The morning after the light rain is very fresh, with half-dried water stains remaining on the road, and the air is filled with the coolness of late spring. In Zuixian Tower, you can hear the chirping of birds in the treetops outside.
After the sound, they were frightened and flew away, but the war only subsided for a few days, and they came back bravely. Just like Zhu Yong's troops, news came early in the morning that the officers and soldiers were leaving the camp and coming west. They again
came back.
Peach Blossom Fairy only came to Zhang Ning in the morning and watched silently as he dressed and tidied up quickly but rigorously. His fingers were long and powerful, his movements were steady but very flexible and accurate, and the gold buckle on his belt made a soft "click" sound.
It was tied in the exact position, and the sound sounded very comfortable, like simple music. Fairy Peach Blossom was a little distracted. She thought that if someone like Zhang Ning trained as an assassin, he would definitely do a good job. Of course, being an assassin is not as good as
Reading has a bright future.
She wanted to apologize for what happened last night, but she thought that since she was willing to see him again, she didn't need to say anything more.
The Peach Blossom Fairy is very conflicted in her heart. Zhang Ning has always left a good impression on him. He is personable and elegant. The sentence "The Peach Blossom Fairy plants peach trees and picks peach blossoms for wine money" is such a free and easy state, and "I only envy mandarin ducks but not the mandarin ducks."
"Fairy", his gentleness and affection make people addicted to it. The Peach Blossom Fairy recalled that dark night in the Miao Army camp, when his hand grabbed her wrist, and the difficulty when letting go, what else is it if it's not affection?
She has always fantasized about having a wonderful man who treats her sincerely. Even if such a good thing is rare in the world, a little dream always makes people happy.
But last night, a person who was extremely elegant in her heart asked for such dirty things, which made her feel a little confused. She even wondered whether it was a dream last night and it was not real. Because Zhang Ning was in front of her.
She returned to her usual gentleness and calmness, exuding a wonderful aura that made her whole body feel weak.
"Has breakfast been served?" Zhang Ning glanced at the Peach Blossom Fairy and said, he didn't seem to care about the unpleasantness that happened last night, and his attitude towards her has not changed. The Peach Blossom Fairy thought that a man would be very angry if he was rejected.
It was reported that the enemy troops had marched towards Gaodu. Is he still in the mood to have breakfast?
Not only was Zhang Ning in the mood to have breakfast, he also brushed his teeth with a toothbrush first. The army's camp was five miles away, and the march required a process. It was impossible to detect their departure just now, and the troops would soon be approaching the city. Zhang Ning's situation was very serious.
Well, there was a light rain last night and the cool temperature allowed him to get enough sleep. Although he could not taste the happiness of being warm and soft in his arms, he was generally in good condition from the inside out. He was already full of confidence and ready to face Zhu.
A brave challenge.
At the top of the west city of Gaodu, Zhang Ning still held his sword and sat on the chair arranged for him. He put the sword on the ground, spread his legs and sat there in a grand posture. Groups of uniformly-armed soldiers opened their doors.
He pulled out the city gate and formed an array outside the city. This scene made him inexplicably excited.
Slowly, the army's troops came into sight. Their position was further away than last time and outside the range of the artillery. After suffering a loss once, they would not make the same mistake again.
It seems that Zhu Yong's combat deployment today seems to have changed a bit. He deployed the cavalry on the front and did not hide it. The infantry column is moving north.
"In this posture, Zhu Yong has fewer troops today than last time, and he wants to besiege us?" Zhou Mengxiong murmured while looking at us.
Lao Xu said: "If the enemy soldiers attack the city directly without attacking the soldiers outside the city, we only need to withdraw the soldiers behind the city to the city and stick to it, and their cavalry will have no use; the officers and soldiers will not be able to win in a field battle.
, how to talk about capturing the city?"
"Maybe Zhu Yong didn't want to storm the city, but just wanted to force us into the city." Zhou Mengxiong pointed to the cavalry in the distance in front, "The cavalry may be placed there to threaten our infantry from attacking the siege."
After listening to the two people's discussion, Zhang Ning said: "General Zhou's words make sense."
Only armies that are really unable to fight back will hide in the city and defend it. Zhang Ning is not optimistic about such a battle. No matter how strong a city is, if it does not have the ability to attack, its effect will be minimal; just like in the field battle before
Although the defeated Yongding Guards could not be breached in the guard city, they could not stop Zhang Ning from mobilizing a large number of men, horses and craftsmen from the west.
What's more, what's the point of defending Gaodu City? Zhang Ning has only one purpose: to defeat Zhu Yong's main force.
A set of ideas quickly formed in Zhang Ning's mind. He redeployed his troops and ordered the four gates to be closed tightly. The main force was still deployed under the city, but in a four-circle formation. Wei Bin, who was outside the city, received the order:
, once the North City and East City were attacked, they led their troops to attack the siege troops. The so-called four-circle formations are actually just that. The four-circle formations are mainly composed of spearmen and firearms soldiers, with more than 200 people in each formation;
In contrast, the thin long square formation last time was easily torn or even defeated by the cavalry when moving. The four-circle formation was unable to prevent the fast cavalry from approaching close combat. Even if one of the formations was defeated, it would still not be able to stop them.
It affects the organization of the entire army. Last time, Wei Bin suddenly discovered that the cavalry was attacking when he was pursuing. There was no time to change the formation, so this time Zhang Ning ordered to target the cavalry from the beginning.
When the infantry fights the cavalry, in the final analysis, you can only be beaten passively, waiting for others to attack. If the cavalry does not come, you have nothing to do. Zhang Ning guessed that once the main force of the Suzaku Army starts to move, the official cavalry will rush over. At this time,
You can compete with the army and cavalry under the city walls.
As for Zhu Yong's infantry, it seems from their last performance that their combat effectiveness is low and they can easily collapse. Therefore, in addition to the more than 200 people who maintained the defense of the city, Zhang Ning only deployed a brigade of firearms soldiers to garrison. The defenders were from the right
Commander Yao Erlang, the commander-in-chief of Shaoqian, was Zhang Ning's cousin. Since Zhu Yong wanted to attack the city, he could use a small amount of infantry to contain them.
The main force is still deployed in Xicheng first, because there is no point in changing to other directions now. Zhu Yong has not yet launched an attack, so he can also change the direction of the attack temporarily.
Both sides made intensive preparations for a while. The sun had already risen, and there was finally movement in the officer camp in the distance. The infantry took the lead and dispatched. As expected, the large group of troops did not rush towards the west city, but went straight from the north.
Coming from the city.
The infantry of the army marched forward in sparse and loose square formations. It was quite spectacular to see more than 2,000 people spread out. The troops also carried siege equipment, mainly ladders and rams. Obviously, Zhu Yongjun was not well prepared for heavy weapons.
, temporarily unable to obtain large equipment such as wells, return artillery, etc... It is obvious that they are here to attack the city. If such a sparse formation is used in a field battle, it will undoubtedly be defeated. The two armies are fighting face to face, and the people are
In fact, when there are more than one, it is about using more to fight against the less. Locally, if four people fight one person with long and short weapons, it is usually easy to win. Therefore, the denser the formation, the more dense the formation will be in the details of the battle, which can form a situation where more people fight against the less.
.However, when attacking the city, Zhu Yong may have considered the attack of artillery and muskets, and sparsely attacking the city could reduce casualties.
Zhang Ning ordered the artillery to adjust its position and launch a round of strikes to deter the approaching siege troops. The artillery was deployed in the west city. The far side was still within the attack range, but there would be a blind spot below the north city and east city. Amidst the sound of the cannon, the artillery shells
It roared over the heads of the soldiers on the northern city wall, then landed in the distance and exploded. The sound of cannons and thick smoke once again kicked off a great battle.
As Zhang Ning knew, the lethality of this black powder-filled explosive bomb was very limited, and the effect this time was even worse. Firstly, the officers and soldiers had already seen this thing, so they would not be surprised and caught off guard. Secondly, it fell on them.
In a sparse formation, the effect is even less effective. Many shells even hit nothing at all and only exploded in the open space. Their effect on morale is greater.
The army from Beicheng came the fastest and quickly approached the city wall. The muskets on the city began to fire cracklingly, but they were unable to defeat the invading troops in one round, let alone stop their momentum. The defenders were short of firearms, and
The density of perforations in the wall stacks is not high, so that the fire coverage is poor, which affects the lethality. A single lead bullet is even less accurate at long distances. The height of the city wall is not very effective for lead bullets that approach a straight trajectory.
, unlike bows and arrows that can be thrown at high places with heavy arrows.
The rhythm of the battle had begun unstoppably, and Zhang Ning hoped that the troops defending the city could hold on. In accordance with his previous plan, he ordered Wei Bin to start moving north to flank the attacking troops.
Several horns were blown, and the general's shouts of "walk together" came through the noise of various voices. The men and horses under the city began to move slowly north. Zhang Ning looked at the cavalry in the distance, waiting for the next one
Rhythm.
War is sometimes like a piece of music that has been listened to many times. If you concentrate on it, you can feel when the next drum beat will be. It is like a performance. In fact, war was originally an art. Before the Warring States Period, the battles between the two armies were very complicated.
For etiquette, a bloody athletic performance between the two armies using chariots as units was also a kind of noble activity, and conspiracy and conspiracy were despised; but later, the consequences of the war aroused people's desires, and the results began
It is more important than the process, so the "soldiers, deceitful" and unscrupulous tactics to win victory began to majestically enter the mainstream, and evolved into the final evolution of the "land of life and death", the subjugation of the country and the annihilation of the species.
But no matter what the means, there are still traces to follow, and there are always some rules to make the process more effective.
The cavalry was finally dispatched, and there was no surprise or surprise. The entire cavalry unit began to jog on the horizon, and the sound of horse hooves could be felt on the city head more than a mile away. As far as we know, Zhu Yong’s cavalry soldiers
There were less than a thousand people, but they still showed great momentum at this moment. Historical records record battles involving hundreds of thousands of horsemen, but I don’t know what the scene was like.