Lieutenant Colonel Yu Lianhong, the battalion commander of the 5th Assault Battalion, has a yellow feather on the top of his helmet, which is his school officer logo, and the yellow tail feathers represent the school officer, and there will be detailed cloth epaulettes on his shoulders, which are two horizontal bars and two stars on a red background, representing the lieutenant colonel of the army.

The helmets of the lieutenants have a black feather on the top, and there will also be epaulettes on the shoulders, and if it is a captain, then his epaulettes are three stars with a horizontal bar on a red background.

The helmets of the non-commissioned officers were a red feather, and the sergeants' epaulettes were red with five vertical stripes on a red background.

The helmet of an ordinary soldier has no feathers, and the epaulettes of a private of the first class have two vertical stripes on a red background, and the second class has a single vertical stripe of red.

The Fifth Assault Battalion began to sort, and as soon as they came out, they almost attracted the attention of both the enemy and us, especially the Ming army at the head of the city!

There is no way, this assault battalion of nearly 500 people is all dressed in armor, and the armor they wear is shiny plate armor, whether it is full body armor or half-body armor or cuirass, almost all of them are shiny, and it is difficult for people not to pay attention.

Some experienced generals of the Ming army knew at a glance that this was the assault battalion of the puppet Tang thief army, and when the puppet Tang thief army dispatched the assault battalion, it often meant that they were going to launch a battle to ascend the city.

"Quick, fire!"

"Bring out all the cannons!"

"And the archers, musketeers, all ready to go up the city walls!"

"Stop them, we must not let them go to the top of the city, or we will all be finished!"

The dispatch of the assault battalion immediately caused a panic in the Ming army, and most of the Ming soldiers who had originally hid in the city to avoid artillery fire were quickly re-ascending the city under the urging of the officers, so that the city with a small number of people and only a small number of artillery became lively again.

However, the preparation of the Ming army also allowed the artillerymen of the Tang Army, who had stopped shelling for two hours, to find a target to shoot!

The assault battalion had not yet taken a few steps, and there was a dense sound of artillery from the artillery position!

In the heavy artillery battalion behind the anti-slope, a colonel shouted: "Three rapid fires!" ”

Several people of the loader worked together to stuff the 48-pound shell into the barrel, and after the preparation was ready, the gun commander decisively ordered the cannon to fire!

After the rumbling cannon sounded, countless cannonballs fell on the city wall in a short time!

And those grenades fell on the city, setting off a dense bloody storm!

At this time, the rest of the infantry of the 5th Infantry Division is also starting to advance, and they will be deployed in front of the front, and use those shotguns, muskets, bows and arrows to provide medium-range fire cover for the troops who ascend the city!

More than 3,000 muskets continued to fire in multiple phalanxes, and the projectiles of lead bullets hit the city walls, hitting one Ming soldier after another through the gaps in the battlements.

The bows and arrows that were thrown also fell on the city wall, and the projectiles and small projectiles shot by the scattered bullets swept across the city!

Although the Ming army suffered heavy casualties, they were still struggling to fight back, and the shotguns such as the bowl mouth cannon that could not play a role in the artillery battle before also began to artillery, and the musketeers and archers on the city also continued to fire!

The Fifth Infantry Division, which was responsible for the main attack mission, inevitably suffered some casualties, but they did not stop, especially the rewards of the assault battalion, they still marched forward with firm steps!

At the same time, there were many sapper infantry who took more risks and ran forward carrying long planks and sandbags for them, and the task of these light infantry was simple, they needed to fill in a section of the moat, and then lay wooden planks on it to provide a passage for the assault battalion to continue its advance!

But although the task is simple, it is the most dangerous, because in order to carry sandbags and planks, they don't even wear armor, and even swords and muskets are not carried, and their only protection is a large shield supported by their comrades, but if this kind of large shield is at most to block bows and arrows or medium and long-range muskets, if it is hit by enemy artillery, there is no reason to survive.

It's just that these people are also the key targets of the Ming army!

The Ming army is not stupid, they know very well that holding the moat now is the key, if the moat is held, those formidable pseudo-Tang assault battalions will not be able to cross the moat and climb the city wall!

One sapper after another fell on the way forward!

However, the offensive pace of the Fifth Infantry Division is still steadily advancing!

In the 5th Assault Battalion, several military musicians with small drums hanging on their chests beat the small drums on their chests with a fixed rhythm, and the drum beat is similar to the rhythm of marching!

And when the assault battalion came to a distance of only eighty meters from the city wall, the drumbeat suddenly became rapid, and several officers led by it shouted one by one: "Kill!" ”

Then the soldiers of the 500 assault battalion began to trot, and then crossed the moat that the sappers had filled with their own lives, stepped over the corpses of the sappers, and came to the other end of the moat.

Immediately afterwards, one after another ladders were erected, after the ladders were erected, the iron hooks at the top firmly built the city wall, and the Ming soldiers on top still wanted to cut these iron hooks, but soon found that they couldn't cut them at all!

Soon some people reported that they began to lift stones and huge logs and throw them down, and when each stone and giant wood fell down, and when they hit the soldiers of the assault battalion who were ascending the city, they would cause a certain number of casualties among the assault battalion soldiers.

There are even more soldiers of the assault battalion, who are about to climb the city, but they are directly hit by the boulder above their heads, and then fall heavily, and this fall will be seriously injured if they do not die.

At this time, it is often the most dangerous time for the soldiers of the assault battalion, most of them can only withstand the blow to the city, only a few archers and grenadiers under the city braved all kinds of enemy fire to shoot at the head of the city, trying to suppress the counterattack of the Ming army at the head of the city, in order to cover the climbing heavy armor sword and shield soldiers to climb the city smoothly!

"Hurry, rush forward!"

At this time, Wang Danxu didn't care about the attacks of other units of the Fifth Infantry Division, but put all his eyes on the Fifth Assault Battalion, because whether this can break through the city or not depends on whether the soldiers of the assault battalion can open the gap!

And the other units of the 5th Infantry Division, all they can do now is to shoot and fire arrows to cover the comrades of the assault battalion!

"Quick, as long as you go up, then everything will be easy to do, as long as there are ten people, as long as there are five people going up, then the follow-up will be easy to do!"

With the combat effectiveness and strong protection ability of those heavily armored sword and shield soldiers in the assault battalion, as long as they are allowed to climb to the top of the city, they are basically invincible!

The whole body armor on their bodies is enough to block the blows of most of the light cold weapons in this era, unless they are unlucky enough to be hit by the enemy in the gaps in the armor such as the face, neck and neck, otherwise, they just stand there and let the Ming soldiers cut it, and they can also accept it calmly, and then kill the enemy soldiers on the opposite side with one sword!

If there are a few hoplites on the top of the city, then they can basically hold the position where this ladder is located, so as to cover more comrades to climb the city, when there are dozens or even hundreds of hoplites on the head of the city, they can even control a section of the city wall tens of meters wide, and gradually advance to both ends.

And at that time, it was time for the rest of the ordinary infantry of the 5th Infantry Division to flock to it!

By that time, the city will basically be breached, and the rest of the battle will just be over.

So now, it's the most critical moment!

But although Wang Danxu was in a hurry, he could only watch the sword and shield soldiers who almost climbed to the top of the city one after another being hit by boulders, and then rolling down!

At this time, Li Chunjing said: "Don't worry, you have to believe the soldiers of the assault battalion!" ”

Wang Danxu took a deep breath at this time and said, "It's the ministry that is in a hurry!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a staff officer on the side immediately shouted: "Look, there are soldiers on board!" ”

Immediately, not only Wang Danxu, but even Li Chunjing raised his binoculars again to look in the direction of the assault battalion's operations, and in their telescope sight, they saw a tall and heavy-armored sword and shield soldier wearing full-body plate armor climbing the city wall.

As soon as Zhou Chang went to the city wall, several knives and spears attacked him at the same time, but as an old and qualified heavy armor sword and shield soldier, he was not afraid at all, and simply raised the round shield in his hand to block a few spears, but he didn't care about the long knives that cut towards him!

In the next moment, those spears were swept away by the shield raised in the middle of the circle, and there were also three knives slashed at Zhou Chang's body, and the huge impact force even made sparks appear at the impact of the knife edge and the armor, but these knives could only leave a shallow trace under his armor.

At this time, Zhou Chang stood firm unhurriedly, and then strode forward, and directly slashed with his knife, which was to give the Ming army swordsman, one of the several Ming soldiers who had just besieged him, a knife, and the heavy and sharp steel knife was about to cut off half of the neck of this Ming army swordsman.

After this Ming swordsman let out a terrible scream, blood spurted out in an instant, and the next moment he fell down holding his neck!

At this time, Zhou Chang showed a hideous smile, even through the helmet mask, the remaining Ming soldiers on the opposite side seemed to be able to see his hideous expression!

Immediately, Zhou Chang rushed forward several times in a row, blocking the attack of several other Ming soldiers with his shield, and then stabbed forward with a knife, the tip of the knife went directly through the gap in the neck of a Ming army heavy armor sword and shield soldier in front of him, and then came out from the other end!

Without the slightest pause, in the next moment, Zhou Chang just pulled out the steel knife, ignoring the blood spurted by the man splashed on his armor, and it was a rapid movement in a small area in succession, waving the steel knife in his hand, and after just a few seconds, there were already five Ming soldiers lying in front of him.

No one can stop his stab, even if it's just one!