Valley Emperor

After Hao Bainian finished his lectures to the officers, the troops going south also started a real general attack on Liuzhou City!

This time the main force of the siege is the regular army with the 1st Infantry Brigade as the core, but this siege is naturally impossible to only have the 1st Infantry Brigade, but other troops will also participate in the battle!

For example, the 1,500-strong Liuzhou Tusi soldiers will also cooperate with the 1st Infantry Brigade to participate in frontal siege operations. These soldiers are all troops provided by the local Tusi, and their combat effectiveness is basically higher than that of the local Ming army guards, and even It is stronger than the garrison army formed by the descendants of the Ming army in the 6th Army of the Tang Dynasty.

This kind of strength does not refer to tactics, weapons and equipment, etc., but refers to their combat courage!

This is the impression of the outsiders of the era on the Guangxi soldiers, but they will never retreat. If you put aside the elements such as equipment and tactics, these soldiers are still relatively strong. Of course, this is only limited to the standing soldiers under the chieftains. , If it is an army composed of temporarily recruited people, it is actually like that, and it will not be stronger than an army composed of ordinary young men.

If any army wants to gain strong combat effectiveness, long-term training is indispensable.

In fact, the troops in today's Datang King's division are not fully trained. Otherwise, with their equipment and tactics, it would be easier to fight the Ming army.

The 1st Infantry Brigade and the Army Corps are responsible for the frontal attack, while for the garrison, their task is to attack from another direction, contain part of the troops of the Ming army defending the city, and indirectly provide cover and support for the main force of the frontal siege.

In addition, in this siege, the King of the Tang Dynasty formed a temporary commando team composed of heavy armored sword and shield soldiers, light armored sword and shield soldiers, grenadiers, and archers, just like the previous attack on Lipingfu city.

The purpose of the commandos is only one, that is, to climb the city wall and then establish a city wall position to meet the follow-up army to enter the city.

And this task is also the most difficult unit in the entire siege battle!

Otherwise, the Master of the Tang Dynasty would not have specially set up such a temporary commando team like a death squad.

The soldiers in this temporary commando were not only drawn from the 1st Infantry Brigade, but also some of the troops from the 3rd Guards Brigade and Tusi soldiers.

There is only one requirement for selecting soldiers, and that is to have the courage to fight to the death!

The first wave of temporary commandos to climb the city will inevitably cause heavy casualties, and there is no need to pay attention to strict formations in the battle, because the soldiers basically have their own In order to fight, the requirements for personal martial arts and courage are quite high.

In the end, more than 300 people were recruited from the 1st Soldier Brigade, nearly 100 people from the 3rd Garrison Brigade, and nearly 100 people from the Tusi Tu soldiers.

A temporary commando of more than 500 people was formed, and Lieutenant Colonel Zhu Xu, the deputy head of the 1st Infantry Regiment, personally served as the commando captain.

Among the more than 500 people, 200 were heavy armored sword and shield soldiers, all wearing double-layer heavy armor, and some light armored sword and shield soldiers, grenadiers, and archers.

They will become the sharp knives in this fortified battle, forcibly climb the city wall and establish a position at the front of the city, and then support the frontal attacking troops to enter the city on a large scale.

Before the temporary commando was ready, Lieutenant Colonel Zhu Xu promised the hundreds of people that if they could conquer the city, every soldier in the regular army would be able to get a level up, the officers would record their merits, and in addition, a certain amount of cash would be rewarded. Soldiers with more kills get more rewards.

For the soldiers of the garrison, regardless of the victory or defeat, they can join the regular army after the battle, and there are also gold and silver rewards.

For Tusi soldiers, it is a simple gold and silver reward, but the number is slightly more.

This kind of setting up battlefield rewards in order to motivate morale is not common in the history of the battle of the Tang Dynasty. award.

The second time was in the Battle of Lipingfu City, where high gold and silver rewards were given to the assault troops.

It can be seen that in the Tang Dynasty, the temporary use of rewards, especially for individual individuals, was not often used, at least it did not become a tradition in the Tang Dynasty.

This is related to the way of battle and the way of recording merits of the Great Tang Wang Shi. When the Tang Wang Shi remembers the merits, he seldom remembers the merits of a single soldier, but the collective merits of a certain army.

This is because the Great Tang Kings fought collectively when they were fighting, and the way to judge the merits of the battle was not how many enemy levels were harvested, but whether or not the combat mission was completed.

It is even more difficult to record the merits of the soldiers alone. A group of musket teams shot at a group of enemy troops. Who knows who shot the enemy troops!

This also makes it difficult to judge the credit of individual soldiers, especially the credit of ordinary infantry!

In the case of collective combat and collective merit evaluation, the soldiers are rarely rewarded with cash.

Of course, this was also related to the already poor clanking of the Tang Dynasty. It was difficult for them to even pay the troops' daily salaries, let alone take out extra money as a reward.

However, this time Hao Bainian made a lot of money in order to quickly conquer Liuzhou Fucheng and promised a big prize!

With the commandos also getting ready, Hao Bainian also officially ordered the troops to launch the final general attack!

The heavy artillery unit in the second artillery battalion was the first to fire, followed by three teams of more than 20 battalion artillery that had already advanced to a distance of just over 100 meters from the city wall.

These artillery fired intensively. In order to suppress the Ming army on the city head, the artillery shells shot towards the city head as if they didn't want money.

The intensive artillery bombardment hit the Ming army on the top of the city unable to move!

After initially suppressing the Ming army at the city head with shelling, the musketeers of the 1st Infantry Brigade began to advance. They advanced in a standard three-line formation, and then advanced to a distance of no more than 80 meters from the city wall. The Ming army on the head performs round shooting!

At the same time that the musketeers stepped forward, the archers also stepped forward. They advanced even closer than the musketeers. They shot arrows at the city head at a distance of 67 meters.

In addition to these conventional long-range firepower, there are more than a dozen mobile arrow towers that are slowly approaching the city wall, and then shoot arrows at the Ming army on the city head.

These mobile arrow towers are not very high, only more than six meters, but even this height is higher than the city wall of Liuzhou Fucheng, which is enough for the archers on the arrow towers to gain a height advantage and be able to carry on condescendingly. shooting.

The archers on these mobile towers were originally elite archers carefully selected from the whole army. The technique is obviously stronger than ordinary archers.

After occupying a height advantage, the shooting of these archers was extremely efficient. Even if the Ming army on the top of the city was hiding behind the battlements, some people were still shot by arrows from time to time.

This is because these archers have good archery skills. Secondly, after gaining a height advantage, it is easier for the Ming army to fight the battlements, unless the soldiers of the Ming army are close to the battlements, or they are slightly away from the battlements. The battlements are farther away, and there is a possibility of being hit by an arrow.

All kinds of long-range firepower fired at the Ming army at the head of the city. Be denser.

With such intensive firepower suppression, the Ming army on the top of the city is not stupid. Naturally, they will not stand on the top of the city stupidly, and then be killed by the artillery, muskets, and bows of the pseudo-Tang bandit army!

They would hide behind the battlements, or even temporarily withdraw from the city head and run directly under the city wall!

In this case, although Hao Bainian's troops had already fired a lot of shells, bullets, and bows and arrows at the city head, the damage to the Ming army was actually relatively limited. After all, these attacks often had to hit the enemy directly. effective.

Artillery shells are all solid bullets. Even the shot fired by the shotgun is actually no different from the bullet. As long as the Ming army hides well, the chance of casualties is still relatively small.

This also led to such a violent shelling, which could only make the generals of the Ming army constantly sigh about the sharp weapons of the pseudo-Tang thieves~www.wuxiaspot.com~, but it could not bring much casualties to the soldiers of the Ming army. .

But this did not affect Hao Bainian's good mood!

When he saw through the binoculars that the Ming army on the top of the city did not dare to emerge, and many of them even ran under the wall, he put down the binoculars and said, "Let the 1st Infantry Regiment and the soldiers start to attack, The 3rd garrison brigade also needs to attack!"

Soon, Hao Bainian's order was passed on to the various units of the King Division of the Tang Dynasty through the semaphore!

Immediately, Colonel Chen Keqiao, the head of the 1st Infantry Regiment responsible for the front row attack, gave the order to charge forward!

After his order was issued, more than a thousand infantrymen in the 1st Infantry Regiment, mainly the sword and shield soldiers who were converted from the original spearmen, and the soldiers in the reserve battalion made a frontal charge!

At the same time, more than a thousand Tusi soldiers also charged on the side of the First Infantry Regiment!

It didn't take long for the nearly 4,000 infantrymen in the 3rd garrison brigade to charge!

For a time, on the entire front, the Grand Master of the Tang Dynasty launched a general attack, with more than 6,000 troops participating in the front-line charge!

For a time, the Ming army generals on the top of the city all changed color. They saw so many pseudo-Tang thieves rushing up. It is definitely impossible to say that they are nervous and not afraid.

But even if they were nervous and afraid, they still commanded the soldiers to fight back!

Use bows and arrows, use bowl guns!

With the counterattack of the Ming army, the divisions of the Datang King Division charging under the city wall also began to suffer casualties!

At this time, whether it was the Ming army on the top of the city or the King of the Tang Dynasty below the city, relatively heavy casualties began to appear. The sky in Liuzhou City seemed to be raining blood!

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