The Yan army really started to risk their lives. Seeing that the artillery bombardment of the city did not achieve obvious results, Zhu Gaoxu sent a team of 10,000 people around to the west of the city to open up a second battlefield. Originally, he wanted to invite "friendly forces" to cooperate with him to fight together.
Besieged Beiping City from all sides and defeated it in one fell swoop.
However, the Tatar army had just suffered a defeat and their morale was greatly reduced. Thousands of corpses were placed under the city, and they had no cataracts, so they refused to fight. Of course, they were just inactive in fighting. If the Yan army really broke through the city,
They must have rushed into the city and looted it.
The siege equipment had been destroyed and had not been repaired, and the "friendly troops" refused to fight. In this case, some rational people would not make trouble anymore. However, Zhu Gaoxu had been blinded by hatred and rationally, and ignored the dissuasion of his subordinates.
He resolutely sent out a team of ten thousand people and gave the leader Chen Heng a fatal order: Even if he digs it with his hands, he must tear the city apart.
Under the guidance of the idea of digging into the city, Chen Heng asked the archers to shoot arrows to cover, and then hundreds of "engineers" pushed ten large rush vehicles into battle, attached to the city walls and gates, and began to compete with the city walls and gates. But this time,
They no longer used big wooden piles to hit, but used axes to chop, and used big iron picks to chisel, and carried out violent demolition.
Seeing this, the defenders on the city were naturally unwilling to be demolished. They carried forward the spirit of resistance of the "nail households", shooting arrows and throwing stones. However, the "demolition team" carried forward the turtle shell spirit and had a large impact on their heads.
The chariot was blocking them like a shield, and neither arrows nor stones could hurt them.
The enemy was determined to tear down the walls, and soon dug several holes nearly one meter deep. If this continued, even the thickest city wall would be dug through. The defenders on the top of the city were so anxious that they could not do anything.
It was easy to expect Wan Lei to come to supervise the battle, so he came to ask for instructions on how to defend the enemy.
Looking at these ten large "tortoises" under the city, Wan Lei also had a headache, because these "turtles" have been upgraded and improved, and the tops are no longer covered with cowhide, but with iron sheets. This kind of iron sheets not only has great physical defense
They are reinforced and can prevent fire. Even if you pour kerosene on them, it probably won't start a fire.
He couldn't hit it, hit it but it couldn't be flattened, burned it but couldn't kill it, and left it alone. Wan Lei frowned, and suddenly an idea flashed, and he said to his subordinates: "Go get water and pour it with water."
"Water?" the guard asked back, and immediately understood: Although the iron turtles under the city are fire-proof and bullet-proof, they are not yet waterproof. It rains heavily above, and it must rain lightly below. If it is summer, there will be no drizzle.
What the heck, it’s cooler when you’re exposed to the rain.
However, it is the middle of winter now, and the north wind is blowing...
As soon as the defenders heard about the water attack, they became more energetic and took the initiative. They immediately requisitioned hundreds of wooden barrels from nearby and then formed a long queue to transport water to the city. Soon, the "cool" well water was available.
They were continuously transported to the top of the city. The garrison cats on the city were behind the female wall and kept pouring water down.
The enemy troops below the city were busy demolishing the wall when they suddenly heard the sound of rushing water. They quickly looked up and saw that it was the people on the city who had started artificial rainfall. They didn't care much because they had super guns above their heads.
With the turtle shell blocking them, the light rain couldn't do anything to them.
But soon, they discovered that something was wrong. The "rainwater" fell on the city wall and the ground, splashing everywhere, and penetrated everywhere. Even if they were hiding in the "turtle shell", they could not prevent it. After a while, their legs and feet were wet.
The armor was wet, and even the sleeves were wet. At this time, it was getting late and the evening breeze was blowing, and many people began to shiver uncontrollably.
Not to mention, the "Navy Troopers" on the top of the city are getting worse and worse. At first it was water, then urine with added ingredients, and finally urine was poured down directly, and there were also people who threw feces.
The turtle shell turned into a cesspit. Those Yan Army soldiers could not bear the insult of having excrement thrown at them, so they rushed out of the turtle shell and yelled at the city defenders for being shameless. However, the defenders on the city did not bother to talk nonsense to them and just used excrement to urinate on them.
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They had been frozen to death, and now they had feces and urine poured on their heads. The morale of the "engineers" under the city was greatly reduced, and they all escaped from their turtle shells to avoid being piled to death by feces and urine. Chen, who was in charge of supervising the battle,
No matter how hard Heng tried to coerce or induce them, they just refused to enter the demolition site again.
The enemy troops who demolished the wall were repulsed by a massive offensive. However, before the defenders had time to celebrate, they heard a centurion say anxiously: "No, there are still many enemy troops digging at the city gate."
Only then did everyone remember that there were demolition teams under the two city gates, and the feces and urine offensive had no effect on these two demolition teams, because the city gates had door openings several meters deep, and they hid in the door openings to dig out the doors, no matter if it was wind or rain.
, the impact on them is not big, so they are digging out the city desperately, and the city gate door panels have been cut open by them long ago, and now they have dug out the newly built brick wall.
What to do? The sergeants focused their attention on Wan Lei again, hoping that Mr. Wan would come up with another clever plan to settle the matter. In their opinion, Mr. Wan always had a way.
Wan Lei naturally had an idea. He looked at the doorway, which was five to six meters high and nearly four to five meters deep. He touched his chin, then licked his fingers and stood in front of his eyes, looked at them, and then said: "Go, get some fodder."
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The so-called fodder is hay used to feed horses. There are tens of thousands of horses in the city, so there is naturally a lot of fodder in stock. Wan Lei gave the order, and dozens of sergeants ran to the nearest warehouse without saying a word, and each of them brought a large amount of fodder.
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Wan Lei was not in a hurry. He first asked people to add water to the bundles of fodder. After they were soaked, he poured some oil on them. Then he threw them all outside the city gate, piled them up in a big pile, and filled the exit of the city gate directly.
Then he asked the soldiers who had been punished to prepare wet cloths, and then they had more than a dozen torches thrown on the haystack.
I just heard a whirring sound, and the wet grass pile was stained with oil. It ignited at a moment, and the flames jumped up. However, the grass was wet with water and could not burn completely. Thick smoke suddenly started.
When the northwest wind blows, it pours directly into the city gate.
At this time, the "demolition team" who imitated mice digging holes in the city gate cave was miserable. Not only were they unable to open their eyes due to the thick smoke, it also caused bouts of violent coughing, and even breathing became very difficult.
It was difficult and vividly demonstrated how a mouse was smoked to death.
No one could withstand the smoky fire. Many people rushed out of the door desperately just to breathe a breath of fresh air. But the defenders on the city were well prepared. They covered their noses with wet cloths and washed their eyes. They had no fighting strength at all.
Without being damaged, if he saw the enemy soldiers running out like lost dogs, he would naturally not miss the opportunity to beat the dogs and use random arrows to shoot those people into hedgehogs.
In less than half an hour, all ten demolition teams were repulsed. Not only were the siege vehicles destroyed, but nearly a hundred soldiers were lost. Chen Heng, who was supervising the battle, was so angry that he ordered the musketeers to attack the top of the city.
Fire a gun in retaliation.
Although the first battle was unfavorable, Chen Heng did not retreat because Zhu Gaoxu gave him a fatal order not to withdraw his troops until the city was breached. Seeing that the wind in the west of the city was not conducive to digging out the door, he led his team around to the south of the city and continued to open up a new battlefield. At this time,
At the same time, Zhu Gaoxu sent General Xu Zhong with an army of 10,000 people to move to the east of the city and attack the city overnight.
The shelling in the north of the city continued, and there were people in the east and south of the city who burned lights to fight at night. This night must have been a sleepless night, and the real fierce battle began.
This time, the "forced demolition team" learned the lesson and no longer sent people to dig out the walls. Instead, they focused on getting into the city gate holes to dig out the city gates. There were five city gates in the east and south of the city, and the enemy kept firing arrows at the top of the city.
Fire your guns and focus on covering these five wall-digging teams.
Since the east and south of the city were downwind, the smoke tactics were ineffective. The defenders watched helplessly as the newly built city gate was dismantled bit by bit, and once again they were at their wits' end. Wan Lei knew that sooner or later the city gate would be broken through.
Yes, he immediately sent someone to find Zhou Tianshou and asked him to find a way to keep the enemy out of the city gate.
"Sir, my subordinates think that the only solution now is to set up a wooden fence at the entrance of the city gate to prevent the enemy's cavalry from charging into the city, and then desperately drive the enemy out of the city." Zhou Tianshou lived up to Wan Lei's expectations and immediately made the decision.
A plan, although this plan is not 100% sure, but now that the city is about to be destroyed, we have to give it a try anyway.
No, Wan Lei found the five most loyal and brave captains, and asked them to each choose 2,000 brave men to form a vanguard death squad, and lined them up at the entrance of the city gate. He only gave them one order: Even if they kill all the people, they will still be killed.
Never let the enemy enter the city!
In addition, each of the five vanguard suicide squads has a backup team of 4,000 people behind them. If the vanguard team is exhausted, the backup team will come forward. If the vanguard team retreats timidly, then the rear team will kill the front team. In short, they will have to die.
The enemy blocked the city gate.
"Everyone, what is our duty as soldiers?" Wan Lei stood in front of the city gate, conducting pre-war mobilization as usual.
"Defend the home and the country!" These people are all new troops he personally recruited. They have been "brainwashed" and their loyalty is no problem.
"Yes, protect our country! However, this slogan is easy to shout but difficult to practice, because our enemies are too fierce. They want to break through our city and massacre our relatives and friends. Do you think we can retreat?
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"Fight to the death and not retreat. If the city is alive and the people are alive, the city will perish and the people will perish!" Thousands of people raised their arms and shouted, their faces red and their necks thick, as if they had eaten gunpowder.
Of course, Wan Lei will not do things that make people work for free without getting any benefits. After finishing the empty work, he will do something practical next. He promised that as long as the enemy is defeated, he will be rewarded with a head reward, one for each head.
Twelve taels were divided equally among all the soldiers fighting.
When they heard that there was a reward, these leading soldiers were even more excited, and they all expressed their willingness to risk their lives, and they also used the enemy as a backstop.
Wan Lei has made all the preparations he can, and all he can do below is do his best to obey fate. But at this time, there was a knocking sound of "pah pah pah" at the city gate, and countless dust on the brick wall was shaken to the ground.
, a hand-to-hand battle is about to begin.
ps: As usual, there are three updates. This is the first update. I beg you to collect flowers and various tickets.