Twenty hundred-pound boulders were like a flock of geese sweeping across the sky, rolling in the sky, smashing towards the heads of the dense Tang soldiers under the city, the Tang soldiers shouted in panic and hid under Doumeng, but there were still a large number of soldiers who had nowhere to hide, and they shouted and dodged everywhere. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The boulder crashed down, 'Bang! With a loud bang, the dust flew, and several soldiers couldn't dodge, and were smashed into meat sauce by the boulder, and the boulder continued to roll forward, knocking over dozens of people in a row before stopping.

A boulder hit the cowhide Doumeng, 'click' loud, Doumeng was smashed, the soldiers rolled and crawled out from below, but the stone was rebounded by Doumeng, and popped forward more than 20 steps, rushed into the crowd, and a miserable scream sounded.

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At this time, more than a dozen huge nest carts appeared in the phalanx, each nest cart was pulled by dozens of healthy oxen, and the soldiers of the Tang Army pushed a one-person high wooden wheel, and the wooden wheel creaked and struggled forward.

When the nest car entered the strike range, they immediately became the target of the trebuchet, at this time a nest car full of soldiers was unfortunately hit by two boulders whistling towards the car successively, the upper part of the nest car was suddenly shattered, fragments flew in all directions, wood mixed with the human body collapsed, the huge impact force made the nest car lose its center of gravity, and fell backwards, more than 200 soldiers in the nest car suffered heavy casualties......

At the same time as the boulder at the head of the city was thrown, 2,500 crossbow arrows were also launched, and the powerful arrows shot at the Tang soldiers who were 300 steps away, and the strength was so great that the gold and stone could be broken.

The big arrow penetrated the shields and armor of the Tang soldiers and shot into the soldiers' bodies, and groups of Tang soldiers fell to the ground screaming.

Immediately afterward, another round of powerful yellow crossbow arrows was fired........

Under the repeated blows of heavy trebuchets and yellow crossbow arrows, the Tang soldiers suffered nearly 3,000 casualties in just 50 paces, but this casualty could not stop the attack of more than 20,000 troops.

When the Tang army rushed into a hundred steps, the drums on the head of the city became rapid, this is the archers' firing order, five thousand archers raised their bows together, and at the same time shot out three feet long arrows, five thousand arrows like a locust overwhelmingly rushed to the top of the Tang army's head, a piece of Tang soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, and the positions of the two phalanxes were suddenly in chaos.

In the distance, Li Shimin, who was standing on the high platform, was very calm, the Zhou army's city-head shooting was not as strong as he expected, and he immediately shouted: "The crossbowmen counterattack!" ”

The 5,000 Tang troops in the third phalanx were the crossbowmen, who rushed to the city wall, raised their crossbows and shot at the head of the city, and the dense arrows suppressed the big yellow crossbows of the Zhou soldiers.

Qin Qiong, who was commanding at the forefront, saw that the time had come, and he immediately shouted: "Quickly level the moat!" ”

Two thousand Tang soldiers rushed to the top of the wooden planks, each two feet wide and about three zhang long, with large wooden nails at the front and back ends, which were like shields to protect the two Tang soldiers below.

Two thousand Tang troops rushed to the front of the moat, paved the moat with pieces of wooden planks nearly three zhang long, and drove iron nails at both ends into the soil, and soon formed more than a dozen wooden bridges several zhang wide.

Tens of thousands of soldiers of the Tang Army climbed up like an ant colony, climbing ladders in one hand, holding a shield in the other, biting the horizontal knife in their mouths, and striving to climb upwards, arrows fell on the top of the city like rain, stones and logs fell like hailstones, and pieces of soldiers were hit and shot, screaming and falling down from the city......

As the Tang army began to attack the city, the Zhou army at the head of the city had also changed its formation, the trebuchet, the big yellow crossbow and the big bow all suspended the attack, 10,000 soldiers changed to spears and swords and shields, while 2,000 soldiers rushed to the protruding horse wall and shot at the Tang soldiers besieging the city from behind with horned crossbows.

The corpses under the walls quickly piled up, and blood flowed down the city, seeping out of the corpses and staining the surface of the moat red.

The city head is smeared with a lot of grease, so that the city wall becomes extremely smooth, the siege ladder is difficult to support the city head, the city soldiers use steel forks to both sides to support it, the barb at the top of the siege ladder creaks across the wall, but it is difficult to support, the oblique stab falls sideways, a string of soldiers on the siege ladder let out a long scream, many people jumped from the ladder, still unable to escape the dead and wounded.

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But what really posed a threat to the Zhou army were the nest cars, as tall as the city walls, and the siege weapons made of wooden frames and covered with raw cowhide resembled moving tall houses full of soldiers.

The trebuchets in the west and north of the city attacked intensively, destroying most of the nest cars, but Li Shimin had a surprise army, he had long known that the east city did not install trebuchets, in the last night, the general Hou Junji led 3,000 troops and five nest cars to ambush behind a mound outside the east city, the dense trees on the mound blocked the nest car, it was difficult to find from the city.

Each of the five nest cars gathered a hundred Tang soldiers, these five hundred people were specially selected from the Song Jingang prisoners of war, each of them received a hundred yuan in advance to settle in, and at the same time received a promise that after the end of the war, they would be free.

Five hundred men were not afraid of death, each tall and heavily armoured, armed with swords, spears, and bows and arrows, and through the gaps, the soldiers stared fiercely at the distant city walls.

In front of the platform is a long thick wooden board wrapped with iron sheets, when the nest car advances, the wooden board is pulled up, becoming a natural shield, making it difficult for the arrows on the city head to hurt the Tang soldiers in the platform, as long as they are not hit by the boulder, it is difficult for the arrows of the Zhou army to shoot the enemy in the nest car.

The head of the east city is the weak point of the defense of the Zhou army, there are only two thousand defenders on the head of the city, Li Shimin has calculated the time, when the war is fierce, it is difficult to hear the siren, so he can only go to the west city to report, come and go at least a stick of incense time, just enough to make the nest car arrive at the city wall.

Although Wei Wentong is good at defending cities, Li Shimin is also good at attacking cities, and he will seize the slightest opportunity from the details.

Li Shimin on the high platform squinted at the battle at the head of the city, and the rumbling war drums on the head of the city sounded again, and Li Shimin had already felt the estimate, and the war drums would sound every quarter of an hour, which lasted for a quarter of an hour.

Li Shimin couldn't help sneering, didn't Wei Wentong know that the sound of war drums would cover up a lot of truths?

He immediately turned around and ordered: "Order, beat the heaven-shaking drum!" ”

The drumming of the Tang army camp once again returned to the earth-shaking drum, and the dull drum sound of 'dong-dong-' was slow and powerful, as if it came from under the dark clouds in the sky.

This is Li Shimin's order to send troops, and Hou Junji immediately shouted: "Attack!" ”

Three thousand soldiers and five nest carts came out from behind the mound and rumbled towards the city walls, pulled by the strong oxen.

The Zhou army at the head of the eastern city immediately discovered the enemy's situation, and the guard shouted: "Ring the alarm bell quickly!" ”

'When! While! While! The alarm bell rang over the east city, but soon the guards found that the alarm bell was useless, and the war drums on the west side of the city were too loud to be heard.

The defender was in a hurry, lying on the female wall of the inner city and shouting to several cavalrymen under the city: "Quickly go and report to General Wei, there is an enemy situation in Dongcheng, and thousands of enemy troops have attacked Dongcheng." ”

The two cavalrymen whipped their horses and galloped in the direction of Xicheng......

The fierce battle at the head of the west city was in full swing, and the Zhou army had a clear upper hand with its well-trained soldiers and the advantages of the city, and one after another siege ladders were overturned, and one after another Tang troops were pierced by spears from the head of the city, tumbling down the city, and rolling wood and stones smashed into the city like hail.

Thousands of dead bodies piled up under the city, and blood stained the moat red, but Wei Wentong had doubts in his heart, if he continued to fight like this, the Tang army might not be able to capture tens of thousands of dead and wounded, this is not like a tentative attack, nor is it like Li Shimin's style of doing things, the saint once told himself that Li Shimin pays attention to the complementarity of righteousness and oddity in combat.

'Complement each other! ’

Wei Wentong was stunned for a moment, since it was Zhengqi complementing each other, he saw it, so what about Qi? Where's the odd?

Wei Wentong suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, he turned his head to look east, and at this moment, a soldier shouted: "General, there is an urgent report under the inner city!" ”

Wei Wentong strode to the inner city wall and looked down, only to see two cavalrymen looking up anxiously, "What's going on?" Wei Wentong asked loudly.

"General Qiyu, General Zhao Jun of Dongcheng urgently reported that the enemy army attacked Dongcheng, and there were probably thousands of people."

Wei Wentong immediately understood that this was Li Shimin's strange soldier, and he immediately shouted: "Quickly order General Wang Xuanjing to lead 3,000 troops to support Dongcheng quickly." ”

The soldier gave the order to leave, Wei Wentong's heart hung up, and Li Shimin actually stabbed himself in the back. (To be continued.) )