Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

This time, what was ignited was a big fire!Chen Ying put a whole barrel of fierce oil on a trebuchet.The whole thing was thrown out, and more than [-] kilograms of fierce fire oil burned, and flew towards the outside of the city.

"Boom!" There was a loud noise, and the wooden barrel loaded with kerosene flew in all directions, forming a large fire pile with a radius of more than ten steps, and the enemy troops with hundreds of steps around had nowhere to hide.

As far as the fire could see, the enemy troops surging under the city wall were clearly illuminated. Chen Ying was surprised to find that these troops were still carrying ladders!At this moment, they are pushing the ladder to try to climb the city.

If he hadn't been disturbed by He Yue'er, had no intention of going to sleep, and came to Dongcheng with a sense of anger, Dongcheng might have changed hands by now.Or in my sleep, I have become a prisoner of the enemy.

Chen Ying thought about it at this moment, and still felt scared.Maybe God didn't want him to die, maybe he didn't deserve to die.

If the enemy's conspiracy is really allowed to succeed, the consequences will be unimaginable.Fortunately, they are doomed to fail at this time.Conspiracy, just because it is a conspiracy, as long as you see through it, it will not work at all.

"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Chapter 32 The Widowmaker (Second watch for subscription)

Liu Tong wanted to attack overnight, but just arrived at the city, and found that the city began to increase troops.A frightened soldier accidentally shot an arrow, but the sneak attack failed and turned into a strong attack.It's a pity that they only have simple siege ladders, which are actually just prepared for stealing the city.With the defenders already aware of it at this time, the effect of the ladder is very limited.

Liu Tong's nephew Liu Lan looked at Liu Tong and said, "Uncle, what should we do now?"

"We can't fight like this, we are too disadvantaged!" When Liu Tong took refuge in Liang Shidu, he led more than [-] children of the Liu family in Lingzhou. Now it is the first time to lead the army. Officers at all levels.Just now another nephew of his, Liu Yishan, was pierced through the head by an arrow.He died tragically in the city of Lingzhou, and even his own son Liu Tianyi was shot in the calf bone. According to the level of medical skills of this era, Liu Tianyi can only spend the rest of his life lying in bed.

Thinking about how his only son almost fell under the city of Lingzhou, Liu Tong's hatred was overwhelming.But looking at the endless means in Lingzhou City, especially until now, Lingzhou City has not sounded the alarm bell. It is obvious that the guard thinks it is more than enough.

Liu Tong gritted his teeth and said angrily: "Retreat temporarily, build siege equipment, and continue to attack after dawn!"

Hearing Liu Tong's order, Liang Jun's soldiers retreated as if they were being pardoned.In fact, Lingzhou City did not cause much damage to the Liang army below the city, only causing more than [-] casualties, but this sudden incendiary bomb fell from the sky, like moths throwing fire, and the dense arrows made people They can't avoid it, and the feeling that there is no way to hide is really aggrieved.

What's more, the weather is cold, they crawl on the snow, their hands and feet are numb from the cold, and their arrows are not only inaccurate, but also have no strength. Even if a blind cat encounters a dead mouse, but the enemy is hit by an arrow, nothing will happen. Pull out the arrow, and the other way around Just shoot at them.

Watching the Liang army slowly retreat like the tide, Liang Zan exclaimed at this time: "General Manager Chen is a natural born general, even the enemy steals the camp, otherwise we will suffer a lot if the enemy takes advantage of the loophole!"

"Uh..." Chen Ying didn't know how to answer Liang Zan's words. He didn't plan on the Liang Junhui's sneak attack. The real reason was hard to tell. He Yueer raped him in every way in his room, as a normal man , Chen Ying almost couldn't hold it anymore.But thinking that He Yue'er was sent by Li Xiuning again, if He Yueer's sexual behavior was not at Li Xiuning's behest or hint, Chen Ying dared to pull out his eyeballs as a slap in the face.

"What nonsense!" Chen Ying said with a stern face in order to hide his embarrassment: "Hurry up now, treat the wounded, eat, rest, there are still vile battles to be fought!"

At this time, either the defenders of Lingzhou City or the soldiers led by the right guard.Chen Ying was treated like a god, and Chen Ying's orders were carried out without any compromise.

Chen Ying did not stand on the edge of the parapet to blow the cold wind, he returned to the city gate and carefully analyzed the current situation.Xue Ju in Hexi has perished, and there is still Li Gui, the king of Yongle. Although Chen Ying doesn't know how the Tang Dynasty pacified Li Gui, he remembers that in the second year of Wude, Li and Tang took over Hexi.Then Li Gui is not far away from his demise.

As the sky gradually brightened, the gang leaders in the city carried whole buckets of food up to the city wall.Because Chen Ying seized a large number of wounded and dead horses, horse meat was openly served, even for breakfast, it was a bowl of rice, plus two pieces of horse meat weighing half a catty.Although the taste of horse meat was not very good, these ordinary soldiers who had hardly seen meat all year round were very happy to eat it.

The line of sight had widened. Chen Ying stood on the city wall and looked at Liang Jun soldiers shivering in the cold wind outside the city. At this time, there seemed to be no smoke rising from the Liang Jun army formation.

Seeing this scene, Chen Yingji became concerned.

"Ryazan, find some soldiers with loud voices!"

After a while, Liang Zan called more than twenty soldiers with loud voices to Chen Ying.

Chen Yingdao: "Stand on the city wall and shout to Liang Jun. Liang Jun brothers, be hungry. We have food here. If you go to Datang, you will have meat to eat!"

This sentence is very short and very simple, more than [-] soldiers learned it in one pass.More than [-] soldiers rushed down to the city and shouted: "Brothers Liang Jun, are you hungry? We have food here, and if you go to Datang, you can eat meat!"

But after shouting more than ten times in a row, there was no response from Liang Jun's formation.

Liang Zan looked at Chen Ying eating rice with great interest, and said, "Master, it seems useless?"

"It's no wonder it's useful!" Chen Ying said vaguely with food in his mouth, "This manager is purely disgusting Liang Jun!"

"Disgusting them?"

"Of course, if we let them prepare the siege equipment smoothly, it will be enough for us to drink a pot at that time!" Chen Ying said with a smile: "So, let them shout, it doesn't work now, but it will work in the future!"

Liang Jun under the city heard Tang Jun's shouting on the city, but in fact it was not without the slightest effect, and the effect was very large.Deng Jichang was originally a merchant in Feng'an County, Lingzhou. He was captured by Liang Jun when he was about to flee back to Guanzhong a month ago.There were quite a few people captured by Liang Jun like Deng Jichang, but Liang Jun was not a good man. They captured these people, picked out the young and strong, old and weak, women and children who could be used, and let them fend for themselves.

Because Deng Jichang knew a few words and could do arithmetic, he naturally became Liang Jun's logistics secretary.To say how much loyalty Deng Jichang has to Master Liang is pure nonsense.But Deng Jichang didn't dare to disobey Liang Jun's order, because his parents, wife and children were all held hostage in Yanzhou.

As long as they dare to escape privately, the family members imprisoned in Yanzhou will definitely be killed, and their wives and daughters will be sold to Turkic people as slaves.When the shouting on the city wall started, Deng Jichang looked at the people whispering beside him.

Although he couldn't hear what they were discussing, in fact Deng Jichang knew that these people were discussing how to surrender to the Tang army.

At this moment, the drums of the Liang Army's Left Army and the Central Army began to sound.

"Dong dong..."

The sound of the thick drums rang through the sky. In fact, Liang Jun's preparations for attacking were not complete, but as Tang Jun shouted on the city wall, Liang Jun's army fluctuated.Liu Tong had to order the attack in advance.

Following Liu Tong's order, an upright and pure Chinese-style offensive and defensive battle began.

Since Liang Shidu did not have enough supplies, like the kind of fierce bombardment of hundreds of trebuchets aimed at the city wall day and night, Liu Tong could not afford this kind of rich battle.He had no choice but to use a strong crossbow to suppress the archers on the city wall, and the ladder continued.

More than [-] strong crossbowmen from the two powers approached slowly with heavy crossbows on their backs, and there were shieldmen covering them beside them.Sit together at the distance calculated by the general, and use your waist to open the crossbow!This is not the scariest thing, the scariest thing is eight flat four-wheeled wooden carts.Driven by dozens of soldiers, they slowly climbed up the city wall.

Chen Ying's face was quite natural when he saw the appearance of Liang Jun's strong crossbowman, but when he saw the four-wheeled wooden cart, his expression suddenly changed: "Widow maker?"

Chapter 33 Once and For All

"Isn't this a bed crossbow?" Liang Zan asked suspiciously, "Why does the manager call this thing a widow maker?"

Chen Ying smiled wryly: "This is a bed crossbow, but it's also a widow maker. As long as you get hit by an arrow, you will definitely die. What is it if you are not a widow maker?"

This bed crossbow is no joke. In ancient times, this thing was a cannon.Do you know how it opens?

Turn the axle, then hit the trigger with a hammer, and the range can reach 500 meters!This is beyond the imagination of the northern nomads.

During the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Liao Kingdom invaded and reached Chanzhou in central Hebei. The cavalry went straight to the city, trying to preemptively take down the North City.While organizing the onslaught, he observed the weaknesses of the Song army immediately on the high slope. The morale of the Song army was like a rainbow, and the arrows were like rain. The Liao army gradually became disorganized. , but in this way, he was flying around, exposing his command position.

Xiao Darin thought that his position was beyond the range of the bow and arrow, and that there were shield soldiers on the side facing the Song army, so he thought it was safe.As a result, dozens of crossbows were fired by the Song Army, and Xiao Darin, who was immediately on the high slope, became the target of concentrated shooting. The first arrow directly hit the horse of Tanlan, and he himself was hit by an arrow in the ribs, as if throwing the arrow to the ground. Another arrow pierced through the top of the helmet and came out of one eye, and he couldn't hold himself up immediately and fell to the ground. He died in the camp that night, and was hit by six arrows when he died.

There is no way to defend the bed crossbow at all, no matter how heavy the shield is, it cannot withstand the bed crossbow.The ancient city walls were basically rammed with steamed soil mixed with glutinous rice juice. Although it is not cement, it cannot be smashed with a hammer, but the bed crossbow is five hundred steps away, and one arrow can shoot one foot into the wall.

"You can't be beaten passively!" Chen Ying knew the power of the bed crossbow well, so he immediately ordered: "Come here, immediately order Luo Shixin and Yu Guni to lead the cavalry to destroy the bed crossbow outside the enemy's city!"

Just as Chen Ying's order was issued, there was a shrill piercing sound.

"Arrow rain!" Amidst the sharp piercing sound, several soldiers at the top of the city were hit by arrows at the same time, and even Liang Zan was almost shot by accident.

Against the nomadic horse bows, the Huaxia defenders still have the advantage in range.Unless the enemy puts himself within range regardless of casualties, and endures the baptism of archery on the city wall, there is no way to suppress the defenders on the city wall.

However, although Liu Tong's troops did not have many crossbows, at most two hundred, the range of the two sides was almost undefeated. Both sides had their own strengths.

However, during the crossbow shooting between the two sides, Liang Jun took advantage of the fact that the defenders on the city wall had no time to suppress the city, and hundreds of Liang Jun infantry carried ladders and began to ascend the city.At the same time, dozens of Liang Jun soldiers rushed towards the city gate with dry firewood and oil tanks.

Like other city gates, the gates of Lingzhou City are made of expanded wood and iron.A thin layer of iron skin cannot withstand burning at all.If the enemies under the city gate cannot be expelled, the city gate can be burned down in at most half an hour.

Chen Ying looked at Liang Jun outside the city and sneered. The enemy general's siege method was not wrong, but very methodical.But he overlooked one point, Chen Yingshou was in Lingzhou, it was not incapable of going out of the city at all.Chen Ying is also not afraid of field battles with the enemy.

Chen Ying pointed at Fang Jiangtao, the brigade commander of Dongcheng City, and said, "You take over the command, how to fight, let go!"