Chapter 118: Attack and Siege (3)
The light of the sun shone on the Song army, and the swords and guns flashed with dazzling cold light.
Tong Guan himself has as many as 50,000 soldiers, and in order to conquer Jeju, he also forcibly recruited nearly 20,000 people along the road, and now there are 70,000 people outside Juye City!
A large section of the city wall at the west gate was blown down by the gunpowder of the Liangshan army, although it was later blocked with sand and stone horizontal logs, but it was not a city wall built with stones, and it was the most vulnerable compared to the city wall.
Outside the West Gate is the main force of the Song army, with 50,000 people, and the army is at its peak, and the flag is like the sea.
Liu Yanqing, the commander of the Xiangzhou Soldiers and Horses, led 10,000 soldiers and horses from his headquarters to attack the South City Gate, and Xin Xingzong, the Commander of the Chungju Soldiers and Horses, led 10,000 soldiers and horses to attack the North City Gate.
In order to prevent the Liangshan army from fighting for trapped beasts, the Song army left the east city gate, but more than 3,000 people were arranged to monitor here, and the Liangshan army was prevented from suddenly killing from here and attacking the Song army.
With Tong Guan's order, the war drums were beaten and the horns were sounded.
The Song army began the siege.
Although most of the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty were not strong in combat, they were backed by the wealthy Great Song Dynasty. This allows them to have a large enough amount of equipment and a complete variety.
The Song army was led by shield soldiers, sword and axe hands, and then ordinary people rushed forward desperately with siege equipment such as ladders, crashing wood, and building carts.
There were more than a thousand soldiers in charge of supervision behind them, and these people were watching behind them with big knives, and whoever dared to retreat and flee would be mercilessly killed.
Tower-like buildings and cars are moving towards Juye City.
There was a shield on the car to ward off the arrows. Behind the shield stood more than a dozen archers.
As long as you reach the right distance, you can shoot arrows at the head of the city from the two-zhang vertical chariot, suppress the enemy archers at the head of the city, and cover the attack of the Song soldiers on the ground.
When the chariot approached the city wall, the Song army could also climb up directly from the ladder behind the chariot, step on the wall, and attack the city.
I saw that the building car was gradually approaching the city wall.
Yuan Lang, the deputy general of Juye City, reminded: "Brother Lin Chong, the enemy's chariot is about to approach!" ”
Lin Chong shouted with a cold face: "Wait, wait for them to get closer, these building cars are a huge threat to us, and we must deal with them as soon as possible." ”
With Lin Chong's reminder, the soldiers of the catapult did not act rashly.
When he saw that the building car had advanced into the range of the catapult, Lin Chong's eyes widened angrily and he shouted loudly: "It's now, aim at the car for me and smash it for me!" ”
In order to ensure the safety of Jeju, and Shi Jin was going to attack Yanzhou, he left all the catapults in Juye City.
With Lin Chong's order, more than fifty boulders thrown by more than fifty trebuchets rained down on the walls that were a mile long.
Although the catapult was not on target, there was still a huge stone in the middle of the building car under the attack of the boulders in the sky.
With a "bump", the building car fell sideways, and more than a dozen people pushing the building car were crushed.
For a while, the car turned over, and it was extremely tragic.
Seeing the tragic situation of Song Bing under the boulder, many people were so frightened that they stopped, especially those ordinary people, and some were so frightened that they peed their pants.
For a time, Song Jun's building car slowed down the march.
Seeing the catapult of the Liangshan army, it hindered the march of the building car and the crashing car.
Tong Guan sneered, don't expect a few catapults to stop my army.
Tong Guan hurriedly shouted, "Gunner, give Benxiang a fierce suppression of the opponent's catapult!" ”
The new catapult is not a difficult machine to make, but a simple instrument that can be made in large quantities as long as you know its principle.
After Tong Guan knew that the catapults of the Liangshan Army were powerful last time, he sent people to buy a few soldiers of the Liangshan Firearms Battalion for a lot of money, and he figured out the manufacture of the new catapults in Liangshan. In this attack on Juye City, Tong Guan brought more than 100 catapults that were made by people.
With Tong Guan's drinking order, hundreds of catapults slowly moved towards Juye City under the impetus of the people.
As soon as the catapult was pushed close to the city wall, the gunners pulled down the wooden pole, which was erected and threw the boulder it was carrying towards the city.
A big stone smashed on the head of the Lin Chong wall, and the stone shattered and splashed.
Lin Chong saw Song Junzhong launch a catapult, but he didn't care at first. He thought that the range of the Song army's catapults was far inferior to that of Liangshan. The Liangshan army could completely destroy the Song army's building cart and then attack the Song army's catapult.
But now, Lin Chong was shocked to find that Song Jun's catapult could shoot so far.
Lin Chong suddenly shouted: "Don't care about those building cars, smash those catapults for me first!" ”
Hearing the order, the gunners immediately adjusted their direction and threw stones at the catapults in the Song army.
The Yangsan catapult was set up at the head of the city and occupied a favorable location. The number of catapults of officers and men was the majority, and for a time boulders flew all over the sky.
The Liangshan army and the Song army suffered many casualties under the attack of the boulder.
Under the attack of the Liangshan army on the boulder, Zhang Shuye can also ask his subordinates to hide in the Tibetan soldier cave to avoid the attack of the boulder.
But Lin Chong didn't dare to do this, because Tong Guan would not pity the soldiers, even if the catapult was very bad, his own boulder could easily hurt his own family.
But Tong Guan still ordered the soldiers to advance against the boulder.
Song Jun desperately paid attention to the boulder that suddenly fell on his head as he ran, and continued to rush forward.
Dodging the arrows shot from the city, from time to time the Song army was hit by boulders, and they were directly killed before they could even scream.
"Archers, shoot at those people for me, don't let them get near the city gates!" Lin Chong saw the Song army approaching the city wall, and roared angrily and commanded the bow and arrow to shoot wildly.
Faced with a dense burst of sharp arrows whistling down from the sky, many people were hit by stray shots and let out a miserable scream. But as long as they are not incapacitated, these wounded soldiers can only insist on continuing to rush forward.
Without the suppression of the catapults, Song Jun's building carts continued to move forward.
Approaching the city wall, the archers of the Song army on the building car also began to counterattack.
The archers of the Liangshan army had no choice but to abandon the Song army under the city and concentrate on dealing with the archers on the building car.
Seeing that Liang Shanjun's arrow rain had weakened a lot, Tong Guan shouted with all his might.
"Rush, rush for me!"
"Build a ladder and climb the city!"
"Rush the car, get on me!"
rushed to the bottom of the city, and the Song army set up a ladder.
As soon as the cloud ladder leaned against the city wall, countless Song troops held their shields high and swords in their mouths, and climbed up quickly. ()
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