Chapter 270: Death and Resurrection
Wei Wenshan really racked his brains in order to transfer more reinforcements to assist in defending the city, and the cavalry and infantry tricks of the Royal Guard's single battalion made him have an idea, and now he learned and used it, and collected all the horses in the city, so that people rushed to pick up Gao Jie's main army.
Li Liancheng gladly accepted this, even if they brought more ammunition and thunder, they rode away, although they carried a lot of ammunition and thunder, but only a thousand people, to face Zhang Xianzhong's army of 200,000, although the water here is very large, the real soldiers are only 30,000 or 40,000, but it is also more than ten times the disparity, the two-day defensive battle must be very tragic.
When Sun Kewang stood still and waited for the arrival of the main army, the soldiers and civilians in the city under the guidance of Li Liancheng desperately strengthened the city fortifications, and the simple fortifications built by sandbags were built one after another, even if the city's head position was captured, it could still rely on these simple fortifications to resist, sniping layer by layer, Zhang Xianzhong wanted to capture the entire county town, and had to pay a heavy price.
Li Liancheng also selected more than 50 more clever county soldiers and ordinary people for short-term training, that is, to feel the gun, how to load ammunition and shoot, etc., the time is pressing, even if they can learn to load ammunition and shoot, even if they are qualified, it does not matter if they move slowly, this is also to prevent the death of their subordinate soldiers, and it will be embarrassing if there is no one with a gun.
Zhang Xianzhong said that after breaking the city, the city would be slaughtered for ten days, although it would cause panic, but it would also force everyone in the city to a desperate situation and stimulate their fighting spirit.
The people who were fooled were both panicked and desperate, and wanted to escape from the city, but the city gate was blocked, and the only choice was to fight to the end.
Taking advantage of the opportunity when the people's army did not attack the city, the whole city was mobilized by the army and the people, breaking the wall and making stones, demolishing the houses to roll wood, the landlords and old wealthy businessmen have always been stingy, but once again generously donated money, food, family and weapons, they know better than anyone else, because they have money, is the primary goal of the liquidation of the people's army, if you want to live, you have to defend the city, to defend the city, you need cannon fodder, donate some money and food, you can earn it again, and if you don't have it, there is really nothing.
Nearly in the evening, Zhang Xianzhong arrived with a main army of 200,000 and besieged the entire county town of Shanyin.
The soldiers and civilians in the city were so frightened that their faces were colorless and their hands and feet weakened when they saw the dense civilian army, the battle flags fluttering like the sea, and the spears standing in the forest.
Li Liancheng hurriedly reassured loudly, don't just look at the surface and be scared, although Zhang Xianzhong's army claims to be 200,000, in fact, most of them are ordinary people who are forcibly coerced, the old and young women and children account for the vast majority, and the real young and strong are in their early 30,000 or 40,000 years, although the disparity in the strength of the troops, but the county is so big, the troops can't be spread at all, and they have to rely on long ladders to climb, we occupy the advantage of fortifications, and strengthen the city fortifications, and build more than a dozen fortifications, I have no confidence in myself for a month and a half, but I am completely sure of holding on for two days, As long as everyone works together, they will be able to defend the city and save their families.
The soldiers and civilians in the city were skeptical, this meeting, Zhang Xianzhong sent a messenger to the city to surrender, Li Liancheng glanced at the sniper team around him, and the entire independent battalion of the royal guards had four groups of snipers, and Gao Jie sent them to him, which also showed Gao Jie's determination to hold the county seat of Shanyin.
Four groups of snipers took aim with their guns, and almost at the same time they pulled the trigger and shot the envoys and guards sent by Zhang Xianzhong to surrender under the city.
There is a way that the two countries exchange troops and do not cut them off, Li Liancheng was forced to be helpless in doing this, and he got rid of the luck psychology of some people, forcing everyone to a dead end, and then resurrecting, and at the same time it was also to stimulate morale, and the soldiers and civilians at the head of the city were really frightened by the huge momentum of Zhang's army.
It took a long time for the city to erupt in earth-shattering cheers, the panic subsided, and morale increased.
The sent messenger was shot, and Zhang Xianzhong was so angry that he screamed, if it wasn't for the rapid march of the army, everyone was tired, if it wasn't for the darkness that had fallen, he would have waved his army to attack the city, and slaughtered the city for ten days after breaking the city, so as to eliminate the anger in his heart.
Early the next morning, the well-fed Zhang Jiajun poured out of the barracks to line up, and then began to launch the first wave of attacks on Shanyin County in the earth-shattering rumbling drums.
Boom Boom Boom –
Zhang Jiajun's nine homemade earthen cannons were laid out in a row, and they bombarded the city wall indiscriminately, and the momentum was still quite scary, but the damage caused to the city wall was very small.
When Zhang Xianzhong led the army to attack and seize two county seats, he captured three powerful and long-range cannons, but that thing was too heavy, he led the army to hurry away, and it was completely cumbersome to bring the three bulky big guys, so they could only be destroyed and thrown in the city.
There was no garrison in Shanyin County, and there was no artillery, Li Liancheng led his troops to hurry, and he couldn't drag a few bulky Franc machine guns, but fortunately, he brought a lot of ammunition and thunder, which was a sharp weapon in close combat, and had a condescending advantage, which was enough for the Zhang Jiajun who was besieging the city to be comfortable.
In the midst of the earth-shattering roar, the soldiers of the Zhang family army charged with shields and heavy siege weapons such as long ladders and siege vehicles that had been made overnight, and later mixed archers and musketeers, who were responsible for covering the siege and suppressing the county soldiers at the head of the city.
Without artillery, Li Liancheng could only watch the dense charge of the civilian army, and silently drew circles in his heart.
"You don't have to panic, you can fight how you kept yesterday." Li Liancheng loudly pacified the soldiers and civilians at the head of the city, the Zhang family army was too numerous and the momentum was too terrifying, even if he was appeased many times, the officers defending the city were still afraid.
Bang, bang, bang......
The first to shoot are four groups of snipers, all snipers are equipped with rifled guns with a longer range and higher accuracy, eight snipers hide behind the wall machine stacks, and shoot and snipe after the auxiliary soldiers observe with monoculars and indicate the azimuth target, the sniper targets are all officers wearing armor or riding on horseback to command, of course, the target is moving quickly, and there is no more accurate high-powered scope, wind direction and other reasons, the locked eight targets only hit five, which is a very good result.
When the charging militia entered the effective range of the muskets, the lieutenant officer ordered the soldiers to shoot, the target was too dense, almost no need to aim, and the eyes could be closed.
After several rounds of gunfire, more than 100 militiamen fell in a pool of blood, but this did not deter the dense militia from charging frantically, and the county soldiers with bows also began to shoot arrows with their bows, shooting the enemy as much as possible.
When the dense militia rushed to the city and erected a long ladder, the thunder with wisps of green smoke was thrown down from the city, and the recruits looked dazed, what is this?
But those veterans who survived the 36th joint battalion were so frightened that they ran away, but they were beaten by the elite of the Ming army under the command of Cao Wenzhao, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng and others, and they knew the terrible power of this iron bump, and their first reaction was to use all their strength to eat milk, how far and how far to run.
Boom Boom Boom ......
In the sound of violent explosions one after another, the smoke of gunpowder billowed out, the stumps and broken arms were thrown in all directions, and the militiamen who were originally densely packed under the city fell in an instant, and the wounded and not dead lay on the dirty mud ground and struggled and howled, and the frightened people were not affected by the shock wave of the explosion, and they instinctively retreated, and the timid ones were even more frightened and turned around and fled back.
The county soldiers and people at the head of the city saw that the power of the thunder was so terrifying, and they blew up the Zhangjia army to the point that people were on their backs, and the ghosts cried wolves, and they all let out earth-shattering cheers, and their morale was unprecedentedly high.