Qiming 1158

Chapter 1051 Let the Ming army bomb the camp!
Of course, Zhou Benyuan was also very willing to bring back the new firearms of the Ming army.

The problem is that it's a little too difficult.

"General, is this too dangerous?"

Zhou Benyuan was very worried.

Wang Yan looked at Zhou Benyuan.

"Besides, do you have any other way? If you have a better way, I will change the plan immediately."

Zhou Benyuan lowered his head and stopped talking.

There was nothing he could do.

So he could only accept Wang Yan's action plan.

Perhaps Wang Yan also felt a huge threat, so he encouraged himself.

"When the monk Yuan fought against the golden thief, I remember that it was full of crises. No one believed that we could win, but we won and blocked the golden thief, and they were killed and lost!
After that, I learned that golden thieves are also human beings. When people are killed, they will die. As long as they have the courage to attack, golden thieves are nothing to be afraid of. Similarly, the Ming army may not be so terrible! "

Wang Yan made up his mind to recreate Wu Jie's glorious history in the Sichuan and Shu theaters, and to make the Ming army pay the price.

Zhou Benyuan couldn't stop it, he could only obey.

So the two of them selected [-] elite soldiers without night blindness from the city, let them eat meat and dry rice, go to sleep after eating, and have enough strength, waiting for the second half of the night when everyone was asleep, sneak out of the city and attack the Ming army.

They carried firelighters and some loud-sounding firearms, trying to create a large-scale noise and fire in the dark, so as to create the illusion of a large army raid, forcing the Ming army to bomb the camp.

They take it for granted that the bombing of the battalion is their own fate, and then it will also be the fate of the Ming army.

So the goal of the night attack was to let the Ming army bomb the camp!
In order to prevent the Ming army from finding out, they did not even open the city gate, and used slings to lower the night raiding team from the city tower and let them gather under the city.

They were divided into four combat battalions, and four brave officers were selected as their commanders.

Wang Yan and Zhou Benyuan prayed for the night raiding troops on the tower, and prayed to God, hoping that God would bless them and obtain a complete victory.

But God obviously ignored them, or in other words, there was no God at all.

The sudden flash of fire in the direction of the sneak attack shattered their hopes into slag.

The Ming army is well prepared.

Zhang Yuejing adopted Xu Tong's opinion and believed that Wang Yan would not sit still and would definitely take action, so he prepared crossbowmen, musketeers and melee troops in advance, ready to give them a good guy.

When the Song Army's night raiding force touched the edge of the Ming Army's frontline camp, they were just about to launch a strike, but the Ming Army attacked first, causing the Song Army's night raiding force to be suddenly struck by thunder and rain.

The musketeers and crossbowmen who had been prepared for a long time fired together, and the Song army night raiding troops were caught off guard and killed in large numbers. Then the melee troops rushed out, shouting neat slogans to surround the night raiding Song army, and break them down.

The two thousand night raiding Song army fell into the encirclement of the Ming army, none of them escaped, and they were all wiped out by the Ming army. Only a few surrendered in time and were captured alive without being killed.

Song Jun's night raid failed.

Looking at the firelight and the faint sound of killing from the city wall, Wang Yan and Zhou Benyuan felt a chill in their hearts.

The night attack failed, and the Ming army was well prepared for the night attack. They were not dazzled by the victory and were already prepared for their night attack.

These two thousand soldiers and horses are destined to never return.

And after this wave, the possibility of a successful night attack will become extremely low, and it can even be said to be useless.

Wang Yan held the city wall with both hands and felt a great panic, but at this moment, he had nothing to do.

How to face this group of powerful enemies?

How to face this group of enemies who are not only powerful but also have new weapons?

He was at a loss.

On the other hand, Zhang Yuejing had no similar troubles at all.

"Starting a night attack so quickly shows that Wang Yan is indeed not a simple enemy, but launching a night attack so quickly shows that he really has nothing else to do, and he is in a hurry, he is afraid that we will soon be coming. Under Fan Cheng, hum, he is just like that."

Xu Tong listened to Zhang Yuejing's words and felt that what Zhang Yuejing said made sense, but it was also quite Versailles.

Who knew that the Ming army was equipped with such a powerful weapon as artillery?
There has never been such a weapon in history before, no one has a way to deal with it, and none of the existing defense facilities are made for this kind of weapon, so once this kind of weapon is on the battlefield, it is obviously a slaughter.

Give them a little time, maybe they can find a way to deal with it, but the current situation has completely limited their ability to move, it seems that they really have no better way to deal with the artillery.

The outcome of this battle has been determined.

The rest depends on how many troops the Southern Song Dynasty will send to support Xiangfan Second City, and how many main Song troops the Ming army can capture and completely annihilate.

Speaking of which, Xu Tong knew that this war was not initiated by Su Yonglin, and even the court should not have this plan before, just because Zhao Yucheng didn't want to be surrounded and suppressed any more, and wanted to fight it before Song Ting's fourth siege.

It's not Zhao Yucheng's style of always being beaten, it's just that once the battle that affects the whole body starts, the Ming Kingdom obviously can't be alone. Seizing this opportunity, Su Yonglin directly made a plan to expand the campaign and put a counter-encirclement and suppression campaign. The counterattack became a strategic decisive battle.

Su Yonglin's handwriting is really great, his determination is really great, and he is also very decisive.

Of course, the appearance of artillery was probably also the reason why Su Yonglin decided to launch the Battle of Xiangfan.

Xu Tong never thought that artillery could play such a huge role in the war situation before. Now it seems that with the emergence of artillery and muskets, the whole form of war will change.

Xu Tong keenly noticed how destructive the artillery was to the current dense army formation.

Even layers of infantry with large shields cannot stop the bombardment of a single shell, but if a dense army formation is hit by a shell, just one shot can cause extremely huge casualties and will directly destroy an army formation.

If they can still withstand it and have not been eliminated, then the next infantry confrontation, the Ming army and the musketeers.

Xu Tong took a look at what the musket was in the past two days. After trying it, he found that the musket was actually a small artillery piece for individual soldiers.

A soldier wearing a shield, even if he can block the shot of the lead bullet, may break his wrist due to the huge kinetic energy and fall directly, unable to continue fighting.

This is very scary.

So when you were about to fight, that guy came to you, and the dense army collapsed immediately. How can you fight this battle?
The current military combat mode is facing a very urgent need for change.

Xu Tong discussed this idea with Zhang Yuejing, and Zhang Yuejing suddenly looked at Xu Tong with surprised eyes.

"Is this what you thought?"

Xu Tong nodded.

"Well, once muskets and artillery become popular, the way the army fights will have to change. The original military confrontation cannot last for a long time in the presence of artillery, and it must be changed. Tactics also need to change.

Some arms may no longer be needed from now on, and some arms will take up a lot of weight. Right now, we don't have to worry too much, because the enemy doesn't have the same equipment, but one day the enemy will have similar equipment, so we have to reform. Forced to change, it is better to change yourself! "

(End of this chapter)