately, Wang Yue once again sent an order to the Ming troops on the walls of the city, asking all Ming troops to defend the city walls, kill thieves for the emperor, and make contributions to himself. He also promised to give high rewards.
However, as soon as his order was conveyed, a loud noise was suddenly heard!
This loud noise was definitely not the sound of an artillery fire. Even the heavy artillery fired by the puppet Tang rebel army outside the city was absolutely unable to cause such a huge noise. Wang Yue even felt the illusion that the earth was shaking.
what happened?
After the loud noise came, Wang Yue immediately looked in the direction of the loud noise and saw a large plume of smoke rising from a section of the city wall to the east!
What's going on? What happened?
Wang Yue didn't understand what happened for a while, but a man next to him was very knowledgeable and immediately said: "No, the bandit army must have used gunpowder to blow up the city wall!"
At this time, the gunpowder smoke on the east wall had not dissipated. For a while, everyone still couldn't see clearly what was happening there. However, Wang Yue saw the puppet Tang rebel army in the east and seemed to have gone crazy. Running towards the east city wall, when he saw this scene, even though he still couldn't figure out what happened, he could already guess that these pseudo-Tang rebels must have taken the opportunity to attack the city.
Immediately he shouted: "Quick, send people up to block the gap, we must stop the puppet Tang traitor army!"
In fact, without Wang Yue's order, several Ming army generals in charge of the eastern city wall had already noticed that something was wrong. After a period of tremors, a section of their city wall actually collapsed, although it was impossible to completely destroy the collapsed city wall. It was blown up, but a huge gap had already appeared, and thousands of pseudo-Tang rebel troops outside the city rushed over like crazy.
At the moment, they quickly mobilized troops to fill the gap.
When the city wall is blown down, the only way to plug the gap is to use people to pile it up and sacrifice human lives to fill it!
A section of the city wall is only about ten meters long. If hundreds or even thousands of people are thrown in, it will be blocked no matter what.
However, the artillery of the Pseudo-Tang rebel army outside the city has changed its target and began to conduct intensive shelling towards this gap. The musketeers and archers of the Puppet-Tang rebel army in the distance are also intensively covering this gap. shooting.
This caused heavy casualties to the Ming army soldiers who stepped up to block the gap in an instant!
And this kind of heavy casualties instantly caused the Ming army on the east wall to waver. If they had the city wall as a support, they could defend the city. But now that the city wall has collapsed, when they want to use their lives to block the gap, in an instant There was a wavering.
At this time, a large number of troops of the puppet Tang rebel army finally crossed the various obstacles outside the city and surged toward this gap like a tide.
That's not dozens or hundreds of people, but more than one or two thousand people!
The battle became extremely fierce almost in an instant. This fast pace almost made several senior Ming army generals in charge of the command on the east wall feel at a loss. They could only constantly mobilize troops to fill the gap. It didn't take a quarter of an hour for them to be around them. His own soldiers were even sent out, asking Wang Yue for urgent help at the same time!
"Sir, please reinforce us quickly, otherwise we really won't be able to withstand it. The rebel army is really too fierce!" A thousand households who ran over to ask for help didn't even care about the official's dignity. He spoke in a panic, even with a hint of panic. A pleading look!
Wang Yue also frowned at this time. He was about to speak, but someone on the side said: "Sir, the heavy armored soldiers of the thief army have not appeared yet, and most of the people who attacked the east wall are fake thieves!"
When Qianhu who came to ask for help heard this, he immediately became angry. Regardless of Wang Yue's expectation that Wei Yan and other senior officials were around, he directly said: "Now our dead and injured brothers are no less than a few hundred brothers. If we continue to fight like this, we won't be able to hold on until the heavy armored soldiers of the rebel army come over!"
Although there are thousands of defenders on the east wall, it is impossible to block all the gaps. The other intact city walls also need to be defended by soldiers. This is the same as the third garrison brigade that is launching a fierce attack outside the city. They only sent one One regiment attacked the gap, while the other regiment attacked other walls.
Wang Yue once again looked around the entire offensive and defensive battlefield, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "I will send you two thousand more people, and you must block the gap!"
When they heard that there were two thousand reinforcements, these thousand households finally breathed a sigh of relief!
Although two thousand people may not sound like a lot, but with the addition of such a new force of two thousand people, it is relatively safe for them to close up the city wall.
But where did this thousand-man vehicle come from?
Naturally, it is impossible for Wang Yue to mobilize the final strategic reserve at this critical moment. His three thousand people are prepared to deal with the worst situation. Although the east wall is dangerous, it is not enough for him to dispatch the final force. When strategic reserve team.
He immediately looked around, and then said to Guangdong Deputy Commander-in-Chief Shen Xiyi: "Sir Shen, please send two thousand people to support the east city wall!"
After hearing this, Shen Xiyi frowned slightly. His thousands of Guangdong troops were now dispersedly deployed on the west and south walls.
This was already a heavy task, but if two thousand people had to be mobilized, it would probably be even more difficult. He immediately looked left and right, and then said to Yu Dayou beside him: "You can bring three thousand people from your headquarters to reinforce General Chen. !”
After hearing this, Yu Dayou wanted to say something, but after a slight hesitation, he did not say it. Instead, he said: "I obey your orders!"
Soon, Yu Dayou led his three thousand headquarters to quickly reinforce the gap!
However, when Yu Dayou went to reinforce with 3,000 soldiers and horses, and after arriving, he initially stabilized the battle line and drove back some of the puppet Tang rebels who had rushed into the gap.
Suddenly, I heard someone shouting next to me: "No, the heavy armored soldiers of the rebel army are rushing forward!"
"What? The heavy armor soldiers of the rebel army? Where are they?" As soon as Yu Dayou heard the word heavy armor, he immediately looked outside!
In his sight, he saw hundreds of people crawling out of the trenches dug by the Puppet Tang rebels outside the city. However, these hundreds of people were different from other Puppet Tang rebels. At least half of them were Wearing heavy armor!
This obvious sign allows people to recognize their identities almost instantly. They are the heavy armored soldiers of the puppet Tang thief army!
Wherever they appear, that is the main attack point!
Yu Dayou looked at these heavily armored soldiers trotting over a few dozen steps away, and thought to himself: the 3,000 men under him and the more than 1,000 nearby defenders were already exhausted after such a fight, and were among the dead and wounded. No, now the puppet Tang bandit army has rushed over again, I'm afraid it will be even harder to fight!
Not only did Yu Dayou see the heavy armored soldiers of the Puppet Tang thief army coming towards them, but Wang Yue and the others also saw the heavy armored soldiers of the Puppet Tang thief army coming towards them.
At this time, Wang Yue took a deep breath and said: "Ask Du Biao to rush to reinforce General Yu, and be sure to stop the puppet Tang traitor army!"
Since the heavy armored soldiers of the rebel army have appeared, and there is such a big momentum on the east wall, there is no doubt that this is the main attack direction of the puppet Tang rebel army. Although fighting is also going on in other directions, it is still possible to do so. Defend. Now, whether you can defend the city depends on whether you can defend the east wall!
When the 3,000 supervisors rushed to reinforce the eastern city wall, Li Xuan, who was behind the Tang Dynasty's royal division, seemed to be looking at the entire battlefield with a blank expression!
The development of the normal war was similar to the deduction of the combat department. Although our own troops launched a fierce attack on the east city wall, especially after the 3rd garrison brigade was strictly ordered to launch a fierce attack regardless of casualties, the Ming army was forced to continuously deploy troops to reinforce the east city wall, and on the second
After the temporary assault battalion also went out, the Ming army obviously mobilized another reinforcement force to support them.
Calculated in this way, at the east city wall, the Ming army had already reinforced at least 5,000 reinforcements!
Li Xuan didn't know how many reserves there were in the entire Wuzhou City garrison, but he knew that it was impossible for the Ming army in the city to arrange tens of thousands of reserves. These five thousand people were almost the limit.
In order for the Ming army to use these 5,000 men, the 3rd Infantry Brigade and the 3rd Guard Brigade fighting on the east city wall paid a heavy price. After this battle, the 3rd Guard Brigade was expected to be completely disabled, and the 3rd Guard Brigade was expected to be completely disabled.
The casualties of the infantry brigade will probably not be small either.
After paying such a huge price, the Ming army mobilized so many reserves. Now it is time to start the second step of the plan!
Immediately he said expressionlessly: "The engineer battalion was ordered to blast immediately. The Liuzhou Independent Regiment and the First Assault Battalion immediately launched a full-scale assault after the blast. The Second Infantry Regiment and the Fifth Guard Brigade launched a full-scale assault to support the assault troops and broke through in one fell swoop.
Wuzhou City!
Guards and cavalry units come forward to supervise the battle!
Anyone who retreats without permission will be killed on the spot!"
After saying this, he looked around at the many officers around him and said immediately: "The rise and fall of the country depends on this battle. I hope you will fight bravely to kill the enemy!"
"Go ahead, I'll wait for the news from you all!"
Immediately, Hao Bainian and other generals said in unison: "I obey your order!"