On the city wall, there were broken bricks and stones everywhere, and black blood stains had penetrated deeply into the cracked rammed earth wall.
Stone bullets weighing over a hundred kilograms were still being thrown continuously.
After Zuo Xiaosheng's army took over the defense of Ruyang, they squeezed out limited resources to heighten the city wall and cover it with bricks and stones. However, in addition to weakening the structural strength, the too-tall city wall also greatly increased the cross-sectional area, making it easier for
Hit by trebuchet.
The Ruyang City Wall, which the defenders once thought was unattainable, was now like an old wooden bed under a man and a woman caught in a raging fire. Every time it received a blow, it creaked and swayed, making people suspect that it would collapse in the next moment.
The covering masonry has long since collapsed, and the exposed core of the rammed earth wall is also covered with ferocious branch-like cracks. The base of the city wall is filled with broken bricks and rubble, as well as rammed loess mixed with lime and grass clippings.
No one knows how long the precarious city wall on the northeast side can hold on without collapse.
Some of the stone bullets also crossed the city wall and smashed into the city. Those who hit the thatched huts all broke through broken beams and collapsed. When they landed on the open space, they were also sunk several feet deep. The power was terrifying - the people were wailing all over the field and dragging their children.
Take your daughter to the southwest for shelter.
Although the city wall was in danger, it was still barely holding on. In order to avoid direct attacks from stone bullets, most of the defenders temporarily hid under the city wall and stood by - a temporary fence was built on the inside of the city wall.
On the northeast side of the city wall, there were still a small number of defenders watching the movements of the enemy troops outside the city. However, when they heard the whizzing of stone bullets and felt the vibration of the city wall under their feet, they were all frightened. They knew that the war tent above them was called a stone.
The bullets hit them hard, and the only outcome for them who were hiding under them was to be smashed into pieces.
"Commander Jie, the city is too dangerous. As long as Yang is here, we will not allow the enemy to cross the Lei Chi!"
A general with a scarred face tried hard to persuade Yang Lin to take shelter under the city wall. He was afraid that any stone bullet that didn't have a long eye would kill even the most tyrannical general on the spot, even if it was just a collision. There would be no chance of luck.
Yang Lin ignored the scar-faced general's advice, and stared at the steep slope opposite with his big, bloodshot eyes. Although the stone bullets were whizzing down beside his ears, after all, the enemy's trebuchets in Heluo were still there.
It is far from accurate enough to directly attack a general from three to four hundred steps away.
Of course, the enemy noticed Yang Lin standing at the top of the city and adjusted the angle of the trebuchet to cover the war tent where Yang Lin was standing. Even if the deviation was greater, the danger would increase sharply.
The scar-faced general stamped his feet anxiously, but Yang Lin had no time to care about his personal safety at this time.
On the diagonally opposite side of him is the front slope of a single-sided ridge extending from Ziluo Mountain to the south. There is a gentle slope connected to the main body of Ziluo Mountain to the north, but opposite the city wall in the northeast corner of Ruyang, a staggered rock formation is formed.
, a steep cliff about six or seven feet high that is difficult to climb.
The cliff is more than 300 steps away from the city wall in the northeast corner of Ruyang. Ruyang had previously set up a sentry post on the cliff to monitor the movements on both sides of the section of the Beishui River south of Ziluokou to the east of Ruyang City.
After the enemy troops stormed Ziluokou at all costs, they aggressively advanced towards Ruyang City. Zuo Xiaosheng's army suffered heavy casualties due to successive fierce battles. Yang Lin would eventually destroy all the strongholds outside the city, including this cliff.
Give up and concentrate your limited vitality on Ruyang City, which was built according to the danger.
Previously, he thought that the enemy's greatest role in occupying that steep cliff was to peer down at the city's defense arrangements.
In fact, when the enemy and we are fighting fiercely, they will build towering watchtowers out of bamboo and wood to observe the opponent's deployment. From this perspective, losing control of the cliff is not a big problem.
From a traditional perspective, Yapo is more than 300 steps away from the city wall in the northeast corner of Ruyang, which is also a seemingly absolutely safe distance.
Until the enemy deployed several heavy trebuchets on the steep cliff, and directly attacked the city wall in the northeast corner of Ruyang from a distance of more than 300 steps. Often, a stone bullet would sound like thunder, causing the rocks on the city to collapse and the earth to crack. Zuo Xiao
Only then did the victorious generals deeply feel the pain of losing control of this steep cliff.
Ruyang City was built according to the danger. There are only two gates in the east and south. There is only two to three hundred steps of space between the northeast corner and the cliff. The terrain to the north and west of the city wall is rugged - considering the enemy's siege.
, it is also difficult to deploy soldiers, horses and siege equipment in these places, so Ruyang City focuses on strengthening the defense facilities on the south and east sides facing the valley on the west bank of the Beikui River to prevent enemy stone cannon attacks.
This made Zuo Xiaosheng's army suffer enough during the stone cannon attack on the first day.
Almost all towers, war tents, and arrow towers would collapse almost instantly if hit by a stone bullet.
On the first day, more than 300 generals guarding the northeastern city wall were killed or injured. Most of the injured were injured by the collapse of towers, war tents, and arrow towers, which were much more serious than ordinary sword wounds and arrow wounds.
If the enemy deploys heavy trebuchets directly under the city, Yang Lin can organize elite soldiers to rush out of the city to counterattack.
The heavy trebuchets deployed by the Heluo enemy on the battlefield were only three to four hundred paces away. This was not an unreachable distance. Zuo Xiaosheng's army also did not lack elites who fought bravely. The problem was that the cliff was far away from Ruyang.
The closer south side of the city and the west wing are steep cliffs that are almost at right angles. The north slope is connected to the main body of Ziluo Mountain, and the east slope is the gentlest. However, before Cao Shixiong deployed the trebuchet, he made contact with Ruyang City on the east slope in advance.
Between the east gates of the city, layers of barriers were set up, and elite generals were deployed.
Zuo Xiaosheng's army went out of the city several times to counterattack, trying to regain control of Yapo and destroy its trebuchet positions, but they all failed with heavy casualties.
However, the Heluo enemy army took advantage of Zuo Xiaosheng's heavy casualties and was unable to leave the city to counterattack. Instead, they took advantage of the situation and advanced to Ruyang City from the east and south sides. They blocked Ruyang City from the east and south sides and were still on the cliff.
A large camp of armored soldiers was deployed in front of the slope.
Every time a trebuchet was used to force the defenders back from the city wall, Cao Shixiong would order the armored soldiers to take the opportunity to fight for the northeast wall; or in this way, he would lure the defenders hiding under the city to the city wall to defend, and then use trebuchets.
attack.
There was another violent shock. The scar-faced general saw a ferocious crack about a foot wide and several feet deep on the nearby city wall. He was worried that even if the war tent they were standing in was not directly attacked by stone bullets, the people on this side would be damaged.
The city wall might collapse at any time. He cupped his hands towards Yang Lin and gritted his teeth and said:
"Commander Jie, you are concerned about the safety of the entire city's soldiers and civilians. You must not stay in the city any longer. Please forgive me for your disobedience and disrespect!" Then he urgently ordered to the guards around Yang Lin,
"Yang Zhaoting, listen to my order and drag Commander Jies off the city wall immediately..."
Seeing that the situation was really critical, many guards immediately ignored Yang Lin's stern objections and stepped forward to support him in hastily withdrawing the city wall from the gravel-filled road to the city.
As soon as they retreated to a temporary fence dozens of steps away from the city wall, they heard a loud noise behind them. They turned around and saw that the city wall in the northeast corner, which was about twenty feet tall, collapsed together - the generals they were standing on before,
Before they had time to evacuate, dozens of people fell into the collapsed gap and were buried under earth and rocks.
When Yang Zhaoting and others saw this scene, their eyes were split open, they suppressed their screams, and with a dozen people, they turned around and rushed towards the gap, hoping to rescue some of the robes that were not deeply buried in time.
Yang Lin climbed up to the observation deck behind the gate wall and stared at the gap in the collapsed city wall with a gloomy face.
The gap of more than ten feet wide is not that big, but the two sides of the city wall were already filled with residual bricks and rubble. After a large number of rammed earth walls collapsed and spread inside and outside the city wall, a ramp leading into the city was almost immediately formed.
Yang Lin looked out of the city from the gap. Hundreds of enemy soldiers with swords and shields were already waiting at the foot of the cliff. It was obvious that they were waiting for the stone cannon attack to stop and they would rush towards the gap.
Yang Lin could only order hundreds of generals and civilians who were on standby behind the fence wall to withstand the constant rain of stone bullets and arrows thrown by the enemy. They used large shields as cover and held up a section of fence wood more than ten feet wide.
Rush towards the gap at all costs to seal the gap.
"Commander Jie, Xu Hou said when he said goodbye, if you lose people when you save the land, you will lose both the people and the land. If you save the people and lose the land, you will gain both the people and the land." A scribe walked up behind Yang Lin and said in a low voice, "Zuo Xiao wins the battle.
At this point, if we temporarily abandon Ruyang and retreat to the mountains to the south, the imperial court will not blame you, Marshal Jie..."
Yang Lin shook his head and said in a hoarse voice: "The imperial court will not blame us for abandoning Ruyang and not defending it. It may reward us for fighting bravely and supporting us to evacuate until the last moment. However, we retreated into the mountains, tens of thousands of rivers
The enemies of Luo are encircling Liang County, while the Chushan army is entangled by the enemies of Jingxi and cannot escape. In this case, can Qi Ye and the others defend Liang County? If they are destined to have a place, they need to fight with the enemy.
After fighting to the last soldier, can I escape to the mountains with peace of mind and let Qi Ye and the others shoulder this responsibility?"
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In the south of Shouchun City, dozens of gorgeous carriages surrounded by soldiers were parked on the post road.
King Zhao Guan of Huaihe opened the curtain of the carriage, stepped out of the carriage, and shook hands with Ge Boyi, Yang Maoyan, Ge Yu and other generals to say goodbye one by one. He said with a tearful voice: "If the emperor's brother hadn't repeatedly issued edicts to urge him, Gushi would not be here.
I have the heart to abandon all the ministers and go to Jianye, and I don’t know when we will be able to meet again..."
"My lord, please relax. Your Majesty is a generous and honest king, and you will definitely treat your lord well, and we will fight to the death to resist the enemy in the Huai River, making it difficult for the captives to step even half a step south of the Huai River..." Wang Boqian held Huai Wang Zhao Guan's hand.
said the hand.
The king of Huai, Zhao Guan, was very reluctant to go and live in Jianye, but the Huai River was frozen, and the Chihu East Road army would cross the Huai River at any time and head south.
The soldiers and horses of Chihudong Road have conducted large-scale naval exercises in Xuzhou in the past two years. Although they did not use the navy to transport the main force of soldiers and horses across the Huaihe River this time, they are still waiting patiently for the Huaihe River to freeze. But everyone knows that Chihudong Road
The troops and horses crossing the Huaihe River this time will no longer have to evacuate hastily because the Huaihe River thaws.
Its navy, which has been practicing for a long time, may not be very strong, but there is no navy in the Huaihe River that can resist it. When the time comes, it will maintain the communication of people, horses and supplies on both sides of the Huaihe River to ensure that its main force can be on the south bank of the Huaihe River for a long time.
There is no problem in persisting in fighting.
Huai Wang Zhao Guan and others also realized that once Shouchun was besieged, they could not expect the enemy troops to withdraw on their own before the Huaihe River thawed, as they did last time.
After careful consideration, Huai Wang Zhao Guan decided to accept the call this time and go to live in Jianye, leaving Ge Boyi, Yang Maoyan, Han Shiliang, Ge Yu and other generals to continue to command the original Huai Prince's army.
In order to improve the status of the Huai Prince's family, Emperor Jianji promoted Shouchun to a companion capital this time, equivalent to Xiangyang. Yang Maoyan was appointed as Shouchun's remaining guard, and Han Shiliang, the general of the Huai Prince's Palace, also knew Chuzhou, and Ge Boyi was appointed as the governor.
He led the Huainan two routes to establish envoys, and continued to place the military and administrative affairs of the Huainan two routes under the command of the generals of the Huainan palace.
Although this series of things had been decided ten days ago, until the moment when he actually walked out of Shouchun City, Huai Wang Zhao Guan was still struggling fiercely in his heart. He suspected that insisting on staying in Shouchun might be a better choice.
choose……
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