Chapter 143: The Bloody Battle of Yacheng (Part II)
Under the scorching sun, the earth was steaming, the drums shook the sky, the shouts shook the sky, the besieging soldiers beat the city wall wave after wave like a tide, and countless pairs of big feet stepped over the moat bridge and rushed to the city.
A rain of arrows staggered through the air, and the shadow of death that covered the sky and the sun shot all the soldiers at the head of the city or under the city. At this time, the ordinary soldiers of both the Song army and the Yuan army were mostly unarmored or only wearing short armor, and their protection against arrows was not strong, and those in them were not killed or injured. And in the rain of arrows from time to time, there were some stones, but they were hit by the cannons of both sides. At this time, the Song army was still a manpower-based cannon, while the Yuan army was already a counterweight trebuchet. Fortunately, the sea is inconvenient, and most of the light trebuchets used by the Yuan army are light trebuchets, if it is a heavy trebuchet "Xiangyang cannon", I am afraid that Yacheng will become a ruin long ago.
However, no matter how dense the rain of arrows and the fierce artillery stones were, they could not stop the charge of the Yuan army. Hundreds of Han soldiers and new annexed troops rushed across the moat bridge, climbed the long ladder, and slaughtered the city, holding half-human tall wooden plaques that still had not been stripped of fresh bark. These armies of the people of the Two Song Dynasty were fearful of each other when they fought against other races, but once they surrendered, they changed their sheep nature and became extremely vicious and wolf-like. The new annexed army at the end of the two Song Dynasty, the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and even the traitor army of the Imperial Association during the Anti-Japanese War, are all like this, which is really sad and hateful.
Although the hanging curtain can prevent arrows, it will also affect the shooting of the defenders, especially when the Yuan army kills the city, such protection is even more useless. At this time, it was the wolf's tooth slap, the Yaksha and other weapons that defended the city.
The so-called wolf tooth swatter is like a giant fly swatter, except that this "fly swatter" is not a fly, but an enemy soldier who has landed in the city. The slap is full of nail teeth, and the rope slides and twists it on the pulley, and those who pull it up and fall down are all minced meat.
Similar to wooden stalks, the Yaksha snarls are also covered with iron nails, which are dropped from the ladder and rolled in large pieces, which can also be pulled up and recycled.
But these two weapons for defending the city also have a weakness, that is, the rope is easy to be cut off. At this moment, a number of brave soldiers of the Yuan army jumped on the wolf fangs that still had blood clots and scraps left, slapped the back plate, and slashed the thick tether with their knives and axes. In just three or five strokes, most of the thick rope was cut in half, and the wolf's teeth were crumbling.
A row of archers at the head of the city leaned out, swished a few arrows, and shot through a few slashing soldiers. Before the screams of the Yuan soldiers fell, a rain of arrows came from the city, and many archers of the Song army at the head of the city shouted and fell down the city with bows.
With a bang, the rope of the wolf's tooth slap finally broke, and the huge nail board was slapped, pressing several Yuan soldiers who were about to enter the city, and the red blood continued to spurt out, and the few pairs of feet that stretched out twitched and kicked, slowly not moving......
When the wolf's tooth slapped on this side, a ladder was erected on the side, and a group of Yuan soldiers holding signs and biting knives were struggling to step on the ladder to enter the city. Halfway up the board, a big stone was thrown down at the head of the city, and the wooden card held by the Yuan soldiers was smashed in half, and a foul smell was immediately smelled. The Yuan soldier raised his head and suddenly let out a terrifying scream: "Golden juice! ”
Wow! A stream of gold juice poured down, and the five or six soldiers on this ladder screamed and fell, rolling all over the ground in pain. The light ones have eroded arms, fecal poison into the flesh, serious infection, and they are not dead or disabled. The heavy ones have large pieces of skin and flesh on their heads and faces, and even expose the bones of Bai Sensen...... For these people, it is a blessing to die on the spot, otherwise it is a cry of extreme pain until death.
On the other side, a Yaksha rolled down with a bang, knocking down all the seven or eight soldiers who were about to climb the ladder, and its heavy force smashed the ladder even more. The defenders immediately wrenched the pulley, and with a creak, the crimson Yaksha was brought up to the city with fresh flesh and blood.
At the city gate directly below the tower, a rushing car is crashing into the city gate. This kind of house-shaped car hides more than ten people, with a thick log frame, covered with raw cowhide, smeared with mortar, the stone arrows are difficult to destroy, and not afraid of oil and fire, so it has been pushed across the moat bridge, pushed to the city, the defenders are difficult to stop.
Although the Song army must block the city gate with wood, stone and sand, as long as the city gate is broken, it is better to dig wood, stone and sand with manpower than to rush to the city.
As the clad iron slammed into the wood, the thick red lacquer door continued to peel off the paint, and cracks slowly appeared.
The former enemy commander took a long time to see it and grinned, but before his laughter could be released, he saw several wrestlers of the Song army at the head of the city struggling to carry a huge iron ball, and threw it down one, two, three.
"Bastard! It's a thunderstorm! "Warming, no flowers, laughter turns into roaring.
Rumble! There was a loud bang, flames soared into the air, thick smoke billowed out, and the car suddenly lay down.
After a while, the broken wooden door of the rushing car crashed open, and several Yuan soldiers who were bleeding from their mouths, noses and ears stumbled out of the car, and fell to the ground without being able to run a few steps, convulsing all over their bodies - but they were shocked by the strong shock wave and injured their internal organs, and they could not die for a while, but they had completely lost their combat effectiveness.
As the thunderbolts were thrown down one after another, the besieging soldiers were blown up to the ground, and the tragic death made the soldiers overcome the threat of death and fled back in terror.
Temperature-shedding Buhua's face was pale, and he glanced at the top of the slope behind, under the green grosgrain umbrella, Ali Hague sat like a clock, his face expressionless.
Warmed and gritted his teeth, and roared: "Baoyin! ”
"The subordinates are here." A stocky black Mongol in thick iron ring armor prostrated himself on the ground.
"There you go! Ascend to the city! "The order is short, this Baihu named Baoyin is the adjutant of his personal guard, who has experienced a hundred battles and has repeatedly climbed the city first, and is a famous warrior.
"Yes!" Bao Yin grabbed the giant axe and big bow, and with a shout, a group of Mongolian soldiers wearing iron armor and holding heavy bows gathered under their banner.
With the sound of the heart-pounding Chinese army drums, Bao Yin led his Mongol commandos to the forefront of the besieging army. They rushed over the moat, climbed the ladder, and struck the city. All the arrows fired by the Song archers were either bounced off by the iron armor or blocked by large shields, and the arrows became more penetrating as the Mongols got closer. When Bao Yin was the first to rush to the city, he was already full of long and short arrows, and he looked like a hedgehog. However, Bao Yin was untouched, and his momentum was not affected in the slightest, and it was obvious that although these arrows broke through the iron armor defense, they were already at the end of the crossbow, and their potential was difficult to penetrate the flesh and skin. This situation was also common in ancient warfare, and this is also the inherent shortcoming of the projectile weapon of arrows.
"Ahh Bao Yin used a large shield to block the gold juice poured from his head, and although some of it splashed on his arm, it was protected by iron armor and was not damaged in the slightest. After quickly climbing to the ladder, he dodged the Yaksha that came from the roar, and then he flipped back again, grabbed a few steps, and finally reached the top.
A sudden blow came at the battlement, and Baoyin used a big shield to block the file, and there was a loud bang, and the big shield broke. Bao Yin threw away the big shield, pulled out the big axe, and slammed the strong Song soldier who made the big stick to the ground. The big axe whirred, and then cut off two spears, a knife, and one hand to support the edge of the battlement, and the tiger turned into the city. Once he landed in the city, Baoyin was like a mad tiger, chopping and cutting down more than ten Song soldiers who rushed to force him to retreat.
Thanks to Baoyin's opening of the gap, the Mongolian soldiers behind him climbed the ladder endlessly, and gathered around Baoyin. This array is getting bigger and bigger, and the soldiers of the Song army at the head of the city are desperately besieging and killing, but it is difficult to use bows and crossbows at close range, and weapons such as knives and spears are helpless to be ironarmed, and heavy weapons such as iron bones, iron whips, and sticks cannot be used by non-wrestlers, and there are not many such wrestlers, and most of the more and more powerful Mongolian soldiers are defeated and killed.
Seeing that the Mongol commando led by Baoyin was about to gain a firm foothold and occupy the city.
Suddenly there was a loud roar: "Get out of the way for grandpa!" ”
It was the roar of Huang Tiancong, who was guarding at the south gate, and the Song soldiers who were besieging and killing got out of the way.
When Baoyin and more than a dozen other Mongolian soldiers looked at it, they saw that seven or eight steps away, a member of the Song General stepped out of the way, revealing a group of soldiers holding iron rods behind him. The weapons in the hands of these soldiers are very strange: they say they are iron rods, but they are half-crouched like crossbows to aim; It is said to be a crossbow, but there are no strings on the stick, only some strange-shaped parts......
Bao Yin smirked, let go well, just to kill. This Song general looks at the outfit at least a military merit that is under control and sent to the door.
Bao Yin swung a gap-filled, blood-stained axe: "Warriors, kill ...... with me"
"Aim - shoot!"
Bang bang!
The smoke and flames gushed, deafening, and the projectiles were fierce, breaking through the iron armor that was difficult for arrows to penetrate, and beating the strong bodies of Mengyuan elite soldiers to the point that their flesh and blood were flying, and their stomachs were broken. The heart-rending roar could even be heard clearly by the dewarming of the Chinese army a mile away.
When the gunfire stopped and the smoke cleared, the Mongol soldiers at the head of the city had fallen in a circle, and only one strong figure was about to collapse.
"No...... Can...... Can ......" Baoyin has become a bloody man, covered with blood holes, constantly bleeding outward, gurgling down, forming a puddle of blood under his feet, "This is ...... What the...... Soldier...... Weapons? ”
Huang Tiancong took a musket with good ammunition and aimed at Baoyin's forehead: "Remember, take your weapon of life - musket!" ”
Boom!
At the beginning, Zhao Lie gave Zhang Shijie more than 30 muskets and assisted some gun-making craftsmen (apprentices). Zhang Shijie had just returned to Yacheng for less than half a month, and the hydraulic drilling and boring had just been done, and the Yuan army was raging, and the craftsmen fought day after day, and only rushed to make more than ten muskets, just enough to form a musket team.
After only seven or eight days of training, this musket team was pulled into the battlefield after firing only 10 rounds of live ammunition, and it did not expect to be able to turn the tide and defeat the Mongolian elite in one fell swoop. It's just that the flintlock and flintlock spring steel sheets of these muskets are basically hand-made, although the materials are all fine iron, and the craftsmanship is also outstanding, but in any case, it can't be compared with the steel sheets stamped with steel plates in the Zhao Hunt Military Industrial Base, so not only the resistance of the buckle plate machine is large, but the mute rate is also high, fifty guns, less than forty of the first shots. The rate of dumb fire is as high as 20%. However, the power of this flintlock musket is impressive.
The death of Bao Yin and the destruction of the elite Mongol commandos made Temper not spend a thunderbolt, and he could not bear such a defeat. He was about to give the next order to charge, when suddenly it was dark overhead, thick clouds obscured the sun, the wind blew more and more fiercely, the heat was gone, and his whole body was refreshed.
This is...... God opened your eyes? Cool down so that the army can better attack the city?
Looking back, I saw the dark clouds rolling on the first line of the sea and sky in the distance, the waves surging, the more rapid the surge, the higher the surge, and the momentum of destroying the city with the mountains rolling in.
Dewarming, Buhua's face changed.