Chapter 118: Battle of Mengjin (4)
The news of Sima Yingbing, the king of Chengdu, coming to the city, spread like snowflakes flying in the sky, and spread throughout the entire Mengjin county in a moment. For a moment, Meng Jin was filled with fear, sadness, and despair, and people rushed to tell each other, recounting the misery, and crying sadly about the miserable life that was coming.
These were all expected, but to Li Liu's surprise, although the people were desperate, no one had the heart to flee from the city, and no one was there.
In fact, after nearly a year of construction, the counties around Luoyang have become the most prosperous and rich paradise in Sizhou and even the Central Plains. If it weren't for the sudden rebellion of the Three Kings, Mengjin could be said to be the best embodiment of peace and stability. However, with the advent of the tens of thousands of troops of the king of Chengdu, everything will become history. When tomorrow's dawn rises, will Meng Jin still be able to do as usual, perhaps, at this time, it will be a ruin!
No one believed that the county town guarded by 6,000 would be able to withstand the attack of tens of thousands of troops!
Li Liu stood on the city wall, his mood was surprisingly calm! He had expected this situation, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly and so violently, but fortunately he had already prepared everything.
"That's tens of thousands!"
Li Liu looked at the black rebels outside the city, some of his scalps were numb, if there were tens of thousands of horses, he could also rely on the defenders, and recruit village warriors, build high walls, and repel them. But the people who came were almost ten times larger than the defenders, not to mention that the enemy was strong and strong, just one of them could drown Meng Jin with a mouthful of spit!
Li Liu is an optimistic and easy-going person, he never asks for trouble, and what is destined to happen, there is no other way than to face it. He has already done everything he should do, recruiting village warriors, collecting arrows, carrying boulders, building high city walls, gathering weapons, Chen soldiers on the city walls, and sticking to his homeland.
At this moment, the sound of hooves outside the city suddenly rose and rumbled, like ten thousand horses galloping, deafening, hearing people's hearts trembling, trembling and frightened, the horses' hooves stepped on the official road, but it was like stepping on the hearts of people, drilling into the soul, announcing the arrival of war.
"Kill!"
The enemy and the enemy fought fiercely in close quarters, and for a moment the logs flew sideways and limbs splashed, and the defenders took advantage of the city walls to easily repel the enemy's tentative attack.
Although the rebels came from afar, they were not a tired division, under the command of the king of Chengdu, the rebels did not take the enemy lightly, and pressed forward step by step, and the soldiers came to the city.
Seeing his subordinates being thrown off the city wall, Sima Ying shouted, "Release the arrow!" ”
Tens of thousands of arrows flew all over the sky, mixed with a fiery murderous aura, whistling forward. Seeing the ten thousand arrows fired at once, the defenders were frightened, and hurriedly raised their shields, and those who were a little slower than half a beat were immediately shot into arrow targets, and in a moment, screamed again and again, and more than 100 people died on the spot.
"Bastard! Don't we have crossbow arrows? Come on, set up our ballista! ”
With Li Liu's angry shout, dozens of ballistae for defending the city were erected on the city wall, and five hundred meters was the range of the ballista for defending the city. I saw the soldiers of the box army pull the ballista into a full moon and shoot angrily at the rebels. In the blink of an eye, kung fu crossbow arrows pierced through the rebel formation, and three or five rebel soldiers were threaded into a string like a string of sugar gourds.
"Hooray! Banzai! There was a cheer from the city! The momentum is better than before, and the confidence in defending the city has inexplicably increased a lot.
The second round of arrows fired again, and the rebels trembled and curled up behind their shields, not daring to move for half a minute, only hearing the arrows hitting the shields, making a loud "knock" sound, which was soul-stirring to hear.
After three rounds, the morale of the rebels plummeted, and the siege method formulated at the beginning was completely useless.
Sima Ying and the others were so angry that they were like thunder, at this moment, the situation under the city changed suddenly, the number of ballistas was not many after all, and they could only exist as a deterrent, not as the main force!
During the suspension of the ballista, the rebel forward, under the command of Shi Chao and others, the soldiers pushed the ladder and began to move towards the city wall under the cover of the shield soldiers, followed by the wooden chariot that rushed to the gate of the city wall. Obviously, the forward generals saw that the defenders were small in number and were ready to win by numbers, so they ordered an all-out siege of the city.
The enemy soldiers were approaching, and the rumbling sound of catapult wheels was clearly audible. Li Liu poked his head out, only to see that the rebels carefully avoided the ballista and slowly advanced, and had already reached the moat, once they were allowed to occupy the moat and fill in the ravine, then they would only be passively beaten.
Seeing the enemy approaching the city again, Li Liu burst into a shout, "Shoot the arrow!" ”
Hearing the order, the commander stood up angrily, pulled up his bow and arrows, picked up his sword and gun, and shot at the enemy army in a burst of rage.
The defenders hit with one blow, and their confidence was greatly increased, and they immediately launched a new round of shooting. But the rebels were not easy to follow, and under the command of the officers, they hid behind the catapults and quietly piled up stones, while the archers in the back line quickly followed, drew their bows and fired at close range, and more than a dozen defenders fell in no time.
The rebel soldiers got a breather and gathered momentum to counterattack, and huge stones shot out and smashed heavily on the city walls, and some of the defenders could not dodge, and were smashed to the point that their brains burst out, and it was disgusting to see.
With the help of their weapons, the rebels launched a fierce attack, and the rear siege troops had already followed, and the ladder was about to be erected on the city wall. Li Liu instructed everyone to lift a boulder weighing as much as a hundred catties and put it on the trebuchet, shouting, "Sima Ying, look at what your arrow blocking car looks like." ”
With another loud shout, everyone used all their strength to throw the boulder through the trebuchet to the arrow cart that rushed to the city wall, which was only seventeen zhang from the city wall. The boulder first raised a foot, then spun sharply and hurried towards the vertical plate of the arrow stopper.
"Boom!"
The boulder was in the middle of the vertical plate, and the vertical plate was smashed to pieces. Everyone was dumbfounded. The soldiers defending the city burst into earth-shattering cheers.
The defenders crushed another wave of enemy attacks, leaving behind thousands of corpses, more than a dozen tattered arrowheads, building carts, countless bows and arrows, and weapons.
The logistics unit composed of young and strong people took the opportunity to constantly transport arrows and stones to the wall to replenish the consumption just now, and the wall was full of soldiers and civilians running back and forth.
At this time, the remnant sun is like blood, and the night is coming.
The rebels' attack was blocked, the loss of troops was broken, the blood flowed in the moat, and the clear river water was dyed with blood, although the defenders succeeded in one blow, they could only defend the lonely city, shoot the enemy with bows and arrows, and there was no possibility of hand-to-hand combat!
Everyone thought that the enemy's attack was frustrated and they would have to retreat, but the king of Chengdu seemed to be mad, regardless of the heavy casualties of his subordinates, and strongly demanded to continue the attack.
In the rebel camp, the king of Chengdu looked at the bloody wall with bloodshot eyes, and he couldn't believe that the once 'invincible' army actually carried a big heel in the small Mengjin!
"Lord Wang, why don't we let our army withdraw and repair, and then launch an attack?"
Lu Zhi frowned and persuaded him, the rebels have suffered too many casualties during this period of time, if they continue like this, I am afraid that even if they take Mengjin, they will not be able to capture Luoyang, so they can only wait for the arrival of the other two princes.
Sima Ying's face was gloomy and she didn't say a word, just staring at the battle-torn city.
"Boom!" After some hard work, the rebels' samurai finally approached the city gate and slammed into the city gate with an earth-shattering sound. It's a pity that the city gate has long been blocked by Li Liu and them from the inside, and no matter how the enemy hits, they can't destroy it in the slightest.
The soldiers and civilians defending the city were running back and forth to resist the enemy, everyone's eyes were blood-red, and there seemed to be only one simple purpose in their minds, that is, to block and kill the invading enemy by any means. There were corpses lying on the walls, and the red blood couldn't help but add to the blackened bloodstains, but no one had time to pay attention to them. The torches on the wall were burning high, dyed blood-red, and what I saw in front of me was like hell on earth.
Li Liu's ears were filled with the sound of shouting and killing, the sound of trebuchets, the screeching of wheels grinding against the ground, and the rumbling sound of stones hitting the ground or wall, and his mood could no longer be as calm as water, and the bright red blood filled the air, making people feel so uncomfortable that they were about to vomit, and the stump arms and legs flew everywhere like branches, mixed with screams, which made people frightening.
He held the knife in one hand, stood proudly on the wall, and killed the enemy soldiers on the wall with all his might, in hand-to-hand combat, all the complicated moves were superfluous, he only relied on his feelings, his hand rose and fell, and he killed one enemy after another in a row, and his body was stained with blood, I am afraid that even he himself could not tell that the blood was his own and that it was from the enemy.
The rebels continued to increase in strength, raining arrows on the city, and making feints on the other gates in an attempt to distract the defenders.
Sima Ying watched his side gradually take the initiative, and his mood finally became happy, and he said with a gloomy smile: "This king will see how long you can hold on, and when the city gate is broken, the widow will definitely break your corpses into ten thousand pieces!" ”
The enemy army continued to kill in turns, new troops were constantly joining the battlefield, and the corpses outside the city walls were everywhere, as if to tell the horror of the battle. Outside the city, the fires are lit and boundless, the war drums and horns are ringing in unison, and the sound of horseshoe wheels resounding through the world.
Li Liu stood on the city wall, his heart was heavy, to the point of no return, and there was never a moment when he felt so helpless. Life is so fragile, just a soldier who is still alive and well, but the next moment he dies tragically on the wall, his appearance is terrifying and shocking.
After some attack, the defenders' physical strength has long been exhausted, and nearly a thousand casualties, corpses piled up, the city wall is higher, the city of young and strong spontaneously participate in the battle, although the combat effectiveness is low, but on the wall more than a mile long, and the rebels to fight to the death.
Just as Li Liu was sniping at the rebels of the king of Chengdu in Mengjin, the king of Qi also led a large army out of Yingchuan County to the south of Sizhou, preparing to attack Luoyang from the south, while Sima Yan, the king of Hejian, led the army to the outside of the Tiger Prison Pass. All of a sudden, the world was watching, and everyone was looking with wide eyes to see who could win the final victory!
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