Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 144 Do you have a plan?I have a drone!

In the 17th year of Chongzhen, the eighth day of August.

Zhang Xianzhong ordered his army to attack the four walls of Chengdu at the same time, intending to quickly break through the city with an absolute superiority of troops.

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"Kill!"

Outside the east gate, tens of thousands of Sichuan bandits and ex-official soldiers who had defected to Zhang Xianzhong for less than a month, either holding shields or holding sacks full of grass and trees, rushed towards the moat shouting.

Yang Zhan stood at the top of the city, looking at the black bandits with a calm expression.

As a general who had suppressed bandits for several years, he was quite familiar with the methods used by Zhang Xianzhong and other bandits to attack the city.

Knowing that this first wave is Zhang Thief's subordinate soldiers, they are cannon fodder to test the weapon configuration (firepower) of the city.

If the artillery on the top of the city is allowed to fire, it should be easy to repel these subordinate bandits with weak fighting will.

But in that way, Zhang Thief would know about the artillery deployment at the top of the city.

But regardless of what these people said, it is really possible for them to keep carrying earthworks and sacks to fill up the moat-with the number of Zhang thieves, even with this stupid method, it will not take long to fill up the moat.

Yang Zhan and his deputy Cao Xun thought about this situation after being appointed by Zhu Yuxi as the chief general to defend the East City at the military meeting of the West Mansion.

Seeing that the thieves were about to rush to the moat, Yang Zhan said, "Here's an order to let Cao Guerrilla lead the cavalry out of the city."

"Yes!"

The orderly sent by Yang Zhan's side received the order flag in response, and quickly rushed down to the top of the wall.

Soon, the closed city gate was opened, and the suspension bridge in front of the city gate was lowered, and Cao Xun led more than a thousand cavalry to rush out.

The bandits who had just rushed to the moat didn't expect that the defenders would dare to leave the city, and they were cavalry, so they panicked.

Some threw the sacks in their hands and ran away, some continued to run towards the moat with a dead mind, and some made a mistake and rushed to the suspension bridge excitedly to take the opportunity to seize the city gate.

However, Cao Xun and more than a thousand cavalrymen crossed the suspension bridge in two or three breaths like a whirlwind, and rushed into the bandit army.

I saw Cao Xun holding a long-handled saber, which was stably placed on his waist. Wherever he passed, several bandit soldiers were directly cut in the neck and body by the saber, either dead or injured.

When the horse's charge slowed down a bit, Cao Xun slashed left and right with his saber. Relying on his extraordinary force and excellent weapons and armor, he easily harvested the lives of the bandits.

These thieves used to be either local thieves from Sichuan, or the peasant army who had just started an uprising, or the former government army who defected to Zhang Xianzhong.

No matter what kind it is, the equipment on their bodies is very poor. They only have one cold weapon and at most one shield.

In addition, they also knew that they were here to test, so they had no fighting spirit at all. How could they be the opponent of the cavalry led by Cao Xun?
Even though there were tens of thousands of people, Cao Xun and other cavalry soldiers broke up as soon as they charged, and the wolves rushed forward, causing no casualties.

After killing and wounding many people, Cao Xun did not chase after them. He led the cavalry to let off a shower of arrows, and shot and killed many bandit soldiers.

It was Li Dingguo who was in charge of attacking the east gate.

At this time, he was standing on the lookout car in his own army formation three miles away, seeing this scene, he said to a young general beside him: "Go and ask us how many people were killed or injured."

The young man's name was Jin Tongwu, and he was Li Dingguo's confidant general. Hearing this, he immediately got out of the watch car.

After a while, Jin Tongwu's face became a little ugly, and he clasped his fists and said, "General Qi, those Sichuan soldiers killed more than [-] people this time, and there were four to five hundred wounded who fled back."

Li Dingguo couldn't help frowning after hearing this.

Although these Sichuan soldiers were all new and weak soldiers, he felt distressed when more than 1000 people were killed and injured all at once.

"The guard of the east city seems to be a veteran general who is used to fighting. He not only expected that we would use weak soldiers to test him, but also decisively let the cavalry go out of the city to attack and kill him. He is quite powerful."

Frowning and saying something, Li Dingguo's eyes flashed brightly, and he said: "Go and lead [-] cavalry to prepare for the attack, and I will let Xu You lead [-] elite infantry to disguise and mix with Sichuan soldiers. Then go to fill in the moat as a test.

If the guard dared to repeat his old tricks and let the cavalry out of the city, he would definitely be entangled by Xu You and others.

At this time, you can lead the cavalry to rush there. If the enemy cavalry can be defeated and escaped, maybe we can take the opportunity to seize the east gate. "

Jin Tongwu showed excitement and admiration when he heard this, and clasped his fists and said: "The general has a clever plan, and he will definitely win this time!"

Li Dingguo was quite proud of this plan, and couldn't help smiling, patted Jin Tongwu on the shoulder and said, "Go and prepare."

"The end will be ordered!"

After Jin Tongwu got off the lookout car, Li Dingguo sent another messenger to convey the military order to Xu You.

Then he looked up at the sun, estimated the time, and saw a bird shadow flying towards the rear at a height of several hundred meters, but he didn't think much about it.

He didn't even notice that the bird hovered slowly above his army formation, its appearance and behavior were very strange.

Even if he noticed, Li Dingguo would definitely not care, no matter how strange the bird is, it is just a bird...
On the top of the most secure city gate in the East City, on the inner corridor close to the city, there are two pilots, two reserve pilots, and a team of 50 guards.

At this time, a pilot is controlling the drone.

The reserve pilot who is partnering with him is holding a tablet computer, and next to him are simple tables and chairs. He is using a white paper book and a later-generation fountain pen to quickly record some military deployments and other important information of the enemy camp on the tablet computer.

The idle pilot next to him acts as the team leader and is in charge of commanding; the other reserve pilot acts as the orderly.

The two were also looking at the screen on the tablet.

Seeing the messenger go down from the watch car where the bandit general was standing, a large group of soldiers and horses were mobilized in the bandit army immediately.

Yuan Guo, the leader of the flying team, immediately reminded: "Li Siming, Wang Fugui, pay attention to the moving bandits in the formation, zoom in and see what they are going to do?"

Li Siming, who controls the drone, and Wang Fugui, who controls the tablet, immediately follow suit.

I saw that the lens on the tablet became larger, and the moving bandits could be seen more clearly.

"Look at the equipment of these thieves is definitely elite."

"And that group of soldiers and horses are all elite cavalry!"

"They went to the formation of those weak soldiers in the south... mixed with those weak soldiers who tested us before!"

As a pilot who operates a micro-drone, in the past half a month, he has not only learned how to operate a drone, but also needs some necessary military knowledge, especially in terms of military intelligence.

In addition, they were "veterans" who had fought with Hong Niangzi and Li Yan for several years, and they were very keen on things on the battlefield. At this moment, they all realized that there was a conspiracy in the mobilization of troops by the bandit army.

Team leader Yuan Guo immediately said: "Chang Wei, hurry up and tell General Yang the news!"

"Yes!"

Chang Wei was originally recording the information, and when he heard the words, he took the notebook that recorded the information and went to the corridor on the side of the city gate building to find Yang Zhan.

In order to show the importance she attaches to the pilots, Auntie Zhu distributed camouflage uniforms of later generations to each of them.

This kind of uniform is currently the only one in Daming, and it is the identity certificate of the Flying Eagles.

In addition, when Chang Wei and other pilots were sent to Dongcheng to assist Yang Zhan, they were warmly received by Yang Zhan, and they knew each other well, so no identification was needed.

Chang Wei explained in detail the changes in the enemy forces observed by the drone just now.

Yang Zhan was slightly stunned after hearing this, and then smiled and said, "This piece of Dingguo is really tricky, and he actually wants to swallow our cavalry, and even rob the city gate.

It's a pity, but he didn't know that Yang was assisted by the drones of the Flying Eagles of the supervisory country, who saw all his arrangements.

Well, since he dared to plot against Yang, then Yang should be courteous and give him a surprise. "

Chang Wei stood beside him without saying a word.

Hong Niangzi mentioned many times during the training that the Flying Eagles on the battlefield are only responsible for providing information and must not interfere with the command of the general.

Yang Zhanhu's eyes narrowed slightly, and a cold light flashed, then he raised his hand and said: "Send me an order, half of the forts on the wall, and all the crossbows are ready. When the enemy comes to attack this time, watch my command flag command the cannons and crossbows." .”

"Yes!"

After listening to Yang Zhanfa's orders, Chang Wei returned to the back of the city gate and continued to record military information on the tablet with Wei Xu...

About a quarter of an hour later, the sound of rumbling drums sounded outside the city again.

Tens of thousands of rebels rushed towards the moat like last time, most carrying sacks, and a few holding shields and other weapons.

"Kill it!"

The sound of shouting and killing and the sound of drums seem to be intertwined into a symphony that makes people's blood boil.

(End of this chapter)