Chapter 260 Taizhou Defense War

Taizhou is known as "water, land and throat according to the county". Several major water systems bypass Taizhou City. Among them, there is a river that runs through Taizhou City from north to south. When Zhang Yang attacked Taizhou City, he used the method of waterway attack.

Now, this waterway is difficult for the tar cavalry.

For convenience, many wooden bridges have been built on the waterway, but now, within ten miles of Taizhou City, all the bridges on the river have been demolished.

The cavalry wants to cross the river, but the horse can't swim. Unless they have wings and fly over, it is impossible to do it.

This is the sadness of not having sailors. In the south, sailors are a very important force. If there is a sailor, this is not a problem at all.

The tent has been erected, and I immediately thought about the strategy for a long time. At the beginning of the implementation, I encountered resistance.

"Your Highness, we can only block the western wall." Qianhu, who had just been sent, came back and said.

"What's going on?"

"The bridge on the river is missing, and we can't reach the other side of the river." Qianhu said.

Is the bridge missing? What's going on? Although the baldness was stupid, it was not hopeless. He felt a little bit of conspiracy.

"Is there no bridge?"

"No, near the north and south gates, several bridges are still there. But it's only 200 steps away from the city wall, and we dare not approach.

Tang He demolished the bridge, but it was not all demolished. There are still a few bridges very close to the city gate, which is convenient for the people. However, for the tars, it is chicken ribs. Have you ever thought about the river? First of all, ask if the sky on the wall above your head will refuse.

If you want to cross the river and reach the blockade on the other side, there are only two ways. First, at the risk of being attacked by the other party, cross the river from the bridge only 200 steps from the city wall, or head north and go around the bridge upstream.

"Order, three thousand teams, go around the upstream and block the east gate. When the main attack tomorrow, the east will be responsible for the psecast." The finished man said baldly.

Although he encountered a small setback, he was more convinced that the other party demolished the bridge on the river because of his fear of himself, which would greatly affect the lives of the people on both sides.

The bald man only guessed a little right. It did affect the lives of the people on both sides of the Taiwan Straits. However, it also affected the cooperation of the siege troops on both sides and could not take care of each other. They also dispersed his troops and 3,000 cavalry. They could not complete the blockade task at all. On the contrary, they were scattered and were more likely to be defeated by Tang He. They just Soup and a big meal on the plate.

"Lord Tang really had a clever calculation. The agent reported that the Tatar had divided some people, and about a few thousand people touched it upstream. I guess he wanted to find a ferry or a bridge to cross the river." In the brightly lit state government, Li Huafu and Tang He said.

"There is no magic. If you want to talk about magic tricks, the eldest brother is even more amazing. Every time we fight with the tars, we can be as unpredictable as prophets. In addition, the firearms are advanced, and we beat the tars to the ass every time." Tang He said that it was much better to fight with Zhang Yang than to follow Guo Zixing.

"Let the soldiers rest in the city tonight, refresh their spirits, and deal with tomorrow's war." Tang He said, "We have to send sentinels to prevent the tars from touching it in the night."

Although the weapons are advanced, Tianque has another weakness. In the dark night, it can't aim, and Tianque's firepower advantage can't be exerted. Once the enemy is close to the hand-to-hand combat, Tianque's bayonet is sharp, no matter how sharp it is, it is not as good as a big knife spear. There are short feet and long feet, so try to avoid night battles.

However, these are just prevention, because outside Taizhou City, there is a circle of moat, and the moat is not deep, but it is impossible to flow water. The water can't reach the chest. Besides, as long as the water flows across the river, it will make a sound. As long as the sentry is not asleep, it will be easy to find.

A quiet night passed in the snoring of the soldiers guarding the city. The sun gradually rose, and a new day came.

Tang He stood at the head of the city in high spirits and looked at the Tatar camp in the distance. He was very strange that the Tatar did not move.

If the Tatars are only on the outskirts of the city and don't fight, it will be difficult for Tanghe to ride the tiger. Twenty thousand Mongolian cavalry, although he is not afraid, it is very difficult to anniperate them. Twenty thousand cavalry, he only has a thousand cavalry. If he wants to catch up, he can't catch up. Tang He's goal is to destroy all these tartars under the city.

If the Tatars don't move again, Tang He plans to send a small team of soldiers to call for battle.

In this era, it is a very common thing to call the camp. Find some loud voices, run to the other party's camp, bows and arrows out of range, shout and scold, and ask all the female relatives of his three generations of direct line. He has a physical relationship with the other party. Moreover, this relationship is completely pity for the other party and does not dislike it. The other party is old and ugly. Generally speaking, the other party will be enraged. Then, these people quickly ran back. Their mouths were much higher than their hands and feet. They ran slowly and died because they didn't have the virtues in their mouths.

"Trap down and have dinner first." Tang He said.

After sleeping, I was already hungry. Only when I was full before I had the energy to carry out the next battle, whether it was verbally or on my hands and feet.

The staple food is very rich. Dozens of pigs were slaughtered last night, a large bowl of pork stewed vermicelli, and large cakes, which can be eaten. The fragrance floated to the tent of the tartars with the east wind.

It was a waste of strength and courage to fight the tars, so that the soldiers' food improved, so that later, the soldiers were very willing to attack the tars because they had large pieces of pork to eat.

If there is no good luck, I'm afraid it's the thousand cavalry. The rations they bring are fried noodles.

Although it is rich in nutrition, it is not enough. Each person is limited to a large bowl. If you eat too much, the tars will be rounded up and affect the shooting, which will be sad.

After dinner, there was still no movement in the tars' tent.

"Lord Tang, there seems to be something wrong with this tartar." Although Li Huafu was a civil servant, he also went to the top of the city.

"Yes, I think we should send someone out to check it to prevent the tars from cheating." Tang He replied.

At this moment, I saw a large number of ragged people coming in the distance, carrying big bags on their shoulders.

Refugee? Where did it come from? The soldiers at the head of the city looked into the distance.

Getting closer and closer, the soldiers gradually saw it clearly, and couldn't help scolding angrily: "Dog Tatar, if you want to attack the city, let it go. Grandpa, if I'm afraid, it's your grandson. Your means are too bad!"

It was the people nearby who were carrying the big bag. They were driven by the Tatar cavalry behind them, carrying the big bag and taking the lead for the Tatars, ready to fill the moat.

Tang He, the people of the Taizhou border, have scattered the people on the Tatar's offensive route, some entered Taizhou City, and some hid in remote places. In the west of Taizhou, there is the boundary of Yangzhou. These people, the people of Yangzhou, were driven by the Tartars and went to Huangquan Road together.

Last night, the end came up with such an idea. The lives of Mongolian soldiers are precious, and those Han people are not. Find some Han people to take the lead and fill the moat so that they can attack.

Therefore, before dawn, he sent two thousand-person teams to drive out the people. Finally, he found some cannon fodder.

The tars in the camp also began to move.

Waiting for those people to cross the battalion, the tars began to form a team in an orderly manner. They needed a step-by-step army to attack the city. Five thousand cavalrymen had dismounted their horses as step-steps. At the front was a hundred ladders, followed by two thousand-person teams. They were the first batch of troops to attack the city. Next, there were three thousand bows and arrows, who were responsible for covering up. Protect the two thousand-person teams in front of them. If necessary, they can also act as reserves to attack the head of the city and carry machete.

The cavalry are also ready to attack. They will attack the head of the city. After entering the range of the bow and arrow, they will use the bow and arrow to suppress the defenders at the head of the city to create conditions for the attack.

Of course, all of this has a premise that the moat can be filled, otherwise, it is impossible to attack Taizhou City.

The people walked forward shiveringly. They were pulled out of their homes and carried big bags on their shoulders, which were full of dirt. They knew that they were cannon fodder.

When fighting, no army will care about the lives of civilians. If you don't resist and fill the moat, you will be killed immediately. However, if you fill the moat, you will definitely be killed by the defenders of Taizhou. They are cannon fodder and die. The only difference is that they die at the hands of the Tartars. It is in the hands of the defenders at the head of the city.

Because of the slow movement, several people have been hacked to death by the tars behind them. They have no choice but to walk to the head of the city, waiting in their hearts, waiting for arrows flying all over the sky, which is their destination.

Step by step, step by step, they were close to the head of the city. Behind them, the Tatar cavalry, who were marching them, also raised their vigilance, prevented the opposite attack at any time, and was ready to fight back at each other with bows and arrows.

There is no movement on the head of the city.

"Lord Tang, General Tang, don't let them get close to the head of the city, let alone fill the moat." Next to Tang He, Li Huafu was almost anxious with him.

Li Huafu can't help but be in a hurry. Now, the people have already entered the range of 200 steps. If they don't stop them, they will soon throw the earthen bag into the moat.

If in peacetime, Li Huafu would never say so. This is a war, a life-and-death war for you. Although those are all innocent people, they have been driven away by the tars and become slaves of the tars. Even if they know that they don't want to, if they don't stop them, it will be very troublesome for the defenders. The blood of the defenders will flow in vain, and you can't let them get close to the moat!

Tang He is also fighting fiercely in his heart. He knows that filling the moat will increase the difficulty of his defense, but do those innocent people deserve to die? He vaguely realized that there was no need to go this far. The sky was used to beat the tartars, not the people. Now, the tartars use the people to fill the moat. On the contrary, it is still an opportunity.

The moat is a difficult flow of water for the tars. Before filling the moat, the tars will not attack the city with all their strength. Now, it is an opportunity. As long as the tars see the people filling the moat, they will definitely come to attack at all costs.

The tars attack with all their strength, which is a good opportunity for them to completely destroy the tars!

Tang He never gave an order, but just looked at the tar in the distance.

Sure enough, I saw that the people here were getting closer and closer, only dozens of steps away from the moat, and the bald man gave the order to attack with all his strength.

The team of several thousand people behind

The cavalry also gathered on both sides of the siege troops. They slowly crossed the central infantry and prepared to throw bows and arrows at the head of the city to cover the siege troops.

Everything is in the usual way of attacking the city. Next, it is the most tragic battle for the head of the city.

It's a pity that Tang He didn't give them this opportunity.

"Scatter cannon, range, 500 steps, block the retreat of the tars, the sky, aim, tars a hundred steps away. The people below, don't hurt them by mistake. Tang He's calm voice spread all over the city.

The whole army of the Tutars has been mobilized, and the siege battle has officially begun. It's ridiculous that they don't even have a stone thrower, only bows and arrows. Do they want to attack the city? They didn't even give Tang He a chance to shoot bows and arrows, because it was the east wind today.

There are no large crossbows, no catapults, only bows and arrows. Their long-range weapons will not have a range of more than 100 steps. Tang He gave the order to shoot when he saw that the front Tutar cavalry was close to this limit.

One hundred to five hundred steps, all the tartars in this range, die!

"Boom, boom, boom." The fireworks were fired first. At the same time, countless fire bullets were also firing hateful bullets at the advancing tars.

I didn't have the guts and instigated the people to die. This kind of behavior has already completely angered the defenders at the head of the city. If Tang He ordered to fire and kill the people just now, although they would also carry out the order and fire, they would have a heavy sense of guilt in their hearts. Now, they have turned those feelings into the courage and confidence to destroy the tartars.

The front cavalry has approached the limit of the bow and arrow. They have all pulled their bows while running. With the speed of the horse, they can throw the bow and arrows to the head of the city. The battle of attacking the city is imminent.

Suddenly, the shocking sound at the head of the city woke them up.

The front tar felt as if his body had been torn. Everyone was hit by at least a few bullets. Before the arrow was shot out, he fell to the ground and was trampled into mud by the horse behind.

And the tars in the back are treated more advanced: the rain of scattered fireworks.

The shells of the scattered fireworks are composed of countless steel balls. Moreover, the trajectory is curved, which is simply falling from the top of the head. Where it is attacked by the scattered fireworks, there is a bloody wind. Wherever they go, the flesh and blood of the tars fly.

The momentum of the tars just now has long been gone. Seeing that the death of the people around them is so miserable, they are already scared. This is not a war, it's simply going to die!

What makes the Tatar even more depressed is that the bullet rain of the other party seems to have eyes and only greets himself, while the man in the front is unharmed!

Hearing the terrible explosion above their heads, the people were all stunned. They thought that their end had arrived, and no one walked forward. They squatted on the ground and shivered.

"Lord Tang, the firearms of the soldiers are really powerful. It seems that they have eyes and only hit the tartars. None of the people were injured." Li Huafu said with admiration.

When the tars rushed up, Li Huafu also had a trace of fear. After all, he was just a civilian and could not see the battlefield of war. He was scared by the momentum of the tars and wanted to escape back to the tower. However, in an instant, the situation changed. The fierce tars were immediately beaten to the ghosts and howled.

This kind of battle made people's blood boil, and the fighting spirit in Li Huafu's heart was also stimulated.

"Our cavalry, can we go out?" Li Huafu then asked.

Tang He has been observing at the head of the city. The tars have basically been covered by artillery fire, but there are still many tars that have not come up, and it is not time to use cavalry. There are only a thousand cavalry. If the tars want to break through, this thousand cavalry can't form an effective encirclement.

"No cavalry, stop shooting!" Tang He shouted.

The sound of fire and gunfire on the head of the city stopped.

The finished man was bald at the end of the battle. Fortunately, he was outside the range of the gunfire at the head of the city. He knew that Zhang Shicheng's army was equipped with firearms, but he did not expect that the other party's firearms were so powerful. More than 10,000 troops were suppressed by the firepower of the head of the city. Every moment, a large number of soldiers fell to the ground.

The finished man knew that he was afraid that he would go back in disgrace when he attacked Taizhou this time. He remembered the instructions of Yu Que before leaving: the task of your teams is to surround and contain the troops of Taizhou, Xinghua and salt fields, so that they could not give assistance to Gaoyoufu. Remember, to make an offensive momentum, but only need to It's okay to surround it from a distance. When there is no absolute certainty, don't get close to the range of the city's firepower to avoid unnecessary casualties.

There is no regret medicine in the world. The bald man has regretful his intestines. He must be well prepared to attack these places. He thought that he could easily take Taizhou City by relying on the people who caught him to take the lead. It turned out that it was impossible.

The finished man was bald and watched his soldiers fall in large areas. He was heartbroken and was about to order: to take over! But I heard the sound of fire on the head of the city stop.

In this era, fire is not a reliable weapon. It often leads to dumb fire due to various problems, and filling ammunition is also a laborious thing.

The fire at the head of the city stopped. It is likely that the fire of the other party could not be fired. The finished man looked at a large number of fallen soldiers, gritted his teeth and gave an order: rush, all rush up and kill them!

When the drums were knocked, the soldiers saw that the firearms on the head of the city stopped shooting and thought that the opportunity had come. As they charged, they bent their bows and arrows and hit them fiercely with bows and arrows!

Seeing that the other party was about to approach the range of the bow and arrow, Tang He gave the order again: Shoot!

Black smoke rose from the head of the city again. It was the black smoke after the gunpowder was burned. The bald man knew it and was fooled.

This time, he made up his mind: withdraw!

At this moment, a bright red flashed on the head of the city.

(to be continued)