Chapter 500, Defending the City and Fighting Fiercely
The ladder was on the wall, and the Khitan warriors bit the scimitar and climbed bravely; The rolling stone and wood on the city wall rained down, and the Khitan soldiers also fell down like raindrops, and the Khitan soldiers under the city wall all raised their shields above their heads to protect themselves, but under the bombardment of the rolling stone and wood, the shield could not play any protective role at all, and in the dull loud bang, the shield shattered, and the flesh and blood flew!
At the same time, a huge roar resounded throughout the battlefield from time to time, and it turned out that the artillery of the Khitan army was gathering fire to bombard the city wall that had been bombarded the day before. The Khitans' purpose was obvious, that is, to gather fire and destroy the city wall in the shortest possible time. ……
Such an offensive and defensive battle lasted for five days, the Khitan army almost filled up the moat in the south, these days the troops took turns to attack, including two days even at night was also storming, but after five days, although the Khitan army occasionally rushed to the city wall, but was quickly driven down by the sacrifice counterattack of Yanyun soldiers, it took five days to waste, and there were countless attacks, and there were still mountains of corpses under the city wall, but almost no progress was made. However, Yan Yun was not happy at all, because the city wall that the Khitan army's artillery had been bombarded for five or six days in a row was already scarred and crumbling, and it would collapse at any time!
Boom, boom, boom, boom......! The roar of the cannons continued to come, and every time the Khitan artillery fired a volley, the city wall shook violently, peeling off countless walls. More than 100 cannons of the Khitan army fired a salvo again, and that wall finally couldn't stand it anymore and collapsed as a whole! The Khitan soldiers cheered in unison!
When the smoke and dust cleared, I saw that the wall had collapsed into a triangle, one mile and one outside, two slopes, the outer slope filled the moat and connected to the flat ground, and the soldiers and horses outside the city could completely rush directly into the city along the slope.
Ye Yu Hucheng, who was sitting in the car with an injury, immediately said to Long Ba: "Long Ba, assault the gap!" Long Ba loudly agreed, shouted at the soldiers under his command, and all the soldiers shouted in unison, and then the 30,000 elites under the command of Long Ba rushed towards the gap. Yelu Hucheng turned his head and said, "Order the other armies to continue to storm the city wall!" The herald answered the promise and immediately ordered the standard-bearer to raise the signal flag. So tens of thousands of soldiers and horses rushed towards the city wall with shouts, trampling on the corpses and muddy blood water all over the field, passing through the various wreckage, and continuing to storm the city.
At the same time, the 30,000 elites led by Long Ba rushed to the bottom of the slope, and the arrows on the walls on both sides rained down like arrows, which was the Yanyun crossbow power, and the dense rain of arrows shot down a large number of the Jin soldiers who rushed up, and the attack momentum of the Khitan army was a pause. Immediately, the Khitan army's shield came up, raised the shield high to block the shooting of the crossbow on the city wall, only to hear a loud sound of ding ding dong, and the arrows shot by the crossbow were almost blocked by the shield!
The Khitan army relied on the shield cover to climb the slope, slowly advanced, crossed the highest part of the slope, shouted, poured into the city, and crashed into the defense line of the Yanyun army. The defense line of the Yanyun army was dominated by the Modao army, and in the face of the fierce rush of the enemy, they resisted with all their might, and the sound of killing suddenly rose for a while, and under the flying light of the sword, only flesh and blood were flying. The elite of the Khitan army rushed like crazy, and they were not afraid of life and death; In the face of the enemy army like a sea of tides, Yan Yunjun resisted bravely and fought to the death. The Yanyun army is extremely powerful, often killing two or three enemies before one is killed, but there are too many enemy troops, and they are rushing down from the ruins, and the impact is far greater than usual, so the Yanyun defense line began to be gradually pushed and deformed by the enemy! The situation is very critical, and the defense line of the Yanyun Army will collapse at any time!
At this moment, the repeaters on both sides of the gap retreated, and many other sergeants with iron balls on their backs rushed forward. I saw those soldiers, took down the iron ball stone ball one by one, and then lit the lead on it, and then threw the iron ball stone ball into the Khitan army below. Immediately, a violent explosion accompanied by a ball of fireballs rose up, and countless Khitan soldiers only felt that they were flying, and human remnants were flying all over the sky!
The Khitan army was taken aback by such an attack suddenly, but it still kept rushing towards the gap, while the Yanyun soldiers on the city wall kept throwing these earth bombs to let the Khitan army below sit on the earth plane. The Khitan army felt frightened and retreated, no longer rushing towards the gap.
The Yanyun army on the city wall stopped throwing bombs, the Yanyun army in the city launched a counterattack, the Modao army as the vanguard and killed forward, one after another the knife wall rolled up, the corpses of the Khitan soldiers were bloody, and the Khitan army could not resist it, and retreated again and again. Yan Yunjun stepped on the corpse and constantly forced the enemy army to retreat outside the city, the screams of the Khitan army came one after another, and everyone was flustered, but although these Khitan army elites were afraid in their hearts, they were still trying their best to resist the counterattack of the Yan Yun army, but the Mo Dao Army was too sharp, they couldn't stabilize their position at all, and often the Mo Dao Army slashed and killed, and many people fell in a pool of blood, while others subconsciously took a step back! Finally, the Khitan army was forced out of the gap, and the remaining few Khitan soldiers were cut in two by the Modao army, and their bodies rolled down the slope!
At this moment, the roar of the cannon once again resounded on the battlefield, and before the Mo Dao Army standing at the gap could react, it felt a huge storm rolling towards it, and the dust was flying, and the flesh and blood were flying! The Yan Yunjun behind hurriedly retreated, and after this round of shelling, they found that the nearly 100 soldiers of the Modao Army standing at the top of the gap had all died, and they couldn't help but feel a pang in their hearts!
At the same time, the Khitan army that attacked the city wall was also strongly resisted and temporarily retreated, and the fierce battlefield suddenly quieted down.
The horn of the Khitan army sounded rapidly, and the various units of the Khitan army were adjusting and preparing to launch a new offensive. Yan Yun's troops temporarily withdrew the city wall to avoid being bombarded by the opponent's long-range weapons.
A moment later, the horn of the Khitan army attacking came from outside the city, and the lookouts everywhere shouted: "The enemy army is up!" The enemy is coming! ...... "Yanyun's troops immediately rushed towards the city wall, ready to face the battle. However, to Yan Yunjun's surprise, the Khitan army was about to rush under the city wall, but suddenly stopped, turned around and ran back.
Yang Peng's heart sank, and he shouted urgently: "Remove the city wall!" Tear down the walls! When the Yanyun soldiers heard the order, they immediately began to act. After a while, only the rumbling of cannons outside the city was heard, and then the whole city wall shook and shook, and the gunpowder jars in the sky fell like raindrops, and fell on the city wall and burst into flames with a deafening explosion, and for a moment the city wall was like a hell of flames, and many of the soldiers who did not have time to remove the wall were torn off by the shock wave.
Yang Peng leaned against the base of the wall, glanced at the soldiers who had just withdrawn, and heard that the explosions on the head of the city were still endless, and couldn't help scolding: "What a Yelu Tiger City, I actually put Lao Tzu together!" Turning his head and asking Li Xu, "How much have we lost?" Li Xu said: "Fortunately, the eldest brother discovered the enemy's conspiracy in time, although he lost some, but it was not big." ”
At this moment, there were bursts of cries for help from many houses near the city wall in the city, it turned out that their houses had been damaged or even ignited in the bombardment of the Khitan army just now, and many fires were rising and spreading in all directions. However, Yang Peng had already expected this, and at this moment, there were already many militiamen and servants from Yanjing Mansion who rushed to disaster relief everywhere!
The Khitan army's attack stopped, and nearly 100,000 Khitan troops rushed towards the city wall with shouts. The soldiers of the Yanyun army climbed the city wall one after another, and looked outside the city, only to see nearly 100,000 Khitan troops lined up in three large phalanxes and slowly approaching the city wall. Not to mention the other phalanxes, the phalanx approaching the gap is particularly eye-catching, the 30,000 Khitan troops who formed the phalanx were all wearing heavy armor and holding strong shields, it was the Khitan army's infantry Tiefutu, and 30,000 Tiefutu were invested at one time, it seems that Yeyu Hucheng is going to make a desperate bet and plan to capture Yanjing in one fell swoop!
Yang Peng frowned, and immediately transferred all the most elite forces to the gap, preparing to meet the terrifying impact of the Khitan Army's Iron Floating Massacre.
Ye Yu Guanyin said: "Big brother, Hucheng's mobilization of 30,000 Iron Floating Slaughter is not necessarily to attack the gap in a desperate way, and it may just be to contain our main energy and main forces to the gap, and then he can concentrate on the elite to attack other places!" ”
Yang Peng turned his head to look at the Yeyu Tiger City King Banner in the distance, and said lightly: "I naturally saw this, but since his Iron Floating Slaughter has been mobilized, I have to deploy for this." Ye Yu Guanyin frowned and nodded, and said: "Big brother is right, if we don't deploy for this, I'm afraid that this suspicious army will become a real assault force at any time, and then we will be in trouble!" This is the so-called 'yang scheme' in your Han art of war! ”
Yang Peng smiled, turned his head to Wang Kai beside him, and said, "You go and ask Ma Jin, has that piece of housing been evacuated, and how are the various arrangements going?" Wang Kai promised and ran down.
The three of the 100,000 forbidden troops stopped at about one hundred and fifty steps away from the city wall anyway, and then the phalanx in the middle slowly approached the city gate, stopping at a hundred steps away from the city gate.
The horn of the Khitan people suddenly sounded loudly and loudly, and the Khitan army on the left suddenly shouted, quickly rushing towards the city wall on the left. Yan Yunjun's three-bow bed crossbow fired gunpowder guns and arrows one after another, and in an instant, the fields outside the city burst into flames, and explosions came and went. The Khitan army rushed to nearly 1,000, and many Khitan soldiers raised portable bed crossbows and aimed at the city wall, and then the gunpowder guns and arrows of the Khitan people flew up the city wall like locusts. The spears and arrows flew up the city wall, and in an instant, a violent explosion rang out, and Yan Yun's soldiers suffered heavy casualties. The Khitan army under the city took the opportunity to rush under the city wall, set up a cloud ladder, and rushed towards the city wall.
While the Khitan attack troops landed in the city, the Khitans' portable bed crossbows continued to fire gunpowder arrows at the city wall to suppress the counterattack of the Yanyun army. This set of tactics had an excellent effect, and soon the Khitan soldiers poured into the city. At this time, the portable bed crossbows of the Khitans stopped firing. The Yanyun army on the head of the city fought back, or slashed and killed the Khitan soldiers who rushed to the city, or the Khitan soldiers who rushed to the city head to knock down the city wall. Many soldiers scuffled into a ball, some rolled down the city wall, and the soldiers on both sides who killed the red-eyed were completely indifferent to life and death, and as long as there was still a breath, they tried their best to attack and kill the opponent, even if there was only one breath left, they would die with the enemy, so you stabbed me, I slashed you, you removed my left arm, I cut off your head, and so on such a tragic scene came and went! This is the most primitive and bloody killing, and everyone has only one thought in their hearts, and that is to kill the opponent!
In a bloody battle, the Khitans were finally defeated, most of the Khitan troops who rushed to the city wall were killed, a small part escaped from the city wall, and some people panicked under the pursuit of Yanyun soldiers, and actually jumped off the city wall.
A group of Yanyun soldiers desperately threw gunpowder bombs under the city wall, the flames under the city wall were rolling, the explosion was like thunder, and the Khitan soldiers who had no time to retreat were blown up to the ground with flesh and blood and heavy casualties. The Khitan soldiers hurriedly retreated, with a look of fear on their faces. At this time, the portable bed crossbow of the Khitan army fired a wave of gunpowder arrows at the city wall, and the Yanyun generals, who had no time to hide, were killed and injured many when they boarded. Immediately afterwards, the Khitan army, which had just retreated, made a comeback under the urging of the generals.
In this way, the soldiers on both sides repeatedly fought around the city, and there were more and more corpses on the city, and the Khitan army that was killed and wounded was far more than the Yanyun army, but the Khitan army continued to attack the city head as if it was endless, and although the Yanyun army was extremely brave, it gradually felt that it could not be supported.
Seeing this scene, Li Xu led his own soldiers to the bloody battle, repelling wave after wave of attacks of the Khitan army, and he didn't know how many enemies he had killed, and the arrows in his quiver had already been shot clean.
The enemy army surged up again, Li Xu and the remaining Yanyun soldiers fell into an endless bloody battle, and died one by one in the bloody battle, and the Yanyun soldiers who still had a breath left hugged the enemy and jumped off the city wall! Suddenly, there was a loud bang on the top of the city, and it turned out to be a seriously injured officer Yanyun who lit the gunpowder bomb in his arms and died with more than a dozen Khitan soldiers! Yan Yunjun has reached the last moment!
At this moment, countless flags poured towards this city, and the figures under the banners looked forward to it, as if the main force of the Second Army had come to reinforce it, but in fact, Yang Peng led a large number of civilian troops to reinforce. Just now, someone saw that this city was in danger, so he suggested to Yang Peng that the main force of the Second Army deployed in the gap be transferred to suppress the enemy, but Yang Peng did not take this suggestion, so that the main force of the Second Army Corps did not move, and at the same time ordered Xiao Feng to drop the civilian army that had been the general reserve and counterattack the enemy. This is actually very risky, because the civilian army is not a regular army, not even the city defense army, although these people have received a little training, but the equipment is very poor, no combat experience, the will to fight is even more just a legend, such an 'army' into the battlefield, what role can be played, really only God knows.
The people's soldiers could not help but be shocked when they saw the bloody and tragic battle on the city wall, and many people were so frightened that their legs trembled, and many people wanted to turn around and flee for their lives.
At this moment, Yang Peng's majestic voice came: "If it's a man, I'll be better, if it's a fucking man, get out!" "How many people in the world will think that they are a bad seed, and when the people's army heard Yang Peng's words, they couldn't help but feel a surge of blood! Immediately, I saw Yang Peng, the king of Yan, and Princess Yelu fighting bravely in the enemy bush. The militia were greatly encouraged, and several brave militia shouted loudly: "Brothers, King Yan and the princess are not afraid of death, are we still afraid of death?" Come on, fight with the Khitan dog! Shouting and rushing into the enemy's bushes, the militia only felt an impulse rushing to their heads, regardless of everything, raised their weapons and shouted and rushed up, rushing into the middle of the Khitan army, waving their blades indiscriminately, and some even waved their blades with their eyes closed, these guys completely returned everything they had learned in the past few days to the instructor!
Yang Peng, Ye Yu Guanyin, Li Xu and the remaining Yanyun soldiers took the opportunity to counterattack, killing countless enemy soldiers, the Khitan army had already gained a foothold in this city, but at this time it was shaken again, and there were signs of being suppressed. However, although the situation was reversed in an instant, the people's army would only fight and kill indiscriminately, and its combat power was too low, and under the counterattack of the Khitan army, there were heavy casualties, and the army's spirit gradually began to waver.
At the same time, Ye Hu Cheng saw the situation on the city, smiled slightly, and said, "The main force of the Yan Yun Army has been attracted!" Very good! Then he said to the herald: "Command Tiefutu, attack the gap immediately!" In addition, the army was ordered to prepare, and once the Iron Floating Massacre invaded the city, the army would enter the city later! The herald made a promise, and then ordered the standard-bearer, the trumpeter, to give the order. The standard-bearer immediately raised a red flag, and at the same time the horn sounded loudly.
Barron, who was leading the 30,000 Iron Floats, heard the sound of the trumpet and saw the red flag rising, and his heart couldn't help but feel excited, and he immediately raised his scimitar and shouted: "The whole army obeys the order, follow me to attack, the Iron Float Slaughter Army, there is no advance or retreat!" The 30,000 Iron Floats shouted in unison, the sound shook the sky, and then rushed towards the gap, and the 30,000 Iron Floats ran up to be really magnificent, really like a rolling tide, as if unstoppable!
The Iron Float rushed near the breach, and the walls immediately rained down like arrows, but the rain of arrows hit the Iron Float with a tinkling of the body, barely injuring them in the slightest.
The Iron Float poured into the gap, and the various bows and crossbows on the wall continued to shoot, but to no avail. The torrent of steel formed by the gathering of 30,000 iron floating slaughter crashed into the Yanyun defense line in one go, and the Yanyun defense line could not resist it and was torn apart. Seeing that the enemy army was unstoppable, the leading general Mu Chun hurriedly ordered a retreat, and the whole army hurriedly withdrew towards the city and scattered into the streets and alleys.
Seeing this, Barron laughed and mocked: "I thought Yan Yunjun was so powerful, it turned out to be so vulnerable!" Then he shouted: "Rush me, rush me!" Those who capture Yang Peng alive will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of gold and sealed 10,000 households! The morale of the soldiers was greatly boosted, and they all rushed towards the city. At this time, if you look down from the sky, you will see a scene as if the flood had broken the embankment, and the steel torrent composed of the Khitan army's iron floating slaughter had broken down the Yanyun city wall and was overflowing into the city. Yan Yuncheng can be said to be crumbling at this time!
Barron shouted to one of the officers beside him, "Send a signal rocket at once, and inform the king that our army has successfully broken through the city!" The officer answered, withdrew his scimitar, unsheathed the bow from his back, drew a signal rocket, lit the fuse, and shot into the sky. I saw the signal rocket fly high into the sky, and a red spark burst out with a snap, and the spark was fleeting, but it was enough for those who paid attention to see it clearly!
When Yelu Hucheng saw the signal rocket, he was very excited, and shouted loudly: "The whole army obeys the order, follow me in the capital!" The army shouted in unison, and rushed towards the breach like a tidal wave. Barron led a troop of Iron Butchers and charged forward down a street. Suddenly, a man and a rider in front of him blocked the way. Barron couldn't help but stop, Barron looked at it, and saw that it was Ma Jin, the fierce general of the Second Legion of the Yanyun Army, he couldn't help but smile coldly, raised his scimitar, and said loudly: "Kill him!" The Iron Floaters shouted in unison, and after passing Baron, they rushed towards the horse.
Suddenly, there was an extremely sharp sound of breaking the sky from all sides, and almost at the same time, the Iron Floating Tu who rushed towards Ma Jin was nailed to the ground by the extremely powerful crossbow arrows, and their heavy armor could not resist the strong power of this crossbow arrow! The Khitan soldiers were taken aback, and hurriedly looked to both sides, and saw many Yanyun soldiers holding divine arm bows standing on the houses on both sides.
Barron smiled coldly and said contemptuously, "Just with these divine arm bows, do you want to stop my Dajin's Iron Floating Slaughter?" Ma Jin smiled: "Of course it's more than that!" Then he raised his right hand. Seeing this, Barron and the others couldn't help but get nervous. Suddenly, I saw countless fires rushing out of the remote corners at a very fast speed, and then ignited countless pots and jars on both sides of the street, and then the explosion sounded, and the altars and jars stacked on both sides of the street exploded in succession, and the flames rose, and in a blink of an eye, the streets and alleys in the gap were filled with flames! Barron exclaimed, "Not good! Ambush! In fact, there was no need for him to give an order, the Khitan soldiers were already retreating, however, the people retreated in the fire, and before they could take a few steps, they burned and screamed, and fell into the sea of fire! In the streets and alleys, the Khitan Army's Tiefu Tu was jumping around, or desperately rolling and struggling in the fire, and the screams were loud!
Barron shouted, "Go to the roof, go to the roof!" "It's just burning in the streets, and it's safe on the roof. When the Khitan soldiers heard Baron's shout, they were like drowning people grasping a life-saving straw, and they all desperately climbed to the roof, but wearing iron armor, it was not easy to climb onto the roof! At this time, Yan Yunjun stood on the roof and kept firing arrows, and many Khitan soldiers who had managed to climb up half of the body were shot and fell into the flames, and they were burned by the flames and screamed until there was no sound! There are also Khitan troops in a desperate situation, they are desperate, and they rush towards the Yanyun army at the entrance of the street, but they don't go far when they rush out, and they only feel empty under their feet, and it turns out that a large piece of ground on the street has collapsed, and the Khitan soldiers fell into the trap and were stabbed by the steel drill arranged at the bottom of the trap!
Seeing the flames in the city from afar, Yelu Tiger City expected that the situation was not good, and hurriedly ordered the army to speed into the gap.
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.