Chapter 134: The Capture of Xianyang (Part II)
The night is sรจ handsome, and the waning moon is like a hook.
A large iron kettle has been erected at the head of Xianyang City.
In the big iron kettle, the fierce fire oil is burning vigorously, and the red fire light illuminates the inside and outside of the city wall as bright as day, if the Chu army sneaks up, it will be discovered by the defenders if it does not wait to get close to the city wall.
In the chaotic footsteps, Xianyang Captain Shang Qi slowly climbed to the right east gate with more than ten personal soldiers.
The Chu army has come to the city, and there are only 2,000 soldiers in Xianyang City, but Shang Qi is not afraid in his heart, in his opinion, Xianyang City is high and deep, and there are enough materials such as rolling wood and stones, especially fierce fire oil, which is simply a sharp weapon to defend the city, Shang Qi has reason to believe that the Chu army will plant a big heel fight under Xianyang City.
Shang Qi was still thinking that if he could hold out until the Han King came back to help, then with this military exploit, he would be enough to seal the Marquis!
Fenghou, this is almost the ultimate dream of every man in the world, and Shang Qi is also a hot-blooded man, how can he avoid vulgarity?
"Cheer me up, don't fucking shit your head!" Shang Qi walked while cheering for the night guards and patrol guards at the head of the city, "Xiang Yu is dead, and the current Chu army is no longer the Chu army of five years ago, and even if Xiang Yu's army is coming to the city, so what?" โ
"Today's Xianyang is not the Xianyangzi of the past!"
"The height of the city wall has increased by half a zhang, and the fierce fire oil is even more or less!"
"If the barbarians of Chu State are coming, let them come, and ensure that they will die as much as they come!"
"When this battle is over, as long as Xianyang is not lost, the king and the prime minister will definitely be rewarded, and then you will be able to go back to your hometown to marry a little girl, haha!"
Shang Qi's speech was quite uplifting, and the sentries and patrolmen guarding the city looked shocked when they heard the words, especially when Shang Qi mentioned Xiao Niang, they laughed very indulgently, men are like this, and they are always very energetic when they talk about women, but in reality, most of these soldiers and calves have not even touched Xiao Niang's hand.
A soldier calf guarding behind the battlement was smiling happily, and a wolf's tooth arrow suddenly shot up from outside the city, and shot through the head of the soldier calf at once, and the arrow cluster shot into the back of the neck, and went straight out through the forehead, and the sharp triangular blade reflected a trace of cold light under the light of the waning moon.
Shang Qi was stunned, then immediately drew his sword and roared: "The enemy is attacking, blowing the trumpet to warn!" โ
Suddenly, the sound of horns sounded on the head of the city, almost at the same time as the horn of the Han army, thousands of torches suddenly bloomed outside the east gate of Xianyang, and through the red light of the torches, the defenders of the city could clearly see that the dark Chu army was pouring over from the wilderness ahead.
Seeing that the Chu army had so many troops, the Han army at the head of the city suddenly moved.
Shang Qi waved his big sword again and again, and shouted loudly: "Don't panic, Chu Manzi can't attack at once!" โ
After that, Shang Qi turned back and instructed the captain of his own soldiers: "Pass my general order, the middle battalion will immediately rush to the right east gate, and the rest of the battalions will also assemble immediately, and each will guard each gate, and there must be no mistake!" In order to hold Xianyang, Shang Qi had organized 2,000 soldiers into five battalions, each with 400 people, and one battalion in each of the four cities, and the middle battalion was in the center.
"No!" The captain of the pro-soldier agreed and took the order.
Outside the right east gate, Tian Heng's 5,000 Chu troops were swarming.
Seeing that the Han army in the city reacted quickly, and soon a large number of soldiers poured into the city, Tian Heng knew that the one guarding Xianyang must be a battlefield general, and it seemed that it was impossible to take Xianyang in one fell swoop through a rapid attack, but this was also expected by Tian Heng, if Xianyang was so easy to break, it would not be Xianyang.
When Tian Heng drew his sword and shouted: "The front of the front camp, attack!" โ
The front Sima suddenly agreed, and immediately ordered the five hundred soldiers of the headquarters to carry more than a dozen long ladders and rushed up.
Tian Heng originally planned to lead 500 soldiers to take the lead in capturing the city, but since the Han army was already prepared, he naturally would not rashly go up to die, or let the battalions and departments consume the Han army first, and then wait for the Han army in the city to be exhausted, and the rolling wood and stone fierce fire oil were almost consumed, and it was not too late to lead the 500 soldiers to capture the city.
The archers of the two armies first began to shoot at each other, but there were not many archers of the Han army in Guanshang, and the rain of arrows shot down was sparse, which was not enough to stop the rush of the Chu army, although the Chu army in Guanxia had more than 500 archers, but the arrows on the city needed to be thrown, and the width of the city wall was limited, so the lethality was really limited.
Five hundred Chu troops carried more than a dozen long ladders and soon crossed the moat.
When the Chu army erected a long ladder to prepare to seize the city, the rolling wood and stones fell from the city like rain, and the Chu army that went up the ladder was smashed to cry and cry and cry for his mother, and they fell down from the ladder one after another, but there were still dozens of soldiers who climbed the city head against the rolling wood and stones that fell like rain, and the Han army armor soldiers on the city head started a desperate fight.
Tian Heng was in great spirits, and the first BO attack grabbed the head of Xianyang City, which was somewhat unexpected by him.
But if you think about it carefully, it makes sense, after the vicious battle of Hangu Pass, the old and weak soldiers in the army have basically all died, and now the rest are all athletes, and after three days of purgatory-like ordeal in Hangu Pass, there is nothing in this world worth their fear.
However, Tian Heng's excitement did not last long.
Soon, a large number of Han army soldiers poured into the city, and the dozens of Chu army soldiers who finally grabbed the city were quickly overwhelmed by the Han army soldiers, especially the Han general who was the leader, with a double-edged heavy sword, he alone killed at least six or seven Chu army soldiers!
"Damn!" Tian Heng said hatefully, "Blow the trumpet, the front camp retreats!" โ
Suddenly, the sound of a mustard desolate and low horn rushed into the sky from the back of the Chu army.
In the continuous sound of horns, the Chu troops congested under the city wall retreated like a tidal tide at a low tide, but the 500 people at the time of the attack were less than 400 when they retreated
Xianyang left east gate.
In a ditch that connects with the outlet, Ding Gu's 100 sharp deaths are quietly lurking in the murky water.
As early as half a quarter of an hour ago, Ding Gu had already pried open the iron fence of the drainage outlet, and then sneaked into Chengfeng with 100 people.
However, after entering the city, Ding Gu found that the garrison of the Han army was very strict, and the vicinity of the city gate was full of people.
Tian Heng's army is storming the right east gate of Xianyang, and Ding Gu's side is also clearly audible.
At that moment, a small soldier lowered his voice and said to Ding Gu: "General, Tian Heng's right army has begun to attack the city, why don't we do it too?" Otherwise, the first merit of breaking Xianyang would have been taken away by Tian Heng, a native of Qi. โ
"There's no hurry." Ding Gu waved his hand and said indifferently, "It's still early." โ
The war has just begun, and if Tian Heng wants to break the right east gate of Xianyang, it will take a few hours!
Moreover, as Tian Heng's attack on the right east gate is getting stronger and stronger, the attention of the defenders in the city will be gradually attracted to the right east gate, once the battle is tight, the defenders in the remaining directions will also be transferred to the right east gate one by one, and at that time, their rear army will take the opportunity to attack, then the left east gate will be broken!
As he spoke, a patrol team slowly drove over from not far away, Ding Gu pressed his hand, and the Ruishi behind him dived into the murky river water one after another against the stone wall.
A group of more than a dozen Han soldiers with torches and halberds slowly walked over the heads of the Chu army, but they didn't know that there were a hundred Chu army soldiers lurking in the drainage ditch under their feet
Xianyang right east gate.
The attack of Tian Heng's army is becoming stronger and stronger, and the defenders of Guanshang have slowly become unable to bear their strength, so that even the fierce fire oil has been consumed a lot.
When the Chu army was repulsed for the first time, Shang Qi was so tired that he almost collapsed.
The strength of the Chu army exceeded Shang Qi's expectations, these Chu troops were almost all fearless of death, they were simply a group of beasts!
Just now, more than 100 Chu army soldiers climbed up the city along the long ladder, Shang Qi had to personally lead the personal army to launch a counterattack to finally drive the Chu army off the city, but after a fierce battle, more than 100 people in his personal army have been killed and wounded, and more than 800 soldiers who came to guard the right east gate have also suffered more than half of the casualties!
Most of the remaining 300 people were injured and exhausted.
Shang Qi sighed, only then did he realize that the problem was very serious, and immediately ordered the captain of his own soldiers: "Order, and then transfer 400 people from each battalion to reinforce the right east gate!" โ
"No!" The captain of the pro-soldier waved and took the order
Outside the east gate on the right, Tian Heng is wearing armor with the assistance of Tian Destruction and Zidu.
The battalions and departments stormed for more than two hours, and the Han army at the head of the city was obviously exhausted. Tian Heng has reason to believe that when he personally leads five hundred sharp soldiers into the attack, the Han army on the pass will definitely collapse, and the city of Xianyang will be broken..., in an instant!
With the soft sound of metal grinding, Tian Heng slowly drew his horizontal knife.
Five hundred Chu army warriors also drew their swords out of the sheath, a pair of fierce eyes have been staring at the disastrous Xianyang city wall in front of them, suddenly, Tian Heng looked back and smiled, then immediately raised the horizontal knife and rushed up, the next moment, the five hundred sharp soldiers roared like a wolf, one by one raised their long swords and rushed to the Xianyang city wall
Xianyang left east gate.
Ding Gu silently climbed the edge of the ditch.
Behind Ding Gu, a hundred sharp men also climbed up the edge of the ditch.
Just a moment ago, more than a hundred Han troops were drawn away, obviously, Tian Heng's attack on the right east gate was very urgent, forcing the Xianyang defenders to have to draw reinforcements from all directions many times, until now, the Han army still guarding near the left east gate is less than two hundred, although the number is still more than Ding Gu's people, Ding Gu does not want to wait any longer.