Chapter 441: Jiancheng Zhongshan
Wanyan Zonghan suddenly felt very tired, comparable to Kuafu day by day, if he didn't try to tense his nerves, he would feel like he was falling headlong and falling asleep forever. Suddenly, he was like a turtle that couldn't find a place to lay its eggs, and his stomach was full of irritability and depression, and then his frustration and helplessness catalyzed his irritability, and he couldn't breathe.
In his impression, Taiyuan City was an unbreakable fortified city, but also his nightmare, and twice in a row he looked at the city and sighed, which became a stain on his military career. In this war, the fourth prince Jin Wushu took the initiative to ask to fight Taiyuan, so he avoided Taiyuan and came to Zhongshan City, who knew that this Zhongshan City was even more difficult to bite than Taiyuan.
Thief God, are you deliberately playing tricks on me?
It seems that Zong Han has a phobia, and whenever he sees Zhongshan City, he panics in his heart, followed by symptoms such as retching, qi deficiency, and night sweats. Later, he could only listen to the news in the Chinese military tent, and whenever he heard the news of the failure of the siege, he was furious, angry and whipped, but it was useless, and Zhongshan City still stood majestically in front of them. Later, when he heard the news of the failure, he didn't even bother to open his mouth, but the decadence in his heart was accumulating more and more.
It is not that Yan Zonghan is short-sighted and poorly commanded, nor is it that the soldiers will not contribute to the work and slack off their work, on the contrary, the siege of the golden soldiers is the life of the three armies, and they work together to attack Zhongshan City, but they have not been able to capture it for a long time, because Zhongshan City is really a strong city.
It was shaped into a fortified city by the autonomous region.
It's a long story.
Zhongshan City was occupied during the second invasion of the Jin soldiers, and was included in the territory of the puppet Korea, and when Li Cheng was arrested by rummaging through the cabinets, Zhongshan was successfully liberated. Due to the important geographical location of Zhongshan City, the autonomous region decided to strengthen the city defense construction of Zhongshan City, build it into a strong city, and at the same time make Li Miao, who was rescued from Zhendingfu Prison, a guard.
Although today's Zhongshan City is not impregnable, it is like ascending to the sky if you want to capture it. The city walls are all repaired with cement, the effect of resistance to blows is excellent, the city head is equipped with many defensive artifacts, such as long-range hard crossbows, light artillery, fire-breathing dragon kings, grenades, etc., and the defenders of the city almost all wear a pair of thick armor that only shows their eyes, so that the archery that the golden soldiers are proud of is useless.
There was plenty of food, grass and ammunition in the city, and two infantry divisions were reinforced in the provisional autonomous region, so it would not be a problem for Zhongshan City to defend it for half a year.
On this day, Wanyan Zonghan was looking at Zhongshan City in a daze, and the guards came to report the arrival of the messenger from Wanyan Sali, the marshal of the East Road. When Wan Yan Zonghan heard that Wan Yan Huo's female soldiers were defeated and captured, he asked him to abandon Zhongshan City and attack the hinterland of the autonomous region with him, and finally had a reason to leave this nightmarish city with dignity.
He immediately called the generals to discuss, and the vanguard officer Wanyan Yinshu could propose to dig a trench like the last time he locked Taiyuan, leaving a part of the troops to contain it. Zong Han immediately agreed, but he was unwilling to carry out one last attack before leaving Zhongshan City.
This time, Wanyan Zonghan was like a gambler who only had the last bit of capital left, and he was desperate to turn over the book, and he bet all his belongings on all sides.
At the forefront of the charge were tens of thousands of cannon fodder squads, these civilians have been involuntary since they were deceived into entering the barracks, acting as arrows every time they charged, and killing them on the spot when they retreated. Therefore, whether they charge or retreat, it is a dead end, and they can only let their tired bodies drag their numb souls, and they silently think in their hearts that they will definitely be able to attack the city this time.
Behind the cannon fodder team was the regular army of Dajin, who pushed hundreds of siege towers and ladders, and behind them were 10,000 carefully selected Dajin archers, each carrying a hundred arrows. Their task was to reach the range of arrows, and the arrows were instantaneous, enveloping the head of Zhongshan City in a rain of arrows, and then they abandoned their bows and attacked the city.
The assault began to heat up, and the golden soldiers roared towards the city walls like a raging flood, and the raging waves continued to rip the embankment.
The defenders were not deterred by the enemy's fierce momentum, and although they were scrambling by the golden soldiers, their hearts were as strong as this city, and their defenses were still in order. The artillery hard crossbow is far away to ask for life, the crossbow grenade is close to the soul, the stone and wood are thrown along the wall, and in an instant, the cannon rumbles, the smoke of gunpowder fills the air, and in the tireless back and forth of arrows on both sides, people continue to fall. 360 Literature Network
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the trebuchet of the golden people was also pushed onto the battlefield. In the past, trebuchets were always blown to pieces by the defenders' artillery, but today with so many people attacking, the defenders have no time to take care of them, so trebuchets come in handy.
Although the golden soldiers fired thousands of arrows, the arrows brought more interference to the defenders. The defenders wore thick armor and helmets that only showed their eyes, and unless the arrow was aimed at the eye or the hand, it would not cause casualties, and of course the whistling arrow still had a piercing pain on the armor, but it was nothing compared to death.
On the contrary, the casualties of the Jin soldiers were very large, they were so dense that a large number of people would fall where the fire bullets and grenades sounded, and the battlefield was full of dead bodies of Jin people and howling wounded soldiers. The siege towers and ladders that relied on the attack were also constantly shattered by shells, and the golden soldiers without barriers became live targets. Even so, the Jin soldiers still did not retreat, attacking like a tide, wave after wave, never dying.
What really brought casualties to the defenders was the stones thrown by trebuchets at the head of the city, and the huge stones that fell from the sky destroyed the city defenses and killed the defenders, and the casualties of the defenders at the head of the city increased for a while.
Seeing this scene, the prefect Li Miao, who was dressed in iron armor, personally guarded the north gate, and urgently ordered the artillery to be aimed at the trebuchet and fired, leaving the enemy's siege towers and ladders alone for the time being. The artillery adjusted the angle, and after a period of shelling, the trebuchet position of the golden soldiers collapsed. During this time, the siege towers and ladders of the Jin soldiers reached the bottom of the city walls, and the Jin soldiers immediately set up these equipment and began to climb the walls.
In an instant, the Jin soldiers were as dense as foraging ants and crawled towards the city head one after another, this was the closest to the city since they attacked Zhongshan City, and the dream of breaking the city was about to come true, how could the Jin soldiers give up such an opportunity, and they were not afraid to attack to death. The golden soldiers under the city wall took out their bows and arrows to shoot at close range, and the defenders frequently fell from the city head with arrows in their eyes, and they were instantly divided by the golden soldiers.
Stones, wood, grenades, bows and arrows, •••••• as long as they can kill and injure the Jin soldiers, all threw them on the heads of the Jin soldiers, and even this could not stop the Jin soldiers' attacks. Seeing that the Jin soldiers were about to climb to the top of the city, Li Miao shouted: "Use the fire-breathing dragon king!" ”
Immediately, many flamethrowers were erected at the head of the city, and then the tongues of fire devoured the golden soldiers who climbed the wall, and immediately the pungent smell of scorched corpses permeated the city, accompanied by bursts of heart-rending howls, the fear of the golden soldiers increased greatly, and the attack slowed down a lot.
Happiness came too suddenly, and disappeared even more abruptly, and in an instant, the golden soldiers who attacked the city turned into fireballs and fell, and some siege equipment was also shrouded in fire. The golden soldiers were horrified, fear arose, and the momentum that had just been fearless of death suddenly shrank, and the offensive slowed down instantly.
Wanyan Zonghan was even more unwilling in his heart, just a little bit of the city was his own, but now his hope was extinguished by a fire. No, you must take the city today! Looking at the demoralized Jin soldiers, Wanyan Zonghan gritted his teeth and urged his horse to come to the siege team.
"The battlefield is chaotic and dangerous, and the commander must not be in danger!"
"The soldiers are all under the command of the flint, desperate for their lives, bloody battles, how can this king sit idly by! This king wants to live and die with the three armies, and he will be ashamed! If you don't break this city today, you won't stop the army! ”
In an instant, the sluggish morale was like a fire with a blower turned on, the flames snorted up, and the golden soldiers risked death to enter the city again.
But after all, the golden soldiers on the city wall were all defeated, and it was necessary to start all over again to attack the city, and the siege equipment was burned and blown apart, and the siege was difficult.
Jin Bing broke out again, but it was beyond Li Miao's expectations, in the past, Jin Bing must have been defeated, how could he have so much willpower today? In surprise, he saw the golden soldiers chanting in the distance, and a group of people rode into the crowd, Li Miao picked up the clairvoyant mirror and looked at it, only to find that it was Wanyan Zonghan who came to the main battlefield in person.
No wonder Jin Bing is crazy like a soulless zombie, it turns out that this guy is doing something! It seems that after the death of the second prince, Wanyan Zonghan became the god of war in the hearts of the Jin people.
Hum! It doesn't matter what kind of god of war you are, don't even think about going back since you're here. Li Miao had a plan in the blink of an eye, he walked up to Wei Di, who was known as a sharpshooter, handed over the clairvoyant mirror and said, "Sake lees, let's see if we can hit the bearded golden general in the horse team with one shot." ”