Song Mingyue

Chapter 233 Plan ahead
White light flashed.

Li Kui's big head flew up, and the ax in his right hand fell to the ground with a thud, and then a brilliant mist of blood sprayed out from the broken neck, and the headless body fell down slowly.

Those eyes were wide open, staring at Wu Song, staring at Wu Song, dying with regret!
Murderers, people will always kill them!
This kind of second-rate character who likes to kill innocent people indiscriminately and is brave and ruthless, and his martial arts skills are not top-notch. I don't know how to live to the end of the book in Shi Naian's works. Meeting Zhao Hao is considered a bad luck for him.

In an instant, there was silence above and below the city.

All the soldiers of the Liangshan Army on the tower were stunned for a while. They never expected that the black whirlwind, who was like a murderous god, would die in a one-on-one confrontation, and was killed in an open and honest manner.

The Song army under the city burst into earth-shattering cheers, and their morale burst instantly. They wished they could fly up to the tower and practice their swords with the Liangshan bandits.

Wu Song shook the blood from the tip of the knife, and pointed the snowflake iron ring knife towards the top of the tower: "Wu Song is here, who dares to go downstairs to fight again!"

He was tall and his voice was like a giant thunder. Although he was standing alone at the bottom of the city, he was majestic and majestic, like a god coming down to earth, which shocked the Liangshan army on the tower.

In the middle of the city tower, Qin Ming, known as Thunderbolt, gritted his teeth angrily when he saw his brother being killed, but he did not dare to open the city gate to fight the Song army to the death.

Wu Song yelled several times, and the Song army below the city yelled and cursed again, but the Liangshan army on the tower just stepped up their guard, and no one responded.

Seeing that the last ray of afterglow had already fallen behind the distant mountains, the sky gradually dimmed.

The master planted helplessly and said: "It's getting late, first set up camp on the spot, bury the pot to make food, and wait until tomorrow for the craftsmen to cut wood and build a batch of ladders, and then attack the city at a later date."

Zhao Hao nodded.

woohoo~
With the sound of a desolate and distant horn, all the Song soldiers retreated one by one until they retreated two miles outside the city. Then they set up camp, set up fences and refused horses, and then began to bury pots and make food.

Seeing that Zhao Hao led the Song army to retreat like a tide, all the soldiers of the Liangshan army let out a long breath.

Zhu Wu said in a deep voice: "The enemy's chief general is Zhong Shizhong. This man is so powerful in the northwest. The Qiang people are frightened when they hear his name. I hope that Chief Lu will lead his troops to help as soon as possible, otherwise the city may not be able to defend."

Qin Ming looked down at the ground below the city, and said calmly: "What are you afraid of? We just need to strengthen our vigilance and don't need to worry too much. Although the dog officers and soldiers came fiercely, they came all the way lightly. I watched the rear line, With all the food, grass, clothing, armor and other supplies, we have no large equipment. We have the same strength as him. Xiangcheng is four feet high. If there is no ladder cart to assist, how can we capture this city? If they attack with simple wooden ladders, it will be a dead end. One!"

Qin Ming paused for a moment, and then said: "Furthermore, Chief Lu will arrive in Xiangcheng in about two or three days. At that time, I will attack from both sides, so that the dog officers and soldiers will be attacked from both sides, and then we will be able to capture Master Zhong, as well as that little boy of the clan alive!"

Zhu Wu thought about it for a while, and felt that it made sense, so he didn't say anything more.

……

As dusk gradually fell, smoke rose from the camp of the Song army.

The teacher looked at the Xiangcheng tower in the distance in a daze, as if he was thinking about something, at this moment, a stream of smoke and dust galloped in from the gate, shouting for an urgent report.

The teacher's eyes flashed brightly, and he shouted loudly, "What's the urgent report?"

The fast horse originally wanted to run towards the big tent of the Chinese army, but when he heard the voice of the middle school teacher, he hastily reined in his horse's feet, turned over and got off the horse, and went straight to the front of the middle school teacher.

"Report to the old general, urgently report from the south, the second leader of the Liangshan Army, Lu Junyi, has led an army of [-] rebels to Xiangcheng!"

The teacher's expression changed slightly.

Thirty thousand Liangshan bandit army is nothing, but if they attack together with the Liangshan bandit army in the city, the Song army is afraid that they will be attacked by the enemy, so they need to deal with it carefully.

Immediately, Zhong Zhong led the crowd to go straight to Zhao Haozhong's tent.

In the large tent of the Chinese army, three or four plates of dishes and a jug of wine were placed on the table in the middle, and Zhao Hao was pouring himself a drink, looking very leisurely.

Seeing Master Zhong's stroke coming in, Zhao Hao showed a warm smile in his eyes: "The old general came just in time, let's drink a few glasses of wine to quench his thirst."

The teacher Zhong didn't have the heart to drink with him, so he said in a hurry: "I have to report urgently. Thirty thousand bandit soldiers from Lu Junyi's bandit army in Liangshan are coming from Xiangcheng. We must divide a soldier and horse to guard the north bank of Yingshui. In order to prevent the bandit army from crossing the river, they will form a pincer attack on our army!"

Zhao Hao picked up a piece of chicken, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it for a while, and drank a glass of wine unhurriedly, then he laughed and said: "Don't worry, old general, I'll have dinner together, go early Go to sleep, take Xiangcheng in the early morning, and see how the bandits attack."

"Siege the city in the early morning? We don't have any siege equipment, how can we attack the city?" Zhong Shizhong was shocked and looked at him puzzled.

Zhao Hao smiled calmly and said, "I have prepared twenty ladders and one ram, if I don't attack the city tonight, when will I wait?"

Teacher Zhong was dumbfounded when he heard that, seeing that Zhao Hao's appearance did not seem to be joking, and this kind of thing can't be joked, after hesitating for a while, his face was overjoyed, he jumped up, and said anxiously: "The ladder and the Chongche are here. where?"

Zhao Hao smiled and said, "You don't need to ask more questions, the old general. After the meal, you only need to arrange the preparations for the siege. I will let Jin Yiwei prepare the siege equipment."

The planter didn't ask any more questions, just hurriedly used the food and wine in Zhao Hao's account, and went to arrange it.

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The night is deep, the moonlight is like water, and a layer of silver light is sprinkled on the tower. The weather has entered autumn, and the tower in the night wind looks a bit cold in the moonlight.

The defenders on the tower leaned against the city wall, some were chatting softly, some were resting with their eyes closed, and some were falling asleep.

"I'm going to take a pee, who will accompany me?" a guard soldier asked.

"Go to your mother, this black lamp is blind, just deal with it on the spot and sprinkle it down." Another guard laughed and cursed.

The defender laughed, put the spear in his hand on the battlement, slowly climbed up the battlement, unbuttoned his crotch, and laughed while shaking his buttocks: "Standing at such a high place to pee, piss!" It's so refreshing... Hey, what's the sound?"

A rumbling sound came to his ears, he raised his head suspiciously, the smile on his face froze instantly, even the yellow urine column stopped abruptly, and he looked at the slow distance not far away as if he had seen a ghost. A black shadow slowly floated over, its mouth opened into a big O shape, it took a long time to react, and shouted: "Enemy attack, enemy attack..."

woohoo~
There was chaos on the top of the city, and the sound of horns soared into the sky. The bustling Liangshan army grabbed their weapons and turned to the outside of the city tower. Rows of strong bows and crossbows quickly set up the battlements, and arrows shining with cold light aimed at the city. .

Seeing that the enemy had found them approaching the city wall, the Zhongshi yelled loudly: "Crossbowmen come out and suppress the bows and arrows at the top of the city!"

With a burst of response,

shhhhhh!
Thousands of crossbow arrows poured towards the city like a torrential rain.

The Song Dynasty not only had the god-armed crossbow, but due to the lack of horses, the crossbows of the Song Dynasty were unparalleled in the world, especially the crossbows used by the imperial army, all of which had a range of two hundred steps, which was enough to suppress the inferior crossbows at the top of the city.

Arrows rained one wave after another, even Qin Ming and Zhu Wu couldn't resist, so they had to hide under the arrow stack to avoid being hurt by the arrows.

woohoo~
Amidst the desolate and distant sound of horns, there was a sudden shout of killing from below the top of the city. Qin Ming raised his shield to protect his head, poked his head out from the battlements, and looked down the city tower. He couldn't help but turn pale with shock.

Under the moonlight, countless Song soldiers rushed out with dozens of ladders and a siege vehicle, heading straight for the tower.

Zhiniang thief, it's only half the night, where did these dog officers and soldiers get the ladder?

It's not just that he can't figure it out, even the seed divisions under the Chinese army can't figure it out.

In the impression of the seed teacher, Zhao Hao is a hot-blooded young man with a strong family and a hatred for evil. Of course, he is also a young man full of wisdom.Although he once led [-] white stiles across thousands of miles of Liao territory, the Zhongshi believed that it was just a legendary adventure, one was because of his good luck, and the other was because of the bravery of Zhao Hao and the accompanying white stiles.As for leading the army to fight, among the trainers, they really didn't think Zhao Hao was a general or a handsome talent, he just wanted to make a name for himself and make some military achievements.

Unexpectedly, in today's first battle, Zhao Hao gave him an unexpected surprise. Mr. Zhao was able to prepare the ladder car and the rush car in advance, and he was preparing for this kind of rapid march. Hao looked at each other with admiration.

However, how Zhao Hao did it, he doesn't understand, and he doesn't know how to ask... At his age like an old fox, he no longer has the energy to break through the casserole and ask the end.

roar~
roar~
roar~
With passionate and confident voices, the Song army rushed under the city wall like bloodthirsty beasts.

The Song army's crossbow arrows continued, and the Liangshan army on the top of the city still couldn't lift their heads up, so they could only let the Song army's siege ladders rumble and advance towards the Xiangcheng wall.

"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey..."

Amid the neat chant of the Song army under the city wall, the upper half of the movable ladder that was originally folded and pressed on the fixed ladder slowly rose with the top bracket as the axis, and then the whole stepladder was completely erected and slowly moved towards The head of Xiangcheng tilted, and finally with a bang, it pressed heavily on the top of the city. The Liangshan army in front of the arrow pile was so shocked that they retreated in a hurry.

The rain of arrows from the strong crossbow has stopped, and twenty ladders are connected on the top of the city to form twenty inclined passages connecting the upper and lower walls of the city.

The next moment, hundreds of soldiers from the Song Army rushed up the ladder like ants, screaming and rushing towards the city.

Qin Ming stood up first, and with a single stroke of the long sword in his hand, the Liangshan army who had been crawling under the tower stood up with a roar, drew their swords one after another, and rushed to the front of the battlements.

Looking at the siege ladder, Zhu Wu couldn't help marveling secretly, this end is a siege weapon, with this kind of ladder, the towering city wall is no longer an insurmountable obstacle.

The fierce siege battle finally officially began.

Boom boom boom!
Huge boulders and lumber rolls rolled down, smashing Song Jun on the ladder to the point of bleeding, crying for father and mother, rolling down from the ladder continuously.

However, all of this could not stop the Song army from rushing to the city. The imperial army in the capital was far more brave than the local Xiang army. Rush on the tower.

(End of this chapter)