I want to be emperor

Chapter 174 The thief army comes from the west
During the defense of Yuzhou City, the artillery of the Fourth Mixed Brigade played a huge role. Before the ammunition was exhausted, if the Ming army outside the city wanted to storm Yuzhou City, it would have to pay a heavy price.

As for Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong, they actually didn't want to pay too heavy a price, otherwise they would have launched a strong attack regardless of casualties in the first two days after they arrived in Yuzhou City.

Even if there are more casualties, there is a high probability that Yuzhou City can be taken down.

But they don't want to!

And now, this situation still exists. If the Ming army wants to conquer Yuzhi City, they must either delay time and slowly consume the ammunition of the security guards, or pay a lot of casualties and rush up to take Yuzhou City in one go.

Faced with this situation, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong were in a dilemma, frowning.

But when Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong outside the city were frowning, An Yongduo on the top of the city was in a very good mood.

Although the Ming army fought over again just now, and even climbed to the top of the city for a while, they were soon driven down by their own troops.

More importantly, he had already received the news that the soldiers had secretly crossed the blockade this morning. The general had personally led the army to Shanghe Town, and will continue to enter Yuzhou City from the east today, no later than noon At that time, the general's vanguard troops will arrive outside Yuzhou City.

With the general here, then their rural army will surely win this battle!

As for the fact that the Ming army stormed and captured Yuzhou City in the short two or three hours before the general personally led the army to arrive, this is almost negligible.

Although the Fourth Mixed Brigade under his command was besieged in Yuzhou City, the battle that lasted for many days also suffered a lot of losses. At present, there are only about 800 troops left in the whole brigade.

This number is temporarily supplemented with the number after a group of Yuzhou defenders surrendered.

However, the core force of the Fourth Mixed Brigade defending Yuzhou City, that is, the artillery unit, is still there.

The Fourth Mixed Brigade has a lot of artillery.

When the Xiangbao Army defeated Chen Yongfu in the early stage and took Nanyang City later, they captured a large number of artillery from the Ming Army.

There are all kinds of messy artillery, but the most numerous are the attacking army artillery, and the others are large and small general artillery, tiger squatting artillery, and Frang machine.

Even if only these types of artillery are counted, the size and size are very messy, ranging from tens of kilograms to thousands of kilograms. I don't know what the Ming army thinks, making the artillery system so chaotic.

Faced with such a mess of artillery, the Township Protection Army selected the captured artillery that was of acceptable quality, acceptable power, and value for use and modification.

Then temporarily refit them with the wooden double-wheeled gun mounts exclusive to the Rural Protection Army, and incorporate them into the fourth artillery post and the three infantry battalions under the fourth mixed brigade and other infantry units.

Because the fourth artillery post is equipped with captured old-style artillery, its establishment is larger than the new-style [-]-jin artillery, reaching nine.

It is equipped with two [-]-jin general guns, three [-]-jin general guns, two [-]-jin Frang machines, and two [-]-jin Flang machines.

Don't ask why the fourth artillery post is equipped with four different types of artillery. If you want to ask, you have to ask why the Ming army messed up the artillery...

In the three infantry battalions under the Fourth Mixed Brigade, even the heavy post was equipped with all kinds of short-barreled artillery weighing less than [-] catties, such as tiger squat guns, attacking army guns, and Franglers.

When the rural protection army compiled and trained the fifth mixed brigade, the sixth mixed brigade, the ninth mixed brigade, and the tenth mixed brigade, they basically followed the system of the fourth mixed brigade.

Each traditional mixed brigade is equipped with a large-scale traditional artillery post, equipped with various types of traditional artillery weighing more than [-] jin, mainly general artillery and Frang machine.

Each battalion is mainly equipped with various types of tiger squatting guns, attacking army guns, and Flang machines under [-] catties.

Of course, this is just a general standard, and it is not strictly enforced, because what artillery these traditional mixed brigades can be equipped with depends on what artillery has been seized...

In short, what's the use, it's not that particular...

After all, the Rural Protection Army has compiled a traditional mixed brigade that mainly trains surrendered troops, in order to quickly form an army and fill the vacancy that the main force has too few troops.

It is impossible for them to equip the infantry battalions with self-made two-hundred-jin short robes like the new infantry brigades.

This kind of short robe is of high quality, easy to maneuver, fires two catties of shotgun, and has a longer range and greater power than traditional light artillery. However, although the production of this kind of short robe is not small, the consumption is also large, so it is quite nervous now , It is simply not the turn of the traditional mixed brigades.

And the artillery post of the traditional mixed brigade is even less likely to be equipped with a [-]-jin long-barreled artillery like the field artillery posts. use.

However, although the artillery level of the fourth mixed brigade is far from being comparable to that of the main force of the rural protection army, it is still a artillery.

In fixed defensive operations, especially when deployed on the top of the city, it can still pose a huge threat to the attacking Ming army that lacks field heavy artillery.

Even the slow-moving siege equipment that the Ming army built temporarily looked huge, but they couldn't withstand the bombardment of the cannons at the top of the city, especially the relatively large general cannons.

In addition to the advantage of his own artillery, An Yongduo also knew that his reinforcements would arrive in a few hours. When commanding the battle, he did not consider saving ammunition at all, and opened the fire directly.

Just like the defensive battle just now, all kinds of guns fired together, and the attacking Ming army had to retreat after hundreds of people were killed or injured.

However, this is also related to Zuo Liangyu being very cautious. Zuo Liangyu was actually very cautious in the previous Ming army's attacks.

When attacking, when the situation is not good, they often order to retreat, and then patiently look for opportunities again.

In this way, although the casualties of the Ming army can be controlled at a relatively low level, the attack also has little effect. They didn't even climb up the top of the city a few times. The security bandits drove them down with heavy armored soldiers.

Through these days of defensive operations, An Yongduo can be understood. The Ming army on the opposite side seems to be tens of thousands, but the number of people who can be drawn out to fight is estimated to be only [-], and they cannot bear too much loss at all.

Er Yongduo couldn't believe that Zuo Liangyu was willing to pay huge casualties to attack Yuzhou City in just a few hours later.

If the strong attack fails, what will Zuo Liangyu do to resist the army led by the general himself?
Let alone taking Yuzhou City by then, it's hard to say whether Zuo Liangyu can escape.

Er Yongduo's guess was not wrong. After the attack in the morning failed again, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong discussed for a long time, and finally decided to retreat first.

In short, no matter what, it is impossible to directly pile up human lives.

The two of them, whether it's Zuo Liangyu or He Renlong, are counting on the troops under their hands to get promoted, get rich, and even save their lives. There will be thousands of soldiers thrown in regardless, to fill the big hole in Yuzhou City. .

The Ming army retreated one after another, and Er Yongduo felt it was a pity on the top of the city.

"If they continue to fight one more time, it will be even better when the general arrives. Maybe they can directly attack their camp when they attack the city."

Fei Bingqing also said: "It's a pity!"

----

After Zuo Liangyu withdrew his troops and put off attacking Yuzhou City, he originally wanted to continue building siege equipment, and in view of the characteristics of the large number of artillery on the bandit army's head, he once again strengthened the defense thickness of the siege equipment in a targeted manner, so as to prepare for the next attack. The siege directly took Yuzhou City in one breath.

But before he could finalize the matter, a subordinate general rushed in with a panicked expression.

As soon as this person came in, he immediately attracted everyone's attention. At this time, there were still more than a dozen middle and senior generals in the tent.

However, this person didn't care about the others, and walked quickly to Zuo Liangyu and whispered a few words in Zuo Liangyu's ear.

Immediately afterwards, Zuo Liangyu's complexion changed drastically!

But after a while, Zuo Liangyu forced himself to calm down. After his expression returned to calm, he said to the people in the camp: "Reconnaissance report, a large number of security guards were found ten miles west of Yuzhou!"

"There are at least ten thousand bandit soldiers!"

"However, out of these ten thousand people, there are only a few thousand people who are civilians accompanying the army. The scouts at the front estimated that there should be five or six thousand real bandit soldiers!"

"In addition, this group of bandits also brought a lot of artillery, and hundreds of elite cavalry!"

After Zuo Liangyu finished speaking, he looked at a group of generals in the camp whose expressions had changed immediately, and said, "This should be the bandit protection army that rescued Yuzhou!"

He Renlong's expression on the side also changed drastically, he asked several questions in succession, and after getting confirmation from Zuo Liangyu, he frowned and said, "If they let them enter the city, then Yuzhou City will be even more difficult to fight." !"

The rest of the generals nodded after hearing this, and one of them said: "Our army stormed Yuzhou City many times before but failed to take it down, and there were only 3000 to [-] thieves in Yuzhou City, and now tens of thousands have come. Bandit soldiers, even if there are only [-] real bandit soldiers among them, then Yuzhou City will not be easy to fight!"

After several other people heard this, some people muttered in their hearts: Why is it difficult to fight, it is completely hopeless!
Another person said: "This thieves are different from ordinary thieves. Ordinary thieves don't have many guns, let alone armor and weapons. We also got some news before that the thieves in Yuzhou City actually used to be Even the surrendered soldiers under Chen Yongfu's hands, the group of people under Chen Yongfu's hands, can still fight."

The [-]th Mixed Brigade came from the Ming Army, which cannot be concealed at all, because almost all the ordinary soldiers in the [-]th Mixed Brigade were still wearing the same military uniforms as the Ming Army. just know.

Even if it wasn't for a change in the banner, it would not be uncommon to directly recognize the Fourth Mixed Brigade as Ming officers and soldiers.

So not to mention the generals of the Ming army present here, even some ordinary people in the outside world, they only need to take a look to know that the bandit protection army of the Fourth Mixed Brigade used to be officers and soldiers.

(End of this chapter)