Chapter 363: The Battle of the Clear Water River (6)
"Bed crossbow set fire rapid." When Wang Houchun arrived at the city tower, Zhang Sheng was holding a command flag and ordering Sima Daoxin's county soldiers to fire crossbow arrows, and more than a dozen crossbow arrows whistled out towards the Guiyi army swarming in the distance. The range of the bed crossbow can be as high as 800 steps, which is about 400 meters away from the current Datang side, and this range basically coincides with the range of the rifle, but the county soldiers are not equipped with rifles for the time being, so they can only rely on these bed crossbows to make up for the lack of firepower for the time being.
Cao Rengui was already red-eyed at this time, so there was no temptation at all, as soon as he came up, the whole army pressed up, and after countless torches were erected, the range within 100 meters outside the city was like daylight, and countless soldiers of the Guiyi Army were urged by horns and war drums to rush up without any formation, and countless engineering equipment were formed one after another in the rear of the army and then drove up with the army.
"The Anzay battalion opened fire immediately." Zhang Sheng saw Wang Houchun standing beside him, immediately took a breath, and began to issue various orders in an orderly manner, all the soldiers of the Anxi battalion who were lined up on the city wall began to shoot, the three-stage method of battle is the most suitable for defending the city, after the rows of rifles fired, the continuous bullets were like a storm and there was no gap, and the soldiers of the Guiyi Army who came up in the wind were killed in batches without having a chance to get close to the city wall.
But before Zhang Sheng could get happy, Cao Rengui outside the city also reacted, and began to let the hoplites step forward, after the rows of shields covered, although the rifle bullets were still sharp, but the armor-piercing ability of the Mini bullet was really not good, although the bullets poured over like a storm, and the shields in front of them were constantly penetrated, but after all, the casualties were reduced, and the pace of advancement was also stable. Moreover, the battering rams and bed crossbows in the rear also began to fire and roar towards the towers, and the casualties of the Anxi battalion began to increase.
"General Sima, let your people immediately pick up bows and arrows to assist in the defense, and order the auxiliaries to prepare other equipment for me to throw down, and after two hours of support, there is nothing to fear." Zhang Sheng saw a huge crossbow arrow nailed to the city tower beside him, and immediately yelled at Sima Daoxin after his temper came up. And with his voice, the archers who had been prepared by the county soldiers for a long time bent their bows and arrows in rows, and countless arrows were fired out in an instant the next moment, and Sima Daoxin's voice on the side also sounded, "Throw the catapult to me, roll the stone and roll the wood, hurry up." "In fact, when it comes to defending the city, Sima Daoxin is much more experienced than Zhang Sheng, he is originally a garrison general, and it is his duty to defend the city, so Zhang Sheng's voice suddenly understood his responsibilities when he thought about it, and ordered each department to prepare, only to see that in an instant, the attacks on the city tower suddenly became more intensive, and the soldiers of the Guiyi Army who climbed up with ladders and siege towers were knocked down by a **, and the battering ram was also emphatically called, and countless stones and logs were thrown down, The sound of terrible howls resounded in the sky with these hurtful weapons.
"Shoot smoke rockets and urge reinforcements." Wang Houchun looked at the situation stabilized by Zhang Sheng and Sima Daoxin, and then asked the guards behind him to launch smoke rockets, and at the same time asked the guards to prepare explosives packs, only to see that after the colorful smoke rockets were launched, Cao Rengui under the city also instantly understood that this was the Tiance army in the city sending a signal for help, which made him more anxious, if he couldn't take Guazhou before the other party's reinforcements arrived, then he would have no way to compete with the Tiance army. So almost instantly, Cao Rengui desperately urged the troops to step forward, and even the formation formed before couldn't take care of it, only to see the troops under Guazhou City like a tide, and the ladders and other engineering equipment that had been put down before were also erected, and a large number of soldiers swarmed up along the ladders towards the city.
"Ready, light." Wang Houchun asked his guards to stand scattered around the city tower with more than a dozen explosive bags, and immediately ignited the fire after hearing Wang Houchun's command, and then threw the explosive bag with sparks down the city wall, only to see countless fireballs rising into the air in an instant, and the violent explosion swept all the surrounding Guiyi soldiers into the sky like scattered flying flotsam, and it was only in an instant that the crowd gathered by Cao Rengui was emptied.
"Deputy Chief, you don't give us a reminder when you throw down this explosive bag, you see that my soldiers have been blown up and scattered." Zhang Sheng also took the time to complain to Wang Houchun in his busy schedule, and then shouted sharply: "Brothers, hurry up and work, there is still one hour left, work hard to kill a few more before the main force arrives, otherwise there will be no chance." As soon as Zhang Sheng's voice came out, the other soldiers in the surrounding Anxi camp immediately laughed, and the rifles in their hands began to shoot continuously, driving back the frightened Guiyi soldiers outside the city one by one, and this wave of attacks was repelled by Wang Houchun's explosives bag.
"The deputy commander's prisoner camp has already achieved results, several friends of General Sima have brought people under control of the situation, all the leaders who participated in the rebellion have been killed, and the others have also been ordered not to move in the camp." Wang Houchun was just about to speak, and the guards behind him told him the news from the prisoner camp that he had been monitoring before, and immediately let go of his thoughts.
The battle was in full swing on the side of Guazhou City, and the reinforcements sent by the main force of the Tiance Army were also chasing at this time, and Gao Siji's cavalry troops successfully surpassed Li Lisan's infantry brigade and galloped towards Guazhou City. However, Li Lisan did not dare to relax at all, after all, there were 100,000 troops on Cao Rengui's side, and he really couldn't break the siege by relying on the 20,000 cavalry on his side, and in Li Lisan's opinion, this was also the best opportunity to encircle and suppress Cao Rengui. Once Cao Rengui's troops were dispersed, the main force of the Guiyi army would also be dispersed, and after winter, the Tiance army could even directly take Shazhou and other places to completely exterminate this rebel force. Therefore, after Li Lisan saw that the cavalry surpassed him, he once again urged all his troops to speed up and chase towards Guazhou City, and at this time, the smoke and rockets from Guazhou City also came out at this time, and a dazzling light was emitted in the night sky.
"Oops, Guazhou is estimated to be unable to hold it, brothers, hurry up." Li Lisan didn't care about anything else, he personally grabbed the horn, personally played the horn of the charge, the passionate horn made the pace of the Tiance army more than double sharply, the speed of the infantry greatly accelerated, and the cavalry in front obviously had the same mind as Li Lisan, the galloping horse's hooves brought up the dust in the sky, and the rumbling horse's hooves spread far away.
The distance of more than 100 miles is estimated to be more than an hour according to the speed of the cavalry, and with the distance they have traveled before, the cavalry led by Wu Si'er can even vaguely see the vague battlefield ahead.
"Order the cavalry to charge immediately." Wu Si'er immediately began to convey the order to start charging, and at this time, he didn't care if he was discovered by the Guiyi Army and ordered to charge directly. At the beginning, the Guiyi army couldn't find it at all from a distance of twenty or thirty miles, and the sentinels sent by Cao Rengui before were all put to the ground by Wu Si'er's cavalry before they could go back to report. However, when the distance was getting closer and closer, the rear army of the Guiyi Army also discovered the abnormality, and the movement brought by the 20,000 cavalry when they charged was naturally impossible to hide from everyone, and not all the sentry agents were killed.
However, at this time, Wu Si'er had already ordered the whole army to prepare, and the rifle in his hand was less than a few hundred steps away from the rear army of the Guiyi Army, and the sound of ping-pong not only killed those soldiers of the Guiyi Army who were caught off guard, but also announced that the reinforcements of the Tiance Army had officially arrived. After firing the first shot, all of Us'er's cavalry changed their sabers and immediately charged directly into the crowd.
Cavalry charge was originally the housekeeping skill of Wu Si'er, although now it is equipped with a rifle, but this breech gun is actually not suitable for cavalry, so almost all cavalry will hang a saber after the rifle, this kind of saber improved from the Tang knife is sharper and lighter, and the impact and lethality of the cavalry are also stronger. I saw that the cavalry with Wu Si'er as the front stabbed into the lard like a red-hot iron bar, and instantly poked out a long wound, along the road of the cavalry charge were corpses, Cao Rengui couldn't organize a decent defense in a hurry, and saw that Wu Si'er had broken through to his position in the Chinese army before he remembered to transfer troops to defend, but at this time the best time had been missed, and the soldiers of the Guiyi Army who were scattered were driven away by the army led by Wu Si'er and rolled up according to the bead curtain to roll back to the Chinese army of the Yi Army, All of a sudden, it completely hit the soft underbelly of the Guiyi army, and Cao Rengui's military order could not even be transmitted to the Chinese army. In this way, a strange situation was formed on the huge battlefield, Wu Si'er's cavalry drove more and more defeated soldiers of the Guiyi Army to impact the Guiyi Army, and Cao Rengui's Chinese Army was unable to act in this situation, and the Guiyi Army of the other battalions around could not receive military orders, so they could only fight on their own, some spontaneously stepped forward to encircle and suppress Wusi'er, and some continued to carry out the previous military orders to charge towards Guazhou City, but more were scattered by the galloping Tiance Army cavalry like headless flies and then driven to the Chinese army.
At this time, Wang Houchun on the tower of Guazhou City discovered Wu Si'er for the first time, so when there was still a Guiyi army on the city tower breaking in, Zhang Sheng asked Zhang Sheng to dispatch the soldiers of the Anxi battalion who were on guard on other city walls to immediately go out of the city to launch a counter-charge, and at the same time personally took over the command of the army on the north city wall, and ordered Sima Daoxin to let all the county soldiers go up to the city tower on the one hand to drive and kill the Guiyi army that suddenly came up, and on the other hand, he began to shoot at the place where there were many Guiyi soldiers under the city, so as to help Zhang Sheng open the situation as soon as possible. Although Zhang Sheng's number was very small, only a thousand people, but the Anxi battalion's individual combat effectiveness was very high, Wang Houchun's order to Zhang Sheng was to take advantage of the chaotic command of the Guiyi Army under the city to intersperse small groups after all, the Guiyi Army was in the middle army, and find a way to find an opportunity to kill Cao Rengui or capture him alive, forcing him to order the Guiyi Army to surrender. However, at this time, Wang Houchun did not expect Zhang Sheng to be able to capture Cao Rengui, after all, the Anxi battalion is not a flying eagle brigade, and there is no relevant training, but if Cao Rengui can be killed or forced to adjust the deployment, then this battle can still be won over time.
After Zhang Sheng left the city, he took a thousand people under his command to decisively take out the previous killer weapon, taking advantage of the chaos to attack, a thousand people outside the city in the tens of thousands of troops like a small fish active in the sea, slippery and unable to prevent it, soon crossed the chaotic scene in front of the sneak into Cao Rengui's Chinese army location. It's just that there was trouble at this time, because User's inverted bead curtain drove the rout of the Guiyi Army towards the opponent's Chinese army in a whirlpool, so when Zhang Sheng arrived at the Guiyi Army, there was chaos inside, and the front was all dizzy Guiyi Army soldiers who were driven away by the Tiance Army.
"Damn, it's not a good thing that these cavalry are too fierce." What Zhang Sheng didn't expect was that he was stopped by friendly forces in the end, and as Usr expanded the range of his attack, there were more and more of these chaotic soldiers. Speaking of which, in fact, this is also related to Cao Rengui's command, if it is replaced by other experienced generals, it is impossible to let Usir unscrupulously gallop through the army of the Guiyi army, and it is not impossible to deal with these defeated soldiers. It's just that Cao Rengui may belong to the people who are able to argue over there, but he is not suitable for commanding troops on the battlefield. Usr's cavalry had been roaring back and forth in the Guiyi army for more than half an hour, and countless Guiyi troops had fallen under their sabers, but Cao Rengui, who was surrounded in the middle, had no good way to conflict with the embarrassing situation of being surrounded by defeated soldiers.
"This can't be done, Cao Rengui can't be allowed to react, otherwise I'm afraid that our cavalry will suffer." Zhang Sheng gritted his teeth, took the lead in rushing into the chaos of the soldiers, and began to rush in with the opposing team.
However, it was at this time that Cao Rengui's side finally got through the chaotic period, but this guy obviously came up with a trick and ordered his Chinese army, which is the force he can control at present, 10,000 or 20,000 people, to start swinging his sword to kill the chaotic soldiers around him who were driven by Usir. This move immediately made Zhang Sheng speechless, but the next moment he came up with a solution, and then mixed in with the chaos and shouted, beckoning these chaos soldiers to find a place to retaliate. At first, no one paid attention to him, but Cao Renguizhen couldn't help but order the slaughter of these rebels with real knives and guns, and by the way, Zhang Sheng also saved a few people. These people were originally dizzy to be driven away, so Zhang Sheng directly swung his knife and killed the soldiers of the Guiyi Army who came forward, and this time stabbed the hornet's nest, and suddenly the small fight here began to spread and then turned into a big fight. After these rebellious soldiers were led, they didn't even ask why, so they followed Zhang Sheng and rushed inside.
In fact, Cao Rengui just wanted the Chinese military to use the head to make these chaotic soldiers sober up and then redeploy, this move is similar to the previous method of supervising the battle of the military law team, but this trick unexpectedly broke Zhang Sheng, and the other party still belongs to the kind of guy who is afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and with these chaotic soldiers, he rushed directly towards his own Chinese army, not only breaking his own moves, but also driving the entire large array to irreversible drastic changes.
"What the fuck are you doing, Usr? Lead the team to attack Cao Rengui's Chinese army. Wang Houchun roared like a thunderbolt on the city tower, which made Usil tremble suddenly, and suddenly found that the battlefield had changed dramatically at this time.