national surname chiming

Chapter 308
Zhu Shuren made people shout and scold in front of the battle, which really dealt a big blow to the morale of Zhang Xianzhong's army.

However, those long-standing thieves under Zhang Xianzhong's command have also seen the big world. They have struggled through life and death for more than ten years.

When Chen Qiyu and Xiong Wencan were forced to make an emergency landing, which time was it not worse than now?A rogue who can continue to wander for 15 years, how can his resilience be crushed by a few bad news?
Zhu Shuren's heart attack had the greatest impact on Zhang Xianzhong's [-] to [-] local recruits from Sichuan. As a result, people's hearts became unstable, and some even made noise and chaos at the top of the city.

However, Zhang Xianzhong has also dealt with this situation for more than ten years, and he is very experienced.His troops have always sent a considerable number of brothers from the old camp to serve as the backbone of the new army's officers.

There are a total of 2 veterans, only more than 1 are self-contained troops, and the remaining 10,000 are scattered among the [-]+ strong men, trying to better control the army.

At this moment, I saw that some people's hearts were not stable, and some of them who made a lot of trouble were dealt with by the old battalion officers right before the battle. At least dozens of people were killed on the entire city wall in the south of Chengdu, so that people's hearts could be temporarily stabilized.

There are also individual teams and strong men in the village who, after being killed by the old battalion officers for a few robes, suddenly got hot, grabbed a knife on the city wall and rebelled against the old battalion officers. Those who come will be exonerated."

The officers of the old battalion didn't expect that these Sichuan strong men who were killed by their companions dared to resist by force, but some of them were caught off guard and were hacked to death.However, Zhang Xianzhong's team in charge of supervising the battle immediately filled in and suppressed them, killing hundreds of people to stabilize the battle.

"Don't panic! Those who dare to shake the morale of the army will be killed! The dog officers are all liars!" While killing, the officers at all levels screamed frantically in an attempt to calm people's hearts.

Zhu Shuren on the opposite side didn't expect that releasing the bad news of the enemy army at once would temporarily cause such chaos, so he hurriedly urged the various ministries to formally attack the city.

The troops had already made all the preparations before. They spent several days in Longquanyi and Xinjindu, waiting for Zhu Shuren to come to reap the final full power, so the siege weapons are very sufficient, and they can attack immediately with a single order.

Seeing that the officers and soldiers in the distance had already charged forward and came up with siege weapons, Zhang Xianzhong's direct troops were facing a formidable enemy, so they had no choice but to devote as much of the old camp brothers as possible to withstand this wave.

Originally, if the occasion had been changed, Zhang Xianzhong would have been absolutely reluctant to let such a high proportion of soldiers from the old battalion go into battle during this wasting stage of throwing rolling logs and stones at the top of the city.

After all, throwing stones and wood does not require any martial arts. It is completely a gamble on luck, betting on whether the probe or throwing will be caught by the enemy's long-range firepower.

As long as you get hit, no matter how strong your martial arts are, you will be killed or injured, no different from recruits. In this case, it is too wasteful to let veterans go up.

But today there is really no way, Zhang Xianzhong is very clear that if the cannon fodder of the strong men is consumed first, it is entirely possible that the morale will completely collapse and they will not be able to withstand it.At this juncture, no matter how valuable the life of a veteran is, it can only be filled into a bottomless pit.

The bandit soldiers frantically threw down wood and stones, as well as a small amount of gray bottles.Golden juice was boiling in hundreds of cauldrons at the top of the city, but the attacking party hadn't gotten into range yet, and splashing it in advance was useless, so they had to wait.

He didn't have kerosene at all. How could Zhang Xianzhong afford such an expensive defense tool? The only liquid weapon he could splash was gold juice.

The crossbowman tried to shoot with his head out at first, but was soon beaten so hard that he couldn't lift his head up.

On the opposite side, row after row of attacking troops of the government army advanced one by one with wooden boards or long rattan shields, approaching the city wall for about a hundred steps, and then shot shotguns at the top of the city under the cover of wooden boards and rattan shields.Whenever a crossbowman dares to show his face and aim and shoot, he will be swept away by dense debris and bullets.

Although the distance of a hundred steps can greatly attenuate the kinetic energy of the broken iron slag and broken lead beads, it may not be fatal, but once the head and face are covered in half, it will definitely scream and lose its combat power in an instant, which will affect the defense of the city and affect the friendly forces. morale.

The defenders' crossbowmen can only hide behind the battlements and lean against the inside of the battlements at an inclination angle of at least 45 degrees, crossing and shooting sideways at the oblique front.

In this way, the crossbowmen can completely rely on the cover of the battlements to block the direct firepower of the muskets, but it is also equivalent to giving up the opportunity to shoot at the enemy musketeers, allowing the official musketeers to output more and more unscrupulously.

The effective shooting range of ordinary bows and crossbows can of course not be lost to muskets, but in the case of crossing and oblique shooting at a large angle, simply calculate the length relationship between the hypotenuse and the vertical side of the trigonometric function, and you will know how much longitudinal range will be lost.

As the crossbowmen were suppressed, those soldiers who threw the rolling wood and rocks could only hide behind the battlements, throwing wood and stones blindly in a posture similar to Sakuragi Hanadao pouring toilet free throws. They couldn't aim at all, and the accuracy was low lower.

"Forget about the army's musketeers! Hold on! Don't let the army's trench carts fill up the trench! Don't let the wooden donkey cart reach the bottom of the wall! Hit me hard!"

The generals of the defending army commanded hoarsely, but their thinking was clear, because the quality of the city walls of Chengdu City was really poor and riddled with holes.

More than three months ago, when Zhang Xianzhong entered Chengdu, he relied on the fact that the city walls here had been in disrepair for a long time, and he broke the city by digging holes and burying a huge amount of gunpowder.

After being bombed by Zhang Xianzhong that time, the several gaps that collapsed directly were squeezed out of people's power and rebuilt with new rammed earth to plug them up. As for the quality of the rammed earth, I don't know, and Zhang Xianzhong didn't have the ability to check it carefully. .

But Zhang Xianzhong simply didn't have the ability to repair the ordinary wall sections other than those gaps. For a city as big as Chengdu, how much would it cost and how long would it take to repair it all.

And the quality of those unrepaired wall sections will obviously be worse than three months ago-it's like a whole building that was partially collapsed by blasting, and the remaining uncollapsed parts are completely undamaged by the blasting. Fatigue, looseness, that is absolutely impossible.

Zhang Xianzhong's army desperately wanted to prevent the officers and soldiers from repeating their old tricks, and once again approached the root of the wall, digging up the city with a wooden donkey cart to bury gunpowder.In order to achieve this, Zhang Xianzhong's army wasted their lives regardless of casualties, throwing down the city defense materials without money, and no matter how many days these materials were enough, let's carry them over for now.

However, the next step of the officer's army obviously exceeded the expectations of the defenders again.

The officers and soldiers seem to have dispatched a lot of heavily armored siege machines, but they are mainly trench bridge vehicles to refill the trenches. Those heavy equipment that look like wooden donkey carts are not used to dig walls. Auxiliary to other construction, or to attract firepower.

The city wall in Chengdu is very long, and only a small part of the wall was used with wooden donkeys. Those wall sections where only trench bridge vehicles were deployed but no wooden donkeys were deployed were Zhu Shuren's real main attack direction.

After a while, the officers and generals briefly observed the strength of the defenders at the walls of the city through binoculars, then selected a few targets, and let the Hongyi cannons that had been deployed to fire.

Following dozens of roars, a bunch of large iron balls weighing more than 42 jin and equivalent to the power of a [-]-pound naval gun flew out and smashed hard on the city wall of Chengdu.A few that were too high or too low formed ricochets or flew into the city, which also formed a huge deterrent to the enemy.

Being bombarded by such heavy bullets on the wall, at least a large crater several feet deep was directly smashed into the city wall, and the deepest ones were even close to ten feet deep.

After the huge amount of rammed earth was hollowed out, the upper part lost its load and collapsed, accompanied by the screams of dozens of guards who fell into the city with the earth and rocks.

The guards at the top of the city, including Zhang Xianzhong, Feng Shuangli and other high-ranking generals, were also shocked. It was the first time they saw the red barbarian cannons of the official army with such heavy firepower.

The continuous bombardment did not stop for a moment, like a sledgehammer smashing down on the city wall of Chengdu, and also on the psychological defense line of the defenders.It was only because of poor accuracy that most of the shells could not hit the same point repeatedly, so they didn't blow up completely at that time.

But looking at the city wall full of holes, the thickness and height of several places have dropped to less than half of the level before the war. As long as the officers and soldiers are given a chance, they will use the wooden donkey to dig up the city and dig up part of the collapsed earthwork. Then simply decorate and bury gunpowder in the gap created by the cannon, and the city wall will definitely not be able to hold it.

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The bloody battle on the first day ended after only half a day.

It was also because Zhu Shuren had just arrived, so he came late in the morning, and only in the afternoon did he really spend two or three hours.

The city walls of Chengdu barely withstood the bombardment and excavation on the first day, but the defenders definitely suffered much higher casualties than the attackers.

Nearly a thousand soldiers were buried alive or fell to death as the walls collapsed during the shelling.In long-range shooting, even the official army musketeers who generally have armor and wooden shields have an advantage.

The only problem with this style of play is that ammunition is consumed too quickly, and money is spent like running water.But Zhu Shuren didn't feel distressed at all, because he knew that the combat effectiveness of the firearms troops depended on a lot of live ammunition training.

If it is a field battle, when encountering Tartar cavalry, they will rush up and fight desperately. The Musketeers have no chance to shoot in three or five rounds, so they have to fall into a bayonet fight.

As it is today, the defenders don't have enough long-range weapons. It's just that there are too many people, and they don't dare to rush out of the city to fight in the field. It's hard to come across in actual combat.

Shen Jiajun's firearms team hadn't trained with live ammunition for several months before, so they saved ammunition for actual combat.In the past few days, even fighting and practicing, the enemy's strength is not high, it's just for gaining experience.

The most important thing is that Zhang Xianzhong on the opposite side doesn't know how strong Zhu Shuren's logistics cards are, and he doesn't know whether the army can withstand such a long-term firepower output.

As soon as the first day of fighting was over, Zhang Xianzhong had to convene all the generals to discuss the possibility of breaking out and fleeing.

But when it comes to fleeing, several problems that have been faced all the time will come to the fore: Do you want to give up the huge wealth you have obtained here in Chengdu?Do you want to give up these 10,000+ newly recruited young men?
When breaking through, it was impossible to take all the troops away.And if you break through by water, you may take some property with you. If you break through by land, you can only take a small amount of property with you, and you have to lose everything else, otherwise you won't be able to escape at all.

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PS: There was no ball game last night, so there will be two updates today, one at noon and the second before 1 pm.Since it is two updates, Chapter [-] will be released first with [-] words, and no big chapters will be made.

Today I will write until Zhang Xianzhong finishes playing.

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