Chapter 55: The General Offensive Begins

No matter what Xu Shiyang himself thinks, the South Gate side is only a containment force in the overall tactical planning, and there are only 6 dock forts participating in the battle.

And the north in charge of his father Xu Muhe is the main attack position, where the Xu family deployed a huge force of 9 dock forts, intending to break into the bandit cottage in one fell swoop.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang's attack was earlier than that of the north, and he needed to exert the maximum pressure on the bandits as much as possible to attract the opponent's attention to the south gate and create opportunities for the main force of the north gate.

All this is the idea of the head of the family, in fact, it is really strictly implemented according to Xu Mujiang's idea, since the commander-in-chief of the north is Xu Muhe, Xu Shiyang should not be allowed to take the front in the south.

Because the battle in the south is obviously more dangerous, both sides have the people in the second room in front, which will give people the feeling that the head of the house is deliberately weakening the strength of the second room.

After being the head of the family for so many years, Xu Mujiang knows very well how important it is to maintain the balance within the family, and the consequence of his family's dominance is not that the long house becomes stronger, but that the entire Xu family may fall into a catastrophe.

It's just that Xu Shiyang has completely different ideas from classical old-school figures like the head of the family, and he needs to set up a banner to boost everyone's self-confidence.

If other dock forts go up first and are repelled a few times by bandits like the Rodo, where will they have the confidence to face the Tartars in the future?

It's better to go directly to the front yourself, solve the problem at one time, and use bandits to train your subordinates by the way.

That's right, the task Xu Mujiang gave him was just to attract the attention of the bandits, and Xu Shiyang's own idea was to change the feint attack to the main attack, or in other words, the north and south roads were the main attack, and directly let the bandits take care of one and lose the other, and break the village in one fell swoop.

Headed by Xu Shiyang, all the officers and personal soldiers of the 15th Tun were scattered in the team to be responsible for the grassroots command, and there were only 100 soldiers and 50 auxiliary soldiers in the attack team, and there were almost 30 people with grassroots command ability scattered, this configuration can be called luxury, and it is enough to ensure that Xu Shiyang's tactical intentions can be effectively implemented.

The two previous attacks have already tested the general attack range of the bandits' bows and arrows - in fact, even with the height bonus, the opponent can only pose a threat to targets within the last bend.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang completely ignored the insults and strange screams of the bandits in the distance, and commanded his subordinates to march through the previous road like a military parade.

"One, two, one! The whole team! One, two, one! The whole team! ”

Xu Shiyang was wearing a gorgeous armor, brandishing a long knife and shouting a password, he still stopped in three to five steps, but his speed was not slow, he had just set off, and in the blink of an eye, he had come to the vicinity of the last crooked corner.

"Stand upright!"

Boom la la .......

Everyone stood still, straightened their backs and stared coldly at the wall.

Xu Shiyang stood at the front, his brows furrowed slightly, the voice that stood just now was very uncrisp, and it dragged on for almost 5 seconds, if it was in the previous life, any junior high school class that had undergone military training would not be like this.

However, this kind of uniform queue, appearing on the battlefield of this feudal militia against bandits, was enough to shock everyone who participated in the war.

The soldiers in Xu Shiyang's queue all held their heads high and were in the midst of the collective, which made these honest peasants who had been honest all their lives have a peculiar feeling, as if they were omnipotent.

Although they were thinly clothed, and the only armor on their bodies was a thin wooden shield, they were all proudly dressed as if they were wearing the armor of the god of war, and they firmly believed that no one in the world could pose a threat to them.

Behind them, the other militiamen of the same family were looking at them with a mixture of surprise, envy, and even jealousy.

These comrades-in-arms couldn't understand why the same militia of the Xu family planted the land of the Xu family and ate the grain of the Xu family, and the gap in momentum would be so big?

No wonder the people of the fifteenth tun were able to defeat the Tartars.

As for the bandits, they had been frightened by the indomitable momentum of the 15th Tun militia, from the strange screams and curses at the beginning, to the gradual subsidence of the voices, and finally the silence of death, the whole process did not exceed a quarter of an hour.

By the time the militia was in place, some of the bandits couldn't help but want to escape from the cottage.

Although the current Wuxiantun militia is only very similar, and the actual situation is far from the level of the modern army, the collective strength is so terrifying, even if the surface is bright, it is enough to frighten these bandit troops on the battlefield who were not in the feudal era.

"......Hurry up, go and tell the big boss ...... that you can't hold the ...... here."

The cronies and bandits who stayed at the south gate to direct the defense dragged a guy with fast legs and feet, trembling and shouting loudly in his ear: "Tell him to come back quickly!" Fast! Come on! ”

The bandit got the order and hurriedly ran down the wall, although it was not safe to hide anywhere after the Xu family broke the village, but this guy still instinctively wanted to avoid the breathless opponent in front of him.

It was at this moment that the offensive began.

Following Xu Shiyang's command, the soldiers lined up in two rows turned left and right (in the eyes of the onlookers) and stood on the edge of the road, giving way to a position about one person wide in the middle.

The auxiliaries in the back immediately worked in pairs, pushing the anti-arrow hangers on the wheelbarrows, and crossed the warbands in the middle and entered the range of the bandits' bows and arrows.

These auxiliaries were not responsible for the attack, they only had to frame the improvised shield cart on the side of the road parallel to the wall, forming a wooden improvised fortification.

The auxiliaries pushed 25 improvised shield carts, and it wasn't until they had 8 of them neatly arranged that the stunned bandits reacted - they were still fighting!!

"Hurry up and release the arrows!" The bandit leader who was left by the Luo Dao people to defend the south gate yelled hysterically: "Don't be stunned! Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! ”

The first wave of feathered arrows flew down from the wall, but in the panic, the bandit leaders did not arrange the proper order of fire, some of the bandits targeted soldiers outside the range, others attacked the shield cart in vain.

Then again, whoever they attack at this time is in vain.

The auxiliaries were visibly flustered as the rain of arrows flew down (and the soldiers were similar), but soon they realized that the shoddy arrows were no threat to them, and none of them were injured except for the annoying sound of the doodle sticking on the baffle.

So the militiamen relieved themselves, worked in peace, and soon blocked the most dangerous parallel roads with shield cars.

There were a few left, ready to be used to cover the soldiers crossing the road perpendicular to the gate of the last dozen paces.

"Prepare the wooden cannon!"

Xu Shiyang waved his hand to the soldiers behind him, and immediately several of his own soldiers brought two specially reinforced wooden cannons.

The two wooden cannons were reinforced with three iron hoops according to the "traditional process", and then tied with two layers of hemp rope according to a simple process, so that they could withstand greater bore pressure, and although they could still only fire one shot, they could already be used to fire solid projectiles.