822 Entering Basra 3
After the fire at the bridgehead fortress diminished, a group of 100 shield soldiers began to cross the bridge. A hundred musketeers crossed the bridge with them. When they just reached the bridgehead, the distant city wall threw them at them. Dozens of stones weighing several kilograms.
Fortunately, they kept staring at the far wall, and when they saw something coming, they immediately shouted to prop up the shield. Even so, some people’s legs were injured by the stones ejected from the shield. Now, the stones thrown by the big cannibals at the city wall are not round after round, but random shooting. Shield soldiers and musketeers hide behind the huge shield and dare not move. The stones keep banging. Rattle.
Seeing this, Wang Yanzhang really squeezed a sweat. Fortunately, Li You did not allow a large number of troops to attack, otherwise the loss would be great. Regardless of the shields carried by the shield soldiers are steel shields with supports, but this is a bridge head, not a soft ground. If you want to keep the shield from moving, you have to keep the sergeant behind. This is a very laborious piece. Once he was exhausted, his life was probably gone. Fortunately, there were musketeers following, not alone.
"Dong Kui, drag the rifled gun over and fire it at the upper part of the city wall to give the shield soldiers some time."
As the shells exploded on the upper part of the city wall, the offensive on the city wall was reduced a lot. At this time, the shield soldiers hurriedly led the musketeers against the shield and went to the fortress on one side. Must be buried by rocks.
The fortress was burned by fierce fire oil, and the people inside basically escaped. It was indeed because of the smoke. Now the fire was much smaller, and when they were planning to move in, the musketeers and shield soldiers also came to them.
The fortress is located not far from the left bank of the bridge, facing the west city in a semi-arc shape. To be precise, it should be the southwest corner. The fortress and the rear city wall are connected. Just now the fire broke out, and the people guarding the fortress retreated. According to their understanding, they could enter again after the fire became weaker.
But as soon as the musketeers got under the fortress, they used crossbow guns to shoot the chain claws above the fortress. They climbed up on the thin iron chain. As soon as they came up, they began to defend with bows and arrows until more and more people were behind. After that, he started using the musket and started sniping. Since this place is slightly higher than the city wall, the effect of sniper killing is particularly obvious. The wall stacks here can just prevent the attack of the stone thrown at the city wall. It can be said that once this is taken down, the defense of the city wall is almost useless. New Bayi Chinese website debut
Seeing that most of the musketeers were up to the fortress, Wang Yanzhang called another two hundred people to support and asked them to drag two bronze cannons over. Because of the light weight of the bronze gun, even with the base gun carriage, the weight is not less than a hundred jin, but it can be pulled up to the fortress with an iron chain.
The food army itself wanted to regain the fortress with all its strength. When they were approaching step by step with a thick wooden shield, the copper cannon repelled them. The muskets and bows could not penetrate the thick wooden shield, but the artillery could. After a shot, the shield must be shattered or released. There is no other possibility. It is impossible to support the shield by relying on manpower.
In this way, after a period of repeated struggles, the fortress was firmly controlled in the hands of the Musketeers, and then it was simple, where the defenders of more than a thousand people could still stay, and they were taken away in less than half an hour. All defeated and gave up the defense.
It was not until this time that Wang Yanzhang ordered a large number of troops to start attacking the city. After the fort cannon blasted the city gates open, it was only a matter of time before the city of Basra changed hands.
Due to the special environment and geography here, the offensive seems to be particularly slow, and the progress is not fast. Although it is not what Li You wanted, the battle is like this. It's not something you can get up as quickly as you want. He also knew very well that this place was different from the past, and he needed to take his time.
Li You had 30,000 troops stationed on the outskirts of Basra and besieged on all sides. It was already very difficult to escape from here. At noon the next day, the battle in the city was still going on. Anyway, it was slowly pulling out one by one. If the situation is good, the Basra can be taken down tomorrow.
In the temporary camp, when Wang Yanzhang first arrived at Li You’s military tent, a scout ran over, half kneeling and saluting: "Your Majesty, a large number of food cavalry have been found 30 miles northwest of the city. Due to the large number of the enemy, I scout The battalion has been withdrawn."
"How many people can you tell the team leader?"
"My Majesty, there should be no less than 10,000 people."
Regarding this number, Li You still feels a little unbelievable, but when he thinks about it, he can figure it out. The food army has to defend the western front, send troops to counter the rebellion, and attack Huoxun. I'm afraid there are not many cavalry.
Afterwards, Li You said to the scout: "I see, you can go down."
After the scouts left, Wang Yanzhang bowed his hands and asked for a battle: "Lord, the ministers are willing to petition and attack, the first battle is the cavalry."
"You'd better stare at the siege, it's almost the same. I don't want any accidents. Against the cavalry, I just let Dong Kui take someone there."
This 10,000 cavalry is from Kufa. This is the trump card army in the hands of Governor Akadura of Kufa Zhili. He would not easily use this cavalry if he had not heard that someone had landed and attacked Basra from the sea. Now the elite of the empire The loss was serious, and there was still a little elite cavalry, except for the 20,000 cavalry in command of Qiyad Ibn, this cavalry in his hand. There are other cavalry, but the combat power is much worse.
The general of this cavalry is Badista, he is also a good warrior, otherwise he would not be the leader of this cavalry. But when he encountered the three thousand people led by Dong Kui, he had nothing but disdain and ridicule. He lost his due judgment and good military quality.
Because he found out that the opponent was all dwarfs, there were only about 3,000 men, no cavalry, and all infantry. It doesn’t matter if it’s all infantry. There is no shield and pikemen at all. Even the armor on the body is rarely worn. It doesn’t look like a regular army at all. Such an army still wants to fight against cavalry. This is no different. So I was looking for death.
Dong Kui brought two hundred and fifty field bronze cannons out this time. The gunner who carried the cannon was from the Tang Dynasty, but it was the natives who assisted in firing the cannon. The remaining two thousand people were all soldiers from the country of Japan brought by Jing Chengzhen. , They assist Dong Kui as archers. Because the indigenous people and the Japanese people are not tall, they are much shorter than the Tang people, and the big cavalry led by Badista is itself a strong man out of a hundred, each one is tall and big, naturally in their eyes, each other It's really a bunch of little dwarfs.
Why did Li You let Jing Chengzhen bring two thousand Japanese soldiers into the battle? The reason is actually simple. He wanted them to practice more. The two hundred guns Dong Kui brought were enough to withstand the tens of thousands of cavalry. So Whether these Japanese soldiers are warriors is not important at all. (End of this chapter)