Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 718 The Danger of Longzhou
Of course, Song Guo Dangjin still didn't know the specific defense situation of the four military strongholds of Xiangfu Kingdom that he was going to attack.

During this period, Dangjin wanted to surround 100 black wolf cavalry with an army of 1000. Before that, Yang Jiye sent an engineering battalion to plant more than [-] stone mines inside and outside the mouth of the valley. Li Guangshun led the army and successfully led the Song army here. More than [-] Song soldiers were killed.The most important thing is that this invisible threat has cast a mental shadow on Song Guobing. As long as the terrain is flat, they would rather leave the official road and march. Watch the road ahead and see if there are any different colored parts of the road.Under such circumstances, Li Guangshun led [-] cavalry to retreat easily.

Among the generals of the Song Dynasty, Dang Jin was famous for his personality and his outburst of temper. In addition, he knew the importance of the role he played in leading the [-] infantry in the plan to destroy the Xiangfu Kingdom, so he forced the troops to hurry , followed behind the black wolf army led by Li Guangshun, and finally spent a day and a night, that is, on March [-]th, they arrived at the east of the four military strongholds of Xiangfu Kingdom.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Tuoba Gelu led the cavalry to turn back and counterattack. The Dangjin vanguard battalion rushed forward alone, losing another hundred people, and retreated three miles to meet the reinforcements behind, and then stabilized their position.The Dangxiang cavalry covered alternately and disappeared into the army camp.Dang Jin was worried that there would be another stone thunder, so he did not dare to continue the pursuit, so he ordered to camp on the spot to rest. Then he climbed a nearby high mountain before setting up camp, eager to see the defense situation of the four military strongholds.

Dangjin, who had been here before, was standing on a high mountain, and the scene in front of him was almost unrecognizable. On the plains in front of the four military camps on the side of Xiangfu Kingdom, there were countless ditches, and the outermost circles were several winding ditches. , only half a person's height, with no surrounding soil, and then a deep trench about a foot wide, and the excavated soil was piled up behind it to form an earth wall. There is also a gong platform, which is much higher than the earth wall.

There are many flags planted on that earthen wall, and there is a rammed-earth parapet on the top of the earthen barrier. Flags can be vaguely seen fluttering, and there is a gap flush with the ground every other section. The basket is filled with soil, and there are large and small crossbows in the middle, which look similar to the city defense crossbow, but are different.Between the first large earthen wall and the deep trench, there is another layer of parapet, whose purpose is not known.

Outside the deep trench is a barrier ditch with a width of tens of steps, and a hundred steps outside the barrier ditch is densely packed with small potholes, which are obviously used to prevent the shield car from approaching quickly.

There are two such large earthen walls, and vague tents can be seen between the two, but the specific deployment is not clear. Several passages extend from the front of the earthen wall, walking through the deep and shallow trenches in zigzag lines The only potholes that can be passed quickly are the two roads on the two wings. These two roads point obliquely to the outside of the two wings along the front line. Although they are straight, they will be shot by the entire earth wall and cannot be used for attack.

Behind the second earthen wall is the No. [-] army village, which is the frontmost among Xiangfu's fourth army villages. noodle.

This kind of trench position is filled between the two mountain ranges, and the mountain has the same scene. The defense line on the east slope of the southwest mountain starts from the mountainside, the defense line on the north slope is close to the top of the mountain, and the south slope is close to the foot of the mountain. The walls are connected by passages. If the Song army wants to attack the No. [-] army village, they have to climb a long slope wearing heavy armor, and they cannot push the shield cart up the mountain. They attacked the mountain in the southwest, but they couldn't directly break into the earth wall defense line of the military village, so they still wanted to attack the earth wall.

The mountains in the northeast control the No. [-] and No. [-] military villages, and the defense is tighter than the mountains in the southwest. Layers of barriers go up the mountains, and some roads wind and twist around the mountains, connecting those defense lines. The whole mountain is like a barracks. It is conceivable that they are fortified layer by layer, and each layer has its own system.

Inside and outside the four army villages that have been dug beyond recognition, flags of various colors are flying. In the distance, there are two thousand engineers and soldiers busy to and fro, and there are some scattered rangers in the field outside the city. momentum.

Dang Jin stared at the air-conditioning, unable to speak, just kept shaking his head, and finally couldn't help but said: "I'll beat your mother, I would have known that I would switch with old man Gao Huaide and go to Linzhou. "

After finishing speaking, he couldn't help cursing: "Yang Jiye, the dog day, is really famous all over the world for his kindness."

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Up and down the Longzhou City Wall, the sound of killing shook the sky.

There were only 5000 people left behind in Fuzhou, and almost all of them came out. Zhe Chongxun, the master of the Zhe family, personally led an army of 100 to ambush the Linzhou Xuanwu Army, and at the same time sent troops to Longzhou, which was more than [-] miles away from Fuzhou.

The White Tiger Legion has 4000 cavalry and [-] infantry, responsible for the defense of Lingzhou, Yanzhou, and Longzhou.Because Longzhou faced Fuzhou directly, the military headquarters of the White Tiger Army was in Longzhou, and the head of the army, Han Hu, led [-] of them to station in Longzhou.

Although Fuzhou Zhejia hid it very well this time, when they dispatched troops, they still couldn't hide it from the spies under Hu Sanguang's command. The spies gave the general information to Longzhou first.Han Hu and Zhong Chengbao, the magistrate of Longzhou, were taken aback. They quickly issued a first-level defense and combat readiness order, and began to prepare for various defense matters in an orderly manner.While asking for help from Qinglong and Suzaku Legion.

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Behind the city wall of Longzhou is a forest of long spears. No matter how the soldiers from Fuzhou block with their weapons and clean up the forest of guns in front of them, there are still fish that slipped through the net and pierced his body, and then threw him off the ladder Down.

The ladder is now a ladder of death.

Most of the crossbow arrows, rolling logs, light oil, and gunpowder packs newly researched and invented by the Gunpowder Department of the Equipment Department of Xiangfu Kingdom fell on the ladder, causing the Fuzhou soldiers who climbed up to suffer various terrifying blows.

Those who were knocked into the air by a rolling log, those who were thrown directly from the ignited gunpowder bag and even the ladder were directly blown to pieces, those who were lit by light oil, and those who were shot into hedgehogs by crossbow arrows all fell down, and then were trampled by the messy footsteps of their companions. The corpses were piled up under Longzhou City.

To siege a city requires all effort. If you can't win the first attack, if you want to carry out a second or third brutal attack, the effect will be much worse.Normal people, under normal circumstances, are fearful after all.

Courage or morale is a kind of belief, a paranoid behavior that can only burst out under the conditions of hope.

This kind of behavior once or twice is enough to be called a hero. If there are too many, it will not be as simple as the first or second time, and many other factors will be mixed in, which is very detrimental to the achievement of the goal of victory.

War has always been a two-way injury. When the Longzhou defenders massacred Fuzhou soldiers, the Fuzhou army's trebuchets also killed a lot of Longzhou defenders.

The huge stones did limited damage to the city wall, but they did real damage to the Longzhou defenders who spent most of their body and mind dealing with the siege enemy.

The huge stones will easily smash and flatten the bodies of the generals, and they will also easily smash the tall tower shields, smashing the tower shields and the soldiers resisting the tower shields to the city wall.

At the same time, Fuzhou brought a large number of arrows this time, and the arrows rained continuously towards the city of Longzhou as if they didn't need money, and they were very fierce. Even though the armor quality of the Xiangfu army was better than that of the Song army, The thick feathered arrows can also penetrate the armor, causing the soldiers of the White Tiger Army to complain.You know, not every soldier of the Xiangfu Kingdom can wear the forged armor that can withstand ordinary feather arrows issued by the Equipment Department to the military leaders above the deputy army commander level.

There are not many tricks to use in siege warfare. If the city can be easily captured by resourcefulness, the Huaxia Dynasty has not needed to build so many cities since ancient times to resist the invasion of nomads or other enemies.

From the moment the city appeared, countless facts have proved that it is a very labor-saving and easy way to defend the enemy with the help of a tall city wall.

There have been many clever siege methods in history, and these methods have also been proven to be effective, but the cities that were attacked by wisdom are too few, so few that they can be recorded in the annals of history.

In more siege battles, most of the damage is the attacking side.But when the number of troops on the attacking side is more than ten times that of the defending side, the defending side still cannot afford to wear and tear.

Fortunately, thanks to the spies from the Department of Military Intelligence of the Ministry of National Security, Longzhou had won a precious half a day for Longzhou to make more adequate preparations.In addition, the city wall of Longzhou is equipped with a large number of new-style defensive crossbows and new-style city defense catapults equipped by the Equipment Department of the Military Central Department, as well as many expensive explosive kits.Of course, the main reason was the bloody battle of the [-] White Tiger Legion, which finally made Longzhou survive the first day's strong attack by the Fuzhou army.

However, the [-] defenders of the White Tiger Army had nearly [-] casualties. Given the perimeter of the city wall of Longzhou, less than [-] defenders would be insufficient.Therefore, according to the casualties, if there is no support in Longzhou, it will last for two or three days at most.At this time, the [-] cavalry of the White Wolf Legion led by Tuoba Gelu were still two days away from Longzhou.

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For the whole night, Linzhou City trembled.

When Zhan Xiongwu led the Xuanwu Army to the front of the west gate, there were more than 700 people left in the [-] Xuanwu heavy cavalry, and less than half of the [-] infantry remained.Of course, the Linzhou army and the Song army died more.

However, looking at the falling iron gate of Ximen, the Xuanwu Army, which had been fighting all night, was in despair. Even with Zhan Xiongwu's strength, he hit the iron gate ten times with all his strength, except for the huge impact sound, the iron gate still remained motionless.But Zhan Xiongwu was injured by the counter-shock force on his right arm.At this time, the Xuanwu Legion was really completely desperate.

(End of this chapter)