Chapter 2 Street Fighting Training

As mentioned last time, after Liu Hou arrived in Chenxian County, the administrative office of Guiyang County, he launched an attack without saying a word, first of all, artillery bombardment, which collapsed the city gate, and the remaining one was also full of holes.

Then, Liu Hou dispatched his air force, and all ten hot air balloons were dispatched to carry out a comprehensive bombardment of the city wall. The defenders on the city walls were suddenly empty.

Liu Hou's third step was to dispatch musketeers, who, under the protection of shield soldiers, approached the city wall and suppressed the remaining defenders on the wall with muskets.

Due to the air raids, there were not many defenders on the city walls who could still stand, and even fewer could shoot arrows, and with the protection of shield soldiers, the musketeers were very safe, and there was basically no damage.

This is the siege trilogy formulated by Liu Hou after summing up the experience of siege warfare during this period. Liu Hou felt that these three steps were easier to use than blowing up the city wall.

To blow up the city wall, you must first bury explosives, and to bury explosives, you must first dig holes. There are only two ways to dig a hole in the city wall: the first way is to dig a tunnel in the distance to go straight to the city wall, and then plant explosives under the city wall.

This is the method that causes the least damage to your own soldiers, and can blow down the walls without killing a single soldier. The disadvantage is that it takes a long time. To dig tunnels out of range of enemy crossbow arrows under the city walls, it is not a matter of ten days or eight days. If the city has a moat, the tunnel needs to go around below the bottom of the river, and the amount of work is larger.

The second way was to build a siege cart that could withstand arrows, rolling stones, and fire, and push the cart under the city walls, and the people would hide in the carts and dig holes.

This method is not safe, it is difficult to ensure that the siege vehicle will not be destroyed, especially when the opponent pours a large amount of oil to attack with fire, with the existing technology, there is almost no defense. Correspondingly, soldiers digging holes in it will risk their lives greatly.

From the actual battles of blowing up the city wall several times, Liu Hou can also see that the effect of blowing up the city wall is not very satisfying. Although the walls were blown down, the building materials such as earth and stone that built the walls were still there, and they would not be annihilated by an explosion.

Especially the current city wall, the outer layer is bricks, and the inside is a thick layer of rammed earth. As a result, these collapsed rocks form a mound of earth and rocks, which is a mess and more difficult to climb than the most rugged mountain roads.

It was not an easy task for their own soldiers to climb such a large mound of strange rocks and mounds in their heavy rattan armor. The first two blowings up the city wall were fortunately due to the temporary emptying of the defenders on the city wall because of the explosion, and the rest of the people were also shocked by the loud noise and terrible scenes, and could not react in time.

If there are experienced generals present and organize the defenders to climb this large mound of earth and rocks in time to defend it, then the difficulty of the Shu army attacking the city will not be much better than when there is a city wall.

In addition, after the capture of the city, you will become a defender, at this time you need to rebuild the damaged city wall, if you blow up a large section of the city wall, the amount of construction will increase greatly, and it will be a matter of labor and money.

Therefore, Liu Hou abandoned the method of blowing up the city wall and switched to a trilogy to suppress the defenders on the city wall with a three-dimensional attack.

After the defenders on the city wall were suppressed, Liu Hou could make one last move: let the vine armor army go up.

The drums of war were beating, and the vine armor army carried the ladder that the baggage team had built in two nights, and shouted "Kill!" And he rushed out. With an invulnerable rattan armor, the soldiers have turned into demons who are not afraid of death, and fighting is no longer a matter of fighting for their lives, but a harder sport for them.

Faced with the almost unguarded city wall, the vine armor army soon climbed the city wall along a dozen cloud ladders.

Han Dang didn't have the resourcefulness of Buqi and didn't know the importance of braving the thunderbolts falling from the sky to drive the soldiers to the city wall to die, so he gave the Shu army the opportunity to occupy the city wall.

Although Han Dang did not have the resourcefulness of Buqi, he had the courage of ten thousand people that Buqi did not have, and he personally went into battle to lead his soldiers to resist the Shu army surging down from the city wall under the city wall.

Coming down from the city wall requires several stairs, which are few in number and narrow, and as long as you hold these stairs, you can also block the Shu army on the city wall.

Han Dang is now personally leading the elite to block one of the stairs, and for the other stairs, he also sent people over, and gave a death order, no matter what the cost, he must guard the stairs.

There was no time to place any obstacles, so the Soochow army used human lives to fill it, and soon, the Soochow army was dead and wounded under every staircase, and the corpses piled up high completely blocked the stairs.

In Chenxian County, Han Dang has a total of 30,000 horses, so many people and horses to guard a county town that is not too big, it is originally very sufficient, if it is a cold weapon army, even if there are 100,000 people, it is not expected to break through this city in a short time, even if it is broken, it will inevitably suffer a lot of losses, but it is different when it encounters Liu Hou's perverted troops.

The Shu army could not go up and down the city wall, so they had to run all the way along the city wall, and soon occupied the entire city wall and the four city gates. However, it was useless to control the city gate, and it was still blocked by the crowd tactics of the Eastern Wu army.

The city gate where the Shu army was the first to open with cannons just poured in some vine armor troops, and was blocked by a large number of Eastern Wu troops, and the two sides caught each other and fought each other, although under the protection of the vine armor, the Shu army had a great advantage, and the battle was a one-sided slaughter. However, the Eastern Wu people were also extremely brave, and all of them rushed to the Shu army like moths to a fire, and then were cut down.

At the same time, some Eastern Wu soldiers moved all kinds of obstacles, blocking the city gate and under the stairs, from the initial horse deer to all kinds of furniture, to stones and soil, and even later to pick up the earthen walls, beams, doors and windows of the house on the spot and throw them all here.

This did cause certain difficulties to the Shu army and slightly slowed down the pace of the Shu army's advance.

However, it was only a slight delay, and the ten hot air balloons in the sky were not idle, and before the Shu army climbed the city wall, they shifted their positions and entered the city, specifically looking for a place where the soldiers of the Eastern Wu Army were dense to drop thunderbolts.

The Soochow army continued to gather under the four city gates and a few staircases, and the hot air balloons continued to drop bombs into these gathered Soochow soldiers, each thunderbolt took away a dozen lives, emptying a no-man's land.

As a result of this, the follow-up men and horses of the Eastern Wu army marching to the city gate and under the stairs gradually could not keep up with the speed of being cut down by the vine armor soldiers, and the battle line finally gradually moved into the city.

By the time Liu Hou entered the city, the battle had turned into a street fight. Street fighting is something that many siege commanders don't want to see, because it means that the troops will get bogged down in a quagmire and it will also mean that there will be a lot of casualties. Not much, Liu Hou felt that it didn't matter, he needed this street battle to train his troops.

After the reorganization of the Fujijia Army, there were a large number of recruits in it, although these recruits were not actually new recruits, many of them were taken prisoner, and they were also soldiers before they were captured, and they had seen blood, but after becoming the Fujijia Army, they were inevitably unfamiliar with the new combat methods of the Fujijia Army, and no matter how much training they had, there was no actual combat effect.

Although this kind of actual combat training will inevitably kill some people, Liu Hou believes that it is worth it, if you want to build a strong army, equipment and training alone will not work, you must go through the baptism of blood and fire. And now, here's the opportunity.