Chapter 368: Ghost Gate
For a few days, from the beginning of the siege, Guo Yaoshi drove his sons and sons, and more people, again and again to the Juyongguan city wall, plastering all over the field, but also did not hesitate, he just red-eyed, to take down this Juyong Guancheng, as for the future, wait for the future!
Hundreds of soldiers, holding the long shield with both hands, just formed a phalanx, stubbornly against the city wall, there are not many rolling wood and stones on the city, the houses that can be demolished have been demolished, and the city wall is almost demolished and pushed down, and the feather arrows are even more scarce, only by recovering the Jurchen Tartars and shooting arrows into the city, and more or pouring down the boiling water that the vats and vats are burning hot.
The boiling water fell down the gap in the shield, and the hands of the soldiers holding the shield were burned to the flesh, and they screamed loudly, but they did not dare to let go, around them, several oars were burning, for this kind of large-scale attack tools, the defenders had used precious rockets, around the oars, the corpses of the people in tattered clothes, were everywhere, and more when Guo Yaoshi's troops were concentrated under the city wall, they retreated to Changhao, and they would be shot into Changhao mercilessly.
This Changhao is already full of rotting corpses and the smell of disgusting, and many people who are not dead are slowly struggling in the corpse pile, trying to climb out, but there is not one in a hundred who can survive.
Countless hands scratched on the arms of the trench, scratching out long marks one after another, looking down from above, it looked like a jungle of resentful souls!
Under the city wall, several ladders were cut down, and the soldiers who were attacking the city were driven down, but they only gathered towards this piece of the hedgehog of the shield array, and whoever dared to drill into the array and disturb the soldiers who were covering and digging the city wall under the shield were cut down mercilessly.
These stragglers did not dare to retreat or advance, so they could only wander around. Those with bows and crossbows can still return a few arrows to the city, and the others can only grit their teeth and wait for death, and the mess that pours down from the city does not fall on themselves, and if they are fateful, they fall on themselves. What difference can there be between living a few more days and a few days less under the city of Juyongguan, which is like a hell on earth?
Guo Yaoshi had already rushed to the city wall in person, he was only wearing half armor, except for the front chest and back, his arms and legs were not covered, and together with his own soldiers, he was desperately digging the city roots near the edge of the city. In the first few days of the attack, the city walls had already been dug like a giant rat's nest.
After the heavy rain, it was even more declining, and the defenders of the city, taking advantage of the night, hung down the rope and filled a lot with gravel and big trees. Everyone rolls like mud monkeys, even Pharmacist Guo is no exception. He went into the edge of the city, and kept digging up the rammed earth foundations, and more people threw them out with baskets and sticks, covering their tops with their shields. There was a dull crashing sound, and there was the sound of a large bucket of boiling water pouring down, and many people were scalded by the boiling water flowing down the gap between the oars and shields, but no one slowed down their steps.
The battle around Juyong Pass was too tragic. The 500 elites of Guo Yaoshi's department, plus the more than 6,000 people who were forcibly recruited, were all his subordinates, and there were about 2,000 casualties these days.
Juyong Pass is close to the left, it has long become a mass grave, and Guo Yaoshi's department has long lost the sense of the difference between life and death.
Instead of retreating and dying under the bows and arrows of those Jurchens who are just supervising the array, it is better to die in Juyongguan City, and the brothers around you may be able to breathe a sigh of relief after the city is broken!
There were also all kinds of frightened shouts in the city, the Jurchen army's feather arrows covering the attack did not stop pouring towards the city for a moment, the city had already erected a huge shield, shooting arrows downwards and pouring boiling water, all of which were probed out in the giant shield, the feather arrows shot by the Jurchen army were too dense, slightly exposed, that is, walking in the ghost gate, from time to time someone was shot down, heavy on the top of the shield, flowing down the gap of the shield, it was not just boiling water, or blood water!
The Jurchen Jurchens are really dense feather arrows, but it's okay, the military horses besieging the city in the past few days have also tried to do catapult machinery, but unfortunately Wanyan Zongwang only led a large group of cavalry to come, although it was light, but the baggage column did not run over, most of the military food was carried out by plunder, relying on these cavalry to set up a catapult machine, it was too embarrassing for them, but a lot of huge trees were wasted, and a big stone did not go out.
Feather arrows shoot at the head of the city, nothing more than casualties, at this time human life has become the most worthless thing, as long as the city wall is still there, there is still hope for Juyongguan!
Guo Yaoshi came in person, with the soldiers who had not moved lightly a few days ago, and fought the last strength, but the sound of planing under the city was heard, even if the city wall of Juyongguan was thick, but it was dug with human life, as long as most of the digging went in, the rammed earth was soft after the rain, and the city wall may have to collapse!
The guards on the city just ran around, trying to break up the shield array below, but Guo Yaoshi got into the shield array, fighting for his life, no matter how he poured all the firepower into the city, this shield just held on, and the more he got to the back, the more frightened the city became, and the shouting sound had already been connected!
"Everything, everything, come out quickly! The walls are about to collapse, don't fill them in! "A veteran, hand and foot and ground climb into the trench under the wall, people can only bend over and bend their backs, crawl on the ground with their hands and feet, the inside is full of soldiers and soldiers, to the veteran just push to both sides, the soil on it, clattering straight down, digging here, it has been hundreds of years of compacted dry soil, powder generally falls, pouring people all over the face, even the hundred years of rammed earth are shaking and falling, it can be seen that the city foundation is already crumbling, I don't know when it will collapse!
The veteran climbed to the innermost, and saw Pharmacist Guo at the top, at this time the hoe and shovel were no longer available, Pharmacist Guo was just using his saber to dig the soil desperately, the whole person was completely earth-colored, he pulled hard, Pharmacist Guo turned around, and his expression was extremely fierce: "What are you doing here?" Supervise the soldiers, occupy the foundation of this city to the death, and prevent Han Shizhong from counterattacking! ”
The veteran has also followed Pharmacist Guo to death for many years, but he didn't care about Pharmacist Guo's orders, and dragged him everywhere: "We have to take care of you!" This wall is about to collapse, and it is just a matter of dying in battle, and it is not worth burying it in it! You command the soldiers outside to cover us, and I will dig through the foundation of the city, and I will fill the city, but you will not die! ”
Guo Yaoshi shook him off violently: "I know when it will be carved!" Is there still a way out for our army? If you want to survive, you can only give up your life more than others! If you go out to command, it will be impossible for the city to sit back and watch us succeed in digging the city, whether it is Han Shizhong or Yang Ling, there is no way out! (To be continued.) )