Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 234 The Battle of Three Levels ([-])

Wang Shenqi led people to quickly inspect the top of the city, constantly checking whether the rolling logs, rocks, and gold juice on the top of the city were ready.

The atmosphere at the top of the city was tense, and there was a stench. Many soldiers were in a hurry to put on their armor. The strong soldiers leaned against the parapet, holding a big ax and wearing heavy armor. Their comrades were helping to put on their armor.

There are also many people in a hurry to carry crossbow bolts for the bed crossbow at the top of the city.

Under the city, the Bian Liao army was gathering and preparing, and some people deliberately approached the city on horseback, yelling provocatively at the top of the city, slapping their buttocks, and saying things they didn't understand.

"Bitch!"

"Come here if you have the ability, grandpa will punch you out!"

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Some soldiers couldn't bear it, and shouted back and cursed, which caused bursts of laughter, which actually dissipated the tense atmosphere.

Wang Shenqi was very steady: "Don't worry about their dogs barking, just do what you are doing right now."

Both sides are making intensive preparations, half an hour later the Liao army under the city is slowly moving the various siege equipment prepared in the rear forward.

Wang Shenqi was very nervous. The Liao army rarely attacked the city, but it didn't never attack. Looking at the camp opposite, there were at least [-] troops under the city. It was very questionable whether they could defend.

The tense confrontation and preparation continued until noon.

With the sound of desolate horns in the Liao army in the distance, the confrontation was broken, and the Liao army's full-scale offensive began.

A large number of Liao troops lined up in phalanxes, carrying all kinds of siege equipment, slowly advanced in front of the long wall for several miles. Wang Shenqi and Dong Zunhui kept running around the city, loudly reminding everyone Soldiers in the city section.

"Take care of the enemy in front of you, don't look around, keep in front of you!

Don't care how many thieves there are elsewhere, there will be someone there to deal with it.

Don't be distracted! "

After the expansion of the Crane Army, some new recruits, in this kind of battle, just looking at the crowds of people on the other side, may be frightened and panicked, not knowing what to do, and losing their lives if they are confused. Most need reminder.

Many soldiers at the top of the city were so nervous that their breathing became heavy. There were too many Liao troops under the city. Under the city wall that stretched for several miles from east to west, to the riverside and the other side of the river one mile behind, there were Liao soldiers everywhere. tent.

Just looking at such a situation, many people are already so frightened that their legs are weak. If the general does not set an example to appease the soldiers, I am afraid that many people will flee in battle.

Below, the Liao people are slowly advancing.

At the top of the city, dozens of temporary three-bow bed crossbows are ready, and the long city wall that is several miles long cannot be fully coordinated. Once there is a fight, one side roars and the other side knows nothing.

The same is true for the Liao army. On the long front, some places will soon stand out, and some places will lag behind. It is not a single line moving forward.

The Liao army in the east walked in the forefront and became the most prominent part, and soon advanced about [-] steps down Daocheng.

In the eastern part of the city, a burst of strings resounded through the city, and the black shadow roared towards the Liao army in the distance. It was the bed crossbow at the city.

In front of the Liao army, the soldiers holding their shields couldn't withstand such damage at all, they were easily penetrated, a large area was shot down while screaming, people were directly nailed to the ground, and some unlucky ones were directly pierced into blood gourds.

There are also a lot of misses, those with bad angles drag a large cloud of smoke and dust on the ground, jump and roll, making a loud impact sound, and some directly penetrate deep into the ground.

One point started, and immediately the whole section of the city wall was filled with firing sounds one after another, and the sound of huge bed crossbow strings resounded all over the city, and they became one piece, causing quite a commotion for the Liao army.

However, although the bed crossbows were powerful, there were only dozens of them. On the long front of two or three miles, they could not stir up too much waves at all, and the damage they caused was also very limited for the huge Liao army.

The most important thing is that the bed crossbow is powerful and slow to reload.

After firing once, two powerful soldiers need to quickly turn the winches on both sides of the tail to slowly pull apart the three huge bow arms, and then put arm-sized crossbow bolts on them to launch the next shot. The process is very slow.

After firing several times, the Liao army was within a hundred steps of the city. At this time, the Liao army in the rear had already started throwing a large number of arrows towards the city with bows and arrows in their hands.

Buzzing like a plague of locusts recurring, the blackness covered the sky and the sun.

Zhou Jun's veteran company approached the parapet, and dragged the somewhat ignorant recruits under the parapet, and soon the sound of clanging and crashing filled the city, and dense arrows were everywhere behind the city wall.

Many of them were thrown into the mud behind the city wall. In just a short while, the mud behind was like a paddy field that had just been planted. He was shot down to the ground and howled, and was dragged to the parapet or sent to the top of the city by his comrades.

Soon, the Zhou army at the top of the city also began to counterattack the Liao army at the bottom of the city with crossbows in their hands.

Immediately, arrows flew across the city and above the city, and dense black spots, like buzzing mosquitoes, filled the area between the city head and the city.

Zhou Jun's condescension is even more advantageous, and Zhou Jun's crossbows are so powerful that they shot down many Liao troops. However, unlike bed crossbows, the effectiveness of bows and crossbows gradually declines in the face of a large number of shields.

This section is still the most destructive to the Liao army. The Liao army left many corpses and transported many wounded soldiers back. The archers in the rear continued to shoot arrows at the city. The army finally pushed most of the long front two or three miles long to the city of Yijin Pass.

A large number of subsequent siege equipment gradually came up.

Wang Shenqi hid behind the parapet and looked at the movement of the Liao army below, feeling very nervous, on the surface he did not show any signs of expression, the Liao army approached much faster than he imagined!

At the foot of the city is a ditch dug by the Zhou army, with a large number of sharp wooden stakes at the corners. The ditch is to prevent the enemy from setting up various large siege equipment, and the sharpened stakes are to prevent the enemy from approaching the city wall.

However, Wang Shenqi soon discovered that the Liao army was not a vegetarian. The Liao army had also fought south and north to expand the territory in the past few decades. From Liaodong to Mobei, they also fought in all directions and had rich experience.

They had already used sheepskin and linen bags to pack a lot of earth and rocks. Because the auxiliary army behind them transported them, they followed behind the main army. As soon as they approached the corner, they gave way to let the auxiliary army behind come forward. They threw sheepskins and linen cloth into the ditch. A large number of archers in the elite army are facing the city.

Some generals of the Zhou army realized that the situation was urgent, and went out to shoot and kill the Liao army who filled the trenches with bows and crossbows. As a result, they were shot into a sieve in an instant. .

Wang Shenqi was very anxious. Originally, he didn't dig these trenches to use these things to stop the Liao army.

Unexpectedly, the Liao army had been prepared for a long time and brought a large number of auxiliary soldiers behind. It was not prepared to let the elite in front fill the trenches from the beginning.

When the trenches were almost filled, many tall and strong men wearing several layers of armor and holding giant axes came out from the front army and quickly chopped down the sharp wooden stakes in the city.

The guards at the top of the city harassed them with bows and crossbows, but many people were full of arrows but still stood still. They swung their big axes and quickly chopped down the sharpened wooden piles below the city.

Wang Shenqi was in the middle of the city wall, and the two sides were still shooting arrows. Looking at the strong man of the Liao army wearing several layers of armor below, he took out his strong bow, switched to the protruding right side of the city wall, and took a deep breath. Draw the bow and put the arrow on the side, aim with holding your breath, and release the arrow in an instant.

The arrow whizzed past, and after fifty or sixty steps, it hit the eyes of the strong man of the Liao Army who was full of arrows under the mask. He fell down with a scream and wailing.

But soon, many arrows roared and shot at Wang Shenqi's position. He quickly lay down on the wall and moved slowly against the wall before moving to a safe position.

Wang Shenqi pierced Yang's arrow with a hundred steps, which greatly boosted the morale of the Zhou army in the middle section. Many Zhou army soldiers braved the arrow rain and started throwing logs and rocks down. Many strong men from the Liao army who came forward to chop wood piles in several layers of armor were crushed to death on the spot.

The Liao army in the middle section was frightened and began to retreat slowly, but soon resumed the offensive again.

The two sides came and went, and the long-distance confrontation between the city and the city lasted for half an hour. A large number of arrows and rolling logs and rocks were thrown on the front two or three miles away, and the shouts of killing continued.

After half an hour of hard work, many wounded were transported to the rear, and many corpses were left behind. The Liao army finally advanced to the city.

With the joint efforts of everyone, the ladders were put on the top of the city, and many of them were pushed down by Zhou Jun.

The defenders have a special fork for pushing down the ladder, but they have to watch the timing, wait for the ladder to stand upright, before it is placed on the top of the city, it will be too late to push it down. Moved.

This is a test of the experience of the soldiers, and they are usually veterans.

However, the Liao army had a large number of people, and soon there were still many ladders on the top of the city, and the siege vehicles behind slowly pushed over.

Wang Shenqi hurriedly shouted: "Shoot the crossbow on the bed at the building car!"

In the chaotic and noisy city, some people still heard his voice. Several bed crossbows began to turn around and shoot at the building carts pushing over. The huge power shot through the front baffle in an instant, and the Liao soldiers on it screamed, flesh and blood Fly.

The arm-thick crossbow arrows hit one after another, and quickly smashed the upper floor to pieces. The soldiers inside suffered heavy casualties. They jumped down crying, and the huge siege vehicle also slowly stopped.

However, there are six other siege engines approaching the city wall on the long front.

Wang Shenqi even nodded to the people next to him and said: "The building car on our side is destroyed, you take people from Liangdu to the west to reinforce, there are many people there."

They were all head-to-head, and immediately greeted people to pass.

Wang Shenqi paid close attention to the overall situation nervously. The Liao army began to climb the city. The hot oil and golden juice prepared by Zhou Jun finally came in handy. They brought it to the top of the city and poured it down. The stench mixed with the smell of barbecue was strange and disgusting, and a large number of Liao troops fell from the ladder.

The golden juice is to collect the excrement and urine of the soldiers and boil it. Pouring it on the body will not only cause burns, but also cause the wounds of the wounded soldiers to infect and fester. It is almost incurable and very vicious.

Although the Zhou army had a strong city, the city wall of Yijinguan was too long, and there were too many places to defend, so the troops were scattered, and the advantages of the large number of Liao soldiers could be fully utilized.

As time went by, some Liao troops also climbed up to the top of the city, but waiting for them were Zhou army warriors armed to the teeth with a huge axe and excellent armor. Xiachengtou.

The next person who climbed up to the top of the city was immediately smashed by the big axe, and his flesh and blood flew everywhere. People can't rush up.

The front is temporarily safe, but after a while, soldiers with bloodstained faces came to him for emergency: "General, there are too many people in the east of the city, and the bandits have killed the top of the city!"

Wang Shenqi's expression remained unchanged: "Is it blocked?"

"It's blocked, but there are still people coming up from behind!"

Wang Shenqi immediately said to the army beside him: "You go to transfer troops, transfer a battalion of the reserve team in the city, and immediately reinforce the east of the city."

The soldiers got the order and went to transfer troops with the blood-stained soldiers.

The shouts of killing became louder and louder, and there were still a large number of Liao troops moving slowly towards the city wall below.

Zhou Jun's rolling logs and rocks kept falling down, and the arrows on the top of the city continued to be thrown down like swarms of black locusts. Under the city wall for two or three miles, there were dense ants-like figures everywhere.

A large amount of smoke rose into the sky, forming black clouds above the battlefield and circling over the battlefield. The sound of gongs, drums and horns mixed with the shouts of both sides resounded through the wilderness outside Yijin Pass. The smell of blood became stronger and stronger. The battlefield is filled with an unpleasant smell of burning
Wang Shenqi became more and more calm, and with more than [-] messengers and personal soldiers, he sat in the center of the city, no longer went to the outer periphery, and constantly dispatched the reserve team in the city to supplement the emergency, and finally drove all the Liao army from the city.

The battle continued, from noon to afternoon, the sun passed overhead.

The first wave of the Liao army's siege lasted for more than an hour, until the horn of desolation was heard in the rear, and the Liao army began to retreat in an all-round way, leaving behind stumps, arms and flags all over the ground, and a large number of wounded soldiers were dragged back by their comrades.

After a long battle, the soldiers on both sides were bloodstained and exhausted. The soldiers of the Zhou army leaned against the wall of the city head full of corpses and blood and gasped for breath.

Wang Shenqi didn't give them a chance, and after watching the Liao army retreat to the river, he immediately ordered: "Everyone stand up, don't rest, hurry to the city to rest now, and replace the second batch of reserve troops.

If someone doesn't move, he must be driven down! "

The messenger listened to the order and immediately went to convey the order.

There were nearly 3000 troops in the city, and he divided them into three batches of about [-] people each. The first two batches rotated to defend the city, and the third batch served as the general reserve team to support the city.

Taking advantage of the time when the Liao army retreated to rest, Zhou Jun also quickly completed the defense change, replacing the soldiers who had been fighting fiercely for more than an hour, and replaced them with the second batch of reserve troops who had rested for half a day.

When the Liao army launched an attack again after resting for a quarter of an hour, they found that the situation was completely different.

In the previous time, several places had been killed on the top of the city. Although they were besieged by the Zhou army in the end, they were either hacked to death or retreated, but in general, the confidence of the Liao army was greatly increased.

One siege has already reached the top of the city, and several more times of breaking the city are just around the corner, and the Zhou army's rolling logs and rocks are almost consumed, and the further they go, the better they will fight.

Yelujing and others who have been watching the battle in the Chinese army also thought so, but they did not expect to recharge their batteries and launch a full-scale attack again, but it would be more difficult than the first time.

This siege lasted until the sun began to set in the afternoon, but the top of the city was never captured!The Liao army had no choice but to withdraw its troops in an all-round way.

Yelujing was so angry that he killed a Taoist leader who supervised the siege, but it still didn't help.

After a day's siege, the Liao army killed more than 800 people and injured more than [-] people. They suffered heavy losses, but they were still unable to attack the city.

That night, Yelujing couldn't bear such a loss, so he ordered two cavalry to go south and cross Yijin Pass to the south. If the road is clear, they will bypass Yijin Pass and stop fighting, and directly lead the army to go south!

(End of this chapter)