Chapter 108: The First Bid Attacks the Left Army Camp
Yunyang County, outside the East City Gate.
The left army suffered a loss, so naturally they wanted to fight back, and as soon as they eased up, they brought hundreds of artillery pieces to the county seat of Yunyang and bombarded them fiercely. Although Yunyang County is a brick city wall, but it can not withstand the violent collision of countless iron bullets, for a time, the city wall fell countless bricks rammed earth, and the soldiers of the Han army who hid at the root of the city wall were also accidentally stoned to death.
When the artillery battalion of the left army bombarded the county town of Yunyang, the foot soldiers of the left army did not fall, one by one they held their shields above their heads like a huge iron turtle and staggered forward, and it did not take long for them to transport the giant wood to the moat, and at the same time, their archers would also drill out and shoot countless bows and arrows on the city wall, bows and arrows were sometimes better used than arquebuses, because he could shoot in an arc among professional archers, and many Han soldiers also died because of this.
Cao Laosan saw that one after another Han army soldiers were carried down by the people who were responsible for saving the dead and helping the wounded, and he hated the root of his teeth, and shouted angrily while beating the wall battlements: "Hide for Lao Tzu, don't be in a hurry to do it, bury your head deeper, and wait for this period to pass, and then we will give these dogs a look at the color!" ”
"General, the officers and soldiers have arrived at the minefield!"
Before the left army came, the soldiers and civilians of Yunyang County had already laid improvised mines near the moat, just after most of the left army entered the minefield, Cao Laosan decisively ordered to pull the string to detonate the mines, and soon, there were countless ropes bounced up from the shallow buried soil, many soldiers buried in the tunnel in advance pulled these ropes back, and the entire moat bank crackled and exploded, and in an instant, a "sea of clouds" rose around the entire city wall.
Holding shields and slowly advancing the left officers and soldiers fell to the ground on all fours, the huge explosion set off a wave of air so that many officers and soldiers fell into a state of temporary deafness, the Han army saw this and immediately got up to counterattack, among them, the only one with the Han gun in the third standard picked up the left army officers, the rest of the Han army soldiers also used bows or arquebuses to shoot at the enemy, tens of thousands of left troops were actually suppressed along the moat.
Seeing this, Zuo Liangyu had no choice but to order the infantry to retreat, and at the same time, he ordered the artillery to counterattack the Han army, but the Han army had already secretly hidden in the city wall at this time. Seeing this, Zuo Liangyu ordered the army to continue to move forward, but this time he learned a lesson, and kept ordering the artillery to suppress the fire of the Han army above, and he didn't care that this would consume a lot of gunpowder he brought.
In this way, the left army was also quite smooth, many left troops had taken advantage of this to climb the gentle slopes on both sides of Yunyang County and began to build wooden platforms, in order to prepare to build a wooden bridge here directly into the city, and the iron cavalry of Jin Shenghuan's department also relied on the advantage of maneuver to go around the west gate behind Yunyang County to prevent the thieves from escaping. Of course, Zuo Liangyu knows what it means to be surrounded by three and one missing, but now he wants to capture the thief leader Yang Ming and force the thief army to hand over his beloved son Zuo Mengeng by the way, so naturally he will not let anyone out of the city.
"Order, send a letter of persuasion to the city, if you don't surrender, this official will slaughter the city after breaking the city!" Zuo Liangyu saw that his troops had almost surrounded Yunyang County, and secretly thought that even if the thief army was as brave as a tiger, it would be difficult to fly, so there was no need to consume his own soldiers, so he had the idea of persuading the thief army to surrender, but at this moment, there was a sound of fighting outside.
It turned out that Cao Laosan took advantage of the fact that when the left army surrounded Yunyang County, he had secretly sneaked into the tunnel with the first mark and escaped behind the left army. Just when Zuo Liangyu thought that the victory was in his hands, the first standard had already killed him with an iron spear. The first target was not armed with muskets, but they had an advantage over the left.
The soldiers of the first standard held spears in front of them like countless long snakes flying across the sky and bit these left troops, and these long snakes were able to move with ease, blocking and stabbing horizontally, and in an instant, the left officers and soldiers who only knew how to fight with the wind fell countless times. The left army also learned to use dozens of spears to form an iron net to counterattack the Han army, but the soldiers of the first target of the Han army threw out the earth-shaking thunder in their hands with a brush, and for a while, the left army camp was in chaos again.
"Kill!" Unconsciously, Cao Laosan had rushed into the center of Zuo Liangyu's army with the first standard, and for a while, the confidence of the first standard increased greatly, and he completely forgot that there were tens of thousands of troops surrounding them in front of and behind them.
"Marshal, the thief army is powerful, and it has already invaded the camp of our army, let's withdraw", I have to say that Cao Laosan's fierce tiger heart gave the left army a great shock, many left army generals and accompanying literati have begun to worry about whether the thief army will directly come to the first of the generals in the million-dollar army, so they are eager to persuade Zuo Liangyu to retreat, of course, there is also the purpose of avoiding direct contact with the front line of the battlefield.
But Zuo Liangyu did not choose to retreat, he as a warlord who rose in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, is not a simple person, although Cao Laosan, the general, personally led people on a rampage, but did not deceive Zuo Liangyu, he had already guessed that the thief army in front of him was just a bluff, with a moment of bravery, so he simply took the pro-army to kill it in person: "The generals listen to the order, follow the commander to kill the thief army!" ”
For a time, the defensive battle of the entire Yunyang County presented a strange scene, Yunyang County, which should have been the key point of the operation, was surprisingly quiet, but the fields outside Yunyang County were surging and bleeding millions. Seeing this, Jin Shenghuan, who had just blocked the retreat of the Han army, hurriedly pulled out a fine cavalry and rushed over, trying to annihilate this thief army that risked out of the city with Zuo Liangyu.
"It's time, back off!" After Cao Laosan knocked down the general of the First Left Army with a shot, he was busy lying on the ground and listening for a moment, and then immediately shouted and stabbed one after another, and the foot soldiers of the First Left Army flew into the air, and then, he immediately chose the way to shuttle out, and the other soldiers also followed like a ship chopping waves in the vast sea, and it didn't take long for them to leave this sea area with monstrous waves, and they all withdrew before Jin Shenghuan arrived.
Jin Shenghuan pounced again, Zuo Liangyu also had a false alarm, but Cao Laosan shouted again. He can be said to be a perfect interpretation of what it means to be both offensive and defensive, regardless of your army of millions, but I am cunning as a fox's defensive skills. Of course, Zuo Liangyu did not slack off because of this, seeing that these thief armies were so rampant, he also decisively ordered: "Order the three armies to attack the city immediately, and slaughter for three days after breaking the city!" ”
"Three days of slaughter!"
The left army shouted, such an order would boost morale more than rewarding them with silver. After all, the slaughter of the city is equivalent to rewarding them with the wealth and wealth of the entire Yunyang County. At this time, Yunyang County was no longer a strong city in front of them, but a golden mountain, a weak woman who urgently needed to rip off her clothes.
As soon as the primitive beast ** Wangwang was developed, these left troops were all full of fighting spirit and attacked the city with a roar. The Han army could only obediently defend the city and resist. The second standard is the main force responsible for defending the city, and when the third and first standards have just taken a break due to the great battle, they have already greeted the left army below with pomegranate bombs, rolling logs, thunder stones, flowering bombs everywhere, pomegranate bombs, Semen knife carts, poisonous smoke bombs and other sharp weapons to defend the city.
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