Valley Emperor

The dozens of Ming troops who climbed to the top of the city were already in complete chaos. They were fighting with the Huangzhu Mountain bandits led by Butcher Chen and Fang Dongquan on the other side, while facing the musketeers personally commanded by Li Xuan. bayonet charge.

The bayonet charge launched by the musketeers in a dense formation was more deterrent than Butcher Chen.

Rows of bright bayonets kept stabbing at the Ming army, and the Ming army in the front row could not resist at all, they could only try their best to block while retreating.

However, although most of them are wearing armor and have excellent steel knives and shields in their hands, because they do not form a dense phalanx, most of them are fighting separately when facing the bayonet charge of the musketeers, and they may be able to block one or two. The bayonet, it is absolutely impossible to stop several bayonets from attacking at the same time.

In less than ten seconds, more than a dozen Ming troops in the front row were all killed and wounded, and the remaining Ming troops retreated involuntarily.

But there are other Ming troops behind them, and behind them, there are Ming troops who are constantly climbing up the city.

The narrow city wall was crowded with dozens of Ming troops and a considerable number of new Tang troops, so that swords and blood were everywhere on this narrow city wall.

When the bayonet phalanx of the musketeers continued to approach, the Ming troops retreated continuously to help the Ming troops standing behind them. Many Ming troops were pushed and fell directly from the two-zhang-high city wall.

Butcher Chen on the other side saw that the musketeers had taken control of the situation and continued to oppress the Ming army, and immediately shouted: "Brothers, if the victory or defeat is here, they will all rush with Lao Tzu to kill his mother!"

Butcher Chen once again took the lead in attacking the dense Ming army regardless of his life. The gangsters under his command were also aroused **** at this time. At the same time, more importantly, these guys who were originally good at fighting against the wind had already seen it. When the Ming army is on the decline, as long as there is another wave, these Ming army will definitely fail.

Seeing the hope of victory, the new army of the Tang Dynasty gave full play to the characteristics of greed for life and fear of death and fighting against the wind. More than 20 gangsters just shouted various slogans and followed Chen Butcher to charge again.

Fang Dongquan at the back is also urgently organizing more spearmen reinforcements.

For a time, the Ming army on the top of the city was continuously compressed, and finally there was no place to stand!

After just one minute, the Ming army that climbed to the top of the city collapsed completely. They either died in battle or resisted unintentionally. They put down the long swords in their hands and wanted to surrender, and some people even jumped off the two-foot-high city wall. .

When the last stubborn Ming army threw down the long knife in his hand and knelt down and shouted to surrender, Li Xuan reached out and touched the blood on his face, stepped on the corpse of a Ming army soldier with one foot, and held him high with the other. His long sword roared: "The Tang Dynasty is invincible!"

"Invincible!"

"Long live the Tang Dynasty!"

Cheering slogans instantly resounded throughout the entire city wall!

Under the city, Su Jiakang looked at the pseudo-Tang bandit army above the city with a black face, and after a long time he sighed deeply: "Let them go back!"

When he said this, his face was full of unwillingness and helplessness!

The previous second round of siege battles went very smoothly from the very beginning to even a minute ago. They used Qingzhuang as cannon fodder to attract and consume the firepower of the musketeers and archers of the pseudo-Tang thief army. There were a lot of casualties and injuries, but it bought enough time for the regular army, the main force of the siege.

Taking advantage of the firepower of the musketeers of the pseudo-Tang bandit army on the top of the city, the Ming army climbed to the top of the city and launched a fight for the top of the city.

If it was a normal situation, when the Ming army rushed to the city head, it could basically declare that the Zhengtai county had been broken.

Because in most cases, once the attacker breaks through the layers of interception and climbs to the top of the city, it means that the defense of the defender has been torn apart. Then the attacker can completely defeat the defender's city head as long as they continue to invest in troops. defense.

But what Su Jiakang didn't expect was that the pseudo-Tang bandit army on the city's head would be able to launch a decisive charge at the last moment, annihilating the soldiers who had attacked the city's head.

The troops that attacked the city head have been routed, which is not only a tactical failure, but more importantly, a serious blow to the morale of the attackers.

For the attackers, a large part of their charge against the defenders' firepower under the city is supported by a belief that as long as we charge up, we will win!

And when they found out that even if they climbed to the top of the city, they would be driven down, they would quickly lose their courage to fight.

Once the courage to fight is lost, it is difficult to regain it in battle.

Even if Su Jiakang was not a professional military general, he could still see that this attack could no longer be fought. Continuing the attack would have no effect other than increasing casualties.

Li Xuan also breathed a sigh of relief as the Ming army called Jin Jin to withdraw his troops.

This Ming army has finally retreated. If the Ming army would rather die than retreat, but continue to fight in the city, he does not know how long the new army of the Tang Dynasty under his command can last.

Although the bayonet charge just now seemed to be very powerful and even bloody, and there were many Ming troops killed and wounded, in fact, the new army of the Tang Dynasty also suffered a lot of casualties.

Just what Li Xuan saw with his own eyes, there were no less than ten soldiers in front of him.

A quarter of an hour later, Qian Mengjiu, who was in charge of the battlefield statistics, walked up to Li Xuan with a heavy expression: "Your Majesty, the casualty statistics are out!"

Li Xuan didn't look at him, but continued to look at the Ming army outside the city, and said at the same time, "Oh, what's the specific situation?"

Qian Mengjiu said: "After entering the city, our army killed 15 people and wounded 36 people. Among them, the musket team suffered more casualties, with 8 killed and 13 wounded!"

Li Xuan was not too surprised to hear this number. He already had a rough psychological expectation of his own casualties. In order to drive the Ming army from the city, they paid the price of blood, especially the musketeers. When the bayonet charge was launched, although they almost crushed the resistance of the Ming army and finally drove the Ming army from the city head, these musketeers without any armor protection also suffered a lot of casualties themselves. In addition, before Li Xuan assembled the musketeers, these Ming troops also caused a lot of damage to the musketeers who did not have much close combat ability after they climbed the city wall.

But the casualties of as many as 20 people also made Li Xuan heartache. These are all musketeers. The core combat power of the new Tang Dynasty army is only more than 80 people. Now a quarter of the casualties are all at once. one.

If you come again several times, your own musket team will not be killed or wounded.

At this time, Qian Mengjiu continued to say: "Although our army suffered a lot of casualties, the Ming army suffered even more casualties. In this battle, we captured more than 20 people just as prisoners, and the enemy was killed on the top of the city. There are forty-six people, and there are at least a hundred enemy troops killed and wounded outside the city."

"Although most of the Ming troops killed and wounded outside the city were young and strong, the Ming troops who were killed and captured by us at the top of the city were all regular troops, and most of them were elites in armor!"

Li Xuan felt a little better after hearing that the enemy's casualties were several times his own, and that 60 or 70 of them were still elites in armor.

Although their own casualties were not small, they added up to 50 casualties, but these casualties were scattered among various arms, and the real core elite musketeers only suffered 20 casualties.

Among the nearly 200 people killed and wounded in the Ming army, 60 or 70 were elites in armor, and in terms of exchange, they made a lot of money.

After all, the new army of the Tang Dynasty is not a professional army. In essence, it is still a group of bandits. Under the absolute disadvantage of military strength, it is quite good to be able to fight with a group of elites of the Ming army.

As for the lost troops, they can be recruited back from the young and strong, anyway, their core combat musketeers are not very demanding, and they only need to train for three months.

On the other hand, the dead and wounded archers and sword and shield soldiers are not easy to supplement. Although these people are said to be bandits and their qualities are not to be admired, these soldiers are all skilled people, not just any peasant can be competent.

Li Xuan has some doubts. If there are more battles like this, the sword and shield soldiers and archers under his command will die, and there is no way to replenish them.

Maybe in the future, the soldiers who are fighting under their command will all become musketeers and spearmen!

The reason is very simple. These two arms are easy to supplement and train, while the sword and shield archers and cavalry have too high requirements for soldiers and it is difficult to supplement them.

But those are all things in the future. Li Xuan is not in the mood to think about the future. Now that the Ming army is threatened, he must find a way to break through with the troops.

Yes, it is a breakthrough!

From the moment he entered the city, Li Xuan planned to rely on Zhengtai County to defend first, and then find an opportunity to break through after the immediate difficulties.

As for staying in Zhengtai County, this is absolutely not advisable, because Zhengtai County may be a strategic location for the Ming army~www.wuxiaspot.com~Su Jiakang says that he will recover it, but for them, the new army of the Tang Dynasty is concerned. , Zhengtai County is a dead place.

Continue to stay in Zhengtai County, then you will face the end of being completely surrounded and finally wiped out.

Therefore, it is impossible to stay in Zhengtai County. Now the two attacks of the Ming army have been repelled, and it is almost dark today, and the Ming army outside the city has no obvious sign of launching a third attack. .

At this time, it is time to consider breaking out.

It's just that they wanted to, but Su Jiakang refused to let them go. That night, after the soldiers of the Datang New Army hurriedly had dinner, they just wanted to break through the northwest gate. When they reached 100 meters, they found that there were hundreds of Ming troops ambushing in front of them, and the frightened frontman of the Datang New Army ran back again.

After the breakthrough was blocked, Li Xuan's face was not very good-looking. After thinking for a long time, he suddenly said to Qian Mengjiu, "Qian Aiqing, arrange for someone to go out of the city to negotiate with Su Jiakang!"

Hearing Li Xuan suddenly say this, Qian Mengjiu's face changed greatly, and he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, although I am temporarily trapped, I must not surrender!"