Chapter 56: Ten Thousand Enemies
The first round of attack was obviously a huge setback, and at the cost of nearly a hundred people, even a long ladder was not erected, and the Ming army at the head of the city had zero casualties.
Li Zicheng and the generals also watched the battle on the mountain bag, Li Zicheng would not interfere with Li Shuangxi's command, and he couldn't see emotion on his face, but just looked at the not-so-tall city wall of Baofeng lightly, as if he was thinking about something.
"King Chuang, do you want Li Shuangxi to withdraw" Tian Jianxiu on the side couldn't help it, and asked with his hand.
According to the habit of breaking into the army, if the first round of offensive is frustrated, the troops will be collected and reorganized, combined with the reasons for the previous defeat to study the reasons for the unfavorable siege, and then attack the city.
Li Zicheng was still silent, just staring at Baofeng, as if he was also studying how to break through the county seat in front of him.
However, Gu Junen understood Li Zicheng's thoughts, and stepped forward with a smile and arched his hand to Tian Jianxiu: "Mr. Tian, if you are in charge of Li at this moment, let you withdraw, will you withdraw?" ”
Tian Jianxiu was stunned when asked, thought for a moment, and then sighed: "Naturally, it will not be withdrawn...... But is it in vain to watch the sons and daughters die? ”
Of course, Li Shuangxi can't withdraw, if there was no Li Yanzhuyu in front, he might have ordered a retreat, but Li Yan broke through Lushan with a drum, and he still used a newly trained soldier like the Reserve Army, Li Shuangxi is a veteran of a hundred battles, if he is stumped by Baofeng, will he still be mixed?
Li Shuangxi is Li Zicheng's righteous son, no matter what, Li Zicheng still doesn't want to see his son's prestige being crushed, besides, now Li Shuangxi is still using the exile front, even if he dies more, he can't talk about being distressed, and he can also study what means Baofeng has to defend the city through repeated sieges.
Just when Tian Jianxiu asked for his life, Li Shuangxi threw in a team of homeless people to rush up, he didn't believe in this evil, could it be that he had killed and injured so many people, and he couldn't even stand the city wall?
This time, it was hard to rush to the foot of Baofeng City, and began to reluctantly erect a long ladder, Xu is gold juice was poured out, and the Ming army at the head of the city did not come up with a decent counterattack for a while, and watched the long ladder being erected.
Just when Li Shuangxi breathed a sigh of relief, ready to let his subordinates rush up and seize the city at all costs, several cauldrons were pushed over the city, this time it was not gold juice, but boiling water!
Along the ladder, the Ming army at the head of the city poured boiling water down, and the army that climbed on the long ladder was like a grasshopper on a line, it was drenched all over, and the boiling water could instantly burn people's skin, the pain was not something that people could bear, and soon the attacking army fell from the long ladder with a miserable howl.
At this time, the Ming army at the head of the city calmly pushed down the long ladders one after another, this time the attempt was in vain again, the casualties before and after had exceeded two hundred, the displaced people were trembling and did not dare to attack the city again, and Li Shuangxi saw that he had fallen short again, and suddenly became angry.
"Take care of the team, collect the troops!" Several of Li Shuangxi's cronies really can't stand this kind of play, and if it goes on like this, the homeless people under Li Shuangxi will be exhausted, and the homeless people are gone, so the tough battles in the future will have to rely on the elite, so it's really not a joke.
"Damn! If I collect the troops at this moment, will I have the face to see my father-in-law? What kind of face can you stay in the front camp anymore? That Li Yan had just led the troops, and he was able to break through Lushan in one battle, and now, a small Baofeng is blocking me! I'm really not even as good as that Li Yan? Li Shuangxi said angrily.
"Manage the team, Baofeng's Ming army is properly commanded at a glance, how can it be compared with Lushan? There is a difference between difficulty and difficulty, how can we generalize? What's more, Gao Yigong is also a veteran general, how can it be regarded as Li Yan's merit alone? Several cronies admonished bitterly.
"Shut up! Even if it's that high merit, I don't care about it! Li Shuangxi said angrily, he was killed by Li Yan before, he naturally hated Li Yan, and everything had to be compared, but now that he was blocked in this place, how could he swallow this breath? 、
"Tian Hu, Guan Leopard!" Li Shuangxi roared angrily.
The two strong men who were all draped in their bodies immediately came out and hugged their fists and said: "The subordinates are here!" ”
These two people are the most powerful brave generals under Li Shuangxi, both of them are from the border army, and their sword and bow skills are superb.
"Take Baofeng for me! If you can do it, I will make you a captain! Li Shuangxi stared at Baofeng and gritted his teeth and said, Tian Hu and Guan Leopard are carrying Li Shuangxi's descendants, and this time they are engaged in the siege, which shows how anxious they are.
"Pipe! This is my descendant! How can a city be easily attacked? Several generals immediately spoke out against it.
"If Baofeng is broken, are you still afraid that the military equipment will not be replenished? What's more, the personal soldiers under my command are all wearing armor, how can the Ming army do anything about it? Gold juice, boiling water, I think the Ming army has run out, I want to see what else they can do? Li Shuangxi stared at Baofeng and said.
Then the cauldron of boiling water should be boiled to a temperature that can cause death and injury, and it will not take half an hour to think about it.
Li Shuangxi's hand is really out of the way, and the two hundred armor soldiers under his command poured out, and even Li Zicheng, who was watching the battle, couldn't help but twitch his eyes, Li Shuangxi's elite is also his elite!
At this time, Gu Junen couldn't sit still, and immediately admonished: "King Chuang, in order to gamble, the elite will be depleted, not a wise man!" ”
Li Zicheng stared at the battlefield with a frown, as if he was weighing whether to stop it, but after a while, he still said: "Let him go, I want to see what other good ways the Ming army in the city has to go." ”
Li Shuangxi's elite is one of Li Zicheng's pro-army troops, these people are all heavy armor, even if they are placed in the Ming army, they are also one of the best existences, Li Zicheng doesn't believe that he can't take Baofeng City? If this is the case, no one will be able to take Baofeng down.
Looking at the rushing fully armored army, the Ming army at the head of the city finally began to panic, these soldiers looked different from the previous homeless people, the formation was strict, the defense was proper, the Ming army at the head of the city put a few rounds of arrows, did not cause a little damage, of course, this is not the most fatal, the most fatal thing is that these soldiers are all skilled in bowing, not only the foot combat formation, but also a bow and arrow in one hand.
As soon as a lot of Ming troops showed up in the battlements, a feather arrow flew over, and several rounds of shooting down, there was no loss on the side of the breaking army, but the Ming army defending the city was killed and wounded seventeen or eighteen people, all of them were arrows in the head and neck, which showed the combat effectiveness of the other party.
If these soldiers climbed the city wall, then this treasure would not be able to hold on.
Tian Hu Guan Leopard took the armor soldiers to set up a long ladder again under the root of Baofeng City, and at the same time gathered the displaced people who had been killed before, and ordered them to attack the city first.
Of course, in order to kill and injure the Ming army at the head of the city, the two divided fifty people who were good at shooting, aimed outside the root of the wall, and shot as long as there was a Ming army probe, so as to block the Ming army's attack on the wooden rolling stones.
This is the elite, with proper coordination and orderly advance and retreat, which is far from being comparable to the current reserve army and the displaced people.
Li Shuangxi looked at his elite siege with satisfaction, he didn't believe it, a small Baofeng City, what to use to fight with his elite? With their own elites, is it possible that they can't conquer a small county town?
At this moment, the mutation protruded, and the Ming army at the head of the city suddenly dropped a few wooden frames, which contained a large black mud ball, I don't know what it was.
Just when Tian Hu Guan Leopard and the two of them stepped forward to check the strange wooden frame in confusion, a loud noise accompanied by dazzling fire came, and then the wooden frames that fell down exploded one after another.
The violent explosion directly swept the surrounding troops away, of course, the most deadly thing was that the explosion shattered the wooden frame, and the sawdust flew like a sharp blade with a handle, Tian Hu was unlucky and was killed on the spot by a wooden cone directly through the neck, and Guan Leopard was swept away by the air waves, and when the stunned soldiers who were blown up came to their senses to rescue, they were speechless.
Of course, what is even more terrifying is that the clothes on the bodies of many heavily armed armor soldiers were ignited by the flames of the explosion, because the armor on their bodies was difficult to take off, and they could only roll on the ground in a wailing attempt to extinguish the flames, but to no avail, they could only be burned alive......
"This is ten thousand enemies!" Li Yan saw the explosion protruding under the city wall, and immediately exclaimed.
The 10,000 enemies are a kind of homemade bombs that appeared at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Apocalypse and the beginning of Chongzhen, this kind of thing was first used in the battlefield of Liaodong to deal with the Manchurian soldiers, because the Manchurian soldiers wore cotton armor, and once ignited by this thing, the lethality was not covered, so this thing was also called "burning bombs".
Also because of the immaturity of the technology, in order to transport it safely, the Ming army would put him in a wooden frame, and as a result, he was unintentionally planted in the willows and willows, and the sawdust after the wooden frame was broken could cause secondary killing, which was also an unexpected joy.
This thing is really a dimensionality reduction blow for the Chuang Army, and the Chuang Army has seen the Ming Court's artillery, bird guns, and that strange but useless firearms, but for the first time for the ten thousand enemies, this kind of thing is really the first time, so that it was directly blown up.
"If you can't fight, if you have a few more 10,000 enemies, Li Shuangxi's army will be abolished" Li Yan muttered to himself on his horse, these four or five explosions, at least fifty or sixty of the two hundred armored elites have been reimbursed, and the rest of them are considered to be fine, they are also dizzy and dizzy, and it is difficult to go to the city to fight again.
Just when Li Yan was talking to himself, the sound of Ming Jin also resounded on the battlefield, thinking that Li Zicheng couldn't hold back when he saw this tragic scene, it was his own soldiers, how could he bear it when he was killed so much by this strange thing? So he didn't care about Li Shuangxi's face, so he immediately ordered the troops to be withdrawn.