Chapter 451: Lian Zhan

In the eyes of Chunnan's generals, Xue Jing left about 3,000 men on duty at night, and another 5,000 men prepared various siege equipment overnight, repaired the damaged ballistas, and strengthened the camp. In everyone's opinion, it seems that this hurried all-day offensive has come to an end, but what they didn't expect is that after Xue Jingze and the rest of the sergeants slept for more than three hours, Xue Jingze woke up, and he immediately ordered to prepare a meal quietly, woke up the sergeants, and after a short rest after eating, he actually launched another attack in the middle of the night. This caught the defenders of Da Nan Pass off guard, especially the group of Xue Jingze's personal soldiers who rushed to the city first, and almost occupied the city tower on the right. Although it was later desperately seized back by several Chunnan generals and elite soldiers, Chunnan was completely taken the lead in the night offensive, suffered setbacks again and again, and suffered extremely heavy losses. What the generals of Chunnan didn't expect was that Xiling actually had a super heavy ballista with a very long range. This kind of thing, some generals in Chunnan have seen in the Ye Workshop in Yunzhou, because the volume is too large, it is not convenient to march, and it is generally just a few gates installed at the head of the city to pull down. Even Gondor doesn't seem to have a few super-heavy ballistas installed. And Xiling obviously put a lot of effort into this time, and actually transported two super-heavy ballistas to the front of Da Nan Pass and installed them.

The overall manufacturing process of Xiling is far inferior to Dongping, even compared with Chunnan, it is also quite inferior. Although Dongping has always controlled the outflow of technology, especially high-precision tools and devices, which are absolutely forbidden to be sold, in fact, those things that are only produced by the precision instrument workshop of Ye's workshop are not sold out at all. However, after all, it is an ally, and it must not be too strict in terms of the movement of people. Under the efforts of Chunnan, some craftsmen have devoted themselves to the doors of those big families in Chunnan over the years. Everyone has their own ambitions, Ye Tao also said the same, he never asked about the means of reasonable competition and improving treatment to attract talents. Even if it is poached to the head of the Ye family's workshop, as long as it is not those secret departments, it is generally a farewell, and let them tell those officers and envoys in Chunnan in Dongping at any time if they have any problems, they are in a foreign land, but they are still Dongping people. This kind of intimacy has made the unity of Yip's workshop more and more high. Chunnan's technical system was developed under this circumstance. Each family poached people from Dongping, and then the Ministry of Works poached people from each family, and now Chunnan also has an organization that integrates the engineering and technical strength of each family, the Tsukuba Workshop. However, the Tsukuba Workshop also failed to imitate the super-heavy ballista. When a number of fire oil bombs tied to the rope net smashed together on the central tower, knocking off one of the eaves of the castle tower and causing a raging fire in the center of the city wall, the officers and soldiers of Chunnan were not to mention how depressed and shocked.

In this overnight attack, Xue Jing invested a total of nearly 30,000 troops in rotation, and by dawn, another 1,700 people were killed and 3,900 wounded on the Xiling side, but they caused almost twice as many casualties on the defending side as they did in this night battle. Considering the terrain of Da Nan Pass, this result is simply incredible.

But something even more terrible followed. Xue Jingze, relying on his superiority in strength, actually started a rotation operation, and for two whole days, although the soldiers in Xue Jingze's hands became fewer and fewer, they were always attacking in rotation. The disabled troops were replaced, mixed with other troops, and then pushed back up. More and more officers ran to Xue Jingze to plead, but Xue Jing ignored them, but everyone had no other way, because Xue Jingze was holding an imperial iron sword in his hand and had the right to make decisions on the spot. In addition, Xue Jingze did not take care of his own personal soldiers, on the contrary, the personal soldiers team of 500 people around Xue Jingze was the most brave and daring to sacrifice.

When Liang Xudao returned to Da Nan Pass, he saw a scene that he couldn't believe, in less than three days, Da Nan Pass, which had long been repaired, was actually beaten like this. The city wall facing Xiling was originally the weak side of Da Nan Pass, but after Chunnan was captured, it took a lot of effort to renovate, and now it is stronger than the defensive force on the side facing Chunnan. The large warehouse in the city wall where the materials for the defense of the city were stored alone, and the ramp leading from the warehouse to the head of the city, cost as much as 260,000 taels. The cost of the main construction of the city wall exceeded 500,000 taels, and the three towers were worth 140,000 taels. Although the entire force was not placed in the Great South Pass, but a part of the villages and towns behind the Great South Pass and the newly built camps were scattered and deployed to make the water supply and space reserves of the Great South Pass itself used in a balanced manner, in any case, the army of more than 30,000 troops to defend the Great South Pass was enough anyway. However, when Liang Xudao galloped into Da Nan Pass with the first batch of reinforcements, what he saw was that it had been burned to the point that it had turned black, and there were already a few small damaged city walls, and these few damages were still being strengthened by Xiling, and there was no chance to repair them at all. And the traces of the battle on the city wall have almost extended to the two ramps. Although the ramp is guarded by barbed iron gates, being able to attack this place already shows how difficult the situation is. For these two ramps, everyone has always had a mixture of love and hate. When they have the advantage, these two ramps can easily transport ballistas and all kinds of equipment, which greatly enhances the attack power of the city head against the city, but once there is a slight mistake, if the opponent throws even one fire oil bomb into the ramp, the huge number of various equipment stored in it can turn the entire city wall into a huge iron plate ......

"Actually...... Actually hit here. Zhang Chen, is the other party really that powerful? Liang Xudao asked with a stammer.

Zhang Chen is the commander of the entire city defense when Liang Xudao is not there these days. He smiled wryly and said, "General, that's not all. It's already been thrown into it. If it weren't for Liu Erwa, who was guarding the treasury, holding the fire oil bomb and being lit all over her body, she still rushed out of the ramp step by step and jumped off the city, I wouldn't be able to see you now, General. ”

Liang Xudao said solemnly: "This must be repaid." Such a warrior...... Such a warrior is too rare......"

Zhang Chen was almost in tears, and he forced himself to calm down: "General, how can it be Liu Erwa these days." The sons and daughters are really good, they jump off the city with the enemy in their arms, they are stabbed several times and pull the enemy's back, and they are shot like hedgehogs and slashed to the death until the blood runs out...... What the sons didn't say was good. General, I look at ...... I can't bear it! ”

Liang Xudao patted Zhang Chen's shoulder and said, "I know." Don't worry, I won't be sorry for you. Defend the Great South Pass, and the rest of the things are up to me, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will mediate for us, and I will definitely treat everyone well. ”

Zhang Chen turned his head, squeezed away his tears, and said to Liang Xudao: "General, let the reinforcements come up." With a little more rotation of manpower, it won't be so bad. Don't look quiet now. The other party didn't stop. It can't wait for a quarter of an hour for the next wave of attacks. If you continue to tighten like this, the sons and daughters will collapse at any time. ”

Liang Xudao said: "Don't worry about this, this time I will bring these 10,000 people, and immediately replace them with the city wall, and you let a soldier go to rest first, leaving at least half of the veterans who have fought in the city." After today's pass, it will be easy to do later, and the troops in the old man's hands have arrived. General Hoda also has his troops ready and ready to support him at any time. ”

Zhang Chen breathed a sigh of relief, cheered up, and said, "Yes, General." I'll arrange it. ”

However, when Zhang Chen breathed a sigh of relief, Xue Jing laughed ecstatically. What he has in his hands now is not only the three battalions of troops that were also disabled, but the first batch of reinforcements that arrived in advance, and the number of these reinforcements is as high as 110,000. Tong Bingwen will soon come to the front of Da Nan Pass. But at this moment, Xue Jingze, who was laughing wildly, didn't want to wait until Tong Bingwen came to attack, because he had actually seen the loosening of the Great South Pass. He had already seen that the handsome banner of Liang Xudao on the head of the city had been erected. The garrison of this Great South Pass has been put in place, and naturally, the first batch of reinforcements from the other side has also arrived. However, after a few days of brutal fighting in the city, the soldiers have changed quite a bit. The infusion of new forces can certainly change the weakness of the troops and the lack of overall physical fitness of the soldiers, but there will inevitably be a moment when the cooperation between the sergeants who have just entered the battle and those veterans will not be smooth. This is Xue Jingze's chance. And the soldiers who were knocked down from the city also conveyed a message, that is, the two ramps that made the defense of Da Nan Pass so strong were also huge hidden dangers. Only now, except for an occasional almost, the total number of soldiers who have reached the top of the city has never reached a point where they can threaten the two ramps.

After thinking about it carefully, Xue Jing instructed the officers who followed him: "Everyone has a bit of a strong soldier in their hands, let's get together and make a death squad." In the last attack, we barely even went up to the city, but this time we can't. The two battalions of Hengan and Henglong attacked the city tower on the left. Ruian Camp, it's been three days, why can't the broken city gate be opened? Attack the middle and try to break through the gates. Ruijia Battalion, Hengchang Battalion, you are responsible for rotating the two battalions of Hengan and Henglong. Xiezi Battalion, you are the first family soldier to invest in Da Nanguan, what is the combat power, this general doesn't know yet, but since you're here, don't let people look down on you. You will attack the tower on the right. Ruifeng Battalion, you take turns in the Xiezi Battalion. A moment later, the total attack began. Until I give the order to suspend the attack, the ministries must not stop the attack, and as for how to rotate and how to hand over, you have discussed it first. From this moment on, I won't stop until I take the Great South Pass. Even if it is delayed, I will drag down the Great Southern Pass. ”

"Yes, General!" There was a neat chord of voices from the camp.