Brothers, smash me to death with a monthly pass!

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Do you want to run away?

It's a very serious and tangled choice! Many soldiers of the Ming army wanted to escape after seeing the new Tang army outside the city launch a general attack.

Of course, now that the new army of the Tang Dynasty has not rushed to the city, the city has not been broken, and everyone has not suffered heavy casualties, so escaping is just an idea, and not too many people have put it into action.

Seeing the attack of the Datang New Army outside the city, not to mention the ordinary Ming soldiers were terrified, even Zhu Zhihai was calm on the surface, but in fact he was very nervous in his heart!

Especially those heavy infantry of the thief army outside the city, such obvious targets, anyone can see them at a glance on the battlefield!

These are all heavy infantry, once they are allowed to assault the city wall, if they want to drive them down the city wall at that time, I don't know how many lives will be required.

In the siege warfare of this era, the power of the heavy infantry is great!

Once they are allowed to break through into the crowd of defenders, and the terrain is narrow like the city wall, which cannot allow a large number of troops to rush up, then they are basically killing gods and killing Buddhas when they meet Buddhas, and it is extremely difficult to drive them off the city!

And the best way to stop them is to prevent them from climbing the walls!

But can it stop them?

The puppet Tang thief army outside the city is menacing, and it is not only those heavy armored infantry who are coming, in fact, from the perspective of the entire front, the front-line infantry of the Datang New Army that launched the attack is actually more than 8,000 people, and there are more than 2,000 artillery and other auxiliary troops participating in the battle.

At this moment, the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment were rushing to the forefront, at this time these two infantry regiments were about 5,000 people, and they had completely lost the tight formation when they launched the attack, but seemed a little scattered, and when they rushed to the distance of only seventy or eighty meters away from the city wall, they were counterattacked by the dense bows and arrows and artillery of the Ming army at the head of the city, which led to relatively large casualties.

Under the heavy casualties, these soldiers who were still in the Ming army a few days ago naturally did not have the courage to continue to rush forward, and they became the Datang New Army for only a few days, and they had not even had time to receive complete training from the Datang New Army.

Therefore, when fighting, I still maintain the same habits as before!

It is normal to retreat or even flee when suffering heavy casualties, and this will not make a difference between them working for the Zhu dynasty or the Li dynasty.

So when the casualties gradually increased, the Ming troops of these two infantry regiments finally couldn't bear this battlefield pressure, and then began to retreat!

However, at this time, the Seventh Infantry Regiment and the Eighth Infantry Regiment, composed of about 400 people directly under the regular army, formed a tight formation behind them, and at the same time shouted: "Those who retreat without permission will be killed!" ”

Now that it is at the most critical juncture of the siege, the new army of the Tang Dynasty still needs them to contain the Ming army, so as to cover the battle of the heavily armored sword and shield soldiers, how can they retreat in one go!

The overseer team of more than 400 people, facing the retreating troops in front, did not hesitate at all, and raised their spears and knives in unison under the orders of the officers, and began to bend their bows and shoot arrows!

This is the one who can stop the rout of nearly 5,000 people!

Later, when the infantry queue of the first brigade also gradually stepped forward, and continued to shoot at the Ming archers and gunners on the city, providing cover for the attacking troops, these 5,000 soldiers were again under the command of the officers, under the threat of the warlords, these 5,000 people were forced to re-launch the attack, even if they were reluctant, and continued to charge towards the city wall 100 meters away!

Because their rear is the strict queue of the First Brigade, and these surrendered troops have fought with the regular army of the Datang New Army, and they know that compared to the city wall in front, the regular army of the Datang New Army behind is more terrifying!

You say that they were frightened by the regular army of the Datang New Army, but in fact, it is okay.

After watching the front line stabilize the Seventh Infantry Regiment and the Eighth Infantry Regiment and relaunch the attack, Li Xuan in the rear also breathed a sigh of relief.

Just now, he was really afraid that the Ming army of these two infantry regiments would come to a big rout, and then I was afraid that there would be a very embarrassing scene for him, that is, not many of his soldiers died in the hands of the Ming army, but in their own hands.

Fortunately, although the scene was a little chaotic just now, and the two infantry regiments also had a small retreat, under the pressure of the front-line supervision team and the first brigade, they still returned to the offensive rhythm.

This is actually a good thing for both the own army and the Ming troops of the Seventh Infantry Regiment and the Eighth Infantry Regiment itself!

Because if they were defeated all the way just now, it would greatly affect their follow-up, and at the same time, few of these fleeing Ming troops would be able to survive in the hands of the Warlord and the First Brigade.

Behind these two infantry regiments, there are more than 400 people in the battle team and the first brigade, and these regular troops of the Tang Dynasty will not care about the life or death of these surrendered soldiers, if they dare to retreat, Hao Bonian on the front line will dare to order all the defeated soldiers to be killed!

On the contrary, if they rush forward and help them conquer the city of Liping, there is still a good chance of surviving.

No matter how awesome the Ming army at the head of the city is, it is impossible to kill these more than 5,000 people in just a few minutes!

And once they can't, then the heavy infantry led by Cai Erhu will be able to rush up, once the heavy infantry successfully lands the city, then the next thing is the time to launch a charge on the whole line, the main force of the siege will be the heavy infantry and the first brigade, as for the seventh infantry regiment and the eighth infantry regiment, it is to fight soy sauce.

Li Xuan never expected that these 5,000 Ming troops would be able to conquer the Ming army's city walls!

The 5,000 troops on the front line and the 1st Brigade continued to attack, and the momentum was huge, but although the high-level generals on both sides also paid attention to them, more people's eyes were on the more than 1,000 infantry of the Tang New Army who were slowly approaching the city wall on the battlefield!

Among the more than 1,000 infantry of the Tang New Army, there are many mixed arms, the front is a sword and shield man wearing thick armor, and the left and right and rear are followed by a large number of unarmored sword and shield men, in addition to about two hundred grenadiers with muskets on their backs and hundreds of archers!

In order to avoid irregular command and unfamiliarity between officers and soldiers, these units were basically drawn from various units and maintained the most basic formation.

Three assault battalions were provisionally organized, each with 200 heavily armored swords and shieldmen and other auxiliary troops, with a total strength of about 500 men.

This kind of temporary assault battalion was set up entirely for the purpose of conquering the city walls!

The three assault battalions did not go very fast when they entered the battlefield, on the contrary, they were still a little slow, this was to conserve their physical strength as much as possible!

But this slow advance ended when they were only a hundred meters away from the city wall, and when they entered the distance of a hundred meters, they shouted with Cai Erhu: "Kill, rush up!" ”

The three assault battalions were separated by dozens of meters from each other and launched a final charge towards the city wall in front!

At the same time, Hao Bonian also personally commanded the musket unit under the 1st Brigade to shoot fiercely at any Ming army who dared to counterattack in the city!

Even the battalion artillery was pushed up, and scattered shots were fired at the city, which was actually very ineffective, but at this time, it didn't matter how effective it was, and the most important thing was to use all the weapons that could be used and provide fire cover for the assault troops.

Nearly 2,000 musketeers and archers suppressed the fire on the city, which also greatly reduced the pressure on the charging troops.

At this time, not only two infantry regiments composed of Ming troops launched a charge, but also three assault battalions were charging!

Compared with those Ming troops who surrendered troops, the Ming army obviously paid more attention to these regular Tang New Army with a large number of heavily armored units, the artillery that fired at the city, and the archers who bent their bows and arrows, most of them chose to throw shells and bows and arrows at these three assault battalions.

In order to cover the three assault battalions, the musketeers and battalion artillery units under the First Brigade have begun to fire intensively, and the hundreds of archers they have have also taken the initiative to step forward to cover the city at a distance of seventy or eighty meters.

In this way, it can be regarded as avoiding that these three assault battalions were not covered by the rain of arrows and shells of the Ming army for the first time!

But even so, by the time the three assault battalions rushed under the city walls, there were already more than a hundred dead and wounded, and most of these dead and wounded were light infantry without armor!

Without armor protection, their ability to protect against shrapnel fired by the Ming army's bows and arrows and bowl cannons was almost none.

On the contrary, the heavy infantry who rushed to the forefront suffered relatively few casualties, only twenty or thirty fell on the way of the charge, because the armor on their bodies effectively protected them, unless they were hit by shrenel fired by artillery, otherwise the threat to them from simple bows and arrows was actually limited.

When they rushed to the bottom of the city wall, the light armored soldiers who charged with them were erected by the long ladder that they carried all the way, and then used the iron hooks on the top of the long ladder to build the city wall!

As soon as the first long ladder was placed, I saw a tall and extremely tall heavy armor sword and shield soldier biting the back of the knife directly, holding the shield above his head with one hand, and then grabbing the long ladder with the other, and then climbing directly up!

He had just climbed the ladder when another heavily armored sword and shield soldier followed!

The same scene also happened on the nearby city wall, and the new army of Datang who rushed to the city wall did not waste even a second, and the first thing they did after arriving under the city wall was to climb the city wall!

So now looking at the past, on the city wall that is only a few tens of meters in this section, there are almost dozens of long ladders on the head of the city, and dozens or hundreds of heavy-armored sword and shield soldiers of the Tang New Army climbed up to the city head for the first time!