Chapter 214: Defending the City
The generals were ordered to leave quickly, and Meng Hui picked up the monocular in his hand with a solemn face and carefully observed the soldiers pouring out of the camp in the distance.
In order to facilitate the siege of the city, Kouwen Buhua had already moved the camp forward to a place only five or six miles away from Xiangyang City. At this distance, even if there is no monocular, just relying on the human eye, you can vaguely see the movement of the soldiers in the camp without spending money, not to mention that Meng Hui is still holding a telescope in his hand at this moment.
The scene that just happened on the high platform where a group of Mongolian generals knelt together, Meng Heng naturally saw it in his eyes. Even the face with a warm mouth, he could see it clearly.
Listening to the screams of the Mongolian infantry soldiers besieging the city under the city wall, and looking at the army that was now gathering in the Mongolian camp, Meng Hui could probably guess what had just happened on the high platform.
"Dashuai, be careful!"
A few feather arrows penetrated the grass curtain on the city tower and shot into the city tower, but Meng Heng, who was standing at the forefront with a telescope, happened to be on the way of these feather arrows.
"Aggressive" a few muffled sounds, and those feathered arrows were finally blocked.
The outside of the castle tower was covered by cowhide, and behind the cowhide was a thick straw curtain, and the Mongolian cavalry seemed to know that this was the center of the Song army defending the city, so more than thirty percent of the feather arrows were aimed at the city.
Looking up under the city wall, you can clearly see that the cowhide on the small city tower has long been riddled with holes, densely filled with layers of feather arrows, as if it is a huge mutated hedgehog, hideous and weird.
"Marshal, the skin on the tower of the city can no longer stop the feather arrows of the Mongols, let's go down. If the Mongols use rockets to ......," the guards who followed behind Meng Heng worried.
The skin on the castle tower is almost rotten, and the grass curtain inside is ready to burn, if it is really a rocket, plus those feather arrows outside, I am afraid that no one will be able to escape.
Meng Heng pondered for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "Lord Jia must be coming soon, you put on your armor and tear down all the fur curtains and other things on the city tower." Obviously, Meng Heng was also worried about the Mongolian cavalry using rockets.
At the beginning, there was a cowhide on the city tower outside, and the feather arrows could not be focused, but now the skin is full of holes, and there is no longer much effect, at this time, the rocket can definitely penetrate and ignite the grass curtain, Meng Heng does not want the city tower to be burned so easily. Of course, if the Mongols really tried their best to attack with rockets, the castle towers were all wooden buildings, and it would definitely not last long, but it would last as long as it could.
Before leaving, Meng Hui glanced back at the Mongolian army that was almost assembled outside the city.
Alas, it seems that even if Jia Shixian doesn't want to leave, he must use some other means to send him away.
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Under the city wall, the corpses of the Song army and the wounded people with feather arrows on their bodies were carried down, and countless Song soldiers were concentrated in the corridor, but there was no chaotic sound, because they were all watching their comrades who were still alive at the moment before turn into corpses or crippled and carried down, and the bloody appearance stimulated everyone's taste and vision.
Although the battle to defend the city has been going on for almost half a month, and they have experienced everything they should have experienced and seen, they have also seen everything they should see, but listening to the terrible whistling sound of feather arrows on the head of the city, and listening to the screams of their comrades in their ears about death, they still unconsciously grabbed the weapons in their hands.
Reaching the top of the city means that you are one step closer to death.
Meng Heng's appearance seemed to give courage to the soldiers, and they all stepped forward to salute with a solemn face.
"Handsome! It's our turn, right? Lao Tzu can't wait to kill those Mongolian Tatars for a long time, hehe. ”
"Dashuai, when will it be our turn to go up and kill the Mongols?"
"Dashuai, let's get on."
"Dashuai, can Xiangyang City still be defended? When will the reinforcements sent by the emperor arrive? ”
"He Er, you are farting again, how can you not hold it in Xiangyang City? Do you say it's handsome? ”
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Looking at the young or old faces with excitement and trepidation, Meng Hui didn't know how to answer.
The situation in the camp outside the city, in order to kill and injure the Song army, even did not scruple about his own people, which was obviously enough to show that he had no patience to spend it in Xiangyang City at this moment.
Once the cavalry outside the city stopped attacking, then the next siege battle would inevitably be an earth-shattering battle. How many of these people who are still alive in front of them at this moment will be alive after this war? Meng Heng didn't know what to do. He didn't even know if he could get out of this Xiangyang City alive.
"Dashuai!" Meng Ying's voice came from behind him, but it relieved Meng Heng.
Meng Hui turned around and saw that Meng Ying was the only one, and frowned, "What about Master Jia?" ”
"Great Marshal, Lord Najia asked the last general to come and invite the Grand Marshal to go to the Ordnance Prison for a while." A touch of resentment flashed on Meng Ying's face, obviously dissatisfying Jia Yidao for ignoring Meng Hui's invitation, but directly letting Meng Hui go to see him.
Meng Hui frowned, and glanced at Meng Ying with a look of disgruntle: "You, your vision is too shallow." What does Master Jia do in the Ordnance Prison? ”
Meng Ying didn't know, but Meng Hui understood that Jia Yidao was not such a rude person, he asked Meng Hui to go to the Ordnance Prison, obviously he had an insight into the current situation in Xiangyang City, and maybe even expected that gentle action, thinking of these with Meng Hui's understanding of Jia Yidao, Jia Yidao naturally couldn't guess the reason why Meng Hui ordered someone to invite him to this city gate.
There are two thousand forbidden soldiers accompanying the guards in the ordnance prison, and there are five hundred guards in the inner hall to guard the side, as long as Jia Nidao is in the ordnance prison, Meng Hui really has no way to forcibly send Jia Nidao away from this Xiangyang City.
"This ...... Seems to be doing something. Meng Ying obviously didn't know much about the process, so she couldn't say why.
"Ben Shuai is going to go for a while, you stay here, Ben Shuai will go back."
"The last general obeys, big handsome!"
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"Boom!"
There was a loud bang, the earth seemed to tremble, and before he reached the ordnance prison, Meng Heng heard the muffled thunderous explosions that sounded from time to time in the ordnance prison, and secretly said in his heart, "Oh no!" He didn't care about appeasing the frightened war horse under his crotch, whipped the war horse a few times, and led more than 100 personal soldiers to gallop towards the ordnance prison like the wind.
There are Mongol works in Xiangyang City, and Meng Heng knows it very well. At this time, such a thing happened in the ordnance prison, and in Meng Hui's opinion, it must be the Mongols' meticulous work that discovered Jia Nidao's location and launched an assassination of Jia Nidao.
This sudden huge roar was not heard by too many people because of the overwhelming roar of horses' hooves outside, but the people around the ordnance prison could hear it clearly, and the people who were already panicked suddenly rushed out in a panic.
Fortunately, at this time, there was no Mongol effort to take the opportunity to spread rumors that the army entered the city, otherwise I am afraid that the siege battle has not yet begun, and the city of Xiangyang has already been selected into a pot of porridge.
"Don't panic! The army is testing the equipment for defending the city! ”
"Don't panic! The army is testing the equipment for defending the city! ”
As soon as he arrived at the gate of the Armory Prison, Meng Heng saw dozens of cavalrymen dressed in the costumes of the forbidden army soldiers, running around the Armory Prison and shouting.
Experimental city defense equipment? What device can be so powerful? Meng Heng said secretly in his heart.