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The 50th Hero's Servance to the Country (2)

He watched as the soldiers of the Black Army crossed the moat regardless of life or death, rushed towards the city wall, pushed open the gate of the city tower, and shouted: "The enemy army is pressing under the city, ready to roll the wood and stones!" ”

In an instant, some of the armored warriors had rushed to the corner, and in the absence of a ladder, they even set up a ladder in front of such a tall wall, hoping to climb the head of Xiangyang in this clumsy but often effective way. But they were immediately greeted by a burst of rolling logs and gravel that slashed their heads and faces.

The rolling wood is made of hard, heavy wood and is available in two sizes, a small two-foot-long piece that can be thrown by one person, and a four-foot-long ordinary piece of wood that needs to be lifted by two people. However, Zheng Yunming and all the generals agreed that in addition to allowing the soldiers defending the city to save some strength, the killing effect was not as good as that of ordinary sandalwood. Therefore, the defenders also hoarded ordinary wood. This four-foot big tree fell from the sky, as long as it was hit by it, it would definitely be killed or injured, and the effect of pushing down the large boulder weighing dozens of catties from the city was the same, in the face of the enemy army trying to climb under the city, it was always the rolling wood and stone that caused the most direct killing.

The ash bottle cannon will make the besieging enemy unable to open their eyes, and the flames and poisonous smoke from the fire thistle and the 10,000 enemies can also greatly disrupt the enemy's offensive. These things were much easier to throw than rolling wood, and if it weren't for the difficulty of making them, the garrisons would have been willing to replace the bulky woods and stones with lime bottles and thistles.

However, the iron cannon was more powerful than the ash bottle cannon that was lowered by rope hanging, and since the charge of the zuò iron cannon was replaced with Zheng's fine gunpowder, the power of the iron cannon has increased tenfold, and the iron shell of the cast cannon has become thicker. The early iron artillery was also mixed with iron slag and lead and other fragments that increased the lethality. When the soldiers of the Earth Dragon Army hoisted a lit iron cannon with a rope into a dense area of enemy troops, a huge explosion suddenly sent flesh and blood flying all over the city, and the broken arms and calves were lifted into the air. And the dense crowd of people preparing to ascend the city immediately lost their combat effectiveness. The soldiers of the black army immediately learned to be obedient, and when they saw that there was a black iron lump hanging down at the head of the city, they immediately scattered and fled in all directions.

Later, the soldiers of the Song army who simply defended the city no longer used ropes to hang the artillery, but directly hoisted the iron cannon into the air and then cut the rope to let it roll down on its own. The thickened iron shell ensured that the iron cannon would not break in half when it landed, and this quick throwing method made it difficult for the black soldiers under the city to guard against it. It caused a lot of damage.

However, the black army, which had already faced the last of the city walls, was clearly not willing to be defeated, and they tried to reduce some casualties while holding their shields above their heads, and began to try to use rope hooks to enter the city. The rope hook is also a common climbing tactic in the Central Plains, but obviously this tactic can only be applied to sneak attacks, when the black army's iron hook hooked the pheasant to climb halfway, the Song army used a big axe to cut the rope. As a result, most of the black soldiers who used rope hooks to enter the city ended in a fall half to death, and the fiftieth heroic service to the country was like waiting for leisure (2)

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At a time when the Black Army was using all kinds of primitive methods and could not move forward. The soldiers in the rear finally carried the ladder to the other side of the moat. This was the first wave of the Dengcheng offensive against Xiangyang City. Seventeen huge ladders were erected high by the soldiers, and they were crawling with soldiers who were preoccupied with climbing to the top of the city. At this moment, only the ladder was the means by which the Mongols were really able to threaten the head of Xiangyang. The ladders approached the city, and a tragic battle at the head of the city was inevitable.

But the ladder is still the most defenseless of all siege machines. When the black army's ladder was about to be admitted to the tall pheasant moat in Xiangyang City, the Song army waved six or seven ladders in the air with dozens of long forks, and they stood on a high place, and only a few people needed to make a group of people under the city want to use the ladder to lean against the city wall in vain. When the two sides wrestled, the rest of the defenders lost no time in throwing wood, cannons and iron cannons at the enemy troops gathered under the city, while the black soldiers could only desperately push the ladder up to the top of the city with a variety of defensive weapons. The only cover they could rely on at this time was the archers behind them and the catapults farther away. Unfortunately, this was not the most elite artillery unit in the Mongol army, and Zhang Zhongren, a naval artilleryman and naval commander from Cheongju, still stranded most of his main force in Dengzhou in order to supervise the ships necessary to cross the river. These striker artillerymen had little experience in actual combat, but in fact, even Zhang Zhongren's most elite artillerymen could not control the bulky Nine Shoots Eleven slightly larger trebuchets to accurately concentrate the pheasant moat to kill the defenders on the city wall, which was an impossible task.

The suffering black army under the city watched as the friendly trebuchet threw pieces of flying stones over the city wall and fell directly into the city, or fell directly into the moat. In the black army's loud scolding, the ladders that were forked by long forks could no longer support them, and began to tilt and fall, and the armor soldiers on the ladders fell down to the city one after another.

But except for these six or seven ladders, the other ladders were finally saved. The warriors who climbed the city waved their regimental badges to cover their bodies, and at the same time struggled to climb and attack the city. The armor warriors who ascended first were all dressed in heavy armor and wielded blunt weapons, and carved out a foothold where the ladder reached the head of the city. On the other hand, the sword players and short-range soldiers of the Jing Chu Army, who had already been prepared, also immediately swarmed forward, trying to drive the enemy out of the city with fierce hand-to-hand combat.

Compared with last year, although Liu Cheng is no longer big or small, he is a general, and he can be relieved to wave a small flag behind him as a command, without having to take risks again. But standing in the back and directing was something that neither his subordinates nor himself felt awkward. Liu Quan, who is trusted by the generals and supported by the soldiers, is the Liu Cheng who rushed to the front of the team with a black head and a big knife in his hand.

The first five steps of Liu's whole body are a burly 50th hero who serves the country like waiting for leisure (2)

The black army general, wielding the meteor hammer in his hand like the wind, carved a space at the head of the city to climb the city, and a black army armor soldier behind him was holding a black banner and preparing to climb the city wall. If there is a banner of the black army at the head of the city, it is undoubtedly a reversal of the unfavorable situation for the Song army to announce the shape of the city wall on both sides and us, and it is a great blow to the morale of the defending side, and it is tantamount to a spiritual booster for the black army that is in a bitter battle. Liu Cheng naturally understood the power of it, seeing that the general would swing the meteor hammer towards him, he suddenly collapsed, and the hammer flew past with the tip of the helmet, he grabbed a step and grabbed the long knife, and the blade was entangled in the chain of the meteor hammer. Two gunners rushed forward and killed the guy with their guns. Liu Cheng didn't have time to untie the chain entangled in the long knife, and the long knife swept towards the black army standard-bearer who had just fallen to the ground of the horse road with the chain hammer, and the blow was too strong, directly pushing the standard-bearer with the flag from the city. Seeing the appearance of the standard-bearer and the people with the flag howling and falling from the city, the morale of the follow-up black army soldiers in the city was inevitably demoralized.

Liu Quan guarded the city, brandishing a big knife to beat the black soldiers who climbed up to the city one by one, and his majestic appearance was like a god standing at the head of the city. And on the walls on either side of him, there was also the sound of continuous fiery fire.

Before the war began, Zheng Yunming was given a powerful weapon to deal with the Black Army Armor who had the upper hand in the battle at the head of the city last year. He deployed a number of bowl-mouth guns at the head of the city, and the bowl-mouth guns were most suitable for close-range salvos, but the disadvantage was that the iron guns were bulky and the charges were very cumbersome. Therefore, Bai Yijie came up with the idea of taking turns to charge the charge, and formed a team of six people and six bowl-mouth guns, with the captain responsible for casting, one person responsible for charging, one person responsible for clearing, one person responsible for filling, one person responsible for compression, and one person responsible for holding the hand. Although it is inconvenient to pass the weight of more than ten catties of the bowl mouth back and forth in the hands of everyone, it can also achieve a high shot after strict training.

This well-trained squad was a direct detachment of generals at the rank of chief and deputy general, and as soon as the enemy's ladder came up, they rushed forward and began to fire their guns at the ladder under the cover of their own army's sword players. This method of warfare is much more efficient than last year's temporary method of shooting at close range by two stunned young men who were not afraid of death, risking a broken arm, holding a huge bamboo general. Although the momentum and power of the bowl mouth gun cannot be compared with the general cannon, but in such a small space as the city, the momentum and power are not the key to victory, as long as the Song army can continuously splash lead bullets on the head of the black army who ascended the city, it will be difficult for the black army to carry out an effective counterattack. Sure enough, when Liu Cheng was guarding a ladder, the reinforcements on the city wall had already killed and wounded all the black troops who had climbed the city, and more than a dozen black flags had just been planted at the head of Xiangyang City and immediately fell.

Tath stood in the distance and frowned, the fiftieth heroic service to the country (2)

Watching this scene tightly, he turned his horse's head and returned to his base without saying a word. Also as the vanguard of the siege, the black army's table is not as good as last year.

As the direct superior of the Black Army, Tath was not unaware that the Black Army was in turmoil in the struggle for power after losing its main general, which directly affected the combat effectiveness of the entire army, and he also understood that after a part of the Black Army was requisitioned by Zuo Wanhu to Liaodong to participate in the war, supplementing it with Han recruits would cause the army to be scattered.