Chapter 425: The City is Broken

There are two circles of walls in the capital, the outer city and the inner city, the outer city is inhabited by ordinary people, the inner city is the palace yamen, and those rich and noble families, and now the northern army wants to attack the outer city. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The outer city is now in a panic, countless people gathered at the gate of the inner city, but the inner city is locked tightly, not daring to let any people in, the soldiers of the Beijing camp forbidden army stood on the city wall, bent their bows and arrows vigilantly aimed at those poor people, they did not have the courage to fight with the northern captives, but they had the decisiveness to kill the people.

The palace has long been in chaos, there are running around I don't know how to be good, there are people who take advantage of the chaos to take away the treasures in the palace and escape, the queen mother only knows that she knelt in the Buddhist hall in the palace and asked the Bodhisattva Buddha to save Dawei, the little emperor knelt behind her and was at a loss, and the civil and military officials quarreled but no one could come up with a way.

"The imperial court is supporting you and others for today, and now the northern captives are under the city, but anyone who still has that thing in the crotch of his pants will guard this city wall for Lao Tzu, who dares to take a step back, the general's knife does not recognize people!" Qiu Shangjian took Zheng Liang and a few other brave generals to guard the city wall, but behind him were soldiers who were trembling and couldn't even hold their knives, to be honest, it was no wonder that they had seen such a cruel scene without a few trainings.

Looking at the head of the capital from afar, Yuan Zhang couldn't help but slowly shake his head, the walls of the capital are taller and thicker than Weizhou City, but he doesn't have the same pressure as when he faced Li You now, no matter how strong the fortress is, it must be garrisoned by warriors to be useful, if they are all such men and horses, they will definitely not be able to stop such a strong soldier under him.

"After entering the city today, you must not kill innocents indiscriminately, and if these people want to escape, let them flee to the south." Yuan Zhang said to the captains behind him, but judging from their expressions, it seemed that not many people could listen.

"Let's get started!" Yuan Zhang gave the order, and the soldiers behind him immediately raised a bright red flag, and the officers and soldiers who had been waiting next to the trebuchet in the rear of the army for a long time saw this flag, and immediately began to move the stone bullet to the spoon at the top of the long pole, and then waved his hand violently, and the soldiers in front released the noose rope, and the stone bullet screamed and attacked the city wall of the capital of Great Wei.

Hundreds of trebuchets were fired at the same time, and hundreds of stone projectiles flew towards the city wall together, and the soldiers at the head of the city were so frightened that they turned around and wanted to leave, and Qiu Shangjian killed seven soldiers one after another to stop this wave of decline.

The first wave of attacks from the northern captives was not ideal, and most of the stone bullets flew to the ground more than ten zhang away from the city wall, and none of them hit the target; Yuan Zhang shook his head and asked them to adjust, and started the second wave of launches, until the fifth wave, the hit rate of the stone bullets gradually increased, and there were constantly stone bullets hitting the city wall with a huge roar, and Qiu Shangjian, who was guarding the city, also seemed to feel that the city wall was trembling.

With a bang, a stone bullet was in the middle of the arrow tower at the head of the city, and the soldiers who were not in a hurry to dodge in the rear were stoned to death on the spot, and the corpses fell from above and fell on the top of the city, and the soldiers on the left and right finally lost their last courage when they saw this scene, and no longer ignored the blocking of the overseers behind them, and fled to the rear with meaningless screams in their mouths.

This time, Qiu Shangjian couldn't stop them anymore, and the rout of thousands of people quickly pushed the overseer team aside, and when everything calmed down, Qiu Shangjian looked at it, and at least thirty percent of the soldiers fled in the wave just now, and the soldiers and horses on the city head became more and more scarce.

But the Beiyu army did not pick up the opportunity to start attacking the city, Yuan Zhang saw it very clearly, relying on this city wall, the Great Wei Forbidden Army may still have some people who have a little courage to fight, and since ancient times, the siege of the city is extremely consuming of soldiers, Mobei is sparsely populated, and every soldier's life is precious, and now is not the time to start attacking.

The trebuchet continued to throw out one stone projectile after another, countless soldiers were busy from afar to find all kinds of stones, the stonemasons on the scene hurriedly chiseled the stones to the size suitable for the trebuchet, and countless other craftsmen who were caught stood by the trebuchet, and immediately stepped forward to repair the problem as soon as they found it.

This is really a crime, a stonemason looked at the tombstone sent by the soldiers in front of him, and sighed in his heart, but he did not dare to stop in the slightest, and knocked the tombstone into two pieces with his hammer, and this tombstone also fell on the wall of the capital soon after, and shattered at the same time as a battlement.

The trebuchet bombarded for a whole day, the walls of the capital were full of gaps and potholes smashed out by stone bullets, almost all the big stones that could be found around the camp were smashed to the city wall, and the trebuchet was also damaged by more than 30%, seeing that it was getting late, Yuan Zhang issued an order to suspend the attack, and instructed the craftsmen to urgently repair the trebuchet, and sent people to go farther away to find stones that could make stone bullets, and prepare to fight again on the second day.

Qiu Shangjian also led the soldiers to repair the city wall overnight in case of the next attack by the northern captives, but unfortunately the capital is now in chaos, and this task cannot be completed with this little soldier and horse under his command alone.

The next day, the trebuchets of the northern captives continued to attack, and this time the stone projectiles fired at the head of the city were even more varied, such as stone mills and stone grinders snatched from farmhouses, tombstones dug out of graveyards, foundation stones and huge bricks dismantled from the walls of wealthy families, and all kinds of messy things constantly beating at the city walls.

The fortified city carefully repaired during the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty was rarely repaired in more than two hundred years, so they finally paid the price for it on the third day, and the north gate of the outer city collapsed under the impact of countless stone bullets, and then Yuan Zhang aimed all the trebuchets in this direction, and after a few hours, this section of the city wall was smashed into a huge gap, opening a way for the attack of the northern cavalry.

Although Qiu Shangjian immediately led Zheng Liang and his soldiers to block it, but these recruits who lacked training could not stop the elite cavalry of the Northern Captives, Qiu Shangjian was cut off his horse after killing more than a dozen Northern Captive cavalry, and Zheng Liang only held on for a moment more than her, and died with him under the north gate of the capital.

The forbidden army that lost its commander collapsed, and countless northern cavalry entered the capital from the gap, but all the men, women, and children who stood in front of them were killed, and Yuan Zhang's original advice was taken as the wind in his ears.

Ignoring the slaughter of his subordinates, Arub laughed and entered the capital under the escort of the army, which was finally captured by foreign soldiers for the first time in more than two hundred years since the founding of the Great Wei Dynasty.

On the hill in the distance, a Great Wei soldier stared at all this, then got up and galloped towards the south wind, he wanted to bring the news to Li You. (To be continued.) )