Chapter 239 Liguo Fengyun 19

Liang Shan's steps were all frightened, but under the drive of the rear with a step, they had to grit their teeth and go forward, and they had the heroism of seeing death as home. 『』

The ladder fell down and was lifted up, and some people who didn't know whether it was lucky or unfortunate finally reached the top of the city, and before they had time to breathe, they were cut out of a cloud of blood mist by the defenders' knives and planted down the city wall.

The suppression of bows and arrows on the city wall stopped, and in the face of the enemy army protected by big names, intensive shooting was meaningless except for wasting arrows, and the cost performance was too low, and it was not cost-effective.

The archers switched to accurate and free shooting, and one by one the soldiers armed with hooks, spears and other equipment waited at the mouth of the ladder, and as soon as one came up, they would stab one down.

The offensive and defensive battle lasted for two and a half hours, the battle situation was quite tragic, a suppressed arrow was shot at the head of the city, the cold arrows were constantly released on the city wall, the sword light and sword shadow on the city wall, and the blood flowing out stained the blue bricks of the infrared wall, and there was a fierce battle in every place.

Fire bombs whistled and flew from the city from time to time, with a heart-rending whistling sound, accompanied by a violent roar, people within more than 50 steps were torn, and the sound of killing echoed in the ten miles of Xuzhou.

The besieging forces suffered heavy losses, leaving a large number of corpses at the gates of the north and east walls, and the casualties of the defenders were rising.

Fortunately, Wang Xiu is willing to spend the capital and dares to wipe out the interests of all parts of the country. Besides, Liguo is also a heavy place of copper and iron, and the most important thing is the craftsman copper and iron, there is not so much armor, it is easy to do, and it is strung together with a steel mold of 30 refining, 60 refining or even 100 refining, and the protective power is not inferior to the iron armor, which is ugly but very practical.

The defenders were covered in blood and their arms were numb, and the crazy and tragic scene made people's blood boil and thrilling at the same time. Both sides fought bloodily, and even those cannon fodder Cun Zài also rushed to kill with red eyes, and still bravely climbed the city with a few arrows in his body, and finally was wrapped in a spear and fell to the city unwillingly.

Wang Xiu supervised the battle back and forth, while observing the enemy's situation, he was in it, his blood was surging, and his heart was stirring and flying. Several battles occupy the right time and place, and smooth sailing, are fast movement warfare, today but for the first time let him feel the insignificance of personal strength, in the face of the surging frenzy, the small Li Guojian City is like a flat boat in the wild waves, will be annihilated by a huge wave at any time, only the whole army and soldiers work together, can be cast into a steel defense line.

He wisely did not participate in the battle, but constantly inspected the positions and inspired the soldiers to fight. Because, he is not qualified to participate in the battle in person, he is the decider of the fate of this city, he cannot replace rational decision-making with the recklessness of personal heroism, it is not a matter of life and death, and a good coach must not take the lead.

The generals can understand, and the soldiers can also understand that his appearance on the city wall is the greatest encouragement to the soldiers.

In the afternoon, the outside of the city was full of corpses, and the fierce battle finally took a subtle turn, and the offensive in the east, west, and south directions was markedly weakened, and most of them were feints of traction, but the offensive in the north was strengthened, and the intensity of troops increased rapidly.

"My lord, look, those five phalanxes." Shangguan Qian pointed ahead, his face solemn.

"Song Jiang, it's finally time to get real" Wang Xiuji looked into the distance, and he smiled.

Indeed, Song Jiang couldn't wait, and repeated attacks failed miserably, so that he could no longer maintain a steady mentality, seeing that it was not early, and it was almost consumed, he immediately adjusted his tactics, surrounded three and fought one, and pulled the main force up.

Although it is over, he will have time to take Pengcheng, and then march to Huaiyang, completely getting rid of the embarrassing situation of blocking the front and chasing after him, of course, it is his wishful thinking.

These elite soldiers of Liangshan pulled up the horses, and their momentum was really different, they stepped on the bones of the dead in battle, and rushed towards the city wall without fear of death.

"Fought off this time, it should be fine today." Wang Xiu's face was solemn again, and he kept patrolling the front to motivate his morale, so that he was exhausted, and realized that fighting a war was really different from storytelling, especially a defensive war that firmly believed that where to fight resources, it was simply perseverance.

Shangguan Qian and Qiu Fu commanded their men to resist vigorously, and the defensive tactics were constantly changing according to the changes in the enemy's situation. As the elite marchers climbed up the city, pots of boiling oil and boiling water were poured down, boulders fell down, and arrows were shot down.

I saw one after another infanciers screaming and falling, and rows of attacking infantains fleeing backwards, and everyone was calm. For a time, there were screams and blood flying, and there was hardly a complete corpse, and the death was quite horrific, with fire, artillery, and even more beheading.

Liang Shan's step pullers fell down in waves, and climbed up on the corpses in waves, looking numb one by one, and they had completely put life and death aside.

The Song soldiers in the city were also unrelenting, in this case, everyone understood that the city would face the slaughter of the red-eyed soldiers, and they had only one way out, that is, to resist desperately and turn the tide with their own strength.

Under the high-intensity attack, no matter how stubbornly the defenders resisted, there would be negligence, and some sections of the city were climbed up by the enemy, and they and the defenders writhed together, and the guns were broken with knives, and the knives were broken with teeth, and finally both of them died.

The section of the city where Wang Xiu was located was also broken through by the enemy, and in the face of the infantrymen who kept climbing up, he drew a straight knife and personally commanded the battle, cutting three infantry. The most thrilling thing is that he was directly cut in the back by a person, if it weren't for the sophisticated cold forging armor, it is estimated that there would be no follow-up

But I saw that Feng Yuan, who was holding a horse chopping knife, had just killed a step puller who had climbed up, and as if he had a premonition, he turned to one side, and a feather arrow flew past his face, and he could avoid being shot, and the strong wind of the arrow hung on his cheeks.

Jing Bo is even more ferocious, a person with a double gong rushed to the front, on the narrow city wall, he was wearing iron armor to take advantage of it, there was no need to worry about defense, the knife and gun hit the iron armor, like a partition wall tickling, almost unable to hurt him at all.

I saw that his strong body was covered with blood and brains, and even the iron pocket was thrown aside, and his cloak was like a Shura in hell, galloping back and forth in the crowd, and I don't know how many people died under his double hammer. Everyone has their own position, one person falls and the other goes up, all of them hold the city wall, and they will fight for every inch of land, and they will never allow the enemy to step over the thunder pool for half a step, this is a death order issued by Wang Xiu. The battle between the two sides has entered the most, and the white-hot mutual drama battle is terrifying, and the corpses under the city are accumulating higher and higher, and even people are tripped by the corpses when they are reunited, and the ladder can only be erected by cutting off three points.

Before sunset, Wang Xiu commanded the army and civilians of the whole city, successfully repelled more than 20 waves of attacks, and when the last wave retreated, he burned most of the pontoon bridges crossing the river with rockets.

For a whole day, they barely drank a sip of water, did not eat a grain of rice, and the soldiers on the front line of the city wall were covered in blood, and they couldn't tell whether it was their own blood or the blood of the opponent's step-puller, they only knew how to subconsciously hold their positions, and with the qiē they could use, their red eyes full of bloodshot and evil spirit, repelled one enemy after another.

"Brother, the casualties are too great to fight any further." Wu Yong looked at the fierce battle from afar, and sighed: "It's not my fortification."

Song Jiang was silent, Wu Yong was right, many brothers did not approve of attacking fortifications, they had been engaged in mobile warfare for a long time, lacked the equipment to conquer the fortified city, and did not have the time and conditions to manufacture these equipment, there were no ladder trucks, goose holes, broken door cars and arrow towers to attack the city, and every qiē needed to use human lives to fill the city.

"Brother, if you really can't do it, you will attack at night, at least you must fill in the moat, which is conducive to tomorrow's attack." Wu Yong saw that Song Jiang was silent, so he had to retreat to the next best, and he didn't want to thin Song Jiang's face. "That's the only way" Song Jiang was a little frustrated, although he was very unwilling. Night battles are dangerous, but also the most likely to achieve a breakthrough, and they are not as overwhelming as during the day, but quietly infiltrate, accompanied by arrows that cannot be seen with the naked eye, and everyone is on the verge of panic. The defenders fired fire bombs to illuminate the outside of the city as much as possible, and used arrows to strike the foot pullers who were constantly transporting earth and rocks outside the city.

Thousands of Liangshan's foot pullers surrounded the entire Liguo Prison City, constantly harassing them, using claw hooks and small ladders to climb the city in turn, and some even sneaked to the city gate to set fire, so that the city gate was covered with iron.

Although the battle was fierce, the intensity was not high, and the soldiers who had fought fiercely during the day were replaced by the reserves in the city, and they came down to eat and rest. Tonight's dinner was sumptuous, all flatbread and boiled mutton, as well as a supply of wine, so that the soldiers who were tired of the day had a good meal.

Wang Xiu understood the importance of taking turns to rest, and the treatment of the wounded was equally important, and in a day of fierce fighting, at least two or three hundred people were wounded, and if they were not carefully treated, the wounded soldiers died, which was a blow to morale, so he personally visited the wounded soldiers, and promised five hundred dollars a day, asking the women in the city to take care of the wounded soldiers.

He had no appetite at all, and after watching the wounded soldiers climb to the top of the city without looking back, despite Qiu Fu's dissuasion, and inspect one section after another, he knew that his appearance was tantamount to a light in the dark night, which could directly dye the high morale of the soldiers and expel the fear of night battle in their hearts.

This has nothing to do with the image, nor is it the propaganda of the high, big, and complete great man, this is the essence of management psychology, people's dependence psychology is stubborn, they are fighting in the front, and they most hope to see the appearance of the highest commander, and it has nothing to do with honor or showing face, but a certain need in people's hearts, and the impact of this need on morale is decisive. A night of sporadic fighting, Liangshan soldiers and horses paid a lot of price, but the results were also huge, many moats and ditches of the four gates of Liguo were filled with earth and stone, forming a passage for attack, the sky had just brightened, and a new round of attack began. The battle is almost carved out of a mold, and the defensive war does not have the strange changes of the movement war, and it can be defended with food, people, equipment, and morale