Chapter 233: The Battle Is Deadlocked
The defensive cover of Dingnan Pass was destroyed by the traitor, and the entire defensive cover disappeared in a moment, exposing Dingnan Pass directly to the opponent's attack!
But Dingnanguan has been in business for many years, there are still many means of defense, and even the defensive cover itself is backed up, at present, in addition to the number of traitors is not clear, it is not the worst situation for them to destroy the center of the defensive cover.
But what I didn't expect was that there were really a lot of traitors who sneaked into Dingnanguan and Nantang Saucer to develop, and in a short period of time, there were riots everywhere and fires everywhere!
When Hu Dingguo arrived, he immediately ordered that all the traitors should be wiped out, and that they should be cleaned up without fear of accidental killing! The guards he led and the loyal and brave men who were originally defending the city immediately organized a counterattack.
At this time, at the heights, Sedum looked at the puppet army of the Southern Tang Army, and was pondering a way! Since they are all made of some simple wood and iron, it is obvious that the weakness is very large, and the key is that the number is too large!
Especially those huge puppeteers, they must be dealt with first, otherwise even if they fall outside the pass of Dingnan Pass, it will be a troublesome matter, which will affect the tight closure of the protective shield.
At this time, Xu Fengchun rushed here, according to the previous combat deployment, because of the existence of the protective shield, the general Xu Fengchun did not need to climb the high cliff lookout at all, but now the protective shield was destroyed by the traitor, and he had to appear.
Now that the war has just started, the Southern Tang side seems to have attacked fiercely at the beginning, but it is obvious that it has not used all its strength at all, it is all something that can be lost, and the real people and horses have not appeared.
Therefore, it is naturally impossible for the Dingnanguan side to immediately exhaust all means, and both sides are also in the stage of finding out the bottom of the situation! However, the problem with the defensive cover is unexpected.
Xu Fengchun is worthy of being a veteran of the Dingnan Army, he came to the command position, and immediately stabilized the morale of the entire defending army, and on the cliff of the second-level city wall, several huge bed crossbows were pushed over!
The topless, muscle-knotted sergeant "Hey, hey......" put the winch to death, they were all masters in martial arts cultivation, and their strength was very great.
"Bang bang......!" With a few muffled sounds, huge crossbow arrows with thick arms flew out from the cliff of Dingnan Pass, and shot condescendingly at those tall puppets!
The power of these arrows and crossbows is very strong! The speed is extremely fast, and the huge golems were hit by the huge kinetic energy before they could react, and the huge crossbows passed through huge holes!
The giant-like puppet fell to the ground, and suddenly smashed into a piece of puppet beasts! The entire neat puppet army suddenly became chaotic, but most of the puppet beasts and the puppet army behind them were not moved at all, but continued to move forward!
"You need to attack with fire, those puppets are made of wood and iron, and they will burn when they meet fire! Otherwise, there are too many of them, and we can't guard against them!" Sedum said on the side.
"Wait!" Xu Fengchun said in a deep voice.
Wait, it means that Xu Fengchun has already thought of a way to deal with it, but it may be too far away now, and it is not time for the time being.
At this time, the battle to clean up the traitors in the Guannai was also coming to an end! Even Hu Dingguo did not expect that the number of traitors would be as high as several hundred!
There were battles in the three gates of the pass, and even the bunker roads on the cliffs on both sides of the gate were fighting, and the blood of the dead was boiling hot, and the heads of people were rolling around!
The traitors know that they should all be dead soldiers, and if they don't fight hard today, they will only die, and the defenders hate these traitors very much! To let these guys succeed, as soon as Dingnan Pass is broken, the defenders will all have to finish playing! So both sides will die!
But no matter how brave this group of dead soldiers is, after all, there are too few men! And the more they fight, the fewer they fight! In the end, they can only keep retreating! When the last group of people have withdrawn to the iron gate of the first checkpoint, they have been surrounded by the legions defending the city!
These people were covered in blood, but their faces were full of despair! Although they desperately rushed to the first iron gate, this iron gate was full of thousands of pounds, and now that it was closed, only a few of them could not shake it!
The officer in charge of the encirclement and suppression waved the sword in his hand expressionlessly, and a large number of sergeants behind him waited for the crossbow arrows in their hands to come overwhelmingly, and immediately nailed the only remaining traitor to the iron gate!
After solving the internal problems, the defenders immediately cleaned up the battlefield and repaired the damaged facilities, especially the central mechanism of the defensive cover.
And the Southern Tang puppet army outside this border pass is getting closer and closer, and the defensive position on the cliff is endless, "Bang Bang ......!"
When the puppet was less than 100 zhang away from the city pass, a fireball rose into the sky and smashed into the puppet army! It was fired by the stone thrower in the pass, covering exactly the distance from 100 zhang to 1,000 zhang in the whole distance!
The fireball exploded and sparked flames, igniting a large number of puppets in an instant! This kind of fire burned extremely fast and fiercely, and after hundreds of puppets caught fire, they struggled and spun, and were soon burned to charcoal!
And at this moment, the light of the formation in the rear of the Southern Tang army rose to the sky, and with this change, the puppet army suddenly sped up, especially those puppet beasts!
"Boom ......!" Quite a few puppet beasts had already broken through the distance of a hundred zhang and crashed into the city pass and the cliff! The huge crashing sound made the entire mountain shake.
And at this moment, the defensive cover in the pass has been completely repaired, and with the sound of "buzzing ......!" came out, a light blue light curtain sprinkled down from the sky, and suddenly shrouded the front gate and cliff again, this is the most frontal battlefield position!
At the same time, the city pass suddenly advanced forward! This is a strange phenomenon, the city pass formed a hundred-foot city wall and pushed forward! A large number of beetle corpses, countless flying insects, snakes, and crashed puppet beasts pushed outward more than a dozen zhang away!
Even if some of the puppet beasts climbed up the city and the cliffs, they were shot down by the bed crossbows! Only a few of them were torn off by the puppet beasts.
The design of the Chengguan at this moment also used the formation defense! After cleaning up all kinds of corpses and debris in the vicinity, the wall was retracted, and then, the defensive cover fell, and the entire Dingnan Pass was once again protected.
The defense of the defenders was restored, and the Southern Tang finally terminated the attack, and Mingjin withdrew his troops, and they did not bargain for this battle.
In the next two days, the Tang army dispatched its official troops, stared at the dense rain of arrows of the defending army, and began to advance, placing many large siege equipment and large chariots in the front.
The defenders use large bed crossbows and stone throwers to throw fireballs and boulders to smash these things, and the defensive cover can defend against a large number of spells and flying insect puppets, but it can't block people, and that layer of passports can enter people as long as they squeeze hard, so the defenders are strictly guarding against people approaching!
The dense firepower destroyed all the siege troops and siege vehicles of the Southern Tang Army within a range of 100 to 1,000 zhang outside the pass! If the opponent's personnel approached the defensive cover, it would be a real sword and a real gun.
The battle situation was in a state of stalemate at the beginning, but the Southern Tang army also began to shoot fireballs from the main formation, and the stones were like rain, constantly consuming the energy of the defensive shield.
After three days of fighting, there was a short rest and recuperation, and the two sides were killed and wounded on both sides.
On the other hand, their losses in the Southern Tang Dynasty are not large, the red light in the camp is soaring, a large number of craftsmen in the army are constantly busy, there are many trees in Nanzhou, and the lost engineering utensils and even puppets will be repaired with a large amount of wood!
Even their trebuchets are getting bigger and bigger! The threat to the city is getting heavier!
In the past three days, Sedum has been in a tense state with Xu Fengchun and Hu Dingguo, and he can't help but feel a little tired! But Dingnan Pass is related to Dingnan City, which has a population of one million behind him, and this pass is also the southernmost barrier of the Great Jin Dynasty.
In addition to the supply of grain and grass, there is also a large amount of ordnance and arrow rain that has been lost, especially the parts and crossbow arrows used in the bed crossbow, which need to be replenished by the rear.
Sedum consulted with Xu Fengchun and Hu Dingguo to see how long Dingnan Pass could be defended? Judging from the current situation, the Southern Tang Dynasty has not yet come up with the means, if it really comes to that time, will Dingnan Pass have a countermeasure?
"Your Highness is worried that the immortal cultivation forces of the other party's Immortal Machinery Province will join, right?" Xu Fengchen said.
Sedum nodded and said: "That's right, according to my understanding, the strength of the Southern Tang Immortal Machine Province is very strong, according to reliable information, this time to the north, there are several strong people in the South China Sea Immortal Cultivation Forces have also come!
"The way of cultivation in the south is figurative with the Great Jin, but the system is different, and the people below the Yuanying Monk are also coming in vain, if there are masters of the Transformation Period and the Refining Void Period coming, one or two of me and Dingguo can still deal with it, if there are too many, I'm afraid there is really a problem." ”
Xu Fengchun's words were obviously very cautious and thoughtful, if the Southern Tang Dynasty really used the power of cultivating immortals, there would really be danger on their side, but they had to consider how to deal with it.
At this time, some men reported that the Dingnan City Shenwei Flying Cavalry escorted tens of thousands of Shence troops to Dingnan Pass, which should have come to support!
Bai Jianzhou came to support at this time, obviously Dingnan City was basically worry-free, but at present, there was a need for people at the pass, and it was more dangerous, and his help was timely.
The captives of the Shence Army did not regard them as enemies, it was a time of war, and they were united with the outside world, but now it was obvious that they could not be assured that they would go to Chengguan, but it could solve the current manpower problem in Dingnan Pass, at least a lot of repair and transportation work needed manpower!
This is also what Bai Jianzhou meant, after he arrived, everyone held a meeting, this is the highest level of military meeting, and the immortal generals below the level do not cherish to participate, although Guan Shanhai is a sedum and a cronie, he is not allowed to participate.
At the meeting, everyone discussed the next tactical arrangement, the defenders are still here in the next battle, and the loss can be appropriately replenished from the Shence army, but the flying cavalry army cannot move, that is one of the last resorts.
"What I mean is to prepare some special means to deal with the immortal cultivators of the Southern Tang Immortal Machine Province, you can't simply fight for strength!" Sedum finally said.