Chapter 307 Lower Taixing 1

Zhangyang's current territory, Gaoyoufu and Taizhou, are not connected with the Yangtze River. Therefore, if you want to cross the Yangtze River, you must first get a coastal ferry. Zhang Yang chose this ferry in Taixing.

Taixing is in the south of Taizhou, which is the closest. If you cross the river from Tongzhou, you have to travel a hundred miles. Therefore, Zhang Yang set his eyes on Taixing.

The task of attacking Taixing was handed over to the newly formed 7th Battalion, and the commander was Xu Yi.

Although it is newly formed, some soldiers have been transferred from the old fourth battalion, carrying the tenth and centurion. Therefore, the combat effectiveness is not much worse than that of the old fourth battalion. What's more, their sense of fighting is particularly strong.

They witnessed the fourth battalion beating the tartars into discarded armor, and they could only guard other cities in the distance and watch them irrelevantly. I don't know how strong the desire to fight in their hearts was.

Xu Yi escaped from Furong Village at the beginning, and then he has been loyal to Zhang Yang and made great contributions. Now, he has been promoted to the commander of a battalion. He has been holding his strength and wants to compare those of the old four battalions. Our seventh battalion is also a team that can fight a hard battle!

Although he is competitive, Xu Yi is not a brave and resourceful person. Before Xu Yi set out, he had already explored that Taixing was just a small city like Xinghua, with less than 5,000 troops. In the past, due to the defeat of the Tartars, the will of the defenders was very depressed.

It doesn't take much effort to take such a small city, so the only thing is how to take down Taixing in the most beautiful way and minimize your losses. Following the eldest brother in the past few years, Xu Yi knows that the eldest brother values the surname and destiny of his subordinates very much, and often emphasizes the elimination of the living power of the other party and the preservation of his own strength. In this era of low lives in troubled times, the eldest brother's strategy of leading troops has won the gratitude of the vast number of soldiers.

As the main force of the attack on Taixing, Xu Yi had already set off ahead of schedule before the army took action.

Thanks to the victory of the defense of Gaoyou Prefecture, the rebel army captured many of the horses of the Tatars. Therefore, almost all the major battalions were replaced by cavalry units, which made Tang He feel that he had suffered a loss: Originally, the eldest brother promised to equip all his battalions with cavalry, but unexpectedly, it turned out that each battalion had a share. In the end, Zhang Yang had to answer. Ying Tanghe equipped his battalion with more than 50 cannons. Only then did Tang He feel a little comforted and began to think about how to make up the recruits.

At the beginning, there were no large-scale cavalry. In addition to the lack of horses, on the other hand, the forage that horses need to eat is also a problem. The small Gaoyou Mansion can't support so many war horses. Now, the army is about to go south. The south is rich in water and grass and rich in products. Raising war horses will not be too big. The burden.

Xu Yi took his own team, set out from Gaoyoufu, and ran to Taixing on a starry night.

The guards of Taixing are a garrison sent by Yangzhou. Most of them are new annexed troops. The true Mongolians are only the supervisors in each army, with more than 100 people. The general's name is Agemu.

Since he learned that the official army had failed to encircle and suppress Gaoyou Mansion, Agemu raised his vigilance and sent people to patrol the city at night. It was too close to Taizhou. Who knew if the rebels would go south and cut himself first. Thinking of this, Agemu was unable to sleep and eat. He applied to Yangzhou several times and transferred some people to come here. There were too few purebred Mongolians, and lustful people were okay. The new subordinates under him had poor combat effectiveness, and they were very happy to escape.

However, none of the officials in Yangzhou refused to contribute to this little Taixing and refused for various reasons. No wonder Yangzhou is mixed between Chuzhou and Taizhou. There is Zhang Shicheng in the east and Zhu Yuanzhang in the west. None of them is a good master, and Yangzhou is also very tight.

But, does it work if there are too many people? Agemu knows that it may still work to deal with Zhu Yuanzhang, but it's really impossible to deal with Zhang Shicheng. Zhang Shicheng's men seem to be divine soldiers and generals. All of them can be one hundred. Even the master has failed. Who else can stop Zhang Shicheng's pace?

Agemu has a sense of powerlessness. If the other party really comes to attack, he will be an arm as a car, which can't play a big role at all. However, as the glory of the golden clan, he can't put down his worth, even if he dies in battle, he can't surrender!

These days, Agmu has been carefully arranging various defense facilities at the head of the city, insisting on the training of the soldiers. With one more day of training, there will be more certainty on the battlefield.

It's already November, and the weather has become cold. The cold wind blowing from the north has a chill that penetrates the heart.

The flag at the head of the city is hunting in the cold wind.

Agemu stood at the top of the city, looking at the horizon in the distance. At this moment, the sun has just risen, and the golden light shines on the earth.

On the gray horizon, some small black spots appeared. The small black spots gradually became clear, and they were cavalry moving at high speed!

"Enemy attack! Alert! Close the gate, and everyone will go to the top of the city!" Agmu shouted.

Under the gate, the panicked soldiers pushed the huge gate and slowly closed.

Taixing is a small city, so small that there is no moat. To resist the strong Zhang Shicheng, Agemu has no confidence at all.

The only thing that makes Agmu happy is that now they are all cavalry, and the cavalry can't carry out siege operations.

If you want to attack the city, you must have siege equipment, ladders, crashes, and arrow towers. This is the opinion of ordinary people. Soon, the idea in Agemu's mind was subverted.

It was Xu Yi's seventh battalion that came here. At the front, it was the first team that became the cavalry first. When they arrived in Taixing City, they immediately copied the four breads and surrounded Taixing City with scattered lines.

They carefully did not enter the range of the bow and arrow at the head of the city, and completed the siege work just 200 steps away from the head of the city.

A thousand people surrounded such a large city, and the number of people seemed insufficient. However, they were very confident that the Tianque in their hands was not vegetarian. Now, they just needed to use Tianque to demoralise the soldiers guarding the city.

Attacking the city is the bottom, and attacking the heart is the top. Xu Yi thought that this is the strategy.

"Ban!" A piece of smoke came out of the sky, and a lead bullet with a heat wave flew out quickly and hit the chest of a sentry at the top of the city.

He didn't have time to snort, so he looked up and fell to the ground. Blood from his chest spewed out and sprinkled on the head of the city.

"Little Six!" The soldiers next to him fell in love with him. When they saw that they fell to the ground, they immediately shouted.

The other soldiers at the top of the city also began to panic. They were so far away that they couldn't even hit the other party's body with bows and arrows, but the other side could kill the people on the city so accurately?

"Ban!" Another bullet flew, and a sentry fell to the head of the city again. This time, the lead bullet hit the head directly, the skull was opened, and the white brain flowed all over the ground.

The soldiers at the head of the city finally found that the other party was aiming at the sentry at the top of the city. They could not be a ghost for no reason. They all shrank into the wall, and no one dared to poke out.

"Get up, get up," a Mongolian supervisor was dissatisfied and immediately shouted loudly, kicking the soldier on his stomach.

The soldiers are full of complaints. Isn't this dying? They have long hated the prison army, but no one dared to resist, and they were unwilling to get up. They couldn't help cursing in their hearts, why didn't the rebels beat you to death!

As if people outside heard it, the next moment, the supervisor lay on the ground covered with blood, with four or five more holes in his body, bleeding.

This time, no one dares to look up anymore.

It is said that Zhang Shicheng's military firearms are powerful. Before he saw it with his own eyes, he didn't believe it, but after seeing it, he would be afraid from the bottom of his heart.

As a small city, there is not even a crossbow machine at the head of Taizhou. Agemu only has hundreds of archers. If you want to drive away the other side's cavalry, you can't do it at all. Besides, bows and arrows can't shoot so far.

Agemu also hid under the wall and looked out from the shooting hole. Instead, he calmed down.

I have long been afraid that the other party will come to attack Taixing, and I have insomnia at night. Now, the other party has come, but I am relieved. At most, I will die in battle.

"General, why don't we take people out of the city and kill those damn firefthers." A deputy general said next to Agmu's ear.

It's not enough to defend the city. Do you still want to go out of the city? Agemu looked at the deputy general in front of him and really didn't know how to scold him for being stupid. Looking at the soldiers around him, they were so scared that they hid under the city one by one. Who dared to leave the city?

"Let the archers, shoot arrows."

"But our arrows can't reach."

"Although the arrow can't be reached, if we only get hit and don't fight back, morale will soon collapse." Agmu said.

The sparse arrows shot out and fell more than a hundred steps away from the cavalry, and even a hair could not be hurt.

The cavalry burst out laughing.

This first step is a success, which is called "target clearance." Kill all the soldiers who showed their bodies, a heavy blow to the morale of the soldiers defending the city.

The second step is to put on your own real guy.

An hour later, all the cavalry of the seventh battalion finally arrived. In addition to the three fire brigades, they also had an artillery team of 500 people.

In order to allow the artillery to keep up with the speed of the cavalry, the scattered cannon is disassembled, and two horses can be able to walk, while the God of War cannon is placed on a sports car with a chalk and dragged by horses, which is also a motorization.

There is also a spear team of 500 people, which has become a logistics team. They are responsible for ammunition, food and fodder. This army can walk 100 miles a day. In this way, after walking for a few days, they finally came to Taixing.

Xu Yi looked at the head of the city except for the flag, and no one could see it. He knew that the task of fixed-point clearance was well completed, which had put considerable pressure on the defenders.

Then, it depends on the performance of the artillery.

"Turn the scattered cannon and the God of War cannon into the shooting state immediately, build the artillery position, and complete the shooting preparations after half an hour." Xu Yi ordered.

In fact, his troops are not qualified to equip the God of War cannon. The God of War cannon is still given priority to the use of the navy. However, attacking Taixing is an important step for the eldest brother, and the God of War cannon is a weapon to attack the city: as long as one shell hits the wall, it can shake the wall and hit a few shots. The city wall will collapse.

(to be continued)