Eight days later, the sky had just dawned, and in the continuous sound of the terrible conch horn, Zhang Xianzhong's rogue began the first attack. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Liukou from the east, west, north three directions, at the same time around the envelope, the car, crash, siege ladder and other siege equipment, in the vast and boundless siege people looming, the banner of the Liukou is like a forest, the sword and gun are dazzling, the noisy and mixed shouts can be heard clearly, to the Li Xiaojun defending the city, forming a strong sense of coercion,

"Wozi, do you know from which side the rogues are going to attack?" Li Xiao, who was fully armored, put down the clairvoyant mirror in his hand and asked Chen Zilong, who was watching the battle, lightly.

"My lord, the students think that the rogue will definitely attack from the east, west, and north at the same time." Chen Zilong thought for a while and replied.

Li Xiao shook his head slightly.

"Could it be that Lord Li thinks that the enemy army will only attack from one side first to test the strength of our army?" Li Haoran, the son of Li Maofang, the governor of Shandong, who was standing on the other side of Li Xiao, replied in an uncertain tone.

Li Haoran came from Jinan to vote for Li Xiao two days before Li Xiao led the army back to Shanxian County, and after a few days of idle stay in the city, Li Xiao came back, but did not arrange a specific position for him, but just let him accompany him first.

Li Haoran was very thoughtful, and of course he understood that Li Xiao let himself stay by his side in order to deliberately cultivate himself, and he was very grateful in his heart.

Hearing Li Haoran's answer, Li Xiaocai nodded and said: "That's right, the enemy army doesn't know the truth of our army, and there is a lesson from the last time Li Dingguo was completely wiped out by our army, so although it is in a huge position, it is quite afraid of our army, and it is very likely that this battle is only a tentative attack by the enemy on one side, while the other two sides maintain a coercive posture." ”

"Master Li, the students understand, that is to say, if one enemy army can quickly succeed, then the other two enemy forces will also attack in a big way, if the rogue on one side of the face suffers a defeat, then the enemy army on the other two sides will also maintain a wait-and-see posture." Chen Zilong seemed to have an understanding.

Li Xiao snorted, wrinkled his eyebrows and sighed: "This is the cunning of the Liukou, Zhang Xianzhong's Liukou can be invincible in the southeast, and their tactics are still very impressive." ”

"So, where will the rogues start their real attack?" Li Haoran on the side asked again.

"The east side is the side of the official guard." Li Xiao replied quickly.

"Oh?"

"Because there is less artillery in the east than in other places, the enemy can suffer many fewer casualties when attacking."

Chen Zilong nodded in agreement with Li Xiao's opinion, now among the three city walls, Li Xiao after careful consideration, believed that there were no reserve troops such as the rampant team and Lu Mi Gunners on the west and north sides, so he divided the six Hongyi cannons originally deployed on the east city wall to the guards of the other two city walls to increase their defensive strength.

In this way, the other two walls had eight cannons each, while the eastern wall had only four.

Those enemy horsemen who were sentry from afar had already seen these changes in Li Xiaojun's affairs clearly.

However, this rogue ignores that there are more trebuchets on the eastern wall than on the other two walls.

During this eight-day period, Li Xiaojun used the large trees stored in the city and cut down from all over Shanxian County earlier, and developed a total of 16 small wooden gravity trebuchets at a rate of 2 per day, and placed them at the head of the city. There are 8 doors on the east side and 4 doors on the west and north sides.

This kind of wooden wooden trebuchet, when the pole is laid flat, looks like a rough wooden frame from the outside of the city, and it is very inconspicuous, far less than the black cannons that attract the attention of the rogue sentinels.

This is Li Xiao's plan to lure the enemy.

Liukou only knew that the artillery was powerful, but he didn't know that these trebuchets of Li Xiaojun were the real hidden killers.

In a short time, the army of rogues came closer and closer.

Sure enough, a mile and a half away from Iron Dragon City, the rogue from the west and north had stopped advancing and formed a loose queue.

In a sense, this practice of the Liukou is very uncomfortable for the Ming army defending the city.

Because although these two walls were not attacked, because the distance between the rogues was too close, they could rush up at any time, so that the soldiers defending the city did not dare to give up these two sections of the wall, so they could not support the tight place.

After all, if the defenders run back and forth and the array changes, the chaos caused by the soldiers can often be fatal. Moreover, each wall of Iron Dragon City is 4 miles long, and if the fully armed soldiers are to be led by the nose of the enemy to run back and forth like this, they will be exhausted.

And if the Ming army had long-range artillery such as the Hongyi cannon, because the effective firing range was only more than 1,300 paces, the enemy troops farther away, although they could hit the position, it was difficult to aim and attack. And because it fires a solid iron bullet, it can only attack in a straight line, and even if you have to try your luck against the enemy's loose array, it is difficult to have much killing effect.

In other words, although these two rogues did not attack, they could nail the soldiers of Li Xiaojun defending the city on the opposite side to the city wall, and it was difficult to support the defenders of the city wall that was attacked by the enemy.

Now, only about 15,000 rogue soldiers in the east are still pushing the equipment of the city and shouting forward.

Attacking the eastern city wall was Zhang Xianzhong's most trusted general, Feng Shuangli, who was named the military governor after Zhang Xianzhong established the Great Western Kingdom. And Feng Shuangli's deputy was Zhang Hualong, who was later named the governor of the Right Army.

Among the rogue troops, the most elite one is the soldiers brought by the soldiers when they started from Shaanxi, called the old camp army. These old battalion troops, in Zhang Xianzhong's department, there are about 7,000 people, all of them are cavalry, and they are in the last position of their ranks, and then the front part is the horse army troops who have defected to his department earlier, and the previous part is the infantry army, and the front part is the newly attached people who have been newly captured into his army, called the new attached army, as the army and cannon fodder unit of the whole army.

This kind of marching formation of the rogues has its own unique cunning.

That is, if the front army wins, the whole army can crumble and use the numerical advantage to crush the enemy. If the front army is defeated, it can immediately change the rear army into the front team and quickly withdraw from the battlefield, so that at most, the new annex army and part of the infantry will be lost, and most of the horse army and the old battalion army will be retained. These horses can coerce new people to join at any time, so as to quickly make a comeback and become a headache opponent that the Ming army can not destroy.

Of the more than 15,000 soldiers who attacked from the east, nearly 3,000 were from the old battalion in Shaanxi, more than 7,000 from the Ma Army and the Infantry Army, and the rest were more than 5,000 new annex troops.

It can be seen that Zhang Xianzhong attaches great importance to this siege operation, and he sent all his elite soldiers and strong generals.

Feng Shuangli, who was dressed in bright mountain pattern armor, raised his hand slightly, and the army of rogues who were marching on the rumble stopped when they were more than 1,300 steps away from Iron Dragon City.

This distance is just outside the effective range of the Hongyi cannon.

"Pass on our military order, send out the captives, fill the pit in front, and clear the passage!"

After Feng Shuangli coldly gave the order, his soldiers immediately shouted and began to drive away more than 600 captive civilians, and stepped forward to shovel soil to fill in the hole dug by Li Xiaojun. To prevent an attack, some rogue soldiers will fall into the pit and be stabbed to death by the sharp iron sticks inside.

The siege equipment of the Liukou was actually made as early as more than five days, but due to Li Xiao's clear wall, the Liukou swept all over Shanxian during this time, and only then did they capture the more than 600 remnants of the villages and towns who were reluctant to leave home and did not come to Tielong City to resettle.

Naturally, these civilians were all used for offensive operations on the eastern wall.

The people with mournful faces, holding shovels and hoes, began to fill the soil with sand and sorrow.

Li Xiao clearly saw on the city wall that some of the old and weak moved a little slowly, and they were immediately slashed and killed by the soldiers behind, and blood was splashed on the spot. The bodies of these dead people were thrown into the pit in front of them as a human landfill.

Li Xiaojun at the head of the city, when he saw this tragic scene, he gritted his teeth with hatred.

In order to save time, the rogues did not plan to fill all the holes one by one, but mainly opened up four offensive routes, each of which was wide enough to ensure that five people could be parallel.

Due to the strong persecution of the rogues, those who did not work hard were cut down on the spot, and the people, who were in extreme fear, accelerated their speed and desperately filled in the land, and these four offensive routes quickly extended to the moat to the east.

"Master Li, do you want to open fire?" Li Haoran on the side asked softly.

Li Xiao shook his head lightly: "The number of people is too small, and they scattered in all directions, attacking with Hongyi cannons, but the effect is not great." Just let them finish the landfill. After all, now the enemy army can only take these four passages, but it is conducive to the concentrated attack of our army. ”

"Lord Li is right, it is not beneficial to kill such cannon fodder-like people. It is better to wait for the enemy to attack in a big way, and then bombard with artillery, so as to have a better result. Chen Zilong also chimed in.

After more than an hour passed, the people finally dug the passage to the moat made of bluestone, and finally completed the landfill task.

With a relieved expression, they immediately retreated in panic like a flock of frightened rabbits.

As soon as the people withdrew, the piercing sound of swan trumpets immediately sounded in the enemy's formation.

The real attack of the Rogue army has begun.

More than 15,000 rogues rushed towards Li Xiaojun with a shout, like four gray-black torrents along the four offensive channels, like a flood water released from the sluice gates in a reservoir.

Li Xiao saw that due to the blockage of the moat, the heavy crashing enemy army did not push it, but only pushed the chariot, carrying a thick and long siege ladder, and swooped towards the wall of Tielong City.

When the enemy army rushed to 1,200 paces, four Hongyi cannons opened fire together, making a deafening explosion.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

4 jet-black Hongyi cannonballs weighing more than ten catties roared, and from the dense rogue array, 4 straight blood paths with blurred flesh and blood were plowed!

In the midst of the terrible screams, at least 50 rogues were killed and maimed by the Hongyi artillery of the Tiger Roaring Army.

Of course, compared to the 10,000 rogues, this casualty is really insignificant. It's just that this kind of ultra-long-distance absolute death has caused unimaginable psychological pressure on the rogue.

In the Liukou army formation, there was a little chaos in the newly attached army formation at the front, and the Ma army infantry army in the back was shouting and whipping at the generals, trying to keep them stable.

It's just that before the chaos was completely calm, there were 4 explosions that broke the eardrums, and Li Xiaojun's 4 Hongyi cannons fired another salvo.

The same screams rang out in all directions, and more than 40 rogue soldiers rushed to the end of their lives.

There was even one cannonball, which, with great luck, roared through the front of the rogue formation to the end of the formation, and this cannonball killed several cavalrymen of the old battalion who could not dodge.

"Rush over! Get to the moat as soon as possible! Feng Shuangli, his face was gloomy, and he roared loudly.

The deputy general Zhang Hualong promised loudly, personally escorted the formation, followed the Ma army, and commanded the mighty team to rush forward.

Because the enemy army only has four passages, the four Hongyi cannons on the east wall have already adjusted their firing angles, and one cannon only bombards the enemy army closest to them.

In the roar of the Hongyi cannon, every few minutes a batch of shells whistled out, and when the rogue finally rushed to about 200 steps, the Hongyi cannon fired four more rounds, killing nearly 200 rogue soldiers.

Li Xiao sighed in his heart, this Hongyi cannon, to be honest, is a rare siege weapon, after all, its high-speed huge iron bullet can cause quite terrible damage to the enemy's city wall. However, when it was used to defend the city and bombard the enemy troops coming in vastly, it exposed the shortcomings of this solid iron bullet, which could only attack in a straight line and lacked lethality to the enemy soldiers.

Unless the number of such Hongyi cannons is increased several times, the real lethality to the enemy will always be limited, except for the beginning of a considerable blow to the morale of the enemy army.

If you want to further improve the attack power of the Hongyi cannon, unless Li Xiao has the ability to produce the kind of flowering cannonballs like the later generations, can the lethality of the Hongyi cannon achieve a qualitative leap.

It's just that for Li Xiaojun, who is still difficult to produce guns, he still doesn't know when he wants to produce flowering shells, and he still doesn't know when he can realize the vision.

When the enemy advanced to about 200 paces, the Hongyi artillery fell silent. The eight trebuchets, which had remained silent, finally began to show their sharp fangs at the large number of rogues who came in.

Li Xiao saw with his own eyes how the slingers who were named by Li Xiao as the catapult team under the command of Zhao Jie, the chief of firearms, attacked.

Each trebuchet, equipped with eighteen slingers composed of auxiliaries, commanded by a small leader, first by more than a dozen slingers gritted their teeth together, struggled to pull to the winch, cocked the big iron seat of the pressure rod, and flattened the slinger, and then two slingers, together with force, gritted their teeth to carry the **** earth-shaking thunder weighing 40 kilograms, and forcefully moved it to the pig iron spoon at the upper end of the pitch, after letting go, at this time another slinger lit the fuse on the earth-shaking thunder.

"Ready, put!"

After the eight trebuchets were placed almost at the same time, the captain of the trebuchet shouted angrily.

"Whew!"

"Whew!"

"Whew!"

.。。。。。

Eight fuses burned rapidly, and a huge forty-kilogram earth-shattering thunder with red fire heads, with a dull whistling sound, slammed towards the enemy troops two hundred paces away.

"Bang!"

One of the earth-shattering thunderbolts, the line of fire burned too fast, it burst in mid-air, and in a deafening explosion, a dazzling fire flashed, like a fragment that exploded like a heavenly maiden scattering flowers, at a terrifying speed, it flew in all directions, and immediately a rogue wailed within hundreds of steps.

According to rough estimates, at least more than 200 rogue soldiers were killed and injured in the fierce air explosion of this earth-shattering thunder.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

。。。。。。

Next, two of the other seven earth-shaking thunderbolts deviated from the direction and landed in an open field, and one sky-shaking thunderbolt, because when it fell, the lead was extinguished and did not explode, only four sky-shaking thunderbolts exploded almost together in the dense forward rushing streams.

Huge explosions came and went, large clusters of bright yellow flames, accompanied by a thick white fog, flashed together, and the strong air waves and shock waves swept away a large number of rogue soldiers near the earth-shattering thunder in a ring like a piece of paper, leaving a huge pit with a diameter of more than four meters on the ground!

The countless fragments produced by the earth-shattering thunder blast drilled into the bodies of those rogue soldiers who had been deaf in the terrifying scream, and the sharp fragments drilled into the human body, scurrying in all directions, like a hot knife cutting butter, quickly cutting through human muscles, bones and organs. Let them quickly die before they can react.

A bloody thing splashed on the nose of Zhang Hualong, the deputy general who was in the back of the battle, and he wiped it with his hand, it was a piece of human intestines that had been blown up in a strange shape, and the smelly intestines were still sticking to disgusting yellow loose stools.

Zhang Hualong immediately felt a violent nausea surging in his stomach, and he almost vomited immediately.

These four earth-shattering thunderbolts caused the death and injury of at least 1,000 rogue soldiers!

The huge power and terrifying lethality of the earth-shaking thunder made the rogue who was still screaming and rushing forward be instantly beaten, and as soon as he woke up, the huge fear in everyone's hearts made them collapse immediately.

Countless rogues howled, threw away their siege equipment, and scrambled to turn around and flee backwards.

Because trebuchets are equipment that is behind the times after all, it takes more than ten minutes to pull down and load them again every time, so Li Xiaojun at the head of the city can only watch them flee away with regret.

"Don't run away! There is a gap in the enemy's projection, so rush over quickly! Feng Shuangli, who was watching the battle from afar, was choked by the smoke that drifted over and coughed violently, he waved the sword in his hand, and roared loudly with all his might.

The deputy general, Zhang Hualong, personally led the cavalry of the old battalion army to slash and kill the fleeing rogues, and finally stopped the collapse of the rogues.

Feng Shuangli responded urgently, replaced a group of infantry troops, replaced the frightened new annexed army, rushed up to pick up the siege ladder they had thrown down, and continued to rush forward.

Feng Shuangli was very cunning, and did not let the brigade of rogues follow behind, but waited for those infantry to pick up the siege ladders, to rush to the moat, and build the siege ladders to build a simple bridge to cross the trenches, and then let those who retreated outside the range of the trebuchet attack to start attacking.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

。。。。。。

Li Xiaojun threw another round of earth-shattering thunder, causing more than 200 casualties.

The reason why there were so few casualties this time was that in addition to the fact that two earth-shaking thunderbolts were extinguished, two earth-shaking thunderbolts were missed, and only four earth-shaking thunderbolts exploded in total, the key was that only those infantry soldiers carrying ladders were small and loose, and the distance between them was relatively long, which caused the number of casualties of Liukou to drop significantly.

While Li Xiaojun was reloading the rod, those Liukou infantry troops with rich combat experience rushed to the moat and lowered the long siege ladder as an improvised bridge.

Feng Shuangli saw that he had succeeded, a trace of ruthlessness flashed on his face, and he drew his knife and shouted: "The trench bridge has been erected, and the whole army will rush across the bridge quickly!" ”

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