Valley Emperor

The disputes in Guilin Mansion City are naturally not something that Chen Keqiao and the others outside the city can know about.

At this time, you still haven't forgotten the intrigue, does it make sense? After he broke the city, no matter whether it was the property of the officials or the property of the King of Jingjiang, all of them would become the spoils of the Tang Dynasty, and then be charged into the treasury as military expenses!

Now Chen Keqiao is very busy, he is busy arranging the army to make the final preparations for the attack on Guilin Fucheng!

The establishment of the Fourth Army is quite huge. There is an infantry brigade of the regular army, a garrison brigade, and the first regiment temporarily. If these three parts are added up, the full establishment will have to exceed 15,000 people, and then there will be more The last auxiliary troops such as the baggage regiment, artillery, cavalry, etc., if they reach their full strength, will be able to reach 20,000 people.

But this is only on paper. In fact, the troops that belong to the sixth garrison brigade have not yet been fully organized. Now the brigade headquarters are still in Wuzhou. This time, the garrison troops going north along with Chen Keqiao are actually There were only three battalions, more than a thousand people, and they were all transferred from the Fifth Garrison Brigade.

Secondly, the 6th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Infantry Brigade also suffered heavy losses in the previous battle of Wuzhou, with as many as hundreds of people missing. Before Chen Keqiao went north, the 6th Infantry Regiment actually stayed in Wuzhou, ready to accept new recruits and muskets , it will take a few days to be able to go north.

Therefore, along with Chen Keqiao, there were actually only the fifth infantry, three garrison battalions and the second cargo regiment, only six artillery battalions and only 150 cavalry battalions, and the others were very few. auxiliary troops.

The total strength is actually only 6,000 people.

However, there are still 2,000 people temporarily forming the first regiment outside Guilin City, so if the two are added together, there are also 8,000 troops.

Eight thousand troops, with a fifth infantry regiment and six heavy artillery in it, to attack a Guilin city with only two or three thousand people guarding it, Chen Keqiao thought it was enough.

But even so, he is quite cautious. He has to take the main force of the Fourth Army to Huguang, and he can't lose too many troops under the city of Guilin.

Therefore, he did not attack in a hurry on the first day or even the second day, but let the troops slow down for a while, and then make preparations before attacking the city.

On the third day, Chen Keqiao thought that the time to launch a general attack on Guilin Palace City was ripe, so he officially ordered a general attack.

Like every major siege of the Tang Dynasty, the artillery unit was launched first!

The six 5-jin field guns (800 jin) in the artillery battalion fired at a distance of less than 300 meters from the city gate, and bombarded the city head where the Ming army was densely populated. The artillery also fired close to the city head at a distance of 150 meters.

Before the shelling of the city head, the heavy artillery unit of the artillery battalion had already tried to shell the city gate yesterday.

Naturally, the city gates in the district could not withstand the shelling of five jins of field artillery shells. Soon the city gates were beaten to pieces, but behind the city gates, a large amount of bricks, stones and sand were found. Obviously, the Ming army was already It is impossible to directly block the city gate hole, and it is impossible to attack from the city gate.

However, this is not difficult for the Grand Master of the Tang Dynasty. They have fought many times in tough battles, and this is all based on experience.

Although the Tang Dynasty's ability to attack fortifications is still far inferior to their field ability, but after playing so many times, they have more or less experience.

Therefore, the old method was adopted to directly dig trenches and tunnels for blasting. At the same time, a large number of temporary commandos composed of heavy armored infantry were prepared for wall-mounting operations, and other siege equipment such as mobile arrow towers were also readily available.

In the past, when they were just bandits and thieves, they only knew how to carry a long ladder and rush up stupidly, relying on human life to fill it. This method is fine for those small cities whose walls are no more than ten feet high, but in the face of this kind of At least a city wall of more than six meters high would not work.

But with more battles, more experience, and the constant presence of middle and senior generals of the Ming army who joined them, it also brought a lot of traditional army combat methods.

For example, these messy siege vehicles, digging tunnels and blasting, are actually learning from the traditional army.

However, digging zigzag trenches and using trenches to shorten the time of the charge and reduce the casualties of soldiers was the creation of the king of the Tang Dynasty.

At the same time, the use of artillery, especially shotguns, to suppress the firepower at the head of the city is also a method that Master Wang of the Tang Dynasty came up with.

In other words, in fact, the traditional army siege mode is relatively similar, such as using muskets to suppress fire, and traditional troops will also use archers to suppress fire.

The commando model is more common. There are many death squads in the traditional army. If there is any difference, at most, the commandos in the King Division of the Tang Dynasty joined the new arm of the grenadier, and played the grenade in melee combat. enormous power in .

However, the combination of traditional methods and new methods caused the Ming army at the city gate to be at a loss, especially the trenches dug by the Grand Master of the Tang Dynasty. Because they were not tunnels, they were actually very fast to dig.

Moreover, the trenches were not dug directly to the foot of the city, but stayed at a distance of 20 to 30 meters from the city wall. At this distance, unless the Ming army ran out, it would be difficult to destroy these trenches.

As for killing and wounding people who dig trenches or soldiers marching in the trenches, the Master of the Tang Dynasty is not stupid. They will directly cover the trenches with wooden boards.

These wooden boards seem to be weak, but they can block the sight of the Ming army, as well as block arrows, if it means military artillery shelling.

Shrapnel can naturally penetrate wood, but the artillery in the Ming army is mainly small and medium-sized bowl guns. In professional military terms, these artillery are shotguns, and the range of shotguns is not far enough. And it is a face-to-face killing, relying on shrapnel to kill the enemy's personnel.

Destruction of fortifications is basically ineffective.

Even if the planks were destroyed, the big deal was to replace a plank directly. The artillery of the Ming army couldn't destroy all the templates in so many trenches.

Even if you don't mention the firepower suppression of the Great Tang Wangshi outside the city, they don't dare to take the lead, just let them fight like this, how much ammunition they have to spend to destroy the almost dense trenches outside the city!

Gunpowder these days is very expensive, and the Master of the Tang Dynasty is not willing to use it. Although the Ming army is backed by the huge Ming Dynasty, the Ming army is actually more difficult than the Master of the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, even if the Ming army in Guilin city discovered that the thieves were digging trenches outside the city, they tried to strike with artillery or bows and arrows, but later found that the effect was not great, and the artillerymen suffered heavy casualties under the artillery counterattack of the thieves, so they simply did not No more.

Anyway, the trenches of these thieves did not look like tunnels, and they did not dig to the foot of the city wall.

Seeing that the infantry unit was ready and the artillery fire was almost ready, Major General Chen Keqiao finally ordered the assault team and the three garrison battalions under the 11th garrison regiment to attack.

At the same time, he also ordered the provisional first regiment to launch an attack on the other side of the city wall to contain the Ming army.

As for the 5th Infantry Regiment under his command, musketeers, archers and artillery were dispatched to suppress the fire, while other troops were in the rear.

It has been proved in many siege battles that the regular army of the King's Division of the Tang Dynasty is no better than the defenders in the fortified battle, especially in the hand-to-hand combat of climbing the city wall.

Because at that time, the line tactics that the regular army of the King of the Tang Dynasty was proud of would be completely ineffective, and the muskets would also be ineffective.

In addition, the infantry in the regular army are mainly equipped with muskets and spears, which are not suitable for tough battles.

Therefore, in previous fortified battles, it was only possible to temporarily organize commandos, and then cooperate with garrison troops to attack the city. The infantry of the regular army mainly provided fire cover and swept arrays to prevent the enemy from rushing out of the city to counterattack.

This time, the size of the commandos under the Fourth Army is not large~www.wuxiaspot.com~ There are only more than 300 people, and the source is more complicated. There are regular army soldiers, garrison soldiers, and people from each army.

But the commandos of the Great Tang Emperor have one characteristic, that is, heavy armor!

There are more than 300 people, nearly 200 of them are sword and shield soldiers in heavy armor!

When they jumped out of the trenches and rushed forward shouting various slogans, a group of Guilin officials who were watching the battle from the top of the city were all stunned.

It's not that they haven't seen the pseudo-Tang bandit army, and they have experienced the pseudo-Tang bandit army attacking the city, but they have never seen the appearance of hundreds of heavily armored infantry charging to the city to fight.

Done!

When seeing the heavy armored infantry climbing up the city one after another, all the officials present, including King Jingjiang who came to watch the battle temporarily, were all stunned!

That's 200 layers of armor. Even if you count the armor on your generals, your defense forces are only more than 50 pairs. This battle is simply impossible to fight!

When our light infantry encounters these heavy armored infantry, there is only one end, and that is to be slaughtered!

A group of Guilin government officials looked panicked. Several generals had already rushed over to command the troops and tried to block the thieves, while a group of civilian officials looked very strange. traces, while others are completely gone.

"What should I do? The thieves are rushing up!"

"Hurry up and stop them, don't we all die!"

A group of officials shouted with panic on their faces.

At this time, King Jingjiang still couldn't see the danger of the situation, and shouted: "Quick, stop the bandit army, as long as you stop them, they will all be rewarded!"

"This king is rich and has a lot of money. As long as you kill a real thief, you will be rewarded 50 taels of silver directly, and one person of heavy armor will be rewarded 100 taels of silver!"