Twenty trebuchets on the top of the city fired continuously. Huge stones roared through the air and were shot at the siege nest vehicle. A huge stone accurately hit a siege nest vehicle and knocked the nest vehicle away.
The roof was smashed to pieces, and pieces of wood were scattered everywhere. The nest car shook a few times, but it continued to move forward without any damage to its muscles or bones.
But more boulders passed by both sides of the nest car and hit the soldiers on the ground...
Although Xue Yantuo's army also suffered a lot of losses, the trebuchets on the city did not affect the army's determination to advance. Xue Yantuo's army was getting closer and closer to the city.
After entering the 150-step line, all the war horses pulling the troops were removed, and instead hundreds of people pushed the siege vehicles forward.
Eighty tall and powerful Xue Yantuo soldiers stood on the stairs and platforms in each nest car. They were the first batch of soldiers to attack the city, opening a path for the following soldiers.
These are the four hundred most powerful soldiers carefully selected by Xue Mantou. Each of them is wearing chain mail, an iron helmet on his head, and holding a shield and a spear in his hand. They are murderous.
Twenty soldiers stood on the top platform. There was a wooden cover above their heads. A large wooden raft was erected in front of them, about eight feet high. It was wrapped with 20% of cowhide. It was erected as a shield when advancing. Once it got close to the city wall, the platform fell down.
, placed on top of the city, it becomes a ready-made overpass, which is very strong and practical.
On the platform, twenty powerful Xue Yantuo soldiers were holding spears and large shields. They looked ferocious and expressionless, and their eyes flashed with a killing light like beasts. Behind them was a staircase leading down, and the stairs were also full of people.
Soldier.
One hundred steps...fifty steps...thirty steps, all obstacles in front were cleared by Xue Yantuo's soldiers, and the five siege vehicles were getting closer and closer to the city wall.
At this time, Guo Song issued an order to destroy the trebuchets. The trebuchets were no longer meaningful for defending the city. Once mastered by the enemy, they would become their weapon to threaten the inner city.
"boom!"
A siege nest vehicle withstood the city head. The huge baffle crashed down and hit the city head hard. The twenty soldiers inside were killed. On the city head, fifty spearmen swarmed up, and twenty
Soldiers named Xue Yantuo fought fiercely together.
Five siege vehicles arrived at the city wall one after another, and quickly formed five passages to the city. The two sides formed five offensive and defensive battles, and thousands of people fought together on the top of the city.
A siege vehicle was facing the overpass of the inner and outer city of Jiuyuan County. Enemy soldiers kept coming up, seriously threatening the safety of the overpass. Guo Song rushed over with 300 soldiers and looked at each other.
They wanted to break through the encirclement of the Tang army, but were pushed back by the supporting forces who were killed.
Guo Song swung Fang Tian's painted halberd and made a flat stab. The tip of the halberd hit the enemy commander. This commander was extremely powerful and powerful. Five or six Tang soldiers had already died under his mace.
The captain laughed ferociously, raised his mace high, and hit the halberd head hard, "Dang!" With a loud noise, the iron mace hit the halberd head hard, and the violent backlash made the captain two
His arm was sore and numb, and the mace flew out of his hand.
The captain shouted and turned to run away, but Guo Song's halberd was not affected at all and suddenly accelerated, 'poof!' The long halberd tip pierced his chest.
The captain screamed and died tragically on the spot. Guo Song struggled with his arms and lifted his body high. The morale of the Tang army was greatly boosted. Xue Yantuo's soldiers were angry and afraid. More than a dozen soldiers rushed up to grab the body. Guo Song
He threw the corpse into the city, shouted loudly, stabbed and slashed with his halberd from the left, killing more than ten people in a row, and stalled the enemy's offensive.
After that, hundreds of Tang army soldiers attacked like a tide, killing Xue Yantuo's soldiers and retreating steadily, and then returned to the siege vehicle.
At this time, dozens of soldiers of the Tang Army threw bundles of lit wheat straw into the siege vehicle. Smoke billowed instantly, and the soldiers inside panicked and fled out of the siege vehicle. The fire burned bigger and bigger, destroying the entire siege vehicle.
The nest car was swallowed up.
In the middle section of the city wall, the Tang Army won the victory, but in the other four siege vehicles, the Tang Army did not have an advantage. More and more enemy troops attacked the city, and both sides were evenly matched.
Guo Song pondered for a moment and then immediately ordered: "Send the order to withdraw to the inner city!"
Li Ji was shocked and said, "Your Majesty, we have not failed, why should we retreat?"
Guo Song said decisively: "There is no reason, withdraw the troops immediately!"
Military orders cannot be violated, so Li Ji had no choice but to issue the order, "Ring the bell and withdraw the troops!"
'Dang! Dang! Dang!'
The hasty withdrawal bell rang, and the Tang army began to retreat from the overpass across the city to the inner city. There were two overpasses, one in the east of the city, which was demolished after the war started, and one in the west of the city, directly opposite the nest car.
A raging fire is burning.
This place was under the control of Guo Song himself and was absolutely controlled by the Tang army. The thousand militia soldiers on the city who were operating trebuchets had taken the lead in retreating together with the steel fork-hand soldiers after dismantling the trebuchets and throwing poles. The remaining five on the city were
More than a thousand soldiers were also retreating.
The soldiers of the Tang Army did not necessarily have to walk across the city bridge to retreat. For example, if the soldiers at the north and south ends were blocked by the enemy and could no longer come back, they would retreat directly from the north and south city walls. Soldiers from the inner city would use ladders to meet them.
As the Tang army retreated rapidly, more and more Xue Yantuo's troops attacked the outer city wall. Xue Manzi was greatly excited and ordered: "The whole army goes to the city!"
More than 10,000 Xue Yantuo's troops surged forward like a tide, rushing up to the outer city wall along with the four siege vehicles. At this time, Guo Song, holding a halberd and a large shield, stood at the bridge like a god of war, waiting for the last dozen or so people to attack the city.
Soldiers running from the side.
"Go quickly!"
More than a dozen soldiers rushed to the overpass from him one after another. Guo Song looked around the west city, but there was no Tang Army soldier. He retreated step by step. The nearest Xue Yantuo soldier was only more than ten steps away, and they did not dare to rush.
He stepped forward and followed Guo Song step by step with his spear in hand, always keeping a distance of ten steps.
The soldiers in the entire inner city and the outer city were stunned, holding their breath and looking at a step on the overpass. The overpass was filled with more than a thousand Xue Yantuo soldiers, standing densely on the overpass, and at the other end was their commander, holding a halberd.
He raised his shield and retreated step by step. The two sides were only ten steps apart.
No one shot arrows at this time for fear of hurting one of their own.
When they were still ten feet away from the inner city, a thousand captain shouted, and Xue Yantuo's soldiers rushed forward with shouts. Their tactics were clear and they must rush into the inner city together with the opponent's general, so that the Tang army would not have time to cut the rope.
Guo Song smiled coldly and swung his halberd suddenly, cutting the overpass into two parts. The soldiers on the overpass screamed in fear and fell heavily to the ground three feet apart. More than a thousand soldiers were thrown out and died.
He was injured immediately and screamed loudly.
Another section of Guo Song also hit the city wall heavily, but Guo Song used a long halberd to support the city wall. He threw away his shield, climbed up the rope ladder with one arm step by step, and climbed onto the city very lightly. The Tang army on the inner city
There was a sudden burst of cheers.
Even Xue Mantou couldn't help but pointed his war sword at Guo Song and asked, "Who is that person?"
Everyone shook their heads and wondered. One of the generals said: "I heard that the opponent's coach Guo Song uses a Fangtian Painted Halberd. Could it be this person?"
Xue Mantou's face became even more ugly. The opponent's coach was actually the last one to retreat. If his soldiers had been braver, they might have been able to capture this man alive. They wasted an opportunity.
"Khan, this outer city is built a bit strangely!"
A captain discovered a clue. There was no passage to the outer city leading to the city. Everyone was stunned. There was no passage to the city. What should we do?
Xue Mantou said coldly: "This is not easy. Use a simple ladder to go down, and then use a ladder to attack the city. The enemy's city head is only two feet long. Don't tell me that you can't attack it!"
Last night, Xue Yantuo's army made 300 simple and crude ladders overnight. After the war started, they originally thought they would not be needed, but unexpectedly they were used here.
More than 10,000 Xue Yantuo's troops set up ladders and headed towards the city.
At this time, the fierce battle has been going on for more than four hours. The war lasted from early morning to afternoon. The 18,000 Xue Yantuo army suffered casualties of nearly 5,000 people. Currently, there are only more than 13,000 people with combat effectiveness. They are now in a difficult position. If
If this war doesn't continue, they will lose nearly 5,000 soldiers in vain. Moreover, they have already captured the outer city. It is like a fish that has been hooked. It is impossible for them to give up. They just have to swallow the hook with the last bite.
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Guo Song was waiting for the enemy to finally swallow the fishhook. The reason why he decided to abandon the outer city was because he was worried about Xue Yantuo's withdrawal. Now that Xue Yantuo occupied the outer city, it was equivalent to eating the bait on his own fishhook. He was also waiting for Xue Yantuo.
The army swallowed the fishhook in one last bite.
For Guo Song, the last bite of the enemy's fishhook was when the main force came down from the outer city and entered between the two cities.
It seemed that there were only 5,000 soldiers on both sides of Guo and Song, but in fact, there were more than 10,000 soldiers lying in ambush on the top of the city, waiting for the commander to give the order for the entire army to attack.
The number of the Tang army already exceeded that of Xue Yantuo's army. As long as it was not a cavalry battle, they already had a 70% chance of victory in this battle. The only difference was how many enemies they killed.