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Chapter 814 Luoyang Offensive and Defensive Battle (2)

"Target: the head of the city, let it go!"

The tactical movements of the two Yue King troops were extremely sophisticated, and they quickly reached the attack position. However, under the order of Li Su, who was in charge of covering, dozens of trebuchets and large ballistas that had already been prepared were launched one after another. Bullets and thick iron arrows whizzed through the sky, smashing towards the top of the city like a bolt from the blue.

"Target: Enemy catapult position, release!"

Of course, the trebuchets are not only owned by the Yue King’s army, but also by the defenders at the top of the city. Not only do they have them, but there are also a lot of them. Not to mention anything else, when the Hexi Army was still weak, they relied on these tricks, which were regarded as strange/obscene tricks by the authentic Confucian children. The powerful mechanical device of the Tubo army forcibly defeated the powerful Tubo army. Although the artillery was born later and replaced the heavy and inefficient trebuchet, the Hexi army still had the ability to construct the trebuchet. All the guards of the Eastern Palace were The Hexi Army is an old man. After several days of work, he has already built a lot of large-scale trebuchets. How could he sit back and watch the King Yue Army show off his power indiscriminately? Almost at the same time when Li Su issued the shooting order from the King Yue Army Fang Xiaoshan, the newly promoted school captain who was in charge of commanding the operations of the trebuchet positions, also roared and gave the order to shoot. In an instant, all kinds of trebuchets arranged on the top of the city and in the urn behind the city wall started to start, and more than 150 huge catapults were fired. The stone bombs roared out, covering the sky and smashing towards the catapult positions of the King Yue Army, and their prestige was obviously several times stronger than that of the King Yue Army.

"Boom, boom..."

The dark clouds formed by two pieces of stone bombs crossed in the air, and several stone bombs collided fiercely, and instantly exploded into a rain of gravel, but most of the stone bombs were unhindered and rushed towards the After reaching their respective targets, there was a burst of howls in the upper and lower parts of the city in an instant. The gravel was splashed in all directions, and the flesh and blood flew horizontally. The appearance was really terrifying.

"Let it go, let it go again!"

Although the large-scale catapults produced by the King Yue's army were powerful, they were not only smaller in number than the defenders, but also had a short range. They could only barely bombard the defenders on the city wall. The trebuchet was helpless. Moreover, the defenders had adjusted their shooting scales long ago, and they were much better than the Yue Wang army in terms of accuracy. After the first round of the contest between the two sides, the defenders only had one shot. One trebuchet was completely destroyed, two were scratched, but it did not affect the battle. On the other hand, the King Yue army was in bad luck. Not to mention the four trebuchets that were destroyed, there were still many who stayed in the starting position The soldiers were hit by the artillery fire of the defenders, and more than two hundred people were killed or injured for no reason. When this happened, Li Su was so angry that his nose was almost crooked. He shouted and directed the guards to suppress the panicked trebuchet position The officers and soldiers.

"Fill the river cart, get on!"

Throwing, throwing again, after the trebuchets of both sides bombarded each other a few times, the Yue Wang army was completely at a disadvantage. Not only failed to achieve the goal of suppressing the defenders at the top of the city, but was smashed into a mess by the defenders. Hopeless, Gan Zhuangwu, who was in charge of the first round of rushing to the city, was impatient with the boss, and didn't want to wait any longer, so he gave the order to attack with a dark face!

"Dong dong..."

At the command of the general, the drums of the Yue Wang Army's front line started loudly. Under the persecution of the supervising team, more than two thousand people had to push the heavy river filling truck forward. The [-] cavalrymen also began to press forward slowly, obviously intending to use cavalry and shooting to cover the offensive of their own river filling troops.

It's mediocre, nothing special!
Although the siege battle had just begun, Li Xian, who had seen Li Zhen's formation, was not only not nervous, but relaxed, not for any other reason, but because Li Xian had already understood Li Zhen's entire strategic thinking. It seems to be relying on the superiority of the force to launch wave after wave of strong attacks. Although there is nothing wrong with it, there is nothing surprising and magical about it. It seems that even if this kind of offensive is stronger, the defenders can easily After dealing with it, it is obvious that Li Xian's guess before the battle was really right, and Li Zhen is really a rookie who has never been in battle. What he knows is just copying the regulations. It seems that such an opponent is really useless to win It was too much pressure. In view of this, Li Xian didn't bother to bother, and simply handed over the command authority to Zhang Mingwu. He just stood silently at the city gate and watched the battle in his spare time.

"Stand up a shield!"

Zhang Mingwu became famous in the first battle because of his defense. Back then in Hexi, with a force of less than [-] troops, he blocked the attack of tens of thousands of Tubo troops and defended the small city of Fanghan, thus buying precious time for Li Xian to mobilize all troops. At this moment, when he saw the cavalry of the King Yue Army attacking, he immediately guessed the route of the King Yue Army, snorted coldly with disdain, waved his hand, and gave the order loudly.

"Send the arrow, release the arrow!"

The two cavalry of the Yue King Army rushed very fast, and within a short time they had leaped to the edge of the moat. However, there were two loud roars from the cavalry, and the two cavalry were constantly throwing arrows at the top of the city. It's not small, but it's hard to understand why the defender's shield formation, apart from the crackling sound of the shield formation, has no commendable results. Advancing creates great opportunities.

"It's said that Li Xian is good at fighting as a child, but he doesn't care much by himself. Hey, it's just a waste of fame!"

Seeing that his river-filling troops are progressing smoothly, they are already approaching the moat, and the defenders have no sign of counterattack, Li Zhen, who is in the middle army, can't help but feel very proud. He stroked his long beard on his chest with a smile, and shook his head. Li Xian was belittled.

"Father Wang Shengming, that kid just won a few battles by luck, and his ability is mediocre. How can he match the might of our army of more than [-] troops? Breaking the city is just around the corner!"

"Your Highness said it well, today you will be able to break through the city and enter, this is a big part of your life!"

"It's true. After entering the city, I'll wait until I'm drunk!"

Seeing that Li Zhen was so happy, Li Chong and many other generals around were overjoyed, but Chen Wushuang couldn't be happy, and opened his mouth sadly, as if wanting to speak, but at the end , I still didn’t say that I would come out, not for anything else, but because Li Zhen seemed to be a different person since he joined the army. He was very self-willed and couldn’t listen to anyone’s words. I've been on the wall several times, and now I don't dare to persuade anymore, I can only look at the top of the city full of worry.

"shoot!"

Li Zhen was obviously overjoyed. How could Zhang Mingwu be an incompetent person? He had already taken advantage of the cover of the shield formation to quietly set up a trap until the river-filling troops of the Yue King Army approached the moat. But when Zhang Mingwu yelled, a gap was suddenly opened in the tight-fitting shield formation, revealing 250 guards of the Eastern Palace who were densely arrayed. Shoot wildly.

"Whizzing……"

The serial crossbows in the hands of the guards of the Eastern Palace consisted of ten steel arrows in one shot. Under such intensive shooting, [-] steel arrows shot into the river-filling queue of the King Yue Army who was caught off guard like a dark cloud. Then he shot the Min Zhuang pushing the cart to hundreds of people, the rest were frightened, how dare they stand still, they all fled back in a panic, no matter how much the supervising team hacked, beat and scolded, they didn't dare to stop Turning back to push the cart, at this point, the first wave of the Yue Wang army's offensive has not yet started, and it has been forced to stop.

"Trash, tell Gan Zhuangwu, don't be afraid of losing your troops, go ahead and fill up the moat!"

Li Zhenzheng was smiling complacently. Seeing that his river-filling troops had come back after such a defeat, his face suddenly turned ugly. He waved his hand coldly and gave the death order bitterly.

Attack, attack again!Now that Li Zhen had given the order to die, Gan Zhuangwu dared not be negligent. After ordering to kill a dozen of the fastest escaped civilians, he ordered the supervising team to move forward with their knives, escorting the river-filling troops to rush forward again. Going forward, it was unsurprisingly ransacked by the arrow rain from the defenders. Even if the two cavalry sent by him tried their best to suppress it, it was difficult to stop the dense arrow rain from the top of the city. With many casualties, the offensive was once again forced After a pause, Gan Zhuangwu refused to give up, and simply sent 1000 shield swordmen and archers each to cover the advance of the river filling troops with the cavalry, but they were attacked by the catapults at the top of the city. Greeted fiercely, after most of the troops were lost, at the cost of human lives, they forcefully filled in more than a dozen earth embankments on the moat, opening up a passage close to the city wall for the attack of the Yunti troops.

"Army attack!"

Seeing that the dam on the moat had been completed, Gan Zhuangwu didn't care about his own heavy losses. He pulled out the horizontal knife from his waist and slashed forward with all his might. Amid the sudden loud noise, three thousand infantry guarding ten siege ladders and more than twenty ladders rushed towards the moat.

"Every battle position is ready, the target: the enemy siege brigade, let it go!"

At this moment, the catapults of the defending army defeated the stubborn resistance of the catapult troops of the Yue King Army. Although they paid a high price, there were still nearly a hundred catapults of various types that were still intact. After launching a strong attack, Fang Xiaoshan didn't dare to be careless, and gave the order to counterattack with a roar, but when he heard the sound of machine springs, a burst of dense stone bombs rose into the air again, smashing into the running In the brigade of the Yue King Army, more than a hundred infantry were immediately smashed into mud by huge stone bombs, while the rest of them lowered their heads and rushed forward regardless, and soon rushed to the bottom of the city along the embankment of the moat. A ladder stood upright, and turned over to the top of the city with force. At the same time, ten extremely heavy siege ladders were also driven by Min Zhuang, and slowly drove to a place not far from the moat. The most tragic event The offensive and defensive battle has come to the time when the swords are red...

(End of this chapter)