Chapter 448: Shocking

The various mandarin duck formation squads on Qishan Island chased Wu Yueguo's rout, chasing and killing unhurriedly. When they encountered a rebellious soldier, everyone swarmed up and killed him together.

Some frightened Wu Yueguo soldiers who couldn't run all knelt on the battlefield and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.

The soldiers of Qishan Island gathered them together and sent people to transport them to the landing site.

An Dalang took Du Dalei and Li Jilong, controlled the rhythm of the pursuit, and drove the defeated troops in the direction of Nantumen.

"It would be nice if there were war horses, if there were hundreds of cavalry, none of these guys from Wu Yue Kingdom would be able to escape." An Dalang kept complaining.

"Da Lang, don't complain, this is Jiangnan, where are we going to find you a large number of war horses? You better think about how we can take down the city of Hangzhou. Lao Tzu still wants to go into the city as soon as possible to drink some wine. Du Dalei persuaded.

"It's really unpleasant, without cavalry, you can't quickly chase down the defeated soldiers, you can't expand the results of the battle, and you have let the generals of the army run away, boring, boring......"

An Dalang was still chattering and complaining, and Du Dalei jumped on a big stone and looked at the city gate of Nantumen. He found that Shen Chengli's Daxu had already entered the city, and Wu Yueguo's soldiers were scrambling to squeeze into the city gate, and the scene was chaotic.

"Dalang, should we speed things up? These remnants of Wu Yueguo's defeated generals rushed into the city. What if we chase after the past and take the city gate? ”

An Dalang also jumped on the big stone, and after looking at it for a while, he shook his head and said:

"No, we have too few men in pursuit, and we don't have enough heavy weapons and armor. If you rashly attack the city, it will definitely fail, I don't think Shen Chengli is a straw bag, we can't afford such a loss. ”

Du Da Lei Le: "I'm just going to say it, command on the spot, or you, an experienced guy, have the final say." In this case, you lead people to approach the city gate, and I will go back and discuss with the boss to see what to do. ”

An Dalang agreed, and Du Dalei left Li Jilong to assist him, and hurriedly returned to the landing site.

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An hour and a half passed, and Zhao Zizhong and Boris approached Nantumen with all the soldiers and more than 500 sailors. They also brought eight ballistae, a dozen bed crossbows. There were also some siege engines disassembled into parts.

When they arrived six hundred meters away from the city gate, Zhao Zizhong ordered to stop, and the guards immediately began to assemble these siege weapons.

An Dalang brought Li Jilong over to meet, "Brother, where is Lao Du?" ”

"I told him to guard our back road, so I didn't let him come."

"Will he be willing?" An Dalang was a little curious.

"Of course I'm not happy, he likes to join in the fun the most, but I kicked him a few times and said that I would deduct his salary, so he was honest."

An Dalang said happily: "Boss, you are still amazing, this guy chirps crookedly all day long, but it's annoying, you should clean him up like this, I raise my hands in favor." ”

Li Jilong next to him pursed his lips, slandering in his heart, An Dalang seems to be loyal, and he is also a two-faced guy, not a sincere person, it seems that Lao Tzu should be wary of him! Can't be deceived by his rough appearance. Although my brother is flamboyant, he is really good to me.

Zhao Zi nodded emphatically: "Da Lang, don't talk about this, tell me, how do you want to capture Hangzhou City?" ”

An Dalang immediately looked grim, and said with a serious face:

"Brother, now Shen Chengli has entered the city with all the defeated soldiers. They all gathered on the city wall, and prepared a large number of equipment to defend the city, as well as ash bottles, gold juice and other materials, so we can't rush to attack, otherwise we will suffer huge losses. After all, we're just that small.

Moreover, there are more than 10,000 defenders in Hangzhou City, and we can't kill so many people even if we are tired to death. ”

"So how do you say to attack? After all, we've all come this far, we can't just coax it, right? ”

An Dalang smiled: "Boss, have you forgotten that we still have that big killer?" We can do this and that......"

The plan has been decided, and everyone is starting to get busy.

After more than half an hour, it was almost noon, and in the sound of a long horn, the military formation of Qishan Island began to advance slowly towards the city gate.

At the front were shield-bearers with iron-clad shields, followed by rows of pikemen and sword-and-shield bearers. Heavy infantry, crossbowmen and bombardiers followed, followed by sailors pushing bed crossbows, ballistas and siege engines.

When the shield-bearers in the front row approached a hundred meters from the city wall, the military formation stopped.

Officers at all levels kept shouting, and bed crossbows and ballistas were quickly ready for fire.

At this time, there was a sound of war drums from above the city wall.

"Wow, Wow......"

A rain of arrows rained down on the army, and the shield-bearers and sword-bearers hurriedly raised their shields to cover the overwhelming rain of arrows.

"Tuk, tuk, tuk......"

A rain of arrows slammed into the shield, and some of the arrows that came through the gaps in the shield hit many of the guards. Some people insisted without saying a word, and some people screamed and covered their wounds.

The medics, holding their shields, rushed up in the rain of arrows, dragged the seriously wounded soldiers back and immediately began to treat them.

Boris shouted: "Bed crossbow and ballista fire!" ”

The thick bolts flew out first, heading straight for the walls.

With a loud bang, the bolts plunged deep into the rammed earth walls.

Then a wave of bombs~ bombs arced and flew towards the city.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Several explosive~ bombs exploded in the air above the city, bringing down a large number of Wu Yueguo soldiers. The walls were filled with smoke, and there were constant wails and screams.

After a while, the ballistas were fired again, and a wave* arrived, some hitting the city walls, and some smashing on the top of the city, causing a skyrocketing fire.

Zhao Zi waved his hand: "Attack!" ”

The shield array dodged, revealing several passages, and the heavy infantry with shields rushed out, advancing resolutely towards the city gate.

It was followed by three strangely shaped chariots, which were rectangular in shape, wrapped in black iron plates, and covered with thick wet mud on the roof. Underneath the cart were four wooden wheels, and behind it were three hoplites, pushing the cart forward with great difficulty.

The three chariots were in a zigzag shape and slowly advanced towards the city gate.

Suddenly the sound of golden drums on the city wall was loud, and Wu Yueguo's crossbowmen desperately shot arrows at these heavy infantry.

The hoplites guarding the chariots flanked their chariots with iron-clad shields to shield their fellow cart riders.

Although some arrows hit the plate armor of the heavy infantry, they did not have any effect, and the arrows were bounced off one after another, and fell to the ground weakly.

Boris shouted loudly and ordered the bed crossbows and ballistas to speed up their firing in order to suppress the Wu Yue crossbowmen at the head of the city.

The sound of explosions came and went, and the * continued to explode around the city head and the city wall, stirring up smoke and dust, which had a similar effect, making the frequency of Wu Yueguo's crossbowmen fire more and more slowly, and the arrows that shot down the city head became less and less.

The hoplites advanced slowly, and as the chariot approached the gates, a dozen clay pots with flames were thrown down from the city, and these clay pots smashed on the chariots, and the plates of the hoplites shattered one after another, causing a raging flame.

The clay pot that smashed on the chariot was fine, and since the roof of the chariot was covered with thick wet mud, it did not cause a fire.

When the clay pot that can hit five hoplites shatters, the grease splatters and burns on the hoplites' plates.

The five heavy infantry desperately struggled to run back, and Zhao Zizhong hurriedly shouted:

"Send someone over and put out the fire with a damp cloth and wet bedding! Fast! Fast! ”

Everyone immediately went to find cloth and bedding, and then poured a lot of water on them.

Li Jilong snatched a wet quilt and immediately rushed out.

The others also followed Li Jilong and rushed to the city gate.

"Little Lizi, be careful." An Dalang was so anxious that he shouted in the back.

Li Jilong, wearing plate armor, ran over with difficulty, put the quilt on the body of a hoplite, and then dragged him back.

The others followed suit, dragging back several of the heavy infantry who were on fire.

The hoplites were pressed to the ground, covered them with wet bedding and sand, and quickly extinguished the flames.

At this time, one chariot had already rushed into the city gate hole, and the other heavy infantry gave up the remaining two chariots and rushed into the city gate hole.

Boris ordered bed crossbows and ballistas to fire desperately to suppress the Wu Yue soldiers at the head of the city.

The hoplites who stormed the gate opened the back of the chariot and pulled out packages wrapped in wet mud from it.

They piled all these parcels at the base of the city gate, about twenty of them, and then took out their carts with shovels to dig the earth, covered the parcels with dirt, and pressed large stones on top of the earth.

After the hoplites had pressed the package tightly, they pierced it with an iron brazing. After pulling out the iron drill, he stuffed a long bamboo pipe into it, and then stuffed a long lead into the bamboo pipe.

Then they lit the fuse, and a dozen people ran back desperately.

After the heavy infantry ran back, the shield array was closed, and everyone quieted down, waiting for the big event to happen.

About a dozen seconds passed, "Boom! ”

An earth-shattering bang came, and the gate tower of Nantumen slammed upward, and then collapsed.

"Hulong!" The collapsed gate tower stirred up smoke and dust that enveloped the gate and the surrounding walls.

"Crackling!"

Gravel and dirt rained down, smashing the guards of the island.

Li Jilong, who was treating the wounded, was dumbfounded, what kind of big killer is this loud noise? How did this gatehouse collapse? Could it be the good deeds of the hoplites?

An Dalang stood up straight, raised his horse lance and shouted: "Attack with me!" Then he should go first to the gates.

The guards of Qishan Island all got up one after another, lined up the mandarin duck formation, and after the heavy infantry set off, the mandarin duck formation also set off with the heavy armored infantry with full plate armor.