Chapter 2007 Battle of Zhenbei(1/2)
"Woo~woo~"
"All troops attack!"
"Kill!"
"Prepare the catapult, let go!"
"Bang bang bang!"
"Rumble~"
"Put it, put it, put it!"
"Bang bang bang!"
"Pffffffffffff~"
"Ah~ah~"
This is Pinghan Road, Jizhou, and Zhenbeiguan. It is the third battlefield where the Liang Army and the Yan Army fought.
After the Yan army launched attacks in Beiliang and Luoyun City, Zhou Weiran also commanded the army to launch a fierce attack on Zhenbeiguan.
Since Zhenbeiguan was captured by the Yungu Army last year, the Yan Army has been attacking this important pass for several months.
Unfortunately, Zhenbeiguan City has high walls and is easy to defend but difficult to attack. The Yan army could not attack for a long time and had to retreat in the winter.
Large catapults were arranged alternately along the plain outside the pass, densely packed. The thrown catapults drew an arc in the air and then hit the city head of Zhenbeiguan fiercely.
When the Liang army made a sneak attack on Zhenbeiguan, they burned most of the Yan army's siege equipment and confiscated Zhou Weiran's credentials.
However, with the help of the Yan family and the Central Plains craftsmen who were forced to work, the Yan army in Dongting quickly built a large number of new catapults, which were astonishingly powerful.
It happened that there were many mountains around Zhenbeiguan, so the Yan army used local materials, dug mountains and dug rocks, and bombarded the city of Zhenbeiguan almost non-stop.
Looking carefully into the distance, it seems that a small hilltop has been hollowed out by the Yan army.
In order to capture Zhenbeiguan, the Yan army went crazy.
"Prepare the catapult!"
"put!"
"Bang bang bang!"
"The crossbowmen move forward to suppress the momentum of the Liang army's counterattack, quickly!"
"Forward! Kill!"
"Kill!"
In the sky were boulders and arrows whizzing by, and on the ground were the soldiers of Yan Army rushing forward like a tide.
The Yan army's siege infantry consisted of two parts, one part was elite veterans transferred from the front line of Luoyun City, and the other part was soldiers and horses under the Yan family.
Of course, the Yan army was always worried about the Yan family's soldiers. Whenever it was their turn to attack the city, the Yan army would always send a supervising team to the rear to prevent the Yan family's army from being lazy.
The siege phalanx advanced round after round, covering each other with shields, and used crossbows and slings to attack the Liang army.
Not to mention anything else, just judging from the posture of the Yan army in attacking the city, they can be regarded as elites.
"Block Liang Jun's arrows, shield hand forward!"
"Put it up on the cloud car, hurry up, stick it up!"
"Kill!"
"Climb the city, climb the city, rush upward!"
One after another, the siege vehicles crossed the already filled city defense trenches and pressed against the city wall of Zhenbeiguan. The densely packed Yan army soldiers climbed up the city bravely and fought their way up.
Next to those cloud chariots lay many rotting and stinking corpses. These were the infantry of the Yan army who had died during this period.
The body was covered with corpses, and they were trampled wantonly, and they looked bloody.
Horrible.
The screams of the Yan Army generals were endless, and the shouts of killing were endless. Of course, such a ferocious offensive was also accompanied by the Yan Army's miserable screams.
"Puff puff puff~"
"Ahhh!"
"Be careful, be careful of falling rocks!"
"boom!"
"Pfft~"
"Ahh~"
The Yan army was advancing desperately, and the Liang army on the top of the city was also not idle.
Hammers and rolling stones fell like raindrops, and sharp arrows shot through the chests of the soldiers of Yan Army one after another.
The Liang army's crossbows had a very long range, and even if the Yan army held a shield, they would have to sacrifice a lot of lives to reach the foot of the city wall.
"Swish swish~"
"Pfft, pfft!"
"Leave it all to me, climb up quickly!"
"Anyone who dares to retreat will be beheaded on the spot!"
"kill!"
"Whoosh!"
"Pfft~"
A centurion of the Yan army was waving a scimitar one moment and commanding the soldiers to climb the city, but the next moment he was shot into a hornet's nest by the Liang army's arrows.
The surrounding Yan soldiers didn't even take a second look at the corpse before they rushed towards Yun Che.
In a place like this, death is a normal thing.
"The crossbow battalion aims at the Yan army's infantry phalanx and fires arrows!"
"Ouch!"
"Whoosh whoosh!"
"put!"
"Whoosh whoosh!"
"Ahhhh~"
"The spearmen move forward, the Yan army is about to climb up! Stab these bastards to death!"
"Kill!"
"Pfft, pfft!"
A pretty strong one
Shuo's figure was in the center of the battlefield, commanding his soldiers to fight back against the rain of arrows, with a sound like a bell.
Taking a closer look, this person is clearly Chang Huaiyi, the grandson of Chang's parents.
Chang Huaiyi had a murderous look on his face, a scimitar in his hand, and a Liangjun standard black armor on his body, and he was constantly issuing various orders.
The defenders in this area were deployed in an orderly manner under his command, and the Yan army was completely unable to raise its head.
Chang Huaiyi had served in the Liangjun of Jizhou for several years. He was very familiar with every watchtower and every brick in Beiguan of this town.
He also knows the weak points of the city wall's defense very well, so he can naturally improve the defense to the extreme.
"Kill!"
"Chi chi chi~"
"Ahhhh~"
"Kill!"
"Swish swish~"
The fierce battle lasted from early morning to dusk. It was only when the sound of gold ringing sounded from the Yan army's formation that the siege army retreated like a tide.
Smoke billowed outside Zhenbeiguan, and Yan Jun's corpses lay scattered on the ground, with blood dripping from the rain arrows.
A miserable situation.
The top of the city was also covered with smashed rubble. The injured soldiers of Liang helped each other go down to the city to rest. Those who still had the energy to spare were constantly cleaning the battlefield, carrying ordnance, and strengthening the city defense.
Siege warfare is like this, you have to repair while fighting.
Today the city wall collapsed, and tomorrow the arrow tower here is rotten, and they need to be repaired constantly to prevent the Yan army from taking advantage of the loopholes.
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Chang Huaiyi stood by the city wall holding the bloody cold knife and looked at the Yan army retreating like a tide with sharp eyes.
To be continued...