Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 479

It is difficult for the Western Army to attack Luzhou, but it is easy to deal with Duanzhai Town, Qingyang Town, Yong'an Town, and even Shen County.

Hundreds of people worked together, the cannon cart roared fiercely, and the huge cannon stone formed an arc in the air, and smashed straight towards the target.

There was just a "boom", and the stones fell on the city wall accurately. The loud noise shook the whole city wall as if the ground was shaking, and a large piece of sand and sand flew up.

In the Song Dynasty, there were very few city walls made of stone and bricks. Even if the city of Luzhou was built with rammed earth, it should not be used in other places.

If a cannon stone hits the wall of Luzhou City, no cracks will be immediately visible, but if it is placed on the wall of Shen County, there will be problems.

"Yao Xianggong, it's broken, it's broken..."

A county government official rushed to report.

Yao Xiang, magistrate of Shen County, turned pale immediately, and the faces of the county magistrates and master Bo Yi beside him changed drastically.I have known the power of the cannon cart for a long time. If such a heavy stone is thrown so far, it is conceivable how powerful it will be when it falls.This hit the city wall. If it was a human being, there would be nothing but blood and mud left.

But they can only endure.

Zhao Li had already taken over the defense of Shen County.The latter is the envoy of soldiers and horses of Shouzhou. He has seven garrison camps under his command. Together with some soldiers and horses dispatched by Luzhou, [-] troops have been gathered in the small Shen County. The only purpose is to defend the city.

Guard Shen County here, and Han Tao guard Zhegao Town over there. In this way, the situation in Luzhou is not completely out of control.Although the loss of Chao County greatly reduced the Huainan Army's advantage, the fact that Shen County and Zhegao Town were still in hand gave the Huainan Army the possibility of a comeback.

"Fire again!" Although there were only two stone cannons outside the city, their lethality was astonishing.

"Boom! Boom"

With the continuous sound, the bluestone slabs in the city were smashed, and the big cannon stone sank deeper and deeper into the ground.

It was because of the accuracy that the Song Army's stone cannons missed.

But if you escape the first day of the junior high school, you can't escape the fifteenth day. What should come, still will come.After half an hour, there was another series of earth-shattering loud noises, and a piece of it hit near the original crack of the city wall. At the same time as the dust was flying, the original crack grew rapidly, and the broken stones fell down.

Then a burst of artillery stones flew, and the female wall of the city wall was smashed down, and the collapsed pieces of the broken earth wall fell outside the city, causing a big gap to appear on the wall of the county city.

The Western troops outside the city immediately cheered when they saw it, and the sound was deafening.

Yao Xiang was in a state of confusion, his mind went blank, and he didn't know what to do.But Zhao Li, who was guarding the city, had thought of this a long time ago.

The female wall at the top of the city is not what he wants to stick to at all. The resources of the small Shen County are limited, so the female wall is better to resign to fate.On the contrary, the enemy tower at the top of the city made him pay more attention.The method evolved from the series of towers. False fences are erected around the towers, and coarse chaff bags are piled up underneath. Even if the towers are destroyed, they can be repaired quickly.

At the same time as the stone artillery bombardment, the Western Army also used another trick-the filling method.

"Dongzi, Dongzi..." the defenders on the top of the city screamed.This is a kind of siege equipment with wheels on the bottom and giant wood on the top, which is shaped like a house, covered with raw cowhide, and wrapped with iron sheets on the outside.The soldiers pushed the wheels forward inside, and every cave was approaching the city, and there would be countless caves following it in succession. Each time, more than [-] to [-] vehicles were connected, and the soldiers continued to transport civil engineering and firewood inside. salary.When approaching the Haogou under the city, large boards of firewood were used to lay the bottom, and the height was raised layer by layer, and finally filled with soil, and then paved with wooden rafts, so that it was no different from flat ground.

With these invulnerable holes, no matter whether it is arrows, stones, or wood thrown from the city, they will all be invalid and useless.

If necessary, these holes can also cross the moat and reach directly below the city, where the soldiers can dig the roots of the city.It can be said to be a very sharp siege tool.

But for now, it doesn't need to be like this.These holes are just to pave the way for the moat.

Because the city wall of Shen County is too thin.Before noon, a loud "boom" was heard, and a section of the city wall finally couldn't bear the devastation, and it collapsed, revealing a gap of more than ten meters.

In the Song army's formation outside the city, Zhao Ming immediately ordered to beat the war drums, and the drums sounded very regularly, one after another, directly hitting people's hearts.

A large number of forward soldiers moved like a tide, advancing towards the city wall.After a while, there was a sound of killing, and a large number of Western troops rushed in along the gap in the city wall.

The threat of stone cannons saves the city from boiling water with golden juice, but it is still easy to fire ash bottles and dry wood.

Therefore, it is really easy to defend the city, as long as it can be suppressed without panic, as long as the method is effective.

Zhao Li had studied in the Martial Arts Academy for a while, among other things, he had been in the war performance room several times, and he was familiar with the "Battle of the City" found there.This ash bottle, dry wood and fire are the simplest and most effective methods.

Can easily damage and block attacking enemies.

Holding an iron fork in one hand and a thick shield in the other, Wang De was at the forefront of the charge, intending to jump to the top of the wall and fight with the enemy.But who knew that Hui Ping didn't say anything at the moment, large bundles of dry firewood were dropped, bundles of straw were lit and pushed down, and the collapsed gap of more than ten meters was sealed by a wall of fire in the blink of an eye.

A crossbow bolt was nailed into the heavy shield he was holding, and the huge force made Wang De stagger at his feet, so that he didn't trip and fall to the ground.He hastened to stabilize his body!He glanced over the top of the heavy shield and looked up.

Seeing a sharp arrow coming towards him, he hastily lowered his head, and the arrow directly knocked off the red tassel on the top of his helmet.

Then another arrow was nailed between the two split feet in front of him. Wang De was so frightened that he couldn't help but take two steps back.At this time, he heard the sound of gold ringing in his ears.

The officers and soldiers of the frontline army retreated like an ebb tide.

Back in the back formation, Wang De still had lingering fears. The arrow was stuck between his feet, and the bow and arrow was slightly upward, and the soles of his feet or calves were about to be nailed to the ground by the arrow.

Naturally, Wang De is not afraid of death, but he is most afraid of getting injured, because any injury has a certain chance of getting an infection or tetanus.It would be better to just kill him with a single knife.

Earth bags were sent to the top of the city one by one. After the fire was extinguished, a simple city wall made of coarse burlap bags had been built on a gap of more than ten meters.Although the height was less than three feet, it was just a wall of sandbags without any foundation built on top of the collapsed city wall, but it caused embarrassment to the faces of the Western Army outside the city.

"Kill, kill me—" Zhao Ming was furious.

Li Chengping is a native of Shenxian County. He was selected into the artillery team by the army because he was tall and strong.Their task is to carry stone cannons and cannon stones, as well as to replenish the pulling forces.The human-pulled stone cannon excitation is also very labor-intensive.

Li Chengping had just been replaced, panting heavily, sitting on the ground in the formation, and their entire team was out of the range of the arrow rain covering the city.These people include soldiers of the Western Army, all of whom look vicious; there are also civilian husbands from other places, but most of them are local young men, who were forced to come here like him.

Everyone is common people, looking at everything in front of them, they are all terrified.Hundreds of people have been lying down under the city wall, including civilians and officers and soldiers. Most of the wounded in the latter were rescued. Only the former, those civilians who were shot by arrows from the city head under the threat of swords and guns, worked hard to push ladders and other equipment. , Some of the dead were not mentioned, and some of the surviving were lying on the ground struggling, but the sound of war drums and shouts covered their cries.No one had time to take care of them, the soldiers of the Western Army rushed forward in large numbers, and trampled to death those who were alive; not to mention the arrows and crossbows shooting from both sides, the fallen fronts were not only on the top of the city , or the head of the Western Army under the city.

Li Chengping clenched his fists tightly, but in the end he could only loosen them weakly.

Who told them that they were just common people, people whose lives were lower than grass?Zhao Guan's family doesn't take them seriously.If there was no news that Zhao Guan's family had no money in their hands and could not instruct the Western Army to put down the rebellion, they directly told the Western Army that Jiangnan was rich and noble, with countless money and food, and the ministers could take it directly.What that means, Li Chengping is very clear.Zhao Guan's family doesn't see them.

Panting heavily like this, Li Chengping suddenly felt that this official Zhao family was really inferior to Liang Shanjun.They just occupied Shen County, and they announced that this year's money, food, taxes and taxes will be exempted, and next year the money and food will be halved. Compared with Zhao's official family, I really don't know who is the bandit and who is the court.

At this moment, the sound of war drums suddenly changed, and a large number of crossbowmen and hand-to-hand armor soldiers in front split the formation, so that the ladder carts behind the formation began to move forward.This kind of cloud cart is as high as the city wall, and thirty or fifty peasants below push four thick wooden wheels to turn forward.The cloud car can accommodate 20 people. Behind the car is a wooden ladder, which is dragged obliquely backward to the ground, and people can get on at any time.When the cloud chariot was pushed to the front of the formation, the soldiers of the Xuanfeng Battalion, under the command of the Dutou Zhengzheng, stood up and formed a team, gathered under the chariot, and climbed to attack the city.

This time, Zhao Ming rolled out a total of ten ladder trucks and invested in a battalion. The commander in charge was Xie Yuan, and Wang De's former battalion was the follow-up, and he was still sitting there waiting.

After the deployment of troops, each cloud vehicle will carry 20 people, each wearing heavy armor and holding a sword and shield.As the sound of war drums became more rapid, the ten ladder carts slowly moved towards the top of the city.

Under the city, another group of soldiers were replaced in the arrow formation of the forward selection army. After this group of fresh troops entered the battle, the speed of firing arrows became faster.

The ladder car slowly and firmly passed through the passage filled in by the upper bunk of the moat, and came directly to the edge of the city.The defenders on the city immediately shot some rockets and nailed them to the ladder truck, but because the entire body had been watered beforehand, they were not ignited.The cloud car leaned against the city wall, and the saber and shield guards on the top of the car withdrew the shield array in front of it, and jumped into the city wall.

The soldiers of the Western Army under the city saw their brothers climbed the city wall, they all shouted excitedly at the same time, the sound shook the whole field, and the drums behind the formation also beat more tightly.The brothers in the army on Wang De's side couldn't sit still either, and everyone got up one after another, staring at the city wall.

I saw the sword and shield fighters who were the first to climb the top of the city, and the top of the city suddenly became noisy and chaotic.Wang De couldn't see the situation above clearly, but saw the brothers under the cloud cart one after another climbed to the top of the cloud cart through wooden ladders, and then jumped into the city one by one.Immediately, there was cheers from all over the army formations of the Western Army. Seeing that the command flag was waved in the rear, he immediately asked people to stand up and form a team, and then quickly marched down the city, preparing to enter the city to fight behind Jieyuanying.

Xie Yuan followed the soldiers and horses of the battalion to the third ladder car under the city. Seeing that the previous group of soldiers had all jumped into the city, he waved his hand and asked everyone to follow him into the car.Xie Yuan held a steel knife and was about to climb the wooden ladder.Although his name is very ambiguous, but he is a full-fledged warrior brother.

Back in the Hedong Army, when I was patrolling the border with my companions one day, I suddenly heard that the Xixia soldiers had arrived, and the rest were all shocked.He alone solved Yuan Jikang, led twenty riders to capture his probing horse, and knew the enemy's movement.Immediately there were hundreds of riders again, and he personally fell into the battle, stabbing the leader of the Xixia soldier with a horizontal spear and fell off his horse, the Xia soldier ran away in fear.

Xie Yuan was also the first to attack Tianhu several times, especially in the battle of Weisheng Prefecture. He leaped into the enemy city with a knife and killed dozens of people with short-handed soldiers.

In the selection of the forward army, he is as famous as Wang De, one is the commander of the front battalion, and the other is the commander of the left battalion.They are all vanguards driving the whole army, and they can fight on foot or on horseback.

But just after Xie Yuan climbed a few steps, he saw two soldiers who climbed up first, turned out of the battlements, and rushed straight to the ladder.When one of them jumped up the ladder, he was stabbed in the back by a gun in the back, and fell out of the car screaming, but the other was lucky to escape the chasing knives and guns, and was only shot twice by arrows.

"Quick back, quick back..." The man completely ignored the pursuit from the city, grabbed the ladder and quickly descended, still saying "quick back" in his mouth.Xie Yuan was so angry that he just wanted to go forward and kill the man with a knife, but he just took a few steps when he saw a few black clay pots flying out of the city. It was smashed directly on the ladder car, and a smell of oil rushed straight into his nostrils.Xie Yuan was terrified, he didn't care about climbing the ladder, and he didn't care about killing the man, he jumped down and shouted: "Back! Back! Oil tank! It's oil tank!"

　Today I really saw why Hengmei coldly pointed at thousands of husbands.That eighty-year-old lady is really amazing.

　　——The area where I live has been experiencing frequent power outages recently. The previous transformer was burned out, and now I have replaced it with a new one. The pressure is still high, so I plan to install another one at the original (five or six years ago) standing voltage transformer. relieve pressure.It had been abandoned there for several years.

　　But it was opposed by the neighboring family. The old lady was over 80, and she couldn't afford to sit on the ground.It's not her home land there, and it's so far away from her home, but people just don't give way.

　　The power was cut off in the whole area, hundreds of families, the scorching heat in the summer, it can be said that the crowd was outraged.But that old lady spends her time from morning to night, no matter how many people yell at you, they won't hear you.

　　I can only say admiration.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)