Chapter 51: The Beginning of the War
Today's order to supervise the battle is the deputy general Xu Hai, although this person is slimy, but he has the ability to defend the city, and his own things are more tightly regarded than anything else, which is somewhat similar to Deng Jiucheng. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In the middle of the night, Feng Jingting went back to make up for sleep after issuing the general order, and before leaving, he didn't forget to ask someone to dig Guo Wenying out of the bed.
She was most familiar with artillery and firearms, and the first time they were used on a large-scale battlefield, she could not go up to the castle tower to observe them on the spot.
Guo Wenying didn't have many complaints, early in the morning with a steamed bun in her mouth, she slipped up to the city wall, the city wall was already surrounded by soldiers, it was the time for breakfast, many soldiers were holding food in their hands, and looked out at the city.
Guo Wenying went up and pulled away the two soldiers, and also stretched out his head to look outside, basically in the same posture as them.
Adjutant General Xu Hai was also there, he was nibbling on a piece of dry cake in his mouth, chewing it heavily, and asked the soldier with the longest neck, "Do you see clearly? How many people are here?"
On the mountain in the distance, there were many people, and in the farther pass, the black pressure of a group of people and horses could not see the end, and the little soldier smacked his tongue, "Good boy, this is much denser than wasps." ”
"What are the wasps, these Warats are more difficult to deal with than the wasps. "A wasp stings and it doesn't die.
Guo Wenying bit the steamed bun and casually asked a veteran beside him, "Are the ammunition ready?" Tell them to eat more, so that they won't be able to hold the shells for a while. ”
The veteran smiled, and touched two steamed buns in the basket and stuffed them into his arms. Several soldiers behind him learned from him to sneak a steamed bun and pretend it, Guo Wenying saw it but didn't see it, and thought about it, he also pretended to be two, and he didn't know when this battle would start, so he would be hungry for a while.
Before the drums of war sounded, the main city wall was already full of soldiers, these gang were all perennial soldiers, experienced in a hundred battles, and they were attacked many times a year, and they had already been beaten.
Guo Wenying watched in the back for a while, the black pressure of the people and horses to the pass did not go forward, the team from the middle of the two sides of the Yunji Mountain and the other side of the mountain, their movements are very fast, not long after the effort, the two mountains are full of smoke, Wara people are making rice.
Xu Hai also stared at it for a while, seeing that those Warat people were cutting wood on the mountain, as if they were preparing siege ladders and door knocking wood, then he turned around and roared heroically: "Order, beat the drum!"
The drums of the preparations for the war changed from slow to urgent, and as soon as the drums sounded, the soldiers at the head of the city trotted down the city wall, and what should they do, leaving the soldiers standing guard on duty with straight backs and solemn faces, looking ahead.
Deng Jiucheng had already opened the storehouse, commanded the people to bring up the arrow feathers, all the archers went up to the city wall, and the 600 people of the fire battalion also followed the city wall. The main wall was pressed by two guns, and on the left and right sides were two hundred musketeers and two hundred archers, leaving one musketeer to prepare for battle.
There is a problem with this gun, the gunpowder is easy to get hot after a long time, and every shot has to be loaded with gunpowder, at this time, the people behind must be substituted at any time, so as long as the gungun is on the battlefield, it must be more than two teams.
In order to guard the 36-degree without dead ends, the Northwest Army also set up a number of crossbows at the corners of several city walls and the commanding heights of the city towers, and the two of them were responsible for one, both of which were used to wear helmets and armor and fight large things.
The sound of the drums lasted for half a cup of tea, and as soon as the drums stopped, the city walls were ready, and the fire guns and archers lined up on the three city walls, and the shield bearers behind them, holding shields and holding single knives, and their military uniforms grinning in the wind, cold and solemn.
Xu Hai had already been ordered by the prince to protect Guo Wenying, and when he saw that she was standing in front, he hurriedly pulled her and hid behind the shield hand, and the two looked out through the gap in the shield, making them look like thieves.
Although Guo Wenying felt ugly, Xu Hai was like this, so he had to endure it.
At this time, his son Warat also began to prepare for the attack, and the drums of war suddenly sounded like a storm, which was the order to charge, and the drums of the two flanks in the Warat army echoed at the same time, and the drums shook the sky for a while, filling the entire heaven and earth.
There was a shout of killing, and thousands of troops began to charge, and as the artillery and guns were fired, the air was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder and blood.
The screams and neighing of the horses could be faintly heard, as well as the rolling of the wheels, presumably from the rear team that had brought the trebuchet.
Guo Wenying wanted to stand up and take a look, but as soon as she came out, she pressed Xu Hai down.
The huge trebuchet stirred the stones and smashed them up the tower, and the battlements were smashed and smashed into people, and the hard shields could not stop them, and many soldiers were smashed and vomited blood and fell to the ground.
Guo Wenying was anxious, and shouted at Xu Hai: "Tell the artillery to fire at the trebuchet, and then talk about it if it is broken." ”
Xu Hai came to his senses and hurriedly passed the order, and after a while, several violent cannons rang out, and the bombed city tower shook a few times.
Guo Wenying no longer ignored Xu Hai's command not to let her move, she asked the guards to get her a shield and escort her to the city tower.
There were more than a dozen trebuchets in Warat, and although the artillery was powerful, only three or four were damaged at one time, and the problem could not be solved at all.
She secretly regretted in her heart, she thought of everything, why didn't she think of burying some explosives in front of the pass?
At this time, it was too late to bury it again, she beckoned Zhang Qiang, and asked him to go to Deng Jiucheng to ask for a few explosive bags, and then push two trebuchets to the city tower.
Zhang Qiang went quickly, and came back with things after a while, and Deng Jiucheng followed, holding two explosives bags in his arms, and the baby looked like he was looking at his own baby. As soon as I saw Guo Wenying, I scolded her for being a loser, and good things were useless.
Guo Wenying also ignored him, and asked someone to lift the trebuchet up, the trebuchet is big, the city tower is too narrow, and there are so many people standing, where can I put it.
Guo Wenying asked someone to build a platform with a wooden plank between the two battlements, put it directly on the platform, and then lit the explosive bag and threw it far away with a trebuchet.
These explosives were packed in large bags and full of gunpowder, which were more powerful than artillery shells, and they exploded everywhere for a while, blowing up the Warat cavalry and infantry crying dad and mother.
On this day, the battlefield in front of Hirohito Pass became a human purgatory, a harvest of human life without suspense, and the army of Warat was bombarded by powerful fire before they could rush to the city gate. The siege ladders prepared by logging early in the morning did not come in handy, Wara charged several times, all of them were suppressed by the Northwest Army, Hirohito Pass did not remember the target's wild shooting, an overwhelming war was fought from early morning to mid-day, and the corpses and horses in the open space in front of Hirohito Pass were stacked and accumulated into mountains, and the corpses were all over the field, and the blood flowed like a river.
By noon, the force of the death-defying assault on the side of the Varat began to slow down, and there were so many dead that the horns of the charge finally stopped, and the Varats retreated with their crossbows, crossbows, and almost destroyed trebuchets.