127: A night of torment

The first night after landing on the shore, it was a very impressive night for all the civilians in Liuzhou City, as well as the soldiers defending the city and even the officials of all sizes in the city, outside the city, from time to time there were two cannon roars from the people of the flower skin, considering the need to exert psychological pressure on the defenders and officials of Liuzhou City, although he really didn't want Huang Shicheng to steal all the limelight, Luo Dan still had to pinch his nose and agree that Huang Shicheng used artillery bombardment from time to time to stir the other party's fragile little heart. The effect of this is obvious, and it is difficult for anyone to maintain a high level of tension under the tease of this kind of shelling that does not know when it will come again.

The defenders reacted somewhat to such a provocative shelling, organizing an attack of more than a thousand men in the afternoon in an attempt to annihilate or inflict heavy damage on the rebellious people. But the most vulnerable opportunity at the beginning of the morning was missed, by which time the Fur Rebels had organized an effective defensive position...... What can such an attack do? All you can get is the corpses of your own soldiers in front of the opponent's defensive position......

The main contribution to the creation of these corpses is still the four heavy artillery, as written in the manual, seeing that the attacker had launched an attack on his own camp in a straggler formation, Huang Shicheng let the four heavy guns fire at a high rate of fire of four rounds per minute for two minutes, and he also badly put the opponent at a distance of one hundred and fifty meters before firing, and adopted a new tactic to use two guns as artillery groups to shoot alternately, Then there is the high-quality artillery that can quickly adjust the shelling position of the artillery according to the direction of the concentration of the opponent's crowd, and the result is that after two minutes of high-speed shelling, the corpses all over the ground declare the tragic failure of the opponent's attack.

The lesson of such a tragic casualty has caused a serious shadow on the psychology of the defending soldiers, and no matter how much the officers try to organize a second attack with the lure of money and the threat of swords and axes, they will not be able to drive the low-level sergeants who have been frightened......

And what made the defenders feel even more entangled was that the flower skin rebels sent a team of men and horses to walk around the place full of corpses after the end of the shelling, and after recording the effect of the shotgun attack of the heavy caliber artillery, these flower skin rebels moved the wounded to their own positions, just when everyone thought that the flower skin rebels were going to kill the prisoners and sacrifice the flag or eat human flesh These horrific things, what everyone didn't expect was that the other party actually sent a team of people dressed in white to rescue these wounded on the position......

Although the rescue process made all kinds of ugly howls like a pig slaughterhouse, it is fortunate that most of the wounded survived due to timely rescue, and only a small number of injured people died due to their injuries that did not make it to the end. In the face of the practice of treating the enemy's wounded by the rebellious people, the generals and officials defending the city claimed that these flower-skinned barbarians were using witchcraft to control the minds of the wounded, but the low-level sergeants looked at these guys who were always hiding behind during the battle with disdain - even if the other party was casting spells on the wounded and doing witchcraft, they did nothing compared to their own side...... In contrast to the two, some things are immediately contrasted......

At night, it was not that no one planned to use the cover of the night to organize men and horses to attack again, but what made people feel frustrated and frightened was that the people on the opposite side quickly set up scaffolds with iron pipes, and built several high platforms more than two feet high out of thin air, and several surprisingly bright dead wind lamps lit up their camp, and at the same time, there were several things like a cauldron on the high platform that swept the light to the other side, making the open space in front of their camp bright......

Although these special diesel lamps and large searchlights used by the army consume a lot of valuable fuel extracted by the chemical industry every night, their protective effect is also immeasurable. In ancient times, night raid operations themselves were difficult to control and control the attacker and the attacked, but if the attacked party could solve the root cause of the big problem of lighting, it would not only reduce the pressure of defense for oneself, but also greatly increase the difficulty of infiltration of the attacker......

The flower skin rebels took out all kinds of novelties one after another like a trick, not only to protect themselves, but also greatly shocked everyone in Liuzhou City, everyone was talking about the appearance of the flower skin army today and the strong combat power it showed, and it was inevitable that the officials and the people would bring different feelings.

Through a day's temptation and battle, the official people have understood one thing very clearly, that is, it is impossible to defeat these flowery people by force, although the other party has few people, the firearms are sharp, and the four cannons alone are as fearful as killing gods; The only hope was to rely on the walls of the city and various military installations to hold on, waiting for reinforcements from several other directions to come to reinforce it. However, most of the defending generals and civilian officials did not have much hope for this article, because in today's daytime battle, the ground infantry not only suffered heavy casualties, but also suffered a crushing defeat on the river water camp, in front of the three fast boats that made strange noises, the water camp was sunk a total of more than 20 large and small ships before and after, and the other party used these three strange boats to successfully block the river surface of Liuzhou, and even civilian ships were not sunk by the violators. If you want to support Liuzhou City, the fastest way is to take the waterway, but when the other party blocks the river, you can ...... Reinforcements arriving by boat will also only become fodder for the fish in the river...... And if you go by road...... Dear, you won't see reinforcements for ten days and half a month......

Compared with the anxiety of the official, the people of Liuzhou City are much calmer; It is said that at such a moment, the most uneasy and fearful people should be these ordinary people, and war is always the most harmful to the common people.

It was precisely because of this that Deng Shifeng and a group of planners did not want to see Liuzhou City become a chaotic and dead city, and specially planned how to appease the local people during the battle against Liuzhou City. After the deduction of various plans, we found that if we want to pacify the people as quickly as possible and reduce the destruction of civil strife to the lowest point, the best means is to quickly take the city to end the battle, and put the troops into pacifying and patrolling the city. lest the opponent take advantage of his own side to completely block all the ways out and cause a decisive resistance.

In order to inform the people in the city of this information, the war ship was also loaded with two Deng Shifeng's specially modified tweeters, and from the afternoon onwards, they continued to publicize to the people in the city that the righteous army was a division of benevolence and righteousness, and only killed corrupt officials and did not disturb the people. The other party even clearly told the people in the city who had not yet had time to get out of the city that for the government's practice of closing the gate of the east tower, the rebel army would use cannons to open the city gate and city wall at noon, so that the people could enter and exit freely.

In addition to the security notice, the propaganda content also included a psychological offensive against the defenders, which not only sympathized with the poor life of the low-level military households, but also exposed various exploitative methods such as the blood of middle and senior officers and deducting military salaries, and also mercilessly attacked the psychological defense line of the defenders through the list of names obtained from rescuing the wounded this afternoon and some materials. For the fatal blow to their morale by the rebels, the officers and officials of the defending army could only try their best to ask the low-level soldiers not to listen, not to talk and not to believe these things, but this method had little effect, because these things were almost open secrets, and the sergeants in the ordinary world may not be able to say anything and have no ability to change anything, but now they are fanned by these fanned by the peasants...... The seeds of something sprouted with the help of this wind......

Early the next morning, the flotilla arrived again from upstream, and their arrival again brought a large number of men and supplies, as well as two rifled guns for testing; Watching the flamboyant people methodically unload all kinds of strange equipment from their ships, the defenders of Liuzhou City sank to the bottom of their confidence in relying on the city walls and other defenses......

At noon, just as the strange ship announced, the Flowerskin Rebels sent a team of more than three hundred people, surrounded by four cannons with the core, from the west where they landed to the east near the wall of the tower, and there was a merciless bombardment of the gate and the wall of the outer city; Since all the people had been notified in advance of the shelling at this time last night, the people avoided this place early in the morning, so Huang Shicheng did not have any psychological pressure at all when the shelling occurred. He not only tested the actual destructive capabilities of the 12-centimeter heavy artillery, but also tested the actual attack capabilities of the two rifled guns, and did a good actual combat test with the tower and the city wall......

During the period from their exit to their return, it was not that the defending officials wanted to attack while the other side was divided, but they finally used the deterrence of the swords and axes to drive the soldiers to advance in fear, and as a result, the infantry in charge of the perimeter protection only released a row of empty guns into the sky, and then let the defenders who were driven to blow up their nests and turn around and run...... What's even more bloody is that I don't know who shouted to lie down for their lives, but after those ordinary soldiers lay down, they revealed the pro-soldiers and axemen standing behind them as overseers...... Well, the cooperation of this betrayal of teammates made the high-ranking officers no longer dare to send people to supervise the formation in the back......

On the second night, the people of the city fled through the blasted open gates and walls, and a few people from the inner city came from the brightly lit camp of the flowery people...... (To be continued.) )