The Liao army surged in like a tidal wave and instantly covered the battlefield below the city. Looking around, the ground was full of ant-like soldiers. They seemed to be disorganized, but in fact they were not.
The Liao army was well prepared for this siege, and the configuration of the siege troops and horses also imitated the configuration of the Zhou Dynasty siege troops. Basically, there were two ladders for every one hundred soldiers, and fifty shield-bearing infantry.
Named, they also have the most complete armor. Because these thirty soldiers have to climb the ladder to attack the city, they are equipped with oak round shields on their arms for protection, and are equipped with a full set of armor. The remaining thirty soldiers have two hands.
Shield soldiers and twenty escalator bearers. Thirty soldiers holding large shields with both hands are responsible for protecting the safety of twenty escalator bearers. The so-called escalator bearers are responsible for erecting ladders when attacking a city and holding the escalators to prevent the city from defending.
The soldiers who overturned the escalator. When necessary, they also served as substitutes for the main attacking soldiers and became part of the siege.
From this small configuration, we can see Yelu Zongyuan's determination to win this battle.
There are 1,200 such centuries, totaling 120,000 people. There are also thirty-six thousand-man teams responsible for following the forty-six aerial vehicles to attack the city. These 46,000 people are even more equipped with the most sophisticated armor.
With the sharpest scimitars, they are the most elite main force in this siege. They are responsible for attacking the city head and opening the gap to gain a foothold. As long as they persist for a moment, the rest of the siege troops will continue to board the city.
In addition, there are fifteen teams of city rams, each consisting of 300 strong men. Their task is to bombard the three city gates in the northwest and south. Each gate will have five rams and 1,500 men.
Strong men attacked. In addition to manipulating a thousand-pound hammer to hit the city gate, a thousand of them also carried long iron drills and sledgehammers to forcefully demolish both sides of the city gate. Once the city gate was sealed
If it is dead or held up by iron bolts, the city wall outside the door axis will be opened by demolition, and the obstacles inside will be removed and cleared.
In short, the Liao army learned various siege methods from the Zhou Dynasty during the period before the war, and even created some of their own siege strategies. They were fully prepared for the siege. If the moat of Liaoyang City was not too deep, they would have
If their plan of digging tunnels into the city is difficult to implement, they will need another means of attacking the city.
Troops and horses surged in, and the Jurchen archers on the city top fired thousands of arrows and began to shoot at the approaching areas. The dense rain of arrows caused huge damage to the Liao army, and all the bed crossbows and three-bow bed crossbows also
The target is aimed at the soldiers and horses under the city, because this is the last chance to kill the opponent's vitality without paying too much cost. It is also the time when bows and arrows and crossbows finally exert their power. When the opponent rushes to the city, there will be no more
Opportunity made them effective, for sieges were hand-to-hand combat.
Eighty steps away, the aerial vehicle finally began to move forward slowly under the pull of dozens of war horses. The giant wheel, which was about ten feet high, rolled slowly on the ground, making a harsh creaking sound. The tall aerial vehicle
Staggering, like a giant slowly moving forward, leaving several deep ruts on the ground behind it. A team of thousands followed closely behind the Yunxiao Car, dodging the shots from the city head.
A dense rain of arrows came. The war horses pulling the carts in front died in batches. Every dozen steps forward, they were shot dead by bows and arrows at the top of the city. Of course, the Jurchens at the top of the city also knew that once these behemoths arrived,
Below the city, it will be a nightmare for the city defenders.
But they soon had no time to worry about the approach of these roller coasters, because a large number of siege soldiers had already
They rushed from the pontoon bridge and embankment to the city. The space less than thirty steps between the empty moat and the city wall was filled with countless Liao soldiers almost in the blink of an eye. More than two thousand ladders began to be erected.
In the air, it seemed as if a forest suddenly grew beside the city wall. These ladders made of logs were extremely heavy and were three to four feet high. It was not easy to erect them, but once they were put up on the city wall, it was also very difficult.
Being pushed away or cut off. It is difficult to be pushed away by the long fork specially used to push away the ladder with its own weight. What's more, the sharp iron hook at the top of the ladder will sneak into the edge of the city wall to grab it, and there are dozens of people below.
A soldier tied a rope to the upper end of the ladder and held on tightly below to ensure the stability of the ladder.
On the top of the city, rolling logs and stones rained down. The Jurchens piled up city defense materials on the widened platform behind the city wall, which came in handy at this moment. Heavy rolling logs and stones fell from a height of several feet.
, who of the people below can withstand it? Even if there is a large shield on top of the head, it can only protect against arrows and light stones from the city head. When the wooden rolling stones fall, the large shield will not be broken even if it is smashed.
If you open it, the soldiers below will also be knocked down.
In just a few moments, thousands of people died under the rolling logs and rocks at the top of the city. The Liao soldiers attacking the city cried out for their fathers and mothers. But the leaders were unmoved. This situation was expected.
In a siege of this scale, the death of thousands of people is nothing at all.
"Hold on! Hold on! Attack the city! Damn it, hold on to the ladder and attack the city." The teams were shouting and cursing loudly.
The soldiers of the Liao army stabilized their position and hooked up the ladders to the edge of the city wall. Although only half of the two thousand ladders successfully reached the edge of the city wall, it was enough for the siege troops. The Liao army's death squads were wearing small oak bucklers in their left hands.
They began to climb up the ladder in a file. They maintained a weird posture, with their heads tucked into the crook of their left arms, and their necks shrunk as much as possible to hide their bodies under their bucklers, hoping to reduce the damage to the defenders on the city, but in this way
In fact, they were just deceiving themselves. The defenders at the top of the city used huge rocks and logs to smash them over their heads. Sometimes, just one huge log could knock down all the enemies on the ladder like a gourd. The soldiers who fell down were all messed up.
, screaming to the sky.
It was good luck. Some of the defenders at the head of the Jurchen city were holding giant maces. The big sticks were full of spikes and smashed their heads. The shields and heads were smashed to pieces. They were rolled by wooden sticks.
There is still a possibility of survival if hit by a stone, but if hit by a mace, even the head will be smashed to pieces. How can you survive?
Of course, the Liao soldiers attacking the city were not without countermeasures. The Liao soldiers carried long-handled hooks and sickles. When they climbed to the top of the ladder, several of them grabbed the handles of the hooks and sickles with one hand and hooked up and down at the top of the city.
Once the body is hooked by the giant scythe, it will be forcibly hooked off the city wall and thrown down. If the hook and scythe does not cut off the head and body, it will be thrown to death under the city wall.
At this stage of the war, it can only be described as bloody. The situation above and below the city was like a fight between evil spirits from hell. There was a bloody mist of blood floating in the air, and the smell made people sick. The defenders at the top of the city dropped them like dumplings.
As they approached the city, the Liao troops on the ladder rolled down like skewers. Countless rocks and rocks mixed with boiling oil and boiling water poured down. Under the city wall, limbs were broken, flesh and blood flew everywhere, dead bodies rolled, and blood pooled.
It flows into a small stream into the moat, and the section of the moat near the river bank has been dyed blood red.
"The Sky Cart! The Sky Cart! Why haven't you crossed the river yet?" Watching the battle from behind
On the platform, Yelu Zongyuan paced back and forth quickly like a lion in a cage, roaring loudly.
It's not that the roller coasters are not moving, it's just that the speed of movement is too slow. There are only a dozen passages in total, and more than forty roller coasters can only move in a file. At this moment, more than a dozen roller coasters have arrived on the embankment and are being pulled by horses.
Slowly drove up the embankment channel. The huge wheels pressed on the laid logs, and the heavy weight made the logs crackle. After the wheels ran over, the logs were pressed hard into the earth and rocks.
After the whole roller coaster drove onto the embankment, a horrifying scene appeared in front of everyone. Because the weight of the roller coaster was too huge, the entire embankment was compressed and sank by nearly half a foot under the weight. There were gurgling sounds on both sides of the embankment.
A large amount of blood-red liquid emerged, dyeing the river water on both sides black and red. The bubbles that continued to emerge sent an unbearable smell to the surface of the river. That stench was something that no one had ever heard in their lives.
, making people’s internal organs tremble. What’s even more terrifying is that when the dike was pressed and sank, the entire dike actually made a weird roar, like the north wind whistling on the branches on a cold night, or like the sound of hell.
The sigh of the evil spirit.
Of course, all this is not a supernatural event, it is just because the corpses of a large number of people and horses buried in the mud and rocks below the embankment were compressed under the heavy pressure of the roller coaster. The corpses were squeezed by the mud and rocks, and the contents in their bodies
The blood and water are squeezed out like oil, seeping through the mud and stone and flowing into the river. The smell produced by the mixture of flesh, blood and dirt in the intestines and stomach can be imagined. When the gap between the body and the mud and stone is compressed
Naturally, they make strange noises. It makes people feel that these dams are like living creatures, like the roaring of the souls buried in the mud and rocks.
But in any case, the cloud carriage is about to arrive at the city, which is exciting news for the Liao army. The cloud carriage is decisive in assisting the siege. As long as the cloud carriage approaches the city wall and builds a passage, the city wall will be breached.
It's just a matter of time. As for the Sky Car, there should be no way for the Jurchens to counter it. From the beginning to the end, the Jurchens' attacks on the Sky Car were uninterrupted. The bed crossbows continued to bombard the car body.
The iron shell on the front is full of holes, but the force of the crossbow cannot destroy the structure of the roller coaster after all. The roller coaster built by Dazhou is the most top-level siege equipment. During the construction and design, the opponent's various damages were taken into consideration.
The methods include the bombardment of bed crossbows, the burning of kerosene, etc. The exterior is a double-layered iron shell, and the interior wood is made of the strongest hard wood, coated with thick raw paint to prevent flames.
Isn't it something that can be damaged easily?
After learning that the siege chariot was about to cross the river, the expressions on the faces of Yelu Zongyuan and the officials of the Liao Kingdom softened. Good news also came one after another. The siege chariot located at the south city gate collapsed the edge of the city gate.
The wall opened a big hole in the city wall next to the city gate hole. A large amount of earth and stone blocked the city gate hole. Although it was impossible to enter for a while, the strong men had begun to widen the hole, and soon they would be able to use manpower to remove the blockage.
Mud and rocks were used to clear the entire city gate. In other words, it was only a matter of time before the city gate was breached.
Although our own side suffered heavy casualties and the counterattack of the Jurchens at the top of the city was extremely fierce, it seemed that the siege was progressing faster than expected. Yelu Zongyuan and other people in the Liao Kingdom seemed to have smelled the victory.
