Chapter 37 Xiangyang, Xiangyang! (Medium)
Under the reflection of the moonlight, the trebuchet of the Anzhou army was cast all night, of course, considering that the bearing capacity of the equipment was to fire in batches, so that the trebuchet and the operator could rest sufficiently.
In order to prevent the defenders from sneaking out of the city to attack, the Anzhou army arranged soldiers to guard in front of the trebuchet, and they slept with weapons and clothes on their heads, which added a lot of security to the soldiers who operated the trebuchet at night.
In order to avoid the Anzhou army from sneaking attack at night, the Xiangyang defenders arranged sentries on the city wall, but they suffered heavy losses overnight, and they were all killed or seriously injured in the continuous stone rain.
On the morning of the second day, Wang Yi, who had not closed his eyes all night, took advantage of the interval between the artillery strikes to walk up to the city, and only one night later, the arrow towers at the head of Xiangyang City had disappeared, and the city towers on the eastern, southern, and western city walls had become ruins.
"Envoy, the enemy is about to start shelling, hurry up and dodge." The entourage nervously persuaded Wang Yi to go down the city wall.
After coming down, Wang Yi looked at the generals around him and asked, "The rebels are attacking the city urgently, do you have a good plan?" ”
There was silence and no one answered, what could he do in the face of a never-before-seen 'demonic' general like the Anzhou Army? The lack of manpower meant that it was possible to fire catapults around the clock, and now it turns out that it is indeed a day and night attack.
Hutou Mountain in the southwest of the city can take stones, and the sentry at the head of the city also saw that the rebels arranged a convoy to go back and forth between the camp and Hutou Mountain, and they must have transported stones.
Although there is a moat outside the city, which is up to 100 meters wide, the arrow tower is damaged, the walls are collapsing everywhere, and how can the archers condescendingly snipe the rebels who cross the river and attack the city?
Seeing that everyone was silent, Wang Yi also smiled bitterly and shook his head, he thought that he could stay in Xiangyang for a few months, but now it seems that it is a luxury to be able to survive a month.
"If you don't sleep all night, it's better to go back to the mansion to rest first, and today the defense of Xiangyang City will be handed over to us and others." The generals couldn't help but persuade when they saw that Wang Yi's eyes were dark.
As soon as the words fell, countless black dots flew outside the city, and the defenders looked up and saw that the black dots were dragging the firelight behind them, and it was very strange to wait and wait to pass the sky above the city, and those black dots suddenly emitted firelight, turning into a raging fireball and falling down into the city.
"Bang Bang Bang" fireball fell in the group of houses not long after the smoke rose, before the defenders could react, there were also fireballs outside the east and west of the city flying into the city like rain, for a time the smoke billowed all over the city and there were fires flickering in it.
"They're setting fire to the city!" Wang Yi ignored the rest and ordered all the people to go separately to extinguish the fire, and most of the roofs of the houses were made of wooden planks, if they could not extinguish the fire in the early stage, it would be troublesome.
"Envoy, the enemy army has begun to pile up dirt mountains!" A general ran to report in a panic, and everyone ran up to the south of the city to check the enemy's situation regardless of the danger.
On both sides of the earth hill where the base has begun to take shape, there are tall rushing cars, the roof of which is almost parallel to the head of Xiangyang City, on which there are many archers who bend their bows and shoot arrows at the defenders of the city, and the distance between the two is less than 200 meters, barely within the range of strong bows and crossbows.
"Gather archers to the city!" Wang Yi gritted his teeth as he looked at the potholed city wall that was already covered in bruises, and now it was only the second day that the other party began to pile up the mountains of soil, if he didn't work hard, it would be too late!
"Organize the dead to prepare to go out of the city and attack!"
At the same time, on the Han River, the warships of the Xiangyang Navy were rushing down the river to the south of the Sudaoseong River, and the Anju Army had pulled up a rope on the river near the Hannam pontoon bridge to prevent the warships from going south.
The Han River, which flows west-southward, turns at a right angle near Sodo Castle and turns to the southeast, while the east bank of Sodo Castle is in a right-angled inner bend, and the west bank opposite is in a right-angled outer bend.
Considering that the effective distance must be close to the bend of the Han River, the sailor approached the turning point, and the Anju army, which had been waiting for a long time on the west bank, began to attack with a giant crossbow.
The whistling giant arrows rushed towards the warships and set them on fire one by one, but more warships continued to rush forward without fear of death, and after passing the inflection point of the Han River, they began to ignite, and the fireboats tied to the bow of the ship were immediately untied, and the dense fireboats carried the whole ship down the river with the fire, just hanging by the iron rope of the Hengjiang River.
As the fireships accumulated, the middle section of the Hengjiang iron cable was burned and began to turn red, and at this time, the southbound naval warships also lost forty percent, and the remaining warships waited for the iron cable to burn and immediately rushed downstream to burn the Hannan pontoon.
The Anzhou military crossbows on both sides of the Han River kept shooting at the warships in the river, and the Xiangyang sailors who endured the fire and arrows attacked the ships on the river looked at the downstream anxiously, and the fireboats piled up at the iron cable were about to burn out, but the iron cable was still intact.
One after another, another warship was ignited by the fire and burned, unable to support and sinking, and the generals of the Xiangyang Navy Division were struggling with whether to hit the road home, when the iron cable hundreds of meters downstream finally made a crisp sound and broke!
"Rush over!"
Cheers erupted from the Xiangyang Navy warship, they suffered heavy casualties, waiting for the iron cable to be burned and rushed downstream to destroy the Hannan pontoon bridge, but before they could sail far, they desperately found that there was another iron cable across the river in front of them!
"The marshal has an order to destroy the Hannam pontoon bridge at all costs!" A general gritted his teeth and ordered the drum to be beaten, and all the warships continued to go south to break through the iron cable, and if the fireships were not enough, then use an axe to chop! ……
Outside the east gate of Xiangyang City, corpses were everywhere.
In order to stop the offensive of the Anzhou army, the defenders sent elite people out of the city to assault catapults, and chose the position in the east of the city farthest from the Anzhou army camp to raid, but the Anzhou army, which had been prepared for a long time, immediately gave them a "no return".
During the siege of the city, the Anzhou army had already dug a trench outside the city to prevent the defenders from raiding, and laid a giant crossbow aimed at the city gate, and simply let the soldiers camp next to the trebuchet to protect these big guys.
They watched the catapults attacking the city continuously, but they were too idle to fight flies, and it was easy to see the movement in the city, and they couldn't help but be shocked: "The head has been sent to the door!" ”
In the past, the distribution of spoils of war outside the city of Changshou had a new trick called "business commission": the spoils of war were not allowed to be privately hidden, and all of them were taken out and piled up in one place, and the hardest front row hand-to-hand combat soldiers and the cavalry who charged into battle were the most shared, then archers and crossbowmen, and finally ordinary soldiers, anyway, there was a mouthful of soup to drink.
The first level is also counted as a head of a hanging money, and the fast head grabs the head and makes a lot of money, so "to get rich depends on the head", this morning the Xiangzhou army just left the city and barely resisted the giant crossbow and bow and arrow shooting, and was then pounced by the red-eyed Anzhou soldiers and got a clean share.
There were slow-moving people who watched their comrades come back, hanging the crisp copper wire, and even the lunch was hastily eaten, and they were waiting outside the city gates one by one, waiting for the Xiangzhou masters to come out and send the heads quickly.
Seeing that the Anzhou army was heavily defended, the defenders did not dare to go out of the city to die, so they could only watch as the catapults slowly smashed down the city walls, throwing countless fireballs into the city and causing fires.
Yu Wenwen yawned, standing on a dirt mountain outside the city, looking at the smoke-billowing Xiangyang City in front of him, he really wanted to take a selfie with this as a background to take a photo, and then send it to the WeChat circle of friends: "I'm attacking Xiangyang!" ”
However, this is just a delusion, looking at the Xiangyang city wall that has collapsed in many places, Yuwen Wen has no interest, in this era, the cities around the city are not ready to defend against gravity trebuchets, and Xiangyang City cannot be held under the day and night attack of so many large gravity trebuchets.
And then what? You can't 'let go of Wushuang', when the time comes, there will naturally be a first-time dead soldier to break through the gap, and then the battle will be over as soon as you rush in, and you have no use at all!
That's why I'm going to smoke you bastards!
The soldiers piled up a lot of firewood along the bank of the moat in the south of the city, and Yuwen threw a few pieces of shredded paper into the sky in a dashing manner, only to see the shredded paper fluttering and flying towards the other side of the moat.
"Today's sky is sunny and cloudless, the southeast wind is three to four, if you have travel, please reduce your clothes appropriately." Yuwen Wen muttered and walked down the dirt mountain, surrounded by a circle of guards sent by his father.
"Fifteen, tell them to light a fire and set a cigarette."
After a while, the billowing smoke drifted towards the head of Xiangyang City along the southeast wind with a spicy atmosphere, and the defenders who were originally guarding the tattered wall were so smoked that they couldn't open their eyes and kept coughing.
The soldiers lined up to climb the dirt hills and dumped the soil in the basket to the front end, and the earth mountains gradually spread into the moat, and the distance between them and the head of Xiangyang City slowly shortened......
At sunset, several tattered Xiangyang naval warships on the Han River were swaying upstream, and today they were ordered to attack the Hannan pontoon bridge from the waterway, and fought bloodily in the upper Shuangdao Castle to break through the Hengjiang iron cable.
The first chain was burned with a fireboat, and the second rope was burned with the next one, and they suffered countless casualties under the coercion of the generals, and finally stuck it to cut it down, but they were desperate in the face of the next third cable.
The giant crossbows of the Anzhou army on both sides of the river kept firing, beating the Xiangyang naval army that was approaching the third iron cable in a mess, and many of the soldiers who fell into the river when the warships caught fire and sank either swam to the banks or went downstream, and those who did not want to surrender were killed.
There are a large number of warship wrecks and floating corpses floating on the river, and the Xiangyang Navy Division is no longer able to charge in the face of the third iron cable, who knows if there is a fourth or fifth downstream road?
No matter how much the generals of the overseer army coerced and intimidated, they could not make them desperate, so they had no choice but to turn the bow of the ship and return to Xiangyang, but at this time, they were sailing against the current and the speed of the boat was slow, and the Anzhou army on both sides of the strait had more time to attack the warship with a giant crossbow.
It was easy to get out of the range of the giant crossbow shooting, and the Xiangyang Navy warship was no longer one in ten compared to before departure, and the skinny Zhang Yu in a warship was hugging Li Teamzheng in his arms, and he tightly covered a shocking wound on Li Teamzheng's shoulder with his hand, and the shocking blood seeped out from between his fingers and stained his arm.
"Brother Li, you have to hold on, you will be in Xiangyang soon!"
Previously, when the overseer general forced them to attack the third iron cable, Li was arguing a few words, and was slashed on the shoulder by the scare monkey who was used to kill chickens and scare monkeys, but fortunately everyone pleaded for mercy and was not mended, and then the overseer was killed by the flying giant crossbow, and their ship simply turned around and fled back to Xiangyang.
"Xiao Yu'er, don't go back to Xiangyang, hurry up and run away, and the surname Wang will force you to go to Hannan to send it"
Before the words were finished, Team Li was out of breath, Zhang Yu trembled and hugged him tightly and cried, and the other people in the cabin were also gloomy when they saw this, this time they were forced to storm the Hengjiang Iron Cable, and countless colleagues and friends died in the belly of the fish.
I thought it would be better to flee elsewhere and wait for the war to end, but now my family is still in Xiangyang Water Village, where can I bear to leave them alone, but when I go back, I am afraid that I will be forced to go south to burn the pontoon bridge another day, and I don't know if I will have the life to go back to reunite with my family at that time.
The afterglow of the setting sun shone through the dilapidated bulkhead on Zhang Yu, and he slowly raised his head, his eyes scarlet and bloody.