Chapter 142: Desperate Yang Lang

Thousands of soldiers lined up in the valley.

Under the pressure between the green hills on both sides, the valley was so embarrassed that even a battalion could not be deployed.

Yang Jingxin rode a horse and stood in front of the whole army, but unfortunately this mount was just a Dian horse and could not go to the battlefield.

He swept his gaze over the army, and found some long ladder planks in the midst of the army.

These long ladders are just from the bamboo forest on the side, and they are made of local materials. Many of the bamboo leaves on the bamboo have not been cleaned, and they are still verdant, as if they grow on the bamboo. Looking further behind, I saw a team of men and horses guarding a cannon.

Although these cannons cannot be compared with the Hongyi cannons, they are enough to restrain the cannons on the walls of Puningsuo.

That's all the siege equipment that the whole army has prepared.

With these artillery formations, if you bombard the city for a day or two first, and then send people to the city, it will not be difficult for a strong man to conquer the city in three days.

It's just that Yang Jingxin has already opened Haikou in Li Dingguo, and it will be decided in one day, so he can't do this.

He didn't speak, just turned over and dismounted, took off his helmet and armor, and stood shirtless in front of the whole army, with only a red forehead on his head on his upper body. The muscles on his body bulged, and there were scars that were as hideous as centipedes, most of which were left when he broke through. From a distance, it looks like a Western sculpture, and it smells of manhood all over its body. He said loudly: "I have already said in front of the prince, conquer this city today, if you don't resist, come and see you." It's already noon, which means it's only half a day. ”

"I'm the vanguard, brothers just need to follow me, if you can't attack it, when I die, bring my head to the prince."

Then he pulled out a long knife with his backhand, put a spear under his armpit with his left hand, shouted, and said, "Brothers, follow me." ”

For lower-level officers, generals like Yang Jingxin are the most worthy of follow, and for a while, all the soldiers shouted loudly and rushed over with Yang Jingxin.

Although Yang Jingxin took the lead in the charge, if you look down from the sky, you can still clearly see that the formation in Yang Jingxin's army is not actually chaotic, although there is some confusion among the non-commissioned officers around each officer, as long as there is a slight pause, they can immediately form a queue.

This is the result of Yang Jingxin's daily training.

At the same time, the roar of running was not the Qing army's cannons, but the Xia army's cannons.

Yang Jingxin's arrangement can be called bold, he actually wants to attack the city under the cover of artillery fire.

Many tactical actions that later generations are accustomed to were a bold creation at the time, after all, the accuracy of artillery fire in this era determined,

It is to fight his own people with the enemy. Although Zhang Xuan has always emphasized artillery operation technology.

But the congenital defects of the artillery casting technology of this era, the accuracy of the artillery itself is not enough. In addition, the cost of training a qualified gunner is also very large. Just as sharpshooters are fed with bullets, so are really qualified gunners with gunpowder.

When the finances of the Great Xia Dynasty were stretched, where was there so much money to waste, artillery didn't need money, or gunpowder didn't need money?

As a last resort, Xia Jun's requirements for gunners were naturally lowered.

The level of the gunner is not good in the first place, and doing such a dangerous tactic again is like sending him to death. I don't know how many accidental injuries there will be. is only a fierce general like Yang Jingxin, who does not take his life as a thing, and leads the team to death. In order to stabilize the morale of the military up and down.

Otherwise, the soldiers found that many people had died under the fire of their own people, and that would hurt their morale.

After Li Dingguo was in the battle, he held a clairvoyant mirror to see Yang Jingxin's arrangements one by one, and he had to admire in his heart, Yang Jingxin's decision was extremely courageous, and he was a rare general in the world.

Sure enough, under the artillery fire of the Xia army, the Qing army above Puning was stunned for a while. On the one hand, they faced the artillery fire of the Xia army and wanted to dodge.

With the large-scale use of artillery in warfare, many simple anti-artillery means have also been invented, such as when the enemy shells, only a few people are left above the city, and the rest of the people are hiding under the city, waiting for the artillery fire to subside, and then it is not too late to go to the city.

But they thought that Xia Jun rushed over with a roar, and even many shells smashed into Xia Jun's own people, but they were still unmoved, as if it was not their own people who died.

They could only withstand the artillery fire while firing at the Xia army.

It's just that although the artillery of the Xia army is not called a cannon, it is also a little larger than the artillery of the Qing army. The amount is also a little more. For a time, the people in the city turned on their backs. However, for the Xia army who rushed to the city, the artillery fire of his own people can still kill people.

However, everyone saw Yang Jingxin rushing to the front. The artillery fire did not spare him either.

Several shells passed by Yang Jianxin.

The main general is still like this, and no matter how scared the soldiers below are, they dare not waver in the slightest. I can only rush hard.

When Yang Jingxin led the team to rush to the city, the artillery of the Xia army suddenly stopped.

Yang Jingxin was suddenly annoyed in his heart, and said secretly: "What's going on?" ”

His order to the artillery team was that if his flag was not planted on the top of the city, the artillery could not be stopped. It's just that this artillery team is not subordinate to him, but only under his command in this battle, and the artillery team is directly under the command of the Governor's Palace, that is, the command of the King of Dian.

Yang Jingxin buried his head in the charge, perhaps not paying attention. But the artillery team behind saw it clearly, and along the way, Yang Jingxin's department died

Of the hundreds of people, half of them died at the hands of the artillery team, and the remaining half were killed and wounded by the artillery fire of the Qing army.

And the farther they got to the front wall, the more their own people died under their fire.

None of them dared to open fire.

It's just that at this time, Yang Jingxin didn't care about anything else, shouted loudly, and started to climb the city with a bamboo ladder.

When the Qing army's artillery fire stopped, it suddenly played a normal level, and for a time on the city wall more than one zhang high, a tragic battle began.

Under the command of Yang Jingxin, a team of musketeers stopped at a distance of only a few zhang under the city, and fired at the head of the city with rows of guns, and Yang Jingxin went to take the lead in person, taking hundreds of warriors to take the bamboo ladder to the city.

For a while, they didn't let each other go an inch for a long time.

However, just like Li Dingguo's evaluation of Yang Jingxin, Yang Jingxin can afford the four words of courage. He ascended the city three times, was pushed down twice, turned over and fought again, and finally opened a breakthrough from the city when he ascended the city for the third time.

Yang Jingxin's department was able to gain a firm foothold in the city.

Seeing this, Li Dingguo naturally would not give up this great opportunity, and with a wave of his hand, a team of horses rushed over.

Of course, this team of horses is riding all Yunnan horses, much shorter, but it is not possible to charge in battle, but there is no problem in using it for transportation. In just a few moments, the first group of people and horses to support came to the bottom of Puning.

A steady stream of reinforcements descended from this gap to the top of the Puningsuo wall.

The general of Puning immediately knew that the tide was turning.

There are only 3,000 soldiers in the entire Puning Institute, and they can still defend it by relying on the city wall, but now they are in a melee, even if the heroes under his command are very, with one enemy three, five enemies, and ten enemies, under the continuous reinforcements of the enemy army, they will eventually be wiped out.

So the guards of Puning, seeing that the situation was not good, fled with the remnants of the defeated generals.

Then the army entered the city.

Li Dingguo saw Yang Jingxin again at the gate of Puningsuo.

From a distance, Yang Jingxin looked like a mummy, wrapped in gauze all over his body. But he rushed forward, although he had good courage, was not fatally injured, and had all four limbs, but there was not a single intact skin on his body, as if he had been fished out of blood.

Li Dingguo looked at Yang Jingxin and said, "Okay, let's rest first." When it will be useful to you in the future. ”

"Yes." Yang Jingxin still stood like a pine, and it seemed that he was not affected by the wounds on his body at all.

Li Dingguo climbed the north gate of Puning, looked at the past from a distance, and suddenly opened up in front of him, although there are still mountains in the distance as a background, but it seems that the continuous mountains have become a thing of the past.

The Sichuan Basin is already in sight.