Chapter 172: The Battle of Quanzhou (3)
A total of three tall enemy towers were built near Linzhangmen in Quanzhou, that is, corner towers, and the role of enemy towers was to look out and shoot.
In addition, between the moat and the city wall, there is also the sheep and horse wall, as the second line of defense of the Quanzhou city, the city wall of Quanzhou, and the inner wall after the outer wall, a total of four lines of defense.
Outside the trench, there are also dense tribulus terrestris, horse rejection and other things.
In addition to the slightly short city wall, the city defense of Quanzhou can be said to be relatively strong, not because Quanzhou was caught off guard by thieves this time, but the city of Quanzhou is more impregnable.
In order to capture the city of Quanzhou, the Donghai Qunkou pushed dozens of simple trenches up and pushed them to the moat.
The so-called trench trucks, also known as trench filling trucks, are defense against vertical bridge plates, so personnel can avoid being attacked by arrows and rocks when advancing the trench filling trucks.
When the moat is pushed to the moat, the earth and stones are thrown into the trench to fill in the moat, and then the ladder is erected to seize the city, or the city gate is directly smashed open with a battering ram.
As long as there is a flaw in one place, as long as one place is breached, then the entire Quanzhou city will be breached.
"Shoot back!" Yao Yu waited until the trench cart was pushed to the moat, and waited until the thieves in the East China Sea began to fill the moat, before waving the command flag in his hand and giving the order to attack.
At this moment, in order to fill the moat, the thieves were in a mess before the moat, and the trench car was exposed, and at the same time, it was also the best range for various city defense ordnance of the Song Dynasty.
With Yao Yu's order, the Song army, which had been aggrieved for a long time, poured stones, poisonous fireballs, crossbow arrows, javelins, etc., into the trench carts pushed up by the thieves like rain.
The so-called poisonous fireball is to make a black huo medicine group with low nitrate and good combustion performance into a ball, and mix it with toxic or smoked substances, bind several layers with paper or linen, and apply pine resin to prevent moisture and combustion.
The terrible thing about the poisonous fireball is not the lethality of the fireball, but the smoke produced by the burning of the poisonous fireball, which can choke people to death or poison them to death.
Looking down on the entire Quanzhou city from mid-air, the poisonous fireball launched by the Song army's catapult crossed the sky, with a long tail flame smashed into the trench car, where the poisonous fireball was smashed, a raging fire ignited, and at the same time, a thick yellow smoke came out.
The boulder thrown by the catapult spun and fell from mid-air, smashing a trench car to pieces, and after the trench car shattered, the pirates hiding behind the trench were exposed to the poisonous smoke and the Song army's bows and crossbows.
The pirates were poisoned by the smoke, or they lay on the ground and foamed at the mouth, only the intake and no breath came out, or they fell to their knees and kept vomiting, only wishing to vomit all their internal organs.
In fact, the poisonous fireball thrown by the Song army and the poisonous smoke it emitted are not the most deadly, or the most lethal, after all, the poisonous fireball and the poisonous smoke emitted by it are affected by factors such as wind direction and terrain. At the same time, in the wilderness, the effect of poisonous smoke is extremely limited.
And the most lethal and deadliest is the bow and crossbow of the Song army.
At this moment, countless Song army bowmen stood up from the city wall and shot rows of feather arrows at the pirates, like rain of feather arrows covering the sky and the sun, at this moment, the sun seemed to be much dimmer.
The rain of arrows emitted bursts of terrifying "whining" sounds, overwhelmingly shooting at the attacking pirates, shooting rows of pirates in front of the moat, the pirates either fell into the moat, or fell horizontally and vertically on the riverside, their bodies were full of feathered arrows, their stomachs were broken, and blood flowed everywhere, almost all of which dyed the moat red.
There are corpses all over the field, and there is a river of blood!
The dense feathered arrows were stuck in people or in the ground, and the whole moat was like a patch of rice paddies in front of it, making people's hair tingle.
Most of the pirates who attacked were shot, and the rest of them were scattered and ran back to their camp, leaving behind burning trenches and mutilated corpses.
The Song army began to counterattack, but it also exposed the position of the Song army's defense, so they began to attack with catapults.
Among them, the most "cared" by the other party is the enemy tower, the reason is that the Song army on the enemy tower can not only observe the movement of the enemy army, but also condescendingly shoot the enemy army.
So the stones thrown by the pirates' catapults flew like raindrops towards the Song army's enemy tower.
One of the enemy towers collapsed like a piece of tofu under the violent impact of stones, and the bricks and stones, wooden beams fell on the city wall like rain, and the Song army on the city wall dodged one after another, and those who could not avoid it were buried in the bricks and tiles, suffocated to death, and the crossbowmen on the enemy tower also fell from the building with screams and fell into flesh.
However, Yao Yu and others had already taken precautions, and countless sandbags had already been placed under the destroyed enemy tower, and after the enemy tower was destroyed, they immediately erected one after another sandbag towers higher than the city wall, and the crossbowmen could lie on them and continue to fire feather arrows.
At this moment, the battle between the Song army and the Haikou has entered a white-hot situation, and the arrows on both sides are fired together, and countless large stones cover the sky and the sun, carrying huge kinetic energy and potential energy, flying into the air and whistling, and smashing down to make a loud noise one after another.
"Bring a bow and arrows!" Li Sanjian, who is standing on the city wall, can't he always pestle like a door god, right? So he commanded his men.
Everyone was skeptical, and Li Sanjian found a deputy treasure carving bow.
Want to do it yourself? The hearts of all the people are secret.
In fact, Li Sanjian was able to stand on the front line of the battle from beginning to end and be with the soldiers, which was enough, and everyone did not expect Li Sanjian to be able to fight in person.
Li Sanjian took the bow and arrow, glanced left and right, bent the bow and arrow, pulled a full moon, and then let go of his right finger, and with a "bang", a feather arrow flew to the city, and an arrow hit a thief.
Li Sanjian has been in contact with the world's most fierce killing weapon since he was more than ten years old, bow and arrow, I dare not say how exquisite Li Sanjian's archery skills are, but he is still more skilled in pulling the bow and releasing arrows, and he doesn't need to be very accurate at the moment, as long as he is powerful and can shoot arrows, as long as he can shoot arrows into the dense crowd under the city.
The governor of a state, the Great Song Dynasty Zhuangyuanlang, and Wen Zou Zou's scholars all went into battle to fight in person, which immediately boosted the morale of the Song army and shook their spirits to fight against the enemy.
At this moment, up and down the city of Quanzhou, there were bursts of shouts and killings, the two sides were entangled together, no one refused to take half a step back, it was a desperate fight, and the killing was inseparable.
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Quanzhou Purple Hat Mountain
"Rush, rush!"
"The Song army has few soldiers, as long as we rush up the hillside, we can take the Purple Hat Mountain."
"Capture Purple Hat Mountain, the king will have a heavy reward, kill!"
Li Sanjian's henchman loves to serve as a mountain leader, and led 500 soldiers and horses to garrison Zimao Mountain, which is at odds with Quanzhou City.
Although there were not many soldiers and horses of the Song army in Purple Hat Mountain, they stuck on Haikou's throat like a bone, making Haikou feel like a fish in his throat.
With the soldiers and horses of the Song army of Zimao Mountain, Haikou could not attack the city of Quanzhou with all his strength, and at the same time, he had to allocate a part of his troops to strictly prevent the soldiers and horses of Zimao Mountain from receiving the city of Quanzhou.
Attacking the city of Quanzhou, a fierce battle was in full swing, and the soldiers and horses of the Song army of Zimao Mountain rushed from the flank and back, wouldn't it become a two-sided attack? Not to mention the capture of Quanzhou City, it is even possible to lose.
Therefore, if you want to take the city of Quanzhou, you must first capture Zimao Mountain.
Fei Jingyang, the military division of Tongpanshan Haikou, resourceful and well-informed, found the key here after using the army under the city of Quanzhou, so he ordered people to capture Zimao Mountain, and threw a strict order to capture Zimao Mountain at all costs.
At this time, thousands of pirates attacked Purple Hat Mountain, but what was frustrating was that at this moment, it suddenly rained heavily in the sky, and the heavy rain poured down, making the mountain road extremely muddy.
However, fortunately, when Haikou went up the mountain, he did not encounter resistance from the Song army, and he did not even see a single figure of the Song army, and all the thieves were happy, thinking that the Song army of Zimao Mountain was afraid of the battle and fled.
Only a few pirates are nervous, and it's hard to guess what's going to happen.
"Boom." With a loud bang, just as the pirates were about to rush up Purple Cap Mountain, the earth and rocks in front of the hillside suddenly collapsed, forming a large crack as wide as a zhang, and the crack was full of thorns and sharpened wooden stakes. Hundreds of pirates couldn't hold back and fell into the pit with weapons, hundreds of people suddenly turned out of the hillside, hundreds of people poured boiling dung juice and soup into it, hundreds of people pushed boulders into the pit, and hundreds of people bent bows and arrows to shoot at the pirates.
"Ahh Yes... Yes. ”
"Not good, there is an ambush!"
Screams and angry shouts came one after another, and the thieves who fell into the cracks immediately fell into the trap of death, struggling in the deep pit, some were hung on sharpened wooden stakes and cried in pain, and some desperately climbed up despite the burned skin on their bodies, but were knocked down to the bottom of the pit by a boulder.
"Fight back, fight back!"
"Fill in the pit and rush up!"
Thousands of pirates were all bandits, although hundreds of people were killed and injured in ambush, but they were not afraid of death, while organizing men and horses to counterattack, while filling the deep pit with wooden planks and earth and stones.
After the two sides were entangled around the pit and fought for a long time, the Song army was small in numbers after all, and did not want to entangle with the enemy here, so they sounded the gong and retreated to a mountain pass.
The pass here is the last dangerous place of Purple Cap Mountain, with steep cliffs on both sides, and there is no other road to take.
After the Song army retreated here, they never retreated, holding swords, shields, bows and crossbows and other weapons quietly waiting for the bandits.
"Whoever takes half a step back!" A fierce general of the Song army closed his armor and covered his ugly face, and then ordered loudly.
The visor is a terrifying bronze mask.
Before the Song army array, there were hundreds of warriors dressed exactly the same, all of whom were short armor, short swords, black shields, and black cloaks.
Hundreds of warriors are all from Robebri's warrior training camp.