Chapter 15 The Tough Changshuiqiao Town
"Whew~"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
γ Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.infoγγγγγ
In the midst of violent whistling and crashing sounds, huge boulders were thrown by trebuchets towards the town across the lakeshore, and from time to time stones fell into the lake, setting off huge splashes.
On the slope of the north shore of Changshui Lake, a small city covering several square kilometers stands on the slope. The building of the whole town is built along the hillside, in a semi-arc shape, divided into several layers, the lower layer is the lowest, the city wall is the longest, the height is only about 2 meters, it rises step by step, the top layer of the city wall is the shortest, nearly 5 meters high, and the garrison village that covers an area of tens of thousands of square meters is surrounded in the center.
These walls are all made of sand and stone, which is stronger than the wooden walls of Tuping Town.
Just when the catapult stormed Changshuiqiao Town, on both sides of the catapult's dense attack direction hundreds of meters away, two teams of 600 elites under the command of Guo Yijun and Huben Battalion were lurking not far away under the personal leadership of Long Wei and Long Meng.
Behind them, on the surface of Changshui Lake, hundreds of ferries were carrying thousands of soldiers from the two battalions on standby, ready to support Long Wei and Long Meng at any time.
The narrow and steep shore of the lake was not conducive to the development of a large army, and it could only support the scale of nearly 600 men to launch an attack.
On the south shore of the opposite side of the lake, at the south end of the broken Changshui Bridge, Sima Yu stood on the broken head of the bridge surrounded by Wang Yanzhang, Wang Yantong and other generals, looking at the city wall of Changshui Town on the opposite bank, and huge bluestones continued to fly through the air above their left.
After taking Tuping Town in one fell swoop, the Yangwu Army under Sima Yu was like a bamboo, quickly capturing the four towns of Tuping, Caijia, Guanmen, and Shuangzao in the south of Chenshi County.
The four battalions marched north, and finally converged in front of Changshuiqiao Town.
When the army arrived at Changshuiqiao Town, the defenders in the town had already prepared, sent people to smash the Changshui Bridge to the other side of the lake, and sent troops to stand by to block the attack of Yangwu's army.
Because the whole Changshui Lake is a large lake that is tens of miles long, from the northwest of Chenshi County downward, straight to the southeast of Xinyuan Town, almost side by side with the Erlang Mountains, through the entire central part of Chenshi County, the two are like a natural barrier, the entire Chenshi County is divided into two, such a unique topography is also unique to the enlarged Sichuan-Chongqing region.
In addition to the bridgehead of Changshuiqiao Town, which communicates both sides of the river, there are only two canyons on the east and west sides, Heshun and Batong, which are convenient for the army to walk. Most of the other areas are difficult and inhabited, and it is very difficult for the army to get through them, and it is easy to get lost in the mountains and forests.
However, if Sima Yujun wants to pass through the two canyons of Heshun and Batong, he needs to take a detour hundreds of kilometers away, and set up relevant passes, the terrain is dangerous, and it is easy for the Ainengqi army to ambush.
At the beginning, after Ainengqi took Chenshi County, he valued the superior location of Changshuiqiao Town, and gathered manpower to build the bridgehead fortress of Changshuiqiao Town, and sent 5,000 men and horses to garrison it.
It is precisely because of such a key defensive point that Ainengqi has the confidence to block the front of the Yangwu army head-on.
Due to the width of the entire Changshui Lake, it was not easy for the catapults arranged on the shore to attack the town of Changshuiqiao on the opposite side of the mountainside, and only 1-2 of the 10 attacks could hit the city wall.
After lasting nearly half an hour, throwing hundreds of boulders, and smashing out the gap in the three-story city wall outside Changshuiqiao Town, the siege team had to stop the bombardment.
After this attack, the siege team had to spend a lot of time hoarding boulders again.
"Kill!"
After the catapult stopped attacking, the two brothers Long Wei and Long Meng, who had been lurking on both sides, took the lead and led their soldiers from both sides to start attacking Changshuiqiao Town halfway up the mountain.
"Kill!"
Just as Long Wei and Long Meng led the army to attack, the soldiers on the ferries on the lake in the rear also began to quickly land on the shore of the lake and launched an attack immediately after.
"Shoot the arrows!"
Looking at the Yangwu Army soldiers approaching below, the general of the defending army stationed on the outermost wall of Changshuiqiao Town sneered and gave an order.
"Woo Woo Woo ~ "
The arrows that fell high and fell fiercely and attacked Long Wei, Long Meng and others who were advancing.
"Bell Bell Bell ~"
In the face of the rain of arrows, Long Wei and Long Meng did not pause, raised the round shield in their hands, resisted the flying arrows, and continued to move forward.
The 600 soldiers in the rear also raised the round shields in their hands, skillfully fending off the flying arrows, and followed closely behind them.
"Ah~"
The dense rain of arrows did not cause many casualties, except for a few soldiers who were accidentally hit by arrows and tumbled down the hillside into the lake.
"Quick, help!"
Seeing this, the other people on the boat on the lake below hurriedly stepped forward to rescue them.
"Put, Rolling Stone!"
As the distance approached, the defending general, seeing that the arrows did not work, gave the order instead.
"Knock knock~"
Huge rolling stones were quickly lifted out, placed on the slope, and rolled downward.
Many of these boulders were just thrown by catapults.
"Bang Bang Bang~"
The huge boulder rolled faster and faster, hitting the soldiers who couldn't avoid it, and the huge force of the impact not only knocked them down the slope, but also seriously injured them.
"Bang~"
The rolling stones tumble all the way down into the lake, making a huge splash.
"Damn!"
A round of rolling stones down, the hundreds of Yangwu soldiers who attacked directly lost hundreds of people, Long Wei and Long Meng were furious when they saw this, their feet moved faster, and they directly strode towards the city wall of Changshuiqiao Town.
"Drink!"
Constantly dodging the flying arrows and rolling stones, the two brothers Long Wei and Long Meng killed directly to the outer broken wall like tigers, jumped under their feet, and climbed the city wall of no more than 2 meters with a leap of hand.
"Kill!"
After attacking the city wall, the big knife in his hand was unfolded, and the continuous knife momentum continued to slash at the soldiers on the city wall.
"Ah~"
"Ah~"
The brave performance of the two directly stunned the surrounding city defenders, and they were knocked to the ground before they could react.
The two brothers formed a team, each in charge of one direction, and began to charge the city wall continuously, directly attacking the defending general under his command just now.
The two masters of the God Refining Realm made a move, and quickly set off a wave of blood rain on the outermost city wall of Changshuiqiao Town, clearing a 2-meter-wide open space on the city wall.
"Kill!"
And at the same time that Long Wei and Long Meng attracted the attention of a large number of defender soldiers, many soldiers of the two battalions behind them also killed under the city wall.
"Drink!"
The soldiers who were the first to kill under the city walls quickly crouched down under the city walls, hunched over, and raised their round shields.
The other soldiers killed in the rear stepped directly on their backs, jumped up, jumped directly to the height of the edge of the city wall, grabbed the battlements with one hand, and began to climb, climbing the city wall from the area where the two brothers Long Wei and Long Meng killed.
After ascending the city wall, these soldiers quickly began to lie on the wall, constantly pulling the soldiers behind them up the city wall quickly.
Soon, dozens of soldiers of the Yangwu Army climbed the city wall and began to kill from the city gate located in the middle of the city wall, at the end of the broken bridge, under the leadership of the two brothers.
Outside the city gate, there is an open space covering an area of several thousand square meters, where the hillside is high and the open space is level with the original Changshui Bridge.
Originally, this was the most suitable place for the army to attack, but due to the destruction of the Changshui Bridge, the army could no longer reach this place smoothly.
The two brothers, Long Wei and Long Meng, wanted to lead this assault team to take the city wall in one fell swoop, so as to facilitate the reinforcement and attack of the follow-up army.
"Kill!"
At the same time that Long Wei and the others attacked from the city wall, the soldiers of the Yangwu Army who continued to come to help also passed through the smashed broken wall area at the same time, and were about to enter the city.
"Shoot the arrows!"
Just before these Yangwu soldiers who entered the city had time to attack, countless soldiers suddenly appeared on the second layer of the city wall a hundred meters away from the outer city wall, and they shot at them with bows and arrows.
"Ah~"
"Ah~"
γγγγγγ
Due to the terrain of the second layer is higher than the first layer of the outer city wall, these arrows are faster and more powerful under the acceleration, and under the sudden attack, they instantly caused a lot of damage to the soldiers of the Yangwu Army, and dozens of soldiers were directly buried under the rain of arrows.
"Withdraw!"
As the soldiers emerging from the second layer of the city wall began to continuously fire arrows to attack the soldiers of the Yangwu Army, the leading general of Changshuiqiao Town, who was originally responsible for garrisoning the first layer, gave an order.
The other Changshuiqiao Town soldiers who had been ordered quickly followed him and withdrew in the direction of the second-story city wall.
"Woo Woo Woo ~ "
"Ah~"
"Ah~"
γγγγγγ
As soon as the soldiers of the Yangwu Army under the leadership of Long Wei and Long Meng were about to pursue, a rain of arrows flew on the city wall in front of them, and many people died directly under the rain of arrows.
Under such a dense rain of arrows, even the two brothers who were as brave as Long Wei and Long Meng had to start to hide at the city wall.
Listening to the screams that kept coming from his ears, the hearts of the two brothers Long Wei and Long Meng under the battlements were like blood.
These are the elites of the Guoyi Army and the Tiger Ben Battalion under the command of the two of them, but they didn't expect the losses of this Changshuiqiao Town to be so heavy.
The defensive ability of Changshuiqiao Town was simply beyond the expectations of the two, and this was only to capture the first layer of the outer city wall, if you want to capture all the 6 layers of the city wall of Changshuiqiao Town, I am afraid you will have to pay a heavy price.
"Mingjin retreats!"
Looking at Long Wei and Long Meng and the others who were suppressed at the first layer of the city wall on the other side, Sima Yu's face sank like water, and he ordered.
"Bell Bell Bell ~"
"Withdraw!"
Hearing the sound of gold from the other side, Long Wei and Long Meng, who were unwilling, had no choice but to order with an ugly face.
The soldiers of the Yangwu Army, who had just captured the first layer of the city wall, began to evacuate Changshuiqiao Town in an orderly manner under the cover of sword and shield soldiers, and returned to the opposite bank under the help of the ferry below.
With the departure of the Yangwu army, the soldiers stationed in Changshuiqiao Town once again occupied the first layer of the city wall.
"The subordinates are not attacking the city effectively! Please, the Lord punish sin! β
After returning to the shore, the two brothers, Long Wei and Long Meng, came to Sima Yu, knelt on one knee with a look of shame, and pleaded guilty.
"What are the two of you, we underestimated the defense of Changshuiqiao Town before, and the strong attack will only cause huge casualties, and this matter needs to be considered in the long run, return to the camp!"
Hearing this, Sima Yu helped the two of them up, and looked at Changshuiqiao Town on the other side with a heavy face.
"Yes!"
The generals also looked solemn, and when they heard the words, they all received orders, and they also had no good way to capture the difficult Changshuiqiao Town in front of them.
"Back to camp!"