Chapter 1718: Artillery Battalion Leader
The last one, and the most awesome, is the first to go. The so-called first climb does not mean that you are the first to climb the city, because the first person to climb the city will definitely not live, it is not nine deaths and one life, but ten deaths and no life......
Since you're all dead, you still get a fart credit, at most, the pension is a little more generous.
The condition for the first ascension is that you are the first to climb the city and not die, and you have to desperately establish a small position on the top of the city, so that the comrades behind you can have a space to climb the city, and finally achieve victory, so that you can be regarded as the first to ascend!
Since then, you've been soaring......
Of course, it also depends on the size of the city, the number of defenders, if you capture only a small county town with empty defense, low walls, weak defenders, and no strategic importance, then this first achievement is not very big, at most the official is promoted to three levels, and the reward is 1,000 taels of silver......
But if you climb down a city like Wolong Pass first, the credit will be very huge, and even Duan Fengnian may directly make it a marquis!
There must be brave men under the heavy reward, not to mention the soldiers......
Do you know that Zhang Juzheng, a famous minister during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty?
His ancestor Zhang Guanbao was once just a personal soldier under Zhu Yuanzhang, because he made a 'first' achievement, he was directly sealed as a thousand households, which was regarded as a steady progress, soaring and soaring, and since then the Zhang family has become a Jingzhou clan.
In that year, Lin Yue led his troops to attack Shunfeng City, and was the first to rush to the head of Shunfeng City, and killed a dozen Rus soldiers, a Xiao cavalry brother made the first achievement, and later rewarded him for meritorious deeds, and directly promoted him to the battalion leader, and the battalion he was in was called the 'first battalion', which belonged to the elite of Lin Yue's command.
Therefore, there are few soldiers who rush into battle to kill, because they almost have the heart of death before the battle, and they have no time to be afraid of death on the battlefield, especially when charging, maybe they will die before you are afraid of people......
Since it is certain to die, then naturally we have to play with our lives, what if we make a precedent achievement? Therefore, all the Langya soldiers who rushed to the city were like crazy, some of them weighed several guns, and they were all stabbed into a blood sieve, but they still fought bravely and fought to the death.
"Xiao Chen, you're not recuperating from your injuries in the back, what are you doing here?" Li Qiu saw that Xiao Chen didn't even wear armor, so he trotted up, and hurriedly ordered someone to bring him a pair of armor and let him change it.
"Minor injuries don't get out of the line of fire! The prince and the generals are on the front line, isn't Zhisheng also there, can I stay in the back? Xiao Chen asked while putting on his armor, "How's the situation?" I just came up and saw a lot of wounded brothers who were carrying them down. ”
"It's not good." Zhang Heng said in a deep voice, "Duan Fengnian personally supervised the battle, the morale of the other party is high, and the ironclad siege vehicle is really powerful, we are discussing how to destroy it, and those dozens of catapults, the casualties caused are also very large, and the city wall is also damaged in many places." ”
"Well, hundreds of brothers have died under my command in such a while, the special Duan Fengnian's catapult is quite methodical, and those chariot soldiers are really powerful, and the fight is really accurate, just now I went out for a walk, and I was almost smashed, special!" Lin Feixiong frowned, his tiger eyes widened, and he looked at the hillside not far away, eager to fly over and raze the mountain!
"Isn't the ironclad siege vehicle a layer of iron on the outside, and a wooden shelf on the inside? Or can they push it? You can't just burn it with fire. Xiao Chen said.
"I tried it just now, no, the outside of this car is all iron, it can't be lit, it's snow underneath, and the fire bottle that is thrown down can't be burned, there are too many people below, and it's not okay to throw firewood, if it's lit with sandalwood, I'm afraid that our city wall will be burned crispy, and it's too close." Zhang Hengdao.
"Well, I see that the distance of that small hill is only more than two hundred paces, and the musket can't be hit, the artillery can't be hit, and the strong bow can't be shot?" Xiao Chen asked.
"The longbow can barely be shot, and it is also the end of the light crossbow, and the wind is too strong, and the arrows will flutter when they are shot, and there is no accuracy at all." Lin Feixiong said.
"I don't believe that Lao Tzu can't cure him!" Xiao Chen called a herald, "You go and find the general of the artillery unit behind me!" ”
"Cannons don't work." Zhang Heng said, "No matter how accurate the artillery brothers of the Yanyun Army are, they don't dare to hit this side, as for that small dirt slope, it is an anti-cline angle, and there is no landing point." ”
"Don't you dare to fight when you're far away, don't you dare to fight when you're close? Can't hit the back, can't you hit the front? Xiao Chen said, "I also have a plan, but I don't know if it will work, I'll ask the artillerymen later." ”
Zhang Heng and the others looked at each other, and they didn't know that this handsome plan would come out?
After a while, several artillery officers flew up, and the young battalion leader led by Xiao Chen saw that he was not called a marshal, but called sir, so there was no need to ask that he was a student who graduated from the Military Academy of Yanyun University.
"Sir, Zhang Mingyuan, the leader of the artillery battalion, came to listen to the order!" first gave a military salute to the prince and several generals, and then looked at Xiao Chen, waiting for him to show him.
"Mingyuan, aren't you from the navy?" Xiao Chen also recognized him, "Why did you run to Lin Yue's command?" ”
"Mr. Hui's words, it was General Lin Yue who transferred his command." Zhang Mingyuan didn't directly say that he was actually deceived, saying that he asked him to come over to exchange combat experience and study sea and land coordination, but he was directly detained.
For this reason, the navy was very angry, scolding Lin Yue as a robber and his kid as a traitor, and the explanation was useless, which made him very embarrassed.
But in the navy, he was only a company leader, but when he came to Lin Yue's command, he was directly promoted to a battalion leader, and he relied on him very much and treated him very well, so he was embarrassed to go back.
"Lin Yue, this guy, digging the foot of the wall everywhere, now the sky is angry and people are complaining about him, but he doesn't dig indiscriminately, and he must be an elite who can be looked down upon!" Xiao Chen said, "Mingyuan, look at the catapult position behind that small hill, can you think of something to bomb it?" ”
"After a few rounds, I couldn't hit it, the trajectory was blocked, and I jumped all up the mountain, and if I could transfer the cannon to the hill over there, I could fight." Zhang Mingyuan is far away from a hill outside the index.
"Then you kid still need to say it!" Xiao Chen said angrily.
"The command means that you can consider establishing an artillery position on that hill, that hill has a very steep slope, easy to defend and difficult to attack, as long as there are 1,000 people occupying the mountain, it is difficult for the Langya army to attack it, plus the artillery under his command, there is no problem in holding on." Zhang Mingyuan originally had this idea.
"As long as a strong position is set up there, it can directly threaten Duan Fengnian's battalion, and it can also echo the city from afar, forming a two-sided attack posture against the enemy's attacking troops, so that we can take the initiative, of course, the premise is that we must be able to hold it, and we must have a large amount of material reserves, and we must transport artillery......"