Central Plains Wind and Cloud Chapter Seventy-Nine The End of Dawu
At this time, Dawu Binzhou was finally taken by the two southwestern countries, after Binzhou started, the two countries officially dissolved the alliance, Tianfu State occupied the vast territory north of the Rongjiang River, and pushed the border army to the border with Xingzhou Sansui City, and the territory south of the Rongjiang River belonged to the Nanli State, and the border army of the Nanli State also pushed forward to Jiangyongcheng bordering Xingzhou.
At this point, the two kingdoms officially got a piece of the pie in the game between the Daxing Dynasty and the Dawu Dynasty, and they clung to the existing city and no longer moved lightly.
Li Mang was stationed in the southern city, but he did not immediately move, but waited quietly, waiting for what to wait for? Waiting for Emperor Dawu to gather all the troops that could be used by the whole country in the imperial city.
Sure enough, Emperor Dawu really gave up all his territories, and recalled all the city defense troops in Wuzhou who were still willing to serve in Dawu, and for a while, almost every day, up to 10,000 people, down to 100 people came from all over the city, but could they really enter the imperial city?
Outside the southern city, a group of cavalry rushed in, and the guards at the city gate saw the leader and hurriedly opened the city gate to welcome the cavalry.
This group of cavalry is the heavenly army that went out on a mission, and the leader is also Li Mang's apprentice Sanbao, in the past few days, they have run everywhere, annihilating nearly a hundred forces that came to support the imperial city, and completely isolated the imperial city.
Of course, there are also those who break through the Daxing blockade line and enter the imperial city, but there are very few, but even if they enter the city defense army in the imperial city, it is also arranged by Li Mang himself, most of them are the heavenly army, and there are a small number of elite troops of various armies.
Li Mang didn't attack, just blocked, Dawu didn't come out, just defended, and the two sides were stalemate for a while.
This stalemate is a few months.
A month ago, 500,000 soldiers in Anlicheng finally couldn't stand the pressure, and the whole army surrendered.
After the arrival of the King of the North, Li Mang's corporal exceeded one million, and he became more confident for a while.
"The last battle is finally coming," Li Mang sighed lightly and turned to descend the city wall.
In the city lord's mansion, Li Mang gathered everyone together, and immediately spoke: "King Bei, if you go to call the battle, I will take 500,000 pickaxe troops under your command, and find 500,000 Wuzhou troops to see if they can get out."
The North King nodded, then turned and walked out.
Li Mang saw the back of the Northern King disappear, so he spoke again: "I don't think Emperor Dawu will let the Wuzhou army out lightly, so we prepare the next plan."
Li Mang looked at Shi Peng, Bai Qiu, and Sanbao and said: "Inform our people in the city, spread rumors, incite the people, it is best to start a riot, no matter how you do it, in short, let the imperial city be in chaos."
"Yes," the three responded.
"Let's go now," Li Mang nodded to the others.
The three of them turned around and left, only Liu Ming and Liu Lang were left, Li Mang glanced at the two of them and said: "You lead an army of 500,000 troops, go around to the east city gate and wait for the battle, listen to my orders, if the Wuzhou army comes out, you forcibly break the city, if the Wuzhou army does not dare to come out, you and the king of the north attack at the same time."
"Yes," the two of them were ordered to leave.
In an instant, there was only one person left in the hall, and he sighed, rubbing his temples in thought.
In this battle, he is not poor in donkey skills, but there are too many constraints, and it is impossible for Li Mang to make countless civilians in the city become victims of war, but if he attacks, he will have to sacrifice more soldiers, he is really embarrassed.
After a long time, the messenger came to report that the king of the north had been calling for a long time, but there was still no movement on the Dawu side, so please tell Li Mang what to do next.
Li Mang didn't speak, and sighed again and walked out of the City Lord's Mansion and walked towards the east city wall.
Li Mang stood on the city wall, looked at the Haozhou army waiting in front of him on the field, and then asked the messenger soldiers waiting around him, "Have Liu Ming and Liu Lang been in place?"
"Report to King Xian, you have arrived at the designated place, and you can attack at any time."
Li Mang nodded, turned to look at the giant city in the east, his eyes suddenly became sharp, and he said: "Order the Haozhou Army, Liu Ming, and Liu Lang brothers' armies to attack the city together after half a pillar of incense, and notify Shi Peng, Bai Qiu, and Sanbao to find a way to enter the city, concentrate the Heavenly Army and other elite forces, and take advantage of the chaos of the two armies to open any gate of the east and west gates of the Dawu Imperial City to me at any cost."
"Yes" The messenger waited until Li Mang had finished speaking, and then hurriedly ran down the city wall, and ran out of the city with a few cavalry.
At this time, Fenghua also came to the city wall with the thirteen girls, stood beside Li Mang and did not speak, and looked ahead together.
"Knock knock..."
After half a pillar of incense, the rumbling war drums suddenly sounded, and I saw the 500,000 troops of the Haozhou army moving forward together, and in the process of moving, they turned into three steps.
There were about 100,000 people in the first echelon, and I saw them pushing dozens of huge chariots with eight wheels and more than ten meters high, moving forward steadily, and the rest of the people hid behind the chariot as much as possible, holding shields and sabers, and carrying bows and arrows on their backs, and there were hundreds of troops hidden in each chariot, as long as the chariot leaned against the city wall, these people could quickly kill. With such a huge formation and advanced equipment, it is worthy of being the most elite unit in Daxing.
The second phalanx is about 200,000 people, these 200,000 people are all small shields and sabers, and some of them also carry many ladders, as long as the first echelon can approach the city wall, then the second echelon will be pressed in an instant, until it is killed at the head of the city.
The third phalanx was also 200,000 men, and the king of the north was in this phalanx, and this phalanx was full of cavalry, but each cavalryman's horse was equipped with small shields, bows and arrows, spears, and sabers, and could be transformed into any army at any time.
In the blink of an eye, the car entered a distance of more than 100 meters in front of the Dawu Imperial City, which was also considered to have entered the range of the enemy.
100,000 soldiers raised their small shields, hid their bodies under the rushing car and the small shields as much as possible, and rushed forward firmly against the rain of arrows.
Fifty steps forward again, 100,000 soldiers have fallen as many as 40,000 or 50,000, which shows the density of the arrow rain, but now, the Haozhou army can finally start to counterattack, only to see whether it is the archers hidden in the rushing car, or the soldiers who follow closely behind the rushing car, Gu is raising a longbow, bending the bow and shooting towards the city wall.
The two waves of arrows attacked each other, and the Wuzhou army on the city wall finally began to suffer casualties, but they were also very tenacious, and they did not dodge and hide at all, but mechanically drew their bows and shot arrows.
Before the two sides could get close, tens of thousands of corpses were thrown down.
Finally, the chariot was pushed under the city wall, but before the Haozhou army hidden in the chariot rushed up, he saw a lot of fire oil poured on the city wall, and with the torches thrown down, the fire instantly swallowed up the chariots, and the soldiers in it were naturally burned alive.
Of course, there were still those who were missed, or those who were shot before the torches could be dropped, or some of the pickaxe troops in the rush were quick to react, in short, someone climbed the city wall.
For a while, the screams on the battlefield were better than before, and the capital was terrified.
At this time, the king of the north waved the command flag in his hand, and saw the 200,000 Chinese army rushing forward fiercely, and the rain of arrows could not cover the battlefield at all, so the 100-meter distance of the Haozhou army rushed over in the blink of an eye, and a cloud ladder was erected, and more soldiers climbed up along the cloud ladder, and the city wall was finally broken.
On the other side, the brothers Liu Ming and Liu Lang received very little resistance, and most of the defenders on the city wall here were city defense troops from all over the country, not to mention that there were their own brothers hidden in this city defense army.
The battle had just begun, and the 200,000-strong army had already set up a ladder under the rain of arrows, and before the defenders on the city wall could throw down the fire oil, they were put down by the Daxing soldiers and the heavenly army who had mixed into the army.
After the first wave of the attack, the walls had fallen, and by the time 300,000 troops had reached the city, the gates had been opened.
For a while, Liu Ming and Liu Lang, with the cooperation of the Heavenly Army, slaughtered all the rabble on the city wall, and then headed towards the other side of the city gate.
Along the way, the people in the city had already hidden in fear, and there was no one, and the army was unimpeded, and they had already seen the city tower in a short time.
At this time, the Hozhou army had also climbed the city wall and was engaged in a difficult offensive and defensive battle. Often the Haozhou army has just driven the Wuzhou army off the city wall, and after a while, the Wuzhou army will fight back, and even the Haozhou army on the city wall will be cleared again, and the Haozhou army has to continue to organize the attack and climb the city wall again.