Chapter 323: A two-pronged approach
Li Dingguo was shirtless, gnawing on a leg of mutton with one hand, wiping his pig-killing spear with the other, stuffing his mouth full of meat, and complaining vaguely. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"The lord is too partial, the good job of commanding the army is always given to Xiao Mahazudi and them to do, and now there is another Ran Min, the dirty work of attacking the city and pulling out the village is tiring, but I always let Lao Li do it, I have to talk to the master mother well, let her blow the pillow wind with the lord, and let Lao Tzu do some easy errands next time......"
The loud sound of the sky is still there, the sky has gradually brightened, and the emotions of the soldiers have become excited, but Li Dingguo is still gnawing on the leg of mutton, rubbing the spear, and complaining endlessly.
"General Fan, the wolf smoke is on fire, and the lord has lit the wolf smoke on fire." The sentinel, who was watching, suddenly shouted excitedly.
Li Dingguo's bear body was shocked, and he jumped up, his eyes were as big as cow eggs, and he aimed in the direction of Dongcheng.
At the end of the sky, I saw three black wolf smokes, rushing into the sky.
More than 10,000 officers and men of the Li Army saw the trumpet fire, and the suppressed fighting spirit immediately boiled.
"Damn, let Lao Tzu squat in the pit for most of the night, and finally can wipe his ass......"
Li Dingguo's cow egg eyes were instantly bloodshot and extremely hideous, he threw half of the leg of mutton in his hand, picked up the spear, held his voice, and roared: "Little ones, the pit is enough to squat, don't hurry up for Lao Tzu, it's time to open and do business." ”
The order was passed down, and the whole army was boiling.
The soldiers who had been waiting for a long time suddenly shook their spirits, consciously held the blades in array, and their eyes were surging with fanatical fighting intent.
The wooden doors of the earthen wall burst open, and 30,000 soldiers poured in, forming a large array a hundred paces in front of the city.
Sen Sen's sword almost wanted to chill the sky, and one flag after another rolled like an angry wave, and the murderous aura enveloped the entire sky in an instant.
The sky was bright, Zhang Jun's abnormal movements, and Shi Jian and his defenders at the head of the city immediately discovered the abnormality.
In front of the city, which was originally empty, in the blink of an eye, it was filled with the vast flow of soldiers, and when they saw this scene, more than a thousand soldiers and soldiers of Li immediately looked stupid.
"How could so many Zhang troops suddenly appear, isn't the enemy's main force all on the front line of the East Gate?"
Shi Lian's face changed greatly, and he suddenly realized that his master had fallen for Zhang Yuan's strategy, the bombardment of the east gate and the assembly of the army were just a disguise for Zhang Yuansheng to attack the west, and Zhang Yuan's real attack direction was actually the west gate he guarded.
The number of Zhang's army in front of the city was nearly 30,000, and his troops had been transferred to the east gate, and there were only 1,000 soldiers and horses left, what could they use to resist the attack of fifteen times the number of troops.
"Hurry up and report to the Taishi, we have fallen for Zhang Thief's plan to attack the west, go quickly." Shi Lian, who had come to his senses, shouted in horror.
It's late.
Just when Shi Lian's order had just been passed down, and the heralds had not had time to go down to the city, Zhang Jun had already begun to act.
Woo woo.
The loud and solemn sound of the horn pierced the silence of dawn.
A hundred steps in front of the city, Zhang Junjun's army array was like a wave, and the behemoths with several zhang were slowly pushed into the front of the formation.
Shi Lian's face turned pale, and he felt a chill rise from the soles of his feet, which instantly hit his whole body.
Zhang Jun used the opposite building.
This kind of siege weapon improved by Mo Zhai, the degree and volume, are much larger than the existing version, the degree can almost be on par with the Chang'an city wall, the lowest layer of soldiers is responsible for pushing the cart forward, the middle layer is equipped with crossbowmen, through the cover of the building wall, you can fire bows and crossbows at close range to the city head, suppress the firepower of the city head, the top layer, can be loaded with nearly fifty soldiers, is the main force of the city attack.
As long as the opposite building is close to the city wall, the dead soldiers on the top floor can put down the pedal and easily step on the city wall directly from the top of the opposite building.
Dispatching to the building, Chang'an to the thick city wall is equivalent to losing its meaning.
Although the attack power of this pair of buildings is powerful, but because it is too huge, it is not easy to manufacture, and it is not easy to transport, and it can only be made from local materials before the battle, and it is useless to attack a city.
Zhang Yuan besieged and did not attack these days, ordered Mo Zhai to supervise the production, mobilized craftsmen from nearby counties, and rushed to build more than 40 vehicles day and night, which was used for today's battle.
As soon as the opposite building came out, Shi Jian was instantly shocked, he knew that in order to resist the opposite building, he must have enough troops, as well as rockets, a long-range firearm, to rush to the opposite building before the city was connected and burned down.
It's just that he only has more than 1,000 soldiers and horses, and his troops are far from enough, and he has not prepared rockets and other weapons in advance, so he can stop it.
"Little ones, what are you waiting for, go into the city for Lao Tzu and kill Li Jun, this Zhai pig." Li Dingguo, who was in front of the horse formation, was already waving a pig-killing spear, roaring and giving orders.
The drums shook the sky, and the 4,000 trench fillers in the front line went out to quickly advance in front with large shields, covering the toad carts used to fill the moats behind.
Further back, there were the archers of the 3,000 Divine Arrow Battalion commanded by Hua Rong, and it was Zhang Yuan who specially assigned Hui to Li Dingguo to suppress the arrow attacks of the enemy army at the head of the city.
Shi Jian didn't have time to be frightened, so he could only order the crossbowmen to release their arrows to block the approach of Zhang's army.
The scattered arrows, attacking from the top of the city, were easily blocked by Zhang Jun's big shield, and there were almost no casualties, and less than three hundred crossbowmen were like nothing, and they could not pose any threat at all.
Soon, three thousand sharp arrows rose into the air, and the archers of the Divine Arrow Battalion immediately responded with ten times the rain of arrows, accompanied by a miserable scream, and the enemy troops at the head of the city were immediately suppressed to the point that they could not even lift their heads.
After paying less than 100 casualties, Zhang Jun successfully advanced to the front of the moat, pushed the toad carts into the moat, and dozens of dirt roads were quickly filled in in front of the two-zhang wide moat.
The road to the city walls was opened.
Li Dingguo raised his spear and shouted: "Siege team, kill Lao Tzu." ”
Tom tom.
The more violent war drums suddenly sounded, and in the earth-shattering sound of killing, more than 40 vehicles on the opposite floor, driven by thousands of soldiers, approached the city like a giant beast.
At the same time as launching against the building, more than 10,000 sword and shield hands, carrying hundreds of ladders, also rushed to the front line of the city wall.
The Li army at the head of the city had completely fallen into panic, and in the face of an overwhelming numerical superiority of the enemy, they were unable to effectively stop the approach of the Zhang army.
The infantry siege team rushed to the bottom of the city, and the long ladders were erected one after another, and tens of thousands of Zhang troops began to climb the ladder to climb the city desperately.
Under Shi Lian's reprimand, Sergeant Li barely mustered up his courage, withstood the rain of arrows from Zhang Jun, tried to use a fork pole to overturn Zhang Jun's ladder, and used Luo Shi and Samuki to kill the enemy soldiers who climbed the city, and tried his best to resist the enemy's strong attack.