Chapter 40: A Difficult Day
Regarding Zhu Jianwen's actions, the Ming army also had a headache. I wanted to besiege Zhu Jianwen and them in the city, but I felt that it was inappropriate, in case Qu Xiangtian won the battle in Nanjing, as soon as the reinforcements arrived, they would besiege the point and send reinforcements, and under the attack from the inside and outside, the Ming army's encirclement advantage would be lost. It is not appropriate to attack forcibly, after all, the siege of the city must at least three times more troops of the defending side to take it, but now not only the arrow towers and towers are standing around Jinan Mansion, but also the moat covered with venom is enough for a headache. Coupled with a few big runes and that gossip mirror, although it can't restrain the heavens and earths on the side of the Ming army, it will also weaken their strength, and what it will become can only be known when they fight.
As soon as the war began, it could not be stopped, and now the Ming army had no time to think, let alone do a protracted war, and the command had completely fallen on the head of the living soul vein master sent by Qian to supervise the army.
In the early morning, the siege began, the Shenji battalion set up artillery to bombard the head of Jinan Mansion constantly, and Zhu Jianwen also used artillery to shoot back on the city, and Zhu Jianwen also temporarily made a giant trebuchet in the city, and kept throwing huge stones outside the city. The two attacked each other for an hour before stopping, and the Lord of the Soul Vein ordered an attack, and tens of thousands of troops from Henan and Shandong rushed to the small bridge in front of Jichuan. As soon as their front team reached the bridge, they fell into a trap that had been dug long ago, and the trap on the west and south sides had left the two armies at a loss. At this moment, there was no other way, in order to storm the city, they could only march in stride, the living people filled the holes, and the soldiers stepped on the dead corpses, howling and crowding on the bridge.
At this time, the Ming army became a live target for the Qinwang army, arrows and artillery bombardment, fire oil throwing, regardless of whether the only exit was damaged or not, just kept hitting the soldiers who rushed to the bridge. As the soldiers dodged, there was a crowded stampede, and many people were squeezed into the moat, screaming and watching as the skin on their bodies slowly festered.
The first wave of attacks was repulsed in this way, and Zhu Jianwen breathed a long sigh of relief, but before he could breathe, the lone wolf and the five ugly veins drove the ghosts to attack the city wall. There were hundreds of ghosts and spirits in the eyes, and those huge spirit runes emitted bursts of light, and the gossip mirror on the city tower also emitted a soft brilliance under Zhu Jianwen's constant fiddling. For a while, the power was greatly reduced, the ghosts could not penetrate the city wall, they could only climb the wall, and the soldiers could occasionally cut the ghosts with their swords, but although one of the ten knives could also kill the ghosts, their own side was also heavily damaged, and there were constantly sergeants who were torn apart by the ghosts driven by the five ugly veins, or were bitten to death by the ghosts of the lone wolf, and let out bursts of screams, and the smell of blood in the air became heavier and heavier.
Immediately after the two places also launched a second wave of attack, this time they raised a large shield to block the crossbow arrows, and carried a large number of ladders to rush over, although the moat of Jinan Mansion is deep but not wide, the ladders to the moat on both sides of the shield on the top, suddenly became a few small bridges. Although it was a little shaky to step on, it was still passable. In this way, the difficulty of the only bridge over the moat was broken, and the soldiers carried the rest of the ladders to push the crash to the city wall.
The Ming army erected the ladder, and the Qin Wang army pushed down the cloud ladder, and the Ming soldiers held the ladder legs tightly under the ladder and pressed the ladder against the head of the city with the weight of their bodies, so that the Qin Wang soldiers could no longer push it down. The Ming army scrambled to climb the ladder but also fought bravely, the Qinwang soldiers smashed it with a boulder sasshole, and poured it down with hot oil, and then there were archers who did not listen to the shooting, the Ming army suffered heavy casualties and lay the corpse outside the city, although there were ghosts rushing to kill from it, but the Qinwang soldiers were more and more brave the more they fought, after all, there were many people on the city, and they occupied the geographical advantage for a time The defense was quite smooth.
Outside the Jichuan Gate, four crashing cars pushed over, and two of them were hit by artillery and trebuchets, which were immediately destroyed. Another one was splashed with oil poured from above when it hit the door, and the crashing car and the soldiers on both sides of the crash burned into flames, making a terrifying scream. More than a dozen men pushed the burning crash car with their spears, and another one pushed it up, and held it above their heads with shields, iron plates, etc., to prevent them from being hit by heavy objects or hot oil and hot oil.
The ghosts and spirits on the city fought with everyone, and there were casualties among each other, and the fighting between the attacking and defending sides under the city was even fiercer, and the only advantage of the Qinwang army was that they were the defenders of the city without worrying about accidental injuries, so the artillery and trebuchets did not stop for a moment, and the Ming army was worried about the safety of the siege soldiers and did not dare to fight back. The place where the Ming army was stationed was forced to retreat a mile, but the defense of the city was still a little tense, and this battle was a day.
Until nightfall, the ghosts took the lead in withdrawing, and then the Ming army besieging the city gradually retreated, and the city walls were full of corpses, including the Ming army and the Qinwang army, there were 10,000 people. Zhu Jianwen breathed a long sigh of relief and looked at the gossip mirror that he had been shaking. If there was no such huge gossip mirror today, the ghosts would not have been killed. Although the battle was fierce, the Qin Wangjun regained their confidence, they held on, the difficult first day was passed, and they could win if they found that there were ghosts. Although those terrible spirits are difficult to slash and stab, they are not invincible.
Zhu Jianwen looked at the soldiers with joyful faces, and then saw that his hands were already full of blood, which seemed to be due to the fact that the skin on his hands had been worn off by flipping the gossip mirror back and forth before. Zhu Jianwen walked down the city tower, walked to the soldiers guarding the city, pulled out the long sword at his waist and raised his arms and shouted: "Victory!" The sergeants of the Qinwang Army followed Zhu Jianwen, shouting one after another, and the sound resounded through the sky, filled with the joy of the rest of their lives after the catastrophe.
It was completely dark, the warring sides rested separately, and in the camp of the Ming army opposite Jinan Mansion, a middle-aged man who was dusty walked in, arched his hand to the master of the living spirit vein and said, "The master of the living spirit vein is not harmed." The Spirit Vein Lord was looking at the map of Jinan Mansion, thinking about how to attack next, and when he raised his eyes, he saw that the person also smiled and said, "The Lord of the Snow Bell Vein has worked hard, does Lord Yu have any arrangements?" ”
The Lord of the Snow Bell Vein snorted, took the water handed by the Lord of the Soul Vein and drank it all, looking thirsty, he gasped and said: "Lord Yu has an order, quickly attack Jinan Mansion and exterminate the chaotic party of Zhu Jianwen, within three days." ”
The Soul Vein Lord sighed and said, "Where is it so easy, I can only do my best. By the way, let's not talk about these troubles, how is the Snow Bell Vein Lord lately? "The Lord of the Soul Vein and the Lord of the Snow Bell Vein have known each other for a long time, and then when the next Vein of the Living Soul Vein was led by Yu Qian to encircle and suppress Lu Yunzhi, the whole army was annihilated, and the Snow Ling Vein was also annihilated by the leopards, and the friendship between the two of them was even deeper.