It was in line with Xue Tong's intention that the cadres sent people to collect the corpses, and he was also worried that the corpses under the city would pile up higher and higher, which would eventually lead to the loss of the dangerous barrier of the city wall.

For Zhao Junsheng, although it sounds heroic to climb the city wall by stepping on the corpse of his comrade, it is actually tragic, there are many ways to break the city, and there is no need to rush to the city wall by stepping on the corpse of his comrade, so he ordered the corpse to be collected, which won the support of all the officers and soldiers of the cadre army, after all, no one wants to be insulted after death.

"Burn the bodies of the fallen soldiers, collect the bones to make an altar of ashes, write their names on the altar, and bring them back to their families!"

Zhao Junsheng's orders were faithfully carried out, no one discounted, no ruler had ever cared about the corpses of those soldiers who died in battle, only him, the fallen soldiers got the honor and dignity they deserved, and Zhao Junsheng reaped the loyalty of all the soldiers!

The drizzle continued for several days, and it did not end until the twentieth day of the first lunar month.

The weather is clear, the sun is out, and no one knows whether the cold spring will come, but Zhao Junsheng knows that he must end the battle in Linzi City before the roads and ground are dried, either break the city, or withdraw the army and return to Qizhou, there is no other choice, because once the weather clears, Tan Daoji in Dongyang City will lead a large army to come to reinforcements, as long as Linzi City is not breached, Tan Daoji will have enough confidence to fight him in a decisive battle under the city.

And Zhao Junsheng is facing the situation of being attacked from both sides inside and outside the city or Tan Daoji relying on the city wall to form a decisive battle with Zhao Junsheng, no matter which one it is, Zhao Junsheng's chances of winning will not be too high.

That night, Zhao Junsheng convened the lieutenant colonel, the staff and officials of the army to discuss the matter.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the weather is clear, and within three days, the ground and road will definitely be dried, and at that time, Tan Daoji will definitely lead an army to help! Why didn't Tan Daoji come to help before? Because of the road and the weather, he didn't dare! In the snow and muddy roads, his infantry was inconvenient to move, and their combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, and if they encountered a surprise attack by our cavalry on the march, they would definitely not be able to resist it; But now it's different, the weather is clearer, the snow is melting, the roads will soon be dried in the sun, and his main force is not damaged at all, why didn't he come to the rescue of Linzi City? How far is it from Dongyang City to Linzi? Less than 60 miles, you can reach it in one day! ”

"When Tan Daoji's 70,000 army arrives here, he can join forces with the defenders in the city to attack our army; Or he can have his back to the city and fight a decisive battle with our army, at that time our cavalry does not have enough space to weave around, and once the cavalry is blocked under the city, it will be basically finished. Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, there is not much time left for us by God, and the city must be broken within three days, otherwise this king can only order the withdrawal of the army and return to Qizhou to make another plan! ”

"As long as we break the city within three days, it will be Tan Daoji's turn to worry about it, will he defend Qingzhou City or retreat south? I'm afraid only he can decide! ”

When Zhao Junsheng said this, he looked at the generals, his eyes fell on Wang Huilong, and he ordered: "Wang Huilong, I ordered you to be the general of Dongyang Taishou and Ning Man, and assist him in commanding the siege as Gao Xu's deputy general when attacking the city early tomorrow morning!" ”

Gao Xu and Wang Huilong stood up together and hugged their fists and promised: "Obey!" ”

The next day, the men of the third watch lived and cooked, and the soldiers of the fifth watch had breakfast, assembled and set off after eating, and arrived outside the city at dawn to set up a military formation to prepare for the siege of the city.

At the front of the military formation, Gao Xu sat on the back of the horse and stroked the horse's mane and asked Wang Huilong: "General Wang, the king ordered you to be my deputy general, there must be some consideration, presumably you have unique insights in siege, have you taught me?" ”

Wang Huilong thought for a while and said to Gao Xu: "General, the last general thinks that he can first follow the previous siege steps, first meet the ballistas of the defenders, and then destroy them in one fell swoop with a flywheel trebuchet, and then attack with all his might." The only thing the Admiral is worried about is the triangular brackets on the city walls, and until now we haven't figured out what they are used for, and the Admiral suspects that this thing is the biggest weapon of the defenders! ”

Gao Xu also suspected that those large triangular brackets should be some kind of defense equipment, but the defenders had not used them until now.

"We can't guess just by guessing now, we can only fight according to the established siege steps, and before the defenders use it, we can break through the city best!"

Wang Huilong nodded and asked Gao Xu, "It's only like this!" General, do you still need to use trebuchets today? ”

"What do you think?" Gao Xu asked rhetorically.

Wang Huilong said: "The last general thinks that it is better not to use it for the time being, it is easy for the defenders to find a pattern to avoid it if it is used too many times, and once they find the law, the role of trebuchets is not great!" ”

Gao Xu thought for a while, agreed with Wang Huilong's suggestion, and immediately ordered: "Okay!" Don't use heavy trebuchets today, go straight to the city! ”

"The 3,000 men and horses brought by the last general have not fought with the Southern Korean army until now, so let the last general personally command the men and horses of the headquarters to attack the city in today's battle, right?"

Gao Xu agreed to Wang Huilong's request, and ordered the first siege echelon to retreat, and handed over the siege ladders, bed crossbows, well rails, and siege vehicles to the 3,000 men and horses brought by Wang Huilong.

Before starting the attack, Wang Huilong agreed with Gao Xu that once he brought out the ballistas in the city, the rear catapult unit would immediately fire a rain of stones, otherwise the loss of the well fence would be great.

"The first, second, and third buildings are attacking!"

With Wang Huilong's order, more than 1,000 soldiers will carry a large number of ladders to rush to the city wall, the formation is scattered and not neat, but the speed of their charge is very fast, and they are soon divided into more than a dozen parts, cross the earthen dam on the moat, and arrive at the city wall and set up a wooden ladder.

A group of archers galloped to a stone's throw from the walls and fired their arrows at the walls, and in front of them there was a row of swords and shields with shields in their hands to cover them.

The guard general Xue Tong saw that the cadres had changed their fighting style, and he was a little flustered, these days the arrows of the defenders were almost exhausted, and there were no arrows to counter the archers of the cadres outside the city, he could only order the soldiers to stand on the city wall with shields to defend, but these archers still provided long-range support to the soldiers who were besieging the city.

The siege vehicles behind were crossed the moat and began to violently hit the city gate, dozens of well railings were also pushed to the edge of the moat, and a large number of archers climbed the well railings to fire arrows at the city head.

There were a large number of casualties at the head of the city immediately, and Xue Tong saw that the soldiers under his command had suffered heavy losses, so he had to order the use of ballistas again, and a row of ballistas was pushed out of the house by the soldiers and pushed out in a line behind the city wall, and began to wind and load.

"Launch—"

Stone bullets flew from behind the walls and shot at the well railings outside the city.

The well fence of the cadres was hit, three of them were hit, and a dozen archers were smashed and died.

Someone on the well fence immediately raised a small yellow flag and waved it vigorously, and the soldiers below immediately pushed the well fence and retreated, and the commander of the flywheel trebuchet in the rear army formation saw the flag waving and immediately ordered: "Flywheel trebuchet, fire stone projectiles!" ”

The knights who pulled the rope beat their horses and galloped to the rear, they pulled the rope to make the wheel rotate rapidly, and the high-speed rotating wheel transmitted power to the flywheel through the gears and bearings, and the flywheel rotated and began to accelerate, the speed became faster and faster, and the stone bullets hanging on it rotated rapidly.

The soldiers on the flywheel trebuchet pushed their blades forward, the nets and ropes were cut, and the stones were thrown out one after another.

In a second's effort, countless dense stones rose from the sky, enveloping the city like a black cloud pressing down on the city.

"Bang Bang Bang Bang ······" A rain of bullets rained down on the back of the walls.

"Ahh

This kind of flywheel trebuchet was born for large-scale blows, and its role is only to hit a large area of error, and the dense stones fall in the form of raindrops, and one out of ten people who can survive is already lucky.

But when the stone bullet rain crossed the city wall and fell behind, Xue Tong's face instantly turned white, he turned around and ran to the female wall behind to see, the city was in a mess, wailing all over the field, except for the soldiers and generals hiding under the city wall, more than ninety percent of the soldiers and people who operated the ballistae were killed, all the ballistae were more or less damaged, and none of them could still be used.

"Damn, shit!" Xue Tong scolded, clenching his fists and pounding the wall battlement.

"General, now is not the time to be angry, the more this is the case, the more the general must remain calm!" The adjutant shouted to persuade.

Xue Tong calmed down, he took a deep breath, and ordered extremely calmly: "Order, transfer the second, third, and fourth echelons of the city to the city wall, and today General Ben will make the cadres pay the price!" ”

The deputy general had already guessed what Xue Tong was going to do, and he clenched his fists and promised: "Obey!" ”

A large number of defenders who took turns to rest received orders to come to the city with weapons and hide, a total of more than 4,000 people!

All the defenders on the city wall held shields to defend against the attacking cadres, and the cadres pushed the wheeled ladder under the city wall again, and four cadres and soldiers rushed up the city wall with weapons at a time.

"Kill—"

"Kill—"

The two sides once again started a white-knuckle battle on the city wall, as Wang Huilong invested more and more troops, more and more cadres rushed to the city wall, and the archers on the well fence could no longer shoot arrows, and it was easy to hurt their own people.

As a result, the well fence was further pushed closer to the city wall by the soldiers below, and one by one the gangplanks were set up on the city wall from the well railing, and a cadre soldier stepped on the gangplank from the well fence and rushed up to the city wall to fight with Liu Songjun.

"Ha, it's done, it's done, this time at least 1,600 people rushed to the city wall, and the city is broken!"

But Gao Xu couldn't be happy for too long, and Xue Tong on the city wall gave an order: "Release!" ”

The defenders on the enemy tower slashed the rope with their swords, and the thick crossbars hanging between the triangular bracket and the enemy tower instantly swung down from a high place, and the lower ends of the crossbars were still hung with heavy objects, like the pendulum of a hanging bell hanging on the city wall, constantly swinging from side to side.

The arrows, ladders, wheeled ladders, and railings were all knocked down and destroyed by these horizontal logs swinging from side to side, and all the cadres and soldiers on them fell down, killing and wounding countless people.

Wang Huilong, Gao Xu, and the soldiers of the Qianjun army were all stunned by the huge disaster in front of them, it turned out that these triangular brackets and hanging beams were used in this way.

"Kill-" The four thousand Liu Song troops hidden at the foot of the city wall quickly rushed to the city wall to join the battle, and the cadres and soldiers who had lost their support were surrounded all over the city wall in groups.

When Zhao Junsheng saw this scene, his face became extremely good, "It's over, these thousand, five or six hundred people are all finished!" ”