stubborn thief

Chapter 208 Zhenyuan Siege Battle

The siege engine is advancing.

The sound of earth mountain guns roared, and hundreds of irons flew through the smoke, flew more than [-] steps, and splashed on the rammed earth city wall.

Mr. Li wore a white scarf on his head, held two small gourds in his hand, and stood at the front of the team with his shield in his hand. Looking up at the two-foot-high wall, he walked forward with his head held high.

His liver trembled from the sound of his own artillery.

Li Laozhen's team was frightened even more, and the adopted son who followed him asked: "Big, how can you attack the city with the artillery from behind?"

"It's okay, Marshal Liu will attack the city, just follow the command."

Having said that, Li Laozhen still had lingering fears, swallowed his saliva and asked the officer of the Lion Camp standing beside him: "Huangguan team, will this gun not be accidentally injured?"

Huang Shengxiao, who was promoted to be the captain of the sentry post, shook his head, raised his hand to hold the arrow on his neck, and said nothing.

He knew that if the red cannon was fired low, Sanzi would be able to hit 270 paces, which was almost [-] paces, and he was not sure if a few more shots would accidentally injure him.

However, even if it was hit by a cannon from the rear, it would be an accidental injury at most, and the iron pill flying here has no power.

The real threat is the defenders' weapons.

The lion cannons by the riverside are still bombarding the city head in an orderly manner, one after another, they bombard the city head one by one, punching holes in the rammed earth wall, and the defenders dare not show their heads behind the parapet.

This is Li Laozhen's first battle after joining forces, and he hopes that he can make some meritorious deeds.

Speaking of joining forces, he was quite puzzled. After seeing the combat effectiveness of the Lion Camp, Li Laozhen thought that defecting to Liu Shizi was a way out.

That's why he wholeheartedly became a toolman, raised three thousand shi for food and grass to pay off the debt, and then lingered in Lion Bay.

His original idea was to sell it well through the old man of the Liu family, and let the fourth master speak well, so that Liu Shizi could take him in.

After all, his team was far behind the Lion Camp in combat effectiveness and discipline.

But he never expected that he was directly incorporated into the Yuzi Camp by the fourth master, and the manpower was scattered, and he was only assigned to a whistle chief.

But among other things, he really learned a lot.

Just talking about the siege of the city, he and Tian Jin'an had besieged Heshui earlier, and built more than 70 long ladders, directly filling one side of the city wall with ladders, and attacking the city with two thousand-man teams.

He was stunned by the sheep stone and the rolling log, and couldn't attack at all.

When he came here to join forces, Marshal Liu's battalion only gave him an order to lead a team at the south end of the east gate, cover a siege chariot to the top of the city, form a [-]-man team to go up first, and pretend to attack the city.

The remaining 400 people waited on the side with three long ladders, supported by artillery scattered behind, trying not to let the defenders on the city throw arrows at them.

Liu Chengzong told him that the long ladder without protection was not built directly on the city wall.

It is to wait for the friendly army to open a gap in the city, where there is no enemy army, where will the long ladder go.

The siege was also divided into complex batches.

In the first batch, Zhang Tianlin, Xiaobai and Xiaohei at the north gate, and Zhonghu from the lion camp at the south wall did not participate in the attack.

The main attacking force is Li Laozhen in the south and Feng Ru in the north outside the east gate, with several long ladders and a siege engine on each side.

In the first batch, both the north and south sections were responsible for feint attacks.

Li Laozhen was assigned to the southern section of the city wall, and he was very unhappy at first. Didn't he think that a feint attack would mean death?
But Liu Chengzong said no, the feint attack was not to die, but to contain the enemy, so the possibility of casualties was relatively small, and the possibility of casualties was the greatest during the breakthrough.

Boom!

A few muskets were fired, and the siege vehicle was close to the expected position, and the musketeers on three sides of the vehicle, armed with three-eyed muskets, had exchanged fire with the enemy in the city.

They directly suffered from the rain of arrows and volleys of bird guns from the defenders at the top of the city.

The defenders were so beaten up by the artillery that they overreacted immediately when they saw the siege vehicles retracting and releasing the ladders.

Amidst a series of hissing sounds of gunpowder, they ignited a magic machine arrow cart, and at the same time a large amount of gunpowder smoke rose from the top of the city, hundreds of rockets shot out of the smoke and shot randomly at the siege truck.

The rocket's strange cry made Li Laozhen's hairs all over, and he led the team to stand in front of the lower ladder of the siege vehicle.

Li Laozhen had no choice but to lead the team to the city by himself. His people had never seen artillery, rockets and other weapons to bombard them. At this time, their morale was overwhelming, and they would retreat even if they went to the city.

Huang Shengxiao stood under the boarding car, let go of the blue flag wrapped in his palm, and waved it at the artillerymen by the river.

Soon, the lion gunner in charge of this section of the city wall also waved the flag as a signal, and he said to Li Laojie: "Chief Li, go to the city!"

Li Laozhen nodded heavily, turned his head and shouted to the selected centurion, "The commander-in-chief has an order, the five people who ascend the city first will be rewarded with one hundred shi for grain and 500 taels of silver for money, follow me! "

After all, in the gap where the 180 rockets of the magic arrow car at the head of the city were shot into the sky, he turned around and climbed up the ladder with a big shield on his head.

The soldiers behind followed suit, all holding shields in one hand, climbing up the ladder.

At this moment, the defenders of the gap in the city pushed a light general to the gap in the battlements, and two people from one left and one right lifted the flat-panel gun carriage and aimed it down.

Li Laozheng watched the cannon pointing at him, and shouted: "Jump down!"

I jumped off the side of the ladder car first.

There was a soldier behind him who didn't have time to jump, and with a bang, dozens of scatterers sprayed down obliquely, knocking down several siege infantrymen on the long ladder off the ladder.

Li Laozheng was slow to jump, a hole was punched in his shield, and a piece of meat was bitten off his leg by an iron pellet. He and several soldiers who jumped off the ladder gathered at the end of the team again, and shouted: "While they change their guns, attack them!" go up!"

But immediately afterwards, on the horse-faced wall protruding from the city wall, several defenders with bows and crossbows shot a rain of arrows from the side, knocking down the soldiers on the ladder again.

Then a new magic machine arrow cart was carried to the battlements by several defenders. After being ignited, it was set up and placed on a downward slope.

The dropped and flying rockets ran around the city. Huang Shengxiao shot down a defender who was carrying the magic arrow cart with his gun. The arrow cart suddenly raised its head and shot the remaining twenty or thirty rockets towards the river.

But it was too late, Li Laoyu's troops under the city had been scattered by the rockets, and he could only regroup.

The first batch of attacks on the southern section of the city wall were completely repelled.

The situation in the northern section of the city wall was similar. Feng Ru's soldiers were also unable to break through the firepower network intertwined with firearms at the top of the city with their flesh and blood.

However, Liu Chengzong, who was watching the enemy's situation condescendingly on the earth mountain, showed a relieved smile at this moment.

He put down the binoculars, and said to the left and right: "The defenders of the south wall have dispatched troops to the east wall, Zhong Bao, go to the south to raise the flag for your brother, and let the middle sentry start attacking the south of the city."

"Sanlang took a few people to send an order, telling the ministries that after ascending the city, they will fully control the city wall, and those who loot without authorization will be beheaded."

"Shipan, lead thirty servants to put on heavy armor, and attack the city from the southern part of the east wall with Li Laozheng's team. After ascending the city, advance northward. Shiyou is waiting at the bottom of the city. Every time your brother advances five steps, he will attack the city from the gap. Take a long ladder to climb the city."

The brothers of the Han family clasped their fists to accept the order, and Liu Chengzong asked: "You will be rewarded with one hundred shi for grain and 500 taels of silver. Do you two want money and food?"

"I want food."

"I want food."

The two brothers asked for food in unison, Liu Chengzong smiled: "Well, if you climb the city and make a gap, you will be rewarded according to this."

The two brothers clasped their fists with joy and said, "Thank you, Commander!"

"Wear your armor and take your shield well, and be careful of the firearms on the city."

The two led the order to walk down the mound, led their own soldiers to add a layer of chain armor to the padded armor, each armed with their own weapons and led the team to join Li Laozhen's reassembled siege force.

Cao Yao could see the reality of the magic arrows in the city. Those rockets were astonishingly powerful, and the trajectory was straight, but there was a problem.

When the soldier carrying the rocket car was knocked down by Huang Shengxiao, the rocket swept across the north bank of the moat like a line, reaching the fastest speed over the moat, and then lacked stamina.

Finally it landed obliquely in the moat, or beside them at such a speed that it could be caught by the artillery.

The long-range scatter strikes with the Hongyi Pao formed a well-matched mutual pecking.

Cao Yao clapped his hands and said, "Fortunately, the production is excellent, but it must have been made a few years ago, so it's gone."

Liu Chengzong wondered if the nitrate was meant to be skinny, but he understood that it meant that the rocket had expired.

It was a dangerous thing at first, but the artillerymen had no other way. Those who had shields raised their shields, and those with weapons would dial them.

I really caught it.

The nock of the arrow was pulled by someone, and the gunpowder in front of it was not burned out, and the gunpowder ran away, and it sprang up intermittently and smoked.

Originally, the morale of Li Laozhen's team had collapsed. Unexpectedly, when the scattered bandit soldiers turned around, they saw Liu Guoneng holding Liu Guoneng in the hands of the artillerymen by the riverside, and they lost all fear of those rockets flying up and down in a blink of an eye.

In the blink of an eye, everyone turned back into the gangster who dominated Yanqing.

Finally, the team was able to regroup. Those with bows shot arrows at the city, and those with guns shot at the top of the city. In addition, the Lion Cannon by the river fired two cannons properly, and regained the momentum again.

When the brothers of the Han family led the guard team in cotton armor and chain mail, they completely stabilized the morale of the army.

When Han Shipan came over, he scolded his head and covered his face: "Why don't you use a wooden curtain? Isn't this dead for nothing?"

Li Laozheng had a burning pain in his leg, which not only did not make him fearful, but filled with anger, he pulled the hair scarf and threw it to the ground.

"Your father, today I will earn a hundred stone grain no matter what I say!"

He didn't take the shield anymore, and stuffed two melon hammers into his back, ordered two people to protect them with shields in front, climbed the ladder with bare hands, gritted his teeth and rushed up again.

Han Shiyou got into the siege vehicle, raised his bow and squatted in the vehicle, relying on the shelter made of two wooden doors to hide from the arrows at the top of the city, he released a cold arrow when he found the right opportunity, and squatted down after releasing it.

His arrows were fierce and poisonous, a beryllium arrow with a width of five cents, hit the neck and wished to cut off the head of the person, and a few arrows scared the defenders in the city from showing their heads.

The wooden curtain car under the city was finally set up. Several servants supported the beams and hung the wooden curtain in front of the ladder to cover the front arrows and cannons.

A cannon shot from the top of the city, this time it didn't penetrate the wooden veil, but knocked the hanging veil backwards, slapped a soldier who was holding up the shield for Li Laozhen off the ladder, and fell to the ground. half dead.

Seeing that there were only a few steps left to climb the city, Old Li pulled out two gourds from his back and held them in his hands, pointed at the bottom of the city and cursed: "Remove the wooden door for me!"

The moment the wooden mantle was removed, Li Laozhen jumped out of the ladder, facing the wide-eyed eyes of the guard who was about to remove the general's cannon, stepped on the muzzle of the cannon and jumped out, hitting the front door with a melon hammer Knock down the defenders: "You idiot!"

But it was only handsome for a second, and then a few short spears came, almost stabbing Li Laojie on the top of the city. Fortunately, he had an injury on his leg, and he couldn't hold it when he landed, so he knelt down and bowed to the old men for a new year. Just dodged a few spearheads.

Several defenders with spears were stunned, what, what are you doing here?
I've never seen someone kowtow first when they attack the city.

In a moment of bewilderment, Li Laozheng's gangsters filed up from the gap, wielding their knives and hammers, leaped into the defenders to fight at the top of the city, and cut down the defenders within a few steps in a blink of an eye.

Immediately after the sound of a cannon from the side, the soldiers holding the fire were also stunned. They didn't know why the cannon was ignited. The bombardment not only knocked down Li Laozhen's soldiers one by one, but also killed several defenders. Overturned to the ground.

Li Laoyu let out an ouch, and couldn't stand up at all this time.

When Han Shipan led the team to attack the top of the city, there were few people standing around the gap after being hit by the cannonball.

He saw Li Laozhen pouted his buttocks, which were still oozing blood, crawling on the ground with a melon hammer, rubbing his elbows, crawling to the side of the downed defender and hitting the hammer.

In the southeast section of the city, defenders were gathering on both sides of the north and south, but the Zhonghu Division in the south of the city had also attacked the top of the city, and Han Shipan immediately ordered the formation to advance eastward.

Han Shiyou on the siege engine shouted loudly: "Brother, grab the swarm!"

Hearing his younger brother's voice, Han Shipan looked in the direction Han Shiyou on the siege vehicle pointed. It was a protruding horse-faced wall next to it. has fled eastward.

He immediately led the team to seize the swarm of bees, picked up the torch and pushed it to the south to release it towards the assembled defenders.

In the rising smoke, hundreds of rockets shot randomly at the city wall, covering the ground within forty steps.

According to the amount of charge of the Shenji Arrow, the rocket should at least completely clear the city for a hundred steps, and Han Shipan was so angry that he kicked the overturned arrow cart, cursing: "It's a jerry-built thing!"

But this did scare the defenders enough, they dropped their weapons and ran towards the south wall, and some threw torches to ignite the powder kegs, turning themselves into lights on the city.

Zhong Hu's troops on the south wall leaped onto the parapet wall and went straight to the horse path on the east wall, blocking the defenders who wanted to flee down the city. The defenders who had no other choice lost the courage to fight to the death. After laying down their weapons, hundreds of people surrendered in large areas.

On the gap made by Han Shipan, a long ladder climbed to the top of the city, and more and more siege soldiers climbed to the top of the city without any threat, forming a front on the city.

The Fengfu Department in the northern section of the east wall also used the wooden mantle of the siege vehicle to cooperate. After the southern section of the city wall fell, they easily made a gap in the city, and then quickly rushed towards the inner city gate tower, cutting the defense line of the defenders. Make Wengcheng an isolated island.

A few soldiers chased the defenders and rushed down the top of the city. For some reason, a series of explosions sounded in the empty urn, sprinkled in the clods all over the sky, and a cloud of gunpowder rose from the urn.

The person who really sealed the victory of this battle was Li Laojie who walked to the side of the horse road in the lower city with his buttocks pouted.

He tripped Zhixian with his own butt, and also dragged down Jiaoyu who was fleeing.

When Han Shipan chased after him, he saw Li Laoyu kept hitting the floor tiles next to the magistrate with pumpkins: "Are you still running? Are you still running? Let you step on me!"

　Good morning!I'm really sorry, I was confused yesterday and thought it was updated, but I didn't find it updated today.

　　
　
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