Chapter 576: The Tiger's Mouth (6)

"Bang!" A single knife slash on the armor did not break the armor, the edge of the knife had already curled, and the strength was not enough. The big man of the Zhou army holding the knife was panting like pulling a bellows, his mouth was numb, his arm was sore, and he slashed the screaming Northern Han army with a knife, and the person screamed "wow" in pain.

The city walls were so crowded that it was difficult to even turn around, and the soldiers who had fought in front of them were exhausted, but they could not be replaced; The soldiers on both sides are wearing armor, and it takes a lot of strength to kill the other party, and each attack is slashed with all their might, and the physical consumption is very fast. The Northern Han army was almost collapsed after being killed, and if it hadn't really broken up, there would have been no place to run, and the front army would have been routed!

More and more Zhou infantry moved up the city walls in formation, forming a thick array. Below the city wall, there were countless phalanxes like a tide ready to attack, and the archers threw at the crowd of Northern Han troops above under the city wall.

"Ah......" The soldiers of the Northern Han Dynasty were constantly squeezed down from the city wall, and the black falling objects on the city wall more than three zhang high smashed to the ground, and the air shouted in horror one after another.

At this time, the scene on the city wall is crazy! The dense crowd of the Northern Han army, the front was desperately slashed and stabbed, and the people had collapsed, desperately retreating to the back and crowded; The soldiers of the Zhou army in front were frantically squeezing forward again, and the crowd of the Northern Han army became denser and denser, completely losing its formation.

The crowd was very terrifying, and many people were accidentally pushed down and never had a chance to get up, trampled by countless heavy men, and even trampled to death! "Don't squeeze in the back, don't!" The cries for mercy, the cries, and the shouts exploded. The panicked crowd, the atmosphere of fear spread like a plague.

Some people were pushed and crowded to the point of vomiting, and almost all the officers and soldiers of the Northern Han Army were frightened and panicked, and they didn't even have a place to run! "Ah...... Help me! Help me! Someone was caught on the edge of the women's wall, and the huge thrust pressed on him, his eyes bulged, and the weapon had long since disappeared.

In some places, the women's wall has been blown down by artillery bombardment, and the soldiers standing on the edge have been directly squeezed off the wall...... The walls were as high as three or four stories tall, and if you fell down, you would almost be killed. One of the soldiers grabbed the wall when he was pushed down, but his hands were immediately trampled back and forth by his heavy boots, and he cried and screamed so hard that he finally slipped down against the wall.

The morale of the Zhou army was even higher. The generals shouted in the chaos: "The time has come to avenge the brothers!" "Kill! Kill! ”

A high-ranking military general at the army level came to the city and began to organize offensive tactics. He ordered his troops to make room to the east of the city wall, and to stop the army below from rushing up to the city. After some tossing, the order of the rotational attack was finally organized. The physically exhausted sergeants in front were shouted at to retreat from the gap in the queue at the back and take turns attacking.

The Northern Han army was completely unable to implement this tactic at this time, they were already in a mess, crowded to the point that they filled all the gaps in the queue, and they could not walk.

The pressure of the crowd on Chengtou Mountain finally spread like a dominary bone to the slope passage of the city. The entire section of the walls and ramps is full of infantry! The scope of the two sides to engage the enemy is really very limited, they are all pushing and walking, it does not look like the enemy on the battle array, but it looks like two groups of people are testing their strength...... But this competition is not to see whose strength is greater, because the panicked soldiers of the Northern Han Army in front of them will instead retreat and put pressure in the direction of their own people!

"Long live the Great Zhou Emperor!" This sentence was not shouted in the Zhou army, but it was shouted in the crowd of the Northern Han army, "Surrender, surrender ......"

There was no general of the Northern Han Army to stop and enforce the law, because it was too crowded and completely out of order.

At the west end of the city wall, a large force of Northern Han soldiers and horses on another ramp attacked the men and horses of the Zhou army on the city wall! But at this time, the army of the Zhou army was already a phalanx in formation. They used heavily armored crossbowmen in front, divine arms and hands behind, bows and crossbow arrows fired round after round salvo like raindrops, crossbowmen used three-stage strike tactics, long-range arrows continued, and the Northern Han army suffered heavy casualties.

The tide of battle is getting out of hand!

Below the ramp, many soldiers of the Northern Han Army formed a human wall to block the crowd in front of them who were constantly squeezed backwards.

A row of law enforcement teams with red-tasseled broadswords stood behind with angry eyes. The general of the Northern Han Army looked anxiously at the scene above, and did not dare to issue a military order for law enforcement...... Those who retreat from the battle are killed, but who is killed? The centaurs in the rear were either trying to retreat on their own, but were forced back by the huge and noisy crowd in front. Even cutting them won't help!

Soon the crowd on the ramp began to jump down the railing, falling and screaming one by one, and the crowd was suddenly in turmoil. Suddenly, there was a "boom", and I saw a large crowd fall down together, falling to the ground in pieces!

"Ahhh......h

The panicked crowd in front of them immediately jumped to their feet, trampling on the fallen man and running downward. Some of those who fell and were not injured struggled to get up, stepping on people and crawling on the ground.

The advance of the Zhou army was suddenly relaxed, the sound of killing shook the sky, and they rushed to kill the past, countless living people on the ground were trampled to death, and from time to time they were stabbed and shot by the soldiers of the Zhou army who rushed to kill. The scene on the ramp was terrible, and by the masonry railing, a Northern Han sergeant had a distorted face, his face covered with blood, and his mouth was wide open, and his mouth was covered with flesh and blood. There was also a section of intestines on the ground, and from time to time a Zhou soldier stumbled over a soldier.

The air was filled with a complex and disgusting smell of gunsmoke, blood, and foul odors.

At the bottom of the ramp, the general of the Northern Han Dynasty was frightened and shouted: "Whoever escapes, kill me!" ”

When the big man of the law enforcement team heard the military order, he waved his knife and went up to cut people when he saw them. A large number of soldiers of the Northern Han Army up and down the ramp were slashed and killed by the law enforcement team, and no one resisted; Maybe it's because of the prestige of the generals in peacetime, or maybe it's because no one organizes a rebellion, and it's impossible for a military general to organize people to rebel against their own generals in the battle array! People are still conformist, and few people will do anything alone at this time.

But the sergeants of the Zhou army in front were crazy to kill, and their own people in the back were bloody and bloody. Finally, someone was angry in despair, and a Northern Han sergeant picked up a bow and arrow and pointed an arrow at a big man who cut people with a big knife, and shot it condescendingly from the ramp, shooting it very accurately, and hitting the big man's eyebrows, he fell back without saying a word, and the wide-backed big knife fell to the ground with a "bang".

The sergeant who fired the arrows shouted, "Stop our bastards!" Let them go to the front and kill the Zhou army! ”

Someone below immediately roared angrily: "Retreat from the battle, rebel against the military order, rebel?" ”

It's good that he didn't roar, but when he roared, some of the angry and desperate Northern Han soldiers shouted: "It's the opposite!" Who the hell is sending my mother to death again! ”

Outside the ramp, the Northern Han soldiers under the city wall threw away their weapons and knelt in surrender. At first, there were only a few people, and the morale of the soldiers who were already angry and frightened was extremely low, and they followed suit, and countless surrendered to them.

The front army of the Zhou army rushed down the ramp in a scattered manner, and the army behind the undisturbed queue trotted downhill in an orderly manner. That section of the ramp, which was originally quite spacious, was simply miserable, densely packed with corpses, and blood flowed everywhere, like a slaughtering field!

A military general of the Zhou army came to the front of the kneeling soldiers with a few soldiers, and immediately decided: "If you don't want to give your life to the lord of the Northern Han Dynasty, go!" Find a place to hide and stay out of the way! ”

The Northern Han soldiers who lost their armor and weapons began to flee one after another.

Seeing this, the general of the Zhou army, who arrived later, hurriedly sent his own soldiers to spread public opinion everywhere, inciting the reinforcements of the Northern Han army troops on the streets of the city to find an opportunity to escape.

On the city wall on the side of the dirt mountain outside the city, a military general shouted: "Fifth commander, go to the wall!" ”

The neat queue of people waiting below climbed the dirt hill in rows. The city wall was full of Zhou troops running in formations, and the fighting had ended, and the men and horses below knew at a glance that they had attacked the city. At this time, the soldiers on the wall were not as panicked as before, and the team was also very clean, marching in an orderly manner according to the general's military orders.

This section of the city wall is close to the south gate tower, and a large number of troops of the Zhou army went up the wall from the gap, and quickly occupied the urn gate and the main city tower along the city wall, and then occupied the urn gate along the city tower. The walls of the city are slightly lower than the main walls, as if a curved wall was built independently outside the city, and the gates are also open on the side.

When the soldiers arrived at the city gate, they found a thick pile of large stones behind the gate! The walls have long been blocked.

But as soon as the news left the city, a group of men carrying iron and crow, hemp rope and wooden sticks hurried up from the rear on horseback, and were mobilized to the wall. And when they came to the gate of the urn, they began to work, prying the stones aside one by one. Others tied the stone with a rope and carried it away.

…… The generals and ministers of the Chinese army in the distance were stunned when they saw the Zhou army flags planted on the city tower. Wang Pu lost his voice and said: "In this way, Jinyang has been stormed!?" His tone was agitated and trilling.

Guo Shao was also very excited, it had only been half a day since he launched the general attack, and the victory did come relatively suddenly. He took a deep breath, turned his head and said, "Immediately send an order, the Sixth Army of the Tiger Ben Army (the place where the city was bombed) stop attacking!" ”

"Order!"

Guo Shao looked back at Gao Yanyan again, and said clearly: "The infantry of the Jiannan Army is ready, approaching the gap according to the sequence of numbers, and preparing to enter the city one after another. The main direction of attack in the city is the southern city gate, and the specific tactics can be decided by the generals. The troops were pre-planned according to the strategy before the battle, and the first step was to open the city gate; The second step is to attack the imperial city of the Northern Han Kingdom; The third step is to occupy the gates. ”

Gao Yanyan clenched his fists and bowed: "The minister obeys the order." Then he kicked the horse's belly, turned the horse's head and left the Chinese army.

Guo Shao quickly issued a military order: "Call the military government of the former camp to convey the military order, and all the cavalry in the camp in the south of the city will assemble at the city gate!" He pointed to a military capital of the Tiger Ben Army beside him, "Li Dazhu, you go to the city gate and make a formation." ”

Li Dazhu clasped his fists and saluted: "The last general will be ordered!" ”

Guo Shao said: "I entered the city with the horse team, sat in the army in the city, and the king made the king stay in the Chinese army and preside over the overall situation outside the city. ”

Wang Pu arched his hand and said: "The old minister has the order!" ”