Liaoyang City. Pro-Shell Pavilion

The soldiers of the city were in full array, and the bows and crossbows and arrows were lost, and the oil and gold juice were boiling, and the boulders and trees were all placed on the city walls.

Outside the city of Liaoyang, tens of thousands of troops are in full swing preparing to attack the city, of which 1,000 Tiefu Tu stands in the Chinese army, and 3,000 kidnappers and horses stand on both sides.

On the top of the mountain outside Liaoyang City, Sun Lei looked at everything in Liaoyang City with a telescope.

"These are all Jurchens?"

Sun Lei asked.

"Only those Tiefutu and the kidnapping horse Jurchens, the rest are the servant army recruited from the local government."

Xu Guanzhong opened his mouth and said, the Jurchen population is sparse, the combined population of the Jurchen and the mature Jurchen is only a hundred thousand, and the total Jurchen warriors are only twenty or thirty thousand, and it is rare to be able to use four thousand Jurchen elites to fight Liaoyang Mansion.

"It's very bluffing to watch!"

Lu Zhishen looked at those Jurchen cavalry and said, judging from the momentum, the Jurchen combat effectiveness is definitely not bad.

"The cavalry is not good at attacking the city, and the Jurchens still put the cavalry in the best attack position, which is accurate to break the city?"

Du Yan opened his mouth and said, Liaoyang City is the capital of Tokyo Province, and the city wall is also tall, not to mention that the city is well defended with sufficient equipment, and the four thousand cavalry and tens of thousands of servants are afraid that they will not be able to attack it.

"This is not a siege style at all, how can there be such a frontal siege?"

Li Zhu shook his head and said, he also has a dabbling in the art of war, the Jurchen soldiers and horses are all in the front, where is this siege, this is the confrontation between the two armies, and those who occupy the city have an absolute advantage.

The Jurchens didn't say much, and they didn't call for battle, but just pushed out one trebuchet after another from the military array.

"This trebuchet?"

Sun Lei looked at the strange trebuchet and wondered, this thing is very different from Liangshan's current trebuchet, it seems that the arm is longer, which can bring a longer range.

"There is no such trebuchet in Liao!"

Gongsun Sheng opened his mouth and said, the equipment of the Liao State is like the Great Song Dynasty, and the trebuchet is not favored by the Liao State, they prefer cavalry.

A horn sounded, and the golden soldier went to the trebuchet in the direction of a huge stone, knocked down the machine, and the stone smashed directly into the city wall.

Thirty trebuchets fired in unison, and the defenders of the city did not dare to show their heads in an instant, and the arrangement on the city wall was destroyed by stones, and huge stones and trees were scattered all over the ground.

"Shoot the arrows!"

With a shout, the soldiers on the city wall began to fire arrows to attack, but the range of the arrows was comparable to that of the trebuchet, and the arrows fell to the ground far away.

The trebuchet did not stop, still throwing stones and attacking the defenders of the city.

"It's interesting, people are attacking the city around three and missing one, attacking the heart first, slowly drawing it, this Jurchen is the opposite, according to a point to fight to the death, like this, the city wall will be smashed."

Sun Lei was amazed at this different siege method, this is a completely different siege method.

"The little brother is also unheard of."

Xu Guanzhong opened his mouth and said, as a military advisor, he should know the enemy very well, but he couldn't figure out how the enemy was attacking the city.

The continuous trebuchet attacks inflicted heavy losses on the defenders of the city, and the resistance became less and less.

Seeing that there was no resistance in the city, Tiefutu stepped forward and urged the servants to fill the moat with stones.

"Is this preparing for a tough siege?"

Sun Lei frowned, he was ready to forcibly go to the city after only a long time of fighting.

The servant army soon filled up most of the moat, and when they were about to fill a way, the defenders of the city were in a hurry, and they all showed their heads and shot with bows and crossbows, and in an instant the servant army fell to pieces.

The servant army was frightened and retreated.

The black-armored iron float stepped forward, blocking the retreat of the servant army, forcing them to continue to fill the moat, and the servant army had to hold their shields and continue to fill the river with stones and dirt.

The trebuchets were still bombarding, and the defenders of the city were still fighting back with bows and crossbows despite the bombardment of stones, and those Iron Floaters took out their bows and arrows to fight back at close range.

The defenders' arrows could not hurt the heavily armored Tiefutu in the slightest, and the Tiefutu archery was so good that he shot and killed many of the defenders under a burst of shots.

"These Jurchens have good archery skills!"

Hua Rong opened his mouth and said, although the Jurchens are not a hundred shots, they are also aiming and shooting, which is completely different from the blind shooting of ordinary military coverage.

The moat was filled out directly, and the servants carried the ladder to the bottom of the city.

The trebuchets attacked more frequently, and the walls had already fallen off a lot of masonry from the boulders, and there were signs of collapse with the bombardment.

"It looks like Liaoyang City is going to be broken."

Sun Lei looked at the battle situation and said, the Jurchen man's tactics are very simple and direct, the army is gathered together, and the trebuchet fights according to a point, covering the servant army to attack the city, this kind of fighting style of concentrating forces seems simple but very effective.

"The walls of Liaoyang City are still too thin, and they were beaten like this by trebuchets."

Li Zhu shook his head and said, the Jurchen trebuchet has been transformed, and the range is long and powerful, but the city wall should not be damaged so easily by trebuchet.

"The Khitans are only good at nomadic herding and don't know how to build civil buildings, so it's good that this city can be built like this."

Gongsun Sheng opened his mouth and said that the Khitans started as nomads, and although they have changed a lot now, their stubborn trust in the cavalry makes them reluctant to learn other things.

"This style of play is also ruthless enough, this trebuchet even killed a lot of their own people."

Du Yan looked at the battlefield, the trebuchet was not so accurate, and many of the servant troops who were afraid of the ladder were also stoned to death, and the ladder was broken a lot.

This method of besieging the city without remembering casualties soon paid off, and it was not long before the servants took advantage of trebuchets to cover the walls, and after a period of fighting, the walls fell and the gates were opened. Tens of thousands of servants rushed into the city.

The Tiefutu and the kidnappers outside the city did not move, but just watched the servant army enter the city to burn and loot.

The city was in chaos, and Gao Yongchang saw that the city was broken, so he abandoned the city and fled with his soldiers and horses.

At this moment, the Jurchen Tiefutu and the kidnapping horse moved, and the kidnapping horse rushed straight towards the flank of Gao Yongchang's army, and Tiefutu followed.

The kidnapping horse is a light cavalry, the speed is very fast, the Jurchens' war horses and riding skills are far better than Gao Yongchang's army, and it didn't take long to detour back to the front of Gao Yongchang's army, blocking the way.

Gao Yongchang wanted to break through, but the Jurchen kidnapping horse didn't fight hard at all, just delayed the speed.

The Tiefu Massacre was quickly killed, and it was a massacre to rush into Gao Yongchang's army.

"Hunting skills of wolves."

Sun Lei looked at the Jurchen's tactics and said, this style of play is very similar to the tactics of wolf hunting in the animal world.

"It's very direct and effective, the tactics are clean and neat, the goal is clear, and there is no procrastination."

Xu Guanzhong also gave an evaluation.

The rest of the people had gloomy faces, this kind of enemy was not easy to deal with, and it was difficult to say how high the odds of victory were with the soldiers and horses of Liangshanbo now.

The Jurchens quickly killed all of Gao Yongchang's main force, and as for the rest of the people who fled in all directions, they did not chase them, but turned around and entered Liaoyang City and began their plunder.

"Let's go."

Sun Lei watched the battle and beckoned everyone to leave, the Jurchens' style of play was as fast as thunder, it was only half a day from the start of the fight to the capture of Liaoyang City, this efficiency was too terrible, no wonder it was more than a year to kill from the black water to the vicinity of the Bohai Sea.

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