Chapter 140: Precarious
Without trebuchet support, the casualties of the Qin soldiers on the city wall were suddenly greatly reduced!
The Xiangliang rebel soldiers who were besieging the city lacked strong bows, and they almost did no damage to the Qin soldiers defending the city! What's more, the Qin army arranged countless rolling stones, sasswood, gold juice and other weapons to defend the city!
The rebels under the city are so crowded that they can't get to the top of the city at all!
In order to maximize the killing and wounding of the rebel soldiers, the Qin army on the city wall did not care about the ladder on the city wall at all, and let the rebel soldiers climb up the ladder, so that the rebel soldiers who climbed the ladder basically died one by one!
The whole occupation suddenly fell into a state of anxiety!
Zhang Liang looked at the sky, there was still half an hour before the sun set! walked to Xiang Liang, who had stopped beating the drum, and whispered to Xiang Liang in his ear!
"Ovary, so ......" Xiang Liang's face suddenly changed when he heard Zhang Liang's words, and then hesitated!
"General, if you don't act like this, I'm afraid that we won't say that we will take Chengwu today, I'm afraid that in three days, five or even ten days, we won't be able to take this small Chengwu City!" Zhang Liang pointed to the top and bottom of the Chengwu city wall that was fighting together, and said loudly!
Xiang Liang is also very anxious about the current situation!
Meng Tian's army is rushing to rescue Hu Hai! I'm afraid it won't take three days to reach the martial arts! If you can't capture Chengwu at that time! I'm afraid that my hundreds of thousands of troops will flee for their lives overnight!
Not only must Chen County, which was finally captured, be lost, but also the entire Surabaya must be lost and retreat all the way to the south of the Huai River!
Xiang Liang's expression changed, and he suddenly ordered: "Command the army, there is no general Ming Jindan who retreats without permission, and there is no forgiveness for killing!" ”
More than 100 catapults rumbled out of the camp on all sides! They were no longer followed by ordinary rebel soldiers, but tens of thousands of Yue barbarians who had been acting as rear troops!
This time, besieging Chengwu on all sides, Xiang Liang personally led an army of 150,000 to sit in the camp south of Chengwu, Sima Ang led 50,000 troops to attack the northern city wall, Tian Du led 50,000 troops to attack the east city wall, and Xiang Zhuang led 50,000 troops to attack the west city wall!
In the four camps, except for the 30,000 elite veterans in the Xiangliang camp and the 50,000 Baiyue barbarians, there are 20,000 Baiyue barbarians in each of the other three camps!
And these 20,000 Baiyue barbarians are the elite soldiers that Xiang Liang used to suppress Chengwu County in one fell swoop at a critical time! Of course, if these three-sided Baiyue barbarians can really break the city in one fell swoop, it would be the best!
If you can't break the city, at the end of the day, the most elite 30,000 armored veterans in Xiangliang's camp will be pressed on a big scale and break the city in one fell swoop!
What Zhang Liang told Xiang Liang just now was that he kept dividing his troops to attack in turns, and while attacking, all the catapults would keep throwing stone bullets regardless of the enemy, so as to kill and injure the Qin army!
The reason why Xiang Liang began to hesitate was precisely because the catapult surname Neng was obviously not very stable, if he kept throwing stone bullets all the time, he would certainly be able to kill and injure a large number of Qin soldiers, but I was afraid that his own siege army would also suffer a lot of casualties!
This is obviously an act of killing 10,000 enemies and losing 8,000 yourself! And it will greatly damage the morale of the army!
However, Zhang Liang's last words made Xiang Liang completely determined! At this moment, there is indeed no turning back! If he can capture this Chengwu before Meng Tian's arrival, it is fine, if he has not captured Chengwu by the time Meng Tian arrives, and captures or kills Hu Hai alive, then he Xiang Liang will only retreat south of the Huai River in embarrassment!
And there will never be such a good opportunity from now on!
Because, Hu Hai himself went north secretly, but he came all the way to ambush Hu Hai, as long as he is not a fool, he knows that there are high-ranking officials in Daqin who report for him!
It's okay to say that Hu Hai is dead, and it is estimated that there will be no more investigation of this matter at that time, after all, Hu Hai means that the Qin Dynasty will definitely experience some chaos inside! If Hu Hai hadn't died, then the first step back to Xianyang would obviously be to arrest this high-ranking official who had betrayed the news of his northward journey!
In this way, it would no longer be possible for that person to hide inside the Qin Court to provide information for himself! I'm afraid that at the same time as he retreats, that person will also flee from Xianyang!
At that time, the loss was definitely not ordinary!
It is precisely because of this that Xiang Liang made up his mind! Zhang Liang also knew who was providing news to Xiang Liang within the Qin Court! Of course, this is Xiang Liang's work to win Zhang Liang's trust!
Xiang Liang's death order was quickly and quietly conveyed to Tian Du, Sima Ang and Xiang Zhuang in the other three camps!
Although he was horrified in his heart, when he saw the dozens of Xiang Liang's guards standing with his sword that came with the letter, everyone knew that if he didn't carry out the order at this time, he was afraid that Xiang Liang's guards would take him down first!
Chengwu County is not big, and the first wave of attacks, the battalions on all sides dispatched 10,000 troops on one side are already a little unable to stand!
Now, with Xiang Liang's military order, wave after wave of rebel soldiers are ready, ready to take over at any time to fight!
The movements of Xiang Liang's army were quickly reported to Hu Hai, who was waiting for news in the city!
At this time, Xiang Liang dispatched more than 100 catapults again, for what?
Don't?
A terrible thought suddenly came to Hu Hai's mind! The more he thought about it, the more he thought it was possible!
"Kill the catapults in the city to speed up, and you must completely destroy the catapults in Xiang Liang's army!" Hu Hai got up and said to Long Wei beside him!
Xiang Liang has been attacking the city with catapults if he does not distinguish between the enemy, although this will cause casualties to his own army, but obviously more casualties are from the Qin soldiers defending the city!
At this moment, the number of catapults in Chengwu City has increased to more than a hundred! With Hu Hai's order, the speed of stone projectiles thrown by catapults in the city increased dramatically! The sudden dense stone projectiles suddenly made Xiang Liang's catapult army chaotic!
Terrifying blood paths appeared around the catapult army!
"Order the men to hurry up and make the catapults! Don't stop for a moment, make it and ship it! Xiang Liang was also ruthless in his heart! His catapult can't hit the city, and he can only be beaten passively and then build as many catapults as possible!
The army of Xiang Liang's catapults, which had just stopped, moved again under the guard of Xiang Liang's personal guard with a sword!
Stone bullets roared in the air and smashed onto the Chengwu city wall, and the sudden force of Xiang Liang's catapult soldiers made the casualties of the Qin army defending the city skyrocket! Although from time to time, the rebel soldiers who were crowded under the city wall were stoned to death by the stone bullets thrown by their catapults, there is no doubt that with the strength of the catapult soldiers in the rear, the pressure on the rebel soldiers of Xiangliang, who could only be passively beaten during the siege of the city, was much less!
And in order to minimize the damage to his own soldiers as much as possible, under Xiang Liang's order, the catapult of Xiang Liang's rebel soldiers moved forward more than fifty steps again, and stopped at a distance of four hundred and five steps from the city wall!
In this way, the accuracy of the catapult of the Xiang Liang rebels suddenly increased dramatically, but the damage to their own soldiers under the city wall was much less!
Although the stone bullets flying from the city were constantly destroying the catapults of Xiang Liang's army, every moment more catapults were transported from various camps to the city walls.
In this way, the catapults of Xiang Liang's army have maintained four hundred uninterrupted throwing stone bombs at the head of the Chengwu city wall, although the catapult soldiers of Xiang Liang's army suffered heavy casualties, but the situation of the Qin soldiers guarding the city on the city wall suddenly became more dangerous!
Before the hot gold juice was splashed, it was knocked away by the suddenly dense stone projectiles, causing more than ten Qin soldiers around to fall to the ground and die without saying a word!
With the addition of the Baiyue barbarian army, more cloud ladders were erected on the Chengwu wall, and the Xiangliang rebel soldiers, who had never climbed the city wall, took the lead in boarding the Chengwu city wall in front of the camp in Xiangzhuang in the west!
Although the soldier who climbed the city wall was smashed to pieces by his own stone bullets that fell from the sky before he could stand firmly, this had greatly boosted the morale of Xiang Liang's rebels!
Countless Baiyue barbarians crossed the soldiers of the Central Plains region who were originally crowded under the city, and climbed up the ladder with a roar with fishing forks!
"Knock knock!"
Seeing the movements of the siege soldiers, the sound of war drums, which had been stopped for a while, sounded from the Xiangliang camp again!
Suddenly, more Baiyue barbarians rushed out from the four large camps, roaring and rushing towards Chengwu City!
At the head of Chengwu City, every moment, the soldiers of the Qin army were smashed and killed by stone bullets falling from the sky! The situation suddenly becomes precarious!
Hundreds of ladders were erected on the top of the Chengwu wall, and each ladder was covered with Baiyue barbarians!
Xiang Liang has already said that whoever is the first to occupy a place at the head of the Chengwu Wall will be rewarded with ten thousand gold, and he will be sealed! That's enough!
The casualties of a large number of Qin soldiers led to fewer and fewer Qin soldiers who could stand on the city wall! Every moment, dozens or hundreds of Qin soldiers were carried down from the four city walls!
These Qin soldiers either had severed hands or feet, or their heads were sparse!
And the soldiers in the city, who were originally a reserve team, were composed of Chengwu people, and 4,000 people had already been drawn up to the city wall, but the soldiers who had just rushed to the city would turn into a corpse and be carried down in less than a moment!
It seems that now the Chengwu city wall has become a monster with a bloody mouth open, constantly devouring the lives of the Qin army's soldiers!
Looking at the soldiers or people who were still alive just now, they rushed to the city for a moment, and they would turn into bloody corpses and be carried down, Hu Hai's heart was like a knife! He didn't expect Xiang Liang to directly devote all his strength to the first attack, using a lose-lose style of play!
Those Chengwu civilians who had never been on the battlefield before had just rushed to the city, and before they even had time to fear, they had already turned into a corpse! It's not about courage or equipment anymore!
Xiang Liang is already completely fighting with himself who has more people and who can afford it!
Seeing that the resistance on the city walls is getting weaker and weaker! Zhang Liang's face was slightly relaxed, and he nodded slightly at Xiang Liang!
Xiang Liang was overjoyed in his heart, knowing that the time had come!
The banner of the word "item" appeared on the battlefield for the first time!
10,000 stubborn Xiang Liang rebel soldiers marched out of the Xiang Liang Chinese army camp!
These 10,000 people are all veterans of the Six Kingdoms who have fought against the Qin army!
Xiang Liang wants to use them to take Chengwu County in one fell swoop!
(To be continued)