Chapter 218: Assault
In February of the first year of Yonghe, the 130,000 Beiliang army led by Tian Yanhuang began to attack Linjiang City.
At this time, the weather is cold and the ground is frozen, and Linjiang City is also watered into ice, turning the entire city into a huge glacier, the city wall is wrapped in ice, slippery and hands-free, and the surrounding is also smooth ice, and the soldiers are more difficult to attack the city than they imagined.
"Dashuai! It's still cold winter at this time, if there is no god to take action, with the army alone, this city is not easy to attack!"
"Yes, this city is thick, and it has been watered and formed ice, it is really not easy to attack, why don't you wait a little longer, wait until the ice melts before attacking?"
Many people looked at the glacier in front of them in the cold wind, and they were all taken by this momentum, and their hearts showed the intention of retreating.
"Within ten days, Ben Shuai is determined to take Linjiang City, everyone will carry out the order!" Tian Yanhuang said, turning his head to look at Tian Yanyu on the side, and asked in a deep voice, "Is everything ready?"
"Returning to the handsome, everything is ready!" Tian Yanyu said with a gloomy gaze and a bow.
"Very good! Prepare to attack the city immediately!" Tian Yanhuang gave an order, and the 130,000 troops were mobilized, except for the 50,000 troops arranged around the guards, the rest of the troops were all dispatched, but instead of holding a sharp sword and attacking Linjiang City, they drove those Terrans abandoned by the gods of Linjiang Mansion to Linjiang City.
The human race is a precious resource for the gods, it is the source of faith, and it will not easily give up believers unless it is absolutely necessary, but at this time, the grain and grass in Linjiang City are limited, and only part of the population can be supplied, and the army naturally gives priority, and a large part of the next ordinary human race will be abandoned in the city, and there are also plans to consume the grain and grass of Beiliang City.
Unfortunately, the plans of these gods have failed!
The main force of Tian Yanhuang's siege this time was the people of these Linjiang Mansions.
At this time, these clothes were full of dust, and the unkempt people were driven to Linjiang City by the Beiliang army, not to threaten the surrender of the city with the life and death of these people, but each person carried a bag of soil and sand on their shoulders, nearly 100,000 people were driven by the army to carry the soil and sand on their shoulders to the city wall in turn, and then left soon after throwing it on the smooth ice, the people behind kept repeating, and soon a layer of sandbags was piled up under the majestic and tall city wall of Linjiang City, and the ice was also covered by sand, a little shorter from the city wall.
Seeing this, the defenders of the city quickly understood the intention of the Beiliang army on the opposite side, which was to accumulate soil into a mountain, offset the advantages of the city wall, and finally the army directly killed the city!
The city quickly made a decision, and rows of archers appeared on the battlements and began to draw their bows, and the arrows were shot at the people who were driven by the Beiliang army below.
"General, all the people below are my Linjiang disciples!" said an adjutant in the defenders of the city.
"Otherwise, what else?" The general is also a person from Linjiang Mansion, and he can't bear to kill his hometown brothers in the past, but so what? Now the major gods in charge of the city are in charge, and they have obtained the divine decree, and whoever arrives under the city wall will be killed! This general is also involuntarily killed.
With a long sigh in a desolate tone, the general walked to the city wall and shouted downward, "If you don't want to die, leave below!!"
Sou!!!!
An arrow went straight into the general's eye socket, bringing up a line of blood, and the black feathers at the end of the arrow were still buzzing and trembling, and the general gurgled in his throat, and then his body went limp, and he fell on the city wall without a sound!
"The general is dead! the general is dead!" the soldiers cried, and soon there was an angry roar from the city: "Avenge the general!"
The killing of this general completely aroused the anger of the defenders in the city, not only the arrows spread like locusts, but also the rolling wood and stones that were prepared to deal with the strong attack of the Beiliang army, which were smashed down one after another, and hundreds of people were smashed into meat sauce, flesh and blood were blurred, mixed with sand, and it was difficult to distinguish each other.
"Ahhhh!!!!h
The next round of offensive on the city wall shot and killed most of the people who were carrying sand and stones, and the rest of the people were immediately frightened and fled in all directions, but soon, a scream sounded, and these fleeing people were slashed and killed by the Beiliang army around them, leaving corpses all over the ground.
"From today onwards, if you throw a bag of sand and soil into the city, you will get a skewer, and you will receive a bowl of hot porridge and a steamed bun with this skewer. Throw five bags a day, in addition to steamed buns and porridge, there is also a piece of meat. Throw away ten bags, ten sticks can be exchanged for one bag of grain!" an officer shouted coldly.
"If you don't go up, just wait to freeze to death and starve to death!"
"What? Isn't this for us to go up and die?" Many of the people were furious, but they died down under the intimidation of the army, and honestly calmed down.
"From now on, five thousand people will come to move the sand and soil, remember, it must be thrown to the city to count, and after the loss, go over there to get the stick!"
The officer said, and began to organize the people to carry sandbags towards the city.
"Be quick! Just throw it over when you get to the place!"
The shouting and scolding on the battlefield continued to sound, like ants carrying food, and today these people in Linjiang City were forced to carry sand and soil piles and mountains, and it seemed that they were going to level the city walls alive and to break the city!
The defenders of the city also knew the threat and horror of these sandbags, and tried their best to stop them, but after the arrows were not enough, they simply transported the cold river water directly to the city, and poured it on the heads of the people carried below.
The first batch of 5,000 people returned less than 1,000 people, and at least 3,000 people lost their lives and slept forever on the cold earth.
Tian Yanhuang looked at the progress in the distance, witnessing the death of these people, his face was not moved in the slightest, and he said coldly: "This speed is a little slow!"
"Yes! The subordinates are going to urge!" The attendants on the side hurriedly got off the high platform, leaving Tian Yanhuang in a fiery red fox fur with a cold gaze, and Tian Yanyu in a green robe were alone on the high platform, and they didn't speak to each other, and the atmosphere was extremely weird.
"In your opinion, when will this method break through the city?" Tian Yanhuang suddenly asked.
"If you don't count the sacrifices, the corpses of 100,000 people are piled up under the city, and this city can be captured in five days at most!" Tian Yanyu looked at the dense crowd in the distance, like an ant colony, carrying sandbags and rushing towards the city one after another, although his face was full of pity, but the depths of his eyes were indifferent.
The method of piling up the soil into a mountain is naturally Tian Yanyu came up with a plan to Tian Yanhuang, Tian Yanhuang is also a male son, cherishing his own soldiers, directly requisitioning these people left, first of all, the elite and strong of them are selected into an army, the daily food supply is quite good, ready to be put into use in the first batch of siege battles, the remaining hundreds of thousands of people have long been defeated by hunger, in order to survive almost anything can be done, in Tian Yanhuang's order was requisitioned to the front of the army, a bowl of porridge, a steamed bun is the price of a life for these people.
However, in just half a day, the city wall was two feet closer to the ground, that is, a full six meters, and it was not only the sand that filled the ground, but also the rolling wood and stones thrown down from the city, and the cold water of the ice cubes, which made the sand stronger after freezing.
In addition, the bones of tens of thousands of people were buried in these sandy soils, and the layers of barricades raised the ground, and countless unjust souls were brewed, hovering and whimpering above the city, and the anger was soaring to the sky.
In the face of such cruel casualties, these Linjiang people rioted again and again under the threat of death, but the strongest young and strong had already been sucked away by Tianyanhuang, and the remaining old and weak were not afraid at all, and the signs of riots were easily extinguished.
With the shock of the heads, the rest of the people were also wise and honest, and after a day of nine deaths, they endured hunger and cold, huddled in the houses that had been settled, and hugged each other to keep warm, ready to survive this long night, and welcome the new day and possibly the last day.
But these people think badly!
The siege of the city can be divided into day and night, and at night, the lights outside the city are bright, and hundreds of people rush forward one after another like ants, pushing the sand on their shoulders on the already high slope, and then fleeing in a hurry.
The defenders of the city are throwing up!
The city wall is surrounded by a strong smell of blood, even the cold winter night is particularly harsh, and there are screams from time to time, the defenders of the city no longer remember how many people they killed today, it is too much, even if the army has been on the battlefield, but like today, tens of thousands of people died in one day, or they died under this city wall, especially under the reflection of the lights, it looks particularly eerie, and the howl of ghosts and wolves from time to time and the cold wind are raging, which makes people creepy and shudder.
However, the will to attack the city could not be changed, and the order of the commander of the Beiliang army could not be disobeyed.
Even those recalcitrant gods were shocked by the fierceness of the sky, and they regarded human life as a mustard, so ruthless!
As the corpses continued to pile up under the city, and there were bags of sand, the originally tall and majestic city wall had been filled by a huge earth slope that had been piled up on a huge earth slope, the highest layer of which was less than a few feet from the battlements, and a person could easily step on the city wall.
However, the defenders of the city did not sit idle, and poured a large amount of ice water from the city and poured it on this slope, making the slope extremely smooth and becoming a layer of ice.
"Today will be the first and last siege of the city!" Tianyanhuang has a frosty jade face, and his body exudes a sinister aura, looking like no one should approach.
In fact, the death of hundreds of people these days has also made Tianyanhuang terrifying, and everyone is afraid of this ruthless commander, and after seeing this commander's ruthless methods, they are in awe, and they dare not have the slightest second thought.
"Battalion of strong men, prepare to attack the city!" In the middle of the army, a general dressed in armor gave orders to the army behind him.
As the war drums sounded, the faces of these young men in battle clothes showed nervousness, and they surrounded a huge wooden frame, all of which were nailed together with large logs, and they struggled to lift these wooden frames and rush up the slope in front of them.
Rumble!!!
The huge wooden frame fell on the slope, and countless thick iron nails pierced into the smooth ice, and then one by one the wooden frames began to be laid, and in a short time these special wooden frames were spread out on the slope, forming a huge slope, the highest point was already level with the city wall, and the war horse could charge directly to the head of the city.
"Set fire to these planks!"
"Quick! pour ice water !!"
The panicked sound on the city kept coming, Tian Yanhuang was expressionless, and with a slight raise of his hand, tens of thousands of crossbowmen in the Beiliang army came out of the ranks and began to fire a burst of ten thousand arrows at the city wall, and the soldiers finally launched an offensive against Linjiang City under the cover of arrows.
"Kill !!"
The shouts of killing rushed to the sky, and the arrows covered the sky densely like locusts, and the city of Linjiang was about to be broken.