The second stage of the siege began at the last three moments. The low and dull sound of the trumpet resounded throughout the battlefield below the city. The sound was heard in the ears of every defender on the city wall and the people in the city.
It all makes the hairs on the body stand up and make people shudder.
Almost all the infantry of the Jurchen army was dispatched. Nearly a dozen infantrymen were divided into three echelons, and the formation was spread out on a battlefield two miles wide to the left and right of Fengqiu Gate. Cooperating with these 120,000 infantrymen to attack the city were 50,000 cavalry archers.
Their duty is to suppress the garrison at the top of the city with firepower.
The whole army of soldiers and horses slowly advanced like a tide to a place 300 steps away from the city. Then Wanyan Aguda personally issued the order to attack. For a while, the war drums rumbled, the horns sounded, and the shouts resounded through the sky. The first wave
The infantrymen carried ladders and wooden shields and began to rush towards the city.
The first echelon is composed of 50,000 Liao troops who have defected to the Jurchens and some young men who have defected to the Jurchens. In fact, they are also used as cannon fodder to withstand the first wave of attacks. The two waves of 70,000 Jurchen troops in the rear are the real
The main force attacking the city wall. But unlike the unarmed people who filled the passage on the moat before, they were a group of people who hated the Zhou Dynasty itself. Whether it was the surrender of the Liao Kingdom or the surrender of the Zhou Dynasty, they were hostile to themselves.
In fact, there is no sense of guilt in their actions. The Liao Kingdom was originally the enemy of the Zhou Dynasty, and the group of young Zhou Dynasty men who took refuge with the Jurchens either felt resentful because they were excluded from Bianliang City, and turned to
Those who surrendered to the enemy, or were some remnants of the Qing Sect, were originally looking for opportunities to avenge the Qing Sect to which they were loyal to. Therefore, these two types of people would not show mercy at all when attacking the Great Zhou Dynasty. Although they only faced the Jurchens
They can be reduced to cannon fodder and inferior to others, but they themselves do not think so.
They are indeed not cannon fodder in the complete sense. The Jurchens have equipped them with simple armors, blades, shields and other defenses. They are indeed very different from the previous cannon fodder who were unarmed and had no means of defense. But
The meaning of cannon fodder does not depend on how sophisticated the equipment is or how generous the promised rewards are, but rather depends on the role it plays in the entire battle. For a siege, the first wave of counterattack firepower must be extremely terrifying.
Therefore, the first echelon to attack the city is not an honor, but precisely because it is worthless. Wanyan Aguda only needs these people to rush to the bottom of the city and absorb the damage from the defenders at the top of the city. It is best to use ladders to break through the city wall. If
It doesn't matter if they can't attack, because they will provide cover for the main force that follows and open the passage. As for whether these people are dead or alive, Wanyan Agu doesn't care that much. What he cares about is whether the tactical intention can be achieved.
Fifty thousand soldiers and horses rushed over on the muddy ground that had been trampled. The distance of three hundred steps was too short. In a blink of an eye, they were already within the shooting range of the defenders at the top of the city. The top of the city was only two short meters away.
Nearly 40,000 Forbidden Army soldiers and horses have been assembled on the long city wall, and during the previous brief truce, the Zhou defenders had judged that the opponent would no longer bombard with thunder chariots, so a large number of soldiers and horses were gathered here, and
A lot of materials for city defense have been quickly carried up on the city wall by civilians.
After the opponent entered the range of the bow and arrow, thousands of arrows were fired from the city, like heavy rain, one after another, pouring down on the enemy formations attacking on the ground. Countless arrows penetrated the bodies of the Jurchen soldiers below the city, causing groans and screams.
One after another, the terrifying popping sound of the city gate when the arrow penetrates the flesh and blood body is frightening. The ground is full of exploding blood mist, just like the bloody ripples on the water, and like the earth.
Blooming bloody flowers.
In less than a few dozen breaths, the ferocious rain of arrows from the top of the city baptized the attacking enemy six or seven times, killing and wounding as many as three to four thousand people. The formation was too compressed, fifty thousand people were killed and wounded.
The soldiers and horses were concentrated within a two-mile area, and there were people almost everywhere. They were as dark as ants. Although it was a skirmisher formation, it was not actually loose. The terrain was too narrow and they couldn't disperse even if they wanted to.
stand up.
The Jurchens are not ignorant of the disadvantages of the dense formation, but they actually have no choice. Because the Jurchen army itself has a very limited number of soldiers and horses, less than 300,000 people in full force, they face the opponent's 200,000 forbidden troops and unknown forces.
For the defense of a large number of young and strong people, they can only choose to focus on attacking a certain point, rather than spreading the battlefield across the board. In that case, it will not only benefit the formation of their own siege troops, but it will also reduce the strength of the opponent's defenders.
Moreover, the Jurchen army has limited siege equipment. There are only thirty-six cloud chariots as the main siege force. Therefore, they must concentrate on breaking through the city wall. Only by breaking through a certain section of the city wall with a large number of troops at the same time can the city be broken.
conditions. Therefore, after weighing the balance, this is the best choice for the Jurchen army.
The siege soldiers and horses rushed to the moat, and then they could cross the river and enter the blind spot under the city wall, where they could avoid being shot by bows and arrows. But the short distance of crossing the moat was an absolute nightmare.
Although the more than 20 passages are as wide as two feet, tens of thousands of people charging here will naturally form a congestion. The bows and arrows at the top of the city are specifically focused on these more than 20 passages, causing a large number of casualties.
Countless siege soldiers were shot into hedgehogs on these river crossings. Countless soldiers fell into the moat, and their blood made the already blood-red water of the moat even redder, purple and black. A short distance of seven feet wide,
Like a gate to hell, it claimed the lives of thousands of people.
But no matter what, after paying a huge price, the first wave of thousands of siege troops successfully arrived under the tall city wall.
Several tall remnants of the Qing Sect, chanting the slogan "The Holy Duke is Great and Invulnerable", completed a historic moment. They erected a giant three-foot-three-foot-long ladder to reach Bianliang, the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
The city wall. Although these remnants of the Qing Sect were quickly killed by rocks thrown from the city, and the ladder was overthrown by the defenders with long forks, this was more than a hundred years after the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
, the first enemy siege ladder erected under the city wall of the capital.
As countless ladders were put up on the city wall, the bloody offensive and defensive battle on the city wall officially began. Rolling wood, rocks, oil, and boiling water rolled down the city wall, smashing the siege soldiers under the city wall until they howled like ghosts. To say that the defense of the Great Zhou Dynasty soldiers and horses
There are more than just these methods for the city. As a military force guided by defensive operations, Da Zhou naturally came up with many good ideas on how to defend the city. In addition to conventional methods, there are also special methods used to deal with the enemy.
means of siege.
A team of more than a dozen soldiers used long-handled wooden forks to push the siege ladder away from the city wall. After pushing it down, the siege soldiers fell to the ground with the ladder, breaking their bones and breaking their bones. There were also specialized
The city guard's spear team, armed with two-foot-long spears, stretched out their heads and used their spears to stab the soldiers on the siege ladder below violently. The siege soldiers were stabbed until they were bleeding all over, and they had to jump off the ladder to save their lives. These methods
Although it is no longer a secret, it was indeed created by the Zhou garrison over the years.
The attacking side suffered heavy casualties, but this was also expected. Siege operations are originally battles in which the attacking side pays a huge price, except of course when they have powerful siege equipment. At this moment, when the first echelon of siege troops
While they were suffering under the city wall, the 70,000 Jurchen elite infantrymen from behind finally came in overwhelming numbers. Among the dense crowd, there were more than 30 tower-like aerial vehicles slowly approaching, and there were also dozens of siege vehicles.
Surrounded by soldiers in formation.
When tens of thousands of Jurchen elite infantry rushed to the city without any hindrance, the Jurchens also had their own counterattack methods. Tens of thousands of Jurchen soldiers took off the hook rope from their waists, which was just a long rope with an iron four-piece tied to the front end.
The rope of the claw hook was originally a tool for the Jurchens to hook trees and grab rocks in the mountains and forests to facilitate movement. It was occasionally used to control violent beasts at close range. A few people could hook the prey from several directions with the hook.
The beasts worked together to subdue the beasts without getting close. At this moment, this kind of hook rope was used on the battlefield and became a sharp weapon during city siege. The hook rope whirring overhead was directly thrown onto the city by the Jurchen soldiers with the help of the power of rotation.
That's not to hook the city wall and climb directly up. Their target is the Zhou soldiers at the top of the city who have lost the protection of the battlement fortifications. The hook rope only needs to hook the bodies of the soldiers guarding the city, and they will pull hard, catching them off guard.
The defenders of the Zhou Dynasty would be pulled upside down and fell down the city wall. If they could not fall to death, they would be hacked to death with random swords.
This surprisingly difficult offensive method instantly caught the attention of thousands of defenders on the city wall, and they were pulled off the city wall one by one like dumplings. Some soldiers were hooked on their arms, and some of them responded quickly.
To resist, use your feet against the roots of the battlements to fight against it. Those who move quickly will quickly cut off the ropes, while those who move slowly will have to endure the pain of having their skin and flesh torn open, and a large piece of flesh and blood will be torn off by the iron hook to get rid of it.
This life-threatening hook.
Even so, it is still quite difficult for the Jurchens to attack the city wall. Under the fierce defensive measures of the opponent, it is not easy to just use ladders to attack the city. Although there are only 40,000 to 50,000 imperial troops guarding the city,
, but a steady stream of reinforcements were on both sides of the city wall and inside the city wall. Although the defenders suffered a lot of casualties, there were people to fill the vacancies at the first opportunity, and the combat effectiveness was not reduced at all. And the walls on both sides of the battlefield were
Although the Forbidden Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty could not join the battle, they could use crossbows, bows and arrows to support them. They could shoot and kill enemy siege troops within their attack range, causing considerable harassment to the Jurchens.
The Jurchens kept climbing up the city wall from the ladder, but because there were too few people who could break through the city wall, the sporadic soldiers who climbed the city were useless. They went up in vain and were quickly killed. In this case, the Jurchens wanted to
To break through the city wall, we can only hope for the arrival of the aerial vehicle, and the aerial vehicle is slowly approaching the city wall and will soon cross the moat.
About an hour and a half into the siege battle, more than thirty Yunxiao siege vehicles finally slowly stopped on the ground less than fifteen steps away from the city wall. The Jurchen soldiers quickly laid wooden stakes on the ground to fix the chassis.
, they carried four counterweight boxes weighing more than 600 kilograms from the cart and pressed them on the iron beams of the site. With more than two thousand kilograms of weight weighing down the site, plus more than a dozen nails driven in
The wooden piles on the ground were used as fixation, and the entire aerial vehicle was as stable as Mount Tai. Wanyan Agu also learned from the experience of the Liao people when they attacked Liaoyang City. At that time, his sister Wanyan Mingyue came up with the idea to use horses to pull the Liao army.
It is absolutely impossible for a roller coaster to be pulled down by force here, so the Jurchen roller coaster is not only more solid in structure, but also equipped with more weights to counterweight it. There are as many as a dozen people holding long arms on the top.
Ma's soldiers were always ready to cut off the opponent's rope pulling the roller coaster. Wanyan Aguda ensured that everything was perfect.
The aerial vehicle was in place, and the Jurchen soldiers filed in and rushed to the top space of the aerial vehicle. Suspension bridges opened one after another, and the passage
The passage to the top of the city was opened instantly. Countless Jurchen soldiers rushed towards the top of the city like wolves and tigers. This was not the sporadic soldiers and horses who climbed up the city from the ladder before. More than thirty aerial vehicles could bring nearly two people to the city at one time.
Thousands of people rushed to the top of the city. Even if there were not enough people to occupy the city wall, it would not be solved in a short time. As long as there was a delay, a steady stream of follow-up troops would rush up. After the troops were involved, the ladder attacked the city.
The Jurchen soldiers and horses will also get the opportunity to attack the city, which will break the current balance between the offensive and defensive sides, and will most likely cause the defensive side to collapse.
The two sides quickly formed a state of hand-to-hand fighting at the top of the city. Although the Great Zhou Forbidden Army had not experienced war for a long time and was filled with many children of aristocratic families who hoped to join the Forbidden Army as a career path, their combat effectiveness was no longer the best when the Great Zhou Dynasty was founded.
The Great Zhou Dynasty is the most powerful and elite army in the world. However, as the only army and horse to defend the capital, the Great Zhou Forbidden Army has a heavy responsibility on its shoulders and does not dare to relax too much. Over the years, the Forbidden Army’s training simulations have
The training of basic combat skills has not been neglected. Moreover, the weapons and equipment of the Forbidden Army are obviously the most complete and sophisticated among all the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou Dynasty. At this moment, facing the danger of the city being broken, the Forbidden Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty broke out with the force they once had.
His background showed extraordinary combat effectiveness.
The Jurchens' hand-to-hand combat capabilities are very powerful, but in the face of the fierceness of the Jurchens, the Imperial Army of the Zhou Dynasty did not retreat at all and fought to the end. The two sides launched a desperate fight on the wide city wall. Both sides had a steady stream of reinforcements, and the Jurchens
Although the infantry suffered heavy losses in previous sieges, they still have more than 90,000 combat troops. The Forbidden Army only suffered less than 6,000 or 7,000 casualties before, and there were as many as hundreds of thousands of reinforcements on the inside and both sides of the city wall.
.So, the imagined situation of the defenders collapsing did not happen. The two sides used the city head as the battlefield, strangled and tied each other together, and started a crazy fight.
Several times, the Jurchens almost took control of the situation, and the Zhou Forbidden Army was almost on the verge of collapse. However, they still withstood the opponent's attack. The bloody fight reached the end of Shenshi, and the number of casualties on both sides was countless. The city
Under the head city, there were corpses everywhere, and blood flowed down the top of the city wall, gathering into a trickle. Everyone was red-eyed, desperate for life and death. The Jurchen cavalry sent 50,000 people to the city to support, and Wanyan Aguda personally
Armed with maces, the guards went up to the city to fight, and the soldiers and horses of the Zhou Dynasty gradually became unable to hold on any longer.
But at this moment, Guo Xu led the Imperial Guards in front of the Qiandian Palace and rushed into the ruins of Fengqiu Gate. The moment the dragon flag was raised high, Guo Xu stood on a high place wearing golden armor and beat it himself.
War drum. At that moment, all the Forbidden Army soldiers seemed to have new strength injected into their bodies, glowing with the fighting power of a lion and a tiger. The emperor's chariot came to the battle in person, which greatly boosted the morale of the Great Zhou Forbidden Army. The Great Zhou Forbidden Army was retreating steadily.
A fierce attack was launched, suppressing the momentum of the Jurchen soldiers and horses, and the two sides fell into an anxious fight.
The setting sun slowly set, and under the setting sun, the inner and outer parts of the northern city of Bianliang City were already a hell. The exhausted soldiers from both sides were still fighting in the final battle. The corpses on both sides of the city wall were piled up like mountains, and blood flowed into rivers.
At this moment, the sound of high-pitched horns came from the afterglow of the sunset to the west of Bianliang. On the far horizon, countless black spots were rushing over the snowy fields. The soldiers and horses on both sides were in a daze, and they were very confused. .
Suddenly, someone shouted loudly: "Reinforcements have arrived. Lord Yuan Zhenqian's troops from the Northwest Army have arrived. The Jurchens are about to be destroyed."
This voice was shocking, and soon Wanyan Aguda and Guo Xu saw the flag of the soldiers and horses in the distant sunset through the telescope. Yes, that was the arrival of Yuan Zhengqian's soldiers and horses of the Northwest Army stationed in Xixia during the Great Zhou Dynasty. After waiting for them for nearly a month and a half, they finally arrived at the battlefield at the critical moment.
"It's them, hahaha, God bless me, God bless me, Bianliang City is saved. Hahaha." Guo Xu looked up to the sky and laughed, tears streaming down his face. The reason why he came to the city to fight in person was Not just for fame and reputation, he really felt the danger of the city being destroyed. He didn't want to die in vain, so he chose to come to the city to fight. Regarding his behavior, Lu Zhongtian only symbolically blocked a few words and stopped trying to persuade him. . Maybe Lu Zhongtian wanted him to die. But now, with the arrival of the Northwest Army and the arrival of reinforcements, the situation will be reversed. How could Guo Xu not cry with joy?
The arrival of the reinforcements made the Zhou soldiers and civilians above and below the city wall cheer with thunderous cheers and boost their morale. They shouted and launched a fierce attack, all of them were extremely brave. On the other hand, the Jurchens felt as if they had fallen into an ice cellar. After several hours of desperate fighting, they saw success. Right before our eyes, reinforcements from the other side have arrived. This is simply unbelievable. The Northwestern Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty has a main force of 250,000 troops. Even if it may not have 250,000 troops now, it is definitely not a Jurchen army. The army can resist at this moment. Especially when the siege is in full swing, once the opponent attacks, it will be difficult to take care of the head and tail, and it will be a situation of destruction.
Wanyan Agu cursed angrily. Although he was unwilling to do anything, he had to order the withdrawal of troops.
As soon as the military order was given, the Jurchen troops hurriedly went down to the city, silenced their flags and drums, and hastily withdrew their troops back to the camp. Even more than thirty roller coasters were abandoned. The soldiers and civilians of the Zhou Dynasty cheered loudly for victory at the top of the city, and everyone laughed loudly, but soon Afterwards, he collapsed and cried among the corpses on the ground, covered in blood.
