Chapter 232: Up and Down the City
The rumbling of artillery alarmed the defenders of Daizhou City, and the siege for many days had almost exhausted all the vitality in the city. As early as the beginning of the war, due to the plague, the guards in the city of Daizhou, the state and county yamen had already existed in name only, until the thieves invaded in a big way, and the defenders organized by the great merchant Huang Yongfa came to the forefront.
The defenders, who were already exhausted, thought that the thieves had brought the cannons and were ready to fight to the death, but they found the battle flag of the Ming army on the river beach in the distance.
"Look! It's the Ming Army! ”
A voice trembled with excitement. The soldiers forcibly supported their bodies that had been overdrawn for I don't know how many times, and looked into the distance, it was really the Ming army, but then people's hearts hung again, and tens of thousands of thieves were rushing towards the thousands of Ming troops with their backs to the big river. The strength of the two sides is obviously not proportional, and many people sighed and turned their heads away, and they couldn't bear to look at it anymore!
"Yes, it's Li Jiaoxi! The second son, come and see, it's Li Jiaoxi......"
The voice was full of excitement, and a bearded man happily invited Huang Yu to come forward and watch. There are not many people who know the identity of Huang Yu's daughter, and in order to facilitate her as the second son, she still assists her father and brother in handling the affairs of the trading company as the second son, and she is naturally indispensable to defend the city this time.
Huang Yu looked in the direction of the man's finger, and sure enough, there was a Li character embroidered on the battle flag, could it really be that he came?
"The second son looks at the musket cross, except for teaching, no one in the Ming Dynasty uses this formation......"
Hearing him say this, Huang Yu noticed the conspicuousness of the Ming army, and in the midst of thousands of troops, she actually maintained the integrity of the formation horizontally and vertically, although she was smart in ice and snow, she couldn't understand how much help this kind of neat formation used to look good was in the war, but since it was a battle formation put up by her sweetheart, it should always be extremely profitable!
For some reason, contrary to everyone's worries, Huang Yu seemed to be full of confidence in Li Xin, who was under siege, and her hands were clenched into fists because of concern, wishing that she would also put on a suit of armor to fight side by side with him.
Huang Yu has always been like a fish in water in both official and business affairs, but she is extremely neglected in the battle formation, so she can't help at all.
"Can Zhang Jiaoxi go out of the city with the whole army to meet ......?"
After she asked, she knew that it was impossible. Zhang Jiaoxi, that is, the bearded man, replied confidently: "The second prince is watching the battle in the city, although the thieves are powerful, they are all rabble, in order to teach the military formation, it is only a matter of time before the thieves are broken!" ”
In this regard, Huang Yu couldn't help but pouted secretly, if it sounded like a real braggathing to outsiders, she could hear the indescribable joy in her ears. A cold voice inserted out of place, pulling Huang Yu back from her cranky thoughts.
"It's very useful to have a neat team, it's not a show, and the thieves have to disperse as soon as they rush......"
The person who spoke was Huang Sheng, Huang Yu's eldest brother, and he commanded the battle to defend the city, but he didn't expect to survive under the heavy siege of the thief army. When the thieves first came, the momentum was rapid, and there was no end in sight in the city, until ten days ago, the thieves outside the city began to divide their troops to the south, and the pressure on the city defense of Daizhou was greatly reduced, otherwise I really don't know if I can defend it to this day.
"Big brother Hugh wants to grow the morale of others and destroy his own prestige, how do you know Li, General Li must be defeated!"
Huang Sheng sighed, his voice was full of exhaustion, but it was still cold.
"Don't you want him to win as a big brother?"
"Look, the thieves are starting to attack!" The soldiers in the city began to shout, although they were unable to go out of the city to help the battle, they hoped in public in their hearts that this Ming army must hold on, hold on, maybe there will be a miracle!
Guo saw that the two sides had been connected together, and the impact of the thieves seemed to be stagnant, at first Huang Yu thought it was an illusion, but the bearded man pointed to the battlefield excitedly and asked her to see.
"Teaching this formation is smart, and the combat effectiveness is stronger than when it was in Gaoyang!"
Huang Yu was puzzled, Huang Sheng didn't think so, isn't the cowhide blown like this, is it so long-minded in his heart, but he didn't say it, now in this generation of state cities, who doesn't want the only Ming army to win?
They finally found a little wayway, and saw that the thieves in front of the ant-like thief formation seemed to be cutting leeks, falling one by one, and the formation of the three guards was as the bearded man said, and they maintained a horizontal and vertical formation from beginning to end.
"It's strange, the thief seems to be scrambling to die, how can he seem to have fallen under a strange spell?"
Huang Yu was very surprised by this situation. Seeing this, the bearded man explained one by one.
"The second prince takes a closer look, the battle formation of the Three Guards is composed of pikemen and musketeers, look at the two protruding parts, the pikemen at the top must be the most elite pikemen in the whole army, and they shoulder the role of dividing the enemy to both sides in the future......"
The Huang brothers and sisters listened attentively, and the soldiers on both sides nodded their heads again and again, whether they understood it or not.
"After looking at the pikemen in the two salients, they are musketeers, three rows and one team, which can shoot at the flanks of the thieves after being diverted, and cooperate with the main force at the bottom of the battle formation to achieve the maximum killing effect on the thieves."
In fact, the truth is similar to the effect of Gaoyang City after the transformation, the difference is that the role of the city wall is replaced by soldiers! But the brothers and sisters of the Huang family are different, and it is the first time they have seen that a battle can be fought like this, which can be regarded as an eye-opener.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
The cannons, which had been under mute fire for a while, finally fired again, and because the thieves were too close and too dense, dozens to dozens of people were inevitably wounded and killed in each shot. This made all the defenders of the city feel very happy, and the hearts that had been hanging seemed to begin to loosen, and there were signs of gradually falling back, perhaps God had really begun to favor them, and the reinforcements might be able to fight a big battle with less and more victories!
Immediately after that, the thieves launched another attack on a larger scale than before, and Huang Sheng sighed in despair.
"It's over......"
After only saying two words, he didn't say any more, but everyone knew that this eldest son of the Huang family was not optimistic, was there really no hope of winning?
Huang Yu leaned forward, disapproving against the eldest brother's remarks, only the bearded man was extremely firm.
"The bigger and fiercer the thief's attack, the faster the defeat will be!"
This is unreasonable, when did the number of people become the way to defeat? Obviously, he did not agree with the statement of common sense, Huang Sheng snorted coldly.
"Where does the confidence come from?"
He didn't want the thieves to win, but he was a little unaccustomed to the confident words of the bearded man, and after all, it was the eldest young master's temper that came up.
"If the eldest prince doesn't believe it, just watch the battle patiently!"
The bearded man's voice is obviously not good, he has been training the soldiers to defend the city for their Huang family for several days, this eldest young master is not less commanding, he has endured it for the sake of the overall situation, this time he is disrespectful to Li Xin, but he really can't bear it!
Huang Yu also blamed him, the grumpy eldest brother, everyone hoped that the reinforcements would win, but he just went against him, and he still thought that the morale in Daizhou City was not low enough? Daizhou City has a bad-tempered general like him, and it is a miracle that he can defend it to this day!
"Look! The reinforcements can't seem to stand it! ”
As soon as this statement came out, everyone was in an uproar! Huang Yu hurriedly looked over, and sure enough, the original neat truth seemed to be divided into several segments, which were uneven, and I don't know what the reason led me to be. Even the bearded man tilted his head to think about the reason why the Three Guards were in such a situation.
"Huh? Are the reinforcements retreating in one piece? ”
It turned out that after these several changes in formation, there was a gap between the two armies, and the previous scene like cutting wine and food reappeared, and this change was like a trick, so that the defenders watching the battle in the city were puzzled for a while.
Even the hard-mouthed Huang Sheng secretly admired in his heart, this Li Xinbing seems to be more beneficial than the legend, no wonder the little sister values this person so much, thinking of this, she inadvertently caught a glimpse of Huang Yu's concerned gaze, and her heart couldn't help but move, didn't this little sister of her own family fall in love with someone else's promise, right?
"The thieves withdrew, the thieves withdrew!"
There were suddenly bursts of cheers among the defenders, and the thieves under the city began to retreat......
The crisis of the Three Guards was immediately resolved, but their next move was greatly unexpected by everyone in the city. He pursued it in an orderly manner, stopping for a salvo every few steps.
After tens of thousands of people lost their impact targets and began to turn back, the dispatch failed, and the actions were no longer coordinated, and they began to crowd and stample each other, even if they retreated, the speed was not much faster than walking. This gave the Three Guards the opportunity to shoot the thieves with musket cavalry, as if they were lined up to be shot, and for a moment it turned out to be a one-sided shooting! Coupled with the cannons with different ranges of distance and distance, one after another flowering shells smashed into the chaos army, it was like putting a straw on this camel that was about to collapse.
The bearded man slapped the female wall with his right hand, "Teach this time to win more with less, and play beautifully!" ”
"Teaching?"
Huang Sheng suddenly noticed the wording of the beard and felt that something was different. Huang Yu was busy playing a round for him, supporting the topic in the past, and recruiting Zhang Shi was the only one in the entire Daizhou City who knew about it, and even his eldest brother was still kept in the dark. Now the sense of Li Xin in the trading company is not good, if he knew Zhang Shishi's true identity, he would definitely not use him, so he had to make this decision.
Huang Sheng was so easy to fool and just wanted to ask carefully, but he heard that the city was suddenly like a tsunami, and a large number of thieves began to flee in all directions, and the entire siege army had a tendency to collapse in an instant. This is simply incredible, he can't understand no matter what, whether this battle is due to the strong combat effectiveness of Li Xin's troops, or the thief army has begun to memorize......
Under the city, the rout was in chaos, and the defenders of the city were like watching a big show, and the victory was so unreal that they couldn't believe that they had won it for a long time.