Jin Qiude led the soldiers to the Lushun arsenal to receive equipment, while Huang Shi followed Zhang Pan to the city tower to watch the city defense.

Fort Arthur faced the sea, and Zhang Pan had been working hard for seventeen months, and on the ground he built two wooden walls outside the fort walls, and buried a large number of wooden stakes on the outermost part. The soldiers in the fort were enthusiastically inspecting the city defenses, as if they had inexhaustible strength all over their bodies.

A towering tower was built behind the north tower of Fort Arthur, which is the commanding height of Fort Arthur and the headquarters of the headquarters, from here you can overlook the fortress wall and gate of the whole city. The five-zhang high command flag has been raised on the tower, and there are several command flags and battalion flags of different colors around it.

When the command flag is pointed at a certain fort gate, the flag of the defenders on the gatehouse is also waved, which is called "Ying Qi", indicating that the order has been received from the upper peak. Zhang Pan and Huang Shi followed the direction of the command flag, and the flag of the city tower immediately shook several times in a row, and each time the order was passed to the lowest general flag.

Then there was the test of the troops under the castle tower, where the thousand commanders beat the bangzi and war drums one after another after responding to the flag, and went up to the city to support or formed a battle formation on the inner side according to the orders of the tower.

There are also black and yellow flags on the towers of each fort gate, which are the warning flags to report the battle situation to the towers and the report flags to report the status of the mission. Both the tower and its banner have heralds, which can be used for complex tactical communication needs.

The flag is the most important command means in this era, and Zhang Pan, who is far away in the tower, cannot use the general flag to command specific soldiers, nor can he make accurate commands, and the warning flags of various departments are the eyes of the generals. Once the flag is lost, it means that the command is lost, and no matter how large the number of troops and how adequate the weapons and equipment are, they will immediately break away from the army structure.

Every time the flag was lit, the troops under command quickly responded to the flag and passed the order, although Huangshi could not understand the flag of the Lushun Army, but looking at Zhang Pan with a smile, I thought it was accurate. Each of the officers who were commanded also led their subordinates to salute in the direction of the tower while passing the flag.

This extra action rushed towards Huangshi, and the soldiers, under the leadership of the superintendent, the garrison, the general manager, and the general, took advantage of the wave of the flag of their own team, raised their weapons high above their heads and beat them desperately. Everywhere the flag went, everyone shouted at the tower like crazy.

The cheers were transmitted through the army like a ball of flowers, and the enthusiastic voices and the joyful figures of the soldiers continued to make him almost suffocate with excitement. After the last flag was completed, the troops who had already been named could not bear the loneliness, and all the soldiers, no matter where they were, made their loudest voices to show their courage and fighting spirit to the generals on the tower.

It wasn't until this overwhelming high-spirited end for a long time that Huang Shi let out a big breath and withdrew his soul from the nine heavens of Shenchi. When he turned around to look at the plate next to him, although the latter was still smiling, his lips were still shaking with excitement, and he looked at Huangshi and opened his mouth, and a few indistinct broken syllables came out.

"The spirit of the army is like this, and the slaves must be broken. Yellowstone finally said a complete sentence.

"As General Huang said......" Before Hua finished speaking, Zhang Pan suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, and the long laughter was mixed with some sadness, and after the laughter finally stopped, it was a low sigh: "I must drink the blood of Jiannu with General Huang." ”

Zhang Pan regained his composure and self-confidence, and the resolute sigh just now was not only like a promise to the victims of Liaodong, but also like a prophecy made to the murderous enemy.

Next, Zhang Pan discussed with Huangshi the command of his 500 troops, Dongjiang Town has not yet been formally established and there is no official flag of the town, so Zhang Pan cannot directly command Huangshi's troops. Yes, everyone formulates the flag language according to the military code of the Ming army, but the generals are not the same, and after adding some personal preferences and habits, the flag language of Zhang Pan and Huangshi is specious.

A four-foot-tall command flag was finally erected on the left side of the main banner of Zhang Pan, and the two generals would communicate with heralds, Huangshi's soldiers were arranged under the tower to prepare with hundreds of other soldiers, He Baodao and Jin Qiude would go down to lead the army, and Duncan would accompany Huangshi to stay on the tower.

On April 18, the Apocalypse, the Houjin army dragged a large number of equipment from behind Beishan, and the defensive battle of Lushun began.

Huang Shi hid far away from the tower very interestingly, this tense moment could not disturb Zhang Pan's command, and in addition, he could clearly see the battle under the city from the position he was standing.

The Houjin soldiers first tried to remove the stakes, but they were immediately met with heavy fire from the watchtowers on the fort wall. When the Houjin warriors who demolished the city first were full of bulging bodies, everyone was wearing double armor, and the rain of arrows poured from fifty meters away did not cause any damage, except for a few soldiers who were injured in their arms, and a few arrows stuck in their bodies did not react. The Ming army stopped shooting two rounds and began to replace it with a steel-arm crossbow machine.

The crossbow machine is relatively slow to load, and the degree of fire of the bird gun is about the same, so the soldiers of the Ming army generally do not like to use it in the field, but it is very effective for defense, and Zhang Pan actually stored a hundred of this kind of guy in Fort Arthur.

According to the calculation method of the Ming Dynasty, a single slash is considered a serious injury to an enemy, and a shot of three arrows is considered a serious injury. This Huangshi has also seen with his own eyes, and the arrows of the samurai wearing armor are generally flesh wounds, which will not affect the combat effectiveness in a short time. The effect of the middle three arrows is indeed similar to that of a slash, and once it is pierced by a spear, not to mention a person, even a horse is also abolished, even a sharp wooden spear can pierce a person's chest and abdomen, directly hurting the internal organs.

The power of the steel-arm crossbow machine is not as powerful as the spear, but the effect is close to a knife slash, although it can't penetrate Houjin's shield, but the flight is very fast, and it is difficult for Houjin soldiers to block with a shield. The condescending Lushun Ming army shot crossbow arrows in rows, and each time a dozen Houjin soldiers screamed loudly, dropped their shields and rolled to the ground.

The Houjin soldiers held their shields as best they could, and desperately peeled off the dirt from the wooden wall, and worked together to remove the wooden stakes from the breastwork. In order to save the marksman's body, there are auxiliaries next to each crossbow machine. When these people opened their crossbow machines, the shooters looked coldly at the city.

After the auxiliaries load the bolts, the archers close their left eyes and aim carefully at the crossbows, either screaming excitedly or sighing in disappointment, and then get out of the way for the auxiliaries to repeat the same process.

After seven or eight rounds of firing, the reloading of the auxiliaries began to slow down, and the officers immediately signaled the substitute soldiers in the back row to exchange jobs, and after paying hundreds of casualties, the Houjin front team finally cleared a passage on the stake formation. The skinned cart was pushed up, and the roof was stretched open to shield the siege team from continuing to destroy the wooden wall.

The Ming army lit the gas dead wind lanterns one after another, and the wall had prepared a lot of big arrows tied with resin, and after the shooter signaled to aim, the auxiliary soldiers ignited the big arrows and let the crossbow machine nail the rocket to the car.

The wooden wall was only thirty meters away from the fort wall, and the Houjin soldiers refused to come out to die, but still hid under the car and kept destroying the wall until the flames engulfed the roof of the car, and then fled under the other cars together. After waiting for a long time, the Ming shooters at the same time loosened the buckle and pinned some of the enemy soldiers to the ground.

The front kept burning the car, and the new cars kept driving up on the Houjin position, and the defenders and the soldiers under the city began to play psychological warfare, obviously some of the cars were about to burn down, but the Houjin soldiers just didn't run, and some of the roofs of the cars had not burned through, and the soldiers below ran to the back of the other car.

Huang Shi saw that a Houjin soldier saw the opportunity, and when the Ming army was shooting, he immediately rushed and fled a few meters away. But a crossbowman who was going to burn the car fired an arrow just in time, piercing his thigh with a flaming ball of fire. The Houjin soldier screamed and struggled to crawl away, but immediately a crossbow bolt flew away, opening a large hole in his back, and the limbs of the corpse lying on the ground twitched for a long time.

After the Jin army finally broke two wooden walls before all the vehicles burned down, seeing the lookout platform being slowly pushed up, Huangshi on the tower of Fort Arthur began to miss the cannon of Guangning again, and Duncan, who appeared next to him, also shook his head slightly when he sighed slightly.

"What do you have in mind Mr. Duncan?" asked Yellowstone, lowering his voice.

"The castle is too crudely built, this kind of fortress has been eliminated in our Tessie for a hundred years. ”

Duncan looked around as if looking for something, and Yellowstone swept around—all of his own—he pulled out his waist knife and handed it over.

Duncan did not hesitate, and drew lightly on the ground with the tip of his knife, a rough sketch of a fortress, with a star-shaped outer wall covering the same star-shaped inner wall.

Duncan pointed his knife at the ground: "That's it - the attacker, no matter where he attacks, will be attacked from the front, flank, flank, and flank. The enemy's defensive vehicles just now had no effect, and there was no defensive vehicle in the world that could cover attacks from seven directions. ”

Yellowstone stared at the sketch of the fortress for a moment, it was indeed a brilliant design, but the sharp protrusion of the outer fortress wall seemed to be a breakthrough point.

When he asked this question, Duncan sternly dragged a vertical white mark on the ground with the tip of his knife, running from the sharp corner to the inner wall: "Is it the use of breaking through here? The front is a solid inner wall with no entrance, and then there will be two outer walls behind it, and the attacker will be attacked from eight directions." ”

Duncan then drew another horizontal line, cutting the sharp corners of the outer wall of the fortress to the top: "When attacking this position, it will also be attacked from the front and on both sides, needless to say, the situation is the same as Fort Arthur today. Even if a section of the outer wall was destroyed, there was no loss to the defenders, and the enemy was always exposed to attacks from several sides, and the defense of the fort gate was not weakened in the slightest. ”

(End of Section 15)

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