Chapter One Hundred and Seven: A Dilemma
Although Dong Zhuo forced the foreign army to take the lead, he did not let them die in vain, he was also a person who knew the soldiers, and he also rose up from below step by step, and he had his own set of tactics for how to use soldiers.
After Yuan Shu and several other private soldiers formed a queue and approached the city wall, Dong Zhuo sent his own shooting battalion to follow behind, on the one hand, to provide long-range support to the infantry in front, and on the other hand, to force the army in front to fight hard.
In the ordinary army, those who can shoot three-stone bows can be regarded as elite, but in the shooting battalion deliberately formed by Dong Zhuo, soldiers who can shoot three-stone strong bows abound, when they lined up in a neat queue and began to approach, Guo Jia on the wall of the imperial city noticed these armored crossbowmen at a glance, and now he is guarding the city wall, what should be paid attention to, Guo Jia is naturally clear, and he naturally pays special attention to the enemy's long-range strike force.
"Hey, it's the Danyang soldiers and the shooting battalion, Dong Zhuo's capital is big enough!"
Without Guo Jia's order, at this time Wang Yue pulled his bow again and shot at the Danyang soldiers who formed a battle formation, this time he was no longer tempting, but aimed at the gap between the enemy's soldiers, and the arrows drilled into the gaps in the shield, shooting through the soldiers inside, and in the screams, a soldier fell to the ground, suddenly revealing a big gap.
Although the Danyang soldiers on the side immediately filled the gap, the archers who had been waiting for a long time on the city took the opportunity to shoot down several enemies, and saw that the city was already able to make an effective counterattack.
Guo Jia ordered at this time: "Put up the curtain!" ”
The curtain, which had just been completed, was lifted as if it were a dark cloud, and then he continued to order: "Let the eunuchs and court maids carry the stones and wood under the city wall." ”
Originally, there were no such things in the palace, but as long as some pavilions and pavilions were demolished, then there would be everything, and if it was urgent, let alone the pavilions outside, the palace could also be demolished.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Your Highness has an order, two days later, the Northern Regions army will come, and all the soldiers in this battle will be given ten gold, if there are meritorious ones, the reward will be doubled, and you will also be the choice of the regular soldiers!"
This reward is not too much, it is equivalent to a hundred yuan per person, but this is not Guo Jia's stinginess, the Northern Regions Treasury is rich, and the salary of a soldier is not low, it is also equivalent to an iron rice bowl, and the money rewarded is not as good as the promise that they are regular soldiers.
The armor system of the Northern Regions is now divided into regular soldiers and auxiliary soldiers, the annual salary of the auxiliary soldiers is 12 silver, with today's prices, it is enough to feed a family, and the auxiliary soldiers are less engaged in the war, generally auxiliary work, or the town guards and inspects the county.
The regular soldiers in the Northern Regions, the annual salary ranges from one to five gold, that is, the lowest gold is equivalent to ten times, the regular soldiers are sixteen to forty-six years, the service period is thirty years, and there are two months off every year.
In general, the regular soldiers of the Northern Regions are a pretty good profession in this era, far surpassing the treatment of the previous Han army, whether it is a fortune or status.
Originally, seeing that the enemy's side was strong, some soldiers had different thoughts, in this case, the commander had to make a decision quickly, otherwise his ability to control was a little worse, and he was afraid that he would be tied up immediately.
And Dong Zhuo under the city was sighing in his heart at this time, he was fighting the wrong battlefield with the wrong opponent at the wrong time, in the wrong place!
He knew that he was nothing, it was a big deal to wait until it was dark, and he would leave with his pro-army, and it would be a big deal to go back to Xiliang, he was still not afraid of those people of the Qiang tribe, but if he left, there would be no hope for hegemony in this life, Dong Zhuo was unwilling!
At this time, the wooden platoons under the city were erected section by section, and several ladder carts were also surrounded by soldiers and horses, and they were leaning towards the city wall.
After all, everyone knows that now it is a situation that cannot be retreated, especially those under He Jin before, the current turmoil situation, when the Northern Regions army comes, what will be the result of them, it is clearly written in the history books.
The forbidden army in the city and the Northern Regions coalition army worked together, with bows and crossbows, nailing all the soldiers near the ladder cart to the ground, and the soldiers who were exposed were shot to death, several ladder carts were still moving slowly, and in the small space inside the ladder, more than a dozen soldiers were naked, and they were using all their strength to push hard.
Huge wooden wheels rolled across the bluestone floor, leaving a visible mark. Even without the help of the soldiers outside, just relying on the people inside, they can push the ladder cart to continue to move forward, and in the face of such a turtle shell, Guo Jia immediately asked the soldiers to ignite the grease behind the battlements and use rockets to deal with it.
At this time, Wang Yue picked up his strong bow and faced the armored crossbowman who had approached a distance of eighty paces, even at a distance of eighty paces, the arrows he shot still had amazing accuracy and power, and even if the person who was shot was not killed on the spot, he would immediately lose his combat effectiveness.
Wang Yue doesn't care about anything else at this time, he is a benchmark, although there are not many people who shoot and die, but it is full of deterrence, and the morale of the surrounding armor soldiers is also greatly improved, he opens the bow unhurriedly, and he must aim carefully before each shot, and adjust the crosshair according to the feedback of the arrow, so that his high hit rate is terrible, as long as he dares to stand still and does not hold a big shield, he is shot down like a name.
Seeing that the crossbowmen of the Shooting Battalion were shot down one by one, the Captain of Dong Zhuo's Shooting Sound below immediately stopped his intention to let the soldiers under his command continue to advance, and the armored crossbowmen spread out in place, opening a wide distance between them, and the strong crossbowmen ignored the arrows shot from the city, sat down on the ground, and kicked the strong crossbow away.
Several crossbowmen screamed and were nailed to the ground, and the rest of the people were unmoved, quickly put the crossbow arrows on and aimed at the head of the city, and then under the order of the officer, the salvo was fired, Dong Zhuo's strong crossbow used by the soldiers of the shooting battalion was six stones, although it could only shoot directly, but it was full of power, just a salvo, several people on the city head screamed and fell, if it was not for the cover of the curtain, the number of casualties would have at least doubled.
Fortunately, although the strong crossbow is very powerful, but the winding is very troublesome, the more powerful the crossbow, the longer it takes to wind, in the gap between the strong crossbowmen winding, the crossbowmen on the city head leaned out from the city together, and the arrows rained down on the position of the crossbowmen of the shooting battalion.
From time to time, crossbowmen were nailed to the ground by arrows falling from the sky, and the archers used a step bow that was no more than three stones, and could not kill with one blow like Wang Yue.
But this does not mean a good thing for the enemy, many of the crossbowmen of the shooting battalion are not dead for a while, wailing and howling on the ground, and the soldiers waiting in the rear look at the face of a great change, they originally thought that this time they were here to pick up cheap and rob happily, but who knew that the enemy on the opposite side was so ferocious, and did not care about the friendship of everyone Han Chinese.
Dong Zhuo's soldiers were not trained enough, most of them were armor soldiers trained by Huangfu Song before, and they were later taken over by Dong Zhuo, these people are nothing more than obeying orders and going with the flow, and their morale can be imagined.
Seeing the heavy casualties, many soldiers immediately abandoned their positions, and their crossbows could not be wound, and they threw them away and tried to hide behind the shields; At this time, Wang Yue had many goals, he opened his bow, landed his crosshair on an enemy he fancied, and then released his fingers, and in the sound of the bowstring vibrating, the body of the soldier on the opposite side shook, and he immediately fell to the ground and died.
Then randomly select a target again, shoot an arrow, that is, an enemy falls, at this time the crossbowmen on the head of the city, all the same, although they may only shoot one person with three or five arrows, but thousands of crossbowmen, one shot, more than a hundred people fell.
Dong Zhuo watched in silence as his soldiers were cut down like rice, and several generals around him were already scolding bitterly.
"Shameless!"
"Heaven killing thief," one of Dong Zhuo's henchmen and generals said in a loud voice: "General, after the city is broken, none of the thieves inside can be left!" ”
The other generals agreed, and they didn't necessarily really want to kill all the people inside, but being on a battlefield like Shura's hell, they naturally had a murderous intent.
It's like slaughtering a city, it's just that the commander can't bear the fire in his heart, and he can't help the enemy, so he spills his anger on the people they can.
Some of the strong crossbowmen of Dong Zhuo's shooting battalion finally finished winding, and then loaded the crossbow arrows and aimed at the city head again, and above the city head, there were officers who had been paying attention and shouted, "Pay attention to dodge!" ”
The soldiers who shot the arrows suddenly stopped what they were doing, and immediately hid behind the battlements, and then heard a torrential sound, and the dense short crossbow bolts shot over, and there were still a few soldiers who couldn't dodge and fell screaming on their shoulders, and the covered cloth curtain was also torn open with many holes, and the city walls, towers, as long as they were within reach, were covered by dense crossbow arrows.
After the crossbowmen below shot, the soldiers at the head of the city did not hear the order and immediately returned the color, but unexpectedly, there was a burst of crossbow arrows under the city, and several soldiers just poked their heads out, and they were shot by the crossbow arrows in the face, and they didn't even have time to scream, they were directly shot in the head, and it turned out that the shooting captain commanded by Dong Zhuo in front of the formation did not continue to let his subordinates fire in a volley, but let the crossbowmen shoot separately to maintain continuous suppression.
At the head of the city, the officers could only look at those anxious sergeants, no way, they could only harden their hearts, and they didn't look at these people, there were palace maids and eunuchs who pulled the injured people down, and those who could be treated tried to save them, and those who couldn't were pulled down and let them wait for death.
Wang Yue was not affected, he was constantly moving between several battlements, changing places every time he shot a few arrows, although the crossbow arrows on the opposite side were powerful, but as long as he was not hit by the face gate, it would be fine, besides, his body could easily dodge.
The crossbows under the city are not aimed at him alone, if there are hundreds of crossbows aimed at him alone, it will be difficult for him to dodge, and he may have to die, but now in the defense of the city, these arrows fired indiscriminately are helpless to him.
Before, Guo Jia also asked the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace to prepare a lot of cloth, which were scattered in front of him, blocking the sight of the city, and in this way, he also interfered with the crossbowmen under the city, otherwise, he would not be able to output so happily.
The city and the city shot at each other for a while, the city head occupies a geographical advantage, and there is shelter, the casualties are obviously much smaller, although the crossbowmen of Dong Zhuo's shooting battalion under the city have armor, but for the convenience of action, they are mostly pierced armor or armor, few are wearing iron armor, plus they are shot by the enemy condescendingly, it is a heavy casualty.
When the castle can shoot the castle, it will only be easier to shoot the castle below.
Wang Yue was distracted, shooting the enemy under the city while thinking about the enemy's intentions.
Because the soldiers who helped push outside were shot one after another, the ladder cart moved very slowly, and when the shooting battalion under the city had more than 500 people killed and wounded, it only moved less than half the distance, according to this casualty rate, when the ladder cart leaned against the city wall, I was afraid that Dong Zhuo's crossbowmen would be killed and wounded.
Dong Zhuo's shooting captain really couldn't stand such casualties, and looked back at Dong Zhuo several times, but saw Dong Zhuo sitting safely under the umbrella of Huang Luo, as if he was not seeing the corpses everywhere in front of him.
"Collapse!"
The terrifying sound of the bowstring at the top of the city sounded again, and one of the crossbowmen could not bear the torture and abandoned his weapon to escape, but was beheaded by his own officers who oversaw the battle.
The expression on Captain Shot's face changed several times, and he couldn't help but throw the Han sword in his hand to the ground, turned around and ran dozens of steps, jumped on the horse, and rushed to the front of Dong Zhuo's car, he was blocked by Dong Zhuo's own soldiers ten steps away, but he still said loudly: "General, it's okay!" ”
Now in this situation, in fact, Dong Zhuo has no good way, he can only think, with casualties, whether he can take the palace, if he can take the palace, then everything still has a chance, as long as he occupies the palace and captures the queen mother, queen, prince and jade seal, he can canonize his own soldiers and make his own soldiers stronger.
It can also be justifiably taken over the Northern Army, and tens of thousands of Northern Army are the balance that affects this war, but the Northern Army is now suppressed by Liu Bei, who is in charge of Jinwu, although he can't order the Northern Army to come out to fight, but it can also make the Northern Army temporarily unable to move.
Now Dong Zhuo is relying on the order of the general He Jin at the beginning, and what he is doing now is to echo morality, but after all, he still has fewer soldiers and horses, if there are tens of thousands of well-trained soldiers and horses, they can be separated, and they can force the northern army to land on the wall, and then take the arsenal and Taicang, thousands of people and horses in the palace, at that time, it will not be a difficult matter.
But now, Dong Zhuo is in a dilemma, if he doesn't take the palace, he can't justifiably become a real general, and he can't command the northern army, and his morale is still like this, so to speak, if he goes on like this, he feels that he has only one way to lose!
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