Outside the city, stone throwers lined up in a line creaked and bounced up the crossbar, throwing the fried buns lit in their pockets towards the city.

"Boom" explosions, in the city walls, in the moat, in the sky one after another.

Clusters of orange-red flames bloomed on the city, and white gunpowder smoke filled the city's head, making the city walls loom and startled the defenders of the city to exclaim.

Sun Kewang touched the gold juice dripping onto his face with his hand, his face was hideous, the corners of his mouth pulled back, and he roared angrily: "Don't panic, arm!" ”

At this time, outside the city, Gao Yihuan rode in front of the formation, and saw the explosions in the city one after another, and from time to time the defenders were lifted off the city, and his eyes suddenly narrowed.

This earth-shattering thunder sold to Li Zicheng for ten taels of silver, and Gao Yihuan paid the capital.

At this time, he saw a panic at the head of the city, snorted coldly, then pulled out his war knife, suddenly pointed forward, and roared loudly, "Kill!" ”

"Attack!" As soon as the military order was given, the generals and colonels of the Wei army drew their swords and roared angrily.

The soldiers lined up outside the city, under the greeting of the officers, followed the rhythm of the drums like a wall, and rushed towards Yiling City.

Three thousand elite Wei troops, under the command of Zhao Zhuzi, carried out the first wave of attacks.

The Wei soldiers are Gao Yihuan's heart, and the men and horses pay great attention to protection, and at the front of the army are a row of shield carts, and in front of each cart is a wooden board six feet high and three inches thick.

The soldiers followed behind them to defend themselves against arrows and firebolts.

Behind each shield cart, the first is the sword and shield bearers who carry the flying bridge and the long ladder with shields, they are the main force to climb the city wall, and behind them are the firearms team with both guns, marching forward in a procession, they will be responsible for suppressing the head of the city and providing fire support for the troops who climb the city.

At this time, the Wei soldiers approached the city wall, the sound of the city breaking the sky sounded, the "whoosh" arrows shot down, the sound of "do-do" was endless, one by one the arrows were inserted into the shield car in front, and the baffle became a hedgehog in a moment.

Some of the arrows that were thrown down came from the top of their heads, and the soldiers who were walking with shields saw the arrows stuck in the shield or on the ground, and the shafts of the arrows "buzzed" and swayed, showing great strength, but they were unmoved and continued to move forward with the shield.

At the head of the city, Sun Ke saw that the Wei army was in the front, like a turtle shell, and the arrows had no effect, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Regardless of the Western Army or the Ming Army, most of the men and horses only retain a small number of family members and personal guards as elites, and the money and food are mainly used on these relatives, and the other soldiers are negligent in training, and their combat power and equipment are very average, and their lives are naturally not valuable.

The vast majority of such men and horses are poorly trained, and they tend to be in a swarm when fighting, and they don't have much discipline.

The Wei army in front of him is different, the soldiers are trained in an orderly manner, not a small setback of elites, but the entire army of elite soldiers.

Seeing the Wei soldiers coming in formation, and the bows and arrows had no effect, Sun Kewang suddenly frowned, waved his hand and shouted, "Stone thrower, smash this king!" ”

Behind the city wall, more than a dozen artillery carts, crunching and shaking the throwing rod, a black dot immediately rose into the air, flew over the city, drew an arc, and smashed down with a roar.

"Gunstone!" Junior Colonel Wei Jun, who was moving forward, only felt that the sky was dark, and when he looked up, the black spots in his eyes instantly enlarged, causing him to cry out.

There was a loud bang, and a shield cart was hit head-on, and the huge cannon smashed the baffle in an instant.

After the huge impact of the cannon smashed the shield cart, it continued to roll forward because of inertia, and knocked the soldiers behind the shield cart into the air one after another, killing several people instantly.

The stone carved a deep groove in the ground, leaving a bright red mark, which is shocking.

The defenders of the city crouched to avoid the explosion, and from time to time they saw the opportunity to shoot an arrow at the city.

Sun Kewang saw the cannon stone break the turtle array, and he couldn't help but clench his fists, his face flushed, "Okay! ”

"The shield car is gone, rush me!" Zhao Zhuzi raised the shield to his chest, protected the vital point, and waved his knife to point forward.

Several soldiers who had lost the protection of the shield cart immediately rushed forward with ladders.

The stones thrown by the catapult have a dead angle for attack, and as long as they advance under the city, the stones can no longer hit them.

The attack of the artillery stone caused damage to the Wei army's formation, but it could not stop the Wei army's attack.

"Quick, speed up!" Zhao Zhuzi was behind the shield cart and suddenly gave a quick order.

The war drums of the Wei army began to hurry, and the soldiers increased their speed one after another to the earth-shattering explosions and shouts of killing, passing through the area attacked by the artillery.

At this time, the Wei soldiers, braving the stones and arrows at the head of the city, finally entered the moat.

Yiling Prefecture is only a county seat, and the moat is not wide, and the shield carts of the Wei soldiers are lined up by the moat, forming a wooden wall.

"Up!" Zhao Zhuzi shouted, and the sword and shield soldiers behind the shield car rushed out of the gap in the shield wall, erected the flying bridge on the moat, and the soldiers carried ladders and crossed the river quickly.

At the moment when the sword and shield hands rushed out of the shield wall, the fire gunners in the back row stepped forward one after another, hid behind the wall and began to shoot at the defenders of the city.

The sound of "bang bang bang" resounded in the city, the Wei army was filled with gunsmoke, and the city wall was splashed with gravel by projectiles, and the defenders were shot again and again, screaming and falling down the city wall.

At this time, as the Wei army approached the city wall, the stone thrower did not dare to continue to throw at the city, for fear of accidentally injuring the soldiers who climbed the city by the explosion.

Because the Wei army entered the city wall, the battle instantly became fierce, as soon as the ladder to the city was fixed, the Wei soldiers began to climb upward, and the Wei soldiers under the city were like ants.

The city head was less suppressed by the earth-shattering thunder, and the western soldiers began to throw down pieces of rolling stones, and sections of sassal trees fell from the city, like hail, and the Wei army who climbed along the ladder was hit, with broken bones and tendons, and wailing.

The defenders on the city wall, scooping up the boiling hot oil with iron spoons, splashed towards the group of Wei soldiers on the city ladder, and the burns made the soldiers jump out of the long ladder in pain, and a bloody and cruel offensive and defensive battle unfolded in Yiling.

At this time, behind the shield wall, the Wei army's fire guns began to suppress the city head, and the defending soldiers just lifted a boulder, but they were hit by the fire guns, and the people and stones were planted at the city head together.

"Dashuai, the casualties of the brothers are a bit big!" Zhao Daxian looked at the city wall and couldn't help frowning.

Gao Yihuan's face sank like water, and he waved his hand, "Three thousand more!" ”

At the head of the city, Sun Kewang tried his best to cope with the attack of the Wei army, but with Gao Yihuan increasing his troops.

The defenders did not dare to show their heads under the suppression of the firearms, and the Wei soldiers began to climb the city wall, and the battle was extremely fierce.

Under the drawbridge, Zhao Zhuzi personally commanded hundreds of men and horses to attack the city gate.

Hundreds of musketeers took turns firing, suppressing the defenders at the head of the city, and several long ladders were set up on both sides of the city gate, and the soldiers who climbed up were smashed down one by one.

Zhao Zhuzi saw that the ground was already covered with corpses, suddenly shouted, took the sword and shield, and followed the ladder, climbed halfway, then jumped on the suspension bridge, and began to swing his knife to cut the wooden stakes connected to the iron chain.

The defenders at the head of the city were suppressed by the firecrackers and did not pay attention, but the Wei troops who climbed jumped on the suspension bridge one after another, and together they slashed hard, sawdust splashed, the iron chain collapsed, and the bridge fell back to the moat.

Zhao Zhuzi fell hard, but immediately stood up again, and shouted: "Battering ram!" ”

More than a dozen Wei soldiers, pushing a battering ram, escorted by more than 30 shield bearers, pushed the battering ram to the city gate.

The men pulled the rope on it back, and the huge collision wood swung backwards, and then carried the strength of a thousand catties and crashed into the gate of Yiling.

"Boom!" With a loud bang, the gates shook, the walls trembled, and the masonry fell.

Sun Kewang, who was commanding the defense of the city, was shocked, and his expression changed in an instant.

"Quick, stop them from crashing into the city!" The city gate is the key to defense, and Sun Kewang instantly roared urgently.

At this time, the soldiers at the head of the city braved the projectiles, poured gold juice, and smashed down thunder stones and rolling logs, but they could not stop the impact of the battering ram.

Inside the gate, nearly 100 soldiers desperately resisted the city gate, and their bodies rose and fell like waves with the impact.

"Boom!" There was another loud muffled sound, the gates creaked, and the gates were already crumbling.

Sun Kewang immediately shouted anxiously, and quickly smashed the fire oil and burned the suspension bridge and them.

A Western sergeant raised a fire pot, and as soon as he approached the city wall, he was hit by a gun, screaming and planting the city wall, and the body smashed on the roof of the battering ram along with the fire pot, and the fire oil flowed to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, several Western soldiers threw more than a dozen fire cans in a row, and a rocket fell, and flames soared into the sky immediately under the city gate.

Gao Yihuan saw the Wei army on fire, jumped into the river, the muscles on his face twitched, and suddenly waved his hand, "Mingjin withdraws the troops!" ”

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