Chapter 253: Stubborn Resistance
After several days of heavy bombardment, at this time, the defense facilities outside the Chenghe River in Baoying County had already been razed to the ground by the Song army, and the enemy army did not dare to rush out to repair and arrange the defense facilities, so the Song army would not encounter any obstacles before reaching the Chenghe, and once the general attack was launched, it was like a thunderstorm and rain, which made the defenders in the city have a sense of unstoppability. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Liu Qingfu heard the movement of the Song army, immediately came out of the county office, ran up the city wall in a smoke, and dispatched the defenders everywhere to go to the city to defend the city, the morale of the northern army was pitiful at this time, few people were willing to brave the enemy's artillery to climb the city to defend it, if it were not for Liu Qingfu and his cronies to lure them, I am afraid that there are not many people in the northern army who are willing to go to the city at this time.
When the defenders were frightened to climb the city wall, raised their eyes to look at the city, one by one couldn't help but be even more frightened, the artillery racks outside the city almost surrounded the city wall, every moment there were cannons hanging on the city wall with the sound of the wind, smashing heavily on the city wall, the city bricks on the entire city wall in these few days of bombardment, still kept intact is really not much, the entire city wall is full of a dilapidated scene, a large section of the female wall battlements have become a piece of rubble, The smashed female wall is almost more than half of the length of the entire city wall, so that the soldiers who ascend the city can not even find a place to hide, can only temporarily set up a wooden standing card or a wooden female head to block the Song army arrows that splashed up like rain under the city, the city wall of Baoying County at this time is comparable to the pants of the most pitiful beggar, it can be said that it is full of holes and crumbling, after seeing this scene, if the morale of the soldiers of the northern army can still be high, it will really be a hell.
And their limited number of throwing carts have been destroyed by the Song army in the past few days, so that Liu Qingfu is also excited, too lazy to force the craftsmen in the city to continue to build new throwing cars and transport them to the city wall to fight back, in order to preserve their strength, he had to let the craftsmen put the newly built throwing cars in the city in the city wall, not to let the Song army see, so as to throw some stones, as a limited counterattack to the Song army.
In this way, it played a certain role, the Song army could not observe these throwing carts placed under the city wall, and it was much more difficult to destroy them, and now these throwing carts were the only heavy support weapons they could rely on.
At this time, the Song army had effortlessly advanced to the edge of the moat, this time the vehicles that were pushed to the front of the Song army were nothing else, it was those trench bridges specially used to force the moat and the folding bridges that were quite advanced in this era, these vehicles were equipped with huge wheels, each car was roughly advanced by more than 100 people, and there were a large number of shield hands around them to provide cover, and there were a large number of crossbowmen behind them to provide support, in short, let these vehicles attack the moat, basically without any obstacles, What's more, until now, the Song army has not stopped firing cannons, and all kinds of artillery stones still fall inside and outside the city wall like raindrops.
In order to cooperate with the actions of the attacking troops, Gao Huaiyuan was not stingy, and many iron cannons brought by the general were handed over to the artillery army, and they were ordered to throw these iron cannons into the city, these iron cannons were like large grenades, and they were thrown into the city by throwing the car after being ignited.
These iron cannons soon gave the defenders a lot of damage, in order to cope with the Song army's siege, the defenders were concentrated near the city wall at this time, after many iron cannons fell, they just blew them up, so the northern army that had just gathered was suddenly blown up by this bomb bombardment.
At this time, the Song army took advantage of this cover to break through to the side of the moat, and began to erect a trench bridge and several advanced folding bridges on the moat.
Shoot arrows at Lao Tzu and quickly stop the Song army from crossing the river! Damn, you shrunken turtles, can you hide and not die? The Song army is still going to slaughter you when they come in, hurry up and release arrows to Lao Tzu, and if you don't release the arrows, Lao Tzu will chop you first! The defender of the south of the city stood in the rubble of the city tower on the city wall at this time, and angrily scolded the soldiers on the city wall.
It was only at this time that the defenders began to counterattack the Song army under the city sporadically, but in terms of the strength of the counterattack, it could no longer be compared with the Song army attacking the city on the first day.
Liu Qingfu also encountered the same situation on the east city wall, the Song army outside the city was very unified and launched an attack on the city wall of their respective attacks almost at the same time, forcing them to deploy manpower at the same time to the three city walls for imperial defense, but after Liu Qingfu arrived at the east gate, he had already realized the seriousness of the problem, he originally thought that he should have no problem holding out for two more days, but now at a glance, today they can hold out until the night is uncertain, now the city wall of Baoying County is bombed with holes, Some places may collapse at any time, and his soldiers are all demoralized at this time, without any fighting spirit, they are now compared with the momentum of the Song army outside the city, it is like a group of frightened chickens, and the Song army has successfully achieved their goal these days, and has completely destroyed the morale of the defenders in the city.
Liu Qingfu watched the Song army rushing over from the moat, and while urgently ordering the soldiers to release arrows to block them, his eyes turned sharply, thinking about countermeasures, and now he looked at the offensive launched by the Song army, and he was also a little helpless, leading a group of soldiers who had lost their morale and scared their courage, even if he was a god, he was afraid that he would not be able to return to the sky.
The Song army has not stopped its psychological offensive against the city for a moment these days, and every day they send people outside the city to publicize their policies towards the defectors, and the defenders in the city have heard it so much that their ears are almost calloused, and they can almost recite it backwards.
And at this time, when they saw that the Song army brazenly launched a fierce attack on Baoying County, many soldiers of the Northern Army seemed to be ready to surrender, even if they were forced to release arrows, they also picked a place where no one was to launch, and they didn't plan to resist at all, and some people even secretly peeked at Liu Qingfu on the city wall, Liu Qingfu could feel the kind of ill will in their eyes, so he immediately felt a chill in his heart, and immediately ordered the guards guarding the east city wall to repel the Song army no matter what. And he himself hurriedly ran down the city wall and ran back to the county government with dozens of his relatives.
I'm afraid I can't stand it, the military spirit has been dispersed! If it goes on like this, it may not be able to survive today, and Baoying County is probably about to fall, so if we continue to stay here, we will just wait for death! Ma San, a few of you come here, do as I tell you, we will leave this afternoon!" If it's too late, I'm afraid I won't be able to leave! As soon as he entered the county office, he summoned his most confidant and said to them.
These people are Liu Qingfu's personal entourage, and they can be regarded as his most reliable subordinates, and after listening to Liu Qingfu's words, they were also very nervous, so they hurried over to listen to Liu Qingfu's orders.
You wait to go out now, so and so, and do as I tell you, and I will wait for you at the north gate!" Try to move as fast as possible, the more chaotic the better! After Liu Qingfu whispered to the group of people under him, he instructed them.
Several people looked a little hesitant, and the subordinate named Ma San hesitated and asked: Is this possible? Isn't this equivalent to giving up Baoying County?
A sucker! If I don't give up, won't the Song army be able to capture the county seat? Now that most of the grain in the city has been burned by the fireball of the Song army, and it looks like we are about to run out of food, and Li Quan has no reinforcements to send to us, do you think we can survive for a few more days? What's more, now that the morale has been completely destroyed by the Song army, can the Song army be stopped by relying on these declining soldiers? Do as I tell you to, it's too late! Liu Qingfu angrily reprimanded Ma San.
When these people under him heard this, it was indeed the case, this battle was fought to this point, and there was really no time to play, so it was better to do it according to Liu Qingfu's instructions, but there might be a chance to escape and ascend to heaven.
So this group of people immediately went down and began to arrange, at this time the battle under the three city walls also entered the most intense level, although the morale of the defenders plummeted, but it does not mean that everyone decided to give up resistance, when the Song army attacked to the foot of the city wall, all kinds of ladders, flying ladders were erected on the city wall, there were still some soldiers of the Northern Army on the city and the Song army started a fight.
No one can avoid casualties in such a siege battle, the Song army attacked from the bottom up, and the terrain was in a very unfavorable situation, but these Song troops were now in high morale, and with the encouragement of the officers, they struggled to pull up the ladders, hooked them to the city wall, and then held swords and shields, and struggled to climb up to the city wall.
And the Northern Army also plucked up Yu Yong at this time, and copied the guys who could be used in their hands, even if it was for the sake of face, they had to resist it, and suddenly under the counterattack of the remnants of the Northern Army, the arrows and stones fell on the city, and the Song Army finally gnawed on the hard bones, and at this time, in order to avoid accidental injury, all kinds of artillery trucks of the Song Army outside the city also stopped firing, and the artillery bombardment that lasted for many days finally fell silent, leaving only the earth-shattering shouting and killing sound under the city wall.
The Song army can be said to be like a rainbow at this time, the officers and soldiers rushed to climb the city wall, many people fell down again under the counterattack of the enemy, as long as they were not seriously injured or killed on the spot, many Song troops were slightly injured and could not get out of the line of fire, got up and copied the guy and climbed the ladder again, and climbed up again without fear of death.
From the beginning of the general attack of the Song army to the Song army's attack on the city wall and the defenders' hand-to-hand encounter, it only took more than an hour in total, and the Song army began to break through the city wall in many places, and launched a hand-to-hand battle with the defenders at the head of the city wall covered with rubble.