Chapter 53: Ascending to the City
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Yang Xi and Pang Zhong, who commanded the battle under the city, had been observing the situation on the city with binoculars.
It's been a month and a half, but the moon hasn't risen yet, the whole world looks hazy, the torches on the city head are dotted, and they can only illuminate a small area, and there is no infrared function telescope, and it is not very clear to see the situation on the city head. Yang Xi and Pang Zhong both saw that many rebel sergeants were overturned by the air wave generated by the explosion, and some severed limbs and stumps flew everywhere, and the frightened rebel sergeants threw down their weapons and fled in panic.
"Marshal, the power of the explosives pack is so huge!" Holding the binoculars and seeing such a tragic situation on the head of the city, Pang Zhong couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
Fortunately, now he is the besieging side, and if the defending side encounters such a powerful weapon attack, I don't know what to be embarrassed about. Pang Zhong also mourned for the guards at the head of the city, Yang Xi, a powerful weapon developed by a young marshal who was incomprehensible, made the other party suffer heavy losses for the first time it was put into use, and it collapsed in a while, and the other party didn't even fully see the figure of the sergeant of the Tang Army, isn't this sad or what?
The outcome of today's battle will definitely surprise him.
The explosives fired by the catapult and the "conscienceless cannon" continued to explode at and within the city, and the explosion produced a large amount of thick black, and the black smoke soon enveloped the whole city head, and it was impossible to see the situation clearly with a telescope. However, from the situation just now, Yang Xi had already judged the general situation on the head of the city, and immediately ordered Pang Zhong to prepare to attack the city.
By the time he was under the city, Pang Zhong had already prepared 10,000 soldiers to enter the city. After Yang Xi's order was issued, Pang Zhong also immediately ordered the 10,000 men and horses to start attacking the city.
As the order was issued, more than 10,000 soldiers let out an earth-shattering shout of killing, lifted the ladder and rushed towards the moat. At this time, the catapult continued to throw explosive bags, and the "conscienceless cannon" continued to roar, sending terrifying explosive bags to the city.
Shaanxi County is on the Yellow River, and the wind is very strong both during the day and at night, and the strong winds make the explosives thrown out fall at a different point than expected, but as long as they are thrown on the top of the city, it will have an effect, because the city is full of rebel soldiers.
The winds also had the unintended benefit of being blown away quickly by the smoke from the explosion. After a gust of wind, when the city head was clear, Yang Xi saw through the bright light of the explosion that there were many places on the city head where the rebel sergeants could not be seen, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and shouted to Pang Zhong beside him: "General Pang, the rebels on the city are scared away, immediately order more soldiers to quickly enter the city!"
The earthen artillery had been bombarded for almost a quarter of an hour, the artillery was almost ready, and the gunpowder packs were running out and ready to attack.
Pang Zhong also found out about this situation, he was a little surprised, but he also quickly understood that this was caused by the power of the explosives pack, killing and wounding many rebels, and the remaining rebel sergeants were scared away, and the rebel generals who commanded the defense of the city did not effectively organize resistance, prevent the sergeants from escaping, and replenish the personnel to these undefended walls. This was an excellent opportunity to enter the city, and Pang Zhong immediately ordered to gather another 5,000 soldiers and then attack the city.
The explosives continued to fall, and according to approximate estimates, nearly two hundred had already flown up the city, perhaps the number of people killed and wounded by these explosives was not much, only a few percent of the defenders at the head of the city, or even less, but their great power and shock wave frightened the rebel soldiers and scared them away. At the moment when the smoke was dispersed by the wind, the telescope could clearly see that there were no rebel sergeants on many of the city walls.
In the field of vision, the soldiers who had ascended the city had rushed to the vicinity of the moat, and used the ladder or directly pounced into the river and rushed down the city wall.
The feared situation did not appear, no arrows flew down from the city, and no one of the sergeants who rushed to the city fell, at least in the few directions that Yang Xi and Pang Zhong could see.
Soon a large number of ladders were erected, and the sergeants scrambled to climb up the ladders, because of the thick smoke, and soon the ladders and the sergeants who climbed were not in the smoke, and they could not see clearly.
Seeing that the sergeant had begun to ascend the city, Yang Xi ordered the stone thrower and the "conscienceless cannon" to stop firing.
The strong wind continued to blow, there was no subsequent explosion, the smoke was quickly blown away, and in the telescope, the situation on the top of the city could be vaguely seen.
Under the gaze of generals such as Yang Xi and Pang Zhong, wave after wave of sergeants ascended the ladder to the top of the city.
The ladder seemed to have been pushed down by the defenders on the head of the city, and the Tang army sergeant who had climbed the city fell from the top of the city.
The follow-up Tang army soldiers have rushed to the bottom of the city intensively, more cloud ladders have been erected, and the swarming Tang army has scrambled to climb to the top of the city, and then brandished war horses to rush in several directions.
Wang Xuan is a native of Chang'an, he was temporarily conscripted into the army by the government during the Tongguan crisis, his ancestors were all martial arts students, he was also a good martial artist, and ordinary people were not his opponents. Because of his outstanding performance in training, he was credited, and he was promoted from a small soldier to a team leader, and was finally incorporated into Pang Zhong's forward army. After the battle against Shaanxi County began, the first wave of his squad began to charge.
Before enlisting in the army, he had heard many people say that the death and casualty rate during the war, especially during the siege, was very high, and there may be less than one or two survivors among the ten people at the beginning of the charge, and he was placed in the array of the first wave of impact, and he was still grieving, not knowing if he had his life to return home, who knew that the battle situation after the siege was far less cruel than he expected, and when he rushed to the city with a shield, there was not a single arrow shot down. They erected the ladder and were not knocked down, and when they quickly reached the top of the city, he saw an even more surprising situation, there was no one at the top of the city, not a single rebel resistant, only some corpses and stumps and severed arms, and some wounded rebel sergeants lying on the ground and wailing.
There was no resistance, not even a "living" rebel sergeant, only a fleeing rebel sergeant not far from the city. Wang Xuan and his companions, who rushed to the city, were stunned, how could this be?
"The rebels were scared away!" I don't know which sergeant shouted.
Immediately someone followed, "The rebels were scared away by the gunpowder made by the marshal!"
"Quick, rush down and open the gates!"
After shouting in a chaotic manner, everyone came to their senses and rushed down the city road at a fast speed.
At this time, more sergeants climbed up the city tower, and most of the sergeants encountered the same situation as Wang Xuan, there were no resistance sergeants, some were just some wounded rebel sergeants lying on the ground, and there were disgusting stumps and broken arms.
Many of the sergeants rushed to the left and right along the walls, and many more rushed along the city roads to the city, ready to open the gates.
There were still rebel sergeants on the head of the city, but they were all people who had no time to escape from the city, and they had no intention of resisting at all, and when the Tang army rushed to the city, they immediately threw down their weapons and surrendered.