197 Tragic siege warfare

Outside the Fallen Horse City, the camp of the Heavenly Master Army stretched for more than ten miles, and high walls had already been built around it, and a horse was rejected.

"Whew!"

"Whew!"

"Whew!"

Tens of thousands of Heavenly Divisions poured out of the camp tents everywhere, converging into a series of dark streams, and under the command of generals and colonels at all levels, they walked out of the camp gate in an orderly manner.

There were 40,000 troops in this battle, and the army was vast and boundless, and the sound of trumpets and drums came and went.

In the past few days, the number of troops in the city, the deployment, and the approximate location of the camp tent have all been figured out by the Heavenly Master Army.

The men and horses in the city who can really fight in armor, plus the Xuan Leopard Cavalry, do not exceed 20,000.

Because the total number of soldiers and horses in the Yuzhou army is only more than 40,000 points, it is impossible for Liang Song to invest all his troops in Falling Horse City, because once Shiling County is lost, it will be useless for him to defend Falling Horse City.

Therefore, Shiling County must have been heavily defended, coupled with Yang Minggui's Heavenly Division Army, although it was ambushed, it was impossible not to cause the slightest damage to the Yuzhou army, as well as the number of enemies killed on Chen Mo's side, the data found by the scouts and other analyses, the real army in the city did not exceed 20,000.

If the people are counted, if it is five thousand, it will be twenty-five thousand.

And he has brought more than 60,000 horses with him, and he can try to attack the city.

(There are 5,000 stationed in Tianshui Town, and nearly 10,000 have been lost before.) )

As for the so-called ten sieges, there are five more attacks in the back, and multiple battles.

Well, Lu Yonggang is ready to kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred, and he must take Falling Horse City.

Lu Yonggang divided the army into four formations, Song Niu still led the troops as the vanguard, and the so-called assault formed the front formation.

The left and right formations were led by Huang Da and Li Datong, each leading 10,000 to respond to the Chinese army.

Chen Mo is supplemented by Lu Yonggang's leadership at any time.

Lu Yonggang personally sat in the middle army, and the Chinese army gathered the most elite troops of the Quartet army.

In the four formations, there are battalions, and each battalion is divided into parts, which are layered on top of each other and are impermeable.

Chen Mo was in the crowd, inconspicuous, he boarded the car to see the scale of this array with his own eyes.

He saw that the Heavenly Division Army set up a military formation three miles before the fall of the horse, and a huge nest car was pushed out, because the terrain was flat, only on the nest car, can the entire battlefield be observed, so as to observe the opponent's movement and movement in time.

Several commanding towers were also quickly erected, also called watchtowers, war drums were erected on top of some towers, strong soldiers waved drumsticks and beat war drums one by one, and the sound of thick drums accompanied by the sound of desolate trumpets spread in all directions.

Lu Yonggang stood on the turret of the Chinese army, surrounded by generals and colonels like clouds, and soldiers like forests.

In a few moments, the Heavenly Master Army finished arraying, and the huge military array was like fish scales, lying in front of the Falling Horse City.

At this time, I saw that on the high platform of the Heavenly Division Army, the big flag was dancing, and then the countless phalanxes around were all flags, and the huge black tide boiled, and the shouts that shook the sky sounded.

"It's a fish scale array." Among Chen Mo's three guards, the building was also set up, and Xia Zhining, who was pretending to be ugly, stood behind him, and after taking a look at the battle formation laid out by the Heavenly Master Army, he recognized it.

"You know the cloth?" Chen Mo had seen the fish scale array in the book, but there was no detailed explanation, only a few words mentioned it.

"Of course." Xia Zhining said with a hint of self-satisfaction, and immediately said: "The main strength of the fish scale array is distributed in the center, and the rest of the place is like a number of scales, divided into various very small phalanxes, arranged in the order of the ladder, the front end is slightly concave and belongs to the offensive formation, and the concentrated forces can launch a fierce attack on the center of the enemy." ”

"The Glaive Array or the Fish Scale Array, which one is powerful?"

"This depends on the specific application, a strong commander can arrange corresponding battle formations according to various complex situations, but the glaive array is more practical and suitable for various asymmetrical formations. The weakness of the Fish Scale Formation is at the tail of the entire formation, but this is a siege battle, so you don't need to worry about the tail. Xia Zhining talked eloquently.

As he spoke, the big array had already been completed, the drums stopped, and in the Heavenly Master Army, countless armor soldiers beat the drums with swords and shouted with guns.

"Victory!"

"Victory!"

"Victory!"

……

On the walls of the Fallen Horse City.

"My lord, the thief army has finished arraying, and it is estimated that the attack will begin." Shi Meng looked into the distance and secretly clenched his fists.

"But you saw the thief who killed General Xu?" Liang Song nodded and asked the soldiers next to him who used to be Xu Jie's subordinates.

The soldier shook his head: "Lord Hui, there are too many people, I can't see clearly." ”

Liang Song turned around and clapped his hands, and many people under the city tower brought up a jar of wine and distributed it to the soldiers.

Liang Song stood in front of everyone, held up the wine bowl, and said: "If you win this battle, I will go to Tianchuan to ask for credit for you in front of Your Majesty."

The Song army is mighty! ”

After speaking, he drank all the wine in the bowl, and the wine bowl slammed on the ground.

"The Song army is mighty!"

"The Song army is mighty!"

"The Song army is mighty!"

The whole city and the city are full of mighty voices one after another.

Liang Song put his hands behind the battlements, leaned forward, and said, "Come on." ”

……

Woo woo...

On the top of each building, a melodious and long horn sounded.

"Knock Knock"

In the middle of the Chinese army, the sound of thick war drums roared one after another on the field.

Lu Yonggang pulled out the sword at his waist and shouted: "Siege!" ”

"Siege!"

"Siege!"

"Siege!"

The sound of the pro-military camp under the building was transmitted, and the surrounding flags were dancing.

In the front army, Song Niu heard the order and shouted: "Brothers, kill!" ”

The black tide surged towards the Fallen Horse City.

"Catapult ready."

"Ready."

"Put." Lu Yonggang saw that the front army had already entered within 300 steps of Falling Horse City, and immediately ordered it to be launched.

"Boom"

More than a dozen catapults moved in response, throwing stones larger than human heads, and smashed them into the Falling Horse City, covering the approach of the front army.

"Bang Bang Bang"

The stone bullet smashed on the city wall, smashing out holes one after another, and the soldiers of the Yuzhou Army who were hit were directly killed on the spot.

A stone projectile shot diagonally towards Liang Song, but when it was still half a zhang away from Liang Song, it was shocked into powder by a golden innate spiritual qi.

"It's not rude to come."

"Put."

Liang Song waved his hand.

There are also catapults in the city.

Bullets were thrown out of the city one by one and smashed on the field outside the city, and those who were unfortunately hit fell directly to the ground, vomiting blood.

Before they got close to Falling Horse City, dozens of people died in the front of the Heavenly Master Army.

Wait for the front army to approach the Falling Horse City for two hundred steps.

"Put." Qin Lang gave an order.

The Xuan Leopard rode the trigger of the Divine Arm Crossbow, and hundreds of crossbow arrows flew out of the city wall, and only one round of arrow rain took the lives of nearly a hundred Heavenly Divisions.

At this time, the front army of the Heavenly Division Army was already less than 100 steps away from the Falling Horse City, and some of them were running fast, and they had already set up a bamboo ladder bridge on the moat.

"Put." Shi Meng roared.

Thousands of archers, hiding behind the battlements, stood up, bent their bows and arrows, and with a loosening of their fingers, the arrows flew out.

"Raise your shield." Song Niu hid behind the nest car, and when he saw this, he hurriedly waved the command flag in his hand, and countless generals in front of him shouted at the same time: "Raise the shield." ”

Countless soldiers of the front army raised their big shields and walked forward slowly, and a large number of feather arrows in the Yuzhou army shot out, and through the big shield, the armor leaf shot into the body of the Heavenly Master sergeant, and the momentum of the charge also followed.

However, for the former army of the Heavenly Master Army, which has nearly 10,000, there is not much of a wave.

Countless soldiers crossed the bamboo ladder bridge, crossed the moat, and came under the city walls.

The soldiers in the rear carried the elongated ladder and set it up on the city wall.

"Rush, the first to ascend is at this time."

Someone yelled and climbed the ladder.

"Knock Knock"

On the city wall, the sound of war drums sounded, and the soldiers who received the city and the people who assisted them smashed down towards the soldiers who climbed the ladder with the wooden and rolling stones that had been prepared long ago.

Of course, there are soldiers below who are covered by the Celestial Division Army to climb the ladder, but the defenders are hiding behind the battlements, and the effect is not particularly great.

A Heavenly Master soldier was just about to climb the city wall, when a piece of wood smashed on his head, and his head suddenly broke and bled down, and he fell straight backwards, and also took several Heavenly Master soldiers on the ladder down, and then the entire ladder was pushed down by the defenders.

The former army led by Song Niu is decreasing little by little.

"No return."

Under the city wall, Song Niu grabbed a soldier of the Heavenly Master Army who wanted to flee backwards, only to see his hand raise his knife and fall, a head rising to the sky, and the soldier fell to the ground in response.

Song Niu held a knife in one hand and a head in the other, his face was splashed with the blood of some soldiers, looking hideous and terrifying, and he said hatefully: "Continue with me." ”

"Whoosh!"

A sharp sound of breaking the air came, and a crossbow arrow shot from a bed crossbow shot rapidly, shooting through the wooden baffle in front of Song Niu, and finally blocked by the innate aura around Song Niu's body.

Song Niu withdrew to the nest car behind.

But the others were not so lucky, and one of the ten commanders of the Heavenly Master Army was pierced into a gourd by a spear along with the two soldiers behind him.

Xia Zhining was shocked by the scene that happened in the distance, it was too tragic.

People are falling one by one.

"Much stronger than Yuan Youchun's army." Chen Mo muttered in his heart, and looked at the building where Lu Yonggang was standing.

Lu Yonggang was unmoved, and even waved the order flag in his hand.

The order flag flew, and the sentry flag galloped out of the building with the military order, heading towards Huang Da's army.

Soon, Huang Da took nearly 10,000 Tianshi troops to reinforce Song Niu and brought siege vehicles.

A true commander is one who commands the whole army, not takes the lead in the charge.

The front army had reinforcements, and a steady stream of Heavenly Master soldiers climbed the ladder, and some even climbed the city wall one after another, but they were quickly killed by the defenders of the city wall.

"Knock Knock"

The middle army of the Heavenly Division Army once again sounded the sound of thick drums, one after another, which was to boost the morale of the soldiers in front.

"Tuk, tuk, tuk"

The sound of arrows entering the shield was endless, and the Xuan Leopard on the city wall rode and shot the Heavenly Master sergeant who was advancing the siege vehicle with his divine arm crossbow.

Screams came from all directions, the wails of death, the screams of the arrows, and the shouts of panic filled the entire battlefield.

"I can't go back, give it to me." Huang Da shouted.

(End of chapter)