Chapter 485: The City Breaks

Han Chang, who was guarding the west gate, hid in the middle of the Song army's blazing artillery fire, and the city tower was said to be his command post, but it turned into ruins in the first round of artillery fire, and now it is burning with a raging fire, if you stay inside, you are afraid that it will become a roast pig. Not to mention those war sheds and enemy towers. After looking around, he found that the hole in the city gate, which was blocked more than half, was the best cover, not to mention the spaciousness inside, and the thickened roof and parapet wall, which could not be penetrated no matter what.

As the artillery bombardment of the Song army became more and more intense, Han Chang realized that his judgment last night was wrong, and the Xicheng he was guarding was the enemy's main target, when he sent someone to ask for reinforcements to the marshal, he was directly refused, Wan Yanliang still thought that Dongcheng was the focus, and Xicheng was stormed, but it was Zhao Er's suspicious plan, as long as the reinforcements moved, they would launch a fierce attack in Dongcheng, so it was just for Han Chang to be patient and insist.

"Unite the army, the trenches outside the city have been blown up, and the barracks have been destroyed!"

"Commander the army, the soldiers outside the city have suffered heavy casualties, and they ask to enter the city for temporary shelter!"

"Unified army, the sergeants outside the city called the door again, saying that if they don't open the door again, they will surrender to the Song army!"

"Commander the army, all the defenders outside are killed!"

The scout kept reporting the battle situation to Han Chang, but he answered with 'um' and there was no follow-up, in fact, he didn't know how to deal with this situation, the enemy's artillery fire was raging, and he had no power to fight back, and now opening the city gate to let the defenders outside the city in, it was also equivalent to putting the Song army into the city. Organizing a counterattack is even more of a joke, the artillery of the Song army is placed three or four hundred paces away, and no matter how good the shooter is, he can't shoot that far; The trebuchet was barely available, but now the lookout cars erected by the Song army outside the city were more than ten zhang high. Not only can they see every move on the city wall clearly, but even the movement inside the city can't escape their eyes, but they are afraid that the trebuchet will be blown up into the sky as soon as it is launched.

'Bang' Han Chang, who was leaning against the wall of the city gate hole, heard a muffled sound, and his body shook violently, and several loose wall tiles also fell, rubbing his head and falling to the ground into several pieces. Then every few breaths came another heavy blow, and the whole wall trembled like malaria. There was another loud bang outside the cave, and he only had time to look at it before he was thrown to the ground with a force, and his eyes were full of smoke and dust, and nothing could be seen, and his 'buzzing' ears were mixed with the terrible howls of people.

"Unify the army. The enemy troops began to bombard the city walls. The shells fell into the city, killing and wounding dozens of soldiers and Ding Zhuang! A soldier with a bloody face burrowed into the door, and with great difficulty he could identify which one was the commander and reported to him. But looking at the blank look in the eyes of the commander, I knew that he was blind. His ears are no longer bright. I could only whisper in his ear and roar again.

"You go up to town and have a look. Where did the Song army want to break the city from? You go and mobilize Ding Zhuang to prepare earthen bags, wooden fences and other stuffed things, and prepare to seal the damage; You immediately report to the commander that the Song army is storming Xicheng. The defenders outside our city have all been martyred, and now Xicheng is in danger, please send reinforcements quickly! Han Chang finally spoke, and then walked out of the door that was no longer safe. The three subordinates were ordered to go separately, but the soldiers who went to the city were not in their hearts, he was hunched over and crawling the city, while muttering to himself, how unlucky was himself, he knew that he would get this fatal errand, it was better to let the army be confused!

Han Chang went out of the cave to look at the sky, it was almost noon at the moment, and it should be the brightest time, but the gunpowder smoke over Jinzhou City was like dusk, and the sun hung there like a dim lantern, but the cannonballs that crossed the sky left a dazzling light like a meteor, and exploded into a cluster of skyrockets after falling. Then the house collapsed, and the smoke and flames rose into the sky.

The distance between the two gates of Jinzhou was only 500 paces, while the range of the Song army's artillery was hundreds of paces, indicating that the entire city was covered by artillery fire. Looking at the crowds of people running around the street, scattered dead bodies, Han Chang shook his head helplessly. The radius of Jinzhou City is only five miles, but there are 60,000 soldiers and hundreds of thousands of people concentrated in it. So many people were crowded into the palm-sized place, filling the streets and alleys of Jinzhou City. Every shell that falls does not miss, often taking the lives of several, if not dozens, people.

The most worthless thing in the war is human life, they are the victims at the moment, the trace of pity in Han Changdu's eyes is fleeting, he ordered the soldiers to drive away the people hiding under the city, divide the army under his command and Ding Zhuang into several echelons, and immediately go to the city to defend after the enemy begins to bombard, the people in front are dead, and the people behind are filled. He knew that once the Song army broke through the city wall, Jinzhou would have no danger to defend, and the city was surrounded by regiments, not to mention, he dug two more moats, and now it has become a cocoon and self-restraint, and there is no way to run if he wants to break through.

Thinking that the Song army might enter the city, Han Chang ordered Ding Zhuang and his soldiers to build a defensive line fifty steps behind the city, and if there were no materials, they would take materials on the spot, demolish houses, cut down trees, and never let the Song army go deeper. This time it was a big mess, seeing that his house was demolished, and he instantly became a homeless person on the street, but looking at the blockers on the street, he could only cry loudly and had nothing to do......

There was a loud 'boom', and the heavy city wall still failed to block the heavy attack of the Song army's heavy artillery, and collapsed helplessly. Before the smoke and dust cleared, Han Chang urgently ordered Ding Zhuang to plug the gap and the soldiers to go to the city to defend. Under the threat of death, the soldiers trembled and climbed to the top of the city, and Ding Zhuang trembled and carried the dirt bags and rushed to the gap.

But the artillery fire of the Song army, which had just stopped for a moment, started again, and it became more and more violent, and the cannonballs rained down on the top of the city and the crowd in the city. Several cannonballs exploded at the collapsed gap, and nearly 100 Ding Zhuang, who were ready to carry out the plugging operation, blew up the flesh and blood, and the people behind dared to step forward when they saw it, and threw away the guy and suddenly retreated, but what was waiting for them at this time was a rain of arrows shot by the soldiers.

"Those who retreat will be killed!" Han Chang roared loudly and ordered the soldiers to drive the people Ding Zhuang to brave the artillery fire to continue to plug the gap. One after another people were driven up, but very few survived the artillery fire, and those behind could only step on the corpses under duress. I didn't see much of the gap blocked, but the corpses around it had been piled up into a hill, which made it impossible for people to get down, but the red-eyed Han Chang was still unmoved, and continued to fill it at the cost of his life.

When Han Chang commanded the troops to brave the artillery fire to seal the gap, the artillery fire suddenly turned to the city, extended behind it, and advanced like a wave, turning Jinzhou City into a sea of fire. The terrible trumpet sounded outside the city, and he immediately realized that the Song army was about to launch a general attack, so he hurriedly took advantage of the gap in the transfer of artillery fire to gather troops to go to the city, and used the prepared knife carts to temporarily block the gap to prevent the enemy from entering the city.

Han Chang couldn't help but gasp when he climbed to the top of the city, only to see that under the raging artillery fire, the city's defense facilities were destroyed, the corpses were resting, and almost none of the soldiers who stayed at the head of the city survived. The Song army under the city has opened up a passage under the cover of artillery fire, the moat has been cut off, and the siege vehicles and bridge vehicles have rolled forward under the push and pull of the army. Flags were waved in front and behind, and countless soldiers were ready to attack with guns.

"Shoot your arrows and don't let the enemy get close to the walls." Han Chang swung his sword and drove the archers to release arrows to the city, preventing the enemy from building bridges and landing the city. The Song army under the city also accelerated suddenly, holding their shields high to block the arrows like rain, and machine guns began to strafe the city to cover the besieging troops.

The machine gun fire of the Song army was fierce, especially the firepower points arranged on the siege vehicles, which exceeded the height of the city walls and could shoot at the city head without any obstacles. With the successful erection of several car bridges, the Song army can go straight to the city, a group of infantry troops first crossed the river, straight to the gap that was blown down by artillery, they used the broken wall and ruins as a cover to disperse the Ding Zhuang who were still blocking the mouth, a few explosive packs will be blocked in front of the knife car blasted, rushed into the city first, quickly built a simple line of defense, while resisting the counterattack of the enemy, while climbing to the city, fighting for the city wall......

"The city is broken......" Seeing the battle flag of the Song army planted at the head of the city, the Jin army, which had been frightened by the fierce artillery fire of the Song army, no longer had the heart to fight, and fled to the city with shouts, but threw their unified army at the head of the city.

"Commander, let's surrender! We are both Han Chinese, and the Song army will not embarrass us. With the number of siege vehicles leaning on the city wall, there were more and more Song troops in the city, and the Jin army, which had suffered heavy casualties, was no longer able to stop it, leaving only Han Chang with hundreds of soldiers to rely on the corner tower to retreat to a section of the city wall.

"If you dare to speak out, you will correct the Fa on the spot!" Han Chang shouted sharply with a knife.

"Commander of the army, our Han army has suffered all casualties, but the reinforcements have been delayed, it is clear that we are ......" The centurion was not reconciled, and persuaded again, but before he finished speaking, he was slashed to the ground by Han Chang, and he couldn't live anymore.

"If you dare to say anything, this will be the end!" Han Chang pointed to the corpse on the ground and shouted.

'Poof, poof......' Before Han Chang's words fell, several sharp blades stabbed through his back, piercing through his armor and falling to the ground.

"Don't fight, we offer Han Chang's head and please surrender!" Before Han Chang could close his eyes, his head had been cut off, and he raised it high with a spear and surrendered to the Song army. But in the Battle of Yanjing, Han Qinghe and Song Dynasty were able to die well, but he ended up like this, I don't know how he felt at the last moment.

Han Chang gave the head to mark the fall of the western city, and the wolf divided the troops into three routes, one along the main road to attack the center of the city, and the other two along the city wall to the south and north of the city respectively. At this time, the eastern wall of the city also collapsed under the continuous fire of artillery, and the Tiger Wing Army also broke into the city...... (To be continued......)