Chapter Five Hundred and Sixteenth Fierce Tough Battle
When Li Xuan formally issued the order, many generals with missions got on their horses and rushed to the various units.
At the same time, the other flag soldiers behind Li Xuan also waved their flags to convey the order to the entire army to charge.
In view of the fact that during the battle of Rongxian, there was an error in the transmission of flags, so every order was delivered by two flag soldiers. At the same time, for important orders, messengers were also dispatched to ride fast horses to deliver verbal instructions.
convey!
Of course, on such a battlefield that was constantly changing, the orders of the Tang Dynasty King's division were still mainly conveyed by flag language, and the messengers on fast horses were only used as a preventive measure.
In this case, even if there is an error in the delivery of the order by the flag messenger, the following messenger will be able to convey the correct name in time.
In this massive battle, not counting the messengers in other units, the command center where Li Xuan was located alone had more than a dozen flag soldiers and dozens of messengers.
Each unit received the order one after another and carried out related actions. Each unit began to move forward, but these units did not include the 1st Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Brigade!
This leading ace force in the Tang Dynasty was serving as a strategic reserve in today's crucial battle.
Li Xuan's external statement was to save the most important First Infantry Regiment at the most critical moment, but Li Xuan's inner thought was that there would inevitably be a large number of casualties in this Wuzhou offensive. No matter how many troops participated in the battle,
Whether it is the garrison brigade, the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, or the regular army, as long as it enters, it will cause a lot of casualties, and even if you are unlucky, the casualties will be extremely heavy.
In this case, Li Xuan naturally needed to avoid the loss of his core troops.
As the oldest and most powerful unit in the army, the First Infantry Regiment could easily be lost at the gates of Wuzhou City.
Because in Li Xuan's heart, even the other infantry units put together are not as important as the First Infantry Regiment.
Therefore, he wanted to keep the First Infantry Regiment. Although it was said to serve as a strategic reserve, Li Xuan never planned to put the First Infantry Regiment into the battlefield.
If the offensive force fails, then Li Xuan will withdraw his troops from Wuzhou City without hesitation, and then lead the troops with the core of the First Infantry Regiment to bypass Wuzhou and continue eastward to Guangdong.
As for whether Guizhou and other places in Guangxi will be lost by then, he doesn't care. He will march eastward to capture Zhaoqing, Guangzhou and even the entire Guangdong, and then slowly build up strength again.
He was determined to attack Wuzhou. To this end, he did not hesitate to invest two garrison brigades, three regular army infantry regiments and a Liuzhou independent regiment. It was foreseeable that these troops would suffer heavy casualties.
But in order to conquer Wuzhou, he would not be allowed to invest his last strategic reserve, the First Infantry Regiment!
These were Li Xuan's own inner thoughts. Naturally, others did not know. Others thought that Li Xuan had retained the First Infantry Regiment to prepare to invest again when the war situation changed.
Seeing that the troops on the front line were already taking action one after another, Li Xuan once again picked up the telescope and observed the battlefield!
To the east, with the 3rd Infantry Brigade as the core, the auxiliary troops of the 3rd Guard Brigade were fiercely attacking the Ming army in front of them. Many soldiers rushed up in a steady stream, and then climbed up the collapsed city walls and Ming Dynasty that had turned into rubble.
The army engages in hand-to-hand combat!
At the beginning, the fifth garrison regiment of the third garrison brigade was at the forefront, which was responsible for rushing towards the collapsed city wall. Then the fierce battle lasted only a few moments, but this garrison regiment of three thousand people was already dead and wounded.
There were no less than five or six hundred people. This level of casualty ratio almost declared that the garrison was disabled. From time to time, soldiers turned around and ran away.
However, these fleeing soldiers were met with intensive musketry and bow and arrow fire from the rear. The few deserters who ran back could not escape the hunting and killing from the 2nd Cavalry Battalion!
With strong enemies at the front and a supervising team at the back, the Fifth Guards Regiment in the middle almost suffered the most tragic casualties since the army was formed!
When another group of deserters were killed in batches by the Second Cavalry Battalion in the rear, the 5th Guards Brigade, which had been in disintegration, once again stabilized its position. However, they suffered heavy casualties and had extremely low morale. They were actually unable to launch
attack!
At this time, the heavy armored infantry of the Second Assault Battalion who came from behind to support finally rushed to this gap!
Immediately, the officers of the Fifth Guards Regiment shouted one by one: "Follow the brothers of the assault battalion. The assault battalion is invincible. As long as we follow them, we will definitely be able to charge forward. As long as we charge forward, we will win."
As long as we rush forward, we can survive!"
When these soldiers of the 5th Garrison Regiment, who were descended from the Ming Army, saw that the elite and heavily armored friendly troops of the 2nd Assault Battalion had rushed forward and acted as the main force of the attack, they were shouting and cursing.
, crying and even rushing forward like crazy!
Retreating is death, and death is inevitable. Staying where you are is also death. The only way is to rush over. If they rush over, they can survive!
Moreover, the brothers of the Second Assault Battalion are now at the forefront. They are all elites in the army. The adults can sacrifice themselves as cannon fodder at will, but they will never sacrifice these elites in the army at will.
In fact, in the minds of the big shots above, this second assault battalion was also used as cannon fodder to attract the attention of the Ming army, so that the Ming army could dispatch reinforcements.
The purpose is to create favorable conditions for the second blast, the attack of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment and the First Assault Battalion!
So when the soldiers of the Fifth Guards Regiment followed the Second Assault Battalion and rushed up again, they finally climbed up the ruins, and then they saw densely packed Ming troops. Countless Ming troops were right in front of them.
As for the elite assault battalions, who they usually envied and even feared, although they fought bravely and killed countless enemies, they still inevitably fell to the swords and guns of the Ming army one after another.
The Ming army was so anxious in the city that they even ignored the enemy's and our own casualties and fired indiscriminately with bows and arrows directly at the ruined city wall. Even the bowl-mouthed cannon was pushed out, and then bombarded the crowd!
You know, among the soldiers of both sides fighting on the ruins at this time, the Ming army was more numerous!
For every ten people killed or wounded by the bows and arrows and cannonballs fired by the Ming army, at least six or seven were the Ming army themselves!
But now, Yu Dayou, who was in charge of the command, could no longer care about this. The ferocity of the thieves outside the city was honestly beyond his expectation.
After serving in the army for many years, he has fought against Japanese pirates, fought against pirates, and wiped out numerous rebellions by bandits and thieves, but he has never seen such an enemy who is not afraid of death!
Under the tenacious obstruction of our own side, the puppet Tang rebels on the opposite side continued to fall, but some people kept falling and others rushed up. Those rebel soldiers who rushed up even stepped on the bodies of the dead and wounded Pao Ze.
"The military law of the traitor army is even more stringent than that of Qin!" Seeing the traitor army of the Tang Dynasty in front of him, Yu Dayou suddenly had this idea!
He didn't think that the reason why the rebels on the opposite side refused to retreat was because they had the courage to fight. He could even see that many of the rebel soldiers had collapsed, but they were still crying and rushing forward with swords in hand!
The reason why these thieves are rushing forward is very simple, because they have no way out!
Behind them were equally dense musketeers and archers. These rebel musketeers and archers not only shot at the Ming army on top of the city, but also at their deserters!
At the same time, the thief cavalry was always watching from behind, and Yu Dayou knew very well that the target of these thief cavalry was not him. He had never seen cavalry charging towards the city wall on horseback.
The target is their own family members, deserters to be precise!
Using more than 200 elite cavalry to serve as a supervising force was something that only the inhumane Puppet Tang bandit army could do.
The rebel army used extremely harsh military laws to forcefully drive the rebel soldiers to launch a fierce attack. Even though they suffered heavy casualties in the process, the Ming army as the defender was no better, and even suffered more casualties.
At this time, the two sides had actually fallen into a big melee, and to be honest, the combat effectiveness of the puppet Tang rebel army was still much stronger than that of the Ming army, even the garrison.
Not to mention that there are now more than 400 heavily armored soldiers of the Pseudo-Tang Thieves Army rushing up. These elite Pseudo-Tang Thieves Army wearing heavy armor are definitely not easy to deal with. If they can be easily dealt with, then...
Sorry for the heavy armor they are wearing.
The Ming army defending the city could only rely on their numerical superiority and even risk their lives to kill the heavily armored elite of the pseudo-Tang rebel army.
The price paid to kill these heavily armored elites is also huge. Basically, for every enemy heavy armored infantry killed or injured, one's own side has to pay the price of seven or eight people or even more!
This kind of exchange made Yu Dayou more worried than the fight. If he hadn't already seen the three thousand supervisors coming, he might have been unable to help but ask Wang Yue for help again.
Just wait until the 3,000 supervisors arrive. By then, they will definitely be able to completely drive out these pseudo-Tang traitor troops in front of us!
A fierce battle was going on on the east wall of the city. Li Xuan selectively ignored the intensity of the battle, but the officers commanding the front line could not ignore the brutality and huge casualties!
Next to him, Lieutenant Colonel He Yunfang, the deputy commander of the 3rd Garrison Brigade, saw the extremely tragic front line. He finally couldn't help but said to Chen Keqiao, commander of the 3rd Infantry Brigade and commander of the Eastern Front: "General, the casualties of the 5th Garrison Regiment are...
I'm afraid it's already more than one-third. If the fight continues, I'm afraid...I'm afraid..."
When he said this, there was urgency and worry in his voice: "Even though the soldiers in the garrison are surrendered soldiers, the officers on the front line are all the elites of our Tang Dynasty!"