"When did you old Gong have such a high realm?" Xiao Chen was surprised.

"Duan Feng has started to attack the city, right?" Gong Shouli said, "I'm afraid that many brothers will die at this time." ”

"Well, I heard that there were some siege ironclad vehicles brought in, and the muskets were very powerful, and hundreds of wounded brothers came down just now." Xiao Chen said.

"And what are you doing here? Don't go up to the city yet! Gong Shouli said, "You go, the brothers are steady, otherwise they would all think that we were all crippled yesterday." ”

"Didn't you come to see if you were dead?" Xiao Chen said, "But are you sure you won't go back?" If you go back, I will arrange for a carriage and horse to escort you, and I will also give you a tribute to the last performance, you are seriously injured, you have made a great contribution, you can get off the line of fire and go home to recuperate, no one can find fault with you. ”

"Forget it." Gong Shouli shook his head, "I'm also a prison soldier anyway, I'll go back before the battle is over, no matter what, I still have to spy on you, what if I leave and your kid turns against you?" ”

"Treat your kindness as a donkey's liver and lungs, and you will die here!" Xiao Chen got up angrily and walked away.

Fierce fighting was raging at the head of the city.

Li Qiu, Zhang Heng, Lin Feixiong, Xu Zhisheng and other generals were all commanding the battle on the city tower, with the city tower as the center, the left city wall was in charge of Zhang Heng's department, and the right city wall was in charge of Lin Feixiong.

The tower is much higher than the city wall, and standing on it can give an overview of the overall situation of the battlefield, so as to better command.

Because there is a circle of urn city in front of the city tower, and there are several arrow towers on the urn city, there is no need to worry about the enemy putting cold arrows and cold guns up.

As for why Duan Fengnian didn't use artillery bombardment? I also bombarded it twice just now, but after only a few shots, it was fixed by the artillery of the Yanyun Army in the city, and after a round of covering strikes, it was scattered, and in desperation, I had to withdraw.

Artillery has always been called the king of war, but it is not in vain, especially the cannon of Yan Yunjun's long range, high accuracy, strong technology, and large number, which can basically completely suppress Duan Fengnian's artillery battalion.

But no matter how good the artillery of the Yanyun Army is, it can't bombard the enemy forces approaching the city, because the elevation angle is too large, and if you are not careful, you may bombard your own city wall, after all, the cannon at this time is not a modern artillery, and the shooting Zhuyuan mark will not be so accurate, and there is no advanced guidance function......

Even if it is modern artillery, the two armies are so close to each other, they don't dare to open fire.

The road wall is more than one zhang wide, because it can run back and forth to deliver orders, so it is also called the horse road, and the city wall has a horse face pier platform every twenty zhang or so far away.

Because the pier protrudes beyond the city wall and is shaped like a horse's nose, it is called a horse face, and it has nothing to do with the horse face of the bull's head and horse face.

Archers, crossbowmen and musketeers are arranged on the horse-faced piers, and the two piers form a triangular defensive posture with a section of the city wall between them, so that they can form a three-sided attack on the besieging side from top to bottom, which is the so-called crossfire.

But in the face of dozens of ironclad siege vehicles that were almost close to the city wall, the crossfire could not be brought into play, because the siege vehicles were covered with a thin layer of iron on all sides, and bows and arrows and muskets could not penetrate from both sides.

The Langya stormtroopers who climbed up the ladder rushed up in waves, and under the cover of muskets and bows and arrows under the city, launched a sharp knife attack on the city wall.

Because the city wall is relatively narrow after all, although there are many soldiers in the city, it cannot form an encirclement posture against the attacking soldiers, and can only fight each other in short combat, which causes great casualties.

Duan Fengnian also let go, and sent more than 10,000 people in the first round of siege, and more than 2,000 archers and musketeers alone, under the cover of cowhide planks and large curtains and shields, they fired suppressively at the city wall.

The most hated person is Duan Fengnian, this guy actually set up an anticline position on a small hillside two hundred steps away from the north side of the city, and built more than 20 catapults behind it, striking fiercely at the city wall and causing great damage.

This position is very lacking in morality, because it is an anti-slope plane, so the cannon in the city cannot hit at all, and the shell launch has a curved trajectory, and this trajectory happens to be blocked by the hillside.

With such a close distance, coupled with the influence of the angle of the hillside, Duan Fengnian's cannon could not be used, but the catapult was just right, and it was within the most comfortable range.

Duan Fengnian was also very disciplined in his use of troops, he let the ironclad siege vehicle attack the left wing of the city wall, but the catapult only attacked the right wing of the city wall, so as to avoid accidentally injuring his own siege vehicle.

In the interval between the catapult attacks, the soldiers below began to attack, using the oldest but also the most effective ladders, hundreds of ladders together to set up the city, the soldiers rushed up like their lives, one after another, endlessly, and there were many people fighting!

Even if it is attrition, the defenders will be exhausted.

Some people may ask, why do these soldiers rush up so desperately, knowing that even if they climb to the top of the city, they will die for life?

In general, there are two reasons, one active and one passive.

The passive reason is naturally that the military order is difficult to disobey, and the officer orders you to rush at you if you dare not to rush This is to cringe in the battle, and cut off your head directly in front of the battle!

Anyway, it is a death, so it is better to die in the hands of the enemy, first, to be heroic, and secondly, the family can still get a pension.

The reason for the initiative is that if you are the first to attack the city, and finally you take the city, you will get a big first achievement.

In ancient warfare, there were four great achievements, namely'capturing the flag, being a general, trapping the battle, and ascending first'.

Capturing the flag, as the name suggests, is to capture the opponent's military flag in battle, and to take back that you are still alive is a great achievement.

Of course, it also depends on what flag you capture, if it is a small military flag of a ten-person team, the reward is naturally not so rich.

But if you can capture the banner of a 10,000-strong army, even if you are just a small soldier, you will be immediately named a general, and if you take the banner of a 100,000-strong army, you may be knighted directly.

Beheading, as the name suggests, is to kill the opponent's generals, this also depends on the identity and importance of the opponent's generals, for example, if it is just a captain, you can barely be counted as a general, and the reward will not be very rich, but if you kill a thousand households, it will directly seal you as a thousand households!

If you behead a general, you will be made a general, and if you behead a marshal......

If it was Xiao Chen, he would be knighted directly.

Trapping, in fact, can't be as the name suggests, because the 'trap' here means to break, and trapping is to break the formation, but it doesn't mean that you can't get out of the formation.

For example, last night, Xiao Chen and the others rushed to kill, not only won more with less, but in the end, they were not besieged by enemies several times their size, and they also killed hundreds of people, which can be regarded as a charge.

It is a great achievement, Xiao Chen, Xiao Ye, Gong Shouli They are still ranked first in the merit book so far, and they are even above Xu Zhisheng's contribution to defending the city!