Chapter 7: The Siege
Eighty miles outside the city of Chungling, Zhen Fu was sitting on a horse, and behind him was an army of 100,000 people who were ready to go, and he was not in a very good mood at the moment. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
After the new dynasty of the Han Dynasty, the Zhen family was like a fish in water in the imperial court, and the emperor was particularly keen on waging war with foreign countries, he got many opportunities to perform, and not long ago he led the army to crusade against the Huns, and has been driving this group of blind streams to the extreme north, so that he couldn't help but be complacent, boasting that Huo Huo was reborn from illness, and his career is thriving.
The emperor was happy to win the battle, and he was named Nanyang Taishou on meritorious deeds, and sent a list to let him kill the people above, all of whom were remnants of the previous dynasty and some small landlords who were not famous, and he didn't know how to provoke the emperor, he didn't take it too seriously, and first destroyed the Liu family in order, and killed Liu Xiu, who ranked first, but this time it was like a hornet's nest, and for a while the thief army came out one after another, and the people who took the lead were those on the list.
On the one hand, he admired the emperor's unpredictable prophet, and on the other hand, he also knew that he was ineffective in handling things and failed to eliminate these scourges early, so he hurriedly reported to the imperial court, and the emperor was really furious and allocated 100,000 troops for him to make meritorious contributions.
What made him even more depressed was that a spy came to report just now that Liu Xiu actually appeared in Chungling City, and he was so angry that he personally beheaded more than a dozen soldiers who swore to be executed.
"Do you want to report this to the court?" Liang Qiuqi asked on the side.
"No!" Zhen Fu waved his hand, "The execution of Liu Xiu has already been reported to the Holy Lord, and now it is not a crime of bullying the king to go back on his word?" Although I don't know that he escaped like this, but since he is now in Chungling, as long as we destroy this group of thieves in one fell swoop, he will still be unable to escape death. ”
"Or the general is thoughtful." Liang Qiuqi nodded, "These thieves don't know the height of the sky, and they want to rebel with such a few people, it's really whimsical." ”
"Well, let the army continue to advance, we must fight quickly this time and pacify the thief army in Nanyang, so that we can give an explanation to the saint."
Su Yun didn't know that he had escaped inexplicably, if the traverser knew that "Liu Xiu" was not dead, he would definitely not only send this 100,000 army to come, he was standing on the city wall and looking into the distance, he could already see the enemy vanguard appearing on the horizon.
"Are you afraid?"
Liu Xuan stood in front of him and turned around and asked.
"Don't be afraid!" Su Yun looked indignant, but he thought in his heart that it would be hell if he wasn't afraid.
Liu Xuan nodded with satisfaction and shouted: "The whole army listens to the order!" Get ready for battle! ”
The other party was not in a hurry to attack the city, and the forward army advanced five miles outside the city and stopped, and began to build a large camp, waiting for the men and horses behind to arrive one after another.
From the outside, there was a black oppressive human head outside, and the camp was boundless, even if it was a thick city wall, it could not bring a sense of security to the guards.
"Zhen Fu is worthy of being battle-hardened, and the camp is built without leakage." Liu Xuan's face was not very good, he originally wanted to take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold and find an opportunity to make a sneak attack, but it seemed that the plan was about to fail.
Zhen Fu didn't let them wait long, the army surged out of the enemy camp, and there were 10,000 troops on each wing to outflank the surroundings of Chungling, these thousands of thieves were just a little piece of food in Zhen Fu's eyes, this time he didn't set the direction of the main attack at all, and directly attacked the four gates, and he had already issued an order to slaughter the city, and he didn't plan to let anyone go.
A group of cavalry rushed more than a hundred meters below the city walls, which was just outside the range of bows and arrows.
The treatment of the new dynasty army is extremely high, and they are all wearing armor and holding halberds, so they are not majestic.
"Liu Xuan thief, quickly open the city gate, and now the avatar can reward you with a whole corpse!"
The leading cavalry captain shouted at the city.
Liu Jiu didn't speak, took off a strong bow, and pulled a full string.
"Boom!"
With a crisp sound, the arrow shot straight at the cavalry captain, the captain's face was still full of mocking expressions, and in a blink of an eye, his throat was pierced, and he fell off the horse, and the rest of the cavalry hurriedly pulled the horse's head and retreated, Liu Xuan was calm, the movements in his hands did not pause at all, and he shot two more arrows in one breath, and two more corpses soon appeared on the ground.
"Good!"
"The divine power of the eldest prince!"
The guards were completely impressed by this scene, and burst into cheers, which instantly raised the already somewhat low morale to the peak.
Su Yun was also stunned, he didn't expect that this cheap brother's kung fu was so strong, and the last time he borrowed his ability, it was really overkill.
Zhen Fu on the opposite side was naturally so angry that he was smoking, and with a wave of his big hand, the deafening sound of drums remembered that the soldiers holding long shields covered the ladders and wells and slowly advanced towards the city wall, like a black tide, about to submerge this crumbling city.
"Woo Woo ......"
The catapults in the rear of the army were also in operation, and the sky was full of fist-sized stones, smashing towards the city like fairies scattering flowers.
"Watch for secrecy!"
The Chung Ling army didn't have many shields, everyone hid at the foot of the wall, and lifted the wooden planks prepared in advance, although it was simple, but the effect was still good, except for some particularly unlucky guys who were hit by the rebounding stones and broke their heads, but there were no casualties.
Soon the stone rain stopped, which meant that the enemy soldiers outside the city had attacked under the city wall, Su Yun was surprised to find that the first reaction of the soldiers around him was to run around to collect the stones that had just been hit, it turned out that the Chung Ling army was so poor that they didn't even have many bows and arrows, so they could only throw stones to fight back.
"It's okay to have a slingshot at this time!" Su Yun was speechless, and followed to pick up a bunch of stones and return to the wall.
"Smash!"
At the sound of an order, everyone picked up their arms and threw them down, and there were bursts of screams from below.
"Woo Woo ......"
As soon as he finished smashing a wave, the enemy's archers came up, and a soldier next to Su Yun couldn't dodge and was shot in the head, splashing hot blood on his face.
"! Give me a camera now, and I'll take home an Oscar! ”
This kind of bloody scene is more shocking than any movie, the bloodiness in Su Yun's body was stimulated, and at this moment he didn't care about thinking about what heavenly way he was, "Either you die or I live!" ”
He kept throwing stones, and several unlucky eggs were scooped by him.
"Knock knock!" The war drums sounded again, and the shield soldiers drove to the bottom of the city with the ladder cart, and began to erect folding ladders, and the two wells that were almost as high as the city wall slowly approached, and the archers on them kept shooting arrows into the city wall, and the casualties of the Lingling army were getting bigger and bigger.
"Pikemen!"
Some of the soldiers took out the long bamboo poles they had prepared, with sharp blades tied to them, and worked in pairs, one with a wooden plank to block the arrows, and the other from the city wall to stab out.
"Hot oil!"
There were also several large stoves burning on the city wall, and the collected vegetable oil had already been boiled, and the soldiers picked up various pots and spoons and kept pouring them down.
"Boom......"
The screams mixed with the smell of meat filled the entire battlefield.
Liu Xuan was running back and forth on the city wall, constantly giving orders, and this was the first wave of attacks, and the defenders' casualties had exceeded two layers, and the form was not optimistic.