The attack began, and the battle was very fierce at the beginning.
The Goguryeo people have been chased by the Tang army all the way in the past few days, and it turned out that the Tang army chasing them was a paper tiger, far weaker than them, and there was a sense of anger after being deceived.
They shouted and brandished their swords and spears and rushed towards Zhuangzi, round after round of arrows rained down, and some rushed directly to the city wall with horses dragging logs.
"Shoot the Arrow" On the wall of Zhuangzi, the officers of the Tang Army were also roaring.
"Kill Them" The hearts of the soldiers of the Tang Army were even more angry, especially after witnessing the tragic death of those people just now, everyone's chest was burning with anger.
Shoot with a bow and arrows, shoot, shoot, shoot.
At this time, there is no need to aim, all of them are long stacked arrows, which are heavier and have a longer range.
Shooting directly at the sky upwards is a better killing effect for the dense Goguryeo people below.
Both sides held their breath.
At the beginning, bows and arrows were fired at each other.
Li Chao stood on a stone tower behind the Zhuang wall, where he could condescendingly watch the battlefield.
"The Goguryeo people of the dog day have more bows than us" Jung In-tae cursed in a low voice.
It is true that the Goguryeo cavalry were light cavalry and basically had bows.
Although the riding bow is a little worse than the starting bow, it can't hold up the number of them.
On the contrary, the Tang army is on its side.
Only the Shenji Battalion and Youzhou Mansion soldiers were equipped with bows, and their number was less than 10,000, only 8,000.
Although 8,000 men were equipped with bows and practiced bows, 8,000 against 40,000 obviously did not have enough firepower.
Fortunately, there is still a village wall in the way.
But even so, the Tang army was also suppressed badly, and in the rain of arrows, from time to time the Tang army was injured by arrows.
The Goguryeo people took advantage of this long-range firepower to suppress the Tang army and rushed under the Zhuang wall.
Quite a few dragged logs, and some carried ladders.
Li Chao's face was expressionless.
From the very beginning of this fight, he knew it was going to be a tough one.
He had too many recruits in his hands, and many of the volunteers weren't even recruits.
If he has 30,000 soldiers, Li Chao is afraid of a bird.
Bows and arrows against who is afraid of whom, the Goguryeo cavalry has more bows, but the infantry of the Tang army has more powerful infantry bows.
Although not everyone in the Tang Army's government was a marksman, everyone had a bow.
The most standard tactic of the Tang Army is to come up and release arrows first.
Shoot back to cover the attack, which is quite powerful.
It's a pity that now Li Chao only has 8,000 people. 8,000 versus 40,000, the difference is still a bit bigger.
The volunteers and the young men in the village could only stare dryly.
"How ready is the stone lifter?"
Li Chao asked.
Catapults are both complex and simple, and the simple ones can be made from local materials and used for them.
Anyway, it's good to increase attack damage.
"Just got a couple loaded."
"Give there to push over, smash" The clash of archers was tragic and abnormal, on the village wall and the arrow tower, no officers and soldiers were hit by arrows all the time, and countless people were killed in battle.
Such casualties have never been encountered since Li Chao led his troops.
To tell the truth, Li Chao has never fought such a hard-fought battle, his troops are small, his equipment is poor, and he has a bunch of new soldiers, so he can't even borrow a geographical advantage.
Li Chao was furious in his heart.
He even regretted a little, he might not be in a hurry at this time, if he just drove Yuangai Suwen out of Hebei, in fact, he didn't have to take any risks.
Zhuangli.
Niu Jianhu held a cowhide round shield in his hand and carried his own shotgun in the other.
"Follow me to the wall" Behind, a group of volunteers, followed.
They were also more or less equipped, holding in their left hand the lids and planks of various pots and planks found in the village, and in their right hand their muskets.
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They carried their shields up to the wall.
The enemy is already approaching, and the archers alone will not do.
Arrows flutter in the air like locusts.
But at this time, you can't retreat, you can't wait.
The shield in their hands was very simple, they didn't even have a helmet, and they didn't have leather armor, but they still had to rush forward at this time.
On the wall.
Niu Jianhu directly threw the shield in his hand.
Stood next to the archer.
Pick up the shotgun, the shotgun has been loaded in the village, and directly pick up and aim.
The volunteers in the back also stood in their positions.
Stand directly in three rows.
As soon as one of the musketeers stood up, a feathered arrow flew and struck him directly in the chest, and the boy fell with a grunt.
The companion next to him took a look and found that he was hopeless.
Gritting his teeth, he filled in the vacant slot, gun in hand.
Three platoons of musketeers stood up.
Niu Jianhu stood in the first row.
Carrying his beloved bird gun in his hand, he gritted his teeth, in fact, for generals like them who have been used to shooting since childhood, bows and arrows are actually more useful, shoot farther, and be more powerful.
But Niu Jianhu has a unique love for shotguns.
But now, it doesn't matter whether the bow or the musket is the goguryeo people have flocked under the wall.
Aiming at a strong Liao soldier carrying a tree trunk, Niu saw the tiger and roared.
"Musketeer, shoot" He shot first, thud, condescendingly, and at close range, a cloud of blood splattered on the chest of the strong man carrying the log.
The strong man fell, and the original log was carried by eight people, but suddenly there was one less person, and he was a little unstable for a while.
By this time, the musketeers in the first row had already pulled the trigger.
The sound of thumping came and went, and bursts of gunpowder smoke rose.
After placing a platoon of guns, the musketeers of the first platoon did not look at their effect at all, and then they retreated from both sides and went around to the back of the third platoon, and the second platoon, which had already finished loading, stepped forward and opened fire.
Step back again, then the third row.
And so on and so forth.
"It works well, but unfortunately there are fewer muskets."
This group of musketeers is not the kind of pear flower gun in their hands, but the assault gun, although the production is not as troublesome as the bird gun, and the power is not as great as the bird gun, but now Li Chao has only a hundred assault musketeers.
The Great Wall assault gun is used, which is far inferior to the bird gun, there is no bolt mechanism, it has to be ignited manually, and the barrel is very short and the firing range is also short.
However, standing on the head of the city, within twenty steps, even if the accuracy is poor, it is actually very powerful.
"It's a pity that there are only a hundred, if there are 10,000 assault musketeers at this time, I can let Liaogou know how powerful it is today."
In less than a quarter of an hour the assault men had already suffered twenty or thirty casualties, equivalent to nearly a third of the losses.
This casualty made Li Chao feel distressed.
"Let the Assault Men stand back."
It was not easy to build such an assault rifle team, and a third of them were killed and wounded at once.
"Let the musketeers come on."
Ordinary musketeers only have a pear flower gun with a gunpowder cartridge on the spear, and this kind of gun has no bullets in the powder cartridge, but only sprays flames and fireworks, and it is okay to face to face, but it can't even hurt the enemies under the city.
But luckily, they also have grenades.
At this time, Li Chao could only use them as grenadiers.
The musketeers went up to the city, and by this time the Goguryeo people were already hitting the walls and setting up ladders, and the situation was critical.
"Throwing grenades" There were bursts of shouting, and the musketeers took out their grenades, and some even tied them together, lit them and threw them down.
The rumbling sound came and went, and the power of the grenade itself was not great, but at this time, the enemies under the city were dense, and the grenades were fired in unison, but they also made great achievements.
The Goguryeo people were blown up on their backs, and the dense enemy under the wall was cleared of an open space.
However, today the Goguryeo people are also iron-hearted, and they have no intention of retreating at all.
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Soon they rushed up again, filling the gap again.
The bow and arrows were shot even more, and the sky was full of flying arrows, and the dense arrows formed a rain of arrows, and even the sky was blocked. on the wall.
The archers and musketeers of the Tang army kept falling, but they were constantly picked up.
In the village, those crossbow machines, stone throwing vehicles, and mine-throwing vehicles also began to exert their strength.
The sound of killing shook the sky.
The two armies are like two crazy beasts, unflinching, fighting with all their might.
"Xiangguo, our casualties are too great."
Wang Xuance reported to Li Chao.
The battle had only been going on for less than an hour, and the Tang army had suffered at least a thousand casualties.
If you continue to fight like this, it is estimated that you will have to fight for nothing.
Li Chao stared at the battlefield without saying a word.
The battle has reached this point, what is there to say, can you still retreat?
In front of the Goguryeo army.
Yuangai Suwen frowned.
The strength of the Tang army's resistance greatly exceeded his expectations, with so many 10,000 soldiers and 20,000 people, Li Chao guarded a small Zhuangzi, and under the frenzied attack of his 40,000 iron cavalry, he could still defend so stormy.
Until now, the thin village wall has not been broken.
"My lord, the Tang people's counterattack is very strong, and we attack like this, the loss is too great."
Yuan Gai Suwen had also seen that in the fierce offensive and defensive battles with the Tang people, they attacked the weak with the strong and the outnumbered with the many, but the casualties seemed to be more than those of the Tang army.
In the blink of an eye, thousands of horsemen fell in front of the wall.
"Don't stop, what you fight at this time is momentum, and whoever can't hold it will collapse."
"Continue the attack" The sound of war drums became even more intense.
At the sound of the trumpet, the Goguryeo people attacked like chicken blood.
Another hour passed.
"Xiangguo, we can't hold it anymore, the village wall is about to collapse in several places, and we have already suffered at least 2,000 casualties."
Li Chao gritted his teeth.
"Today we are fighting with our backs, there is no way back, life or death" "When the wall collapses, fill it in."
At this time, both armies were scarred and began to get tired, but no one was willing to relax.
At this time, the momentum is gone, and it is over.
"Boom" The thin village wall finally could not withstand the impact of the Goguryeo people pushing the giant tree, and fell down with a bang.
A gap in the gap is revealed.
The Goguryeo people cheered and shouted.
They excitedly rushed into the gap filled with smoke and dust.
"Throw" They were greeted by countless black bumps that fell from the sky.
Hundreds of grenades exploded, causing the Goguryeo people who were scrambling to squeeze into the gap and rushing in to be suddenly blasted and howled wolves, and suffered heavy casualties at once.
"Pikeman, Up" Another loud shout came, and a group of Tang Army pikemen quickly plugged the gap with spears.
The Goguryeo people in the back rushed up again.
The dense Tang Army's spear array at the gap suddenly erupted in a series of explosions, and then one after another firelight erupted.
"Ahh The Goguryeo people who had just rushed up screamed continuously. t1706231537: