Chapter 31 Temporary Loss

The lead with a diameter of 12 or three millimeters hits the human body at such a distance. The wound is very terrible. It enters a small hole, but it can crush the internal organs of the human body. If it hits the arm and neck, the huge kinetic energy can almost tear the human head and arm off the human body on the spot. At a distance of dozens of steps, even if you wear iron armor, you can't stop such a lead bullet.

Of course, the most terrible thing is that when it hits the head directly, the human head is like a blooming rotten watermelon. It is terrible that the brain bursts to death, but the person who was shot simply died, but for others around him, such a scene will undoubtedly become a nightmare for their lives, and they will It's lingering.

Such killing and injury made the morale of the defenders in the city suddenly fall. The officers and soldiers were so scared that they hid under the stack wall one after another. They dared not rise up like just now, and shoot arrows and arrows below.

Zhao Er donkey has been leading his troops to rush to the city. For this siege, Zhao Er donkey has been quite brave. In the past year, he has been really aggrieved. Since his defeat in Liujiabao, although ordinary people don't care much, he is deeply ashamed. In his opinion, the experience of that fiasco has become The stains on his body that could not be washed away, and he paid a heavy price for this. Originally, with his qualifications, he should at least be on an equal footing with Luo Li, Li Shuanzhu and Yan Chongxi, but because of that defeat, he could only condescend to Li Shuanzhu and be a deputy.

Although Xing Tianjun fought several battles with the officer army after the Spring Festival, he did not have the opportunity to perform and reshape his image in Xiao Tianjian's heart. This time, he attacked Yongning County as the starting echelon in the attack. On the other hand, Luo Li, who is famous for his fierceness, is attacking the East Gate. Why does he have to fight in this battle? Among them, he made some achievements and overthrew Luo Li's head and let the Xing Tianjun look up and down. Zhao Er's donkey is not a bastard. Compared with Luo Li and his battalion commanders, he is also good!

So when the siege began, Zhao Erlu was cruel. He rushed to the front and dispatched the generals under his command. After unfolding, he suppressed the defenders on the wall with fire, while personally supervising the battle and urging the generals to start climbing over the sheep and horse wall outside the city and leaning under the wall.

Because the Xingtian army came in such a hurry, they didn't give the defenders of Yongning County too much time to prepare for it. They didn't even have time to build Juma and Lu Fort outside the city. They just spread some iron thistthis under the foot of the city to stop the attack of the thief army. What's more, in the past few years, they have been used to the local thieves around them. I have never met such a fierce opponent as Xing Tianjun.

Although Wu Dalie, a magistrate, personally supervised the battle in the south of the city, when he saw the fierce thief army outside the city, the defenders in the city were still scared. Although he resisted for a while with courage at the beginning, when the thief army used platoons and guns to fight against the city in rows, they still killed him. They couldn't lift their heads.

Some officers and soldiers tried to shoot arrows under the city through the arrow holes in the mouth of the stack, but to their surprise, the firearms of the thieves under the city were very accurate. They could actually hit some projectiles directly into the arrow holes, and immediately hit the people lying at the arrow holes and overturned on the wall.

In this way, the defenders began to be unable to hold on, and some timid people wanted to escape from the city, but now the civilian Wu Dalie was on fire. He swung the Qingfeng sword in his hand and cut down several defenders who tried to escape from the city one after another, and roared with red eyes. He said, "We are the officers and soldiers of the court. How can we escape without fighting? Today, I Wu is here. If anyone takes half a step back, don't blame the sword in my hand for being merciless! These people are your role models. If anyone dares to escape, he will end up like them! Give it to me! Roll the wood and stone! Give them to me! As long as you defeat them, the prince will be rewarded! Kill it!"

Seeing that this Wuzhi County was like a madman, holding a sword dripping human blood, blocked at the road leading to the bottom of the city, and no one was allowed to escape, and the defenders in the city were not paying attention. Seeing that wooden ladders were being erected on the wall by thieves, these defenders were really forced to catch fire. Anyway, they were all It's better to fight to die. After all, their wives and children are all in the city. Once the thief army breaks in, God knows how these thieves will treat them. Since even the lords of the county are crazy in the city now, what else is there to be afraid of these little soldiers?

In this way, these defenders, who had been feared, were much more courageous. They began to carry rolling stones one by one and threw them to the bottom of the city. Some soldiers even erected door panels, shields and other things on the wall to prevent bullets, hid behind shields and door panels, and opened them again under the city. He began to shoot arrows.

Some officers and soldiers hurriedly loaded the doors and bowls on the wall with ammunition, pushed the cannons to the city stack, and ignited the cannon twists at the Xingtian army troops pouring under the city.

I only heard a messy roar and shouting of killing in the city. Suddenly, countless rolling wood stones and all kinds of bullets were thrown down from the city. The Xingtian army who had already leaned against the foot of the city. Although they raised their shields, the offensive was still curbed at the foot of the city wall, and the rolling wood fell down. The stone immediately killed and injured many soldiers, and lay under the wall screaming.

There was also a team of soldiers, carrying a long ladder, crossing the sheep and horse wall. They wanted to rush to the foot of the city wall. A bowl of loose bullets fell into their crowd. Suddenly, they flew their flesh and blood and fell down. Even the cloud ladder was bombarded into two sections on the spot. The casualties were very serious, and more than a dozen soldiers rolled over. Behind the sheep and horse wall, the screams were extremely sad.

Not to mention this, the defenders in the city also prepared some fire oil and gold juice, which burned hot on the wall. When they saw the soldiers attacking the city and leaned against the foot of the wall, they immediately carried the big pot, or scooped up these things with a big horse spoon, and splashed their heads and faces from the city. These stinky hot gold. As long as the juice is drenched on people's skin, it will immediately burn the skin and the flesh will open, and the pain will make people roll all over.

Just when everything was going well, watching the long ladders being erected on the wall, Zhao Erlu was ecstatic, but in an instant, the counterattack that broke out in the city made him feel as if he had been hit head-on. Seeing that the defenders knocked down several long ladders, the momentum of the attack was also One of them.

Zhao Erlu cursed outside the city wall, but the casualties were too great, and it was not a way to fight like this. If he forced the soldiers to rush up, he was likely to achieve no greater results except for increasing casualties. As a last resort, he had to temporarily ordered to retreat. Reorganize the team for the second charge.

Seeing the thief's army retreat like a tide, Wu Dalie suddenly his legs were weak and he almost sat on the wall. Just now, with a blood and courage, he also supported the battle on the wall to supervise the battle, forcing these defenders to resist to the death. After finally repel the enemy's first attack, he looked at his feet. The bodies of the officers and soldiers who were killed by him, and then looking at the officers and soldiers lying upside down on the wall, he couldn't help but be a little afraid. His body seemed to be suddenly empty, and he almost sat in the pool of blood, that is, the two servants helped him, and he was forced to hold on. Yes, sit down.

However, the defenders in the city also breathed a long sigh of relief when they saw that the thieves had retreated. Someone cheered, so many defenders on the wall shouted with laughter.

However, some officers were still sober. They quickly organized people to push down several long ladders that had been built on the wall, and left some torches, splashed fire oil, and set fire to the abandoned long ladders under the city. Suddenly, piles of fires were ignited under the city, and thick smoke rushed to the sky.

Xiao Tianjian silently looked at the war situation in front of him. He was fully prepared for such a war situation. The city of Yongning County was strong, and the defenders had not lost confidence. Obviously, it was not easy to attack the city in one fell swoop like destruction.

After Zhao Er donkey led the team to launch the failure of the first attack, a short time later, news came from Luo Li's headquarters in the east of the city that the first wave of attacks they organized also ended in failure under the fierce resistance of the defenders in the city. They were forced to retreat and were reorganizing the second attack.

Looking at the wounded soldiers who were carried down one by one, Xiao Tianjian looked cold and ordered him to be immediately sent to the temporary medical camp behind for treatment. He handed over more things to Li Shuanzhu and Luo Li to deal with by himself.

Although the first attack was unsuccessful, he also saw that the attack ability of the Xingtian Army is much stronger than at the beginning. After the artillery attack, the marching army launched an attack, and the gunners suppressed the defenders on the wall with a row of guns, and supported the attacking troops as much as possible to climb the wall. These tactical eyes The next one has gradually matured, and the battalions also pay more attention to mutual cooperation when organizing attacks, so that the casualties of the attacking troops are controlled within an acceptable range. In short, the performance of the attacking troops is more satisfactory than he expected.

The reason for the defeat in the attack is not that the generals are greedy and afraid of death, but that the resistance will of the defenders in the city has not been completely destroyed. At the same time, he can also see that the training and equipment of the defenders are very limited, and their troops are also at a disadvantage, so he has no doubt that the next attackers will fight more and more. Well, it's only a matter of time before Yongning County is taken.

And what he is more concerned about now is the official reaction, as well as the reaction of the local thieves. When he fought in Yongning County, he did not want to see any of them come here to get involved.

For a bucket of valleys and tile jars that are often active in the local area, before he led his troops south, Feng Gouzi had arranged to inquire about this area, so Xiao Tianjian had some understanding of their situation.

This Yidou Valley and the clay pot are all from the local rich and powerful people. In fact, they just want to be a local thief who is on one side. They can't even be called an ordinary rebel. Their military discipline is very bad. In addition to dealing with the rich, it is also harmful to ordinary people in the local area. He plunders them and does everything, so for such local thieves, Xiao Tianjian does not regard them as peers. As long as he occupies this area in the future, forces like this are also the object of his removal. Otherwise, if he is allowed to occupy the surrounding area, he will not be able to effectively control the operation of this area.

"Add some scouts to search Xiong'er Mountain, Niuxin Mountain and other places to investigate the situation of the poles in the surrounding area! Once you find that the big poles are gathering and coming to the county, you will come and inform me as soon as possible!" Xiao Tianjian ordered the iron head who followed him.

Tietou is now the company commander of the Guard Company, and also Xiao Tianjian's adjutant, so when Xiao Tianjian ordered, many of them were directly conveyed through Tietou. With the loyal adjutant Tietou, Xiao Tianjian did things more and more easily.

Tietou immediately nodded and agreed. He turned around and began to arrange. This time, they brought not only the battalion's scouts, but also Situ Liang's cavalry 300 people for their assault force and auxiliary reconnaissance force.

Not long after, Situ Liang was ordered to send his cavalry out in groups and search around Yongning County. Situ Liang personally led a team of cavalry to search in the direction of Luoyang. After receiving a call for help from Yongning County, the officers and sent troops to rescue.

In addition, Liu Yaoben's teaching camp was also sent out. A blockade line was arranged in Huanyongning County to prevent the Huangzhuang of the King of Wan'an outside the city and the surrounding large households from sending villagers Yongzhuangding into the county to support, and completely isolate the county.

Shortly after completing these arrangements, the 2nd and 3rd Battalion adjusted their deployment again and began to launch another attack on Yongning County.

This time, Luo Li, Li Shuanzhu, Zhao Erlu and other attacks all learned the lessons of the first attack failure. On the one hand, the battalion's artillery continued to suppress the garrison of the city head, and on the other hand, more firefighters were dispatched to press outside the city to provide more powerful firepower support for the long gunners and knife player responsible for the attack. At the same time, they will also use the knife The bullet-threnders selected by the card player are grouped into the offensive echelon and form a wave of attacks in companies to maintain the continuity of the attack.

And the people of the engineering battalion were not idle. They were ordered by Xiao Tianjian to directly join the offensive formation, providing cover for the attacking troops to remove obstacles, and also undertaking the task of transporting the wounded downward.

After such an arrangement, the position of the battalion's artillery outside the city roared again, and the solid projectile suddenly flew up the wall like a flying locust, causing dust and gravel to fly on the wall. From time to time, the broken limbs and flesh of the human body will rise on the wall.

The Xingtian army troops who were ready to go squeezed their lips tightly, clenched the weapons in their hands one by one, and began to slowly enter the departure position and adjusted the attack formation...

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