Chapter 518: If you don't leave now, when will you wait
The victory or defeat of the Battle of Wuzhou is no longer something that Chen Keqiao can control, because at this time, the core focus of the battlefield has shifted to the city wall of the Western Front!
There, with the success of the second blasting, the First Assault Battalion and the Liuzhou Independent Regiment had already launched a full-army charge, followed by the Second Infantry Regiment and the Fifth Garrison Brigade.
When the west city wall once again raised a huge amount of smoke and dust, and felt the ground shake, Yu Dayou immediately looked towards the west, he saw a large puff of smoke and dust that many people could see, and he didn't have to guess what happened, it must have been the thief army that blasted the west city wall again, and the west city wall must have collapsed.
It's over!
This is Yu Dayou's first thought at this time!
Because if the western city wall is also destroyed, then the northwest city wall will definitely flood in thousands of thieves in an instant, and this one after the other may be the careful preparation of the pseudo-Tang thief army, and then the thief army in the western city wall will definitely be more and more effective.
Can the existing defenders on the western wall hold it?
He doesn't think so!
When he saw the battle between the thief army and his own side with his own eyes, he had a deep understanding of the combat effectiveness of the pseudo-Tang thief army, not to mention those real thieves, even if it was those fake thieves, their combat effectiveness was more than that of his own guards.
To be honest, he didn't understand why the rebels became so capable after surrendering to the puppet Tang thief army, but when he saw the puppet Tang thief army cavalry and a large number of overseers forcing the garrison to charge, and killing deserters in batches, he finally understood why the rebels in the past had such a high combat effectiveness all of a sudden.
Under such a strict military law, let alone a formal army, even ordinary people can probably pick up a sword and fight!
Because if you don't fight and run away, you'll die, and if you rush forward, you might be able to live!
Yes, the deserters in the Fifth Garrison Regiment before, without exception, all became the ghosts of the sword of the Warlord, and although the soldiers who fought tenaciously and did not flee were also killed and wounded, not all of them died!
But now I understand what is the use of these, the tens of thousands of pseudo-Tang thief troops in front of them are attacking fiercely, and such a great change has taken place on the west city wall, this Wuzhou City, I'm afraid it can't be defended!
When Yu Dayou thought so, in fact, the situation on the west city wall was indeed quite bad, Yu Dayou, who was far away, could feel the huge blasting momentum, and Wang Yue, Wei Yan and others who were in the west city wall personally and deeply felt the feeling of shaking the mountains!
Then they almost watched the city wall collapse not far away, and then many pseudo-Tang thief soldiers crawled out of the trench only more than thirty meters away from the city wall, and these pseudo-Tang thief troops were not fake thieves, not even ordinary real thieves, but all thieves wearing heavy armor.
When he saw these people, he recognized them at a glance, these must be the heavy armor soldiers under the pseudo-Tang thief army, the elite troops specially used for siege of the city.
When the puppet Tang thief army attacked, it did not send fake thieves to act as cannon fodder, but sent elite heavy armor soldiers as soon as possible, which shows that the puppet Tang thief army is bound to win this battle, and it does not hesitate to pay a huge price!
Although the blasting shocked countless Ming soldiers, they also reacted quickly, bows and arrows, handcuffs and even bowl cannons continued to shoot at these rushing thief heavy armor soldiers, and in the process of charging, the heavy armor of these thieves also fell almost in pieces, but although there were many heavy armor soldiers of the thief army who fell, there were more who rushed up!
Because the thief army that rushed up was not a few hundred, but more than two thousand!
This is an assault force composed of the first assault battalion and the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, in these two troops, there are more than 500 elite people wearing heavy armor, and the other lightly armored soldiers are also all elite.
If it was a conventional field cold weapon duel, such a two-thousand-person person would be enough to launch a charge attack on an ordinary Ming army of at least tens of thousands, and the results should be relatively ideal!
At this time, the only reliance of the Ming army, the more than seven-meter-high city wall, has collapsed, although there will be a small high slope formed by residual rubble after the collapse of the city wall, but it is already unable to stop the pace of these pseudo-Tang thieves under the jurisdiction of the city!
I saw them rushing up with shields and steel knives, and then beheading all the Ming soldiers they met!
"Quick, go over and plug the gap, don't let them rush in, definitely can't let them rush in!" After the shock, Wang Yue, who had already reacted, couldn't care about the dignity of being the governor of Liangguang, and shouted directly.
And if you listen closely to his voice, you will find that his voice is full of panic.
This kind of panic has not occurred since the eastern wall was blown down before
Because when the eastern city wall was blown up before, he still had many reserves in his hands, and Yu Dayou's 3,000 recruits could be drawn out to reinforce in the past, and he was also able to reinforce in the past.
But now, in his hands, he has a reserve that has been armed!
The defense of the western city wall can only rely on the existing forces of the western city wall, and with these experiences, can it stop the pseudo-Tang thief army?
If there was a city wall to rely on before, Wang Yue was not very worried, but now that the city wall has been blown out of a gap, many heavy armor soldiers of the pseudo-Tang thief army are frantically pouring in, at this time, can they still hold the west city wall?
The panic in Wang Yue's voice was enough to prove that even he no longer believed that he could block the attack of the puppet Tang thief army!
Wei Yan next to Wang Yue was even more directly stunned, and then muttered: "It's over, it's over......"
He has seen the strong combat effectiveness of the puppet Tang thief army, and among the eight thousand troops he led at the beginning, there are four thousand elite soldiers, none of whom are hand-to-hand opponents of the puppet Tang thief army.
I knew that I shouldn't have sent the governor and the 3,000 recruited troops from Guangdong to the east city wall to reinforce it so early.
But now, regret is useless!
On the contrary, Shen Xiyi, the deputy commander-in-chief of Guangdong on the side, was still able to maintain his composure, and then walked to Wang Yue's side and said: "My lord, this place is dangerous, my lord is the commander of the whole army, and the morale of the whole army is all tied to my lord's body, please move to the rear!" ”
They were not far from the gap that was blown up at this time, and although the nearby Ming army was also under the leadership of the Ming army generals rushed up to the gap to try to re-plug the gap, but the more than 2,000 elites of the puppet Tang thief army had already rushed up, and in a hurry, those ordinary Ming soldiers couldn't resist at all, and fell down one after another, seeing that the puppet Tang thief army had already occupied the gap and began to advance to both sides, they would not leave, but they would be caught up or even killed by the puppet Tang thief army.
If it's dead, it's okay to say, if Wang Yue and a group of high-ranking military and political officials of the Ming Dynasty are captured, it will be a shame and a big loss.
Therefore, Shen Xiyi asked Wang Yue to transfer at this time, not because she was greedy for life and afraid of death, nor was she worried about Wang Yue's life or death alone, but for the sake of the whole army.
In the Ming Dynasty, a typical ancient army, if the main general was killed or captured, the blow to the morale of the army would be fatal, and its fatality would not be inferior to that of Li Xuan in the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, the soldiers must stay to resist the puppet Tang thief army, and the others, especially a group of high-ranking officials led by Wang Yue, must flee.
Wang Yue also woke up from shock at this time, and then turned around and left with a gloomy appearance, and the other senior civil and military officials naturally followed one by one.
Wang Yue has run away, what reason do they have not to run? Do you want to die?
After Wang Yue came down from the west city wall with a group of senior civil and military officials, he could still hear the sound of the soldiers fighting on both sides in the rear, and couldn't help but look back, only to see that there were already many soldiers of the pseudo-Tang thief army in the gap in the city wall behind, and his own soldiers tried hard to fight back and drive the thief army out, but it was all in vain.
On the contrary, those pseudo-Tang thief armies have already begun to extend to both ends of the city wall!
Thinking that the large number of pseudo-Tang thief troops that I saw from outside the city just now have already launched a charge, I am afraid that it will not be long before thousands of people will pour into the city through this gap, and then cover more pseudo-Tang thief troops to enter the city!
It's over, Wuzhou City is already completely finished!
Even if the soldiers of the Ming army at the head of the city are still fighting to the death, Wang Yue can already imagine that this Wuzhou City is completely finished, and once the city wall is lost, there is no possibility of holding the city.
Wuzhou City is about to be lost, what should I do?
Suicide? Just kidding, he Wang Yue is not a pedantic person, besides, he is the governor of Liangguang, not the prefect of Wuzhou, and it is the prefect of Wuzhou to commit suicide to patrol the city, and he, the governor of Liangguang, has to continue to preside over the great cause of fighting thieves.
can't hold it, and don't commit suicide, the only thing left to do is to break through.
There are 30,000 regular troops in the city, and 20,000 young and strong people, although there is a gap in the western city wall, but the thief army that will be in the city for a while will not be able to completely attack the city.
He still has time to gather troops and break through!
Thinking of breaking through, he said: "Immediately send someone to give an order quickly, so that the governor will come back immediately!" ”
"Come back?"
The others didn't understand, and immediately asked, "Come back?" What about the side in front of Dongcheng? ”
Wang Yue ignored him, but continued: "Let the governor go directly to the south city gate, and we will go directly to the boat!" ”
Now there are heavy attacks by the puppet Tang thief army in the northwest and east, and there are also heavy troops of the thief army in the north, it is definitely not feasible to go from these three directions, and the only way is to go out of the city from the south city, and then go directly from the dock to the boat and leave.
The city is about to be broken, and if you don't go at this time, wait for when!