Ming Dynasty: Summoning game players at the beginning

Chapter 64 You don’t respect martial ethics and engage in sneak attacks

"Fire back!"

Just as the commander finished speaking, he heard the sharp whistling sound of a shell breaking through the air passing over his head.

He looked around. The location of the tower was extremely conspicuous. If it was hit by a shell, he would become the most unlucky military officer.

So he quickly went downstairs with his personal soldiers and moved to the sturdy city wall.

He had just chosen a safe observation point when he heard the rapid roar of the general cannon on the wall and several shells flew out.

One bullet flew backwards over the bandits' team, one bullet embedded into the ground, one bullet bounced several times on the ground, barely seeing blood before the force was released, and another bullet hit the bandits' carriage, splashing a cloud of wood chips.

The commanding officer couldn't help but shake his head. In previous years, when the bandits attacked the city, one shot could kill dozens of people, and a salvo could kill a lot of people. But now, a single salvo could kill several people.

too weak.

It was all because the commander pulled out most of the old soldiers and gunners in the garrison, and as a result, only one in ten escaped.

Fortunately, although the bandits' artillery skills were strong, the caliber of their artillery was very small, and the shells hitting the city wall were like scraping, and at most they could only break some of the outer bricks.

If the wall continues to be scraped down at this speed, the commander is fully confident that he can hold out until reinforcements arrive.

Just as the two sides were "exchanging artillery techniques", the commander suddenly saw hundreds of bandits on the east side squatting down... digging a hole?
He saw the beggars "forcing" the people to move forward and dig trenches.

Several ditch-digging teams were like pastoral dogs digging the soil at a rapid speed, digging out winding ditches on the ground. It was obvious that they were the experienced methods used by farmers to build simple water conservancy projects.

Through the hard work of the "captives", several winding trenches gradually extended to the bottom of the wall, like the ferocious claws left by a huge beast on the ground.

Could it be that the enemy soldiers dug deep trenches around Xinyang in order to establish a long-term siege?

After a little thought, the commander agreed that the enemy soldiers must have adopted this strategy because they saw that artillery bombardment was ineffective.

But the thief seemed to see through his thoughts and deliberately went against him——

Hundreds of bandits jumped into the trench with weapons in hand, crouched down and quickly passed through the trench "passage" to reach the foot of the city.

"Take my poison-coated armor-piercing arrows!"

The bandits used their shields to block the weapons leaning from the top of the wall, while attacking the city walls with their bows and muskets.

He heard a scream from behind, and when he turned around, he saw that a soldier had been hit in the left shoulder by an arrow and was screaming in pain.

The commander could only sigh that it was a close call. If he had stood up a few inches further, he would have been the unlucky one to be hit by the arrow.

"Kill the thief! Kill the thief!"

The commander, still frightened, became furious. He drew his sword and slashed at the air, ordering his men to fight back immediately.

However, their own firearms, artillery shells, and falling rocks were almost ineffective against the bandits in the trenches. Only thrown arrows could fall into the trenches, but they were blocked by shields.

Even if the arrow was lucky, it would only occasionally hit one or two bandits.

As the trench got closer to the city wall, more and more bandits entered the trench. Some bandits even worked together to carry a small wooden cannon and placed it in the trench, which was less than two hundred steps away from the city wall!

This trench is not for siege, but for siege cover!

The commander suddenly came to his senses.

This "trench advance" can help the bandits advance to the bottom of the city wall with minimal casualties, and rely on trenches and shields to exchange lives with the soldiers on the wall.

The bandits are so cunning that they can even come up with this method of attacking the city!

If the enemy soldiers gather under the city, they will continue to consume the manpower of the defenders and undermine their morale, and then they can use the battering ram and ladders to attack the city in one go.

The number of troops under his command is not enough to hold the position!
"Quickly go and gather troops, and draw more from the west and north!"

"But there are also bandits in the north!"

The commander glanced to the north and saw no movement.

He guessed that the bandits in the north were probably refugees filling the scene and would not dare to fight to the death like the bandits in the east.

"Go quickly!"

Hundreds of soldiers were quickly mobilized under the command of the deputy commander. Officers shouted one after another, urging them to move the goods. Fallen rocks and rolling logs were carried to the top of the wall for use.

Dozens of soldiers simmered a pot of yellow-green paste beneath the wall, stirring it with sticks while covering their mouths and noses with their sleeves and turning their faces away. As the pots of this frustrating "boiling liquid" reached the parapet, the commanding officer felt a sense of peace, knowing they could at least withstand the first few waves of the bandits' frenzied attacks.

The commander felt relieved, but suddenly he heard a deafening explosion, as if the sky had gathered its strength and struck a thunder, shaking his chest.

what happened?

The commander was confused about the situation for a while.

"The bandits have entered the city!"

A soldier pointed to a section of the wall in the north of the city. Black smoke mixed with dust and flying sand rose slowly. Hundreds of people broke through the smoke and gray fog condensed by the wall tower and rushed into the city through the rammed earth gap in the collapsed wall section.

not good!

The commander could not help but growl, "How despicable! The enemy soldiers are actually making a feint to the east and attacking from the north!"

The enemy soldiers went to great lengths to launch a feint attack in the east, just to trick him into gathering heavy troops in the east.

He was deceived, so badly!

"Hurry and rush to the north of the city to provide assistance!"

The commanding officer gave the order, and hundreds of soldiers had to turn back again, their feet clattering on the stairs.

The soldiers who were ordered to rush to the rescue had just taken a hundred steps when they heard bursts of shrill screams coming from the north of the city.

The soldiers froze in place upon hearing the sound. The brave ones took a few steps forward, stretching their necks to look into the distance.

Several flags with the words "Beg for Life" written on them suddenly appeared in the field of vision. Under the flags were several extremely brave bandits, wearing blood-stained armor and holding two swords with blood dripping from the blades.

"Who else!" The bandit roared to the sky, scaring the soldiers who were rushing to the north gate to scatter.

"Master!" A servant, covered in blood, ran through the streets and alleys, tumbling and crawling before collapsing beneath the city wall. Before he died, he shouted at the top of his lungs, "North, North Gate... is broken!"

The defenders in the north were defeated before they could even hold on for a moment?
Once the bandits break into the city, other bandits will also rush in. The soldiers in the city who have nowhere to escape will collapse and will no longer have the power to resist.

It's over, it's over.

The commander felt his hands and feet were cold and his head was buzzing.

"Kill to pay for life, debt to pay for money!"

"Give me back all the land owned by the military households!"

"All corrupt officials will be hanged at the city gates for a hundred days as a public display!"

The bandits outside the east gate who were attacking the city gate shouted and killed loudly, and the subsequent bandits, under the cover of the trenches, continued to send troops and set up ladders to climb the city.

Seeing that the defenses on the east were about to be breached, he had no hope of survival, and the enemy soldiers' cunning calculations of combining strength and falsehood completely destroyed his will to continue fighting.

Perhaps it was the hereditary position that gave him a glimmer of courage in his despair. He commanded the deputy to steel himself, drew his sword from his waist, and said, "Follow me to kill the bandits and serve our country!"

However, the moment the news of the city's fall spread, the commander-in-chief lost his command over the city.

The surrounding military households and soldiers fled in all directions, and a large number of gaps and gaps appeared in the city wall's defense line in an instant.

A player wearing an iron helmet and holding a baseball bat climbed up the wall and immediately spotted the commander with a confused look in his eyes.

"Hey, you monster, take a stick from me!"

"Dog thief!"

The commander swung his knife and the baseball bat collided with it, and there was a crisp sound of hammering.

Unexpectedly, the latter's iron stick was stronger, and it directly bounced his weapon away, leaving a flattened gap.

"Watch me counterattack and pursue!"

The player holding the stick took a step forward and swung the stick at the commander's head, one stick, two sticks, three sticks... Even though blood was flowing down the edge of the helmet, the swinging and hitting did not stop.

Watching the deputy commander fall backward with his head thrown back, the player swung his baseball bat in disdain and spat at the corpse, "Your uncle has years of experience in parrying, and you can really stop him?"

(End of this chapter)