Chapter 69: The Great Battle of Attack and Defense
All the big and small leaders stood behind Zhang Tiande, and they all looked at Zunyi County with greedy eyes. On this expedition, Zhang Tiande led the most people, with 6,000 soldiers and horses, two or three thousand, and the rest were hundreds to 1,000 people.
Zhang Tiande thought for a while, and then ordered the second child to lead the troops to attack first, and the second child knew that Zhang Tiande wanted to use his own troops to reconnoiter the enemy's troops, but he had to take the order. The second child chose the north gate of Zunyi City, and Yang Peng was also above the north gate, looking coldly at the enemy army under the city, after a burst of drums, a large number of bandits set up Jian Yiyun ladder, pushing the siege vehicle, slowly advancing towards the city gate, in the distance, the third led his men, constantly shooting sharp arrows towards the city, covering the siege of the second army.
Seeing that the enemy army was getting closer and closer, and had already entered the range of the archers, Yang Peng ordered loudly: "Release the arrows!" Suddenly, hundreds of archers drew their bows and arrows and shot towards the city, and dozens of bandit soldiers fell to the ground in response.
Seeing this, the third child immediately urged his subordinates to get close to the city and release arrows, shooting arrows towards the city.
Although the third shoots from the bottom to the top, the range suffers, but after the bandits approached the city, they also made up for the disadvantage of this range, plus their number is as many as a thousand, and the archers at the head of the city are only three or five hundred, a few rounds of bows and arrows down, actually let the bandits have the upper hand, the archers of the Qing army at the head of the city have fallen with arrows Yang Peng saw it in his eyes, and was anxious, although he was defending the city, but the biggest weakness was that the troops were too small, and the bandits shot down these few rounds, and his subordinates fell more than a hundred, Although they also killed and wounded almost the same number of enemy troops, the enemy had many soldiers and few others, and it was far uneconomical to compete in the number of people.
The bandits are very accurate in archery, and slowly the archers at the head of the city are not daring to show their heads by their shots, so they can only hide behind the battlements at the head of the city and release arrows, gradually, the siege bandits have approached the city gate, they put the ladder on the top of the city, like ants one by one climb up the ladder, intending to climb the city, and at this time the siege vehicle under the city also arrived under the city gate, and the thick siege wood knocked on the city gate one by one.
Seeing this, Yang Peng immediately ordered the soldiers to continuously smash the rolling stones and sassal wood, and the heavy stones and wood kept smashing on the heads of the bandits who were climbing the ladder, and the flesh and blood of them were blurred and fell from the ladder.
Yang Peng ordered someone to pour fire oil on the siege vehicle below, then lit the torch and threw it down, the siege vehicle immediately burned, and after a while, more than a dozen bandit soldiers coughed and ran out of the smoke billowing siege vehicle.
Yang Peng saw that the momentum of the enemy's siege of the city had been contained, and immediately ordered his subordinates to fire artillery, there were four cannons at the west gate, and now all of them were loaded with scattered shells, after a few cannon sounds, hundreds of stone bullets erupted from the city, and the bandit archers who were shooting arrows under the city were immediately swept down a large area, and the remaining archers hurriedly turned their horses' heads and fled.
Without the support of archers, the bandit soldiers who were besieging the city were suddenly exposed to the archers of the Qing army, at this time Wu Yunlin transferred 500 bird gunners from other city gates, and together with the archers, they continued to shoot at the city, and the siege weapons of the bandit soldiers were destroyed, and there was no cover of the archers, so they began to turn around and flee backwards.
Yang Peng was overjoyed when he saw that he had repelled the enemy's first attack, and kept urging his subordinates to quickly release arrows and guns, striving to kill and injure more enemies.
At this time, there was a loud bang, and a soldier with a bird gun shooting, his bird gun exploded, and the bird gun exploded in front of his eyes like an explosive bag, and immediately blew off the hands of this unlucky soldier, and his eyes were also blown blind, only to hear him scream, a large amount of blood flowed out of his body, his eyes bleed, and he fell backwards. Seeing that his companions were in such a miserable state, many people were also too frightened to let go of their guns, just stunned for a moment, the bandits had already run out of range, Yang Peng saw that he had not done his best, sighed, and hurriedly ordered the people to come up to clean up the battlefield, and carried the unlucky soldier down, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to carefully check their bird guns, and once they found a problem, they would abandon it.
After some inspection, there were fifty people, but there were twenty bird guns that were unusable, Yang Peng kicked an unqualified bird gun fiercely, and said to those soldiers in a deep voice: "Don't use these bird guns, when the enemy army comes up, you will throw rolling stones and sassholes down." ”
The second brother came to Zhang Tiande in disgrace, and suffered a big loss in the first siege of the city, killing and wounding five or six hundred of his subordinates, he felt a little gloomy, so he had to bow his head and say: "Big brother, the city of Zunyi is strong, and it is difficult to get down." ”
Looking at the performance of the Qing army just now, Zhang Tiande also frowned slightly, he wanted to fight quickly, without delay, if he couldn't take Zunyi City within a few days, he would have to go elsewhere, but this city was so tightly guarded that it was not easy to attack, but there were countless goods and food in the city, and it would be a pity if he gave up, he muttered for a while and did not speak.
Seeing this, Wei Xu, the second son of the Wei family, was afraid that his revenge plan would fall through if the person in front of him did not attack Zunyi, so he stepped forward and said loudly to Zhang Tiande: "Big boss, I am willing to take the white turban elite soldiers to attack the city, and I will definitely take this city for the big boss!" ”
Zhang Tiande was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "Okay, after the city is broken, you should be the first to take credit!" Wei Xu did not hesitate, when he slowly marched towards the city gate with a thousand white turban elite soldiers, and Zhang Tiande also sent archers to shoot arrows at the city wall to cover Wei Xu's advance.
The white turban soldiers are the elite of Zhang Tiande's elite, all of them are carefully selected warriors, and they are loyal to Zhang Tiande, everyone is stout, strong in force, and wearing cotton armor.
Zhang Tiande can deter the army of more than 10,000 bandits around him with only these 1,000 white turban soldiers, which shows the strength of the white turban soldiers.
Yang Peng didn't expect the enemy to attack again so soon, and hurriedly beckoned his subordinates to prepare to defend the city, only to see that the enemy army besieging the city this time had a neat pace, and the march was calm and powerful, obviously different from the enemy army who had just besieged the city, it was a difficult opponent to deal with, and the bows and arrows of the enemy archers shot to the top of the city like flying locusts, and from time to time there were soldiers who let out the screams of arrows.
Yang Peng also hurriedly ordered the soldiers to fire artillery bombardment to drive out the archers, and after a few cannons, he also knocked down many enemy archers, but this time the enemy army was obviously ordered to die and did not retreat.
The archers and musketeers at the head of the city also shot frantically downward, but the enemy had cotton armor and their muskets were not powerful enough, and the archers were also seriously overdrawn, so the damage to the enemy was limited, and only a few enemy soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, and more enemy soldiers were shot or shot after being like no one, patting the armor and continuing to charge.
Every time the cannon bombards, it is necessary to lower the temperature of the cannon body, clean the chamber, refill the charge, compact, put in the projectile, and the interval between the two cannons is very long.
Yang Peng once again ordered his subordinates to throw down the rolling stone wood, but he didn't expect that the enemy army attacking the city this time was very experienced, they put several layers of quilts on their heads and bodies, the rolling stone and wood had little effect, and these enemy troops moved very quickly, and several enemy soldiers had already landed on the city one after another.
Seeing this, Yang Peng shouted with a big knife, and then led people to rush over, at this time it happened that an enemy had just landed on the city, Yang Peng stepped forward and slashed his head, hitting the enemy's shoulder, and the knife entered the body, such as defeat, the enemy army seemed to be unaware, and there was no blood flowing out, Yang Peng's brain turned, the secret road was not good, this bandit was actually a three-layer armor. The bandit raised his head, grinned at Yang Peng, revealing a cruel smile, his thick arm swung the heavy flail hard, and the spiked hammer head fell, hitting Yang Peng's chest, and suddenly flew out upside down for more than three feet, Yang Peng fell to the ground with a bang, and a pool of blood gushed out from under him.