On the eighth day of the fifth month, the rising sun rises above the clouds, rendering a brilliant gold.

On Taikang City, there was already a hysterical cry of fighting, and when the Xiliang army of Xia Kingdom first climbed the wall, they repelled the Tuoba soldiers with strong combat power.

The generals and colonels at all levels of the defenders constantly organized troops to try to drive the Xiliang soldiers who came up, but these veterans were even more stubborn than they imagined, using various survival skills on the battlefield to firmly hold the ladder behind them.

"A few more! Fast! ”

A few Xiliang soldiers who stood firm hissed and shouted, picked up the shield on the ground, and squatted in a half-squatting posture to minimize the exposed parts of the body, although the posture was not good-looking, but it worked!

On the cloud ladder in the rear, a large number of Xiliang soldiers were pouring up, standing on the wall battlements, stepping on the shoulders of their comrades, holding their shields against the front, and swinging their knives at the stabbing spear array.

"Ahh The flying Xiliang soldiers, pushing the shield, pushed a few stabbing spears against the deviation, and the steel knife in his hand was a knife on the head of one of the Tuoba soldiers on the opposite side, and he lay on the ground and rolled and waved the knife, slashing at the feet and necks of the people around him.

There were more and more Xiliang soldiers who came up, and they advanced inch by inch along the wall in small groups, and the first to clear was the archers of Liang State, as well as the wooden stones that captured the city, and the goal of the battle was very clear, rather than cutting people when they saw them.

After the Liang army in the city understood the opponent's combat intentions, they gathered troops and wanted the Xiliang soldiers to push down with numerical superiority, but the effect was not good.

"Press it all over the line!"

As soon as the offensive and defensive battle of the city wall began, Tuoba Zongju understood what the elite of the Xia Kingdom was, and he personally led a battalion of elites to rush to the nearest reinforcement, and rushed over desperately, with the help of his own strong martial arts, he suppressed the Xiliang soldiers near the right side of the city tower.

But this is just one place, right now, there are dozens or hundreds of ladder climbing points on the entire city wall, even if his martial arts are monstrous, it is difficult to pull out every place.

Especially on the battlefield, although an individual's bravery can be invincible, but in the face of thousands of ordinary people, as long as the other party has the determination to kill you, the martial arts will soon be dwarfed.

Tuoba Zong fought for a while, killed a Xiliang soldier, and forced two Xiliang soldiers who tried to sneak attack to retreat, he was found by the guards, retreated to a safe place behind, he grabbed a captain with a bloody face, and yelled at the other party.

"What about people? Here's another battalion of men and horses, mobilize the reserve battalion under the city, and let them hurry up! ”

"The reserve battalion is running out......"

The captain was talking in a trembling voice, and as he spoke, he collapsed in front of Tuoba Zongju, and he found that the captain's abdomen was bleeding continuously, and the torn wound revealed half of his intestines.

"Ahhh

Tuoba Zongju dragged the long knife, looked at the school captain who was gradually dying on the ground, roared hysterically, his eyes were instantly bloodshot, he rushed to the female wall, poked his head out and took a look, the city wall stretched for several miles, a large number of Xiliang soldiers maintained a posture of raising shields, and escorted their comrades who entered the city under the cloud ladder.

Most of the arrows that were shot down were blocked by shields, and only occasionally a few pieces of sassalwood were thrown down to knock people down, but with shields on top, they did not cause much damage to these physically strong Xiliang soldiers.

"Fire oil! Fire oil, left C3 paragraph three, the Xiliang soldiers over there are about to come up! ”

In order to facilitate the identification of the city wall defense area, the general defenders of the city will divide the city wall into several sections, starting from the city tower, and divide them into the left and right A, B, C and D, and each section has one, two, and three small sections.

At this time, the Xiliang soldiers on the other side of Tuoba Zongju were slightly later than their comrades who went to the city in other directions, after all, the distance was too far, and after the other directions took the cloud ladder to kill them, they could climb to the middle of the cloud ladder.

At this time, several Liang soldiers defending the city set up hot oil and stumbled over there, and several Xiliang soldiers who were seven or eight feet away suddenly tore apart the encirclement and killed them, and one of the Xiliang soldiers shouted: "Give me a crossbow!" ”

The comrade behind him threw his unfinished Zhuge repeater over, and the soldier threw his knife into the chest of the enemy rushing next to him, caught the repeater in mid-air with both hands, and without the slightest hesitation, aimed at the several Liang soldiers who were holding fire oil over there and shot indiscriminately.

The Liang soldier in the middle of the arrow fell, and the oil suddenly poured down, flowing all over the ground, touching the burning rocket on the ground, and setting off a fire with a bang, quickly wrapping a Liang soldier carrying the oil in a hurry.

"Ahh

The Burning Man let out a terrible scream and scurried wildly around the city, before being stabbed to death with a spear by the Liang soldiers beside him.

The flames burned, and arrows flew up and down.

In the middle of the Xiliang army in the field, Dong Zhuo looked at the battle at the head of the city with his beard, he was experienced in a hundred battles in Xiliang, and he was even more familiar with the siege.

"It's not that there are no generals who can fight in this world, but there are no soldiers who have been in a hundred battles, and they have forgotten how to fight for too long."

He looked at the city wall for a while, looked up at the sky, and raised his hand slightly in the eyes of Xu Mao and the others.

"Give the order to Li Dao, kick the city for the last time, finish the fight early, and go to the mansion to sleep for a while."

When Xu Mao, Xu Jinwu, and Han Jinsu heard this, they opened their mouths slightly and were stunned on horseback

Soon the drums of war sounded again.

What appeared in the field of vision of the three of them was a huge siege tower, with dense shields hanging on the wooden frame below, and hundreds of strong men were pushing inside and behind, and at the top of the tower was a tower, on which archers were gathered, as well as soldiers preparing to enter the city, and the exit at the front of the tower was a retracted bridge.

There are not too many complicated structures, but it is a real siege weapon.

However, the volume is too large, and an army can bring at most one, and it must all be disassembled and assembled, and then pulled to the battlefield to assemble, otherwise it will take several days to rush to the place.

The moment Tuoba Zongju heard the war drums, he turned his head to look outside the city, and when he saw the huge siege tower pushed over, the whole person was in a bad state, Rao had never seen it, just by looking at the appearance of this thing, he knew what it was for.

"Send someone...... I'll go there myself! ”

"General, no!"

Tuoba Zongju dragged his long knife and ignored the dissuasion of his guards, and rushed to the wall section opposite the siege tower with more than 1,800 elite people from the battalion under his command.

This way passed, there were scenes of Xiliang soldiers going to the city everywhere to fight, and he realized that the city wall may not be able to be defended, such a high-intensity siege is more intense than the previous Qi troops, and the defenders and even the Tuoba soldiers can't adapt to it at all.

When he led his troops and horses to kill a group of Xiliang soldiers who tried to stop him from passing, the siege tower rained arrows, paying more than a dozen casualties, and the giant tower stopped at the position of the second section of the right B, in the tower, Li Wei put on the iron helmet and pulled out the ring head knife, and shouted loudly to the foot soldiers around him: "Xiliang!" ”

"Mighty!"

At the moment when dozens of people shouted in unison, the bridge board was put down with a creak, and smashed it against the wall battlement, as well as a foot shield and an archer of Liang Guo on the edge of the wall battlement, and stoned them to death At the same time, Li Wei in the tower rushed out with the Xiliang soldiers, stepping on the shaking wooden plank and killing directly to the city.

"Enemy general!"

When Tuoba Zong came here, he directly saw Li Dao who was slashing wildly in the crowd, and the latter also saw the other party, holding an iron shield and wielding a steel knife to slash all the way.

The surrounding Tuoba soldiers flocked over and fought with the Xiliang soldiers who came up, and the Xiliang soldiers were all war-experienced, even if there were new additions, there were many veterans with them to cooperate with the fight.

This kind of combat intent was very amazing, and as soon as he saw it, the Xiliang soldiers who rushed out of the tower almost pressed hundreds of people to kill.

Li Wei slammed into the pile of people from the middle under the cover of two personal soldiers with a shield, and after cutting down a Liang soldier who was blocking the way in front of him, the Tuoba Zongji on the opposite side also killed, and the long knife in the opponent's hand slashed angrily.

Blocked by the iron shield in Li Wei's hand, the huge force made his arms a little sore, and his body couldn't help but take half a step back.

"This guy's martial arts are a bit high!"

Li Wei spat a mouthful of saliva, raised his left arm, stepped on the sticky and slippery blood on the ground, and once again went up to block a knife, bullying the other party, and the ring head knife also slashed out angrily.

The blade stirred up sparks on the opponent's iron armor, and the Liang raised his hand and smashed it in Li Dao's face, but Li Dao grabbed the opponent's knife handle at this time and shouted: "Kill him!" ”

The pro-soldiers on the left and right pounced violently, and Tuoba Zongju's personal guards also killed, Zongju abandoned the handle of the knife, and kicked the nearest knife-wielding Xiliang soldier away, and he was also kicked in the abdomen by Li Dao, stumbled back, and was held up by the guards so that he did not fall.

"Kill!"

Li Wei snatched the other party's long knife and waved: "Press it!" ”

"Kill!" Tuoba Zongju pulled out the blade at his waist and let out a loud roar.

When the two sides were suddenly slaughtered, the onslaught of the Xiliang army strengthened again, and the stone-throwing cart advanced forward ten zhang, and the people who came and went, carrying the stones, threw the stone bullets directly over the city wall, and smashed into the pile of people who rushed to make and carry the equipment on the inner side of the city wall.

This kind of stone thrower of the Tang Dynasty completely exceeded the trebuchet of the Han Dynasty too much, and the stone bullets poured out wildly, fell over the city wall and fell into the inner city wall, and smashed the young people who carried the equipment below into a lot of casualties.

Most of those who survived were smashed on the shoulders and backs, but they were also scrapped in the future.

This time, the projectile of stone projectiles frightened the young Zhuang in the city very much, and suddenly there was a chaos, Tai Shouye did not dare to stop, he personally went to the city to organize the young man, and even the messengers in the yamen were sent out.

"I can't beat it...... Can't beat ......"

The young man in the city, who had been smashed with a leg smashed by a stone bullet, fell to the ground, hugged his bloody calf, cried heartbreakingly, and was then dragged away by the servants.

At this time, the army of Taikang City can be said to be the elite of the Liang State, especially the two armies of Fushan and Trek, and at the moment, they were also organized, once the city head was lost, they dismounted and turned to street fighting, and continued to resist the Xia army.

However, in the face of the founding army of the first dynasty, many people knew in their hearts that they might not be able to defeat it.

At this time, on the city defense line that stretched for several miles, the fighting was still going on, and the defense of the Liang State was always tight, Dong Zhuo, who saw all this, suddenly turned over and dismounted, and asked the guards to carry his serrated knife over.

This frightened Xu Mao and the others, and they hurriedly dismounted to dissuade them: "Taishi can't go up in person, it's better for us to go!" ”

When they said this, Dong Zhuo sanitize the idea of going to the city.

"Divide your two battalions and kill the city!"

Dong Zhuo only left one battalion of 2,000 people by his side, and the remaining two battalions were allocated to Xu Mao and the three of them, and they fought with them to the head of the city.

The wood and stone have basically stopped at this time, and the young people who are carrying in the city are afraid of being hit by the stone bullets, and their speed naturally slows down.

Most of the battlements on the city wall were occupied by the Xiliang army, and the other party was given the opportunity to throw wooden stones, but the stone bullets kept shooting up from outside the city and smashed on the stone steps of the city tower or the inner city wall.

The young man who carried it was hit by a stone and fell in a pool of blood, and the wooden wood he carried rolled down the stone steps, and smashed the people running below to the ground.

The wounded who rescued in time were carried down and sent to the wounded barracks, which can still be saved, and there are more that cannot be saved, just that, the entire wounded barracks, the ground is full of wounded soldiers with broken hands and feet, and all the Langzhong in the city have been brought here, but it is still not enough.

After being pacified and transferred from the inner city wall, Tai Shouye Shiya came here, his official robe was dirty and old, his hair was scattered on his shoulders, and his instep and face were still stained with other people's blood.

He came here to see if the wounded medicine was enough, and he could see the wounded soldiers in the camp, many of whom died in wailing, and his whole person became numb and sluggish.

"Too guarded, too guarded...... Kill me......"

A wounded soldier suddenly grabbed the corner of Nojimi's robe, and he had only one eye, blood foaming in his mouth, and shouted pleadingly.

Ye Shimi lowered his head, and saw that the wounded soldier was missing except for one eye, two legs were cut off, and there were still two broken arrows left on his body.

This sudden tragic scene made him stunned, and then nodded, and asked his own soldiers to go up and kill the wounded soldier.

At this moment, someone outside the camp rushed in and shouted, "Xia Guo is attacking the city gate!" ”

"What?!"

Ye Cimi woke up from his stunned state, immediately rushed out of the wounded barracks, rode to the city gate, and hundreds of Liang soldiers crowded behind the city gate, resisting the gate to death.

Outside, there was the sound of crashing cars one after another.

"Where's the general?"

"The general is still fighting on the city wall, and he is about to lose his ......"

"Go and escort the general down and tell him that the city gate is going to be unguarded."

A soldier rushed to the staircase, which was covered with blood, stone bullets, and stumps, and rushed to the city wall, when there was a sudden sound of the gate cracking and cracking.

Ye Cimi's face showed a shocked tilt of his head to look over, only to see the city gate slamming inward a little, and he could see the figures of the soldiers of the Xiliang Army outside the crack in the door, as well as the crashing wood of the rushing car.

"It's over......" he muttered.

The city gate was struck a few more times, and a larger gap was completely squeezed open by the crashing wood, and spears pierced in from the outside, bringing countless blood flowers in the pile of people guarding the gate.

"Break the city, kill!" Xu Mao was mixed in the Xiliang army, riding a war horse and following the soldiers in front of him to kill into the crack of the door, and when the Xiliang soldiers pushed the door, more soldiers poured in.

Black smoke swept through the city walls, and dense fronts spread beneath the towers and into the streets.

The generals defending the city on the city walls shouted hysterically, brandishing steel swords and fighting to the death.

The crowd rushed and drowned him out.

The former general of Xiliang, shouted fiercely, brandished a long knife and slashed on the wooden pole, and the fluttering banner of Liang Guo fell, fell down the city tower, and was trampled under the feet of countless Xiliang soldiers who rushed into the city gate.

"Taikang has been broken, and the next one is the capital of Liang Kingdom!" Li Wei stood on the wall, raising his knife and shouting.

In response to him, countless Xiliang soldiers on the city wall raised their swords and shouted.

……

In just seven or eight days, under the strong attack of the Xiliang army, Taikang broke the city in two hours.

The entire Liang Guoxi Capital, who got the news, was stunned in an instant.

Fears of war swept in.

(End of chapter)