Ma Chao learned about the previous battle situation with Sima Yi, and heard that the opponent was still a completely cold-armed army, so he asked Sima Yi disdainfully, "Zhongda, since the enemy is so weak, why are you waiting if you don't attack?" ”

Sima Yi smiled, "My General Meng Qi, you are the commander of the First Army, I don't dare to attack without you coming." ”

Ma Chao opened his mouth and laughed happily, he was willing to listen to this kind of thing, but he also knew that this was Sima Yi's overture to him, not the real reason.

"Zhongda, it's less coming, let's get to the point, I know that you have the most ghost ideas."

Sima Yi nodded and said: "Although I can attack the city, I am short of manpower, if I let so many Goguryeo people escape, it will be difficult to catch it again." “

"It's easy to do it when you come, they are all cavalry, we can completely surround them, and the second division of Chen Zhi is enough to attack the city."

Ma Chao had no objection, "Then Chen Zhi's second division will attack the city, they are infantry, and they are also the line, the third division and the Liaodong Army are responsible for dealing with the enemy who breaks through, just to see the power of the new artillery siege." ”

The next day, the sky was bright, and the second division of the Haotian Army began to prepare for the siege.

The field artillery of the Haotian Army Artillery Regiment was also neatly arranged, like soldiers waiting for review.

The Han army was preparing to attack the southern gate of Goguryi, which was also the closest gate to the camp.

The artillery regiment of the Haotian Army had eighteen field artillery pieces, organized into a field artillery battalion, and each company had six artillery pieces.

In addition, it has a baggage battalion, which includes artillery carriages, pack horses for towing artillery carriages, ammunition transport and supply vehicles, sappers for leveling artillery positions, etc.

There is also a guard battalion, which is used to protect the artillery and artillery of the artillery regiment, which is all a baby pimple.

In front of the artillery regiment's position were the positions of two divisional mortar battalions, and beyond that were the siege troops dug trenches and concealed and ready for action.

As Ma Chao gave the order to attack, the horn of the attack sounded through the Han army positions outside the city.

Eighteen field artillery pieces began to roar one after another, and the deafening sound of artillery continued.

This time the siege was carried out with solid bullets, and the battlements in the walls were blown to pieces.

The city gate, which was taken care of, also made an overwhelmed sound, and in any case, the gate was also wooden, but only wrapped in a layer of iron.

The walls of the city are even more dissatisfied with the deep craters, and huge cracks have appeared in many places that have fallen into disrepair.

Immediately afterwards, the mortars also joined the ranks of the siege, and the dense artillery fire and curved ballistics caused heavy losses to the Goguryeo army, which was accustomed to waiting for the enemy to attack at the head of the city.

They had seen how the firearms army attacked the city, and the heavy casualties made them hide in the hiding holes under the city walls without waiting for the generals to give orders.

Seeing that his long-range artillery fire had completely suppressed the defenders on the city, Chen Zhi immediately gave the order to attack the city and sounded the rapid charge.

There are no complicated siege machines, only the easiest ladders to make.

The warriors who served as the Sharp Knife Troops carried the ladder and galloped towards the city wall.

The trench they dug was less than two hundred zhang away from the city wall, and they changed the previous way of fighting when the starting position was four or five hundred zhang away.

Chen didn't dare to be careless, most of the officers and soldiers of the Sharp Knife Force, that is, the daredevils, were veterans transferred from the four main divisions and regiments, and they had rich experience.

They have experienced bloody battles, and they are not afraid of life and death, and they move forward bravely.

As the besieging troops rushed forward, they were getting closer and closer to the city walls, and the running soldiers had stopped shelling, and only the mortars extended their landing points to the inside of the city walls, and they were still firing one shot at a time.

Although they had never experienced an artillery siege, when they heard the sound of artillery stopping, the generals of Goguryeo instinctively felt that the Han army was about to attack the city, and they drove their subordinates to rush back to the city.

The Goguryeo soldiers who rushed to the head of the city found that hundreds of Han soldiers carrying ladders had rushed to the bottom of the city wall, and some people had even struggled to put the ladders up to the top of the city.

The Goguryeo soldiers tried to lean out, fire their bows and arrows, and prevent the enemy from climbing the ladder.

At this time, a crisp gunfire sounded under the city, and the soldiers of the Haotian Army, they squatted in their trenches, and they could easily aim at the enemy troops on the head of the city and fire.

The distance of two hundred zhang is too easy for Ma's rifle, and the Han soldiers with better marksmanship can shoot their heads.

Thousands of rifles under the city suppressed the fire together, even outnumbering the number of defenders on the city.

So the daredevils who set up the ladder and began to climb up were not disturbed in the slightest.

They were as agile as apes, with their rifles behind their backs and bayonets in their mouths, and in ten seconds, they climbed to the top of the city five or six feet high.

At such a close distance, the rifle can't be used, but you can throw out a grenade first!

After blowing up the Goguryeo people, the Han army rushed into the crowd with bayonets.

Since the muskets were fully equipped, the Central Army has listed white-knuckle fighting and bayonet fighting as key training subjects.

The previous skills of using spears have also been integrated, and Lu Bu specially wrote the skills he learned to fight bayonets into a simple and easy-to-understand booklet to teach the whole army.

"Anti-left stab! Anti-right stab! It has become a classic slogan on the training ground of the Central Army!

All the officers and men of the Central Army have been trained in this area through a lot of actual combat training, and their fighting skills have been improved.

So now in the case of hand-to-hand combat, how to correctly use a bayonet, or even use the butt of a gun to hit the opponent, has already formed a routine.

Seeing that hundreds of Han soldiers had gone up to the city, Chen Zhi waved his hand, and the second group of troops immediately rushed out of the trenches and rushed towards the city wall, only a lot of military exploits were shining in their eyes.

Prince Baqi, who had never seen the power of firearms, was completely dead this time, and the idea of the invincibility of the Han army spread uncontrollably and rapidly once it was born.

Prince Baqi immediately ordered the northern gate to be opened and took the lead in escaping.

Although the Han army that rushed to the city was only a few hundred, the Goguryeo army was already frightened and fled from the north gate with their princes.

Chen Zhi saw that the Goguryeo people began to flee and was not in a hurry.

He knew that Ma Chao and the Third Division were waiting for them on the periphery! He just ordered his subordinates to rush to the head of the city, open the south gate, and then lead the whole division into the city.

This time it was the Han people's own city, so naturally they would not burn and loot.

Prince Baqi, who escaped from the north city gate, knew that Ji'an was occupied by the Han army and could not go back, so now he could only run north, run back to the Changbai Mountain area, where his own nation began, and then make plans.

It's a pity that Ma Chao and Wenpin's Third Division have long been waiting outside the north gate, and Gongsun Gong's 30,000 Liaodong Army is guarding the other two directions.

Ma Chao chose the direction where the enemy was most likely to break through and escape, and sure enough, he waited for Prince Baqi steadily.

Weak (leiruo)

(End of chapter)