Chapter 225: Siege
The route chosen by Zhao Xing was to cross the Hongshang Plug and fall through the Maguan, and then directly kill the left people and the middle people in Zhongshan. Then Quyang, Danqiu and then went straight to the Zhongshan Kingdom Du Lingshou.
The road is not far, but it is all within the range of the Taihang Mountains along the way, and it is difficult to fight.
Fortunately, as early as the first time he asked Lou Fu to attack and harass Zhongshan, Lou Di entered Zhongshan from Yanjing, and then was asked by Zhao Xing to capture Hongshangsai, so he took Hongshangsai into the hands of Daijun. This Xiongguan is already the gate of Zhao Xing, and it has avoided an offensive and defensive battle here.
The army went out of Hongshangsai, which was the Great Wall of Zhongshan of the Zuo people.
The Great Wall stretches from east to west, like a dragon on the ridge.
Xiaokou Pass has become the first checkpoint of the Great Wall in the north of Zhongshan.
Facing this Xiongguan, Zhao Xing rode on a horse, and smacked his tongue while looking at it: "Bai Rong is not terrible, it is terrible that Bai Rong is cultured." Under the strong genes in their bones, they learned the skills of building and defending the city of the Central Plains people, so that Zhongshan has survived two hundred years and stood tall in the middle of the three countries of ten thousand times, and did a very good job. Then he shook his head: "It's a pity, your position is not good, it's a pity that you are a foreign race, so no matter how good you do, you are doomed." ”
Facing the beacon fire that has risen from near and far on the strong Great Wall, Le Yi said in a mobile mood: "The son inherits his father's business, and his grandfather destroys Zhongshan once, this time, I will destroy Zhongshan again, haha, life is happy." ”
Zhao Hao was also excited: "As a general, it is so fortunate to destroy a country in his life." ”
Zhao Xing pursed his lips and muttered in a low voice: "When the real god of war appears and destroys four countries in his life, then it is called the wonder of life." Then he straightened up: "Okay, okay, don't be emotional, let's work." ”
What Zhao Xing wants to do is to open this small pass that is defended with heavy troops.
The small pass is actually the name, but it does not mean that this pass is small, the three-zhang high city wall is tall and wide, and it is enough to run horses. And the city was densely packed with defenders, roughly estimated to be as many as 10,000 people. Then, according to the normal arrangement, there are at least 20,000 troops guarding this gate.
In the art of war, it is said, "Ten will surround it, five will attack it, and if it is multiplied, it will be divided, and the enemy will be able to fight, and if it is few, it can be escaped, and if it is not, it can be avoided." "But he didn't say what to do with two and a half times.
What to do, hit it.
Zhao Xingyi waved his hand: "The whole army of the Tempo Xi Army stepped forward and launched an attack." ”
Lin Hu, the commander of the Poxi army, received the order loudly, and immediately commanded the Poxi army, which had 3,000 camels and 10,000 soldiers, to start approaching the city pass, turn on the equipment, and prepare to attack.
Standing at the head of the city, Sima Li watched the overwhelming enemy press down on the city, he was quite calm, and his face was full of confidence in victory.
Such an expression is written on the face of every soldier. Because, they have this confidence and pride.
With the country of a thousand times, the country of ten thousand times, and won thirty cities, the glory of the first battle against Yan gave Zhongshan the confidence to defeat any enemy.
At that time, the Cuo Ding was cast with the weapons of the captured Yan Kingdom, and even Zhou Tianzi sent envoys to watch. That is enough to show that the Central Plains Dynasty has recognized that Zhongshan is already a part of the Central Plains Dynasty and a country of ten thousand times.
Now the hundred-year-old enemy Zhao Guo has come to work, and he occupies the advantage of the situation of mountains and rivers, the city and the homeland, and defeats them, and no one doubts this result. When they failed, they rushed into Zhao and captured Daijun, which was Sima Li's idea, and it was also the idea of all the soldiers.
Stomping his feet, Sima Li said to the soldiers in the city in a steady and firm tone: "Now, we are going to be here to consume the enemy's strength and wear down the enemy's spirit. Then, for the 30,000 warriors who will be mobilized behind us, we will launch a counterattack at the right time. Then, we have been chasing them out of the country, chasing them to Daijun and Daiyi, so that our land will be doubled again. ”
The soldiers were excited, and they raised their weapons together and shouted: "Ten thousand victories, ten thousand victories." ”
Such a shout startled Zhao Xing, and Xu Jie worriedly reminded the ambitious lord: "Lord, from the shouts of the enemy, I can hear the high and energetic morale of the Zhongshan soldiers." ”
Zhao Xing nodded: "But what I heard was that they were proud, and their eyes were empty." Then he proudly taught Xu Jie: "This is the different result of different angles, it seems that I am standing at a higher angle than you." ”
Xu Jie disagreed: "Lord, it's better to be cautious." ”
When the two were arguing, a cry sounded in his ears, Zhao Xing turned his head, and he saw three thousand catapults on the back of the camelliad waving, and the bowl-sized stones flew out with a roar, pounced on the head of the small pass.
Sima Li looked at the rocks that flew up to the city like locusts in amazement, and in his mind, he really couldn't imagine that the enemy could have such an artifact.
And just as he was stunned, a large shield stood in front of him, followed by the sound of the big shield bumping and blowing. The warrior who raised the shield had to retreat step by step under the huge blow, and at the moment when Sima Li fell, the shield shattered, and the warrior's head was hit by a stone, and he screamed, and his brain blood splashed everywhere, and he fell to the ground and died.
And with the tragic death of this warrior, there was a scream and wailing at the head of the city. Sima Li, who was lying on the ground, saw that the unsuspecting soldiers were knocked down one by one, and in the blink of an eye, the city was like a wheat field swept by the wind and hail, and it was in ruins and withered.
"Get up, prepare for war, prepare for war." Sima Li got up with difficulty, risked being stoned to death, and shouted from the battlements, and he saw that under the bombardment of the enemy's catapults, the enemy's cavalry dismounted one after another, and rushed to the city wall with ladders, despite the accidental wound of his catapults.
Ladders, I didn't see them stop logging, where did they get the ladders? And what surprised him even more was that they carried the ladder, running on one side, and connecting the other side in pairs, which became a ladder.
Can the ladder still be disassembled and folded? Of course you can, because the Mo family master is in the arsenal, everything will be possible.
"Get up, fight back, fight back." Seeing that the enemy had set up ladders on the top of the city, Sima Li stomped his feet and shouted, driving the soldiers who were lying on the walls of the city to avoid the stones.
The rain of stones stopped, and the soldiers who were not dead in the city stood up one after another, picking up their weapons to fight back. But as soon as they stood up, Sima Li was surprised to see that the enemy who was controlling the catapult had changed their weapons - "Giant crossbow? ”
Yes, it was a giant crossbow, under some tense operation, the bed crossbow was assembled in front of the formation, and the three thousand bed crossbows began to strike accurately at the enemy in the city, just when Sima Li saw a small javelin-like crossbow arrow whistling towards him, a huge shield appeared in front of him again, and the warrior he raised once again blocked this deadly crossbow arrow for him. With a thud, the giant shield was pierced like a ruined leather, and it passed through Sima Li's cheek.
"What a powerful arrow." Sima Li, who had recovered a life, turned his head to look at the soldiers at the head of his city, and he was painful to see that those ordinary soldiers, in order to operate the city defense equipment, had no shield to defend themselves at all, and they were shot to death accurately in the blink of an eye. And those who have shields, but how can those shields be strong for the shields of the warriors in front of them? They were all killed with an arrow with a shield, and it didn't work at all.
After the first batch of crossbow arrows were fired, taking advantage of the opportunity of the enemy to wind up, Sima Li rushed to the head of the city and observed the enemy formation, and he wondered that there were not as many crossbow arrows flying up the city as expected.
When he pounced on the top of the city and looked down, he realized that his city wall had been densely nailed with batches of javelin-like crossbow arrows, which were thicker than the crossbow arrows flying up to the city, and there were countless enemy troops, reaching out and quickly pulling these crossbow arrows to climb the city.
Oh my God, the Emotional Crossbow Bolt still has such a function.
His surprise had just begun, when he looked up at the position of the enemy's crossbow arrows, he saw that the bed crossbow that was supposed to be operated by five people was only operated by two people, and they just kicked open an iron bar with their feet, and then pulled the bowstring that required five people to pull away, and the other person began to load the crossbow arrows, and adjusted the angle to aim, and its speed was less than one-tenth of the loading speed of the crossbow arrows in his own city.
Just in his astonishment, the enemy's crossbow bolts were fired again.