The arrow pierced Jiang Xian's shoulder hard, and Jiang Xian's forward charging body was stunned, but soon became faster.
The chaos in Nanchen's army was not accidental. After all, most of these soldiers had no experience fighting the enemy on the battlefield, and some were even captured young men. Therefore, it was reasonable for them to be in disarray. No one had thought of this.
The navy soldiers of Shu Han were actually so good at fighting.
It’s not their fault. After all, those who have been outstanding under Li Xunchen are all land divisions, including Li Xinchen’s right-hand men Xiao Shilian and Pei Zilie, as well as Chen Zhishen, who has always been famous for his bravery. They are all land generals, so many people naturally
Ignoring the bravery of the Shu Han navy, Li Xinchen was able to fight all the way from Bajun to Shujun, and the navy played a major role.
Now Chen Shujian is directing the battle on the upper city walk. Jiang Xian and Chen Shujian can already look at each other. Chen Shujian has drawn his sword and is looking at Jiang Xian closely. As long as Jiang Xian continues to move forward, Chen Shujian will not hesitate to lead his bodyguards.
Get into battle.
The attack and defense of Xiangzhou City has reached a critical moment of life and death, and everyone can only go all out.
A stream of arrows roared over, and hundreds of Nanchen crossbowmen arrived belatedly. These arrows obviously caught Jiang Xian by surprise. Seven or eight soldiers on the flanks fell to the ground almost at the same time, and Jiang Xian had no choice but to
They picked up their shields and blocked several arrows. Only a dozen or so Shu Han soldiers were left ashore, and they fought and retreated.
"Bang!" A stone bullet hit the city wall, and smoke and dust billowed again.
The two walking boats also rushed in while the soldiers on the city were fleeing in panic. The crossbowmen on the walking boats fired arrows at the Nanchen soldiers desperately, and finally covered Jiang Xian and the others as they retreated.
"Kill!" Uncle Chen ordered decisively. If the enemy defends the water gate, the enemy's squadrons will continue to transport troops and horses in. In the end, Nan Chen's army will definitely not be able to hold on.
When Nan Chen's soldiers saw Jiang Xian and others retreating, they came to their senses and started to charge forward again. Fighting against the wind was not possible, but fighting with the wind was still possible.
"Your Highness, there is an emergency at the north gate!" A messenger ran over quickly.
"How is that possible?" Chen Shujian suddenly frowned. Although Chen Shushen had little experience, all the offensive and defensive equipment was ready, and he had a group of experienced generals to help him. He was dealing with Xiao Shilian, who had only a small number of people.
Logically speaking, the war had only just begun, so this situation could not have occurred.
"Xiao Shilian urged our prisoners to attack the city. Many of these prisoners knew the weaknesses of the city wall. Several of the city walls we had repaired were directly smashed. Now the enemy is attacking these gaps. The guards of King Yueyang have already
Filled in." The messenger said anxiously, "What's more important is..."
"What is it?!" Chen Shujian grabbed his wrist.
After hesitating for a moment, the messenger lowered his head and said: "What's more important is that many of us defected before the battle..."
Chen Shujian was startled for a moment, and he knew without thinking that the changes in the general situation of the world and the reward offered by Xiao Shilian had obviously completely shattered the already fragile military morale.
"Prepress the enemy and don't let them cross the dock!" Chen Shujian still gave the decisive order. At least Nan Chen has the upper hand here. Now Chen Shujian can't care about this side. If the north gate is breached, no matter how strong the water gate is, it won't matter.
use.
As he spoke, Chen Shujian and his bodyguards rushed towards the north gate quickly.
The battle situation at the North Gate was even worse than expected. Because the battle at Watergate started first, the troops deployed at Watergate were mainly military officers, while the main cities in the north had more soldiers.
Ding Zhuang, ironically, it was Nan Chen's regular army who was frantically attacking the city outside the city.
In addition, there are already two large ladder trucks in the camp outside the North Gate, so it is reasonable that the North Gate battle situation is urgent.
The military tower on the city gate was riddled with holes. The trebuchets focused their fire on this place where the crossbowmen were most likely to be hidden, leaving Chen Shushen no chance at all. And the city gate was littered with corpses.
Interlaced, there were soldiers from Shu Han who rushed to the city, and soldiers from Nanchen. The blood even turned the ground under their feet into deep red.
"Your Highness, it's too dangerous here!" A general saw Chen Shujian approaching and hurriedly rushed up with several sword and shield men, "His Royal Highness King Yueyang is on the way to the city, you can go there!"
Chen Shujian nodded slightly, but did not leave in a hurry. Instead, he looked up and looked outside the city gate. One of the two siege ladder trucks had been destroyed by the defenders' trebuchets and fire arrows. The flames on it had not completely subsided. The entire ladder truck
There was a blazing fire not far from the city gate. There were also many corpses in the ditch under the city gate, and there were Shu Han soldiers as dense as ants carrying simple ladders and so on, stepping over the corpses of their own people and the ones filled in.
The sandbags quickly hit the city wall.
Another large ladder truck is also rushing towards the city gate. Xiangzhou is not only a military town, but also an important industrial and commercial town connecting Jingnan, Lingnan and Jiangnan. In order to facilitate the entry and exit of people, the moats outside the city are not used.
Instead of a suspension bridge, a simple bridge is used, which is not uncommon outside the city gates of large cities. Even capitals such as Chang'an and Jiankang Prefecture have more than three stone bridges connecting the city gates with the outside of the city.
Now this short bridge has naturally become the main channel for ladder trucks to attack. After all, most of the moats are filled directly with corpses and sandbags, and the uneven ground is difficult for ladder trucks to pass directly.
"Whoosh!" A sharp sound suddenly sounded, followed by thousands of arrows fired from the ladder truck.
The guards hurriedly gathered Chen Shujian on the trail to the upper city, and the next moment arrows roared out, and the soldiers on the city wall who were nervously carrying wood and rolling stones fell in pieces. However, the crossbows on both sides of the city gate also began to fight back.
, the iron arrows wrapped with combustible materials roared out. One of them grazed the moving ladder truck, while the other one accurately hit the ladder truck.
However, the soldiers on the ladder truck quickly extinguished the flames. At the same time, taking advantage of the opportunity when many Nanchen soldiers on the city gate fell down or avoided arrows, several Shu Han soldiers had already climbed up the ladder.
The place where they built the ladder was a gap in the city wall, so the ladder did not need to be that long at all, and the efficiency of going up and down was naturally improved a lot.
Xiangzhou City experienced the Huajiao Rebellion more than ten years ago. The main force of Nanchen under the command of Wu Mingche once fought with the rebels around Xiangzhou City. The city was still damaged. After that, the city was repaired, but once
The gap has only been filled - of course it is impossible to overthrow the city wall and rebuild it - at this time it became the best choice for a trebuchet attack.
The huge stone bullet hit the city wall and quickly smashed away the compacted soil, which became the best offensive option for the Shu Han soldiers. (To be continued)