Chapter 966: Weapons and People

Is there a just war in this world?

Exist!

This is indisputable. For example, when a powerful empire attacks its neighbors, the neighbors' revolt is just. But there is no justice at all in today's war, whether it is the defending Gao Jiajun or the attacking Black Flag Army, they are not the righteous side.

There are good and evil in man, and there are also wars.

But it is also undeniable that seven or eight times out of ten wars since ancient times have nothing to do with justice, but only for profit. In particular, none of the initiators of war, it seems, are in order to maintain world peace. How miserable the walls of Liyin City were, how strong the cheers in the artillery battalion of the Black Flag Army were, these are all components of the war.

No one wants to be the one who wails.

But war is fair, and the strong laugh and the weak cry. There is naturally no shortage of examples of the weak defeating the strong in the world, but if you think about it carefully from ancient times to the present, how many such examples are there?

How many of them are made up?

Xiahou Baichuan ordered the river to be crossed, and the auxiliary soldiers of the Black Flag Army began to build a bridge. Although there were artillery battalions for absolute suppression on the ramparts, it was impossible to leave the enemy without any counterattack. The archers of the defenders of Liyin City began to return fire, and the massive losses of the ballistas turned their main weapon into feathered arrows.

I have to say that Yan Zeng is really a general.

In the face of such a terrible situation, the soldiers under his command were still able to organize a counterattack in the shortest possible time. Of course, the number of soldiers involved in the counterattack is really limited. Feathered arrows flew down from the walls and landed on the river, and some auxiliaries shouted down. His companion reached for it, holding him by the ankle to keep him from being swept away by the current. The blood from the arrow kept flowing out, and soon a red line appeared in the river.

Every auxiliary soldier is tied with a rope, and the people on the shore immediately rescue someone when they see someone hit an arrow, Fang Xie has been instilling a concept in every Black Flag Army soldier for so many years, whether it is a soldier or an auxiliary soldier...... On the battlefield, try not to abandon any of your companions.

Even if it's a corpse.

"Ask Andrew, can the number of artillery pieces be increased a little more!"

Seeing that the auxiliaries had lost a lot, Xiahou Baichuan commanded the soldiers loudly. The soldiers hurriedly rushed out and ran to the front to ask, and then got a very positive answer...... No!

Andrew's original words were: "The lord said that the use of artillery has not yet reached the time of full rollout, and if the number of artillery in our team is exposed too early, it will definitely not be a beneficial thing for the future battle situation." If the lord is there, he may order an increase in the number of artillery to suppress the counterattack of the defenders on the city wall, but as the person who commands the artillery battalion, I will definitely not increase the artillery without authorization! ”

Such an answer made Xiahou Baichuan unable to argue, and he could only order the auxiliaries to carry shields up.

Finally, the first bridge was built across the river.

"Cross the river!"

With an order, the soldiers of the Black Flag Army carrying the ladder began to rush to the other side of the river, and the soldiers who had been in battle for a long time knew very well that the most lethal place of the enemy's feathered arrows was the section where they ran under the city wall after crossing the river. At this time, you can't move forward in a system, you can't form a shield formation, and the only thing you can rely on is your two legs, how fast you run. When they really reached the bottom of the city walls, the enemy archers were not easy to aim.

Groups of Black Flag soldiers rushed to the edge of the city wall with ladders, and everyone didn't want to repeat what they had done the next day. Each repetition means that countless people will stay on this land forever.

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A Black Flag soldier was hit by an arrow in the chest, and the armor-piercing cone tore through the leather armor and drilled directly into his heart, and he only had time to let out a muffled grunt and then fell, he fell to the ground, and the ladder also fell. The soldier behind shouted, and quickly ran forward to take his place.

What is Trained?

The simplest manifestation of this is that the soldiers know very well what to make the right decisions on the battlefield.

The first bridge was built, and the second bridge was built...... An hour later, at least a dozen bridges lay across the river, and if you look down from the sky, the dozen or so black lines look like ants moving. It was a steady stream of soldiers of the Black Flag Army who were rushing in the direction of Liyin City, and as the number reached the scale, the proportion of losses decreased.

Subsequent shieldbearers began to shield the feathered arrows for other soldiers, and the artillery battalion began to change shells. After clearing the ballistas from the city walls, the soldiers of the artillery battalion replaced the penetrating shells they had previously used with ***. The shrapnel of this kind of artillery shell spreads out more and is more lethal to people.

"Pour fire oil, don't let the Black Flag Army get close to the city wall!"

Yan Zeng, who had a dusty face, held his hand on the city wall and shouted loudly, the reserve team had already been transferred in advance and began to pour fire oil under the city wall, and then threw down the torches. The flames rose instantly, and the temperature was so high that the soldiers on the city wall did not dare to pop their heads out at all. This made the defenders uncomfortable, but it effectively separated the Black Flag soldiers who were about to put the ladder on the wall.

"Extinguish the fire!"

When the general of the auxiliary battalion saw the fire, he immediately commanded the other auxiliary troops to carry the soil and rush forward across the river. Although the danger of death faced by auxiliaries is much smaller than that of soldiers, after all, not every war needs auxiliaries to work so desperately. But once they rush to the front, they die much faster than the soldiers. For the leather armor on them is not as thick as the leather armor of the soldiers.

"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! ”

The archers on the city wall had already shouted out their voices, and the hoarse voice was like a broken bellows, and every time they pulled, the sound was extremely uncomfortable.

The speed at which the living turn into corpses is so fast that even the Grim Reaper has no time to count them.

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"Put it on the nail shoot!"

With a hoarse shout, the nail rackets that could still be used on the city wall were lowered heavily. Although most of the nails were destroyed in the bombing, the few remaining nails still pose a death threat to the Black Flag soldiers. The nails are all one-foot-long wolf tooth nails, which can easily break through the hardest skulls of people under the force of gravity after falling from the city wall.

The nail was put down, and when it was pulled up again, there was even a corpse hanging on it.

Xiahou Baichuan frowned, the news from the Xiao Cavalry School said that Yan Zeng was a very capable general, and Gao Kaitai's team was not as many ordinary people as other forces, you must know that Gao Kaitai rebelled at the beginning, and he also brought pure Great Sui soldiers!

Although Gao Kaitai has been constantly recruiting and expanding the army over the years, he has a large number of outstanding generals in the Great Sui Army under his command, and after several years of fighting and training, the combat power of the recruits is not weak!

To be honest, this is a team that the Black Flag Army has encountered that can really be compared to the soldiers of the Black Flag Army in terms of combat power. How powerful the infantry of the Great Sui was, only the army that had been ravaged by the infantry of the Great Sui really understood. Eastern Chu, Southern Yan, including Mengyuan. Of course, it also includes Nan Chen and North Zheng, who have been destroyed by the Great Sui.

You must know that in the Great Sui Dynasty, when the Northwest fought with the Mengyuan wolf cavalry, relying on the unparalleled formation changes and the flawless cooperation between the various arms, hundreds of thousands of Mengyuan cavalry left behind not only 100,000 corpses, but also the myth of their victory in a hundred battles.

Some people have been suspecting that the infantry led by Yang Jian at the beginning actually killed two or three times the number of enemies in the face of wolf cavalry twice as large as themselves, and if they really saw the coordination changes and formations of the elite soldiers of the Great Sui, such doubts would be reduced a lot. If you have seen the founding soldiers of the Great Sui who have conquered Firefox City and Chang'an City from the south to the north again, I am afraid that no one will doubt it anymore.

At the beginning, no one thought that the cavalry would lose so badly to the infantry in the field battle on the plains, and the Great Sui had created such a myth!

Now, it's two real elites at war.

"Make the enemy desperate......"

Xiahou Baichuan saw that his team's attack was blocked, and the large siege equipment couldn't go up for a while, and couldn't help but think of Fang Jie's explanation before leaving.

"The best way to defeat a really elite army is not to hit them physically, because they have learned to persevere and become tough. Only by making them desperate and lose their fighting spirit will an elite army be defeated as quickly as possible. Just like when Li Yuanshan led the Mengyuan wolf into the pass on the northwest battlefield, he was desperate and let the 700,000 Great Sui elites disappear like ice and snow. ”

Fang Jie's words echoed in Xiahou Baichuan's mind.

"The reason why I did my best to build the artillery battalion was naturally to make the battle more smooth in the future, but in the final analysis, it was to reduce the number of deaths of the Black Flag soldiers. The strength of the weapon will make the probability of the soldiers dying in battle even lower. And you have to remember that no matter how expensive a weapon is, it can't compare to human life. ”

suddenly thought of this sentence, and Xiahou Baichuan's eyes changed.

He urged the horse to rush directly to the side of the artillery battalion, and when he saw that Andrew was directing the artillery battalion to fire, he jumped off his horse and strode to Andrew's side: "Andrew! I'm going to withdraw my attacking team now, but your artillery can't stop! ”

"Why!"

Andrew was stunned for a moment, and then shouted loudly: "Your army has stopped attacking, how can I continue to waste artillery?" General Xiahou, do you know how expensive this cannonball is! ”

"All I know is that shells are worth no life!"

Xiahou Baichuan roared: "The artillery battalion must not stop, let the enemy's defense completely collapse." I want to leave not a single intact brick on the city walls to stand on, and make the enemy's soldiers weak at the thought of going up to the city! ”

Andrew was startled by Xiahou Baichuan's roar, and subconsciously took a step back.

He turned his head to look at the side of the city wall, and then looked at Xiahou Baichuan's face: "Okay, but you must contact the team as soon as possible, the number of cannonballs I brought is not enough to raze the city wall to the ground!" ”

"No, I don't."

Xiahou Baichuan suddenly discovered something, and pointed to the side of the city wall of Liyin City: "Perhaps, the direction of our attack at the beginning was a little off." ”

Andrew looked in the direction of Xiahou Baichuan's finger, was stunned for a moment and laughed: "Yes, we should shoot over there!" ”

Liyin City

It was built according to the mountain.

The connection between the city wall and the cliff wall is the weakest, and there are many huge rocks protruding from the stone wall.

"I'll bring ten guns over and blow a hole through there!"