Chapter 423: Feint

There were occasional intervals in the fierce attacks, but the longest was just over a day. The next series of attacks continued for a month or so. For a month or so, there were large-scale reinforcements every day, and every day a large number of lost troops quietly withdrew from the other direction at night. In most cases, the corpses on the battlefield are too late to be cleaned and stay on the battlefield, and to some people's surprise, these corpses do not know for some reason that they do not decompose or attract all kinds of mosquitoes and flies in the not so cold season. This, of course, also alerted the defenders to a certain extent. A total of more than one million corpses and even more than 100,000 shield carts are scattered in many directions throughout Binh Duong New Town, forming strange and terrifying earthen ramparts. In the distance, above and below the tall city wall are some other places where corpses gather, and the small hills formed by corpses in many places can even have a height of about two or three zhang, which is enough for people to directly wait for the city wall of some county towns or prefectures, but here is an unprecedented Pingyang New City, and the ten-zhang high city wall makes any way of opposing attacks will be hugely limited.

In addition to this, the wall outside the iron-clad part was used to the bamboo forest of spears and arrows in some places not far from the city wall.

In this month or so, the attack was not evenly used every day, it was always focused, and it seemed that there was a discipline and purpose, and whenever it detected the weaker points of the entire Binh Duong New Town, it would throw itself into the attack with all its might. It's just that after the discussion and study of the presidents of the associations responsible for the defense of Binh Duong New Town, there is not too much controversy, and it can be seen that the other party's intention to use these cannon fodder to break the city is fake. Because obviously: these seemingly doorway rules are only meaningful if the difference in strength between the offensive and defensive sides is not very great when considering the defensive bonus. If it is a trench at all, it will be difficult to make a breakthrough no matter what method is used, and it can only be sent to death over and over again, then the only purpose of this offensive is probably to exhaust the entire Binh Duong New City of all kinds of defensive equipment and ammunition life.

In this regard, people who know some of the situation do not feel worried, and in order to appease people's hearts, they also convey some truths downward: "At present, our army still has more than 2 million spears and arrows of more than two catties, and more than 70 million iron-clad lead bullets of more than one catty, not counting all kinds of ammunition. There is no problem at all with the life of the ordnance and other lifespans before these materials are consumed, if you don't believe it, you can nominate someone to check one or two to know if what is said above is false... ”

When most of the troops and even the officers and men heard such words, they occasionally swept away some worries, and even if they were suspicious, they soon knew that the busyness of the past few years had not been in vain, and that the defense means and family background of the entire Binh Duong New Town were simply impossible to break through in the ordinary sense of the sea of people.

Of course, not all people can have a very clear rational way of thinking, and there are still many people who suspect that if this kind of continuous offensive continues every day for another year and a half, even the equipment and materials that seem to be abundant now will be exhausted. In this regard, targeted education work was quickly carried out under the effective organization of the upper echelons responsible for defense.

"There are 40 or 50 million households in the world in Dongyuan Kyushu, but the ordnance is limited. At that time, when the Dongyuan Kingdom was still alive, it would only have such armor and shields and perfect armaments under full combat preparations, and there were no more than four or five million of them, which showed that the ability of the entire world was like this at best. Now, after many craftsmen have gathered in Pingyang New Town, how many armored soldiers have come out of the whole world? If we are armed with wooden shields, rattan cards and very rudimentary weapons to attack, even if we lose tens of millions of casualties, will we really be able to consume our garrison troops? ”

The fierce siege that lasted for about thirty-five days ceased and ceased for the entire night without any new large-scale fighting, and not even for several days after that.

After paying the losses of millions of equipped troops, more than two-thirds of the regular troops that the coalition forces were able to consume were either dead or wounded, or completely lost the will to fight because of the grave and cruel facts. There are only about 1.5 million teams that can have relatively good hole cards, and only about 1 million can be put into battle if they are about 500,000 forces that need to be contingency.

"I think it's pretty much the same now. We have put in more than 100,000 shield wagons and hundreds of heavily armed men according to the previous plan. In many places, the spears are like bushes. It is time for us to go on the offensive ... ”

"Well, if you were on top of the battle formation at the time, would you be sure to break through?" asked one of his cronies at the joint meeting, a master of some status.

"It's hard to talk about the night. It's hard to see some hail defenses at night, but if it's daytime, I'm equipped with enough gear to suit myself. The barrier that looks like a moat to ordinary officers and soldiers, as well as the rain of arrows and bullets that are simply insurmountable, are not a threat at all. If it's the head of the house himself, at least during the day, there should be no problem at all... And it's better not to use some smoke or something. Because if we go into battle in person, then we have a clear advantage, and maybe they should be the ones who will use smoke and the like... ”

In this way, the seven most prominent first-class masters in charge of the lead received more and more positive replies from many of the subordinates: although the offensive of these days seemed futile, it was time to find out all the possible means of those people. As long as you attack in the daytime with a good line of sight, there is no reason not to break. In the true sense, there is a qualitative gap between a master who is fully armed and an ordinary soldier.

Of course, there are still some who are more cautious, even if they are completely sure to a certain extent, they still propose to use some special means first, and then take the opportunity to launch an attack, the effect is better, even if it affects a lot of cannon fodder, it is not a big deal.

In this way, when the battle formation had stopped for about ten days, and the attacking team had completely completed the confusion, it seemed that the battalion leaders in all directions had been refreshed and fully equipped to attack again. When the early morning sky was completely lit up, the 500,000 elite troops preparing for an all-out attack in four directions began to change and advance under the cover of 20,000 large steel shield vehicles. In fact, many of these new steel shield cars are still made of cast iron. After all, the artisan resources in the hands of various places cannot be compared with Pingyang New Town. It's just that more often than not, it's like a person-high iron cylinder, so that you can move forward without wheels and at the same time cover a lot of positions below.

When this new shield array approached about 200 paces or nearly 100 zhang or so from the city, many giant arrows like flying locusts approached again, and the violent metal impact could make a deafening sound and even a visible fire ball during the day.

The giant spear weighing about six catties easily penetrated the seemingly very thick three-point iron plate with the addition of a fine steel head, even if the cylinder had a certain arc. And after penetrating a layer of iron plates with a thickness of about three minutes, it can often penetrate the iron plates behind it, and effectively penetrate and kill all the heat behind it, but that's all, and there is no ability to penetrate the entire metal cylinder and then penetrate the second round of car shields.

Not all the flying giant spear arrows weigh six catties, and those giant arrows that are only about two catties do not have such a ability even if they have a metal arrow bonus, at most they can effectively penetrate the first layer of iron plates, but they cannot threaten the people behind the iron and copper. In order to withstand the strong force of the shaft, the length of these steel-tipped arrows is not very long, so it is generally difficult for the arrows that penetrate the iron plate to form some kind of obstacle that prevents the entire steel barrel from moving forward. In this way, the threat is undoubtedly minimized. Although people continued to fall in the continuous fire, the casualty rate was no longer as terrifying and desperate as in previous battles. At least it seems that there is still a chance to storm the city.

At a time when the battle had begun to enter the fierce stage and had not yet entered the critical stage, few people seemed to notice that there seemed to be some strange birds dyed blue in the sky at about the height of the clouds, and they accurately dropped a lot of things that were not easy to detect.

However, after about half a minute, some parrots in some special cages in the fortress at the head of the defenders began to fall at this time. Seeing this situation, some insiders at the upper level of the defense parties rang the bells of collusion as quickly as possible, and the various shooting windows were quickly closed at this time.

"What the hell is going on? The other side is about to attack at this time! Why is the shooting window closed at this time? And there doesn't seem to be a smoke car attacking... ”

"Don't you know the regulations? Don't ask, don't ask, what martial arts masters do you know?"

Just a moment later, many people with slightly poor physique felt dizzy and weak, and there were sporadic people falling to the ground, and this strange situation made more people begin to retreat quickly and hide with higher efficiency. It is clear: when the opponent's real means begin to be used, it means that the real offensive begins.

Of course, at this moment, hundreds of second-rate masters, who were only about two feet apart, under the leadership of seven first-class masters, flew out of the roller shield car at a speed like a cheetah, and approached the city wall like lightning.

Although many of the defenders on duty were evacuated, there were still some operators who were more well-protected and remained, and continued to operate the giant crossbows to launch a series of fierce counterattacks.

However, the rain of arrows that could not be overcome by ordinary soldiers, and even the continuous flying stones from behind the city walls, seemed to be full of loopholes in front of the real masters. Masters who can use a sixty or seventy pound steel shield with a single arm can often dissolve tens of thousands of joules of spear and arrow in a very ingenious way, even if the spear arrow may pass through a three-point thick inclined steel plate. In the arrow curtain that flies one after another, he can keenly look for relatively weak gaps and break through. The same is often true for those lead-filled iron bullets that fly like hail from the sky.

The city wall of about ten zhang is not something that ordinary masters can directly climb or cross, but in the previous preparations and even in the battle, there have been many giant arrows fired by the attacking side that are enough for heavily armed people to easily enter the city. Especially when you only step on the roots of those giant arrows.

At this time, many places on the periphery of the entire city began to break open, leaking some unique gaps and spraying violently. Some are flames or oil, and more are hot steam. Others are very cold, some unknown liquid, or even something very acidic.

In the face of a sudden attack, ordinary officers and soldiers may be helpless, but for those masters who really carry a lot of protective equipment, are also very well-prepared and targeted, they only cause sporadic minor injuries and some troubles. These people were still able to easily establish a breach in the city.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of third-rate or left-rate masters who followed up the attack broke through during the day at the fastest speed and began to break through in the direction of depth, and soon destroyed a lot of catapult machinery with the hammers and even arson that had been prepared long ago. Many of the ordinary reserve defenders who did not retreat on the inside were also swept away.

Immediately after that, the masters who had consolidated the breakthrough began to quickly attack in other directions. And there is no need for special means, just to open some broken gaps in the iron-clad fortress with a unique heavy axe and heavy cone, and at most to destroy some obvious exposed mechanisms.

Subsequently, tens of thousands of elite soldiers who seemed to have made the necessary preparations began to provide more sufficient manpower and even tools to further expand the breakthrough, and many officers and soldiers in the iron-clad fortress were dragged out, and many places where people were collectively sheltered were discovered.

Under normal circumstances, it seems that the breakthrough against the periphery of Binh Duong New City would not be so easy, but it is clear that this attack has used a lot of special means to make what seems to be very difficult things easier.

The tens of thousands of losses made many people in the upper echelons of the defenders at this time feel that something was not good, but not many people raised objections. Because if Ichiten is not willing to abandon the manpower, it is easy to be suspected by the opponent of some kind of feint. Even if there are only 20,000 or 30,000 people to sacrifice at the price, many people don't seem to be able to take the bait.

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