Under the darkness of night, the inner city of Youzhou was still in raging war and the sound of killing was loud.
It's just that the inner city under the control of the Huai Army was inevitably counterattacked and penetrated by the Pinglu Army again after nightfall, relying on the advantage of the terrain. It had constant battles with the Laosan Army during the day and repeatedly attacked and dispersed them ( The Jinglue Army, the Jingsai Army and the Weiwei Army) were different. The ones who took the initiative to attack and counterattack this time were the more difficult and well-equipped Ring Guards and Yaqian soldiers.
Under the wall of the southern section of the inner city that was mostly cracked, there were a large number of Huai Army sergeants sitting in groups on the ground against the city wall, with their prepared firecrackers and equipment neatly laid flat on their bodies, but most of them were taking their time. He chewed slowly the extra night food after dinner, and slowly waited for the orders and instructions to come at any time.
Wang Zhong, the tenth commander of the White Army, is one of them. He obviously enjoyed today's food and would rather hide it in his mouth and savor it for a longer time.
He is one of the few locals in Qingzhou. Due to long-term material scarcity and constant hunger since childhood, his favorite food is undoubtedly intestines, simply because this kind of food comes from a wide range of sources and no one competes with him. That¡¯s all;
So he has eaten all kinds of intestines; from cow intestines, horse intestines, sheep intestines, pig intestines, donkey intestines, to dog, rabbit, chicken, duck and goose intestines, and even various sea and river fish intestines that others think are salty and intolerable. He can also enjoy the fermented stinky sauce like sweetmeat, not to mention the various kinds of sausages, blood sausages, dried sausages, sleeve sausages, and eggs that he came into contact with when he served in the army as an adult Waiting for intestinal related products.
Nowadays, his favorite thing is to use the suet scraped from the fat intestines of Yizhou fat pigs specially bred in Huaibei military farms to fry leftover rice or bake miscellaneous pancakes, which is also a rare delicacy;
Tonight¡¯s pre-military food is rice sausage, which is made from the cooked sausage casings of freshly killed pigs and sheep, wrapped in wheat beans and ground, mixed with chopped salt and vegetables, and then fried into minced rice with raw suet and residue. When you bite into it, you have the crispy texture of wheat rice and beans, as well as the salty crispiness of salted vegetables and oil residue. It can be said to be an excellent food to satisfy your hunger. You don't even need to drink the tea soup to refresh your body. You can swallow it smoothly by relying on the oil soaked in it to lubricate it.
An important rule of thumb for eating before a battle is not to drink too much soup to avoid unnecessary bloating and urgency of urination, which will be fatal factors in battles and fierce fights that may break out at any time.
"Have a good rest after eating."
"Don't move or talk impatiently. There are plenty of battles to be fought at night."
"The kettle must be filled"
"The ammunition belt and cartridges must be replenished"
¡°If you need anything, call right away.¡±
Many non-commissioned officers and veterans who were patrolling between them were also checking and explaining back and forth.
In the distance, at the most conspicuous place on the Yacheng gate tower where the enemy troops finally held firm, lanterns and torches were lit like several long, winding dragons. Soldiers were swarming around, and obviously important orders were issued from here; and then This place soon became the focus and direction of the newly moved heavy artillery team.
Just after a few rounds of test-firing cannons roared, the tower returned to darkness amidst the loud noises like a nest of explosions and the sounds of people running and escaping in a hurry, with only a few lonely and swaying people left. lantern.
At the same time, Wang Zhong's regiment finally received the order and joined the attack on the east side of the inner city.
I saw them lined up in a small battle group that was conducive to street fighting. Several white soldiers armed with short spears and swords were in front of them to clear the way, while the white soldiers holding swords and cards were on both sides of the screen, while the gunmen and auxiliary soldiers were in the middle. Then, they used long guns and crossbows to guard the surrounding area. Then, several battle groups maintained a distance of ten steps in the street to provide cover and support from the front and rear.
Queues holding firecrackers slowly advanced through the streets. From time to time, broken soldiers and soldiers were scattered, holding up their swords or sticks they found randomly. Chairs jumped out, and then they were drowned in the ping-pong-pong-pong-pong firing sound. And in the smoke, or being stabbed to death by an oncoming bayonet.
Is this the war that has entered the age of firearms? He smelled the choking smell of smoke in the air and enjoyed the sound and movement of the dawn of this new era. It was carried in his hands, clamped on the ground at the corner of the street, and the scattered cannons shook the The dust pops and roars,
With the fire of explosives and incendiary bombs thrown from far and near, the recalcitrant figures were forced out of their hiding places, stumbling or rolling, exposing themselves to the muzzles of the array, and then begging or The curses came from the silent team, ending their life-threatening pain or resistance.
And at certain strategic points between the inner city and Yacheng, the sounds of fighting and shouting lingered for a long time.
Those are many fortresses that are well defended and heavily armored.The sharp-edged city guards and the more elite Yaqian soldiers, relying on the narrow and complex terrain where firearms were difficult to deploy and the range of fire and vision were seriously obstructed, were able to repel the Huai army like a chicken blood and a flashback. The Huai army's multiple attacks, and even subtle roundabout flank attacks, interrupted and dispersed several legitimate massed offensives of the Huai army.
"Grenadiers where are the grenadiers"
"Fire up the explosive bomb"
Then there were several bursts of smoke and dust rolling up along the street, temporarily covering the sky above a certain building.
In the flickering light of the fire, it seems that there is a battlefield and focus everywhere. Inside and outside the walls, above and below the houses, in the streets and alleys, you can see the figures and movements of the enemy and ourselves intertwined and fighting together everywhere.
The two sides almost simultaneously fired at each other with muskets and crossbows, leaving holes with blood spraying all over their bodies or falling figures filled with arrows. This place is so narrow and cramped that after a head-on collision, there is no room for maneuver or avoidance. The only result is that one party is completely dead or breaks away on the spot.
Half an hour later,
The front team of Wang Zhong's regiment that went into the attack was once again forced back from a street corner full of obstacles; just between this advance and retreat, at least twenty or thirty men were lost, and let The ten men led by Wang Zhong were also rotated to the front; they hurried past the lightly and seriously injured groaning on the ground, and occupied a corner of the street to protect themselves from the impact from the other side.
From here, he could already vaguely see the faint shimmering crowds and the glow of armor and the shadows of corpses being dragged and piled up from the diagonally opposite wall.
"Artillery support,"
The team leader, whose face was covered in blood and whose helmet had been knocked off, shouted again.
"The thieves are gathering at the front, requesting direct fire support from the follow-up artillery team."
Then following his order, a colored lantern tied to the flagpole to indicate the direction and direction was raised high in the night sky above the rear array, and then the second, and the third. . . After a moment of waiting that felt a little impatient and long, they finally heard a dull roar.
Several roars followed, and then turned into a dull crashing sound that broke through the wall. After splashing countless debris on the wall diagonally opposite Wang Zhong, it penetrated the diffuse smoke and dust in an instant, and diagonally Xiang shot down among the armored soldiers holding iron-breaking swords and long Ke axes behind those bunkers and fortifications.
The scorching iron balls bouncing and leaping in the crowd were like smashing open and smashing countless sauce vats out of thin air in an instant. The armored soldiers who were standing shoulder to shoulder and leaning on their feet were almost covered by Lei Lei's corpse. It was swept away, leaving only a mess of flesh and blood consisting of broken limbs all over the floor.
Then the trumpets of the attack were blown away again, and the white soldiers, who had re-arranged their formations for street fighting and close-quarters combat, did not hesitate to step on the bloody and bloody ground, and held up their spears and shields behind them with determination and raised them over their shoulders. Under the cover of the fire cannons, they pushed forward again until they encountered the enemy force again. Then they stopped again and sawed or pushed forward.
Because this urban area is close to Yacheng, where the government offices and government offices are located, there are a large number of residences of various military officers and military officers and officers and soldiers¡¯ camps inherited from the past dynasties. It is dense and much stronger than other places; coupled with the enemy troops hiding and hiding in the area of ??varying sizes, for a while, it seriously restricted the scale of the Huai army's frontal deployment of troops and the development of firepower advantage.
After a series of feedback and requests, after finally discovering this change and situation, the Chinese army's headquarters, who was commanding and watching the battle from the rear, also promptly ordered a change of strategy and began to invest the combat engineers directly under the engineering army and their troops to violently demolish the Form, directly open some temporary channels suitable for the promotion of major revitalization.
After half a sound, the sound of refined gunpowder blasting from successive bombings suddenly replaced and overwhelmed the din of the battlefield where fighting and fighting was taking place, and the streets and alleys that were originally chaotic and winding like a maze also collapsed. Or the crumbling walls and houses were opened up and widened into smooth roads and shortcuts connecting each other.
More enemies who were hiding and hiding were exposed and driven out, and then were suppressed and defeated by the forward guns and artillery.
And at the same time,
The night outside the city did not calm down. There were still intermittent battles in the wilderness below the city, where people and horses were neighing and gunshots were fired. However, the foreign aid that the enemy had returned to tried to steal the camp was in vain. They fell into the camp that was deliberately emptied and were unable to extricate themselves for a while; while the rear team, which was intercepted, disrupted and dispersed, was having a fight with the fat cavalry and hunting cavalry wandering around outside the city.Another wave of impact and fighting.