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Chapter 245 I thought I found a flaw again

On the siege battlefield, it is very dangerous to temporarily change formations or change tactics, and it is very likely to cause chaos and trample and cause more damage.

But Tian Jianxiu had no choice. He also suddenly realized the mistake of the original tactics during the actual combat, so he could only urgently plug the leak.

If you don't do this, but withdraw the troops and start charging again in the next time, the loss will only be greater.

Because today, the earth mounds and slopes temporarily filled in the corners, the ladder trucks, flying ladders, and trench trucks transported up will all be completely destroyed by the defenders after the war.These bulky siege equipment are difficult to keep once the siege troops are defeated and retreat.

The next time the troops charge, they will have to endure another round of firepower and cross coverage during the approach.

Thousands of rogue attacking soldiers in the front row had no choice but to shift their attack direction with arrows and firearms directly within the range of the defenders at the top of the city under Tian Jianxiu's thigh-slapping decision.

The bulky ladder couldn't turn around quickly for the time being, so the dead warriors who climbed first could only carry the ladder and gallop towards the nearby horse faces, leaning the ladder against the wall, and charged up crazily.

During the whole process, arrows rained down on the city, guns roared, and they were harvesting and taking away the lives of the rogue soldiers every moment. In just one cup of tea, hundreds of people were directly killed, and the wounded were even worse. too much.

And some of the troops attacking the city by ladders couldn't give up their equipment for a while, so they had to continue to attack those ordinary city wall sections like targets, and soon fell into chaos.

Fortunately, their contributions were not completely worthless. At least their deaths also attracted a considerable part of the firepower of the officers and soldiers, which reduced the pressure of muskets, bows and crossbows for the comrades who turned to attack the horse face.

"Kill! Go up! If you charge from the front of the horse, you won't be bombarded by the Francophone! Go up to the wall and kill the gunner, and the brothers on the ladder will be able to ascend the city!"

On the battlefield in front of the horse, several mid-level bandit officers at the headquarters level, also wearing heavy armor, waved their swords and shouted sharply, urging the soldiers to try their best to climb up the city.

The head of the Ministry is equivalent to the head of the thousand of the Ming army. However, because the Chuang army has changed battles year after year, there are more soldiers and casualties, and few of them are replenished to full strength. Eight or nine hundred.

Now Tian Jianxiu used each unit to attack a horse face, which was equivalent to an average of [-] soldiers at a time, and took down a platform that protruded from the wall with a width of only a few dozen steps. The density of troops was already very high.

Facing the ants, the efficiency of archery and gun shooting is obviously too low, and the output speed is too slow, so the defenders at the top of the city began to throw small pieces of rolling logs and rocks down. Dozens of soldiers were killed directly.

Fortunately, the crossbowmen who broke into the army were also shooting arrows desperately to try to suppress them. After being shot a few times, the soldiers of the Ming army did not dare to throw logs and stones. They could only use blind throwing without observation. The stone weight is also relatively small——

If you want to throw a stone that is too big, you can only hold it down with both hands. If you want to throw it over your head like throwing a basket down the toilet, you can't throw it at all, so you can't use it if you don't show your head.

But the bandit soldiers outside the horse face wall are too dense, the Ming army didn't need to aim when throwing stones, and the blind throw can hit a good percentage of hits. Rush up.

After hundreds of casualties, some of the bandit soldiers finally stepped on the corpses of their comrades and rushed to the top of the wall.

This can only be blamed on a small broken county like Shangcai, the city walls are too short.At a height of seven or eight feet, there are so many people dead below, and the follow-up explosive power is good, and you can jump up with a few steps.

However, the officers and soldiers at the head of the city had already been prepared for battle. They transferred the long spear team from other sections of the wall, rushed up to counter charge, and stabbed all the first batch of bandit warriors who had just ascended the city into a hornet's nest.

It's not that the thief warriors didn't try to fight back in hand-to-hand combat, but they couldn't carry long weapons when they climbed the city wall, they could only charge with a short knife and a shield on their back.

As for the spears that are more than eight feet long, it is difficult to climb the wall on the back.Perhaps half a foot from the top of the wall, the spear shaft had already exposed the top of the city, and if pushed far away by the guards, the whole person could fall off the city wall.

Therefore, the longest melee weapons of the dead soldiers are some long-handled battle axes, and the handle will never exceed five or six feet. Naturally, they are at a great disadvantage if they are pushed back by people in melee combat.

Of course, if it is a fight on an ordinary city wall section, this situation is not obvious, because there may be many breakthrough points everywhere, it is not easy for the defenders with long weapons to turn around, and they may also be killed by new climbers emerging from the side. Death, it is difficult to maintain the direction of the gun array in the chaos.

But the thief is not attacking the ordinary wall section at this moment, but the horse face.

The horse's face protrudes from the ordinary city wall. If only the horse's face is attacked and the ordinary wall behind is not penetrated by ants, the defending spear team only needs to beware of the direction in front of the protrusion, and there is no need to worry about collisions between left and right. No enemies will come.

Once the spear formation only needs to concentrate on facing one direction, it is impossible to fall into a chaotic battle. Of course, other hand-to-hand combat units with short weapons have no chance of winning.

The thieves rushed repeatedly, and more and more soldiers who barely climbed the wall were slaughtered frantically and dumped their corpses in the city. A few warriors with long axes could barely fight to the death, but such warriors were among the thieves. how many?Li Zicheng couldn't afford to change an ordinary pike soldier.

The bloody and brutal fight lasted for less than half a stick of incense. After Tian Jianxiu's soldiers paid the price of at least a thousand more direct deaths and more wounded soldiers, the bandit party finally became exhausted. .

The bandits attacked as many as seven or eight horse faces on the entire north gate wall. Only the two horse faces supervised by Tian Jianxiu in the end continued to fight to the death, and the other five or six points were defeated.

The two places in front of Tian Jianxiu were invested by his confidantes, and there were two dead men from the Shaanxi old battalion headquartered in the Ministry.The soldiers were not afraid of death at all, they were also very strong in martial arts and physical fitness, and everyone was wearing cotton armor, so they barely resisted.

However, with the defeat of the left and right friendly forces, these last two places will obviously be taken care of by the official army.

Huang Degong, who was in charge of supervising the overall battle at the head of the city, saw that several enemy troops had retreated, and only the last two places were in critical condition, so he personally brought his own barracks to stop the leak.

The soldiers around Huang Degong are also iron-clad cotton armor, well-equipped, which immediately wiped out Li Zicheng's equipment advantage of those who have been a thief for more than ten years in the old battalion in Shaanxi.

Huang Degong himself even opened and closed his steel lance, stabbing and stabbing wildly, and directly smashed a gangster who was wielding a fine steel long-handled battle ax and had already killed several iron armored soldiers of the Ming army. stabbed right through,

Stir it again, and pull out the lance blade from the waist, almost cutting half of the palm brigade in half, and the internal organs spilled all over the floor.

"The dog thief will die!" After Huang Degong killed the general, he continued to shout and fight fiercely, rushing forward like a mad tiger, and stabbing more than ten people to death in a row of steel spears.

The bandit Xiandeng dead finally collapsed completely, and some of those who were closer to Huang Degong even chose to escape by jumping over the wall.

"Tian Jianxiu is a dog thief! I want to attack your Grandpa Huang's city, so I will reincarnate in my next life and practice hard!" After Huang Degong won the victory, he roared loudly, and all the soldiers in the army followed suit, insulting and taunting towards the city.

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In this day's battle, Tian Jianxiu was completely defeated, and from the very beginning, he fell into a downward trend.

His follow-up remedial attempts can only be regarded as a temporary slap on the thigh when he sees the trick, and the result is not good.

So Liu Fangliang on the other side didn't plan to join the reserve team at all from the beginning, which saved Liu Fangliang's part and basically retreated unscathed.

After returning to the camp, Liu Fangliang also found Tian Jianxiu immediately, and discussed how to give Chuang Wang an explanation.

Tian Jianxiu drank the mulled wine and sighed: "I counted the troops just now, and more than 4000 soldiers died, including those who were seriously injured and left behind the city and could not be brought back. I am afraid that the other wounded who came back will have to wait a few days. No more casualties.

Shen Dog Thief and Huang Chuangzi are too ruthless in defending the city. If we didn't see the opportunity from the beginning, we wouldn't invest so much.But the city he guards doesn't seem to be threatened by long-range heavy artillery at all. If you put it close, it can stick to you and kill madly. It's hard to leave. "

Of course, Liu Fangliang can understand this kind of distress. Since ancient times, if the defensive equipment is too fierce in the siege battle, then the attacking side will not die in vain, and their morale will collapse and retreat.

It is this kind of situation that gives you hope and makes you feel that if you work harder, you can get there, so that you can stick to the person who makes you die the most.And even ordinary soldiers would think "should I try harder and rush up?"

But the truth is, all of this is just a dream.

Liu Fangliang said sympathetically: "If you lose, you are defeated. I don't think the king will take heavy responsibility. The key is to find out the enemy's flaws, figure out why you lost today, and whether there are other ways to remedy it.

As long as you can figure out the flaws in the tactics of Shen Gou Thief and Huang Chuangzi, with the generosity of the king, you will definitely let me go and not pursue it. "

Tian Jianxiu was a little stunned. Hearing what Liu Fangliang said, he understood the truth, but his mind was already in a mess. How could he analyze Zichou Yinmao?

After the two chatted for a while, Liu Fangliang saw that the other party was talking nonsense, so he cleared his throat as a bystander, and suggested:

"I watched the battle from the sidelines today, and I discovered some disadvantages of Shengou Thief, but I'm not sure, maybe there is a back-up in ambush. But since you can't explain to the king, brother, let's talk about it together. If you think Yes, you go and report to the king—but if you make a mistake in the future, we will not be responsible."

When Tian Jianxiu was dozing off and lacked a pillow, when he heard this, he immediately slapped his chest and said: "Brother Liu, what are you talking about! My brother, you are willing to help me think of an idea, and we will definitely remember your favor! Let his idea last." No, let's get rid of the king's responsibility first!"

Liu Fangliang stroked his beard and said, "I finally understand that Shen Gou Thief really put all the Frang machines side-mounted on both sides of the horse's face to bombard the sides of ordinary city walls.

With such fierce firepower, it is definitely impossible to attack those sunken ordinary city walls. Those Francophones use shotgun shells, and a single shot can kill a row of soldiers sticking to the base of the wall.

However, putting the cannons on the side has a disadvantage compared to putting them upright, that is, they can only stare at the two sides of the deployed horse face. If they are far away or blocked by other horse faces, they will not be able to cross over. Fight cattle across the mountain.

This is far worse than putting the cannon forward and straight. After all, you can adjust the angle a little bit when you put it straight, and you can hit a large range.And can Shen Shuren really have so many cannons?If there are six cannons on each horse face, and three on the left and right sides, how many cannons will be needed for so many horse faces in the whole city?

Today we just attacked Beicheng. If we rest in a few days and then fight again, and attack the other three sides together, how can the Shengou thief have so many cannons to fill every horse in the city?After we try it out, if we try to find out which side has less guns and focus on the weak points to attack, there is still a chance!

Soldiers can move much faster than artillery.We found which side had fewer guns, and the soldiers could immediately gallop over to attack that side.If the officers and soldiers wanted to move their guns, they would not be able to drag them away for a day or a half. "

The more Tian Jianxiu listened, the more he felt the drama, and finally felt relieved after listening to it: "Thanks to Brother Liu, you have a good eye! We were able to escape the king's crimes today, and I will thank you very much later! Let's go, I will go and ask the king for forgiveness."

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