Chapter 81: Foothold
As soon as the time arrived, the drums outside the palace suddenly sounded like thunder, and the horns were like weeping.
Countless shouts of killing began, and the densely packed more than 20,000 Leizhou troops began to attack the city. These two armies are in the hands of Ge Lijun's cronies, and they are quite hardworking.
On the walls of the palace, torches illuminate the castle as if it were daylight.
When the Leizhou army reached a distance of 300 meters, the catapult roared up, and the stones were thrown towards the army outside the city.
Countless janissaries crowded the city gates, surrounded by water.
The Leizhou army walked dozens of meters further with the stones.
Countless crossbow arrows roared out of the base of the city wall.
A large number of soldiers in the front row of the Leizhou Army fell to the ground with arrows.
They went another two hundred meters with catapults and crossbow arrows.
Su Quandang, Su Liuyi, Yue Peng and other generals shouted in unison on the city wall, "Release the arrow!"
Because Ge Lijun gathered his troops in the east to attack, and there were no enemy troops in the south, Yue Peng was also transferred to the east to assist in the defense.
Suddenly, rockets rained down towards the Leizhou army.
These rockets are coated with fire oil, or oil. When they fell into the Leizhou military formation, countless Leizhou soldiers were ignited by fire, and the flames rose instantly, burning those soldiers into burning people, screaming and dancing, extremely miserable.
They were far more miserable than the soldiers who fell to the ground with direct arrows, because the flames did not kill them instantly.
Ge Lijun sat at the back of the military formation, just shouting to himself, "Drums, drums, drums!"
He knew that with his own troops, there was no possibility of breaking the city, and he was full of hope pinned on those soldiers of the Yuan army.
Everyone knows in their hearts that as long as Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng ascend to the heights, there will definitely be people who will mutini immediately when the Yuan army descends.
The days when these soldiers were accepted were still very short, and it was impossible to sincerely support the Southern Song court.
In the past few minutes, the Leizhou army withstood several waves of arrows, leaving corpses all over the place, and finally rushed to the city.
On the city wall, the Southern Song army no longer used catapults, and the soldiers lifted the stones and threw them down. Now the city is densely packed with Leizhou soldiers, there is no need to aim at all, and there are always unlucky people who are smashed to the point of bleeding.
Several siege squads of the Leizhou Army pushed siege vehicles, and the shield soldiers next to them protected them, grabbing the city gate.
The city was rained with stones and arrows, and these soldiers fell, and immediately after them were replenished, pushing the siege carts forward.
Everywhere along the city wall, dozens of ladders were erected by Leizhou sergeants and put up directly on the battlements of the city wall.
Countless archers drew their bows and shot arrows, and fired back at the Great Song Forbidden Army on the city wall.
Speaking of which, although there are more than 40,000 soldiers in Xinggong City, the Yuan army's surrender is nothing, and the Leizhou soldiers who have just surrendered to Cheng have low combat effectiveness, and most of them are arranged next to those Yuan army soldiers, with real combat effectiveness, in fact, there are not many people, not even 25,000. Among them, 5,000 men were stationed on the southern wall to prevent the enemy from sneaking up, and at the eastern wall, the real combat strength was never less than 20,000.
But fortunately, there are indeed many loyal people in the two armies of protecting and protecting the state, and they are also very hard at throwing stones and arrows.
The Leizhou army under the city no longer pays a great price all the time.
Attacking a city would have required several times as many troops defending it.
After a stalemate for dozens of minutes, no one from the Leizhou army under the city could capture the city.
At the city gate, although the siege vehicles have reached the gate and continue to ramming, the drawbridge that is firmly stuck in steel is not easy to break.
Ge Lijun watched his hard work continue to be lost, but there was no progress in the siege, and he couldn't help but be anxious, looking towards Zhang Hongfan's army.
Zhang Hongfan and Li Heng were not in a hurry, but just asked the sergeant to cheer for the Leizhou army.
It wasn't until Hai Shi that the Leizhou army under the city was afraid that it had lost thousands, so that someone could climb the ladder to the top of the city.
They were actually scared, but they couldn't see Mingjin, so they could only rob the city.
Yue Peng stood on the wall with a gun, and when he saw a Lei Zhou army climbing up the ladder, he stabbed it with a shot.
The Leizhou soldiers puffed out their eyes, their vitality disappeared instantly, and they fell towards the city, knocking down two people in a row.
Yue Peng's eyes were round with anger, and he shouted to himself: "You miscellaneous pieces, some of them come up!"
At this time, a soldier hurriedly reported, "General, there are not enough stones and arrows!"
There are not many craftsmen on the island, and there is already a shortage of arrows, even if they continue to work overtime these days, and there are a lot of arrows from the Yuan army and the Leizhou Toucheng army, but they can't withstand such consumption.
"Uncle's!"
Yue Peng scolded indignantly and shouted: "If there are no arrows, let the archer draw his sword and give it to Lao Tzu!
"Yes!"
The herald was ordered to run away.
After a while, some soldiers pushed all the catapults down.
Yue Peng looked at it and couldn't help but curse in a low voice: "This group of losers!"
Immediately, I saw this catapult fall down and knock down many Leizhou troops, and then grinned again, "Good smash!"
Just then, an arrow flew towards him.
In the night, Rao Yiyue Peng's eyesight couldn't really see it. Luckily, the arrow just grazed the top of his head, knocking off the red tassels on his helmet.
Yue Peng scolded again: "your grandma!"
Then he took off the helmet above his head and threw it down.
After dozens of minutes like this, everything that could be smashed on the city wall was really almost finished.
Su Liuyi knew that it was Yue Peng's order, but he almost didn't come over to fight with him.
After the arrows stopped, the Leizhou army, under the cover of the archers, finally rushed to the top of the city. Their family background is much stronger than that of the Southern Song Dynasty guards.
The two armies fought a white-knuckle battle on the top of the city, and only the soldiers of the Leizhou army who climbed the city wall were only a few after all, and they were always suppressed.
Yue Peng's face was covered with blood, and he couldn't stop screaming and scolding.
He is actually handsome, but at this time, he looks like a demon god.
Su Quandang's kung fu is good, but his personality is different, he just leads the soldiers to run around, and when he sees where he can't support it, he will support him.
Ge Lijun learned from the mouth of the messenger that the soldiers had grabbed the city, showed a slight joy, and said to the military advisor next to him: "Go and let those martial arts masters help our army to seize the city, this mansion has raised them for so many years, and it should be time for them to contribute." ”
In this era, there are a lot of practitioners, and it is not a strange thing to raise some martial arts masters in the government.
The military advisor was ordered to go down.
After a short time, I saw hundreds of Leizhou troops with various blades and different shapes running out of the camp tent and rushing towards the city.
They were scattered as they went, and although they were wearing armor, they were also loose and loose, more like a pretence. These people are naturally those martial arts masters who Ge Lijun bought.
They are naturally not able to fight, but at this time, the Leizhou army has soldiers to grab the city, and the Southern Song Dynasty forbidden army does not have enough stones to prevent them from climbing the city wall, so the role of these martial arts masters can be played. With their skills, as long as they climb the city wall, they can pose a great threat to the forbidden army of the Southern Song Dynasty.
But at this moment, there was a bloody battle on the city wall, and in the night, no Southern Song Dynasty generals noticed these people.
Almost at the same time, the Yuan army led by Zhang Hongfan also rushed towards the palace.
They shouted as they charged: "Yuan army soldiers, if you don't open the city gate and help me take the city, how long will you wait?"
When the Yuan soldiers in the city heard these shouts, they couldn't help but turn their heads and whisper. His eyes also kept glancing at the Southern Song Dynasty soldier next to him.
The Southern Song Dynasty was weak, and if it weren't for the fear that they wouldn't be able to return to the north, how many of them would choose to stay on the island?
Now that Zhang Hongfan is leading the army to attack the city again, they naturally see hope. Surrender was a reluctant move, and they felt that the commander would not punish him, or else he would not let the soldiers shout and let them help take the city.
In just a few minutes, many of the hundreds of martial arts masters in the Leizhou army had already climbed the city wall.
Most of them are good, far from being beaten by ordinary soldiers.
And in the city, there were really Yuan army soldiers who began to mutiny. They suddenly burst into flames and scuffled with the Southern Song Dynasty soldiers next to them.
This mutiny, like the multi-bone card, quickly spread, and more and more Yuan soldiers began to move.
Wan Yanzhang, the general of the Yuan army, was immediately surrounded by dozens of Southern Song Dynasty guards at the head of the city.
His eyes flickered slightly, and after several changes, he didn't make a move, but shouted to the city: "Jurchen soldiers, stop quickly!"
Even Su Liuyi, who was not far away, was a little surprised, but he never let the guards around him evacuate.
There were Jurchen soldiers in the city who heard Wan Yanzhang's shout, looked up and saw that it was the general, but they really stopped and knelt down and surrendered again.
Wan Yanzhang still has a very high prestige among the Jurchen soldiers, after all, he is one of the few high-ranking Jurchen generals in the Yuan Dynasty.
However, at this time, there was chaos in the city, and his shouting did not have much effect.
Hundreds of martial arts masters of the Leizhou Army wreaked havoc on the city wall, and in a short time, they actually took a foothold of more than ten meters for the Leizhou Army. Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "The Strongest Fighting God Claw Book House in the Ages" for free for the first time.