Chapter 702 Raise your arms and wave your arms, and everyone will be strong
The soldiers on the earthen wall were full of emotion, and the thieves in the distance could see clearly. Chu Liancheng, the leader of the Xiliang Army, saw that the military defense of this military camp had just been repaired, and the morale was so high, and his heart sank.
Since coming to the Central Plains, two officers and troops have been defeated, and those teams are all fleeing at the touch of a button, and they have no combat effectiveness at all, but I didn't expect to encounter a hard bone today.
If it is a field battle, it is easy to say, but the other side wants to take this strong fortress according to the danger, and I am afraid that it will lose a lot of manpower.
Now it is necessary to rely on the cannon fodder in front to consume the combat power of the Tianshuipu garrison, and when both sides are exhausted, their main force will attack with all their might.
As the saying goes, cranes and mussels compete with each other for fishermen's profits.
Chu Liancheng parked the team a stone's throw away from the barracks to prevent the other party from condescending to kill and injure his own people with bows and arrows. Don't look at how high the earthen wall is only two zhang high, the range of the bow and arrow is much farther than your own side.
Moreover, these garrisons have battlements as cover, and are by no means the opponents of these garrisons in long-range attack and defense. I didn't have many arrows with me when I ran long distances.
And this garrison barracks covers a very large area, and the military supplies in it are also extremely sufficient, and if you want to break through this barracks, you must think of a foolproof strategy.
The front of this barracks is also specially arranged, and there are no trees within a radius of two miles, and it is a large open field. Moreover, the terrain is very flat, and there is no height difference to cover up the body during the attack.
If you rush forward so rashly, the opponent's bow and arrow will rain down, and those ordinary soldiers next to the strength master on your side will probably suffer heavy losses.
Now I don't know if there are any energetic people in the barracks, if not, a few good players on their side can take the lead. But if the other party also has strong energy, then except for a few people who can rush up the earthen wall, the follow-up soldiers will inevitably be hindered by bows and arrows far away.
Those who rush in will inevitably be outnumbered, and I am afraid that they will be more than lucky. Chu Liancheng is also a person who has experienced a hundred battles, and he has considered everything about marching and fighting.
Even if these thieves who have just been brought in are used as cannon fodder, they can't consume these lives so quickly, which will not achieve the purpose of exhausting the opponent.
Now the bandits in front of them who had just joined the team only had some simple tools in their hands, and there was nothing to block the arrows at all. The immediate priority now is to find something that can cover the body at a minimum.
Chu Liancheng looked at the surrounding terrain, there were no houses, even the woods were far away, if he went out to cut down trees and make wooden signs on the spot, not to mention that there were no tools to fit his hands, even if he barely made some wooden signs, I am afraid that too long would pass.
Now there are only a few thousand people in the Central Plains attacking everywhere, and they are at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, if the imperial court reacts and knows the importance of the Tianshuipu military camp, then reinforcements will inevitably arrive.
With only a few hundred people in his hands, and the military supplies such as arrows and food were all carried with him, there was no way to cope with large-scale operations. Now only by desperately taking this military camp will all the material problems be solved.
Chu Liancheng found that there were several houses more than a mile away from the barracks, forming a very small residential area, and these people lived in the places where the miscellaneous servants who relied on carrying food and vegetables to the barracks on weekdays lived.
In the past, they were all people from distant villages, because the sweet water shop was far away from the town store, and the supplies in the army needed to be transported for many years, so these people simply built some simple houses to live next to the military camp, so that they did not have to travel back and forth between the village and the military camp.
Generally, they will not return home until they have been busy for a while, for ordinary toiling people. It can be regarded as a beauty difference for eating Shangguan rice.
Chu Liancheng immediately had an idea when he saw these houses, and immediately sent a team of fifty people to rush over to those houses, but fortunately, the handymen living in these houses went out to deliver supplies today, and there was no one in the house.
When the fifty Xiliang soldiers arrived at the house, they immediately gathered all the things that could be used, such as those things that could temporarily block the arrows, such as the paved doors, the pot lids, etc., which could temporarily block the arrows.
These miscellaneous items have been gathered in one place that has been simply restructured, and dozens of simple shields have been made large and small, although the quality is not complimentary, but it is better than this flesh hard arrow array.
These improvised shields were mostly distributed to the thieves, who were outlaws, and all of them were not afraid of death. Especially the situation of the sweet water shop barracks, in fact, these thieves on the snake and scorpion mountain are quite familiar.
In the past, there were thousands of officers and soldiers here, and the thieves on the snake and scorpion mountain naturally did not dare to come to harass them. However, a few days ago, most of the elite in the barracks were transferred to the border passes, and the rest were some old and weak soldiers, and I heard that there were only a few hundred people.
These thieves on the snake and scorpion mountain have fought against the official army many times, and they have always won and undefeated, so they have a natural psychological advantage against the official army.
Although the equipment in his hands is rudimentary now, the Yellow Turban Army behind him looks extremely strong, and the number of people is much larger than that in the barracks. All it took was a charge, desperately breaking through the trench and cutting the steel chains on the drawbridge, and these officers and soldiers would only be slaughtered.
The thieves on the hill of femme fatales took the improvised shields made of planks by some of the quickest thieves, and prepared to rush to the front to attract the enemy's arrows.
Then little by little, they marched forward until they reached the edge of a stone's throw away, and arranged the ranks in a long line of serpents about the width of the barracks earthen wall.
It's not that these people haven't attacked similar military camps, and many thieves have even participated in the battle against the county seat. This kind of earthen wall more than two feet high, the thieves will skillfully attack by building a human ladder.
This kind of trench with wooden spears can also be used to create a path through the trench by jumping into the gap and forcibly opening a path. Although casualties are inevitable, these thieves are very fierce and have long been mentally prepared for a desperate battle.
Chu Liancheng didn't expect that these ordinary mountain bandits who had just joined his team had such a high fighting spirit. Even though the equipment in his hand was so rudimentary, there was no intention of timidity.
Originally, I had made a plan, if these people were cowardly, then I had to let my own energetic and capable people serve as a team to drive these people forward. Now it seems that this concern is unnecessary.
It would be great if he could continue to break through the opponent's city defense, just now among these thieves, there were people who knew about the Tianshuipu military camp, and the general situation in the military camp had already been told to Chu Liancheng.
This Chu Liancheng is also relieved, although the city defense is strong and morale is high, but after all, these people are some old and weak soldiers, and it is said that they are usually negligent in training.
Now it seems that the other party doesn't know how fierce his Xiliang soldiers and horses are, as long as the two sides see blood in the battle, I'm afraid that these old and weak soldiers will be frightened.
There are only 1,000 people on his side, and there is only one side of the attack. Once the other party feels that the guard is unguarded, there are three ways to escape, which will avoid the determination of the other party to desperately hold on.
He didn't want to kill all the officers and troops of Sweet Water Shop, but to take down this dangerous place and wait for the other teams to come and meet.
Therefore, this time the impact must be carried out in one blow and completely crush the morale of those defenders. And his own team is a hundred paces away from the thieves who have come in as a second wave of offensive.
If the attack goes well, take the opportunity to attack, and even if there is any setback, you can take the lead in retreating to avoid damage to your main force.
Chu Liancheng is shrewd in his calculations, how can those thieves who are used as cannon fodder know. These people all pulled out a sprinting stance, just waiting for their lord to give the order.
Chu Liancheng raised his right hand high and waved it vigorously in the direction of the barracks.
Shouted: "Kill!"