Chapter 302: Breaking the City
When the flare was raised, everyone on the battlefield saw the inky blue night sky, like a red meteor piercing the night sky. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
At the same time, in the north, west, and south directions of the eastern city, there were Thunderbolt rockets that fired at the defenders' effective firing distance, firing at the city tower guards.
What made these three defenses a headache was that these Song troops would raise their crossbows to change places once they fired, so that the counterattack of the city tower was ineffective at all.
But a fierce battle broke out near the east gate, and many special forces quietly lurked under the city, quietly assembling ladders and flying claws. The moment the flare was fired, more than a dozen assault teams began to climb the city wall with their own magical skills.
And the trebuchets of the two battleships of Dongmen Dulongfei and Fengwu instantly turned on the uninterrupted launch mode. Stone bullets the size of bowls rained down on the left and right sides of the East Gate Tower, blocking all the reserve forces of the City Tower within the scope of the City Gate Tower, and they could not enter or exit.
The sirens of the enemy attack sounded almost simultaneously at the four city gates, and the sound of fire and shouts of killing resounded in the night sky, and the residents of Dongkuo City were so frightened that they closed their doors tightly and hid in their homes and did not dare to go out.
The supervisor of Dongkuo City was Li Qianshun's personal eunuch Bingxian, and the first commander and the second general all went to attack the camp with soldiers and horses, but they didn't expect the old nest to be taken out by the enemy.
With a cold face, Bingxian urged thousands of soldiers to go to reinforce the four city gates, and soon, new news came.
The enemy's main attack direction is at the east gate, and the other three directions are all feints! Bingxian desperately rushed to the east gate with 500 infantry troops, he wanted to prevent the Song army from breaking through the city.
In less than two quarters of an hour, the left and right sides of the east gate were broken through by the special combat team, and after establishing two wall-head positions, the special combat team was turning to the city to fight.
Wei Minglan secretly said that it was not good, and he fell for the tricks of the Song army, the east gate was broken through so quickly, and Dongkuo City was in danger. At this time, two choices were placed in front of him.
The first is to return to the city to rescue and prevent the Song army from taking the city. The second is to storm the camp of the Song army overnight, crush the enemy in front of him, and then turn back to encircle and suppress the enemy who captured the city.
How to choose, Wei Mingmad has already begun to storm the Song army camp, and he came panting without hiding the bonus.
"Lan Shuai, the sergeant is flustered, and if he wants to go back, he will rescue the city defense!"
Damn it!
Most of the family members of these foot soldiers are in the city, and now that the enemy army is attacking the city, it is a matter of the family, so they naturally have no intention of fighting.
Withdraw to go? How can it be?
The two thousand Iron Harriers had broken through the enemy's outer defenses and were storming the gates of the camp.
Just by breaking through the gates, this camp of nearly 100,000 people will turn into a Shura hell. slaughtered the 70,000 Song troops, leaving a little Song army besieging the city, if they didn't run, they would only have a dead end.
But he couldn't ignore the feelings of the soldiers, so Wei Minglan shouted and ordered, "Send 5,000 to reinforce the east gate, and leave 20,000 to follow." ”
didn't hide the bonus, and knew that Wei Minglan had made up her mind to break through the Song army camp
Sending 5,000 people to reinforce the soldiers defending the city, finally calming the mood of the soldiers, everyone continued to stumble towards the Song army camp, and the shouts of killing gradually became stronger.
In the face of the impact and projectile attacks of the party's heavy cavalry and light cavalry, many people were injured, and the lethal effect of various defensive equipment at night was greatly reduced.
At the critical juncture, the seed master Dao took Han Shizhong, Yao Gu and other fierce men to lead 5,000 cavalry to kill outside the door to reduce the defensive pressure in the camp to the greatest extent.
"Thank you to the old minister for sending troops for righteousness, the situation is very dangerous tonight, Tong personally cheers for you!"
After speaking, Tong Guan tied his shirt tightly with his belt, rolled up his sleeves and picked up two drum hammers, and beat them hard. The beating of the drum mobilized the blood of the officers and men of the whole army.
The old man said loudly on the horse, "Thank you for the drumming of Xuanshuai, I was treated as a brave enemy to serve the court!" ”
Then he turned his face and said to the 5,000 elite horsemen, "Yesterday there were 20,000 enemy troops, and we beat them to the ground, and today, there are 30,000 enemy troops outside, and we still beat them, kill them with me!" ”
This kind of motivation to lead by example is often the most effective, and they won yesterday and will win today, and this kind of strong confidence has dispelled the timidity of many people.
After the old man finished speaking, he urged the war horse to rush out, and the five thousand elite horsemen behind him followed him like a shadow, and all the soldiers were shouting, "Fight bravely to kill the enemy and serve the court!" ”。
The morale has been improved, the murderous spirit is also condensing, the old breed has white hair but is indomitable, and the elite cavalry of the 5,000 Western Army once again rushed into the party army.
Under the full moon, by Longxu Lake, the fight of hundreds of thousands of people is destined to be a sleepless night.
Bingxian rushed to the east gate, the wide east gate tower was already burning in the flames, countless party soldiers fled in all directions, and the party soldiers near the city gate were being divided and annihilated by the Song army.
The East Gate is over!
But Bingxian still rushed up with people, once the east gate was broken, the entire Dongkuo City would not be spared. The only five hundred people in his hand pressed up in the hope that he could buy Wei Minglan a little time and bring back some reinforcements.
The monkey is bound to win the east gate, and Bingxian's 500-strong reinforcements were locked by the Shenji Brigade as soon as they appeared.
The individual thunderbolt rocket has been improved by Lin Chong and has the characteristics of slight burst and flammability. Repeated tests have proven that the individual version of the Thunderbolt rocket is particularly effective against crowds of people who charge closely, and today is the first time it has been used in actual combat.
Therefore, after the introduction of the three-stage rocket shooting method, as long as there are enough rockets, 45 people can completely block a street entrance, and 200 people can defend a stronghold.
Bingxian found that he was ten times outnumbered by the enemy, but he couldn't attack it, and the Song army had a total of three rows of crossbowmen, each with fifteen people. The first row was fired and quickly retreated to the last, re-lined and equipped with crossbow arrows. Between ten breaths, the first two platoons retreated after firing in turn, and the first platoon fired again.
In this way, the side that rushes in dense formation will be hit continuously, and the thunderbolt rockets are flammable, so in addition to arrow wounds, the arrows are often burned by the fire in pain, wailing all over the ground.
After losing more than 100 people, Bingxian decided to divide his troops and send 200 people to attack from the other direction. But soon, he despaired, and at another street corner, there were still forty-five three-stage crossbowmen guarding it.
After Bingxian suspended the suicide attack, the Song army actually launched a three-stage counterattack operation, advancing one row after another. In the end, Bingxian could only retreat to the west gate with more than 200 people, where was there a western camp to answer.
After the monkey took the most critical East Gate Tower meeting without danger, the Long Fei and Feng Wu began to turn to the area outside the East Gate to continue to implement the blockade and block Wei Minglan's reinforcements.
With the assistance of two warships, the monkey soldiers divided into two routes and quickly advanced various strategic points in the city, and on the city defense map marked by the secret spies, the special combat team followed the map, the north gate, the south gate, the commander's line, the grain depot, the arsenal, the yamen, etc., all fell into the hands of the Song army.
By the time the glimmer of dawn appeared in the sky, the party forces in Dongkuo City had been completely swept away.
Dongkuo City fell into the hands of Lin Chong.