Chapter 598: Shenglong Siege Battle III

The flat land has been spread under the city walls.

Countless large and small stones, arrows, cannonballs, broken weapons, and even those large and large areas of bloodstains, and even the lingering smell of gunsmoke.

Render the smell of a battlefield.

If it weren't for the time to collect the corpses every evening, otherwise the place would have been piled up with corpses.

The current attack is completely different from the previous attack, which was only used to fill in the trenches. The battle roots were not used, and the attack at this moment was the Yongjun army attacking with all its might.

The attack surface of the 100,000-strong army almost covered the entire Thang Long East City. The scale of the battlefield has spread beyond Zhu Houhuang's sight.

Zhu Houhuang had to divide the battlefield into several sections and set up different commanders.

Zhu Houhuang faced the strongest and most heavily guarded east gate.

The huge siege machine that looked like a giant slowly moved towards the city wall.

And between these siege equipment, there is the brigade of the Yong army.

In order to prevent being attacked, these horses were relatively loose in formation, and most of them relied on siege equipment and shield carts as cover.

If before, the long-range weapons of both sides had some moderation, whether it was stones, shells, or even gunpowder, it was not free of money.

At this moment, the full power exploded.

Both sides are holding back their strength to give each other a hard blow. In an instant, the sky was dark, and in the roaring cannon, the gravitational force of countless things leaped into the sky, crossed arcs, and smashed on the ground.

The slow-moving siege equipment was the target of the Mozambican army's attack.

However, whether it is trebuchets or artillery, the Mo army's accuracy is not as good as that of the Yong army, and most of the attacks are smashed in the open space, of course, there are many of them, and they are among the crowd. Or the person who smashed is missing arms and legs. Or directly turn the person into a corpse, or even the unlucky one, who is directly smashed into a piece of flesh, and cannot recognize anything except clothes.

However, even then, there were no less losses in siege equipment.

These huge siege machines, with no other power, are mostly driven by people pushing wheels underneath. First, it was Annan Shaoma, and second, these soldiers also used these siege equipment as cover.

You can see how fast this can be.

Even if the Mo army is not accurate, it will take a long time to reach the city wall from the starting point outside the shooting range, not to mention one or two hours.

One or two hours is enough for both sides to attack an unknown number of times. And the Mo army also calmed down, and they waited until the Yong army entered the best shooting realm before they began to exert their might.

"Boom" with a loud bang. The ladder, which was slowly moving forward, was hit by a boulder. Sawdust flew wildly, and these flying sawdust were like sharp arrows, shooting at the soldiers behind. The soldiers were bleeding from their heads.

The so-called ladder is not a long ladder seen on TV, but a two-story wooden building that looks like a fire truck, and you can directly climb the city wall through a large platform, and you can't push it away.

Therefore, after the invention of this ladder from the Warring States period, it was an important equipment for siege in the era when the city wall could still function. It is also the focus of Mo Jun's care.

However, these siege equipment supervised by Zhu Houhuang is relatively strong, even if it is smashed by more than 100 catties of stones, no matter how many pieces of wood are broken, it can still move forward.

The ladder waited for a while, and then began to move slowly.

However, these other siege engines did not have such good luck. Some were smashed on the spot, some were overturned to the ground, and some suddenly did not move, but there was no problem with the siege equipment, but the people pushing the cart below were shocked to death.

However, even so, they could not stop these siege engines from slowly but surely approaching the city walls.

When the distance between these siege engines and the head of the city was relatively close, the city of Thang Long also changed its strategy. But I saw fire bombs like meteors smashed out from behind the city wall.

Vast expanses of flames covered many places.

However, the damage to the siege equipment is not great, because these big guys are coated with a layer of mud on the surface, and it is not easy to ignite them.

However, it is not impossible.

There was only a crisp sound, but a jar slammed on a ladder, and the smell of fire oil spread in an instant, and countless rockets shot over, igniting the fire oil, but in a moment, the cloud ladder turned into a huge bonfire. The people under the ladder fled one after another.

It's okay to be under the ladder, only as soon as you show up, you will encounter countless bows and arrows, and firearms on fire. There are very few who can safely run under the nearby siege engines.

As the distance between these siege machines and the city walls became closer and closer, the loss of siege equipment became more and more frequent.

However, the cover of the Yongjun's long-range equipment, under the perfect defense of the Mo army, cannot be said to have no effect. At least did not suppress the opponent's long-range firepower.

Zhu Houhuang said secretly: "It can't go on like this." If all these siege engines are destroyed, the situation will be even worse. He turned his head and asked, "Mr. Zhu, have you calculated it?" ”

Li Liangqin said: "Mr. Zhu is ready for a long time, and he can do it at any time. ”

The generals under Zhu Houhuang were independently responsible for the attack and defense of a section of the city wall, but Li Liangqin remained as Zhu Houhuang's personal bodyguard.

In fact, Yu Dayou will be suspicious of Zhu Houhuang's decision. But no matter how much he doubted it, he would immediately carry it out.

Zhu Yu hurried from Dongyong, just at the right time, as soon as this battle began, Zhu Houhuang asked Zhu Yu to calculate the location of the opponent's trebuchet and how to attack the trebuchet.

Zhu Yu had actually figured it out and calibrated each trebuchet separately.

Of course, these things were not done by Zhu Yu alone, and there were many disciples of Zhu Yu. Almost all the students of Dongyongfu School were moved over.

However, when these were all ready, Zhu Houhuang did not choose to attack immediately, but waited for the opportunity, and now the time has come.

The siege equipment was quite close to the city walls, and now at this position, every step forward would be too many blows. If you go from the starting point to the current position, the loss of siege equipment is four to one. If you keep pushing it, it may become one-to-one.

Therefore, Zhu Houhuang must take measures.

Zhu Houhuang said: "The Qinghua army attacked. The stone cannons adjust their target, not attacking the city walls, but smashing their stone cannons. ”

"Yes."

Zhu Houhuang was always reluctant to command the Yongjun army. This time the attack was still the use of the Thanh Hoa Army.

The trebuchets under Zhu Houhuang's command adjusted their targets one after another, as if they were raised a little higher, and one after another the stone bullets crossed the city wall and landed in the city.

Like the Yongjun, the people who operated the trebuchets in the city, except for a few regular soldiers, were all people.

Mo Dengyong had already demolished a large number of houses in the city wall, revealing a large area of flat land, and countless stone cannons stayed here. Originally, they only had to look at the banner at the head of the city and direct the operation of the trebuchet adjusted by the people.

However, at the end of their good days, a large stone bullet was smashed from somewhere. These stone bullets are not large, but they are enough to hurt people.

These people were originally people's husbands, and when they suddenly suffered such a blow, they were stunned at first, and then they scattered everywhere and scattered in an instant. The soldiers in charge of this place had wanted to control the situation.

"Stay where you are, keep firing, and die if you do it." An officer stepped forward, drew his sword, and slashed several people indiscriminately, shouting loudly. For a while, I wanted to save the situation.

But he didn't want a stone bullet the size of a watermelon to pass by him and hit the head of a soldier beside him, and the skull shattered in an instant, and the officer was sprayed red and white.

He was talking at the time, and the cold sprayed into his mouth a lot. I suddenly felt unbearable, my mouth was full of nausea, and I couldn't help but grunt.

I don't have the energy to care about these people's affairs anymore.

When the men saw that there was no one to control them, they ran even faster, almost running in a few breaths. You must know that these people are all the people of Thang Long City, and after they flee home, it will take a lot of time to recruit them, and it will not take a while.