Valley Emperor

Even if these 300 people are already the vanguard elite soldiers of the Ming army, it is impossible to make them all wear armor. More light infantry in commoner only.

As the order was issued, the archers successively shot arrows at the dense formation of the Ming army by projectiles.

However, the Ming army seemed to expect to be intercepted by bows, arrows and muskets. Although more than a dozen people had been killed or injured, they still did not stop. Instead, they shouted various slogans under the leadership of the officers and started to launch the final battle. charge.

When the Ming army was only more than 60 meters away from the city, the musketeers also completed the second round of loading!

Wang Danxu didn't waste a second, and immediately gave the order to shoot!

And shooting at this distance, the hit rate of the musket can be further improved, and the power of the musket is enough to knock down the heavy armored soldiers in the front row of the Ming army!

With the sound of gunshots, the soldiers in the front row of the running front row of the Ming Army seemed to have encountered a dam. Almost in an instant, more than a dozen soldiers in the front row collapsed in unison, most of which were still Soldier in armor.

This round of shooting obviously disrupted the rhythm of the charging Ming army. For a time, some Ming army soldiers continued to charge forward, but some stopped running and looked back from time to time, while the archers were in front of the officers. Under the leadership, they tried to bow and shoot arrows at the head of the city.

Although the Ming army's offensive continued, it was clear that the entire formation was in chaos.

Seeing this scene, Wang Zhitan in the rear couldn't help but said to Su Jiakang, "Sir, the thieves have sharp guns, should we let the striker withdraw first and then attack after a while?"

At this time, Su Jiakang also frowned. This wave of attack was obviously a failure. This failure does not mean the casualties that have been caused so far, but the rhythm of the attack has been disrupted, and the attacking troops have obviously lost the ability to continue the attack. courage.

Although the casualties of the 300 strikers are not very large, at most more than 20 people have been killed or injured. This kind of casualties is nothing in a siege battle. In some large-scale siege operations, the attackers In order to achieve a breakthrough, it is often one after another, and hundreds of thousands of people died under the city walls.

The Ming army led by Su Jiakang had more than 1,000 people. Even if it was not counted on the road, the 300 Ming army located in the northwest, even if it was 500 or 600 young men who were recruited temporarily, but the main force under his command was still on the road. There are still more than 1,000 people, including recruits sent by Fucheng.

The casualties of more than 20 people in a mere area are completely bearable for this Ming army, and even if there are no extreme circumstances, it will not cause the slightest waves.

But the situation is not so obvious. The attacking troops are still 50 meters away from the city wall, and they have already been hit by two rounds of fire guns and multiple rounds of bows and arrows, so that more than 20 people were killed and injured.

Especially the last round of fire gun salvos of the pseudo-Tang thief army killed and injured more than ten Ming soldiers at one time, which was enough to put everyone in the front line at risk.

So many people have been killed and wounded so far away. If it is another 20 to 30 meters away, or even under the city wall, when faced with the fire guns of the pseudo-Tang thief army, it will not be hit and accurate. When the volleyball guns came over, I am afraid that all of them would have to fall down a lot immediately.

This kind of panic is easy to spread!

Once out of control, it can cause complete chaos or even collapse.

Su Jiakang took a deep breath and said, "Ming Jin withdraws his troops, let the striker come back first!"

Hearing this, Wang Zhitan breathed a sigh of relief. Although the Ming army who launched the charge now was recruited from the Fucheng side, not his disciples, but if these recruits suffered too many casualties, I am afraid that the main force of the next charge would be lost. It's time for his troops.

But then Su Jiakang said again: "The army continues to prepare, let the young men at the back come up, and your thousand households will also go up. After the striker returns, we will fight again. This time we have the whole army, and we must attack in one go. Uptown!"

Although the first round of attacks was blocked, Su Jiakang had no plans to give up. He knew that time was on his side now. If he didn't seize the limited time, but waited, then it would be dark. , I can't continue to siege the city after dark, so if I wait until tomorrow, I can't say that those pseudo-Tang thieves have already gained a firm foothold.

Therefore, he must hurry up and fight again!

He couldn't help but watch the pseudo-Tang thieves spend the night peacefully in the city.

Hearing Su Jiakang's words, Wang Zhitan wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything. Instead, he cast a complaining look at Wu Nuanzhi next to him.

Wang Zhitan knew why Su Jiakang was in such a hurry to attack the city. If Zhengtai County fell unexpectedly and could not be recovered quickly, the negative impact would be enough to cause Su Jiakang to be beheaded and his house to be raided. go there.

It's all to blame for this Wu Nuanzhi, relying on the support of Fu Zun, if it hadn't been for him to propose this series of tricks to lead the main force of the pseudo-Tang thief army to Zhengtai County, how could Zhengtai County be breached.

Wu Nuanzhi naturally felt the malice from Wang Zhitan, but now he is no longer in the mood to care.

He also did not expect that Zhengtai County, with 200 regular troops and hundreds of young guards, could not be defended for several hours, which led to a huge loophole in his strategy.

Now he is consciously shutting his mouth, and no longer raises any objections, but allows Su Jiakang to command, and even just now Su Jiakang asked the 300 recruits he brought over to act as the forward to launch the first wave of siege. At the time he did not raise any objections.

Now the situation has become like this, Su Jiakang has the responsibility, Wang Zhitan has the implicated responsibility, but in the final analysis, the most important responsibility lies with him, Wu Nuanzhi.

However, he still held a glimmer of hope and said: "Sir, although this attack failed, it is also a test of the strength of the bandit army. They are only fighting nearly a hundred fire guns, and the fire guns are slow to reload and face the enemy. But a few rounds, as long as we have enough people to rush up at the same time, there is still a great chance of rushing up in one go!"

Speaking of which, he raised his voice slightly and said, "As long as we can rush in, we can wipe out the main force of the fake Tang thief army and capture the fake emperor Li Xuan alive!"

Hearing Wu Nuanzhi talking about catching Li Xuan alive, Su Jiakang also forcibly held back all kinds of worries in his heart, squeezed out a smile and said, "My army has nearly 2,000 people, and the bandit army is only 500, as long as the soldiers Fighting bravely and recovering Zhengtai County is still possible to catch Li Ni alive!"

The forwards of the Ming army came and went quickly. After receiving the retreat order from the rear, these Ming army turned and fled in a swarm, leaving only a dozen corpses and a few seriously injured and unable to retreat. wounded.

After the recruits came back, Wu Nuanzhi accompanied Su Jiakang to check them one by one, boosting the morale of the recruits.

Although the first attack of these recruits failed, it is undeniable that their performance was not bad. At least before the retreat order was issued, they did not collapse, but were disrupted. If we continue to attack, maybe we can run to the foot of the city and start erecting a long ladder to climb the wall.

In addition, these recruits are also the more elite troops in the Ming army, and the next siege has to rely on them.

Two quarters later, the Ming army completed the preparations for the second siege.

Compared with the previous siege, this time the Ming army attacked the city with significantly more people, including recruits, guards and young soldiers, and the total number exceeded a thousand.

However, unlike the last time, the most elite recruits were not placed at the front, but at the back.

In the front are the young and strong men with weak fighting strength, about 300 people, in the middle are the guard soldiers led by Wang Zhitan, about 500 people, and the last are the Fucheng recruiting troops.

The young men who were placed at the forefront obviously guessed that they were going to be treated as cannon fodder. Not even getting up on the ground, some people want to retreat secretly.

But no matter who wanted to run away or lay on the ground and refused to get up, they were all driven forward by the soldiers of the Ming army who stood in line, and those who dared to resist were slashed with a knife.

Several Ming army generals rode on horses and walked behind Qingzhuang while shouting: "If you escape from the battle, cut, if there is no order to retreat without authorization, cut!"

Using death as a threat, these young men finally set foot on the offensive!

However, Su Jiakang obviously did not put his hope on these young men, and the regular army followed closely behind.

According to the plan he discussed with Wu Nuanzhi and the others, since the pirate army of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty has sharp firearms, let the weak young Qingzhuang consume the firepower of the pirate army first, so as to buy time for the main force in the rear to launch a battle on the city.

And this time, Su Jiakang is Wang Wangzhitan, the thousand households, who are personally leading the battle. Without his order from Su Jiakang, he must not retreat.

In layman's terms, even if you die, you will die on the way to attack!

Even in order to prevent the attacking troops from retreating without authorization and collapsing~www.wuxiaspot.com~Su Jiakang has already used the remaining hundreds of reserve teams as supervising teams, many of which are archers.

Time passed bit by bit, when the Ming army advanced more than 100 meters away, there was a dense drum sound behind the Ming army, and then those in the front were only wearing single clothes, no armor protection, and the weapon in their hand was only an iron handle. The Ming Jun Qingzhuang of the sword was driven and rushed up.

The regular army in the rear also trotted and followed closely!

At the moment when the drum sounded, more than a thousand Ming troops launched a full army charge. Looking down from the city head, there were Ming troops everywhere in the mountains and fields outside the city, almost innumerable. Their momentum was so great that the bandits on Huangzhu Mountain above the city head were all over the place. Qi Qi changed color, and many people even showed extreme fear.

Even Butcher Chen, who has always been very daring, couldn't help but take a deep breath. This Qianjun charge looked too scary.

But at this time, Li Xuan still looked indifferent, and even said to the officials around him with a smile: "Look, they are here to die again!"

But no one saw him, his hand had already grasped the hilt of the long sword around his waist, and no one knew that he was screaming in his heart at this time: "It's over, it's over, it's over!