Chapter 20: The Presence or Absence of Ghosts and Spirits (16)
[I'm sorry.] I was a little slow to write last night.,I can only owe a chapter to make up.,See if you can make it up today.。 】
Ten will surround it, and five will attack it.
The upper army is scheming, the second is the enemy, the second is the army, and the next is the siege.
Although Li Hongzhen did not know much about Sun Tzu's Art of War, he also knew that the use of troops was to attack the heart and attack the city first. How difficult it is to capture a city that is determined to hold on, Li Changjie's performance under the city of Yongzhou has been explained very well.
If you want to capture Menzhou City, you need at least three or five times as many people as man! The four or five thousand defenders in the city of Yimenzhou can withstand it for three or five days, no matter how bad it is.
Li Hongzhen thought so at first, and when he saw that the army sent by the Song people was only more than 2,000, he did not open the city and surrender at the first time. Li Hongzhen had no intention of being martyred for Li Changjie, but he wanted to sell himself for a good price. The more you can resist for a while, the higher the price you can sell.
But his fantasy came to naught after just a quarter of an hour.
Behind Song Jun's array, several fires were lit, and along with the smoke, two spherical monsters slowly flew into the sky, with what seemed to be tails hanging from below. Half a mile apart, comparing it with the people below, you can see that the two monsters are at least half the size of the house. The monster slowly rotated in the air, and on the round head, there were three ghost-like faces, one face was crying, one face was laughing, and one face was angry, three different expressions: joy, anger and sorrow.
Seeing the two monsters supporting behind Song Jun's array, Li Hongzhen's throat was hoarse, "What is that?" ”
Not only Li Hongzhen, but also every officer and soldier defending the city was psychologically shocked. In a panic, some people knelt down, some chanted Buddha, some closed their eyes and opened them again, and some drew their bows and arrows and shot at the spacecraft far beyond range.
Everyone was frantically asking in their hearts, 'Could it be that the Song people can drive ghosts and gods?' ’
But after careful observation of the two monsters, Li Hongzhen found that they were not some kind of demons and monsters. Just like the shield usually used in the army, the image of a tiger and a leopard is often drawn on the surface, and when the shield is raised, there is an impact on the face. The three monster faces on the flying foreign object must have been drawn by someone, and the whole foreign object should also be an artifact created by a master craftsman.
Li Hong really remembered vaguely that he had heard someone say that the Song State had a ship that could make people fly in the sky. Although the two monsters in front of you are not the appearance of a ship, they are indeed flying in the sky.
However, after seeing through his true face, Li Hongzhen became even more flustered, and even felt a trace of despair.
Li Hongzhen has heard a lot of stories about the sorcerers and goddesses in the mountains who can drive all kinds of demons, monsters, and Gu worms and poisons, but there are very few legends that can make people fly into the sky. What's the difference between this and exorcism? It's a flat ascension! If it weren't for the help of ghosts and gods, how could a spaceship as big as a house be inexplicably lifted into the sky?
As the vanguard of the whole army, Li Xin looked at the two flying ships flying high in the sky. From the bottom to the top, he couldn't see the whole picture of the balloons on the spaceship, and the craftsmen spent too much time on the decoration of the spaceship, which made his cousin frown, but Li Xin felt that he would paint a ghost face, which was still very morale-boosting, and he also felt majestic when he looked at it, "When I see the spaceship, the thieves in the city will be scared and broken." ”
Huang Yuan's eyes were glazed and his mouth was open, and he didn't hear what Li Xin said clearly. Although it was not the first time he had seen a spaceship take off into the sky, every time he saw the miracle of sending people into the sky, he couldn't help but feel a palpitation. Fortunately I joined the service early, thinking that the Great Song Dynasty even has the gods of Feitian, where can the Jiaozhi people resist the arrival of the heavenly soldiers?
Li Fu, who had already joined the army, was ordered to accompany him to record the specific battle situation. Hearing Li Xin say this, he shook his head regretfully: "I can't hide it for long, and it becomes common to see too much." The spaceship should be used in Thang Long Mansion, and it is a waste to only hit one Menzhou. ”
"A general may have insight, and he can be surprised. But the soldiers below are all fools and fools, and it's too late to kowtow, how many of them dare to look at it? ”
If it weren't for the fact that the troops under his command were all from the north, they would have been accustomed to seeing hot air balloons hovering in front of large restaurants in the city, and the first time they saw the spaceship in the sky, they would still be terrified in the chaos. The first time Li Xin saw the spaceship, even if he had heard the ins and outs a long time ago, he was so shocked that he couldn't keep his mouth shut.
"And the ship's use isn't scary! I won't talk too much nonsense, we must attack Menzhou City as soon as possible, and let the whole army rest in Menzhou City tonight. Li Xin looked up and looked at the spaceship floating high in the air again, "The spaceship can stay in the sky for about an hour, and there is no need for the third ship to prepare, before these two spaceships fall, give me the capture of Menzhou!" ”
The sound of the horn sounded in the gondola of the spaceship, and the sound of the song from the sky, combined with the war drums beating under Li Xin's flag, immediately caused a wave of confusion among the defenders.
The Song army began to advance steadily towards the city wall, and Li Hongzhen at the head of the city was terrified to find that before he knew it, the army at the head of the city had been reduced.
The advantage of the city wall lies in its height, which is condescending, and the field of vision and range are greatly enhanced, so that it can successfully suppress the enemy troops who come to attack the city.
But right now, in front of the two-zhang high city wall in Menzhou, there is a spaceship hovering at a height of twenty zhang, and every move in the city cannot hide from the lookout post on the spaceship, and the divine arm bow used by the Song army is sixty or seventy steps away, and it can aim at the head of the city and shoot a short arrow of wooden feathers.
The feathered arrows that flew up to the city were as dense as locusts, and the arrows reflected from the city not only did not reach the officers and soldiers under the city, but also decreased sharply. Under the strong suppression of the crossbowmen of the official army, there was a section of a hundred steps on the head of the city, lying on his stomach alive and lying on his back, and no one could still stand on the city wall.
"What should I do?" Li Hongzhen was at a loss for what to do.
The defenders who remained in the city were fighting one by one, and the bows and knives in their hands were not stable. It is simply impossible for them to fight against the Song people who can drive demons and monsters.
But he had to block this first wave of attacks from the Song army, and if he couldn't block it, he wouldn't have the qualifications to bargain at all. It is necessary to block the offensive of the Song army first, and as long as it can be delayed until the evening, it can send his cronies out of the city to offer a surrender table.
"There are only two thousand Song people! Those two are spaceships, not monsters! Li Hongzhen shouted frantically, "Do a good job of blocking the offensive of the Song army, if you can't stop it, let the Song army attack the city, do you still want to save your lives?" ”
While Li Hongzhen was trying his best to boost morale, hundreds of Song soldiers were already carrying long ladders and rushing towards the cleared section of the city wall. The short arrows that were fired at the wall began to extend towards the sides of the wall, blocking the reinforcements who rushed to fill the gap.
"It seems that the people of Cochin are not going to come out of the city." Li Xin said regretfully. In the normal defense of the city, as long as the defenders in the city have enough troops, they should be sent to fight against the city, rather than relying only on the height of the city walls.
'It's a pity. Huang Yuan, who had come back to his senses from the spaceship, thought. If the defenders of the city were killed, one of his commanded horse troops would be able to immediately dispatch and completely trample the Cochin army and bury it at the bottom of the valley deep in the mountains.
However, since the Jiaozhi army did not have the courage to go out of the city to counterattack, they could only be beaten passively. The battle plan has already been drawn up, and there is no need to think about it at all, there is an elite that far exceeds the Jiaozhi army, and it is very easy to think about how to break the city.
Suppress the defenders on the walls with the bow of the divine arm, and the eyes of the sky inform the enemy's movements, and the remaining soldiers approach the walls step by step.
Bang, bang, bang, Li Hongzhen watched as the Song army crashed dozens of heavy long ladders into the city, while the soldiers under his command lost the courage to fight one by one.
"Block! Be sure to block it for me! Li Hongzhen yelled.
"Prince, you can't stop it! Let's withdraw first. Cronies beside him persuaded him. The Song army's offensive was like a raging storm, as violent as an autumn typhoon, and it could not be resisted at all.
"Withdraw?!" Li Hongzhen's bloodshot evil eyes glared at his cronies, once he evacuated Menzhou, Li Changjie would be able to take the opportunity to cut off his head.
"Get out!" Li Hongzhen gave up his plan to kill his cronies, kicked people away, and commanded several generals and colonels who were still listening to his orders, "Quickly dive under the female wall!" ”
As long as you can stop this time, you will send someone to surrender. Li Hongzhen no longer expects to stay until night. It's just that escaping at this time will only make your army be cut down, and you must wait for the Song army's offensive to slow down a little.
But the Song army's offensive became more and more fierce.
The female wall, that is, after the pheasant, is the dead angle of the divine arm bow, as long as you rush through the section of the city wall that is being swept by the divine arm bow, to the place where the Song people go to the city, the god arm bow will definitely not dare to shoot again, to prevent accidental injury to friendly soldiers.
"Reinforcements are coming from behind the women's wall!" The whistle on the ship suddenly screamed, but his voice could not be heard below, and he hurriedly wrote a small note, put it in a copper bottle and threw it down, and then pulled out a long flag belt.
The Song army, who rushed to the city, also saw the bright colorful silk flying out of the spaceship's hanging basket. Depending on the situation, there are different banners, and the current sign is to let them shoot the head of the city with bows and arrows before the friendly army enters the city. They immediately raised their longbows in the air, and under the command of the banner drawn from the gondola of the ship, they threw long arrows at the city.
Immediately, there was a scream in response, and the cross-toed soldiers who had just passed through the line of life and death intertwined with the divine arm bow were further damaged in the arrows that fell from the sky.
Li Hongzhen stood at the head of the city in a daze, watching the Song army easily climb the city wall on the east side of the North Gate Tower, without any hindrance.
The first strong man to go up to the city, tall and thick, should weigh as much as two ordinary cross-toed soldiers, and as soon as he stepped on the top of the city, there was a heavy thud. As soon as he looked left and right, he immediately rushed towards the city tower where Li Hongzhen was.
There were more and more Song soldiers who followed the strong man to the city, and the participating defenders simply did not have the strength to resist for a moment. The leading Song army began to sweep the city, turning people into corpses, and corpses into merits that could be taken back and counted.
'I had no choice but to surrender. Where did Li Hongzhen think that Menzhou would be breached so easily, and the city wall more than two zhang high would be like paper paste.
took off his helmet and untied the long sword at his waist, Li Hongzhen's spirit was shattered along with his illusions, hanging his head and slumping his shoulders, "I can only look at luck, if you are lucky, you can also mix in front of Zhang Dian and Han Gang." ’
Coming out of the city tower, Li Hongzhen just wanted to shout, but saw the strong man pull out a hand axe from his waist and throw it vigorously with a tiger roar. The hand axe spun rapidly in the air, and after a distance of twenty paces, the sharpened blade of the axe slashed at the Heavenly Spirit cover of the fourth prince of the Cochin Kingdom, and slashed deeply.
The guards surrounding Li Hongzhen were all stunned, looking at the sharp axe embedded in their sovereign's head, their minds were blank. But the strong man didn't talk nonsense, carrying a big axe, rushed over for a burst of indiscriminate killing of cutting melons and vegetables, and the soldiers of the Song Army who followed him covered up and killed together.
Half a day later.
Han Gang and Yan Da, accompanied by Li Xin, straddled their horses into Menzhou City, looked at the blood flowing down from the drainage ditch of the city wall, shook their heads and sighed, "I didn't expect the guards to fight to the death and not retreat, this Prince Hongzhen is really a loyal minister!" ”