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The effect of the chain shield is amazing, and the powerful long-range firepower possessed by the Shence Army cannot cause huge damage to it, which directly leads to the loss of the best chance to kill. Siege warfare is generally the best time to kill the enemy without damage when the opponent rushes to the city. Soldiers and horses with strong long-range firepower can even kill and damage the opponent in large numbers at this stage, resulting in the defeat of the opponent's siege. The Shence Army regrettably lost this opportunity, and was rushed under the city wall by the other party in a very short time, and had to go all out into the more brutal city wall defense battle.

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Less than half an hour after the siege began, after paying less than 6,000 casualties, 60,000 besieging soldiers attacked under the walls of Tongzhou. The war brutally entered the most cruel, bloodthirsty and murderous stage.

The bows and arrows of the defenders at the head of the city were of little use, and the rolling wood and stones at the head of the city could work, and dropping the high walls could kill the dense enemy troops below one by one. Countless logs and large stones were thrown from the city, and the besiegers below wailed and suffered heavy casualties. But soon, a fortress of giant shields was formed under the city. It was a shield formed by a huge shield attached by a hook and cable on top of the head. Rolling wood and stones rolled down from the sky, and dozens of soldiers below supported them with wooden shields, although they could still smash the shields and cause damage, but the effect was still greatly reduced. The other party actually formed a relatively safe turtle shell in this way under the city.

At the same time, hundreds of ladders were spliced into place, quickly erected on the city walls, and the siege soldiers began to climb quickly towards the city head amid the hysterical shouting and scolding of the generals. Countless ladders were pushed down by long-handled wooden forks, and countless soldiers rolled down the ladders. The eyes are full of falling rocks and rolling wood, and the ears are full of screams, scolding, and wheezing. The entire city has fallen into a hell of life and death. The mechanical movements of the people began to feel timidity before the flesh-and-blood corpses of their companions around them, but before long the cowardice became numb, and they did not know what cowardice was.

Li Guangbi had been prepared for a long time, and more than half of the 60,000 soldiers and horses who took the lead this time were elite veterans, mixed with 10,000 newly recruited soldiers and horses and 20,000 soldiers and horses recruited a few months ago. This combination of the old, the middle and the new not only solves the problem of combat effectiveness, but also aims to prevent the siege of the first echelon from collapsing instantly, so that the subsequent attack cannot be carried out. In fact, everything was as he expected. Although the rookies are terrified, the composure of the veterans motivates them to a great extent and keeps them from collapsing.

The veterans are accustomed to seeing life and death, and when the flesh and blood of the people around them fall, the recruits will break down and scream, and they will flee in horror. And the veterans are mostly indifferent to this kind of scene, and in the face of the cowardice of the recruits, they will angrily scold: "What howl? The head has fallen off the bowl and has a big scar, and I'm afraid of a bird. Something like that. Don't underestimate this attitude, it will make the recruits quickly realize how out of place and fuss they are about to cowardice. While this doesn't relieve fear, it can quickly make these recruits disregard life and death. Don't break down and run away.

The battlefield is the place where metamorphosis can be completed most quickly, a breeding ground for fear and cowardice, and a breeding ground for courage and blood.

While the walls of the eastern city were in a fierce battle, the southern city was also a place of blood and fire. It was Dong Yuanshu who commanded the 70,000 soldiers and horses in Nancheng to attack the city. He wants to make meritorious service to forgive his sins, and make meritorious contributions to his crimes, so he is ready to become a benevolent if he does not succeed in this battle. Before the battle, he told his generals that no matter what the situation was, even if there was only one soldier left, they were not allowed to retreat. Whoever dares to retreat, he will personally lead the warlord team to kill him. If you advance, you may be able to live, or you may be able to make meritorious contributions, but if you retreat, you will die.

Before Dong Yuanshu's strict military orders, 70,000 soldiers and horses attacked the city like crazy from the beginning of the war. Dong Yuanshu only had more than 200 siege vehicles on hand, and his soldiers were only equipped with more than 10,000 chain shields, but Dong Yuanshu thought that this was enough. Because the number of defenders at the head of the other city was not large, Dong Yuanshu thought that he could break through Tongzhou City one step earlier than Dongcheng, so as to make a great achievement.

Guarding the southern city were 25,000 infantry soldiers and horses of the Shence Army led by Song Jiangong and Wei Guangzhong, although the number was more than 40,000 fewer than the opponent, and it seemed that there was a huge disparity in strength. But compared to the number of soldiers and horses in Dongcheng, this is already very good. There were only more than 40,000 soldiers and horses defending the city on the eastern wall, and they had to face 180,000 enemy troops.

Song Jiangong and Wei Guangzhong were divided on both sides of the east and west city walls, and when Dong Yuanshu's soldiers and horses swarmed like a tide, the Shence army killed more than 10,000 people before they could rush to the bottom of the city wall. Wang Yuan assigned thirty bed crossbows to Song Jiangong and them, but what he didn't expect was that this bed crossbow was actually the nemesis of the chain shield. Thick crossbows were fired, and when they hit, they were scattered and exposed to a dense rain of arrows.

In this case, Dong Yuanshu decisively abandoned the charging formation that Li Guangbi taught him in advance, he thought that this method was simply redundant, and this shield formation was a live target to slow down the attack and let the opponent's bed crossbow shoot. In the end, Dong Yuanshu ordered the whole army to charge, rushed to the city in a swarm, and attacked the city with the advantage of troops. Lee Kwang-pil's self-righteous ideas are all bullshit and useless ideas.

However, the powerful long-range lethality of the Shence Army still made Dong Yuanshu pay a huge price, and when 70,000 soldiers and horses rushed to the city, more than 10,000 people were killed and wounded on the way, which was more than the soldiers and horses attacking the eastern city. But in any case, Dong Yuanshu achieved the goal he hoped for to quickly approach the city wall to attack. The soldiers set up ladders and began to climb frantically towards the city, and the five rushing carts quickly approached the southern gate and began to bombard the walls on both sides of the gate. In a short period of time, Dong Yuanshu's madness actually had a miraculous effect, and a city wall on the east side was actually broken through by dozens of soldiers to the top of the city after half an hour of siege. Although the soldiers who landed in the city were quickly hanged, this move greatly boosted Dong Yuanshu's morale and allowed him to see the dawn of taking the city first.

While the southern city is fighting fiercely, the situation in the eastern city is even more sinister. Rolling logs and gravel are not effective in damaging the lands beneath the city, which makes the opponent's siege even more unscrupulous. On more than 700 ladders, the siege soldiers rushed to the head of the city in dense numbers, although they were constantly overturned and fell, but there was always one thing to lose. On several occasions the opposing soldiers crossed the battlements and entered the walls, and briefly occupied a small section of the wall. This situation became even worse after Li Guangbi's second echelon of 60,000 soldiers and horses poured into the city.

The 60,000 siege soldiers of the second echelon arrived at the city almost without any resistance, and the 40,000 defenders at the head of the city were too busy defending the siege soldiers to take care of them. The second-echelon soldiers and horses surrounded by twenty-five rushing chariots brought more reinforced ladders, and after they arrived at the city, the number of siege ladders on the eastern city wall increased to more than 1,600. From a distance, the human heads on the ladder were wriggling densely, like bees crowded together, and it was as if the eastern city wall was covered with vine leaves, but the creeper was spreading towards the city head at a very fast speed.

To deal with the ladder siege, the general method is to use a long fork to push the ladder away from the city wall and overturn the ladder. Let the siege soldiers on the ladder fall. In this way, usually seven or eight people can deal with a ladder, plus a few pikemen on the left to assassinate the siege soldiers on the ladder, it can make the opponent unable to climb up for a long time. However, there are various styles of siege ladders today, one of the most luxurious versions is the siege ladder called the Cloud Tower, which is a moving wooden tower, as high as or higher than the city wall, the cloud tower hides soldiers, the soldiers below push forward close to the city wall, and the soldiers in the cloud tower can bow and arrow the defenders at the head of the city. Approaching the thickness of the city wall, you can jump on the wall for siege.

Of course, Li Guangbi did not have this kind of cloud tower siege vehicle in his hands, and he did not have the time and capital to build this kind of siege cloud tower. But among the ladders he built was an enhanced version of the three-legged ladder. This kind of ladder is actually similar to the ordinary ladder, except that the general ladder only has two column bases, and the enhanced version has three. After the ladder is erected, the third wooden pillar protruding from the middle section is the other supporting leg. Firmly hold the ladder against the city wall. The purpose of this design was apparently to prevent the use of wooden forks to push the ladder off the walls.

With the iron hook at the top of the ladder hooking the gap in the city wall and the support of the triangle below, the defenders of the Shence Army would have to exert great strength if they wanted to overturn a ladder. It takes dozens of people to do that. And it is obviously unwise for dozens of people to expend their energy for a ladder, because before you can overturn the ladder, the soldiers above have already risen up, which is equivalent to giving the other party time to climb up safely. Rather than this, it is more convenient to use a bow and arrow to use stones and rolling logs to kill the enemy directly.

Therefore, the current siege situation is that the opponent is constantly climbing up the ladder, and the defenders at the head of the city can only slash and stab the opponent who climbs to the top, or smash them down with rolling logs and stones, but there is basically nothing to do about the ladder. This situation will continue again and again, and there will always be someone who can break through the city wall with 1,600 ladders, and there will always be someone who can attack the city wall.

After the second wave of siege soldiers began to siege the city, the eastern city walls became precarious. There were more than a dozen places in a row where the other side attacked the city wall. Zhao Qing and Tan Ping each led 500 people to fight fires on the north and south city walls, trying their best to keep the city walls from being firmly established by the other party. But this situation will surely collapse over time. The gradual reduction of supplies at the head of the city is by no means an option.

Wang Yuan had been standing in the protrusion in front of the tower, paying close attention to the entire battle situation. Although his subordinates came to ask for instructions several times whether they wanted to use means, Wang Yuan flatly refused. Because Wang Yuan felt that it was not time yet. This is a protracted battle, and you can't play all the cards in your hand. Use every card just right, because you have limited resources at hand.

But now, the first card must be played, otherwise, the city will be too tight, and if a large part is breached, the trend will be gone.

Glancing at the enemy soldiers on both sides of the city wall who were densely climbing towards the head of the city like a tide of corpses, Wang Yuan gave an order in a deep voice: "Pass the order, the big stick is waiting." ”

The guards beside him let out a sigh of relief, and finally waited for the commander to give the order. He quickly took out the flare canister and lit the fuse. Bang bang

The soldiers of the Shence Army at the head of the city were overjoyed, and they quickly divided their men to tear open the bricks on the outer edge of the city wall, revealing trenches that were as long as a foot long and a foot wide. In the groove lay thick logs, full of iron teeth several inches long, like a giant mace head. It was a secret weapon that had been buried on the outside of the city walls since before the war. The reason why it was buried under the ground of the city wall and covered with bricks was to prevent the defenders from stepping on it and getting injured. And this is the time for them to show their might.

Dozens of soldiers worked together to lift the huge mace above the battlement, and then in unison, pushed the big creature out. The sound of mace spikes rubbing against the walls of the city was piercing and unpleasant, and the iron chain at one end made a loud noise. The entire mace swept down the steep slope of the city wall like a huge spiked hammer. The iron chain at the other end was embedded in the ground and jumped straight, jumping in the gap in the battlements, and the earth and rocks in the gap in the battlements collapsed.

Hundreds of these maces swept a distance of hundreds of zhang on the outside of the city wall, and the force of the huge pendulum drove the nail knives several inches long to crush the dense enemy soldiers on the city wall, like sharp knives cutting through tofu, and the soldiers' bodies were cut alive into fish to be cooked. Almost instantly, blood poured down in mid-air. The sound of screams and wails shook the heavens and the earth in an instant.

Who could have imagined such a ferocious scene in front of him, the huge spike mace rushed into the sky, sweeping the city wall from left to right, the six or seven thousand soldiers who were climbing on the ladder on the city wall were smashed like toys, and more people were disemboweled, and their bodies were cut by nails with countless bloody holes, and those blood rushed down from these bloody holes in an instant, and the waterfall was scattered to the ground.

Some of the giant maces still had three or five soldiers nailed to them, who were the first victims of the impact. The body was pierced by an iron nail and hung on it, with the subsequent impact, the body was squeezed into strips of flesh and blood, the whole person did not look like a corpse, but like a piece of flesh hung on it, without a head, face, hands and feet, all the flesh and blood were blurred.

After running out of kinetic energy, the maces finally stopped swinging, and they were held in chains and hung on the city walls. Underneath them, however, is already a land of flesh and blood. Six or seven thousand besieging soldiers fell from the sky, most of them were dead before they fell, their flesh and body organs fell like a downpour of rain under the city, and tens of thousands of soldiers under the city were baptized.

An hour after the siege began, they had lost their burdensome shields, for there was no longer any need for them. The other party's rolling wood and stone have obviously been depleted. Because of this, they were able to witness the tragic situation before their eyes. While many soldiers opened their mouths to exclaim, countless pieces of flesh and blood poured into their mouths, making them almost suffocate in horror. More people are in armor and have blood all over their bodies.

Panic spread like a plague at a rapid rate, and everyone left the city walls like a frying pan, unwilling to accept the baptism of flesh and blood. Someone began to vomit, someone began to break down and scream, someone began to run towards the rear.

The rout formed a tidal wave a moment later. Even veterans with rich combat experience are caught up in it. Although they are indifferent to life and death, they have never seen this kind of death, this kind of murderous method to the extreme. In just a short moment, there were so many people with blood and flesh piled up in front of them, and no one could accept this.

Li Guangbi's research on Wang Yuan is not thorough enough, if he is willing to put down his body to seriously study Wang Yuan's means of defending the city, it is not difficult to find that this method of sweeping the giant tree has been used by Wang Yuan as early as when Hangzhou City was defending the city.

This method is extremely effective against opponents with a large number of men and horses and a dense siege. And if he Li Guangbi hadn't been full of hope to concentrate superior forces to attack the two city walls, or if he didn't rush to send the second echelon to strengthen the attack, but consumed the opponent in waves, then he would not have let his soldiers and horses suffer such a ferocious blow. After all, this method can only be used once, if the number of soldiers and horses attacking the city is not enough, the power is really limited, and it is great to kill one or two thousand people at most. And what Wang Yuan was waiting for was the opportunity for Li Guangbi to send more soldiers and horses, eager to break through the city wall in one fell swoop.

In the rear, Li Guangbi also watched everything that happened on the battlefield in amazement. When he saw the countless huge bells swinging back and forth on the city wall, shooting down the soldiers on the wall like ants, he immediately realized that something was going to be bad.

Years of experience as a leader tell me that the easiest thing to happen at this time is a rout. At the most likely time to storm the city walls, this blow to the sky is fatal to morale. Li Guangbi originally thought that this situation would only happen when the other party took out the kind of killing weapon that could throw explosions, but the other party didn't do that at all, but used this kind of killing method that he had never heard of. This made Li Guangbi feel a chill down his spine.

As Li Guangbi expected, the besieging soldiers in front began to rout backwards. Even with Li Guangbi's order not to retreat, even if there are soldiers and horses in the rear to slash and kill the fleeing soldiers at any time. But the fear of military orders is far less terrible than the immediate situation. When some of the soldiers began to turn around and run wildly, many followed