I want to be emperor

Chapter 250 300 Years of Supporting Scholars in the Kingdom (Seventh Update for Subscription)

Behind the Huguang political envoy Zeng Daowei, the commander of the Huguang capital also panicked and said: "Just now Wang's troops were bombarded by the bandit army, and there were a lot of casualties, and they haven't been able to rush over yet!"

Zeng Daowei said: "It's absurd, he has five hundred soldiers under him, how dare he retreat without a few dozens of casualties, he is strictly ordered to continue to charge forward, he must drive out the bandits, or it will all be over!"

"Let the troops of the city gate tower pass by, and they must stop their heavy armored soldiers from attacking, and they must not be allowed to occupy the city wall!"

"Wuchang wins or loses, our life and death depend on one battle!"

"The imperial court has supported scholars for 300 years. At this time, they are willing to risk their lives and die generously. When will they wait!"

When this man was speaking, the generals behind him looked at each other in unison...

Li Zhongyi, a middle-aged general who was lagging behind, muttered something that only he could hear: "You are the scholar, we are not!"

While muttering like this, Li Zhongyi couldn't help but think of some of the conditions for the puppet Chu's surrender that he had inquired about a while ago.

He also thought of the status quo of the pseudo-Chuli He Renlong, Chen Yongfu, Huang Guangmao and other surrendered generals.

Li Zhongyi couldn't help pondering: he is also a general after all, with more than 2000 guards and nearly [-] soldiers. According to the rules there, if the vote passes, it should be no problem to be awarded a captain. "

But the captain is still a little bit of a loser, he can only be a sentry officer on Da Chu's side, and he has to find a way to make a contribution and try to get a major.

Thinking this way, Li Zhongyi couldn't help but cast his eyes on the few important figures in front.

Especially at the front, Zeng Daowei, the governor of Huguang, who was roaring with all kinds of words.

If this person is taken down and presented, it should be considered a great achievement, right?

But I can't do this by myself, I have to think about it and find a few people to do it together.

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While the civil and military officials of the Ming court were roaring, panicking, or harboring ulterior motives, the battle at the top of the city continued.

Now there are only 300-[-] thieves who rush up to the ruins of the city first, but there are more thieves rushing over in a steady stream.

The ones in the front are two or three hundred armored soldiers who can be seen at a glance, and there are more than 2000 rebels and gray thieves behind.

The bandit army deployed at least two to three thousand troops in this area.

Once the gap is opened by the bandits, and the two or three thousand bandits are killed on the top of the city, the city will not be able to defend it!

Zeng Daowei also saw this clearly, so he tried to dispatch troops to block the big gap in the ruins.

And when the Ming army dispatched troops and generals, trying to mobilize more reinforcements to block the gap in the ruins and restrain the rural protection army from extending towards the two sides of the city.

Suddenly there was another loud noise from the other side of the city wall, accompanied by violent vibrations.

The second blasting site of the Township Protection Army went off smoothly!

These senior generals of the Ming army looked to the right, and saw a cloud of smoke and dust rising from the city wall on the right, and a section of the city wall that was originally intact has also become ruins!
Ruined!
At this moment, the same idea popped up in the minds of these few people.

Zeng Daowei didn't know whether he was frightened or shocked, his body softened and he was about to fall, but fortunately someone behind him helped him in time.

After stabilizing his figure, Zeng Daowei looked at the smoke and dust on the city wall on the left and the city wall that had become ruins in the smoke and dust, and murmured: "It's over!"

This one gap in the ruins will not be able to be blocked, and there will be a second one here, so what a fart it is.

Not to mention that the artillery of the thief army continued to bombard other intact city walls and even the area behind the city walls.

There are also a large number of light artillery and musketeers of the bandit army shooting at the city at close range outside the city, and some traitor bandits dressed in officer and soldier uniforms are carrying long ladders to climb from other city walls.

These thieves' sieges were more blossoming, and they launched a fierce attack in three places at the same time.

Even the offensives in these three places are very violent, so violent that it is impossible to see where the main attack is and where it is a feint.

This is of course not true.

The Rural Protection Army's attack this time has an obvious main attack direction, which is the main attack direction of Gao Zheng. In this direction, the Rural Protection Army is expected to invest more than 500 people in the First Assault Battalion and the First Infantry Regiment. main force.

At the blasting point on the right, only more than 300 people from the second assault battalion were actually deployed, and only two infantry battalions were responsible for follow-up and cover.

As for the troops trying to climb the city wall directly, the leading third assault battalion was selected from the sixth garrison division. It seems that there are more than 500 people, but the actual combat strength is far worse than that of the first assault battalion with similar strength. First, but the follow-up force is the largest, with more than 3000 people.

In this general attack, the Township Protection Army directly invested seven to eight thousand troops to launch a fierce attack, and there were still a large number of reserve troops behind.

The reason why the Ming army gave the false impression that the rural protection army had no priority was that they could not even block the attack at the central position with the weakest attack force...

This can't be blamed on the Ming army, who made the explosion of the rural protection army too sudden, and at the same time, they had made sufficient preparations for advancing fortifications, and the preparations for artillery fire were also very sufficient.

Under the threat of artillery fire from the Township Protection Army, the Ming army could not go to the top of the city to prepare in advance, and when they rushed to the top of the city, the artillery units of the Township Protection Army took advantage of their own infantry still some distance away from the top of the city, and attacked first. A wave of rapid fire severely killed a group of Ming troops who were rushing to the top of the city to prepare for defensive operations.

After being subjected to violent rapid-fire shelling, these Ming troops rushing to the top of the city suffered heavy casualties, and many of the remaining troops retreated temporarily.

It wasn't until the assault battalion of the Rural Protection Army rushed under the city wall and the artillery fire of the Rural Protection Army began to extend that these Ming troops rushed to the top of the city again in fear.

Then I was caught off guard!
In this kind of battle for the top of the city, once the defenders do not respond in time and the attacker seizes the top of the city, it will not be so easy to drive the attacker down again.

After all, the attackers will often concentrate a large number of elites at the main breakthrough points, and the rural protection army will organize assault battalions, while the traditional cold weapon troops will often set up camps, death squads and the like to gather a group of elites Act as a breakthrough sharp knife to seize the top of the city.

Although the defenders will have elites, it is impossible to deploy the elites everywhere. Even if there is no gap in the past, it will be a step slower.

After all, the attacker has the initiative, can choose the active location, and concentrate the elite to attack a point in advance. On the one hand, if the defender cannot judge the attacker's main attack point in advance, it is easy to fall into a situation where the elite cannot make up in time.

As for the defenders to disperse the elite and deploy them everywhere, it is even more worthless.

In this traditional sense of siege, the core of the defenders is actually to do everything possible to prevent the enemy from climbing to the top of the city, and the best way is to keep the enemy out of the city wall.

However, during the Battle of Wuchang City, the Ming army was still unable to adopt some traditional methods of defending the city, such as deploying a large number of troops on the top of the city, and carrying out early defensive operations by throwing stones, rolling logs, and golden juice.

Even artillery is difficult to fully utilize.

Because once they densely go to the top of the city, the artillery units of the Township Protection Army will fire violently without mercy, especially the explosive shells fired by their mortar artillery units. The lethality is equivalent to standing on the top of the city without any fortification protection. It is even more surprising for the defenders.

The reason why the Ming army in Wuchang City, and even the Ming army in the previous Zhongxiang City battle were so embarrassing was not all due to lack of firepower, lack of guns, and low morale, but more because they could not adapt to the peace of the rural protection army. The traditional siege method is very different from the siege method.

Before the Township Protection Army, the Ming Army had never encountered an enemy who used flowering ammunition on a large scale.

At most, they would encounter some opponents who used traditional short robes or even red cannons.

As for the traditional short robe and red cannon, these artillery have a very obvious feature, that is, they are all direct-firing artillery, relying on the kinetic energy of the chamber to kill.

The mortars of the Baoxiang Army are different. This thing is fired towards the sky, and then falls to the enemy's feet to explode. The beads do the killing.

This also means that the original tall and thick city walls can't stop these mortars at all.

Because the flowering bullets fired by these mortars will directly fall on the top of the city wall and explode.

On the top of the traditional city wall, there will not be a large area of ​​fortifications against explosive bullets, especially fortifications against top attacks.

These days, the top of the city wall is bare, and the main defense facilities are the battlements.

In this way, in the two defensive battles of the Ming army in Zhongxiang and Wuchang City, even if viewed from a traditional perspective, they have achieved relatively perfect results, even if they were replaced by Dong captives to attack by force. A large number of casualties were also expected to be brought down.

But when encountering the rural protection army with more advanced tactics and equipment, they were directly caught blind.

If they were given time, someone within the Ming army would definitely come up with countermeasures and implement them, such as temporarily adding artillery fortifications on the top of the city wall.

There is no need to add a top-covered fortification. It only needs to pile up some sandbag ring fortifications on the top of the city wall, which is enough to block the shock wave and shrapnel damage caused by the explosion of most of the flowering bombs falling on the city wall.

As for the flower bombs that just fell on the enemy's head and exploded in the air, in fact, these are very few, and will not affect the overall development of the battle situation too much.

It is a pity that no one in the Ming army in Wuchang City thought of this, or some people thought of it but no one listened to it, or some people heard it but no one did it...

In short, the series of defensive measures adopted by the Ming army in Wuchang City were aimed at the attack of the traditional army.

So when they encountered the onslaught of the rural protection army today, they were caught blind.

At around [-]:[-] in the morning, the First Assault Battalion not only occupied the ruins of the first blasting point, but also occupied the city heads hundreds of meters on the left and right sides. The soldiers of the First Infantry Regiment in the rear were walking along this section Ruins and city walls poured in continuously.

At this time, it can actually be declared that the walls of Wuchang City have completely fallen.

Many people in the Ming army also realized this, and a large number of people began to flee the city wall, and many people surrendered on the spot.

There are also many people who have other ideas.

When Zeng Daowei, the governor of Huguang, fled the city wall with a few relatives in a hurry, he saw General Li Zhongyi chasing after him with several other generals and hundreds of armored soldiers. When Li Zhongyi came over, he shouted: "My lord, if we are in the bandit army, don't even think about hurting a hair of your hair..."

As a result, just a few seconds after he finished speaking, the man directly inserted the knife into Zeng Daowei's body: "My lord, use your head!"

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