Chapter 394: Looking at the formation map in Liuying (Part 2)

At dawn, the dawn light began to bloom; and the sky was only a little dark white with the sun still hiding under the horizon. The thin mist that was steaming in the morning dew was not yet scattered, but was filled with the noise of continuous fighting.

As the swords, guns and arrows wield interlaced, they cut and poked through the human body under the armor, constantly splashing fresh flesh and blood on the messy mud and damaged fortifications, just like a background version of this human killing, continuously and patiently spraying out bright and mottled tones.

"This is the fifth time..."

Zhou Huaian, standing on the watchtower of the earthen platform, stopped scanning the audience again and spoke.

"I passed the order that the troops who took the Fourth Battalion of the First Army as the support point would retreat one by one and leave the contact and distance them from contact; let the teaching brigade cover the two wings, prepare the stick lasso, and try to catch more prisoners..."

Because, in his perception just now, after the battle that continued at night until the present, the unmarked vital signs representing the enemy were becoming more and more dim and weak like candles in the wind. Some people suddenly fell to the ground in the middle of their actions and slowly lost their temperature characteristics.

Although they have broken through the second road again after several hard battles, including a line of defense composed of horse-resisted horses, walls, trenches, bamboo sticks, and hoof pits; most people are already at the end of their strength and it is difficult to make more efforts to move forward and make progress. In this case, there is no need to entangle with it too much or fight to the death to cause unnecessary casualties.

You should know that they did not even touch the edge of the earthen turret set up by the Taiping Army, but they had to stay in place after dawn, with a good view and sustained shooting of crossbows from sandbags and earth baskets on the earth platform, without any support, restraint and cover from the city walls.

Although people were falling down every moment, after the Taiping soldiers who were fighting and intercepting each other in person, they alternately covered their retreat and gave up their front positions. They also continued to roar and scream, trying to squirm forward and rush forward.

Obviously, the siege of the city has been facing various clues and clues over time, the defenders in Dantu City finally reacted and began to make attempts to break through and counterattack in the past few days, and became more intense and stronger every time.

However, this is useless. Until now, even Zhou Huaian's firearms unit, one of the trump cards, has not been able to force it out.

Although in fact, most of the main combat power of the Taiping Army has been sent out by Zhou Huaian to carry out the mission of besieging the city and attacking aid. Only a small number will continue to maintain basic orders and seemingly meticulous preparations for siege as Zhou Huaian sits under the city.

That is, the other rebels who occupy and take over the city are bait and support points; a small number of cavalry and cavalry battalions are used as iron felts to restrain and entangle the enemy, and mules, horses and vehicles are used as mobility teams to determine the sound of iron hammers in one fell swoop; the batch defeat and local annihilation wars are carried out.

According to the different countermeasures and arrangements of the corresponding plan, if the enemy wants to drive in, it will weaken it through the continuous harassment and restraint of mobile troops to create opportunities for field ambush and defeat; if the opponent wants to seize the city as a proof, the city will rely on the city to carry out a central flowering battle that is in harmony with the inside and outside.

In theory, with relatively few and elite troops, relying on the advantages of the Taiping Army in mobility and communication means, it can form local advantages and advantages in a short period of time to defeat those officials who are tempted by rashly and aggressive.

After all, based on the experience and lessons of Zhou Huaian's transition, or intent, compared with most people in this era, under the plain terrain lacking obstacles, both the official army and the rebel army prefer to occupy a city or a stronghold with good defensiveness as a support point for corresponding offensive and defensive operations; and use this to choose limited battlefield prediction and position arrangement.

However, it is not a problem to block a temporary surprise attack from any city gate and issued early warnings.

Then there was a lot of trouble for the second-tier garrison battalion that was subsequently supplemented from Jiangning; and the defeated rebels, and initially reorganized and trained the elite soldiers selected; there was no big problem to try to curb the counterattack from any direction in the city.

The several battalions of war soldiers and direct sequences and technical troops directly controlled by Zhou Huaian serve as reserves and mobile forces; if necessary, the navy patrolling on the river can also be allowed to land nearby to support and respond.

Cooperating with the scope scanning ability of local battlefields, as Zhou Huaian’s personal command and field control secret trump card, it is enough to allow any targeted breakthrough and sneak attack from the city to have no escape from the real and virtual.

This is also one of his basic confidence in taking risks in the false siege of the city, which is the real inside and outside, and truly siege the point and help clear the obstacles of the periphery. Just like the way he made a bluff under Daluo City, Jiaozhou, it was a further upgrade.

Of course, if the situation develops to the worst situation, he can rely on these few and elite forces and his ability to control local battlefield trends, and with the support of the navy, he retreats to Jiangning and then draws later. In fact, the situation does not have the chance to develop to this point.

After the initial panic and awkward price and losses against the enemy, and after stabilizing the position with the support of the surprise soldiers of the original formation, these new soldiers trained by many systems and the recruited soldiers of other rebels quickly completed the transformation of their corresponding roles and identities, and gradually became easy in front of the enemy.

Perhaps in the direct face-to-face field battle, their performance may still be tested and the shortcomings that need to be discovered. There is still a lot to be far from a freely retracted military army.

But at least under the cover of intact fortifications, defense lines and arrays, they can resist the fierce attacks of the enemy protruding outwards, and on the one hand, they can also carry out subsequent siege operations to further strengthen and consolidate positions and camps; as the saying goes, under the catalysis of the war facing death, they become more and more decent.

It can be said to be a "Tian Ji's horse racing" in a sense. The lower fours are getting stronger and stronger than the middle fours, fully exploring the corresponding potential and qualifications. Zhou Huaian is thinking about it with a little gain, and seeing these prominent official troops beside the cut-off route and surrounded.

At this time, the city gate of Dantu was locked open again. Amid the whistling sound of the sand and soil under the wall, a new force with a bright armor and armor-like uniform and a very vigorous and vigorous qi and blood came out.

Unlike the raid troops that were protruding from light clothes on the night, they were all wearing armor and long swords and axes. At first glance, they were the reserve teams that were originally used to block the door and block the road. They spread out along the edge of the city gate like two wings of a big bird, and quickly and steadily pulled out two long and irregular horizontal formations.

"Report to the leader, the Yangzi team and the Fire-Going Team have been ordered to prepare and wait for the order to be issued."

At this time, Luo Nian, who was responsible for coordinating and coordinating the shooting sound of many long-range strikes in front of the array, also spoke at the right time.

"Let the stone cannon (catastrophe) and the crossbow start first, and the cyclone cannon is used to soak oil pebbles; then throw the fire with the rod (catastrophic device). Then the shooting team advances in the front."

Zhou Huaian immediately ordered the micro-care road. Although he adopted the virtual internal and external strategy, as a siege equipment, various heavy equipment were fully equipped and filled.

It is just that artillery and rockets, which are a major weapon in the army, are not easy to replenish because of the limited number of carrying; the so-called good steel must be used on the blade. At present, these enemies who are at a disadvantage are not worthy.

Then there was a dull clang of the stone cannon swinging his arms in the air; it turned into a whistling sound that broke through the air. Although it seemed that the accuracy of using stone cannons to hit the infantry array was not very good, most of the landing points crossed the rows and hit the walls; making a powerful thumping sound.

However, they bounced and fell into pieces of walls and pieces, and fell one after another. They suddenly caught them off guard and smashed them from behind, knocked them over, and enveloped them in the rolling smoke and dust.

The buzzing crossbows arranged on the earth platform also fired heavy arrows like short spears according to the calibrated shooting range and sight line. The human body wherever they passed was connected in the queue of the official troops that had begun to avoid, and then nailed to the ground and the walls obliquely. It was like a stream of blood flowing out of thin air.

When the whirlwind cannon threw pebbles like raindrops and burning fires bloomed one after another, the team that was hit hard and incomplete became shaken and frustrated in its shrill screams and shouts.

After all, no matter how heavy armor is fully protected, how can any human flesh and blood be able to compete with the huge stone steel flame? Not to mention the slow movement caused by their hanging on them.

The remaining armored soldiers, Yu Yong, began to scatter and retaliate, trying to make the last desperate attempt. The other part was fleeing inward with all the fighting spirit, but was thrown into the door by several large turbulent tanks, and was driven out again in the burst of shrill and screaming fire.
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