Not to mention following a good guy to be a good guy, and following the fox to become a goblin!

This is too right, at least, it is too suitable for Liu Bing, the deputy commander of the assault regiment and the commander of the first battalion.

Originally, Liu Bing, a high-achieving student, was proud to the core, and although he fought in a decent manner, he was also a master who dared to fight. However, since he became Zhang Qingshan's subordinate, his arrogance has been somewhat restrained, but he has seen the other side, to put it nicely, he has become cunning, and to put it badly, the thickness of his face has increased rapidly.

Generally speaking, blocking the city gate itself is a kind of Mingzhi meaning with the survival of the city, and most of the sandbags used are filled with soil, but he is good, it is really the bluestone blocks on the nearby bluestone road to block the city gate, and, in order to strengthen the strength of blocking the city gate, he also let people boil glutinous rice overnight, plus excess lime, just used as cement, is really blocking the city gate...... This can only show his cheekiness, and his cunning is cunning, he did not completely block the city gate, but left five pipeline-like holes the size of little fingers, from the inside to the outside, from high to low. A bowl-sized groove was also made on both sides: one could increase the speed of pouring kerosene, and the lower side of the mouth would speed up the oil outlet.

In Liu Bing's triumphant words at the time, this not only made it impossible for the little devil to use * to fill these five holes, but also allowed people to pour kerosene out of them, and then, a spark could burn a large area.

Not to mention, although this is a bit unauthentic, it is really easy to use for blocking the city gate.

Especially in the face of such a big lump as hard as iron blocking the door, even if the little devil bombards it with a cannon, he has to despair!

It's just that everyone's gaze at Liu Bing is a little strange, especially those veterans who have been following Liu Bing, and they look at Liu Bing with a very painful and complicated gaze: How can a noble white swan become a black swan after only following the regiment commander for more than half a year? This black is too thorough, right? It is simply for the sake of victory, and on the premise of not violating party discipline and military regulations, unscrupulous means.

However, Liu Bing's pride is based on his ability.

As far as the level of military theory is concerned, in the entire assault regiment, I am afraid that only Tian Guozhong, chief of staff of the regiment, can suppress him by a few points, and the rest, such as Zhang Qingshan, a monk who has become a monk halfway, can definitely be thrown out of eight streets.

No, when the entire battle plan was being formulated, Liu Bing immediately proposed that all the four city gate buildings in the county seat of Sanqiao County, the eastern, western, and southern city gate buildings be demolished.

At that time, the audience was full of consternation, but Tian Guozhong gave Liu Bing a thumbs up after pondering for a while.

Zhang Qingshan deliberately humbly asked for advice, and as a result, under Liu Bing's arrogant gaze, Zhang Qingshan obediently presented a pack of good cigarettes, and Liu Bing gave the reason.

From ancient times to the present, the main role of the castle tower is two: one is to climb high and look into the distance, and the other is to symbolize the spirit.

The former is easy to understand, but the latter is overlooked by many people.

If the city tower is captured or blown up, it is definitely a huge blow to the soldiers defending the city mentally, because its loss means the precursor of the defeat of the defending side, so everyone will see in various film and television works that once the city tower is lost, the commander who defends the city will generally take it back at all costs.

And in modern warfare, the castle tower will basically not miss, but will be directly blown up by artillery shells. In this way, it is equivalent to saying that the defenders have no chance of taking it back. And once the city tower is blown up, it will also give the defending side a major blow to the spiritual morale...... Not to mention anything else, the deterrent effect generated by the moment the city tower was blown up alone would make many soldiers frightened, thus affecting the morale of the entire garrison of the city.

Although many people do not notice this, it is there.

Therefore, Liu Bing proposed to take the initiative to blow up the three city towers at the first time, just because he didn't want the little devil to have traces in this regard...... And only the Beicheng Tower was left, mainly because of the geographical advantage of the Beicheng Tower, so that the little devil could not easily blow it up. At the same time, you can also use the North City Tower to climb high and look far away.

Therefore, when the commander of the army on the right side of the little devil came to the south of the city and saw the South City Tower that had been blown up, he couldn't help but be stunned: Where did the South City Tower go? Lao Tzu was still waiting for a shot to kill it.

Of course, although this little episode made the supreme commander of the little devil's right army very regretful, it did not affect his determination and decision to attack immediately. However, it made him consciously narrow the scope of the attack, anyway, in his eyes, there are tanks and artillery on his side, as long as he hits one point and breaks it, this battle is basically over. All that remains is to storm the city and carry out a one-sided massacre.

For the sake of this moment, which was a meaningful moment for him personally, and in order to add such a touch to his military career, the Supreme Commander of the Right Army himself came to the forefront, and he felt that he had to see with his own eyes how quickly this invincible steel army entered the city.

Since it is pride and has an overwhelming advantage, it is natural that there is no need to think about anything else, just set up a position to attack.

However, he was not too arrogant, at least, he led his troops directly to the east gate and came to the open ground outside the south gate...... What reflects his arrogance and self-confidence is not that he directly ordered tribute regardless of the fatigue of the soldiers, nor did he let the soldiers go hungry to fight, nor did he ignore the situation of the city's defenses, but that he did not even build the simplest rest camp, and directly let the soldiers in the rear carry weapons and ammunition into the forest in a big way, and he was not afraid of the assault group sending people to harass or sneak attack.

To put it mildly, he didn't even look at the most basic sand table of modern warfare, although the people below had already done it. But he thinks that all the information has been memorized in his head, and for such an opponent, he still has to rely on sand table drills to deal with it, that is, he looks up to the opponent too much, and insults his soldiers too much.

If you are too self-confident, you will become stupid! To put it in layman's terms, he is very contemptuous of the enemy at this time.

Halfway up the mountain, nearly 500 meters away from the South City Gate, in a relatively flat place, the cannons were lined up and ready to go...... He put aside the tanks and small steel cannons for the time being, because he thought it was not necessary, and it would be enough to have them.

With his order, twenty cannons opened fire.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Clusters of fire shone brightly, smoke rose, and the ground shook the mountains, but the walls remained unfalling.

But it was not without results, because each shell left a wound on the wall of the city wall about 10 centimeters deep and about 18 centimeters wide.

Although the supreme commander of the army on the right side of the little devil was arrogant, he still had some ability, at least, he didn't let each cannon send a base number of shells to the city wall as soon as he came up. Rather, only the first cannonballs were fired, and this was the test of the wall - the first cannonballs were used to test the defensive strength of the wall.

And as a result, it naturally made him a little annoyed: this is a mountain cannon, not a small steel cannon, how could it be blown up so much under such a big movement?

But the cruel reality made him understand: if he continued to build like this, he was afraid that all the mountain artillery shells he brought would only blow up a section of the city wall...... This was not what he expected. Because in his plan, the Chinese city walls basically could not withstand the bombardment of the mountain artillery, and the remaining ammunition was to deal with the pillboxes in the city. If they were all used, what would they do with the bunkers in the city?

However, he still has a lot of command experience, no, as soon as his mind turned, he immediately made tactical adjustments to the artillery: hit the fire, attack its point.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The skills of the little devil artillery are still very good, at least, these twenty mountain cannons all attacked the city wall section within 5 meters of the right 30 meters to the south city gate.

And the effect of such an artillery bombardment is very obvious.

In the center of this five-meter city wall is a crater about 20 centimeters deep and about 1 meter wide, and around it, there are craters of various sizes.

Seeing that there was an effect, the artillery naturally continued.

So, after half a base of shells, it finally stopped - look at the results!

The result is that all the little devils are cold-faced: in general, there is still progress.

The crater that had been blown out about 20 centimeters deep was now pushed into about 10 centimeters, exactly the depth of the stone bricks used to build the city wall.

The sharp-eyed one, after the smoke cleared, saw this clearly through the telescope, and even clearly saw the stones attached to the city walls.

However, it is precisely because of seeing this that the little devil will be more desperate for the shelling: Generally speaking, the ancient Chinese city walls are basically stone and soil structures, that is, the inside of the city wall is all rammed soil, and the outer layer of bluestone and other hard objects is wrapped, as long as the hard objects outside are broken, the soil inside will be exposed, then, a few more cannons, it will not be far from the collapse of the city.

However, the construction of the county seat of Sanqiao County is too expensive, after blasting off the outer layer of bluestone, there is actually a layer of bluestone inside, which makes people despair about the collapse of the city wall, because no one knows, even if the second layer of bluestone is also blown off, there will be a third layer, and even the entire city wall is all made of bluestone.

For such a strong city wall, it also appeared once in Tengchong, Yunnan, China.

According to the records, at that time, the Chinese expeditionary force attacked Tengchong County, and as a result, whether it was bombing by US planes or shelling on the ground, the shells were actually tilted at just the right angle, and all of them were bounced off by the surface wall paved with bluestone.

In the end, the expeditionary force had no choice but to rely on people to forcibly attack the city, and after paying thousands of casualties, it could be regarded as occupying the entire Tengchong county, which had already been bombed into a scorched earth. Thousands of people were lost in the siege alone.

In modern siege warfare, the most fearful thing is that under the enemy's dense firepower, you have to rely on manpower to forcibly climb the city wall.

As a result, the faces of the little devils are pale, which is worth understanding......