The Chronicles of Longevity on Liaozhai Road

However, I want to emphasize that the wounds suffered by being poured with this kind of golden juice are worse than those hit by bows and arrows and rolling wood and thunder stones.

If you are shot by a bow and arrow, you still have a chance to be rescued. If you are hit by a rolling wood and thunder stone, you will be killed on the spot, and the pain will not be great.

But once the golden juice is poured on the body, then this crime will be borne.

First, the skin is torn apart, and then the injured part will slowly suppurate, and then begin to fester. This festering will spread all the way to the whole body, and the injured person will eventually fester and die. The pain suffered by humans is unimaginable.

Faced with this situation, in the end, most of the wounded soldiers would beg their companions to execute themselves to relieve the pain.

Yang Heng's side didn't let the soldiers hold the ladder project at the beginning, but pushed all kinds of engineering equipment under the city wall first.

The most terrifying of these siege equipment is the catapult.

These catapults are the best way Yang Heng made after consulting the literature in modern times.

Not only can he throw boulders weighing tens of kilograms, but more importantly, the distance he throws is much farther than the catapult from this other world.

This is also an important magic weapon for Yang Heng to attack Nanjing City head-on this time.

As for the remaining ladders, Yang Heng did not let the soldiers carry the ladders to attack the city as before.

This ladder Yang Heng also used countless craftsmen in the north to create countless essences that have been siege for thousands of years on the earth plane.

The shape is that there are wheels under it, which can be pushed and driven, so it is also called "ladder car". It is equipped with anti-shield, winch, grabbing hook and other appliances, as well as lifting equipment with pulleys.

In the face of Yang Heng's tide-like attack, Zhou Yan on the tower did not show weakness. While urging, the soldiers kept fighting back, while trying their best to prevent Yang Heng's engineering equipment from approaching.

Nanjing Chengtou is also equipped with some catapults. Originally, these catapults are condescending, and they are very powerful against the siege equipment below.

But this time these catapults could not play their role very well, because there were hundreds of giant catapults behind Yang Heng's team.

The throwing distance of these catapults is twice that of this alien catapult, so it has all-round suppression of the catapults in this world.

So in the end, Zhou Yan had to use the blood and flesh of the soldiers to resist the tide-like attack from the opposite side.

And if Zhou Yan hadn't been supported by the city wall, the soldiers and strong men under him would have fled away long ago.

The fight on both sides of the city wall was lively, and the city did not calm down.

On Yang Heng's side, just after the siege began, many dignitaries in the city began to gather their cronies and servants closely.

For the sake of their future glory and wealth, these people no longer cared about their master Wu Wang Li Xian.

What's even more terrible is that each of these dignitaries has hundreds of servants, and there are thousands of people in this concentration.

And these thousands of people are well-equipped and dare to fight.

The leader of these people was none other than Li Yu, the younger brother of Li Xian, King of Wu.

Even though this person was serving as a cavalry general, he seemed to be a high-ranking and powerful person. In fact, Li Xian didn't give him any rights at all, he just gave him a name.

However, Li Yu didn't think about fighting for power, but was singing and dancing in his mansion every day.

Originally, this day was going well, and it seemed that it would continue like this forever.

But suddenly Yang Heng came to fight with soldiers, and he came with a threatening aura. Many places surrendered upon hearing the wind, and it seemed that the city of Nanjing could not be defended.

Therefore, in order for Li Yu to still be able to enjoy this endless joy in the future, he started thinking that he shouldn't have.

This time, he was also the leader who contacted the dignitaries, and then presented Yang Heng with a surrender form.

And precisely because of his identity, no one in Nanjing City expected him to surrender.

So when he moved to the other side of the city wall with thousands of elite servants, everyone thought that the younger brother of King Wu was doing his best to defend the city.

But when he came to the gate of the city, he gave an order, and the thousands of elite servants behind him swarmed up, hacking and killing the soldiers guarding the city.

It should be said that the thousand or so people guarding the city gate were specially arranged by Zhou Yan, and they were all selected elites from the army.

The reason why Zhou Yan did this was because he was afraid that Yang Heng would suddenly break through the city gate, and these elites could resist for a while, so that other people could come to reinforce them.

These people are indeed powerful, and they persisted for a while when faced with the attack of well-equipped and daring servants.

But in such a short time, Zhou Yan on the top of the city got the report. He was surprised at first, and then angry. After his eyes turned red, he personally brought a thousand people down to reinforce.

But when he came to the gate of the city, he found that the more than 1000 defenders at the gate had almost been killed, and Li Yu had already led his troops to prepare to open the gate.

Since the city wall of Nanjing City is too high and the city gate is too large, no thousand-jin gate was prepared.

Therefore, Li Yu came to the city gate easily, and then removed all the stones blocking the city gate, and now he ordered the soldiers to open the gate.

It was at this time that Zhou Yan arrived with his troops.

Zhou Yan didn't hesitate after seeing the situation, and directly ordered his soldiers to start attacking, trying to delay the opponent's speed of opening the city gate.

At the same time, he sent people to gather troops on the city wall again, hoping to come for reinforcements.

But at this time, loopholes in Zhou Yan's previous defensive strategy appeared.

Zhou Yan evenly arranged 10 people on the four city walls. On the surface, it seemed that each city wall could have enough manpower to defend.

However, Nanjing has a circumference of seventy miles. For such a long distance, if you want to mobilize people and horses, it will take an hour just to run back and forth.

Therefore, although Zhou Yan attacked desperately on this side and wanted to delay the opponent's door opening speed, there was still not enough time. In the end, before his reinforcements arrived, Li Yu's side had already opened the city gate.

And Liu Yue, who was the main attacker outside Nanjing City, saw the gate of Nanjing City suddenly opened. He was first happy, then surprised.

How is this going?Could it be that the other party wants to lure his own army into the city, and then siege and kill them with all their strength in the urn city?

Just when Liu Yue was hesitating, a pair of cavalry rushed out of the opened city gate. These cavalry were very embarrassed, but they didn't stop and came straight to Liu Yue.

Liu Yue thought that the other party wanted to assault his siege engine, and he still sighed in his heart for the other party's bravery.

Therefore, he had no choice but to send his own soldiers to resist this group of people, so as not to let them disrupt his formation.

However, the expected battle did not happen.

His personal commander quickly turned his horse back to Liu Yue, and then handed a letter to Liu Yue's eyes.

Liu Yue was stunned for a moment, then took the letter, read it carefully, and was overjoyed.

It turned out that this letter was a reply from their master, Yang Heng, who had contacted those people in the opposite Nanjing city.

It turned out that Yang Heng had contacted them a long time ago, so these people desperately opened the city gate.

This time Liu Yue didn't hesitate anymore, and hurriedly recruited these people in front of him.

Before Liu Yue started to ask questions, the person in the lead fell off his horse and knelt down in front of Liu Yue.

"My lord, please enter the city quickly, otherwise Zhou Yan's reinforcements will arrive."

Liu Yue nodded, then called his own general over, and ordered him to lead 5000 troops to reinforce the city gate immediately.

The reason why he only sent 5000 people was also a temptation.

Although there was Yang Heng's reply, Liu Yue did not fully believe these people.

With these 5000 people, as long as they enter the city and guard the city gate, even if the opponent has an ambush, they can delay it for a while.

Chapter 676

With the addition of these five thousand fresh troops, the situation at the city gate changed again.

Zhou Yan could no longer maintain the attack on the city gate, they could only keep retreating while anxiously waiting for reinforcements.

On Liu Yue's side, he also discovered that the city gate had been controlled by his troops, and the other party seemed to have no ambush. This time he was bold, and immediately commanded his more than 2 troops to start moving to their side.

Yang Heng, who was at the back, also noticed the change in the city gate, so he hurriedly sent someone to inquire.

After a while, I came back to report after exploring the horse.

"Reporting to the Supreme Emperor, Li Yu, the younger brother of Li Xian, King of Wu, took the city gate with his troops anyway. General Liu Yue has already controlled the city gate. Now, please send an army to reinforce it immediately."

A smile appeared on Yang Heng's face. The dignitaries in Nanjing did not disappoint him.

So Yang Heng immediately ordered Xue Feng who was next to him.

"Immediately bring 5 troops to reinforce the city. After breaking through the city gates, launch a counterattack on the city walls. It is best to capture all the city gates before dark."

The reason why Yang Heng gave such an order was because he had learned a lesson.

When the capital was attacked last time, Emperor Shunde was allowed to escape. If Li Xian was really allowed to escape this time, there would be trouble, and he would do something wrong again.

After Xue Feng took the order, he immediately gathered his men and horses, and then quickly headed towards the city gate.

After arranging the matter of seizing the city, Yang Yangheng sent Kuaima to inform several other directions, telling them to stop attacking the city and strictly defend it, so as to prevent any remnants from escaping from the city gate.

With the arrival of Xue Feng's army, Zhou Yan at the gate of the city really couldn't resist. In the end, he couldn't even go back to the city wall, and finally he could only flee to the city with the defeated soldiers.

After Xue Feng and Liu Yue met, they discussed briefly, and then began to divide the work.

Since there were too many guards on the city wall, the task of clearing the city wall was handed over to Xue Feng's new force.

And the task of expanding into the city was completed by Liu Yue.

As for not being familiar with the roads of Nanjing City, that's a trivial matter, because there are thousands of powerful servants accompanying them, and these people are the best guides.

As for the dignitaries who followed Li Yulai, they will naturally not go to the battlefield anymore.

Just now they were fighting Zhou Yan with their knives, and that was also to drive ducks to the shelves. Now that the reinforcements are here, they are thinking of their own lives, so naturally they will not mix with these big-headed soldiers.

After Xue Feng separated from Liu Yue, he immediately led his men and horses to launch a fierce attack on the city wall along the plank road.

And this is because the soldiers on the city wall already knew the news that the city gate was broken, so they had no intention of resisting.

As soon as Xue Feng's army reached the top of the wall, these people threw down their weapons one after another, knelt down and begged for their lives.

For those who surrendered, Xue Feng naturally would not kill them all, but sent someone to gather them together and confiscated their weapons.

It should be said that the Wu army is really a bit stubborn. Although most of them put down their weapons and surrendered, there are still some generals who lead their cronies to resist stubbornly.

As for these people, Xue Feng had no choice but to lead his troops to exterminate them himself.

Fortunately, although these people said they had the heart to fight desperately, they had been fighting all morning and were exhausted. Therefore, facing Xue Feng's new force, they only resisted a few times, and soon fell into a passive position.

However, there were more and more reinforcements on Xue Feng's side. Later, these resisters were overwhelmed by the ferocious crowd. By night, all the gates of Nanjing City had been controlled by Xue Feng.

Although the city gate is under control, the battle in Nanjing City is not over.

Zhou Yan is still leading the retreated soldiers to fight guerrilla warfare with Liu Yue in the city.

As their master, Li Xian, the king of Wu, also joined the ranks of counterattack with his own Imperial Forest Army.

It's not that Wu Wang Li Xian is so brave, the reason why he did this is because he has no choice.

Because as soon as the city gate was broken, the King of Wu, Li Xian, was ready to take his Imperial Forest Army out of the city gate to escape for his life.

However, the fate of Li Xian, King of Wu, was obviously not good. After he fought out from the south gate, he thought that the sea and the sky would be bright, but in the end he faced Tang Kai, the general under Yang Heng's command.

Facing Tang Kai, a powerful general, Li Xian now has no other generals to accompany him except for the elite soldiers.

Therefore, it was just a charge, and Li Xian's Imperial Forest Army was beaten into a panic. There was even one time when Tang Kai and his cavalry almost approached the city gate.

In the end, Li Xian really had no choice but to close the city gate again and return to his palace.

But when he just returned to the palace, when he was thinking of gathering his troops to charge again, bad news came one after another.

"Report to Your Majesty, Chief Governor Zhou Yan ordered me to report to His Majesty that all the city gates have been lost, Your Majesty, please make a decision early."

Although Wu Wang Li Xian is relatively weak, he is also the founding emperor of the country.

At this critical juncture, his charm and city government are reflected.

He gathered all his imperial guards, together with the eunuchs in the palace, and gathered nearly 1 people to join Zhou Yan in the city.

The two parties brought their people together, and there were only more than 2 people counted.

It is unrealistic for people to want to expel Yang Hengde's army in the city just based on this.

Therefore, Li Xian and Zhou Yan discussed it and decided to lead the troops to break through. As long as they leave Nanjing, the sea and the sky will be brighter.

But at this time, a leader is needed to break through, and Li Xian is relatively weak, so he is naturally not suitable for this position, so Zhou Yan will do his part.

When it comes to which direction is the best way to break through, Li Xian seems to naturally go to the south gate, because as long as he breaks through the blockade of the south gate, he can go south immediately, and then go to the nearby counties and counties to gather people and horses. He can also fight Yang Heng to the death in Jiangnan.

But his proposal was rejected by Zhou Yan.

"Your Majesty, Yang Heng naturally knows that the south is our territory, so the defense to the south must be very tight. We are going into a trap by going through the south gate now."

"Then what do you say? You can't wait to die here, can you?"

Zhou Yan said confidently: "Yang Heng's main attack direction this time is to attack our north gate from the north, so he never thought that we would break out from the north."

Hearing this, Li Xian was a little annoyed at first, but after thinking about it, Zhou Yan might be right.

"What you said is also reasonable. Then let's try to break out from the north. If it succeeds, it will be good. If it doesn't work, we will go elsewhere."