Is there a just war in this world
exist!
This is indisputable. For example, when a powerful empire attacks its neighbors, the resistance of the neighbors is just. But there is no justice in today's war. Neither the defending Gao Family Army nor the attacking Black Banner Army is on the side of justice.
People have good and evil, and so do wars.
But it is also undeniable that seven out of ten wars since ancient times have nothing to do with justice, but only for interests. In particular, none of the initiators of the war seemed to be trying to maintain world peace. How miserable the walls of Liyin City are, how loud the cheers are in the artillery battalion of the Black Banner Army, these are the components of war.
Nobody wants to be the one crying.
But war is fair, the strong laugh and the weak cry. There are naturally many examples of the weak defeating the strong in the world, but if you think about it carefully from ancient times to the present, how many such examples are there
How many of them are fabricated
Xiahou Baichuan ordered to cross the river, and the auxiliary soldiers of the Black Banner Army began to build the bridge. Although there is an absolute suppression of the artillery battalion on the city wall, it is impossible for the enemy to have no counterattack. The archers of the defenders of Liyin City began to fight back, and the massive loss of ballistas turned their main weapon into feather arrows.
I have to say that Yan Zeng is really a general.
Faced with such a tragic situation, the soldiers under his command were still able to organize a counterattack in the shortest possible time. Of course, the number of soldiers participating in the counterattack is really limited. Feather arrows flew down from the city wall and landed on the river, some auxiliary soldiers shouted and went down. His companion reached out and grabbed his ankle to keep him from being swept away by the current. The blood from the place where the arrow was shot kept flowing out, and a red line soon appeared in the river.
Each auxiliary soldier was tied with a rope, and the people on the shore saw someone hit by an arrow and immediately rescued them. Fang Jie has been instilling a concept in every Black Banner soldier for so many years, no matter whether it is a soldier or an auxiliary soldier... the battlefield up, try not to give up on any of your companions.
Even a corpse.
"Ask Andrew, can you increase the number of artillery!"
Seeing that the auxiliary soldiers had lost a lot, Xiahou Baichuan ordered the soldiers loudly. The soldiers hurried out and ran to the front to inquire, and then got a very positive answer... no!
Andrew's original words were: "My lord said that the use of artillery has not yet fully spread out. If the number of artillery in our team is exposed too early, it will definitely not be a good thing for the future battle situation. If the lord I may order to increase the number of artillery to suppress the defenders on the wall to counterattack, but as the person in command of the artillery battalion, I will never increase the artillery without authorization!"
Such an answer made Xia Hou Baichuan unable to refute, so he could only order the auxiliary soldiers to carry their shields up.
Finally, the first bridge was built to the other side of the river.
"Cross the river!"
With an order, the soldiers of the Black Banner Army carrying the ladders began to rush to the other side of the river. The soldiers who had experienced battles knew very well that the place where the enemy's feathered arrows were most lethal was when they ran after crossing the river. To the section below the city wall. At this time, he couldn't move forward in an organized way, couldn't form a shield formation, and the only thing he could rely on was his two legs, running as fast as he could. Really under the city wall, the enemy's archers will not be able to aim.
Teams of Black Banner Army soldiers carried ladders and rushed to the edge of the city wall. No one wanted to repeat what they did today the next day. Every repetition means that countless people will stay on this land forever.
puff
A soldier of the Black Banner Army was shot in the chest by an arrow. The armor-piercing cone tore through the leather armor and penetrated directly into his heart. He only had time to groan and then fell down. He fell to the ground and the ladder fell down. . The soldier behind shouted and ran forward quickly to take his place.
What is well-trained
The simplest manifestation is that the soldiers are extremely clear about what correct decisions to make on the battlefield.
The first bridge was built, and the second bridge was built... An hour later, there were at least a dozen bridges lying across the river. If you look down from the sky, those dozens of black lines are like ants. Like moving. Those were the soldiers of the Black Banner Army constantly rushing towards Liyin City. As the number reached a large scale, the proportion of losses decreased instead.
The subsequent shieldmen began to cover the feather arrows for other soldiers, and the artillery battalion also began to replace the shells. After cleaning up the ballista on the city wall, the soldiers of the artillery battalion replaced the penetrating shells they used before with flowering shells. This kind of shell shrapnel has a wider range of dispersion and is more lethal to people.
"Splash the flames, don't let the Black Banner Army get close to the city wall!"
Yan Zeng, who had a face full of dust, held the city wall with his hands and shouted loudly. The reserve team had already deployed ahead of time and began to pour kerosene under the city wall, and then threw the torches down. The flames rose instantly, and the temperature made the soldiers on the city wall dare not pop their heads out. Although this made the defenders uncomfortable, it effectively separated the soldiers of the Black Banner Army who were about to put the ladder on the city wall.
"Extinguishing!"
When the general of the auxiliary barracks saw the fire, he immediately directed other auxiliary soldiers to carry soil across the river and rush forward. Compared with soldiers, the danger of death faced by auxiliary soldiers is much smaller. After all, not every war requires auxiliary soldiers to work so hard. But once they rushed to the front line, they died far faster than soldiers. Because the leather armor on them is not as thick as the leather armor on soldiers.
"Let the arrows! Let the arrows!"
The archers commanding the generals on the city wall had already yelled out their throats. The hoarse voice was like a broken bellows. Every time it was pulled, the sound made was extremely uncomfortable.
The speed at which the living people turned into corpses was so fast that even the God of Death had no time to count them.
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"Put nails!"
With a hoarse cry, the still usable nail racket on the city wall was lowered heavily. Although most of the nail racks were destroyed in the bombing, the few remaining nail racks still posed a death threat to the soldiers of the Black Banner Army. The nail racks are all one-foot-long maces. After falling from the city wall, under the action of gravity, the maces can easily smash through the hardest human skull.
The nail racket was put down, and when it was pulled up again, there was even a dead body hanging on it.
Xiahou Baichuan frowned. The news from the Xiaoqi school said that Yan Zeng was a very capable general, and Gao Kaitai's team was not as common as other forces. You must know that when Gao Kaitai rebelled, he brought with him A pure Sui soldier!
Although Gao Kaitai has continuously recruited and expanded his army over the years, he has a large number of outstanding generals in the Great Sui Army. After several years of fighting and training, the recruits are also not weak in combat power!
To be honest, this is the team that the Black Banner Army has encountered that is truly comparable in combat power to the soldiers of the Black Banner Army. Only the army that has been ravaged by the infantry of the Sui Dynasty can really understand how powerful the infantry of the Sui Dynasty is. Eastern Chu, Southern Yan, including Meng Yuan. Of course, it also includes Nanchen and Beizheng, which had been wiped out by the Sui Dynasty.
You must know that when Da Sui Liguo pointed out that when the Northwest and the Mongolian Yuan wolf cavalry fought against each other, relying on the unparalleled formation changes and the flawless cooperation between the various arms, hundreds of thousands of Mongolian Yuan cavalry left behind. One hundred thousand corpses and the myth of their invincibility.
Some people have always suspected that the infantry led by Yang Jian faced two times as many wolf cavalry as himself, and the number of enemies he killed was two or three times that of himself. Such doubts will be reduced a lot. If I had seen the founding army of the Great Sui Dynasty who conquered Firefox City and Chang'an City from the south to the north again, I'm afraid no one would doubt it anymore.
At the beginning, no one thought that the Mongolian wolf cavalry would lose so tragically to the infantry in the field battle on the plains. The Sui Dynasty created such a myth!
Today, two true elites are fighting.
"Let the enemy feel hopeless..."
Xiahou Baichuan watched his team's attack blocked, and the large siege equipment couldn't go up for a while, and couldn't help thinking of Fang Jie's explanation before he left.
"Facing a truly elite army, the best way to defeat them is not to hit them physically, because they have learned to persevere and thus become tough. Only by making them despair and lose their fighting spirit will they be able to An elite army was defeated at the fastest speed. It was just like when Li Yuanshan led the Mongolian Yuan wolf riders into the pass on the northwest battlefield, he was desperate and let the 700,000 Sui elites disappear like ice melted and snow melted."
Fang Jie's words echoed in Xiahou Baichuan's mind.
"The reason why I tried my best to build the artillery battalion is naturally to make the future battles smoother, but the fundamental reason is to reduce the number of deaths of the soldiers of the Black Banner Army. The powerful weapons will make the soldiers die in battle Possibly even lower. And you have to remember that no expensive weapon is worth human life."
Suddenly thinking of this sentence, Xiahou Baichuan's eyes changed.
He urged his horse and rushed directly to the artillery battalion. Seeing that Andrew was commanding the artillery battalion to open fire, he jumped off his horse and strode to Andrew: "Andrew! I'm going to withdraw my attacking team now, but you The artillery can't stop!"
"Why!"
Andrew was taken aback, and then shouted loudly: "Your army is no longer attacking, how can I continue to waste artillery? General Xiahou, do you know how expensive this shell is?"
"I only know that shells are worth less than human lives!"
Xiahou Baichuan roared: "The Artillery Battalion must not stop, and the enemy's defense will collapse completely. I want to make the city wall not have a single complete brick to stand on, so that the enemy's soldiers will feel their legs go weak when they think of going to the city!"
Andrew was startled by Xiahou Baichuan's roar, and subconsciously took a step back.
He turned his head to look at the city wall, and then looked at Xiahou Baichuan's face: "Okay, but you must contact the brigade as soon as possible, the number of shells I brought is not enough to raze the city wall to the ground!"
"unnecessary."
Xiahou Baichuan suddenly noticed something, and pointed to the Liyin city wall with his finger: "Perhaps, our attack direction was a bit off from the beginning."
Andrew looked in the direction of Xiahou Baichuan's finger, was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "Yes, we should fire over there!"
Liyin City
It was built according to the mountain.
The connection between the city wall and the cliff wall is the weakest, and there are still many boulders protruding from the stone wall.
"I'll bring ten cannons over there, and blast a hole from there!"