After Hao Bonian finished speaking to the officers, the southbound troops also began to launch a real general attack on the capital city of Liuzhou!

This time, the main force of the siege is the regular army with the First Infantry Brigade as the core, but this siege battle is naturally impossible to only have the First Infantry Brigade, but other troops will also participate in the battle!

For example, the 1,500-strong Liuzhou Tusi soldiers will also cooperate with the First Infantry Brigade to participate in frontal siege operations, these soldiers are all troops provided by the local Tusi, and their combat effectiveness is basically higher than that of the local Ming army guards, and even stronger than the garrison army composed of Ming troops in the Tang Army.

This strength does not mean tactics, weapons and equipment, etc., but refers to their combat courage!

This is the impression of outsiders in the times of Guangxi soldiers, but they will not retreat from the fight to the death, if you put aside the equipment, tactics and other elements, these soldiers are still relatively strong, of course, this is only limited to the standing soldiers under the Tusi, if it is an army composed of temporary conscripts, in fact, it is just like that, it will not be stronger than the army composed of ordinary young people.

Long-term training is indispensable for any army to gain strong combat effectiveness.

Today's troops in the Tang Dynasty Division's training is actually insufficient, otherwise, with their equipment and tactics, it will be easier to fight the Ming army.

The 1st Infantry Brigade and the Infantry Brigade were responsible for the frontal attack, while the garrison was tasked with launching an attack from the other direction, pinning down part of the strength of the Ming army defending the city, and indirectly providing cover and support for the main force attacking the city head-on.

In addition, this time to attack the city, the Tang Dynasty Division, like the last attack on Liping Fucheng, formed a temporary assault team composed of heavy armor sword and shield soldiers, light armor sword and shield soldiers, grenadiers, and archers.

The commando team had only one purpose, that is, to climb the city wall and then establish a city wall position to meet the subsequent army to enter the city.

And this mission is also the most difficult unit in the entire siege battle!

Otherwise, the Tang Dynasty King Division would not have specially formed this kind of temporary commando team similar to a death squad.

The soldiers in this temporary commando were not only drawn from the 1st Infantry Brigade, but also from the 3rd Garrison Brigade and Tusi Soldiers.

There is only one requirement for selecting soldiers, and that is to have the courage to fight to the death!

The first wave of temporary commandos in the city will inevitably cause heavy casualties, and there is no need to pay attention to any strict formation in the battle, because the soldiers are basically fighting on their own, whether in the process of climbing the city or after going to the city, the requirements for personal martial arts and courage are quite high.

In the end, more than 300 people were transferred from the 1st Infantry Brigade, nearly 100 from the 3rd Garrison Brigade, and nearly 100 from the Tusi Army.

A temporary commando team of more than 500 people was formed, and Lieutenant Colonel Zhu Xu, deputy commander of the First Rank Corps, personally served as the leader of the commando.

Among the more than 500 people, 200 were heavily armored sword and shield soldiers, all wearing double heavy armor, and some light armor sword and shield soldiers, grenadiers, and archers.

They will be the sharp knives in this siege battle, forcing their way up the walls and establishing a position at the head of the city, and then receiving a massive landing of the frontal attacking forces.

Before the temporary commando team was ready to set off, Lieutenant Colonel Zhu Xu promised these hundreds of people that if they could conquer the city, each of the soldiers in the regular army would be promoted to a higher level, and the officers would be credited with meritorious service, and a certain amount of cash rewards would be issued in addition, and the more soldiers who killed the enemy, the more rewards.

Soldiers of the garrison, regardless of victory or defeat, will be able to join the regular army after the battle, in addition to gold and silver rewards.

In the case of the Toast Soldiers, it is a simple gold and silver reward, but the number is slightly larger.

This kind of thing to set up battlefield rewards in order to boost morale is not common in the combat history of the Tang Dynasty's division, and the two large-scale battles are the Battle of the Bronze Drum Acropolis, which at that time was a double salary reward for the soldiers.

The second time was in the Battle of Liping Province, where high gold and silver rewards began to be given to the assault troops.

It can be seen that in the Tang Dynasty, the temporary use of rewards as a reward, especially for individual rewards, was not often used, at least not as a tradition in the Tang Dynasty.

This is related to the combat method and the way of remembering the merits of the Tang Dynasty Royal Division, which rarely records the combat exploits of a single soldier, but the collective combat exploits of a certain army.

This is because when the Tang Dynasty division was fighting, it was a collective battle, and the way to judge the merits of the battle was not how many enemy heads were harvested, but whether or not the combat mission was completed.

It is even more difficult to take credit for the soldiers alone, a group of musketeers shoot at a group of enemy soldiers, who knows who shot the enemy soldiers!

This makes it difficult to judge the merits of individual soldiers, especially ordinary infantrymen!

In the case of collective combat and collective merit, it is rare to reward soldiers with cash.

Of course, this is also related to the already poor jingle of the Tang Dynasty, and it is difficult for them to even pay the daily salary of the army normally, let alone take out extra silver as a reward.

However, this time, in order to be able to quickly conquer the capital of Liuzhou, Hao Bonian also made a bloody investment and promised a heavy reward!

With the assault team also ready, Hao Bonian also officially ordered the troops to launch the final general attack!

The first to fire was the heavy artillery unit of the Second Artillery Battalion, followed by the battalion guns of more than 20 guns from the three teams that had already advanced to the city wall only a hundred meters away.

These artillery pieces fired intensively and rapidly, and in order to suppress the Ming army at the head of the city, the shells were fired towards the head of the city as if they did not need money.

The intensive artillery bombardment hit the Ming army on the head of the city and could not move!

After initially suppressing the Ming army at the head of the city with artillery bombardment, the musketeers of the 1st Infantry Brigade began to move forward, they advanced in a standard three-line formation, and then advanced to a distance of only eighty meters from the city wall, and fired the Ming troops at the head of the city with their muskets!

At the same time as the musketeers stepped forward, so did the archers, who advanced even closer than the musketeers, who shot their arrows at the head of the city at a distance of sixty-seven meters.

In addition to these regular long-range firepower, there were more than a dozen mobile arrow towers that also slowly approached the city walls, and then shot arrows at the Ming army at the head of the city.

These mobile arrow towers are not very tall, only more than six meters, but even this height is higher than the walls of Liuzhou Prefecture, which is enough for the archers on the arrow towers to gain a height advantage and shoot from a high position.

The archers on these mobile arrow towers were originally elite archers carefully selected from the whole army, although there were more than 100 archers in the more than ten arrow towers, but the archery skills of these archers were obviously stronger than ordinary archers.

After occupying the height advantage, these archers were extremely efficient in shooting, even if the Ming army at the head of the city was hiding behind the battlements, but from time to time people were still shot by arrows.

On the one hand, it is because the archery skills of these archers are good, and secondly, after gaining a high advantage, it is easier for the Ming army after they fight the battlements, unless the Ming soldiers are close to the battlements, or they are a little farther away from the battlements, and there is a possibility of being hit by arrows.

All kinds of long-range firepower fired at the Ming army at the head of the city, and its firepower density was no less than that of the Tang Dynasty Wangshi's all-out attack on Lipingfu City, and even because the width of the battlefield here was smaller, the density of firepower was even denser.

With such a dense firepower suppression, the Ming army at the head of the city is not stupid, naturally it will not stand on the head of the city stupidly, and then be killed by the artillery, muskets, bows and arrows of the pseudo-Tang thief army!

They will hide behind the battlements, or even temporarily withdraw from the city and run directly under the city walls!

In this case, although Hao Bonian's troops had already fired many cannonballs, bullets, bows and arrows towards the city, the damage caused to the Ming army was actually relatively limited, after all, these attacks often had to hit the enemy directly before they could be effective.

The shells are all solid bullets, even if they are shotguns fired by shotguns, in fact, there is no difference between bullets, as long as the Ming army hides well, then the chance of casualties is still relatively small.

This also led to the fact that such a fierce artillery bombardment could only make the generals of the Ming army continue to sigh that the pseudo-Tang thief weapons were sharp, but it could not bring much casualties to the soldiers of the Ming army.

But this does not affect Hao Bonian's good mood!

When he used his binoculars to see that the Ming army on the head of the city no longer dared to take the lead, and even many of them ran under the city wall, he put down the binoculars, and then said: "Let the first army and the soldiers start to attack, and the third garrison brigade will also launch a companion attack!" ”

Soon, Hao Bonian's order was transmitted to all the troops of the Tang Dynasty through the flag!

Immediately, the commander of the first step corps in charge of the front row attack, Colonel Chen Keqiao, gave the order to charge frontally!

After his order was issued, more than a thousand infantry in the first step corps, mainly sword and shield soldiers converted from the original spearmen, and the soldiers in the reserve battalion launched a frontal charge!

At the same time, more than 1,000 Tusi soldiers also launched a charge on the side of the First Infantry Corps!

It didn't take long for nearly 4,000 infantry in the 3rd Garrison Brigade to charge!

For a time, on the entire front, the Tang Dynasty Wang Division launched a general attack, and the number of troops participating in the front-line charge was as high as more than 6,000 people!

For a while, the generals of the Ming army at the head of the city changed color together, they saw so many pseudo-Tang thief troops rushing up, it was definitely impossible to say that they were nervous and not afraid.

But even though they were nervous and scared, they forced themselves to command the soldiers to start fighting back!

With a bow and arrow, with a bowl cannon!

With the counterattack of the Ming army, the various divisions of the Tang Dynasty that launched a charge under the city wall also began to produce casualties!

At this time, whether it was the Ming army at the head of the city or the Tang Dynasty division under the city, they all began to have relatively large casualties one after another, and the blood of countless casualties spurted out, staining the sky red, so that it seemed that the sky of Liuzhou City seemed to be raining blood!