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The 20,000 people under the command of the planter Dao had already had breakfast, and all the siege equipment was pulled to the foot of Yanjing City.

Yanjing City is four zhang high, with a circumference of twenty miles, all of which are made of large bluestone. The construction of the city wall cost more than 300,000 yuan, including more than 100,000 people, and it took more than two years.

Since ancient times, Yanjing has been a Xiongcheng, which means that this time the battle is definitely bloody and difficult.

Lao Chong learned the lesson of Zhuozhou and decided to take a wave and concentrate 5,000 vanguard troops to storm the south gate. Everything was ready, and the red flag in the old man's hand pointed to Yanjing, "Launch!" ”

So, when the battle began, even the commanders went to the front line and personally beat the drums and cheered. Tens of thousands of soldiers are boiling, and the capital of Liao is about to be captured by themselves, glorifying the ancestors!

At the sound of an order, all kinds of instruments started to move.

Ten large catapults and 100 small and medium-sized catapults arrived at the designated location under the impetus of 1,200 people.

Then, according to the operating standards, the stones and fireballs were reloaded, and the attack began. Forty catties of stone bullets and twenty catties of fireballs of grass and trees began to draw a mighty trajectory in the sky.

Immediately afterwards, Yanjing City sounded the sound of gongs to warn, panic cries, and the sound of houses cracking. The flame bomb hit the houses and thatched huts and began to burn, and puffs of smoke rose in Yanjing City.

After nine rounds of firing in an hour, the south gate tower of the key care object began to collapse and burn, and many city walls were also smashed out of a big gap. ”

Goose carts, shield carts, ladders, crash cars, and ballista carts began to quickly start into battle. They were followed by siege soldiers, stormtroopers, death squads, and assault squads, all in place, waiting to rush to the city gates to annihilate the enemy army.

The old man observed the battle situation at the city gate, and ordered "the catapult to extend the bombardment inward, with the south gate tower as the core, to prevent the Liao army from aiding the south gate"

The south gate is Xiao Buye's defense area, as an experienced veteran, he wisely did not nest in the city tower. Instead, he hid behind an ordinary battlement not far from the city tower, and carefully observed the situation of the Song army under the city.

The Song army's equipment was too big to enter the city, but the catapults in the city could not hit him. You have to find a way to knock some down, otherwise you will suffer too much.

Xiao Bu also saw the siege equipment slowly approaching, yes, hit his siege troops, and began to bombard halfway.

In order to destroy the catapults in the city, it is possible for the Song army's giant catapults to advance, and at that time, if all the catapults advance to the vicinity of the city wall and counterattack with all their might, there will be a great chance to destroy the large catapults.

The herald immediately followed the order, and when the Song army's siege vehicles and assault teams were two hundred paces away, one hundred and fifty medium-sized catapults in Yanjing City began to counterattack fiercely. For a while, the sky was full of stone bullets and fireballs flying out of the city.

Under this intensive bombardment, some of the Song army's cars and quite a few soldiers were hit. With this kind of force and speed, even a small piece of gravel can kill a person.

Seeing that there was some confusion in the siege queue, the planter calculated the size of the opponent's track and stone projectiles, and ordered large artillery carts and medium-sized catapults to advance forward and start a stone-throwing battle with the Liao army. At the same time, the siege force was ordered to speed up and pass through this dangerous area.

Xiao Bu also saw the artillery cart starting, and immediately dispatched all the catapults to step forward, just waiting for the Song army's artillery cart to enter the range of 400 paces, and then opened full fire.

Fifty small and medium-sized catapults of the Song army entered the strike range in advance, but Xiao Bu was silent. The large catapult bodies were all giants and moved slowly, and finally by the time the artillery was in place, the siege troops had reached the moat and began to fill the river on a large scale.

After enduring the bombardment for a quarter of an hour, Xiao Buye finally waited for the artillery truck to enter the predetermined range. At the sound of an order, a storm-like stone projectile smashed into the Song army's large catapult.

This wave of artillery attacks, large in number and strong in force, almost knocked out one-third of the catapults of the Song army, causing chaos among the Song army's artillery soldiers. Under the dispatch of the commander of the artillery army, it was immediately broken into pieces and evaded the artillery attack of the Liao army.

And the seed master Dao also saw that this was an ambush artillery truck designed by the enemy, and Chi Er said behind him, "The Khitan dog is really cunning, it's a pity." ”

Seed Master Dao nodded, and praised the Liao army guard, "It is really powerful, and it has resisted the bombardment for a quarter of an hour, although they have an advantage in artillery warfare, but today it is mainly a siege, and the artillery is just a side branch." ”

Chi'e pointed ahead and said, "The moat has been filled, and the siege will begin immediately!" ”

From afar, all sorts of vehicles began to cross the moat and quickly approach the city walls.

At a distance of seventy paces, the rain of arrows on the head of the city began to threaten, and there were even large crossbows shooting at various vehicles. However, the Song army had more siege vehicles, and the city wall was repeatedly bombarded by the Song army's artillery vehicles, so there was not much of a problem except for slowing down the Song army.

When the first goose cart approached the wall, the Liao army first splashed grease on the goose cart and then lit it with torches. The twenty soldiers hiding in the goose cart, except for the three or four soldiers at the front who opened the door and jumped onto the city wall, the others were surrounded by fireworks.

And a few Song soldiers jumped down, and they couldn't be caught off guard by the many Liao soldiers hiding under the battlement wall, and the Liao army shouted "Weisheng!" ”

However, the second, third, and fourth vehicles attacked together, and many soldiers climbed up with the help of siege chiseles on the wall. Whoever can be the first to climb the city wall and win the first merit of Yanjing, the old Xianggong will be promoted to three levels in a row, and even a small soldier can become a nine-rank military attaché.

Isn't war all about money and status? The momentum of the Song army began to become fearless. On the city wall, the defending soldiers immediately threw stones, rolling logs, braziers, boiling water and other city defense supplies.

With the arrival of the follow-up attacking troops, the south gate of Yanjing was under great pressure. At this time, the catapult in the city could not bombard the siege troops under the city because of the distance.

The seed master Dao watched the siege troops on the car, and bravely attacked the Liao army's wall defense line on the ladder. The casualties must have been staggering. At this time, he remembered the situation when Han Wang attacked Xiongzhou and Baozhou, and couldn't help but sigh.

A few hundred, or even a few dozen people, can take a city. But he has lost almost a thousand people in the past half a day, and he has not seen any signs of a breakthrough, no, he must cut through the chaos quickly, otherwise once the morale is exhausted, this Yanjing himself will not want to fight again.

"Chi'e, you prepare, take my own soldiers to press up, and take down the south gate no matter what."

Chi Er also felt that the stalemate between the two sides had been too long, and it was better to have a new force to go up and strengthen it, as long as a gap was broken, it would be a devastating blow to the enemy's morale.

Immediately go down and put on high-carbon steel armor. The old man transferred twenty personal soldiers to follow him, gave it a go, and used the advantages of equipment and good skills to open the stalemate at the south gate in one fell swoop, opening a bloody road for further breakthrough into the inner city. (To be continued.) )