The journey to the heavens starts from the underground station

Chapter 146 Attacking Liao Capital
In the first month of fighting for aid, the Qin kings from all walks of life were defeated one by one, or became prisoners of war, stripped off their clothes and hid in the prisoner-of-war camps, or turned into rout soldiers, scattered around, often harming the people.

Li Yu felt that there was no need to wait any longer.

The blood of the three realms of the Liao Kingdom has been drained, leaving only Nanjing and Xijing bordering on the Song Dynasty and Xixia with organized armies.

There are many giant trees in Liaodong. In addition to meeting the enemy, since January, the soldiers have also cut down giant trees to build trench bridges and ladders. Now, the time has come to break through Liaoyang and destroy the center of the Liao Kingdom.

But even if the army surpasses the current era and storms a heavy city like Liaoyang, it must proceed with caution.

Siege is not about blasting open the city gates with artillery and infantry rushing in and queuing up to shoot them to take down the city.

There is an urn city in Liaoyang!
The artillery blasted the city gate, and the soldiers rushed in, only to be trapped in the urn, becoming a living target for the condescending enemy, and that's how they came.

Therefore, if you want to break the city, you must first take down the city wall, attack along the city wall, and capture the gate and urn, so that the army can enter the city calmly.

But the casualties are too great, and Li Yu doesn't intend to do this.

"Here!" Li Yu pointed to the northeast corner of Liaoyang City, and ordered: "Order Di Yuan to lead the navy to use naval guns to blow up this piece of city wall!"

The northeast corner of Liaoyang City is the weakest link of the Liaoyang garrison's defense. It was bombarded by Di Yuan and destroyed many defensive facilities. Although the Liao army completed it later, since January, almost every few days, The fleet will bombard this wall several times, intending to warn the defenders and damage the morale of the enemy.

In the past month, the defenders have already been bombed. Anyway, the defense facilities were repaired and then bombed, so they simply don’t repair them, and let the Song army warships do what they want!Even in the later stage, as long as there is any movement of the warships in the river outside the city, the defenders of this part of the city wall will run away completely.

"After the city wall was blown down, the naval artillery and the artillery battalion suppressed the defenders. The infantry used trench bridges to cross the moat, or used ladders to capture the walls on both sides, and covered the army to attack the city along the gap!"

"In addition, the four battalions besieging the city must divide their troops and block the city gates. Don't let any Khitan escape!"

As the coach, Li Yu only provided a strategy in the general direction, and how to implement it, the details were agreed upon by the generals and the staff of the army.

On the fourth day of June, at Chenshi, the Song army outside Liaoyang City launched a general offensive.

On the Dongliang River, the guns carried by the various small and medium-sized warships began to roar one by one. The shells seemed to cost no money, and they smashed into the city wall in the northeast corner of Liaoyang City.

The defenders at the top of the city had long been hiding out of range, watching the Song army bombard in horror. What's more, they realized that the attacking momentum of the Song army was not right, so they slipped away quietly, fled into the city, took off their military uniforms, Or hide, or mix among the people.

The bombardment lasted from early morning to noon. First, solid ammunition was fired, but after finding that the effect was not satisfactory, some flowering ammunition was replaced.

The explosion effect of the flower bomb is indeed more than a little stronger than that of the solid bullet, but it is too expensive.

Di Yuan found that the defenders at the top of the city had retreated far away, and they didn't dare to go forward to resist at all. He simply sent a small boat, loaded with daredevils, and carrying a large amount of explosive bags made of black powder, entered the moat from the Dongliang River, and quietly approached that section of the city wall. .

The sound of the cannon stopped, and the soldiers on the small boat took advantage of this opportunity to go ashore quickly, and piled the explosives under the city wall, or stuffed them into the holes made by solid projectiles.

Then ignite and flee quickly.

It was too late for the defenders to realize something was wrong. There were a few loud bangs, and a small half of the city wall collapsed.

Then came the shelling.

Going back and forth like this three times, with the explosion of the last wave of explosives, the city wall and the turrets in the northeast were completely blown into ruins, and the collapsed bricks, stones and wood just piled up into a slope. You can attack the city wall.

"Attack!" Li Yu gave an order, and the battle drum sounded instantly behind him. On the artillery position, thousands of cannons were fired, and countless shells fell on both sides of the collapsed city wall, beginning to block the enemy defending the city.

"Your Highness has an order to capture the city today, and the whole army will reward a hundred acres of fertile land! The compensation for those who died in battle will be doubled! The first game to enter the city will be called first!" Hearing the sound of the battle drum behind him, he couldn't hold back for a long time. Lu Qiusuo drew out his saber, pointed at the top of the city, and roared loudly.

Around him, there are groups of soldiers who have put down their muskets. They are all wearing two layers of heavy armor captured, only showing a pair of cold eyes. In front of them are hundreds of trench bridges neatly arranged. The main task is to withstand the attack from the top of the city, push the trench bridge onto the moat, and open the way for the comrades behind to attack.

Behind the trench bridge formation, there are rows of ladders. Soldiers wearing a layer of heavy armor stand on both sides of the ladders. Unlike the comrades in charge of pushing the trench bridge, they have muskets, ammunition bags and a short-handled bayonet hanging from their waists. , They were the first to attack the city wall and hold the gap until the reinforcements arrived.

The soldiers pushed the moat bridge and slowly approached the moat.

The Khitan high-level dispatched a supervisory team to force the Liao army on the top of the city to return to its position to defend against the shelling. For a while, the bed crossbow on the top of the city fired sharp arrows, the trebuchet buzzed, and stones with the size of a human head began to smash into it. In the first wave of siege teams, several trench bridges were destroyed in an instant.

The artillery battalion responded immediately, and countless shells pointed at several catapults and bed crossbows one by one, destroying them in a short time.

The sound of explosions was all around, and from time to time, colleagues were blown into limbs and arms. The resistance of the Liao army was not in vain. It did kill many Song soldiers, but in the end, [-] or [-] trench bridges were still pushed into the moat, forming A large and wide offensive channel.

When the trench bridge was completed, the soldiers responsible for pushing the trench bridge turned around and ran away. They had to return to the camp, unload their burdens, and take up their weapons before they could go back to participate in the battle. However, it was estimated that it would be street fighting at that time.

"Haha! Guangzong Yaozu! It's today! Brothers, follow me!" The shelling stopped, and they had already rushed to the ladder array beside the moat. Some officer shouted, and the soldiers hid behind the ladder truck and pushed the ladder over. After crossing the moat bridge, push the ladder to the base of the wall, turn the winch, and put the ladder on the crenel.

On the city wall, the Liao army hurriedly used clapsticks, long ditches, kerosene and gold juice, rolling wood and beating stones, destroying ladders, and killing and wounding the Song army under the city.

Below the city, the soldiers in heavy armor didn't rush to climb at all, but pulled out their muskets from their waists, loaded them with ammunition, and shot from bottom to top at the defenders whose heads were exposed.

At this time, the third batch of soldiers preparing to attack the city had already stepped onto the trench bridge and started shooting at the top of the city as they marched. .

"It's over, the general trend is over!"

On the city wall, the Deputy Envoy of the North Privy Council, who was in charge of commanding the defense of the city, slumped down on the ground as he watched the offensive and defensive battle, which seemed to be in defeat.

(End of this chapter)