281 King Wu's Sharp Knife Battalion!
Wu Wang Xiang Bi looked at the entire battlefield filled with gunpowder, and his face gradually became gloomy.
The battalion of 10,000 archers led by Li Yu advanced with 50 stone throwers and 50 ladders, and the damage was extremely heavy in the fire with hundreds of small steel cannons and musketeers at the head of Danyang City.
In just one stick of incense, two volleys were fired, ten stone throwers and twenty ladders were damaged, and thousands of archers were killed and wounded.
However, the destruction of the Danyang Fort at the head of the city by the stone thrower was minimal.
As long as the stone thrower hits three or four rounds, repeatedly compares the distance, and calibrates, the accuracy of the shooting can be improved. And after three or four rounds, I'm afraid most of the stone throwers will be destroyed.
"Father, why are the two armies fighting each other, and there is such a big difference?"
Xiang Xian, the son of the world, was shocked and showed a panicked look. He also saw that if he continued to shoot like this, the stone thrower would definitely be completely destroyed.
"Gunpowder!"
"Arquebus!"
"Artillery!"
"This is an epoch-making magic weapon! Any one invention is enough to turn the battlefield around. What's more, Xiao Duhou has invented so much in one go. ”
"Little Dusk Marquis, why don't you serve this king? If he is willing to submit, this king... You can even make him a prince and a third duke! ”
Wu Wang Xiang Bi's face was gloomy, and he tightened the reins tightly, sighing heavily.
The 10,000 archers, ladders, stone throwers, and Danyang musketeers and small steel cannons at the head of Danyang City obviously have no chance of winning.
However, their sacrifice still played a role - they dragged the small steel cannon and Danyang gunpowder gunmen in the confrontation, so that they had no time to attack the Wu army camp charging on the ground.
Danyang musketeers and artillery are the elite of the 50,000 or 60,000 defenders in Danyang City, and the elite soldiers personally refined by Xiao Duhou. The archers can't win, and it's normal.
Although the archers of the Wu army were beaten very badly, their sacrifices still bought time for the overall situation.
Wu Wang Xiang Bi's gaze looked at the other side of the battlefield - the South City Gate Battlefield and the Slope Battlefield.
As long as these two points are reached, either point breaks.
The 200,000 troops of the Wu army can now be at this breakthrough point, desperately tearing apart and pouring into Danyang City. In the city, between the narrow alleys, the role of gunpowder guns and small steel cannons is much smaller.
Four or five times the strength of the army is enough to completely wipe out the Danyang army.
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South City Gate.
Fifty or sixty bags of sandbags were punctured by the soldiers, thrown from the city gate, and a small sand dune nearly a meter high was immediately piled up.
This inconspicuous little sand dune immediately blocked the way of the crashing car, and it was impossible to pass.
The 10,000 miscellaneous soldiers of the Wu army pushed ten crashing vehicles to the outside of the city gate and rushed up one after another, trying to dig up the sand dunes and clear the road.
"Archery!"
"Rolling logs!"
"Oil drums, smash them!"
"Reject the horse, smash down!"
At the head of the city, the defenders immediately began to counterattack.
A large number of arrows fell, and in an instant, hundreds of miscellaneous soldiers at the gate of the city were hit by arrows. These miscellaneous soldiers, who don't even have leather armor, can't stop the shooting of arrows at all.
On both sides of the city gate, many miscellaneous soldiers rushed up with ladders, set up on the city wall, and climbed up.
The guards on Danyang City are all well-trained sword and armor elite soldiers of the imperial court, wearing iron armor, how can they let these miscellaneous soldiers climb up. One by one, he cut them all down.
One by one, the miscellaneous soldiers screamed and fell.
And the archers behind the sword armor soldiers shot arrows at the city.
飕~飕!
Within a hundred paces, a dense mass of miscellaneous soldiers was within their range.
The miscellaneous soldiers who attacked the southern gate failed in a single charge, and were beaten miserably, leaving behind thousands of corpses and three siege vehicles, quickly retreating to a few hundred paces away to rest, and then regrouped and launched another wave of attacks.
Wu Wang Xiangbi frowned slightly when he saw the tragic situation at the South City Gate, but he didn't care.
What are the miscellaneous soldiers of the Wu army, dozens of days ago they were just a group of farmers in the field, and they can still be majestic when they fight with the wind.
But in front of the elite infantry of the Danyang City Imperial Court, there is a group of stragglers, and they can't take advantage of it at all.
The only effect, I'm afraid, is to consume the physical strength and arrows of the defenders. Miscellaneous soldiers are only suitable, follow behind the main force and pick up cheap.
The miscellaneous soldiers could not take the south gate, which was expected by him.
His gaze looked again at the wooden frame of the slope.
Around the wooden frame on the slope is 10,000 elite infantry of the imperial court.
And the attack, it was also 10,000 elite sword and armor soldiers carefully refined by the Wu army.
Both sides are elite soldiers, clad in iron armor, and extremely strong in defense.
Two battalions of 10,000 people, with a 500-long wooden frame on the slope under the city wall, have completely fought together and started a fierce battle.
The defenders of Danyang are heavy rifle shield soldiers, with shields layered on top of each other, row after row, and spears like a forest.
The Wu army was more of a sword and armor soldier, escorting ten crashing vehicles and advancing forward.
"Kill ——!"
"Attack!"
"Knock off their shields!"
General Jiang Wei, guarding next to a city crashing car, roared loudly.
The ramming car slammed into a shield, instantly knocking over the heavily armored soldier behind the shield.
Immediately, five or six sword-armored soldiers squeezed through the gap and slashed at the pikemen, and several pikemen around them were immediately cut to the ground.
However, the spears in the back row stabbed at the same time.
Those swordsmen were stabbed into hedgehogs in the blink of an eye.
The pikemen in the back immediately rushed forward with their shields in their hands to plug the gap that had been knocked open.
The two armies of 10,000 people are completely intertwined, and no one can take advantage of it, and it is difficult to solve the problem. The number of dead and wounded on both sides was in the hundreds.
And the musketeers and artillerymen at the head of Danyang City were shooting at each other round after round with the ladders and trebuchets of the Wu army, and they had no time to care about them.
Wu Wang Xiangbi couldn't help but take a deep breath.
The breakthrough is still on the slope.
If these 10,000 elite sword and armor soldiers can break through the heavy infantry of the Danyang defenders, rush up the slope, and stand at the head of Danyang City, this battle will be won.
He doesn't have much time.
Half an hour!
In half an hour at most, the battalion of 10,000 archers led by Li Yu, fifty stone throwers and fifty ladders will be destroyed.
At that time, the 100 cannons and 6,000 musketeers in Danyang City would be able to free up their hands to deal with this 10,000-strong elite sword and armor army on the slope.
At that time, it was almost impossible to break through this slope again.
However, two battalions of 10,000 men on both sides fought to the death on the slope and were completely mixed. Not to mention half an hour, even if you fight for a day, you can't win or lose.
Wu Wang Xiang Bi weighed the remaining chips in his hand.
In order to lay out the wooden frame of this slope, the 200,000 army directly killed more than 10,000 miscellaneous soldiers.
At the east, west and north gates of Danyang City, there are three battalions of 30,000 miscellaneous soldiers, and a total of 90,000 miscellaneous soldiers are attacking the city. How much effect, it's hard to say.
At the south gate, he dispatched a battalion of elite archers and all siege equipment to fire long-range to contain the musketeers and artillery, which had fallen into decline.
An elite infantry battalion was attacking the slope and engaged the defenders in a bloody battle.
Three thousand men attacked the south gate and the surrounding walls.
Wu's army of 160,000 troops was desperately attacking the city.
The 50,000 or 60,000 defenders of Danyang City must have all gone to the city on all sides, defending the city in various sections to prevent any of them from being breached.
He still has two battalions of 10,000 elite light cavalry, 10,000 elite infantry, and 20,000 miscellaneous soldiers, and he has not been dispatched.
The light cavalry battalion could hardly go to the battlefield.
What he can really use is the 10,000 elite infantry.
These 10,000 elite soldiers must carefully select a weak breakthrough point in Danyang City, and they must hit with one blow.
"Your Majesty, Wechen has carefully observed! The 6,000 musketeers and 100 small steel cannons of the Danyang garrison were all at the south city gate. 10,000 heavily armored soldiers and 5,000 archers.
The other three walls each had 3,000 swords and armor and 1,200 archers. The weakest is at the West Gate, where the walls are in disrepair.
There were still 20,000 light cavalry in Danyang, and they were still in the city. However, there were many horses and gravel piles at each city gate, and they could not leave the city for the time being. ”
A strategist was in the Wu King Xiang Bi and said in a low voice.
"Hmm!"
Wu Wang Xiang Bi's eyes flashed with a sharp cold light.
The more critical the moment, the more you need to be calm.
One of his sharpest knives was to be used at this time. This sharp knife should be pierced in the weakest part of Danyang City.
He nodded slightly, made up his mind, and shouted: "Xu San, you lead 10,000 of the king's guards, three fierce generals and 300 warriors, break through the West City Gate!" If you can't attack it, come and see you. ”
"Yes! The last general received the order, and the last general personally rushed to the city. ”
Immediately, Xu San, the general next to him, said in a sullen voice, leading a "miscellaneous barracks" dressed in rags and all peasants, rising from the camp and quickly going to the West City Gate to participate in the battle.