Chapter 650: A siege battle without suspense
The new army, the South Chang'an camp, and the Dongshui camp are displayed under the county seat of Langxian County, and they will attack the city at any time, at this time, Su Zhe, who is the leader of the Three Qing Sects, appeared on the head of the North City, Liu Yu carefully identified it in order to prevent the wrong person, and it is indeed Su Zhe, and it seems that the leader of the Three Qing Sect is not bad.
Although he is no longer the prince and no longer the king of Chu, he is the supreme leader of the Three Puritans, with a large group of supporters under his hands, and even more worshiped by the Three Puritans.
Dressed in a blue-yellow robe and wearing a wide square hat on his head, this appearance looks a little bells and whistles, but it also seems to be the emperor's costume on the stage, and he also seems to be a Taoist priest, but his clothes are much brighter than the Taoist robe.
Originally, Sanqingism was a mixture of Western religions, with Chinese Buddhism, Taoism and other mixed mixed religions, Su Zhe, as the leader of Sanqingjiao, wore such a "combination of East and West" nondescript clothes, which had a greater visual impact on the congregation, and it was easy for people to associate him with the gods. Liu Yu understood that this time Su Zhe ventured to show up, nominally to be with the people of the church, advancing and retreating simultaneously, but in fact he was to supervise the battle and boost the morale of the people to fight against the imperial army.
As soon as Su Zhe appeared, the Sanqing Sect members on the city wall were really like chicken blood, and they were ready to fight against the imperial army one by one, even if they knew that they would be sent to death if they stayed, but the Holy Sect Leader was there, and they suddenly felt that their lives were insignificant. Liu Yu found that the defenders in the city were unusually loose from the formation to the army ready for battle, and he couldn't help but glance at Su Zhegao in his heart, the feathered phoenix was not as good as a chicken, and Su Zhe became a chicken head. He also played some tricks to prepare for the chickens to fight the weasels.
"I can't help myself!"
Liu Yu snorted coldly. Now the focus. is to quickly break through the small county town of Lang County, capture Su Zhe alive, and then solve his problem with one sword. Then he will have peace of mind in his future life.
"Born in sorrow and dying in peace, is it better to kill him, or to lock him up and torture him slowly?" For no reason, Liu Yu himself got entangled first.
At this time, the preparations of the three armies were completed, and the soldiers who originally came from the three armies were after preparations. The formation has been completed, the formation of the middle army, the front army and the left and right armies, cold weapons fighting, especially the regular siege or field encounters, basically follow the strategy of first arraying and then sending troops, once there are loopholes in the formation, a few dead and wounded people is a trivial matter, I am afraid that it will cause a chain reaction, resulting in the army's discouragement and inability to fight again. After all, on the battlefield of cold weapons, the enemy and the enemy who can contact each other are only a small part of the people in the front battle. Once something goes wrong in the front, even if it's a small disadvantage. It will also affect the confidence of most of the soldiers in the back.
This siege of the city, in fact, the imperial army in the number of soldiers is not as large as the people in the city, the siege of the soldiers in a total of more than 10,000 horses, and the city gathered in the city of 30,000 or 40,000 people, although in terms of numbers, the city of the people to have an advantage, but after all, they are just ordinary people, men, women and children, there are many people who drag their families to bring their mouths, and they cannot be compared with the regular army of the imperial court in terms of combat effectiveness, not to mention that among the people and horses brought by Liu Yu now, there are also elites in the new army such as the Huo Sick Department.
In terms of the height and thickness of the city wall, the Huaidi capital Jiankang City is dozens of times stronger than the county seat of Lang County, and the county seat of Lang County, which does not even have a city tower, Liu Yue can't think of any reason to hinder him from leading his troops to break through the city. Unless Su Zhezhen has some demon methods, but those so-called "miracles" play a very small role in such a real place on the battlefield, unless it is an extreme improvement in weapons and tactics.
Nor can it be applied to ordinary parishioners.
At midnight in the morning, the preparations for the imperial court siege have been completed, Liu Yu gave an order, the battle flags at all levels began to dance, and the imperial army launched the siege from the east, west and north directions of Lang County at the same time, because Lang County is a small county town at the foot of the Son of Heaven after all, Liu Yu was very "benevolent" in the siege, and did not open the way with the earthen cannons used to attack the city before. But even if there are no weapons of mass destruction, there are guns and arrows as the vanguard, and the momentum is still like a rainbow.
The war drums resounded around the county seat of Lang County, and this sound was beaten, even the Sanqing Sect members who were inspired to not be afraid of death just now felt terrified at this time. After all, the battlefield is not a child's play, even if it is blessed by the sect leader, it is at most reincarnated as a good person in the next life, or entering the "heavenly kingdom" preached in the Holy Religion to take refuge, but it is an ethereal thing, whether there is it or not, at such a life-and-death moment, they will inevitably doubt.
No matter how devout a believer is, he will fear death. This is a common trait of human beings, and it is not a little mental paralysis that can be effective. Especially when they see the death of their companions.
The infantry attacked the city, there was nothing to do with the cavalry for the time being, under the escort of the shield, the army pressed under the city wall, and then shot sporadic arrows on the city wall, because of the lack of weapons of the parishioners, they also had no regular weapons to defend the city, and before throwing stones and debris, and even throwing the people in the city, this trick could not play any role in such a huge siege war. On the side of the imperial army, there are both muskets for long-range attacks and inexhaustible arrow rewards, and it is difficult to take advantage of them.
Because the vanguard army attacking the city was mainly the new army, there were a large number of muskets behind the shields, and Liu Yu also tried his best to let the soldiers use muskets to deter the ordinary parishioners in the city first, and shoot arrows, but instead send weapons to the embarrassments, so that they have arrows to resist. The bullets disappeared, and the parishioners defending the city could not use them.
Liu Yu has been watching the city wall where Su Zhe appeared, since he appeared, from the beginning of the imperial court's siege of the city, he avoided the back, and then did not appear again. Liu Yue knew that Su Zhe would not stay on the city wall and wait to be a live arrow target, and before the first battle, Liu Yu asked Huo Zhi to transfer a few horses with good marksmanship to surprise Su Zhe's plan to shoot Su Zhe did not work. After the start of the war, Liu Yue became more and more unsure of the purpose of Su Zhe's appearance, if it was to supervise the war, then he should stay on the front line instead of fleeing quickly.
Liu Yu even felt that demonstrating to him was the real purpose of Su Zhe's appearance.
"Don't let him run." Liu Yu was not on the front line of the battlefield, but sat in the middle of the army. He couldn't help sighing, this time it was such a good opportunity, if Su Zhe escaped, it would take some time to catch Su Zhe later.
The siege of the imperial army was very smooth, after the baptism of bullets and arrows of the imperial army, no one dared to show their heads on the city wall, it was a small county town without a moat and a city tower, and the follow-up baggage soldiers carried the rolling wood up, and the city gate was knocked open in just a few clicks, and then the cavalry and infantry entered the county, and the rest of the matter was very simple, almost a massacre.
"Can't be killed!" Before Liu Yu returned to the Chinese army's tent to wait for news, he gave the last order. (To be continued......)