Chapter 475: The Night of Charcoal
The time of the attack was set for the evening of the next day, because only under the cover of night would the losses of the troops attacking the Wall of Sighs be smaller.
When he was about to leave, Qin Ning suddenly had some affection for his children, and he took Lu Ling's hand, but he couldn't speak for a long time.
Lu Ling knew what this meant, only the strong smell of siblings between brothers would have such reluctance when life and death might be separated.
"Don't worry, Lu Ling will live up to the military advisor's heavy delay, and he will definitely take down the Wall of Sighs tonight!" Lu Ling's eyes were blazing, and he understood in his heart that Qin Ning definitely meant more than he seemed on the surface.
Qin Ning shook Lu Ling's hand heavily: "Okay, I'll wait for you to win, remember, come back alive." ”
Lu Ling's heart was filled with infinite warmth, once upon a time, that kind of life and death, wireless concern was so far away from Lu Ling, because no one would care so much about himself.
Now, this nostalgic feeling is back.
Lu Ling suppressed the excitement in his heart, gently pushed Qin Ning's hand away, bowed deeply, turned around, and shouted: "Let's go!"
Others may not be able to hear it, but Qin Ning can hear it, and there is a trace of trilling in Lu Ling's strong roar.
The 10,000 attacking troops, led by Lu Ling, quietly approached the first city wall under the gentle slope.
The outside of this wall is undefended.
The heavy artillery battalion, which covered the attacking troops, had long since set up a position without fear. Seeing Lu Ling enter the position, the cannons roared in unison, and tongues of fire rushed towards the first city wall.
Stone walls. In an instant, it became stone slag, flying all over the sky. After just one round of shelling, a hole more than five zhang wide suddenly appeared in the first city wall.
"Brothers, rush!" Lu Ling raised his war knife high and gave the order to attack.
With a bang, 10,000 troops poured into the first city wall like a tide.
Entering the city wall through the gap, they immediately divided into two teams, one on the left and one on the right, to clear the field.
But. There's nothing to clean up here. The men at the six lookout posts heard the first cannon fire and withdrew to the second wall.
At this time, it was still the heavy artillery battalion that was the busiest, because of the attack on the second wall. Heavy artillery fire is also needed.
So. After receiving the signal from Lu Ling that the clearance was completed. The heavy artillery battalion and some of the people who came to assist hurriedly moved the heavy artillery inside.
It took two hours for the heavy artillery battalion to set up an attack array under the second wall. There is no room for breathlessness. The order to open fire was immediately given.
Because the second wall had three gates, the artillery fire was concentrated in the three weakest points.
Boom Boom Boom Boom ......
After a round of firing, the three city gates collapsed, and the heavy artillery battalion immediately adjusted its firing and aimed its guns at the soldiers guarding the city walls.
Boom Boom Boom Boom ...... Heavy artillery carried out a covered shelling.
According to normal standards, it is enough to have one ammunition base for such a city defense shooting coverage, but in order to minimize the loss of troops here, Qin Ning specially ordered to carry out saturation coverage shooting of two ammunition bases here.
With one more ammunition base covering shot, not to mention people on the city wall, even the entire city wall has gone down a lot.
After the heavy artillery stopped firing, Lu Ling ordered the attacking troops to follow the city gate and enter the area of the last attack.
In attacking the Wall of Sighs, Lu Ling was fully mentally and tactically prepared.
In the case of an attack formation, it is generally a skirmish line to rush to the enemy's fortifications, so that the enemy's artillery fire will cover the blow, and as long as enough lives are paid, there are always soldiers who can evade the artillery fire and rush to the city.
But Lu Ling's order was unique, and he divided the 10,000 people into two teams, each of which made a big circle, arcing along the coverage line of the enemy's artillery fire range, and cutting in.
This is very clumsy on the surface, and the distance of the attack is extended, but after careful analysis, it is a great deal of wisdom.
Because of this march, the enemy was originally a covering heavy artillery covering design group, and there would be no one in the existing heavy artillery range, and some of the heavy artillery ranges were numerous.
This advance attack was tantamount to reducing the number of enemy artillery, and the route of the march was cut into the range of heavy artillery fire, and only when approaching the city wall would it fall within range. In this way, the probability of being hit by heavy artillery will be greatly reduced.
The defenders on the Wall of Sighs, seeing that the second wall had been breached, were waiting for the attacking troops to come and die, but they never dreamed that the enemy would attack like this.
Lengthening the marching route along the two flanks, the middle was empty, and those artillery shooters with their fire in the middle turned their eyes to the commander, this is not a brother who does not sell his life, he can't shoot at the open space.
The commander of the Wall of Sighs, who is also an experienced general, is Kong Mian, the right-hand man under Xirong Po.
As soon as Kong Mian saw this situation, he knew that the person in charge of directing the attack on the Wall of Sighs must be an extremely difficult opponent with a lot of experience and a deep study of the Wall of Sighs.
Every bit of time on the battlefield is precious. If you don't do anything in the process of contact, you are waiting for death.
This requires the commander's fighting spirit, experience, and talent to be perfectly displayed.
"Hmph, are you stunned to look at the painting? The cannon can't reach it, hurry up and find a long-range ordnance that can be used by hand, and hit Lao Tzu in a place where there are many enemies!" Kong Mian reacted immediately.
The soldiers are not afraid of the general who scolds his mother, but he is afraid that the general who can't let out a fart at a critical moment, and following the latter, there is only a dead end.
Hearing Kong Mian's scolding, the soldiers hurriedly turned around and copied the high-grade alchemy products, and moved closer to the wings one after another, getting ready.
At this time, the men and horses led by Lu Ling had already entered the range of the artillery with their wings.
Kong Mian frowned, the enemy's position made Kong Mian feel uncomfortable, let's fight, the number is too small, if we don't fight, the enemy will take a few dozen steps forward, and the artillery will reach the dead end.
Now, I don't have to worry about anything at all.
"Artillery, shoot me! Also, the archers remember to extend in, specifically for Lao Tzu to shoot at those who rush through the artillery. ”
With Kong Mian's order, the cannon on the Wall of Sighs began to roar.
Although these cannons are not as powerful as the artillery equipped by the Lingtu City army that has been improved by Qin Ning's secret recipe, they are already deadly enough for the attacking troops.
There was a loud bang, accompanied by a scream, and the rubble flew, and the blood mist and flesh dispersed. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of soldiers were gone.
Even the soldiers who had escaped the artillery fire continued to rush forward, and suddenly a storm cloud of arrows rained down, and the soldiers who rushed ahead did not escape their doom.
The second prince who stood on the second city wall and watched the battle was no longer graceful, and kept wiping the cold sweat on his head with his hands, how many people died is no longer the second prince's concern, and the question now is whether these 10,000 attacking troops can approach the wall of sighs and take it down.
"Strategist, this ...... This ......" The second prince had no choice but to ask Qin Ning.
Looking at the current situation, Qin Ning's face was also extremely grim, but Qin Ning believed in himself, so he still took a deep breath and said, "Your Highness, don't worry, Lu Ling has a way." ”
Just when the attacking troops suffered huge losses, Lu Ling suddenly gave an unbelievable order.
"Listen, everybody, move closer to the middle!"
The attacking troops, moving along the two flanks, immediately zigzagged, approaching the center and sprinting down the walls.
As soon as the people below changed direction, Kong Mian immediately understood that the soldiers who were operating the heavy artillery in the middle had been transferred by themselves, that is, the heavy artillery responsible for the middle fire coverage could not play a role for the time being.
You must know that every cannon has a fixed shooting element, which is fixed, and if you want to have a heavy gunner's gun turn the muzzle, it is better to let the heavy gunner return to his position.
Relying on the arrow feather alone, the lethality against the enemy is too small.
"Heavy gunner, return to your position immediately!Archer, stop me at any cost!" Kong Mian almost went crazy and roared loudly.
Every little bit of time on the battlefield is extremely precious, just like Lu Ling changed direction, and suddenly won a short time for the attacking troops not to be attacked, and it was this little bit of time that saved the lives of at least hundreds of people!
The rain of arrows roared, the artillery roared again, and the attacking troops once again suffered heavy casualties.
Qin Ning expected that tonight's battle would be very cruel, but such a picture of the devastation of life still made Qin Ning's heart ache faintly.
"Heavy artillery battalion! Immediately stretch forward for me and attract the enemy's attention!" Qin Ning felt that he had to share some pressure on the attacking troops, and the best way was to stretch the heavy artillery battalion forward, no matter how crazy the enemy was, he would have to take into account the power of the heavy artillery battalion.
When the heavy artillery battalion received the order, it was immediately very clumsy, but it pushed the heavy artillery forward one by one, and little by little, the heavy artillery of the heavy artillery battalion was approaching the effective firing range.
"Oh no, General, you see, the enemy's heavy artillery battalion is moving into effective range. A soldier noticed the movement of the heavy artillery battalion here, and hurriedly reminded Kong Mian loudly.
"Damn! it's going to be like this!" Kong Mian went crazy all of a sudden, and now Kong Mian had to make a choice.
If all the energy was concentrated on the attacking troops, the attacking forces would surely suffer heavy casualties, but the enemy's heavy artillery battalions, once erected, would be too great a threat to the Wall of Sighs.
After weighing it, the grinning Kong Mian ordered: "Concentrate artillery fire and kill the enemy's heavy artillery battalion first." ”
It was very laborious to adjust the shooting of the elements, but the movement of the heavy artillery battalion was even slower, after all, the opponent did not have to carry the cannon, and he had to put the heavy artillery in position.
Boom Boom Boom Boom ......
The heavy artillery on the Wall of Sighs was the first to attack, and the cannons of the heavy artillery battalion flew into the sky one by one before they reached the designated position.
The second prince stomped his feet and wanted to quickly drag the heavy artillery battalion back, but unfortunately, he also knew that he couldn't do this at all, otherwise his previous sacrifice would really be in vain. (To be continued......)