"What? Is it a problem to escape from the battle? ”

"Yes! This is truly an ancient anecdote! ”

Hearing such shocking words, many people can no longer bear it. However, this time, although many people left the team, in the end there were about 400 people left, and each squadron was reduced to about 80 people.

When many people finally chose to quit, it looked like the remaining 400 people were ready to fight for their lives, and although the formation was relatively loose, it was still clear that the front and back were behind. Suddenly, an officer who dared to come over handed out some very rudimentary wooden shields to those who were preparing to attack. The wooden shield is not very large, but the psychological safety of people is unprecedented: "You bravely chose to stand at the front, instead of standing at the end like some others, then you should be treated like this?" Who has objections? ”

Although many people regret that they were too far back in the line at the beginning, there seems to be little room for change at this time.

Instead of preparing to attack along the head of the city as expected, the five prepared attack squadrons launched a surprise attack on the enemy-controlled head of the city outside the east of Andingmen from a very close distance from the direction of the dirt slope using the bridges that had already been quietly erected.

The front of the Ming army outside the city was silent, and there was no light at all. Anyone with a little experience in the battlefield can understand that this is one of the signs that the defenders of the city have long been prepared. It is absolutely unwise to attack at this time.

There were no war drums, only the shouting of the tide after the cannon horn sounded as a signal! When the whole army began to rush up, many of the incendiary objects thrown by the trebuchets that had been prepared also illuminated the entire part of the city that was about to be attacked as bright as day.

The fire brought by this support still made the volunteer death squad of about 400 people show the courage of the ordinary soldiers, and rushed towards the enemy formation at the head of the city, which seemed to be unknown.

It was only when someone began to show the head of the city that a burst of powerful bows and arrows shot from many of the overturned fortresses built on the opposite side. At about the same time, the enemy outside the city seemed to have been prepared for a long time, and the same prepared trebuchets threw a lot of thunder and incendiary materials from a distance of 200 paces away.

The power of the Ming army's arrows during the attack was not particularly strong, after all, many of the strong crossbow making techniques of the Song and Song dynasties in this era have been lost with the popularization of firearms. Although there are many people in the Liaodong army who can shoot a strong bow of more than one stone, they are also rare. However, even the selected war archers, who could only shoot five to seven buckets, spread their arrows with hunting bows of up and down four buckets, posing a great threat to those who had little decent protection beyond the very rudimentary shields of the front team.

Just the continuous rain of arrows caused the more than 400 people of the attacking five-way column to suffer casualties of 60 or 70 people, and when the continuous explosions sounded in the trenches, many people fell into the three-zhang deep ditch between the inner wall and the city wall in the shocking explosions, and they were either dead or maimed.

The enemy's premeditated preparations and far more firepower than expected, and even the continuous screams and casualties began to shake the vast majority of the four hundred men a little. When a more dense rain of arrows came from the city, and there were people in front of and on the left and right who were wounded and bleeding in this kind of battle, the entire death squad of more than 400 people could no longer bear it when they suffered nearly half of the casualties and 70 or 80 people died in the battle.

The figure of the warlord and even the voice brought by it never seemed to appear from the rear of the attacking team, and the psychological defense line of hundreds of people finally collapsed at this time, and most of them chose to flee at this time, and in the end, there were only a few people in each attacking team, and more than a dozen people were still using their shields to insist on fighting.

At this time, one after another fire dragons fell from the sky, and the team responsible for covering also began to cover violently with black powder grenades, and the continuous explosions seemed to form a dense wall of smoke, and the sight of the enemy troops on the city's head. Just as the remaining officers and soldiers were about to continue the attack, the gong for the collection of troops suddenly sounded at this time. The first battle of the Volunteer Army ended in defeat with little success.

It's just that Zhou Dayong and the others, who secretly observed with binoculars and firelight, were quite relieved. Because through careful preparation, many of those who are not afraid of danger on the battlefield are still screened out in such situations. However, this selection must be carried out in secret, as required. For those who participated in this night attack, all of them had to be frustrated, otherwise it was likely that only brave soldiers would be selected, and not really qualified idealistic backbones.

When the brave warriors found out that there were no rewards, and no one was included in the Son of Heaven's personal guard camp as expected, there were only disappointments and sighs of disappointment. When this kind of recruitment began again, the number of applicants was much smaller, and there were only 300 applicants, compared to the previous 1,200.

This kind of inexplicable, covering momentum is very strong, and the team that is engaged in the attack seems to be relatively brave, but the equipment and training are not very good, and the strange offensive also makes Cao Wenzhao and the others in charge of this section of the area feel inexplicable. However, I still guess that this is most likely a speculation to paralyze yourself. Therefore, after this battle, many people began to be transferred to the smaller but more elite team of family members. A lot of artillery in the battalions also began to be prepared. Cao Wenzhao guessed: After this inexplicable "feint", the defenders' counteroffensive in the real sense is very likely to come.

However, the next day, when the so-called "feint" began again, the momentum was smaller than before. Although the defenders used a lot of new types of ignition and lighting ammunition, they could not put in many heavy stone shells and heavy lead bullets that could destroy the masonry fortifications on the city head. Once again, the small tentative assault of the defenders of the city on the positions near Andingmendong seemed to have been easily thwarted.

Such a repeated feint attack began to change positions after two attacks, and continued in other places such as Dongzhimen, but the scale of the fight became smaller and smaller, and the expected full-scale counterattack of the defenders in the city never came, and it was not until this time that Sun Chengzong and others, who understood the situation, seemed to sense something.

(End of chapter)