Chapter 381: The Battle of Jinling (Part II)

Wu Hao is an ordinary ranger born in Wu Land, and is known as a prestige in the countryside. However, he was never satisfied with just becoming a ranger, he wanted to become a nobleman and glorify his family.

However, whether it was when the Yue State ruled the Wu Land, or the Chu State ruled the Wu Land, he had no chance to come out. In the Yue Kingdom, only the royal family or the royal family can become nobles; In the Chu State, in addition to the Zhao, Jing, and Qu tribes, it is impossible for people with foreign surnames to have any development in the Chu State.

Wu Hao originally thought that this life would pass like this, and he would be able to become a soil overlord in the countryside. However, when the influence of the Song State expanded to Wu now, Wu Hao felt that the opportunity had come.

Wu Di Haojie, his perception of the Song State and the Song State was obtained through the Song State army. The Song State Invasion of Chu, such a major matter, but the person who commanded the army was not a Song nobleman at all, but also an ordinary ranger. And what surprised Wu Hao the most was that Wu Yi, a pure Wu person, was able to become the commander of the sailor in charge of the navy in the Song army.

What is really convincing is never what you say, but what you do. The Song State did not discriminate against the Wu people in the employment of personnel, which made the ambitious people in the Wu people begin to be truly willing to serve the Song State.

So the Battle of Jinling, this war that has nothing to do with the Wu people, Wu Hao and many Wu people came, and they all wanted to establish a meritorious career in this war and become an admirable existence!

Wu Hao, along with many Wu rangers, followed behind the Song army's ladder along with the vanguard of the Song State. They were all wearing the standard equipment provided by the Song army, whether it was armor, shields and weapons in their hands, the Song army was no different from the Wu army. With the good defense of armor and shields, Wu Hao and the others arrived at the foot of Jinling City with almost no damage.

When looking at Jinling City from a distance, this city didn't look very majestic, but once he reached the city, Wu Hao really felt that there were two worlds inside and outside the city, and the city wall was the dividing line between these two worlds!

However, such a tall and mighty, seemingly impregnable defense line is now covered with scars. Wu Hao could clearly see that the city wall made of stones was full of countless cracks.

Once there is a crack in the wall, it means that it is broken. Wu Hao clearly saw that when the siege vanguard troops arrived at the city with the ladder, under the command of the commander behind him, there were immediately groups of soldiers who began to rush directly to the city wall!

These soldiers were somewhat different from ordinary armoured soldiers in that they had no armor on them, and they did not carry weapons like most soldiers did with swords or knives. They wore something like a fist on one hand and a weapon like an iron claw on the other.

When these soldiers rushed to the city wall, they immediately began to look for the place with a large crack on their own, and once they had chosen a position, they immediately climbed towards the city wall with the two weapons in their hands, and their bodies were extremely agile and flexible!

The Chu army at the head of the city immediately discovered such a group of people, and they immediately began to use things such as rolling logs and stones to attack the people who climbed on the city walls. However, to the surprise of the Chu army, when the rolling wood and stones were struck, few of them could make contributions. These men took advantage of their muscular bodies to move back and forth on the walls as if they were on flat ground.

And a few people with superb wall-climbing skills even climbed to the top of the city wall in an extremely fast way, they inserted one hand into the city wall to stabilize their figures, and the other hand used iron claws to directly grab the Chu soldiers near the city head, and immediately caused casualties to the Chu soldiers!

Wu Hao looked at these skilled people, and couldn't help but admire! He knew that such an excellent soldier would never have been able to reach such a point without continuous training all year round, and these people must have been specially trained by the Song State to attack the city.

In fact, the soldiers of the Song army attacking the city were of course not only these soldiers who used iron claws to climb the city walls. More soldiers, still in groups of several people, carried a long bamboo ladder and climbed up from the city wall, which was the siege of the city.

It is extremely dangerous for the ants to attack the city, not to mention that the Chu army on the city wall will directly push out the ladder, that is, anything they throw from the city wall is something that makes the Song soldiers extremely headache. However, this siege method is also the most effective, and the soldiers who climb the top of the city the most are precisely these soldiers who are attached to the ants. And the Song army also needs such a siege method, after all, only by letting the unprotected Chu soldiers on the city wall appear and start attacking, the Song army can seize their flaws and counterattack.

When the Chu army dropped stones, rolling logs, and even used vicious chemical weapons such as gold juice from the city, the ladders and even the building carts near the city walls began to exert their might.

When the Song army reached the vicinity of the city wall, he immediately saw the opportunity to put the ladder on the city wall. There is a grappling hook at the front end of the ladder, and this precision-made weapon is naturally not like an ordinary bamboo ladder, which can be easily pushed down by the Chu army. As soon as the ladder side reached the city wall, several warriors immediately climbed up and quickly climbed the Jinling city wall directly through the ladder.

Wu Hao was one of these people who climbed from the ladder to the head of Jinling City, and even among the Song army forwards, it was extremely dangerous to climb the city wall through the ladder at an early stage. However, Wu Hao was not afraid of this danger at all, he was more afraid of hopelessness than danger!

Walking quickly from the ladder to the head of the city, looking at the empty scenes on both sides, Wu Hao could even feel the wind in his body, but it didn't have any fear, some were just endless excitement!

When he hadn't arrived at the head of the city, he saw a Chu soldier not far away aiming at him with a bow and crossbow, but before his crossbow arrow was fired, Wu Hao immediately felt the sound of breaking the air in his ears, and the Chu soldier who was aiming at him was immediately shot and died!

Even if Wu Hao didn't look back, he knew that the arrow that was shot to save him was fired from the ladder and the building car. At the top of the ladder, there are several Song archers, who are always looking for characters who can pose a threat to the Song soldiers in the distance, and eliminate them, so as to cover the advance of the Song army!

In addition to the archers firing crossbow arrows, there are also soldiers manipulating bed crossbows to destroy important targets at the head of the city!

With these archer teammates covering, Wu Hao felt extremely relieved. As soon as he landed at the head of Jinling City, he immediately drew a big knife behind his back and directly slashed at the dense place of the Chu army on the city wall.

Wu Hao knew very well that the soldiers who climbed to the top from the cloud ladder were different from those who used the bamboo ladder to reach the top. Although those soldiers suffered heavy casualties, they still had a ladder to go down, and those of them who climbed to the top of the ladder had no way out!

At times like these, any fear is a drag on oneself! He picked up the big knife in his hand and attacked it completely in a way that only attacked but did not defend, and fought for his life. All the other Wu Di heroes and Song army soldiers who climbed to the top of the city with him were the same!

Seeing that in such a short period of time, there were Song soldiers on the top of the city, and Zhao Slip was also extremely surprised. Then he immediately gathered a large number of Chu soldiers and asked them to drive these Song soldiers out of the city at any cost.

At the same time, the defensive weapons of the Chu army were also deployed one by one. The previous stone rolling wood, the Chu army began to slowly put it away. And the really lethal asphalt and whale oil, the Chu army began to put them into use at any cost.

Hot asphalt fell from the city, and any Song soldiers who were contaminated by it immediately lost their combat effectiveness and fell into a boundless wail of pain.

Compared to asphalt, which needs to be heated in advance before it can be used, the use of whale oil is extremely simple, and the soldiers of the Chu army simply poured barrels of whale oil into the city, and then threw a torch down, and the city immediately turned into a sea of fire!

At such a time, whether it is the bamboo ladder or the cloud ladder of the Song army, they will also be ignited by the flames. Such a fire attack, in addition to killing and injuring the soldiers who are ascending the city, the biggest effect is undoubtedly to eliminate any retreat of the Song soldiers in the city! When they have no way to retreat, under the absolute superiority of the Chu army, they will naturally be wiped out!

However, the Chu army didn't know that their fire attack tactics had been dealt with in a way that the Song army had prepared for a long time, and even had a better way of fire attack. When a fire burned out of the entire city, a contingent immediately emerged from the Song army's great array, and these teams did not carry high-quality weapons like the others, but all carried shovels and hoes.

The team walked near the city wall and immediately dug up a large area of dirt from the ground to cover the flames. The flame of whale oil cannot be extinguished with water, and only the fastest and most convenient way to bury it in soil is the fastest and most convenient.

In addition to sending people to use soil to extinguish the fire, the second wave of the Song army's team in Dengcheng also set off with the appearance of the Chu army's fire attack. This group of people all went directly to the city from the ladder, and as soon as they reached the top of the city, they immediately took out all kinds of pottery fire pots from their pockets. When these fire pots were thrown on the city walls, they immediately ignited a cupola flame!

These flames soon spread to the vicinity of the whale oil accumulated by the Chu army, causing the entire Jinling city to ignite the same sky-high fire as the city below! Compared to the Song army under the city, which had mud to extinguish the fire, the Chu army at the head of the city had no way to extinguish the flames ignited by whale oil!

As the attacking party, the forward of the Song army had no way to retreat, and this flame-rushing environment had no effect on them. However, as the defending side of the Chu army, although the morale was extremely high under the call of Zhao Slip, they did not have the belief of the Song army to fight to the death!

And when the vanguard of the Song army ascended the city used fire to burn the city, the 100 catapults of the Song army in the distance also began to play a role. When a large number of Song troops arrived at the head of Jinling City, the catapults naturally did not fire stone projectiles at will. At this time, the things fired by the catapult were replaced by fireballs.

This fireball is actually nothing more than a fireball jar filled with whale oil. These fireballs are lighter than stone projectiles, so they can be fired farther by catapults. According to the original range, the Song army easily projected it into Jinling, setting fire to a large area of the city near the city wall!

The main force of the Chu army, in fact, is mostly near the city wall. Now that the entire city wall, both inside and outside, is on fire, they naturally can't stay near the city wall for a long time.

And the fire separated the city from an independent battlefield. And in this independent battlefield, although the Chu army has a commander in charge, everyone in the vanguard of the Song army is fighting with the heart of death, and this belief is not comparable to the Chu army at all!

Under the concerted killing of Wu Hao and others, the vanguard of the Song army gradually pressed and beat the Chu army, which was mostly numerous, with a small number of people! Even if the commander of the Chu army, Zhao Hua, personally went out with a sword in his hand, and took the lead in killing the Song army, he would not be able to defeat the Song army, a group of people who were determined to die!

Wu Hao looked at a one-armed Chu army in front of him, and when he saw that the other party was wearing heavy armor, he expected that the other party should be a Chu army general with a high status. He directly abandoned the soldiers of the Chu army who were entangled with him, and rushed towards the one-armed general with the big knife in his hand with an unparalleled might!

When the other party saw Wu Hao rushing over so bravely, he was not afraid, and he also used his only remaining hand to fight against Wu Hao. When the soldiers of the Chu army around saw Wu Hao fighting against the one-armed general, they all rushed over with anger on their faces, and all kinds of weapons began to come to Wu Hao!

Fortunately, Wu Hao was not alone, seeing the surrounding Chu soldiers besieging him, those Wu Di heroes who were familiar with Wu Hao were extremely angry, and they all rushed to this place and began to fight with the Chu army.

Soon, the battle between the two sides resumed one-on-one battles between Cheng Wu Hao and the one-armed general. Wu Hao, as a hero of Wu Land, has been trained in swordsmanship for I don't know how many years, although the one-armed general on the opposite side is also superb in swordsmanship, but after all, he only has one arm, and after a long battle, he will soon be at a disadvantage.

Subsequently, Wu Hao sold a trick, and took advantage of the moment when the one-armed general attacked, and directly cut off his other arm with a backhand! Facing the opponent who lost his arms, Wu Hao did not show mercy, and directly slashed the opponent's neck with a knife, killing the opponent completely!