Chapter 60: The City of the Sunset
Yun Zheng still doesn't know what the surprise attack was like when the ancient army marched and fought, all he knew were some classic battle examples, and the main reason why those battle examples became classics was that they were scarce.
If you want to become a classic, you must occupy many innate conditions, and luck is an indispensable major factor.
Only when they are small and big will they use surprise attacks, when their own troops are not superior, and when their own army is at a disadvantage, they will use surprise attacks, otherwise, no real general will entrust victory to God.
Xiao Lin, Liang Ji, Zhou Tong, and Wu Jie became the vanguard, not only to prepare for a surprise attack on Shenglong City, but also to help the army open up the road, and they did a perfect job at this point.
Yun Zheng looked at the corpses that fell on the side of the road until the end of the road, and remembered the bundles of wheat in the wheat field, and the arrangement was the same, and now this time is the time when the peach blossoms in Shu are in full bloom, I don't know if those peach blossoms are as red as the blood on the ground under the dark sky of Shu.
The earth trembled with every step the elephant took, and the sonorous sound of the armor of the armor smelled of blood, which was conquest, or killing.
The Cochin people lived in wooden huts with steeples, scattered and scattered, and some children and women who had not been affected were frightened and peeked out from the cracks of the wooden houses, such a large army made them feel terrified from the bottom of their hearts.
The further you go to the front, the denser the population becomes, the vanguard cannot kill all these people, as long as they don't encounter obstacles, they won't kill people too much when they get to the back, at this time killing people can't play any role in secrecy, there is time to kill, it is better to quickly advance to Thang Long City.
No one could be seen on the main road, only a large army marching under the clouds, with no head or tail in sight.
The gates of Thang Long City were tightly closed, and the sound of gongs, drums, and trumpets resounded in the sky. The 2,000 Cochin warriors who hurried out of the city to meet the enemy were already about to be defeated, and Li Dezheng, who was standing at the head of the city, was pressed with a heavy piece of lead.
The huge cloud-shaped banner was killing the wind and waves of its own samurai masses, and behind this flag, the corpses were all over the ground. A tower-like warrior brandished a sledgehammer and roared to kill through the Jiaozhi military formation, and immediately looked at the city viciously in front of the Suzaku Gate, and the war horse under his crotch kept circling in circles, restlessly wanting to pounce on the city wall.
Li Dezheng is used to seeing the military array, he is not the Taiping Emperor, and his throne was also taken over after a bloody storm, so he is not afraid of the army in front of him, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers in the city, which is enough to defend the city by himself. He was very confident in himself, he was just worried about the prince who was far away in Guangyuan Prefecture, since this army appeared here, could it be said that Li Rizun had been completely defeated?
He worked hard to put this impossible thought aside and refocus on the battle situation in front of him. All of his subordinates have died in battle. The crossbow arrows of these cavalry were very terrifying, and as soon as the battle began, the dense rain of arrows caused the army of 2,000 people to lose half of their troops, and even the heavily armored armor soldiers could not escape the doom, and were nailed to the ground alive by a short spear with a sharp handle.
Eight hundred cavalry!
Li Dezheng didn't find much damage to this cavalry, except for some cavalry who fell off their horses and died, their number did not decrease much.
"The King. The enemy's cavalry was also found at the other three gates, and our messengers could not get out. A military general in gold armor knelt on the ground to report.
Li Dezheng said expressionlessly: "It's not practical to send a letter, they can't kill all the people outside the city, Li Xiuze of Tianwang Temple should have sent someone to deliver a letter to the prince, what we can do at present is to close the door and wait for the arrival of the prince's army." Or after the arrival of the army of the kings from all walks of life, none of these thieves can leave.
Ordered the left guard general Long and integrated the army of Thang Long City to control the whole city, ordered Prime Minister Li Decheng to recruit civilian warriors, and at the same time ordered the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture to draw one out of two and these people must complete the armament in the fastest time.
At the same time, it was announced that the soldiers and civilians of Shenglong City would be rewarded with ten rewards for beheading the first level of the Song army. Those who behead the third level are the upper army, and those who behead the tenth level are the captains, if there is a retreat from the battle, there is no forgiveness for those who steal the life! ”
The war was at a fever pitch from the very beginning, and the surrounding area of Thang Long City was full of shadows of the Great Song cavalry, who burned and looted here, hoping to carve out a relatively safe area around Thang Long City.
And those Jiaozhi people were also stimulated by Li Dezheng's reward, and their eyes were red, and they went forward and attacked the Great Song cavalry with hoes and machetes, killing layer after layer, and some lucky Jiaozhi people brutally cut off the heads of the Song soldiers who died in battle, and before they could receive the reward, they were crushed into pulp by the newly pounced Song army.
The killing became unrestrained, since the Song army could not bear to kill the woman and the child, but was killed by the woman and child that he spared, the killing of the Song army had no limit, and after three thousand cavalry around Thang Long City and killing without sleep for three days, Yun Zheng's army slowly came to Thang Long City.
At this time, the surrounding area of Thang Long City has become a white field, except for the beasts that haunt from time to time, there is no longer a single figure to be seen, those glorious temples have become ruins, and the search team formed by the merchants carefully took anything they thought was worth taking, even the gold coating on the Li Gongyun Spirit Pagoda was carefully scraped off by those merchants, as for the inside of the Spirit Tower, it was already a devastation, they took away all the burial goods in the mausoleum, and then a fire destroyed the corpses......
The looting was still going on, and those Jiaozhi people who were lucky enough not to be killed were chained to continuously deliver the looted items to the forest station, Yun Zheng didn't ask where those people were, but he knew from Cui Da's pale face that the fate of those people was definitely not good, since the killing and the war had begun, Yun Zheng was powerless to make any changes at all.
More than 100 elephants walked through the forest, and they became more than 200, and when so many war elephants stood under Thang Long City, the gloomy color on Li Dezheng's face was a little more.
Yun Zheng didn't give Shenglong City a chance to complete the mobilization of the whole people, if the entire city was mobilized, it would be absolutely impossible for his more than 10,000 subordinates to capture Shenglong City, how powerful the strength of the whole people was, he knew very well.
The next day after coming to the city, Yun Zheng couldn't wait to start the siege, eight bull crossbows, and small trebuchets frantically threw all the weapons at the Vermilion Bird Gate, the Suzaku Gate was full of gunsmoke and flames, the collapsed city towers and the stumps flying everywhere showed the cruelty of the war, although the Jiaozhi people did not understand why the weapons of the Song army exploded, why they were so terrifying, but they understood another thing, that is, once the Song army entered the city, their fate must be even more cruel.
No matter how many people were killed by the Song army's gunpowder shells, as long as the Song army began to charge, the city would still be full of Jiaozhi people, and the rain of arrows they created never stopped.
The enemy capital has never been conquered lightly, except for Tokyo, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty during the Xuanhe period.
The corpses of the Jiaozhi people have been piled up under the city, and although the walls of the Suzaku Gate are broken, they are still firmly in the hands of the Jiaozhi people, but no matter who looks at it, it is only a matter of time before Thang Long City is breached, because the Song army has not launched a real attack until now.
"King, Shenglong City can't be defended, the attack of the Song army is very terrifying, that kind of weapon that has never been seen before can be blocked by flesh and blood, the king, Weichen is willing to drive forward for the king, kill a bloody road, and escort the king away."
A general covered in scars knelt in front of Li Dezheng and pleaded bitterly.
Li Dezheng narrowed his eyes, looked at the cruel battlefield and stabbed the general to death with a sword, and then whispered: "It's only been half a day since the war started, and the Song army wants to flee without a fight before it launches a real charge?" ”
After killing the general, Li Dezheng looked at the panicked courtiers and said: "Don't think about leaving, if Jiaozhi still wants to establish a country, we can't abandon Thang Long City, what we have to do is to guard Thang Long City, wait for the prince to return, the outer city is broken, we will stick to the inner city, the inner city is broken, we will stick to the palace, in short, we are ready to die here, those who dare to abandon the city, kill!" ”
After Li Dezheng issued the order, he re-ascended the Wangyuan Tower to continue watching the battle......
A huge siege vehicle slowly approached the city gate, this is a siege vehicle pulled by ten war elephants underneath, these siege vehicles are made of thick wood, the wood is covered with a layer of fireproof mud, under this huge siege vehicle is driving four large carts full of gunpowder, as long as this siege vehicle can get close to the city wall, these gunpowder will ignite in the city gate hole, completely blow up this majestic gate.
Seeing that the siege vehicle was slowly approaching, the Cochin people covered the burning arrows like crazy, and these arrows attached to the car, igniting a raging flame, no matter what, they could not stop the siege vehicle from slowly approaching the city wall.
"Shut up the gates!" The general of the cochin gave the order hoarsely.
With a "boom", the heavy siege vehicle finally hit the city wall, and the boulder in hundreds of catties smashed on the siege vehicle for the first time, and then the hot oil pocket of the cauldron fell down.
The four carriages took advantage of the only little time to drive the carriage into the city gate hole, the city gate was tightly stuffed, and after the Wusheng soldiers lit the long fuse, they untied the war horse's head and re-drilled under the siege vehicle without looking back, and drove the elephant back frantically......
It was too late, Peng Jiu shouted, cut the leather cord connecting the elephant with a knife, and after stabbing the elephant's buttocks, he rushed out from under the siege vehicle, ignoring the rain of arrows behind him, and the rest of the soldiers also followed his example to cut off the elephant's leather cord, and followed the crazy elephant closely and rushed into his own military formation.
Seeing that Peng Jiu and them ran back, the trebuchets of the Great Song army immediately threw a new round of gunpowder shells on the city wall, and the Eight Ox crossbows were also launched at the same time, wanting to cover Peng Jiu and their return.
"Lie down! The gunpowder is about to explode! Peng Jiu had four or five arrows stuck in his back that were still bubbling and shouted towards the formation.
ps:
The first chapter, which was deleted and rewritten last night, stayed up until two o'clock and didn't have anything satisfactory coming out, but fortunately it feels good today. Sorry.