Volume III, Chapter 673
Yin Xiang looked at it and was dumbfounded on the spot, the Jin Army's stone thrower had obviously not been fully fixed, why was it suddenly about to attack the city again?
The nearby Jin army saw Yin Xiang running out of the camp with bare feet and only wearing a middle coat, standing there motionless, his already big eyes were like copper bells at this time, and everyone was startled, not knowing what the princess of Yanguo suddenly went crazy.
After a long while, Yin Xiang reacted, turned around and ran back to the camp tent, and shouted to the maid while quickly dressing: "Quick! Go and wake up all the gentlemen, let us rush over at once, and go out of the camp with the palace to watch the battle!"
"Yes...... Yes, Princess!" said the little maid, and turned and ran out.
Yin Xiang also said something in her mouth while dressing: "Okay, you Lin Haotian, you even deceived the palace to attack the city ten days later, it's hateful!
When Yin Xiang put on her clothes, shoes and socks, the man in black, Xing Lei and others also rushed over.
Yin Xiang didn't say anything, bowed down to everyone, and strode out of the camp. She didn't go out of the camp directly, but went to find Lin Haotian first.
She had just arrived at the door of Lin Haotian's sleeping tent, and Lin Haotian also walked out of it.
When he went out, he met Yin Xiang, Lin Haotian was not surprised at all, he first looked at the man in black, and then his eyes fell on Yin Xiang's face, and said with a smile: "The princess got up so early!"
"It's not too late, my lord!" Yin Xiang said-for-tat, and then the conversation changed, and asked curiously: "My lord, what are you going to do when you go out with such fanfare?"
Lin Haotian shrugged his shoulders and said, "Of course it's going to attack the city." ”
Yin Xiang suppressed his anger and asked, "Didn't your lord say that the city would be attacked in ten days?"
Lin Haotian blinked with a smile and asked rhetorically: "Did Ben Shuai say that? Ben Shuai only remembered that he said that he would give you an answer on whether to sell the city in ten days, but he never said that he would attack the city in ten days!"
When he said this, he choked Yin Xiang's words back.
That's right, Lin Haotian really didn't say that the city would be attacked in ten days. It was just Yin Xiang's own inference, she believed that her inference would not be wrong, but she didn't understand why Lin Haotian suddenly changed his mind.
Looking at Lin Haotian with a smile on his face, Yin Xiang felt that she had been fooled by him, she took a deep breath and said arrogantly: "I went out of the camp with the adults to watch the battle." I don't know what the adults think!" The words were questions, but when she spoke, her tone was not an inquiry, and the person was already on the horse when she spoke.
Seeing her puffing appearance, Lin Haotian felt a dark feeling in his heart, and suddenly felt that it was very enjoyable to be able to frustrate this little girl's spirit. He didn't mind Yin Xiang's almost bad attitude, and said with a smile: "Of course you can, with a beautiful woman like the princess, this handsome can't ask for it." ”
Why don't you die!" Yin Xiang scolded in her heart. His face was shy, and he whispered, "My lord has won the prize." ”
Lin Haotian grinned at her, and then without further delay, he turned on his horse, waved his hand to the people around him, and shouted: "Get out of the camp!"
The Jin army, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly launched another siege this morning, which surprised the defenders in the pass city to some extent. However, the Red Army in the city was also quick to respond, and the Jin Army had just set up an advancing formation in front of the formation. The city was already full of red soldiers and generals.
On the side of the Jin Army, ordered by Lin Haotian himself, the war drums of the whole army were beaten, and the three corps of the First Army, the Third Army and the New Army advanced together, and the overwhelming Jin Army rushed towards the pass city like a tide.
Soon, the defenders also noticed that the Jin army was unusual. When the Jin army was advancing, there were still a large number of stone throwers in the camp. Many of the Red Soldiers were stunned when they saw this, not knowing what the Jin Army's intention was to push up a large weapon of long-range attack such as a stone thrower.
The first to react were the generals of the Red Army, and all the generals shouted to the soldiers under the city: "Go and move the crockpots, go and move the crockpots to the city, the Jin army is going to attack the city lord's mansion with a stone-thrower!"
I heard the general's order. The red soldiers under the city wall hurriedly carried the clay pots filled with fire oil to the city, and for a while, the back of the arrow stacks of the city wall was full of large and small jars and jars, like grocery stores.
However, what the generals of the Red Army did not expect was that the Jin army's stone throwers did not advance all the way to the front of the city as the county leader said, but stopped one after another when they were still a hundred steps away from the city wall, and a large number of Jin troops gathered around the stone throwers, some were fixing, and some were carrying stone bullets.
At such a distance, even if the defenders at the head of the city were all Hercules, it was impossible to throw the crockpot to the place where the catapult was.
The red generals present were a little at a loss for a while, why did Jin Jun's actions be different from what the county chief said? The county chief's information has always been very accurate, and there has never been a mistake, what happened this time?
Just when they were puzzled, there were continuous shouts from the camp of the Jin army: "Drop the bomb!
In a series of commands, the Jin army's stone throwers were launched in unison, and stone bullets of different sizes and shapes were thrown out by the Jin army's stone throwers, drawing arcs in the air and smashing into the walls of Guankou City with strong winds.
The defenders at the head of the city saw it clearly, and the generals shouted one after another: "The stone of the Jin army has arrived, take refuge behind the arrow battlement, and all of them take refuge behind the arrow battlement!"
After so many days of defending the city, the Red soldiers also accumulated a lot of experience, and even if they did not listen to the orders of the generals, they knew where to hide.
The corners of Yin Xiang, who accompanied Lin Haotian to watch the battle, were raised, and his little face showed a contemptuous smile, and he coldly reminded Lin Haotian beside him: "My lord, the wall of Guankou City is six steps thick, and the stone projectile of the stone thrower cannot collapse such a thick city wall. ”
Hearing the irony in Yin Xiang's words, Lin Haotian not only did not get angry, but also nodded, and said with a smile: "Yes, how can the six-step thick city wall be smashed by a few stone bullets!"
"If you know, why do you ......?"
"The outer city wall is six steps thick, and it is unusually strong, while the inner city wall is improvised, far less thick than the outer city wall, let alone as strong as the outer city wall, and it is built so high, the princess thinks, can the inner city wall withstand the heavy blow of the stone thrower?" Lin Haotian asked with a smile.
Yin Xiang heard this. His face suddenly changed, and he looked at Lin Haotian with straight eyes, and he didn't say anything for a long time.
Let's say that on the battlefield, the stone throwers of the Jin army have been launched in unison, and large and small stone bullets have crossed the outer wall of the pass city and smashed on the inner city wall.
With the impact of dense stone projectiles on the wall. I saw that the walls of the inner city wall were dusty, stone chips were flying, and the roar was endless.
The archers and steel archers who were guarding the inner city wall were also so shocked that they could not stand, and they all lay on the ground in horror with screams, and looked in horror at the stone bullets that kept flying from the air through the gaps in the arrow stacks.
"Boom—"
The Jin army was not on the verge of anything, and kept pulling the stone thrower to launch stone bullets, pouring out the stone bullets that had been collected and collected for several days, with only one target, that is, the inner city wall of Guankou City.
As Lin Haotian said. The inner wall of the pass city was built temporarily, less than three steps wide, and it was mainly made of wooden materials, supplemented by stone, so it was not very strong, and as an inner city wall, people would not have thought that it would suffer a direct blow from the Jin army outside the city.
The tactics adopted by the Jin army this time can be said to be much more than the defenders expected, under the continuous impact of stone bullets. The inner walls of the city are already crumbling in many places, and all of them are likely to collapse.
At this time. The defenders saw the intention of the Jin army, and the generals on the outer city wall shouted one after another: "Shoot the arrows, release the rockets, burn the enemy's stone throwers, and release the rockets."
Under the command of the generals, the Red Army on the outer city wall twisted their bows and arrows, and the arrows were aimed at the stone throwers of the Jin army.
"Buzz!"
Rockets rose from the city walls, drawing arcs of fire in the air and falling into the Jin army's catapult camp.
Wait for the arrow to arrive. The sound of arrows entering the wood was almost inaudible, only the crunch of tinkling.
The stone throwers placed in front of the Jin army were all fixed with steel armor, and at such a distance, the arrows could not penetrate the steel armor at all, or they bounced off and landed. Either cut from both sides of the steel armor, there is no threat to the rock-throwing mechanism.
The Jin army's stone thrower continued, and soon, with a loud bang, a section of the inner city wall in the pass city was finally overwhelmed and collapsed, and the archers on it also screamed and fell down one after another.
The collapse of this section of the city wall was the prelude to the collapse of the inner city wall, and it was not long before another section of the inner city wall collapsed.
The stone projectiles fired by the Jin army continued, and the sectional collapse of the inner city wall continued, and when you looked up, the inner city wall that was originally towering into the sky had now become undulating, like dogs' teeth intertwined.
Lin Haotian and Yin Xiang, who were watching the battle from behind, could see it clearly, and their expressions were completely different. Yin Xiang's face was gloomy, and his little hands had unconsciously grasped the reins of the war horse tightly, and even the joints began to turn white, on the other hand, Lin Haotian had an excited smile on his face, and his eyes were about to shine.
He shouted to the heralds on the left and right: "Order our army's stone throwers to continue firing stone bullets, and there is no need to leave a back hand, and I will shoot as many stone bullets as there are, and I will see the inner walls of the pass city become a ruin." ”
"Obey!" The herald hurriedly agreed, held high the order flag, urged the horse to run out, and went to the front to convey Lin Haotian's order.
The inner walls of the city did not last long, and under the continuous blows of the Jin army's stone throwers, they collapsed in batches and sections.
Although the defenders also launched a stone thrower to fight back, and also dealt a certain blow to the Jin army's stone thrower, it was no longer able to change the overall situation.
Seeing that the inner wall of the pass city in front of him had been smashed to pieces, Lin Haotian felt that the time was ripe for his own attack, he drew his sword back and shouted to the surrounding people: "The whole army charges! If we don't break the enemy city this time, our army will not retreat!"
"Kill-" In the earth-shattering shout, the official advance of the Jin army began.
Lin Haotian didn't stay behind to press the formation, he held a sword in his hand and rushed out first.
Yin Xiang subconsciously wanted to follow, and the three middle-aged people guarding her side invariably reached out to hold the reins of her war horse, and persuaded in a low voice: "There is danger ahead, the princess's daughter's body, don't be easy to get into danger!"
In the chaotic battle, who can distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, and rush forward, nine times out of ten will become the target of the defenders.
Yin Xiang wanted to rush to the center of the battlefield to see what was going on, but the persuasion of the three middle-aged people also made sense, she took a deep breath, suppressed the impulse in her heart, gritted her teeth and said: "This palace doesn't believe it, Lin Haotian can break through Guankou City with only this small means!"
The three middle-aged men grinned secretly, subconsciously looking left and right. Fortunately, there were no other golden people around, otherwise it would be terrible for people to listen to the princess's words.
Lin Haotian led the Jin army to charge the city, at this time, although the inner wall of the city has been destroyed, but the outer city wall is still well preserved, and the Red army defending the city has no casualties. The counterattack given to the Jin army is still fierce and abnormal.
Like the Jin army attacking the city in the early stage, the Jin army attacked a wave, but was repelled by the defenders, and hundreds of thousands of troops were blocked under the city and could not cross the thunder pond one step.
But for Lin Haotian, the current battle situation is very different from the beginning.
The inner city wall was not used to block the advance of the Jin army, and it could not directly attack the Jin army outside the city, its main role was to assist in the defense of the outer city wall. Once the outer city wall is broken through by the Jin army, the power of the inner city wall can be brought into play. The archers above can deal the most fatal blow to the Jin army attacking the outer city wall, which is also the main reason why Lin Haotian, Shang Zhang Bufan, and Ling Wuya all attacked the outer city wall at the beginning, but in the end they all had no choice but to retreat.
Now that the inner city wall has been destroyed, the factors that pose the greatest threat to Lin Haotian, Shang Zhang Bufan, Ling Wuya and others are gone, and they can also fight boldly on the wall of Guankou City with confidence.
Like last time, this time Lin Haotian rushed to the city wall of Pass City, but he finally succeeded in rushing up and started a face-to-face melee with the enemy troops on the city wall.
This. No longer had the enemy troops occupying the commanding heights to shoot cold arrows at him, and Lin Haotian also seemed to be at ease in the fierce battle. Freedom of movement.
Armed with a long sword, he struck back and forth on the city walls, and wherever he passed, there would always be the screams of the red soldiers and red generals, and there would always be clouds of white mist in the air.
It can be said that Lin Haotian's attack was fierce enough, and after Zhang Bufan rushed to the city. The blow inflicted on the enemy is devastating.
Zhang Bufan's cultivation had already reached the realm of the underworld, and he was at the same stage as Lin Haotian, but as a human underworld martial artist, the power of the underworld martial arts skills he cast was much greater than Lin Haotian's.
Lin Haotian killed the enemy one by one, and in front of Zhang Bufan. The casualties of the enemy are counted in paragraphs.
When he casts a skill, often the enemy troops on this section of the city wall can no longer find one intact, and as far as the eye can see, the ground is full of stumps and broken arms, corpses, blood, broken soldiers, broken armor, wails, and moans are all in one.
On the Jin army's side, Lin Haotian, Shang Zhang Bufan, Ling Wuya, Guan He and other fierce generals used as sharp knives to pierce the Red Army's defense line a few times, and then, the Jin Army outside the city took advantage of the chaos to attack upward, tearing the Red Army's defense line bigger and bigger, and in the end, it became out of control.
The resistance of the Red Army was also very tenacious, especially the Red Army also had a large number of chivalrous warriors, who were strong in martial arts and posed a great threat to the Jin Army.
The battle between the two sides was still very stalemate, and even if some of the Jin army had captured the city, they could not push the Red army down the city wall.
The battle continued endlessly, and the fierce fighting between the two sides lasted from morning to night.
It was already dark, but the Jin army still did not retreat, and the soldiers on both sides were fighting at night. Looking up, up and down the city wall, lamp balls, torches, and shiny pine trees illuminated the night as bright as day.
The soldiers on both sides of the city wall are fighting desperately, and the Jin army under the city wall is still launching round after round of charge, and the red army on the city wall that has not started hand-to-hand combat with the Jin army is still resisting fiercely, blocking the Jin army's arrival in the city.
In the night, the sound of killing, fighting, and dying screams came one after another, and the smell of blood permeating the scene was disgusting, and the entire battlefield had become a huge meat grinder, tearing apart the lives trapped in the battlefield one by one.
Until now, the Jin army is exhausted, and the Red army is not the same, both sides are gritting their teeth and persevering.
The Jin army can not retreat, once the choice to retreat at this time, the morale will be immediately discharged, and there will be no possibility of breaking through the pass city in the future, and the Red Army can not retreat, not because they don't want to, there is no way to retreat, the Jin army is besieging on all sides, blocking all the retreat of the Red Army, if they retreat now, let go of the city wall, they will have to be slaughtered by the Jin army in the city.
With no way out on both sides, there is no choice but to fight to the death.
In the daytime battle, both sides suffered heavy casualties, and the knights in the defenders were also seriously damaged, even those who survived were most of the spiritual energy depleted, and by the middle of the night, the pressure on the city wall had become very weak, and at this time, it became a stage for the demon warriors to play.
Lin Haotian, who had been fighting for a day, led Shao Lin and other demon warriors to start a counterattack against the Red Army, only to see that on the city wall, there was no figure in front of the Red Army camp, and every time a figure shook by, it would be accompanied by a scream and a Red Soldier or Red General fell in a pool of blood.
What's worse is that the attacks of Lin Haotian and the Demon Warrior Personnel are continuous, and in this situation where the enemy is completely invisible, the defenders are killed and retreated, and they have no power to fight back.
The fierce battle between the Jin army and the Red army at night was even more fierce than during the day, and the battle was so far that the soldiers on both sides had fallen into a state of madness of killing red eyes, completely recklessly rushing and killing.
The opening of the defense line of Guankou City has become bigger and bigger, especially on Lin Haotian's side, the demon underworld warriors led by him have dealt a fatal blow to the defenders, and the wind and gallop that appear and disappear from time to time and come and go freely make them seem to have turned into ghosts, and the Red Army soldiers were frightened and frightened, unable to resist, and were forced to retreat again and again.
The more they retreat, the more space they let out, the more the number of Jin troops who ascended to the top of the city, and the greater the blow to them, this is a vicious circle, when there is a red general will to this point, and then want to organize the soldiers to fight back, it is no longer possible.
The Red Army's counterattack was soon withstood by Lin Haotian and other demonic warriors, and instead of forcing them back half a step, they also suffered huge losses in their own troops. When the Red Army's counterattack was weak, Lin Haotian and others took advantage of the situation to attack and repelled the Red Army for a long time.
Next, the Red Army once again concentrated its forces and launched a more ferocious counterattack.
The two sides have come and gone, entering the stage of tug-of-war. (To be continued......)