Chapter 377: No. 8 Fortress, Offensive and Defensive Battle (4)

After resting for three days, after waiting for a thousand newly minted artillery pieces and a stone thrower, the real thunderous blow of Jindan began. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

There was originally a saltwater river in front of the No. 8 well base, but taking advantage of the truce in the past few days, Zhao Yun ordered a special widening and deepening, which was also regarded as adding another layer of insurance to the No. 8 well base.

Although Jin Dan withdrew more than 50 miles, he knew all about it well, so as soon as he came up, all the stones and sandbags thrown by the stone throwing machine were smashed into the river, and more than 20 heavy stone throwers and more than 100 light stone throwers took less than half an hour to fill up the revetment river, with a width of more than 200 zhang.

This is like a war, just like a huge construction site, all the stone throwers began to continuously throw sandbags under the city wall, the stone throwing machine technology of the Kuxian Hu Army has been demonstrated in the previous battle, and now under the personal supervision of Jin Dan, it refers to where to fight. Jin Dan's intention is already very obvious, he wants to build an attack ramp, and adopt a steady and steady tactic.

How could Zhao Yun not know Jin Dan's intentions? An urn city that was bigger than last time was quickly built.

When the sandbag is half the height of the city wall, the Kuxian Hu heavy stone thrower began to bombard the city wall, in the first round of stone rain, the city wall battlements with a width of more than 100 zhang all collapsed, and the collapsed city wall bricks were dumped on the sandbag, and suddenly a fairly smooth section of the offensive passage was presented in front of you......

A platoon of wells of the Kuxianhu Army, which was the same height as the city wall, was also pushed up under the protection of the cavalry, and most of the artillery that the Heavenly Court soldiers had not seen was placed on the wells.

At the same moment when the trombone of Jindan's attack sounded, the two thousand dead soldiers defending the city led by Zhao Yun personally appeared in the sky like a row of heavenly gods, backed by blue sky and white clouds, which was particularly spectacular.

A volley of cannonballs suddenly shot from the shaft, screaming and flying towards the dead.

"Boom!"

Almost simultaneously, the cannonballs exploded like a horizontal bolt of lightning that struck the bodies of the steel-armored dead men on the ramp. Under the tremendous impact, more than 100 dead soldiers fell off the wall, several were hung in the air by iron cables, and a few were actually nailed to the wall by long nails in the shells.

"Get down!" Zhao Yun shouted.

More than 3,000 siegers, dressed in rattan tools that could resist the rain of arrows, rushed along the ramp......

"Shoot the arrows!"

With a wave of the Qiangba Ling flag, tens of thousands of armor-piercing arrows roared out, and more than a thousand siegers rushed up and tore together with the dead soldiers on the city wall.

Jindan's 200,000 infantry launched a group charge along the ramp like a tide.

"Catapult launch!"

Zhao Yun was waiting for this moment, he had seen the power of the heavy stone thrower of the Kuxian Hu Army, so he didn't throw it against the Kuxian Hu Army at first.

More than 100 boulders weighing five or six hundred pounds flew towards the wells equipped with artillery, and smashed thirty or forty of them at once, and the dead soldiers on the city walls, who were so crushed by the whistling cannonballs that they could not raise their heads, all stood up again at once. The more than 500 soldiers who had just climbed the city wall even danced the chain hammer and jumped down the ramp, as if they were in a no-man's land. Once killed at the bottom of the well, hundreds of knife carts of the Kuxian Hu Army, driven by thousands of people, surrounded more than 200 dead soldiers who jumped off the city wall like iron buckets, and after a rain of arrows, the dead soldiers were all shot into hedgehogs.

As soon as the heavy stone throwers of the Kuxian Hu Army found that a huge stone was being launched from within the city wall, they immediately began to adjust the scale of the stone thrower, preparing to suppress the bombardment.

However, after the Heavenly Court Army's stone thrower launched the first round, according to the plan that Zhao Yun had already agreed, it pushed the wheels to start moving. Throwing a round of stones and transferring a launch position, although there were constantly stone throwers being smashed by Kuxianhu's thousand-pound boulders, they finally dealt a big enough blow to the Kuxianhu infantry and artillery under the city wall. Almost all of the shafts with artillery on them were smashed by the Heavenly Court Army's stone thrower, which was a great achievement.

Jin Dan's trombone sounded again, the general attack began, countless siege ladders under the protection of the shield, rushed to the bottom of the city wall, the iron hook on the top hooked the city wall, the wall root immediately wedged into countless huge wooden wedges, the lower end of the siege ladder was nailed to the wooden wedge, no matter how the city wall was pushed down. Crossbow arrows, rolling stones, sasswood, and lime were constantly thrown down on the city wall, and there were still countless Kuxian Hu soldiers climbing the city wall.

When the five thousand dead soldiers who defended the city organized by the Heavenly Court Army recently came out of the city wall, Jin Dan also stood up from the couch at once, it was incredible, how could the dead soldiers defending the city fight more and more?

Like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, the ladder hooked on the city wall was hit by the chain hammer of the dead soldiers of 500 catties, the hook became straight, and with another blow, the ladder was torn apart, and a string of soldiers fell.

After a fierce battle for an hour and a half, the corpses under the wall of the No. 8 fortress were more than ten layers old, and they could not be fought down again without disposing of the corpses.

Jin Dan reluctantly ordered the gong to be sounded, and the Kuxian Hu army retreated ten miles away in an orderly manner......

Almost all the people in Well No. 8 were panting, and although they were desperately thirsty, they just couldn't get up, and they had recently fetched water to drink. Almost all the barracks in the fortress were crushed by the boulders, with more than 300,000 casualties, and the dead soldiers also suffered nearly 5,000 casualties at once, Zhao Yun was also seriously injured, his left foot was almost cut off by shrapnel, and Li Dongqian, who had just surrendered to the Heavenly Court, was unfortunately killed.

In the evening, the sky began to rain heavily, three zhang away, the figure could not be seen clearly, the temperature also dropped a lot, and the dead soldiers standing on the city wall on duty were so frozen that their teeth kept making a "click" sound.

In the middle of the night, the 500,000 cavalry led by Erlang God arrived, and when Erlang God saw Zhao Yun who was dying, two lines of tears rolled down.

"Brother Yang, it's good that you're here, I'll officially hand over the command to you now......" Zhao Yun had already fainted before he finished speaking.

Erlang God counted the defenders of the No. 8 fortress, and there were more than 1.3 million in total.

"Do you want to take advantage of the rainy night to sneak attack the camp of the Kuxian Hu Army?"

Erlang God went around in the tent alone, and he couldn't make up his mind.

"Big brother, let's lead the headquarters to break through, we can't see our five fingers, Jin Dan must not have imagined that we would fight out of the city wall. ”

There were six fierce generals in the tent at once, all of whom were more than one zhang and five feet tall, and they were the six sworn brothers of Erlang God who made friends at the mouth of the Guanjiang River, namely Kang Anyu, Zhang Boshi, Li Huanzhang, Yao Gonglin, Guo Shen and Zhijian. The big tent of the Chinese army suddenly looked crowded......

"Big brother, what the third brother said is right, you can let a few of us rush for a while!" Yao Gonglin said angrily.

"No, what a few of you think of, Jin Dan, who is as cunning as a fox, can't think of it?"

Erlang God was still thinking about it just now, whether to steal the camp? Hearing a few righteous brothers say this, he thought clearly about whether to attack or not.

"Didn't you guys get a fight? In this way, tonight, the six of you will be on duty at night, and all the people from your headquarters will be replaced on the city wall, so as to strictly guard against the sneak attack of the Kuxian Hu army. ”

"Yes......"

A few righteous brothers originally wanted to rush out and kill them bloodily, but they didn't expect that the eldest brother would give them such a drenched errand, and their faces were stretched for a long time.

"There are still millions of Kuxian Hu troops outside the No. 8 well base, are you still afraid that there will be no battle? I received an order from the Queen Mother of the West to use this amount of strength to defend until the follow-up reinforcements of the Heavenly Court arrive, and attack rashly, can I complete the task?" Erlang God said.

"You're the big brother, you have the final say on everything, we're just making a suggestion......"

Six big men who wanted to fight a battle happily came out of the big tent of the Chinese army. (To be continued.) )