I Xiaoxiong

Chapter 250 Desperate

To the west of Songzhou City, three miles away from the city wall, a two-foot-high earthen platform was piled up in one day, almost as high as Songzhou's city wall.

This is the soil used to fill up the trench yesterday, and an earthen platform was piled up "by the way".

The purpose of building the earth platform is naturally to be used by Qingtang nobles to watch the battle, not only in the west of the city, but also in the south of the city.

Tuoba Chide led a group of generals to the earth platform, sat on the seat in the middle, and looked around, the entire battlefield in the west of the city was unobstructed.

"This city wall doesn't look very tall, it seems to be similar to our platform?" The surrounding Qingtang generals began to gesture with their fingers.They don't have any idea about the height of the city wall at the moment, they just think that the city doesn't look too high.

Seems like it should be easy to attack?
Tuoba Chide listened to the clan's discussion with normal expressions, as if he didn't care about the topics discussed by the generals around him.In the first two days, after driving the nearby barbarian troops and our own heavy soldiers to fill the trenches with soil, and causing a lot of casualties, they finally filled up several sections of the trenches.

And today is the first day of officially starting the siege.

After a while, the drums below the city gradually sounded, and the horns above the city also began to sound continuously.As countless infantry rushed out of the Qingtang army, hundreds of ladders appeared densely in the eyes of Tuoba Chide and the defenders at the top of the city, and the siege battle was just about to begin.

It is not a good thing to see thousands of troops and such a scene.Because large-scale troop mobilization means war.

After all, in the Taiping era, there must be an imperial edict to mobilize hundreds of soldiers in the inland states and counties.

Although Songzhou is a border town, and the defenders are also from the frontier army, but in terms of combat experience, it can only be said that nothing is better than nothing.

Compared with some states and counties in the inland where there has been no war for a hundred years, it is better. At least a considerable number of old soldiers have fought face to face with the Qingtang people.

But compared to the four towns of Longyou, Hexi, Hedong, and Shuofang, they were still not as good.The frontier army in Songzhou had almost never fought the Qingtang army in the field.

Although defending the city and fighting in the field are both wars, they cannot be compared in terms of difficulty.

The frontier army in Jiannan is responsible for the defensive task. In the past, it was to guard against the invasion of Qingtang's partial divisions, and it was enough to guard the cities and key passes.But this time facing such a large army.Even many old soldiers are only seen in their lives.

However, the Jin army sitting in the strong city, under the comfort and encouragement of the old soldiers and generals at all levels, did not experience any panic or commotion.

If it is an ordinary person, let alone thousands of troops, even seeing hundreds of horses galloping together may make their legs weak in fear, let alone a real army of tens of thousands charging together.

With the order of silence, the top of the city became silent, and the city wall behind the crenels, crossbowmen and spearmen were all ready.

After the Qingtang man carrying the ladder entered the range of the crossbow, the first order to shoot the arrow was issued.

Thousands of crossbow arrows and locusts poured down like rain.It fell directly on the heads of the Qingtang people, and the heavy soldiers who only did simple protection naturally screamed under the rain of arrows.

One after another, the people behind quickly took up their positions and moved forward with the ladder on their shoulders.Rush all the way to the bottom of the city and put on the long ladder.

Qingtang warriors held swords and shields and began to climb the city.

This kind of siege operation usually requires paying a great price of casualties. The defenders on the city keep throwing rolling logs, stones, and boiling golden juice on the ladder.

Even the Qingtang warriors who climbed up by chance will be stabbed down by the pikemen behind the crenel.

If you are lucky, even if you climb the city wall, you will be quickly besieged and killed by the guards.

Brother Ye Lirong who was sitting with Maharaja Tuoba Chide was actually a little bit overwhelmed. After all, the casualties are all soldiers of their Nori tribe.

But he has nothing to do about it. This kind of siege battle is to consume the opponent's vitality and patience and destroy the opponent's will.Otherwise, the city is absolutely invincible.

And the subordinates of the royal family in the other direction are also attacking the city in the same way.

Only the Liuzhi Township and Ximo tribes, which had relatively large casualties in the attack on Gansongling a few days ago, did not participate, and all the remaining tribes with more than 5000 people had to undertake the task of attacking the city.

This is the first day of the official siege. At this time, it is not appropriate to complain that the tribe has suffered too much damage. As a leader of a wealthy clan, it is not appropriate to say such words to shake the morale of the army.

It is not impossible for the outer one to be exploited by the Maharaja.

And his tribe is dying, and the royal family is also dying.So after thinking about it, Noriyoung swallowed his words,

The onslaught continued for three days, and finally some leader who couldn't bear it began to ask the Maharaja to postpone the offensive.

Then Tuoba Chide chopped it off directly on the grounds of shaking the morale of the army.

The braided head was hung directly on the shaft gate to warn everyone.

No one dared to comment on the siege of the city, but they dared not oppose it openly, and the ministries still made some small moves in private.

Conservation of strength can't be said explicitly, so do it secretly.

The slight reduction in the offensive can be reflected in the number of casualties.

This kind of thing can be seen by Tuoba Chide on the earth platform or Yan Ting on the city.

But for this kind of thing, even Tuoba Chide is difficult to change, after all, the generals who lead the army are almost all the leaders of various ministries.

They brought their own subordinates to fight. No matter how brave the soldiers under them were, it was their natural instinct to preserve their strength as a leader.

After all, not every leader is Ximo and Liuzhi Township, who have a feud with the Jin army to kill their father.They followed the Maharaja to fight, and their purpose was more to reap benefits.

Now I don't get much benefit, I just gnaw the stones of Songzhou's city wall here.Still counting on them to do their best?
"Father, I ask for orders to lead our troops to attack the city."

On the earthen platform, Tuoba Qian stood up and said.

Tuoba Chide looked at Tuoba Qian with great interest and smiled, then said: "Wait patiently, you will fight the battle."

Seeing this, the eldest son Tuoba Hao and the second son Tuoba Ge looked at Tuoba Qian with no kindness.

This time following Tuoba Chide's expedition, Tuoba Hao and Tuoba Ge were each assigned to a thousand-man team before the expedition.But Tuoba Jian was only assigned to 500 people.

But after the Battle of Gansongling, Tuoba Qian was directly awarded the temporary command of three thousand-man teams because of his bravery and great achievements in battle.

Compared with the people commanded by Tuoba Hao and Tuoba Ge, there are more people combined.

Now that this kid is asking for a fight in person again, Tuoba Hao and Tuoba Ge are naturally a little unhappy seeing this.

But this kind of unhappiness can't be expressed too obviously, it just looks more and more unkindly at his brother.

"The army assigned to you is the most proud 'Zhalan Jiading' of our Qingtang. They are wearing heavy armor and cannot climb the city wall. What they want to do is to face the people of Jin. iron cavalry."

"Zhalanjiading" is an elite infantry army directly under the Qingtang royal family. All members wear heavy armor, and there are only [-] people in the army. They have always been controlled by the maharaja.Even during the last battle of Shule, Tuoba Chide did not mobilize this elite team.

But this time, almost half of Qingtang's strong men were brought along, and the materials accumulated over the past few years were used to launch this great war.

Naturally, this elite team of heavy equipment will also take them to the battlefield.

He is a gambler who will sell all the valuables at home before putting all his eggs in one basket.In order to get the maximum capital before placing a bet, so as to win a huge lottery.

But such a gambler usually loses completely in the end.

(End of this chapter)