Chapter 45: The Siege

"All of this is a bureau set up by Tang Liyi, ladies and gentlemen, look at that chaotic minister and thief who ascended the throne with me yesterday, how embarrassing is this for me! Now I have sent a letter asking me to surrender, this traitor is so bold. The new emperor looked at the national letter sent by Tang Liyi in his hand and became angry.

"Lu Jian Jun, the construction of Tushan is almost complete, when will we go to crusade against the thieves and recover the capital?" The new emperor said to the landing exhibition.

"The main force of the Qin army has now arrived, and all the soldiers and horses on the western front of the imperial court will arrive tomorrow. From tomorrow onwards, the siege will take turns, and with the condescending advantage of Tushan, it will not be too long to break through the city gates. The Song army and the rebellious southern army could not resist the warlike Qin army in street battles, and after recovering the capital, they pursued and regained the lost territory. "The Lu Zhan Regulations clearly analyze the situation in the future.

Seeing that there were more and more stoves for cooking in the camp, and the earth mountains built outside the city were higher than the city walls, the new emperor's mood was getting better and better.

During this period, the Song army went out of the city to attack the troops who built the Tushan, intending to destroy the Tushan, but how could the Song army be the opponent of the Qin army in the field outside the city.

"Now we have a total of 150,000 people, and the Qin army accounts for more than 80,000. The Qin army has nearly 50,000 infantry, and these combative infantry will be the main force for us to defeat the rebels in street battles. Lu Zhan and Xu Hao sat in the military tent, drunk and discussing the battle situation.

"That's right, there are only about 6,000 rebellious southern troops left, more than 60,000 Song troops in the capital, and 20,000 Song troops stationed outside the eastern city. In the art of war, it is said that the double is divided, and the five is attacked. But we are only twice as many as the puppet emperors. Xu Hao is not a person who does not know the art of war, and worriedly pointed out the hidden danger of attacking without absolute superiority in troops.

"You don't understand this, the Song Army's morale when he left his hometown to be a soldier is not high, not to mention the Song Army's labor expedition, it is estimated that the Song Army will not have reinforcements. And we are different, the Qin State is still increasing its troops, and King Qin's soldiers and horses are also sitting in the gathering, and the lord of the Shen State is the uncle of the new emperor, so there are still many reinforcements on the way. Lu Zhan touched his chin and made a confident appearance.

The condescending soldier standing on the dirt hill saw that trebuchets were being built in the city, and that the frame was almost ready. When the news reached the camp outside the city, Lu Zhan immediately made a decision and asked the troops attacking the city tomorrow to attack immediately.

The soldiers, who had been scheduled to attack tomorrow, were hurriedly called by the officers to prepare for an immediate attack.

"What the hell, I said that I would work hard tomorrow, why am I in such a hurry to fight today." A soldier hurriedly put on his armor while complaining about such an arrangement.

"Don't chatter, the Qin State has also started to prepare." An archer took a quiver on his back and ran in the direction of the dirt mountain.

For a while, the barracks were full of people walking around, and the new emperor asked Lu Zhan puzzled: "Brother-in-law, didn't you say that you would launch an offensive tomorrow, why did you convene in such a hurry today to launch an offensive?"

"Back to Your Majesty, there are only two ways to solve Weichen's method of building an earth mountain. One was to build tunnels in the city to the bottom of the earth hill and destroy the wooden supports to disintegrate the earth mountain, but the moat made it impossible to dig the tunnel. The second was to bombard the earth mountain with trebuchets, and the structure of the earth mountain itself was a wooden frame supporting the earth, and it would not be long before our preparations were in vain. ”

After hearing Lu Zhan's explanation, the new Son of Heaven also understood, and said softly to Lu Zhan: "Brother-in-law, I really feel at ease with you by my side."

Hearing this, Lu Zhan immediately remembered the lines in the TV series that expressed loyalty, "Your Majesty is so loving, and I am willing to serve Your Majesty." ”

After seeing the new emperor signaling Lu Zhan to retreat, Lu Zhan also roared in the direction of Tushan. The archers of the imperial court and the Qin army, standing on the earth mountain, condescendingly launched a rain of arrows that suppressed the Song army on the city wall. Even if some Song troops hid behind the battlements, some held shields to block bows and arrows.

In order to avoid excessive casualties, the Song army left only a small number of people to guard the city walls. Seeing that the rain of arrows had suppressed the defenders at the head of the city, the officer commanding the attack beckoned the soldiers to pick up the siege ladder and climb towards the city. In addition to hundreds of siege ladders, the four siege towers pushed by dozens of soldiers also slowly approached the city wall, more than fifty ladders also leaned towards the city wall, and the heavy rushing carts also headed towards the city gate.

These siege weapons are all the siege equipment built in the hands of the coalition forces, and Lu Zhan, who was standing on the dirt mountain, looked at such a siege scene and couldn't help but sigh, this is really an ordinary costume war movie that can't be seen.

Lu Zhan, who was standing on the dirt mountain, suddenly widened his eyes, because he saw that the trebuchet had begun to be loaded and ready to launch.

"Everyone, get out!" Lu Zhan shouted loudly.

When the archers saw the loaded trebuchet and heard Lu Zhan's call, they immediately climbed down the ladder and slid down the slope of the dirt mountain in a hurry. Just as the archers were withdrawing, the boulder whistled in the air, and the archers who had not had time to withdraw were smashed into the sky by the trebuchet, and after falling to the ground, it was unbearable to look at directly.

Lu Zhan, who hurriedly withdrew, wiped the mud that had been splashed on his face, and looked at the direction of the city wall viciously, Sure enough, you have a good plan, and I have a wall ladder. The Tushan siege method that he came up with was broken, but as long as the besieging soldiers burned those trebuchets by the way when they conquered the city walls, Tushan could continue to use it.

Fortunately, the besieging soldiers had reached the bottom of the city walls, and the archers on the platform of the siege tower used a rain of arrows not too dense to cover the besieging comrades.

The trebuchets in the city also began to adjust their angles and prepare to smash into the most threatening siege towers, but the accuracy of the trebuchets was not so high, and they did not hit after three rounds of projection, but only hit the besieging infantry.

The siege ladder climbed the city wall first, and the first siege soldiers were greeted by rolling wood and thunder stones and bows and arrows. The small number of Song soldiers remaining on the city walls played a key role at this moment, using the tools of the city to beat the besieging soldiers.

These Song troops guarding the city wall soon waited for the people under the city wall to come up for reinforcements, and the attacking and defending sides were once again anxious, and after the siege tower was erected on the city wall, the heavily armored elite who had been waiting for a long time poured out of the siege tower.

The sharp steel knives cut through the weak armor of the Song soldiers, but the weapons of the Song army struggled to break through the elite armor of these heavy armors. The heavy-armored elite waiting in the siege tower was also learned by Lu Zhan from some TV dramas.

The Song army guarding the city wall was caught off guard by the heavily armored elite who poured onto the city wall, and as more and more city walls were taken away, the soldiers of the coalition army and the Song army fought together.