At noon, the battle was suspended, Bing Shaohui's Fengzhou Weisheng Army fully retreated to rest, and 5,000 auxiliary soldiers stepped forward to carry back the bodies of the soldiers killed in the battle, as well as the fallen ladders, to clear the obstacles under the city, and prepare for the battle of the third division of Shi Chenghong in the afternoon. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Zhang Yue took hundreds of horsemen to turn outside the East City Gate, the battle situation here was not too smooth, the Shu soldiers could not fight in the field, but the combat power was not as bad as imagined, but it was often ordered out of many doors, and the command structure was a mess. Now that there is a veteran like Pet Fucheng who is good at defending the palace, and there is no civilian supervisor and army blind command and constraints, it is not so easy to attack the city.

Zhang Yue beat the horse slowly, and couldn't help but think of another time and space "I sent the forbidden army to Shu", that was three or four years later, the "big send" army was to take Xingzhou and Xingyuan Mansion first, and then attack the Sanquan army, and Lizhou City ran away before the Shu army was defeated. And the Shu general is not a favor of Fucheng, but the northern border commander Wang Zhaoyuan and the capital eunuch Zhao Chongtao, which were all airborne from the Chengdu court, and the cumulative amount of grain seized after the war reached a terrifying 1.2 million stones, which is equivalent to about 150 million catties.

This data is boundless, you must know that Zhang Yue won Xingyuan Mansion and Wang Jing conquered Xingzhou in the second year of Xiande, plus Qin Feng's tax and grain accumulated in the six years of Xiande cannot reach this number, "I send it" is nothing more than using this data to show that the Shu army is rich and incompetent, and it is not worthy of having Shuzhong.

Speaking of which, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms are the epitome of the social outlook of the late Tang Dynasty, the court of Shuzhong and the Southern Tang Dynasty have moved towards the same emphasis on literature and light on military force, and the Central Plains has changed the dynasty the fastest, since the establishment of the forbidden army since the Later Liang has been reshuffled several times, to the Later Zhou Liguo formulated the national policy of strong cadres and weak branches, and the forbidden army was strengthened again, which led to the current situation.

In fact, it was not that Chengdu did not send a supervising army, but that He Jiyun's southern expedition of Xingyuan Mansion was too sudden, and the Chengdu court sent the supervising army Yi Xianzheng and Zhao Chongwu, but the two arrived in Mianzhou, and Zhang Jianxiong had already entered Mianzhou along the Minjiang River, so he took the opportunity to follow Li Tingjun and did not dare to come to the front line in Lizhou.

This makes it more advantageous for Pet Fucheng to use the deployment of troops in a word, but on the other hand, the Shu army has little training, and the overall level of combat power is worse than that of the Great Zhou Zhen army. As a result, He Jiyun laid down the two lines of defense of Sanquan and Mantianzhai all the way, but it was not so smooth.

"Maybe the timing is wrong!" Zhang Yue secretly thought that although he was fighting Shu under the banner of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Chengdu Meng Chang should have heard some rumors, and asked him to surrender to an emerging force that had not claimed to be the emperor and founded the country, I am afraid that he would not be convinced, so he could only advance quickly and advance directly to Chengdu, but now, it has been delayed for last month.

"The last general Yuanzhou assassin history, meet Zhang Xianggong!" A general blocked the road in front to salute, it was Wang Tingyi, the eldest son of Wang Jing, the current commander of the Chengde Festival, who stayed in Xingzhou after the war in the second year of Xiande, and later transferred to Yuanzhou, east of Xingyuan Mansion, under the control of He Jiyun.

Zhang Yue bowed slightly on the horse and said with a smile: "Come to your department in the afternoon, right?" Do you have the confidence to take the city? ”

"Hey...... Our left army will attack the city in the morning, but the defenders have a large number of troops, and it is difficult to stand on their feet, and at the end of the afternoon we will plan to fight in person! "Wang Tingyi is almost forty years old, and his waist is bearish, but he has a bit of his father's demeanor when he was young.

Zhang Yue said solemnly: "Very good! The fight in the afternoon has been non-stop, the plan is to break the city at dusk, remember to pay attention to military discipline after entering the city, no privateering! Thou shalt not kill! ”

"He Dashuai has already ordered three times, and the brothers know it!" Wang Tingyi smiled strangely, approached and whispered: "If the official warehouse is sealed, is there a reward after the war?" ”

"What do you say?" Zhang Yue shook the horsewhip with a straight face, raised his voice and drank, and said with a smile: "Fight well!" ”

Zhang Yue looked around and saw that the soldiers were full of morale, but in the previous battles of He Jiyun, the total number of wounded soldiers reached two or three thousand, so he went to the wounded barracks to appease, and then inspected the logistics preparations, and talked with He Jiyun about the military discipline of the soldiers entering the city, and then returned to the north city gate.

At the beginning of the afternoon, the sun in early winter has been westward, facing He Jiyun's department outside the east city gate, but the north city gate is not affected, the three divisions and 10,000 soldiers are well-equipped, Shi Chenghong and the deputy commander Liu Wenbai each led a brigade to divide into east and west two formations, and slowly drove close to the city two miles with neat steps. And Bing Shaohui led 5,000 soldiers of the Weisheng Army of his headquarters to line up behind the city gate of the middle road, and Zhang Yue led another 5,000 Weisheng troops to watch the enemy sweep in the rear.

After the female wall, arrow tower and other defensive facilities on the head of the city were knocked out, the Shu army took the time to use the bricks and stones obtained from the demolition of houses in the city to hurriedly repair, the base was very rough, and rows of knife carts were fixed behind the wall. This kind of thing is a manual two-wheeled cart, on which it is equipped with a half-man tall wooden plank, and twenty sharp knives are fixed on the outward side of the plank, which can resist arrows and trebuchets and stone bullets, and are used behind the city gate as a second line of defense; You can also move up the road at the head of the city to maneuver and prevent the enemy from climbing to the top of the city.

Soon, the soldiers advanced into place and stopped, forty trebuchets continued to strike ten rounds, and after the obstacles at the head of the city were knocked down, two regiments of fresh troops were sent on the east and west sides of the city gate, and the surviving eight ladders arrived at the place close to the city wall.

At the same time, in the middle of the road behind the city gate, the rushing car was pushed by hundreds of soldiers, and it crashed into the city gate with a rumbling sound. In a series of loud noises, sixteen ladders on the east and west sides set up the city one after another, and the sword and shield men who sat down at the bottom of the ladder shouted in unison, and quickly rushed out of the cabin, and climbed up the ladder with their shields in a row of three.

Compared with the town armies in various places, the siege tactics of the Northwest Army are much more proficient, and the most tragic one is the attack on Shanzhou in the fourth year of Xiande. In the face of the Central Plains, it is rare to attack and defend the city so viciously, and it is generally spilled with boiling water, which is also difficult to resist.

As soon as the trebuchet stopped, as soon as the Zhou army's infantry started, the Shu army reserves in the city wall carried buckets of boiling water to the city, and various woods, bricks and stones were piled up at the city, which made the soldiers of the four regiments who went up the ladder first suffer very much.

However, the strong crossbowmen in the gap of the infantry formation under the city continued to release arrows, although the Shu army hid behind a row of knife carts was also hit, the attack of the first four regiments was half of the ladder, and the cloud ladder was quickly overturned by two forks, but the rear continued to increase troops as a unit of command, and the battle was very fierce at the beginning.

In the afternoon, the soldiers of the Shu army were tired after a long battle, and there was no new force to send, and the defenders of the north and east city walls began to push back and block, unwilling to go to the front line to defend, and the temporarily recruited people could only be stationed in a small amount, and there would be an escape to cause collapse, and the soldiers available to favor Fucheng were only six or seven thousand soldiers, and the continuous attrition was serious, so they had to send their own tooth army and two hundred guards to the guards, and the disadvantages of the north city wall were gradually reversed.