Chapter 993: The Price of Stone City
His mother quickly covered his mouth and saluted the old man with a fierce look in front of him: "Patriarch, the child is not sensible, I will go home and teach him ......"
Stir! Before the woman could finish speaking, there was a loud noise, and the earth shook, and the houses began to shake, and the dust on the eaves of the surrounding houses began to fall, as if the heavens were wrath, and everyone's expressions became panicked.
Everyone looked back at the patriarch, but the patriarch who was still high just now was already hiding under the table with his ass pouted like an ostrich, screaming hoarsely: "Protect me!" All to protect me! ”
But his cry was soon drowned out by a roar that resounded through the heavens and the earth, and the canton, which made a sharp whistling sound, cut a perfect curve in the air and slammed into the top of the ancestral hall, only a slight blow caused the top of the exquisite ancestral hall to fall apart in an instant.
I don't know what part turned into powder, Xiao Xiao fell, and the dust was everywhere, making everyone become a native person, hair, eyebrows, clothes...... Everything around turned grayish-white.
As the dust rose, a terrible scream suddenly came, and many people were screaming frantically on the road, and they could no longer hear any sound; There are also some people who wander the streets like walking corpses, and the whole stone city is like a purgatory on earth.
There are no more people standing on the walls of the stone city, and part of the city wall has collapsed due to the continuous bombardment, and the soldiers or civilians under the city wall are buried in it, and those who are lucky can still be lucky enough to climb outward, while some people are directly covered to death under the city.
The arrow tower on the city gate has long disappeared without a trace, when the first roar sounded, the wooden arrow tower turned into powder in an instant, and the scattered sawdust even pierced into the eyes of the soldiers, and the uncle and nephew of the Li family ran down the city wall in a hurry.
When the roar subsided slightly, they looked back, and the gate building where they were just now had disappeared without a trace.
Li Quanmu stood in place, the scene in the city was like purgatory, the people were screaming, the houses were collapsing, this was a scene he had never seen before, and it was even more terrifying than the earth dragon turning over.
The Great Song soldiers outside the city were obviously still a thousand steps away from the Stone City, who would have thought that their artillery stones would already be able to attack the city?!
The soldiers on the walls retreated like lost dogs, great cracks had appeared, and the rammed earth walls did not help them resist the might of the artillery, and the fear in the frightened eyes of the soldiers was evident in their hearts.
The sound of war drums gradually sounded, and it also woke up the sluggish Li Quanmu, and through this loud and rhythmic drum, he knew that the Song people were about to attack!
And Li Gangcheng on the side was already at a loss to stand still, Li Quanmu stepped forward angrily and scuffled: "This is what you said about the Song army is vulnerable?" The Song people are strong, and the soldiers have the momentum of destroying the sky and the earth before the soldiers arrive, how can the small stone city be invincible? ! ”
"My nephew doesn't know, my nephew doesn't know!"
"You...... Hurt me so far! ”
Li Gangcheng came back to his senses, and hurriedly pulled Li Quanmu's wide sleeves and said: "Uncle, don't worry, I still have 20,000 soldiers and horses in the stone city, and Ruosi will resist them with them......"
"20,000 soldiers? If you don't even dare to go up the city wall, what's the use of 20,000 soldiers and horses? ”
"Slow down the enemy!"
Li Gangcheng glanced at his uncle anxiously, and Li Quanmu quickly understood what his nephew meant, he wanted to use the 20,000 county troops in the city to delay the pace of the Song people's attack and add time to his escape!
As the governor of a state, Li Quanmu struggled a little in his heart, obviously the Song army's siege of the city would soon spread throughout the government and the opposition, and the Song people carried the official documents of the Great Song Dynasty, and the documents of Honglu Temple could not be forged by anyone......
If the matter is big, the final result will inevitably be that he and the entire Li family will be pushed forward as the final scapegoat!
Li Quanmu had already discovered the truth, everything his nephew did was to save his life, and he even did not hesitate to pull himself and the entire Stone City, and in anger, he thought of the only thing he could do.
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The army of the Great Song Dynasty marched slowly in the rhythm of the drums, and the sound of the neat pace made the soldiers and civilians in the stone city tremble, and the military formation of the Great Song Dynasty cared most about the formation and coordination, which also made their movements uniform and forbidden.
The cavalry was very scarce, because it relied on ships to transport soldiers, and there were not a large number of war horses to use, but the five hundred hoplite cavalry and the five hundred cuirassiers were the elite of the Great Song Dynasty.
Since there are few, the quality must be high, which is the only condition for Cai Boyu to select soldiers.
Many sections of the city walls of the city have been blown down, and the city gate has disappeared without a trace, because of the huge destructive power, the Goryeo soldiers did not even dare to step forward to block the city gate, for fear that they would be blown to pieces like the city gate.
The forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty is advancing, with high tower shields, long Mo knives, sharp spears, and winding crossbow arrows, forming the best formation of killing layer by layer, slowly advancing towards the stone city.
But there was little resistance along the way, and even a handful of crossbow arrows were fired from the city, and judging by the accuracy and strength of these arrows, it was clear that they had been fired by a faint man.
Finally, when the Song army was about to arrive at the city wall, some Goryeo soldiers rushed out bravely, not to mention the scattered formation, even the weapons were all kinds of variety, the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty had maintained a formation for a long time, the crossbow archers fired crossbow arrows in the back, and the crossbow arrows thrown out flew like rain, and the Goryeo people who did not have many armor were instantly crucified to the ground, like leeks that had been harvested......
The soldiers who approached were slashed to pieces by the huge Mo knife, the first time the Goryeo people had seen such a sharp weapon, the huge wall of knives did not stop wielding at all, like a advancing grinding disc, anyone who approached would be crushed into pieces.
The crossbow arrows continued to be fired, and the eight bull crossbows were pushed up closely, the crossbow arrows of one gun and three sword arrows were as big as javelins, and the three pieces of iron feathers were like three swords, so they got their names, these huge crossbow arrows were loaded with white phosphorus, fire oil, and other flammable and explosive materials, and white phosphorus was loaded before the crossbow arrows were fired.
The soldier carefully poured white phosphorus powder into the arrow of the crossbow arrow, plugged the hole with a plug, and the crossbow arrow was quickly launched, once the arrow hit the wall, the wooden arrow shaft would be shattered, and the fire oil splashed out, and the white phosphorus quickly burned up to ignite the fire oil.
With a brass whistle, dozens of one-shot three-sword arrows carrying fire oil were fired at the city, and in this era of more wooden structures, the lethal effect of bed crossbows was even better than that of artillery.
Soon, a raging flame burned in the castle, and the Koreans were horrified to find that the flames were difficult to extinguish with water!
Blood and fire were intertwined, the footsteps of the Great Song army were like a spell urging life, Li Quanmu stared at Jin Mingqiong tightly and squeezed out a sentence from the root of his teeth and said: "You have to come up with a way!" ”