Chapter 52: Attacking the Old Capital of Nanjing
Now the Lu Jiajun Lu Yi Department is in Nanjing, which seems to be sticking to a corner, but in fact, it is not, the Zhao Jiajun must fight with it, otherwise the previous achievements will be abandoned. There is no benefit from retreating, and it is ridiculed by the world for not being good for the army. In addition, the grain and grass of the Zhao family back and forth were wasted, and they were afraid that they would be cut off from the back road, and they would fight on the territory that Lu Yi had already occupied, and the army would be attacked from both sides, so I was afraid that the situation would be unfavorable. Lu Yi also saw through the difficulties of the Zhao family, so he decided to stay in the city and not go out of the city to take the initiative to face the battle, to see who could drag whom.
Unlike his father Lu Bing, Lu Bing likes to brainstorm when he encounters major issues, and everyone makes ideas together, but Lu Yi is not, he thinks that if everything is left to others to consider, then what's the use of asking this lord? Therefore, in general, it has always been said that one is not dictatorial, and how to complete the assigned tasks is a problem that they should consider. Maybe there are some ill-conceived places and some arbitrariness, but they are very resolute, and they show perseverance, which makes their subordinates very admired. This is why Lu Yi is young but enough to convince the public, because of his deciding bearing and personality charm. However, in this way, after all, it is something that a person thinks about, and it may not be hesitant to look forward and hesitate, but it is also less changeable, and it is easy to be guessed, and Lu Yi suffered a big loss for this a few years later.
Lu Yi used the city defense map to do a good job of arming, and entrusted Han Sufa to sit in the city and deploy all parties to the Chinese army. Han Sufa was very pleased, and gave Lu Yi a lot of good hands in Taihu Lake Water Village, and personally selected people and horses to be the emergency team, swearing to defend the city to the death. Wu Ling saw it in his eyes. Laughing secretly in his heart, this Han Sufa didn't know how to climb to the position of the big boss of Taihu Lake Water Village, it seems that most of the people in Taihu Water Village are brainless people. As the owner of Dazhai, Han Sufa is so simple, like a naughty boy, and he doesn't know whether he is lucky or unfortunate to cooperate with him.
Why does Wu Ling have such an understanding, and looking at the current situation, the battle has not yet started, and it has not reached the urgent moment of sacrificing his life, not to mention that according to the current analysis of troops, even if the Lu family is attacked, it will not be like this. Supposedly, it should be completely superior. If Han Sufa did this to show his attitude, it would be considered smart, but his motive was because Lu Yi gave him the important task of deploying the Chinese army, which he had no use at all. Even a young player can see it. Lu Yi has already finished arranging a qiē, the so-called deployment of the Chinese army is nothing more than a name and no point, and he can't participate in the battlefield at all, and over time, Han Sufa's prestige will be gone. No contact with troops for a long time. The connections in his hands were also broken, and it was easy for Lu Yi to replace Han Sufa.
Wu Ling sighed, there are talented people in the country, Lu Yi is young but scheming, and he must be in awe.
The battle began, this is the second time that Han Sufa and Lu Yibu have encountered a strong opponent, the first time is to face the soldiers of Ying Tianfu, and now it is the soldiers of the Zhao family. This was also the first time Lu Yi had seen the Zhao family's Japanese army. The reason why it is called the Japanese army is because most of these soldiers and horses are composed of Japanese soldiers. The so-called Japanese are not just referring to the fact that there are Japanese people inside. In fact, most of the Japanese were just dressed up as Japanese people, they were some desperate fishermen or extremely vicious criminals along the coast, and Li Xiang, the leader of the Japanese who Lu Bing recovered, was also a Han Chinese, and most of the Japanese under his command were also Han Chinese, and the Japanese were in the minority.
These people are very strong in combat, and they all use the tools of the Japanese people, and they look strange, and this person is prone to secret fear when he sees new things, especially if he is against them. The Japanese people have seen the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty, and they are no different from Lu Yibu, but Lu Yibu is the first time to contact them, and in the hearts of the people, this battle has not yet started, and Lu Yi is slightly inferior.
Although this group of Japanese troops are all rabble, they are also stronger than Han Sufa's patchwork of men and horses, and the army led by Lu Yi has been training for a while, but they are still a little overstretched in the face of actual combat. The two sides first used long-range weapons to attack each other, the Zhao family used more trebuchets such as return cannons, and a small number of firearms as auxiliaries, while Lu Yi used a large number of firearms and had a relatively long range, which was exactly what Lu Yi wanted.
The war opened the long-range mode, neither side took advantage of it, Nanjing City was originally a place where the tiger was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and this city wall was built by the Shen family in the early Ming Dynasty, and it was poured out of the good materials with glutinous rice juice and live mud, and it made a metallic sound when it was knocked on. When the trebuchet came, the soldiers hid in the caves, and there were no casualties, except for the occasional boulder that smashed into the city and damaged a few houses. It did not have any effect on the city wall as a whole, and it was a white spot when it was smashed.
Similarly, Lu Yi did not take any advantage, the Zhao family's army has withdrawn outside the range of firearms, although Lu Yi's firearms are all standard for the Lu family's army, but the Zhao family has not fought with the Lu family's army, its range is beyond the imagination of the Zhao family, the first few rounds entered the lined army and exploded, causing a little casualties, but it did not hurt the Zhao family's muscles and bones. The Zhao family's army retreated again, leaving only long-range weapons to confront the Lu family. So the next to die were either the soldiers who carried the boulders, or the soldiers who operated the artillery and trebuchets, and in short, less than a hundred people died, which was nothing at all.
The city walls of Nanjing were fine, and the prepared repair team was useless, and the same was true for Zhao Jiajun, who used horse-drawn carts to transport new timber after each return cannon was broken up, and installed the metal fittings in situ to bombard it again. The two sides went back and forth, and there was a long-range weapon war, although the fight was lively, but the casualties were basically negligible.
The two sides had been bombarding the long-range bombardment from early in the morning until the evening, and both Lu Yi and Zhao Ling were guessing what the other party was thinking, and they both thought right.
Zhao Ling is outside the city, and the tools for building the return cannon are nothing more than trees, as for the other metal parts, it is difficult to wear and tear, and it can be assembled by dismantling, even if it is hit by a cannon, it will not be damaged. Then use the return artillery and a small number of artillery to carry out a continuous attack on Nanjing, if Lu Yi does not fight back, then he will be in the scheme, and the long-term suppression will inevitably have a certain impact on morale, and if the counterattack will cause a waste of resources, so whether Lu Yi responds or not, it is Lu Yi who suffers.
But Lu Yi didn't think so, he thought it was a good opportunity. On this day, the army that has not fought much before is given training to those who have relied on the large number of people and the weakness of the other side. So as I said earlier, this is exactly what Louis had in mind.
For example, when the shelling is an hour later. His soldiers were no longer as nervous as before, and they could judge the location of the artillery bombardment by their sound alone, and they could also determine the landing point of the boulder that fell back from the sky and threw back from the cannon. This day's time was purely to help Lu Yi train his troops, and it also boosted the courage of Lu Yi's army, which was a rare day of actual combat training. As for the issue of resources, Lu Yi has his own clever plan, but Lu Yi thinks that he has a great light on this day.
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The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth. Sure enough, Lu Yi cracked Zhao Ling's idea of wanting to drain the materials in Nanjing overnight, and he ordered people to make the parts of the return cannon overnight, and then quickly made the return cannon from the wood that had been stored for a long time. And the boulder thrown from the Zhao family's army also became the ammunition of the Lu family's army at this time. They threw it back.
Zhao Ling was furious, knowing that the plan had failed, and Lu Yi had already cracked it, so he quickly changed his plan and chose to suppress it remotely. In addition, the siege land directly chooses to attack the city head-on. The real hand-to-hand combat began. The infantry of the Zhao family army was overwhelmingly surging towards the city wall, and the moat was originally thrown poison by Lu Yi, which was full of tumbling poisonous water, although it was not fatal, but it could burn violently when it touched the skin, which was painful.
However, Zhao Ling was not a vegetarian, and Lu Yi's plan also failed, and Zhao Ling had long thought of the danger of the moat. The shield soldiers in the front row of the Zhao family's army were all soldiers carrying large bamboo ladders. The soldiers erected bamboo ladders on the moat, and the layers of erection were simply whipped and cut off. More than a dozen bridges were erected over the moat in an instant.
Lu Yi hurriedly commanded the soldiers to attack the moat with artillery, if they could hit the bridge, it would be the best, if not, they could also splash water on the besieging soldiers to achieve a killing effect. However, Lu Yi's gunners did not have long training accuracy, and in addition, these weapons relied on parabolic operation, and the ammunition was also filled, so it was not very convenient to shoot from the top and down, so it did not have any effect.
The bridges of the Zhao family army were built more and more, and at this time, the first batch of soldiers had rushed to the city wall, and various tools for climbing the wall began to appear. There are conventional ladder cars that walk from the bridge, and there are also arrow tower cars that cover the ladder trucks, it seems that the Zhao family does know a lot about ancient culture, and the first attack on the city weapons of various eras are used very well.
The most terrifying thing is that some hooks are grabbed, like crossbows shot at the battlements, and then hooked the bricks, and the people below climbed up along the ropes under the hooks. Because of gravity, it is not so easy for the people above to break the hook, and it is even more delusional to cut the rope, the front half of the rope is all iron cables, and the back is the rope used to reduce weight.
So all kinds of siege weapons exclusive to the Zhao family army came up one after another, and the Lu family army and Lu Yi's department were dumbfounded, the two sides came and went, and the Zhao family army climbed up and the Lu family army fought down. The crossbowmen kept shooting them with their bows and arrows, and the crossbow carts also shot through the bridge made of two ladders, and in an instant the soldiers who crossed the bridge fell underwater. The Lu family army threw down the gold juice wood and boulders, smashed down the soldiers who climbed the city wall, and there was naturally no shortage of stones in the city of Nanjing, and the Zhao family army threw so many trebuchets through the guò trebuchet a few days ago, which can be described as inexhaustible. There is nothing strange about the angular woods.
And the gold juice is a little disgusting, it is made of human feces, and Lu Yi also added a few flavors of medicine to it to make it more toxic. After the gold juice is boiled in a pot, it is better than hot oil, as long as it is poured from the city, it will be scalded when it touches the skin, and the skin will festered due to infection, and there is basically no cure on the battlefield, so the lethality is extremely great.
The two sides shouted that each had its own merits, and it was obvious that the Zhao family army had more combat experience, especially the army composed of some Japanese robbers was very fierce, and it was simply fatal to fight. The Lu Jiajun was slightly weak, but with the advantage of city defense, the number of people was not small, so it was easy to defend.
Slowly the moat did not pose a threat, because although the moat of Nanjing was wide, it borrowed the surrounding water potential and was connected to several rivers and lakes, and the poison thrown by Lu Yi before gradually weakened in half a day after the start of the war, and after a day, it was completely ineffective. As a result, the Zhao family's army attacked more smoothly, as if it was flowing water, but fortunately, it was not superior in numbers, so the Lu family's army and Lu Yi who were defending the city did not have any serious crisis. (To be continued......)