Chapter 1546 Huang Weiyang, who is not optimistic about Wang Junlin
Anyone who leaves his position without permission shall be killed!”
"Those who are injured and keep screaming! Kill them!"
Liu Zhifei's face turned pale with anger. He seemed to have overestimated the combat power and morale of the troops gathered by the Second Young Master, and he kept shouting sharply at this time.
One of his soldiers went up and cut off the head of a defender who had only personal wounds on his head but screamed like a slaughtered pig. The other injured people immediately suppressed their voices and stopped screaming.
, just moaning.
"Fortunately, what the enemy threw was not gunpowder packets." Liu Zhifei was frightened, but he breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he didn't use gunpowder packets, there would be no problem in persisting for one day. In half a day at most, the Second Young Master would be able to finish Jiangdu Palace's attack.
He led the army to Yangzhou City, and when the time came, he responded internally and externally, and surrounded Huang Shaoqiu in a pincer attack, fearing that he would not be able to destroy the opponent.
The morale of the Far Eastern Army was as high as a rainbow. Huang Shaoqiu gave an order, flags were flying, drums were beating thunder, and the army pushed shield carts and ladders, and under the cover of catapults and archers, began to attack the city.
There is naturally a reason why Huang Shaoqiu did not use gunpowder weapons to attack the city - after they captured Yangzhou City, they would face Yuwen Zhiji's army to attack the city. If they blow up the city wall now, it will be very troublesome to build it later, and let's talk about gunpowder.
It’s free of charge!
The Far East Army has a set of strict procedures and methods for calculating military merit. The consumption of weapons, equipment and equipment on the battlefield is one of them. The greater the consumption, the more money is spent, and the military merit is compromised.
Before the infantrymen of the Far Eastern Army carrying ladders and other equipment could run out a few steps, and before Liu Zhifei on the Yangzhou city wall could completely stabilize the defenders in panic, they saw the poles of the more than thirty trebuchets raised again, and three
More than a dozen stone bullets flew out from the tip of the pole, and they accurately hit the wall of Yangzhou City just like last time, and the most fatal one was the one just now. The accuracy frightened the defenders.
Liu Zhifei could no longer remain calm. He held on to the battlement and muttered to himself blankly: "How can it be so accurate? I just heard about it before, but I didn't expect the Far Eastern Army's equipment to be so powerful!"
By the time the siege troops of the Far Eastern Army rushed to the bottom of the city wall, the catapults had already hit this section of the wall five times. Except for a few catapults that missed the target in the first two rounds, almost every stone in each subsequent round was hit.
It hit the city wall accurately.
And after five rounds, the upper half of the Yangzhou city wall, which had always been known for its solidity, finally collapsed.
When the Far Eastern Army's ladder was set up on this city wall, the defenders on the wall had already fled far away. However, in order not to hit their own people, the catapult could only change its target and hit another area. Liu Zhifei was dying
After calling and beheading three more soldiers who wanted to escape, at the last moment they brought in people with rolling stones, giant trees, kerosene and other weapons to defend the city and repelled the first batch of Far Eastern troops, which was considered a narrow defense.
However, half of another section of the city wall was smashed and broken. Fortunately, Yu Wenzhi and the people who stayed behind in Yangzhou City had quite a few experienced generals in battle, and some of his elite soldiers were scattered everywhere.
Defended the first wave.
However, the catapults of the Far Eastern Army were still firing non-stop, throwing stone bombs weighing more than twenty kilograms one after another towards the top of the city.
However, due to the astonishingly fast launch speed, all the more than 3,000 stones that Huang Shaoqiu had prepared with great difficulty these days were projected out in less than an hour.
Before all the stone bullets were exhausted, half of three Yangzhou city walls collapsed amid the cheers of Huang Shaoqiu's troops.
The most important thing was that such a precise strike caused the morale of the defenders to almost fall to the bottom. Liu Zhifei saw that many soldiers and even some generals looked frightened and fearful, and they wanted to retreat.
At this time, some spies had discovered that the Far Eastern Army's catapults no longer fired stone bombs, and speculated that the Far Eastern Army's stone bombs had been used up.
Although half of the city wall collapsed in three places, fortunately the Yangzhou city wall was high enough, and the number of men under his command was two or three times that of the Far East Army, and the various equipment for defending the city were sufficient. As long as this period of low morale was stabilized, today
Can defend Yangzhou City.
A brutal offensive and defensive battle was going on on the wall outside Yangzhou City, but the soldiers responsible for guarding the four city gates could only listen to the shouts and screams at the top and outside the wall, while holding knives and guns in their hands, always paying attention
They followed the movement outside the city gate. As long as someone knocked on the door from outside the city, they would use the door-blocking stone carts prepared in advance to block the back.
In the direction of the North City Gate, there is a two-story attic on the roadside, which is a resting place for the generals guarding the city gate.
In the hall on the first floor of the attic, Xu Jingzong was drinking tea while watching Huang Weiyang walking back and forth in the middle of the hall, while Shen Guang was sitting at the door with his back against the door frame and his eyes closed to meditate.
It only took an instant to rush out of this hall. The key positions beside the city gate outside were occupied by blue-clad guards and masters from the Military Intelligence Office. Although there were only about a hundred people, among the nearly a thousand defenders guarding the city gate, only
They accounted for one-tenth, but these people were so powerful that they could block ten, or even dozens of people.
As long as the plum blossoms and drums sound outside the city, they can occupy the main position in front of the city gate before others can react, block other people from outside, and then open the city gate.
Although Huang Weiyang agreed to seek refuge with Wang Junlin, Wang Junlin did not promise him personally. Moreover, he was from a wealthy family in the south of the Yangtze River. He was extremely hostile to Wang Junlin's ruling behavior of dividing clans and dividing land, and he was not very optimistic about it.
The Far Eastern Army, which offended all the powerful factions, was able to conquer the world.
Therefore, he felt that following Wang Junlin might be a temporary success, but in the end, he might not have a good future. This caused him to think about it in panic all day long.
At this time, when he turned around and saw Xu Jingzong, his heart trembled inexplicably. This man had always been very kind in front of him, but for some reason he felt faintly afraid.
There were only six people in the room, including Xu Jingzong and Shen Guang. They were scattered throughout the hall at this time. They seemed to be scattered, but in fact they were all within a distance that could immediately support each other. In addition, there were seven of his confidants standing around him.
Different from Xu Jingzong's sinister feeling, Huang Weiyang could feel a unique strength from the behavior of the other six people, especially Shen Guang, who gave him an extremely dangerous feeling.
He himself is also a master, and there are some experienced soldiers among his subordinates, and there are also masters among his guards, but few have such magnanimity.
In addition to these people, Shen Guang had previously transferred a hundred people in more than ten batches from unknown sources. Huang Weiyang found garrison clothes for them and arranged them among the garrison guarding the north gate. The expressions of these people
He is aloof and has a tough temperament, and he looks like a tough guy just from the way he moves his hands and feet.
"These people are the masters of the Far Eastern Army's Military Intelligence Office." Huang Weiyang thought to himself.