Chapter 321: South Eight
"The only old and weak left in the city?"
Li Yu narrowed his left eye, and his right eye looked at the telescope and looked carefully at the Sevenfold City seven or eight miles away. The Silla army on the www.biquge.info city was carrying rolling wood and stones to the castle tower, although they were panicked but not chaotic, and most of the soldiers still had a childish atmosphere on their faces, about seventeen to early twenties, and at first glance they looked like they had never been on the battlefield. A few soldiers seem quite calm, but at the age of forty or fifty, they still go into battle to kill the enemy? It's kind of hilarious.
Li Yu even saw several pulsatillas, which could still be used on the battlefield if they were placed in modern warfare more than 1,300 years later. It's a pity that now is the era of cold weapons, and every soldier under his command can fight ten without injury.
Li Yu put down the binoculars and couldn't help shaking, I really don't know if Xiao Shou Rudong is a diehard or really thinks that this group of old, weak, sick and disabled people can defend the city.
The Tang army shot the arrow on the castle tower, and the Silla sergeant took it down and handed the letter of surrender on the shaft of the arrow to Xiao Shou Rudong.
Xiao Shou Rudong glanced at it, then tore the letter in his hand to pieces and threw it off the castle tower.
The generals of the Tang army under the city saw that this was enough, but they didn't take the letter of our king in their eyes, and ran to ask for war.
After breaking the city, the soldiers and civilians in the city were slaughtered to establish their authority and deter the rest of the cities in Silla.
Li Yu thought about it and agreed to Liang Chengye's request, the slaughter of the city was accompanied by robbery, and the soldiers under his command worked hard for hundreds of miles, and they had to give them some rewards to motivate them to fight bravely.
Of course, if this is put on the same clan, Li Yu will never allow it, not to mention that it will leave a stain on himself, and if he opens this opening, it will have an extremely bad impact on the army's future style. But if it is a foreigner, no matter how upright the historian is, he will not bother to make an extra note, let alone scold the initiator of the slaughter, at most one will be recorded in the history books, "Dongyi is not convinced by Wang Hua, and Yan Wang is peaceful!" ”
"Xiao Shou Rudong is willing to serve his king to the death, then go to war, this king's time is precious, and he is still waiting to return to Chang'an for the New Year at the end of the year!"
Li Yu ordered to the left and right: "The stone thrower will bombard the Seven Cities for an hour, and Yu Chengzhi and Liang Chengye will lead the army to attack the city......"
"Boom ......"
Under the seven-fold city, the stone throwing machines of the Tang army lined up in three columns in turn began with Li Yu's order, and kept throwing stone projectiles at the city tower to bombard. The seven-story castle, which was built only of earth and stone, was crumbling under the bombardment of stone bullets, and many virgin walls were bombarded without a comprehensive shadow, and the city walls were smashed out of large pits.
The Silla defenders in the city were bombarded by the crying father and mother scurrying around, and a stone bullet smashed in, directly smashing a bloody mud pit on the city.
More stone projectiles flew over the city walls and blasted into the city's residential areas, and the people hiding in their homes were caught off guard by the sudden stone projectiles, and many died tragically in their homes before they could understand what had fallen.
Li Yu kept holding a telescope to watch the results of the Seven Cities under the bombardment of his own trebuchets. Although the bombardment of more than half an hour smashed the walls of the Sevenfold Castle into many dented craters, the earth and stones fell, and the women's wall used to hide the defenders in the city was swept away. However, the city wall of more than 40 feet shows no signs of collapse, which is not conducive to our army's siege.
Since the annihilation of Jin Yuanshu's army, he has marched all the way south, and has not encountered any resistance along the way, Li Yu has not prepared to attack the tower at all, and the only thing that can be used in the army at the moment is the cloud ladder. However, the cloud ladder thing is used to attack the city, purely to deliver food to the enemy, and Li Yu doesn't do it.
"The order is to go down, and all the stone throwers will concentrate on the left part of the tower, and blast a thirty-foot wide gap for me."
Since he didn't want the soldiers to be killed or wounded in the siege, Li Yu decided to concentrate on the stone thrower to bombard a section of the city wall, and then attack through the gap.
Thirty stone throwers bombarded a section of the city wall continuously, and one after another the whistling stone bullets continued to bombard one place, knocking down, and suddenly the sand and stones flew here, and the sound was terrifying. The dust raised covered this section of the city wall with a veil.
At this moment, even if he has experienced a hundred battles, calmly and calmly commanded, and is familiar and friendly to the Seven Cities as if he were his own child, Xiao Shou Rudong couldn't help but panic.
If this was placed when Jin Yuanshu did not transfer the five thousand elite soldiers in the city, Xiao Shou Rudong was not afraid of the collapse of the city wall, but now there are only three thousand old and weak in the city, how can he resist when the city wall is blasted out of the gap by the Tang army?
In addition to leaving more than 700 soldiers and 1,000 young men and women in the city to continue to stay on the city wall, he personally led the remaining 2,000 men and horses and 2,000 young men and women in the city to gather behind the section of the city wall that was bombarded by the Tang army's stone thrower. Once the walls collapse, they will rush up with flesh and blood to stop the Tang army.
With a bang, under the gaze of Li Yu and a group of generals, the city wall finally collapsed, and a thick cloud of dust burst out.
"Kill ......"
Yu Chengzhi and Liang Chengye, who had been waiting for a long time, drew their swords and waved their troops to charge, and the six thousand soldiers of the Qilin Wei and Dingbarian Army with high morale roared and shouted to kill, and rushed into the collapse of the dusty city wall with a banging pace.
With a bang, Xiao Shou Rudong pulled out the matching knife at his waist, and led four thousand soldiers and civilians in uneven clothes and armor to rush in with a roar, colliding with the Tang army that rushed up from the collapse.
The two armies immediately swung swords and spears at each other, and no less than hundreds of people fell in front of each other.
The Tang army, relying on the elite soldiers and strong generals, directly pressed the other party down the collapsed city wall in the rush with the Silla army, and killed the inside of the city wall.
Xiao Shou Rudong hoped to lead the people to risk their lives to block the Tang army outside the collapsed gap, and although he had five Tang soldiers, he couldn't stop the soldiers who kept retreating.
Facing more than half of the iron armor, the rest of the leather armor, well-equipped and well-trained Tang Army. Most of them were old and weak, and the Silla army, which was not well dressed and armored, and had unfavorable weapons, was oppressed by the Tang army step by step towards the city.
Every time Tang Jun pushed forward, behind him was a bloody corpse.
Yu Chengzhi and Liang Chengye were like crazy tigers, waving the obstacle knife in their hands and rushing to the front of the whole army.
When Yu Chengzhi was slashing people, he didn't even look at whether the enemy who died under his command was a general, and he killed the little Shou Rudong who retreated while fighting without knowing it.
The Qilin Wei and Dingman's armies all poured into the city, Xiao Shou Rudong was killed in battle, and the already weak Silla army was even more leaderless, and in the face of the rapidly advancing Tang army, they couldn't resist and were defeated.
More than 1,000 remnants of the army opened the south gate and tried to flee south, but as soon as they left the city gate for a mile, they had already been ambushed here by Xue Ne and led the Yanyun Iron Cavalry Left Guard Army to kill, and wiped out the remnants of Silla here with a cut of melons and vegetables.
The battle of the Seven Castles lasted for an hour, with Yu Chengzhi and Liang Chengye beheading more than 4,000 people in the city, and more than 1,000 people in the south of Xue Ne City. Unfortunately, the grain and grass stored in the city were burned by the Silla army.