Chapter 65 Thunderbolt Strikes the Southern General (2)

Yang Luo's Wuqian Army also has these two advantages, and the tactics of the Wuqian Army are more flexible, fighting with the Badulu Army while bombarding the enemy with firearms at close range, and also looking for opportunities to throw firewater and other explosives at the Badulu people in the rear, and try to use firearms to disrupt the ranks of the Badulu Army while fighting with white knives.

This is exactly where Yang Liang's soldiers are clever! Although the lethality of the firebolt is limited, once the Badulu army is concentrated, it will also limit the movement of the Badulu at such a close distance, and the investment of firetle terrestris in the densely populated city will further increase the confusion of the enemy. Of course, there are also a lot of smoke-emitting thistles that were quickly picked up and thrown back by the Mongolian army, but for Badulu, who has difficulty moving, it is not easy to bend down to pick up thistles. The Bladebreaker of the Warriors had a difficult time dealing with Badulu's tough leather armor, but that didn't prevent them from greeting Badulu's face with their iron bones and white sticks. As soon as they rushed up to the city wall from the horse road, they immediately started a melee with Badulu. In the battle of everyone, they slowly established a solid advantage.

But in the northwest corner, where the Badulu army ascended the city, the situation was much more sinister. Yang Liang's armored army was insufficient, and the armorers of a former army responsible for guarding the west city wall were directly transferred by Zhao Kui to reinforce the northern city wall, which was tight. There were not enough armorers here, and once the Badulu army began to attack, it would be difficult for them to resist the surprise attack of the strong armor.

Interference from the top always gave front-line commanders a headache, and Yang Luo was probably the general who had the most headache for this kind of unsolicited order. Because he is good at cunning and cunning, he feels awkward about the need to follow the rules of warfare such as defending the city. Once an order from his superiors interfered with his original battle plan, he had very few reserves to make up for the gap. This is due to Yang Yunming's own character of attacking heavily and defending lightly, and also because as Zheng Yunming's old base troops, the Tulong Army often has to deal with all kinds of inexplicable tasks. For example, the militia guarding Dongcheng lacked combat effectiveness, and 1,000 people were to be sent from the Tulong Army to help, and Song Ci, the counselor of the Criminal Division, was ordered to investigate and prosecute the whole city, and there were no soldiers under him, so he borrowed 500 people from the Tulong Army. What else is there to organize the army and civilians, guard the bell and drum tower, etc., which makes the troops under Yang Luo even thinner.

The only reserve force he could use now was the 300 Porjet militia on standby in the old tree battalion in the northwest corner.

When he sent the signal. Wei Sheng roared and rushed forward with his brothers, before that, Wei Zugui had already been ordered by Zhao to leave. Zhao Zhizhi was somewhat similar to his brother in that he also attached great importance to these experienced generals of the Northern Army. Especially the loyal Northern Army like Wei Zugui is even rarer among the rare. Rumor has it that Zhao's envoy is preparing to promote General Wei to the rank of commander of the First Army, commanding more than 5,000 military horses, becoming another force in addition to the Qin Army. So the daily battles have been handed over to the deputy general and Wei Sheng to preside. Since Wei Sheng personally commanded the crowd to fight, he has been more enthusiastic to participate in the daily fierce battles.

But this time they were in a rare struggle. In previous battles, there were always armorers of the Earth Dragon Army in front of them, and this time the number of armorers of the Earth Dragon Army was not enough. Although the martial arts of the Baojie army were proficient and the discipline was strict, most of them were foot soldiers without armor, and fighting with such light infantry and heavy armor samurai were not in the wilderness, and there was no way to show mobility, and in front of the Badulu who was advancing like a wall, they were destined to suffer a loss.

No matter how brave and capable Wei Sheng is, he finally can't resist the Badulu army that rushes up, and the Badulu people are crowded in front of the corner tower in the northwest corner, and have driven Wei Sheng and his militia back to the horse road, and the Song army that has cleaned up the first floor of the corner tower is attacking Lushang, and the fall of the northwest corner tower seems to be a sure thing. To make matters worse, there was almost no reserve for a counterattack on the northwestern corner city, because of the blockage of their own soldiers, everyone retreated to the south, leaving the most critical corner city to the morale-boosting Badulu.

The next thing Yang Luo can instinctively react without using a brain cell, if there is no other Song army to hinder their actions, Badulu will completely occupy the commanding heights of Jiaocheng, and it will be difficult for the Song army, which is one step late, to recapture this strategic commanding heights even if it has two or three times the strength. More than 100,000 Mongol troops outside the city will follow this breakthrough and break into the city to engage the defenders in street battles, once the shield of the city wall is lost, the outnumbered Xiangyang defenders will not have any advantage in the street fighting, and Xiangyang City will inevitably end up with the same fate as Xinyang and De'an, which were slaughtered.

Yang Yu roared in the loudest voice of his life: "One-third of the people are guarding here, and the rest are coming with me!" He lifted a knife in his hand and said viciously: "If you can't hold Xiangyang, none of you will survive, you would rather fight the Tulong Army and take back the Northwest Corner City!" ”

The earth dragon army on the entire western city wall mobilized with a roar from the main general, but their movements still seemed to be a little sluggish. The Badulu army has occupied the north and west ends of the city wall, blocking the Song army reinforcements from the north and west walls of the city wall, although the Badu Lu army is small, but occupies a section of the city wall, with the body lined up into the wall, the so-called one husband is not open, let Yang Yang how to supervise, the soldiers of the Tulong army can not break through the barrier of these tower-like warriors, a large number of Song troops are crowded on both sides of the northwest corner city, but no half of them can rush to the corner city, and behind the Badulu, the Mongolian infantry army climbs the city wall in turn, The Mongol army on the city wall was expanding rapidly, and it would soon reach the point where the Song army could not be expelled even with all its might.

Yang Wei cursed in a low voice, turned his head and prepared to go down the city wall to bypass the old tree camp and rush up from the horse road in Jiaocheng. Before he could leave, a group of military horses hurriedly came at the intersection of the old tree camp.

He only needed to look at it to understand that the reinforcements for the envoy were coming more slowly than before, and the leading men and horses were none other than the hundred heavily armored soldiers under the envoy.

These samurai, who were wrapped in iron armor from the top of their heads to the soles of their feet, could be regarded as the strongest infantry in this world, and there was no need to add one of the qualifications. The armor that Zheng Yunming created for these warriors was born out of the earliest full-suit metal armor. In addition to the close-fitting leather armor, the whole body is wrapped in tight metal armor. Because of this, the weight of this set of equipment is really not light, at least it will not be inferior to the famous full-armed infantry armor of the Northern Song Dynasty. With such heavy armor, it is difficult for even a brave and powerful person personally selected by Zhao Kui to wear this set of guys' light and agile movements. Looking at the sluggishness of these bulky armor soldiers, few soldiers and civilians in Xiangyang believed that these warriors in gorgeous and exquisite armor could really go into battle and compete with the Mongol cavalry who came and went. The left and right are just vases used by the generals to show off their strength.

But Zheng Yunming knew that these soldiers who were nicknamed "Iron Man" by the soldiers and civilians of Xiangyang were not useless waste, so people regarded them as gorgeous and useless white elephants, most of which was because these bulky armor soldiers were placed on an inappropriate battlefield. In short, the full-body metal armor gladiator developed along with fully developed castle facilities and a large number of firearms. Although their weak combat power in the face of real horse archery teams and longbows and crossbows is completely disproportionate to the expensive cost, in the city defense battle, they can avoid the weakness of slow speed, and can give full play to the combat effectiveness of the heavy armor samurai themselves, becoming the backbone of the city defense battle that cannot be ignored.

Seeing them rush onto the horse road in an orderly but slow manner, Yang Liang calmed down a little, waved his hand and asked Chen Guang to rush to the city wall with three hundred Youyi troops, and join with the thousands of reinforcements rushing out of the city, and launch a counterattack against the Badulu army occupying the northwest corner city under the guidance of the heavy armored personal army. At the forefront were the two pro-soldier colonels personally trained by Zhao Kui, leading the two pro-soldier squads as preparing generals. The two of them rushed to the corner city and rushed straight towards the Badulu army that was besieging the northwest corner tower. Several Badulu soldiers came to intercept with weapons in hand, and the first one raised an iron chisel spear and stabbed one in the chest, this powerful blow If that preparation would not be wearing this heavy armor, there must have been enough reaction time to dodge, but this heavy equipment slowed down all his speed, even after several months of training, after all, he still couldn't move quickly, and was actually cone in the chest by the iron chisel gun.

After an extremely harsh sound of Jin Ge striking, Na Bei was unsteady and took a few steps backwards, until a comrade behind him held him up, and he barely stopped retreating. He subconsciously stroked his chest with his hand, except for a shallow pit carved out by the iron chisel gun on the large concealment of the heart, it seemed that there was no other damage to his body, he roared, and rushed forward with the wolf tooth hammer in his hand.

The Badulu Military Academy has been fighting from the north to the south, and has never suffered a loss in the blade armor, this blow actually made the opponent unscathed, and he also panicked, and turned the iron spear sideways to smash the opponent's hammer head-on, but unexpectedly, another one was ready to use the flame barrel that had already ignited the fast gun, and a bright fireball went straight to the face of the Badulu army. Badulu Jun's eyes were burned, and he immediately screamed and rolled to the side.

The companions behind him saw this scene, and their high momentum suddenly fell a lot. Taking advantage of the momentum of victory, the soldiers rushed to Jiaocheng, and the heavily armored soldiers began to rampage through the Badulu army with their sturdy armor. The heavily armored samurai brandished blunt weapons and shields, roaring loudly and fighting each other, forming the most thrilling scene since the entire Battle of Xiangyang.