Chapter three hundred and ninety fourth unreasonable
Liu Mingzhi was eating cooked meals in the newly built handsome tent, while observing the landforms of Chongzhou on the sand table, so that if any changes occurred, he could take emergency precautions based on the surrounding terrain in time.
Young Master Liu put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hands and just picked up the flag and placed it on the sand table. Jiang Lei walked into the tent with a piece of cake in his hand.
"Commander, the general has already chosen a suitable terrain to set up an artillery position according to the instructions. As long as the commander gives the order, he can bombard Chongzhou City at any time!"
Liu Mingzhi waved to Jiang Lei without raising his head: "Have all the gunner brothers filled their stomachs?"
"Don't worry, Commander, they are the first batch of soldiers to fill their bellies."
"That's good, we must not let our brothers fight on an empty stomach. Come here, I will tell you a few things that you need to pay attention to. You must remember them and pass them on to the gunner brothers!"
Jiang Lei was slightly stunned and hurriedly walked to the sand table and stopped: "Yes, Commander, please give me your orders!"
Immediately, Song Qing, Cheng Kai, Gu Mo Rongrong and others also hurriedly put down their food and came to the sand table.
Liu Mingzhi took Cheng Kai's shoulders and walked to his seat and stopped: "You see, the situation around Chongzhou City is somewhat higher in the east and lower in the west. Although you can't tell it from looking at the city, according to the records of the Ministry of Industry, the situation in Chongzhou is
That’s it.”
"The situation inside Chongzhou City is exactly the opposite of the surrounding environment. The people in the west are rich but the population is small. The people in the east city are large but poor."
"So, you must not forget this situation when setting up cannon at the east city gate. The extension of the artillery fire must be controlled well. It must not extend too far and accidentally injure our own people in the city!"
"There is also a possibility that the enemy forces in the city have requisitioned the nearby residential buildings under the city wall into military camps, and rushed the people in the city to a certain place to gather, so that the soldiers and horses in the city can board the city wall in time to defend!"
"But we don't dare to bet, what if our own people live under the city wall!"
"I will send spies in time to find out the situation in the city. First, attack the city according to the method I just decided. After the test firing, the cannonballs must not extend beyond the city wall to avoid accidentally injuring our own people!"
Cheng Kai leaned over the sand table and observed carefully. He remembered what Liu Mingzhi just said word for word. He was an artillery general, so he naturally understood how much pressure he was under and how heavy his burden was.
After remembering the situation about Chongzhou clearly on the sand table, Cheng Kai stood up and nodded solemnly to Liu Mingzhi.
"Don't worry, Commander. After the cannon test, we will always monitor the problem of the cannonballs landing on the city wall, and we will definitely not let the cannonballs exceed the range of hitting the enemy!"
Liu Mingzhi nodded silently: "Just remember it, and don't put too much pressure on it. Secondly, the artillery fire must be deployed at a sufficient distance!"
"The first is to prevent the artillery from exploding and accidentally injuring the surrounding brothers. The second is to obtain information and the Jin Kingdom has shipped a batch of new artillery. The specific number is not yet clear. The artillery is temporarily placed in that city.
Not sure."
"All our artillery positions must not be too dense to prevent being bombarded by the Jin State's artillery!"
Jiang Lei frowned: "General, I understand, I will immediately rearrange the artillery positions!"
"Go and do your work first. After the layout is completed, notify me. After confirming that it is correct, you can bombard Chongzhou at any time!"
"With the order, I will retire at the end of the day!"
After Jiang Lei left in a hurry, Liu Mingzhi once again picked up a few flags and placed them on Shao Pan.
"Rongrong, listen to the order!"
Aunt Mo Rongrong, who was picking up rice balls and sneaking them into her lips from time to time, hurriedly swallowed the food in her mouth and walked to Young Master Liu's side.
"The general will obey his orders!"
"Instruct the 50,000 cavalrymen under your command who are surrounding Chongzhou City to pay close attention to the situation at the city gate. Once the enemy troops in the city cannot withstand the bombardment of artillery fire and want to leave the city to fight, it will be the time for your 50,000 cavalrymen to show off their skills!"
"The last general will receive the order. The last general will immediately go to deliver the order. The last general will retire!"
"Cheng Kai, Zhou Baoyu, listen to the order!"
"The end is here!"
"Once the rebels in the city leave the city to fight, while General Gumo's 50,000 cavalry are fighting with them, you quickly lead your troops to break into the city and capture Chongzhou City and the Gumo brothers outside the city.
enemy!"
"The last general has taken the order! The last general has resigned!"
"Deputy Commander Song!"
"The end is here!"
"Send another 60 scouts to investigate in all directions and pay close attention to the situation in the remaining cities. If any traces of reinforcements are found, report them in time!"
"The general will get the order!"
Liu Mingzhi lowered his head and pondered for a while, then found that there was nothing he needed to add, so he sat down on the chair, picked up the food and started to devour it.
The surrounding generals who had not received the mission also calmed down when they saw this, and silently ate their own food to replenish their energy!
Chongzhou was considered a larger city among the fifteen cities occupied by the two countries' allied forces, and Chongzhou faced Yingzhou City directly. Therefore, after discussion, Hu Yanjunyao, Wanyan Chizha, and Yeleha specially stationed ten Jin Kingdom troops in Chongzhou City.
Among the two guards, the Fei Xiong Guard, a cavalry force from the Kingdom of Jin, totaled 100,000 troops to defend Chongzhou City!
At this time, Dalong's soldiers and horses were arranging their troops outside Chongzhou City, and there was an intensive defense on the city wall.
The sleeping commander of the Turks, Wo Chitai, looked at Bai Shanguan, the general of the Jin Kingdom Fei Xiongwei who was giving orders.
The Turks were really not very proficient in defending the city. All the actions that Bai Shanguan ordered the soldiers to defend on the city wall seemed so unpredictable to Wochitai.
The Turkic cavalry is famous all over the world for its field battles, but it can be said that they know nothing about defending the city. I remembered the words that the Khan had told me before leaving: talk less, read more, ask more, and don't pretend to understand.
Wo Chitai silently looked at the positions of Bai Shanguan's troops, keeping these places firmly in mind. As for why they were arranged in this way, he would wait for Dalong's enemy troops to attack the city later and observe how these troops defended the city.
You can understand it.
After a long time, Bai Shanguan arranged an iron barrel on the wall of Chongzhou City. Even Young Master Liu, Zhang Kuang and the others had to admit that the soldiers and horses arranged by Bai Shanguan were capable of both offense and defense.
The use of soldiers and horses on the city wall was brought to the extreme.
The Twelve Guards of the Kingdom of Jin are as famous as the Six Guards of the Northern Territory of Dalong. As one of the generals of the Twelve Guards, Bai Shanguan naturally has good abilities, otherwise Wanyan Chizha would not have given the task of defending Chongzhou to him.
he.
Bai Shanguan glanced at the Dalong soldiers and horses who had not stopped arranging their formation, and with a serious look on his face, holding the command flag, he glanced at Wo Kuotai beside him.
"General Wokuotai, do you still have different opinions on how my defense is arranged? If you have better opinions, you can put them forward and let us brainstorm ideas. After all, we have received the same order, which is to defend Chongzhou City!"
"The general will definitely consider your ideas carefully. We are friends now. The general trusts his friends unconditionally."
Listening to the fluent Turkic dialect spoken by Bai Shanguan, Wo Kuotai shook his head silently. He didn't know how to defend things inside the city wall, so he had to laugh and answer Bai Shanguan.
"Brother Baishan is worthy of being one of the great generals of the Twelve Guards of the Kingdom of Jin. You can't find any faults with the defensive general you deployed. Just use this method to defend the city and resist the attack of the dragon enemy!"
Bai Shanguan did not expect that Wo Kuotai would be so easy to deal with. He immediately breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Wo Kuotai with a faint smile on his face.
"Since General Wo Kuotai has no objection, I am relieved. The dragon troops are coming so fiercely that they don't even need to call the formation and directly start arranging their troops to attack the city. It seems that they are very eager to take back Chongzhou.
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Wo Kuotai caressed the wild goose feathers on his headdress and observed the actions outside the city.
"Didn't Dalong call himself a million-strong army after joining forces? Why did only these 100,000 soldiers and horses come when they went south to seize the city? According to my observation, the number of soldiers and horses outside the city will not exceed 150,000 at most!"
"It would be too disrespectful to use 150,000 people to recapture the city where my 100,000 elite troops are stationed. Could it be that we have divided our forces? But we shouldn't divide our troops so little!"
Bai Shanguan's face became even more solemn after hearing Wo Kuotai's words.
"I didn't expect that General Wo Kuotai also saw this. I guess they divided their forces and went south to seize the city. After all, a city as big as the Six Great Dragon Gates can't even contain our 800,000 soldiers and horses, and Chongzhou can't even be spread out.
Let’s open up the Baron’s million-strong army!”
"It is inevitable to divide the troops, otherwise no matter how many troops and horses are not used, it will be a waste!"
"As you just said, the division of troops should not only be divided into about 100,000 troops!"
"None of Dalong's generals are simple characters, and they never fight uncertain battles!"
"The general is now very worried about whether there is any fraud!"
As soon as Bai Shanguan finished speaking, outside the quiet Chongzhou City, the deafening sound of cannons was heard without the sound of war drums or horns!
Not only the northern city wall, but also all the city walls in Chongzhou heard the roaring sound of cannons, and the flaming shells bombarded Chongzhou City directly.
The two coalition forces on the city wall subconsciously huddled behind the battlements. This was the first time even the two coalition forces had seen this type of fighting.
Attack the city when you say it's siege, and fire artillery when you say it's time to attack, without any warning at all.
Wokuotai glanced from the battlements toward the outside of the city.
"What a despicable Southerner. He started attacking the city in such an unruly manner."
Bai Shanguan did not expect that Wokuotai would dare to peek out to see what was going on outside the city, so he pulled him behind the battlements and shrank him up.
"Be careful of the dragon's cannon!"
"The leader outside the city is most likely Liu Mingzhi. Only he can use troops so unreasonably!"
"boom!"
"boom!"
"..."
The sound of cannons on the city wall was intensive in an instant, and the smoke billowed up, directly bombarding the soldiers and horses on the city wall and dizzy!