Chapter 991: North Gate
The arrow slammed into Jiang Xian's shoulder, and Jiang Xian's figure of charging forward was also stunned, but it was soon faster.
The chaos of Nanchen's army is not accidental, after all, most of these soldiers have no experience in fighting the enemy on the battlefield, and some of them are even Ding Zhuang who was originally captured, so it is reasonable to be in chaos in battle, no one thought that these Shu Han's sailors and soldiers would be so able to fight.
This is not to blame them, after all, the people under Li Xinchen's command who have been brilliant are all Lu divisions, including Li Xinchen's left arm and right arm - Xiao Shilian and Pei Zilie, and Chen Zhishen, who has always been famous for his bravery, are all generals on land, and many people naturally ignore the courage of the Shu Han Naval Division.
Now Chen Shujian is commanding the battle on the Shangcheng Trail, Jiang Xian and Chen Shujian have been able to look at each other, Chen Shujian has already drawn his sword and looked at Jiang Xian closely, as long as Jiang Xian continues to move forward, Chen Shujian will not hesitate to take his personal guards into the battle.
The attack and defense of Xiangzhou City has reached a life-and-death juncture, and everyone can only go all out.
An arrow roared over, hundreds of Nanchen crossbowmen were late, these arrows obviously caught Jiang Xian off guard, and the seven or eight soldiers on the flanks fell to the ground almost at the same time, and Jiang Xian had no choice but to pick up his shield to block a few arrows, and there were only a dozen Shu Han soldiers left on the shore, and they fought and retreated.
"Bang!" A stone bullet smashed into the city wall, and smoke and dust billowed again.
The two walkers also rushed in while the city soldiers were dodging in a hurry, and the crossbowmen on the walkers desperately fired arrows at Nan Chen's soldiers, and finally covered Jiang Xian's retreat.
"Kill it!" Uncle Chen resolutely ordered that if the enemy held the water gate, the opponent's troops would continue to transport soldiers and horses in. In the end, Nan Chen's army will definitely not be able to hold out.
When Nan Chen's soldiers saw Jiang Xian and them retreating, they also came back to their senses and began to rush forward again, it is not okay to fight against the wind, but it is still okay to fight against the wind.
"Your Highness, the north gate is in an emergency!" A herald came running quickly.
"How is that possible?" Chen Shujian frowned suddenly, although Chen Shushen had no experience, but all the offensive and defensive equipment was prepared, and there was a group of experienced generals to help, and it was Xiao Shilian who was already small in number to deal with, it stands to reason that the war had only started for a long time, and this situation could not have happened.
"Xiao Shilian urged our captives to attack the city, many of these captives know the weaknesses of the city wall, several of the city walls we have repaired have been directly smashed, and now the enemy is storming these gaps, and the personal guards of King Yueyang have been filled." The herald said anxiously, "More importantly, ······"
"What is it?!" Chen Shujian grabbed his wrist.
After hesitating for a moment, the herald bowed his head and said, "What's more, many of us have defected to the battle······
Chen Shujian was stunned for a moment, and he didn't need to think about it to know that the changes in the general trend of the world and the reward raised by Xiao Shilian had obviously completely collapsed the already fragile military heart.
"Suppress the enemy, don't let them cross the dock!" Chen Shujian still decisively ordered, at least this side of the South Chen has the upper hand, and now Chen Shujian can't take care of this side, if the north gate is breached, it is useless to defend the water gate no matter how firmly it is defended.
As he spoke, Chen Shujian had already rushed towards the north gate with his guards.
The battle situation at the North Gate was even worse than imagined, because the battle at the Water Gate started first, so the soldiers and horses arranged on the Water Gate side were mainly soldiers in the army, and the main city in the north was more Ding Zhuang, ironically, it was the regular army of Nan Chen who frantically attacked the city outside the city.
In addition, there were already two large ladder trucks in the camp outside the North Gate, so it was reasonable that the battle situation at the North Gate was urgent.
The Tibetan tower on the city gate was already riddled with holes, and the stone bullets of the trebuchet were concentrated on this place where the crossbowmen were most likely to hide, and Chen Shushen was not given any chance at all. And the city gate is crisscrossed with corpses, there are Shu Han soldiers who rushed to the city, and there are also Nan Chen soldiers, and the blood has even rendered the ground under their feet crimson.
"Your Highness, it's too dangerous here!" A partial general saw Chen Shujian coming, and hurriedly rushed up with a few sword and shield hands, "His Royal Highness King Yueyang is on the Shangcheng Trail, you can go over!" ”
Chen Shujian bowed slightly, but he didn't hurry to go, but looked up at the city gate, the two siege ladder trucks had been destroyed by the defenders' trebuchets and fire arrows, and the flames on them had not completely subsided, and the entire ladder car was burning not far from the city gate. There were also a lot of corpses in the trenches under the city gates, and there were also Shu Han soldiers who were as dense as ants, carrying simple ladders and so on, stepping on the corpses of their own people and the sandbags filled in them, and quickly impacting the city wall.
Another large ladder truck is also rushing towards the city gate, Xiangzhou is not only a military town, but also a communication Jingnan, Lingnan and Jiangnan industrial and commercial towns, in order to facilitate the entry and exit of personnel, the moat outside the city is not the use of a suspension bridge, but a temporary bridge, which is not uncommon outside the city gate of large cities, and even Chang'an and Jiankang Mansion and other capitals have more than three stone bridges connecting the city gate and the outside of the city.
Now this temporary bridge has naturally become the main passage for ladder trucks to attack, after all, most of the moats are directly filled with corpses and sandbags, and the uneven ground is difficult for ladder trucks to pass through.
"Whoosh!" A sharp sound suddenly sounded, followed by thousands of arrows up and down the ladder truck.
The guards hurriedly hugged Chen Shujian to the upper city trail, and the next moment the arrows whistled, and the soldiers who were nervously carrying the wooden rolling stones on the city wall fell down in pieces. However, the bed crossbows on both sides of the gate also began to fight back, and the iron arrows wrapped in combustibles roared out, one of which brushed the moving ladder cart, while the other accurately hit the ladder cart.
However, the soldiers on the ladder car quickly extinguished the flames, and at the same time, taking advantage of the opportunity that many Nanchen soldiers on the city gate were shot and fell or dodged the arrows, several Shu Han soldiers had climbed up along the ladder, and the places where they built the ladder were all where there was a gap in the city wall, so the ladder did not take so long at all, and the efficiency of going up and down was naturally improved a lot.
Xiangzhou City experienced the Huajiao Rebellion more than ten years ago, Wu Mingche's main force of Nanchen once fought with the rebels around Xiangzhou City, and Xiangzhou City was still damaged, and then the city was repaired, but the gap was only filled - of course, it was impossible to overturn the city wall and rebuild it - at this time it became the best choice for trebuchet attack.
The huge stone projectile hit the city wall, and soon smashed the tamped soil that was later rammed, becoming the best attack option for the Shu Han soldiers.
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