Chapter 401: Surprise Attack
The current rushing cart has been repaired and reinforced, and when it is nightfall, Feng Qi will carry a sufficient amount of explosives and enter the city wall again with the two rushing carts. The excavation work was carried out by the 60 warriors in the two rushing trucks, who selected the location of the explosion and tried to solve the problem at one time.
Xi Guan was in charge of the work of detonating the eagle's beak rock, and he began to dig and bury the explosion point on the eagle's beak rock this evening. In order to ensure that there was enough strength to break through to Songyang Pass from the eagle's beak rock, Li Yi specially organized a raid team that had always been strong.
Lian Jun personally served as the captain of the raid team, and Le Meng and Huo Feng served as deputy captains, leading one hundred and twenty soldiers with outstanding martial arts and brave martial arts. In addition, 300 officers and soldiers who were not afraid of death were also drawn from various armies, led by Qiu Feng, as the second echelon of the subsequent support raid team, ready to follow and enter Songyang Pass.
That night, Li Yi arranged for the army to move forward on all fronts, and the four arrow towers were also quietly moved forward to a distance of only sixty or seventy meters from the city wall.
And this action was soon discovered by the enemy, although it was not clear in the night, but the enemy did not miss the opportunity to attack blindly, like a rain of locusts and arrows poured down, even their catapults began to fire in a disorderly manner to this side, but did not cause much damage in the dark night.
The counterattack of the Yunnan side was also launched in due course, and the rocketeers on the four arrow towers that were extremely close to the city wall quickly began to launch rockets and thunderbolts at Songyang, although many rockets and thunderbolts still fell outside the target area, but the accuracy rate was much better than during the day.
There were a few rockets shot on the city gate tower, which suddenly made Songyang close a fire, crackling and burning, so that the city gate tower of Songyang Pass was only a skeleton, and there were several places in the city where smoke rose, and smoke and dust rolled everywhere, illuminating half of the sky.
With the help of the fire of Songyang Pass, the stone-throwing truck began to exert its might. After several adjustments during the day, the accuracy of the stone throwing truck was greatly improved, and most of the stone rain poured down in many places inside and outside the city wall of Songyang Pass, and suddenly there was a terrible scream of the enemy one after another, which must have caused effective killing and wounding to the enemy troops on Songyang Pass.
At this time, as the catapult temporarily stopped firing, the two rushing carts continued to rush forward under the impetus of the warriors, and they came to the base of the city wall with ease. Under the cover of the thick barrier of the rushing car, Feng Qi and the others immediately started the excavation work.
The enemy quickly understood the purpose of this side, and although they had already suffered a heavy blow, the remnants of the officers and soldiers began to put up desperate resistance. All the weapons that could be used were used against the two rushing cars, and rolling logs, stones, bricks, stones, and even torches and boiling oil were all thrown down on the rushing cars.
For a while, both rushing cars were severely tested, fortunately the sturdy body did not undergo serious deformation, and the skeleton was still intact, but the roof and side fenders were already fragmented, so that some of the soldiers hidden inside were injured by the boiling oil, resulting in an increasing number of injuries.
Faced with this unfavorable situation, Li Yi immediately ordered to increase the number of people on the arrow tower and attack the enemy troops on the city wall with all his strength to cover Feng Qi and the others in the rushing car. With the support of the rain of locusts and arrows on the arrow tower, the enemy was hidden under the battlements and could no longer effectively attack the rushing car, which suddenly reduced the pressure on Feng Qi and others, and the excavation work was successfully resumed.
After more than an hour of intense work, a long tunnel had been dug under the city wall, and more than a dozen explosive canisters with a capacity of about fifty liters were sent inside, and Feng Qi quickly began the wiring of explosives.
The fuse used by Feng Qi has clearly had the prototype of the fuse of later generations. He used tough, fine linen cloth as the skin of the fuse, and added ordinary gunpowder, the thickness of an adult's finger.
Compared with the previous fuse wrapped in cotton paper, this fuse not only has a certain waterproof and moisture-proof effect, but also can be filled evenly, and the burning time can be relatively controlled, so it has quite obvious advantages.
By the time the car began to retreat, Li Yi knew that the explosives had been planted. Under the cover of the archers on the arrow tower, the rushing car retreated to a distance of fifty meters from the city, and a fuse about thirty meters long had already 'snorted' and burned, like a slender fire dragon moving towards the city wall.
Li Yi sat firmly on the 'Lion Horse in the Night', looking intently at the fire dragon with a telescope until it was hidden under the city wall and could no longer be seen. A moment later, a dull loud bang suddenly caused the ground to shake very obviously, and in the smoke and dust, a section of the city wall seven or eight meters wide collapsed, causing the army to hear a loud cheer.
Li Yi waved the flag, and Wan Hong, the commander of the Pu Dao battalion, who was the captain of the death squad, raised the Pu Dao in his hand into the air, and rushed towards the city. And it was followed by the siege army led by Wei Jing and more than 1,000 elite cavalry of Jian Zheng.
At the same time, a sound arrow shot into the air, and a sharp whistling sound spread throughout the four fields, only a moment later, there was a loud noise from the eagle's beak rock, Li Yi really saw from the telescope, the entire huge eagle's beak rock had fallen apart, the gravel was flying, the earth was shaking, and he saw that this boulder barrier had completely disappeared from view.
After another round of rock-throwing operations, the Pu Dao battalion led by Wan Hong had broken through the gap in the city wall, and between the flashes of the knife shadow, the enemy was invincible, and had completely lost the will to resist. The siege troops who came later hung more than a dozen ladders on the battlements of the city wall, and almost did not encounter any decent resistance, and climbed to the top of the city as if they were in a no-man's land.
And Li Yi saw from the telescope that there were dozens of people on Lian Jun's side who had gone from the cliff to the city wall, and began to chase and kill the surviving enemies as if they were chopping melons and vegetables. The men and horses who attacked from three sides have completely controlled the situation, and there is no suspense in capturing Songyang Pass.
As the number of people and horses breaking into Songyang Pass continued to increase, there was no longer a living enemy in sight on the city wall. Most of the enemies were invincible and ran without a trace, and soon there was a banner of a big man fluttering above the city head of Songyang Pass.
Li Yi then led his personal guards into the city through the gap in the city wall, and found that the city was in dilapidation. There are ruins and rubble everywhere, and almost none of the houses in the gate are intact. The streets and city walls are littered with the corpses of the soldiers of the Great Righteous Ning Kingdom, and in some places there are still traces of burning. It seems that this attack on Songyang Pass has achieved the expected effect.
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