Seeing a piece of wood smashed down from the crenel, Niu Er stood on the ladder, exhaled and said "Ouch", holding an iron shield, and knocked hard against the wood.
Knocking the wood away, the ladder under Niu Er's feet was shaken by the huge force and made a "clicking" sound.
Niu Er ignored the fact that the ladder was crumbling, and when the enemy soldier who poked his head out from the crenel was shocked by his power, he took two steps like a ferocious tiger, and smashed the enemy soldier's face with his iron shield, stepping on it like a ferocious god.
At the mouth of the crenel, he swung his chopping mace and cut off a spear thrust from the side.
A dozen elite soldiers from the selected front army were wearing heavy armor. They ignored the arrows that were shot from the side and took advantage of Niu Er to attract the attention of the enemy soldiers on the wall. They quickly climbed up the wall from the ladders on both sides.
Against the wall, streaks of cold sword light hooded the enemy soldiers rushing up from both sides.
In order to ensure that the Chishan main stronghold was captured before enemy reinforcements arrived, Xu Huai sent Shi Hu and led five hundred elite forward troops to accept Tang Pan's control and took a boat to participate in the attack on the Chishan main stronghold.
Niu Er hadn't had a chance to charge into battle for a long time. This time, he not only fought hard for the chance to attack, but also took the lead after landing. He didn't wait for the enemy soldiers to run out of rolling stones and hammers at the top of the city, and directly led the leader to climb the elite wall.
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The enemy soldiers on this section of the village wall may be considered elite, but in the eyes of the elite armored soldiers of the Selection Front Army, they were not enough, especially because they were unable to suppress Niu Er and others under the village wall immediately and ask them to charge.
On the wall of the stronghold, there are no shield vehicles, side carriages or other war weapons to resist them. How can we resist their attacks from left to right?
Chishan General Village on Saturday was narrow in the south and wide in the north due to terrain restrictions. The wall of the northern village where the soldiers and horses landed to attack was nearly a thousand paces long. There was also a large area of high ground that was not flooded, which was conducive to the deployment of troops and horses.
Although the warship carries a batch of components for heavy riprap crossbows, and Chishan Bay is full of sandy and soft soil, it takes time to consolidate the platform foundation and assemble the heavy riprap crossbow. In the early stage, sidecars and shield cars were used to approach the enemy's stronghold.
Use elite archers and crossbowmen to shoot at the top of the city, use a small team of people to try to attack the city, and consume the enemy's rolling stones, hammered wood and other defensive materials on the top of the city. When the sun rises, the real attack on the wall will officially begin.
However, the resistance of the enemy soldiers was weaker than expected.
Shi Hu climbed up the wall and looked around.
In addition to clearing the remaining soldiers on the wall, the elite soldiers who climbed the city also dragged the ladder to the inside of the stronghold wall and attacked into the stronghold.
Niu Er still took the lead and led his troops to kill inside the Beizhai Gate.
An iron mace was swung violently, and the enemy soldiers were knocked to the ground like melons and vegetables. Almost no one could withstand even one and a half moves.
Seven or eight of the elite selected forward troops who were accompanying Niu Er were closely surrounded by Niu Er. There were also a small team of horses on each wing to form a conical formation and synchronously cut forward to fight, ruthlessly tearing the resistance of the enemy soldiers to pieces along the way.
However, the enemy did not give up resistance yet. Hundreds of soldiers poured in from the Xizhai Gate. Outside the Xizhai Gate was the enemy's navy camp.
Hundreds of large and small warships are moored in the boat pool of the navy camp, which is about more than 100 acres in size. However, the narrow channel connecting the boat pool to the Jingjiang River has been blocked by the warships in the second compartment.
The parts of the two water booms that were exposed to the water, the wooden enemy platforms on both sides of the water booms, and the several enemy ships that were the first to arrive at the inside of the water booms were all ignited by the thrown kerosene tanks and were burning...
Shi Hu commanded the elite vanguard troops to kill in the direction of the Beizhai Gate, trying to open the Beizhai Gate as soon as possible to allow more armored soldiers to carry war weapons and enter the enemy camp from the Beizhai Gate. At the same time, he observed the enemy camp and the water camp on the west side.
The enemy soldiers were mobilized and a guard was called over: "Quick report to General Tang, the defense of Chishan General Stronghold is much weaker than expected. At least half of the infantry have been secretly transferred away..."
Tang Pan temporarily set up the command tent on a section of the dike exposed above the river.
In the early years, the people who lived and thrived in Chishan Bay built embankments on the Jingjiang River to resist floods and protect villages and cultivated land. However, after the lake bandits ravaged the area, the people were either forced to join gangs or fled to other places. No one repaired or reinforced the river embankments, and soon the riverbanks collapsed.
Villages and cultivated land were washed away by floods, and were submerged in the flood season. Only the remaining dikes, higher ground, and broken walls were left. The trees were exposed out of the water, like an isolated island in the river.
"At least half of the defenders were secretly transferred from the south bank before!" Tang Pan received the message from Shi Hu from the attacking position, climbed onto the temporary observation deck, and looked north.
In addition to the main stronghold they are attacking with all their strength at this time, the Chishan bandit army has also built nearly twenty water strongholds in Chishan Bay and the north coast. Hundreds of large and small boats have entered the Jingjiang River one after another; the second Nancai water army
The warships deployed on both wings were already engaged in a fierce battle with the navy of the Chishan Bandit Army. Many warships had been set on fire, and black smoke was rolling on the river.
The warships in the second compartment of the Nancai Navy were also deployed in five teams on the left, right, front, rear, and center. The warships of the Chinese Army, headed by Shi Xiong, the commander of the capital, anchored in the middle of the river; the rear warships
As a reserve force, the left army was anchored in the shallow water area near the south bank upstream; the left army and the front army each had a large wing ship and two sea falcon warships as the core, as well as corresponding stern ships, fighting ships, red horse boats, and
The thief troops approaching from the periphery separated into warships to engage in battle; the right warships were responsible for protecting the flanks and rear of the disembarking troops and blocking the main force of the Chishan thief navy in the water camp, unable to escape.
Although the main naval force of the Chishan bandit army, including warships with larger equipment and more comprehensive war weapons, was blocked in the water camp boat pool and unable to enter the Jingjiang River, its sub-village hurriedly sent out warships for reinforcements.
The big ships are only seven or eight feet long, and the smaller ones are only sampans and fishing boats that are more than ten feet long. No matter how many there are, they cannot make up for the huge gap in ship type.
The warships of the Chishan bandit army were killed in a short time, and they fled to the shallow water area, not daring to attack any more.
"Send orders to Shi Xiong to immediately divide his troops and attack Laohuzhai from the south!" Tang Pan ordered.
The resistance at Chishan General Stronghold was much weaker than expected. A part of the defenders had been secretly transferred out. The outposts deployed by the Military Intelligence Department to the south bank noticed it in advance or did not have time to spread the news. Tang Pan had no doubt that this part of the defenders was the largest.
The possibility is hidden in the Tiger Village on the north bank.
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Sun Yanguan watched the fierce battle on the river more than a thousand steps away with a heavy heart.
There are only four larger ships under the jurisdiction of Laohuzhai, but in the previous water battle, two ships were directly rammed by the warships of the Nancai Recruitment Division and sank into the river. At this time, only two ships were left.
A stern warship and a dozen platoon warships tried their best to prevent the warships of Nancai Recruitment Division from approaching directly from the south to Laohuzhai.
To the north of Laohuzhai there is a flooded area of six to seven miles deep with Sangchi Lake, and the low-lying area serves as a buffer, but to the south it is built almost right next to the Jingjiang River.
This means that once the warships of the Nancai Recruiting Division are approached, they can directly attack the village wall with war weapons such as bed crossbows and whirlwind crossbows. However, the defenders on the wall are anchored more than a hundred steps away.
Nan Cai on the river had no way to recruit the warships - even if the strong bow could barely reach a hundred steps away, how much threat could it pose?
However, it seems they are powerless to prevent this situation from happening!
In Sun Yanguan's field of vision, they had a stern ship successfully hooking up the warship of Nancai's Recruiting Division, but the Chushan soldiers on the large-winged ship were holding shields and had swords and guns on the side of the warship.
In addition to forming a dense formation on the side of the ship, like a strong wall to guard against battles on the side of the ship, there were also a dozen crossbowmen standing on the war tent, commanding their bows and shooting arrows.
In addition, the Nancai Recruitment Division also had two fighting ships approaching the stern ship from the flank. They could throw fire oil cans over fifty or sixty steps away and then ignite them with rockets.
The stern ships built in Chishan Village were wrapped with cooked cowhide at the bow and stern. In wartime, water was poured into the tents and cabins, so they were not afraid of long-range rocket fire.
Not to mention that the rocket is likely to go out during the shooting process. Even if it successfully triggers a fire, it will not be big and can be extinguished by pouring a bucket of water over it.
However, kerosene cans were thrown over one after another, pouring a large amount of kerosene on the war shed and the deck. Once ignited, black smoke would billow instantly. Before the fire could burn through the deck and war shed, the billowing black smoke would choke them.
The generals and soldiers were unable to gain a foothold on the ship.
And the power of the fire attack they launched after desperately getting closer was obviously much weaker.
On the one hand, they mainly use bundles of firewood to ignite and then throw them at close range when connecting to the side. Not only is the power incomparable to that of kerosene, but also when the Chushan generals' crossbows shoot at them, the throws launched from the side are also
Confused and scattered.
On the other hand, the sides of Nancai Recruitment Division's warships are taller and protected by a parapet covered with iron armor.
Even if it could cause one or two fires, they would be extinguished immediately by the Chushan Army generals.
Sun Yanguan watched helplessly as the stern ship was completely engulfed in fire in less than a cup of tea. In the end, it failed to lead the fire to the warship of Nancai Recruitment Division, and was disconnected from the side. Hundreds of officers and soldiers
, the sailor had to jump into the river to escape.
Other warships were even defeated by a large-winged warship and three stern warships from the Nancai Recruitment Division. They were defeated and retreated. There was no way to come forward for reinforcements. In other words, these warships no longer dared to come forward for reinforcements.
They were able to retreat downstream and were forced to give up the waterway in front of Laohu Village.
"Sun Yanguan, if you don't surrender at this time, are you going to bury the innocent soldiers behind you? Or do you think that stubborn resistance will last until reinforcements arrive?"
Shi Xiong stood on the bow deck of the ship, only a hundred steps away, and could clearly see Sun Yanguan, the guard of the Tiger Village and the third general of the Chishan Village of the Dongjing Allied Forces, standing on the wall of the village wearing leather armor and shouting to persuade them to surrender.
