What’s more important is that there are almost countless soldiers’ bodies and broken limbs blown to pieces by flowering bombs around this unprotected soil.
Although there is no detailed war damage statistics, Xu Guohou, with a solemn face, can be sure that there are 500 people who have lost less troops in the city wall.
Because of the northern army’s artillery attack on the city wall, the city wall was completely decorated with hundreds of defenders, but now it is decorated with hundreds of soldiers, and almost nothing can be seen.
One of the reasons for this result is that the hundred defenders who decorated their own walls have just been almost lost in the artillery coverage.
Even if you don’t see the clear face of the northern army, you will lose hundreds of soldiers. What’s more important is that the only red cannon you can win is also blown into a pile of scrap iron.
In the face of this cruel fact, Xu Guohou came to a pale face and unconsciously turned into despair.
It is clear that the Tiger and Leopard artillery units have always shown a high expression after showing their great strength. The loyalist company commander Xu Guohou finally felt scared. Not only that, but he also felt a little heartfelt remorse for his decision to take the initiative to station troops in this county to block the northern army.
I regret that I shouldn’t have been so reckless, that I shouldn’t have been hot-headed at the moment, and that I shouldn’t have come here …
But there is no regret medicine in this world. Now that it has been made, we should be prepared to bear it.
Leave Xu Guohou to suppress his fear and summon up courage to say something comforting to the Ministry.
The facial expression of the Ministry is also full of despair. Because of fear and fear, his legs and body have directly made him just summon up courage and disappear again …
Although Xu Guohou didn’t really go to the battlefield, he knew a truth very well through soldiers and elders …
"The morale of the troops can make an army win the battle or let an army directly collapse on the battlefield …"
In the sight of this group of ministries, it is obvious that they have been frightened by the strong strength exposed by the northern army outside the city
From their faces and bodies, Xu Guohou didn’t find the slightest courage to continue fighting with the northern army except the morale that had fallen to the bottom.
It’s probably that these people who regard themselves as confidants have no morale at all, and what’s worse, those ordinary soldiers who can even get 60% of their salaries.
Xu Guohou can’t imagine that after the outbreak of the real siege war, the northern army outside the city has been demoralized. Will the Ministry directly lose itself as the chief officer and the battlefield collapse?
So from the heart, I was afraid to come out immediately after.
At the same time, an idea that I was very ashamed of before also appeared in Xu Guohou’s mind.
Do you want to leave here with a personal bodyguard before you go to work?
But this idea was rejected by himself as soon as it appeared.
Because his family and his family returned to Beijing and wanted to leave their posts without permission, his family would be arrested by Emperor Chongzhen without hesitation and sent to the Royal Guards to make amends for themselves.
More importantly, as soon as this idea appeared, the commander-in-chief scouts rushed to their position with a full face of horror.
After seeing Xu Guohou, he even forgot to give a military salute at the very least. His voice trembled and he reported.
"Adults had an accident … four gates outside the county were found to be two thousand less cavalry … we … we were surrounded by the northern army …"
"Are you sure that the three gates surrounded by him are butch cavalry … your scouts are not mistaken?" Xu Guohou asked after hearing the report and realizing a little danger.
The general nodded affirmatively, "It’s the cavalry, but also the butch army said that the armored cavalry … not only is everyone equipped with a sabre and a pair of armored cavalry, but each cavalry body is also equipped with an excellent musket, and three powerful grenades are suitable for throwing the javelin at close range. The scouts who will send the city can see clearly and never go wrong …"
At this time, Xu Guohou’s face was even more desperate.
With a full face of nai wry smile way "now it seems that the northern army outside the city has not only captured our feet in this county as simple as that, but is going to take us out of this county …"
At this moment, a cry full of panic suddenly sounded in Chengtou, which had been blown to ruins.
"The rebels stationed outside the city began to attack us …"
With exclamations, ChengTou rang, and was responsible for the statistical loss of ChengTou. All the people were blackened by free and unfettered, and Qian Zong rushed directly to himself. Before he rushed to his eyes, he cried with a full face of horror.
"Adult stationed outside the rebels began to siege …"
"Two thousand rebel musketeers have left the barracks with muskets and artillery to press the county seat …"
After just covering the fire, Xu Guohou was given ten more scares, and he dared not climb the wall again.
After hearing the news that the northern army began to attack the snow and frost, he looked desperate. Without thinking, he opened his mouth and ordered, "Then why are you still staring blankly? The horse ordered the soldiers to climb the wall to prepare for guarding the city …"
In the face of this almost no brain command, Qian Zong kept the last trace of reason in his heart and quickly woke up. "But, my Lord, the wall has been blown flat by the rebels. It’s a danger to keep … Now let the soldiers rely on the wall for defense, isn’t it?"
"No matter how many soldiers we have, we can’t stand the cost of losing hundreds of soldiers with a flower bomb ….."
Re-understanding of the tough strength of the northern army, just escaped from death, plus I just learned that the northern army was trapped in the county seat …
In the face of a series of blows, Xu Guohou looks like a survivor and is full of despair about his future. How can he remain rational and analyze different ideas?
In front of thousands of words just say that finish Xu Guohou is a face of impatient mouth growled.
"Don’t keep the wall, what can we keep? Don’t you want the officer to watch the rebels break into the county seat while guarding the city is indifferent for fear of death … "
"If the horse goes to the command, no matter how many people die, they will stop the rebels from entering the city …"
Let Xu Guohou didn’t think that it was because he was irrational and impatient that he directly lost two thousand people again.
In order to block the invasion of the northern army by 2000 frightened officers and soldiers, we have to move to the wall step by step with mechanical steps.
When they climbed the city wall and saw corpses and broken limbs everywhere, many soldiers who had never been to the battlefield directly went limp and pale, squatting at the edge of the city wall and vomiting.
Three miles away from them, the heavy artillery position of the northern army has been holding a monocle and watching every move of the wall. The head of the heavy artillery regiment is calm and expecting his face to flash with a strange sneer.
Because after a short wait, he finally saw a picture he wanted to see most.
A quiet wall face that approaching wall, and the 2,000 musketeer are once again full of loyalists ready for defense.
After putting the telescope on the side of Wei Zheng, a face of excitement cried, "The loyalist in the guard city was really taken in …"
"Stick to the city loyalist was indeed led out by the two thousand musketeers we sent. Now these loyalists have gathered in the city wall."
At the end of the "will probably estimate the transferred wall loyalist absolutely two thousand people"
"If we blow up the two thousand loyalists again, maybe we won’t attack the loyalists in the city, and they will surrender to us without fighting for fear …"
Weizheng nodded confidently with a smile on his face and ordered, "What are you still doing … Order the brothers to fire their horses and shells and blow up the city loyalist and have to surrender to us?"
"If you can really blow up the city loyalist and surrender to us, handsome here guarantees that we will levy the northern army to go to the capital, and it is your heavy artillery regiment."
The head of the heavy artillery regiment looked excited and said, "Please rest assured that at the end of the fifteen rounds of shelling, you will blow up the loyalist who gathered in the city wall …"
Has been blown to ruins, not to hide the city wall directly let the power of the flower bomb play its best state.
Fifty heavy artillery guns only fired 500 or 600 flowering bombs at the wall, and the wall stretched for a mile and then it didn’t live again.
The gun stopped and the smoke cleared, and the wall was once again blown a foot shorter. Except for increasing the number of more than 1,000 bodies, there was almost no difference between the wounded and him.
Chapter four hundred and twenty Golden cicada takes off its shell
Qian Zong, who was forcibly occupied by Xu Guohou and covered in scars, is reporting to Xu Guohou with a facial expression full of pain and fear that the artillery attack has just ended.
See Xu Guohou didn’t change his face because of shock.
Qian Zong shouted at Xu Guohou directly because he was ashamed and resentful and unwilling to speak, "My Lord, you didn’t see the shelling just now. It was too bad."
"Follow the last two thousand brothers who will climb the wall together. Except for less than one hundred people who left the wall alive, the remaining brothers were killed …"
"Not to mention the fact that more than half of the brothers who were killed did not even leave a complete body …"
"Those brothers who are alive are not better, just like crazy. When they hear the explosion of the flowering bomb, the whole person will tremble with fear and have no way to continue to fight."
"Adult, we didn’t even see the rebel attack troops, so we were killed by the rebel heavy artillery …"
"Now, brothers, the rebels have gods to help them. If you continue to fight against the rebels here, you will have a dead end. Otherwise, the rebels outside the city can’t feel so bad …"
"The root of this battle can’t be fought. Please consider carefully and leave a way for thousands of brothers …"
If people are afraid of death, they are more afraid of dead bodies.
Ordinary soldiers would rather die in military law because of fear than be killed by a flowering bomb. The same will be true for many people around Xu Guohou.
As soon as the thousand words are finished, all the ministries will rush to chime in.
"Yes, my Lord, there is no way to continue fighting …"
"It’s too much to levy heavy artillery on the northern army. It’s not impossible for them to have enough shells to kill our department here …"
"This is not the most important thing. Even if we were completely bombed in front of the heavy artillery of the northern army, the northern army would not die, and we would be killed by the northern army in vain."
