Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 745 Night Attack
About half an hour after the order for a thousand flying cavalry to attack, Cheng Yaojin said: "Qiu Qianshi, you lead someone to lead the battle. If Lao Cheng didn't take care of Shubao's subordinates, when the drums sounded, the city gates must be closed. Take it down, and then guard the city gate for a quarter of an hour, at least let Ben kill two thousand soldiers and horses into the city."

"Decree!" Qiu Qianshi stood up and walked out.

Cheng Yaojin walked up to his big case, reached out and slapped the table vigorously, and then grabbed the token on the table.

"Left...

Cheng Yaojin began to issue orders one by one. Cheng Yaojin was a good general, and his level of positional warfare was far above that of Hou Junji. To attack a city, Cheng Yaojin's idea was to capture all the key positions in half an hour. Time to take this fort.

The night was deeper.

Seeing the middle of the night, Qiu Qianshi led 20 people and quickly approached the fort with their waists bent.

At about fifty steps away, everyone crawled on the ground and moved forward slowly.

The fortresses are all majestic cities with thick walls, and the gates are made of thickened wooden planks covered with iron, which can be said to be very strong.In addition to the city gate, there is also a moat of running water.

The most common way to deal with moats is to block them.If it is running water, it is necessary to dig the river channel in the upstream, and then block it and fill it.

It was early spring, here was a plateau again, and there was a layer of ice on the moat.

It is no problem to climb over alone, but the ice will definitely be broken if a large force attacks it.Moreover, the army defending the city will pour oil into the moat and then light it on fire.

Qiu Qianshi took 20 people across the river on the ice, and then put ten of the ten catties of gunpowder bags carried by each person under the city gate, and tried to hang the rest on the city gate.

After everything was ready, Qiu Qianshi shook two torches in front of the city gate.

On the upper reaches of the moat, 500 people were pulling carts and carrying sacks filled with soil, running frantically towards the moat.In front of the city gate, Qiu Qianshi put a gunpowder bag on the iron chain of the suspension bridge, and then stuffed several gunpowder in bamboo tubes into the gap of the iron chain.

At that time, Qiu Qianshi didn't light the fire.

Until the soldiers on the top of the city found that someone was going to block the moat at night. After the alarm sounded, Qiu Qianshi ordered the fire to be lit, and then everyone ran out of the city gate and hid thirty steps away from both sides of the city wall. Everyone was tight Lie on the ground.

The continuous loud noises stunned the defenders of Jishi City Fortress.

Not to mention the city gate, half of the entire city gate building collapsed, and several cracks were blasted into the city wall.

The finger-thick iron chain was also broken, and the suspension bridge fell heavily on the pier.

Qiu Qianshi began to rush towards the suspension bridge with a thousand elites in his hands.

When the defenders saw the enemy attacking, they quickly organized their men to rush to the gate of the city.

Only then did Qiu Qianshi get up, holding a clay pot in his hand, lit it on the torch behind him, and threw it into the bombed city gate.

After a loud noise, screams continued in the city gate.

Qiu Qianshi gestured to his subordinates to light and throw the pots they were carrying into them one by one.

Only ten clay pots were thrown, the elite had already rushed across the suspension bridge, the heavy shield moved forward, dozens of steel crossbows shot randomly at the city gate, the heavy shield parted, and a group of Mo Dao soldiers rushed into the city with their knives door opening.

"Go up the city wall." Qiu Qianshi ordered, and everyone else fired clay pots and threw them on the city wall, and then the siege soldiers carrying long ladders began to rush towards the city wall with their shields on their shoulders.

In the main camp, the war drums beat, and the army began to press on.

Street fighting, this is a battle of the quality of soldiers, Cheng Yaojin took the lead, entered the fortress with a horse in his hand, and went straight to the enemy's camp.

The pottery fire thunder has become Cheng Yaojin's main force to open the way. He throws and rushes all the way, and then cooperates with steel crossbows, strong bows, and heavy shields.The main battalion of the central army of the fortress was killed in half an hour, and the enemy's defenders were trapped in the big house, and five hundred personal soldiers were ready to carry it out.

Cheng Yaojin pulled his horse forward.

The enemy general is less than a hundred steps away from him.

"General, I will lead a force to attack!"

Cheng Yaojin laughed loudly, and then stretched out his hand: "Bring that thing to the general."

This time it is not a clay pot, but a refined steel cylinder.

Cheng Yaojin's personal guard did not hand over the steel cylinder, but asked, "General, do you want one?"

"Throw it over."

The guard took out the bamboo tube from the steel tube, ignited it, put it on a large slingshot with slides, and flew over with a distance of a hundred steps.

After hearing only a loud noise, sparks flew everywhere.

The enemy took water to put out the fire, and the fire became more intense after the water was poured on it. Anyone who got stuck in the fire would be burned, and it couldn't be extinguished.

"Surrender, or fight!" Cheng Yaojin's soldiers shouted, and then hundreds of slingshots were carried out.

The guard over there turned pale, knelt down on one knee helplessly, and raised his saber high.

"Hahaha!" Cheng Yaojin laughed, strode forward and reached out to grab the knife, and then he didn't see any guards, walked straight into the leather chair of the Chinese army and sat down on the big horse with the golden knife: "Pass this general order, Those who descend will not die."

At dawn, the fire in the city was extinguished, and each battalion performed its duties and was still busy.

Several soldiers of Cheng Yaojin are being questioned by Sima in the army.

"What do you think of the new bone-eating ghost fire effect, and what ideas need to be improved?"

That one is a newly made incendiary bomb that combines the Greek fire of the Eastern Roman Empire and the white phosphorous fire of willow wood.Sima in the army needs to know the effect of each new-style ghost fire used in the experiment, as well as the user's suggestion, and then record it for the record and send it to Chang'an.

After several soldiers finished speaking, they suggested again: "We think that the clay pot should be changed, because it is too round and it will slip in the hand."

Sima in the army hesitated for a moment, then changed to a new piece of paper and began to record. Although these things were not required, people who wanted to come to the Armory Workshop might be interested in seeing them.

After all, ordnance is for soldiers to use, and the improvement suggestions put forward by soldiers must be listened to.

Almost all the soldiers in the entire Jishishan Fortress did not rest. The soldiers who did not participate in the attack last night had already begun to take over the city defense.

"General, the information given by Wenyue Pavilion is that there are about 6 enemy troops in Jishishan Fortress, but the information we obtained from the interrogation here is only 8000. After checking the barracks and the stoves, it should be this number."

Cheng Yaojin didn't speak, and the lieutenant general signaled the marching staff to continue talking.

"Siege the city last night, killing 500 people. There were about 5000 prisoners of war, and about 2 enemy soldiers were wounded. According to the interrogation of the captured enemy generals, [-] people went to Doma City for rescue."

Hearing this, Cheng Yaojin said: "The number is wrong. Let's talk about the remaining people first, so there are still a few thousand people missing. I will turn over the fortress to find it, and send people to investigate around. The enemy generals who didn't speak up were sent to this general to be severely punished, and this general wanted to know, where did he go."

(End of this chapter)