Chapter 37: Siege with all strength
As the afternoon approaches, the sun is in the sky, the Wassat Alliance outside Hami City begins to gather and set up formations. In four directions, 200,000 troops are commanding, with a powerful momentum.
Gu Shihan stared at the sundial in front of him. As soon as the shadow of the sundial needle coincided with the noon scale, he raised his hand without hesitation and shouted: "Kill."
"Kill", shouts of killing sounds sounded in four directions at the same time. The 20,000-watt cavalry became infantrymen and rushed towards the city wall with a ladder.
After the training of Tsarist Russian instructors, they already knew how to avoid shells. The original neat formation became extremely scattered after running away. Everyone was like they were scrambling and twisting around, just not going straight!
Hou Gongji looked at their serious twisting look in the telescope, and couldn't help but curl his lips and ordered coldly: "Order the artillery, fifty artillery in the middle, loading shells, and standby on both sides."
There were only 5,000 cavalrymen in front of him. If more than 100 artillery continued to bombard, they would probably fall half of them before they approached the city wall. If the defenders in Hami Guard were insufficient, they would naturally have to bombard them with all their might. But now, it would be bad if they were to be more at ease and scare them away.
The enemy troops siege the city had actually entered the bombardment range of artillery, but Hou Gongji did not order the artillery to fire because he only planned to bombard one round, and the effect of starting late or early was not much worse.
When the enemy's vanguard was less than two miles away from the city wall, Hou Gongji calmly raised his hand and shouted: "Fire the cannon."
"Boom Boom Boom" As soon as his words fell, the roar of artillery sounded on the city walls, and fifty shells quickly fell into the enemy formation.
Since there are not many enemies themselves and they are very scattered, the hit rate of this round of artillery attacks is not high, and only a hundred unlucky people in the middle were swept by shells.
Hou Gongji then ordered: "All infantrymen are ready to shoot six rounds without aiming."
The personal guards were scattered, and the infantry on the city wall quickly removed the musket from their shoulders, lay on the female wall, and aimed at the front.
When the roar of artillery sounded on the city wall, Gu Shihan's eyes couldn't help but twitch, but when he saw that the sparse shells caused only a hundred casualties, he couldn't help but curl his lips again.
This cannon is of no use. It has worked hard and consumed countless times. It is also a cannon, a gunpowder, a shell, and a special gunner, and a hard work to move it onto the city wall. As a result, with this little lethality, it is better to recruit more soldiers!
Soon, the siege troops approached the city wall within two hundred steps. He knew that the Ming army was afraid that they would shoot.
Sure enough, the sound of "slap" gunshots quickly came to mind on the city wall.
However, it still had no lethality, because Gu Shihan ranked all the armored iron cavalry at the front, and they also had shields in their hands, so it was useless to hit the musket on it.
The muskets finally stopped after a while. The casualties caused were not very large. Less than a hundred people fell down in the siege troops, and not many were injured.
Gu Shihan breathed a sigh of relief and put down the telescope in his hand. The power of the musket and cannon was similar to what he expected, and did not cause much casualties. It seemed that neither Hami Guard nor Jiayuguan would need to spend too much personnel to take it down.
He didn't know that the Ming army was deliberately not aiming, and the artillery did not bombard it with all its strength. If he really fired with all his strength, it would be great that half of the five thousand people would be left at this moment.
Next, Hou Gongji performed a wonderful hand-to-hand fight for him.
When the siege troops approached the city wall, the Ming army did not even throw a single grenade, and used old methods such as rolling stones, wood, hot oil, boiling water, etc.
Hundreds of ladders mounted on the city wall, thousands of people climbed up and were stabbed down again, Gu Shihan calmly observed with a telescope.
The Ming army still had no special means, just knowing how to stab the gun.
This round of temptation is almost done, and it is impossible for five thousand people to take down the city wall. Gu Shihan looked at it for a while and ordered lightly: "Ming Jin, stop the army."
"Bangbangbangbangbang" A sound of gongs sounded in the formation of the twatts. The soldiers siege the city spread their feet and ran back, not even the ladders on the city wall.
The losses in this round were not very large. Only two or three hundred people were killed in battle, and not many were seriously injured. Most of them were only slightly injured.
Gu Shihan felt that the combat effectiveness of the Ming army on the city wall was just like this. He directly said to the guard behind him: "Go, inform the other three directions, two rounds behind, attack hard, don't stop in the middle, try to take down the city wall."
Hou Gongji on the city wall saw Gu Shihan's expression clearly in the telescope. It seemed that the next time he should be the official siege. He also ordered the guards: "Go inform the other three directions, the enemy has finished temptation, and then do his best!"
Gu Shihan roughly estimated the time, and the personal guard who was sending the order ran out, and he decisively ordered: "In the second wave, attack the city with all his strength."
"Kill", the ten thousand people in the west first launched a charge, and then the sound of shaking shouts of killing sounds sounded from the south, north and east.
Seeing this, Hou Gongji on the city wall immediately ordered: "All artillery, loading shells, and bombarding ten consecutive rounds."
With his orders, the artillery commander raised the flag and all the artillery quickly began to load.
When each artillery position raised the loaded flag, the artillery commander waved the flag without hesitation, and shouted: "Fire."
"Boom Boom Boom" This time there were more than one hundred shells, and the siege soldiers siege were twice as dense as the casualties caused were a bit too large.
After one round, at least three or four hundred people splattered blood. After ten rounds, the siege team was directly reduced by half.
Gu Shishang was scared at this time, what's going on!
It seems that he was deceived by the Ming army. What should I do? Retreat?
He glanced around with a telescope. At this time, the siege team was less than two hundred steps away from the city wall. If they retreated, they would have to be hit by ten rounds of shells when they came back. If five or six thousand people climbed up the city wall, they would almost take down the city wall. He gritted his teeth and did not order to retreat.
If all five or six thousand people rushed up, it would naturally be difficult to resist. However, how could Hou Gongji let them rush up so easily?
As soon as the twatt soldiers approached the city wall, he decisively ordered all the infantry to aim and shoot, each with two roulettes and twelve bullets.
"Baoba" I remembered the dense gunshots on the city wall again. This time I was not blindly shooting, but aiming at the point of shooting, and countless thorn soldiers fell down with their faces or necks.
At this time, even Hou Gongji couldn't help but reach out to pass the sniper rifle from his personal guard, and a bang shot the enemy's front-line commander to tear a bloody hole in the throat!
When the thorn soldiers approached the city wall, there were only less than four thousand people who were slightly injured, but their bad luck was not over.
Not only are rolling stones, wood, hot oil, boiling water, and grenades about to be greeted!
Chapter completed!