Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 154
"Well, what kind of injury did you get? Is it serious?" Shen Liangru didn't expect this little soldier to say that he wanted to be a soldier to fill his stomach, so he quickly changed the subject in embarrassment.

"It's nothing, I just fell off the city wall." He answered honestly.

"Are there many soldiers like you?" Shen Liangru was referring to the one who fell off the city wall.

Before the young soldier could answer, an old soldier standing next to Shen Liangru said, "It's too much to answer my lord's words, we all fell down, the city wall is too high, if there are dead people under it, None of them will survive."

"So the battle was intense?" Shen Liangru asked.

The most important thing now is to fight, and everything else must stand aside, so Shen Liangru is very concerned about how the battle is going, although he saw it in the binoculars just now, but after all, he saw it from a distance, not as good as those who experienced it personally in more detail.

"That's right, people fell on the city wall like it was raining. There were our people, and there were also those who broke into the city. But generally speaking, our people are more." The veteran replied.

As grim as he was describing the scene, he was thrilled to see a high-ranking civil servant approaching them.

There are always very few civilian officials in the army, except for those supervisors or ministers who come to pass orders, there are almost no civil officials.

"However, if you want to say it's fierce, the one on Gaojie's side in the south of the city is more intense. You just saw that the sky in the south of the city was full of flames. I heard from a brother who came over from there that the arrows shot from the south of the city almost pierced the city wall. full."

The veteran boasted about his knowledge to Shen Liangru. Not even an important official in the imperial court knew this, but he knew it. This feeling made him very satisfied.

"It seems that Gao Yuanjue is not a person like his father." Shen Liangru said to himself.

He originally thought that although Gao Yuanjue was a young man, he was the son of a warlord like Gao Jie, and he would have the habit of a warlord who only wanted to preserve his strength.

In fact, Gao Yuanjue was not deeply involved in the world, and he accepted the Confucian idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor and patriotism. His whole person was more similar to Qi Jiguang decades ago, except that he was not as capable.

Outside the south of the city at this moment, the flames all over the sky had already been extinguished. After shooting about twenty waves of arrows, Gao Yuanjue stopped shooting at the defenders on the city wall.

After all, drawing a bow and shooting arrows consumes a lot of energy, and arrows are also very precious. Tens of thousands of arrows will be used for twenty waves of arrow rain.

Not to mention whether Gao Yuanjue was willing to part with it, even if he was willing to shoot it to death, Gao Jie would not be able to give him that much.

"Stop, stop shooting!" Gao Yuanjue saw the city wall for a long time without any movement, and felt that it was time.

Didn't he think that all the people on the city wall were dead, and it was more outrageous than daydreaming to shoot all the defenders of a city with bows and arrows, it was simply impossible.

Not to mention the lack of penetrating power of bows and arrows, a wooden board can block countless arrows, and even using a blunderbuss with extremely strong penetrating power is not much better.

After all, the women's wall, sheep and horse wall, and various shields on the city wall are not decorations. Besides, even if these things can't stop them, the defenders can come down from the city wall and find a safe place until the shooting stops. Come out and defend the city.

"Let the brothers put on the armor, it's time for us to go up." Gao Yuanjue said to his lieutenant general.

It is difficult to shoot arrows while wearing armor, so the soldiers did not wear armor when shooting arrows just now. It is time to attack the city, so Gao Yuanjue asked the soldiers to wear it, which will also help everyone save energy.

"Little general, don't go, let the last general lead the attack." Just as Gao Yuanjue was about to walk to the middle of the team, his deputy stopped him suddenly.

"I'm the south of the city vanguard officer personally appointed by the Shige Department. I have the final say on the siege." Gao Yuanjue threw off the lieutenant general's arm.

He once thought that his lieutenant still stood in front of him relentlessly and said, "Young general, you are the eldest son of the uncle, if you make any mistakes, the younger ones can't bear it."

"Besides, the place on the city wall is so small that you can't use it even if you are good at martial arts. It's better to let Mo fill in these ordinary people." The deputy general didn't dare to let Gao Yuanjue lead troops to attack the city himself, considering that Gao Yuanjue was Gao Jie's son.

But what he said was also very reasonable. The battlefield for attacking and defending a city was narrower and more crowded than ordinary battlefields. Hundreds of thousands of people were squeezed into a line of several hundred meters, and it was impossible to advance or retreat.

At this time, as long as the soldiers' martial arts are not bad, they are enough for the city's offensive and defensive battles. If the martial arts are too good, they can't be used, and they can't move and turn on the narrow ladder. Even if they go up, it's useless Being cannon fodder is really not worth it.

"Okay then, but if you can't take it down, I still have to fight it myself." Gao Yuanjue didn't want to embarrass his lieutenant general, he usually helped him a lot, but now he embarrassed him for his own momentary pleasure, Gao Yuanjue didn't want to do that.

"Thank you, young general, for understanding." The deputy general was ecstatic when he saw that Gao Yuanjue had finally compromised on him. He quickly stood in the center of the team and took command for Gao Yuanjue.

Although Gao Jie's troops were relatively independent, they were traces of the Ming army from beginning to end, so the siege tactics and siege equipment were exactly the same as Zhang Yong's.

In fact, if the offensive and defensive positions are changed now, and Tian Hu and Lin Yi in Kaifeng City are allowed to come out of Kaifeng City to attack the city, the tactics and siege equipment will be almost the same as those of Zhang Yong and the others.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the soldiers, officials, and systems of the Ming, Daqing, and Dashun families were actually highly similar, especially the Daqing and Dashun families, which were almost identical.

After all, many people around Li Zicheng were from the guards and border troops of the Ming Dynasty. A considerable part of the army under his command also came from the Ming Dynasty. .

As for the system, it is more similar. Li Zicheng is not a well-educated person. Although Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance around him are people with some fame, their level is not that high.

Therefore, Li Zicheng's Dashun had to copy the Ming Dynasty in terms of political system. Except for the names of some official positions, such as the Six Governments, Jiedushi, and Zhizhishi, they were almost exactly the same as the Ming Dynasty.

As for the Qing Dynasty, Nurhachi and his ancestors were officials of the Ming Dynasty, but their regime had more ethnic characteristics.

Gao Yuanjue's lieutenant-general looked at the beacon fires every 50 meters on the city wall with a serious heart. He knew that tonight was destined to be a bloody night, and the brothers around him didn't know how many people he would see tomorrow.

But this is war. The fate of soldiers has always been to die on the battlefield. Being able to die here, a battlefield that must be famous in history, can be regarded as their good fortune to a certain extent.

(End of this chapter)