Chapter 661: Siege of the City
After a day and a night of attacking Xiangcheng, although the soldiers stepped on the city wall several times, they were instantly surrounded by the imperial court soldiers on the city wall, and finally died on Xiangcheng one by one when they were unable to parry. Pen·Fun·Pavilion www.biquge.info Ωヤ看圕閣免费費槤載ノ亅、哾閲讀網メ..kàn.. ge.la
The siege towers were originally densely arranged at one end of the city wall, and after being continuously attacked by the artillery fire on the city wall, these siege towers gradually reduced to three or three, and the other siege towers could no longer be used at all, thus cutting off the degree of the Holy Lotus Sect soldiers stepping on the city wall.
Under each city gate in Xiangcheng, there are crashing cars violently hitting the city gates, but because there are thick stones piled up behind each city gate, the crash cars hit the doors to no avail.
And those Holy Lotus Sect soldiers who used the ladder to lean on the city wall, although they continued to climb to the city wall, they were either overturned by the soldiers on the city wall, or they were smashed under the city by the court soldiers on the city wall with boulders, rolling logs, and bullets.
Even so, the soldiers of the Holy Lotus Sect still picked up the ladder without hesitation, and they still rushed to the city wall without stopping.
The soldiers of the Holy Lotus Sect outside Xiangcheng in all directions, while holding shields in their hands, entered the city wall from the ladder and siege tower, and attacked the court soldiers on the city wall with a rain of bullets, blocking the court soldiers from attacking the soldiers on their own side.
A day and a night passed before I knew it. When a new day comes, there are still hot fighting scenes inside and outside Xiangcheng.
After a day and a night of fighting, I saw that the outside of Xiangcheng was full of thick and countless layers of corpses, and the blood flowed like a river, while the soldiers of the Holy Lotus Sect trampled on the corpses, fought bloodily, and constantly fought against the imperial court soldiers in the city.
On the other hand, on the city wall, there are also countless layers of soldiers' corpses, and it is impossible to tell who is who, each corpse is stained red with blood, and the city wall is also full of blood pools.
Due to the loss of countless siege towers and ladders by the soldiers of the Holy Lotus Sect, the degree and strength of the soldiers stepping on the city wall have weakened, but everyone is still tirelessly fighting with the court soldiers on the city wall.
And when the Holy Lotus Sect army lost the siege towers and ladders, which were siege equipment, the Holy Lotus Sect army also changed its strategy.
I saw countless soldiers carrying ropes rushing out of the Holy Lotus Sect army, and then threw the ropes in their hands off the tall city wall, and after the iron hook at one end of the rope hooked the wall, the soldiers climbed up the city wall along the ropes.
I saw ropes one by one, densely arranged on the outside of the city wall in all directions of Xiangcheng, erected vertically, the soldiers of the Holy Lotus Sect climbed along the ropes towards the city wall, and the soldiers under the city shot and fired arrows at the court soldiers on the city wall, in case the ropes were cut by the soldiers above.
And just as the soldiers of the Holy Lotus Sect were climbing along the ropes towards the city wall, the generals of the imperial court soldiers on the city wall naturally noticed this, and began to wield their swords vigorously to cut the ropes one by one.
However, when the imperial court soldiers were cutting these ropes indiscriminately, they were unfortunately killed by the soldiers of the Holy Lotus Sect under the city, which made the soldiers who climbed to rush towards the city wall even faster.
Even so, this rope was cut countless by the court soldiers on the city wall, which also caused the soldiers who climbed to fall from the height and fell to their deaths.
And when the ropes were cut off by the soldiers on the city wall, new ropes were thrown over, and a bridge was built for the Holy Lotus Sect soldiers again, so that the Holy Lotus Sect soldiers could come to the city wall quickly.
Gradually, countless soldiers of the Holy Lotus Sect followed the rope to the tall city wall.
In an instant, they were fighting with the imperial court soldiers on the city wall, and these soldiers of the Holy Lotus Sect were still rushing into the city, wanting to open the city gate from the city, and then they could let the Holy Lotus Sect army outside the city pour into the city.
And the imperial court soldiers on the city wall also showed the intention of the Holy Lotus Sect soldiers, and they were even more desperate to defend the passage to the city, and they also launched a bloody battle on the city wall.
The imperial court soldiers on the city wall were blocking the Holy Lotus Sect soldiers who were pouring up on the city wall on one side, and they were constantly waving swords and radiating bullets and bullets to block the Holy Lotus Sect soldiers who were climbing up.
Xu Yang looked at the soldiers and generals on both sides of the city wall, each of them was fighting bloodily, desperately killing the enemy, and the reason why he was slow to make a move was because it was not yet time to make a move.
And once Xu Yang started to kill these Holy Lotus Sect soldiers, then there would definitely be strong people in the Holy Lotus Sect army.
And Ah Po and the others, seeing that their sect leader was just constantly looking outside the city and inside the city, commanding the deployment of the army from time to time, but they never killed the soldiers and generals of the Holy Lotus Sect, and they also understood why they came, and they also waited and watched.
Gradually, the soldiers on both sides of Xiangcheng fought from dawn to late at night, and whenever the Holy Lotus Sect rushed towards the city, it was always surrounded by several times the number of imperial soldiers, so that the Holy Lotus Sect army could never enter the city.
Although the Holy Lotus Sect army suffered heavy losses in this siege, the imperial soldiers in Xiangcheng also suffered even more heavy casualties.
However, the soldiers of the Holy Lotus Sect seemed to be able to never finish killing, and they were always pouring more troops onto the city wall.
I saw that under the city wall in the southeast and northwest of Xiangcheng, the corpses of the soldiers had already piled up into small hills, and these soldiers were soaked in blood, and they couldn't tell whether they were soldiers of the Holy Lotus Sect or soldiers of the imperial court.
With the accumulation of corpses, Xiangcheng is filled with a pungent smell of blood, and the smell of blood is mixed with a strong smell of gunpowder, which is gray and rippling in the heaven and earth, making Xiangcheng as if it were hell on earth.
And the soldiers of both sides fought for a long time in Xiangcheng, whether it was the imperial army on the city wall or the Holy Lotus Sect army outside the city, the soldiers on both sides kept waving their flags and shouting, beating drums and cheering, adding to the momentum of their own side.
As a result, Xiangcheng became more and more powerful inside and out, and the fight scenes became more and more surging. As a result, there was a majestic murderous aura between heaven and earth, and the air became boiling violently.
Since the Holy Lotus Sect army began to attack Xiangcheng, three days and three nights have passed so far, and the Holy Lotus Sect army has never succeeded in entering the city, and the imperial court army in the city has always resisted stubbornly.
The commander of the Holy Lotus Sect outside Xiangcheng may also have seen that Xiangcheng is still difficult to conquer, so he has the idea of wanting to withdraw his troops, and then discuss how to attack the city.
So, I heard the sound of the Holy Lotus Sect's army resounding with the sound of Ming Jin withdrawing troops, and then I saw the Holy Lotus Sect soldiers in all directions of Xiangcheng retreating towards the outside of Xiangcheng like a tidal tide.
As the Holy Lotus Sect soldiers on the periphery of Xiangcheng continued to retreat, the imperial army on the city wall seized the rare opportunity and began to desperately rain arrows and guns at the retreating enemy army, causing the Holy Lotus Sect army to die while retreating.
And those Holy Lotus Sect soldiers standing on the wall of Xiangcheng were fighting bloodily with the imperial court soldiers at this moment, and it was too late to leave, so they had to fight the imperial court soldiers with all their strength until the end, until they died on the city wall.
Gradually, the Holy Lotus Sect troops on the outskirts of Xiangcheng had all retreated from Xiangcheng, leaving countless corpses up and down Xiangcheng, and the corpses were piled up like a mountain, and the smell of blood was strong and strong.
Even though Xiangcheng was full of corpses, Xiangcheng was scarred up and down, and every imperial court soldier was exhausted, it still couldn't stop the imperial soldiers from cheering and cheering in Xiangcheng, celebrating with laughter that they had once again repelled the Holy Lotus Sect army and won another victory.
In an instant, the battle of Xiangcheng ended with the defeat of the Holy Lotus Sect army, while the imperial army in Xiangcheng temporarily achieved a small victory.
According to later statistics, the Holy Lotus Sect army lost 100,000 soldiers after this battle, and the loss of siege equipment could not be counted, while the imperial army lost 60,000 soldiers.
Although the casualties of the Holy Lotus Sect army were heavier than those of the imperial army, the Holy Lotus Sect army still had an army of one million.
The imperial army has more than 600,000 soldiers left, and if the wounded soldiers are thrown out, only more than 500,000 soldiers in the imperial army will be able to participate in the battle.
Therefore, the imperial army in Xiangcheng could not bear such huge casualties again, and hoped to end the battle as soon as possible. And the Holy Lotus Sect army was also desperate to end this battle.
Xu Yang watched the battle of Xiangcheng finally come to an end after three days of hard fighting, and breathed a heavy sigh of relief, while listening to the laughter and celebration in the city, he watched that the Holy Lotus Sect army had retreated thousands of miles away and was stationed.
"General Xu, it's great that we have won again. ”
"If we continue like this, as long as we can hold on to Xiangcheng again and again and win from it, we are not afraid that the Holy Lotus Sect army will not perish. ”
"I didn't expect that in this battle, we actually fought against the Holy Lotus Sect army for three days, and it was the longest time in each battle. ”
Xu Yang looked at the generals happily recounting, nodded and said, "Everyone has shown great tenacity in this battle this time. As long as we all share the same hatred, we are not afraid that we will not be able to destroy the gang of gangsters of the Holy Lotus Sect. ”
Just after the Holy Lotus Sect army retreated from Xiangcheng, they saw Ma Zichen and other officials walking towards the city tower happily, but after seeing the miserable scene above and below the city wall, they couldn't laugh anymore, but they couldn't bear to look directly at such a terrifying scene.
Ma Zichen and other officials walked towards the city tower, while saying hard work to the soldiers and generals around them, and then after coming to the city wall, they raised their eyes and looked far away, and saw that wherever they could see outside the city, the ground was full of thick layers of corpses, rivers of blood, and the earth was full of pits, and the scene was extremely terrifying, which made people shudder, and goosebumps rose all over their bodies.