Kai Fu Han

Chapter 347 The tragic defense of the city

The troops sent by the Jin Army to attack the city were all infantry. In the first wave, there were three square formations that attacked the south gate, with about 3000 people.

Looking out from the city wall, an estimated 4 people were waiting in formation outside the South City Gate, indicating that the South City Gate was the main attack direction of the Jin army.

The first infantry phalanx quickly marched to a distance of about a mile from the city wall, and then stopped.

Then from behind the Jin army's formation, many people were driven over, most of them strong men.

These people were dressed in tatters and unkempt. Some carried shovels, while others carried sacks, cloth bags, etc.

These people ran to the military formation. When they were more than 100 steps closer to the city wall, they began to load soil on the ground on both sides of the military formation's forward direction.

"They want to drive the people to fill the river." Liu Xinbao said from the side.

Of course Liu Xinqi could see it.

Several cities in Cangzhou have moats. They are close to the sea and have many large and small rivers. A moat can be built by diverting some of them. However, since the Yellow River is diverted into the Huaihe River, these rivers are not large, so the moat is not wide.

"These are ordinary people. I don't know what Yu Jin would do." Liu Xinqi replied.

After a while, the people outside the city picked up sacks filled with soil and came towards the moat driven by the swords of the Jin Army.

Unlike the Jin Army, facing these unarmed people, the rebel soldiers on the city walls were a little reluctant to take action.

"Shoot arrows! Shoot arrows!" Yu Jin ordered loudly.

"Shoot!" The command was passed on by the rebel general.

Seeing that the dirt carried by the people below the city was getting closer and closer, scattered arrows began to be shot down from the city wall.

Many people were shot to the ground.

Immediately there were screams and begging for mercy from the city, and it was extremely noisy.

"Quick! Shoot the arrows, don't let them fill the moat."

From time to time, loud orders from the rebel generals came to Liu Xinqi's ears. Everyone knew that the moat was filled, and the next step was to siege the city.

This wave of filling the river was eventually repelled, leaving a field of corpses of common people in the open space outside the moat.

But before they could breathe a sigh of relief, the people who fled back were driven back again.

This time, the Jin soldiers equipped each of them with a shield. The common people held a shield in one hand, carried earth bags on their shoulders, covered their heads and rushed forward. Most of them successfully threw the earth bags into the moat.

Wave after wave, which lasted for half an hour, the two-foot-wide moat was filled with eleven one-foot-wide passages.

Until the moat was filled in, Yu Jin did not order the soldiers on the city wall to use rolling stones, wood and other defensive weapons to deal with the people filling the river below the city. He even stopped shooting arrows in the back and watched helplessly as the moat was filled in.

"I didn't expect Yu Jin to be so kind." Liu Xinbao praised.

"Maybe, but I guess he mainly doesn't want to waste weapons on these cannon fodder. After all, he still has to deal with the main siege of the Jin army later." Liu Xinqi retorted.

"However, the Jin army may also drive the people to attack the city." Liu Xinbao was confused.

If the people are driven to attack the city, the defense equipment will also be consumed.

"The Jin Kingdom's march south this time is different from before. They want to occupy, not plunder. It's barely acceptable to drive the people to fill the river. If they drive the people to attack the city, they will completely lose the support of the people and will have no control over their future jurisdiction. Unfavorable. This strategy would not be taken unless it was a last resort, and the rebel army cannot let the Jin army do it as a last resort." Liu Xinqi explained.

"The siege has begun!" As expected, the Jin Army did not drive the people to attack the city, but asked them to continue filling the river on both sides. The main force of the Jin Army's infantry was used in the siege.

Eleven siege ladders were carried by the golden soldiers and rushed towards the city wall, followed by large waves of golden soldiers. 3000 people were directly invested in each wave.

When the siege gold soldiers marched within fifty steps of the city wall, the rebels on the wall began to fire a volley, and arrows rained down suddenly.

Although the golden soldiers carrying the ladder were protected by shields, some of the golden soldiers were still shot down by arrows. The ladder fell to the ground, and was quickly picked up again and continued to charge forward.

The golden soldier carrying the ladder ran fast. When he approached the city wall for three or four steps, a golden soldier ran to the front of the ladder and pushed down the head of the ladder with all his might. After standing up, there was a "bang" sound, the ladder was set up on the top of the city, and the hook protruding from the top of the ladder was hooked on the top of the parapet.

At the bottom of the ladder, soldiers climbed to the back and hung it up to increase the weight of the ladder, and there were golden soldiers climbing up quickly on the front.

"Quick! Use the push rod to push the ladder away!"

The rebel general shouted an order, and the soldiers next to the ladder quickly stepped forward, cut off the hook head, and then used a long push rod to push the ladder outward.

The golden soldiers below pulled hard in, and the rebel soldiers above pushed hard, and a stalemate formed for a while. Fortunately, they used a lot of force on the city wall, and most of the ladders were pushed out. The golden soldiers who had just climbed halfway up the ladder were severely beaten. The ruthless rate is on the ground.

Most of the ladders failed, but there were still two or three ladders. The hook locks were too tight and the position was difficult to cut. They kept cutting for a while, and the golden soldiers climbed up.

The golden soldier who emerged from the top of the ladder was immediately shot in the face by the waiting rebels and fell down.

Some rebels also carried rolling logs and threw them down the ladder. Several golden soldiers who were climbing on the ladder were smashed.

For a time, the Jin army was unable to reach the top of the city.

However, as more and more Jin soldiers approached the city wall, there were also Jin Army archers shooting arrows at the top of the city. Some rebels were shot, and the actions of other rebels defending the city also became more restrained and restrained.

"Ding! Ding!"

The sound of gold ringing came from behind the golden soldiers, and the golden soldiers attacking the city retreated like a tide.

The rebels on the top of the city quickly pushed down several siege ladders that were still fixed on the top of the city.

Liu Xinqi stood at the top of the city and looked down, and found that there were many corpses of golden soldiers lying under the city.

In this wave of siege battles, the Jin soldiers suffered many casualties.

But also because of this wave of siege, the rebels had no time to take care of the people filling the river, and more than a dozen channels were filled in the moats on both sides.

This means that in the next wave of offensive, the Jin Army will have more than twenty groups of attack positions.

Sure enough, after a short rest, the three phalanxes that had previously attacked the city were moved to the rear by the Jin army generals, but six more phalanxes with more than 6000 people were sent to rush towards the city wall.

"So many siege ladders!" Liu Xinbao said in surprise.

There are indeed many siege ladders, more than sixty.

The corpses of the golden soldiers outside the city wall were simply cleaned up by the golden soldiers who rushed up, and then the siege began again.

The destroyed siege ladder that was put up on the top of the city was pushed away, and a new siege ladder was quickly put up at the same position.

The golden juice (feces and urine) boiled to a boil was poured down from the top of the city. For a while, screams came one after another, shrill and harsh.On the sections of the city wall where there were no ladders, the archers kept pouring arrows down. The defenders without bows and arrows would also lift the stones prepared on the top of the city and throw them down the city wall. The golden soldiers who were hit were , his head immediately cracked and his brains splattered everywhere.

(End of this chapter)