VIII. The Tragic Battle of the New City (2)

The South Korean army was also brave and came up with the idea of launching rockets. Countless rockets popped onto the wooden platform, and for a moment smoke billowed from the high platform. Unfortunately, the fire could not burn down the trolley for a while, which allowed the trolley to finally approach the city wall. The cart smoked and burned with flames, and as soon as it approached the city wall like a monster, it immediately put a wooden ladder on the wall. The Zhao army dared to die under the cart, who had already followed the high trolley, and climbed the city wall along the wooden ladder.

Each cart carries a hundred warriors. As soon as these 5,000 warriors stepped on the city wall, they fought a bloody battle with the Korean army. The Han army is to protect the family and the city, that is to fight to the death and not retreat, that is, if people are going to die, they will bite off a piece of Zhao Jun's meat. And Zhao Jun is to wash away his shame, to fight for honor, or to pick out a warrior from 60,000 people, so he is desperate with the Korean army who sacrifices his life and forgets his life. Although the brave wins when the two armies meet, what if they are both brave armies? There was only a river of blood.

Zhao Meng didn't expect Han Jun to be so tenacious? I didn't expect my Zhao Jun to be so brave? But he knew that no matter how brave he was with 5,000 men, he would not be able to defeat the defenders with 40,000 soldiers and 60,000 city citizens, so he ordered: all the heavily armored warriors will go to the city. Order: 10,000 heavily armored warriors, divided into groups of 500, climb the city wall like ants!

The Han army didn't know that it was the courage and perseverance they brought, so they didn't hesitate to use the sergeants to stop Zhao Jun desperately, cover the people, lift the rolling logs, pick up the big stones, and throw them under the city wall desperately.

Han Jun's move killed Zhao Jun miserably. The heavily armored samurai, just before the Korean army could react at the beginning, climbed into the city with a thousand people. After the Han army reacted, he realized that these heavily armored warriors were the most fatal, so he concentrated his strength on the advantage of having a large number of people, and after suppressing the Zhao army who climbed the city wall, he pressed the heavy armor warriors with all his might, so that those who were close to the city wall, or who were climbing the city, were killed or wounded. The ascent of the heavily armored samurai to the castle was declared a failure.

With the defeat of the heavily armored warriors, the Han army and Han Minzhuang on the city wall saw hope, and one by one they became more and more courageous, and a few Han Minzhuang appeared, directly lifting the rolling logs and crashing into the heavy armor warriors who had already landed in the city of Zhao Jun. The poor Zhao army's heavy-armored warriors, who originally relied on heavy armor and were not afraid of light weapons, were killed on the city wall when the Han army was boiling with urine, they were hit by this kind of impact of hitting the wood with a length of more than two zhang, at least the thickness of someone's skull, and immediately fell to the ground, and Qiqiao bled to death.

These demonstrations of Han Minzhuang suddenly drove the people around them who hit the wood; Whether it was Han Jun or Han Minzhuang, they all raised the bumper wood around them in groups and launched a collision attack on Zhao Jun. Although Zhao Jun had already discovered the power of hitting the wood, he also used arrows to desperately block the Han Jun in light armor and Han Minzhuang in single clothes, which also had a certain effect; However, since the city wall is only four zhang wide, there are at most twelve people standing in a row to shoot arrows, but Han Jun and Han Minzhuang are within a range of more than a dozen steps, and no matter how fast you are archery, it is two rounds. These two rounds of arrows can only knock down a few people in front, while most of the hitting trees are carried by more than four people, and there are changes; So, by the time the third round of arrows was about to be fired, the striking wood had already hit the body.

The Han army and the Zhao army used this barbaric method of defeating both sides, killing those who were dark and bleeding on the city wall of less than a thousand steps, and they also retreated. The tragic battle on the city wall made Zhao Meng tremble! Only then did he understand why Pang Juan was attacking with water. After he scolded himself in his heart, he ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

The division commander in charge of the siege, after retreating covered in blood, was still scolding and unconvinced, still blaming the boss, and still saying that as long as he was given half an hour, he could take the west city wall.

As soon as the Han army heard the golden sound of the Zhao army, he also subconsciously stopped the attack, and under the control of the subconscious, he watched the Zhao army withdraw the city wall in an orderly manner. When the last sergeant of the Zhao army stepped onto the high platform, the Han army and Han Minzhuang on the entire city wall were all spread on the city wall, regardless of the stumps and broken arms and weapons underground, regardless of the crying and screaming of the injured people around him, and regardless of the blood flow in the ground, he was so physically and mentally exhausted and fell on the ground, looking at the sky, gasping for breath.

Both Zhao and Han suffered heavy casualties and were unable to engage each other.

Zhao Meng heard that Zhao Jun's battle, in a short period of personality time, actually lost thousands of people? I regretted it very much. He wanted to kill himself with a sword! After learning from the pain, he ordered the whole army to rest and recuperate, and waited for the successful digging of the ditch before continuing the siege. After one of the corps in charge of the siege went to rest, he called the commanders of the other two corps who were in charge of vigilance and support. He ordered these two armies, each with 5,000 men, to go to the periphery in search of ships and timber! Be sure to have 3,000 boats and rafts ready tomorrow afternoon. He told the commanders of the two armies: "I will attack the city with water!" Therefore, the boat and the wooden platoon are the weapons that we have to prepare for the unprepared. After the city wall collapsed, whether the Zhao army could win a big victory with the least battle damage depended on these ships and wooden platoons. ”

The deputy general who dug the ditch did not disgrace his mission, and finally dug a large ditch 100 steps wide, three miles long, and half a man deep at four o'clock in the unitary hour, before it was dark. After Zhao Meng got the report, he went to inspect it overnight, and when he saw that he had a wish, he ordered: release the water when the child is in the air! In the order: the Zhao army, which surrounded the three walls of the new city, was strictly defended, and then an army that dug a ditch was sent to the southern city, which was originally unfortified, to fortify it, and strictly prevent the Han army from escaping from the water of the southern city. After arranging a qiē, Zhao Meng waited at the head of the ditch by the water, and it was not until the time of his son that he dug up the first hoe with his own hands. Driven by him, the sergeants waved their hoes one after another, and after digging up the soil where the water met the ditch, the water began to flow quietly into the ditch.

Zhao Meng squatted on the edge of the ditch and saw that the water was getting bigger and bigger, until it became a river with a white step wide, and then he got up and held a torch along the ditch to check its water potential. Due to the early preparations, Zhao Jun retreated to the high platform and the embankment of Weishui, and dug and built a figure-eight earthen embankment at the exit of the big ditch, so that Weishui could rush directly to Xicheng. Zhao Meng was a careful man, and he also built earthen embankments in the east and north of all the low-lying places below the ground level of the city wall.

Due to the full preparation, Zhao Meng was at the exit of the big ditch, and saw the river slowly rising to the ground in front of him, and only after it was white, did he go back to the camp to rest. Early the next morning. Before the hour, Zhao Meng woke up from the joy of raising the white flag after the Korean army collapsed the city wall by a big blister. He got up and saw that the east had long been white, and the new city was even whiter.