Chapter 104: Siege
The border troops did not carry siege equipment such as ladders, so they could only ram the city gates with improvised tree trunks cut from the mountains.
However, the city gate was still some distance from the border army. And this distance happened to be the range of the greatest lethality of bows and arrows on the city tower, and a group of border troops carried the trunks of the trees and rushed forward, but they were all shot by bows and arrows in the middle and fell.
Even if some were lucky enough to avoid the arrows coming from the sky, they were immediately crushed to the ground because of the fall of their companions, and they could not bear the weight of the trunk alone.
This is also the result of the border army also having bow and arrow squads to suppress the arrow power.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the besieging army suffered hundreds of casualties. The corpses and wounded lay in pools of blood, blocking between the city gate and the border army camp, invisibly, adding another barrier to the defense of the city gate.
"Continue!" King Zhennan's voice was indifferent, not caring about the casualties of his sergeants, and said, "Their arrows are limited, and they will run out soon!"
The king of Zhennan gave an order, and countless soldiers went forward one after another, carrying tree trunks, and rushed towards the city gate.
However, most of them fell in the middle of the road and were killed before they could get close to the city.
War is so cruel, this is the first time Yue Wudi has witnessed a real war, his blood is boiling, and the battle campaign factor inherited from his blood is burning violently.
It is not that there are no casualties under his hands, on the contrary, the people he has killed are probably almost equal to the total casualties of a small impact of this war. However, it was only his personal massacre. Seeing such a battle of thousands of people, he was still full of excitement.
He had an urge to take the lead and go to the bloody battlefield.
However, he held back.
Because there is no need, his task is to protect the king of Zhennan, and the rest has nothing to do with him.
The war continues. The momentum of the border army's siege of the city did not weaken because of the fall of one comrade-in-arms after another, on the contrary, the soldiers who were accustomed to seeing the battle, after the bloodbath, became even more crazy, and charged forward one by one without fear of death.
The archers on the castle tower were not endless after all, and now, the rain of arrows was not as fierce as before.
Gradually, the border soldiers approached the city gate, carrying the trunk of the tree, and were about to attack.
"Let go of the rolling wood!" As Zhu Ziliu shouted loudly on the city tower, countless rolling logs and rolling stones fell from the top of the city.
Every rolling log, every rolling stone, to say the least, weighs dozens of pounds, and it falls from the city tower in hundreds like this, and the impact force produced is indescribable.
At the very least, these ordinary border soldiers and soldiers will definitely not be able to bear it.
Sure enough, when the rolling logs fell and the rolling stones fell, the border soldiers who had already approached the city wall burst out one by one, and in an instant red and white splashed together, and then there was a plop, and the border soldiers who were hit fell down.
The consequences were terrible, for these logs and stones not only took away the lives of the border soldiers, but also, in this way, they fell in hundreds and piled up on the ground, forming an impenetrable barrier in front of the city gates, blocking the border troops who came after.
In this case, if the border army wants to continue the attack, it must first clear the piles of rolling logs and rolling stones. And when cleaning up the rolling wood and rolling stones, on the city tower, there will be rolling logs and rolling stones or arrows shooting down, taking away the lives of these border soldiers who clear the obstacles.
This is a dead circle, according to the current armament of the border army, it cannot be broken, and it can only be piled up with human lives. What is the fight is that the 30,000 border troops are killed and wounded first, or the arrows, rolling stones and other materials on the city tower are consumed first.
This point, whether it is the king of Zhennan, or Zhu Ziliu and Wu Santong, they are very clear. It's just that although they understand, however, both of them have reasons why they have to fight.
The king of Zhennan shouted loudly: "Give this king Chong, the first one to break through the city gate, the official will be promoted to three levels, and the reward will be a thousand taels of gold!"
Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men. With the issuance of this order of King Zhennan, the morale of the border army was even higher, and they rushed forward one by one.
However, the result is still difficult to change, and when the materials on the city tower are still sufficient, the soldiers who rush forward are destined to survive.
The border troops fell one by one, the corpses piled up, the rolling logs piled up, and the rolling stones piled up, all three of which were cast into a simple wall of blood and water in front of the city wall, and it was still being raised and thickened.
King Zhennan's face was gloomy, although this city pass is not a strong pass in the world, and the city wall is also very dilapidated, but after all, it is not easy to destroy by manpower.
He regretted it a little, he believed in himself too much, and believed in Fang Biao's chess piece too much. As a result, a poor move led to a dangerous situation in the whole situation.
If he had known that Fang Biao was unreliable and would be recognized, how could he not prepare siege equipment and put himself in such an embarrassing situation?
Now this situation is completely using the lives of his 30,000 troops to fill this city pass.
Moreover, according to the current situation, the city defense materials of this city pass are very sufficient. King Zhennan was a little worried, even if he exhausted these forces, it was still unknown whether he could take this city pass.
Even if he finally breached this city, then what about another imperial city, and how many troops would he have left?
"Amitabha, if it goes on like this, the killing is too great, even if it succeeds in the end, my Dali Kingdom will definitely be greatly injured. Monk Huangguan recited a Buddha horn and sighed, looking sad.
"Senior, Zhilian is also out of helplessness, at this moment Duan Zhixing may be hidden in the city pass, if I don't immediately confront each other, but set up camp, I'm afraid, I'm afraid it's ......."
This Zhennan King didn't say it completely, but everyone understood what he meant, he had always been afraid that Nandi would behead him, even if there were masters such as Yue Wudi on his side, he was still scared.
"Amitabha!" Monk Huangguan clasped his hands together, recited the Buddha's name, and did not say anything more.
"Senior brother, why don't you let me go up, kill the city wall, and open the city gate from the inside of the city. Monk Huangmei said suddenly.
"You?" Monk Huangguan was a little worried, and said: "Senior brother, not to mention that there are thousands of people on the city gate, even this city wall is also two or three zhang high, can you go up?"
"I can give it a try!" said the Huangmei monk, he couldn't bear to lose all these soldiers, after all, this is the cornerstone of Dali Kingdom.
"Well, you have to be careful, and if it doesn't work, don't be pushy. Monk Huangguan sighed, in this situation, if the city gate can be opened from the city, the loss of this civil strife can indeed be minimized.
It's just that it's too difficult to do that.