Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 156 Gao Yuanjue's Compromise

Chapter 156 Gao Yuanjue's Compromise
After hearing Ji Yi's order, the young and strong people who were close to the parapet quickly set up the short spears, which were only four or five feet long, not as tall as theirs, and were too short for spearfish, to be placed on the crenels of the parapet.

A few short spears stood together, and a row of sharp iron spears suddenly appeared on the crenel.

A Ming army armed with a sword and shield came up and found that all the defenders were pointing at them with short spears, and just waited for them to come up and poke them down, so they were afraid and did not dare to go forward.

"Why are you lingering? Let's go quickly." As soon as he stopped, someone immediately urged him.

"Brother, I can't make it through, people have set up their guns." The Ming army holding a sword and shield looked back, and it was the chief of his own small banner who was talking about himself, so he explained to him.

"I don't care, if you don't, I will kill you first." The little flag officer said arrogantly.

It's not that he is unreasonable. If there is a war now, he can be allowed to retreat. If he stops here for a long time, not to mention the morale will plummet, they will all stand here as living targets.

Even if the officers behind saw their performance, they would immediately come up and cut him down.

Hearing what the little banner officer said, the sword and shield soldier had no choice but to bite the bullet and go up.

"Drink!" He shouted and used his knife to open up the short spears lined up in front of him. After the short spears were opened, he saw that there was space on the city wall, and he immediately jumped in.

He first used a shield to protect his torso and head, and stretched out his right hand to slash wildly with a knife, hoping to force the defenders to retreat and give him some space, so that the comrades behind him could come to support him.

It's a pity that there are too many defenders on the city wall, and there are many people around him staring at him.

As soon as he stretched out his arm, a guy with a sharp eye pierced his arm with a short spear, but fortunately, the arm armor spearhead did not pierce his flesh.

It's a pity that he was not so lucky next time. A young man on his left saw that his shield did not protect his waist, so he shot it up, and the spearhead immediately pierced through the armor plate on his abdomen.

After these two blows, the sword and shield soldiers' physical strength was greatly reduced, and at the same time, because of fear, they began to lose their sense of proportion, and they slashed at will like using Wang Baquan, hoping to make those young and strong not dare to approach them.

However, no matter how short a short spear is, it is still a long-pole weapon, and the length of four to five feet is much longer than that of a broadsword with a length of more than two feet.

Seeing that he had more and more flaws, the young men who besieged him resorted to the tactic of killing an elephant with too many ants. With the length of their short spears, they opened more than a dozen holes in his body in a short while.

The sword and shield soldier lost too much blood, couldn't hold on, and fell down quickly.

Just as he fell, another Ming soldier wanted to jump onto the city wall, but before he could walk on the big crenel, several young and strong men rushed to knock him down, and the Ming soldier stood on the ladder to control Couldn't help but fell straight down.

"Ah!" He yelled and fell off the ladder.

Seeing him fall, the Ming army behind him didn't even have the time to sympathize, so he continued to move forward mechanically under the urging of the officer.

Lin Yi and Gao Yuanjue's lieutenants were in a stalemate on the city wall. After a while, the Ming army cut down a few young men, and then a few Ming soldiers were besieged to death, or even pushed down to death.

Many times, battles in the cold weapon era are so boring, because the width of the battlefield is too narrow, often only a few hundred meters, or even tens of meters, so soldiers can only hold their breath and consume each other with the enemy on one front.

Sometimes with good equipment and a large number of people, you may not be able to win. In a battle, you can fight with one breath. As long as there is a breath in your chest, no matter how fierce the battle is, even if only one tenth of the battle is left, soldiers Will stick to it and keep fighting.

However, this tone is very mysterious, and the soldiers may be discouraged by various factors. For example, no one leads them by example, so that no soldiers are willing to stand in the front and fight, or even scramble to retreat.

At this time, even if the anger of this army is exhausted, as long as the enemy army exerts a little force, it will be defeated like a mountain.

The Ming army attacking the city is like this now. The soldiers who were persecuted by the officers with knives and guns did not want to go up the ladder to die, and retreated one by one.

Those officers who were supposed to supervise the battle retreated when they saw so many people. Because of the mentality that the law does not blame the public, the big sword that was about to be swung down also stopped in mid-air.

The officers who supervised the battle were afraid that if they really killed a retreating soldier, causing other soldiers to resist and cause a mutiny on the front line of the battle, they would be in big trouble.

"What's the matter, go, stop them, and don't retreat." Gao Yuanjue saw the siege troops coming towards him like a tide, and quickly ordered the soldiers around him to form a reserve team to stop them.

"Little general, those intruders are too stubborn, let the brothers take a breather." At this moment, Gao Yuanjue's deputy came over to intercede.

"No, our friendly army is attacking the other three walls, but we are resting. If the Shi Ge Department and the general find out, they will use military law to punish us." Gao Yuanjue firmly disagreed.

He is very young, only 20 years old, and has never personally experienced the bitter battle of a siege, so he naturally does not understand how tired the soldiers fighting on the front line are.

Not to mention that life and death are only on the line during the battle, which is thrilling and exhausting.

Even if there is no danger at all, let the soldiers put on full armor and pick up knives and guns to hack at the scarecrow.

It only takes a while, and everyone will be sweating profusely, and those who sweat a lot even seem to have just experienced a heavy rain.

Not to mention that the armor is made of iron cans, and wearing it is like taking a sauna. It is midnight now, and there are a lot of bonfires and torches for lighting inside and outside the city wall. Just stand near the city wall for a while, and you will experience what is called steel good thermal conductivity.

"But general, brothers really can't hold it anymore. Look at my helmet and my clothes. They are full of sweat, as if they have just been washed in He Zhong."

"The brothers on the front line are even more exaggerated than me. If we don't let them rest, I'm afraid they will faint on the spot." In order to let Gao Yuanjue understand how hard they had worked, the lieutenant general took off his helmet and wrapped it around his head. He handed Gao Yuanjue his scarf.

Gao Yuanjue took off the turban, and found that when he twisted it casually, the sweat inside would flow out continuously.

"Okay, you can take them to rest here, but remember not to remove their armor immediately." Gao Yuanjue finally agreed, but he reminded his lieutenant.

"I'm a veteran in the army, do you still need to remind me of this?" Hearing that Gao Yuanjue agreed, the deputy general was overjoyed.

(End of this chapter)

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