Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 102 Siege
In a section of the Phoenix River near Guangling City, countless soldiers disembarked from the boats and gathered in an open space near Guangling City.

Under the threat of Youzhou gunboats, the five thousand musketeers and Zang Ba's three thousand soldiers and horses calmly crossed the river and disembarked.

During the whole process, the Guangling defenders did not have the slightest idea of ​​preventing the enemy from going ashore on the river bank.

Immediately after the five thousand Musketeers and the three thousand Zangba troops went ashore, they slowly moved towards Guangling City.

The distance between the river and Guangling City was two kilometers. The Youzhou Musketeers plus Zang Ba's 8000 soldiers and horses, a total of [-] people, slowly advanced along the canal leading to the Phoenix River.

Half an hour later, eight thousand soldiers and several gunboats arrived at the foot of Guangling City.

In Guangling City, Pan Zhang looked at his opponent with only over 8000 people, and couldn't help but feel a little contemptuous in his eyes.

"Are they just thinking about attacking Guangling based on this little person? It's really beyond their control."

It’s no wonder that Pan Zhang was scornful. Sun Tzu’s Art of War says: If you are ten, you can surround it, if you are five, you can attack it, and if you have doubled it, you can divide it.

In ancient times, the casualties of attacking a city were several times that of the defenders. You had to have at least several times the number of troops to capture a city.

Eight thousand to five thousand, it seems that there are more than 8000 people, but these 8000 people are the attacking side, so this force is a bit stretched.

At this time, Guangling City was in, and five thousand Musketeers had already formed a rectangular formation outside the east gate of Guangling City.

Zang Ba's [-] soldiers hid among the Youzhou Musketeers and began to wear armor.

Three thousand sets of plate armor infantry, this is the trump card for attacking Guangling City.

At this time, several gunboats had arrived on the moat to the east of Guangling City.

The moat was less than 50 meters away from the city wall, and as soon as several Youzhou gunboats approached, they were fiercely shot by archers on the city wall.

However, on the decks of several gunboats, everyone has put on plate armor, and the arrows shot from the top of Guangling City did not kill the gunboats and the people on them.

"Siege the city directly?"

Several gunboats came to the east gate, and the muzzles on one side were aimed at the east gate of Guangling City.

"How about I try to see if I can persuade you to surrender." Zang Ba said.

Not long after, Zang Ba, wearing plate armor and riding a tall horse, stepped out of the queue, and rode his horse to a place tens of meters away from the east city.

"Where is General Pan Zhang? I am Zang Ba."

Zang Ba stepped forward in person wearing plate armor and shouted.

"Zang Ba, why are you here?"

Soon, a general in his 30s who was also wearing armor showed his head on the city wall. This man was Pan Zhang.

"General Pan Zhang, I'm here to persuade you to surrender." Zang Ba shouted bluntly.

"Zang Ba, it's not that I look down on you, it's because you and I haven't taken it seriously, come and attack the city if you have the ability, and let me see how much you have." Pan Zhang shouted from the top of the city.

Hearing his words, the soldiers on the city wall burst into laughter.

"Archers, shoot him." The next moment, Pan Zhang ordered the archers to shoot.

The distance of 50 meters is exactly the shooting distance of a bow and arrow. Since Zang Ba dared to run alone, don't blame him for capturing the thief first.

Hearing Pan Zhang's order, all the archers at the top of the city began to shoot at Zang Ba at the bottom of the city with their bows and arrows.

"Oh!"

Seeing this scene, Zang Ba in the city was not aware of it, he exclaimed, and hurriedly rode his horse to leave.

In ancient wars, since the Warring States period broke the shackles of the war of gentlemen, as long as they can win, all kinds of conspiracies and tricks of all parties can be said to be omnipotent.

It is almost a rare case that the leader of an army will run to the front of the enemy alone.

The confrontation between the two armies in front of the generals described in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is even more ridiculous.

There are very few historical records of battles against generals, only a few cases, and the time span is very large. Most importantly, the ones who can go out to single-handedly fight are generally not the generals of the entire army, but the generals under the general.

Of course, there are also negative teaching materials, that is, the fool Dou Jiande of the Tang Dynasty, after being provoked by others, he personally led Qingqi out to fight against the enemy, but was injured and captured.

After he was captured, his 15 army suddenly collapsed. He was considered in history as a person who could compete with Li Yuan Wang Shichong, but he was defeated in one battle. This is the consequence of the general.

The well-known writer Yao Xueyin once criticized the cognition of heads-up, and wrote two lines of poems to ridicule: In front of the battle, you fight against the Xiezhi general, and you watch the grass and trees under your banner.

Zang Ba's move to go to Guangling City alone was extremely stupid in Pan Zhang's view.

Although Zang Ba wore plate armor, he would not be shot and killed by bows and arrows, but the horse he was riding had no plate armor defense.

The next moment, there was only a whirring sound, and countless arrows shot towards Zang Ba quickly.

Some feathered arrows hit Zang Ba, and the arrows hit the plate armor with a clanging sound.

But more arrows hit Zang Ba's horse.

The horse was hit by an arrow, and suddenly became frantic, knocking Zang Ba off the horse's back in three or two strokes, and fell into a dog gnawing mud.

However, despite this, Zang Ba's horse did not escape the fate of being shot by the arrow rain, and after a while of trampling, it fell to the ground and did not move.

After a while, Zang Ba shook his head and got up from the ground. He was a little dizzy from being thrown.

"Hahahahaha!"

Seeing this scene, there was a burst of laughter on the city wall, and the laughter was full of sarcasm.

There were still archers on the city wall shooting at Zang Ba non-stop, and the arrows hitting the plate armor made a clanging sound.

Such a situation made Zang Ba very embarrassed. He glanced at the city wall bitterly, and could only leave the shot horse and run back to the army formation in embarrassment.

In front of the army formation, the five thousand Musketeers looked strange when they saw Zang Ba running back in a panic.

They were too far away from the city wall, otherwise they could have fired back at the archers on the wall with muskets.

"Let's attack the city." After returning to the military formation, Zang Ba gritted his teeth and looked at Guangling City and said to Lin Yongsheng.

"Then attack the city." Lin Yongsheng nodded, and then someone blew the attack horn.

The next moment, five thousand musketeers began to advance forward in unison.

Zang Ba's three thousand troops followed closely behind.

The army formation stopped at a distance of about 60 meters from Guangling City.

This distance can guarantee that even if the opponent uses a recurve bow weighing more than [-] pounds, or an armor-piercing arrow, it will not be able to penetrate the plate armor.

If it reaches a distance of 50 meters, the plate armor still has a recurve bow that can be shot through with an armor-piercing bow.

But in this era, even the recurve bow has not yet appeared, let alone a strong bow that can shoot through plate armor.

However, for the arrival of Youzhou Musketeers, the people on the city wall will naturally not be tied down.

"Fire arrows."

Following Pan Zhang's order, countless arrows rained down on the Youzhou musketeers from the city wall.

Fortunately, the musketeers were all wearing plate armor, and the only thing not wearing plate armor was their hands, because the armor on their hands was not convenient for the operation of the musket.

Arrow rain is naturally harmless to Musketeers.

Soon, the people on the city wall discovered this, and then, by coincidence, all the archers stopped shooting, because no matter how much they shot, it was just a waste of arrows.

However, the shooting on the city wall stopped, and under the city wall, following Lin Yongsheng's order, the musketeers began to shoot at the city wall.

Bang bang bang bang!

For a while, the sound of musket banging was endless.

On the city wall, many soldiers had no time to react and were hit by muskets one after another.

Some hit the head and were killed on the spot, while some hit the body and let out a scream.

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