Chapter 600: A Jaw-dropping Battle
The generals didn't ask much, after all, a figure like Marquis Qin, no one would suspect that he had really made a low-level mistake just now.
Qin Shuhuai exhaled weakly, and secretly reminded himself that although he didn't have many times to say such "idiotic words", he still had to go through his head when he spoke in the future.
The army was extremely slow because of the large number of ladders and dismantled archer platforms. Normally, you can walk for two hours to reach Yongping, but this time I walked for four hours, and it was not until dawn that I traveled to about twenty miles away from Yongping.
Qin Shuhuai ordered that a thousand brocade guards could set off, pass through Yongping, and block the road between Yongping and Shimenzhai.
Obviously, after the Tartars in Yongping City suddenly saw a thousand "cavalry" coming, under unknown circumstances, they would only close the city gate to improve their combat readiness, and would not intercept these brocade guards. In this way, the Jinyi Guard can ambush the front early and block the road.
After the Jinyi guard set off, the army marched for another half an hour before arriving at Yongping.
Yongping City is closed and ready to fight.
The coalition forces did not say a word, besieged the city.
Quickly assemble the archer platform.
Half an hour later, the forty archers were assembled.
It was nearly noon.
Qin Shuhuai gave an order, attack the city!
Yongping City is a square city, and the four walls are two or three miles long. About 1,500 Tartars stood on each wall, and it was estimated that the remaining 2,000 would serve as a reserve to reinforce the place where the crisis was occurring.
Naturally, the coalition forces will attack from all sides at the same time, so as to maximize their superiority in troops.
However, there is only one direction of the main attack, that is, the West Gate, and the others are all feints.
According to Qin Shuhuai's meaning, the coalition soldiers who feinted were just putting on a show. These soldiers deliberately wore three layers of armor, then put up a big shield, rushed to the city under the cover of the armored car, pretended to set up a ladder, rubbed for a while, and then put the ladder down under the city wall and retreated!
After withdrawing, attack again after a while, and so on, so that the Tartars on the city wall will not fight, nor will they not fight, but they will not be able to walk away.
And the Tartars of the western wall are not so easy. All forty archers were sent to the West Gate, and in addition to eight archers on each platform, there was also a hand-pressed water dragon of the River Gang's Clear Water Banner, and two River Gang Fire Banner men with thunderbolts on their backs.
After the high platform slowly approached the most suitable distance under the impetus of many soldiers underground, the allied archers began to frantically suppress the Tartar archers on the city.
There were about one hundred and fifty Tartar archers at the head of the city, but there were three hundred and twenty archers on the forty high platforms of the coalition army, and they were condescending, so it was naturally more than enough to suppress them.
When the Tartar archers were so pressed that they couldn't lift their heads, the River Gang Qingshui Banner began to exert its might.
The Qingshui Banner Man frantically pressed the handle of the hand-pressed water dragon, and immediately spewed out streams of "green Gong water" from the mouth of the "water dragon" and shot towards the city.
Because of the condescending, and the passage of the city head is narrow and densely populated, the strong corrosive "green gong water" exerted a huge power, under the soaring of forty water dragons, the city head is like a gust of rain. If the bow and arrow can also be blocked by battlements, then falling under a parabola and falling like a rainy "green gong water" is not at all blocked by battlements.
This is a complete disaster for the Tartars without a shield!
Before the countless Tartar soldiers could fight the Ming army, the skin on their bodies began to fester, revealing one after another wounds with blurred flesh and blood, yellow, white and red, and a scorched smell. They wailed and screamed wildly, and their faces were distorted, and the pain was chilling.
There was a great turmoil in the city.
And the Tartar soldiers with shields are not lucky.
Because the Fire Banner of the River Gang has also become powerful!
Thunderbolts rained down on the city with precision, and in the midst of the huge explosion, countless Tartar soldiers were blown away from the city. Some of them have their whole bodies falling, and some of them are still there, but their hands and feet don't know where they have flown to.
After a burst of "thunderbolt" rain, most of the Tartar shield soldiers who had finally survived the "Green Gongshui" rain were also blown up.
The coalition army has not yet reached the city wall, and of the 1,500 Tartars on the wall of the West Gate, only four or five hundred can stand up!
In order to save the precious thunderbolt and green water, the high platform will be accepted when it is good.
On this expedition, Qiu Dali moved all the thunderbolts and green gongshui stored in the gang. However, although Qin Shuhuai didn't need money to make these things at the beginning, he still couldn't supply them in unlimited quantities, and he had to deal with so many Tartar armies later, so he naturally had to save some money.
Qin Shuhuai watched the raging archer platform from a distance, and couldn't help but tilt the corners of his mouth upwards proudly.
I have to say that the combination of archers, green Gongshui, and thunderbolts is simply a super killer, and the huge power that erupts has far exceeded his imagination. In this wave of attacks, the coalition forces only suffered nearly a hundred casualties at most, but directly annihilated thousands of Tartars!
After being happy, he regretted a little, he had known this, and he should have made these things earlier. If only the Green Gongshui and Thunderbolt were enough, these things could play a leading role in the war in the future until the more powerful cannon was invented!
He decided that after he returned, he must find more warlocks and craftsmen to further produce and develop. He is not worried about the R&D capabilities of this world. Because this is the world of martial arts, the demand for pills on the rivers and lakes is so great that there are many more alchemists than in history!
How did chemistry develop in ancient times? It was basically developed by alchemists!
These warlocks have gone to great lengths to find all kinds of herbs and all kinds of minerals necessary for alchemy, and they are constantly studying the production process of various pills and potions, so it is not an exaggeration to say that the purity of the "Green Gong Water" used by Qin Shuhuai is higher than in history, and the power of the thunderbolt is also greater than in history, and the production speed is also much faster than in history, so theoretically, it can indeed support him, and the tactics of the three-in-one of Green Gong Water, Thunderbolt and bow and arrow will be used as the main tactic of siege warfare in the future.
Not yet, of course, because there are too few stocks. Especially the green Gongshui, because of the cumbersome production, the army does not have many reserves now. In this way, one-eighth of the current stock of green gong water has been consumed, so it can only be tasted.
Straight to the point.
When the high platform was wreaking havoc, the coalition forces naturally began to climb the ladder to attack the city. In order to reduce the consumption of soldiers, Qin Shuhuai sent seven or eight top masters such as Zhiren, Wang Datong, and Chang Wuji to rush to the city wall to kill first. Now there are only four or five hundred troops on the city wall, and you can imagine what the result will be after these masters go up. When the first ordinary soldiers of the coalition army rushed to the city, the Tartar soldiers were already in disarray, and they could not organize a decent counterattack at all!
Before the Tartar reserves could be reinforced, the western wall had already been captured by the coalition forces.
Fifteen hundred Tartars were wiped out, while the coalition suffered only two hundred and twenty casualties, of which more than 130 were only wounded, and three of them accidentally fell down while climbing the ladder themselves.
This may be the most jaw-dropping battle in the history of the Ming and Houjin wars since the time of Nurhachi.