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The attitude of the defenders showed that they would not surrender, so Zhao Junsheng didn't waste any time, and directly ordered the supply troops to transport the parts of the siege equipment for assembly and prepare to attack the city.

It's freezing cold, and it's not a good feeling for the soldiers to stand outside the city and be blown by the cold wind.

Zhao Junsheng's attitude towards attacking the cities stationed by the Southern Dynasty troops was to go all out, and he would never underestimate them. The defensive capabilities of the Southern Dynasty troops in terms of city defense were by no means comparable to those of the Northern Wei Army. Too far forward and not too far away.

The distance of 500 meters is the maximum range that trebuchets and bed crossbows can shoot in this era. There are a few bed crossbows on the city wall. Zhao Junsheng dare not get too close. Although the power of this thing has not yet reached its peak, but It can be called the long-range weapon with the longest range in this era.

It can be used for both siege and defense.

No trebuchets were seen on the city wall, Zhao Junsheng felt a little relieved, but he didn't think that the Southern Dynasty couldn't build trebuchets, and the city walls of a county city might not be able to accommodate such big things as trebuchets.

Whether it is a trebuchet or a bed crossbow, Zhao Junsheng has it. Since he wants to fight against the Southern Dynasty army, he must use the most powerful weapons to fight against them, especially for siege warfare. He must have what the Southern Dynasty army has, otherwise You will suffer when you attack the city.

Hua Mulan rode beside Zhao Junsheng, observed the situation on the city wall and said to Zhao Junsheng: "On the surface, the defenders in this county should not exceed 3000 people. In fact, I don't know how many people are in the city. !"

Zhao Junsheng said: "The black guards have already found out that there are 1000 defenders in Linyi Cheng, and 1000 defenders in Zhu'acheng. Behind them is Sima Chuzhi's Qizhou Prefecture.

To govern Licheng, Tan Daoji would definitely not deploy too many soldiers and horses to the north of Licheng, otherwise he would have to worry that Sima Chuzhi would cut off his retreat! "

Hastily came to attack the city, the trebuchet was out of dàn yào, and it was temporarily unusable, and the only way to use the bed crossbow for long-range deterrence and support.

A bed crossbow was brought over by mules and horses and placed side by side, and a cart of parts for well rails and siege ladders was pulled over and assembled.

The weather was cold, but the soldiers were sweating profusely and were in full swing.

A bed crossbow was deployed in a row first, and all the bed crossbows had been wound up. Under the action of gears and pulleys, the manpower required to operate the bed crossbow was greatly reduced, and the speed of filling and operation was greatly accelerated. The city ladder and well curb are still being assembled.

Because of the weather, people who stand still for a long time tend to freeze, so Zhao Junsheng decided not to wait, and opened the situation with the bed crossbow first.

Under Zhao Junsheng's order, the pronged arrows were placed in the grooves of the bed crossbow.

"Shoot—" the commander of the bed crossbow issued an order, and a flag bearer vigorously waved down the command flag.

"Bang bang bang..." The hammer hammers of each bed crossbow swung their hammers and smashed them down together, and a bed crossbow fired stepping arrows.This kind of stepping arrows are nailed to the city wall in rows, deep and firm, and its function is to serve as a climbing platform for the soldiers who attack the city.

After firing the gurney crossbow for several consecutive times, many densely packed prong arrows have been nailed on the outer wall of the city wall, which allows the attacking side to invest several times more troops in the same unit of time to attack the city, which is more intensive than simply using ladders to invest troops. Much larger, and the threat to the defenders of the city walls multiplied.

Chapter 622 Bet

The soldiers of the Southern Dynasties guarding the city stretched their heads out of the wall stacks and looked down, only to see dense numbers of stepping arrows nailed on the outer wall of the city wall. The soldiers of the Northern Wei Dynasty may have never seen this thing, but the soldiers of the Southern Dynasties were very familiar with it. Things are no strangers. The Liu Song Dynasty completely inherited the culture, politics and military of the Eastern and Western Jin Dynasties. How could these soldiers of the Southern Dynasties not know things?

The faces of the soldiers and generals of the Southern Dynasties all changed. Looking at the tall well fences and siege vehicles erected in the distance outside the city, the generals of the defenders realized that this is over. There are so many siege weapons, and tens of thousands of troops, and the defenders in the city are only a thousand people, and the people will not help them defend the city.

"Soldiers, don't panic, it's just death. Ten years later, he will be a hero again!" The guard encouraged the soldiers loudly.

Faced with death, not everyone can deal with it calmly and regard death as home. No matter how nice the words are, they can't solve practical problems. If it was the Northern Wei army in the past, these Southern Dynasty soldiers were not afraid at all. It is not a problem for more than a thousand people to guard for five or six days, but this Northern Wei army is different from other Northern Wei armies at first glance. It not only has a large number of siege equipment, but also has a large number of well-trained, well-equipped infantry.

A lieutenant general was quite worried: "The general is also a discerning person. These Northern Wei troops are not the Northern Wei troops we have encountered before. Almost all the Northern Wei troops are cavalry, but now this Northern Wei army has so many infantry. Do you see They are full of energy and full of weapons, armor and shields, look at the arrows on the outer wall of the city wall, we are in big trouble this time!"

"Yeah, the key is that we didn't prepare much defensive equipment at all. General, we can only stare blankly when you see so many well fences. Once these well fences are pushed over and shoot arrows at my city wall in a condescending manner, we will wait They will all be suppressed!" Another lieutenant general said.

"General, have you noticed just now that their bed crossbows seem to fire very fast, and the interval between them is much shorter than what we have seen..."

The guard was sweating profusely in his vest. It was not from the heat, but from panic and nervousness. He was the guard, so he had to suppress the panic in his heart, and pretended to be calm and said to the soldiers: "Brothers, I believe that you are all It can be seen that this Northern Wei army is strong, and our strength is too weak, but we are not fighting alone, the commander has sent someone to convey the order, let us hold on for five days, within five days there will definitely be reinforcements to come to reinforce!"

The guard himself didn't believe this. As a leading general with some military common sense, how could he not know how Tan Daoji would dare to lead the army himself if he didn't take down Licheng, where Sima Chuzhi was stationed? Come to confront Zhao Junsheng's main force?Aren't you afraid of being attacked in the back?If only a small number of troops are sent, the goal of breaking the siege of Linyi City will not be achieved at all, and they are just sent to die. The Northern Wei army used cavalry to rule the world. If the Southern Dynasty army did not have an advantage in strength, it would be even more difficult to defeat them head-on!Wouldn't sending a small amount of troops over to reinforce Linyi City hit Zhao Junsheng's arms and let Zhao Junsheng carry out a siege?

"If I have a large-scale cavalry in the Song Dynasty, why should I be afraid of mere northern captives?"

The two lieutenants glanced at each other, with helplessness and sighs in their eyes, but the matter had come to an end, so they could only do their best to boost morale, or else the morale would collapse before the battle started, so why fight?Surrender early.

"Okay, okay, cheer me up, didn't the general say, hold on for five days, and after five days, reinforcements will definitely arrive. At that time, we will attack inside and outside together with the reinforcements, and defeat the northern captives in one fell swoop!" The lieutenant pressed his sword While checking whether the city defense deployment was in place on the city wall, he cheered up the soldiers loudly.

An old soldier said: "General Wu, only you believe this, I don't believe it!"

Wu Chengjie scolded angrily: "Old man Huang, if you disturb the morale of the army indiscriminately, I will kill you!"

"That's right, even if the old man didn't say anything, please please!"

Just as he was talking, there was already movement outside the city. The command flags in the Wei army formation kept waving, and the siege team in front moved slowly towards the city wall with neat steps. Many people who moved together were carrying siege ladders. , pawns pushing siege engines and well fences.

"Ready to fight—" the guard pulled out his sword and roared

, everyone on the city wall began to look nervous and waited in full force.

Heavy and orderly footsteps trampled on the snow, making a deafening tremor. A total of five thousand infantry were divided into many square formations of different sizes. The frontmost infantry was undoubtedly carrying the siege ladder.

All the defenders of the Southern Dynasties on the city wall looked at this momentum, their faces turned pale, and their hands trembling with weapons. This Wei army was completely different from the Wei army that had fought in the past. How terrible is it that the infantry is drilled into this gang?

The army finally moved to a place within a stone's throw of the city wall. As a budding figure in the Youzhou army, Fu Zhan received special care from Zhao Junsheng and got the opportunity to command the infantry to attack the city.

"The first siege phalanx covers the siege echelon team, charge—" Fu Zhan drew out his sword and pointed towards the city wall and shouted.

The howling north wind blew away Fu Zhan's voice, but the flag bearer did not slack off, and faithfully typed out his orders in semaphore.

The trumpeters blew the horns of the charge, and the soldiers carrying the siege ladders rushed towards the city wall. They held the shields in one hand and the siege ladders on their shoulders with the other while running wildly and shouting: "Come on—"

In addition to the ladders carried by the soldiers, there were four city ladders, and a dozen soldiers pushed forward a siege ladder quickly.

The soldiers of the first siege phalanx tightly guarded the two sides of the siege equipment team, protecting the siege equipment in the middle.

Fu Zhan turned his head to look up at the city wall, looked back again, and ordered: "Siege vehicles, well rails, and archer phalanx, let me mount—"

The guard saw that Wei Jun had entered the range of the bow and arrow, and immediately ordered: "Archers release arrows!"

The bows and arrows on the city wall came forward to the room where the siege teams were charging fast, but the siege teams rushed forward with their shields on their shields.

The team rushed to the edge of the moat, and the soldiers carrying the siege ladders roared one by one, threw the ladders to the other side of the moat, and then jumped down the moat alone. The moat had already frozen, and the siege soldiers rushed After going down, they slid to the opposite bank. With swords in their mouths, they climbed up the moat with hands and feet against the arrows that kept shooting from their heads, and raised the siege ladder again to set it on the city wall.

"Give me up!" A soldier holding a saber shouted to the soldiers who came up from here.

Some people started to climb the ladder, some people started to climb up with the arrows nailed to the city wall, and the siege soldiers who rushed under the city wall attracted all the attention of the defenders on the city wall. The long springboard rushed over from behind the army formation and laid the springboard on the moat.

Now the wheeled siege ladder and siege vehicles can cross the moat through the springboard and go straight to the bottom of the city wall. The wheeled siege ladder leaned against the city wall amidst countless shouts and roars, and teams of siege soldiers held weapons Stepping on the pedal with the shield, he rushed directly to the city wall.

"kill--"

"Go to hell!"

The well curb was also pushed to the edge of the moat, and groups of archers stepped on the stair treads to the platform at the top of the well curb. Each well curb had an archer Yazhu, who held a sword and directed the bows and arrows to shoot. arrow.

"Aim for me at the Southern Dynasty soldiers on the city wall, don't shoot your own people, shoot the arrows!"

The defenders on the city wall were suppressed, especially the archers were completely suppressed. The platform at the top of the well curb was much higher than the city wall, and the advantage of condescending to shoot arrows was too obvious.

Zhao Junsheng wrapped his son tightly in a cloak, only showing his small head. He turned his head and asked, "Mulan, do you think the defenders of Linyi City can support the army?" how long?"

Hua Mulan said: "I heard that Liu Song's army in the Southern Dynasty was good at defending the city, but our army has an absolute advantage in strength and has large siege weapons. Even if they are good at defending, they will be defeated. I guess they can only last for a morning at most!"