Chapter 307: The Lockdown Is Broken
This time, Xiang Wentian didn't want to keep it at all, and ordered the catapult to smash it hard, so the catapult kept throwing stones towards the city wall.
With the suppression of the stone throwing truck, there is no way to stand on the city wall at all, and after the stones rumble to the ground, some explode, and some roll directly down the wall to the back of the city wall.
It's good that this doesn't roll down, but if it rolls down, it kills and injures many soldiers hiding under the city wall.
And the echelon of the siege on this side, without being interfered by the opponent's feather arrows, immediately ran quickly to the root of the city wall one by one, and the large siege ladder behind it also quickly approached the city wall.
"Stop the projectile"
The lookout standing on the top of the arrow tower on this side saw that his own soldiers had approached the city wall, and he was worried that his own soldiers would be accidentally injured if he continued to shoot, so he decisively gave the order to stop the attack.
But what Xiang Wentian didn't expect was that the projectile had stopped here, but when the smart Wei Zhongxian felt that there was no rumbling, he ordered all the soldiers to quickly go up the city wall.
On the one hand, he ordered the stone-throwing cart under the city wall to start, and directly threw the wine jar that had been loaded.
And here, with the issuance of Wei Zhongxian's order, the soldiers who were still hiding under the city wall all rushed to the city wall one by one, and then picked up the thunder stone and smashed it against the city wall.
And with the outbreak of the battle of the city wall contact here, the archers who followed behind were not idle, and began to quickly draw their bows and shoot.
On the side of the siege army, the archers of the middle army, under the order of the commander, also drew their bows and shot towards the city wall. Only this time there has been a certain change.
A special part of the archers were specially assigned to shoot at the soldiers who stretched out their heads to throw thunder stones and rolling logs under the city, and at this moment, many soldiers who stood up and showed their heads were shot into hedgehogs.
And the one who was shot was not saved, because most of the feathered arrows were shot at the head, and a few were shot at his chest through the stacks.
At this moment, Wei Zhongxian, who was watching, frowned, and had no choice but to give an order to Shi Da and let the stone-throwing cart behind the city start to act.
And as the stone-throwing cart on this side threw out the wine jars one by one, the wine jars crossed the city wall and smashed directly into the echelon of the siege team.
"Smack... Syllable... Smack"
With the sound of the jar shattering, many unlucky people were directly stoned to death, but all that burst out of the shattered wine jar was fire oil.
It's just that at this moment, no additional damage was done, which made the besieging soldiers happy, and the other party could only use the wine jar as a stone, which means that the other party has no materials to defend the city at all.
But then, this idea made them suffer a big loss, and as the catapult continued to eject, hundreds of wine jars filled with fire oil were all ejected.
At this moment, Wei Zhongxian suddenly said, "Pick up the rocket, shoot"
It doesn't matter if you don't say that, as the words fell, countless rockets were shot down from the city walls.
And the border guards who were still laughing at the other side without stones, after receiving the rocket, the Chinese army was in chaos, and there were fires everywhere, and many soldiers who were poured with fire oil have become a burning man at this moment.
And the fire man began to run around because of the pain, and once again there was a chain reaction, igniting the fire oil that was not on fire, so that the fire grew up in an instant.
And Wei Zhongxian would let go of this excellent opportunity, on the one hand, he ordered the catapults in the city to throw stones quickly, and on the other hand, he ordered the archers to shoot quickly.
Xiang Wentian, who was standing in the car, saw this, his mouth was skewed, and he was angry.
On the battlefield, because of this one, after such a harassment, the border guards here have not only messed up the formation, but also burned and stoned many people to death.
But the soldiers besieging the city were not frightened by this, but instead aroused their bloodiness, and rushed to the city wall one by one.
"Order the catapults to move forward, and knock out the catapults in the opposite city for me. ”
Because of the barrier of the city wall, it is difficult for the catapult in the city to shoot too far, but the one outside the city is different.
Moved the attacking team forward quite a bit, and after a round of calibration, once again activated the effect of this siege weapon.
Stones flew quickly towards the city, and when Wei Zhongxian found out, he already knew that it was not good, but the order was still too late.
The catapult team in the city knew that the stones were being thrown at the other side again, and when Wei Zhongxian ordered to move back, it was already too late, and they fell differently, and immediately destroyed several catapults here.
It's just that the stone rain on the opposite side did not weaken in the slightest, and the big stones fell one by one, not only the catapults were smashed, but also the people, including the camp tents behind, etc., all of which were smashed.
With the suppression of the catapult here, the catapult in the city suddenly became muted, and this side was muted, and the commander of the besieging soldiers outside roared, "Brothers, follow me, the other party's catapult will not work!"
Then the regimental commander held a sword in one hand and a wooden ladder in the other, and quickly climbed up, but before he could climb halfway, a pot of fire oil fell on it.
At this time, the head of the regiment was instantly blank, and in the nick of time, the regiment commander used the ladder and his waist and eyes to skillfully jump up to avoid most of the oil.
It's just that there are still a lot of sporadic fire oil falling on the armor and arms, the armor makes a sizzling sound, and a lot of blood blisters have been burned on the arms, but the head of the regiment didn't care so much at this time.
When he landed on the wooden ladder again, but with the fire oil on the wooden ladder, it was slippery, and after climbing a distance with difficulty, he dodged and directly launched his body martial arts.
Then the regimental commander successfully stood on the city wall, and then roared and slaughtered the soldiers guarding the city around him.
And as the regiment commander took the lead in climbing the city wall to block, when Wei Zhongxian didn't react, several wooden ladders around him quickly began to climb up a lot of soldiers, and at this time, these people, one by one, bared their teeth and carried sabers.
When he saw the soldiers defending the city, he rushed over like a desperate person, and suddenly a section of the surrounding city wall was in chaos.
"General, I'm going to block one or two?"
At this time, Wei Zhongxian and the four regiment commanders who were standing on the top of the city tower had already seen that the city wall had been broken at this time, so Yuen Long was ready to go directly to help and defeat the enemy.
"General, I'm going to help. ”
Yuen Long and Shek Tat bowed down and asked for their lives.
"Hey... Forget it, we can't hold it, let's go, the city lord left three days ago, and we don't want to be buried here. ”
At this time, Wei Zhongxian saw the city walls that were constantly being broken through, and knew that the general trend had gone. Because when the catapults in the city don't work, they are basically doomed.
"General... Are we going to abandon these people?"
At this time, Yuen Long's eyes were red and he asked!
"If you don't abandon it, there's no way, without them dragging us, we can't leave, they may not all die, but you and I will definitely die!"
At this time, Wei Zhongxian looked at everyone else, and he also knew the Tao in it.
"Let's go..."
At this time, Shi Da gently pulled Yuen Long's armor and signaled not to wait.
Because as time went on, more and more soldiers attacked the walls.
"Hey..."
Yuen Long sighed heavily, followed closely by Wei Zhongxian, and then the five of them sneaked down the city wall, rode on a fast horse tied to the edge of the city wall, and galloped directly to the south of the city.
This war was very short, but in fact it lasted for a long time, and less than one hour after Wei Zhongxian, Yuen Long and a few others abandoned the city and fled, a large number of border guards attacked the city.
With the fighting, the last part of the soldiers defending the city all put down their weapons and surrendered, and most of the surrendered were archers, because these classes did not have much experience in hand-to-hand combat.
Rather than rushing forward to die, it is better to surrender, of course, the fundamental reason for giving up resistance is that the soldiers defending the city have not heard the voice of Wei Zhongxian and several regiment commanders for a long time.
This is the fundamental reason for the discouragement of these soldiers defending the city, once they lose their fighting spirit, then how can they talk about defending the city?
As the border guards opened the north gate, the remaining border guards outside the city entered the city in an orderly manner, indicating that the city was closed and broken, and the battle was won by Xiang Wentian.
And this station is not short, it is not long, it is a total of about 3 hours, when Xiang Wentian stood on the car and saw his own Xiangzi flag erected on the top of the city tower, Xiang Wentian was determined.
It was also at this time that Xiang Wentian was completely relieved, and soon after, a soldier hurriedly ran to Xiang Wentian and knelt down on one knee and said, "General Qiqi, our army has successfully opened the city gate and is now rapidly entering the city." ”
"The regiment commander in front said that he would invite the general into the city as soon as possible and arrange other matters to comfort the people. ”
"Well... Very good... Go and tell the former soldiers and soldiers, let them go to the city lord's palace after occupying the four gates, and do not burn and loot the people in the city, and if there is any violation, the army will be punished. ”
At this time, Xiang Wentian was happy, and after more than ten days, he finally knocked down this roadblock.
"It's... Subordinates obeyed. ”
The soldier said yes, turned around and prepared to run into the city.
"Wait... Hurry up!"
The soldier glanced at Xiang Wentian gratefully, then stopped talking nonsense, took the reins handed by the soldier, turned over and grabbed the horse's belly and ran quickly into the city.
"Let's go too, let's go into the city!"
Seeing the figure of the soldier galloping on horseback, Xiang Wentian said to the sergeants below.
Then Xiang Wentian sat in the car and drove towards the lockdown without hurry.
It's just that when he saw his dead body lying on the ground all the way, Xiang Wentian's stomach suddenly churned a little, and he almost vomited, so he simply got into the carriage to avoid it, so as not to be embarrassed.
At this time, the border guards who attacked the city did not do anything against the people in the city, but quickly occupied the other three gates and slaughtered the soldiers who were still resisting.
And a large part of the people had already surrounded the City Lord's Mansion at this time, but they didn't go in, and when everything stabilized, they began to clean up the mess, clean up the battlefield, and collect the corpses.
As for the more than 20,000 people who have been captured, they are all locked up together at present, waiting for Xiang Wentian's fate.
And Xiang Wentian drove in a car, passed through the north city gate without hurrying, and drove directly along the avenue to the city lord's mansion, but at this time, there was no one in the city lord's mansion except for some subordinates.