One Thousand One Hundred Forty-Nine The End of the Crossbow (I)
On the 14th day of the first month of the second year of Longwu, the Qin army did not launch an attack on the earthen city wall, and the Banzhou soldiers were on guard for a whole day and did not find the Qin army attacking, which could not help but be very strange.
Yang Yinglong himself was also very strange, but he was still a little lucky, one more day to rest for his soldiers, their combat ability could continue to maintain one more day, which may be the only way for him to save his life.
He knew better than anyone that he couldn't defeat Great Qin, even the Sea Dragon Hoard, which was more than four hundred years old, couldn't stop Great Qin's army, but it took time.
Time represents food, materials, and manpower, and once Daqin is unable to supply so many troops with food and supplies, he has the hope of surviving.
He has never felt so much about the preciousness of life.
But it was a bit strange that the Qin army was very surprised that he didn't attack, maybe he was resting, maybe it was something else, it was the Qin army who had the initiative, not him, and he didn't dare to rashly send troops out of the city to attack the Qin army, that was an act of looking for death.
He didn't think that the remnants of his remaining army of more than 10,000 people could be compared to the 200,000 enemies on the other side.
With the help of geographical advantages, he can still compete, if there is no geographical advantage, he will be swallowed in minutes, and there is not even a slag left, so he would rather die on the mountain than go down.
On the morning of the fifteenth day of the first month of the second year of Longwu, the Qin army resumed its offensive, and a large number of artillery pieces were pushed onto the battlefield and began the usual bombardment.
In this regard, the Banzhou soldiers on the earthen city wall were also accustomed to it, they were now miserably suppressed by the artillery of the Qin army, and they were pressed and beaten from the beginning of the war, and the number of artillery of the Qin army made them almost desperate.
But it doesn't matter, they are hiding behind the thick city wall, although the Qin army's artillery is terrible, but it can't blow through the city wall, it can't break through the city gate, as long as they are nailed to the city wall, the Qin army has no choice but to pile up human lives.
After realizing this, Yang Yinglong had a crazy idea.
If you want me to die, then die with me.
I'm dead, and you don't have to think about it.
Defend the earthen city wall and turn this place into the tomb of the Qin army.
Although the Qin army's shells can hit them from time to time, they want to fight back but there is no way, but these days they have also summed up the way to deal with the shelling, when the shrinking turtle also has the benefits of shrinking the head of the turtle, at least it won't die, right?
After this round of shelling, they will send people to attack, and that is when they will fight back fiercely, cutting off the heads of the Qin army one by one and pushing them down the city wall, and fiercely retaliating for the hatred of being pressed and beaten.
Accustomed to the onslaught of the Qin army, although they became increasingly desperate, their instinct to survive prompted them to fight back bravely, kill others, and let themselves survive.
They have such instincts.
About half an hour later, the shelling ended, and the black Qin army pressed up, ready to attack, but they didn't seem to move, and the formation was a little chaotic from a distance, not as neat as when they attacked before.
Yang Yinglong personally went up to the city tower to observe the attacking Qin army, and also felt that something was not quite right.
When these 'Qin troops' got closer, they discovered that these were not the real Qin troops at all, but the local native soldiers who were subordinate to the Qin army to attack them together.
They knew before that in addition to the native soldiers of the five divisions and seven surnames, there were also the armies of the Song clan and the An clan who joined the Qin army in the sequence of crusading against Banzhou and attacked Yang Yinglong together.
Yang Yinglong can be described as a miserable character who is pushed by everyone when the wall falls, even if the old opponent fights with him, his son-in-law also attacks him with the Qin army, and he fights very hard.
But Yang Yinglong also understands that the Song family will not stand with him for a woman, the so-called son-in-law is just a means to win over each other in peacetime, and Yang Yinglong himself did not take that daughter to heart.
Let's just say it's a not very worthwhile deal.
This time, it didn't seem to be the Song army's army that attacked him, but a certain group of people with the five divisions and seven surnames that he was more familiar with, which made Yang Yinglong feel strange.
When the Qin army attacked in the past, they were the main force in person, and the native soldiers were just retinues and auxiliaries, and there were few examples of the main attack, that is, the two armies of An and Song became the main force of the attack because of their good equipment and combat effectiveness.
What's going on today? The other native soldiers also came up?
How did the Qin army let them fight?
Isn't this sending to death?
Wait a minute!
Yang Yinglong suddenly understood something, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, looking extremely hideous.
Qin Jun is afraid ......
I can't sustain such huge casualties!
That's why I asked the local soldiers to come over and be the ghosts who sent the dead, and hid behind to watch the play!
Hey! All right! All right! They had been storming for so long, and finally it was time for them to reach the end of their crossbows!
Yang Yinglong was overjoyed and continued to observe and found that the pace of those native soldiers attacking was also hesitant, and they did not dare to attack as fiercely as the Qin army, regardless of life and death, obviously, they were afraid and did not dare to do their best.
All right!
As long as it wasn't for the Qin army's strong deterrence, his soldiers could hold out.
He is not short of food, the grain on the mountain is specially stored, many caves and caves are specially stored for food, just for the need of time, the food on the mountain is at least enough to eat for five or six years, he lacks soldiers, and if the soldier dies, there will be one less, and the mountain can at least open up the wasteland to grow crops, and it is a big deal to fight a protracted war to see who can consume whom.
Now that the Qin army is not attacking, it means that his troop consumption will be greatly reduced, what else is there to be afraid of?
"That's those bastards from the Five Divisions and Seven Surnames! All traitors! Give me orders! Hit hard! If they dare to come up! Cut off a head and reward five taels of silver!! ”
Yang Yinglong frantically gave the same crazy order.
The morale of the native soldiers in the city has risen greatly, and compared with the cautious native soldiers below, the difference has become very large.
Those native soldiers seemed to have started charging under the supervision of the Qin army's warlords, and the fighting was also quite difficult, and the native soldiers in the city continued to hit with rolling wood and stones, a few cannons and some firearms, and they could beat these guys to a point and even retreat.
The Qin army supervised the battle team behind the formation and lined up a column of warbirds, and whoever dared to retreat would be hit by a row of bullets, either dying forward or dying backwards!
The native soldiers were desperate, and had no choice but to continue to rush forward, and were killed and wounded by the rolling wood and stones and firearms bows and arrows of the Banzhou soldiers on the city tower, but they still carried the ladder to the city tower to attack, which happened to be the intention of the native soldiers on the city.
The heads, those are pieces of glowing silver!
Why did they fight? Isn't it just for the money?
What is better in this world than silver?
This battle was quite tragic, of course, it was not the Banzhou soldiers in the city that were tragic, but the local soldiers who attacked under the city, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties.
This attack only lasted for an hour and then stopped, Zheng Ying really couldn't stand these extremely low-trained native soldiers attacking the city in that crappy way, it was pointless, it was better to change an army and continue to fight.