Chapter 815: Fierce Battle in Luoyang
Outside Luoyang City, the clouds were thick, the flags were fluttering, and the sound of killing shook the sky.
Pei Xingyan and Luo Shixin, two young generals, were extremely brave and led their troops to charge into battle and launched an attack on Luoyang City's Waiguo Wengcheng.
At this moment, the soldiers on both sides went crazy, and countless arrows rained towards the opposing camp, and the sound of breaking the air shook the air, and the dense arrow rain rushed like flying locusts.
Arrows shoot rapidly, horses gallop, the two armies attack and defend the front, when the cavalry gallops close to an arrow, just meet the first round of arrow rain, for a while people shout horses neighing, and the guards on the city tower also have a lot of arrows planted down the city tower.
Suddenly, the shouts of killing and the weapons and horses mixed into an earth-shattering loud sound, and wave after wave of people rushed to the direction of the urn city.
Because the city is separated from the ground under the city, the first priority of the Dahua army is to fill the trench and clear the barbs.
The flying stone cannon threw a fifty-pound stone two hundred paces away and smashed it into the city wall, with a banging sound.
The eight-bow crossbow machine, the arrows are like the spokes of a car, and the clusters are like giant axes, shooting three or four hundred steps, which is even more powerful.
However, these were a few, the most powerful crossbow phalanx, five thousand men launched at the same time, iron arrows flew out, and could shoot one hundred and fifty paces, covering a wide range of the city.
This brought hardship to the defenders of the city, their longbows and crossbows, obviously not as good as the Dahua army, in this long-distance confrontation, they could only wait for the enemy army to reach the city, climb the city, and then fiercely counterattack.
Half an hour later, the army of 20,000 soldiers approached the ditch under the city, with the caravan inlaid with iron sheets as a block, people pushed the earthen cart behind, to fill the trench, this is a basic work, only the trench is filled first, people can approach the urn city, build a ladder, rush the car to pass, soldiers and horses can be smooth, otherwise everything is in vain!
At this time, the soldiers at the head of the city began to fire arrows at the trench area, and the catapult machine also played a huge role, causing some damage to the Dahua army.
"Bumper bumper!"
The stones smashed on the car, began to shake, and even cracked and broken, and the Dahua soldiers, who had lost their shield, suddenly became a live target for the archers at the head of the city.
"Puff puff—"
The random arrows were shot, directly piercing the armor and flesh and blood, and many people were like hedgehogs, their eyes widened, and they fell down one by one unwillingly.
The soldiers behind did not pull the corpse away, and began to throw it directly into the trench, and continued to fill the trench, and the dead bodies in the pool of blood also came in handy.
This is a battle paved with blood and life, very cruel, and in a moment, blood has flowed.
"Hold on!" Wang Renze and Wang Shihui led the generals at the head of the city, responsible for defending the southern and eastern city walls, and Shan Xiongxin walked back and forth, where the situation was in crisis, he was there to do auxiliary support, after all, among these commanders, only he was a real tiger general, Wang Shichong also attached great importance to Shan Xiongxin at this time, a son-in-law and a half, and felt that he was more reliable than his nephews.
"In a few months, Dahua Xiu wants to conquer Urn City!"
"This city is high and thick, after repeated reinforcement, the boulder will not collapse, as long as we hold on, the Dahua army will break without a fight!"
This is the general of the Zheng army to boost the morale of the three armies and fight Dahua to the end, because their families are all locked up in the palace as hostages, and they have no choice but to defend Wang Shichong to the death.
For several days in a row, the Dahua army suffered many casualties, and still failed to take the urn city, but the trench was almost filled. At night, the soldiers of Zheng planned to go out of the city to continue digging trenches, but they were killed by a burst of random arrows, and the Dahua archers were on duty at night, staring at the city gates and city walls, and found that there were enemy troops who wanted to dig trenches and set up barricades, and directly shot arrows to obstruct them.
Ten days later, the two armies began to fight fiercely at the head of the city.
The Dahua soldiers began to climb the city through the ladder every day, and the defenders at the head of the city also began to fight hand-to-hand, and the battle became more cruel and fierce.
"Use artillery!" On this day, Li Jing ordered that he could be assisted by artillery.
The front has not been used because it is too far apart, the power is limited, and the killer weapon is used too early, which will make the enemy have corresponding defenses and cannot achieve the best effect.
Now that the battle situation is deadlocked, the soldiers on both sides are killing red eyes and falling into a standoff, which side breaks the balance first and boosts morale has a huge impact on the battle situation.
The trebuchet began to be replaced with black powder shells, and now after the improvement of the Shenji Battalion, it is no longer the outer skin of the pottery urn, but the iron sheet, the amount of black powder in it has increased, and it is loaded with a lot of iron beads, once it is blasted, the power is greater, and the killing area is wider.
"Ignition, projection!"
"Whoa!" The Divine Machine Battalion soldier replied with a bang, and began to ignite the guide rope, and then projected it.
I saw fireballs thrown out violently, dragging a black smoke tail, cutting through the sky, and smashing into the defense area of the city head and the area behind the city wall with a parabolic arc.
Immediately afterwards, there was a burst of explosions, black smoke billowed out, iron sheets flew, and many Zheng soldiers were blown up and flew around, and then they were hit by the iron sheets, iron beads, and stones that were splashed by the jets, and they were either killed or injured.
Woohoo!
The air broke with a sharp sound, flying sand and stones, and it was impossible to prevent it, which made the Zheng army guards suffer a heavy loss.
After seeing this scene, the Dahua soldiers under the city immediately shouted, it was too uplifting!
So powerful, so tragic, thick smoke billowed out, gunpowder smoke filled the air, fire everywhere, and choking black smoke.
The Zheng soldiers who were defending the city had never encountered this kind of weapon at all, the deafening explosion sound was terrifying, and the power of the explosion and the probability of hurting people made the Zheng army's morale plummet all of a sudden, and they retreated, dodging and evading.
"Don't withdraw, violators will be killed!" Shan Xiongxin held a jujube yang lance, wore Mingguang armor, and walked over with his personal guards in a dragon and tiger step, blocking the fleeing soldiers and letting them return to the battlements of the city.
A lieutenant reluctantly said: "General, this explosion is like thunder, it is terrible, and the lethality is huge, and now the city is full of wounded, and they are screaming......."
"General Ben already knows that this is Dahua's killer weapon, black powder shells, but you can use a shield to resist, see the shells flying over, immediately lie down, you can reduce casualties, and when the enemy attacks the city, this kind of artillery fire will stop, so you go back and find a place to lie down and hide, and after the artillery fire stops, it is when Dahua soldiers climb the city, you will fight back!"
"Yes!" The generals and captains organized the guards to retreat, and then found a place to hide.
After a round of shelling, it really stopped, and the city began to emerge Dahua soldiers, at this time, the Zheng army guards showed their heads and began to fight to the death in close quarters, the two sides fought at the head of the city, and the sound of weapons clashing, roaring and shouting resounded throughout the city.