Chapter 965: Re-Attack
Around two o'clock on this day, the Jin army had to fire cymbals to withdraw its troops after sending two successive batches to attack Tangchi Fort on the scale of 6,000 men to no avail. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
According to the number of people counted after the retreat and the calculation of the dead bodies that the Jin army in front of the city did not take with them when they retreated, the number of Jin troops lying directly under the city during this attack was not much, and it was difficult to exceed 500 people.
It's just that when the six thousand teams withdrew from their own formations and reorganized according to the formation, they found that the formation of the four thousand teams that were reinforced in the future was roughly complete, and the number of missing people in each thousand team was only about 100 people, but the two "Bo Jin Army" that launched the first attack were missing most of them, that is, not counting the part lying in front of the city, each thousand team was missing at least three or four hundred people.
After Yan Zongpan was stunned, he looked at the two "Bo Jin Army" that were each short of most of the manpower after the initial formation, looked left and right, and then stepped forward and grabbed a man who was wearing the same armor as the ordinary "Bo Jin Army", but wearing a helmet with a fox tail embedded in it, and grabbed his neck and shouted: "Where is your son?" Where are they gone? ”
"They've all taken the city!" The armor on the man's body was also stained with a lot of dried blood, and although his face was stunned, he also answered confidently. However, it was obvious that this answer could not satisfy Yan Zongpan, so he also saw him pointing to the head of Tangchi Fort and asking, "Where is it?" Where are they? ”
At this time, there was really a calm appearance on Tangchi Fort, and there was really no one fighting on it, so no one could answer this question!
At the same time that Yan Zongpan was mad, Guo Yaoshi came up to persuade him, and at the same time asked the soldiers who had retired to ask him, wanting to find out where the people who attacked the city wall had gone.
However, none of the people who withdrew could tell what was happening on the city wall, and at most they knew from the mouths of many people who had only been injured by the ruyi stick that there was a spear that suddenly stretched out in the wall of Tangchi Fort, which caused great damage to those who climbed the siege ladder, and no one could tell what was on the city.
In the end, it took more than two hours to count, this time the Jin army sent more than 6,100 people to fight, and only more than 4,850 people were withdrawn, and the battle lost more than 1,000 people.
Seeing that it was still early, although he couldn't figure out what was going on to the people who climbed the city, Wanyan Zongpan still decided to attack again, so he ordered someone to pry up the preparation drum, and then set his eyes on the generals. It's just that Wanyan Zongpan glanced over, but found that none of the generals were willing to make eye contact with him, and it wasn't until he swept on Guo Yaoshi that he saw Guo Yaoshi take the initiative to stand up and say: "Deputy Marshal, why don't you let me give Chang Shengjun a try?" ”
"Good! Let Guo Mengan give it a try! After Yan Zongpan waved his hand, he also agreed.
After several years of development, today's Changsheng Army has become the main subsidiary army of the Jin Army, with the entire establishment reaching the scale of 10,000 people, and it has also completed the full cavalry like the Jin Army. However, as far as the Han army is concerned, in addition to the combat methods of cavalry, it still has its own advantages in siege, defense, construction and cruise.
After Guo Yaoshi successfully invited the battle, he ordered Zhen Wuchen to be the main minister, and Guo Anguo was the auxiliary, leading 4,000 people to fight. As for the composition of these 4,000 people, it was a full 3,000 foot soldiers and 1,000 archers, and when they went out to fight, they didn't finish the siege ladder prepared by Yan Zongpan here, so they carried shields to form a shield formation and stepped on the drum to kill.
The generals of the Jin army expressed their surprise at the behavior of the victorious army not to attack the city ladder, and Guo Yaoshi also explained: "Since you know that there is an ambush at the head of the city, it is enough not to attack the city, and there has always been no only way to attack the city!" ”
Soon, I saw that the attack force of 4,000 people came to the front and back of Tangchi Fort, and instead of being divided into two as before, they all walked towards the upper left corner towards the north city wall. After crossing the 400-step marking, the city launched an armor-piercing cone attack as usual, but the shield array of the Chang Shengjun suddenly dispersed from a large square array to a diamond-shaped small array composed of ten shields at this time.
Although whether it is a large shield array or a small shield array, there is no difference between the bed crossbow on the city wall that is almost close to shooting, as long as it is targeted, it will be difficult to escape the fate of being shot through by an arrow with a shield, but from this point alone, it can be seen that the Chang Shengjun under Guo Yaoshi has more siege experience than the elite of the Jin army, and knows how to cooperate.
I saw that after these victorious soldiers quickly arrived at the city, they still formed a shield array to defend, and made the archers shoot at the firing port on the city to cover fire, but they did not lift up the fallen siege ladder and climb again, but a group of three or five people gathered in the corner of the wall and took out the big axes, sledgehammers, chisels, drills and other tools that they carried with them, and directly demolished the wall.
Just tearing down the wall is not counted, originally the Jin army did not carry the chariot or siege chariot and other combat equipment, so the first wave of attack did not launch an attack on the city gate, but this time after the victorious army came up, it sent hundreds of people to set up a huge shield array in front of the city gate in the north corner, and also used spears, spears and even iron bones as a support frame, and then also used multiple layers of leather to prop up the tent inside, in case the city splashed boiling oil or gold juice to burn the soldiers, and some people carried the sand and soil ready to extinguish the fire at any time, Then he sent a wrestler to smash the door.
As soon as the defenders saw this situation, while carrying out routine counterattacks according to the regulations step by step, they also reported the news to Han Shizhong, the city guard, and saw that Han Shizhong was a joy, so they also turned to Sun Gu and Elder Ermine, who were invited to watch the battle on the tower, and smiled: "Hehe! Unexpectedly, the Jin people also made progress, so they didn't send people to climb the city, and instead made gopher burrowing. ”
Although the tower is high, you can see the Jin army killing, but it is difficult to see the Jin army digging a hole under the corner, so Elder Mink has long been impatient to run to the city wall to see how the battle is going, but he asked Han Shizhong and Sun Gu to stop him alive and dead, and when he heard this, he also shouted urgently: "What does not grow in, shouldn't it be a firearm at this time?" Why don't you hear it yet? But don't really ask the Jurchen to dig up the Lingbao and let the old man waste his efforts! ”
Han Shizhong smiled when he heard this, and then he hurriedly said: "Elder, don't be anxious, how can Lingbao be smashed so easily, this is to use firearms!" ”
After saying that, Han Shizhong hurriedly gestured to the herald, and saw that the herald quickly picked up the two flags and danced, and soon heard the tooth general in the city wall shouting: "The general has an order: implement the second battle plan!" ”