Chapter 579: Wang Yue's Hole Cards
The scene of the last Wuzhou city was still vivid, how did Wang Yue not know that after these pseudo-Tang thieves blew up the city wall, they would use heavy infantry to attack.
In the battle to defend the city, compared with the sharp firearms of the puppet Tang thief army, their heavy infantry wearing thick armor is more threatening, and if they want to hold the city of Guangzhou, they must plug the gap as soon as possible.
And if you want to block the impact of those elite heavy armor, the troops sent to plug the gap must not be ordinary infantry, that is just to deliver food.
He shouted in his mouth that it was not an ordinary guard soldier who was sent out, but his direct supervision unit!
Seeing that the camp closest to the blast, the subordinate of the governor rushed up, and the musket battalion in the rear was also going quickly, Wang Yue couldn't help but feel a little relieved.
The city wall was blasted, to be honest, this was within his expectations, a large number of heavy-armored pseudo-Tang soldiers rushed up outside the city, which was also within his expectations, and now what we have to see is that the heavy armor of the pseudo-Tang thief army is powerful, or the superintendent who has worked hard and spent a lot of money to build is even more powerful.
Since the fiasco in the Battle of Wuzhou, Wang Yue can be said to be calm and painful, almost day and night thinking about how to deal with the puppet Tang thief army, and to deal with the puppet Tang thief army, it is natural to understand the puppet Tang thief army first, from their military system, tactics and even logistics supply, political system, etc., Wang Yue has taken a lot of effort to understand.
From the information learned from this, combined with the many actual battles in Guangxi before, Wang Yue thought that he knew more about the puppet Tang thief army.
The strength of the puppet Tang thief army lies in its sharp firearms and its fearlessness.
The puppet Tang thief's firearms are sharp, this is almost recognized, regardless of whether they have fought with the puppet Tang thief army or not, they already know that the puppet Tang thief army's firearms are sharp.
But the point of not being afraid of death is Wang Yue's own conclusion.
Everyone in the world knows that the puppet Tang thief army has sharp weapons, but in Wang Yue's view, the puppet Tang thief army's fearlessness of death is even more terrifying.
Whether it is a frontal decisive battle in the field or an offensive and defensive battle in the city, almost every time it is after the pseudo-Tang thief army rushes up and engages in hand-to-hand combat with the official army, the official army cannot support it, resulting in a fiasco.
To be honest, Wang Yue still hasn't figured out why the puppet Tang thief army is so fierce and not afraid of death, and in the end he can only put his willingness on the strict military law of the puppet Tang thief army.
Because he had seen with his own eyes in Wuzhou City, when the puppet Tang thief army was attacking the city, the rows of overseers behind him forcibly drove the troops to charge and fight, according to him, the people who died in the hands of the pseudo-Tang thief army superintendent team probably would not be less than those who died in the official army.
When he learned about these advantages of the puppet Tang thief army, then Wang Yue would naturally make corresponding arrangements.
Firearms are sharp, this is the best solution, and no one stipulates that only thieves can use firearms, and the court officials and soldiers cannot use firearms, besides, when the court officials and soldiers used firearms to fight, Li Shun's father and son were not born yet, so the cause of today's predicament is nothing more than that the firearms used by the officials and soldiers are old and unusable.
What if there is no advanced firearm, imitation, outsourcing, there are many ways!
No, after several months of hard work, the city of Guangzhou is already covered with all kinds of artillery, among which there are even super invincible general cannons purchased from foreigners, which are big guys who can shock dozens of miles with one cannon.
One shot over, erosion of the enemy camp for more than ten miles!
Well, the words that have eroded the enemy camp for more than ten miles are the original words in his excerpt to the court!
But seriously, he still has a little credibility in what he said, the twelve-pounder gun he purchased is a ship-based cannon, if you don't consider the accuracy of hitting, its maximum range can reach almost four thousand meters, which is converted into the 'li' of the Ming Dynasty's official army, there are also seven or eight miles, and then rounded up, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is ten miles.
As for firing the cannon at the maximum range, where the shells will fly, only God will know.
Not only artillery, but he also purchased a large number of muskets, plus a few self-imitated muskets, but let him make up five or six hundred guns, and then according to the establishment of the pseudo-Tang thief army, he added the same spearmen to form a musket battalion.
It's not easy to get the kind of flowering bullet in the pseudo-Tang thief army, because he got a few shots of the musket of the pseudo-Tang thief army through various means, but he hasn't gotten the real thing yet, and he doesn't know if the foreigner has this thing, but he has already asked the craftsmen to ponder this kind of flowering bullet of the pseudo-Tang thief army, and I believe there will be one in the future.
He believes that after owning this batch of firearms, although the overall power of the firearms is not comparable to the firearms of the puppet Tang thief army outside the city, it is enough to change the embarrassing situation that his side cannot fight back when he is beaten in the field of firearms.
It's just that in the artillery battle a few days ago, he found that after the artillery of both sides fought, his own side suffered heavy losses, but the opponent's losses were very small, which made him extremely angry, but there was no way, who let his own gunners miss.
In terms of firearms, it can be preliminarily solved through outsourcing and imitation, but the fact that the pseudo-Tang thief army is not afraid of death is not so easy to fight.
He himself knew what the martial artists in the guard army were, and it was not feasible to count on them, so he could only rely on recruitment.
Therefore, he vigorously supported Yu Dayou to reorganize and supplement the Guangzhou camp, and at the same time, he also expanded his lineage.
In order to improve the combat effectiveness of these recruits, on the one hand, he collected the best equipment for them, including steel knives, armor, muskets, artillery, etc., and on the other hand, he also improved the salary, so that brave men would appear under the heavy reward.
As for the strict military law, he wanted to do it, but the generals under him refused to do it!
Strict military law is not something that any army can play, and without absolute prestige and a rigorous military system, such a thing will provoke mutiny.
You must know that even if he is the superintendent of his descendant troops, strictly speaking, these armies do not belong to him, but to several generals under him, and he can only control the army by controlling the generals of his descendants.
This kind of thing is not so easy to change.
Preparing firearms, concentrating on the training of the Guangzhou battalion and supervising the standard, from these two points, Wang Yue can be said to have made great efforts, and expects to be able to achieve corresponding success, these two troops are also his greatest confidence in defending the city of Guangzhou!
And now, it's time to test how effective his rearmament actions really are!
The camp of the Governor Biao, who he had high hopes for, immediately headed towards the gap in the city wall that had been blown into ruins, where it was already empty, and they urgently needed to go up as soon as possible, otherwise the puppet Tang thief army would rush in.
As for the original guards in this section of the city wall, they had already been finished when the city wall collapsed, and even the defenders of the nearby city wall within tens of meters or even a hundred meters were either killed or injured or frightened, and now they were running around, and only a few guards began to go to the gap under the leadership of the generals.
However, if these broken guards on the city wall can block the gap, then it is simply ignoring the more than 1,000 pseudo-Tang heavy armored infantry rushing over outside the city.
Wang Yue never expected these guards and young men to be able to play a role in such a critical moment, as long as these defenders stationed at the head of the city could guard the original city wall step by step, and prevent other pseudo-Tang thieves outside the city from rushing up, it would be considered a success.
After all, in addition to those pseudo-Tang heavy armor troops who rushed to the gap, there were more pseudo-Tang thief armies that charged towards other intact city walls.
This is a general attack of the whole army, not a single battle of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment and the three temporary assault battalions.
It is impossible for tens of thousands of troops to sit idly by and watch this elite force, which has a total of only 3,000 men, fight alone, and they will launch even larger attacks in other directions.
The 3rd Garrison Brigade and the 4th Garrison Brigade had already rushed forward, and the musketeers of the 1st Infantry Brigade used muskets to suppress the counterattack fire of the Ming army at the head of the city.
The charge of more than 10,000 people is terrifying, although in the battle plan of the Tang Dynasty, they are only accompanying the attacking forces, but if the Ming army makes a mistake in coping, it can also change from accompanying attack to active at any time.
After all, no one stipulates that it is necessary to enter through the gap in the city wall that has been successfully blasted, and there is no provision that it must be the Liuzhou Independent Regiment and the assault battalion that rush to the city to make a breakthrough!
People are alive, and battle plans can be changed at any time.
Wang Yue is naturally quite clear about this reason, so although the threat on the gap is very big, Wang Yue did not fill in all the reserves, he just sent a total of about 4,000 people to the trap camp and the musket battalion.
The 3,000 Guangzhou battalion led by Yu Dayou and the remaining 1,000 people who supervised the standard remained unchanged to prevent danger from other directions.
At the same time, Li Xuan, who was fighting outside the city, held a single-pass telescope in his hand, watching the more than 2,000 people of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment and the assault battalion rushing rapidly, and it was already about to approach the gap in the city wall, but his face was not relaxed in the slightest, because he found that the gap in the city wall had begun to appear Ming troops, although there were still very few Ming troops appearing, but this already meant that the Ming army in the city had already reacted.
And then, it's time to compete for the hard power of both sides!
Outside the gap in the city wall, the first grenadier team belonging to the first regiment, but now temporarily incorporated into the first assault battalion, is on the right side of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, and they advance in coordination with the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, and are responsible for providing them with fire support at medium and close range!
At this time, a grenadier captain in a dark blue officer's uniform and with the rank of captain rode quickly past his soldiers, his command knife raised high, and at the same time shouted: "Stop!" ”
"Salvo ready!"