Chapter 482 The first general with one hand up to the sky
Seventy miles is very short. On the afternoon of the second day, the mighty Zhou army had already arrived at the foot of Ling'an County.
There were about 50,000 men and horses. In the three-day offensive and defensive battle at Honghuagang, although only one out of ten Han troops survived, the Zhou army also suffered heavy losses.
Chen Shiju, the commander-in-chief of the Zhou army, did not launch an attack on Ling'an County that day. Instead, he secured Dazhai ten miles outside the city. At the same time, he rushed to make and assemble many siege equipment. On the morning of the third day, the Zhou army was surrounded by clouds and seas.
The army arrived at the foot of the county town in darkness. Of course, Chen Shiju, with such a large army, would not devote all of his troops to the attack at once. When the fighting on the city wall began, a small camp was also being built three miles away from the city gate.
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"Dong dong dong" the thunderous sound of war drums resounded throughout the world, and the high-spirited fighting spirit soared into the sky. Whether it was from the heart or forced to act. Anyway, in the early morning of the third day, three people appeared outside Ling'an County.
The morale of Wanzhou Army is boosted!
"Go--" Chen Shiju was in charge of the central army, and the forward general Zhou Chun personally led the army to attack the city. Facing the weak and crude city defense in Ling'an County, Zhou Chun prepared to sweep away the Han army in one fell swoop.
Following his order, the Thousand Weeks Saber players left the formation, followed closely by the Two Thousand Steps Archers to follow.
The arrows were like a torrential rain, raining down on the south wall of Ling'an County. Two thousand archers, this number was simply incomparable to the Han army defending the city, let alone these
That’s just the number concentrated on one city wall.
From a distance, the continuous rain of arrows looks like a dark cloud that never dissipates over the city of Ling'an, continuously pouring water from the clouds towards the city.
"What a fierce rain of arrows!" Li Xian sighed.
Every foot archer of the Zhou army was arranging arrows and bending their bows non-stop. This was a veritable storm of arrows. The Zhou army was using its strength to bully others, using force to overwhelm them! Even if the Han army archers on top of the city
Exchanging lives for lives may not necessarily weaken the strength of the army under the city, because the foot archers under the city are protected by the thousand sword players.
"Hidden, all hidden." Li Xian secretly rejoiced. Fortunately, he did not plan to fight the Zhou army on the city wall, otherwise he would not know how many lives would be lost just by doing this.
"General, the Han soldiers are not showing their heads at the top of the city!" A Zhou military captain saw the scene at the top of Ling'an County and shouted to Zhou Chun.
"Order the archers to shoot five more arrows in volley, and then you, you, and you, each lead a team of a thousand people to charge towards me!" A victorious smile appeared on the corner of Zhou Chun's lips. What am I saying? It's so small.
The city doesn't even have an urn, so what can it do?
The infantry archer camp received the order and fired five arrows in unison. During this, Zhou Chun shouted, and three Zhou military captains each led a group of Zhou soldiers, pushing the ladder cart, roaring, shouting,
Rush towards the head of Ling'an City.
"Kill!" After setting up the ladder truck, a Zhou Army Sima took the lead in climbing up the ladder, leading the way towards the top of the city! Behind him, there were countless soldiers of the Zhou Army who were inspired by him.
The resistance of the Han army at the top of the city was unexpectedly weak. They only smashed a few stones and poured a few pots of gold juice and boiling water. In less than two quarters of an hour, people started to attack the city one after another. Immediately afterwards
Not long after, two to three hundred people rushed to the top of the city and stood firm!
"Oh, no!" Zhou Chun was laughing, but in his heart he felt that he had neglected something. Looking carefully at the top of the city, he found that the Zhou soldiers who went to kill the Great Wall did not capture the city gate tower. Seeing this scene, he suddenly
It's not good to slap your legs and scream! But the generals and soldiers of the Zhou army behind him were all cheering for joy after seeing the successful siege!
Including the soldiers around Zhou Chun, these people were shouting loudly. Suddenly they heard Zhou Chun's exclamation, and the cheers stopped suddenly. They all looked at their generals in surprise. The resistance of the Han army at the city head was very weak.
Our army climbed to the top of the city in one charge. Isn't this a good thing?
At this time, three Zhou military captains also climbed onto the city wall. There were already more than a thousand Zhou troops on the walls on the left and right sides of the south gate gate tower. However, they were attacking the city gate tower and the southeast and southwest corner towers one after another.
Hitting a wall. The Han army, which was weak and vulnerable just now, was immediately possessed by the God of War after reaching the city gate tower and the southeast and southwest corner towers, and its defense became impregnable.
"Quickly retreat——" Zhou Chun's face changed drastically, and the bad premonition in his heart became more intense.
At this moment, the Zhou army saw several Zhou soldiers shouting something in panic, and then the Zhou soldiers who rushed to the top of the city began to panic and run down the ladder in a swarm!
"Swish swish——"
The rain of arrows from the Han army appeared at the top of the city for the first time, but it was not the origin of the rain of arrows, but the landing point of the rain of arrows. The sharp arrows fell sharply and penetrated into the bodies of Zhou's soldiers without any hindrance.
.Wisps of fighting souls rushed into the underworld, and the sound of wailing instantly echoed at the head of Ling'an County.
The Han infantry archers are now as easy to kill as to cut wheat. When the Zhou soldiers withdrew from the city, many of them even carried the corpses of their comrades who died in the battle. This was not because of good intentions and could not bear to have their comrades.
The corpse fell into the enemy's hands, and it was purely used as a shield!
"Yun Zheng, Li Xian! Okay, okay!" Zhou Chun gritted his teeth, unexpectedly annoyed.
"General, there is no need to worry. Next time our army attacks the city, we can still use the infantry archers to suppress the city. We only need to ask the soldiers to prepare more shields, and at the same time, prepare to hit the wood under the city, and start the attack from the city gate! A two-pronged approach. Is it possible that the Han army can still be there?
Is it possible to build a thousand-jin gate in just two days?" A Zhou military captain said to Zhou Chun in a low voice.
Zhou Chun nodded when he heard this, but his eyes were still fierce as he looked at the Han army flag flying on the city gate tower.
Once you have reached the city gate, as long as you can break open the city gate, you can select a group of sergeants to carry the blocked objects!
The strength of the Zhou army was ten times that of the Han army in the city, and it had an absolutely overwhelming advantage in terms of strength.
Zhou Chun consciously told himself that this city of the Han army would not be easy to chew. But the current situation forced him to give it a try. Anyway, even if his troops and horses were lost, it would not be a serious injury.
In order to break through Ling'an County as soon as possible and capture General Yun Li, it was inevitable to make some sacrifices.
"Attack the city!" The second siege order came from Zhou Chun's mouth.
"Dong, dong, dong -" The violent impact sound never stopped for a moment. With the concerted efforts of dozens of Zhou army warriors, the heavy wood hit the city gate heavily in a manner that could break mountains and seas.
One, two, three... Ten, twenty...
"Clang--" After a loud noise, the city gate wrapped in iron sheets finally fell down. At this time, the Zhou soldiers who climbed the ladder to attack the city had not yet achieved results. The Han army's defensive strength increased fiercely in the second offensive and defensive battle.
has been strengthened many times, or this is their normal level.
"Kill..." A high-pitched cry for killing sounded outside the city. Under the leadership of several Zhou military officers, more than a thousand Zhou soldiers swarmed in from the city gate.
"A turtle in a urn!" Li Xian looked at the thousands of soldiers swarming in from the city tower and laughed coldly. He waved his big hand far away and shouted, "Cut off their retreat." That is to say, cut off the city gate.
"Boom -" A large number of rolling logs and rocks rained down from the front and rear sides of the city gate tower, along with cans of kerosene. Several torches fell on the rolling logs, stained with kerosene.
A raging fire immediately broke out, sealing the entire south city gate in an instant.
"Go back, go back quickly, there is no way ahead -" The shocked cry happened to sound at the moment when the fire was ignited, and the brave warriors who rushed to the forefront of the Zhou army turned pale and shouted, and at the same time ducked and wanted to retreat.
go.
The Han army spent several days in Ling'an County. They gathered tens of thousands of people in the county and laid out the county. Although the four gates of the city did not have urns, they also built a connecting link.
Streets, alleys, and ten-foot-high walls of residential buildings.
The Zhou soldiers who rushed into the city were stunned when they saw that there were no military huts or dens under the city, but then they rushed into the city in a swarm. Naturally, the Han army at the top of the city had a large army behind them to take care of them, and they rushed forward several hundred steps.
He ran into the wall hidden in the market.
It was difficult to climb up and browse without a ladder, and the houses of the common people that could be used were full of pits, and the roofs were guarded by Han soldiers. More than a thousand Zhou soldiers who were unprepared panicked, and when the arrow rain came again, they all
They yelled and retreated. However, the city gate was closed, and the open space in the city became an abyss of death for more than a thousand soldiers.
It was another killing that was close to massacre. Under the volley of thousands of arrows, it only took less than a quarter of an hour for the Zhou army of a thousand people to die, and their souls returned here.
Zhou Chun couldn't accept that his two consecutive sieges had ended in such an embarrassing situation. Hearing the constant shrill screams coming from the city, his face was extremely ugly.
Li Xian's attack was very ruthless, because the Han army defending the city did not have many manpower, and there was no time to guard the prisoners. He did not leave any of the more than a thousand Zhou soldiers trapped in the city during the second attack.
"Dang, dang, dang -" the crisp sound of gold sounded. Although it was still early at noon, Chen Shiju of the Chinese Army was determined to ring gold and withdraw his troops. Time is precious to them, but the lives of soldiers are equally precious. Two sieges
, the loss of more than 2,000 troops was more than 2,000. Even the outnumbered Zhou army could not bear such losses.
The army of the King of Tang Dynasty did not descend from the sky. Moreover, the morale of the army is low now, and the morale of the army is also shaken. If we forcefully attack the city three more times, if it is still worse and suffer heavy losses, the morale will be completely gone. How about retreating temporarily and returning to the camp.
After careful discussion, it will not be too late to attack the city in the afternoon.
After an hour or two of construction, the small village in front of the city was already in full shape. It didn't take much effort to withdraw the troops and retreat to the small village.
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In the sky from Yuzhou to Muzhou, homing pigeons were flapping their wings.
On the ground from Yuzhou to Muzhou, they were riding fast horses and rushing hard.
The news of Jianyang's great victory must be sent immediately to Muzhou, and then forwarded from Muzhou to Peiping. This not only required a brief message conveyed by a carrier pigeon, but also a formal document signed by the frontline generals.
News can be delivered by birds, but if you want to implement things, you must have formal military information documents.
Seven thousand infantrymen in white clothes hung in mourning in front of the formation. They worked together to storm the fortified city with 40,000 troops. They captured the city in half a day and defeated it. When the news spread, the Zhou army lost all of its dignity...
A fast-riding courier whose buttocks were bruised didn't feel any pain or fatigue at all. The endless power created by excitement and passion filled every cell in their body.
"I wish the general is worthy of being the best general in our dynasty. He holds the sky with one hand and is invincible -" (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature for better and faster novels!)
