Most of the time it was a swarm of bees in the morning, the effect was not very good, the distance was put into forty or fifty steps, the black turban army was not storming the mountain, pulling up the shield wall to block the front, and at the same time, behind the shield wall, a strong bow and a hard crossbow were organized to take turns to fire arrows on the mountain, and the stone artillery cart was also pushed to a hundred steps away, and a round of shelling of the mountain.

The scene of hot and cold weapons intertwining is particularly bizarre at this moment, as if it alternates back and forth between BC and the 19th century.

The fierce battle was extremely fierce, and the number of bows and crossbows of the Black Turban Army was outrageous, whether it was an infantry army or a crossbowman, each person had a bow, far more than the number of bows of the Xian army.

Previously, it was only known that Sun Guo was good at using a bow, and everyone could learn a bow and crossbow, so Zhiguo developed the Chaotian crossbow and the strong crossbow to counter Sun Jun.

In addition, the rebels also used rockets, not clusters of arrows with tarpaulins, but clusters of extended-range arrows with bamboo pipes of gunpowder, and ordinary light bows could attack targets from fifty or sixty paces away, although not very accurate, but enough to choke on them.

Moreover, the rebels are the most lethal long-range weapons with strong bows and hard crossbows, while light bows and other bows with a large number and short range use gunpowder extended-range arrows.

There is the lethality of a strong bow and a hard crossbow at such a close distance, and there is a light bow after the extended range afterburner in the distance, and even a swarm of bees, the balance of power in the distance and near is quite good, and the light and heavy firepower covers a range of two hundred meters, and the Baili Yan who came up to kill it in half a day even doubted his life.

Obviously, the Manchu government's Eight Banners Army and Green Camp Army, if there is this kind of combat organization coordination, use their brains to fight, the bow and crossbow can also be with the Eight-Nation Alliance Army on the road, if it is equipped with an effective range of more than 200 steps Chaotian, a range of 400 steps bed crossbow, I really can't think of 10,000 breech guns with an effective range of only 200 meters, how can they hang the Manchu government, even if it is a strong crossbow of the Qin Dynasty, the range is 800 meters, and there is also a ruler sight.

The fierce battle lasted until dark, and the Black Turban Army suddenly withdrew from the battlefield around the time of the day, for no other reason, night blindness caused by malnutrition, after Han Qi and others entered the camp, Bai Liyan discovered a situation. If the lights of the Xian army are controlled, the Black Turban Army can only raise fire and attack the mountain, which is very unfavorable.

A few years ago, the Black Turban Army counterattacked Xianxi County, and Zhao Xun used the light control to kill the Black Turban soldiers on a clear night.

Generally, the sky is cloudy, and the night vision limit of people can reach between 60 and 80 meters in the case of a long moon, 30 meters on a cloudy day, and at most more than 10 meters or even several meters in rainy weather. Between 60 and 80 meters is the limit of what a light bow can reach, not to mention a hard bow and a strong bow.

The Black Turban Army raised fire to attack the city, and the Xianjun City did not even have starlight, and the fire raisers outside the city were shot at the head and face of the arrow rain, after several turns, the strength of the Xian Army's night battle increased greatly, which was actually the inevitable result of nutrition keeping up.

In the early years of the Yongxing River offensive and defensive war, the Xian army also had ten ** night blindness, and rarely attacked at night, on the contrary, the Black Turban Army often crossed the river at night to attack, the reason was actually that the black turban army at that time had better non-staple food than the Xian army, and the Xian army was difficult to guarantee even basic rations, and the non-staple food was even more impossible. And now feng shui takes turns, and it is finally the turn of the Xianjun to sit in the village.

The battle subsided slightly, and Baili Yan rose to gather generals:

"General Gu, can there be statistics on casualties?"

"Deputy Marshal Qiqi, 273 killed, 1,504 lightly wounded, 351 seriously wounded, no one missing. The casualties were mainly burns, blast wounds, and arrow sores, especially in the afternoon, when the rebels fired 100,000 clusters of arrows at our troops, and almost everyone was firing arrows. ”

"Well, Sun Guo's bow and crossbow are powerful, and he really got it when I saw it today. Are there any statistics on the casualties of the rebels? ”

"There were more than 420 corpses, and more than 270 wounded and casualties, so it was estimated that the rebels should have suffered about 3,000 casualties, mainly in the morning and much less in the afternoon. The last general thought that tomorrow he should mobilize all the crossbowmen to prepare for the battle, and continue to consume, and when his reinforcements arrived in a few days, it would be very unfavorable to our army. ”

"Tomorrow all the crossbowmen will be transferred to the right camp, and the commander will send another 5,000 men to the right camp, and tomorrow the rebels will attack the mountain again, jump out of the trenches and launch an all-out counterattack, drive them away, and then turn to the defense."

"The last will obey."

……

"Jiang Jie, what is the direction of the wind tonight?"

"The northwest wind, weak, is conducive to launching air strikes to the southeast."

"Tomorrow, the right battalion will counterattack and retreat to the defensive line, and immediately release it to attack the rebels in the mountains with air fire, and we must prepare enough fuel."

"Yes."

Although hot air balloon bombing is enjoyable, the use is restricted by the wind and weather, whether it is holding or besieging the city, it is usually necessary to tie the hot air balloon gondola with a cable of three to five miles, and it is only used to attack smaller targets in the city and under the city.

Flying freely will make it difficult for the balloon to be recovered, and it may fall into enemy-occupied territory if it drifts away with the wind.

If the rope is too long, the weight of the rope will be a big problem, there is neither chemical fiber plastic polymer, nor nylon, hemp rope, cable is strong, but weight, strong water absorption after encountering water, the cable is too long, often can turn the hot air balloon down.

And the longer the rope, the more unstable the hot air balloon will become, due to the combined effect of the wind and the rope arm.

This fire attack was large, and it could only fly freely, and the hot air balloon flew southeast downwind, which happened to be the direction of the base camp of Sakura City, where the Zhi army was entrenched.

At the same time that the Xian army was raised, Zhou Kongzheng was greatly annoyed by the casualties on the first day, Gu Zhong only counted more than 400 corpses abandoned on the position, and more than 800 people were directly killed or missing by the defenders of Zhaocheng, except for more than 270 people who were captured and surrendered, more than 540 people were killed in battle, and more than 2,466 people were seriously wounded.

Compared with the Xian Army's complete medical injury sorting and rescue system, the wounded are treated gradually, the medicine is sufficient, the mortality rate is low, the Black Turban Army has neglected internal affairs for a long time, not to mention spending public funds to train ordinary Langzhong, and there is no surgery, the seriously wounded are sent back to the city in the morning, and their lives are whimpered in the afternoon, coupled with the lack of medical treatment and medicine, the total number of dead and missing people in the night exceeds 900.

"General Qiyu Zhou, the Xian army is guarding the top of the outer mountains, hiding in the trenches but not coming out, when they get close, they will use arson to throw explosive mines, and when they are far away, they will release cold arrows to hide in the trenches, and the brothers really can't rush up." The rebel general Zhang Ergou complained bitterly, and at the same time covered the bloody strip of cloth on his face, which was extremely painful.

At this time, the more Zhou Kong listened, the more angry he became, so he scolded:

"Useless things, the Xianjun threw explosive mines, what are the guys in your hands doing to eat, won't they light it and throw it over!"

"General Zhou, don't you know, the Xianjun army's bombing mines are different, their bombing mines are equipped with wooden handles, and they don't need to ignite them, they just pull a rope and get angry, and they throw thieves far away, twenty or thirty steps close, forty steps away, and even more than sixty steps, which is farther than a light bow.

Our explosive mines are about to ignite again, and from the bottom to the top, they are still not far from the Xianjun, and they have to roll on their own heads if they are not careful, which is really thankless. General Liu Damao defended that the grenades of the Xian army were undoubtedly a nightmare.

The Black Turban Army was equipped with a large number of bamboo barrels of gunpowder weapons, and the exogenous ignition weapons in which iron sand, copper slag and gunpowder were poured into the bamboo tubes.

"It's all your reason, then what do you say!" Zhou Kong asked.

"In my opinion, we still have to wait for the rainy day, and it is the end of April, and it is not possible to have a chance until the spring flood in May."

Guo Ping proposed, but in exchange for Zhou Kong's scolding:

"Fart! If it can be delayed until it rains in May, what else do you have to do in the mountains, General Ben simply sat back and waited for Ma Zheng to bring reinforcements. Listen to me, tomorrow Ben will personally supervise the battle, and if he doesn't take the outer mountains, Ben will withdraw you. ”

At this time, Han Qi said:

"General Zhou, should we change the way?"

Zhou Kong's eyes were stunned and he said sharply:

"What's the method?"

"The Xian army should be in a hurry to enter the mountain, once Ma Zheng's reinforcements arrive, they have no chance of winning. Now they are occupying the top of the mountain and waiting for our army to attack, they will defend us and attack, and we will definitely suffer the loss. If Bailiyan thinks like this, slowly consumed, their casualties are always smaller than ours, don't we suffer a big loss. ”

"But he is not in a hurry to enter the mountain, how can he capture Zhaocheng, and when Ma Zheng's reinforcements arrive, he is still not our opponent." Funk said.

Zhou Kong dragged his chin with his left hand, thoughtfully, and said after a while:

"Today, who are you waiting for to see the strange ball floating in the sky?"

"I don't think so."

"I don't see it."

"I was in a hurry to kill at the time, and I didn't pay attention."

Everyone was busy shaking their heads, but they didn't see it, and Zhou Kong sneered:

"Hmph, okay, okay, I said, how can the Baili dog thief be so calm, and he has a ruthless move."

Fang Ke didn't know why, and hurriedly asked:

"General Zhou, what kind of tricks?"

"Kill in a hurry, forget about this matter, every time the Xian army attacks the city, it will set fire to the air with a strange ball, or throw a thunder to attack the city, but this time Bailiyan does not use a strange ball to attack our army, isn't it a strange thing."

"Xu is a big forest, they can't see it." Fang Kedao.

"No, such a big forest, if we set a big fire, we won't be burned to the ground. The Baili dog thief must be trying to use the mountain to lure the main force of my Zhaocheng out of the city and go to the mountain, so that he can give him a big fire and burn the whole body, and then he will storm Zhaocheng again, and he can take Zhaocheng before Ma Zheng arrives, which is really vicious. ”

"Then what should we do, the forest is full of vegetation, we must not quit." Han Qi said worriedly.

"What's the hurry, didn't the Xian army build an embankment in Qinghe, let's dig the road leading from Qinghe to the mountains overnight, introduce water into the forest, cut down and drag away the trees around the camp, he dares to set fire, we live by the water, and he can still attack the mountains against the fire."

While Zhou Kong was speaking, a soldier outside the hall came in a panic to report:

"No, it's not good, General Zhou, more than one hundred and fifty brothers have run away."

When Zhou Kong heard the news, his anger jumped on his face, and he dragged the soldier to him and asked sharply:

"Run! Whose subordinates, where did they go! ”

"One is Liu Chao, a centurion under General Wang Cheng, and the other is Qida, a centurion under General Guo. Most of them surrendered to the Xian army. ”

"Scum!" Zhou Kong scolded, looking at Wang Cheng and Guo Ping angrily: "This is the good soldier you bringed, and the Xian army fought like this in a battle, and more than 150 people ran away, what did they eat." Go, go to the mountains, and if anyone surrenders to the enemy, Ben will never tolerate it. ”

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