Section 747 The Great Food Army Siege (4)

The Great Food Army changed its strategy, from the previous four-city attack to a key attack, concentrating its forces to attack the east and west gates. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The catapults were concentrated on both sides to strengthen the firepower and bombard incessantly.

The scene in the wilderness was spectacular, the equipment was high, but unfortunately the power was limited, even if the stones of the catapult could smash the walls to pieces, they still could not smash the thick walls.

If you want to break the city, you have to rely on human lives to fill it!

For a week in a row, the city was sieged and defended again and again.

The two sides "worked together" to turn the tall city wall into a meat grinder.

It is people who go in, and flesh and black charcoal that come out!

The city was drenched in blood, and slowly turned a terrible black.

It was so bloody that it made the mud beneath the city soft and muddy, and it could sink to your ankles when you stepped on it.

Every evening during the armistice, I saw so many dead people, and in some places even piled up to the height of one person, and there was a dead silence in sight.

Both armies were burning corpses, the smell was strong, and the gray smoke wafted through the air and lingered, making the air around Shattered Leaf City cloudy and the sun dim, like a haze.

Since the beginning of the war, the Great Food Army has suffered extremely heavy casualties.

Every day in the siege battle, tens of thousands of people will be buried under the Broken Leaf City.

The loss of 100,000 people in ten days, the fierceness of the offensive of the Great Food Army, it can be seen that such a loss, even for the army of millions of people, is a kind of pain.

And the losses of the Tang army also reached fifteen thousand people!

The previous battle loss ratio was ten to one, but now it has become ten to one and five, and there are many soldiers who eat the big food, and they can be constantly rotated, and the more they fight, the losses of the Tang army are accelerating.

The faces of the soldiers on each side are solemn and not optimistic, they can only say that they will do their best!

The art troupe of the Tang Dynasty and the praise group of the Great Food are still playing hoarsely, but they no longer have the optimism and freedom they had before.

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As the battle entered the eleventh day, the Great Eclipse Army went on the offensive again, and that day it continued to attack the city from morning to afternoon.

When the two sides were gradually tired of fighting, the two new forces of 10,000 men each rushed to the east and west cities respectively, they were particularly energetic, particularly strong, thick armor, the weapons they wore were also quite sharp, and they walked like flying, showing their extraordinary.

The bravest general! The most elite soldiers were sent out, and they were the White-Coated Praetorian Guard!

There are two sources of the Praetorian Guard, one is the "hometown people" of the Arabian Peninsula, they are of the same clan as the caliph, and their loyalty is not a problem, but their combat effectiveness is not as good as the second source of the Praetorian Guard, which is composed of the best warriors selected by the caliph in the country, and they are carefully selected, which is equivalent to the strength and elite of the Tang Army's Mo sword soldiers.

Good steel is used on the blade, and the great food nobles have high hopes for them, wanting to take advantage of the exhaustion of the Tang army to make contributions and conquer the city.

"They're the ones who are waiting!"

"Be careful!" The combat staff officers of the Tang Army, who had already been prepared, did not get dazed even in the fiercest battle, and could see clearly from the binoculars, and sent signals one after another to strike a precise blow at the two groups of enemies!

Fire Bomb Attack!

Catapults all over the city were urgently mobilized, and the people lifted the counterweight with force, and the manpower and animal power pulled the counterweight to a high position, loaded the fireballs, and fired the fireballs according to the parameters instructed by the staff officers!

The combat mechanism of the Tang army has been greatly improved, and they have special slingers, who are trained in a unified manner, and slings are not based on experience, but are trained.

Even when they were not in front of the enemy, they worked well with their staff officers to accurately deliver the fire bombs to the designated location.

"Peng!" The oil tank shattered, and the oil instantly sputtered to cover a radius of more than ten meters, and then was ignited.

As explained earlier, the Tang military oil has been specially made, with sulfur, rosin, resin and other combustibles, which is particularly easy to burn, and the firepower is fiercer than that of ordinary fire oil, and the flames within the attack range burst out, and the casualties of the soldiers are bargaining.

The ambitious Praetorian Guards were like a slap in the face, and the originally neat ranks were scattered and their momentum was lost.

Trebuchets in various parts of the city were notified to open fire on the enemy's two new forces, and the shells continued to fall on their ranks, and the scene was spectacular, and the attacked were fearful.

The power of the fire bomb is too terrifying, and the killing and wounding are too vicious, causing the medical force of the Great Food Army to become negative, and many burns and wounded people are not even transported back, but directly put on the front line to die!

It's also for nothing to send it, don't waste your strength.

The Praetorian Guard approached the city, that is, it was hit head-on, and the Don army threw itself into reserve!

The reserves, which have not been used, are waiting for the enemy's elite soldiers, five thousand on one side, a total of 10,000 people.

The first is the arrow attack, the strong crossbow and the hard bow, the end is stable and ruthless, the arrow is not missing, and the middle is killed!

Then he used all the techniques to defend the city, and smashed the stone and wood cannon bottles and gray gold juice frantically, knocking down the Great Janissaries on the ladder in a string, screaming and screaming.

Well, after paying heavy losses, they finally climbed to the top of the city, and fought hard with the Tang army, and they all found that each other's style was tenacious, the will to fight was particularly tenacious, and they would never get out of the line of fire if they were slightly injured!

The two sides fought desperately, everyone had strong quality in all aspects, and they would not stop if they did not cut each other to pieces.

The Tang Army and the Great Food Army worked together to completely turn the city and the city of Broken Leaf City into a place like a flesh mill, and the corpses were piled up up and down, and blood flowed down the battlements.

It must be said that the great cannibals are quite powerful, they chant religious slogans, fell into a religious fanaticism, and with a fearless spirit, regardless of casualties, they kept attacking the city walls, and many of them attacked them!

At this time, the benefits of the inner and outer walls of the Broken Leaf City appeared, the inner city was fifteen meters high, and the outer city was twelve meters.

The Tang army in the inner city specializes in archery, and the main general Cheng Boxi is not allowed to go into battle in person at the moment (it is not yet at the last moment, in case he dies in battle), operate a hard crossbow, and aim at the enemy to fire.

The Tang army made full use of the crossbow, and the crossbow with a good string in the morning was fired at close range, with a high hit rate and a particularly powerful force, and many times shot the big food army that had just emerged on the battlements of the outer city to shoot away.

They kept screaming and falling under the city, hitting the nerves of the Great Food Army.

A Tang crossbowman had five or six people winding for him, and the crossbows were fired one after another, with high and continuous output, suppressing the Great Food Army, clearing out the city walls, and then the Tang army recaptured the place and defended.

The Great Food Army spent strength and blood to attack the city, and encountered the arrow attack of the Tang Army, they cooperated tacitly, when the enemy in front of the enemy used a shield to defend tightly, the comrades next to them carried out a side attack, avoiding the shield in front of the enemy, causing damage to the enemy.

Today's fierce battle was particularly cruel, and the battle was subsided after dark, and Cheng Boxi received a loss report in an hour: 30,000 enemies were killed, 8,000 people!

The Tang army had 80,000 people before, and it lost 8,000 people a day, that is, the Great Food Army could defeat the city in ten days.

Rao is Cheng Boxi was full of confidence before, and now he is also a little worried.

On the contrary, the Great Food Army in terms of heavy losses became happy and seemed to see the dawn of victory.

No one could have predicted the outcome, and the next day's battle was fought until noon, and the Da Shi army hastily collected its troops and returned to the camp.

Their ladder is gone!