Chapter 464: The Collapsed City Wall (Subscription Requested)

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One hundred steps are not shè, ninety steps are not shè, and eighty steps are not shè......

Knife players are guarded by shields, and the rain of arrows is not very lethal to them. Although each siege was led by a group of sword players, while they were guarding themselves, even if they went to protect their comrades and archers pushing ladder carts behind them, they did not suffer many casualties.

If the Han army foot archers at the head of the city pay all their attention to him

In addition to slightly delaying the siege of the Zhongshan army, it can't play too much of a role. Instead, turn your attention to the infantry charging behind them. They are the main force of the siege, and they don't have much protection in the face of the rain of arrows, and in terms of killing and injuring the enemy alone, the effect of attacking and killing them is far better than attacking and killing knife players and ladder soldiers!

The sword player rushed forward thirty or forty paces, the ladder car also entered the seventy paces distance, and a group of Zhongshan army foot soldiers entered within a hundred steps.

This is the moment you have been waiting for! The corners of Yang Yanzhang's mouth curled, a trace of cold murderous intent burst out violently, and with a pout, he pulled out the saber at his waist with his left hand, and swung forward: "Release the arrow"

"Squeak"

The longbows were raised, the creaking of the bent arms of the bows resounded in the city, and the sharp carved arrows were fastened on the strings.

The next moment, the piercing roar was incessant, and the arrows as dense as flying locusts poured down from the city wall, mercilessly accumulating in the surging Zhongshan army array

The miserable howl sounded suddenly, and the Zhongshan Army infantry in the charge fell down one by one, and several waves of arrows rained down, and the thousands of Zhongshan Army infantry who followed behind lost more than three percent of the sweat.

In front of the front of the coalition army.

Looking at the scene happening in front of him, Fan Chun raised his face and didn't see the cold, "This Yang Yanzhang is still a little scheming!" ”

The next moment, the Zhongshan Army Infantry Archers, who had advanced to a distance of eighty paces below the city with the sword player and the ladder cart, also began to fight back.

However, the Han army foot archers in the city not only had shields to cover, but also battlements to protect themselves, and they could be attacked from the battlements and lookout holes. The archers of the Zhongshan Army under the city faced him. It's a big loss!

However, their casualties also reduced the pressure on the follow-up infantry!

Under the city wall, after paying heavy casualties, the Zhongshan army infantry finally rushed to the city wall, a cloud ladder has been set up on the city, free hands of the five hundred knife players, part of the people are relying on the cover of the shield to officially start to climb the ladder to seize the city, the other part retreats to the side of the foot archers to raise a shield for them to cover.

The sound of fighting began to resound throughout the city. In the south of Sanshi County, in front of the three-mile-long city wall, every section of every battlement and every quarter of an hour there are people who are losing their lives and bleeding!

"Up. Then rush me" Fan Chunju's cold face still didn't show a little smile. For him, the lives of thousands of Zhongshan soldiers are not worth mentioning at all, and only letting the generals of the heavenly soldiers behind him see the obedience and dedication of Zhongshan is the most important thing.

With Fan Chunju's order, another thousand-strong team rushed out of the formation and rushed towards the city where the battle was in full swing.

"Die!" Yang Yanzhang was wielding a long sword, and his spear was no longer able to use the arrow wound in his right arm, and he only held the one-handed long sword. The snowy sword body showed a dazzling white glow in the sunlight, and with the swing of his sword body, it turned into a cold glow that killed people's lives.

The tip of the sword lightly kissed the necks and throats of the Zhongshan soldiers. brought out, and a stream of bright blood refining spurted out.

"Kill! Kill, kill, kill! Hundreds of Han soldiers at the gate tower were shouting. Sure enough, as Yang Yanzhang had expected, he settled down when he killed and killed people's hearts. With the death of Zhongshan soldiers one by one, the defense line of the Han army at the head of the city became more and more stable.

A large pot of boiling water poured down from the city.

There was a hysterical screaming and screaming under the city. Even with armor, the Zhongshan soldiers could not completely block the penetration of boiling water. What's even worse is that those who climb the ladder at the head are all rotten skin.

A handful of hot oil was poured on the ladder cart, and several torches fell, and the ladder cart was immediately immersed in a sea of fire. The Zhongshan soldiers, who could not avoid it, rolled on the ground in flames. Most of them will gradually turn into a pile of ashes in the flames, and the few who are rescued will also be burned beyond recognition, and their bodies will be scorched.

The situation is getting better and better. Yang Yanzhang no longer charged the front line. Instead, he pressed the long sword and walked around the city with a vicious face, and his sharp eyes kept scanning the soldiers' bodies, and the cold gaze was like a leather whip that never forgot to spur them, so that all the soldiers were 'jīng god shocked' At the same time, no one dared to avoid the battle and play slippery.

"General, the Han army in Sanshi County is not weak, and if the Zhongshan army blindly attacks, I am afraid that it will be its own casualties...... It won't be small, but it will be a little more than worth the loss. Seeing the corpse of a Zhongshan Army foot soldier falling from the city, a Zhou military captain on the side of Meng Ruhu couldn't help but speak to him. If the general postpones the siege of the city, first bombards a corner of the city with a thunderbolt car, and waits until the city wall collapses, the Han army loses its support for the city defense, and its determination to hold on will inevitably collapse, so that our army can break the city without much effort. ”

"Zhongshan has not heard the sound of swords and soldiers for five hundred years, Sanshi small county, closer to the Dashun Pass, there is no pressure to fight, its city has been repaired to deal with the majority, and the foundation of the city wall has already been loosened." The captain's vision is not bad, after more than an hour of bombardment, the southern city wall of Sanshi County has indeed loosened in many places. If the fire can be stopped at this moment and the bricks outside the south city wall can be pulled down, then it can be seen that the lime glutinous rice syrup in the center of the city wall is no longer the lime glutinous rice syrup with a white spot, but all the clay that has turned into yellow sè. Although the tamping is still practical, and I didn't continue to steal jiān and play slippery, but under the impact of the stone bullet, I don't know how many openings and cracks of different sizes have opened in the center of the main wall.

If you really gather all five thunderbolts and smash them at the city wall, I believe it will not take long to smash a big gap.

Meng Ruhu looked down on Gong Rui, and he wanted to snow the reputation of Zhou Jun being ruined by Gong Rui, although he didn't make any faint moves along the way, but in the face of the blind strong attack of Sanshi County, it was really a waste of the five thunderbolts that came with the army thousands of miles behind him.

Now hearing the reminder of the captain beside him, Meng Ruhu also felt a trace of regret in his heart, feeling that he was really a little irrational, arrogant, and underestimated the Han army. Sanshi County is a city with low walls, and then the city defense is weak, but after all, it is also a city, and there is a five-zhang high city wall, even if you can't see it, it is more difficult to fight than a field battle, and it is really a waste of strength and strength in your hands to blindly attack.

"Pass my general order and withdraw my troops." Meng Ruhu was refreshed, and immediately issued an order to withdraw the army after realizing that it was not cost-effective. Carefully observing a piece of the southern city wall, he pointed a little to the southeast, "Pass the order, the thunderbolt will concentrate on bombarding the city wall in the southeast corner of Sanshi County." ”

The crisp sound of gold sounded, and the thousands of Zhongshan troops who were still fighting immediately withdrew from the battlefield in an orderly manner, and returned to the army under the rain of arrows from the Han army again.

Counting the men and horses, this siege alone, the Zhongshan army suffered at least one or two thousand casualties, of which no less than 1,000 were killed in battle, and there were many disabled and unable to fight. Only this time in the first battle, the Zhongshan army of 5,000 people served forty percent. The casualties of the Han army at the head of the city were much less, only two or three hundred people were killed in the battle, and the total casualties were only six or seven hundred, and many of them could continue to fight.

The casualty ratio reached a generous 1:3, and the real losses even exceeded 1:4, and the combat power of the Han army did have a considerable advantage over the Zhongshan army.

Cheers rang out from the top of the city, and the Han army was relieved, and the morale of the allied army, which had been smashed by the coalition army with a thunderbolt at the beginning, was now fully restored.

Yang Yanzhang watched the changes in the coalition forces outside the city, and his face did not slow down, but became even more difficult to look at.

The coalition army failed in the first siege, and the next time they come back, they will inevitably change the way of attacking, and if the thunderbolt they carry is launched to bombard in one direction, Sanshi County will inevitably collapse the city wall. At that time, the infantry from outside the city will swarm through the gap, and the own army will be extremely unstoppable.

Heaven does not fulfill people's wishes. Under Yang Yanzhang's gaze, the five thunderbolt vehicles of the coalition army slowly moved to the southeast corner of the city. Yang Yanzhang's face became more and more ugly, "It seems that this day will not be able to hold even a day!" ”

"Fortunately, everything has been arranged in the county." Yang Yanzhang's eyes were full of murderous aura, looking at the busy coalition forces outside the city, and sneering in his heart. When the walls fell, he would lead his troops back, and then give the coalition a gift they would never forget before exiting the north gate.

"Boom Boom"

After the five thunderbolt cars turned to the southeast corner, there was a sound immediately, the five cars operated in unison, the horn sounded, and after a while, the stone bullets of tens of catties to 100 catties of size were aimed at the southeast corner of the city, and a loud bang sounded in the southeast corner of the city.

The city wall of Shanshi County was cutting corners, and when the battle began in the morning, it was inevitable that the city would be hit by stone bullets many times, and it was already cracked inside, and at this moment, under the concentrated ravages of the five thunderbolts of the coalition army, it naturally collapsed at a faster speed.

After noon, the corner tower in the southeast corner completely collapsed, the battlements were swept away, the large bricks were smashed and smashed, and the southeast corner began to shake and fall, and there was a possibility of collapse at any time.

Three thousand of the most sharp Zhou soldiers were already waiting there, quietly watching the stone bullets crash against the city wall. They waited for a quarter of an hour for the wall to fall

In Sanshi County. Yang Yanzhang also gathered all the soldiers and horses that could be dispatched, a full 1,500 soldiers, around the city wall in the southeast corner that was about to collapse into a standard glaive array, Leng Sensen's war knife had been unsheathed, the sharp spear was raised forward, and the tense and oppressive atmosphere in the air was everywhere. With the continuous sound of impact, pieces of rubble splashed, the city wall more than 200 steps away was trembling, countless small cracks have been covered in the middle, like a spider web in all directions, even the inner wall of the city wall from time to time there are large pieces of broken brick walls falling off from the rammed earth wall center, and the noise will not stop. (To be continued.) )