Chapter 312: Assault
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The resistance encountered in the attack on Xuzhou City was much weaker than expected, and the huge Xuzhou City was so inadequately prepared before the battle, which made Gao Huaiyuan feel a little incredible, and it shouldn't be said! Lu Futong was also a leader of the anti-gold resistance in the early years, how could he be so incompetent? The resistance in the city was so weak that he couldn't believe it, and after the cannon stone was smashed through, he saw that the city wall was in chaos, and there were even fewer people who got up to resist, which made people feel ridiculous.
This actually wronged Lu Futong, which is actually no wonder Lu Futong is incompetent, but there are not many people in the city who can fight, and Li Quan's death also hit their morale, so that many people can't see the possibility of winning, and when Li Quan was planning to defend Chuzhou City, he mobilized all the elite, and he basically transferred important heavy weapons to Chuzhou, Suqian and other cities, and since the Song army sent troops, it first hit Baoying County, then Chuzhou, and later Suqian, and every field can be said to be a vicious battle. When they met Xuzhou, which had poor resistance, Gao Huaiyuan felt that it was too relaxed.
The generals responded in unison, and then each began to go down to prepare, the ladder car, the flying bridge, the flying ladder, the trench bridge car have been pushed forward, into the position to be launched, and those who operate the artillery generals, is even more in full swing, now they operate these return guns, it can be said that they are handy, whether it is the preparation time, or the accuracy of the launch has been greatly improved, more than 100 throwing cars one after another, constantly smashing stones to the city wall, the defenders on the city do not dare to show their heads.
And the bed crossbow outside the city is not ambiguous, the soldiers who operate them are all naked and do it, anyway, at such a long distance, the defenders are helpless against them, wearing armor is really delaying, the bed crossbow is opened again and again with a winch, the soldiers put a spear-like stepping arrow on the bed crossbow, aiming at the city wall and constantly firing, this thing is a siege weapon, the hope is not to let these arrows destroy the city wall, but to nail these stepping arrows to the city wall in rows, and gradually arrange them from bottom to top to the city wall, In order to prepare for the next siege soldiers to step on them to climb the city wall, or they were given a figurative name, called stepping arrows, more than a dozen bed crossbows were fired in turn, and soon a lot of stepping arrows were nailed to the city wall, forming more than a dozen ladders leading to the upper part of the city wall.
Jiang Hai took a scimitar in his hand, then inserted it into the scabbard, turned around and smiled at the battalion behind him: The soldiers of the battalion behind him immediately followed him and raised their arms and shouted: Several officers also laughed, returned to their respective battalions, drew their knives and shouted, for a while, just by their shouts, they could basically distinguish what battalions were going to participate in the siege operation that began immediately.
Listening to the roar of thunder outside the city, the defenders were all terrified, and the shaking of the stones that kept falling on the city, some of them hid under the female walls and shivered.
Lu Futong now knows why Li Quan was defeated, and he was defeated so badly, these Song troops outside the city are not those greedy for life and afraid of death in his memory, but a very brave army and horses, he can't help but be a little desperate, he also wants to call something, boost morale, but he opened his mouth, but he didn't find any words, so he swallowed a mouthful of foam and scolded: Fu Tong whispered to a cronie's subordinates, and gave him such an explanation in the past, waved his hand to let that person go down to the city, and carefully stretched out his head, The lookout hole at the battlement took a look at the Song army outside the city, and felt that this Xuzhou city might not be able to hold on
Seeing that the stone-throwing carts and crossbowmen suppressed the defenders and couldn't raise their heads, the Song army was even more morale-like, and all the soldiers listened with their ears pricked up, expecting the sound of war drums.
After shouting, he rushed forward with all his might, and the soldiers behind him also shouted in unison, each raising their weapons and shouting to kill the earth-shattering sky, followed by rushing towards the city wall of Xuzhou City.
Surrounded by many Song troops, the siege vehicles made a dull sound, and the huge wooden wheels crushed the solid ground, seemingly unstoppable rushing towards the city wall.
The Song soldiers carrying the flying ladder protected the top with shields, and some people erected square shields on both sides, like centipedes swimming forward among the thousands of troops, and all kinds of flags were waving with the wind, making the sound of hunting.
In any case, the war has just started, if no one resists, it is impossible, in the end those who hold bows and arrows are Lu Futong's descendants, these people still have some experience, although the number of bows and crossbows is not much, but there are at least three or two hundred on a city wall, and the people with bows should get up one after another according to the order, and start to launch towards the Song army under the city from the arrow holes in the battlements.
Suddenly, the arrows of the two armies above and below the city rained down, and a confrontation was launched in Xuzhou City, and the Song army's stone-throwing vehicles did not stop firing at this time, concentrated their firepower, and began to bombard the city head with the strongest resistance.
The cannons fell, and the battlements in many places collapsed, and the defenders hiding in the battlements let out a wail, and were immediately crushed under the rubble and rotten bricks, and howled for help in vain, but who could care about them at this time! The people in the city had already heard the news of the benevolence and righteousness of the Song army, and they all hid at home and resolutely refused to help Lu Futong resist the Song army, not to mention that these ordinary people were all Han Chinese, and when they heard that Lu Futong begged to surrender to the Jin State, how could they be willing to return to the rule of the Jin State? If you don't come out to make trouble for Lu Futong, even if you give him face, it is absolutely impossible to help defend the city.
Lu Futong also sent people to the city to forcibly recruit a group of people, help them transport rolling wood and stones, and collect vegetable oil and other things from various households in the city to be used for imperial guards, but the common people would rather pour oil on the ground than Lu Futong to resist the Song army, so they were busy for a long time, but the oil collected was very limited.
And those people who were forcibly conscripted did not contribute to the work, even if they were whipped, they were also procrastinating and unwilling to work hard, so that the rolling wood and stones that could be used at the head of the city were really limited, which greatly weakened Lu Futong's defensive strength.
Even some bold people took the opportunity to set fire everywhere in the city, creating panic, so that the soldiers who stayed in the city were busy and couldn't catch them all, not to mention that even many of them were passive and slacking off, so that the Song army had just begun to attack the city, and the city of Xuzhou was in chaos.
It has always been the case that those who have attained the Tao have much help, and those who have lost the Tao have little help, Lu Futong's choice this time is exactly in line with this wise saying, the soldiers and civilians in the city cannot be united, how can we talk about the theory of sticking to the city?
In short, after the Song army began to launch a general attack, Xuzhou City was like a boiling pot, although Lu Futong also sent people to kill a lot of rebellious people, but it could not effectively control the chaos in the city.
After the offensive was launched, it immediately presented a situation of hundreds of battles, a team of soldiers will be surrounded by all kinds of siege equipment, brave the arrows and stones projected from the city to rush through the various passages, and lean on the city ladder and other objects.
The ladder and the ladder are equipped with iron hooks, once they lean on the city wall, they will immediately hook the battlements or the female wall, that is, to prevent the defenders from overturning the ladders, if you want to knock down these ladders, only with a big axe to cut off the iron hooks, it is possible to knock down the long ladder, but it is a pity that now Lu Fu is disheartened with the army, there are not many brave people like this, and there are only a handful of people who dare to jump on the battlements to chop the long ladders, so the Song army launched an attack not long after, and a large number of flying ladders and ladders were hooked on the city wall.
A large number of Song troops climbed up with shields and arrows, and it didn't take long for them to climb the city wall and fight with the defenders.
Jiang Hai was dressed in iron armor, but he was still as agile as an ape, and he didn't climb the ladder, he directly grabbed the stepping arrows nailed to the city wall, and flew towards the city wall, and from time to time he jumped to avoid the stones and rolling wood falling overhead.