Chapter 40: The Destruction of Jiuquan City (4)

There is no suspense about things, in fact, there is no need to describe too much, even if Jiuquan City is strong, it is only barely able to resist the people of this era pulling catapults, even if the city gate of Jiuquan City may be able to keep chastity in front of the rushing car, but when the entire city gate tower is smashed and half collapsed, what is the use of the city gate?

Lu Guang brought tens of thousands of people, neatly lined up outside the city, but at this time, they were not like soldiers fighting, but the best spectators, they admired Duan Ye's flag waved down, and then waved down, those wooden shelves took turns to throw stones out, those giant gunners had a clear division of labor, the rhythm was tight, everything was like art.

It's just that it's the art of killing.

Jiuquan City is still the city wall repaired by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty when he got the four counties of Hexi, and Song Hao and others did not expect today's situation, so after barely supporting it for a while, the entire city gate tower finally collapsed, revealing a gap wide enough.

Lu Guang's entire army suddenly erupted in a burst of cheers that resounded through the sky! Jiuquan City, broken!

It had already been prepared, Lu Guang pulled out his sword, the tip of the knife pointed to the sky, the horn sounded at the same time at this moment, and the archers who had been prepared for a long time strode forward under cover, although there were still a small number of defenders on the city wall who were not afraid of death trying to suppress their advance, but it was too late at this time, after the archers entered the firing range, they fired a volley towards the gap, and immediately killed many defenders who rushed over quickly to try to block the gap.

The gap is too big, if the small hole can be blocked with rice bags and big stones in time, but the gap caused by the collapse of the entire city gate tower cannot be blocked, even if it uses human life, it cannot be blocked.

And what is even more terrifying is that because the city gate tower is load-bearing, and now it has collapsed, the force of the entire outer city has problems. When Jiuquan City was designed, the city gate tower was a building that lay across the inner and outer city walls, like a cross-building, which naturally saved time and materials at that time, and was beautiful, and also convenient for the city guards to move around the inner and outer cities.

But now, this has become a fatal hidden danger, as soon as the city gate tower is broken, it is equivalent to the opening of the inner and outer cities at the same time.

There is no need to hesitate, and there is no need to leave a back hand, Lu Guang, Du Jin and others rushed out at the same time with a shout, and all the elite green cavalry followed, and then, in addition to the other cavalry of the Western Expeditionary Army, about 2,000 people stayed outside the city to monitor the east to prevent reinforcements from arriving, and other ordinary cavalry roamed outside Jiuquan City to prevent a breakthrough in the city at any time.

In fact, in this era, it is difficult to besiege the city to be truly impassable, if the strong soldiers rush out quickly, they will almost definitely rush out, and Lu Guang does not expect to be able to catch them all, but Song Hao must not be allowed to run away.

Although the swarming Western Expeditionary Army encountered resistance, the boulder rain caused too much psychological shock to the soldiers in the city, their confidence was crushed, countless robes were smashed into meat cakes, and the strong smell of blood was still wafting in the city, even if they tried to resist, they were not the enemy at all.

Moreover, because the city was broken too quickly, and Song Hao's reaction was a little slower, he didn't even have time to organize a large-scale street battle.

This should also be Duan Ye's good luck. As a general defending the city, of course, he also takes into account various possibilities, such as if he is about to lose his hand, if he does not plan to surrender or abandon the city to break through, but is ready to fight to the end, then he will have to fight in the streets, and there will be a plan before. Duan Ye began to estimate that even if the boulder cannon could open the city wall quickly, but the inner and outer city walls, coupled with a discerning person like Song Hao, should have reacted when he saw the momentum, but he didn't expect that Song Hao was too tired because he dealt with various rumors overnight and appeased the personnel and officials in the city.

By the time Song Hao remembered it, it was already a little too late.

Despite this, after passing the gap at the east gate and quickly seizing the two main streets, Song Hao personally rushed up with the remnants of nearly 1,000 armor soldiers and almost the same number of people. Soon, the streets of Jiuquan City were overcrowded. However, due to the suddenness of the city and the lack of time to mobilize, many people still honestly closed the doors and put the boards on the boards at this time, hiding at home and not daring to move.

In addition to the main artery in the center of the city, the streets of Jiuquan are not wide, and since the first ones are all cavalry, although the impact of rushing up is not that of the infantry, but after all, there is not enough space to gallop. LĂź Guang's idea was to quickly seize the Taishou Mansion, the treasury in the city, the prison and other important places through the chaos, and then the infantry that followed up to sweep them one by one, and because of the occupation of the Taishou Mansion, the command system in the city could be destroyed, and the resistance in the city could be broken down after proper operation.

But at this time, Song Hao still brought people without hesitation, although his people seemed to be vulnerable in front of Lu Guang's army.

Duan Ye also entered the city, after the city wall was opened, the boulder cannon temporarily lost its meaning, and now there are cavalry outside the city to protect it, Duan Ye also brought in with the only 300 cavalry of the Jiuquan Army, and now he is rushing forward with Lu Guang, but he saw the people in front of him holding a knife, and rushed forward without saying hello.

It's all street fighting, and there's no point in shouting or anything.

"Under the festival, the people are not worried, rush over!" This is Duan Ye's suggestion.

Lu Guang nodded quickly, right now the most elite troops of the Western Expeditionary Army are here, they don't have to talk about tactics, the main road of Jiuquan City can probably accommodate ten horses to walk together, and it is basically straight without curves, which is enough!

The horn sounded again, and Lu Guang's war horse rushed forward first, and easily cut a middle-aged man with angry eyes in two with a single sword. This is the first drop of blood on the streets of Jiuquan City!

The bleeding began, and it could no longer be stopped.

After all, Minzhuang is Minzhuang, even if he is brave, his killing skills are too poor, not to mention that he is infantry against cavalry, there is neither a spear array nor a bow and arrow group, and Song Hao built the main street quite smoothly and grandly back then, but now it is impossible for the green cavalry to rush up.

Lu Guang and the others are wearing heavy armor, not afraid of ordinary bows and crossbows, plus all of them are extraordinary, so they act as pioneers, they are like red-hot blades cutting tofu, cutting all the way forward along the main line, the swarming people can not stop it at all, many people are even directly rushed to death by the horses, and the rear cavalry will divide their troops every time there is a wider street, and the rest continue to move forward, and then the infantry behind has quickly entered the city and began to take over the street.

Everything went smoothly and terrifyingly, although Duan Ye's knife was also opened, it was still a real soldier who was killed, but Duan Ye felt that it was not difficult. Hundreds of people blocking the front looked scary, but the cavalry rushed and couldn't stop it at all. This is still too fast to break the city, if under normal circumstances, there may be people plotting on both sides of the houses, barricades must be arranged on the streets to avoid cavalry charges, street battles completely become a duel between infantry and infantry, and then from time to time someone releases a cold arrow, I'm afraid this battle will be difficult to fight.