Chapter 135: The City is Broken
The most important thing in the siege of the city is who takes the lead, everyone wants to be the vanguard, and there is no dispute, and in the end it is still given to Wang Quanbin.
Why? It's because of the Black Flag Army, otherwise it wouldn't be his turn to be the vanguard of the siege, but the combat effectiveness of the Black Flag Army is there, and who else dares to compete with him.
However, Wang Quanbin, the pioneer, only said that it is in the west gate of Yangzhou, which is the main battlefield, and there are three other city gates in Yangzhou City.
The remaining three gates were each taken care of by a few other people, and they were so unhappy.
The next day, early in the morning, outside the west gate of Yangzhou, lined up in front of the battle, thousands of black-clothed people in uniform were exactly the Black Flag Army that was rampant on the battlefield yesterday.
At this time, not only the Song Dynasty's own army looked at them, but even the Yangzhou army guarding the city on the city wall kept looking at them.
Yesterday they had only heard about how powerful this Black Flag Army was, but they had never seen it, and now they just happened to see it.
These black flag troops can't just attack the city, Yangzhou City is now not what it used to be, and the city wall that has just been built can be described as a high wall and a strong city.
You can't attack it at all, and as for the city gate, you don't even think about it, how tightly guarded the city gate is, can you go below.
At this time, a large number of siege equipment was transported behind, such as ladders and the like, which was very traditional anyway.
There are also a large number of trebuchets, but these trebuchets look rather rudimentary and are made on an improvised basis.
They didn't expect to attack the city so soon, and it was unrealistic to bring this trebuchet from somewhere else, so they had to do so temporarily.
This is exactly the siege weapon for the Black Flag Army, and there are no others, at this time, the Black Flag Army is automatically divided into three teams, each team has about a thousand people.
Of course, there were also about a few hundred people who were dressed in other clothes, and these were the Janissaries who were the ones in charge of operating the siege equipment.
A group of people in the middle of the Black Flag Army, each holding a very heavy knife in their hands, was the kind of knife used in the final battle against the state army yesterday. ()
The group on the left each had arrows the size of a javelin, and they didn't have to think that these were arrows for a strong bow. They also carry crossbows, which can be used in close combat.
The one on the right was a pikeman, which was intended to be the first to open the way for those who resisted in the city when they first entered the city.
Then the men with crossbows entered again and shot those who were far away, and as for the broadsword team they were field troops, and those who resisted in close combat.
At this time, three more carts appeared in front of the world under the laborious push and pull of dozens of soldiers.
It looked like three carts, with only a super large bow and arrow on them, which was a special bed crossbow, and although it was crudely made, it was also very lethal.
"Brothers, be ready, and when they come near, they will fire their arrows."
The defender of Yangzhou is a confidant of Li Chongjin, and he spares no effort to carry out Li Chongjin's orders.
Seeing that the Song army below was constantly moving, he immediately gave an order, and his tone was full of coldness.
Killing people is really a piece of cake for people like him, so he is very indifferent to life.
But no one could have imagined that this order would be the last in his life, and he would never have the opportunity to give any orders again.
"Sir, see if you can attack?" Zhao Xu asked Miao Xun beside him, they were all standing in the distance and did not go down in person.
"My lord, I see that the preparations are almost ready to start, and I am still a little worried, how many soldiers' lives we will pay for this battle." Miao Xun sighed.
"Sir, there are no immortals in war, what we do is to end these wars as soon as possible, so that no more people will suffer from war. The herald began the siege. ”
"The prince has an order to start attacking the city."
"The prince has an order to start attacking the city."
Orders were passed down one by one, and by this time the soldiers were busy with their work, and the bed crossbows were set in the right position, facing the city wall. The trebuchet is also ready, and the target of everything is the location of the city walls.
It turned out that the soldiers who were holding arrows the size of javelins had put their arrows on the bed crossbows at this time.
Then there were a few whooshing sounds, and many arrows were shot at the head of the city, and some of the defenders who had no time to dodge were shot in pairs.
The henchman of Li Chongjin just now was also scratched his face, and the hurried Zhao bunker dodged, and the banner with the word "Li" on the head of the city was also shot down.
There are too many of these arrows and they are cumbersome, but there is almost no chance of survival if they are shot, but there are not many of them, and after a few rounds of shooting, there are no more arrows. ’
In this way, the defenders who had already formed the head of the city caused great difficulties, and there were many casualties, and the sound of wailing spread far and wide.
"It seems that the effect of this crossbow is not bad, but this arrow is too few, but I don't plan to use it to open the city gate, just to test it, and then look at our trebuchet."
Zhao Xu stood in the distance and muttered to himself.
Li Chongjin also knew that the army of the Great Song Dynasty wanted to forcibly attack the city, but he didn't have time to check it.
Yangzhou's city gate is being attacked, and it has to be guarded by troops, so it has been a bit anxious.
Although these four city gates are said to be the most important of the West Gate, at this time, each of them must not have any mistakes, otherwise they will become the turtles among the others.
So Li Chongjin and his younger brother kept sending troops, and now Li Chongzan went to the east gate, Li Yanfu led the troops to the north gate, and where the south gate was guarded by a general brought by Li Chongzan.
Li Chongjin was taking Zhang Chonghe and Xiang Meizhan Jing to the west gate at this time, and before he could climb the city wall, he saw that most of the soldiers were lying on the ground and wailing.
All of them have blue noses and swollen faces, and the trebuchets outside are still constantly firing stones, which are really a lot of stones, and it is very convenient to take local materials.
As soon as Li Chongjin saw this, he immediately asked the soldiers to walk up the city wall, and just at this time, the trebuchet of the Song army also stopped.
Seeing that their actions are preparing to forcibly open the city gates, and you dare to come here to attack the city with less than 10,000 people, I don't think you want to live.
As soon as Li Chongjin waved his hand, the people behind him immediately came up with a row of archers, and shot the arrows on the bow with their bows.
Many of the soldiers of the forbidden army who were caught off guard were shot and fell to the ground, seeing this, those soldiers of the Black Flag Army also took out their bows and arrows.
They didn't just have crossbows, which were only used in close combat, and now they had bows and arrows that ranged just enough to reach the top of the walls.
The two sides went back and forth, starting a new round of bow and arrow battles, with mutual casualties, and the Song army was also preparing to break open the city gate many times, but it was not shot dead without reaching the city.
After a while, hundreds of people had already been killed and wounded, and Dong Xuanye was really angry at this time, this was completely out of his bravery.
He couldn't do anything if he couldn't get close to the front, so he turned his heart on the side, and without any weapons, he ran straight in the direction of the city gate.
Everyone didn't know what he was going to do, but he ran to the front and carried the crashing log. You must know that the wood used to break the door is hundreds of pounds.
I didn't expect him to be so powerful, it turned out that it took many people to move the crashing wood, and he actually carried it alone.
Li Chongjin also saw this scene, shouted in his heart that he was a monster, and immediately let people shoot him to death, and Miao Xun here also pinched a cold sweat.
In his opinion, this time, Dong Xuanye was in a catastrophe, but Zhao Xu was not careful, he naturally knew what kung fu Dong Xuanye practiced.
Sure enough, the arrows that shot at Dong Xuanye didn't cause him any damage, but only blocked his speed.
Dong Xuanye is also smart, always guarding his eyes, he is a horizontal practice of kung fu, but his eyes are not horizontal readings;.
Or maybe he was annoyed by the bows and arrows on the city, he closed his eyes and accelerated to run ahead.
Li Chongjin was also anxious to see him getting closer and closer to the city gate, but there was no way to stop him even with a bow and arrow, what could he do.
This guy has also lost his sense of proportion now, and immediately asked his soldiers to guard the city gate strictly, and no longer attack with bows and arrows.
At this time, Zhao Xu saw this situation, and ordered more than a dozen people to protect Miao Xun layer by layer, and he also rushed down.
There was no threat of bows and arrows on the top of the city, and the people below could easily reach the city wall.
It stands to reason that Li Chongjin would not be so stupid after so many years of fighting, but now he has lost his mind.
The Song army smoothly erected the ladder for the siege of the city, and some people began to slowly climb up.
Here, Dong Xuanye's strength and the power of everyone are constantly hitting the city gate, and this city gate doesn't know what materials it is made of, but it is so strong.
It's just that they didn't give up, and they kept banging the city gate with the thick bumper wood.
At this time, the first group of people who climbed from the ladder to the head of the city had successfully reached the head of the city and quickly attacked the city.
"Bastard, whoever let you all come down, quickly resist me, I can't let them come down." In a fit of rage, Li Chongjin ordered a group of soldiers to go to the city immediately to stop them.
But they were the opponents of these Black Flag Army who ran towards the city, and when they looked down, Lao Li's men had already fallen to the ground.
At this time, Zhao Xu was actually coming down from the city, and he also came down from the ladder, but he didn't expect to come here easily.
At this time, the sound of hey-hey-hey-hee outside was getting closer and closer, and suddenly the door was knocked open, and some Yangzhou soldiers were caught off guard and knocked to the ground.
"His grandmother's, it took so much effort for Lao Tzu to finally open it, rabbit cubs, see how I clean you up, brothers chop this group of rabbit cubs alive for me, on.".
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