The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 868 Attacking River City ([-])

There are more soldiers in the water swimming towards the river bank with sacks.

Some people even did not forget to shoot at the top of the city during the attack.

The grenadiers outside the city even fired at the top of the city gate.

Although it was no longer the unison of a hundred grenadiers, it was still enough to beat the Huben army on the city gate without daring to show their heads.

The moat did not play a huge role as they imagined.

Looking at the methodical offensive of the imperial guards of the Great Song Dynasty, it is obvious that they are already familiar with how to crack the city protected by the moat.

The current Song Dynasty is no longer the previous Song Dynasty.Various tactics can be said to have been systematized.

For a siege like this, Liu Zijun and Xiao Yulin didn't even need to be in command.The generals in the army know what they should do and how to do it.

The Huben Army probably couldn't imagine that the training of the Imperial Guards of the Great Song Dynasty in the military area was completely different from theirs.

Zhao Dongting ordered the various exercises and duels conducted by the armies to be far ahead of this era.

In just a moment, soldiers of the forbidden army ran outside the city gate.

They untied the Thunderbolt from their waists, without any hesitation at all, they threw a few Thunderbolts over.

With the sound of the explosion, the city gate collapsed as imagined, revealing the deep corridor inside.

The thunder-throwing soldiers hurried to both sides of the city gate to hide.

And inside the city, arrows really shot out.

It's a ballista.

At the end of the corridor, dozens of ballistas were lined up neatly.

After all, there were still soldiers who were caught off guard and shot by the ballista.

Even though the armor of the Song Dynasty is extremely strong in defense, if it is too close, it cannot withstand the power of the ballista.

Some soldiers were directly shot through by arrows.

After the arrow with great kinetic energy pierced through their bodies, it flew back several meters with their bodies before landing on the ground.

"kill!"

But no one among the imperial guards of Song Dynasty retreated.

They yelled to kill and swarmed towards the gate of the city.

Someone raised a gun and fired into the corridor.

Behind the ballista, a Huben sergeant was shot and fell to the ground.

The smell of blood quickly spread in the corridor.

Some of the crossbow carts even had thunderbolts attached to them, which caused some damage to the Imperial Guards of the Song Dynasty.

This corridor seems to be falling into a tug of war.

The Tianxiong Army stayed in the formation outside the city, and Liu Zijun was looking at the gate of the city with his binoculars.On the side, there are two other generals as well.

One of them suddenly asked: "Commander, if we let the soldiers attack the city like this, will it cause many...casualties in vain?"

The man was tall and rugged.It was the general Monto who had previously served under Boyan's command.

Since his surrender, he has been tossed and turned several times, and now he is the Marquis of Duyu in the Tianxiong Army.

This position is not high, but it is not bad.At least, compared to Zhang Hongfan who also surrendered, he is already picking up a big deal.

You know, Zhang Hongfan used to be the coach, and his status was higher than that of Monto, but now, he is still just a mere governor.

Hearing Meng Tuo's words, Liu Zijun nodded slightly, "It's inevitable."

Monto showed a puzzled look on his face, "Then why are you, Commander..."

Liu Zijun said: "Kuizhou is vaguely besieged, we can't waste too much time in Kaijiang City. Besides, the soldiers have practiced so many times in the barracks, I have to see what their real abilities are. There are always some things that are not taken into account in the exercises. I realized that their shortcomings can only be seen in this kind of actual combat. There are not many tiger and cardinal troops in the city, and we can still afford to wear them out. If the enemy finds out their shortcomings in a big battle, it is really possible to pay huge casualties."

He pointed in the direction of the city gate, "Do you think that if you attack a big city like Chongqing and Kuizhou and get blocked at the gate, how many casualties will you have to pay?"

Monto was slightly stunned, then shook his head and said, "It's impossible to estimate."

The city gates and corridors of Chongqing and Kuizhou are much wider than this mere Kaijiang City.

"These idiots!"

Just as he was talking, Liu Zijun cursed suddenly, "Do you only know how to fight with Shenlong Gun and Thunderbolt so stupidly? What about their creeping attack?"

Undoubtedly, he was somewhat dissatisfied with the fact that the army was blocked at the gate of the city.

Although he didn't use the ballista during the exercise in the barracks, he felt that the soldiers should think about it.

And just as his voice fell, a general at the gate of the city finally reacted.

Judging by the style of his armor, he is a general of a thousand commanders.

Seeing soldiers being shot to death one after another on the suspension bridge, he was originally glaring angrily, but at this moment, there was a flash of brilliance in his eyes.

Then shout: "Crawl! Crawl!"

This is the basic offensive method they trained in the barracks.

The soldiers who heard his shout quickly reacted and fell to the ground immediately.

Although the ballista is powerful, it has the disadvantage that it can only exert its maximum power when shooting flat.

As more and more imperial guards of the Song Dynasty fell to the ground, many crossbow arrows were shot empty.

The forbidden soldiers who were prostrate on the ground crawled into the corridor.

One after another, the crossbow riders in the Huben army fell to the ground with guns.

Although some people wanted to throw thunderbolts into the corridor, their speed was far less than that of Shenlong Gun.Often before he could throw his hand, he was shot to death by Shenlong Gun.

Hong Tianlei exploded on the spot, which made their own formation a little messed up.

Although it only changed from a low-profile attack to a crawling attack, the imperial army of the Song Dynasty was able to gain the upper hand in the tug-of-war in the tunnel.

They spread towards the corridor at an extremely fast speed.

With the sound of intensive gunshots, the ballista formation of the Huben Army was quickly breached.

Some soldiers were demoralized and ran to the back.

The city gate was broken.

The imperial guards of the Song Dynasty in the back did not have ballistas to suppress them, and they spread into the city in a turbulent manner.

A general shouted: "Free fire! Free fire!"

This is also the long-term training subject of the forbidden army.

Although there are special forces in each army, the training of these ordinary forbidden troops is not much weaker than that of special forces.

In this era, each of them can be regarded as a king of soldiers.

The Shenlong gunners who entered the city were like tigers joining a herd of sheep, running away, and kept moving and shooting during the running.

This made the soldiers of the Huben army who were waiting in full battle in the city a little dumbfounded.

Because in their expectation, they thought that the Great Song Imperial Army would charge them face to face.This should be a common style of play in this era.

Who would have thought that these Song troops would disperse?

And the power and range of the Shenlong Gun naturally made these Huben soldiers complain endlessly.

The large-scale ordnance in the army was ineffective, so they could only use the bows and arrows in their hands to shoot at the imperial guards of the Song Dynasty.

But how many archers can there be in the entire army?

As more and more Imperial Guards of the Song Dynasty flocked into the city, the sound of cannons outside the city gradually became completely silent from sparse.

Some soldiers boarded the top of the city.

Then, in just a moment, the national flag of Song Dynasty was erected on the top of the city.

The west wall of Kaijiang City was completely captured.

Although there are still soldiers of the Huben Army fighting stubbornly here, judging from the current situation, their destruction is only a matter of time.

The Great Song Imperial Army did not encounter as strong a resistance as imagined.

Some generals became suspicious and ordered the scouts to run out of the city.

After a rough estimate, the Huben army in the entire west gate is no more than a few thousand people.And in the entire Kaijiang City, there is absolutely no way that there are only such a few Huben troops.

The scouts ran outside the city and immediately reported the situation to Liu Zijun and Xiao Yulin.

After Liu Zijun and Xiao Yulin heard the news, they were only a little confused, and then there was such a shout in the army, "Put up a round formation! Put up a round formation!"

The soldiers of the grenadier battalion in front of the army rushed towards the depths of the formation in a hurry carrying the grenadiers.

Soldiers carrying shields spread out and slammed their shields heavily on the ground.

Inside, the cavalry dismounted.They all pointed their guns at the outside.

There are only two gaps left in the two circular formations, and inside the gaps are the heavy cavalry of the imperial army.

Both Xiao Yulin and Liu Zijun had seen the soldiers of the Huben army rushing down the city before. Although they couldn't tell whether the Huben army would counterattack and come out of the city, it was obviously not troublesome to set up such a defensive formation.Even if the Huben Army didn't go out of the city, they would just regroup and head back to the city.

And just when the two armies changed their formations, scouts galloped over from the south and north walls of Kaijiang city.

When they arrived at the formation of the two armies, these scouts shouted loudly: "The enemy army is leaving the city! The enemy army is leaving the city!"

The Huben army actually planned to go out of the city to counterattack.

(End of this chapter)