The disputes in the city of Guilin Mansion are naturally not known to Chen Keqiao outside the city, and if he is allowed to know, he must not laugh off his big teeth!

At this time, you still haven't forgotten to intrigue, does it make sense? After the city is broken, regardless of whether it is the property of the officials or the property of the King of Jingjiang, all of them will become the spoils of the Tang Dynasty, and then be charged into the treasury as military expenses!

Now Chen Keqiao is very busy, he is busy arranging the army to make final preparations for the attack on Guilin Fucheng!

The establishment of the Fourth Army is quite huge, an infantry brigade of the regular army, a garrison brigade, and the first regiment of the provisional formation, and if these three parts are combined, the full establishment will exceed 15,000 men, and then a baggage regiment, artillery, cavalry, and other auxiliary units must be added, and if the full strength is reached, it will reach 20,000 people.

However, this is only a paper establishment, in fact, the troops that belong to the Sixth Garrison Brigade have not yet been fully organized, and now the brigade headquarters are still in Wuzhou, and this time the garrison troops going north with Chen Keqiao are actually only three battalions and more than 1,000 people, and they are all drawn from the Fifth Garrison Brigade.

Secondly, the 6th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Infantry Brigade also suffered heavy losses in the previous Wuzhou Siege, lacking hundreds of men, and before Chen Keqiao went north, the 6th Infantry Regiment actually remained in Wuzhou, ready to accept recruits and muskets, and it would be a few days before it could go north.

Therefore, with Chen Keqiao, there were actually only the 5th Infantry, 3 garrison battalions and the 2nd Baggage Regiment, an artillery battalion with only six guns and a cavalry battalion of no more than 150 cavalry, and the rest were very few auxiliary troops.

The total strength is actually only more than 6,000 people.

However, there are still 2,000 people of the provisional first regiment outside Guilin, so if the two are combined, there are 8,000 troops.

With 8,000 troops, and a 5th Infantry Regiment and 6 heavy artillery guns in it, Chen Keqiao thought that it was enough to attack a Guilin city guarded by only two or three thousand people.

But even so, he was quite cautious, he still had to take the main force of the Fourth Army north to Huguang, but he couldn't lose too many troops under Guilin City.

Therefore, he did not rush to attack on the first or even second day of his arrival, but asked his troops to slow down and then prepare for the siege.

On the third day, Chen Keqiao believed that the time was ripe to launch a general attack on Guilin, so he officially ordered a general attack.

Like every main attack of the Tang Dynasty, the first thing to launch is the artillery unit!

The six five-pound field guns (800 catties) in the artillery battalion opened fire less than 300 meters from the city gate to shell the head of the city where the Ming army was densely populated, and at the same time, the six shotguns belonging to the Fifth Infantry Regiment were also close to the head of the city at a distance of 150 meters.

And before the artillery bombardment of the city head, in fact, the heavy artillery unit of the artillery battalion had already tried to shell the city gate yesterday.

The city gate is naturally unable to withstand the solid shelling of the five-pound field artillery, and soon the city gate is beaten to pieces, but a large amount of masonry and sand was found behind the city gate, and it is obvious that the Ming army has directly blocked the city gate hole, and it is not feasible to attack from the city gate.

However, this is not difficult for the Tang Dynasty Prince, they have fought many battles, and this is all experience.

Although the Tang Dynasty's ability to attack fortifications is still far inferior to their field capabilities, after fighting so many times, they have more or less experienced.

Therefore, the old method was adopted, digging trenches directly, digging tunnels for blasting, and at the same time preparing a large number of temporary commandos composed of heavy infantry for climbing the wall to fight, and other siege equipment such as mobile arrow towers were also readily available.

In the past, when they were just bandits and thieves, they only knew that they were stupid to carry a long ladder and rush up, relying on human lives to fill it, this method was okay to meet those small cities with walls that were only one zhang high, but in the face of this kind of city wall that was at least six meters high, it would not work.

However, there were more wars, more experience, and the middle and senior generals of the Ming army joined them, which also brought a lot of traditional military combat methods.

For example, these messy siege vehicles, digging tunnels and blasting, are actually learning from the traditional army.

However, digging zigzag trenches and shortening the time of charging and reducing the casualties of soldiers through trenches was the creation of the Tang Dynasty's royal division.

At the same time, using artillery, especially shotguns, to suppress the firepower of the city head is also a method that the Tang Dynasty Wang Shi came up with.

In other words, in fact, the mode of siege of the traditional army is relatively similar, such as using muskets for fire suppression, and other traditional armies will also use archers for fire suppression.

The commando mode is more common, there are many death squads in the traditional army, if you have to say that there is any difference, at most, the commando team in the Tang Dynasty division has joined the grenadier as a new class, giving full play to the huge power of grenades in close combat.

However, the traditional means and new methods made the Ming army at the city gate at a loss, especially the trenches dug by the Tang Dynasty, because it was not a tunnel, so it was actually very fast to dig up.

Moreover, this trench is not dug directly to the foot of the city, but dug to a place twenty or thirty meters away from the city wall to stay, and at this distance, unless the Ming army runs out by itself, it is difficult to destroy these trenches.

As for the people who kill and injure the trenches or the soldiers marching in the trenches, the Tang Dynasty Wang Shi is not stupid, they will directly cover the wooden planks on the trenches.

These planks seem to be weak, but they can block the sight of the Ming army, as well as block arrows, if it indicates military artillery shelling.

Shrapnel is naturally able to penetrate the plank, but the artillery in the Ming army is mainly based on small and medium-sized bowl guns, in professional military terms, these artillery pieces are all shotguns, and the range of shotguns is not far enough, and it is a surface kill, relying on shrapnel to kill and injure enemy personnel.

The destruction of fortifications has little effect.

Even if the plank was destroyed, it was a big deal to just replace it with a plank, and the artillery of the Ming army could not destroy all the templates in so many trenches.

Even if they don't mention the firepower suppression of the Tang Dynasty Masters outside the city, they don't dare to take the lead, just let them fight like this, how much ammunition do they have to spend to destroy the almost dense trenches outside the city!

The gunpowder in these years is very expensive, and the Tang Dynasty is not very willing to use it, although the Ming army is backed by the huge Ming Dynasty, but the Ming army is actually more difficult than the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, even if the Ming army in Guilin found out that the thieves outside the city were digging trenches, they also tried to strike with artillery or bows and arrows, but later found that the effect was not great, and the artillery suffered heavy casualties under the artillery counterattack of the thief army, so they simply stopped care.

Anyway, the trenches of these thieves didn't look like digging tunnels, and they didn't dig to the foot of the city walls.

Seeing that the infantry units were already ready, and the artillery was almost ready, Major General Chen Keqiao finally ordered the assault team and the three garrison battalions under the 11th Garrison Regiment to attack.

At the same time, he also ordered the provisional first regiment to launch an attack on the other wall to contain the Ming army.

As for the Fifth Infantry Regiment under his command, musketeers and archers and artillery were sent to suppress the fire, while the rest of the troops were in the rear.

In many siege battles, it has been proved that the regular army of the Tang Dynasty is no better than the garrisons in the siege of battles, especially in hand-to-hand combat of climbing the city wall.

Because at that time, the line tactics that the regular army of the Tang Dynasty division was proud of would completely lose its effect, and the musket would also lose its effect.

In addition, the infantry in the regular army was mainly equipped with muskets and spears, and was not suitable for attacking fortified positions.

Therefore, in the previous battles, it was only possible to temporarily organize assault teams, and then use garrison troops to cooperate with the siege, and the infantry of the regular army mainly provided fire cover and swept the formation to prevent the enemy from rushing out of the city to counterattack.

This time, the commando team under the command of the Fourth Army was not large, only more than 300 people, and the source was more complicated, there were regular army soldiers, garrison army soldiers, and people from all units.

But the commandos of the Tang Dynasty Division have one characteristic, that is, heavy armor!

There are more than 300 people, and nearly 200 of them are sword and shield soldiers wearing heavy armor!

When they jumped out of the trenches and rushed forward shouting various slogans, a group of Guilin officials watching the battle at the head of the city were all frightened.

It's not that they haven't seen the puppet Tang thief army, and they have experienced the siege of the puppet Tang thief army, but they have never seen hundreds of heavy armored infantry charging into the city intensively.

Finished!

When they saw the heavy infantry climbing up to the top of the city one after another, all the officials present, including King Jingjiang, who came to watch the battle temporarily, were all stupid!

That's two hundred heavy armor, even if you count the armor on the generals, your own city defense troops are only more than fifty pairs, and this battle can't be fought at all!

When your light infantry encounters these heavy infantry, there is only one end, and that is to be slaughtered!

A group of Guilin officials looked panicked, several generals had already run over to command the troops to try to block those thieves, while a group of civilian officials had extremely strange faces, a few people quietly pushed out of the crowd, and then the small city wall disappeared, while the others were already empty.

"What to do? The thieves are rushing up! ”

"Stop them, don't we all die!"

A group of officials shouted, their faces full of panic.

At this time, King Jingjiang still couldn't see the danger of the situation there, and shouted: "Quick, stop the thief army, as long as you stop them, they will all be rewarded!" ”

"This king has money, a lot of money, as long as he kills a real thief, he will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver directly, and one hundred taels of silver will be rewarded for killing one heavy armor!"