On a siege battlefield, it is very dangerous to change formations or tactics on the fly, and it is very likely to lead to chaos trampling and more damage.

But Tian Jianxiu couldn't help it, he also suddenly realized the mistake of the original tactics in actual combat, so he could only plug the leak urgently.

If you don't, you pull your troops down and start from scratch next time, and you'll only lose more.

Because the mound of dirt that is temporarily filled in the corners of the wall today, the ladder trucks, flying ladders, and trench cars that are transported up will be completely destroyed by the defenders after the war. These bulky siege equipment will be difficult to keep once the siege force is defeated and retreated.

The next time the troops charged, they had to endure another firepower and cross-coverage during the approach.

Thousands of front-row thieves besieging the city had to be directly within the range of the defenders at the head of the city under Tian Jianxiu's decision to pat the thigh, and divert the direction of attack with arrows and firearms.

The bulky ladder could not turn quickly for the time being, so the first dead soldiers could only carry the ladder and gallop towards a few nearby horses, leaning the ladder against the wall, and charging up frantically.

In the whole process, the city was like rain, the guns roared, and the lives of the thieves were being harvested and taken away every moment, and hundreds of people were directly killed in just one cup of tea, and even more wounded.

And some of the troops who relied on ladders to attack the city could not give up their weapons for a while, so they had to continue to attack those ordinary sections of the city wall like targets, and soon fell into chaos.

Fortunately, their efforts were not completely worthless, at least their death also attracted a considerable part of the firepower of the officers and soldiers, so that the comrades who turned to attack the horse face had to bear a lot less pressure on muskets and crossbows.

"Kill! Rush up! If you rush from the front of the horse, you won't be hit by the Franc machine! Kill the wall and hack the gunner, and the brothers on the other side of the ladder will be able to enter the city! ”

On the battlefield in front of the horse, several middle-level rogue officers at the general level of the department, also wearing heavy armor, brandished their swords and shouted loudly, urging the soldiers to fight hard to get to the city.

The general department is equivalent to the thousand general of the Ming army, but because the army has been fighting for many years, there are more casualties among the soldiers, and there are few replenished to the full staff, so a thousand general will bring an average of six or seven hundred people, and more than eight or nine hundred.

Now Tian Jianxiu attacked a horse face with each unit headquarters, which is equivalent to an average of 700 soldiers per hour, and took down a platform that was only a few dozen steps wide and protruded from the wall, and the density of troops was already very high.

In the face of the ants, the efficiency of archery and gun shooting was obviously too low, and the output speed was too slow, so the defenders at the head of the city began to desperately throw small pieces of rolling wood and stones, and almost instantly, at least dozens of soldiers could be directly killed in front of each horse.

Fortunately, the crossbowmen of the invading army were also desperately trying to suppress the arrows, and the Ming soldiers did not dare to throw wood and stone after being shot and wounded, so they could only use the method of blind throwing without observation, and the amount of rolling wood and stone thrown was relatively small-

If the stone is too large, you can only hold it with both hands and put it down, and if you want to throw it over your head like a toilet shot, you can't throw it at all, so you can't use it without showing your head.

However, the thieves outside the wall of the horse face were too dense, and the Ming army did not need to aim when they threw stones, and they could lose several percent of the hit rate if they were blindly lost, and the thieves were killed and injured heavily, and they were miserable, but they still had to grit their teeth and rush up.

After paying hundreds of casualties, there were finally some brave soldiers among the thieves, stepping on the corpses of their comrades and rushing to the wall.

This can only be blamed on a small broken county like Cai, the city wall is too short. At a height of seven or eight feet, so many people died below, and the follow-up explosiveness was good, and they could jump up in a few steps.

However, the officers and soldiers at the head of the city had long been in good order, and the pikemen were transferred from other wall sections, and they directly rushed up to a counter-charge, and all the first batch of rogue warriors who had just landed in the city were stabbed into a hornet's nest.

It's not that the thief warriors didn't try hand-to-hand combat to fight back, but when climbing the city wall, they couldn't carry long weapons, they could only rush with a short knife and a shield behind their backs.

As for the spears that are more than eight feet long, it is difficult to climb the wall on the back. It may be that when it is still half a zhang high from the head of the wall, the spear shaft is already exposed to the head of the city, and the whole person can fall off the city wall when pushed by the guards from afar.

Therefore, the melee weapons of the first deceased soldiers, the longest ones are some long-handled battle axes, and the handles will definitely not exceed five or six feet.

Of course, if it is an ordinary battle of the city wall, this situation is not obvious, because there may be many breakthrough points everywhere, and it is not easy for the defenders with long weapons to turn around, and it is also possible to be killed by the new climbers who appear on the side, and it is difficult to maintain the direction of the gun array in the chaotic battle.

However, the thieves are attacking not ordinary wall sections at this moment, but horse faces.

The horse face is protruding from the ordinary city wall, and in the case that only the horse face is attacked and the ordinary wall section behind is not broken by the ants, the spear team of the defending side only needs to watch out for the direction of the front of the protrusion, and there is no need to worry about whether the enemy will come to the left and right.

Once the spear formation only needs to focus on one direction, it is impossible to fall into a melee and chaotic battle, and other hand-to-hand combat units with short weapons will of course have no chance of winning.

The thieves repeatedly rushed to kill, and more and more soldiers who barely went up the wall were also slaughtered and thrown under the city, and a few warriors with long-handled axes could barely fight to the death for one, but how many such warriors were among the thieves? Changing to an ordinary pikeman soldier, Li Zicheng can't afford to change it at all.

The bloody and tragic battle lasted for less than half a burn of incense, and as the soldiers under Tian Jianxiu's subordinates paid the price of at least a thousand more direct casualties and more wounded soldiers, the thief side finally gradually ran out.

The thief side attacked as many as seven or eight horse faces on the entire north gate city wall, and only the two horse faces that Tian Jianxiu personally supervised in the end continued to fight to the death, and the other five or six were defeated.

In front of Tian Jianxiu, these two places were the dead soldiers he invested in his henchmen, and there were two dead soldiers in the old Shaanxi battalion. The soldiers are not afraid of death, their martial arts and physical fitness are also very strong, and everyone has iron and cotton armor, so they can barely withstand it.

However, with the rout of friendly forces on the left and right, it is clear that these last two places will also be taken care of by the officers and soldiers.

Huang Degong, who was in charge of supervising the overall battle at the head of the city, saw that several enemy troops had retreated, and only the last two were in a particularly critical situation, so he personally brought his own battalion to plug the leak.

Huang Degong's personal soldiers are also iron and cotton armor, and they are well-equipped, which suddenly wiped out the equipment advantage of Li Zicheng's old battalion in Shaanxi with more than ten years of experience as a thief.

Huang Degong himself opened and closed a steel lance, stabbed wildly, and directly stabbed a thief who wielded a steel long-handled battle axe and had already slashed and killed several Ming army ironclad soldiers.

Stirring it again, he pulled the lance blade out from his waist, almost cutting half of the brigade in half, and his internal organs flowed to the ground.

"Death to the dog thief!" After Huang Degong was killed, he continued to shout and fight, and rushed forward like a mad tiger, and the steel lance flew in a row and stabbed more than ten people to death.

The thieves who first landed on the dead finally collapsed completely, and some people who were closer to Huang Degong even chose to jump over the wall to escape.

"Tami-su dog thief! If you want to attack your Grandpa Huang's city, reincarnate in the next life and practice hard! After Huang Degong's victory, he shouted and roared, and the soldiers of the whole army followed suit, insulting and mocking the city.

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In this day's battle, Tamihide was defeated too completely, and from the beginning, he fell into decline.

His follow-up remedial attempt can only be regarded as a temporary slap on the thigh when he sees the move, and the ending is really not good.

Therefore, Liu Fangliang on the other side did not plan to invest in the reserve team at all, which ensured that Liu Fangliang's department basically retreated.

After returning to the camp, Liu Fangliang also found Tian Jianxiu as soon as possible to discuss how to give an explanation to King Chuang.

Tian Jianxiu drank the sullen wine and sighed: "I counted the men and horses just now, and more than 4,000 soldiers died, including those who were seriously injured and left in the city and could not be carried back." The other wounded who came back are afraid that they will be killed and injured again in the next few days.

This Shen Dog Thief and Huang Chuangzi are too ruthless in defending the city, if they don't give us a chance to see it from the beginning, we won't invest so much. However, the city he defended doesn't seem to have any long-range heavy artillery threat, but if you put it close, it can stick to you and kill like crazy, and it's hard to leave if you want to. ”

Of course, Liu Fangliang can also understand this kind of distress, since ancient times, if the siege equipment is too fierce, then the attacking side will not die in vain, and the morale has already collapsed and retreated.

It is this kind of situation that gives you hope and makes you feel that you can get there if you work harder, so that you can stick to the person who makes you die the most. And even ordinary soldiers will think that "if you try harder, you will rush forward".

But the truth is, all this is a dream.

Liu Fangliang said sympathetically: "Defeat is defeat, I think, the king may not be responsible, the key is to find out the enemy's flaws, think clearly why he lost today, and whether there is any other way to remedy it."

As long as you can figure out the flaws in the tactics of Shen Dog Thief and Huang Chuangzi, with the generosity of the king, you will definitely let us go and no longer pursue it. ”

Tian Jianxiu was a little stunned, hearing Liu Fangliang say this, he also understood the reason, but his brain was already chaotic, where could he still analyze the ugliness?

After the two chatted for a while, Liu Fangliang saw that the other party was talking nonsense, and he cleared his throat and suggested:

"I watched the battle from the sidelines today, but I found a little drawback of the Dog Thief, but I can't be sure, maybe there is an ambush behind me. But since you can't explain to the king, brother, let's talk about it and think about it together, and if you think it's right, you go and report it to the king—but if it's wrong in the future, we won't be responsible. ”

Tian Jianxiu was sleepy and lacked a pillow, and when he heard this, he immediately patted his chest and took it all over: "Brother Liu, what are you talking about!" Your own brother, if you are willing to help me think of ideas, we will definitely remember your favor! Regardless of whether his idea works in the end, let's get rid of the king's accountability first! ”

Liu Fangliang touched his beard and said: "I can see that the Sinking Dog Thief really installed all the Buddha Franc machines on both sides of the horse face and used to bombard the side of the ordinary city wall.

With such a strong firepower, it is definitely impossible to attack those sunken ordinary city walls, and those Franc machines are all shotguns, and they can kill a row of soldiers stuck to the base of the wall with a single shot.

However, there is also a disadvantage in placing the artillery on its side than the front, that is, it can only stare at the sides of the deployed horse face, and if it is far away, or blocked by other horse faces, it is impossible to cross the mountain to fight cattle.

This is far better than placing the gun forward, after all, you can adjust the angle a little, and you can hit a lot of range. And can the Sinking Tree really have so many artillery? If there were six cannons on each horse's face, three on the left and right sides, and so many horses in the city, how many cannons would be needed?

Today we just attacked the northern city, if we rest and recuperate in a few days and fight again, even the other three sides attack together, can the Shen Dog Thief have so many cannons and fill every horse face in the city? After we try to find out which side has less artillery and focus on the weak points to attack, there is still a chance!

Soldiers can move much faster than artillery. We found out which side of the cannon was less, and the soldiers could immediately gallop over that side to attack. The officers and soldiers had to move their artillery, and they couldn't drag it out in a day and a half. ”

The more Tian Jianxiu listened, the more he felt that there was a play, and after listening to it, he was finally relieved: "Thanks to Brother Liu, you have a good vision!" We can escape the king's guilt today, and we will be grateful when we turn around! Let's go, I'll go and plead guilty to the king. ”

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