When the north city wall of Xichuan collapsed near the city gate, there were more than a hundred soldiers. The civilians were unable to evacuate in time. As the masonry and rammed earth collapsed, smoke and dust rose into the sky, choking the generals on the left and right and coughing. The soldiers who fell into the gap
The civilian husband's screams filled his ears.
The city wall that collapsed this time was fifty or sixty steps wide. Although there were more than a thousand civilians guarding the city wall, and a large amount of masonry, wood, and prefabricated wooden fences were prepared to fill the gap, the gap created by the collapse this time was huge.
It has to make people despair.
Thousands of Liang troops gathered on the hillside in the north of the city, like a tide, roaring and swarming towards the gap with their arrows held up with placards held up.
The Xichuan siege continues today, already on its fifteenth day. During this period, the city walls of the north, south, and east cities have been broken open many times. However, the defenders fought bravely and repelled Liang Jun's attacks many times.
The gap was blocked with bricks, stones and timber, and the war situation has been maintained to this day.
However, the gap created by the collapse of the North City this time was too large. Seeing that it would be difficult to fill the gap in a short period of time, and seeing that the situation was not right, Han Qian and Li Chong, who rushed to the North City to supervise the battle, urgently ordered the civilians behind the city wall to withdraw first.
In the current situation, we can only deploy elite troops to the gap and form formations. First, we can withstand Liang Jun's unstoppable offensive. We must also hold on until dark. After Liang Jun retreats from exhaustion, we can take advantage of the night general's huge strength.
fill the gap.
Liang Jun broke through the gap from the north city, but the offensive launched from the south city and east city did not stop.
The trebuchet position continued to fire stone bombs in an orderly manner. In addition to suppressing the city defenders in the barracks and preventing them from showing up, they also hoped to open gaps in the south city and east city at the same time. Liang Jun was on the east and south sides of Xichuan City.
The elite infantry were also assembled and prepared to charge, and siege equipment such as ladders, city climbing vehicles, and building vehicles were also pushed to the front, ready to force the city to attack at any time.
Li Zhigao, Zheng Hui and others all knew Liang Jun's intention, which was to contain the two of them in Nancheng and Dongcheng. At this time, they also tried their best to mobilize as many elite troops as possible to prevent unexpected events.
At this time, the only ones who can really be mobilized on a large scale to reinforce Beicheng and seal the gap are Guo Liang's troops who are responsible for guarding West City, and the Xuzhou Battalion and Guard Battalion as the general reserve force.
The guard battalion was still guarding the General's Mansion at this time. Until the last moment, they had to be prepared for the enemy troops to attack the General's Mansion where the third prince, Shen He, Shen Yang and others were after they entered the city.
Today Liang Jun's offensive against the North City Wall is still fierce. Xuzhou Camp and Zuosi Scouts, with 600 generals, have arrived at the North City on standby.
The ruins of buildings in a circle within the city wall have also been cleared, and they are waiting for Liang Jun to enter the city, so that the defenders in the city can counterattack. Han Qian also quickly retreated from the city wall, taking Tian Cheng and others, and Xuzhou
The soldiers of the battalion stood together, preparing to resist Liang Jun who was charging into the city through the gap.
Guo Liang rushed over immediately with more than a hundred guards. Looking out from the gap, Liang Jun had already rushed to the city wall less than 200 steps away. They were densely packed like a black torrent.
Even though Guo Liang is a veteran who became famous at a young age, his scalp is numb at this moment.
Liang Jun's trebuchets deployed outside Beicheng were still very inaccurate even if the auxiliary soldiers operating them were trained.
Although these trebuchets did not stop operating at this time, in order to avoid accidental damage, they still stayed away from the gap at this time and threw scattered stone bombs at the corners of the city walls on both sides, hoping to suppress some of the defenders from the top of the walls on both sides and attack from the gap.
Liang Jun generals who entered the city.
Liang Jun also intended to use the northern city wall as the focus of the breakthrough in the past two days. On the dozens of building carts advancing from the flanks, there were more than a dozen crossbows and four-foot-long short clusters of arrows, like short arrows.
The spear was fired from three to four hundred paces away, making a sharp whistling sound. It was a stream of sparks that grazed the bricks at the top of the city. A wave of volleys directly exposed the bodies of seven or eight defenders at the top of the city.
Shot through.
In front of such a giant crossbow, the armor was as fragile as a piece of paper, and the thick wooden shield was easily pierced.
Fortunately, the refill speed of the bed crossbow is slow.
Fortunately, in the previous war, although more than 20 bed crossbows deployed by the defenders in Dongcheng were destroyed, Liang Jun only had these ten bed crossbows left in his hands, and he had not yet been able to mobilize more from other places.
Fang Zi crossbow came over, otherwise there would be no place for the defenders to stand at the top of the city.
The North City defenders mainly recruited soldiers from the cottage. Although this was the least optimistic force before the war and indicated to be a hidden danger, it has performed very bravely these days.
At this time, thousands of generals, under the command of Zhou Peng and other copycat generals, held their shields high and rushed towards the gap from the city walls on both sides, braving arrows and shooting at them with bows and crossbows, and threw the ignited canisters towards the dark Liang Jun army.
, to buy time for the Xuzhou camp and Guo Liang's soldiers behind the gap to prepare as many formations as possible.
It can be seen that Liang Jun has gradually lost patience after failing to capture Xichuan City in the past half month.
Having successfully opened such a large gap in the northern city wall this time, Liang Jun would never easily give up the opportunity to capture Xichuan in one fell swoop.
At this time, not only the Liang Army gathered in the north mobilized, but also a group of Liang Army cavalry gathered outside the east city, surrounded by the Liang Army general Han Yuanqi, and quickly moved along a shallow stream on the northeast side of Xichuan City to the main position in the north of the city.
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In addition to his general, Han Yuanqi, who had to go to the north to supervise the battle in person, the cavalry accompanying him to move included more than 5,000 elite troops.
Some people even couldn't wait to move to the north of the city with Han Yuan. After getting to the shallow stream, they dismounted one after another, holding shields, swords and guns, wading across the shallow stream and crowding towards the gap.
The Liang army in the east of Xichuan City, especially the northern part, led the cavalry and Han Yuanqi to move to the north. More than 2,000 other infantrymen also mobilized at this time, surrounded by 70 or 80 simple nest vehicles, floor vehicles and other vehicles.
The city boarding cars swarmed towards the northeast corner of Xichuan City.
Liang Jun's combat intention was very simple.
Although the gap created by Xichuan City in the north was fifty or sixty steps wide, the collapsed city wall, with masonry and rammed earth piled up in disorder, was also seven or eight feet high, like a messy and rugged rock slope, which could not stop them.
The generals entered the city very smoothly.
Even if they enter the city, the defenders' reserve troops can organize a powerful counterattack inside the gap.
Once Liang Jun, who had entered the city, was blocked in the gap and unable to advance further inward, the battle would become stalemate in a direction that was not favorable to Liang Jun.
In the previous stalemate battle, Liang Jun also passed the nest car that was more than seven or eight feet high, and clearly saw that the defenders were digging criss-crossing trenches in the city. It was obvious that the defenders had made good preparations based on the inner trenches and that area.
Preparations for fierce street fighting among low-rise buildings.
They must also seize a city wall. Only by occupying one or two high points can they attack with fire or shoot volleys of bows and arrows. Only by suppressing the defenders in the city can more soldiers and horses be killed.
Enter the city and engage in a final bloody decisive battle until the last bit of morale of the defenders is defeated, and they will win the final victory!
The defenders collected a large amount of tung oil to make fire oil cans. Liang Jun, who had more abundant supplies, was naturally not inferior. Seventy or eighty nest cars, floor cars, and city boarding cars rushed to the bottom of the city wall. They were dozens of steps away from the stone fire.
The oil tanks were brought down, and they fought fiercely with the defenders in the northeast corner.
A nest car and a building car were set on fire, and the barracks at the head of the city were also set on fire. Soon, hundreds of generals in the Chu and Liang armies were set alight by kerosene, and fell from the heights screaming, and the war suddenly broke out.
It was as brutal as a boiling oil pan.
Liang Jun was really brave. He held his shield high and saw that the defenders at the top of the city were suppressed. With the help of a ladder, he climbed up the northeast corner of the city wall like a swarm of ants, slashing and killing bravely, and then resisted while resisting.
Li Zhigao directed his soldiers and horses to fight from the south and rush toward the east, intending to knock down the fortress recruits from the northeast wall to the gap in one go.
Zhou Pan personally led more than 300 generals to guard the northeastern city wall. They fought bravely. He was seen wearing bright light armor and waving a pair of iron halberds like dragons. He knocked down the Liang Jun generals who rushed in front of him.
head.
Liang Jun's attack was too sharp, and there were many brave generals and soldiers. Zhou Dan had half of his breastplate cut off and a gash on his thigh. Fortunately, the guards around him were also extremely brave and fought tooth and nail to protect him from the city wall.
Seeing the city wall on the northeast side collapse and hundreds of Liang troops pouring in through the gap, Li Chong almost closed his eyes in despair.
Although the elite troops mobilized by Guo Liang, Li Zhigao, and Zheng Hui from Nancheng and Dongcheng were all gathering behind them, the troops and horses they could mobilize were too limited to withstand tigers and wolves who would rush into the city at all costs.
Is Liang Jun elite?
"Puff!"
A dozen sharp sounds piercing the air vibrated in my ears.
Li Chong saw the generals of the Xuzhou camp pushing a dozen odd-looking bed crossbows to the front line and shooting at Liang Juntan who had rushed through the gap.
"You actually hid the bed crossbow until now?" Li Chong glared at Han Qian and asked sternly.
After all the killings before, I didn't expect that the Xuzhou camp, which had never fought hard battles, actually had more than ten crossbows hidden in it without taking them out.
"This was just made temporarily to make up for the shortage. It can't be used for a long time." Han Qian said calmly.
The more than 20 bed crossbows owned by the Longque Army were all destroyed in the previous war. However, there was a lack of corresponding materials in Xichuan City, and there was no way to manufacture bed crossbows in the traditional sense.
Han Qian used wild silk from the depths of the Qinling Mountains, mixed with animal sinews, and horse hair to form extremely tough tendons that could twist and store force. They were used as the force-generating machinery of bed crossbows to create more than a dozen bed crossbows that were launched using torque.
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However, the use of tendons made of wild silk and animal tendons is limited by the defects of the materials. If the crossbow is reused many times, its strength will loosen, making it difficult to use on a large scale. The range is also worse than the traditional crossbow.
A section, so Han Qian didn't have these dozen bed crossbows out before.
He hoped that at this critical moment, these dozens of crossbows could play some role in suppressing Liang Jun's momentum and arrogance in charging into the city through the gap.
The range of the newly-made sinewed bed crossbow is slightly lower than the traditional bed crossbow, but it is still two hundred paces away. It is like harvesting crops, piercing through the bodies of more than 20 Liang Jun generals, making them like watermelons.
, rolled down from the gap.
The stringing time of the sinewed bed crossbow is longer than that of the traditional three-bow bed crossbow, which means that the shooting rhythm will be slower. It is difficult to kill Liang Jun on a large scale. But this time, he took advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness and killed more than twenty people. Liang Jun was able to cheer up the morale of the defenders who were about to collapse.
Before large shields or even light sidecars were brought up, Liang Jun did not dare to spread his legs and attack the depths of Xichuan City. However, Liang Jun only hesitated for half a cup of tea, and before they completely controlled the northeast side After the city wall suppressed Li Zhigao's troops on the east wall, more Liang troops rushed in through the gap with large shields held high.
"How's the situation?"
Han Qian turned around and saw a group of young generals from the guard battalion led by the third prince walking towards him.
Shen Yang and Zhang Ping followed anxiously, presumably trying to persuade the third prince to return to the town, but the third prince ignored them.
Although Yang Yuanpu was only fifteen years old, there was not much fear in his eyes at this moment. Days of fatigue had made his eyes bloodshot, more like a cub with bloodshot eyes.
Several streams of arrows shot towards him, and Yao Xishui's hidden sword slashed out, like a stream of light, cutting off the arrows.
The guard camp general Zhu Canghuang raised his shield and surrounded him, protecting Yang Yuanpu and Han Qian behind the shield formation.
"Your Highness, the front line is too dangerous. If you make a mistake, Xichuan will really be in danger. Your Highness, follow Mr. Shen and Mr. Zhang to the Zhenjiang Mansion to watch the battle. Han Qian will kill Liang Jun for your Highness!" Han Qian shouted .
"Your Highness!" Shen Yang screamed sadly, urging the third prince to return to the town and take refuge with the general temporarily.
"Han Qian, I will hand over the guard camp to your command. You must guard Xichuan for me!" Seeing that everyone opposed him standing in the front line, Yang Yuanpu shouted to Han Qian unwillingly.
"Don't worry, Your Highness, if Han Qian is here, Xichuan City will never be lost!" Han Qian said loudly.
Shen Yang and Zhang Ping gathered around the third prince Yang Yuanpu and retreated to the general's mansion.
Li Chong struggled for a while and saw a stray arrow shooting towards the third prince's back. He blocked it with his sword and followed closely behind, escorting the third prince to the Zhenjiang's Mansion.
Han Qian saw that the first wave of Liang Jun who rushed into the gap was still nearly two hundred steps away from them, but there were scattered arrows coming towards them. There must be extremely skilled archery masters among the Liang Jun in the front line.
At this time, Han Qian didn't care to tell Li Chong that he was a coward. He took a shield from the guard behind him and focused more on watching the disturbances on the battlefield...
