Chapter 58 Li Dingguo's Career as a Thief

The fourteen siege tactics of pro, hook, rush, ladder, moth, ***, sudden, hollow, moth, xuanche, trebuchet, and gunpowder were almost exhausted.

And the tall Xiangyang City is still in the hands of the Ming army.

The blood stained the moat red, and it didn't take much effort, and it was carried away by the river, and as long as the siege stopped, the river would be clear again.

Li Dingguo looked at the corpses of Xiangyang City, which was full of corpses, and took a bite of the steamed bun in his hand, and said to the deputy general Zhang Guofeng: "The city is about to be broken, after eating, we will continue to attack!" Fight to take the city before it gets dark! ”

Zhang Guofeng, whose armor was covered with blood, said: "When I attacked just now, I already felt that the official army was about to be unable to withstand it, if it wasn't for that damn King Xiang himself on the city wall, I would have been able to enter the city just now."

After the city is broken, this King Xiang must be skinned and cramped. ”

Li Dingguo looked up at the banner of King Xiangyang waving in the wind at the head of Xiangyang City, and then looked at the soldiers who were gasping beside him, and said in a low voice: "Get out of the north gate, we will concentrate on attacking the south gate and the east gate." ”

"Wai Sanque one? It's already this time, don't you? ”

"In four hours, the king's Chinese army will arrive under Xiangyang City, if we haven't taken Xiangyang City by then, the consequences will not be good."

"King Xiang will lead people to escape."

"There are a thousand cavalry ten miles away, and they can't escape."

"General, Xiangyang City is on the edge of the Han River, King Xiang may not necessarily take the land route, I think they will take the water route, we don't have a boat."

"Do what I say, this time I will rush to the city, Guofeng, raise my battle flag, this time, we will not die if we don't break the city!"

"General, use our headquarters this time, I'm worried that if you use Sun Kewang again, Liu Wenxiu's subordinates, something will happen."

Li Dingguo shook his head and said: "Guofeng, you want to deviate, if I rely on the people of my headquarters to take Xiangyang, those people will go crazy, now, there are their subordinates who are charging into battle, after the fall of Xiangyang, there must be a merit of them."

This will appease their anger. ”

After Li Dingguo finished speaking, a personal soldier stepped forward to strangle his armor for him, so he picked up a long knife, carried a round shield and shouted a herald, the soldiers who were originally staggering stood up one after another, and saw that it was Li Dingguo who walked in the front, and some people who wanted to scold their mothers also closed their mouths, looking at the tall Xiangyang City and worrying, I don't know if there is a life after this siege.

Seeing that the huge Li Ziqi had been erected, Li Dingguo looked back at the group of soldiers who followed him and said: "Life and death are just this time, enter, the money and food inside, women are at your disposal, if you can't enter, you will die under the city."

Archers, archery, grandpa is going to charge! ”

As soon as Li Dingguo's voice fell, the group of archers in front of the left immediately loosened the bowstring, and the dense feather arrows flew up to the city, and at the same time, the head of the city had already erected shields, and the officers and soldiers of hundreds of households, Xiaoqi and other officers also drank and ordered the soldiers to prepare rolling wood and stones, lime and gold juice.

Li Dingguo walked flexibly through the military formation, although there were always sporadic feathered arrows shooting down on his head, and sometimes he could hear the sound of muskets firing, but not a single arrow, a lead bullet found him.

Compared with the wide moat, the walls of Xiangyang City are not moats!

Li Dingguo concluded that the officers and men of Xiangyang did not dare to go out of the city to fight, so they insisted on using the baffles made of countless huge trees to push the battle line to the edge of the moat.

These days, the artillery and cannons of Xiangyang City have been consumed by him, and the pontoon bridge erected with great losses before is still stable, although it has been partially burned by the fierce fire oil of the official army, as long as the wooden planks are re-paved, it can reach the city wall!

The moat had been planked, and the fire oil was poured down on the city, and the flames that had been extinguished burned again.

Li Dingguo rushed across the moat in two steps, raised the round shield, turned his back to the city wall, squatted down, and a strong soldier stepped on his round shield and jumped up, lying on the inclined city wall, slowly climbing up like a gecko.

A cloud ladder was set up at the head of the city, and without waiting for the officials and soldiers at the head of the city to push the ladder down, Li Dingguo rushed up to the ladder, used both hands and feet, quickly climbed upward, climbed halfway, and the ladder was finally pushed away from the city wall by the official and military push rods, Li Dingguo jumped up, and also lay on the city wall, and climbed up with his feet on the brick crack of less than half an inch of the city wall. (Don't ask why there are brick joints, ask if the Nanhu Hotel climbed in person in April this year, although I fell, I don't think Li Dingguo will fall).

The round shield was stuck in the gap, a stone the size of a human head fell, the round shield in Li Dingguo's hand creaked, the stone bounced on the round shield and fell, seeing that the head of a fool who looked up at the city was smashed, Li Dingguo held a long knife in his mouth, picked the brick crack with one hand and climbed up two feet.

The soldier who had been sent up by him before was about to climb to the battlement, but he was poured on his head and face by a pot of boiling gold juice, and his mouth let out a terrible scream, but his hands were stubbornly gripping the cracks of the bricks, even if the hot gold juice flowed into his mouth, he still did not let go.

Li Dingguo's gecko generally moved three feet to the left, and put one hand at the foot of the thug, and the thug who had been burned and crazy borrowed his strength again, and grabbed the battlement with one hand.

Four fingers fell from Li Dingguo's eyes, and the soldier above his head finally had no place to borrow strength, and after being pierced through the throat by a spear, he grabbed the spear with one hand and fell from the city.

Li Dingguo did not continue to climb upward, the round shield was above his head, Zhang Guofeng drove the archers across the moat, at this time, Li Dingguo needed more powerful support.

Countless fireballs were thrown onto the city by small trebuchets, smoke rose from the city, and the shouts of the officers and soldiers became more urgent, and Li Dingguo had already heard the despair from the shouts of these officers and soldiers.

shouted: "King Xiang has run away, capture King Xiang alive!" ”

At first, he shouted alone, and then the soldiers lying on the ladder, on the city wall, and standing under the city wall shouted together.

Seeing that two groups of men and horses had climbed to the top of the city, they shouted "The city is broken!" Only then did Li Dingguo grab a ladder that had not been overthrown by the official army, and jumped up to the city in three or two steps.

When he climbed to the top of the city, there were no living officers and soldiers in sight on the head of the city, which was five feet wide, and they were speeding down the city wall along the slope of the urn city, and rushed towards the new north gate.

Li Dingguo did not go down the city wall, and walked north along the city wall, at this time the city wall was full of rebels, and everyone had a look of ecstasy on their faces.

The fires on the top of the city are still burning, and those fireballs that have been thrown up will not be extinguished until they burn to the fullest.

Fortunately, the houses were still some distance from the city wall, and the fireball did not spread, but as the rebels entered the city, many places in the city began to smoke.

When Li Dingguo walked to the new north gate, the city gate here was open, and except for some wounded officers and soldiers who were struggling to climb out of the city, there was no longer a single resistor in sight.

Li Dingguo went down the city wall, and saw a wounded soldier climbing on the back of a donkey in vain, but he was hit by an arrow in the waist and couldn't climb on the back of the donkey. ”

Li Dingguo snorted, raised his hand to grab the wounded soldier's belt, lifted him on the donkey's back, patted him on the donkey's buttocks, and said, "Whether you can live depends on your luck!" ”

The donkey quickly ran away, and Li Dingguo found a broken chair and sat on it and watched the wounded soldiers climb out of the city gate one by one.

The stone pavement seemed to be washed with blood, attracting countless flies to land on the pavement.

When the soldiers arrived, Li Dingguo had already sat here for a cup of tea, and the wounded soldiers who could climb out of the city gate had already climbed out, and the wounded soldiers who couldn't climb out had accepted their fate.

Seeing that these wounded soldiers who couldn't crawl away were hacked to death by his own soldiers one by one, Li Dingguo did not stop them.

On the battlefield, it is luck to be alive, and leeward to die!

Instead of chasing down the wounded soldiers who had fled out of the city, the soldiers closed the new north gate and waited for Li Dingguo's order.

"Go, go and get rich if you deserve to get rich, do whatever you have to do, I'll sit here for a while."

Li Dingguo took out a delicate silver wine jug from his arms, took a sip of wine, and continued to sit on the broken chair, at this moment, he had no sense of glory in breaking the city, he just felt bored!

After all, he had already breached the city more than a year ago.