Using long-range weapons to cover the battlefield where the enemy and the enemy are intertwined is not uncommon in the history of warfare. This is also a double-edged sword tactic. If it is used well, it can at least change vehicles with pawns, or even reverse the situation and save the defeat. , but if it is not used well, if you are a little careless, you will steal the chicken but not lose the rice, or even swallow the evil fruit and kill yourself. Since ancient times, Marshal Zhukov has played this tactic to perfection by relying on the morale bonus effect of the political commissar. He used a large number of cannon fodder to kill almost the same amount of Nazi elites. At the last moment of life and death, I dare not use it indiscriminately.
Old General Li Zixiong has full confidence in playing this dangerous tactic well. Old General Li is well aware of the details of the Dongdu garrison Youwuwei team. The elite main force was basically defeated by Emperor Sui Yang on the Liaodong battlefield last year. A general who is good at fighting Li Jing also capsized in the gutter last year, and accidentally died in the hands of a group of thieves. Two Youwuwei generals, Dugu Sheng, who was able to fight, had already gone to Liaodong with the last elite of Youwuwei. A second-line team that has basically never fought a battle, and Huangfu Wuyi who has never been on a battlefield and is often sick. With such a team and such a general, it may be barely competent to hide on the city wall and smash stones and shoot arrows. When it comes to the moment of close combat when short knives meet, it is definitely a thing that slips faster than the other.
It is precisely because of knowing these situations that Old General Li dared to take risks with this double-edged sword tactic. General Li firmly believed that once the stone bombs thrown by the five trebuchets flew to the battlefield of the city wall, they would be killed in the face of flying stones. With the double threat of the ant-attached rebels, the soldiers of the Sui army on the city wall will inevitably collapse quickly and be defeated. The well-prepared rebel ant-attached team can also take advantage of the opportunity to rush up the city wall of Luoyang in an endless stream, and take the east in one fell swoop. Duchengchi!
General Li's self-confidence is not without reason. On the current offensive and defensive battlefield, although the rockets fired by the defenders' archers have all ignited the rebel ladder trucks, it is difficult for the burning ladder trucks to get close to the city wall. However, the flying ladders of the rebel army leaned against the city wall one after another. The rebel vanguards selected from the main force of the rebel army had high morale, and they climbed up the ladder against the stones and logs that were constantly falling down. The towering city wall charged repeatedly, and the rebel vanguard Wang Zhongbo kept yelling, "Go! Go! The first person to kill the Luoyang city wall will be rewarded with a thousand gold! Three hundred acres of fertile land! Go! Brothers, go!"
The rebels are attacking fiercely, and the defenders are also guarding tightly. Under the tactical command of the primary and secondary, the defenders' archers are not in a hurry to shoot arrows to suppress the rebel soldiers. Killing fewer enemies did not give the rebels a chance to climb up the city wall; the other defenders took advantage of the condescending location and smashed the enemies under the city with well-prepared stones and logs, while carrying large logs. Hit the flying ladders of the rebels, knock over the flying ladders that have already been built on the city wall, and try not to give the enemy a lot of opportunities to go to the city quickly.
The battle situation fell into a see-saw stalemate, which did not exceed General Li's expectations. Although the Shangchun Gate garrison gave General Li a little surprise in terms of tactical command, General Li did not worry at all and paid attention to the battlefield on the city wall. At the same time, he kept paying attention to the five trebuchets that were advancing rapidly, and the five trebuchets surrounded by more than 400 people from the two regiments did not disappoint Old General Li. The arrangement was completed at a position one hundred and fifty steps away from the city wall, and preparations for throwing stones to attack the city began. And at this position, although the compound bows equipped by the soldiers of the Dongdu defenders can also shoot, but the strength is greatly reduced, the accuracy is greatly lost, and it is difficult to exert a suppressing effect.
What made Old General Li smile was that while the rebel army was deploying the catapults, the Luoyang defenders on the city wall did not concentrate their bows and arrows to cover the catapults as he was a little worried, but continued to concentrate their bows and arrows on the catapults that had already been fired one after the other. On the ladder car that was on fire, Old General Li couldn't help but smile and said, "Pei Hongce, after all, he's still a little tender."
At the same time, on the city wall of Shangchun Gate, Pei Hongce, who was ridiculed by General Li as immature, was asking his distant nephew Chen Yingliang who was even more immature: "Nephew, the position of the traitor's catapult is barely enough for our bows and arrows." Now, do you want to fire a few rounds of rockets to see if you can burn the enemy's trebuchet?"
"Uncle, it's useless to do this." Chen Yingliang replied calmly: "The trebuchet is not as small as the ladder cart, and the most important throwing arm is also thin and strong. The enemy can also quickly extinguish the flames, and it is impossible to cause a fatal blow to the trebuchet. Also, the enemy's strength is very sufficient, even if we shoot some of the catapult soldiers to death, if we kill one, the enemy can immediately replenish two or three."
"So that's how it is." Pei Hongce suddenly realized, and cursed in a very depressed manner, "Damn it, our trebuchet can't go up the city wall. This time we can only be beaten, and it's hard to fight back."
"Uncle, don't worry. The enemy's catapults are only five, and they are cable catapults. The catapults they throw are light and small, and they pose little threat to us." Chen Yingliang comforted, and at the same time, Chen Yingliang was depressed in his heart. , secretly said: "Fuck his mother, it's a pity that I don't dare to expose it now, otherwise, I can build a few counterweight lever trebuchets and hide in the city to make Yang Xuangan cry like hell."
At this time, the siege vehicles of the rebels had already rushed to the city gate. Although Pei Hongce and Xie Zichong had deployed heavy troops and a large number of defensive weapons here, the possibility of the rebel team being able to break through the city gate was extremely small, but the defenders The army team also lost the possibility of going out of the city to raid the trebuchet position of the rebel team. The rebel team also took the opportunity to fix the five precious trebuchets, and put the large and small stone bombs with a total weight of about 100 catties into the net bag. After the bombing was over, behind each trebuchet, fifty rebel soldiers had already lined up with their backs to the trebuchet, each of them holding the already tightened dragging rope, and waiting for the order to be given—in fact, this is not practical. Many people dragged and dragged, but the rebels were not trained enough, it was difficult to move neatly, and they were afraid of the interference of the defenders' bows and arrows. Yang Xuangan and Old General Li unanimously decided to send more soldiers to drag - anyway, the most important thing for the rebel army is manpower .
"Let go!" While the command flag was waving, two hundred and fifty rebel soldiers rushed forward together dragging the rope, driving the lower end of the throwing arm to sink downwards, and the upper end of the throwing arm was suddenly thrown upwards. Throwing out by centrifugal force, like a swarm of migratory locusts, they roared towards the city wall of Luoyang a hundred and fifty steps away, and towards the city wall battlefield where the two warring parties were extremely densely packed.
When the stone bullets hit the ground, both sides of the war were inevitably affected. The rebel siege team was not affected very much, because the defenders were already hitting them hard with stones and fallen logs. It didn't surprise me at all when it hit. However, the condescending garrison team was greatly affected. A large pile of large and small stones suddenly fell from the cloudless clear sky, killing and injuring the garrison soldiers. They didn't understand how they died, but the defenders who were injured or not hit were panicked, screaming and screaming, "Why are there stones falling? Why are there stones falling? Then what happened?" stone?"
Panic leads to timidity, and timidity leads to chaos. Under the indiscriminate blow from the rebel catapults, the originally complete and well-guarded defenders suddenly became chaotic. In an instant, he rushed to the upper part of the city wall. At the same time, Wang Zhongbo's rebel ant-affiliated team also took the opportunity to start the second wave of attack, pushing five undamaged ladder trucks forward, charging towards the chaotic city wall of Luoyang. There is also the trebuchet team of the rebels, who also quickly reloaded and threw stone bombs at the city wall, trying their best to expand the defenders on the city wall.
"Rush up! Hahahaha! Finally rushed up!"
When he saw the first rebel soldier rushing to the top of Luoyang City, Yang Xuan couldn't help raising his arms and shouted. Cheering and cheering, everyone felt that the city was about to be broken. Old General Li, who commanded and deployed the siege battle, twirled his white beard with his hands, and said with a very confident smile: "Luoyang, the eastern capital, I'm broken."
Li Zixiong's smile and Yang Xuangan's big laugh immediately froze on his face. In the chaos of the Sui army in the city, a group of Sui army soldiers in white robes came out from nowhere, and they were too far away to see them clearly. What means and weapons were used, and the rebel soldier who rushed up the city wall first was knocked off the city wall in the blink of an eye, and what surprised Yang Xuangan and Li Zixiong was that when the rebel soldier fell down the city, he had already changed. It became fragments of different sizes!
At the same time, more soldiers of the Sui army in white robes appeared on the city wall. They used gangs as units to rush towards the position of the rebel soldiers who had successfully ascended the city. One by one, they fell down the city wall, or disappeared without a trace. Although the five trebuchets of the rebel army were still throwing stone bombs at the city, they had no effect on them at all. The soldiers of the Sui army who were extremely flustered before didn't know if they had taken the wrong medicine, and they even cheered, and then started to smash the soldiers under the city with stones and trees, and at the same time, try to give way to the road space, so that those in white Soldiers of the Sui army in black robes guard the upper city ladder of the rebel army.
"White-robed soldiers! The white-robed soldiers are coming again!" Yang Xuangan and others shouted panickedly in the rebel ranks. Although the generals of the rebel army stopped and beat the screaming rebel soldiers in time, the ranks were neatly organized. There was still commotion in the ranks of the rebels, and countless soldiers whispered to each other, discussing and spreading the horror of the Nationalist Army, and the morale value dropped accordingly.
The last time Li Zixiong saw the Baoguo Army was at night, and he couldn't see clearly. At the same time, the Baoguo Army encountered the most elite members of the rebel army. The battle was fought in broad daylight, with his back to the sun, and the light was excellent. Li Zixiong, whose old eyes were not dim, finally saw the true face of the Baoguo Army, and also saw how vulnerable the rebel soldiers were in front of the Baoguo Army. , Li Zixiong couldn't help but asked Yang Xuangan in surprise: "Duke Chu, I heard that on the Mangshan battlefield last time, these hundreds of white-robed soldiers raided and burned your food and grass, and then killed tens of thousands of troops unscathed. Is it true that the siege is true?"
The last thing Yang Xuangan wanted to bring up was this embarrassing incident, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, it's just that these guys were lucky, they didn't investigate for a while when they met the third younger brother, and that idiot Li Mi took it lightly and didn't organize the army in time To launch a counterattack, this group of tyrants in filial robes took a big advantage."
"Mr. Chu, don't be angry. I will avenge you today." Li Zixiong smiled and said confidently, "When our ladder car touches the city wall, we can take revenge."
Some old general Li who likes to brag quickly found that he might be beaten in the face again. The independent special service team of the Nationalist Army, which was very conspicuous, was thrown into the battlefield by Chen Yingliang in time, and immediately played the backbone of the battlefield. The key role is that no matter how the rebels throw stone bombs to attack the two sides indiscriminately, these stone bombs will not have the slightest psychological blow to the soldiers of the patriotic army who can still show off their power among tens of thousands of enemies. As a result, the soldiers of the Nationalist Army who are eager to kill the enemy, make meritorious service, get promoted and make a fortune are still like tigers descending the mountain, shouting and cheering, chopping down any rebel soldier who was lucky enough to climb the city, and because there are too many monks and too few people to fight for merit. Because of this, the corpses of all the rebel soldiers who died tragically at the hands of the soldiers of the Baoguo Army were chopped into pieces, almost like dumpling stuffing in meat sauce. No matter how fierce the offensive of the rebel army, covered by bows and arrows and trebuchets, they still could not successfully occupy the position on the city wall.
With the soldiers of the national defense army dealing with the frontal enemy and taking on the most dangerous melee missions, the other soldiers of the Sui army also quickly recovered from the chaos, and started to use the defense materials to attack the intruders from the city. The smashing was heavier, more ruthless and more accurate, causing the rebels in the city to cry and howl, and their flesh and blood flew fiercely. It also smashed the rebel soldiers on the flying ladders to roll down like hail and raindrops, making it even more difficult to pose an effective threat.
There is also the most critical archer team. After the panic of encountering stone bullets, under Chen Yingliang's repeated orders and the general's whip, the archers of the defending army quickly opened their strong bows again, and brought countless bows with them. The flaming feathered arrows were thrown at the rebel ladder trucks that attacked again, and the heavy and slow rebel ladder trucks were soon filled with arrows with flaming feathers. The situation has gradually caught fire.
The war has fallen into a stalemate again. Although the rebel team's siege tactics are three-dimensional and orderly, with cover and means, they also use the siege vehicle team to distract the defenders' energy, and at the same time block the defenders' out of the city raid road in disguise, killing two birds with one stone. But the defensive methods of the defenders are more orderly. The archers are responsible for using rockets to burn the ladder vehicles that threaten the enemy the most. The other teams are responsible for effectively killing the enemies in the city with rolling stones and falling trees. The beating and the big stones with iron locks smashed the rebel siege vehicles, the soldiers came to block them, and the water came to cover them, all of which effectively restrained the rebels' siege methods. No matter how violent the rebels' offensive was, it could only be limited to On the battlefield under the city, there is no chance to open the gap and break the deadlock.
The sun gradually rose into the sky, and as time passed, the casualties of the rebel army were getting bigger and bigger, and before the defenders even threw the fire oil tank dovetail torches, fifteen siege ladders The car was already on fire, and the rebel flag array, which was full of confidence and expectation before, gradually fell silent. The Yang brothers and the rebel generals looked at Old General Li, and they were no longer so full of admiration and admiration. Old General Li, who had been slapped in the face one after another, couldn't hold back his face. He quietly scolded himself for pointing his back and bumping into the enemy for being able to deal with it well. Ants attached to the team, make room, General Yang Xuanting, you take four thousand new troops and one hundred ladders up, and continue to storm Luoyang City. The last five ladder vehicles, continue to stand still and wait for orders!"
The remaining prestige of General Youwuhou was still there, and General Li's orders were quickly and effectively executed. Yang Xuanting led 4,000 new troops and brought a new 100 flying ladders forward. The rebel army that had been blocked under the city for a long time also retreated according to the order of the amnesty, leaving behind a large pile of densely packed corpses under the city, and 15 dilapidated ladder trucks that had almost been burned to ashes.
Seeing these changes in the rebel ranks on the city wall, Chen Yingliang sneered and said, "You want to rely on sufficient troops to fight? It's a pity that your troops are sufficient, but your large siege weapons may not be so sufficient. "
After the sneer, Chen Yingliang immediately shouted an order: "The archery team rotates, replenishes arrows and rockets, replenishes sheep's head stones and wood, let the soldiers hurry up to drink water, and report to the national army for rotation. Chen Zhihong and Zhao Yu's team will go down to rest. Order, Guo Feng and Chen Ci's team go to the city! Pass my words to the whole army, the key to the victory of this battle is already the last five ladder carts of the rebels, burn them, and we will win!"
The orders of Chen Yingliang, who had already established the image of the god of war in the Youwuwei army, were also effectively and quickly executed. When the garrison team was also quickly rotated, amidst the sound of war drums, the new rebel army led by Yang Xuanting had returned to the city of Luoyang. As soon as the gong sounded on the city wall, rolling stones, hammered wood, and feathered arrows immediately fell like hail and raindrops, overwhelmingly covering the heads of the new rebel army. The screams of the wounded and dying also echoed in the rebel army.
"Traitors of Gou Ri, come up!" Guo Feng led his team and yelled on the city wall, waving new weapons and yelling at the top of the city where arrows and stones are flying like rain, "I've long been hungry and thirsty for my nine-ring machete!" Bear with it, the nine-ring machete that General Huangfu personally gave me is missing some openings, hurry up and open it for me!"
What kind of generals and what soldiers, Guo Feng yelled arrogantly, and the soldiers of the Nationalist Army under his command also yelled loudly, provoking the enemies in the city even more arrogantly, doing everything possible to insult. On Chen Ci's side, most of the soldiers of the Nationalist Army of Chen Ci's team put their palms together, and followed Chen Ci to chant loudly to the rebels in the city, to rescue these poor enemies who were about to die tragically under their own knives, spears, axes and sticks in advance...
"Namo Great Mercy, Great Compassion, Great Inspiration Avalokitesvara Mahasattva. Namo Buddha, Namo Fa, Namo Sangha, Namo Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, Namo Rescue Suffering, Om. Gala Vado, Gala Vado..."
At the same time, in the northern city of Luoyang, the reserve team of the Sui army gathered here was staggering, sitting or lying down, chatting and laughing, as if they had no military affairs at all, and many soldiers simply fell asleep. In this situation, General Liu Changgong, who was in charge of the reserve team, not only ignored it, but took the lead in finding a shady place to sit down, sipping the fragrant tea made by his own soldiers, and sighed sincerely: "Yang Xuangan, you always get married every time." That's all right, Brother Ying Liang's uncle is guarding the Spring Gate, and Brother Ying Liang has to go up to help without ordering, so this general can be so relaxed every time."
At the same time, in the rebel flag formation, he could see his own soldiers rolling down the ladder like rain from a distance, and the sweat on General Li's face was also rolling down like those unlucky rebel soldiers. With an embarrassed expression, he said to Yang Xuangan: "Duke Chu, can you let Fazhu Li build more trebuchets? If there were more trebuchets, and a few hook carts and winch crossbows, I would have captured Luoyang City long ago. And , Our ladder trucks are too few, not enough.”