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Chapter 700 Heyang Offensive and Defensive Battle
Under the city of Heyang.

The beating of war drums shook the heavens and the earth.

Tang Jun laid out his attacking lineup.Tang Jun's siege equipment is all newly built, and even the bark on the ladder and ram has not been peeled off.

The vanguard general of the Tang army attacking Heyang City was Liu Dewei, the chief of the Luzhou Xingjun Road and the Duke of Pengcheng County.Liu Dewei was originally the guard of Prince Qi's Mansion. During the Taiyuan War, he guarded Taiyuan City together with Li Yuanji, but the city was still captured by Zhao Jun.

In the later battle against Wang Shichong, he belonged to Li Shimin, performed well, and led his army to capture Hanoi.

Liu Dewei's Luzhou army approached the north gate of Beizhong City step by step with wooden shields in their hands.

In front of the army, the Yellow River was turbulent, and the waves beat on the river bank one after another. Beizhong City only had the north and south gates, and the east and west walls were built along the river bank.The muddy river beach not only made it difficult for siege weapons to push forward, but it was also very difficult for siege soldiers to walk on it.Tang Jun's ladder vehicles were all stuck on the river beach, unable to advance or retreat.

The arrows at the top of the city are very fierce, and Zhao Jun obviously has enough archers and crossbowmen, as well as arrows in stock, and they have no intention of being stingy with arrows.The overwhelming coverage of arrows made the Tang army under the city almost unable to lift their heads.

Liu Dewei has always been a very calm general in the use of troops. Seeing that the soldiers were not moving well, he was not impatient. Instead, he ordered the strong men in the army to erect a wooden fence a hundred steps away from the city wall, and the soldiers behind the wooden fence to avoid arrows and boulders from the top of the city. .

Liu Dewei didn't know this move, which made Li Jiancheng very dissatisfied. He said angrily: "I have 12 troops gathered here. If I can't even take down this small city of Heyang, what is it like to see the elders in Guanzhong? Go and ask him. How long is Liu Dewei going to dawdle?"

Speaking of this, Li Jiancheng immediately sent his subordinates to the former army to urge them.Liu Dewei didn't dare to disobey Li Jiancheng's order, so he immediately dispatched elite troops to attack the city.

With the sound of the horn, the Tang army who hid themselves broke out of the bunker one after another, and charged down the city with their round shields in their hands.The equipment of the Luzhou army was not bad. The first batch of soldiers who attacked the city wore iron helmets, multiple layers of armor thickened with cowhide, and held round shields in their hands.

Although there are copper shields and iron shields in the army, they are used for ceremonial guards and will not be used for fighting, because if the iron shield is too big, it will be too heavy to hold in the hand and cannot charge; if it is too small, it will not be able to cover too much. parts.

Therefore, the soldiers of the Tang army held the same wooden shields in their hands.Arrows are flying like shuttles on the top of the city, and the wooden shield can barely withstand the arrows on the city.However, for the Tang army attacking the city, the biggest difficulty was not the arrows on the top of the city, but the mudflats on the ground.

The straw sandals of the soldiers and the boots of the generals fell into the muddy flats from time to time, which greatly slowed down the progress of the soldiers.Not only that, the advancement of siege weapons is even more difficult.When they were seventy steps away from the city, the trebuchet on the top of the city was activated, and the boulder flew across the air and fell on the infantry formation of the Tang army.

A half-wheel crashed on the river beach, was hit by a boulder with a bang, and fell apart immediately.

At this time, the sound of the machine on the top of the city continued to sound.

"Squat down and raise the shield." Liu Dewei shouted, and the soldiers of the Tang Army immediately squatted and raised their shields.

Immediately, the crossbow arrows and catapults from the crossbow on the bed at the top of the city fell into the Tang army's formation again.The fragile wooden shield couldn't resist the crossbow arrows shot by the bed crossbow. The arrow pierced through the wooden shield and the body of the soldier, and they were nailed to the city wall together.

Seeing this bloody scene, several Tang soldiers were terrified, threw down the shields in their hands, and wanted to flee back to the formation, but after a few steps, their heads fell to the ground.Liu Dewei's personal soldiers played the role of supervising the battle team.

"If you can't take Heyang City, the prince will want my head. If I can't live, you don't want to live either!" Liu Dewei shouted with a murderous look on his face.

Luzhou Army and Tang Army soldiers all woke up, knowing that everyone is the same at this moment.

Liu Dewei knew that in order to break through Beizhong City quickly, he had to capture his city gate, so he gathered five or six crash vehicles and let the soldiers drag them to the city gate.The arrows at the top of the city were as dense as rain, and the soldiers of the Tang army, carrying half of the boat, swarmed down the city.

The half-boat was a bit rough, and it looked like a half-boat with the bottom up. There were four pillars on the left and right corners of the boat, and four soldiers supported the pillars to move forward.There are more than a dozen Tang soldiers under the boat.This half of the boat is undoubtedly much stronger and thicker than the wooden shield, which is very helpful for avoiding arrows.

After the Tang army approached the city, the top of the city struggled to throw rolling wood and stones downward.The wooden shield was cracked, and the person under the wooden sign was directly smashed by the rolling log, broke his neck and broken his spine, and screamed and struggled on the ground.

Only the soldiers of the Tang army who were leaning on the half-boat effectively offset the impact of rolling wood and beating stones. Most of the soldiers of the Tang army who were on the half-boat arrived safely and attached to the city wall.They took the shovel behind them and started digging at the root of the wall.Heyang City is a city built with rammed earth. The rammed earth walls are trapezoidal, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. Despite this, the soldiers of the Tang army were still digging hard under the city wall.

At the gate of the city, a huge crash car, driven by more than a hundred soldiers of the Tang army, slowly approached the gate of the city.

Zhao Jun's crossbowmen were very afraid of the collision, and the soldiers on the triple city tower, as well as the left and right horse walls, were desperately covering the collision with arrows.The soldiers of the Tang army holding wooden shields and pushing the car crashed forward were shot at by arrows from time to time, but someone from the side immediately stepped up and advanced one after another.

On the city tower, Zhao Jun's soldiers immediately shook the wheel cart, and a sword wrapped with iron leaf nails hung in front of the city gate, blocking the way of Tang Jun's collision with the cart.The soldiers of the Tang army ignored the fighting board in front of them, and pushed the car and the fighting board together towards the gate of the city!
At the moment when Tang Jun crashed his car and approached the city gate, two ladder carts also approached the city. Tang Jun originally had seven ladder carts, but three were destroyed by Zhao Jun's throwing stones, and two were stuck in the mud. Can't pull it out.

So there are only two ladder cars approaching the city wall.Although Tang Jun's ladder carts were built hastily, they generally have a ladder cart frame, a long foldable ladder, a carriage that can hide soldiers, and wheels that can be dragged.

After the ladder car arrived near the top of the city, it quickly hooked onto the city wall.

Seeing this scene, Liu Dewei, who was supervising the battle in the city, immediately raised his long sword and shouted: "Come on!"

In ancient times, there was an army named Xiandeng, which means the first to attack the top of the city when attacking the city. Such soldiers are not afraid of death at all. There is no other reason, because the soldiers who climbed the city first have the highest death rate, and usually they are close to death. Soldiers who must be able to disregard life and death cannot take up the role.

There were hundreds of soldiers of the Tang Army marching along the ladder. Before they left, they all drank a large bowl of strong wine. Under the sound of shouting and killing on the battlefield, they were extremely excited.

The moment the ladder reached the top of the city, the general beside the ladder urged: "It's time to get on."

Hearing this, these Tang soldiers all had fierce eyes, like evil beasts!
"One step ahead!"

"Brother, XX will come soon!"

"Those who are not afraid of death will not die!"

"After 18 years, my grandfather is still a man!"

After talking about these Tang Jun followed the ladder, and the ants attached!
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