Lieutenant Colonel Yu Lianhong, the commander of the 5th Assault Battalion, has a yellow feather on the top of his helmet, which is his school officer logo. The yellow tail feather represents the school officer, and there are detailed cloth epaulettes on the shoulders, which are red.
The two horizontal bars and two stars at the bottom represent an army lieutenant colonel.
The helmets of lieutenants have a black feather on the top, and there are also epaulettes on the shoulders. If it is a captain, his epaulettes are a red background with a horizontal bar and three stars.
The helmets of non-commissioned officers have a red feather, and the epaulettes of sergeants have five vertical stripes on a red background.
The helmets of ordinary soldiers do not have feathers, the epaulettes of first-class soldiers have two vertical stripes on a red background, and those of second-class soldiers have a single red vertical stripe.
The Fifth Assault Battalion began to dispatch. As soon as they came out, they almost attracted the attention of both the enemy and ourselves, especially the attention of the Ming army on the top of the city!
No way, this assault battalion of nearly 500 people is all wearing armor, and the armor they wear is all shiny plate armor. Whether it is full body armor, half body armor, or breastplate, almost all of them are shiny. Think about it.
It's hard not to notice.
Some experienced Ming army generals knew at a glance that this was the assault camp of the puppet Tang rebel army, and when the puppet Tang rebel army dispatched the assault camp, it often meant that they were about to launch an attack on the city.
"Quick, fire!"
"Bring out all the cannons!"
"And the archers and musketeers are all ready to go up to the city wall and get ready!"
"Stop them and never let them get on top of the city, otherwise we will all be doomed!"
The dispatch of the assault battalion immediately caused panic in the Ming army. Most of the Ming army soldiers who originally hid at the top of the city to avoid the artillery fire were quickly re-boarded the city top at the urging of the officers, so much so that they originally let
The city, which was sparsely populated and had only a few artillery, became lively again.
However, the preparations of the Ming army also allowed the artillerymen of the Tang Army, who had stopped shelling for two hours, to find targets to shoot!
The assault battalion had not taken a few steps when intensive artillery fire came from the artillery position!
In the heavy artillery camp behind the reverse slope, a colonel even shouted: "Three rapid fire shots!"
Several loaders worked together to stuff the 48-pound shell into the barrel. After the preparations were complete, the gunner decisively ordered the gun to fire!
After the rumble of cannons sounded, countless cannonballs landed on the city wall in a short time!
And those grenades that landed on the top of the city set off a bloody storm!
At this time, the other infantry of the Fifth Infantry Division also began to advance. They would deploy forward and use those shotguns, muskets, and bows to provide mid-range fire cover for the troops ascending the city!
More than three thousand muskets fired continuously in multiple square formations. The lead bullets hit the city walls and hit Ming soldiers one after another through the gaps in the battlements.
The thrown bows and arrows also landed on the city wall, and the projectiles and small projectiles fired by the shotguns swept across the city!
Although the Ming army suffered heavy casualties, they still fought back hard. The bowl-mouth cannon and other shotguns that had been unable to function in the artillery battle also began to fire. The musketeers and archers on the top of the city also continued to fire.
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The Fifth Infantry Division, which was responsible for the main offensive mission, inevitably suffered certain casualties, but they did not stop, especially the rewards of the assault battalion, who still moved forward with firm steps!
At the same time, there were many engineer infantry who took more risks, carrying long planks and sandbags for them and running forward. The task of these light infantry was very simple. They needed to fill in a section of the moat, and then use planks to
Lay it on top to provide a passage for the assault battalion to move forward!
But although the task is simple, it is the most dangerous, because in order to carry sandbags and planks, they do not wear armor, not even swords and guns. Their only protection is the large shield held up by their comrades.
, but if this kind of large shield can only block bows and arrows or medium and long-range muskets, if it is hit by the enemy's artillery, there is no reason to survive.
It just so happens that these people are also the key targets of the Ming army!
The Ming army is not stupid either. They know very well that guarding the moat is the key now. If the moat is guarded, those formidable Puppet Tang assault battalions will have no way to cross the moat and climb the city wall!
One engineer after another fell on the way forward!
But the 5th Infantry Division's offensive pace is still advancing steadily!
In the Fifth Assault Battalion, several military musicians with snare drums hanging on their chests beat the snare drums on their chests with a fixed rhythm. The sound of the drums is similar to the rhythm of marching!
When the assault battalion arrived only eighty meters away from the city wall, the drum beat suddenly started to beat rapidly, and the leading officers even shouted one by one: "Kill!"
Then the 500 soldiers of the assault battalion started to trot, then crossed the moat that the engineers had filled with their lives, stepped over the corpses of the engineers, and came to the other side of the moat.
Immediately afterwards, one ladder after another was erected. After the ladders were erected, the iron hooks at the top firmly built the city wall. Some of the Ming soldiers above wanted to chop down these iron hooks, but soon they
I just found that they couldn’t cut it at all!
Soon someone reacted, and they started to lift rocks and throw huge logs down. Every stone and huge log hit the assault battalion soldiers who were ascending the city, and a certain number of assault battalion soldiers would be killed.
Casualties.
Even the soldiers of the assault battalion were about to climb to the top of the city, but they were directly hit by a huge boulder above their heads, and then fell heavily. This fall would cause serious injuries even if they were not killed.
At this time, the soldiers of the assault battalion are often in the most danger. Most of them can only bear the blow and climb to the city. Only a few archers and grenadiers brave the enemy's various firepower to attack the city.
Shooting on the head, trying to suppress the Ming army's counterattack at the top of the city, in order to cover the climbing heavy armor, sword and shield soldiers who were climbing up the city successfully!
"Quick, rush forward!"
At this time, Wang Shanxu ignored the attacks of other units of the 5th Infantry Division, and instead focused all his attention on the 5th Assault Battalion, because whether they could break through the city or not depended on the soldiers of the Assault Battalion.
Can we open the gap?
As for the other troops of the 5th Infantry Division, all they can do now is shoot and fire arrows to cover their comrades in the assault battalion!
"Quick, as long as we go up, everything will be easy to handle. As long as there are ten people, as long as five people go up, then everything will be easy to handle!"
With the combat effectiveness and strong protective capabilities of the heavy-armored, sword-and-shield soldiers in the assault camp, as long as they get to the top of the city, they are basically invincible!
The full-body plate armor on their bodies is enough to block the blows of most light cold weapons of this era. Unless they are unlucky enough to be hit by the enemy in the face, neck and other gaps in the armor, otherwise, they will just stand there and let the Ming soldiers chop them.
, you can accept it calmly, and then kill the enemy soldiers on the opposite side with one knife!
If a few heavy armored infantry climb to the top of the city, they can basically hold the position where the ladder is located, thus covering more comrades to climb to the top of the city. When there are dozens or even dozens of heavy armored infantry on the top of the city,
When there were hundreds of people, they could even control a section of the city wall dozens of meters wide and gradually advance to both ends.
At that time, it was time for other ordinary infantrymen of the Fifth Infantry Division to swarm forward!
By that time, the city can basically be declared conquered, and the next battle is just the ending.
So now, it is the most critical moment!
But although Wang Shanxu was anxious, he could only watch the sword and shield soldiers who were almost climbing to the top of the city one after another being hit by boulders and then rolling down!
At this time, Li Chunjing said: "Don't worry, you have to trust the soldiers of the assault camp!"
Wang Shanxu took a deep breath at this time and said: "It's the staff who are worried!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a staff officer on the side immediately shouted: "Look, there are soldiers on board!"
Immediately, not only Wang Shanxu, but also Li Chunjing also raised their binoculars again and looked in the direction of the assault battalion. In the sight of their binoculars, they saw a tall, heavy-armored sword-and-shield soldier crawling in full-body plate armor.
Climb the city wall.
As soon as Zhou Chang climbed onto the city wall, several knives and spears were attacking him at the same time. However, as a veteran heavy armored sword and shield soldier, he was not afraid at all and simply raised the round shield in his hand toward him.
, blocked several spears, but did not care about the long knives that were coming towards him!
The next moment, the spears were swung away by the raised shield in the middle of the circle, and three knives struck Zhou Chang's body. The huge impact even caused sparks to appear at the collision point between the knife edge and the armor.
, but these knives could only leave a shallow mark under his armor.
At this time, Zhou Chang calmly stood firm, then strode forward, swung his sword directly, and gave one of the Ming army soldiers who had just besieged him a heavy and sharp knife.
The steel knife was about to cut off half of the neck of this Ming army swordsman.
After the Ming saber hand let out a shrill scream, blood spurted out of Lao Gao in an instant, and the next moment he covered his neck and fell down!
At this time, Zhou Chang showed a ferocious smile. Even through his helmet and visor, the remaining Ming soldiers on the opposite side seemed to be able to see his ferocious expression!
Immediately, Zhou Chang advanced several steps in a row, using his shield to block the attacks of several other Ming soldiers. Then he stabbed forward with a knife. The tip of the knife passed directly through the neck gap of a Ming heavy armor sword and shield soldier in front of him.
Go in at one end and come out at the other end!
Without any pause, Zhou Chang drew out the steel knife in the next moment, ignoring the blood that the man spurted and splashed on his armor, and continued to move rapidly in a small area, waving the steel knife in his hand,
In just a few seconds, five Ming soldiers were already lying down in front of him.