East Factory Governor

Chapter 531 The Battle of Weinan
In Ankang City, after posting the Anmin Notice, the officers and troops have also assembled.

Without further ado, He Kegang immediately led an army of [-] to Weinan in addition to Ankang City.

Although he can't keep up with Li Zicheng, He Kegang's plan is to send someone to inform He Renlong first, asking him to give up the siege for the time being and find a place with good terrain to set up camp. After he leads his troops to Weinan, the two sides will join forces again. The situation will then agree on a plan to attack Weinan City.

He only left a few thousand people in Ankang City, but he asked Hanzhong to bring another 1 people to Ankang. On the one hand, he could prevent Gao Yingxiang from counterattacking, and on the other hand, he could coordinate follow-up actions.

At the same time, he also sent Qin Shuhuai an urgent report of [-] li, hoping that he could help send some people over - after all, the main force of the Demon Cult has been defeated now, and Baoji City no longer needs so many soldiers and horses Go to guard!

Weinan City.

June [-].

He Renlong held back for three days, and finally produced [-] ladders, [-] high platforms for archers, and "armored chariots" with baffles in front and other siege equipment (generally, a large army does not bring too many siege equipment when marching. , Just imagine how slow it is to drag a few tons of archers and a ten-meter-high archer on a high platform? So as long as conditions permit, it is more cost-effective to cut wood on site. Because it takes tens of thousands of people to siege a city, it is faster to do it) .

As soon as he gave an order, the Ming army immediately attacked Weinan City from the west gate and the north gate.

These two places are each equipped with [-] ladders, [-] high platforms for archers, and [-] armored vehicles!

In front of the armored chariot is a wooden raft that is seven or eight meters high and five or six meters wide. It is placed at an angle of [-] degrees and is used to resist bows and arrows, crossbows, etc., and can effectively protect the soldiers in the rear.

Twenty armored vehicles can protect at least 800 people from reaching the city safely at one time.Subsequently, the six 700 people quickly placed the ladder and began to climb.

Behind the armored car was the second echelon of the Ming army wearing shields. They rushed to the bottom of the city after them, and then continued to climb the ladder.

After completing the task, the 800 armored vehicles ran back quickly and protected the [-] people in the third echelon without stopping to reach the city.

At the same time, the archer high platform is still in place.Each high platform is fourteen or five meters high, exceeding the 12-meter city wall of Weinan City. There are ten archers on each high platform, and thirty high platforms are [-] archers. The leader of the rogue defenders.

This is the biggest difference between the Ming army's siege and the Demon Cult's siege.Demon Cult sieges never prepare these things, because they have more effective weapons, that is, Demon Cult masters with terrifying combat power.With these masters, the Ming army at the head of the city would be completely disrupted as soon as the battle started, and they would lose the ability to fight back. So why does the Demon Cult need to spend time and effort to make these?It's just that the Devil's Sect was in bad luck. When they met such an evildoer as Qin Shuhuai, they even recruited the masters of the entire martial arts world to help. Otherwise, it would not be too difficult for the Devil's Sect to conquer the city!

Closer to home.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the official army's offensive was overwhelming.

The guard of Weinan is Liu Guoneng, a general under Gao Yingxiang.This person is known as "Chuang Ting Tian", just by the word "Chuang" in front of him, it can be seen that he is powerful among the rogues.You must know that the Chinese and foreign nicknames of rogue bandits can still be worthy of the word "Chuang", and only Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang and Chuang General Li Zicheng.

Liu Guoneng remained calm in the face of danger. He personally boarded the top of the city and commanded the army to launch a fierce counterattack.

On the four walls of Weinan City, each of the walls is equipped with three gates of Flang machines.The gunners of the rogues have been trained for a long time, and they are relatively proficient in operating the French machine.Their target was the Ming army coming up with shields.Shields can block bows and crossbows, but they can't block shells. Besides, the Ming army didn't have that many shields. A large shield often has five or six people behind it. The formation will naturally be denser, so the Ming army often has to fall a small piece after one shot.

On each wall, Liu Guoneng deployed another [-] archers and [-] crossbowmen.The archers are used to deal with the archers on the high platform of Ming army archers, and are responsible for counter-suppression.The two hundred crossbowmen were responsible for shooting and killing the unshielded soldiers gathered under the city, or the Ming army who were climbing the ladder.

In addition, Liu Guoneng also placed three large tanks at the top of the city, which could not be carried by several people. There was a raging fire underneath, and the inside was full of boiling oil, bubbling and bubbling.Boiling oil is not edible oil, but a veritable "gutter oil", which is usually pulled from restaurants in the city and filtered, and there are as many of these things as you need.

A spoonful of boiling oil would cause the Ming army on the ladder to fall down screaming, or cause the Ming army below the city to flee with their heads in their arms. This is definitely a low-cost and high-efficiency "big killer".

Under Liu Guoneng's full counterattack, the officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties.Soldiers kept falling down from the ladder, just like dumpling.And the soldiers of the Ming army who had rushed to the bottom of the city wall and hadn't climbed up were not much better. They were either splashed with boiling oil or shot by crossbow arrows, and the soldiers with shields were better.

The curses, roars, and screams of the Ming army became one. It has to be said that the tragedy of this siege far exceeded He Renlong's imagination!
Every time a soldier fell down, He Renlong's heart would tug, but he got used to it.

At this time, the Jianghe Gang and the Wulin Allied Forces were all still behind, because they had no experience in siege, so He Renlong naturally wouldn't let them fight.These people were terrified and resentful when they watched from behind, wishing they could grow a pair of wings and fly to the top of the city to fight those rogues.

After paying a full price of more than 2000 people, Ximen, who was in charge of the attack by He Renlong, finally made a breakthrough!
More than a dozen brave Ming soldiers climbed up the city wall first. They fought hard and used their lives to cover more Ming soldiers rushing up!

He Renlong was overjoyed, finally broke through!
He immediately ordered the martial arts allied forces to go up and climb the ladders that had been torn open and guarded by the Ming army at the top of the city.There are about twelve or thirteen of these ladders. With the average cultivation level of the martial arts coalition forces, ladders with a height of more than ten meters can be climbed very quickly. Go down to the city!
After hearing the order, Chen Jing and Lai San'er flushed with excitement!

Since the expedition, they haven't fought a single battle yet!They have been waiting for this moment for a long time!
Lai San'er immediately drew out his long sword and roared, "Baihutang obeys orders, follow me to kill!"

Chen Jing also yelled, "Brothers, the opportunity to make contributions has come, kill!"

The [-] Jianghe Gang brothers immediately roared in unison and rushed forward first.

Behind them, more than 1 martial arts coalition troops also immediately followed the footsteps of the Jianghe gang according to the pre-divided levels, roaring and charged up!

(End of this chapter)