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Chapter 97 Offense and Defense
There was no moat outside the village wall of Chenjiazhuang, so the two thousand troops were able to march straight in and reach the village wall.

Once there are thousands of people, they are densely packed, and when they are scattered, there will be more people.

"Get ready!" Officers at all levels on the village wall shouted at the same time.

When the enemy troops approached fifty steps to the village wall.

"shooting!"

The crossbowmen on the wall began to shoot at the Xiang army below.

Being condescending and with a large number of enemy troops, the hit rate of the arrows was quite high, but only a small part of these arrows hit people, and most of them were blocked by the shields of the Xiang army.

Waves of arrows were shot out one after another. More and more enemy soldiers fell to the ground outside the village wall, and the war became more and more fierce.

Soon, the Xiang army attacking the city arrived in front of the village wall, and the long ladder was lifted up and placed on the village wall.

The grappling hook on the upper part of the ladder fell and was firmly hooked on the wall stack.

"The Axeman!"

One of the guards came forward with a big ax and struck hard at the connection point between the grappling hook and the wooden ladder.

Snapped!Snapped!The grappling hook was cut down in a few clicks, and then three or two guards held push rods against the top of the ladder and pushed it out with all their strength!

ah! ! !The soldier who had just climbed halfway up screamed and was thrown to the ground with the overturned ladder.

The height of the village wall was not high, so the soldier was not thrown to death in one fell swoop. He was just left lying on the ground wailing.

There are times when the defense goes smoothly, and there are times when it doesn't.

The Xiang soldiers climbed up the wall quickly, and the guards could only move forward with swords and guns to cut down the Xiang soldiers who climbed up the wall.

Some long ladders were hung behind people's backs, and the push rods were broken and they couldn't be pushed open. They could only scatter a bag of dry lime, causing all the soldiers under the wall to cover their eyes and cry out in pain.

Seeing that dry lime was effective, the surrounding guards followed suit and sprinkled packets of lime from the wall, completely interrupting the attack by the soldiers.

Ding!Ding!Ding!
The gong behind the officers and soldiers was struck, making a clear sound. The soldiers whose offensive was blocked immediately turned around and retreated. Some soldiers who were clinging to the wall immediately turned over and jumped out, limping out.

The crossbowmen on the wall took the opportunity to quickly fire arrows, shooting down dozens more people before they were out of the attack range.

"Quickly replenish the defensive equipment and prepare for the next wave of offensive." Lu Hui ordered.

The auxiliary soldiers guarding behind the wall began to deliver lime, push rods and other consumables up the wall, and then picked up the wounded on the wall.

"The next time it should be a large-scale attack, let the Miao Dao team be prepared."

"Yes!"

But contrary to Chen Xun's expectation, the next wave of offensive by the officers and soldiers did not arrive for a long time. At the end of Shenshi, the entire army retreated and returned to the camp five miles away.

"There is still more than an hour until dark, why did they withdraw?" Lu Hui was puzzled.

"I don't know either." Chen Xun was also puzzled, the officer-in-chief must be too cautious.

The two of them didn't know that the officers and soldiers coach was also very puzzled and couldn't figure out how Chenjiazhuang played his cards.

Obviously, there were giant crossbows in the last battle against the Xiang soldiers. When they annihilated the Guangzhou Navy warships in the Wanshan Sea, so many advanced weapons appeared.

Why are today's wall-guarding stations so conventional? Only one piece of lime is somewhat creative, but the rest are too ordinary.

Unable to figure out the enemy's tactics, the sky is about to get dark, and the officers and soldiers who have suffered successive defeats in the past will naturally be more careful.

then!Another idle night passed.

When the sun rose the next day, Chen Xun decided that if the officers and soldiers did not launch a large-scale siege today, then he would lead the Miao Dao team out to fight in the field.

Fortunately, the officers and soldiers coach also figured it out.

If this consumption continues, the freed-up Chenjiazhuang pirates and cavalry troops may cut off the food supply for the officers and soldiers, and then they will be in a dilemma.So he decided to launch a general attack today.

The offensive began at first light.

The commander of the officers and soldiers was like a gambler who was eager to lose. He basically pushed all the cards in his hand.

Standing on the wall of the village, Chen Xun admired in his heart: "The officers and soldiers we faced this time are really excellent. They are cautious when they should be cautious and bold when they should be bold."

I really want to capture him and let him teach our own officers in the school.

In this general attack, the Xiang troops were still at the forefront, but what was different from yesterday was that today's Xiang troops were backed by imperial troops holding down the formation. They had all kinds of siege equipment and were no longer cannon fodder to test the enemy's strength.

"Inform everyone to prepare for the war. Send a message to Sun Zheng and ask him to prepare." Chen Xun ordered.

After the order was passed on, the Miao Dao team inside the village wall began to put on their equipment, and all the infantry guards climbed up the wall.

"Check the artillery!" This was Lu Hui's order.

"Check the ammo!"

"Check for incendiary bombs! Check for rockets!"

The last equipment inspection before the battle was carried out in an orderly manner.

"Put on my armor!" Chen Xun ordered again.

The personal guards stepped forward to help Chen Xun put on his enlarged, weighted, and thickened armor one by one.

When all the preparations were completed, the soldiers had already pushed the cloud cart to the front, and the first to fire were the artillery and crossbows.

boom!boom!boom! …

The shotgun fired at the soldiers pushing the cart, and a large number of soldiers were swept away by the small pellets of the shotgun. The first few rows suffered heavy casualties immediately.

The oil package carried behind the rocket arrowhead, due to inertia after hitting the target, breaks away from the mark in front of the oil package, and splashes within a radius of one foot where the arrow hits. The flame burning on the arrow just ignites the kerosene. , quickly formed a large fire area.

Rockets were fired from giant crossbows, and their aim was extremely high at close range. All the ladders near the village wall were named one by one, and gradually burned into giant torches.

Faced with such huge losses, the officers and soldiers did not flinch.

The soldiers who retreated were driven back by the swordsmen of the Forbidden Army. At the same time, there were also the soldiers who had been in the rear but had not gone into battle.

This time they carried the long ladder again, and also pushed up the tower, the rush cart and the wooden donkey cart.

Standing on the tower are the long-range attackers of the Forbidden Army, and they are also equipped with giant crossbows.

The catapults from the rear were also pushed forward.

The black sea is like a huge wave, which is about to submerge the short Chenjiazhuang wall at once.

"This is a saturation attack." Chen Xun introduced.

Lu Hui was already sweating when he saw this offensive.

There are currently 500 infantry guards in Chenjiazhuang. 300 of them were taken away by Chen Xun and trained into the Miao Dao Team (due to insufficient equipment, the number was smaller than expected.), and [-] were taken away by Sun Zheng and trained into the Horse Guards. military.

There were only 700 people left to defend the city, 700 versus 7000.

Tremendous stress!

"This general is very smart. He saw that we have few people, so he went all-in at once, just to defeat us in one wave and prevent us from taking advantage of our weapons."

"I understand. In other words, if you survive the first wave, the rest will be easy." Lu Hui said clearly.

"That's the truth." Chen Xun nodded: "Guard well! If you defend the first wave, leave the rest to me."

(End of this chapter)