Chapter 557: Siege

Wang Fangyi deeply felt that the situation in Weizhou City was terrible.

But for a while, there was nothing to be done.

In fact, although he has retreated to the city in the past half a day, he still has lingering palpitations in his heart.

Tens of thousands of people rushed into the enemy's formation, if this was changed to the past, even if they encountered the most elite military horses, with the power of the iron cavalry of the Shenwei Army, plus the two wings had enough cover, they would not be killed before they could get close, and the people who were killed would be overturned on their horses, so that they would be defeated directly three hundred steps away from the enemy formation, and the army would be defeated like a mountain.

This is something that has never been seen before, Wang Fangyi's most fearful place is not that it is not so, but he found that the tactics of the Shence Army and the methods they use are all new, and they are simply beyond the previous combat experience, which is like a group of brave Indian warriors, these Indians have been fighting for many years, and it can be said that they have rich experience in battle to the extreme, but as soon as they encountered those colonists from Europa, they used the intensive attack of muskets to do, and they were all blinded, and all the tactics and experience became a burden at this time.

In Wang Fangyi's previous cognition, when the two armies faced each other, they wanted to exert the greatest attack effect, especially for the cavalry, it was natural to charge intensively, because the denser the team, it was like clenching the hand into a fist, and a hard blow was often invincible.

This is also the experience he is most proud of, but this experience is a cheap Shence army in vain, such a dense charge, in the face of the rain of arrows like a torrential rain, it is simply to die.

Wang Fangyi took advantage of the waiting effort, and couldn't help but ponder in his heart, in this way, it seems that to deal with the Shence Army, it seems that he can only scatter the soldiers, maybe he can deal with his crossbowmen, or at least he can reduce the huge casualties, but it is just ...... The problem arises again. Once dispersed, it is difficult for the soldiers to restrain them, and once the opponent's iron cavalry rushes, it seems to be ......

Wang Fangyi found that although the tactics of the Shence Army were simple, relying on the rain of arrows, they were invincible, and there was even no way to restrain them.

He smiled bitterly in his heart, just defending the city, how should this city be guarded?

Obviously, this is another difficult problem. If this 100,000 army is not the current frightened bird, if you boost your morale, you can barely defend it.

But now, the reality he is facing is that the morale of the defenders has fallen to the bottom, and the wind is rumbling. It's already chilling. The various ministries were not subordinate to each other before this, and this continues......

sighed in his heart and urged several times. Finally, the commanders of the various departments were called.

Looking at these people from all over the world, there are main armies and guest armies, just the expressions of everyone. They are all extremely nervous, some are lazy, and some are even disdainful of Wang Fangyi.

This emotion. Wang Fangyi had no choice but to be dumbfounded, because he knew in his heart that Wei Hongmin was a very smart person, he saw the key to the problem, this is a crime of non-war, a battle in the daytime, although it was a defeat, but it was not to blame Wang Fangyi's head, but Wei Hongmin can think like this, others may not think like this, so many people died outside today, and it was you Wang Fangyi who led the troops, not to mention, everyone already has their own lords, and they are just temporarily listening to your moderation, why should everyone listen to your call, Do you want to be like the Zhaoyi Rear Army, ordered by you to send them to death? Now the bones of these Zhaoyi rear soldiers are still outside the city.

Wang Fangyi knew that this emotion could not be resolved in a moment, so he didn't say much, just briefly assigned the defense, and did not rush to put forward specific measures.

After arranging all this, Wang Fangyi was sleepy and tired, so he simply slept here temporarily.

But when it was just dawn, the rumbling sound made Wang Fangyi wake up suddenly, he had a nightmare last night, and then this rumbling sound like thunder really scared him a lot, he was drenched in cold sweat, and his back was soaked.

"What's going on?" He shoeed up.

"Governor...... The Governor, the Shence Army, has set off cannons at the South Gate......"

Wang Fangyi was shocked, although he had long known that the siege method of the Shence army was to fire artillery, but now the rumbling of the cannon still made him worry in his heart, and after he put it on, he didn't have time to wash: "Go to the south gate." ”

When he arrived at the south gate with a team of personal soldiers, he found that this place was invaded by countless fire rains, and the defenders here were already frightened to the face of the earth, and they hid behind the city wall and did not dare to rise, but the fire rain, the fire rain smashed on the city wall, and exploded countless gravel, and the gravel was splashed everywhere, and many people were covered in blood, and more unfortunate people were directly hit by the iron ball flying from the artillery, which was unbearable.

Many defenders began to retreat, wanting to withdraw from the range of artillery, but Wang Fangyi was in a hurry, and hurriedly shouted in the rain of bullets: "Where is General Liu, where is it?" ”

General Liu is the military attache here, and it was not easy to find him, Wang Fangyi grabbed the exposed placket above his chain mail, and said: "Immediately take people to stick here, you can't retreat, you can't retreat, once you retreat, if the thief army takes advantage of the situation, ......."

This General Liu panicked, but at this time he was angry, and couldn't help but say coldly: "Don't withdraw? If you don't withdraw, will you be sent to death here? I have already died once yesterday, and I want to do it again this time? The brothers can only be beaten passively, and they cannot fight back at all, and they stay here, and there is no place to die...... Hum! ”

"You!" Wang Fangyi was furious and said, "Come on, take down this person." ”

Wang Fangyi did not hesitate, knowing that at this time, if he didn't give a little dismount, but it didn't work, so he simply pulled out his knife and got up, and went down with a knife, giving the general a break, and then red eyes, looking at many defenders stunned to look at this side, he smiled fiercely and said: "The governor of Bendu has an order, stick to the south gate, if anyone dares to take a step back, this person is an example, you wait here to stick to it, the governor will dispatch soldiers and horses to press the formation, otherwise once the city is trapped, We are like yesterday's dead souls, all dead without a place to be buried, all of them are said here, who wants to retreat? ”

The defenders were finally frightened and returned to the rain of bullets trembling.

Wang Fangyi was worried, such morale, he was afraid that he would not be able to hold on for even four days, he was busy ordering his own soldiers and said: "Go, immediately transfer the military horses in the back alley, strengthen the garrison at the south gate, don't slack off." ”

He didn't dare to leave here, for fear that as soon as he left, the defenders scattered in a hurry, and finally reinforcements arrived, these are the remnants of the Shenwei Army headquarters, although they have been frightened, but Wang Fangyi can be mobilized.

At this time, Wang Fangyi was a little more relaxed, and was about to find a way to continue to strengthen the garrison at the south gate, but unexpectedly, at this time, a red-hot iron ball was smashed in his direction, whistling past him, and with a bang, a personal soldier on his side was smashed into the air, and the personal soldier was only half charred corpse.

Wang Fangyi gasped, finally gritted his teeth, and hurried away, all of the soldiers he brought with him looked frightened, and hurriedly followed behind.

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From early in the morning, the artillery of the Shence Army arranged their positions under the south gate, for these gunners, their duties were not easy in peacetime, after all, they always carried these artillery, gunpowder and cannonballs to move, although there were auxiliaries and chariots and horses, but it was still extremely difficult, often when marching, they always fell to the end, had to send military horses to protect them.

When they arrived at the camp, in the military order of the Shence Army, they needed each battalion to remain in a state of readiness, which meant that everywhere they went, they had to set up their artillery, and when they left, they had to disassemble it, and so on, many people were out of breath, but once it was time for war, they were much more relaxed, they only needed to constantly reload the shells and light the fuse.

The other crossbowmen and cavalry, though not attacking, had already assembled and were ready to attack when there was any gap in the city.

Qin Shaoyou also arrived here early in the morning, in this era, artillery is certainly a siege weapon, but for Qin Shaoyou, there are still many dissatisfactions, because once you encounter a strong city, artillery will not have much effect in many cases.

Naturally, the current artillery is not to deal with the enemy at the head of the city, but under the command of the lieutenant general of the artillery battalion, it attacks the city walls everywhere and finds out the weaker sections of the city walls.

In the city of this era, the situation of the city walls is different, some of the city wall sections can be traced back to the Han Dynasty, some are newly built, some have been repaired in the past two years, but there are also some beware of disrepair because of disrepair, which is the easiest target to break through.

After bombardment again and again, the general finally roughly calculated the position, and then let people use heavy artillery.

The huge heavy cannon was pushed forward amid the shouts of dozens of people, and the special artillery specially used to attack the city wall began to be loaded, Qin Shaoyou couldn't help but be secretly stunned by the cannon weighing thousands of catties, so he watched with great interest as several auxiliary cannons began to load gunpowder, waiting for everything to be ready, someone specially reminded; "Your Highness, you should cover your ears, the sound of this cannon is a little louder than usual."

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The first chapter is delivered.

(To be continued.) )