Chapter 1034: Filling the river with soil, Lei Hao attacked the city
Chapter 1034: Filling the river with soil and attacking the city with Lei Zheng
The Yixi tribe did not have many bows and arrows, so in the face of the suppressive attack from outside the city, they could only hide on the city wall without the ability to fight back!
Below, Lei Zheng, who was wearing black armor, grinned. For the first time, he felt the terror of the soldiers and weapons of the Song Dynasty. Although his brute strength was amazing, in such a large-scale battle, he faced the terror of the Song Dynasty.
The war machine is a bit scary.
However, now that these terrifying things belong to oneself, that fear has turned into transcendence.
You have already arrived at the city, but the enemy can hardly inflict any fatal blow or damage to you. What is more comfortable than this kind of war?
"The rest of the men will continue to attack here. The Qian Erlang wearing armor will rush forward with me and fill up their ditch first!"
Lei Zheng roared.
Although the Yixi tribe's ancestral land also has city walls and moats, they basically don't play a big role! For example, the so-called moat is only about ten feet wide, and is no different from a small ditch?
It cannot be said that there is no defense, but facing an experienced army, it is easy to smooth out such ditches!
However, the city moats of the Song Dynasty were far from comparable to this so-called ditch!
Even the narrowest moat in the Song Dynasty was at least three feet long, and the width of most moats could reach eight to ten feet! Why was Xiangyang, known as the best city in the world, able to stop the Jin soldiers and the Mongolian cavalry that later swept the world?
Just a moat, Xiangyang is more than sixty feet long! If you want to cross this moat, it is almost as difficult as climbing to the sky!
The method used by Lei Zheng was simpler. They formed a team of ten people, and each team was holding a thick wooden board that was two feet long and more than one foot long! For a large army, it is extremely difficult to make these simple things.
Easy, it was just a charge, Lei Zheng led the men and horses to the moat! The defenders on the city wall hurriedly threw down some stones and other objects, but these things had little lethality to Lei Zheng and others
.
They easily built countless simple 'bridges' over this small river ditch!
"Go, continue to call me people, and you must not let them climb the city wall!"
An elder from the Yixi tribe on the city wall yelled, "Archers are not allowed to hide behind the wall, stand up and attack me!"
Under the urging of the elder, the tribesmen hiding behind the wall could only grit their teeth and leak out, attacking outside indiscriminately! Their attacks caused a lot of obstacles to Lei Zheng and others. However, precisely because of
In this way, the casualties of the defenders on the city wall began to increase rapidly! In just two quarters of an hour, their casualties reached four to five hundred!
"What's the situation like on the other two city walls?"
Tuhunhu asked sharply!
A messenger who had just ran over shouted in horror, "Chief, in the other two directions, they are also filling the moat with soil. It will probably take up to half an hour before they can fill it up!"
It is not unusual to fill a river with soil. For an army of tens of thousands, it would not take long to fill such a small ditch! Not long after, the one on the northern grassland
The eagle wakes up and takes this tactic to its extreme.
The cavalry on the grassland are invincible. In fact, the Mongolian cavalry is slightly better than the Jin Kingdom's cavalry by three points.
However, the tall city is definitely a nightmare for these cavalry! The moat that is often tens of feet wide can only make the prairie cavalry in the North stop and sigh! In order to minimize the weakness of one's own side and allow the cavalry to participate in the siege
, Therefore, Temujin specially asked all the cavalry under his command to learn how to fill the river with soil.
Each cavalryman carried a piece of soil and threw it into the river. Hundreds, thousands, thousands, or even tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of cavalrymen used the simplest method to turn the chasm into a thoroughfare.
They can even use soil to directly fill up a huge slope upwards between the flat bottom and the top of the city wall, so that the cavalry can charge directly to the top of the city wall and fight directly with the garrisoned soldiers, reducing the risk of siege and casualties.
But now, it is just a small ditch of one or two feet, which is really not a big project.
"Where on earth did this army come from!"
Tuhunhu gritted his teeth. Now the number of troops attacking the city from three parties has reached more than 10,000. Which tribe around can use such a huge army and have weapons of war comparable to the Song army?
"Clan leader, look..."
At this moment, a cry of surprise suddenly sounded! Tuhunhu subconsciously raised his head and looked outside, only to see that a few miles away due north, an countless black army suddenly appeared in sight!
Although it can't be seen clearly, the number of this army is definitely around ten thousand!
The elders who were directing the battle on the side were also horrified. No matter in terms of ordnance, combat power, or the number of troops, the other side obviously far exceeded their own. Moreover, in terms of the other side's combat power, I am afraid that my side would not be able to hold on for long, and the city wall would collapse.
It will completely collapse.
At that time, all the clan members in the tribe will only become targets of killing by each other!
"Have the people who went to communicate with the affiliated tribes and the Mangbu tribe been sent out?"
The elder asked loudly.
A person next to him quickly responded, "Elder, we have been sent out!"
Tuhunhu came back to his senses, "Even if they are sent out, I'm afraid it will be of no use! They can gather such a large number of soldiers and horses to come, how can there be no ambushes in the surrounding important roads?
Regardless of the number, at least there is no problem in intercepting our couriers."
"In other words, we won't have any reinforcements at all!"
"Go! Let all the tribal warriors go to the city wall to defend! Third elder, you go and gather the people in the tribe! In addition to the old and the young, gather all men and women! Now we can only hold on as much as possible. As for whether we can
If you can’t defend your ancestral land, just leave it to fate..."
Time passed slowly. Lei Zheng led his troops, mainly a thousand-man team. Relying on the suppression of the archers at the rear and the power of the ladder, he had launched three consecutive attacks on the city wall!
Each attack lasted for about an hour, and then they returned to replace a group of soldiers and horses to continue! Even during the third attack on the city, Lei Zheng had already led his soldiers and horses to attack the city wall, but the opponent's resistance was too fierce
, and the number of people on one's side did not have much advantage, so they were beaten back by the other side.
Compared with the ferocity here in Lei Zheng, the east city wall where Shen Tu Mou is located is a bit calm! The moat outside the city has been filled in, and using the ladder as an invert, the huge ram was driven by the tribal warriors.