Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 895 Yangquan Attack and Defense 2
The first attack turned into a terrible disaster without any suspense.

Those rebels who surrendered to other races regardless of shame, pointed their butcher knives at their own compatriots, and wanted to exchange their blood for prosperity and wealth had completely lost their arrogance at the beginning of the war. Looking at the city wall of Yangquan, trembling all over.It's not that they have encountered resistance all the way here, but they never dreamed that they would encounter such tenacious resistance in Yangquan when they were about to enter the Central Plains... No, it should be called a massacre!Thinking of the crossbow bolts coming like the wind and shells falling like a hailstorm, their hairs stood on end, and thinking of the ubiquitous landmines, they were even more wary, and they almost peed!
Oh my God, I have been in the army all my life and fought many battles. Have I ever seen such a mysterious and ferocious fighting style? This feeling of being slaughtered without any power to fight back is really satisfying. People go crazy!

Hai Du was furious, brandishing his saber with the back of his knife and slashing at the retreating rebel officers and soldiers, yelling at them to stop, and then organizing an offensive, he must take Yangquan as soon as possible.Oboi, who has always been grumpy, was surprisingly calm, stopped Haidu, and said to Yang Dong, the general of the Ming army who commanded the rebel army: "It doesn't matter if you can't hit the northern gate. Immediately adjust the direction and launch a tentative attack on the west gate...Record Stay, it's tentative!"

Yang Dong secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately commanded the troops to change the attack direction and launch an attack on the west gate.Hearing that there was going to be another attack, the rebels complained loudly and complained loudly. The round of attack just now made them terrified. If so many people died, they would continue to attack. The Tartars really don't treat them like human beings!

——They guessed correctly, Obai really didn’t treat them as human beings.

The moat of the west gate has long been frozen, and it has been frozen from the surface of the river to the bottom of the river. This is super good news, which means that they can save the effort of filling the moat and attack directly.This actually cheered up the rebels. Under the officer's anger, they raised their large shields and ladders to attack Ximen.As a result, they soon stepped on a landmine again, and were blown to pieces. Then the crossbow arrows poured down like a torrential rain, and in a blink of an eye, large patches of bare reeds were planted on the ice, rushing at the rebels in front. Soldiers were nailed to the ice one after another, screaming incessantly.This is also a dead place, the bare ice surface has no cover, and it is very slippery, it is difficult to stand firmly, and they are also regarded as targets on the ice surface.

Obai seemed to have anticipated this, seeing that the rebels' offensive was blocked, he immediately ordered to retreat, and then continued to attack in another direction.Facing Yang Menglong, a terrifying opponent who can be called the nightmare of the Eight Banners, the originally irritable Aobai appeared very patient, launching tentative attacks time and time again, looking for the prey's flaws, while the elite under his command kept watching with cold eyes, saying nothing. Do not move!
After coming down several times, He Sui felt puzzled: "What are the tartars doing? Mother-in-law's, it's not like their previous style at all!"

Yang Menglong looked stern: "I'm looking for our flaws. From now on, I have to put up all my energy to deal with it, this opponent is very cunning!"

He Sui cupped his hands and said, "Understood!" But he didn't take it seriously in his heart. In his opinion, the enemy army was obviously timid, beating up mother-in-law and mother, sloppy, and completely lost the consistent vigor of the past. You can handle it with your eyes closed!
However, He Sui soon realized that he was wrong, miserably wrong!
After testing it several times and losing more than two thousand lives, Obai already had a general understanding of Yangquan City's defense system.Yang Menglong knew very well how capable the broken troops in his hands were, so he adopted the idea of ​​non-contact warfare from the beginning, laying a large number of mines and barbed wire, and digging trenches and setting up trenches in some places where it was easier to break through. Luzhai tried every means to prevent them from advancing so that their powerful crossbow guns could be used.The Ming army's muskets and crossbows are world-famous for their power. Once the enemy army is blocked by barbed wire, minefields and trenches, even a group of farmers can use these crossbows and muskets to slaughter a group of well-trained soldiers without restraint!This kind of non-contact combat can not only kill a large number of enemy troops, but also effectively reduce your own casualties. After grinding back and forth for several rounds, you will see the seemingly terrifying enemy troops with corpses scattered all over the ground under your attack. But he was unscathed. Even a group of sheep would soon turn into wolves thirsting for blood and killing!

It has to be said that Yang Menglong really understands the characteristics of the Ming army, knows his strengths and weaknesses, and a series of arrangements can be regarded as the right medicine.No, after repelling the enemy's attacks several times with very slight casualties, the Ming army's fear of the enemy has dissipated, and their morale has been boosted. Some people are already eager to go out of the city to kill the enemy.

Yang Menglong is indeed a troublesome opponent. Not only can he attack, but he is also better at defending. With a bad card, he can hold back the Qing army.

Yang Dong said to Oboi with a bitter face: "My lord, you can't attack anymore! This ghost place is very evil, there are mines everywhere, trenches everywhere, it's impossible to get through!"

Hai Du's eyelids twitched as he watched, secretly rejoicing: "Fortunately, it's not my troops attacking the city, otherwise, after these few rounds, I'm afraid I'm going to lose my money!" soldiers, but he felt a little distressed when they died too much. No matter how cheap these surrendered soldiers are, they can’t be consumed like this. If they are all dead, who will be their slaves, who will help them mow grass and herd sheep?He took a step forward and said to Oboi: "This Yangquan is really hard to attack. The whole line of defense is like an iron wall, with no flaws at all... How about we adjust our direction first, take Changzhi first, and enter Handan?"

Aobai smiled grimly: "No, I wasn't very interested in Yangquan at first, but now, I have to take it down!" Pointing at the black tiger flag flying high on the city wall with his horsewhip, he growled: "Then I'm going to kill you!" A battle flag is more important than ten Yangquans! Lu Xiangsheng is trapped in Liaodong, and he is doomed not to come back. As long as that battle flag is cut down again, no one in the entire Ming Dynasty can stop the rolling cavalry of the Qing Dynasty!"

Haidu was anxious: "But Yangquan City is too strong, we can't even attack it! And it is guarded by the Ming Dynasty's number one general. Even if we all crash and die here..."

Obai roared like thunder: "So what? So what? No matter how powerful he is, he is just one person, with only a few thousand defeated troops around him! The hundreds of thousands of troops led by Lu Xiangsheng have been wiped out by us, and what can we do to him? Thousands of people?" He stared at Yangquan City with a cold expression and a ferocious smile: "Yang Menglong, do you think I can't do anything to you if you set up a turtle formation? You are indeed a defense expert, and the entire defense line is like a soup pool iron fortress. If The battlefield is in Liaodong, and I really can't do anything against you, but I shouldn't, and those nerds shouldn't let us in! In Shanxi, I have plenty of ways to deal with you!" He waved his riding crop vigorously and shouted: "Send People used to arrest the Ming people in the surrounding area and let them attack the city instead of us!"

Hai Du was at a loss: "Arrest ordinary people? What use are those unarmed ordinary people in a line of defense that even our elite troops can't attack?"

Aobai looked grim: "Who says they are useless? At least they can help us step on those damn mines, at least they can help us fill up trenches, at least they can help us consume a few crossbow arrows and bullets for us! "Speaking of this, there were a few bloodshot eyes in his eyes, and he stared at Yangquan City. The bloodthirsty and crazy eyes made people shudder: "I want to see, facing thousands of my own people , can those smart dogs be so ruthless as to shoot arrows and fire! I want to see how many people are going to be massacred, that champion Hou, who is known as loving the people like a son, is willing to come out of that tortoise shell and stand upright with me. fight!"

The enemy retreated like this, and did not attack again.The Ming army breathed a sigh of relief, and seized the time to repair the battlements destroyed by shells. The wounded soldiers were carried down to treat them with all their strength, and the vacancies that appeared were filled by young men who voluntarily joined the army.The Ming army suffered very little casualties. The Ming army was very proud of killing more than [-] enemy troops with such a small cost of casualties. If they are too strong, they will collapse!"

"The arrows that were shot were also soft, as if they hadn't eaten for three days. I was hit by two arrows, and nothing happened. But the crossbow arrows we shot cut them down in clumps like grass!"

"That's what the Tartars are capable of. If it wasn't for that bastard Zhang Fengyi who was so mad that he let the Tartars in, how could they have reached Taiyuan? I'm afraid they wouldn't even be able to pass the Nine Frontiers!"

Yang Menglong also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that these guys who were used to fleeing for their lives would not be able to bear the terrible psychological pressure, and they would collapse without fighting. After all, the psychological endurance of the defeated soldiers was too poor. It was really hard to get back together.However, he was relieved to see that these defeated troops could actually watch the dead bodies all over the place talking and laughing while eating after repelling the enemy's attack.As long as you pass the psychological level, the next battle will be easy to fight.Standing in front of the crenel, he looked at the corpse lying on the ground not far away, and said in a low voice, "Oboi, just use whatever tricks you have, your time is running out!"

PS: Computer failure, I sent out the saved unfinished manuscript, sorry.

(End of this chapter)