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Starting from Jinjiazhuang Fort, the infinite extension of the earth from west to east has changed from light yellow, to dark yellow, then to dark yellow, brown yellow, and finally to a vague black and yellow into the sky.

It's just that every soldier defending the city was not in the mood to pay attention to the changes in the scenery in front of them, and their eyes were closely attracted by the dozens of Tartar horsemen who were fighting horses around the fort.

These light horsemen, wearing only cotton armor or leather armor, rode sturdy Liaodong horses, and made strange screams from their mouths, starting from the east, from east to south, from south to west, and then from west to north, and finally returned to the east, drew a large circle, and sentry the entire Jinjiazhuang Fort.

The Tartars then returned to the Al Ala, the True Love of Ba. Ai Bali sneered, and secretly said in his heart, this dog-in-the-dark general really set up such a ruthless trick, but unfortunately it is useless to me.

And seeing these Tartars running around like this, Li Xiao suddenly had a very bad premonition in his heart.

That is, the preparation work of digging all kinds of trenches and digging deep pits outside the city is likely to be useless.

His fears soon became a reality.

In many time-traveling novels, the enemy is basically like a tamed beast, and the protagonist will drill whatever trap he sets, and will only follow the protagonist's routine. The stray bullet laughed and disappeared, becoming an inconspicuous stepping stone on the road to the protagonist's domination of the world.

And the enemy that Li Xiao has to face now is obviously much smarter and more cruel than those enemy troops in the novel.

Li Xiao saw that there were nearly 1,000 old and weak people, who were separated from the exiles, and then ordered to carry the long siege ladder and attack the south and north walls of Jinjiazhuang Fort from the south and north directions in the sound of swans in the sound of the Houjin array.

Using the lives of the old and weak people to fill the ravines and moats dug by Li Xiao, and using the blood and corpses of these worthless Han Nikans to open a bloody road for the follow-up attacking troops, in the eyes of Jiala'e Zhenai Bali, this is really the most correct choice.

After the road ahead is opened, and then attack the weakest point of Jinjiazhuang Fort, the best way to reduce the loss of the side is to attack the city.

This seems to be a rough and heroic martial artist, but he is actually a person with a very fine mind.

Aibali saw it very accurately, and the two fort walls in the north and south were the weakest points in the defense design of the entire Jinjiazhuang Fort.

Because the defense structure of the whole Jinjiazhuang Fort is that there are corner towers on each corner of the east, west, north and south, and there is another fort tower in the west and east.

Therefore, from the point of view of the difficulty of attacking, the east side can be called the most effective place to defend because of the fort gate and the fort tower, while the west side is the second level of difficult to attack because there is a fort tower and it has to go around a long distance. The south and north walls, with only one corner tower on each side, are relatively the easiest places to be breached.

Li Xiao's soldiers on the head of the city wall clearly saw that there were ten siege ladders in each of the north and south slowly marching towards the fort wall.

The old and weak people who carried the siege ladder forward, they all had an almost numb look on their faces, and their eyes were dull, and they would only follow the orders of the Tartar soldiers who followed the escort formation, and approached the two fortress walls in the north and south step by step. Many ragged people were crying as they walked, but under the scolding of the Tartars behind, no one dared to stop walking towards death.

Behind each siege ladder, there was also a group of people, Li Xiao knew that these people were all spare things, and once the people carrying the ladder in front of them died, they could be filled immediately.

Seeing these people who were driven by the Tartar soldiers like lambs, attacking their own fort and guarding the fort wall, everyone showed a painful and worried look on their faces.

Tian Wei, the head of General A, smashed a fist on the pheasant in front of him, and scolded hatefully: "The dog is in the tartar!" Kill a Tartar with a thousand knives! If you have the ability, you can kill me with a real knife and a real gun, and coerce the people to attack the city, what kind of ability is it! “

Tian Wei hated and scolded, but Li Xiao had a grim face.

In his heart, he didn't blame these people at all. After all, for most people, even if they have the shortest chance to survive, they will cherish it at the moment of life and death.

Ants are still greedy for life, let alone people?

Future generations should not laugh at their predecessors.

In the later years, after the Qing army entered the customs, they attacked the city and seized the land all the way, and used the same number of ways to coerce the people to attack the city many times, and then to the later Japanese invasion of China, the performance of the Chinese people was also the same numbness and misery.

Uncle Jiang, a former leader, once recalled that when he was still in middle school, he saw with his own eyes that only two Japanese soldiers, one of whom was holding a handful of 38 large covers, swept through his hometown, arrested more than 1,000 laborers and took them away, and none of them dared to resist.

In the face of cruel and direct violence, the unarmed and scattered people are the most normal choice to submit to the swords, guns and violence.

In fact, the choice of obedience rather than resistance under violence is similar to that of all ethnic groups, and the ancestors of some self-righteous young people on the Internet are often more unbearable than those of the Han people.

When the Russians opened up to the East and Central Asia, they destroyed one khanate after another, and one stan after another, and the descendants of the so-called golden families who were conquered were quite tame and cooperative. They were robbed of money, food, and women by the Russians, and the men were forcibly requisitioned to the Caucasus Mountains on the Western Front to fight the Ottoman Turks for the southern Caucasus Mountains, which belonged to the Armenians. Despite the cruelty and tyranny of the Russians, most of these Mongols, with the exception of a few who resisted, were as docile as lambs to the Russian invaders. With the Russian explorer Simino? In the words of Dezhniov: "These lowly Mongol Tatars, under the bayonets of Russia, do not even have the courage to speak normally." ”

And now the arrogant Jurchens, in the late Qing Dynasty, behaved even more pustuated and useless than the most tame Han people.

At the time of the Xinhai Revolution, Chiang, who was only a handsome young man at the time. Send. The commander, leading a strange team of more than 100 young men and women peasants, calling himself a new army death squad, just set a fire outside the yamen of the governor of Zhejiang, and frightened hundreds of heavily armed Manchurian soldiers in the yamen into crying father and mother, and quickly disarmed and surrendered, so that Zeng Yun, the last governor of Zhejiang, who had only accepted the eighth aunt the day before, obediently became a prisoner.

When he began to figure out that the enemy was now mainly attacking the north and south fort walls, Li Xiao immediately ordered two teams of shield soldiers and two teams of spearmen to garrison the south wall. Another group of shieldmen, three-spearmen, and a rampant team, garrisoned the north wall.

On the west city wall, 480 soldiers from Du Shaoru's department were arranged to garrison.

The eastern city wall is garrisoned by 500 soldiers of Jin Dakui's department.

The 60 Lumi gunners were divided into 4 teams, each with 15 people in each team, to guard the four corner towers of Jinjiazhuang Fort and shoot the enemy from the corner tower holes.

The 75 new recruits from civilian households, as well as more than 600 exiled recruits, were divided into more than 350 people on each of the north and south walls, and were used as auxiliaries to pour gold juice, smash ash bottles, swing and smash ladder hammers, and so on.

The entire cavalry unit was on standby in the fort.

In addition, Wei Zhen Fu Anqian led 45 fort soldiers to maintain law and order in the fort, and organized the people to carry the materials to defend the city to ensure the smooth progress of the battle.

"Plop!"

"Ahh

The muffled sound of a heavy object falling into the pit was followed by a slight scream. Li Xiao saw that among the people who carried the ladder forward, the leading few fell into the deep pit dug by Li Xiaojun, and were immediately pierced through the feet or body by sharp iron sticks.

These people, who were originally old and weak, struggled and writhed like earthworms in the deep pit, and ended their painful and miserable lives.

Seeing that the siege team had stopped, the Tartar soldiers behind immediately shouted and cursed, allowing the people who followed to replenish it. The Tartars whipped the poor people so hard that the whole team continued to move forward.

These old and weak people, who used their bodies and lives as cannon fodder and thunderbolts, had to continue to carry the long ladder towards the fort wall.

The continuous screams and the sound of falling pits kept ringing.

The people died like ants, and their corpses became the stepping stones for those who followed.

But whoever marched a little slower was immediately beaten by the Tartars who were in battle, and if he did not hesitate to stop, he was immediately slain on the spot by the Tartar soldiers.

Li Xiao's soldiers, who were watching this tragic scene on the fortress wall, gritted their teeth with hatred.

This road paved with the blood and lives of the people has finally entered the range of Lu Mi's gunners.

"My lord, the enemy is within one hundred and fifty paces, do you want to let the Rummy Gunners shoot." Tian Wei asked Li Xiao anxiously.

Li Xiao shook his head gently.

"My lord, are you afraid of hurting these people?" Seeing that those people were constantly marching towards the head of the fort wall, Tian Wei looked anxious and asked in a low voice.

Li Xiao's face was as heavy as iron, and he said in a low voice: "No, this official is reluctant to waste precious shooting opportunities. ”

"Oh?"

"Zhao Jie, the chief of firearms, told the official that day that when using the Lu Mi gun, at most more than ten consecutive shots, it will not be used again because the barrel is overheated, otherwise there is a worry about exploding. It is also not allowed to forcibly splash water to cool down, as it may cause the barrel to become brittle, and it will take a few hours to allow it to cool down naturally before it can be used again. Now, if you shoot such an old and weak person who is pure cannon fodder, it will not do much good. Li Xiao paused, and then said: "Tian Wei, no matter how many of these people die, the Tartars will not feel distressed, and they will also be sent to carry ladders to attack the fort in waves." It is better to save the medicine and wait for the enemy soldiers to climb up, and then shoot and kill, so as to play the greatest role in blocking the enemy. ”

Tian Wei looked unwilling: "My lord, the Tartars are attacking the fort so rampantly, but our army is powerless to stop it, and I am really uneasy in my heart." ”

Li Xiao sighed lightly and said, "On the battlefield, how can it be as good as you want." These Tartars are all elites who have fought for a long time, and they are quite experienced in capturing state forts, where will they easily fall into the routines of our army. Our firearms are lacking, and if they are wasted in this way, they will be playing into the tricks of the Tartars. ”

Tian Wei was helpless, knowing in his heart that Li Xiao was reasonable, so he had to stop talking.

Li Xiao was also sighing secretly in his heart, he really couldn't do it like this. If there had been sufficient artillery to defend the city, Li Xiao would have hit it with an iron bullet a long time ago, and smashed all these siege ladders that were still on the road.

Seeing that his siege team was close to the head of the fort wall, Gyala Ezhen Bali smiled, and he turned his head and shouted orders to the two Niu Lu Ezhen Talam and Chabulu beside him.

"Talam, Chabulu, with your second son, go into battle to attack the city, divide the north and south fort walls, I will send all the follow-up archers to support you, and strive to take this fort in one fell swoop!"

"Huh! The minions obeyed. ”

Niu Lu Ezhen Talam, who had a screwed and thin face, and Chabulu, who had a black face and a fierce face, received the order loudly together, and the two of them were quite proud that they had this opportunity to win the first prize.

Talam inadvertently glanced at Baiktu, meeting the jealous gaze of the other party.

Talam sneered in his heart, and then loudly gave his subordinates the order to attack.

Two full-fledged Niulu soldiers with a total of 600 people, as well as more than 600 follow-up archers, began to push the shield cart forward.

At this time, Li Xiao saw that the Tartar soldiers, each with twenty shield carts in the north and south, followed.

I saw those shield carts, each of which had a flag erected on it, and in front of it was a tall and thick wooden plank, covered with a thick leather quilt, which could effectively resist guns, bows and arrows, and there were rollers underneath that rotated flexibly. At this time, these shield carts followed quickly along the bloody road opened up by the people carrying siege ladders in front.

Li Xiao knew that these shield vehicles, like those siege ladders, were the standard equipment for the siege of Houjin, and behind each shield vehicle, there should be dozens of Tartar soldiers hiding behind them.

The Tartar soldiers who began to march briskly to push the shield cart to keep up with the siege ladder in front of them were the same as Niu Lu Ezhen, who led them forward, with a look of anticipation and greed on their faces.

In their eyes, this Jinjiazhuang Fort, which has been silent, is like a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered, and it is estimated that as long as they attack the city once, they will collapse immediately like those Ming troops who are training and demoralized elsewhere.

Nearly an hour later, after paying a total of nearly 300 dead and wounded of the old and infirm, the siege ladder crossed the deep pit, crossed the moat, and finally shook and leaned towards the north and south city walls.

Seeing that the fort wall was in front of him, Talam and Chabulu, who were attacking the north and south city walls, were all happy.

"Sons, take the ladder and rush into battle!"

The Tartar soldiers hiding behind the shield cart heard the order of their own Niu Lu Ezhen, and some of the Tartar soldiers immediately howled out of the shield cart, snatched the siege ladder from the hands of the people carrying the ladder, and continued to rush forward.

In the other part, Li Xiao saw that they were all Tartar followers, including Jurchens and Mongols, standing in the moats outside the north and south city walls, with nearly 300 of them each, still hiding behind the shield cart, bending their knees and bows, and raising their arrows, preparing to suppress Li Xiao's soldiers on the city wall when the Tartars attacked the city.

And the poor old and weak people, after this difficult march to death, finally received the order to withdraw to their own formation, and they wept back, and strode towards their own formation, but none of them dared to take this opportunity to escape.

The hideous-faced Tartars, roaring in unison, held the siege ladder high, and strode under the city walls, ready to put the ladder on the tower.

Seeing that the Tartars had finally arrived under the fort wall, Li Xiao's soldiers above, like a beast that had been silent for a long time, finally showed their fierce fangs.

"The dog is in, it's good to come!" Tian Wei, the commander of the first general commander on the southern city wall, flashed a trace of hideous pleasure on his face.

On the north and south city walls, there are more than a dozen cauldrons that are boiling and bubbling and steaming with dung on the north and south walls, and these stinking boiling dung are the so-called golden juice. Now, the pot of golden juice, which was boiled to the fullest, quickly poured down from the city wall with the cooperation of the auxiliaries.

"Wow!"

"Wow!"

"Wow!" 。。。。。。

The hot and smelly golden juice of the stool gave the Tartars under the city walls a pleasant fecal bath.

Wei Zhen had just led the fort soldiers and the people to carry buckets of freshly scooped dung up the city wall when he saw that the thick yellow and foul-smelling gold juice was pouring down from the cauldron and spilling on the Tartars who were screaming to bring the siege ladder over.

Those Tartar soldiers, if they were burned by the golden juice of this stool, their skin and flesh were cracked, and they screamed again and again. An Qian clearly saw that a ball of hot dung water was poured on the top of the head of a Tartar soldier, and the tartar who was screaming loudly was subconsciously scratching his head with his hands, but even the braid and scalp were torn off, revealing Bai Sensen's skull.

An Qian felt that his stomach began to cramp violently, and a disgusting thing surged violently from his throat, and he couldn't control it anymore, so he suddenly lay on the city wall, vomiting loudly, vomiting white and green, and finally vomiting all the water, before he gasped and got up.

When An Qian vomited loudly, Duan Shidi, the deputy chief of General A, who was supervising the battle on the north city wall, saw this situation, but his face was full of smiles, and then he shouted: "Chief Tian's first dish is served, and our two dishes should also be served." ”

Duan Shi gave an order, and on the two fortress walls, there were more than forty thin porcelain bottles filled with quicklime more than one person high, which were thrown from the city wall like hailstones.

With the crackling sound coming from under the city wall, one by one the quicklime porcelain bottles exploded, and the flying lime powder instantly turned a large area of tartars into blind men.

At the same time, large basins of dirty water poured down from the walls.

When the quicklime meets the water, it immediately undergoes a violent chemical reaction, and the tartars who were lucky enough to escape the attack of the hot dung water are crackled and the quicklime is crackled and burned, and the smell is unbearable.

Li Xiaojun's attack on the golden ash bottle caused at least 100 casualties among the Tartar soldiers.

Li Xiao knew that in the still hot late summer and early autumn, these wounded Tartar soldiers who were scalded by feces and lime would quickly become infected and festering due to the fact that their feces contained a variety of pathogenic bacteria, and eventually lead to organ failure and death throughout the body. In this sense, these more than 200 enemy troops were basically reimbursed.

Before the rest of the Tartars came to their senses, the four corner towers finally began to shoot.

"Bang 。。。。。。"

The barrel of the jet-black and dense gun sticking out of the perforation, in the first round, a total of nearly fifty fired, the muzzle of the gun was red, looming in the large cloud of choking white smoke.

More than 40 small buckshot weighing three coins immediately caused the death and wounding of more than 20 Tartar soldiers.

The two Niu Lu Ezhen, who were hiding behind the shield cart and watching the battle, were very angry when they saw that their own elite had suffered so many casualties before they began to attack the city.

"Hurry up and release the arrows and suppress the Ming dog!"

Talam and Chabulu almost simultaneously ordered the Tartars next to them to follow.

When Li Xiaojun was about to slaughter these Tartars, those Tartars who were hiding behind the shield cart immediately began to attack and shoot back after hearing the order.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!".。。。。。。

One by one, the fierce light arrows, with a slight scream, shot at Li Xiao's soldiers at the head of the city.

Most of the arrows were blocked by the shields, and some of the arrows crossed the shields and hit the spearmen and auxiliaries behind, and the well-armoured spearmen were wounded a few, while those who lacked armor were in a much worse situation, and at once more than a dozen auxiliaries were killed or wounded, and fell from the city screaming and falling into bloody flesh cakes.

The north side of the wall was in a worse condition due to the lack of a group of shield men, and the casualties were even more serious, with nearly a third more casualties than in the south.

The continuous projectiles of the Tartar followers brought considerable difficulties to Li Xiaojun on the city wall, and due to the large number of auxiliary soldiers killed and wounded, Li Xiaojun's next wave of offensive of smashing ash bottles and pouring gold juice seriously delayed. Taking advantage of the brief confusion of the Tiger Roaring Army, twenty siege ladders were finally set up on the north and south walls.

"Click!"

The fifteen-meter-long siege ladder finally leaned against the wall of Jinjiazhuang Fort, and the iron hook on it immediately hooked the pheasant wall of the city wall, and it was difficult to break off.

The siege of the city was immediately demoralized, and they howled like beasts, and immediately began to climb up the ladder.

The brutal siege battle has officially begun. (To be continued.) )