Chapter 58: The Battle of the Siege

Lying on the battlement and looking out of the city, several rushing carts that had just been built by the Mongol army began to slowly move towards the city wall, dragged by oxen and driven by many manpower. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Huang Yan wiped the blood and dust on his face, stepped forward and raised his big gun, pointed at the slowly approaching rushing cars, and shouted to the officers and soldiers up and down the city wall: Don't fuck it! The artilleryman took aim at the rushing carts and ladder carts of the Tartars, and sent me cannons to disperse them, and Hugh had to let them get close to the city wall, otherwise Lao Tzu would be shot into a hedgehog!

Following Gao Huaiyuan for so long, Huang Yan also learned a lot of things, and also attached great importance to the use of heavy weapons, and the army also organized a craftsman battalion of nearly 200 people. A large number of return guns were used, so the new throwing cars in the city were all counterweight return guns, both the speed of the attack and the accuracy, were higher than the simple throwing cars of the Mongolian army outside the city.

With the shouts of the gunners, the Song army in the city finally began to fire artillery, and launched a cannon counterattack against the Mongolian army, and for a time the stones flew in the air of Lixian County, and the large stones staggered back and forth, and landed on their enemy positions.

After all, Jiangli County is very small, the terrain and manpower are limited, so the number of throwing cars in the city is not as good as the throwing cars of the Mongolian army outside the city, but in terms of accuracy, they have some advantage, and their main attack objects are concentrated in those outside the city that are approaching the rushing car, ladder car, after two rounds of launching, the accuracy is getting more and more accurate, the fixed artillery hand constantly observes the landing point of the stone, and constantly adjusts the launch angle of the throwing car, and finally begins to have stones directly hit these closer and closer rushing cars and ladder cars, only to see a loud bang, After being bombarded by several large rocks, a huge rushing car collapsed, and the Mongolian troops on and off the car let out a sound of exclamation and wailing, and they were crushed under the wreckage of the rushing car.

After so many years of southern and northern wars, the Mongol army is no longer as good at attacking fortified battles as it was at the beginning, Genghis Khan attaches great importance to the construction of weapons, and every time he captures a local city, he will immediately select the craftsmen in the city and escort them back to the army to do things for them, and then start to slaughter the city.

And as they fight stronger and stronger, obtain a large number of surrendered troops, although the main force of the current Mongolian army is still the Mongols and Semu people, but there are more and more Han troops in the new annex army, these Han troops are very familiar with siege warfare, and have made a very important contribution to the expansion of Genghis Khan.

Therefore, Tuo Lei knows very well how to conquer the city, and he is completely sure of this small Jiangli county town and can conquer it quickly.

But when he saw the cannon stones flying out of the city, he couldn't help but start to worry a little again, seeing a huge rushing cart, under the enemy's artillery counterattack, collapsed with a bang, and injured a lot of soldiers, he couldn't help but clench the reins of the horse in his hand.

Damn it! The Song army in the city is very good at guarding! I'm afraid this battle won't be easy to fight! One of the generals under Tuo Lei whispered to Tuo Lei.

Tuo Lei replied expressionlessly: It is also a great pleasure to be able to compete with such a strong army, if every time the enemy is attacked, the enemy surrenders in the wind, then what fun is there to talk of? Passing the order down and continuing to strengthen the offensive, this king wants to see how long this Song army in the city can hold out!

So soon, under the command of the horn, another group of new annexes were thrown into the battlefield, rushing towards the city wall like ants.

Rows of crossbowmen hid under the battlements, looking out from the lookout holes in the battlements from time to time, while the crossbows mounted their arrows and aimed them at the sloping arrowholes under the lookouts, and when the Mongols appeared in the arrowholes, the crossbowmen began to fire their bows and arrows.

Clusters of arrows continued to pour down from the arrow holes, although the Mongolian army was holding shields, but there were still many people who were shot down on the way forward, but there were too many Mongolian soldiers rushing up, even if the archers on the city wall kept firing, they could not contain their offensive, and in the rear of the Mongolian army, wooden donkey carts began to appear, pushing in the direction of the city wall under the cover of the Mongolian army carrying a big shield, and someone immediately exclaimed: The Tartars want to dig a hole under the city.

Although the artillery trucks in the city continue to fire cannonballs, but after all, the accuracy of this primitive weapon is very limited, although it destroyed several ladder trucks and rushing cars, and caused some casualties to the Mongolian army, but this time the tow mine can be said to be an inevitable victory for Jiangli County, and a lot of siege equipment was created, so it can be said that this kind of killing did not affect the overall situation.

Seeing that more and more Mongolian troops outside the city poured into the city wall, even Huang Yan, who had always been very calm, felt that the pressure was doubled, and the Heart Dao Tartar seemed to be really mad, and he actually launched such a powerful offensive on the first day, and did not even carry out a tentative attack, it seems that it is really unknown whether Jiangli County can hold and wait for the army to come to help.

Seeing that the two rushing carts and several ladder carts braved the cannon stones flying out of the city, approaching the city wall step by step, and entered the range of bows and arrows, the Mongolian archers hiding on the rushing carts began to fire arrows violently from the rushing carts covered with cowhide towards the city wall.

The Song officers and soldiers who were desperately defending were immediately suppressed by their arrows, and as long as they were not careful, they would be shot on the city wall by these arrows, which posed a great threat to the Song officers and soldiers.

Pity! There are no bed crossbows here, otherwise the Tartars would never be so arrogant! Fei Wenlong shot an arrow, nailed one of the Mongolian soldiers who rushed to the car, and muttered in frustration.

Pass me the order, order the artillery truck to replace it with a fuel tank, and aim at these two rushing trucks to hit me! After Huang Yan shot over a ten-division commander of the Mongolian army, he immediately shouted orders to the soldiers around him.

Without a trace of hesitation, the soldiers turned around and rushed down the city wall, conveying Huang Yan's order to those who operated the artillery, so that the canisters filled with fire oil were immediately placed in the sacs of the artillery carts, and the gunners stood on the city wall and commanded the gunners to calibrate constantly, and with a loud roar, the throwing rods of the stone throwing carts were instantly raised high under the power of the counterweight.

The black oil canisters flew out one by one, almost all of them were concentrated on these rushing cars and ladder trucks, and the ceramic canisters fell on the rushing cars and ladder cars, and immediately shattered, and the fire oil contained in them splashed out and sprinkled on these vehicles.

Change the rocket! Shoot! Fei Wenlong himself was an archer, and he could see at a glance what Huang Yan wanted to do, so he shouted at the nearby archers.

The archers replaced the arrows tied with oilcloths, lit them one after another, and fired wildly at the huge carts outside the city, although some were accidentally shot down by the Mongol army's bows and arrows, but more people concentrated their fire and fired rockets at these vehicles.

The fire oil immediately burned when it met the open flame, and the huge car built by the Mongolian army ignored a problem and forgot to splash the cowhide and other things on it with water, as a result, these several rushing cars splashed with fire oil immediately burned violently, and the smoke in the car was billowing out, smoking the Mongolian army hiding inside.

The Mongolian soldiers who couldn't stand it were choked and coughed violently, and their skin and flesh were rotten in the fire, so painful that they jumped off from them one after another, fell heavily to the ground, and even when they didn't move, they even smashed the people pushing the carts below, and immediately disintegrated the threat of these rushing carts.

Ha ha! Burn it! Burn these bastards! The officers and soldiers in the city cheered.

At this time, the Mongolian soldiers who first rushed to the city began to set up a flying ladder towards the top of the city wall, trying to start climbing the city, and the defenders everywhere lifted the rolling wood and stones, and threw them towards the city.

A team of Mongolian archers rushed to the city, and together they raised their bows and fired at the city, suppressing the Song army on the city, and the arrows on both sides kept shuttling in the air.

Although the Mongolian soldiers have the shield of the knife and axe hand to cover, but after all, they do not have the geographical advantage, the Song army on the city wall has the battlements and a variety of wooden stands, cloth curtains, leather curtains and other things to defend, this kind of bow and arrow shooting, the Mongolian army also can not take a little advantage, many archers just got up behind the shield to release arrows, and were immediately shot by the archers on the city in the array.

After killing the rushing carts, at this time also under the command of the gunner, began to attack the Mongolian soldiers outside the city, large stone bullets fell in the crowd, as long as they touched, it was either dead or wounded, a Mongolian army accidentally, was hit by a huge stone in the lower limbs, waist was pressed under the stone, he with infinite fear and severe pain, sat out of an extremely miserable howl, both hands in vain pushed the big stone that pressed him, constantly reached out to pull the leg of the robe that passed by, begging them to help him.

A centurion passed by his side, glanced at him, and without saying a word, slashed his neck and made his screams come to an abrupt end.

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