From a distance, the infantry seemed to move very slowly, but in an instant the infantry had rushed to the edge of the moat. The pontoon bridge over the moat was burned down several times by the Song army during many days of repeated battles, and was rebuilt again and again by the attackers, and each time it was rebuilt, the Mongol army worked hard to strengthen the pontoon bridge, and to this day, the pontoon bridge can barely pass not only ordinary infantry, but even heavy siege equipment.

Among the soldiers of the first wave of impact, not only carried ladders, but also cowhide cave carts and rushing carts, and the buoyant pontoon bridge also passed through these weapons safely. The roof of the cowhide cave car and the punching car are covered with more than ten layers of cowhide, which can prevent arrows and small stones, and the cloth strips for preventing arrows are hung on both sides of the punching car. The cowhide cave cart forced itself against the base of the wall and set up a ladder on the hole. The armored soldiers went up the ladder. The rushing car was directly concentrated near the door hole, trying to directly destroy the city gate of Xiangyang with hitting wood.

The city gate of Xiangyang has been rebuilt by Yang Liang, and the strength of the city gate has been particularly strengthened, although there is no time to renovate and add the jack gate drawn by Zheng Yunming himself, and it can not be perfect when fighting against rushing cars. But the city has gathered enough defensive forces, rolling wood lime bottles and so on rolling down, especially the ten thousand enemies, thrown to the entrance of the city gate immediately set fire and burn, the flames pushed the ten thousand enemies to rotate, near the city gate to ignite a group of fire, the two sides of the car on both sides of the arrow cloth burned the light, so that the soldiers pushing the wood to suffer different degrees of burns. Coupled with the boiling oil splashing down from the mouth of the iron swallowing beast at the head of the city, and the gold juice poured directly from the city, the city gate became a place of fear for the Mongol army. What they didn't expect was that even if they increased their troops and desperately breached the city gate, there was still an urn city full of secret passages and hidden caves waiting for them.

The focus of the competition between the two sides is still on the ladder, the ladder inserted in the cave car is strong and difficult to shake, and the hook fork and big gun of the Song army cannot shake the ladder at the head of the city. However, this did not prevent the Song army from constantly throwing heavy rolling logs and stones into the cowhide cave car, in order to deal with the cowhide cave car, Zheng Yunming even ordered the demolition of the blue brick houses of the rich people in Xiangyang City, and used the blue striped stone as the foundation of the big house as a stone, and the roof of the cowhide cave car can barely support the general stone, but it can never deal with hundreds of catties of stones, a bluestone is thrown, and the cowhide cave car and the soldiers inside are smashed to pieces.

But even so, it could not stop the armored warriors from wielding their scimitars one after another, and the two armies repeated the scenes of these days and days at the head of the city, first the Mongol army marched bravely, and then the Song army counterattacked with reinforcements from the new army under the city, all the while pressing the enemy army to retreat to the vicinity of the cloud ladder. After receiving reinforcements, the Mongols counterattacked again, and such a tug-of-war was staged on the entire western wall.

Qu out looked at the towering city wall in the distance, and watched the Mongolian military flag almost planted in the city several times and was uprooted by the counterattacking Song army. Sure enough, the result of the simple accumulation of troops did not change anything. In this battle, he dispatched about 5,000 siege infantry, and it can be inferred from the number of banners of the Song army on the city wall that Zheng Yunming also mobilized more than twice as many defenders as usual to fight, and the bravery of the Mongolian army was balanced by the power of firearms, but in the most critical quantitative comparison, the Song army had an advantage.

This is really the most ironic thing, in the face of the dense population of the south of the Yangtze River, the powerful empire of Saibei has achieved a military advantage over a lonely city in Xiangyang through its own outstanding cavalry strength to carry out strategic concentration of troops. However, this kind of superiority in troops could not be brought into play in the attack and defense of the city on the ground, because the space for siege operations was narrow, and it was impossible for more than 100,000 people to go into battle at the same time. The Song army, with the cover of the tall city walls, mobilized troops to gather new troops was much more convenient than the besieging army outside the city.

If it goes on like this, the ending will still end in fruitlessness like the previous time, and what makes Qu Chu even more frustrated is that after these months of campaigning, Xiangyang's military and civilian morale, food and weapons have not shown any signs of exhaustion. This can only prove how strong Xiangyang itself is, as a strong city at the head of the western region. There had never been a precedent for the Mongol army to breach such a powerful city with a single siege, and this time was no exception.

Being able to weaken Xiangyang to a point where it could be attacked in three years by plundering, and then capture Xiangyang through a few months of arduous siege was already an acceptable outcome for Tath. If the planning is not effective, it is likely to evolve into a long-term battle like Fengxiang Mansion. It may even lead to the defense line of the Yellow River, which will prevent the Mongols from entering for 20 years. That's the worst-case scenario.

Zhang Rou, whose face was sinking like water, with two layers of armor hanging on her body and a sharp knife in her hand, came to Tasi with both hands holding the knife and pouring it down.

Tuth turned his head and asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

"The battle ahead is unfavorable, and the last general wants to personally lead twenty brave soldiers to charge at the risk of death and pull out the west gate of Xiangyang for His Highness!" Zhang Rou said in a deep voice: "The last general since the surrender to the Mongolian power, the battle will be won, the attack will be won, there has never been a defeat in Xiangyang City to be frightened back by firearms, this is the shame of my life, please allow me to capture Zheng Yunming alive with my own hands, a shame before the snow!" ”

I still need your life, don't take the death squad to death senselessly. Of course, Tath will not really say these words, and after dealing with the Han people for a long time, he has also learned the euphemism and cunning of the Han people.

"The fox likes to come out and steal the tiger's food when the tiger is returning to its nest, and when our warriors are exhausted, Zheng Yunming will never sit in Xiangyang City without moving." He soothed Zhang Rou and said, "Have a good rest with your subordinates, and when this cunning fox comes out of the hole, it will be your time to show your majesty." ”

"The battle here is left to those Baduru who are gambling with their lives."

King Tath couldn't have described it more appropriately. The Badulu, who used their lives as the last gamble, exerted amazing energy during the siege in order to win the last glimmer of life.

The first to ascend to the top of the city was a strong man with a length of nine feet, and he was once the most courageous soldier in the headquarters, but he was convicted of secretly hiding a female slave from the Western Regions who was owned by the cowardly Xue guards, and was punished to serve in the Badu Lu army. When he was the first to stand on the city wall, two of the Earth Dragons' firecrackers were preparing to light them with bowls under their arms. Without a moment's hesitation, the Badulu soldier roared and pounced, blocking the muzzle of the bowl with his chest.

Such heroic actions inspired the blood of the successors, and the Badulu soldiers rushed to the city wall with loud roars.

Not only was the momentum lost to the enemy, but the Tulong army was even more horrified to find that the firearm they relied on to drive out the Mongol army seemed to be a little unlucky against the Badulu army. The iron sand and small lead sprayed from the bowl can't penetrate the two layers of cowhide armor at all, and although the lead bullet holding the firearm can injure Badulu, it can't make them lose most of their combat capabilities like other Mongol troops. The Baduru were able to rampge through the city with their tough cowhide armor, and the damage of these heavily armored warriors was very limited, whether it was swords, shields, bows and arrows.

Relying on the advantages established by this small group of heavily armored soldiers on the city walls, the Mongol infantry army followed up one after another under the guidance of Badulu and gained a firm foothold on the city. The dozens of Badulu in front of them dressed in cowhide and heavy Kai became the arrows of the Mongol army's continuous expansion of positions.

Seeing that the enemy's vanguard was about to approach the West City Gate Tower again, Ma Guangzu became anxious again.

"The enemy army is too close to the deputy capital! Please take down the city immediately! He was the mastermind of his army, as soon as he said this, Jiao Jin immediately took three steps forward, stood at the bottom of Zheng Yunming, and once he waited for the main general to nod his approval, he immediately began to move the formation to a safer place.

Zheng Yunming put down the speculum in his hand, unhappily brushed the brocade robe behind him with his hand, and shouted loudly: "If we are clash with the horse team in the wild, we still have a reason to avoid it." Today, I won the battle at the head of the city with foot soldiers, will my Great Song Dynasty still fall behind? ”

He picked up the sword in his hand, handed it to Jiao Jin and said, "Give you three hundred backs, and drive the enemy army out of the city with this sword in hand!" Although he didn't say it explicitly, everyone understood the meaning of the general's sword, and anyone who retreated would use this sword to cut him down, even if Zheng Yunming said it clearly, he had already made his attitude clear.

Jiao Jin took the sword and shouted an order, and immediately took away more than half of the elite soldiers guarding the city. Ma Guangzu's heart jumped even more. If he repeats Zhang Rou's terrifying blow that day, he may not have the certainty that today's commander from a white-faced scholar will be safe.

Zheng Yunming is quite confident, whether in the field or at the head of the city, in the battle for foot soldiers, the Song army is not slightly inferior, if there are Zhang Rou and other brave and desperate people in the Mongolian army, his Jing Chu army is the leader of the Jinghu Song army. Even though the Badulu army was heavily armored and fought bravely, this was not the home of the Mongols.

At the same time, there were several places on the head of the city where the flag was waving and the armor was sonorous, and there were three places in the city of Badu Ludeng, and at the same time, the elite troops of the Song army blocked the way. In this place near the gate tower of the West City, the elite soldiers wielding the big axe and the iron bone duo, under the leadership of Jiao Jin, did not avoid the sword, and charged towards the Badulu army in one go, and split the armor of the Badulu with a long-handled axe, and the iron bone duo smashed the head of the Badulu, the Beiwei army did not have an obvious advantage over Badulu in terms of equipment and morale, but first, they were outnumbered on the city wall, and second, their close-range combat skills were better than those of the prisoners who were put together at will. Under Jiao Jin's supervision, the Beiwei army forced the Badulu army back step by step, until it reached a small place near the cloud ladder.