The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 148 The Death of Wuzhou ([-])

At the same time, outside Wuzhou City, there was also a large army besieging the city.However, it was the Yuan army who attacked the city, and the Song army who defended the city.

Dozens of the Yuan army marched forward in mighty array, and the horns in the army continued to sound.The leading general was covered in silver armor, standing on top of the chariot, holding a long spear, and his face was full of awe.

This person was not Boyan, Marshal of the Yuan Army who conquered the Song Dynasty, but Kong Yuan, the vanguard of the Song Dynasty who was officially worshiped by General Wu Yi.

Kong Yuan, courtesy name Yanheng, was born in Xingyan Village, Xinhe County. He practiced martial arts since he was a child. Bundle.

In the 11th year of the Yuan Dynasty, the Song Dynasty was aggressively attacked. Boyan was the Marshal of the capital, Kong Yuan was the vanguard, promoted to General Wuyi, and marched into the south of the Yangtze River. Now he is stationed on Guangnan East Road.

In the entire territory of Guangnan East Road, there are only a few civil rebels still resisting. Even the city of Guangzhou, which was captured by the capital commander Ling Zhen and the transit judge Wang Daofu, has been recaptured by the Yuan army.Ling Zhen and Wang Daofu were reduced to wandering troops, they could only deal with the Yuan army in the territory of Guangnan East Road, and it was hard to become a general trend.

When this happened at the beginning, Zhang Shijie, who was in Leizhou, was covered in cold sweat and was terrified. However, he admired Zhao Dongting's action of sticking to Qizhou.At that time, if you really listened to him and led the crowd to Yashan, I am afraid that after the city of Guangzhou was broken, the Southern Song Dynasty would have been destroyed by the Yuan army on Yashan as in the history books.

Zhao Dongting insisted not to go to Yashan, so it can be said that he escaped death.

Boyan, as the commander-in-chief of Song Dynasty, led a Chinese army of 25 to dominate Guangdong. At this time, he only needed a small amount of troops to deal with the civil rebels.After receiving Ali Hague's request for help, Dang even sent Kong Yuan, a Han general who was good at fighting, to take Wuzhou and rush to aid Ali Hague.

Han people like Kong Yuan who were born in the Yuan Dynasty were not generals of the Southern Song Dynasty, so they were not discriminated against in the Yuan Dynasty.

Although Kong Yuan was not a Han Chinese, he was also loyal to the Yuan court.

Leading the army to a few hundred meters in front of Wuzhou City, he raised his gun and ordered the three armies, "Stop!"

Dozens of Yuan troops stopped slowly, their murderous aura soaring into the sky.

They formed a formation of thousands of people. At a rough look, there may be a total of 7 to [-] people, including both horse and infantry.

Kong Yuan was tall and thin, but his eyes were extremely aggressive, with the wildness of a general.His eyes slowly scanned the towering city walls of Wuzhou, as well as the fortifications on both sides of the mountain that had been dug steeply below, and there was a bit of understanding in his eyes, and then he ordered: "The army takes turns to attack the city, there is no need to care about the forts on both sides, Just take the city gate directly. Then order the navy to attack the Song army's water stronghold at the same time, not to break the stronghold, but to restrain their forces."

"Follow the order!"

Several messengers waiting on the side of the chariot led the way.

Kong Yuan looked towards the city again.

Judging from the layout of the mountain and water villages, General Song, who guards the city, has some skills.But Kong Yuan felt that he was still secretive, and the Song army was only ten thousand. The Yuan army only needed to break through the city gate, and Wuzhou would be lost.These cottages and water villages seem to be useful, but in fact they are useless except for annihilating more Yuan troops. Once the city gates are broken, they will be reduced to decorations.

As for the towering city wall, it is even more useless.

Kong Yuan marched from Guangzhou to Wuzhou in a hurry. The army did not carry many siege equipment at all, not even catapults or archery towers, but only battering rams and a few ladders.

He knew the situation in Wuzhou long ago, and he had already made up his mind to take the city gate directly. Although the casualties would be greater, it was also the fastest way to break the city.

The city gate is bound to be the most heavily defended place by the Song army, but at the same time, it is also a weak spot.Choose where it is just and hit it, use the strong to break the strong, and the Yuan army will surely win.

On the top of the wall, Qin Han and Wan Yanzhang stood on the edge of the wall.Qin Han still looked indifferent, while Wan Yanzhang was a little dignified, "Military division, the Yuan army is so powerful, several times or even ten times our army, can we really stop them?"

Qin Han answered irrelevantly, "Wuzhou City is a mighty city..."

But what he said was right, the city walls of Wuzhou City were so high that even Jingjiang Mansion, the governor's mansion in Guangxi, couldn't compare.After all, this is an important place for military strategists. Countless dynasties throughout the ages have raised and widened the city walls countless times.

Wan Yanzhang frowned, "Wuzhou is indeed majestic, but our army is so scattered, you even allocated 2000 to guard the water stronghold, and [-] each to guard the mountain stronghold. There are less than [-] people at the main city gate. With the help of the common people, can the Yuan army be stopped?"

Qin Han just shook his head, but did not speak.

Dissatisfaction flashed across Wanyanzhang's eyes, but there was nothing he could do.He really couldn't guess Qin Han's intentions.

But after just over ten minutes, he turned his head to look at Qin Han, his eyes full of admiration.

The five troops in the front row of the Yuan army marched towards the top of the city, shouting and shouting loudly, but apart from the siege vehicles, there were no other siege equipment in the army.

Wan Yanzhang exclaimed: "How did the military master know that they would go straight to the city gate?"

Qin Han only said: "The situation in Hague Ali is critical. Boyan must rush to break the city to save him. The Yuan army does not have so much time to carry siege equipment, delay the marching speed, and have no time to waste with us. If you are the general of the Yuan army , would you choose to break through the city along the line of the army, or would you choose to concentrate your forces to attack the city gate?"

Wan Yanzhang pondered slightly, and said: "The road in front of the city is only more than a hundred meters wide, and the army cannot be deployed. If it were me, I would definitely choose to attack the city gate directly."

Qin Han nodded and stopped talking.

Wan Yanzhang looked at the cottages on the left and right, and at the Yuan army on the road in front of the city, grinned, and shouted loudly: "Prepare to defend against the enemy!"

The soldiers of the Song army on the city wall hurriedly moved the stones to the catapults, and the archers and crossbow carts also hurriedly put the arrows on the hook, ready to go.

About 5000 people from the five army formations of the Yuan army arrived 500 meters in front of the city, and they did not flock to the city head.Among them was an army array at the front, the banners in the army shook quickly, the figures of the soldiers shook, and soon changed from a square formation to a front arrow formation, and took the lead in attacking the city gate.The four armies behind were connected end to end, shaped like a long snake, and followed closely.

Front Arrow Array, as the name suggests, is a formation shaped like an arrow.

The most soldiers at the front are in the shape of a diamond, pushing the siege engine and attacking the city gate directly.The soldiers at the back are considered as substitutes, ready to fill the vacancy in front at any time.

In other words, the entire formation was centered on that huge siege vehicle.Including the Fourth Army behind.

As long as the siege engine is still there, the Yuan army will be able to fill it up with soldiers continuously, constantly crashing into the city wall.

And they set up a long snake formation, squeezed within a range of more than [-] meters in the middle of the road, and they can make the cottages on both sides of Wuzhou City out of reach. Shooting into the middle of the army, the lethality is weakened to a minimum.

Wan Yanzhang saw this scene on the top of the city, and secretly cursed "Damn it".

Even Qin Han murmured, "This general of the Yuan army has some skills..."

They don't have grenade launchers or thunderbolts in their army, so it's really difficult to deal with this kind of formation.If Zhao Dongting's army had been here, the situation would have been different. If there were enough shells, if the shells poured down, no matter what kind of formation the Yuan army put up, they would all be blasted to pieces.

"put!"

When the Yuan army was only about 400 meters away from the city gate, Wan Yanzhang raised his mace and shouted loudly.

The flag soldiers next to him waved the yellow flag and pressed it forward.

Dozens of catapults vibrated at the same time on the hundred-meter-long Wuzhou city wall between the two mountains, and dozens of huge stone bullets were thrown out and landed in the formation of the Yuan army.

However, the catapult is a sharp weapon when attacking the city, but its power is inevitably weak when defending the city.

When the stone bullet falls, it can kill several Yuan troops at most, or even only one or two, and the lethality is too small.

Wanyanzhang also sighed in his heart, but there was nothing he could do.The Yuan army is so powerful that he can only use any method that can consume the Yuan army.

In the middle of the Yuan army, there was a sudden sound of drums.

However, within a few rounds of stone bombs, the front arrows of the Yuan army had already run to a distance of less than two hundred meters from the city wall.

"crossbow!"

Wan Yanzhang opened his eyes and shouted again.

The flag soldiers raised the red flag again and waved it forward.

The sound of whoosh, whoosh, piercing the air was endless, and from the crossbow bases of the city wall, rows of arrows were shot towards the formation of the Yuan army below the city.

People in the Yuan army kept screaming, and some soldiers pushing siege vehicles fell to the ground with arrows.However, someone will make up for it immediately.

The siege engine was always pushed towards the city gate at a very fast speed.

The Song Army had only five hundred crossbowmen, and all of them were single-shot crossbows, which failed to stop the Yuan army.

It wasn't until the Yuan army under the city was less than a hundred meters away from the city wall that arrows suddenly fell from the top of the city, and the Yuan army was finally hit head-on.

Under Qin Han's arrangement, although there were no more than two thousand soldiers stationed on the city wall, thousands of volunteers were needed.In this era, there are countless folks who know how to fight and shoot arrows. Although these common people are not as good at archery as soldiers, they still have basic accuracy.

Suddenly, thousands of arrows from the top of the city fell into the Yuan army formation at the same time.

There were no more than a thousand soldiers in the front of the Yuan army. Under this round of arrow feathers, except for the shield soldiers, it can be said that there were countless casualties, and even the rear army suffered a lot of damage.

However, the sound of the drums at the Central Army Department of the Yuan Army did not stop.

After another wave of arrow feathers fell, another five army formations rushed towards the gate of the city.

Kong Yuan was completely planning to use his life to forcibly break down the Wuzhou city gate.

(End of this chapter)