Chapter 223: A Complete Collection of Methods for Defending the City
Sun Yuan came to Sizhou on the morning because he was a man and two horses, but Fang Richang came to Sizhou one day in the morning. But I didn't want to, as soon as I got here, I found that Sizhou City was about to be broken by Gao Yingxiang.
At that time, if Sun Yuan was wiser, he immediately turned the horse's head, left his mother's house, and let Sizhou City be broken by the thief army, so naturally there would be no such trouble as it is now.
But seeing the fighting Sizhou soldiers and civilians on the city wall, thinking of the tragic situation of the people in the city when Fengyang City was broken, Sun Yuan's heart softened. Today's Gao Yingxiang is short of food and grass, and he is more ferocious and hungry than when he was in Zhongdu. If the city is broken, I don't know how much trouble the people in the city will suffer.
Therefore, Sun Yuan stayed, and borrowed the means of defending the city in the cold weapon warfare summarized by later generations at military forums, such as using boiled dung water, boiled lead juice, rolling stones and wood, and fire attack...... Eighteen means were used, and the city of Sizhou was defended for two days.
Although the means are wonderful, the difference in strength between the two sides is too great, and Sun Yuan does not think that Sizhou can hold on for two days.
However, the military order is like a mountain, and it is related to his own life, so Sun Yuan can't be careless
。
At this time, he couldn't think about other messy things anymore, and he couldn't sleep anymore. He simply walked to the table again, lit the oil lamp, stayed up all night to sort out a new set of means of defending the city, and asked the guards to send it to Yang Zhizhou and ask him to provide manpower and material help.
At that moment, Sun Yuan went up to the city wall again, and was busy all night, until his eyes were boiled into rabbit eyes, and finally everything was arranged. ()
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Gao Yingxiang was riding on a horse, and his eyes were also red. He got up early in the morning, didn't care about freshening up, so he went to the front line in person and ordered Huang Long and Zhang Er and other generals to do their best to attack Sizhou City without discouragement.
The Sizhou city wall in front of him was black, with black marks everywhere, and I didn't know if it had been burned by fire or dried up human blood.
There were columns of smoke everywhere, there was no wind, and under the scorching sun, the weather was hot day by day, and it was so stuffy that it made people panic.
The moisture that invaded from the south of Hongze Lake made Gao Yingxiang, a man from the north, seem to be stiff all over, and the iron armor leaves on his body also had yellow rust.
The reason why Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, overwhelmed Zhang Xianzhong to become the leader of the alliance of the leaders of each battalion, in addition to the superior strength of the Chuang army, the most important thing is that he is quite knowledgeable about military strategy and is modest. When he saw the leaders of the battalions, no matter how big or small the other people's forces were, he always politely shouted "Brother." ”
Compared with Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others, the leaders of each family like to be close to Gao Yingxiang and obey his command.
Gao Yingxiang is also very proud of his personality charm on weekdays, his idol is the timely rain Song Gongming in "Water Margin", and his daily words and deeds have also learned the filial piety Hei Saburo to the fullest.
But the Battle of Chuzhou is really important, and it is related to the life and death of the righteous army. In order to win that battle, Gao Yingxiang tore off all the masks, and even did not hesitate to kill the two leaders such as the Scorpion Block. ()
But even so, it was still an unprecedented defeat.
When there is blood on his hands, his heart hardens and he goes crazy.
Now, the old camp has reached the last moment, if Sizhou can't be broken, what awaits him Gao Yingxiang is a dead end.
I thought that a small Sizhou city could be won in one day
。 But this battle has been fought for two days, and Sizhou has stood still.
A drum beat violently, and five or six thousand soldiers shouted in despair and rushed forward carrying the ladder.
In the blink of an eye, the city walls were crawling with peasant soldiers.
There are more defenders in Sizhou today than there were yesterday, but most of them were people in the city, and the arrows and arrows shot down were much more sparse. As for lead and hot dung, they also did not appear again, these things are limited after all.
Seeing the first soldier boarding the pheasant moat, Gao Yingxiang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Seeing that Sizhou City was about to be taken down, Gao Yingxiang suddenly found that there seemed to be a lot of bamboo poles tied to the city wall, densely packed like a fence, and he suddenly felt a little uneasy in his heart: these bamboo poles were tied flat on the city wall, and they didn't look like they were city defense equipment, so what was the use? Something is wrong, something is wrong......
As soon as his mind moved, a change occurred.
But I saw that some people rushed to the row of bamboo poles with kitchen knives and axes, and cut the ropes tied to them vigorously.
"Whew!"
Even after two miles, the sharp sound of the bamboo pole breaking through the air still clearly reached Gao Yingxiang's ears, causing him to have goosebumps all over his body.
The straight bamboo pole was like a thick whip, and it was drawn directly to the soldiers who entered the city.
It turned out that the defenders had bent the bamboo poles and tied them at the head of the city in advance, and cut the ropes once the army entered the city. So, the bamboo poles were pulled straight and fierce.
Pity those soldiers who broke into the army did not have a stable foothold, and the bamboo pole swept away a large area, even if the soldiers were holding shields in their hands, they were no longer able to resist, and they were directly pulled out of the city, and their bones were broken.
One by one, the soldiers were pulled down, and the soldiers at the head of the city fell like dumplings.
"Boom!" With a bang, all the soldiers who came after them turned around and ran down.
Fortunately, the Governor team had already been set up under the ladder, and the soldiers barely climbed the ladder again.
But then, the defenders changed their tricks
。 This time, they pushed through a number of shelves that were surprisingly large. On each of the shelves hung a large wooden wrench weighing 500 catties, and the wrench was full of dense coffin nails.
At the sound of an order, a large wooden plank fell from above and smashed directly on the head of the invading soldier.
It's a pity that many soldiers don't have helmets, and even if they do, they have how to block the bombardment of five or six hundred pounds of wooden wrenches.
The middle ones all burst out of their brains, and they couldn't even scream and died.
Gao Yingxiang and the others were dumbfounded, but their palms were cold sweat.
Fortunately, these large wooden shelves were hastily made, and the quality seems to be very bad. After a few times, it fell apart and fell to the ground with a bang.
When the soldiers below saw the situation, they raised their courage and climbed up.
But this time, the defenders changed their tactics again.
A group of soldiers carried a large fork and pounced on it, directly on the long ladder of the intruding army, and let out a shout, pushing the ladder out completely.
"Ahh The soldiers fell down the ladder, their hands and feet dancing in the air.
……
Then, for a whole day, the city was full of tricks: ash bottles, burnt jars, and even fireworks.
On several occasions, the soldiers of the invading army, relying on the superiority of numbers, climbed the city wall after paying great sacrifices, but at this time, suddenly a row of musketeers rushed out, and after a round of fire, they pounced on them with bright bayonets and drove them out of the city.
"Ningxiang Army, the Yama King of Ningxiang Army is here!"
Seeing their iconic bayonets, the invading soldiers shouted at the same time, fleeing from the city in despair.
The morale of the intrusive army has fallen, and there is no choice but to keep shooting arrows at the top of the city. But the archers were not easy to train, and they were shooting from the back, so they were of no use at all, but they were knocked over by the stones thrown from above.
Looking at the large number of soldiers who had retreated, Gao Yingxiang gritted his teeth: "Sun Yuan, it must be Sun Yuan of the Ningxiang Army...... This guy has so many means to defend the city! ”
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