Chapter 66: The Battle of Pingcheng (1)

"Knock, knock, knock!"

"Woo!

In the early morning of winter, the wind was cold. On the vast and boundless battlefield, there are war drums and horns sounding in unison, military flags and general flags flying together, a scene of rolling heat waves and murderous spirits!

The 160,000 Northern Yan army surrounded the huge Pingcheng City and couldn't get through! Tens of thousands of pairs of eyes stared at the tall and majestic city wall of Pingcheng not far away.

Hundreds of thousand-strong phalanxes, neatly lined up outside the city wall, just waiting for an order, they will pounce on it!

Ballistas, siege vehicles, and catapults are lined up in the military formation, ready to go!

Outside the north gate of Pingcheng, which was the main attack of the Northern Yan Army, Xue Wanche rode on the back of the black storm, squinting slightly, scanning the movement on the city wall.

From a distance, there were no flags, no Fusang defenders on the city wall, and not even half a sound was heard, and there was a dead silence, as if it was an unsuspecting empty city.

Xue Wanche frowned slightly: "It seems that the commander of this Fusang garrison is also a person who knows the soldiers! Don't put the defenders on the top of the city, this is to know how powerful our ballistas and catapults are!"

Then, Xue Wanche changed his words and said: "Hmph! Even if you are cunning like a ghost, Lao Tzu will pinch you flat and round!"

As soon as the words fell, he immediately ordered in a loud voice: "Order the whole army and start the siege!"

The herald beside him received the order and waved the red and white flag in his hand high, conveying Xue Wanche's order.

In this battle, Xue Wanche didn't use any tricks, nor did he fight any scheming, he just set up a position, relying on the advantages of the Northern Yan Army in numbers and combat power, as well as the continuous victory and invincible spirit, to storm Pingcheng!

As soon as Xue Wanche gave the order, the first thing to attack was the hundreds of ballistas!

"Bang, bang!!" The sound of machine springs and crossbow strings bursting sounded one after another, and the ballista, which required eight strong men and a winch to pull apart, instantly fired a crossbow arrow that was one person long and the thickness of a child's arm.

The crossbow arrows, weighing dozens of catties, roared straight towards the city wall!

"Bang, bang, bang!" Hundreds of crossbow arrows, like cannonballs out of the chamber, plunged headlong into the city wall six or seven feet high, made of huge stones.

After a series of loud noises, this section of the city wall that had been bombarded by ballistas suddenly shook. The crossbow arrows of one man were more than a few feet into the city wall, and only a small half was still exposed.

The next thing to do was the dozens of trebuchets!

The trebuchet five or six feet high is almost as high as the walls of the Peace City! It takes about a dozen oxen to pull it, and it takes a dozen or so people to turn around.

"Woo!woo!woo!" The long catapult arm drove the round stone the size of a basin, quickly rotated half a circle, and then threw the boulder weighing more than 100 catties high in one fell swoop.

The round boulder drew an arc in the air, flew out for more than two hundred zhang, and smashed into the city wall.

The smashed city wall suddenly shook violently, and the large and small gravel collapsed down.

A few boulders did not hit the wall, but flew over and smashed behind the wall.

"Ahh

"Yaga!"

"Amaterasu!" The boulder rolled among the Fuso defenders, crushing into bloody paths.

The Fuso people, who were hiding behind the city wall, were so frightened by the boulder that fell from the sky that they screamed in fright! A few unlucky people were directly smashed into pulp. Someone who was a little lucky broke his legs by the rolling boulder and fell there crying for his father.

But long-range strikes are far from stopping!

"Bang, bang, bang!"

"Woo, woo, woo!"

The bolts of hundreds of ballistas pierced the walls into hedgehogs!

The boulders thrown by dozens of catapults are like meteorites, smashing the city wall to a thousand holes!

And the countless Fusang people who were hiding within the city wall were terrified when they heard the huge movement of the mountains shaking and the mountains roaring like a tsunami.

Although the Fuso Kingdom has also fought civil wars for hundreds of years, when has it ever used such a weapon of mass destruction on the battlefield? These Fuso soldiers have never seen such a powerful siege weapon, and they will inevitably be frightened to the point that their souls are not possessed!

But whenever the movement of the ballistas and catapults stopped for a while, there were always some Fuso leaders who stood up and "Bang Bang!" The continuous slapping of the Fusang soldiers made the frightened Fusang soldiers sober up slightly.

And these Fuso leaders slapped them and shouted loudly: "Yaga! We are the people of His Majesty the Emperor God! We are the descendants of Amaterasu! We are fearless soldiers under the command of Toyotomi Taiko! We believe in the spirit of bushido! We have infinite courage to kill all the Northern Yan Pigs!"

"Kill all the Northern Yan Pigs!"

"Kill all the Northern Yan Pigs!"

Under the encouragement of these leaders, countless Fusang soldiers were full of enthusiasm, and they were all about where they were, and their thoughts were to be loyal to the Fusang Empire and His Majesty the God Emperor!

But the overwhelming crossbow arrows and boulders will not stop attacking because of the popularity of Fusang.

Balistas and catapults attacked for more than a dozen rounds until they had to stop to replace damaged parts due to mechanical wear.

However, as one of the three capitals of Goryeo, the city wall is really tall and thick, although it has been bombarded to a thousand holes, but it is stubbornly held up, and it will not fall!

Seeing that the city wall was not collapsed, Xue Wanche's face remained unchanged, and he waved his big hand and said, "Let the ironclad battalion start attacking the city!"

The ironclad battalion is also part of the Liaodong Army, with a total of more than 10,000 ironclad heavy infantry.

These iron-clad heavy infantrymen are all strong and strong-shaped men, with a full set of iron armor weighing seventy or eighty catties like a turtle shell, and at the same time holding a large iron shield of twenty or thirty catties, they can still move freely.

The elite of this ironclad heavy infantry is no less than that of heavy cavalry. In siege warfare, the role of ironclad heavy infantry is far greater than that of heavy cavalry, and it is a well-deserved siege backbone.

After receiving the siege order, the ironclad battalion, tens of thousands of ironclad heavy infantry divided into more than 20 columns, carrying bags of sand and soil, began to rush up!

Their task was not to rush straight to the city wall at the beginning, but to fill in the attack path of the moat several zhang wide.

Although the speed of the ironclad heavy infantry is not as fast as the cavalry, or even as good as the light infantry, tens of thousands of people are stepping on heavy steps at the same time, and even the earth is trembling slightly, and the momentum is really amazing!

But on the walls of Pingcheng, there is still not the slightest movement!

Until the ironclad battalion rushed within the range of the bow and arrow, dense human heads suddenly appeared on the wall, and they began to fire arrows at tens of thousands of ironclad heavy infantry!

Seeing the movement on the wall, Zhou Hao, who was not in his turn to make a move for the time being, his pupils shrank slightly, and with his extraordinary eyesight, he estimated the number of defenders on the wall.

After a while, Zhou Hao already had the answer in his heart.

Just on this city wall, there are more than 15,000 Fuso archers lying on the head of the wall and firing arrows!

The dense rain of arrows continued uninterruptedly, piercing into the ironclad camp like flying locusts.