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Becoming an Emperor in the Five Dynasties Volume 27: Hunting for the Prodigy and Chi Wei Huo Chapter 2: The Grief of Being Beaten One-sidedly

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    "Oh, the generals of the Forbidden Army are more knowledgeable. Just a rough look with this telescope is more precise than what I have been looking at for several years!" Chen Xing looked at Guancheng to the north, and then at Geng Hao.  , and finally said with some confusion, "It's just I'm really stupid, and I really can't see the key points for a while. I hope Commander Geng can give me some pointers."

    Chen Xing's words are true. He has been in charge of the defense of Lulongsai for several years. He is not familiar with Songting Pass in front of him. He is really concerned about the Liao Kingdom's location selection in Songting Pass.  I have always thought that this was the work of the Khitan people who did not know how to build cities. Whether it was Gubeikou or Lulongsai, they were all hiding behind the mountains. They even simply blocked the mountain passes, unlike Songting Pass.  In this way, when we went outside the mountain pass that needed to be defended, we still ended up leaning to one side.  .

    Geng Hao tilted his head slightly and looked at Chen Xing. He didn't show any pretense. He just pointed at the mountains behind Guancheng and said calmly: "I know what Chen Shouchuo is thinking, but here and Lu Longsai  But there is something different. The mountains here are full of cliffs to the north, but the slope is slightly gentler at the southern foot. And the valley road south of the mountain pass is a bit larger. If the city is built to the north of the pass, the city wall will be shorter.  But the mountains on the east side will be controlled by the Confederate Army! If the mountains cannot be defended, Guancheng hiding behind Jiuhu Ridge will be smashed to pieces by the troops occupying the mountains."

    Chen Xing was convinced at that time. Not only did he look sincerely convinced on the face, but he was also convinced in his heart that he could no longer accept it. It was a waste of his many years of experience in guarding customs and even more experience in military campaigns.  But there is no such insight.  I heard that the martial arts in the capital will teach students military tactics, mountain and geographical conditions, but Commander Geng in front of me does not look like a talented person who has attended martial arts

    "Commander Geng is wise! The Liao people built Songting Pass on the loess platform south of the pass. It was originally to protect this hillside This is inevitable. It is indeed difficult to go up from the north of the mountain to defend it.  If the gate city of Songting Pass is placed in the north of the mountain, it will be easier for our army to rush up the mountain than to climb the city. The mountain top is condescending to the pass, and the rocks above are inexhaustible. Such a city cannot be defended.  .¡±

    "As long as the key points are clear, it will be clear to all. Chen Xing's military quality is obviously not bad, and he praised it for a while.  His eyes rolled wildly, and then he said with a smile: "But when I encounter someone who has learned how to dig holes, bury explosives, and fire cannons, I don't need ants to attack the city. If we want to break the city with this method, rammed earth walls are better than  Mountains are a hundred times easier!¡±

    "Well, when they encounter the Zhou army that has been trained by His Majesty, no matter how hard the Khitans imitate the Han people in building a city, it will be in vain." Geng Hao couldn't help but smile, "The location of the current city building is indeed in vain.  The military is the right way. However, with the several miles of city wall exposed in front of our army, I am afraid that Chen Shou's subordinates will have to take whatever they want. But if they do not follow the right way and shrink the city into the pass, then our army will only need to use ordinary means.  You can easily defeat the city."

    Chen Xing opened his mouth and glanced at the top of Songtingguan City, where smoke and dust were constantly shooting out under the fire of Hujie's gunfire, and then at the soldiers and civilians under his command who were methodically transporting soil to fill the trenches.  Then he squinted his eyes and looked at the mountains behind Guancheng as well as the river roads and passes beside it. Finally, he rubbed the back of his head and spoke cheerfully: "Haha, this is obviously the place where we should build Guancheng The cliff to the north  The cliffs, the narrow pass and the loess tableland in the south. It is obviously for the purpose of garrisoning troops in the south to defend the north, and garrisoning troops in Guancheng. The wing wall protects the pass, and the mountains are unreachable from the north, and it is easier to defend than Lulongsai.  After the Guancheng is broken, I, Lin Lan, will have to move here to garrison."

    Hearing this, Geng Hao just responded indifferently: "What happens nextnot to mention that the imperial court is likely to expand thousands of miles of land at the northern foot of Yanshan Mountain. Even after punishing the Liao people, it will withdraw its troops and return south, allowing you to  The capture office has been moved from the north of Lulong Sai to Songting Pass, so we have to wait until the men break the city."

    "What's the point!" Chen Xing suddenly became energetic when talking about the current mission, "As long as the Hujie army uses blunderbuss to firmly suppress the enemy troops and prevent them from showing up to shoot arrows and throw stones, I promise to  I'll show you Kaicheng in two days let's see how the younger generation breaks thieves."

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    Compared with the Zhou army, which was well-prepared, the defenders at Songting Pass were on pins and needles. Geng Hao and Chen Xing could chat calmly and let their subordinates follow the procedures step by step to gnaw at the defense system in front of them, without having to worry about it all the time.  Supervise and urge, the guard of Songtingguan, Die La Ge, cannot afford such a mentality.

    Brother Die La was in a very heavy mood, even though he had known for a long time that Zhou Jun's combat effectiveness was very powerful, and that Zhou Jun's weapons called fire guns were extremely sharp, and the early warning about Zhou Jun's northern invasion had been reported a month or two in advance.  Coming over, he was confident that the defense preparations at Songting Pass were comprehensive and detailed enough, but the result of the battle between the two armies still shocked him.??.

    The Zhou army's lineup outside the city advanced and retreated in an orderly manner. Those gunmen probably completely replaced the original crossbowmen among the Zhou army. Several horizontal formations stood in rows outside the city, separated from the city head.  Two hundred paces away, they used their fire cannons to take on the task of suppressing the defenders at the top of the city. They continued to splash the cannons on the top of the city, making the rammed earth crenels crackle, making the defenders hiding behind the crenels unable to do anything.  I dare not straighten up.  Even so, from time to time, a few unlucky guys would be killed by bludgeons that passed through the hanging eyes. When soldiers were killed through the hanging eyes, the blunderbuss most likely hit the person's head, neck or chest, leaving a hole in the chest.  Even though it seemed terrible, the scene where the head was pierced by a musket into a rotten watermelon was really frightening. Some particularly unlucky Han'erjun had their necks broken by muskets. Scenes like this made their morale drop instantly.

    The key is that Brother Die La still can¡¯t find an effective way to fight back!

    The Guancheng of Songting Pass is too small, and the craftsmen of the Liao Kingdom are very rare. It is impossible to build a trebuchet for this small Guancheng. There is no extra space and troops to equip the trebuchet, so  Brother Diera only had archers at hand to attack the enemy - Brother Diera gave up on the idea of ??going out of the city to counterattack the first moment he saw the enemy's lineup. The main gate of Guancheng had long been sealed with earth and rocks by him; and now  The Zhou army has not yet approached the city wall, and the killing effect of rolling logs and stones is of course unthinkable; as for the crossbowmen The Liao Kingdom did not have the ability to make powerful crossbows. The powerful crossbows snatched from the arsenal of the Central Plains passed by  There is nothing left after decades of consumption, so there is simply nothing left in Songtingguan.

    But do you just rely on archers to fight against Zhou Jun¡¯s gunmen?  Not to mention those Han archers who were too shy to show their bodies at the crenel, the Xiren archers also did not have the courage to face the blunderbuss - the invisible but powerful blunderbuss, which was much more lethal than arrows.  But there is no way to avoid it. Even if it were a Khitan archer, it would still be impossible to stand at the mouth of the crenel.

    "However, if the archer doesn't stand up straight and has a good posture when shooting an arrow, the arrow will not be able to shoot far at all.  As far as Brother Diera knows, even the sharpshooters among the Khitan people can shoot more than a hundred steps from the height of the city, which is already quite impressive, let alone ordinary archers who hide behind the female wall, draw their bows, and then dodge to the crenels.  If you shoot secretly, you can be called an elite soldier if you can shoot fifty or sixty steps like this, and fifty or sixty steps away you can't even touch the toes of Zhou Jun's artillery soldiers!

    Therefore, the so-called exchange of fire between archers and the enemy's gunmen is, to be honest, a one-sided situation where they are beaten. At most, it can barely boost morale. However, once the casualties are exposed, the morale cannot be said to be high.  Qing is inspired or broken.

    Fortunately, the archer's shooting is not completely ineffective.

    As mentioned before, the Zhou army's formation was in order and advanced and retreated in an orderly manner. The gunmen rushed to a place a hundred or two hundred steps away from the city wall. After that, they made no obvious advance or retreat. They just stopped there and exchanged formations for rounds of shooting.  The advance and retreat that I evaluated in my mind were in order, which was referring to another group of Zhou troops that rushed out from between the array of fire gunners.

    The group of Zhou soldiers were obviously responsible for filling the trenches, and they might also be responsible for the ants attacking the city later. They were currently rushing towards the city from between the horizontal formations of fire gunmen, carrying straw bags filled with sand and soil, and carrying them to the city.  After throwing them into the trench, they turned around and fled. At least on the way back and forth near the trench, these Zhou soldiers must have been within the shooting range of the archers at the top of the city.

    If you can't shoot those gunmen, you can still kill a few soldiers who attack the city Unfortunately, it's just a little better than being beaten unilaterally. The Zhou army who was filling the trenches with soil did have some casualties, but in  From Brother Diera's perspective, Zhou's army's casualties were no more than those of his own men!  The arrows falling from the top of the city were weak and sparse. Those Zhou troops who were filling the trenches with earth were guarded by oars and shieldmen. Although the others were not wearing armor, few of them fell to the ground after being hit by arrows.  Get up!  Moreover, judging from Brother Diela's eyesight, most of those who were hit by arrows were probably civilians recruited by the Zhou army. They were unequipped and in a scattered formation. They screamed and screamed at the slightest casualty. These were not ordinary civilians.  What is it?

    In Brother Die La¡¯s eyes, civilians are actually no different from sandbags used to fill trenches. When the Khitan people went deep into the Central Plains to clear grass valleys, how could any attack on a city be without expelling civilians to fill trenches?  After filling in the sand, it would not be unusual to fill in corpses or even living people. He did not think that such casualties would cause any loss to the Zhou army.

    Beads of sweat continued to seep out from his forehead, temples and nose, and the mountain wind blowing from the valley road could not reduce it at all. Brother Diego huddled in the center of the enemy platform above the main entrance, looking at the neat military appearance and appearance of the Zhou army.  Looking at the banner, a burst of despair emerged in his heart, and he couldn't help but look at the north wing wall that sealed the pass.

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