Chapter 152: The Battle of Iron Dragon City (6)
Watching his own soldiers pushing the huge crash car staggering towards the east, west, and north gates of Tielong City, the faces of the rogue generals such as Zhang Xianzhong and Wang Shangli were full of joy and pride. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
They saw that up to now, Li Xiaojun's artillery had been fired eight or nine times in a row, and because the chamber was overheated, it had reached the limit of use, and it could no longer be used. And those trebuchets have long since stopped throwing because of the earth-shaking thunder, and now Li Xiaojun in the city has no other way than to watch their crash and attack.
It seems that Li Xiao has become a turtle in an urn, and when the crash car breaks through the city gate, he can only be captured.
Zhang Xianzhong gritted his teeth, his thick beard shook and jumped, and his brown pupils were still shining fiercely, but he kept sighing in his heart.
It's not easy to get into his mother, the battle has been fought so far, and there have been many casualties among the Liukou army, and the original troops of nearly 50,000 people are now only more than 30,000 people, and the loss has exceeded one-third. The battle besieging Iron Dragon City can be said to be a fierce battle that has never been encountered since he left the Carriage Gorge.
In fact, like the Ming army who tried their best to defend the city, the rogue soldiers under his command had also reached the last moment of exhaustion.
Such a brutal battle and terrible attrition were almost unimaginable in previous battles.
If it weren't for the rescue of his favorite son Li Dingguo, Zhang Xianzhong would never be willing to take the lives of so many elite rogues to fill this Iron Dragon City, which is like a meat grinder. If in the past, if he had encountered such an intractable city, Zhang Xianzhong would have turned around and looked for another goal.
After a short time, the crash car was carefully pushed through the improvised pontoon bridge of the moat, and immediately began to hit the drawbridge outside the city gate.
The crash was immediately powerful, and the heavy ram smashed the drawbridge in just a few blows, and then the crash continued to push forward and began to attack the city gates.
What the generals didn't expect was that the gates at the three city walls looked very thick, but they only hit them a few times, and then they were completely opened.
As soon as the city gate opened, the entire urn city was completely exposed.
A group of rogues were overjoyed, they thought that this city gate would be extremely difficult to break open, but they didn't expect it to be so unbumped, it seems that this Iron Dragon City is just a surface light of horse manure.
In the three city gates, a large number of rogues immediately poured in.
Generals such as Zhang Xianzhong, Wang Shangli, and Feng Shuangli outside were overjoyed to see their own soldiers capture the city gate so quickly.
"Quickly enter the urn city, and then capture the inner city gate, this Iron Dragon City is ours!" Zhang Xianzhong had an extremely excited expression on his face, and his voice was a little out of tune.
A large number of rogues, surrounded by the crashing cars, passed through the city gate of Iron Dragon City, and continued to run towards the inner city gate.
The crazy surging rogues didn't even notice that Li Xiao, who had been closely observing their progress in the city, had a mysterious smile on his face.
When the rogues crowded the urn city to almost full, Li Xiao waved his right hand, and the three city walls immediately moved.
"Bang bang bang!"
Three explosions sounded almost at the same time, and all the rogues felt that the ground under their feet seemed to tremble slightly, and then they turned back suddenly, but they were horrified to find that on the outer city moon road that entered the urn city, they actually smashed a huge bluestone block weighing more than two tons, firmly blocking the entire city gate and moon road, and completely isolated the rogue inside the urn city from the rogue outside.
", it's a trick, Ming Gouzi set a jack pendant!"
In the rogue array, many experienced rogues shouted loudly with crying voices, but more rogues fell into an incomparable panic.
Yes, this jack drop is Li Xiao's last killer weapon, he will take advantage of the opportunity of the enemy army to storm the city gate by crashing the car, and successfully trap more than 10,000 rogues on the three city walls in the urn city!
The situation of attacking and defending against the enemy has suddenly changed greatly.
Outside the city, Zhang Xianzhong, Wang Shangli, Feng Shuangli and others saw this sudden change, and their faces were as pale as earth.
"Into his mother, Li Xiao, who is a dog, still has such a hand!" Zhang Xianzhong's face was dark, and he sat stiffly on horseback, and he was suddenly anxious.
Originally, I wanted to treat Li Xiao as a turtle in the urn, but I didn't expect that now I would put my own soldiers in it first. It's a brilliant irony.
Now outside the Iron Dragon City, among the last reserve troops of the Liukou, there are more than 8,000 people in Zhang Xianzhong's headquarters, more than 4,000 in Wang Shangli's department, and Feng Shuangli's department, which suffered heavy losses in the last battle, only has more than 1,000 people.
What to do?
When Zhang Xianzhong's head was short-circuited for a while, Li Xiao had already killed the killer.
On the three city walls, all the auxiliaries threw the remaining hundreds of earth-shattering thunders as the last reserve at the location where the enemy troops collided in the urn city.
The last more than 200 earth-shattering thunderbolts, with a deafening explosion sound, centered on the crash location, exploded violently, and the three crashing cars were blown apart almost at the same time, and the rogue soldiers who were densely surrounded around them were also blown into a rain of blood, which was unbearable to see.
Li Xiaojun's last fierce bombing, the dense surging rogues in the three urn cities, killed and injured at least nearly half.
At this moment, the inner gate of the eastern city wall slammed and opened completely.
In the silence, the remnants of the rogues, who had been deaf in both ears, were horrified to see more than 500 cavalrymen rushing out of the inner city roaring out of the inner city and rushing towards themselves who had been shattered by the shock!
In the midst of the screams that sounded in a row, Li Xiaojun's cavalry, Xuanhu Heavy Cavalry and Flying Harriers, who had been holding back for too long and had been inactive, all rushed out of the inner city, and then slashed and killed the rogues in the urn city.
The horses' hooves rumbled, the sword flashed, and under the urn city, more than a thousand rogues who escaped from the earth-shattering thunder were quickly slaughtered by Li Xiaojun's cavalry, and the entire urn city at the east gate almost became a slaughterhouse.
The remaining hundreds of rogues no longer had the will to resist, so they threw their swords and knelt on the ground to beg for surrender.
The cavalry stopped killing, and many of the families of the soldiers armed with captured swords poured out of the city, and these terrified rogues were tied up and captured and brought into the inner city.
Compared to the rogues in the west and north, who were still struggling to climb the siege ladder, the rogues in the east were in the most difficult situation.
Because in addition to the hundreds of cavalry outside the city, there were only five or six hundred old and weak rogues, and when they heard the terrible explosions and the screams of the rogues coming from the urn city, these hundreds of rogues were as pale as dirt, and no one dared to climb the siege ladder to fight in the city.
Seeing that the rogues in the urn city had collapsed, and there were no soldiers to continue to support them, at the east city wall, the rogues, who had been struggling to support the almost exhausted, had no intention of fighting anymore, and also threw down their swords and knelt on the ground to beg for mercy.
Fortunately, Li Xiao stopped killing the red-eyed group of spear and shield soldiers in time, otherwise the more than 700 rogues on this city wall would be quickly killed by Li Xiaojun.
Next, amid the cheers of Li Xiao's soldiers on the eastern city wall, a large group of auxiliaries rushed over and tied up these kneeling rogues who begged for mercy.
Subsequently, Li Xiao personally led the soldiers on the eastern city wall and immediately rushed to the northern city wall to support Tian Weibu, who was gritting his teeth and fighting hard.
The battle on the northern city wall, with Li Xiao's troops on the eastern city wall joining strongly, the situation immediately changed greatly.
Those rogues who originally occupied a fairly wide section of the city wall, seeing that the rogues on the east city wall had surrendered, their morale was suddenly depressed, and they began to be gradually pressed back by Li Xiaojun's staircase to enter the city, and the screams of the rogue soldiers screaming and dying resounded.
And at this time, the jack pendant of the moon road outside the eastern city wall was pulled up again by four or five hundred auxiliary soldiers, gritting their teeth and pulling it up again, and the cavalry who had been waiting impatiently in the urn city immediately rushed out of the city like an arrow from the string!
With the horses' hooves rumbling, a total of more than 500 cavalry of Li Xiaojun's army, with a scream from everyone's mouth, quickly rushed across the improvised pontoon bridge, and rushed towards the more than 500 old and weak rogues who did not know whether to advance or retreat.
"Rush forward! Stop them! Feng Shuangli, who was half a mile away, turned pale with a pale face, and personally led the last of more than 600 cavalry to rush towards Li Xiaojun's cavalry.
It's late.
Almost instantly, those more than 500 rogues whose morale was extremely low saw that Li Xiaojun's cavalry was rushing across the river, and I don't know who shouted, and then fled in all directions.
Li Xiaojun's cavalry did not chase after him, but immediately lined up in a wedge-shaped battle formation with the Xuanhu heavy cavalry in front and the flying harriers behind, and rushed towards the Liukou cavalry in stride, rushing away!
Bao Zhao, the captain of the Xuanhu Heavy Cavalry, took the lead, and he was wearing a small full suit of heavy armor, he hissed and roared, his eyes were focused, and he rushed towards Feng Shuangli, who was wearing a conspicuous mountain armor in the formation.
The horses' hooves rumbled, the electric switches soared, and almost instantly, the two cavalry were in one piece.
Li Xiaojun's fierce and fierce wedge-shaped battle formation was like a sharp and wide knife, cutting the entire rogue cavalry battle formation in half from the center!
Immediately, in the continuous sound of terrible screams, the entire Li Xiaojun wedge-shaped battle formation ploughed out a wide bloody path and burst out of the rogue battle array.
At the moment when the two armies were in battle, Bao Zhao looked at it clearly, roared angrily, and the spear in his hand burst out, piercing the neck of Feng Shuangli's mount under his crotch.
Feng Shuangli was caught off guard, screamed, and fell upside down from the horse.
Rao is his life is big, and he quickly rolls and crawls, so that he can barely hide in the hooves of the horses that pass by, and hide for his life.
And Li Xiaojun's wedge-shaped assault made nearly 300 rogue cavalrymen quickly move towards the end of their lives.
Li Xiaojun, on the other hand, only paid a slight price for the death of 5 heavy cavalry, the death of 6 heavy cavalry, the death of 6 light cavalry, and the injury of 8 light cavalry.
The rogue cavalry, who had lost their commander, immediately collapsed.
Ignoring Feng Shuangli, the chief general of the underground, and ignoring the dozens of wounded soldiers who were still howling, they pulled out their horses and fled towards the northern city wall.
Li Xiaojun's cavalry did not pursue, Bao Zhao sneered and made a gesture, and those rogue wounded cavalry were immediately quickly killed by Li Xiaojun.
The enemy general Feng Shuangli, under the threat of a cold cavalry knife stretched out, obediently became a prisoner, and was tied to a horse by a group of Li Xiaojun cavalry who shouted loudly, and then brought back to the city.
When more than 1,000 rogue cavalry from the north rushed to the east city wall, Li Xiaojun's cavalry had already returned to the city victoriously, leaving only the more than 1,000 rogue cavalry who had arrived panting, looking at the closed city gate in a daze outside the empty east gate.
Outside the north city wall, Wang Shangli, the general of the Liukou, was motionless under the heavy rain, with a helpless and frightened expression.
The current situation of the northern wall is extremely critical.
Outside the city, in addition to the more than 2,000 more than 2,000 rogues who had not yet been sent to the battlefield, all the troops in his hands had been consumed.
And right now, the rogue soldiers on the city wall, because of the strong participation of Li Xiao's soldiers on the east city wall, are on the verge of collapse.
At this time, in the urn city of the northern city wall, there was suddenly a large number of screams.
It turned out that this was the cavalry of Li Xiaojun's army after returning to the city, and they rushed into the urn city in the north and began to massacre those rogue soldiers who were like turtles in the urn.
Nearly a thousand remnants of the urn city quickly fell to their knees and surrendered.
The cavalry stopped killing, and a large group of soldiers and their families rushed into the urn city, and tied up all these rogues and escorted them back to the inner city.
The cavalry team was then led by Bao Zhao and turned around and rushed towards the urn city of the west gate wall.
Seeing that the rogue soldiers in the urn city were slaughtered so badly, the rogue soldiers at the head of the city in the north were all frightened, and the rogue soldiers who were still climbing up one after another began to turn around and crawl away.
"Brothers, the morale of the rogues is exhausted, work harder to drive the rogues out of the city!" Li Xiao saw that the morale of the rogue was already in the end, and shouted loudly.
The morale of Li Xiaojun at the head of the city was like a rainbow, and they all let out a heaven-shattering shout, and attacked the desperately struggling rogues more and more fiercely.
"Don't fight, don't fight, we surrender, we surrender!"
As the rogue at the head of the city wailed and begged for mercy, the remaining more than 1,000 rogue soldiers finally couldn't support it anymore and surrendered on their knees.
The north city wall was cheering, and the auxiliary soldiers rushed up to tie up these surrendered rogues one after another, and at this time, Li Xiao and Tian Wei took Li Xiao's soldiers from the north and the original east respectively, and rushed towards the enemy's last position, the west city wall.
"Passing on the order of the general, the whole army withdrew from the northern city wall and went to the west to join the eight kings." Looking at the rogues who had retreated from the city wall, Wang Shangli weakly announced the military order.
When Li Xiao and Tian Wei rushed to support with soldiers from the north and the east and west city walls, the west gate city wall had reached the most dangerous point.
The entire section of the city wall, the middle section of which has been occupied by the Liukou, and the defenders of the west gate, who have suffered more than half of the casualties, have been suppressed at both ends of the west city wall, all supported by a tenacious spirit.
Even the commander-in-chief of the Ximen City Wall, Wang Yishou, the chief of the Iron Dragon, was attacked by a rogue when he personally led the army to fight, his stomach was cut open, and his intestines flowed out.
After being injured, Wang Yishou did not retreat to the city, but stuffed his intestines back into his stomach without saying a word, and wrapped a cloth around his waist to prevent his stomach and intestines from flowing out early, and then returned to fight with the enemy.
It wasn't until Li Xiao and Tian Wei led the defenders of the northern and eastern city walls to rush to reinforcements that Wang Yishou, a resolute general, finally leaned against the edge of the battlements and fell softly.
With a large number of new forces joining, the situation of the West Gate City Wall, which was originally the most critical, was reversed. Li Xiaojun's morale was like a rainbow, and he marched towards more than 1,000 rogues on the city wall, and fought back hard.
On the city wall of the West Gate, a young enemy general dressed in fine iron armor attracted Li Xiao's attention.
I saw that although this person looked young, he was skilled in martial arts, slashing left and right, and from time to time there were Li Xiao's soldiers, screaming and dying under this person's sword.
"This person's martial arts are good, but I don't know who he is?" Seeing this person's skill, Li Xiao didn't feel a burst of admiration in his heart.
At this time, at the Ximen Urn City, a large number of screams suddenly came, and the more than 2,000 remnants of the rogue who had not been killed were slaughtered by the cavalry of Li Xiao's army who broke into the inner city.
In the heavy rain, Zhang Xianzhong saw a large number of screams from the city and the city, and his black and red face kept trembling.
Sun Kewang, Bai Wenxuan and others next to him also had a depressed look on their faces.
"Our army is finished."
When he saw that Wang Shangli was walking around from the north to join him with his remnants and dejected, Zhang Xianzhong muttered to himself.
"Pass my military order and withdraw my troops." Zhang Xianzhong finally had the strength to say this.
"Father-in-law, the third brother Wenxiu is still on the wall of the West Gate, and he is fighting hard with the enemy, do you want to abandon him?" Sun Kewang, who had a rainy face, said in a low voice.
Zhang Xianzhong shook his head slowly, with a painful expression on his face.
"I can't save it, our army has been defeated on both sides, the morale has been depressed, one is gone, the enemy is now demoralized, and if you continue to fight, don't say that you can rescue Wenxiu and Dingguo, I am afraid that this little soldier and horse seed of our army will also be confessed to this Iron Dragon City."
When Zhang Xianzhong said this, his throat surged, and he suddenly looked up to the sky, "Ah! With a long roar, he vented the resentment and unwillingness in his heart.
The rogue gathered the remnants of six or seven thousand troops outside the city and turned west.
"Li Xiao, who entered the dog, in the future, Lao Tzu will definitely take your dog's life!"
On the way to the west, Zhang Xianzhong gritted his teeth and swore in his heart.
On the western city wall, Liu Wenxiu, who was the third of the four righteous sons who were leading the army to fight hard against Li Xiaojun, caught a glimpse of his father-in-law leading the army to withdraw, and couldn't help but mourn.
"Father-in-law!"
Liu Wenxiu cried loudly and bowed to the west. He immediately threw away the sword in his hand, led the remnants of the army at the head of the West Gate, and surrendered to Li Xiao.
"Under Liu Wenxiu, please surrender to General Li." Liu Wenxiu knelt on one knee with a helpless and painful expression.
"Oh, it turns out that you are Liu Wenxiu, please hurry up." Li Xiao laughed and helped him up.
The brutal and bloody battle for the defense of Iron Dragon City has finally ended.
However, Li Xiao was by no means satisfied with the results at this time.
Li Xiao immediately ordered that when the auxiliaries tied up the rogue soldiers who surrendered at the head of the city, the whole army went out of the city to pursue.
The jack pendant at the west gate rattled loudly, and was pulled up by hundreds of auxiliary soldiers, and all the soldiers of Li Xiaojun went out of the west of the city to pursue the rest of Zhang Xianzhong, who was fleeing in a hurry.
The rain was falling, and Li Xiaojun, who was running in a neat formation in the rain, was like a bloodthirsty beast with many legs, chasing after his prey.
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