Chapter 965: War should not have come at the expense of human lives

The brigade stopped on the south bank of the river, and it seemed that the Black Flag Army was not in a hurry to attack Liyin. The tens of thousands of troops stopped and set up camp, with auxiliaries building walls and watchtowers. The soldiers of the Gao family army stood on the city wall and were very worried, even if Yan Zeng sent someone to cut off the head of the spy of the Black Flag Army before, the soldiers still couldn't completely settle down in their hearts.

And the smarter among them can naturally see that the one who was cut off was only afraid that he was unjustly killed, but who dares to talk nonsense? Yan Zeng sent people from the war team to patrol back and forth on the city wall all the time, and no one dared to talk nonsense anymore.

The auxiliaries were already familiar with the construction of the camp and worked with their hands and feet. In less than two days, the walls and watchtowers were built, and from the walls, a tent looked like an endless stretch of hills.

Early in the morning of the third day, the horn of warning sounded on the city wall of Liyin. The reinforcements hurried up the walls, and the archers kept their quivers within reach of their feet.

"I finally can't help it."

Yan Zeng raised his clairvoyance and saw that the soldiers and horses in the Black Flag Army camp in the distance were mobilizing, and muttered, he knew that the enemy would not directly send people to negotiate in this battle. When the Black Flag Army goes north, it needs a big victory to boost morale, and it needs a big victory to announce the strength of the Black Flag Army.

Therefore, this battle is inevitable.

"Ballista ready!"

He turned around and gave an order, and his own soldiers ran out to supervise the soldiers who operated the ballista to prepare. When the big war really came, many people calmed down a lot. What really suffers is actually waiting for the time to go to war. The creaking and twisting of the coils seemed so harsh that they seemed to be clearer than the commanding officer of the leader.

In the distance, the soldiers of the Black Flag Army had already been mobilized, and a team of about 10,000 people left the camp and came over to the moat, lined up in a neat line, and the battle flag fluttered.

Xiahou Baichuan rode his war horse forward slowly, after so many years of fighting, in fact, he was no longer as nervous and excited as before when he was about to fight, but today his heartbeat still couldn't help but speed up a little. Today's battle represents that the Black Flag Army has officially joined the ranks of the world dominant.

"Stand up by the river and make room for the firearms battalion!"

Xiahou Baichuan commanded, and then reined in the war horse.

Groups of elite soldiers marched forward, their footsteps that seemed to make the earth tremble.

"Five Hundred Steps......

Xiahou Baichuan pointed to the front and said, "Although the range of the enemy's ballista is slightly less than our artillery, they condescendingly occupy a favorable position. Go and talk to the firearms battalion, the first salvo, it's better to kill all the ballistas on the city walls. With the loss of the ballista, the enemy loses half of the control of the river. ”

Andrew was also excited, having been forging firearms in the workshop for so long, and for the first time in his life, he had commanded an army in battle. When he was on the other side of the sea, he admired the guys in straight military uniforms, all of them arrogant, and no one dared to provoke them in the tavern.

In his opinion, a man still has to become a soldier in order to fully show a man's masculine demeanor.

Fang Xie transferred him back from Yunnan Province this time, just to let him directly command the artillery battalion, firstly because he was most familiar with artillery, and secondly, to let him see what the artillery still lacked. Before Fang Xie came to this world, he was definitely not an expert in military affairs, and part of the experience of commanding the team came from a lot of reading, and partly from constant actual combat. If the memories of the past life are the most helpful for the current military development, it comes from the game.

He's a hardcore player of strategy games, having spent his high school years on endless red alert. After college, he began to be exposed to more and more games, but the outdated red alert has always been the one he remembers the most. And Fang Xie had a stubborn habit when he played this game in his previous life, that is, he would never take the initiative to attack without accumulating enough strength.

There are advantages and disadvantages to being passive in this way, and the advantage is that Fang Xie is still the same when developing the Black Flag Army, constantly accumulating military strength and constantly developing and growing. The disadvantage is that Fang Xie always seems to be a little cautious and not decisive enough in his external strategy.

Fang Xie himself knows this, but it is difficult to change things in his personality.

Andrew commanded the soldiers of the artillery battalion to push the newly modified artillery to the front of the battle, and stopped about 550 paces from the city wall.

"Test firing, ranging!"

Andrew ordered.

A cannon was stuffed into a cannon on the far left, and the soldiers who controlled the cannon quickly adjusted the elevation angle of the artillery, the craftsmanship of this period restricted the performance of the artillery, but in the Central Plains, the power of the artillery was far ahead of this era.

Boom!

With a muffled sound, a cannonball flew towards Liyin City.

The defenders on the city wall didn't know what the other party was in such a neat row of things so far away, and they were all pointing and talking. At this moment, a black object flew from the side of the Black Flag Army array, smashed on the city wall with a bang, and the cannonball was embedded in the wall.

The soldiers of the Gao family army first let out an exclamation, and then waited for a long time without seeing any movement, and then someone burst into laughter.

"Such a small stone is a fart!"

"It turns out that that thing is a small stone throwing cart, and this thing is a small pit on the city wall, even if it falls on the city wall, I am afraid that it will break a brick...... It's really funny, that thing in the Black Flag Army is a child's house, right?! ”

"Haha, it turned out to be a mule's, it didn't work! It looks like it's pitch black, it's a row of fucking large slingshots! ”

The people on the walls were laughing, using words that mocked their enemies to boost their morale.

At this moment, the row of things over there suddenly let out a neat roar, and at least one hundred and fifty watermelon-like things flew towards the city wall.

"Here we go again!"

Someone shouted, "Find a plank to top it on!" ”

"Haha!"

Rumble!

Boom Boom!

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"Mother! Help me! ”

A soldier who had lost half of his left leg to the force of the shell explosion was lying on the ground wailing, and at this time he would not care if calling his mother was a bit embarrassing for an adult man. He just instinctively shouted for someone to help him. And no matter what time it is, the warmth of the mother is always the most reminiscent.

In the broken thigh, a piece of white Sensen's bone was exposed in the bloody flesh, and the bone stubble was like broken wood, burrs and thorns. The blood had already stained his body red, and his trousers had already been soaked in blood.

The wail made people's hearts furious, and that was because the fear in his heart had reached the extreme.

Something the size of the first watermelon smashed on the city wall, and nothing happened, and they began to ridicule the Black Flag Army's weapons for being so weak that people didn't care about it at all. But in the next second, the huge power of firearms let them know what hell on earth is.

Broken arms and legs, mixed with internal organs, stirred up, fell everywhere. A young soldier huddled under the battlements with his horizontal sword, his body shaking violently, he closed his eyes tightly and did not dare to look at the misery on the city wall, he was afraid that when he opened his eyes, he would see hell and not earth.

Syllable!

He felt a pain on his face, and subconsciously reached out and touched it, so he touched a large piece of minced meat from his face, sticky and greasy on his hand. This is supposed to be a large piece of skin, and you can see that there is hair on the skin, and if you look closely, you will recognize that it is the flesh on the forehead, and the hair is the eyebrows, and there is a layer of eyelids attached to the eyebrows.

With a click, a bloody ball fell from his hand, and it turned out to be an eyeball.

"Ahh

The soldier roared in fright, and his body kept shrinking back, but his back was already against the battlement, where could he retreat? This wall buttress is his biggest reliance, and it gives him a sense of security. Before his howl of terror could fall, a cannonball landed and was smashing into the battlement behind him.

The ensuing explosion shattered the wall, and the huge tearing force acted directly on the young soldier's back, and he was smashed into the air, and he was thrown directly to the ground and never moved again. This living life was taken away by death in just a second, leaving only a tattered shell.

The leather armor and clothes on his back were torn, the flesh and blood on his entire back were almost wiped off, and the remaining vertebrae had turned black, and he didn't know if it was his heart or other internal organs. I don't know how many broken bricks smashed into his back and out of his chest, and if he were to be opened, the wound on his chest would be as miserable as his back.

Boom!

A cannonball landed on the ballista with great force, and the ballista was blown apart. The arm-thick heavy crossbow was swept away by the impact, churned out, and then landed on the body of a soldier more than ten meters away. The soldier felt as if he had been beaten in the shoulder with an iron rod, and then had to rejoice in his good fortune that if the heavy crossbow had been stabbed straight through, he would have been dead by this time.

"Don't fucking stand still!"

The team was reaching out to pull him: "Get down!" Luck doesn't come twice in a row! ”

His hand used force, and the soldier he went to pull was easily pulled over by him, and when the team looked closely, they realized that they had pulled half of their body. A horizontal knife that had been knocked away by the explosion sliced through the soldier's lower abdomen and out from behind.

The walls were wailing, and the other side of the river was cheering.

This is war.

Those who cheer are always strong.

"Keep going!"

Andrew shouted excitedly, "Let the enemy taste the power of our latest artillery!" This cannon is already as powerful as the guns of the Opru Empire! Even stronger than theirs! ”

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"Cross the river!"

With Xiahou Baichuan's order, countless auxiliary soldiers began to rush forward. They had to create a passage for the soldiers in the shortest possible time, and the artillery battalion had tried to create the safest environment for them. Isn't the most advanced weapons creating the safest environment for the most ordinary people exactly how warfare is developing?

War is never won at the expense of human life.

The auxiliaries were built very quickly, they jumped into the river, the ropes tied to their bodies made them feel a little more steady, although the river was not very urgent, but no one dared to guarantee that it would not be washed away.

At regular intervals, a group of people wedged the stakes and laid the boards on top of them. It was an improvised bridge to allow the soldiers to cross the river as quickly as possible. In a moment they will have to build a larger pontoon bridge, because there are siege engines waiting to come up from behind.

The eyes of the people of Xiahou reflected the light of the fire on the city wall, and Yan Zeng ...... There was only anger and horror in his eyes.