The outskirts of Hefei, the city of Luzhou, were already surrounded by swords and guns on the inside and the outside.
Although only a part of it belonged to the Taiping Army's organizational system, but the mountains and plains were full of light and shining reflections of armor, which was enough to make most Luzhou officers and soldiers in the city tremble.
What is even more shocking and shocking is the proficiency and swiftness of camp construction and civil engineering displayed by these peaceful thieves; just overnight after arriving yesterday evening, they were already in the east, west and north outside the city. On three sides, a camp with numerous trenches, fences and horses, breast walls, and arrow towers and outposts lined up.
Moreover, under the watch and prying eyes of the defenders, they are connected with carts to form a basic camp outline and defense formation. Then, in order to arrange the arrays around these cars, the brightly lit and weaving lights all over the place without any concealment took turns to pick up the lights overnight; just like that, the busyness of the people has ceased until dawn.
It can be seen and discovered from the top of the city that they have a large number of sophisticated and convenient tools, as well as sufficient manpower and skills. It is more able to plan and use all the materials and conditions that can be obtained locally. As a result, among the whiteness of the fish in the sky, the first soil platform facing the south gate of the city has begun to take shape;
Under the first soil platform that quickly piled up and formed, there was already a blue-gray attack array formed by the assembly of the top helmet and the armor.
"Thank you, the leader, for giving someone this opportunity. I will definitely live up to my trust..."
The whole body was draped from head to toe, the inside and outside of the two-layered protective Zhouben, shaking the round-edged iron helmet on the black wing, thanked him.
"May you be successful..."
Zhou Huaian wished, but secretly sighed.
This really deserves to be a fierce man who was able to fight unarmed tigers when he was young. After putting on two iron scale armor and leather armor, inserting an iron whip and an octagonal hammer on his waist, and holding a wrought iron thick-backed sword in his hand, the face is still not flushed and breathless. If you are waiting for a while. This can't help but make people full of expectations for the next siege.
And Zhou Ben, who took the order, also sighed in his heart. After a few days, he was about to fold some acquaintances and swordsmen to meet. But even though he sighed with guilt and intolerance, he didn't feel much regret; even if he took the initiative to defect to this peaceful thief, he could just sit back and watch the success or failure.
But on the other hand, Zhou Ben desperately needs this opportunity to show his value in this new group and power; as long as he can show enough weight to be useful, he will be able to preserve the plea of the clans of the next week in the future. , Get more chips and bonuses.
Of course, on the other hand, he doesn't actually have much sense of belonging to the Luzhou Army. He was originally a native of Susong County in Shuzhou. When he was young, he was a little bit invisible. It was only when he watched "Zhou Chu Chuan Zhuan Zhuan" that he realized that he was determined to make a difference. However, at first he took the letter of recommendation, and the one who went to join the army was from the old Chizhou governor in the clan;
Until the Xinzhou War more than half a year ago, the Chizhou Army, which was preparing to rush to the Huainan marching army's main line, experienced civil strife inexplicably. The rebellion army killed Zhao Shi, the governor, and was taken over by the Luzhou army. And Zhou Ben, who was the first to catch his life and set the road to the south, had to attract hundreds of people to return it, and somehow became a subordinate of the Luzhou Army.
Although the defense of Luzhou made Yang Xingmin value his courage, and he has been more and more eager; but in fact, he served under the Luzhou army, only a few months, with the exception of Hezhou and Shuzhou as the first ascends. Outside of the battle for the door, there are not too many opportunities for meritorious deeds and performance.
The subsequent act of arresting the Zhou clan with all his strength, and the sudden imprisonment of him, was enough to make people renounced and finally a little bit of grace and righteousness dissipated. Therefore, in public and private, he has to believe in his own belonging to the new power, and he will think that he will be effective and express his attitude on the blog.
Thinking of this, he overturned the long-handled broadsword in his hand again; it was forged from South China Sea iron with a blue-gray texture. The front and rear counterweights were even and dense and compact, and the cutting edge was polished and polished without any distinction between the front and the back. difference. It's hard to imagine such a finely crafted good thing, this is just one of the standard weapons of the Taiping Thieves in batches.
He originally thought it was just a kind of boasting generality; but then the maintenance officers and craftsmen in the army easily showed him hundreds of new ordnance products that were almost exactly the same, instead of those. He was free to choose from various kinds of goods, new and old; then he discovered that the utensils used by ordinary soldiers for drinking, cooking, and storage were made of fine iron;
This time made him completely convinced, and he had a deeper understanding and experience of this Taiping thief, who was known as "the most sophisticated thieves" and "more like the official army than the official army". In other words, he felt that this army horse should no longer be called the Taiping Thief, but should be called the "Taiping Iron Army."
At least most officers and soldiers in the world are not yet luxurious and generous enough to allow soldiers to use and equip them with iron products of various names. And the fact that many vassal towns in the world are able to have a stable and sufficient source of sophisticated weapons and the output of iron equipment undoubtedly represents a certain foundation and strength of their own;
Just like in this city of Luzhou, there are hundreds of craftsmen and several iron workshops and furnace smelters to build and repair weapons. They are already a commendable capital; and it is said that the Taiping thief is based in Youling. In Wainanhai County, there are tens of thousands of people who specialize in mining, smelting and forging. This is simply unimaginable.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but become more awed and admired by the Zhou clan who had risen to the thieves in a white body, and who had possessed the current situation for several years.
Following the sound of the horn, Zhou Ben could not help but instinctively raised his sword and was about to pull his leg; but found that Zakon was motionless and the old god's comfortable array was still there; then a lieutenant who stood close raised a point in a low voice. Road:
"This new brother is not in a hurry, let the appearance team and the shooting team warm up first..."
Following this comment, heavy clanging sounds from the rear also reverberated; and many burning flints with billowing smoke were shot out, hitting the crevices and walls of the city head in different heights, smoky. Between the cracks with the earth and rocks, the guards at the head of the city suddenly aroused the howls of ghosts and wolves.
Then, it was the arrows shot from the Mizazaza on the earth platform, which hit the city head like a pouring rain in summer, and the suppressed defenders neither dared to raise their heads nor explore. Come back and fight back together.
At this time, the whistle of the promotion army rang; but the first one to move was the earth-covering team that filed past them from the two wings, holding big cards and pushing the block.
Between them, a group of several people carrying tools, together pushing a trolley full of soil bags and wet mud and dry firewood; like ants moving a mountain, they quickly fill in and clear out in the forward direction. The film came across the moat and went straight to the temporary smooth road under the city wall.
Then, the second time the whistle for urging the facilitator also sounded; the jumpers in the first ascending sequence still did not move; nor did they see the ladder and other siege equipment. Instead, some carts with heavy wheels and covered with wet felt and mud in front were slowly pushed forward to take over the positions of the retreating earth-covering teams.
A sharper whistle resounded through the sky again. This time, Zhou Ben’s forefront jumping team finally moved; they followed the rhythm of the vaguely sounded trumpets and drums, and slowly stepped forward under the arrows sporadically projected from the city head; and then again. In the slowly rushing beat, a trot that is still slightly neat is made up.
And Zhou Ben, who was in it, also became excited, because in the direction he wanted to hit, there was a city wall whose color was obviously different from other places. Some of the vehicles large and small that have reached the root of the wall have also been smashed and burned;
But some other vehicles were gathered together, and with the big cards and baffles removed, while resisting the throwing and falling objects from the top of the city, while vigorously waving various equipment, they were digging.
The fighting here seems to have become extremely tragic; from time to time, defenders who fought hard on the city’s head but were shot and wounded fell down; there were also ash, boiling water, stone throwing, and wood that could not be hidden from the city. The rebel soldiers who were hit and wounded were dragged away or pushed aside.
However, just in the front line of them, there were only a few dozen steps away from the city wall; Zhou Ben still did not see any equipment that could be used to climb and step up to the city.
Was it because he was forgotten when he was in battle? He had some unbelievable thoughts, but his hands and feet kept passing over the shallow shallow city of soil bags, firewood and baffles without stopping; then he wanted to pick up a hand of cards immediately, So that I can hold on for longer under the wall.
You know, when he was ordered to fight Hezhou. After the sneak attack failed to turn into a strong attack; just the back and forth competition at the half-open city gate was the jumper who was killed and injured by him. It took him several times to change the situation and gradually reversed the situation.
Suddenly facing the rebel soldiers who were digging the wall, they gave up the temporary shelter made up of carts and shields, and turned back towards them; Zhou Ben’s increased doubts, but struggling to swing his sword, wanting to give them a move. Go back.
Then the words that he hadn't spoken were interrupted by the muffled noises in front of him, as well as the ash and dust blooming under the wall. Suddenly the oncoming dust filled his mouth and nose; the splashing sand made his face hurt even more.
But Zhou Ben could not take care of this hindrance; because in his stunned expression, at a speed visible to the naked eye on the opposite city wall, several cracks like crazy tree branches grew rapidly from bottom to top; The vines grew between the crevices on the upper part of the city wall, and then turned into large fragments that broke and fell one after another.
Then, several similar cracks joined together in unison; in the end, it turned into most of the city wall that collapsed from top to bottom. At this moment, Zhou Ben's dumbfounded eyes almost cracked. The Taiping thief still has this unpredictable method of breaking the city
Originally thought that it would take a tragic battle to achieve the initial result, is it so simple and easy to achieve
He couldn't help being filled with a certain shock and unhurried pleasure, and without looking back, he rushed up the slope where the city wall collapsed and piled up, and slammed into the defenders who hurriedly lifted the fence and came to intercept them. The knife slammed. (End of this chapter)