Chapter 113: The Siege of the City

Houjin harassed all night, and the next morning, many siege equipment were dragged out, and I don't know how many times the offensive and defensive battles of Mopan City kicked off again.

The banner of General Zhennan was slowly raised on the towering tower at the head of the city, and many soldiers who were on guard in the city wall saw this newly sewn Phnom Penh flag, and they all raised their weapons high, and everyone shouted loudly towards the tower like crazy.

Sure enough, Yang Bo's somewhat vague figure leaned out of the tower and waved his hand downward, which triggered a frenzied shout.

"The military heart is available" Yang Bo nodded, and said to the left and right with some relief.

Mopan Mountain has experienced many days of attack and defense, the moat in the north has almost been filled, and the city wall is also full of scars, especially the corpses under the city are piled up, although the Ming army did not shoot when the remains were collected, but the Houjin was buried twice and then didn't care, fortunately, the weather was cold, and the epidemic was not born, but the blood from those corpses was still coagulated on the ground.

The front of the camp was densely packed with soldiers in the whole team, Huang Taiji's determination was firm, and Houjin was divided into three battalions, Zhenglan and Zhengbai attacked the north city, inlaid yellow and inlaid white attacked the west city, inlaid red and inlaid yellow attacked the east city, and attacked on three sides, and last night's feint Zhenghong Banner dispatched some vests to guard the south gate area to prevent the Ming army from a sudden attack by water. With the sound of a long horn, all the flags began to move slowly, and when they looked from the top of the city, they only saw the golden armor soldiers rushing towards the three sides of the sky......

In the coating team, Yu Xuezhong stood numbly in front with a knife, and a slave with a Datong accent in the team led a stick and agitated loudly; "Emperor Wenren Great Khan advocated righteousness from heaven. The Ming Kingdom occupies my land, kills my people, and robs me of the wealth of my golden woman. Now that the Great Khan Emperor has raised an army to fight against the robbers of the Ming Kingdom, we want everyone to contribute and kill the thieves......"

The slave spoke profoundly and broadly, and then ran to Yu Xuezhong with satisfaction, nodded and said, "Master, do you have any other orders?" ”

Yu Xuezhong raised his eyelids and said, "Break the city." When you see what you are grabbing, everyone will work harder, that's all. You give them weapons."

The minion pouted and smiled: "It's still the master's simple speech, but it's much better than the minion." ”

Yu Xuezhong glanced at him coldly, picked up the leather whip and threw a whip flower, and said to those coats: "Be smart." Beware of the Ming artillery. On the battlefield, there is no mercy, the order is forbidden, the people in front are dead, and the people in the back continue, and those who dare to turn back and retreat without the sound of gold will be beheaded immediately! ”

However, Yu Xuezhong's words didn't have much effect, and he would read it out according to the book before every siege battle, and the severity of the battle in Mopan City was in his eyes, and those who climbed the city. Those who climbed the ladder were all killed and wounded, and some were hit by lead bullets. Some were drenched with boiling oil, some were hit by masonry, almost all of the seriously injured died under the city, and the lightly injured were carried back, there were not many means of treatment, many of them died of pain, and every time night fell, the camp was full of wailing, and I shuddered to think about it.

In front of Xuezhong is an innumerable cavalry team, all kinds of golden dragon flags rolling, the blue flag is lined up on the table, the white flag is lined up on the right, the two flags work together to besiege the north gate of Mopan City, under the command of Xuezhong, more than 100 coats in the banner Some picked up wooden sticks, some pushed shield carts, some carried cloth bags, and waited for the attack order with bated breath.

Soon, the drums and trumpets of the Chinese army sounded in unison, and countless cavalry rushed away in all directions with billowing smoke and dust, and the cavalry besieging on three sides launched painfully, sometimes they were divided into countless squads, and sometimes they converged into several torrents, approaching Mopan City.

These cavalry kicked up a cloud of dust and chased them back and forth in small groups, until they came into the range of the Ming army's artillery fire, and the city was still silent and unresponsive......

In the coating team, Xie Zhengyang from Xuanda Longmen held a wooden stick and looked at the battlefield a little nervously. Houjin attacked the city in Xuanfu and Datong, all the way like a bamboo, the city in front of him can be regarded as majestic, but these days I don't know how many lives have been filled, why can't it be defeated? Xie Zhengyang couldn't figure it out.

A few days ago, the blue flag was covered with clothes to do auxiliary work such as carts, picking soil, and stabilizing ladders, and today weapons were issued, obviously to attack the city, and it was good to see others fight before, but now it is finally their turn......

Everyone was as pale as earth, especially the silence of the Ming army's artillery fire, and they also understood in the past few days that the Ming army's artillery fire was specially waiting for these infantry to enter the firing range, and the overwhelming horror of a salvo was like hell.

"Is it really our turn?" A person beside Xie Zhengyang asked with trembling lips, this is Sun Xiaping from the same village, full of dirt and smoke and dust, but he still can't hide the childishness on his face.

Xie Zhengyang lowered his head and did not answer, family and friendship had long been worn out on the cruel battlefield, and his mind was full of thoughts about how to survive.

"If you dare to turn back, you will be shot to death by the Tartars, what else can you do, you can only fight hard, in case you capture the city, or behead the head, you can still eat the flatbread when you return" A voice sighed.

Xie Zhengyang didn't look up and knew that it was Li Yuan from the same village, his left hand was tied with a dirty hemp rope and hung on his chest, the day before yesterday, when the city was piling up the city, the city suddenly smashed down a rolling log, and the two fellows around Li Yuan were smashed into meat sauce, and his left hand was also broken, Li Yuan was holding a knife in his right hand, and the occasional pain made him convulse.

Hearing the flatbread, several coated throats with deep eye sockets rolled a few times and swallowed a large mouthful of water.

"When you will rush, you follow me, be careful of the Ming army's cannons" Li Yuan said to Sun Xiaping: "If you die, what will you do?" ”

This is the end of the conversation in the Bao Yi team, with the sound of drums and trumpets, Yu Xuezhong, who was standing in front, took out his worn-out Shun knife fiercely, pointed forward, and the Bao Yi behind shouted the trumpet, pushed the shield cart, and moved slowly with the weapon.

Sun Xiaping shrunk his neck and followed behind Li Yuan, a white bone pierced out of the joint of Li Yun's left hand, which was so white that it was dazzling, and pus was constantly dripping around him, and a gust of wind blew, and Li Yun's white braid began to fly.

Thinking of his baby, Sun Xiaping was a dull pain, although he was only sixteen years old, the baby was already two years old, since Houjin attacked the dragon gate, his family was separated, and the baby and his mother now don't know whether to live or die, and the rest of the family was also separated when they fled, leaving only their father and son to rely on each other.

"Gotta come back alive!" Sun Xiaping cheered himself up, and before the expedition, the doll was handed over to a fellow villager to watch, if he died, maybe something would happen.

Rumble!

With a loud bang, the artillery of the Ming army began to measure the range, although it has been familiar, this team of coats still shouted in horror, the team was a little confused, Sun Xiaping could not see the front, the front was densely packed with heads, in the left team, those coats also carried a few ladders, in addition to these, these days also rushed to make some watchtowers, stacked bridges, etc., all yesterday only installed the wooden wheels, due to the consumption is too large, many times it is still used to cover the siege of the armor, and the most done is the pointed wooden donkey and the ladder.

In the midst of the crowd, there were also three towering nest carts, with poles almost as high as the city walls, and a watchtower on top of them, which could accommodate three armored soldiers to look out over the city's defenses.

Behind the Coats is a murderous team of Overseers, these vests are holding strong bows, vigilantly supervising the movements of the Coats, these vests make all the Coats fearful, because they don't know when a crossbow arrow will take their lives, behind the Warlords are the elite of the Infantry Armor, these Infantry Armor are wearing heavy armor, holding shields or long-handled weapons in their hands, they are the main force of hand-to-hand combat in the city.

Behind the infantry was followed by heavy ramming carts, which were more ferocious than pointed wooden donkeys, and could not only hit the gates, but also break the city walls, but the millstone city in front of him seemed to be built entirely of stones, and the ramming cars were of little use in these siege battles.

Huang Taiji mobilized many craftsmen to come over and listen to it, so all kinds of strange siege equipment were also perfected.

The further he went, everyone was frightened, even Yu Xuezhong trembled slightly, holding the whip tightly in his hand, every time he entered the range of the Ming army, it was a gamble, and he was lucky to survive, the Ming army never wasted shells, just waiting for the opportunity to fire a salvo.

The earth-shattering drums in the team sounded, and Yu Xuezhong waved his knife fiercely and shouted in a hissed voice: "Speed up, hurry up and rush me!" ”

In fact, it was not used to learn to be loyal to command, the coats in front of them all made earth-shattering shouts of killing, everyone quickened their pace, and even the coats of the cart rushed forward with their dead force regardless of their lives, Sun Xiaping followed Li Yun closely with a short body, and in the afterglow, Xie Zhengyang, who was carrying a stick, also followed him. The crowd shouted in unison, desperately running forward......

At this moment, the fire on the head of the city in the distance rose into the sky, and a large ball of flames burst out at each battlement almost at the same time, and the billowing smoke continued to rise, and finally completely enveloped the entire city, and countless black iron bolts rushed out of the cannon chamber, screaming and rushing towards the ant-like formation under the city.

Rumble!

The piercing scream passed over Xuezhong's head and slammed into the team behind him, and Yu Xuezhong rolled to the left twice without hesitation, just to a depression in the ground.

The screams quickly converged, the whole formation was extremely chaotic, more screams crossed the low air, and continued to plunge into the crowd, Yu Xuezhong didn't even have the interest of turning back, at this time, even the Governor team was too busy to take care of themselves, who would care about this little episode of him falling down on the battlefield?

The artillery fire in the Houjin array also fired, bombarding the city, although Huang Taiji collected artillery everywhere, but due to the explosion and other reasons, there are only more than ten artillery pieces of different sizes left, and the number is simply unable to compete with the Ming army, only after the Ming army fires will follow the counterattack.

From time to time, Houjin's artillery hit the city, and the loud sound of the smashing could be clearly heard even two miles away, and the bricks and stones were constantly splashing in all directions.

Rumble!

A seven or eight pounds of iron slammed on the ground, instantly turning a person behind Xie Zhengyang into meat sauce, the huge shock bounced Yu Xuezhong, who was lying on the ground and pretending to be dead, the iron was castrated, and after rebounding, it rolled all the way over, twisting out a bloody road, those originally majestic overseers cried wolf howls, stumps and broken flesh rose and fell, accompanied by the sound of snapping fractures, this iron ball took away three coats, the lives of two guards of the warlord team, and one coat broke his thighs together, and the iron ball seemed to be satisfied, Finally stopped...... (To be continued......)