Chapter 762: Breaking Ezhou (II)

The throwing arms of dozens of trebuchets rose and fell, smashing dozens of pounds of stones at the head of the city, and the stones fell on the city wall, making a huge sound, and the city wall wrapped in stones was smashed out of the pits one by one. More fell on the group of defenders of the city, causing great casualties to the defending soldiers.

A group of crossbowmen advanced to the river, and poured the crossbow arrows in their hands desperately towards the city wall, and above the river, on the dozen or so pontoon bridges that had been rebuilt at great cost, the Liang soldiers roared and rushed towards the opposite bank as fast as possible. For them, even if there are not many footholds on the other side, it is always safer than on a pontoon bridge.

Countless large balls of grease grass stacks flying on their heads, even if they fall on the water, they are still burning, and from time to time stone bullets will fall on the water, splashing waves several people high, and the pontoon bridge will often be broken, but then it will be repaired by the Liang army immediately.

Liang Jun didn't care about casualties at all.

Zhu Youzhen brazenly pushed his main banner in front of his own trebuchet position, where the trebuchet above the city head could already threaten his safety.

The fluttering banner of Zhu characters and the rumbling war drums all expressed Zhu Youzhen's determination to fight to the death. And from Liu Xinda to below, all the generals, big and small, also know that there is no way out at this time.

The main attack was still from the north, and Liu Xinda organized wave after wave of offensive regardless of casualties, from the rising of the sun to the gradual westward inclination, both sides were exhausted, but the Liang army had no intention of stopping.

What made the city embarrassed was that in the direction of Xicheng, another unit of the Liang army appeared, and it was not Zhu Youzhen's headquarters soldiers and horses, which made them have to worry that the Liang army attacked the northern city, but it was Zhu Youzhen's headquarters soldiers and horses that gave them a fatal blow.

After all, the soldiers directly under the command of any commander will inevitably be the most elite force in a force. This forced them to transfer part of their forces to Xicheng and stare at this army and horses.

As the army began to prepare siege engines, this trend became more and more apparent.

Liu Xinda soon felt the weakening of the city's strength, because his soldiers, after many days, finally killed the city wall, and could hold on for a little while.

"General Tian, it's now!" Zhu Youzhen looked at Tian Guofeng beside him and said.

"The Third Highness watched me break the city!" Tian Guoba grabbed the helmet that was placed on the ground, put it on his head, fastened the straps, lifted the chopping knife inserted in the ground, and strode forward.

A thousand armor-clad elites, as he rushed to the moat.

Qian Feng, the envoy of the Eyue Festival, has been supervising the battle in the city for many days.

As Zhu Youzhen had guessed earlier, when the Liang army attacked in a big way, Qian Feng did withdraw all the elite forces, and at the same time, laid some forces outside. These forces are inconspicuous and not even worth mentioning, but if Zhu Youzhen is unable to advance an inch under the city of Ezhou for a long time, these backhands will play a role.

At the critical moment when the two armies are in contention, any slight tilt of strength is enough to affect the overall situation. In the end, it was just a straw that broke the camel's back.

Qian Feng's calculations were undoubtedly successful. The biggest problem was that he underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Liang army and overestimated the combat effectiveness of the Eyue army.

This balance of power between entering and exiting, in the course of the real war, was reflected in the casualties of the Eyue army, which far exceeded Qian Feng's estimate.

This makes this war more and more difficult to deal with as time goes by, although the defending side occupies an absolute geographical advantage.

But today, at the most critical moment of the war, Qian Feng actually made another big mistake.

The Liang army had never thought of breaking Ezhou City from other directions, they were bent on opening the gap from the north. The so-called transfer of Zhu Youzhen's headquarters to Dongcheng is just a plan to suspect the enemy. For Liang Jun, as long as they can transfer some of the elites from the city, no matter how much, for them, they will make money.

The time when Tian Guofeng's thousands of elites were inserted into the battlefield was very fatal. After a day of fierce fighting, the sun gradually set in the west, and the night battle was naturally more disadvantageous for the besieging side, according to previous experience, the battle at this time was almost coming to an end.

And the defenders of the city, who had worked hard for a day, did feel that the trend of the enemy's attack was gradually weakening at this moment, and their hearts were gradually relaxed.

The city was covered with corpses, and the wails of the wounded were drenched in blood, and they were unconscious in the fierce battle before, but at this moment, the intensity of the battle came, and these voices became clearer and clearer.

The soldiers were glad they had survived another hurdle.

Slackness first appears psychologically, and then it is reflected in the mental and physical strength.

The weapon in his hand seems to have weighed a lot.

The hunger in the stomach was even more obvious at this moment.

They wanted to sleep well, they wanted to eat well, and they wanted to use the victory of defending the city today to ask the Jiedu envoys for a little more reward, even if it was an extra reward of two catties of meat and a little wine, so that they could sleep comfortably until dawn.

By now that the war has been fought, both sides have turned red-eyed. If at the earliest, there would still be people with the intention of surrendering, but now looking at the layers of corpses spread above and below the city, who still has this mind?

In the army, fathers, sons, brothers, neighbors, and villagers can all have a relationship with each other, and the war is so fierce that no relatives die in the hands of the other party.

In addition to shopping with opponents, where is there anything else to think about.

If the enemy loses and suffers heavy losses, where will they be spared?

Retaliation, it's inevitable.

What misfortune does not affect wives and children, in this era, but there is no such thing.

The Eyue army was relaxed, and the real killer weapon of the Liang army, which had been prepared for almost a day, had just been thrown out at this time.

With the sound of shouts, the countless bowl-thick bamboos that were carried by Liu Xinda's soldiers earlier were lifted from the ground by the soldiers.

At the top of each bamboo, there is a Liang Jun armor.

The first two people are Tian Guofeng and Chen Fu.

Hundreds of bamboos and hundreds of armor soldiers suddenly swooped from the ground into the air. To the soldiers of the city, it was as if these people had jumped so high.

Chen Fu held the bamboo between his legs, and the bowstring in his hand sounded like a bead, and with every sound, an Eyue soldier screamed and fell off the city.

These soldiers saw the opportunity very quickly, and when the bamboo was just erected, they immediately reacted, but Chen Fu's archery was too accurate, and a series of more than a dozen arrows opened a small gap in the city wall, and Tian Guofeng, who was wearing two iron armors, seized this small space and jumped from the bamboo to the city wall.

"Give me death!" He roared and waved his sword.

Sweep in all directions.

Blood was splattered, and four or five Eyue soldiers were in different places.

One by one, the bamboos leaned against the city wall, and one by one the armor soldiers jumped up.

The soldiers in the city finally reacted, howling and brandishing knives and guns, and surrounded them.

Some of the armor soldiers had just stood on the city wall, and before they could gain a firm foothold, they were pushed down by the soldiers in the city, and some were still on the bamboo, and they were shot by the enemy with crossbow arrows, and they fell down from the city with a bang.

But after all, nearly 200 people still stood at the head of the city with Tian Guofeng and Chen Fu, and more importantly, they concentrated on a section of the city wall that was less than 50 meters.

"Tell me!" Tian Guofeng roared, holding the saxer with both hands, slashing horizontally and vertically, while Chen Fu followed closely behind him, constantly firing his bow and shooting.

The enemy is too close, he doesn't need to aim at all, he only needs to open a half-string, which is enough to kill people, because his arrows shoot at the enemy's face.

In front, Tian Guofeng opened the way, and on the left and right, there were several armor soldiers carrying shields and enemy swords, protecting his flanks. This small combination, in an instant, brought together more than 100 armor soldiers around them.

At this moment, Tian Guofeng was still at the front of the team, while Chen Fu was in the middle of the team.

Instead of being tasked with opening the way, he was focused on killing the enemy's officers.

The Eyue army pounced from several directions, and everyone understood that if they did not quickly drive this group of enemies off the city wall, Eyue City would be finished today.

But the problem is that the hundreds of people who came up here are the most elite part of the Liang army, and such people are still increasing.

Tian Guofeng took a thousand armor soldiers in a last fight, successfully climbed the city wall and formed a military formation alive, there were nearly 700 people, they formed two groups, and they were only dozens of steps apart from each other.

"It's done!" On the other side of the moat, Zhu Youzhen high-fived excitedly, and Liu Xinda, who was on the front line, was a veteran on the battlefield, how could he let go of such a great opportunity. Liang Jun, who had just been exhausted, was excited one by one at this time. Ladders were erected, and ants climbed upward.

And Zhu Youzhen's headquarters in Dongcheng has officially started the siege at this moment, and they want to contain this part of the Eyue army in Dongcheng and prevent them from having the opportunity to move to the north city wall.

As more and more soldiers of the Liang army climbed the city wall, Tian Guofeng's group had begun to move in the direction of the city tower, because where there was Qian Feng, the envoy of the Eyue Festival.

With Chen Fu's arrow, the Eyue money banner fluttering high above the city gate tower fell into the dust, and the Liang army thundered with joy, but the Eyue army was heartbroken and scattered, which inevitably happened.