Chapter 259: Pursuing with Victory
Jing Yi had never seen how Xiao Yilin commanded the battle, so she just watched from the side and didn't say much.
A row of catapults was ready, and the soldiers who had built a ladder to attack the city were also ready.
With Xiao Yilin's order, the soldiers controlled the trebuchet and launched an attack on Linzhao City. Huge stones flew into the air and flew towards the walls of Linzhao City. In the blink of an eye, large stones fell on the walls of Linzhao City, as well as on the bodies of some soldiers on the city walls.
At the same time, some soldiers on the Jin side ran to the city wall of Linzhao City with a cloud ladder, and when they got to the city wall, they put the cloud ladder on the city wall, and then began to quickly go up the cloud ladder.
Although the defenders on the walls of Linzhao City would be hit by large stones from time to time, there were still many soldiers who shot arrows at the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom on the ladder.
The so-called ladder is a long ladder, which is too simple in Jingyi's opinion, and there is no protection at all for the soldiers besieging the city. Many of the soldiers were shot and fell off the ladder.
Some of the soldiers who fell off the ladder were wounded, but most of them lost their lives.
Jing Yi watched one by one fresh lives disappear in front of her eyes. This is obviously a crowd tactic, taking advantage of the large number of people to attack the city. But how many dead and wounded would it take to break through the city?
At this time, Jing Yi really saw the cruelty of ancient warfare. I also better understand the sentence "one will make ten thousand bones dry".
Under the double pressure of the trebuchets of the Jin *** team and the soldiers to build a ladder to siege the city, the defenders of Linzhao City did not resist for a long time, and finally a defense line was broken through after the Jin *** team attacked the city for half an hour, so that the soldiers of the Jin *** team went to the city wall.
There are two of them, and more and more soldiers of the Jin *** team have gone up to the city wall.
The soldiers of the Jin Kingdom who had ascended the city wall began to engage in a white-knuckle battle with the defenders of Linzhao City on the city wall. This also caused the defenders of Linzhao City to have no time to take care of the cloud ladder and the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom who came up from the cloud ladder.
After another period of fighting, someone finally opened the city gate, and Xiao Yilin took the lead in the city.
At this time, the people in Linzhao City had almost run away, and the city was almost an empty city except for the defenders.
Therefore, the Jin *** team did not have to worry about the people in Linzhao City organizing to resist.
Under the leadership of Xiao Yilin, the Jin army crossed Linzhaocheng, the general of the defenders of Linzhaocheng was killed, and the small leaders below had no backbone, and several of them abandoned the city and fled. If you don't run, you can only be killed. No one is stupid.
The so-called soldiers are fast, Xiao Yilin did not stop to rest after taking Linzhao City, but left the men and horses responsible for cleaning the battlefield, treating the wounded soldiers, collecting the fallen soldiers, clearing the remaining defenders in the city, and taking over the defense of the city. He led a large army out of Linzhao to continue to pursue the fleeing Northern Yan army.
That's right, the Northern Yan army brought by Mo Kun before did not fight against Xiao Yilin, but fled when Xiao Yilin and them attacked the city.
Where will Xiao Yilin let them go, take advantage of the high morale of the soldiers to continue the pursuit, and strive to eliminate more Northern Yan troops and take more Northern Yan cities.
They followed the back of the Northern Yan army to Pingyang City, the second city of Northern Yan.
The defenders of Pingyang already knew the news of the loss of Linzhao City, and although they did not abandon the city and fled, they were all afraid that Pingyang Chengcheng would become the next Linzhao City. It's almost a certainty.
Xiao Yilin's capture of Linzhao can be said to have caused a lot of psychological pressure on these soldiers in Beiyan.
Xiao Yilin led the army of the Jin Kingdom to the city of Pingyang, and the hundreds of thousands of troops were almost overwhelmed. Before the Jin *** team attacked the city, Sun Sheng, the general of the Pingyang defenders at the head of the city, was scared enough.
Sun Sheng already knew that the withdrawn Northern Yan army did not help the Linzhao defenders to defend the city at all, but took the lead in fleeing as soon as they saw that the momentum was not right. They didn't expect these people who had fled back to help them defend the city. It would be nice not to mess with them.
Before Sun Sheng could finish thinking about it, some soldiers came to report that the soldiers who had fled back had run away from the city.
Sun Sheng secretly cursed a group of soft eggs in his heart, and then thought about his situation and the way back. Does he want to resist to the end and finally sacrifice his life for the country?
There were many people behind him. Although hundreds in Binh Duong City
Some of them fled, but many of them were lucky and reluctant to let their family business run away. If he is defeated and Pingyang is lost, his greatest concern is the safety of the people in the city.
I hope that the Jin *** team can be restrained and not hurt the people in the city.
Outside Pingyang City, the Jin army has already set up a siege posture.
Jing Yi turned his head to look at the ladder that the soldiers were preparing, pulled the reins, beat the horse, and approached Xiao Yilin and said, "Brother Xiao, are you still using trebuchets and ladders to attack the city this time?"
Xiao Yilin turned his head and glanced at Jing Yi when he heard this, "This is the most effective way."
Jing Yi thought of the bones piled up under the ladder during the siege of the city before, and said, "If you use the ladder to attack the city, the sacrifice is too great. The so-called soldiers are not tired of deceit, since we have the Great Prince of Beiyan as a hostage, why don't we take advantage of him?"
Xiao Yilin brought Tuoba Liansheng with him on this expedition, but he didn't think about using Tuoba Liansheng to force the enemy to surrender.
Jing Yi saw Xiao Yilin hesitate and said, "If you can use Tuoba Liansheng to force the enemy to surrender without losing a single soldier, then there is nothing to worry about. It is also our ability to capture the Great Prince of Beiyan, so we don't have to care so much about who says anything. In my opinion, the lives of the soldiers are more important than their reputation."
Xiao Yilin looked at Jing Yi with admiration in his eyes when he heard this, "Jing Yan, you're right, I'm too old-fashioned. The lives of the soldiers are more important than their reputation. Besides, if anyone dares to talk nonsense, I will let him take the place of the soldiers to attack the city."
Jing Yi smiled, "Yes, whoever is talking nonsense will let him set up a ladder to attack the city. As for the voice of Beiyan, we don't have to worry about it. First attack with trebuchets to put pressure on the defenders of Binh Duong, and then bring Tuoba Liansheng up, and then I will call out and promise to make the defenders of Binh Duong surrender."
Xiao Yilin looked at the little girl with a radiant look and a sly look in her eyes, and immediately said, "Okay, just do as you say."
He turned his head and waved at the soldier, "Trebuchet ready. The ladder is suspended."
The soldiers quickly pushed the trebuchets forward and lined up in a row. The soldiers loaded their stones and were ready to attack.
With Xiao Yilin's order, the soldiers controlled the trebuchet and launched another attack on Pingyang City. Huge stones smashed into the walls of Binh Duong City.
And the defenders of Pingyang City also began to shoot arrows at the Jin *** team. Fortunately, at this time, the range of the trebuchet on the Jin side was greater than the range of the bow and arrow, so the bow and arrow could not shoot the soldiers on the Jin side.
This undoubtedly gave the Jin *** team the upper hand.