418, Build high walls, accumulate grain, and slow to become king (3)
Li Zhan was helped up the city wall and looked out, his legs and stomach couldn't help but tremble again, he has been a peace officer all his life, and the big scene he has seen is just a rogue who is surrounded and suppressed by the official army and one or two people, what is charging into battle, attacking the city and plundering the land is only described in writing, at this moment, when I see countless thieves outside, the scene is even more terrible than I imagined!
Looking at the state soldiers on the city wall, they all looked frightened, the whole audience was silent, the atmosphere was depressing, and the low morale was obvious,]
Li Zhan's courage that he had just accumulated couldn't help but shake a little, but after thinking about his three sons, Li Zhan gritted his teeth again, and said in a voice that he didn't feel confident even if he sounded, "Will ...... Soldiers, guard ...... If you succeed in defending the city, the old man will be rewarded! ”
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The time of half a pillar of incense passed quickly, and there was no reply in Yunzhou City, indicating that the people inside had refused to surrender.
Zheng Fei was not surprised by this result at all, and immediately gave an order, and the four Runing soldiers immediately began to operate more than a dozen catapults.
The Heavenly Dao Army has not yet carried out this kind of training, and the last time it attacked Yuncheng County, it was a catapult operated by the state army prisoners, and operating the catapult was a compulsory subject for the Runing Army, and now these four Runing Army just came in handy.
Each catapult requires more than 20 people to operate, one to command, one to aim, five to stabilize the body, and more than a dozen people to pull the rope to charge the stone. The Runing army quickly completed the preparations, Zheng Fei gave an order, more than a dozen catapults fired a salvo, and more than a dozen huge stones roared and flew towards the city wall of Yunzhou City, only to hear a dozen loud noises, more than a dozen big stones all smashed the wall, the city wall shook slightly, and the state soldiers on the city wall screamed in horror, Li Zhan was escorted to the city by his subordinates with his head in his hands.
However, although the first round of attack formation was not small, it did not cause any casualties to the state soldiers. Because the purpose of the first round was not to inflict any damage, but to test the power of the catapult, and at the same time to deter the enemy, intimidate the enemy, and destroy the enemy's confidence.
With the experience of the first round, the Runing army moved more than a dozen catapults forward, and quickly completed the loading of stones, after an order, more than a dozen catapults fired a salvo, this time the dozen big stones that flew out really had three pieces of the top of the city tower, and suddenly destroyed a battlement, and also several state soldiers behind the battlements were knocked to the ground at once, screaming again and again, the state soldiers on the city tower were in chaos, many state soldiers were so frightened that they wanted to escape from the city, and were stopped by several officers with knives before returning to the battlements just now. But he curled up and didn't dare to stand up,
The Heavenly Dao Army immediately cheered when it saw it, Zheng Fei was also so happy that he nodded again and again, these Runing Army are not as good as the Heavenly Dao Army in other aspects, and it is quite powerful to operate this thing, it seems that in the future, it will be necessary to recruit more elite troops of the imperial court, and absorb and use some aspects of the official army that are stronger than themselves.
When the Ru Ning army heard the cheers of the whole army, his heart was also quite proud, and he felt that his waist was much straighter, and he didn't wait for the order, and he was already in full swing to install the big stone of the third round of attack on the catapult.
Another order was given, and more than a dozen large stones whistled and flew towards the city wall.
Rumble...... Boom ......!
The Heavenly Dao Army cheered again, it turned out that this time there were seven pieces that hit the battlements at the top of the wall, although only one battlement was still destroyed, but it caused a great shock to the opponent's psychology!
Li Zhan hid in the ear room under the city wall, listening to the sound of the big stone bombarding the city wall, every loud noise would make his mood tremble violently once, his face was extremely white with fright, and he didn't understand until now that heroes were not so easy to be heroes.
In this way, the Runing army bombarded the wall several rounds with catapults, until all the big stones were blasted, and the Yunzhou city wall was already covered with scaly wounds from the bombardment, and several battlements had been blown off dozens of them, although the killing and wounding of the state soldiers on the city wall was only thirty or forty people, but the psychological pressure caused to the state soldiers on the city wall could not be estimated.
Zheng Fei nodded with satisfaction, and with another wave of his hand, the large army immediately moved forward, and the official siege battle officially began.
**The battalion and cavalry regiment, as well as some of the soldiers of the first regiment and the third regiment, stopped one step away from Yunzhou City, and all used the Soul Breaking Crossbow and the Black Lacquer Bow to shoot at the state soldiers on the city wall, and formed an absolute bow and arrow suppression on the state soldiers on the city wall with one thousand and five Soul Breaking Crossbows and black lacquer bows!
Most of the soldiers of the first and third regiments rushed to the city wall with a ladder and a battering ram, and began to climb up desperately with the ladder on the wall, and dozens of soldiers rushed to the city gate with a huge battering ram and began to hit the city gate with it.
As for the Wuyun City soldiers, their task is to cheer loudly in the rear.
The state soldiers on the city wall just wanted to show up for defense, but they were greeted by countless arrows, dozens of people fell to the ground in an instant, and the people behind didn't dare to stand up, so they could only shoot arrows down without even aiming, or they didn't even dare to raise their heads, and only threw stones and other things down the city wall along the battlements, and they couldn't care so much about whether they could hurt people.
These state soldiers did have some brave people, they held shields to block arrows, and used long sticks and other things to push the ladder away from the city wall, and suddenly let more than a dozen Heavenly Dao Army soldiers fall from the city wall, but after all, there are too few such people, and they can't shake the entire battle situation at all!
The infantry of the Heavenly Dao Army finally attacked the city wall, and one by one they bravely jumped over the battlements and fought with those state soldiers, most of the state soldiers were already frightened and scattered, where is there any courage? After only symbolically resisting a few times, after killing a few people in a row, he turned around and fled to the city, and he couldn't stop it at all.
At the same time, the battering ram also smashed open the city gate, and the archers stopped shooting, threw their crossbows to the ground on the spot, drew their waist knives and rushed to the city gate like a tide, and the military doctors of the army were finally able to rush to the city and heal the wounds of the soldiers who had just been injured in the siege.
Zheng Fei expected that the siege battle would go smoothly, but he didn't expect it to go so smoothly, these state soldiers simply didn't have any combat effectiveness, so they were simply breached by themselves, which made Zheng Fei feel that his siege formation was a bit too fussful?
It didn't take long to see Pang Wanchun rushing out of the city gate and coming to the front to hug his fist, "Report to the big leader, our army has taken Yunzhou City, captured the remnants of the state soldiers, and captured alive Li Zhan, the governor of Yunzhou, and dozens of officials of the state capital!" Please come into town! ”
Zheng Fei nodded, and led the Yuncheng soldiers and the Runing army into the city, as soon as they entered the city, the two thousand Heavenly Dao Army soldiers had occupied various locations in the city, and when they saw that the big leader had entered the city, they all cheered, shouting loudly, "Heavenly Dao Army!" Heavenly Dao Army! The voice resounded in the sky, greatly shocking the Yuncheng soldiers and Runing soldiers who had never experienced this feeling,
Zheng Fei waved his hand, and the army quickly quieted down, only to see Lin Chong leading a few soldiers to push a man with white hair and official uniform to Zheng Feima, but seeing that this person was dirty, and there was a foul smell, he looked embarrassed, trembling, and his face was like ashes.
Lin Chong hugged his fists and said, "Big leader, this person is Li Zhan, the governor of Yunzhou, who hid in the pigsty of a private house not far from here, and was captured alive by us after being sued by that family." ”
Zheng Fei nodded, "Okay!" Go and appreciate that family consistently! ”
"Yes!" After Lin Chong finished speaking, he seemed to suddenly remember something, and took out a letter from his body and held it to Zheng Fei, "By the way, there is another letter here, which was from the Yunzhou Mansion, and it was a letter written to him by the Jeju Governor." The subordinates feel that this letter is somewhat important, and ask the big boss to take a look. ”
Zheng Fei's heart moved, Uncle Zhang's letter? Zheng Fei is no stranger to Zhang Shuye, he is a rare Qing official, and it is Liang Shanbo who played an important role in the process of being recruited, and his next battle is to go to Jeju, what will he write to Li Zhan?
Zheng Fei took the letter and read it, but the more he looked at it, the more shocked he became, and Wu Yong next to him saw it and said, "Big boss, ...... this letter?" ”
Zheng Fei handed him the letter, "Take a look." ”
Wu Yong immediately took the letter and read it, and the more he looked at it, the more shocked he became, and after reading it, he nodded lightly and said, "I didn't expect Jeju Governor Zhang Shuye to be so good, fortunately Li Zhan didn't agree to him, otherwise it will definitely cause a lot of trouble for our next attack on Jeju......"
As soon as he said this, Wu Yong's eyes suddenly lit up and said happily, "Big boss, my subordinates have a plan, which can be used to break through Jeju City!" ”
Zheng Fei said happily, "What is the plan of the military advisor?" "Since Zhang Shuye said that he has been committed to repairing the city wall and strengthening the defense since he took office, it will definitely not be wrong, although Zheng Fei is also confident that he will attack Jeju City, but it will inevitably cause some casualties to himself.
I saw Wu pointing at Li Zhan and said, "It's up to him!" ”
"Him?" Zheng Fei was stunned,
"Yes!" Wu Yong said with certainty, "Let's let the soldier change into the clothes of the state army, and then escort him to deceive the Jeju city gate, as long as the city gate is held until the army enters the city, Jeju city will be in hand!" ”
"Good plan!" Zheng Fei laughed, then turned his head to look at Li Zhan, only to see Li Zhan looking at Wu Yong with a frightened face, obviously understanding what Wu Yong meant,
"Li Zhan!" Zheng Fei snorted coldly, "Do you want to live?" ”
Li Zhan shuddered, just nodded, but shook his head again,
Zheng Fei naturally understood Li Zhanxin's contradictions and struggles, and suddenly sneered, "You must have heard what you said just now, you can not agree, but I can also make your life worse than death!" Meantime...... I can assure you that all of my men are masters of assassination, and your three sons will not survive this year! It turns out that the Investigation Bureau has already investigated Li Zhan's family history, Zheng Fei naturally knows that Li Zhan has three sons, but he doesn't know where his three sons are, but he can't care so much, let's use it to scare Li Zhan first.
Sure enough, Li Zhan's body trembled violently when he heard this, and his eyes widened and he looked at Zheng Fei with great surprise and fear.
Zheng Fei knew that he had said Li Zhan's weakness, and then said with a smile, "Of course, as long as you promise, when Jeju City is breached, I will definitely let you go, and publicize to the public that you have died in battle, and it is not you who deceived the city gate, but a person we found to put on your clothes and pretend to be you, what do you think?" ”
Li Zhan's heart jumped, I have to say that Zheng Fei's condition is very tempting, Li Zhan couldn't help but be moved, he pondered for a moment, gritted his teeth, and arched his hand at Zheng Fei, "What does a good man say?" ”
Zheng Fei smiled, "Count!" I'll vouch for credibility! ”
Li Zhan immediately snorted in his heart, secretly saying that the thieves have a fart credit, but now that he is the meat on someone's cutting board, he can't help himself, and now he can only hope that these thieves can talk and count.
"Good!" Li Zhan nodded, "I promise you!" ”