Chapter 357: Fight again

Yingshang City is a convenient place for transportation. If you want to go south and north, it is convenient to go east and west, but the premise is that Yingshui is the main transportation route.

The Yang Army of Jiaozhou Camp is now like a nail, firmly guarding the road between Yingshang City and Yingshui. No matter how reluctant the Fifth Camp of Gezuo was, he could only attack with all his might. Yingshang County has four gates and a large road is around, but except for the east gate of the river, in the other directions, one person and two people can escape from the city gate, and it is impossible for the army to move.

They all know that there is only the Yingshui River in Dongmen now.

A low wall was erected in the face-to-face front line, and with the advantages of cannons and muskets, which could constitute a blockade. Even if the Fifth Battalion of the Gezuo wants to use the sea of ​​people to break through this low wall - indeed, the firepower density of this era cannot stop the charge crowd at all - but when the low wall filled with the bamboo tray was rushed to the low wall filled with bones, it could not attack the opposite officers and soldiers through the wall, and had to climb over the wall. This short wall became an insurmountable obstacle.

No matter how well the veteran trained or how fast the movements were, he ran and charged, over the wall, and then set up a fight, the momentum of the impact was offset by the action of overturning the wall, and the soldiers in the front and back rows could not continuously impact the Huai Yang army. The rear team kept following up, but the front team was blocked and crowded together.

The numerical advantage of the fifth battalion of the Lezuo was not exerted. The spear soldiers of the Huai Yang Army were only facing a refugee soldier, rather than a continuous impact from front to back. Because of the short interval of climbing over the low wall, the spear soldiers of the Huai Yang Army could assassinate relatively calmly, and even rotate teams.

The side of the low wall built by the bamboo tray against the river was soon filled with corpses, but that was all. Cannons and muskets kept roaring to harvest lives. Although the spear was silent, it made brave soldiers pierce the internal organs.

The blood bravery that was aroused by the reward of the Fifth Battalion of the Gezuo quickly disappeared without a trace. The people behind were getting slower and slower. Gradually, the musketeers who retreated to the back of the team had loaded their ammunition and started shooting in front. The stair formation of the Fifth Battalion of the Gezuo was too close. The musketeers only needed to aim at the general direction and lower the muzzle height to shoot at will, and there would always be people blocking the muzzle.

In the face of this endless killing, the refugee soldiers could not bear the death and fear. They began to retreat, and gradually returned to the edge of the outside of the moat. The confrontation between the two sides returned to the beginning.

However, between the enemy and us, large corpses were left, and the wounded men who were whining on the ground, who were not dead for a while, but struggled on the ground. They didn't know who would come to save them. They just tried their last strength to seize the straw that they had not seen at all. The land was soaked in blood, and even merged into a stream and flowed into the moat.

The east gate of Yingshang City was not closed. The refugee soldiers from the city were still rushing out in large numbers and lined up outside the river, while the King of Left Jin Liu Xiyao and King of Troubled Wei Xiaobei took their men to the top of the city.

If you observe carefully, you can see that the artillery, muskets, bows and arrows of the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo did not appear outside the city. Many of the soldiers outside the city were holding wooden sticks and farm tools, while these refugee soldiers holding sharp firearms were concentrated at the top of the city.

Liu Xiyao and Wei Xiaobei both had a pale face. In such a narrow space, such a huge charge was finally repelled by the other party calmly. I really couldn't come up with any solution next.

But the officers and soldiers still did not pursue or attack, and were still behind the earthen wall. Just a group of people threw the bodies outside.

On the high platform among the officers and soldiers, Chen Liu, the general of Huai Yang Army, was not on the side of Yingshang City, but his attention was always on the upstream direction of the river.

Although there are short hills and paddy fields and dense ditches there, there are still several roads passing through, and He Yilong can only move from this direction.

Almost this place had just ended, and the ships arranged to observe upstream sent a message. A unit was moving over and approaching quickly.

After the water battle in Zhengyang Town, I believe that the fifth battalion of Gezuo may not dare to use ships. He used red-burned iron balls to attack the wooden ship. Jiaozhou Camp has done a calculation and counted about thirty numbers quickly, and the ship board will definitely burn. This is almost the natural enemy of wooden ships on the water.

This is one of the few military contributions of Dunglas to the Jiaozhou Camp. In Europe, the attacks between ships are mostly made of red-burned shells to kill and damage enemy ships as much as possible. This method is simple and easy to learn. But in fact, only the army like Jiaozhou Camp that practices frequently and has the quality of artillery can be used, otherwise it will cause a lot of trouble.

The shelling of red iron balls is probably the thing that impressed the most by the Fifth Battalion of the Gezuo. The ships of the Huai Yang Army near the riverside dock are still equipped with small cannons.

There is not much space between the low wall and the river bank. Currently, there are only about 4,000 soldiers on the shore, and many of them are still on the boat. Chen Liu heard that the upstream direction, that is, the four roads in the northwest direction, were very narrow, and could only accommodate three or four people running side by side. It should be the time when farmers plow the fields, or places that are not suitable for farming.

The troops were standing on the side of the low wall, and it was a bit crowded. On such a narrow road, no more than ten muskets could fire, which would not result in effective fire damage to the continuous rush of troops.

"The sword and shield hand is one step away from the intersection, and the spearman is behind it, and the space is raised to raise soil. The position is higher, so that the musketman can stand up."

All around Chen Liu's position were full of personal guards, all of whom were listening to the orders attentively. As soon as Chen Liu's order was released, someone immediately turned around to pass the order.

The battlefield was already a little quiet. Chen Liu was there, constantly observing Yingshang City and the direction of the upstream. He could vaguely hear noisy sounds starting to come in the northwest direction. It was obvious that He Yilong led his troops to kill him. Chen Liu twitched his nose and felt that the smell was not right.

He quickly realized that this was the smell of burning firewood. At this time, he heard someone shouting on the warship docked in Yingshui:

"Fireship, Fireship!!"

Liu Xiyao used this method to use burning ships downstream on the river. He didn't expect that this time he used the same trick again.

But the scale of the fireboat this time was too large. Standing in Chen Liu, looking upstream slantedly, the situation on the river was covered by trees, but the thick smoke rolled, and it actually felt like it was covering the sky and the air was a little choking.

Seeing the thick smoke on the top of Yingshang City, Zuo Jin King Liu Xiyao immediately ordered loudly:

"Let your brothers continue to rush now, Xiao Si, open the silver box!!"

There were more than a dozen wooden boxes on the top of the city, and the short soldier who was called Xiao Si pulled out a knife and suddenly split the wooden boxes, which were covered with white silver. Liu Xiyao grabbed one and scattered it directly under the city. In the day, the fifth camp of the Gate Zuo attacked Yingshang City.

He had already filled a lot of moats near the city gate. Under Liu Xiyao's city was a large number of subordinates standing, watching the silver spilling in the air.

Seeing a piece of corpse in front of the low wall, the refugee soldiers standing under the city were already depressed and didn't know what to do. Suddenly, as the silver spilled down on the city wall, the white precious metal immediately motivated everyone's emotions.

King Wei Xiaobei of the troubled times was a little stupid around him, thinking to himself what was going on, why did Zuo Jin King Liu Xiyao actually invest such a lot of capital?

However, he didn't dare to say anything. Before leaving, Ge Li said that He Yilong and Liu Xiyao clearly stated that the two of them had made various plans, but did not tell him. They obviously regarded themselves as outsiders. He Yilong and Lao Hui Hui Ma Shouying have always been unable to get along.

Wei Xiaobei and Lao Huihui were the closest, so they were naturally guarded against. However, in this situation, Wei Xiaobei could only let Liu Xiyao, the king of Zuo Jin, arrange everything. The strength of the troops of the fifth battalion of the left was not much different. The joint of any two battalions was far greater than that of the other troops.

There must be many such chaos in front of you. If you don’t have a look of your eyes, you might be fired in the city.

The refugee soldiers below, whether they were the subordinates of King Zuo Jin or the subordinates of King Troubled, were all screaming and cheering, and their morale rose again. The refugee soldiers who were flinching in the city saw that they threw silver from outside and were unwilling to stay in the city and rushed out again.

"Brothers, drive the officers and soldiers down the river. Old Liu's money belongs to everyone. It is better to go back to his hometown in Henan than to be in this bastard place. Then, follow the King of Chuangxiangfu to sit in the world."

While saying this, the personal guards around Liu Xiyao held the silver box to the battlement at the city wall and scattered it down with a lot of silver.

These silvers were looted everywhere, not the standard silver ingots. The scattered silver was scattered like this, with a huge momentum. Many of them fell into the moat. Some people jumped down to touch them regardless of the matter. Liu Xiyao shouted at the top of his voice:
Chapter completed!