As the sun rose, the various units of the new army of the Tang Dynasty began to bury pots and make rice, and then after the rebellion, they began to cut down trees nearby to prepare siege equipment.

The infantry began to prepare the siege engines, and the artillerymen roared first!

The artillery position built overnight was about 300 meters outside the city, and the 5,500-kilogram artillery and six 800-kilogram artillery began to gradually bombard the artillery erected by the Ming army on the head of the city at a slow rate of fire!

In the process of the new army of the Tang Dynasty rushing to Liping Fucheng, the Ministry of Engineering in the rear rushed out an 800-kilogram artillery and sent it to the artillery battalion!

Let the 800 pounds of artillery in the artillery battalion make up a squad for the first time!

The artillery battalion's shelling speed is relatively slow, basically each gun will be shelled after a few minutes of interval, and after a few shells, it will stop for a period of time to let the barrel cool, which is to protect the life of the barrel and avoid bursting the barrel if it is fired too quickly.

However, although the rapid fire of each artillery is not fast, there are a total of eleven heavy guns in the artillery battalion, and on average, there will still be a solid cannonball falling on the wall of Liping Province City every minute!

Most of them hit the city walls, but occasionally there were shells hitting the Ming artillery on the battlements, and not many, as long as one shell hit these guns, it was basically able to destroy a gun position.

After all, the artillery of the Ming army was originally a small cannon with a light weight and a small caliber, but it could not withstand the shelling of heavy artillery.

Even if it doesn't hit the artillery itself, but if it hits the battlements, it can still make the sand and gravel fly, thereby killing and injuring a large number of Ming soldiers!

However, soon the Ming army learned to be smart, and they did not continue to stand stupidly near the gun emplacements that were taken care of, but ran to the side and hid behind the battlements, so that they were a lot safer.

However, those lonely and unattended artillery still continued to be fiercely shelled by the puppet Tang thief army!

One artillery cannon after another was destroyed!

When the heavy artillery units of the Datang New Army continued to fire, setting off the prelude to the general offensive of the day, the infantry of several main forces of the Datang New Army also began to line up.

The temporarily assembled heavy sword and shield soldiers were divided into three small phalanxes, each with about two hundred heavy sword and shield soldiers.

These 600 heavily armored sword and shield soldiers are the key to whether the new army of Datang can gain a firm foothold in the city in the next battle to enter the city!

In addition to these 600 sword and shield soldiers, a large number of musketeers were also concentrated, their early task was to provide medium-range firepower support for the troops who ascended the city, once the hand-to-hand combat troops at the head of the city had gained a firm foothold, they would rush up, and then completely occupy the city wall, and cooperate with the heavy armor sword and shield soldiers to open the city gate, so that more troops could enter the city!

Therefore, don't look at the tens of thousands of troops on both sides of the battle, but when the battle breaks out, most of the troops will be playing soy sauce, and the core of the battle between the two sides will be concentrated in a certain section of the city wall, and the number of troops participating in the battle will be only a few thousand at most.

In order to cover the smooth success of the landing force, other units of the Datang New Army also need to make a lot of preparations, for example, in order to reduce the burden of these heavy infantry and preserve their physical strength for use when they go to the city to fight, there will be thousands of light armor sword and shield soldiers who will carry long ladders and heavy wooden planks with the charge of this heavy infantry regiment.

The ladder is used to climb the wall, and the planks are used as bows and arrows!

At the same time, there will be a companion attack in several other directions!

And the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment, the two units composed of the Ming army, will also participate in the battle, mainly as cannon fodder, attracting and consuming the first wave of ammunition and bows and arrows of the Ming army!

The new army of the Tang Dynasty was intensively preparing for the siege outside the city, and many senior generals of the Ming army at the head of the city were all frowning!

There were more puppet Tang thieves outside the city than they expected!

Among them, there are nearly 6,000 soldiers wearing the Ming army's own uniforms alone!

In addition, there are tens of thousands of pseudo-Tang thief soldiers wearing pseudo-Tang thief army uniforms.

Combined, these two are more than 16,000 people!

At this time, the Ming defenders in the city, although the total strength exceeded the puppet Tang thief army outside the city, but it was only more than 26,000.

Among them, there are seven or eight thousand young and strong people!

The regular army is less than 20,000 people, and the core combat force, that is, Fubiao recruitment and other recruitment, is only 6,000 people.

In this battle, I'm afraid I will suffer a loss!

Whether the city of Liping Mansion can be defended or not, it's really hard to say!

Seeing that the people next to him were all worried, Zhu Zhihai was also very annoyed!

These wastes, all of them are useless waste, yesterday's battle outside the city, it turned out that he lost tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and all of this, to blame these incompetent waste, when this battle is over, he will definitely join them ruthlessly, if he doesn't kill them all, he can't bear the emperor's trust!

However, he just thinks about these psychological thoughts, and he definitely won't come out at this time.

Waiting for the defense of the city, you have to rely on these incompetent waste generals, after all, he can't be a governor with a knife to fight on the battlefield, what kind of system is that!

But in the face of the menacing pseudo-Tang thief army, what should we do?

What will it take to hold the city?

For a while, Zhu Zhihai, who boasted of his talent, was also a little confused!

This can't be blamed on him, after all, his strength is to start with the imperial examination, followed by the impeachment of others, this war is really not his strength!

To make some strategic judgments, he was barely okay, but it was actually very difficult for him to make specific tactical arrangements.

But there is no way to be embarrassed, who made him the governor of Guizhou, the supreme commander of this army!

When Zhu Zhihai frowned and figured out how to defend the city, the Datang New Army outside the city continued to prepare for the siege step by step!

The main array with the 1st Brigade as the core had already begun to move forward, but further ahead of them were the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment!

Because the first wave of the attack can be regarded as a tentative attack, in order to test the average defensive strength, such a tentative attack is more dangerous, and it is easy to cause casualties, so it is better to let cannon fodder units like the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment go, as for the 1st Brigade, they actually go to act as the overseer to suppress the formation!

And the second brigade will continue to stay in the rear!

At the same time, the Fifth Infantry Regiment continued to stay by Li Xuan's side, as a reserve for the whole army, in case a Ming army suddenly appeared from other directions.

Under the pressure of the 1st Brigade in the rear, and even more under the pressure of more than 400 regular troops directly under the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment in the rear, although those surrendered soldiers knew that the front was very dangerous, they still began to charge!

They started the attack at a distance of 200 meters, and along the way, you can still see many corpses of the Ming army left yesterday!

When they launched a charge, the Ming army on the city wall naturally would not be indifferent, they just opened cannons and fired arrows to intercept.

And caused certain casualties to the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment in the charge!

However, because the distance is still far away, the casualties are not too large, so these two infantry regiments can continue to charge!

But Hao Bonian in the rear can see that the distance from dozens of meters to seventy or eighty meters outside the city is basically their limit, at that time, the lethality of the Ming army's bows and arrows will be greatly improved, and many Ming army's bowl guns will also fire, thus causing relatively large casualties to these two infantry regiments!

But this is nothing, because the senior generals of the Tang New Army never expected that these two infantry regiments composed of Ming troops would be able to conquer this Liping Mansion City.

Their task is simple, it is to attract and consume the artillery ammunition of the Ming army and the arrows of the archers!

It takes time to reload artillery, and there is a limit to the archers who bend their bows and shoot arrows, and after these archers shoot this wave, their physical strength is basically consumed.

When the time comes, it will be time for the main forces to attack!

At the same time, in a small phalanx on the flank of the First Brigade, Cai Erhu, who was wearing heavy armor and riding on a horse, so that the war horses under his crotch were panting, were making the final mobilization against the six hundred heavily armored sword and shield soldiers under his command!

However, he never said eloquently, but simply said a few words of loyalty to His Majesty, the invincibility of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and so on, he stopped, and then said loudly: "Wine!" ”

Immediately, many soldiers came forward with wine jars and large bowls, and served a bowl of wine to every hoplite who was ready to fight!

Cai Erhu also took the wine bowl, then raised his head and drank it, and after drinking, he dropped the bowl directly, and then said loudly: "Brothers, dry this bowl of wine, and then follow Lao Tzu to kill!" ”

The hoplites also drank in unison, and then smashed their bowls, and many of them also shouted 'Kill'.

Cai Erhu looked up at this time, and saw the position of the Chinese army where His Majesty was located, and he had officially issued an order for his heavy infantry to attack!

Immediately, he turned the horse's head, and then officially ordered: "Go!" ”

Immediately, the 600 heavy armored infantry regiments began to march in unison!

On either side of them and behind them were thousands of light infantry, some of them light sword and shield men, some of them ordinary musketeers, and a hundred grenadiers, carrying spears and planks, who would assist the heavy infantry in their charge!

And these 1,600 people are the core combat power of the Datang New Army's siege this time!

Just when the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment continued to attack, the heavy first side formation also officially stepped into the battlefield!

At this time, Hao Bonian also ordered: "Order, the whole army advances, and the musketeers step forward, ready to cover the city with firepower!" ”

For a time, the new army of the Tang Dynasty outside the city, the total strength of the troops participating in the siege of the city has reached more than 10,000 people, and from the direction of the city, it is densely packed with human heads, so that the Ming army at the head of the city can't help but tremble!

Yesterday's fiasco is still vivid, and now these pseudo-Tang thief armies are here again, and there are tens of thousands of people at the same time?

Can this be stopped?

Can this be stopped?

They didn't know if they could stop it, but now many Ming soldiers in the city had the same thought: should they run away?