Chapter 103: Offensive and Defensive Battle in Haixi

The siege of Haixi officially began.

Under the command of Zhang Zongzhou, huge siege equipment was lined up.

There has always been a shortage of large trees near Haixi, and hundreds of thousands of laborers are enough to get started.

Therefore, a few days before the siege of Haixi City, there was a calm inside and outside the city, as if the two sides were not here to fight, but to engage in friendship.

There is no arrow outside the city, and there is no arrow outside the city.

The army of the Tile Thorns, in addition to the necessary vigilance force. The rest of the people are in the process of building the siege machine.

Outside the city is almost a construction site.

It was only after the third day that the Varspur army began to attack.

It was the Jurchen tribes that played the striker, including the Jianzhou Jurchen.

In the tile spur system, the big power can naturally dominate the small power. Although the Jurchen tribe as a whole has a large number of people, it is scattered.

Everyone knows that the first wave of siege is very difficult.

The Tile Thorn Headquarters will not do the first wave, the Uliangha will not do it, the Jurchen departments will not do it, who will do it?

Moreover, the Jurchen tribal warriors still have the ability to fight on foot.

There are three kinds of siege equipment, the back is a tall return cannon, and the front is a shield cart and a rushing cart. There are also a large number of watchtowers.

Zhang Zongzhou's skills are good.

At first glance, it is a family heirloom.

At least the siege equipment in the various military books is presented.

Times are different, though.

If such siege equipment is in the Northern Song Dynasty, it can fight a wonderful artillery battle like the Taiyuan siege battle, and the battle of siege and defense.

But now it's different.

Although the artillery of the musket was above the field battle, it did not yet dominate. One could even say. It's just a substitute for the bow and crossbow. But in siege warfare, the use of firearms has become dominant.

Therefore, Zhang Zongzhou's knowledge system lagged behind by a hundred years.

"Boom." A boulder of 300 pounds fell on the top of the city, and the bricks and stones splashed.

The head of Haixi City is no longer the same as before.

Before, the city was open, and Sir was closed.

While the tile spurs were preparing siege equipment, the city of Hercynian was not idle. The wooden sheds on the city wall were all made of logs, and three hundred pounds of boulders were smashed on them.

Although there is a sense that the earth is shaking and the mountains are shaking. But it's hard to smash the shed all at once.

Some of the soldiers hid under the wooden huts, but there were not many of them, because many more were hiding in the inner side of the city, waiting for a greeting from above, and then they began to enter the city.

Soon, the frequency of shelling of the return artillery became lower.

A large number of Jurchen soldiers pushed the shield cart and rushed towards the cart, and a large number of soldiers began to fill in the trenches one after another.

In fact, Jiao Li was originally guarding the sheep and horse wall at the foot of the city wall for a while.

but

He never expected that the siege equipment of the tile spur was so complete. This battle is rare in Daming.

The reason is that the Ming army has a large number of firearms in the offensive and defensive battles of the city.

This kind of powerful siege ability based on the Southern Song Dynasty was not thought of by many generals.

Therefore, the thin sheep and horse wall, but waist-high, or a little higher, has no defensive function at all in the face of the bombardment of the return artillery.

So Jiao Li could only let people withdraw first.

Even if Jiao Li had known that the siege equipment of the Tile Thorn army was so complete, he would not even have built a sheep and horse wall, and now this sheep and horse wall has faintly become a hidden danger.

Jiao Li couldn't figure out how to create such a siege machine from people.

But it's too late to say anything.

Jiao Li focused his mind on the rushing enemy army.

Jiao Li was ready to give them a hard blow in the first wave of offensive and defensive battles, so he gave the order that no one should be allowed to open fire without ordering them.

Behind every firing hole in the city stood a group of men. All of them were firecrackers, and they lined up in front and back, waiting for an order to strike, and there was a continuous fire down.

As for all the artillery, it is also on standby.

It's just that the limitations of artillery in this era are quite large, not to mention the flowering shells, even the live ammunition is not very accurate. The number of cannons that can hit three hundred steps, that is, a mile away, is not much, only a dozen, and more are just small cannons.

These small cannons are okay for personnel killing.

The killing of these siege equipment is a little unsatisfactory.

This is also the reason why Jiao Li let the artillery bombardment return.

Even if they fight back, it is likely to be in vain, and they will expose their firepower.

Jiao Li watched as the people below got closer and closer, and they set up bridge cars on the moat, forming several stable passages leading directly to the bottom of the city wall.

The so-called bridge car can be regarded as a specially made large wooden plank, which can only be laid on the moat and become a flying bridge.

Jiao Li looked at a few bridge cars, sneered lightly, and said, "Look for death." ”

Different eras have different ways of playing. There is nothing wrong with this style of play in the era of cold weapons, because the lethality of bows and arrows is limited, as long as you wear heavy armor and hold a big shield in your hand, you can pass through these bridges and vehicles under the blockade of the rain of arrows at the head of the city, but the problem is that it has now entered the age of firearms.

No matter how heavy the armor is, it is difficult to pass through the passage blocked by the fire.

The damage between the two is completely different.

Jiao Li slowly raised it and said. With a gentle wave.

Suddenly, there was a roar, and from a distance, a white gunpowder smoke shot out at the head of the city, and the entire city head became full of smoke.

In the midst of such smoke and clouds, you can also hear the crisp sound of fire like fried beans, and you can see it above the cannon like thunder

See the sparks.

Almost instantly, the Jurchen soldiers who were passing through the bridge car fell to the ground as if they were mowing grass, and in an instant most of the water in the moat turned red.

Jiao Li has begun. It's about getting to the end.

Not just artillery, guns, but also 10,000 enemies. Whenever he saw the enemy gathering under the city wall, he would smash down a 10,000-strong enemy weighing dozens of pounds. Ten thousand enemies alone can smash many soldiers to death.

Not to mention the explosion of these dozens of pounds of gunpowder.

At the top of the castle, the mountains shook as if it were an earthquake, not to mention the people who directly suffered these injuries. It's even more miserable. Stumps and severed arms, everywhere.

Many can't even piece together a complete skeleton.

Even if the power of gunpowder is rudimentary, it is not flesh and blood, and it can be withheld.

The Jurchen tribes that rushed to the front were suddenly stunned.

To tell the truth, whether it is Uliangha or Watt Thorn, they all have experience in fighting in the Ming army, and it is not the first time that firearms have appeared on the battlefield.

Therefore, both the tile thorn and the Uliang Hashi were mentally prepared.

But the Jurchen soldiers were rarely mentally prepared for this. Even if they had heard of the Ming army's firearms, what they had heard of and what they had seen were completely different.

At this moment, when you really bear the blow of firearms, you know what a fire hell is.

It collapsed in an instant.

This is also the reason why the organizational ability of the Jurchen tribes has always been poor. But this opportunity, Jiao Li naturally can't let it go. Jiao Li said loudly: "Li Dachuan." ”

Li Dachuan said: "The last will be." ”

Jiao Li said: "The thief is under the city, dare to go down to the city to pursue?" ”

Li Dachuan said: "Dare." ”

Jiao Li said: "Take your headquarters and horses, fall down the city, listen to my orders, the drums are constant, you are not allowed to turn back, you can only turn back by ringing gold." ”

Li Dachuan said: "Obey." ”

If it is said that Wu Yong is the first in Haixi, it is naturally Shi Heng. But there is a lot of controversy about who is second, and Li Dachuan is one of the powerful candidates.

Li Dachuan is different from Shi Jing. After all, Shi Jing has a hereditary deputy thousand households in his family, and the family situation is good, but when Li Dachuan was appreciated by Emperor Xuanzong, it was just a night away.

He was even literate when he was a guard in the palace. So his innate conditions limited him, and he could only be used as a fighter.

What if he could single-handedly defeat Shi Heng? Shi Heng is not just his martial arts today.

It is only at this time that falling into the city and fighting, almost a death squad-like task, but it is the most suitable for Li Dachuan's play.

Li Dachuan was wearing armor, biting a long knife, carrying a rope, jumped down from the city wall, and the soles of his feet hit the city wall twice, and then fell heavily on the ground.

The stumps and broken arms on the ground cushioned Li Dachuan a lot. Li Dachuan didn't look at it at all, and shouted: "Kill." ”