Chapter 127: The Longest Day 2

But then there was a dense rain of arrows, many of these golden soldiers just stepped on the flying bridge, and then the arrows fell down the city's river, the river was instantly dyed red, and the wounded golden soldiers wailed and struggled in the water, and then slowly disappeared in the water.

As soon as the army arrived on the side of the moat, a large number of Jin soldiers and archers began to counterattack the Song army in the city.

When the battle was fought to such an extent, it was no longer useful to rely on personal command, and all places began to fall into fierce battles, with all kinds of arrows constantly staggering through the air, and at every moment someone on both sides was wounded by arrows and stones, becoming another victim of this war.

Even the defenders with the advantage of terrain can not guarantee their own safety, dense arrows like locusts passing through people's heads, anyone who is not careful will pay the price of life, Gao Huaiyuan immediately sent someone to escort Jiang Fang to the city, constantly running back and forth on the city, commanding the soldiers to constantly counterattack, seeing one by one fresh lives fall on the city wall, but helpless.

A Song soldier was getting up to release the arrow at the same time, suddenly a stray arrow hit him in the eye socket, the arrow was deeply nailed in his eye socket, the pain made the Song soldier scream and covered his eyes and jumped up, but before he could pull out the arrow in the eye socket, he was nailed into a hedgehog by the arrow shot like a torrential rain, convulsed and leaned forward, and hit the city wall headlong.

And Gao Huaiyuan just walked to his side, stretched out his hand to drag him, but he was half a step late, watching his body fall off the city wall, such a fierce battle, he was also the first time to encounter, the cruelty of the war has made him feel a little numb, but at this time he has no time to think about more things, he is most concerned about whether these Huangzhou soldiers and civilians can withstand the next more tragic war test like him.

A huge fireball was thrown from the city wall by the Jin soldiers, the fireball made of rattan was filled with fire oil and sulfur and other things, and the raging fire ignited several Song soldiers, and the severe pain made these soldiers lose their minds, and crashed around the city, making a terrible scream.

A situation like this is happening all the time, a Song soldier who is on fire sees that he has no hope of escaping, scolds and suddenly runs a few steps, steps on the battlement, flies out of the city wall, falls towards the city, and plunges into the crowd of golden soldiers who have just gathered under the city, and immediately kills a golden soldier, and brings the flames to the golden soldiers.

His tragic death suddenly attracted an exclamation, many Song soldiers at this moment, no longer care about what to be afraid of, containing tears, got up and struggled to grab what they could catch down the city wall, everywhere there were Song soldiers scolding, everywhere there was a shout of killing.

This was the most fierce attack on the city in ten days, and everyone had a sense of death after this moment, and a large number of golden soldiers flowed across the moat, which had been dyed red, and forced under the city walls with ladders on their shoulders.

As the sound of the golden soldiers' horn sounded in pieces, a cloud ladder was immediately pushed and pulled by many golden soldiers and erected, and then fell down on the city wall, and a large number of golden soldiers used the flying hook they carried to throw themselves towards the city, and the flying hook fell firmly to the battlement or the female wall, and the battle finally came to the moment of short-handed encounter.

With the arrival of this moment, Huangzhou City finally ushered in their most serious test, a large number of golden soldiers braved arrows and stones to attack the foot of the city, and this became a place where they could hide from the arrows, in addition to the archers in those enemy towers raised on the city wall can still pose a threat to them, the bows and arrows on the city have basically lost their effectiveness because of the problem of dead ends.

Seeing that the Jin soldiers had begun to attack the city, the officers in the city immediately ordered some archers to give up continuing to use bows and arrows to hunt the enemy, and began to throw down the stones and other things that had been prepared. Their defenders also paid a heavy price at the same time, and some Song soldiers were immediately hit by arrows, fell to the bottom of the city, turned into a mass of flesh and blood, and mixed with the stoned Jin soldiers.

"With a big axe! Cut off the golden soldier ladder and flying hook! Gao Huaiyuan took out his waist knife and slashed at a flying hook, and immediately heard an exclamation outside the city, and then let out a dull ** landing sound.

So a large number of Song soldiers immediately picked up those big knives, axes and other things leaning near the battlements, and struggled to start chopping those ladders and flying hooks that had been set up on the city wall, so that the first batch of Jin soldiers who attacked the city fell down the city wall like dumplings, and they were either killed or injured, or at least they had to fall dizzy, temporarily curbing the first wave of attacks of the Jin army.

Hu Lu thorn waved the mace in his hand, and after knocking a few fallen bricks and stones, he roared loudly with a hideous face and organized the erection of a ladder to attack the city again, at this time he had been hit by several arrows in his body, but because of his thick armor, he could not be injured too much, and Wuzi gathered troops to continue the siege.

As more and more Jin troops arrived at the city with ladders, soon more ladders were erected on the city wall, and many Song soldiers picked up long-handled iron forks, forked the upper end of the ladder and retreated from the city wall, and fell outside the city, so as to prevent the Jin soldiers from ascending the city, and the battle was close to the white-hot level.

A cloud ladder was put on the city wall, and then pushed by the Song army, the city and the city repeatedly in the tug-of-war like a tug-of-war, and the Jin soldiers part of the ladder on the upper end of the iron hook, when the city wall, dragged back, it will be firmly stuck on the city wall, the Song army wants to push it again, it is basically impossible.

A large number of golden soldiers with shields immediately began to climb the ladder and kill towards the city, and many golden soldiers climbed on the city wall like ants, approaching the city wall little by little.

Under the command of some officers, someone quickly brought an iron pot that had been set on the fire at the head of the city, and poured the hot oil or boiling water inside, until the skin of the golden soldiers who were besieging the city opened, and they screamed and fell down.

But what is even more terrible is that after the boiling oil is poured down, there are Song soldiers who immediately drop the torches, and the hot oil ignites when it encounters the fire, and the golden soldiers who are stained with hot oil are immediately lit into fire crows, if they can choose, these golden soldiers who are full of flames are willing to be stoned to death by the Song army's stones, rather than suffer such a living crime, burning their skin and flesh, screaming, and crashing around under the city, as a result, more Jin soldiers were affected, and fires were lit everywhere in the city and under the city, and the air began to be filled with a pungent smell of burnt human flesh.

Even so, it still can't stop the Jin soldiers from continuing to approach the city wall, no matter how many Jin soldiers the Song army played, the Jin soldiers seemed to be like they couldn't finish killing, continued to climb the ladder, and attacked the city wall with a shield, Gao Huaiyuan kicked on the front end of a cloud ladder, kicked the ladder to the outside of the city, and several Jin soldiers who were climbing on the ladder fell down in an instant, looking up, their eyes were full of blood red.

But there are still a large number of golden soldiers under the city who are constantly surrounding the city wall, when will this be the head! Even he suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness, from the beginning of the battle in the morning, it was almost noon now, although the soldiers and civilians in the city killed and wounded countless golden soldiers, but also paid a heavy price, many soldiers and civilians were injured by the golden soldiers' arrows, so that their counterattack began to weaken.

The rising ladders are still constantly erecting on the city wall, and more and more Jin soldiers began to climb the ladders, if the offensive of the Jin soldiers cannot be immediately contained, then Huangzhou City will be in danger!

"Unleash the Night Fight! Roll wood! Gao Huaiyuan saw that more and more Jin soldiers began to climb the city, and finally gave this order.

With his order, immediately a large number of Song troops pounced on those hanging wooden frames, struggling to untie the bundle of rolling logs and night fights, so the night fights full of iron nails were immediately put down, and the tumbling night fights immediately rolled down those ladders, and immediately smashed a large number of gold soldiers who had just climbed into the air head-on, this thing is not comfortable, one down, it is a piece, and a large number of gold soldiers were killed and injured and rolled to the ground.

Then the soldiers and civilians in the city immediately dragged the ropes again, pulled these night uprisings up the city wall again, and prepared to put them down next time, and immediately completely dispersed the attack of the Jin soldiers.

Hu Lu, who was standing under the city, saw that the Jin soldiers had approached the city, but he was smashed back by this mess, which was equivalent to making him work in vain for a long time, so he stood under the city and scolded, shouting and began to gather the generals, and prepared to attack again under the city.

The temporary retreat of the Jin army made the soldiers in the city all rejoice, and suddenly the cheers resounded in the city, even Gao Huaiyuan, he breathed a long sigh of relief, but he only took a little breath, and then became nervous again, because he knew very well that the Jin soldiers would never be so good at today's battle, and the next battle would be a hundred times more cruel.

So Gao Huaiyuan took a look at the movement of the Jin soldiers outside the city, and did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered again, bow crossbows, throwing cars, bed crossbows to accelerate the launch, taking advantage of the time when the Jin soldiers organized the attack again, try to create greater damage to the Jin soldiers outside the city, and the Song soldiers who were inspired for a while were more enthusiastic, and all kinds of long-range weapons and arrows were fired at once, and they swayed towards the Jin soldiers outside the city.

After a fierce shooting, all the throwing cars of the Jin soldiers outside the city were finally suppressed by the throwing cars on the city, and were destroyed a lot, which greatly weakened the firepower of the Jin soldiers, and reduced the pressure on the city a lot, this kind of artillery to artillery firepower suppression, not Gao Huaiyuan created, but a method of war created by the Song people's old rules, when the Jin army attacked Bianliang, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, five thousand stone carts were erected overnight, and ten thousand guns were fired for three consecutive days, breaking through the Bianliang City, causing great damage to the Song army defending the city, Chen Gui had seen the scene of the Jin army's artillery bombarding Bianliang City, and afterwards came up with this method of using artillery to suppress the enemy's artillery vehicles, so that the defending side of the city in the offensive and defensive battle of the city once again gained the advantage of the battlefield.

And Gao Huaiyuan has seen all kinds of tactics related to defending the city, so as soon as he arrived in Huangzhou, he supervised the construction of a large number of artillery carts and transported them to the enemy tower on the city wall, so for several days, it has played a great role in guarding Huangzhou City, and has caused a large number of casualties to the Jin army.

But this situation did not last long, from the Jin Bing camp is still in a steady stream of more artillery trucks, and brave the defenders' artillery stones outside the city began to erect, it seems that the Jin soldiers are Wang Ba today to eat the scales, iron determination to capture Huangzhou City!

What made Gao Huaiyuan even more uneasy was that after a period of regrouping, although the Jin soldiers had paid a great price under their arrows and stones, the crossbowmen of the Jin soldiers were also not idle, and the arrows they fired also caused great casualties to the defenders of the city, and after most of the fierce battle, the strength of the defenders of the city has begun to vacancy to a certain extent.

According to Mozi, if the defenders want to stick to the city wall, under normal circumstances, at least nine people must be arranged within every two meters to play the greatest role, but today the Jin army attacked on all fronts, and launched an attack on the east, west and north of Huangzhou City at the same time, so that Huangzhou City's already not abundant troops seemed to be a little stretched. Directly put on the first line of defending the city, at this time, because of the increase in casualties, the number of defenders on the city wall began to be a little insufficient.

"Tall man! Bring up the Chinese army in the city! The manpower on Xiaguan's side is a little insufficient! "One of them ran to Gao Huaiyuan and shouted to Gao Huaiyuan, asking Gao Huaiyuan to transfer the last five hundred reserves left in the city to the city wall to strengthen the garrison.

"No! That's the last weight of our Huangzhou City, it's not time to use it yet, you hold it for me, and when it should be used, I will naturally use it! Go back to your post and keep calling me! Gao Huaiyuan immediately vetoed his proposal and loudly reprimanded him.

“…… My lord, there are only more than 30 brothers left under the small subordinates, and we have suffered a lot of stone bullets just now, and the casualties of the brothers are too great. Xia Guan really couldn't hold it anymore...... "That head tried to continue to persuade Gao Huai to go far away.

"No more nonsense! If I say no, I can't! If you don't have anyone to give me the top, if you really can't do it, let the people under the city fill the position, anyway, you can't move the Chinese army now! Even if I die, I can't let the golden soldiers climb the city wall for me! Hurry back for me, Jin Bing is coming up again! Gao Huaiyuan still insisted on his opinion, and unceremoniously reprimanded him.

The bloodied man stomped his feet, and had no choice but to turn around and run back to his battle position, and at this time, the golden soldiers outside the city changed formation again, and pushed a lot of pointed wooden donkeys covered with cowhide from the direction of the military camp (pointed wooden donkeys were siege chariots in ancient times. Six wheels, the upper horizontal big wood is the ridge, one zhang five feet long, eight feet high, the upper tip is below, the outer cover is covered with raw cowhide, and ten people are carried inside; Push the city and use it as a tunnel! And passed through the breached city river, and approached under the city walls.

"Prepare firewater, rockets, etc., and be sure not to let the pointed wooden donkey lean against the city wall! Burn them all for me! Gao Huaiyuan was nervous in his heart, it seemed that Jin Bing was going to attack the city by digging tunnels this time, so he immediately ordered it.

This time, Fusan Anzhen attacked Huangzhou City, it can be said that they have done everything, and even such siege equipment has been brought out, which shows their determination to take Huangzhou City.

As the pointed wooden donkey approached, the ladders also moved together, and under the impetus of the soldiers of the Jin army, who were not afraid of death, they once again crossed the destroyed sheep and horse wall behind the city river and approached the city wall, which made the situation on the battlefield tense again.

The shouting and killing sound of the city and the city became a piece, a large amount of blood stained the city wall red, with the rain of arrows and the flying of artillery, both sides were paying the price of their lives at every moment, the Song army in the city fought very hard, but the Jin soldiers under the city also fought very hard, even the Song army that surrendered to the Jin army was also very bitter, because as the first echelon of attack troops, they can be said to be cannon fodder, and they were used by the Jin soldiers to block arrows, and they fought to this moment, The first batch of troops who were thrown into the battlefield can be said to have been killed and wounded under the rain of artillery and arrows on the city, and became the most casualties in this battle, but their deaths did not exchange anyone's sympathy at all.

After not knowing how many casualties were paid, this time more Jin soldiers put all kinds of long ladders on the city wall again, as well as heavy ladders, which were also pushed under the city, and with a bang, they were erected on the city wall, and the iron hook at the front end was hooked to the battlement.