Section 630 Collapsed Stone Town

Han Chang wanted to quickly confirm how Li Zhu's injury was, and he was doomed to disappointment. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Li Zhu still wears a robe without armor when he goes to the battlefield, with super skills, but he is not arrogant and really does not wear armor.

With the backward mining technology of this era, it is difficult to get the required materials alone, it is not easy to manufacture, the defense is strong and easy to wear, even in the world where Zhao Yue came, it is impossible to configure the officers on the battlefield on a large scale.

Li Zhu is a conspicuous figure in Zhao Zhuang, he often travels outside, he is often in danger, conspiracy and conspiracy cannot be prevented, he will not be easy to guard, he has long been accustomed to wearing armor inside and covering the robe. This time, a few arrows were shot, avoiding the vital point, and the heart, lungs, sternum, etc. would not be violently hit by the crossbow arrows, and the other shots were just a burst of pain, and they didn't matter.

Having the protection of the inner armor is also an important basis for him to dare to fight lightly, otherwise he would not have taken this risk if he took the heavy responsibility of leading and defending the base camp of Zhaozhuang.

Returning to the city safely, Li Zhu became invisible with the city guards again, so Han Chang bothered to guess, guarded the castle for time, and waited for Han Chang's next move.

Han Chang was looking forward to a dangerous opponent like Li Zhu being seriously injured and dying, but he never saw Li Zhu appear, it was difficult to know the inside story, and he didn't pay too much attention to this, so he gave up if he couldn't pay attention to it.

After all, the battle of the Great Legion relies on the overall strength, not on the one powerful person who fights alone. No matter how powerful a person is, he can't stand the grinding and grinding of thousands of troops.

After that, he did not provoke any more trouble, and when the stones were quickly raised under the vigorous preparation of tens of thousands of troops, he immediately began to bombard the city wall.

Whether this trip can quickly eradicate Zhao Zhuang depends on whether the power of the stone thrower can play a role. Han Chang pinned his deepest hopes on this most effective means.

The stone thrower is the nemesis of Zhaozhuang Stone City, but if you want to throw a large stone enough to shake the city wall, the range is limited.

Although the stone throwers brought by the Liao army are all heavy and big guys, in order to quickly break into Cangzhou, they are not the most powerful, otherwise it is difficult to disassemble the luck, so if you want to throw 50 catties or 100 catties of stones, you can only throw them at a position of 1560 to 200 steps.

This distance is within the most powerful range of weapons such as the Divine Arm Crossbow. The infantry giant shield can't stand the crossbow shot.

Han Chang intuitively became more and more convinced that Zhao Zhuang must have a long-range killer weapon, and he was worried that if he directly bombarded the main city of Zhao Zhuang, he would be shot if he was too close.

He didn't want to risk attacking the main city at the expense of a large number of Liao troops. Zhao Zhuang stretched out a long fortress to prevent the stone thrower from approaching the main city wall. He decided to destroy the protruding fortress first, and eliminate the two wings of the fortress troops covering the city gate, so as to test what long-range weapons Zhao Zhuang relied on, and he was sure that he would soon destroy the fortress to clear the way for further attacks.

How Zhao Zhuang built this city is not a secret.

At that time, the old enemy Cui family was still there. When the city was built, too many outsiders had seen Cangzhao's unheard of and strange city building method.

Han Chang learned that the forts of Zhaozhuang were hollow, and the walls and caps were just a patchwork of stones about a foot thick, even if the cement quality of Cangzhao was good, such a thin ridge would not be bombarded.

Bombarding a fortress from a hundred and ten paces away is also an adventure, but it has to be risked, and it is worth taking.

Han Chang ordered the infantry to cover the operators in front of the trebuchet with layers of giant shields, and concentrated thirty or forty planes to try to bombard the fortress on the west side of the city gate on the southwest side.

The huge stone throwing machine made a strange sound of tooth acid, and after the ranging test was adjusted, Zhao Zhuang still did not move, and there was no one in the city, Han Chang was puzzled, but he ordered a fierce bombardment.

The boulders roared, and one after another smashed heavily on the fortress, and the ground shook the mountains.

Sure enough, the fortress trembled, and the image of being indestructible in the past now revealed its fragile nature, after suffering continuous bombardment, first some parts of the wall cracked, and then some walls and top cover points were repeatedly hit by boulders and collapsed first.

Seeing with my own eyes that the strong fortress that had stood proudly for more than ten years and repeatedly made the Great Liao suffocate but could only stare and hate finally began to be destroyed in the hands of the Liao army, the Liao army watching the battle from a distance from the general to the small soldiers all fell into ecstasy, letting out bursts of earth-shattering cheers and all kinds of strange screams.

The operators of the stone throwers were also encouraged, and their eyes were as bright as ferocious foraging beasts in the night, and they continued to smash more vigorously with the sound of wild shouts and cheers. The fortress began to appear on a large scale, cracking wide open one by one. Han Chang, who had been watching Zhao Zhuang's reaction with a tight face, couldn't help laughing out loud at this moment.

As the generals and tribal nobles flattered him, Han Chang smiled and whispered a lot, revealing the cultivation that the Han people believed in, rather than the indulgence and rampant of the barbarian nation, but he became more and more arrogant in his heart, and he had the confidence to destroy Cangzhao's hometown, and the fortress also echoed his emotions and fell into a large-scale collapse......

The fortress, which had become a pile of rubble, was indeed hollow. It's just that there is not a single Zhao Zhuang Zhuang Ding guarding here, and no one screams in horror and dies in the collapse of the fortress.

Did Zhao Zhuang have any plans and take the initiative to give up the fortress? Or did Zhao Zhuang simply not have a powerful long-range weapon and couldn't stop this destruction, and he was too worried about it?

Han Chang stared at the thick iron fence gate that led to the main city after the collapse of the fortress that was only one meter five high and only wide enough for two people to pass side by side, and it could not be a big fat man, he restrained his smile and frowned and fell into thought.

There are so many ways to break through this little iron fence that it's certainly much easier than breaking through the gates.

There is a Liao general wielding a sledgehammer and can't wait to be excited, and it is recommended to immediately wave the army to attack. He actively asked for battle and was willing to risk his life to take the lead, but he actually wanted to take the lead.

Break through this small door, and kill through the hole in the city wall that is only more than a zhang deep as far as the eye can see, and the rest is the world where the Daliao warriors indulge in slaughtering and looting with knives.

As long as they enter the city, how can Zhao Zhuang, the villagers who can only shrink into the castle and rely on the city to defend themselves, block the soldiers of the Great Liao warriors?

The so-called strong army of the Great Song Dynasty could not resist the Liao army.

Breaking the turtle shell, Zhao Zhuang is vulnerable. What else is there to worry about? Let's do it.

When the Liao generals and the tribal nobles thought of the mountains of wealth of the Cangzhao family, their eyes were red with excitement, some took the lead, and others asked for battle to urge the attack.

In the midst of a beastly rampant roar, Han Chang calmly waved his hand to interrupt the surging morale, and ordered the transfer to the nearest place to bombard the fortress in the West City.

The small door is easy to break, the passage is very short, you can pass it in a few steps, in the blink of an eye, but it is too narrow and low, it is easy to block, Zhao Zhuang people have too many ways to deal with the people who attack the passage, the simplest only needs a few shields mixed with spears to aim at the passage fence is not easy to deal with.

Even if you break the fence and enter the passage, you have to bend down in the passage, you can't raise your head, you can't turn around when you attack with a shield, you can't swing a knife, there is no room to dodge the attack, if you can't quickly break through the obstacles in the city, you will fall into a dead place and wait for death, whoever goes in will die. Only the corpses of the dead Liao army can block the passage and block their own offensive path. The key is that Zhao Zhuang knew that the fortress would collapse, but he didn't show worry, and he didn't hurry up to block the passage of the fortress, there must be a means of prevention, maybe it was a conspiracy trap, and he was sent to death.

Han Chang didn't believe that the mighty Zhao Zhuang's force would really be vulnerable.

Since the rise of Cangzhao, it represents superhuman wisdom and loyalty, unity, courage and good fighting, who dares to underestimate it?

Those who don't believe in evil and dare to come to try to make profits have all disappeared here, and only the Cangzhao people know the ending.

In line with the principle of prudence and no big mistake, Han Chang ignored the strong temptation of this channel.

Even if you attack from the fortress passage, you have to open a few more routes, otherwise it is not a suitable way for a large-scale attack by a large army at all. That's the way the small gang of thieves likes.

What made Han Chang doubt the most was whether Zhao Zhuang had large-scale long-range destruction weapons.

In order to find out this, Zhao Zhuang had to show his means again.

Han Chang was always a little uneasy in his heart, and at the same time ordered to speed up the bombardment of the Xicheng Fortress, he also ordered the crossbowmen to come and concentrate on the hundreds of divine arm crossbows obtained from the Cangzhou border fortress, and use the long-range advantage to protect the main city with giant shield infantry in the Xicheng City, and throw rockets into the city.

There was still no movement in the city of Zhaozhuang, there was no figure in sight, and there were no countermeasures.

Batches of thick crossbow arrows burned with flames and roared into the head of Zhaozhuang City and the city.

In the midst of the dense beatings, there was no panic of the imaginary screams at the head of the city, and there was still no response, only the fire of the burning crossbow arrows. Even if there were houses in the city that could be seen outside the city and didn't know what was hidden, it was a building made of stone bricks and iron gates, and it couldn't be burned or destroyed by an arrow. The bolts burned themselves and destroyed them one by one.

To Han Chang's relief, there was finally a faint panicked exclamation and cursing and the crying of children in the city. But I was disappointed that I didn't see a fire ignited.

There are no thatched houses in Zhaozhuang, all stone and brick buildings, and the sheds for firewood and grass are also covered with stone bricks from the top to the wall, which is not only rainproof and snowproof, but also fireproof.

In order to fight this battle, Li Zhu and Liu Wen reconnoitred carefully in advance, knew the means prepared by the Liao army, and in order to prevent fire and damage, they removed the roof tiles and beams of the houses close to the city wall that could be endangered in advance, and put them away, revealing a stone cement roof with an arched thickness similar to concrete. What is the use of a mere Divine Arm crossbow rocket landing on such a top?

In addition, it is summer at this time, and the green grass or pasture grass in the village is green and difficult to burn, and it is not autumn when the grass and trees wither and ignite the fire. It was not the right time for Han Chang to attack.

The rocket landed on the green belt or on the wood of the doors and windows, and was destroyed in the blink of an eye.

It is undoubtedly a fool's dream that one hundred and ten divine arm crossbows want to burn Zhao Zhuang, and no matter how hard they try to launch, it will not be useless.

The crossbow has a long range and great power, but winding is also extremely laborious, and ordinary soldiers need to use foot pedals to assist in order to do it, and they will have no strength after a few shots.

But the Liao army had more than 20,000. It doesn't take much to shoot into the city, it doesn't need to be well trained. The Liao army can take turns.

Han Chang didn't see the expected effect, but he still ordered to continue to maintain the suppression of the shooting and cover the catapult attack, which could at least threaten and deter Zhao Zhuang and hit his morale and confidence.

Anyway, there were tens of thousands of crossbow arrows in the hands of those rotten Song troops in Cangzhou, which was enough to hold on to the collapse of the fortress and even the main city.

Zhao Zhuang pioneered the fortress city, but did not build a lot of fortresses outside the main city, in order to save, it is not necessary, each side only built a fortress on the left and right of the city gate, mainly to strengthen the defense of the city gate.

The Liao army was frantically destroying the fortress, trying to clear the obstacles to the army's attack, and after destroying the two western cities, they did not go to the north, and then turned back to the south to destroy the remaining one on the east side of the city gate.......

The north side of the castle.

Representatives of the residents of Zhaozhuang and each street gathered here, whispering in groups under the shade of the trees or the shade of the buildings, and the master did not know what he was doing today.

Soon, sitting in Zhaozhuang, Ning Lao Taijun, who had not shown up since the Liao army came, appeared under the escort of the eldest girl, the wife of Liu Wen, the spy leader, and the head of the houseguard.

The old grandmother was dressed neatly today, not wearing a long skirt, dressed in a samurai-like sacrificial-sleeved linen robe, with fast boots, her half-white hair was neatly and tightly, and only a rough wooden hairpin was inserted on her head, and her face was still familiar to the residents with a kind and generous smile.

After seeing the situation of everyone, the eyes of the grandmother, who was nearly seventy years old, suddenly brightened, and handed over the beloved abduction of the eldest grandson with rare and precious fragrant wood and a master craftsman to Liu Wen's wife.

The old man endured all the hardships when he was young, and when he was very young, he cultivated the land and did this and that, making money to get food, taking care of his seriously ill mother, and supporting himself, and survived more than ten years of unimaginable difficult years before marrying into the Cangzhao family, but hard work also exercised a dense skeleton and tough physical fitness.

became the de facto hostess of Zhao Zhuang later, the body was recuperated, and the only male descendant of Cangzhao was born, and the husband was considerate and generous to her who had suffered a great tribulation, and the family was harmonious, and life was also smooth, and later Zhao Yue, a god-like little grandson, had the heart to care for the health and nutrition of the family, especially the elderly, and made or instructed the business team to get all kinds of nourishing products and delicious products from most of the world to supply. The grandmother's body began to be further greatly recuperated from the threshold of about fifty years old, and the days are flying like a day by day or even hour by hour to get better, the family and the members of the entire Cangzhao system have a brighter future, the grandmother is really in a bright mood, watching the great-grandson born one after another, the family can finally spread out and the family business is prosperous, and the mood is even more happy, and there is a contemporary peerless famous doctor An Daoquan dedicated to take care of it from time to time, and remove the root and hidden dangers of small diseases and disasters in time, to this day, The old grandmother is still very strong, and usually the cane is just to like the eldest grandson to honor her, but she doesn't need it at all.

The people of New Zhaozhuang have heard of the hardships and glorious deeds of the old man, and they have deep respect for the iron-clad old man who led the miracle of Zhaozhuang.