Chapter 261: Hold on to Guiyang City (4)
The Yiren rebels had been stimulated to the point of madness by the conditions under which they could kill and loot at will after the city was breached, and they even lifted the chariot alive and carried it across the moat.
Without the suppression of bows and crossbows, the rebels marched much faster, and the people carrying the siege ladder directly erected the ladder on the city wall.
The rebels' catapults were still throwing stones, but the catapults were not bows and arrows, they could be pointed and shot, and most of the stones were thrown onto the city wall, but many of them fell outside the city wall, and the rebels who were climbing the ladder cried for their fathers and mothers.
Surtai was furious and said, "Are you blind? How can you smash your own people? ”
The rebels operating the catapult replied aggrievedly: "Didn't you say that? He asked us to throw all the stones on Guiyang City. There are a lot of stones outside Guiyang City, this task is not light, we are desperately throwing, it is estimated that there will be another ten days and half a month to complete the task. ”
Surtai said: "Fool, can't you see that there are all our own people under the city wall now?" Stop, stop. ”
The rebels who operated the trebuchet were very diligent, and when they confronted Sultai, they were still putting stones in the spoons, and just as Surtai said "stop", they threw the stones. The stone was so accurate that the first rebel to climb the city was dancing when the stone fell on his head, destroying his entire head, and the dead body rolled down the ladder, knocking the two rebels on the ladder into the air. Well, the rebels' catapults are just too accurate.
Sultai stopped the catapults, and the rebels were finally relieved of their worries, but again, the Ming troops on the city wall found that the enemy's catapults had stopped working, and they came out of the bunkers and fought with the rebels who had climbed the tower.
The Ming army was suppressed by catapults. But he couldn't hit the other party's catapult, and accumulated a belly of evil fire, and rushed out at this time, it was really like a tiger entering the flock, and the rebels were defeated and retreated.
The rebels weren't exactly given for nothing, not for a while. A big black-faced man climbed up the tower, seven feet tall, with a strong body, and as strong as an ox, and made an iron rod. His stick technique opened and closed widely, and the Ming army's head was broken and bleeding, and they avoided it one after another.
Suddenly, a voice shouted: "Wu Na black man, eat Ben will be stabbed." ”
It was Lu Qin, the general of the Ming army, who spoke. He was the prime minister of the military affairs of Sichuan, Guizhou, and Huguang, and was not only proficient in the art of war, but also strong in martial arts.
The black-faced man raised his stick to the shelf, but Lu Qin did not intersect with his weapon, and changed from vertical splitting to sweeping. The big man hurriedly changed his moves. only heard the sound of "dang", and the two weapons intersected. Sparks splash.
The big man had a cruel smile on his face, his strength was one of the best in the rebel army, and he thought that he could collapse the Ming general's big sword with this blow. Who knew that Lu Qin's hand was very steady, and the knife was clenched very tightly.
Lu Qin slashed down with another sword, and the big man used all his strength to raise the stick high again. This move is called "Raise Fire to Burn the Sky", and it is a defensive slashing move.
There was another crisp sound of "dang", and the iron rod of the big man collided with Lu Qin's broadsword again.
Lu Qin turned around and left, the big man behind him stood in place in a daze, muttering in his mouth: "What a fast knife." ”
After speaking. A blood-colored crack appeared on the big man's forehead, and blood flowed out of the crack, more and more, faster and faster, and finally he split in half along the blood mark and fell to the ground.
It turned out that Lu Qin's knife was extremely fast, and before the big man could raise the stick, he had already cut the big man in half.
The Yiren soldiers next to him were frightened and exclaimed: "Oh no, General Dali is finished, General Dali is finished!" ”
General Yin Shen was in charge of another section of the city wall, and at this time he also jumped out with a big knife and slashed hard. Just as he was about to kill, a cold arrow shot over, Yin Shen couldn't dodge, and hit his left eye.
His own soldiers were shocked and stepped forward to support Yin Shen.
Yin Shen stood stunned for a moment and found that although the arrow hit him in the eye, its strength was insufficient and it was not life-threatening. He stretched out his hand to push away his own soldier, grabbed the tail of the arrow with both hands, and pulled the arrow out of his eye socket with a single force. In severe pain, he forgot that there was an inverted tooth on the arrow, and this pull actually brought out his left eye.
Yin Shen was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "How can the parents who have received the skin of the body be discarded." ”
After saying that, he took off the left eye on the arrow and swallowed it in one gulp.
Swallowing his eyes, he continued to charge at the rebels, slashing a stunned rebel in half with a single sword.
Although the Ming army was brave, the number of rebels was quite large, and the two were evenly matched. The rebels couldn't go any further, but the Ming couldn't completely drive the rebels off the walls. The corpses under the city walls were both defenders and rebels, and the corpses piled up more and more, piling higher and higher, and after the fight, the rebels almost did not have to climb the ladder, and they could climb the city wall by stepping on the corpses.
In the midst of a fierce battle, night fell.
An Bangyan was still watching the battle from afar, and secretly cursed in his heart: "The Ming army is really bad, it's dark, and I don't know how to fight at night, so I actually fight with our army in the dark." Isn't this bullying our soldiers not being able to see at night? ”
Seeing that the Ming army had no intention of lighting the lamp for a while, An Bangyan had no choice but to order the troops to retreat. Let all the soldiers retreat behind the moat, and wait until tomorrow dawn before attacking the city.
The soldiers in the chariot ignored the order to temporarily suspend their troops and hid in the chariot to dig a wall.
After the rebels retreated, there was silence above and below the city wall, and the sound of "dong dong" chiseling the wall was particularly loud.
Seeing that the rebels began to retreat, the defenders of Guiyang relaxed a little, and the fatigue of the long battle finally appeared, and some soldiers even lay on the ground panting.
Hearing the sound of the wall being cut, the soldiers were all as white as earth, and they all guessed that it must be the rebels hiding in the cart who were digging the wall below. The defense of the chariot is amazing, and the city wall is not clear under the city wall, what can I do, do I just let the rebels dig the city wall?
Fu Zonglong shouted: "Don't be afraid, let's greet them with the stones on the city wall." ”
The rebels enthusiastically sent a large pile of stones to the defenders of Guiyang City with catapults, and although they caused great trouble to the defenders, now the stones became the best weapons for the defenders.
The soldiers picked up the stone and threw it in the direction from which the sound came. The sound of stones hitting wood came and went, but the effect didn't seem to be very great, as the rebels were digging into the wall faster.
Cai Fuyi instructed the other soldiers to burn the gold juice or oil, and when the gold juice and oil boiled, they were poured down.
The stone had already smashed the top of the cart somewhat, and gold juice and oil poured into it, burning the rebels and howling wolves.
Cai Fuyi is not ordinarily bad, and he also threw a torch at the place where the oil was poured just now. When the oil caught fire, it quickly burst into flames, burning some of the wagons that the rebels had worked so hard to build.
Zhu Youcheng still did not go up to the city wall, but judging by the voice, the rebels must have attacked the city wall today, but it was only because it was dark that they retreated temporarily. Tomorrow, they will make a comeback. The Ming army had only 30,000, while the rebels numbered 180,000. Failure is already doomed, and it won't be long, that is, today and tomorrow.
Zhu Youcheng was in a hurry and ordered the army and civilians to step up the construction of the inner city wall. Finally, when the sky was dark, the inner city wall was closed, and the fortifications were finally completed in victory.
At this time, shouts of killing were everywhere on the city wall, and the rebels began to attack the city again. (To be continued......)