After nearly a month of preparation, they made relatively adequate preparations, and no longer came to attack the city with simple siege ladders like last time, and they would never expose themselves to the artillery and birds of the Jin army on a large scale.

Sun Kewang still trusted Zhang Sheng and handed over the defense of Beicheng to him to command.

The city of Guazhou is small, there is only one city gate in the north, the three deep moats outside the city wall have all been filled in, and the antlers and horses have also been removed.

The equipment built by the Mongols can be regarded as relatively sophisticated, retaining some characteristics of the Yuan.

As soon as the battle began, the defenders found that the Mongols' attack this time was more disciplined than the first time, not rushing to the city head with ladders, but like a wave, wave after wave.

More than a dozen siege towers and dozens of siege ladders were pushed forward, while the Mongol soldiers hid behind the siege towers or in cave houses, advancing forward.

At the head of the city, the bows and arrows and muskets of the Jin army did not fire, because the Mongols were very well equipped, like the cave house, shaped like a house, with a sharp top and a wide bottom, and the inside was a solid wooden frame, and the outside was covered with thick felt and cowhide.

When the Ming army attacked Luzhou, it used this kind of equipment, it was very difficult, the bow and arrow were difficult to hurt, the robe stone hit on it, it would also be covered by the tough cowhide, the cave house would not collapse, and the shape of the upper tip and the lower width also ensured that there would not be a robe stone piled up on the top to cause a heavy burden, affecting the forward movement.

Except for the cave house, because the tall siege tower is blocked, the soldiers walking behind the tower will not be attacked.

The bows and arrows in the city did not fire, but the cannons and the treksmans behind the walls began to attack.

Behind the city wall, more than a dozen black dots rose violently, and the earth-shattering thunder was thrown high into the sky, and then arcs were drawn and fell rapidly.

With a "boom", an earth-shattering thunder exploded above the heads of the Mongols.

As soon as the explosion was swiped, the Mongolian soldiers under the explosion raised their shields in unison, and the rain of rubble falling from the sky and the iron nails fell on the shields, making a loud noise.

Not all sky-shattering thunderbolts exploded in the air, and most of them exploded the moment they fell to the ground.

A sky-shaking thunder landed right behind a shield cart, and seven or eight soldiers were immediately blown away by the explosion, and when they landed on the ground, their bodies were covered with blood holes, and their bodies were pierced by the flying rubble and the iron nails in the sky-shaking thunder.

Before, the Mongols had seen the power of the earth-shattering thunder, and when they met it again, they had some preparations in their hearts, and they also knew that although the sound of this thing was loud, the power was actually not great, and this time they were fully equipped, so the fear in the hearts of the Mongolian soldiers was greatly reduced.

An earth-shattering thunderbolt landed next to a cave house, causing the cave house to shake several times, and the Mongolian soldiers hiding inside were shocked to the point that their mouths and noses were bleeding, but the cave house was not blown open.

The Ming Dynasty lacked cowhides, but the Mongols were more likely to build cave houses, draped with a blanket and two layers of cowhide, and their defense was stronger than the cave houses built by the Ming army.

Behind the city wall, wave after wave of earth-shattering thunder was thrown out and smashed into the advancing Mongolian formation, the military formation was splashed with mud from time to time, corpses flew around, and the explosion in the sky made the Mongolian soldiers' necks shrink, but it did not stop the Mongolian army from continuing to advance.

The Jin soldiers at the head of the city saw the siege tower almost as high as the head of the city, getting closer and closer to the city wall, and many soldiers immediately took a deep breath.

Everyone knew that once the siege towers were on the top of the city, the Mongols would be able to flock to it.

The well-behaved Mongol soldiers hid behind the siege tower, easily did not miss their heads, and prepared to attack the city as soon as the siege tower was on the city.

"Artillery, attack the siege tower!"

Zhang Sheng waved his sword and roared.

Ordinary equipment cannot seriously injure the siege tower, and the front of this behemoth is also covered with a layer of cowhide to prevent the city from being burned by rockets.

"Boom!" With a bang, a cannon shot out of the city, raising a cloud of white smoke, and a cannonball whistled out of the white smoke and shot at a siege tower near the city wall in front.

"Whew!" A gust of wind blew, and the cannonball did not hit the siege tower, but missed it, and the shell whistled past the side of the siege tower, directly hitting the ground behind, and the earth splashed suddenly.

"Damn, it's wrong!"

"Come again!"

The artillery in the city bombarded, and the iron bullets fired by the cannons were much more powerful than the stone bullets thrown by the artillery.

The stone bullets that rose from behind the city walls hit the siege tower, but they were caught by the cowhide, and the stone bullets rolled down, but the power of the artillery was huge, but it could shatter everything.

A siege tower close to the city wall suffered from the concentrated fire of several artillery, a cannonball directly tore through the cowhide, pierced the siege tower from the front, the iron bullet shattered everything, the internal wooden blocks and stairs were broken, and the power of the cannonball did not decrease, and it pierced out from behind, smashed into the Mongolian army formation behind, and immediately crushed a blood line.

At the same time as this shell rushed out, several shells, from different angles at once, hit the waist of this siege tower.

Sawdust splashed, the waist of the tower body was beaten to pieces, and the tower head above shook a few times and suddenly broke off, falling to the ground.

The Mongolian soldiers pushing the siege tower below suddenly felt that the top of their heads was dark, the tower body more than three zhang high was broken, and a black shadow smashed immediately, and the Mongolian soldiers below immediately panicked and scattered.

On the city wall, the Jin army saw the behemoth collapse, and immediately let out a short cheer.

As soon as the siege tower was broken, the Mongolian soldiers behind it were exposed, and the captain of the city waved his sword, and the head of the city suddenly rang out.

Many of the Mongol soldiers did not react, and their bodies were shaken and fell to the ground.

A centurion was punched with a bloody hole in his body, and blood kept pouring out, but he continued to rush forward with a scimitar, but in the blink of an eye, the bow and arrows at the head of the city came, and a rain of arrows struck, and immediately shot him into a hedgehog.

"That one!"

The generals at the head of the city kept shouting, and ordered the artillery to bombard the siege tower of the approaching city wall, and the tower was immediately smashed into pieces of wood and splashed.

A team of soldiers picked up a long pole together, resisted the siege tower that was about to approach the city wall, and the soldiers threw out fire pots one by one, and the city of Guazhou was immediately filled with fire.

The siege tower is the most important siege equipment, but with the development of firearms, it will inevitably withdraw from the stage of history.

Chechen stood two miles away on horseback, watching the siege towers being beaten to pieces and paralyzed on the road, with a cold face.

Several tribal leaders around him couldn't help but have a hint of urgency on their faces, but Chechen gritted his teeth and waved his hand: "Go again!" ”

The siege tower was destroyed, it was not terrible, the Mongols also had ladders and ladders to climb the city, the siege towers attracted the firepower of the Jin army, and other equipment could smoothly approach the city walls.

On the north city of Guazhou, the sound of shouting and killing shook the sky, and on the city wall that lasted for several miles, the two armies began to fight to the death.

(End of chapter)