Section 231 Night Fighting
The temporary camp of the captives was not the main camp on the mountainside, but was located at the foot of the mountain closer to Haizhou City, and the Franc machine gun could not hit here, so the captives thought that this distance was safe.
But it was not safe enough for the general's cannon, and it was the general's cannon that Yang Chao used to bombard them that night.
Yang Chao had never used it in the past few days, so the captives misjudged and placed the advance camp too close, and as a result, they were shelled.
But apparently they didn't lose many people, this kind of general cannon is slow to load, and there is not much density for defending the city, Yang Chao thinks that it is not as good as a bird gun.
But this cannon also strengthened the determination of the captives, that is, to fight!
Turg didn't know whether to thank the cannon or curse, and although it didn't hit him, it made him embarrassed, and he ran towards the camp on the hill, surrounded by the guards.
"Kill the scholars, kill them all, kill them all!"
While fleeing, he gave orders to his subordinates.
Song Lian lay on the battlement in frustration, watching the captives panic for a while, and the camp was withdrawn, but some of the captives pressed a few literati to the river, and then raised their knives and fell, their heads rolled to the side, and their bodies fell to the ground.
Song Lian felt that he had lost all his strength, but he was untimely and gave birth to a kind of happiness, fortunately he did not run away with Kochishu, and those who fled to survive died, and those who stayed to seek death lived.
After climbing for a long time, Song Lian felt that he had some strength, and walked down the city in despair, ignoring Yang Chao.
Yang Chao couldn't put down the defense of the city, but reluctantly deployed urgently.
Originally, it was not necessary to do this, it was planned to delay for a day, and tomorrow there will be a fierce battle with the captives.
But when the cannons were fired at the captives, it was strange that they were not angry. It is very likely that the captives will soon come to attack the city, and it is not early, and the anger of the captives may make them attack overnight.
Turg really unified the mind. In the camp, he found a reason to be angry. was furious, and his Baya Lazhangjing and Mongolian Baylors didn't dare to say a word.
In the end, he ordered the whole army to attack the city overnight, and asked all the Mongols to go out, climb the city wall, attract the Ming army, and then the three Baya Lama Zhangjing took the opportunity to suddenly kick the city. Break through Haizhou in one go.
Yang Chao ate in the city and did not go down the city wall.
It was already dark, and the captives arrived as scheduled, and sure enough, they were going to attack the city overnight.
It wasn't a good day, it had been cloudy for two days in a row, the air was a little stuffy, and moisture was accumulating, but it hadn't rained yet.
On such a night, it is obvious that there are too few things to see, and both sides of the night battle cannot see clearly, so it can only be a chaotic battle.
Chaos war. The impact on elite soldiers is obviously less, because they have a strong initiative in combat, and the rabble is almost useless. Therefore, Yang Chao knew that the main force of tonight's battle could only be his own soldiers.
Even Li Rui's family members are probably not very useful.
Finally, I heard the trumpet of the captives, and took advantage of the limited visibility to see the captives set off in rows of shield carts and ladders.
Finally take a position under the city walls and set up the ladder without any hesitation. and immediately besiege the city.
It's the same as the previous two days, it's just crazier. The captives erected a hundred ladders, and behind these ladders there were more than a hundred shields. It was composed of four or five hundred shield carts, and it seemed that the carpenters of the captives had not been idle for the past few days.
Yang Chao's side has long been accustomed to it, and he quickly distributed his troops, and there were still ten people in each of the hundred attack points of the captives, of which only three were Yang Chao's elite soldiers, and the remaining few were Li Rui's elite soldiers.
"Order Lu Mo to come to support immediately!"
Even with such an arrangement, Yang Chao was still not at ease, and ordered Lu Mo, who was on standby today, to fight in the city.
The battle was soon fought, and as on the previous occasions, it was not so easy for the captives to gain a foothold.
The sky was already completely dark, and after repelling an attack by the captives, Yang Chao asked people to light torches on the city wall, but not on the front wall, but on the north wall, so that the shooters of the captives would not directly see the Ming army on the wall, but let the Ming army see the captives who kicked the city.
Minzhuang is also frantically boiling water, and after it is boiled, he will pour it down, regardless of whether the ladder below is being climbed or not.
Today, after the captives attacked the city in full force, they abandoned the practice of wrapping them in quilts, and let the salt water work again, but the speed of boiling water could not keep up with the speed at which they could climb the city, so there was no way to stop them from stepping on the city walls.
What really worked was the Ming army on standby behind the city wall, stabbing at the sight of the captives.
The two armies continued to strangle each other, the corpses were stacked on top of each other, and I don't know how many people were killed.
Needless to say, the Ming army also had a lot of casualties, after the captives kicked into the city, they had to face the ten spears that stabbed at the same time, basically they were certain to die, they couldn't dodge, even if they had heavy armor, they couldn't withstand it, even if the captives could approve three layers of iron armor, ten spears couldn't pierce them, and the force of the blow would push them off the city wall.
But the courage of the captives is not blown, some come up, after being pierced through the body, before they die, they actually attack hard, although it doesn't work every time, but there is always a time, their long knives fly to the Ming army, it doesn't matter to Yang Chao's soldiers, but for those family members may be injured.
An hour passed, and the battle continued.
Yang Chao didn't know if his soldiers would be able to hold on if he continued to fight like this.
In addition to the personal soldiers around him, it is Lu Mo's reserves, and these two reserves are used to replace them when they can't stand it.
But Yang Chao still felt that it was too weak, and these people couldn't replace all the previous thousand people.
"Zhang Dian went to give an order to mobilize a thousand people with weapons on the west wall to come over!"
The total number of people with weapons on the west wall is less than 1,500, and mobilizing 1,000 people is equivalent to transferring more than half of them.
These Minzhuang did not have high-ranking officers, they were formed by Yang Chao's captains, and each team carried a hundred people.
However, in the past few days, they have organized these people into groups, selected teams at random, and each of them has formed ten teams, and has made a simple queue contact. Although it is not neat enough, it can barely be seen, and it has also been contacted for assassination. It's not strong enough, but it's barely enough to kill. At this time, you can only catch the ducks on the shelves, and you can't take care of so much.
There are 10,000 captives, who have been on the battlefield for a long time, and they only have more than 500 elites. Although they may face higher casualties, they have no choice.
If it was a few days ago, Yang Chao would definitely hesitate, but now that the psychological barrier has passed, as long as it is a necessary casualty, Yang Chao will accept it without hesitation, but Yang Chao can't ignore it, in the eyes of a real battlefield veteran, life is just a name on the military register.
"Lu Mo, you go and organize the people one by one and divide them into a hundred groups. Each group is stuffed with one of our people. Take them to replace Wang Pu and them. Remember to replace them one by one, and don't let the captives seize the opportunity. ”
Lu Mo is a flag boss, and he only has three teams under him. However, there were also some independent teams that were temporarily commanded by him, so his reserve team had a hundred people, but the captives were separated from a hundred attack points along the city wall, so Yang Chao had to be organized into a hundred groups, and each group had only one veteran of its own on average.
This is already the limit, and they can't be allowed to fight all the time, and it is impossible to hold out all night wearing heavy armor.
As long as Lu Mo can support these people for an hour, let Wang Pu take a break and rotate up. It's another new force.
Lu Mo led people to group groups next to the city ladder next to the city wall, and made up a group. He shouted to the veteran who led the team: "You go and replace the first battlement!" ”
After making up the second one, he shouted: "You take someone to replace the second battlement." ”
It took more than an hour just to marry, and Wang Pu was completely replaced. It's already an hour later.
There were no accidents in the replacement process, because instead of letting the original soldiers withdraw first, the later soldiers joined the defense first, and after repelling a wave of captives together, the soldiers in front of them withdrew, and the soldiers after the withdrawal did not leave, but rested on the spot under the wall on the other side of the city, waiting for the next rotation, and it was also considered to be ready to support.
Three hours later, it was already midnight, but I didn't expect Song Lian to bring someone up to deliver supper.
Although Song Lian was already annoyed with Yang Chao, he did not care about the overall situation because of this personal grudge, which was much stronger than the group of civil officials in Haizhou Zhizhou, Yang Chao even sometimes wondered if Song Lian was the governor of Haizhou, would things develop to this point, would he let himself enter the city as soon as he came, so that he would not catch Bolo, and if he didn't catch Bolo, would he not attract so many captives later.
But Yang Chao is not optimistic, he feels that if he changes Song Lian, he will still refuse to enter the city, but Song Lian is obviously much stronger than Gao Liangming, and it is really difficult to judge whether such a person is a good person or a bad person.
With the rotation, the situation is much better, rotate once an hour, the two groups of soldiers will not be too tired, the captives will be consumed like this, Yang Chao will accompany him!
Another two hours passed, and by the early hours of the morning, the darkest hour of the day, the fighting on the walls continued, but the intensity had shrunk, and the attack of the captives was somewhat negative.
Yang Chao judged in his heart that it seemed that the captives also found that even if it was a night battle, they still did not take advantage of it, and they should want to give up.
Yang Chao thought so, but suddenly the west city wall was close to the south city, and suddenly there was a shout of killing.
When Yang Chao received the news, it was too late, and the captives actually attacked from a corner of the west city wall, not only easily grabbed a foothold from the hands of the people who defended here, but also quickly cleared out a large piece of space, when Yang Chao received the news, the captives had already repelled the people on the west city wall to the north, and then mobilized considerable forces to attack the south city wall!
After getting this information, Yang Chao immediately knew that he had once again lost to the generals of the captives in terms of wit, obviously the other party's strategy was to attract firepower in Nancheng, and then mobilize elites to suddenly attack from Xicheng, and the Ming army was caught off guard, and they succeeded!
The captives kicked the city, Yang Chao knew what it meant, it meant that tens of thousands of captives had a foothold, and it meant that Haizhou City opened its door to this group of robbers who had already killed the red eye, exposing their weak lower abdomen.
Once all the captives kick the city, this force will sweep through like a tide, completely submerging Haizhou, countless innocent people, countless gold and silver property, people will be captured by the captives as slaves, men work, women play, property will be swept away by them, and then become swords, guns, bows and arrows in their hands, become their continuous and powerful nourishment, so that the next time they enter the customs, they can rob the whole world.
Yang Chao couldn't help but sigh, this is war, you have an obvious advantage in the first second, but in the next second, you are completely at a disadvantage. One second you're in control, the next you're in a desperate situation.
Desperate!
This word is a portrayal of Haizhou City at this time, once the captives occupy the city wall, with the strength of Haizhou City, it is equivalent to no defense, so this is the first time that the captives have successfully kicked the city, and it may also be the last battle!
Decidedly!
This is Yang Chao's mentality, he can only make a desperate bet in a desperate situation, he didn't expect that he was forced to this step, Yang Chao quickly gave an order, without the slightest hesitation, and put all his strength into it! (To be continued).