Puzzle Six
Puzzle (6 Middle School)
A large number of soldiers of the Broken Army jumped over the collapsed city walls and advanced towards the center of Xinghua City. The outer defenders of Xinghua, who had been beaten into frightened birds, retreated almost without waiting for large-scale contact between the two sides. Just as the soldiers of the Broken Capture Army rushed towards the inner city, darkness came out, and a few cold lights flashed.
The soldiers who rushed to the front jerked, stopped, and fell to the ground in a hurry. Blood flowed out from under the armor and ran down the bluestone floor to the dark ditches on both sides.
"There is an ambush, everyone be careful!" Wang Laoshi shouted, jumped to his feet, and threw himself behind an old tree on the side of the road. Three feathered arrows immediately appeared where he was standing, and the sharp arrows sparked on the bluestone pavement.
"Point the grenade, front left, throw!" Wang Laoshi beckoned his brothers, took out a grenade from his waist, brushed the ignition line and threw it out, and with the sound of the explosion, a fire rose in front of the left. After the fuel weeds, a long section of green brick wall was exposed. In the corner, two adjacent masonry towers appeared.
"His grandmother's, there is actually an inner city, I said that the people in the outer city were defeated so quickly!" Wang honestly scolded and shouted. While arranging for people to report the situation to the rear, he ordered his subordinates to set fire to all the plants and trees that could be set on fire nearby, so that the brothers holding Songming would not become a live target for the opponent's archers.
Before the murderous king Suodu evacuated Xinghua, in order to prevent Xinghua from being recovered by the soldiers and horses of King Qin of the Great Song Dynasty again, he deliberately demolished the outer city wall, so the Pu brothers also put the defense of Xinghua on the second line of defense. Along the perimeter of the inner city, every dozen paces, an enemy tower was built. Some are hidden within the city walls, while others are built on top of the walls. The archers hid in the enemy towers and blocked the enemy's offensive routes with the help of lookouts.
Since Xinghua City has become a barracks, the scouts of the Broken Army failed to blend in, and they reconnoitred the deployment of defenses in the city in time. So the offensive came to an abrupt halt at the base of the inner wall. And the defenders of the city did not expect that the outer line of defense, which he used to delay the enemy army and buy time to prepare for the defense of the inner city, would collapse so quickly. The ill-prepared sides were stalemate under the inner city, the captives could not advance into the depths of Xinghua, and the left flank army failed to seize the favorable opportunity to give the opponent a head-on blow.
"Heavy armor, shields, one word defense. Crossbowmen, seal their lookouts. Herald, go to the rear to urge Lao Tzu to artillery. Thrower, shove a grenade into the enemy's ass! Wang honestly observed for a while, and finally found a flaw in the opponent's defensive arrangement. Under his command, the various branches of a battalion quickly unfolded, forming a formation of attacking fortifications one by one.
More than fifty heavily armored soldiers walked to the first row, raising iron-clad wooden shields. They were the first soldiers in the army to be equipped with the improved Mingguang armor. This kind of Mingguang armor, developed by the Science and Technology Department by combining the characteristics of arc-shaped plate armor and chain mail in the Western Regions, is woven from thin steel wire after tempering, and the key parts are covered with turtleshell-shaped thin steel plates stamped by water hammer, which can minimize the damage caused to them by archers. Therefore, when attacking the fortification, the heavy armor soldiers went to the front of the team without giving up. (Note to alcoholics: Metal drawing originated in West Asia in the sixth century BC.) The plate armor technique first appeared in Iran, and the tortoiseshell armor can effectively disperse the impact of the arrow. ”
The human wall of bright light armor and giant wooden shields slowly approached the enemy tower, and the crossbowmen of the Broken Army pressed their bodies behind the heavy armor soldiers, looking for opponents, and overturning the enemy soldiers who dared to show their heads in the walls and enemy towers. At the end of the line, there was a full-time bombardier, carrying a simple catapult made of bamboo, and two burlap bags around his waist, through which round grenades were exposed.
Bows and arrows rained down on the shield with a noisy clanging sound. The Broken Bow quickly returned fire, and the crossbow bolts sent out sent out sent out to the enemy's buildings and stones. The archers of both sides began to wrestle, and slowly, hiding in the enemy tower, the defenders, with the advantage of height, gradually occupied the upper peak.
Several grenades were thrown out, hit the wall of the enemy building, jumped, and exploded. After the black smoke cleared, a row of small craters appeared on the enemy tower, and white stone stubble was exposed, which glowed with a terrible light in the light of the fire. The archers inside the enemy tower paused, quickly recovering from their panic. When they found out that the brick and stone tower could provide shelter for them, they let out a smug laugh, and shot their bows and arrows more accurately and quickly.
"Smack", a powerful crossbow shot out of the watchtower and shot through the wooden shield. Punched a gap in the defensive line. The dying soldier struggled on a tripod made of shields and crossbows, his hands stretched out into the dark night sky. Sharp arrows then came in from this lack of **, shooting down several crossbowmen who were not equipped with heavy armor.
"Don't panic, raise your shield and fill the gap. The archers, in groups of two, concentrated their efforts on sealing an enemy tower. Wang Laoshi shouted loudly, and his heart was so distressed that he broke out in a cold sweat. Although each soldier in the first mark is equipped with different types of armor according to the different types of troops, he will not die immediately after being hit by an arrow. But the growing number of lottery numbers has taken a big toll on morale. Half of his battalion was replenished from the newly attached army, and his combat effectiveness and morale were not as strong as the veterans on Baizhang Ridge. Being at a disadvantage for a long time will inevitably lead to the danger of the collapse of the entire battalion.
"Chief, can you let a few brothers protect me, come closer," a silly voice sounded from the grenadiers. Wang Laoshi turned around when he heard the sound and saw Liu Dachun's somewhat pale face.
"I, I, I let go of the sheep!" Liu Dachun stammered and explained. He was an insurrectionist of the new annex army that attacked Shao Wu, and because he defected before the battle, he promptly informed the Breaker Army of the dense breakthrough plan of the page, so he was given the position of the head of the capital. But in the eyes of Wang Laoshi and other veterans of the Broken Army, these new annexes were very discriminated against, and they were all placed in the middle of the team. Neither let the forward striker nor someone watch from behind, so as not to escape if they collapse.
Wang Laoshi glared at Liu Dachun fiercely, not quite wanting to accept the other party's suggestion. He was not very sure about the ability and morale of these reinforcements. But the stalemate in front of him made him have no other choice, hesitated for a long time, and finally nodded, and ordered a few heavily armored soldiers to use shields to protect this person who took the initiative to ask for help.
Under the cover of the archers of the Broken Army, Liu Dachun and his party slowly approached the city wall in front. Braving the rain of arrows overhead, Liu Dachun raised his head, pulled out a grenade from his waist, wiped the fuse on the sole of his shoe, lit it, and threw it out when there was still more than an inch of medicine left.
The white phosphorus-coated thread erupted in mid-air with blue flames and drilled into the grenade along the fuse. At the lookout of the enemy tower, a beautiful flower exploded in the air. The colorful petals fell to the ground, green smoke rose from the enemy tower, and several arms drooped down from the lookout hole weakly.
"Good boy, enough seeds!" Wang honestly shouted, commanding the archers to cover Liu Dachun and approach another enemy tower. The defenders in the enemy tower obviously also noticed the danger coming, gave up the opponent in front of them, and shot at Liu Dachun like arrows, and in a moment, the two heavily armored soldiers were wounded and fell to the ground. Liu Dachun, who had lost his asylum, was pressed into a corner.
"Heavy armor, press me down. Grenadier, go up with Lao Tzu to show off your skills! Wang Laoshi was completely enraged, picked up a few grenades, and rushed out of the team with an arrow. His body swayed and disappeared under the city wall. Seeing this, several captains under his command hurriedly organized manpower cover, and more than a dozen heavily armored soldiers rushed out of their own formation, moving as fast as possible within the enemy's firing range, trying their best to attract the attention of the other party.
The attention of the archers in the enemy tower was attracted by the heavy armor, and the crossbow arrows were fired at the bright light armor one after another. Some are ejected by plate armor, and some are generally stuck in the chain buckle. The soldier who received it didn't hum, and forced himself to follow the formation with the pain. During weekday training, the training camp once used grass targets to demonstrate to them the difference between the odds of survival in a team defense under the rain of arrows and escaping alone. The principle that team is life is as deeply imprinted in the minds of these soldiers as the doctrine of fighting for dignity in elementary literacy books.
In the corner of the wall, Liu Dachunyu, who had caught the opportunity, jumped up, his body was in mid-air, and the grenade flew out with the back of his head. The fuse drew a beautiful arc, piercing the lookout hole of the enemy building, and with a bang, half of the enemy tower was lifted, and the smoke and broken wood rushed into the sky together.
Taking advantage of the chaos, Wang Laoshi circled around another enemy building, shook it a few times, and ran back with a rolling belt. Before the archers could aim at him, a violent explosion sounded at the base of the enemy building. Five grenades exploded at the same time in different directions, and the masonry tower fell crookedly and fell to one side.
The frightened Pujia Army archers let out a shout, threw away their bows and arrows, and ran down the stairs. Before they could reach the ground, the enemy tower collapsed, covering all the people inside in the rubble.
Several throwers rushed out like Wang Laoshi, some fell halfway, and some attacked the enemy's downstairs. The explosions were heard one after another, and the carefully built enemy towers were crumbling.
A burst of war drums suddenly sounded in the inner city, and hundreds of defenders, driven by the generals, came out of the city gates. Before they could line up, a rain of arrows shot the defenders in all directions. After paying the price of dozens of lives, someone finally rushed to the front of the broken army, and the two sides were white-swords, and in less than two rounds, the remaining soldiers had all been chopped to the ground by Wang Laoshi.
"Playing with knives with Lao Tzu, when Lao Tzu circled around the mountain, you were still lying in the woman's bed!" Wang Laoshi spat at the corpse in front of him. The results of peacetime training were fully reflected at the moment of hand-to-hand combat, and the captives won a complete victory in the white-knuckle battle at a very slight cost.
"Then blow them up and suffocate them all in the enemy building!" Liu Dachun rushed to the forefront with his brothers. Finally found an opportunity to correct his name, and the reinforcements roared, rushing towards their opponents like tigers, not afraid of death. When soldiers eat food, what they fear is not death, but that there is no hope of victory. When they saw victory beckoning to them, everyone had great courage in their hearts.
"Boom, boom, boom", the deafening sound of a grenade explosion announced the collapse of the Xinghua defense line. In the north, west, and south, earth-shattering shouts of killing sounded in the main attack directions of each battalion. After the brothers of the artillery battalion arrived, they accelerated the pace of destruction of the defenders, and the shells of the heavy guns could directly send the enemy tower to the sky with a single flat fire.
The defensive positions on the outer line of Xinghua City quickly collapsed, and this situation made the artillery of the Broken Army, which had been prepared for a long time, not come in handy. Just as Wu Jing was stomping his feet and sighing in the artillery battalion, the rear received the news that the attack had been blocked from Wang Laoshi. Zhang Tang, the commander of the first standard, issued a red arrow at that time, ordering the artillery battalion to move the position forward quickly.
After receiving the emergency requisition order, Wu Jing did not dare to slack off, and personally led people to push the gun carriage. Since the capture of Fuzhou, most of the expenses in the captured army have been spent on the artillery brigade. Today, an artillery battalion of the Broken Capture Army has developed from a few small cannons that are not important to three types: heavy artillery, long-range artillery, and light artillery. When in battle, you can adjust the use of firepower at any time for different tasks.
When the heavy artillery cart was pushed by the soldiers on their shoulders and driven through the mound of soil in the outer city and pulled under the inner city, the offensive and defensive battle of Xinghua had lost its suspense. In front of the heavy artillery, the enemy tower made of mud bricks and stones became a living coffin for the defenders. The soldiers of the Broken Army who rushed to the front retreated in an organized manner, giving way to the open space in front of the enemy building, and then, with the roar of the cannon discharge, the enemy building flew into the sky like paper paste.
The defenders, who had lost their guard weapon, cowered, crawled out from behind the broken walls, and raised their hands high. Under the leadership of their respective leaders and captains, the soldiers of the Breaker Army jumped through the gaps in the inner city wall and kept pushing the battle line forward. Half an hour later, the Mongolian wool banner at the entrance of the county government was cut down, and a blood-stained battle flag of the Broken Army floated high.
At the same time, the Broken Army, which had been silent for several months, launched an attack on all fronts, Dehua, Yongchun, Anxi, and the cities on the outskirts of Quanzhou were attacked at the same time, and only Tong'an County in the south did not appear in the Broken Army, clearly telling the Pu brothers that it was the only way to escape on land.
Knowing that this day would come, the Pu brothers arranged a large number of soldiers and horses on the periphery of Quanzhou. After the failure of imitating the broken bow, taking advantage of the abundant financial resources of Quanzhou City, Pu Shoucheng spent a lot of money to strengthen the city walls in various places, and also equipped the generals of all levels with Mongolian iron armor with a price of hundreds of yuan.
It's just that the advantages of the Broken Army are not only reflected in the equipment. Through a series of standardized military training and night school and training teams in Baizhangling and Shaowu, the quality of soldiers and low-level officers is completely different from that of the Pu brothers' private soldiers. The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and what a general can do is often point out a general direction, and the implementation of specific strategic intentions depends to a great extent on the quality of low-level officers and soldiers. When the centurion and card leader of the left wing army were in a mess in the face of an unexpected situation, waiting for the orders of their superiors, the non-commissioned officers of the broken army, under the command of their respective leaders and captains, made up for the negligence of the generals in arranging tasks in time and plugged the loopholes that might appear on the battlefield.
One side fights on its own, and the other coordinates with each other. Whether it was in the siege battle or the street battle after the city was broken, the left wing army of the Pu family became a fish belly at the mercy of the opponent. The ignorance and fear of firearms exacerbated the speed of their collapse, and often after a few grenades, a single charge, the defenders completely collapsed.
When there is a hole in the opponent's defense, the Breakers immediately infiltrate through the gap in teams. Use a bow and arrow at a distance and a grenade at close to inflict lethal damage on your opponent. When they collided, they quickly dispersed into a group, forming a small circle of six to ten people, cooperating with each other to knock their opponents to the ground.
Instead of cutting off the head, the captive army only takes whether or not the combat goal is achieved. The enemy troops who did not capture prisoners and gave up resistance naturally had a special containment team responsible for containment, and the close division of labor and cooperation greatly enhanced the efficiency of the attack and made the blockers invincible.
On the battlefield, the left flank army fled in confusion. Thousands of people, not daring to turn back to meet the hundreds of soldiers of the Broken Army behind them. And the soldiers of the Broken Army who were pursuing were so excited that their faces turned red, and the situation had to develop smoothly, so that they forgot the fatigue of the charge. As soon as they have dealt with an enemy army, they immediately follow their respective generals and attack the enemy's next line of defense.
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