Chapter 16 Stealing Chickens Doesn't Make Rice
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"Boom, boom, boom......"
The cannon sound was loud, and the muzzles of the six heavy guns were facing the west city of Liulin Town. The black and oppressive Li Lanjun was overwhelming, overflowing Liu Xian's eyes.
It's really more than 10,000 soldiers, and there are no edges.
On October 7, Cai Changling officially launched an attack on Liulin. The first move is to bombard the cannons. A piece of heavy artillery, a few pounds of iron bullets hit the brick wall wave after wave, and fell in Liulin Town.
Behind the brick wall, the strength of the two squadrons shrunk their necks and waited for the outside to stop. Liu Xian would not let his men stay on the top of the wall to be bombarded, but only left manpower in the small forts and corner towers to garrison and observe, and the main force went down the wall in one fell swoop.
Behind the brick wall, you can't get shells from heavy artillery, so it's an absolutely safe place.
"Fifth brother, the gate has collapsed. The thieves built two or three doors into a shed, and sent people to dig holes. Zhang Zhongkui came down from the wall with a disgraced face, and the cannonballs could not collapse the small fort, but the dust and smoke in the fort could shake if he was hit.
"No matter. When they're almost done, they can pick up the powder bag. Stew the people in the cave one by one, and then block the door again. ”
The wooden-clad iron gate of the town is very powerful in the face of swords, guns and cold weapons, and it is so vulnerable to artillery when facing it.
Whether it is a 1,000-pound or 2,000-pound heavy artillery, a single bullet hits a hole, and the number of hits is too much, and the collapse is obvious.
At the gate of the west entrance of the town, two thick door panels are supported by logs to form a solid umbrella-shaped shed, blocking the west entrance of the town. Dozens of Li Lanjun's people went in and out below, going back and forth endlessly, carrying the sand and stones in the Zhenximen Cave one by one, one by one.
The gate is not used, which Liu Xian has long been prepared for. On the day Cai Changling arrived in Liulin, the doorways on all sides of the town were blocked by his employees, and the earth, stone and sandbags were crushed.
First, a burst of artillery bombardment broke the two door panels into tatters and loosened them, and then sent warriors to hit the town gate with logs, and it didn't take long for the two door panels to collapse.
This is an experience summed up by Li Lanjun's many sieges of the city. And Cai Changling has repeatedly attacked the city, and he is also very aware of the tricks of the defenders to defend the city, and it is expected that Liu Xian will definitely make people block the door hole of the town with earth, stone and sandbags, so before the siege of the city, he issued an order to take advantage of the situation to guide the siege troops to build a small shed in front of the gate of the town with the two thick wooden doors covered with iron sheets and copper nails, and then send people to carry earth, stone and sandbags inside, little by little until the entire city gate hole is hollowed out!
In less than an hour in the afternoon, the carrying team, which had worked hard for a long time, hollowed out the door hole at the west entrance of Liulin Town, and the soil, stone and sandbags that were moved out were piled up into small mountain bags on the left and right.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
The sound of explosions louder than the sound of heavy artillery bombardment. Five or six gunpowder packets fell from the wall together, stumps and severed arms flying sideways, and flesh and blood were blurred. After the smoke passed, the entrance of the door was full of hell and flesh and blood. Twenty of the elite of the Li Lanjun were killed, and the elite of the Li Lanjun lost their minds at this time!
At the same time, in the door hole, two mountain-splitting cannons roared. Then knives and guns poured up, and the elites of Li Lanjun, who were dazzled by the violent explosion in the doorway, were almost cut to the ground with almost no counterattack power, or captured alive.
There was a roar in the small fort at the head of the city, and hundreds of gravel and broken iron horns flew and shot fiercely, covering the middle and rear sections of Li Lanjun's vanguard like a net, cutting off the front and rear forces of Li Lanjun's troops. The two squadrons behind the brick wall of the town also took advantage of the situation to rush out of the town gate and meet Li Lanjun's spears and spears, Qi Dalin made people knock down the two thick door panels, and used thick wooden platoons to temporarily block the town gate for them, and Liu Xian collected his troops to 'return to the city'. When Li Lanjun blasted open the thick wooden raft with artillery fire again, the town gate inside was filled with countless earth, stone and sandbags.
Li Lanjun's morale plummeted, Cai Changling and Su Yi were depressed and unwilling to fight anymore, and on the first day of the second war, Liulin Town passed safely!
The next day, Li Lanjun still aimed at the west of the town. And the situation is exactly like the first day!
Cai Changling and Su Yi were angry and just wanted to scold their mother, but Liu Xian relied on a layer of turtle shell, and his methods were so frustrating.
And the artillery power of Li Lanjun's artillery is not much stronger. The brick walls smashed by iron bullets were full of pits, but they couldn't even open a small fort, let alone a corner tower. Liu Xian's manpower has a foothold on the wall, and no matter how loud the heavy artillery is, the meaning is equivalent to reducing it by half, and there is no flesh and blood under the gunpowder bag that can resist, which is too far from their previous assumptions.
Cai Changling had a strong force, but he didn't even dare to charge. If you don't break the cityhead fort, Liu Xian's army's mountain-splitting artillery is still there, and if you charge, you will repeat Su Yi's mistakes, and you will have to fill more than ten or twenty lives in a net, so how much blood will you have to fill it up.
Six, eight, twelve......
For five days, the artillery fire outside the town became more and more intense, and the iron bullets kept baptizing Liulin day and night, but Cai Changling still couldn't enter an inch under Liulin Town.
Lan Chaozhu led the main force of the rebel army to retreat to Puzhen!
At the same time, Qijia Town, Yangxian County.
Just like Cai Changling outside Liulin Town, the more than 3,000 Chenggu militia groups on the periphery of Yangxian County can't help Li Lanjun in the city at all.
This is still under the condition that Zhou Shaoyong's department in Xixiang and other places did not participate in it, otherwise, Deng Yuzhang's generation would have played the defeat of Puzhen a long time ago.
[Zhou Shaoyong is Li Yonghe's general in Li Lan's righteous army, and Lan Chaozhu is the second brother of Lan Chaoding in Li Lan's uprising. Xie Huayao and her father and her husband were both Li generals, Xie's father died first, Xie Huayao led his army, and her husband died later. After the remnants of Li Lanyi's army entered Hanzhong, Cai Changling said that they were married, and Lan Xie got married. 】
Chenggu's connection with others is not severed for a day. Deng Yuzhang and the others knew that as soon as they attacked Yangxian, Lan Chaozhu of Fucheng sent the general Cai Changling to lead 10,000 troops to attack Liulin Town. Deng Yuzhang and the others initially watched Liu Xian's good show with a mood of schadenfreude, but what they didn't want was that Liulin Town was impregnable under Liu Xian's guard, and Li Lanjun was trapped outside the town for many days and could not advance an inch. Sadly, this situation also happened in Yangxian, that is, the enemy and us were replaced......
Deng Yuzhang and the others are all sitting on wax!
The situation is too embarrassing, what should I do?
Deng Yuzhang and others, who have the main force of the militia group, started from the point of view that it doesn't matter if Liulin is lost, the county will not be lost anyway, and their families have already moved into the county seat, so they don't have to worry about the future. Whether it's a shame or a loss of strength, it's all Liu Xian's, and it has nothing to do with him.
So I didn't show a little bit of the meaning of returning to the army to save each other. Even Li Danyang, who was quite eager to woo Liu Xian at the beginning, didn't have more than half a word to say for Liu Xian.
To break things down, this group of people is still jealous of Liu Xian's previous victory in Liulin's face.
"Now, my old face is going to be beaten for the second time!" Deng Yuzhang said with emotion.
Stealing chickens is not a loss of rice, even gas, it is angry that you are not angry!