Chapter 193: Digging a Pit
Inside the No. 1 fortress, after repelling the enemy's first large-scale attack, the medical guards and the militia who were preparing in the rear kept shuttling in the feathered arrows all over the ground, treating all the wounded, and after preliminary treatment, they were sent to the hospital, where Chen Xin put on the doctor's suit again and operated on the seriously wounded. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The other officers performed their duties, went to the logistics department to receive supplies, supervised the maintenance of soldiers' weapons, arranged for soldiers on duty, and so on, all in accordance with the requirements of military discipline and did it in an orderly manner.
Standing on the top of a hill, Sukh Saha had seen almost the whole process of this battle, and was shocked by the fact that the vanguard had been almost completely annihilated at the first attack.
His eyes became very solemn as he looked at Fort No. 1 in the distance.
"How can Chen Xin have so many cannons? Did you buy it from Daming? ”
"Well, master, they have a very poor relationship with Dongjiang Town in Daming, and there have even been several major wars, so it can't be that they bought it."
"Didn't you buy it? Then tell me, how did they have so many cannons? Haven't you been exploring in the past few years? ”
"Master, there seems to be a hidden force in this Chen Xin's hands, and the spies we sent are either missing or unable to detect any useful information at all, but according to the minions, the artillery should have been forged by themselves."
"Cast it yourself? Where did they come from? Where did the good iron come from? ”
"Well, Chen Xin's subordinates, except for the iron materials they bought for a period of time at the beginning, have never bought iron from the surrounding Jurchen Zhuangzi since then, so the materials for this cannon should also be produced by themselves, as for the craftsmen, the minions really don't know, and there are no craftsmen for cannon casting in South Korea and North Korea."
Sukh Saha snorted angrily, "I don't know anything, what use do I want from you." ”
"Minions deserve to die."
Looking at the "bang, bang, Don't be an eyesore here. ”
"Yes, thank you for your kindness."
Looking at the person who was kneeling and retreating, Sukh Saha snorted coldly again, and everyone around him was silent, and he didn't dare to make a loud breath.
Sukh Saha is now in a dilemma, and he felt that there were too few veterans in Chen Xin's hands before, but today he sent tens of thousands of troops plus tens of thousands of Korean refugees, and he was able to easily capture the wooden camp in front of him with a devastating momentum, but the powerful firepower of the short period just now gave him a blow to the head.
Originally, seeing that the enemy army was so difficult to provoke, Sukh Saha should have changed his thinking and started from other places, after all, Houjin was never willing to gnaw hard bones. But・・・・・・
When the army was ordered to collect grain on the spot, the hundreds of thousands of troops under his command faintly did not listen to the greetings, and later, by promoting the people of the original white flag, it was finally possible to have a certain degree of control over the army. But there are still a lot of people who are in the yang and yin, and this time it is just to be able to solve the battle at one time, so even the elite Bayala has invested more than half of it.
Now that the power he has mastered by himself has suffered such a big loss, the military leaders below should have a small move again.
If we change our plans now and pull out the camp, once we are on the road, these armies will not be easy to control.
After a long time, Sukh Saha ordered, "Send 5,000 servants to try the defenses of the other two camps." ”
"Wow."
"Also, if the situation is not right, withdraw immediately."
"Tara."
"The minions are here."
"Take your people and continue to catch civilians nearby, we still need a lot of cannon fodder."
"Wow."
"The attack on the middle camp cannot be stopped, you take turns, you must keep driving away the civilians, fill in the trenches for me, dig the fences for me, I want my cavalry to be able to rush directly in front of Chen Xin's eyes."
"Wow." And they all received their orders together.
Although the scale of the ensuing battle was much reduced, the intensity did not decrease in the slightest, and the two sides fell into a kind of mutual attrition.
The Houjin side is frantically consuming all kinds of human resources, and each time it uses a small number of soldiers to drive away a large number of South Korean civilians captured from the surrounding areas, making them carry sand and soil to face the rain of bullets.
The Xuan army was consuming a large amount of gunpowder and projectiles, and although there were many stocks inside the fortress, Chen Xin was still not at ease, and took advantage of the fact that the enemy army did not block the road to the rear, and continued to transport supplies to the fortress.
The battle barely stopped for a moment, with both sides taking turns sending troops to fight, and soon the sun was below sea level.
Even after nightfall, Houjin's attack did not stop.
During the day, no one from the Houjin side was able to get close to the trench.
At night, even if there is a candle searchlight made by the principle of concentrating light with lenses, this light can't shine too far, and Houjin sent a marksman to shoot at the searchlight in the dark.
Taking advantage of the fact that the candle flame was extinguished and it was dark ahead, the South Korean civilians who were being driven immediately rushed to the edge of the trench with baskets and threw them into it.
Although the scale of the attack at night was much smaller than during the day due to night blindness, the efficiency of filling the trench was much stronger than during the day, and at least they could touch the edge of the trench at night.
In one night, although there was not much soil filled, the ability to touch the trench of the Xuan army had already made the Houjin soldiers who were shocked by the powerful firepower of the Xuan army ecstatic, and after knowing that it was useful, the way of fighting in the next place changed.
During the day, these Houjin soldiers did not exert their strength, and under the pressure of the officers, they only stopped at a distance of 500 meters from the infantry guns, and then continued to frighten and drive the civilians forward, while these people scattered in place, praying that the shells of the navy's heavy artillery would not fall in front of them. Then, at night, these people will come to life, personally lead the team, and force the civilians to fill the trenches.
Although there were still heavy casualties at night, it was very good compared to the helpless situation of the target during the day.
Fighting, fighting, these Houjin soldiers found that the artillery accuracy of the Xuan army was getting better and better during the day, even if they were lying on the ground, they might be hit by the scattered shells of the heavy artillery, so they began to dig individual pits and hide themselves in the pit when they were fighting. In this way, they will not be hit by the shells of the Xuan army.
Some officers on the Houjin side soon discovered this phenomenon and didn't pay much attention to it at first, but seeing that the days were passing day by day and the weather was getting colder and colder, several Jurchen officers who were really unwilling to endure this kind of torment decided to find a way to end this kind of life.
After the discussion, this method of digging the pit aroused the interest of many officers, and together they proposed a bold battle plan to Sukh Sakha based on this inspiration.