Chapter 119: Liangzhou
The arrow feathers in the sky flew overwhelmingly like flying locusts, and they fell on the iron shield of the Southern Qi army one after another, leaving only shallow white marks, and the lethality was not strong. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
After two rounds of archery, the general of the Warat Army decisively ordered: "Stop shooting!" and then said: "Get on the heavy bow and crossbow." ”
Two heavy ballistas were pushed up, the triggers were actuated, and one by one the bolts were fired downward. It's a pity that although the lethality of the heavy crossbow is strong, the number of the Southern Qi army is too large to stop the progress at all. They could only watch as the Southern Qi army below slowly moved like a giant beast, getting closer and closer.
The rear of the Southern Qi army is a black and oppressive cavalry, eyeing the battlefield with fierce eyes, as long as the Wara cavalry comes out of the city, it will be a melee immediately. At this time, the Warat soldiers were still calm, and only held the city gate, and there was no movement. They also seem to have been ordered to not dare to act rashly until the critical moment.
The Wara soldiers on the city wall watched the phalanx of the Southern Qi army moving slowly under the city, getting closer and closer, approaching the moat, when suddenly the drum beat changed, and the slow and heavy drum beat suddenly hit a fast, like a stormy wave-like rhythm. Suddenly, I saw that the shields of the phalanx in front of me were suddenly put down, and ten cannons were pushed out, and the pitch-black cannon body with bright red satin gave people a different kind of strange sense of threat.
Most of the Warat soldiers had seen the power of the artillery of the Northwest Army, and when they saw those artillery, they all subconsciously retreated. This is also the result of the last few battles of the Northwest Army, a year ago when the Warat people were introduced, the Northwest soldiers were scared like rats seeing cats, and now it is completely reversed.
Guo Wenying stood behind the formation, hooked her lips and smiled, with a wave of her hand, the herald's flag fell, the power of the artillery was exhausted, and the rumbling sound occupied the entire battlefield.
Under the cover of artillery, a group of soldiers roared out with ladders and long knives, roared out and rushed across the moat with roars and shouts to kill directly under the city.
A number of ladders set up the city wall, countless soldiers bravely climbed the ladders first, countless stones and sassalwoods rolled down, trebuchets made a "click" sound, driving the sound of the wind, mixed with huge stones falling from the sky, a scream accompanied by a body falling from mid-air, shouting to kill the sky.
More people rushed forward, and they were greeted by arrows shot by countless archers, and more fell from the air with a miserable wail, and suddenly the Warat soldiers set fire to the city wall, and one by one the torches soaked in oil were thrown, and the billowing black smoke swallowed up countless lives. Flames burned on people, screams everywhere, and the air was filled with a thick smell of blood and burning.
In a narrow area under the city wall, the corpses of the Southern Qi army were mixed between stones and sassalwood, their bodies twisted, and they all died tragically. Shouts of killing and screams drowned everything out, the walls were on fire everywhere, black smoke filled the air, and the water of the moat turned a reddish color.
More and more soldiers gathered on the city wall, some throwing stones and logs, some pouring barrels of boiling oil down, and the light of the fire reflected their hideous faces, which looked particularly terrifying in the gloomy weather.
The brave Southern Qi army killed the city wall, pounced on it, fell to the ground, rushed up, was pushed down, and then got up and rushed up again. At this time, ethnic hatred occupied the body and mind of every soldier, and all the soldiers of Southern Qi knew that their moment of revenge had finally come.
The long day of this day seemed to have passed a whole year, and the Southern Qi army lost nearly 10,000 soldiers in one afternoon, and the city gate could not be attacked for a long time, and the moat outside the city was filled with corpses, and the moat that was not wide was filled out of a road.
Guo Wenying pursed her lips and looked at the city gate in front of her without saying a word, she had expected that the bone in Liangzhou would be difficult to gnaw, and she might have clenched her teeth if she was not careful, but now that the casualties were so heavy, she almost knocked out her front teeth.
The soldiers who went to bomb the city to bury the explosives pack had already gone in twice, and the explosives exploded twice, and only a small gap was blown open in the city gate, but there was obviously a very heavy thing behind the city gate, and they couldn't rush in at all. They had no intention of going out of town with them.
However, Guo Wenying didn't want them to rush out, she knew that she was holding on to the death, in fact, they were singing the 'air soldier plan', 50,000 West Route Army and 30,000 soldiers who came from Jizhou to support were all assigned to Xu Heng and Lu Weixin to fight Xuyang and Luzhou, the soldiers in her hand looked like there were eighty or ninety thousand, in fact, only half of them were the Northwest Army, and the remaining cavalry behind the infantry phalanx were all made into human shapes with straw men and disguised as real people. As soon as the other party opened the city gate and rushed out, they immediately appeared in their original form. So at the moment, she is more anxious than anyone else.
However, fortunately, the Warat people knew that the gunpowder of the Southern Qi was powerful and sealed the city gate, otherwise this battle would only be lost and not won.
At night, the city wall of Liangzhou Mansion was still shouting and killing, and countless torches illuminated the field. Through the torches, it was vaguely discernible that there was a tall figure with a golden helmet and golden armor standing on the city wall, which should be the prince of Warat, Agoura. He stared at the movements under the city and watched closely, as if he was looking for a flaw in the Southern Qi army. Fortunately, he didn't have clairvoyance, it was dark, and he couldn't see very clearly.
Groups of people rushed up, all filled the pits under the moat, and the Southern Qi army filled in 20,000 soldiers in vain, Guo Wenying's face became darker and darker, but she couldn't stop.
Because she knew that with Agoura's temperament, if he stopped at this time, he was likely to see that he was dying, and once the Warat army opened the north and south gates and rushed out, all the layouts would come to naught.
Lu Qifang came over at some point, looked at the sky in the distance and said slowly, "Wen Ying, are you scared?"
Guo Wenying shook her head, even if it was the first time she commanded such a large-scale war, she was never afraid, but those soldiers who died one by one made her feel distressed.
She asked, "When did the gentleman come?"
Lu Qifang said: "Not long after I first came, it was Lu Qi's kid who sent the old man over, looking at him on weekdays, he didn't like you on weekdays, but I didn't expect that he was quite considerate of you at the critical moment." ”
She pursed her lips, how could there be any personal grudges at this time?
"But what happened to Hirohito?"
Lu Qifang looked comfortable with his hands behind his back, "There was no accident, but the imperial court sent Qin Cha, and sent the general Wang Yunheng to take over the Northwest Army, and the Northwest Battalion has been occupied by them. ”
Guo Wenying didn't speak, the general Wang Yunheng she had heard of it, at least he was not a mediocre talent, and with him sitting in Yuren Pass, he didn't have to worry about when the Wara army would insert a pole there.
It's just that the imperial court is here, and this battle can only be won and not defeated, and if it wins, it may be able to survive, if it is defeated, even if the brothers who follow him to attack the city today do not die in the hands of the Wara soldiers, they will have to die in the hands of their own people.