Chapter 62: Striking the North from the South

At the beginning, the soldiers of the Northern Han Dynasty took out the momentum of capturing the city in one fell swoop, and 5,000 infantry were scattered around the entire Dongcheng Gate Urn City, concentrating on multiple locations and starting to attack the city at the same time.

On the city wall, the Zhou soldiers rained arrows, stones fell, and the oil pot was also boiling, and they were extremely nervous to block the attack; And under the city wall, the Northern Han soldiers were short and shielded, dodging the attacks from above while advancing forward. Coincidentally, the soldiers on both sides did not shout, but kept attacking and defending with their heads down. Soon, more than a dozen long ladders were erected on the city wall, and dozens of sturdy warriors rushed along the ladders to the top of the city. The walls are only six meters high, which can be climbed within a few breaths.

In this way, the soldiers guarding the city near the east gate seemed to be a little stretched.

In addition to the 2,500 soldiers hidden in the city, 500 soldiers were left on the south, north and west sides of Jinju City to guard the city, and now only 1,500 soldiers are guarding the six-mile-long east city wall.

Without waiting for Wang Yan's orders, the Northern Zhou Commander and Dutou, who were responsible for the defense of each section of the city wall, directly called away the Northern Zhou soldiers who were originally guarding the inside of the urn city, and went to face the surging Northern Han soldiers outside the city.

Perhaps affected by the sound of siege shouts, the people in the urn city were even more panicked, desperately crowding towards the main city gate, subconsciously wanting to stay away from the urn city wall, as if it would be safer.

In the crowd, some elderly people who were originally hunched on their waists slowly straightened up, slowly ripped off some baggage-like items from the waists, backs, and backs of some women and children, and quietly concentrated on the south side of the main city gate, stacked those burdens at the base of the city wall, and then began to collect the burdens again.

At this time, on the city wall, more and more Northern Han soldiers rushed to the wall, and the Hou Zhou soldiers fought fiercely, all the defensive soldiers were trying to encircle and suppress these people who climbed the city, no one cared about the people who had been screaming in horror in the urn city, and they didn't know the crisis that was secretly brewing in the urn city.

A stone's throw away from the urn city, Lin Feng and the Northern Han Dynasty recruited Liu Chengjun to stand side by side, paying attention to the development of the siege situation.

Liu Chengjun pointed at the soldiers at the head of the city with a horsewhip, and said excitedly: "My Northern Han warriors are really brave, and there have been six groups of soldiers who have attacked the city!" This Jinju Fortress is not as difficult to attack as imagined! ”

Lin Feng shook his head solemnly and reminded him: "We have secretly observed Jinzhou City many times in the past few days, and we always feel that there is something wrong with such a lax defense!" That Wang Yanrong has been a horse for half his life, and he will definitely not be so arrogant and underestimate the enemy. According to Lin, Wang Yan must have a backhand! ”

"Backhand? It can't be, I have already scattered the scouts all over the surrounding fifty miles according to your orders, and I have not seen a return, and there should be no ambush outside the city! Liu Chengjun was stunned for a moment and asked rhetorically.

"Not outside the city, but inside the city?" Lin Feng pointed to the head of the city, still retorting uneasily, and then pushed Liu Chengjun, who was a little stunned, and said loudly: "Urgently order the siege vehicle, and attack the corner between the urn city and the main city wall with all your might!" ”

Liu Chengjun immediately passed the order out, and the eighty guards of the forbidden army all ran to the siege vehicle in front of them with a giant shield one person high.

It's all about success or failure! Liu Chengjun couldn't help clenching his fists and stared at the corner between the two city walls.

At this time, in the urn city, those elites of the Northern Han Dynasty who had infiltrated had already piled up a narrow slope more than half a person high with small baggage, and seeing that they could no longer cover it with their bodies, dozens of soldiers shouted in unison, pushed away the people around them, ran up the slope, and quickly built a human ladder.

"Up!" Those selected elites of the Northern Han Dynasty no longer concealed their figures, took out the weapons hidden on their bodies, waved them to force the people around them back, and rushed to the city wall along the slope and human ladder, and the one who ran in front was one of the two leaders who followed Lin Feng in advance, named Wei Kesheng.

At this moment, a Houzhou soldier who turned around and went to the urn city to move stones inadvertently looked up, found this strange situation, immediately threw down the stone, pointed to the human ladder and shouted: "There are enemies in the urn city!" ”

At this time, the city was noisy and chaotic, and few people heard his shouting, so the soldier was in a hurry, turned around and grabbed a few soldiers who were running away with their heads bowed, pulled them to the inside of the urn city, pointed to the ladder and shouted. The soldiers were shocked by this scene and exclaimed in unison.

At this time, Wei Kesheng had already rushed to the main city wall with an elite in the army, Wei Kesheng leaned his back against the pheasant moat and began to slash and kill the passing Hou Zhou soldiers, and the elite quickly tied two ropes to the pheasant moat and threw them down, and there were soldiers below who immediately climbed up the rope along the rope.

More and more Houzhou soldiers pointed to the human ladder and shouted, and the shouts finally attracted the attention of the city tower. One of Wang Yan's relatives approached this side, and when he heard the voice, he immediately ran over and pointed it out to Wang Yan.

Wang Yan didn't panic, squinted and observed for two seconds, before ordering a guard leader to lead twenty people to go down to kill the enemy, and then cast his attention on the outside of the urn city. In Wang Yan's opinion, if there were no suspicious things about the Northern Han soldiers hidden among the tens of thousands of people, he dared to let the people into the city, but also because there were not many young and middle-aged people hidden among them, and there was not much trouble.

At this time, the Northern Zhou soldiers on the left and right near the human ladder had already gathered around, and they either raised their swords to kill Wei Kesheng and them, or began to shoot arrows at the soldiers who were on the human ladder and the soldiers on the ropes. However, even if the soldiers who built the ladder were hit, they gritted their teeth and persisted, and the soldiers who were clinging to the city wall even stuck their knives into the cracks of the bricks of the city walls, holding on to the blades of their swords. Even if the men on the rope fell from the arrow, the soldiers who followed closely behind them were not afraid, and those who were going up the ladder accelerated again and rushed madly towards the wall.

Twenty-one personal retinues rushed down from the city tower, and the leader of the guards led by him took the lead, pushed aside the surrounding soldiers, and rushed towards a Northern Han soldier dressed in civilian clothes. During the march, his feet flashed left and right, and he had already shaken the Northern Han soldier to the point that he lost his center of gravity, and stabbed the soldier into the lower body with a knife. The soldier opened his mouth and let out a wild cry, but there was a strange smile on his face, and just when the leader of the guards was a little inexplicable, the seriously injured soldier grabbed the bloody knife on his stomach with his left hand, and stabbed his knife into the stomach of the head of the guard with the other hand.

It's a bunch of dead soldiers! The leader of the guards had a severe pain in his stomach, and when such a thought came to his mind, his whole body had been pushed back by the soldier who was not going to die, and he directly crashed into the two followers, instantly blocking the attacking team.

The leader of the guards endured the pain, kicked away the Northern Han soldier who had long been dead, covered the wound on his waist, looked up, and found that at least a few of his relatives had been stabbed to the ground by the opponent at this moment. And behind the pheasant, there are still Northern Han soldiers who continue to turn up.

"Call the police, call the police to Lord Wang!" The leader of the guards shouted with a roar.

Hearing the call for alarm, Wang Yan on the city tower turned his head again, only to notice the strangeness of the raiding team, immediately frowned, and sent twenty personal followers to attack here again, and ordered the soldiers to wave the military flag to gather troops at the human ladder, and beat the drum to signal the soldiers to speed up the pace of attack.

For a time, the south side of the main city wall became the center of attention of all the Later Zhou soldiers, and it also became the place where the battle was most intense.

Just when everyone's attention was attracted to the past, at the root corner of the main city wall on the north side of the urn city, Lin Renzhao, Chen Desheng and others, who had been hiding their figures, stood up straight, waved their hands and took off the female decorations on themselves, freed up a certain amount of space, turned the rope with the rope on the noose in their hands twice, and threw it towards the lu.

The rope flew out silently and was precisely attached to the pheasant. Lin Renzhao pulled hard twice, and then jumped up on the city wall like a monkey, and jumped up on the city wall in a few seconds, over there, Chen Desheng also climbed up smoothly, the two of them threw off the rope at the same time, and several masters in the Guiguan area continued to climb up, Ge Chang, Zhang Bin, Qin Hansheng, Rao Xingyu and other special soldiers also followed, and quickly formed a small battle formation on the city wall.

Qin Hansheng, who was standing in the middle of the small battle array, took out a small bow and arrow from under his clothes and shot an arrow into the sky.

A sharp whistle sounded, and it immediately attracted the eyes of the people up and down the city wall.

Lin Feng, who had been observing here, immediately jumped on the horse as soon as he saw the arrow rise, waving his knife and shouting: "Brothers, we have succeeded in capturing the city!" All offense! ”

And Wang Yan on the city tower heard the arrow, and immediately changed color, roaring and ordering:

"Kill those guys for me!"

"Send all the soldiers up to the castle tower to kill the enemy!"

Only an hour after the start of the war, the offensive and defensive battle at the head of Jinju suddenly entered a critical moment that would determine success or failure.