Chapter 1210: Women are inferior to men
"Get out of here, your mission is to fight with the 2nd Division, don't get in the way here. Shu Li, the commander of the 4th Mixed Division, solved Dai Le's problem.
As the second echelon of attack, he was only a quarter of an hour behind Dai Le, and before Dai Le left the territory of Blue Castle City, he ascended to the north gate.
At about the same time, another city on the northern border of North County, Kaji City, closed the gates and lit wolf smoke at the same time, and the city lord sent a distress signal and organized militia to help defend the city, because there were exactly two brigades of the 28th Division in the city.
Sun Yilei ran around the city and came to the east gate and joined the main force, "My lord, there are people from the enemy's 28th division on all sides, and the city has been prepared, and his subordinates have not found a chance to attack the gate." He reported to Fan Yuzhen.
The 74th Division is now a mixed 5th Division, which is also the second attack echelon, and after receiving Ding Kui's attack order, he immediately let the heavy cavalry brigade of the headquarters kill all the way to the city.
"That's right! Destroying the enemy's 28th Division here, it will be easier for friendly forces to attack the county town. "Fan Yuzhen didn't think that the Zhongbei Route Army was a trouble.
In her eyes, her own army is similar to the city defense army, and she is not qualified to stop them.
"Ding Cai led his troops to the city, and Xie Luoli and Ji Zhubao were responsible for covering!" she chose to attack head-on.
Ding Cai secretly said in his heart: Stinky girls, I don't know how to take care of my lover, let me go to the city defense.
But the military order had been given, and he had to raise his spear and shout: "Brothers, follow me!"
A thousand elite infantry carrying five long ladders rushed out to the city wall on the left side of the city gate.
Why five long ladders? Normally, a brigade of infantry should have ten long ladders, so that the strength of the defense can be thinned.
Because the 8th Brigade uses the latest type of folding telescopic ladder, which is made of Hengfu City Arsenal, the long ladder adopts a metal structure, which is stronger but also heavier.
The 4th and 5th Brigades quickly ran into the attack position, untied the golden bamboo crossbow from their backs, and skillfully used the lever to load the arrows, aiming at the curious defenders on the city wall.
They were more than four hundred meters away from the city walls, and the defenders could only watch from within the range of the city's defense weapons.
Ding Cai's men overturned the horses, poked out the pits with long poles, and used bamboo rakes to remove iron thorns, and opened five roads to the city wall.
"Beep!" Xie Luoli and Ji Zhubao blew the bronze whistle at the same time.
Two thousand crossbow arrows came out of the string, aiming at the top of the city wall and firing a concentrated fire.
The defenders were aiming at the five infantry teams advancing in unison, and as soon as they were within two hundred meters of the killing range, they would attack.
The commander on the city wall was horrified to find that the crossbow bolts had crossed a distance of more than four hundred meters, and began to dive towards the defenders, "Duck, duck, dodge the arrows." He only had time to utter a single sentence, when a rain of arrows slashed his head and face drowned him.
"Speed up the charge!" Ding Cai took the lead in running.
The city of Kaji was poorly prepared, there were too few fortifications in the city, and the infantry crossed three obstacles to face a smooth road, and the distance of more than a hundred meters took less than half a minute,
"Set up a ladder!" Ding Kui wielded his spear, pushed aside sporadic attacks from the city, and covered the troops to build a ladder.
Lin Xuanmo pointed to the city and said, "My lord, the enemy army has been replaced by a regular army. ”
The battle flag of the 28th Division of the Central and North China was raised in the East Tower.
"That's inevitable, did they let the local army die?" Fan Yuzhen was unmoved.
"The subordinates mean to send more siege troops, otherwise the Ding Cai brigade will be more difficult. Lin Xuanmo saw that the enemy army was concentrated on the left city wall.
"He can hold on, you see, Xie Luoli's brigade is pushing forward positions, and a brigade of enemy troops can't deal with it, does he still have the face to stay in the Eighth Legion?" Fan Yuzhen had no intention of using reserves.
Two crossbow brigades and one infantry brigade attacked the city, and compared with the current defenders' strength, the ratio of attack and defense reached 3:1, and Fan Yuzhen thought that he had taken good care of Ding Cai. The rule of the Eighth Army was not to count the defensive forces that were replenished later.
Fighting was heard at the walls, and the first infantry to climb up had engaged the defenders.
Ding Cai shouted: "Retreat to the edge of the city wall and fight, don't rush in!"
He saw that the elite marksman squads of the three major teams had been outflanked.
Suddenly, a herald ran from the rear and shouted, "Brigade Ding, General Fan ordered you to carry the battle flag to the city!"
"Damn! Throw a rope down from above!" Ding Cai picked up his spear, passed the battle flag of the mixed 5th Division, and raised his head to stare at the top.
Immediately, a hemp rope fell, and there were more and more Shaodian troops above.
He grabbed the hemp rope and pulled it hard, making sure that the upper end could bear his weight, pulled the rope with one hand, and with both feet strong, the flagpole stuck into the gap in the wall, and began to climb up.
As a veteran, Ding Cai's climbing movements are very standard, worthy of his status as a captain, and the twenty-meter-high wall only takes more than ten breaths, which is faster than a monkey climbing a tree.
Coming to the city wall, I saw that the enemy army discharged the gun array, and was frantically attacking the gap occupied by the Shaodian army, most of the Shaodian army only had shields and no long weapons, so they crowded together to spell out the shield wall and resist the impact of the enemy army.
Ding Cai held the flagpole and pestle on the wall tiles with one hand, drew out his spear with the other hand, and shouted in his mouth: "By my side, hang the long weapon and come up!
After shouting, he waved the battle flag and marked the crossbowmen where the enemy troops were gathered.
The captain of the brigade raised the flag, the morale of the officers and men of the eighth brigade was greatly boosted, the soldiers who climbed the ladder were much more nimble, and more infantry with heavy weapons pushed up behind the shield wall to meet the enemy troops who were desperately approaching.
The two soldiers came to Ding Cai's side, threw down the hemp rope, beckoned the comrades below to tie up the long weapons, and then pulled the hemp rope alternately with both hands, and five or six long weapons could be pulled up at a time.
"Shoot the officer who put up the flag!" shouted someone from the rear of the defenders.
Ding Cai standing on the battlement is very eye-catching, not to mention the battle flag in his hand, even the officer's clothes on his body should be taken care of by the enemy.
"Protect Team D!" the two shield-bearers retreated from the shield wall, and one turned his head and said, "Team D is down, we can't reach that high." ”
"It's okay! They can't hurt me. Ding Cai said this in his mouth, but his body was quite honest, and with a flick of his legs, he jumped behind the two shield holders.
With a sigh of hum, the defenders finally organized a fire, and dozens of archers gathered fire.
The battle flags of the mixed 5th Division were still fluttering on the city walls, and the shield bearers blocked most of the arrows, and the rest did not penetrate Ding Cai's defenses. His spear was replaced by the soldier in front of him, and now he used a long sword, through the sword light and fine armor, and the shield breaker knight was difficult to hurt on this battlefield.
Once the fire failed, the archers of the defenders suffered, and soon attracted the covering attack of the crossbowmen, Xie Luoli kept an eye on the battle flag, adjusting the crossbowmen's attack targets at any time.
"The second squadron retreated to organize an attack formation, and first cleared the defenders on the left. "Ding Cai found that there were more than 200 subordinates in the city, and he could organize a counterattack.
They landed on the left, most of the defenders were on the right, and there were only a hundred people on the left, and as long as the leftmost wall was emptied, they could concentrate their forces and advance to the right.
"My lord, the enemy has dispatched a magician. Lin Xuanmo saw it and found a black spot in the air.
"Ding Cai's movements are too slow!The magician group attacks!" Fan Yuzhen was finally willing to use the magician.
She hoped that Ding Cai would fight a beautiful first battle, only rely on the strength of the Eighth Brigade to capture the east city wall, and take advantage of this invasion of her country to accumulate more military achievements, so that she would have a reason to give up the position of division commander to Ding Cai in the future.
The two of them are the famous couple partners of the 74th Division, of course, there are many people behind them who talk about Ding Cai's inferiority to women, which makes Ding Kui's first dog leg very faceless, he once asked to be transferred from the 74th Division, and it is best to return to Ding Kui's side as a slave.
Fan Yuzhen didn't want her lover to lose face, so she tried to raise Ding Cai's status.
In fact, there is a key point for the regular army to crush the local army, that is, the magician regiment of the army, the magician and the infantry fight together, and the battle on the city wall is much easier.
The magicians of Kaji City were prepared, but they didn't know which side of the city wall was the main direction of attack of the Shaodian army, so they didn't come until now.
The population of the border city is not large, and there are few magicians, and there are only a dozen or so who can participate in the battle. The magicians of the Eighth Legion did not replenish new blood, but each division had at least thirty magicians, so the magician group sent by Fan Yuzhen defeated the magicians of Kaji City in one round.
The rest of the matter was much simpler, Ding Cai, with the help of the magician regiment, easily swept the east city wall, annihilated a brigade of the 28th Division of the Central and Northern Mountains, and successfully opened the city gate to welcome the main force into the city.
"Congratulations to Team Ding for winning the first place!" Xie Luoli congratulated Ding Cai when he entered the door, and Ji Zhubao mocked on the side: "Hey, it's a pity that the adults don't look down on me, otherwise I can also mix up the first achievement." ”
"Ji Chabao!" Ding Cai's anger came up.
Xie Luoli pushed Ji Zhubao away, rushed forward to hug Ding Cai, and persuaded: "That guy has bad breath, don't be like him, the war has just begun, leave some strength to deal with the enemy." ”
Ding Cai pointed to Ji Zhubao's back: "Take half a step slowly, I'll unscrew his head!"
"Yes, yes, Brother Cai has just made a great achievement, and it's normal for someone to be red-eyed. I dare to say that there are not many people in the whole division who can do it, so they have time to teach me. ”
Xie Luoli knew that Ding Cai and Ji Zhubao had always been at odds, and it was really possible to make a fuss, and it would affect unity during the war, and only he could persuade them to be present.
"Are you climbing rope? handsome or not? Think about the past, uh......" Ding Cai suddenly remembered that he couldn't talk nonsense about being a bandit in Funiu Mountain, "I hunt in the mountains, I often climb high and low, how natural and skilled I am, we can learn from each other when we have time." ”
"What are you doing?" Fan Yuzhen and Lin Xuanmo urged the horse into the city gate.
"Ah, my subordinates will go and count the arrows immediately. Xie Luoli immediately slipped away.
"Well, my subordinates went down and counted the battle damage. Ding Cai also left under the pretext.
"Wait a minute! The Eighth Brigade stayed behind and waited for the receiving troops, and then chased the main force after the handover was completed. Fan Yuzhen threw Ding Cai an arrow.
"What? Why did we stay? Fan Yuzhen! Be kind, the Eighth Brigade worked desperately to get a left-behind mission?" Ding Cai was so angry that he called Shangguan's full name.