Chapter 0969: Ascending the City
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"Let it go...... Put...... Put ......"
Fu Zhu, Feng Ji, Gao Rou, Chun Yuqiong and others commanded the soldiers on the city wall to shoot hard, and the arrows roared fiercely, pouring down like a violent storm.
On the crossbow platform behind Fu Yan, He Mao waved the order flag again and again. One by one, the ballistas opened their mouths and roared loudly.
Han Juzi commanded thousands of strong archers to stand on top of Fu Yan, raised their bows to the sky, and shot continuously.
The few dozen remaining catapults were also pushed out onto the avenue, waving their long arms and throwing pieces of stone projectiles into the air.
At the same time, Yuan Zhong, Zhao Rui, Su Youhong, and others, the guards of the eastern, southern, and northern cities, each took their most elite soldiers and rushed along the spacious avenue to support the west gate.
The gates of the Luoyang arsenal were opened, and tens of thousands of able-bodied civilians crowded on the avenue in front of the arsenal, waiting to receive their weapons.
Yuan Hui and Chen Lin stood at the door of the arsenal, shouting incessantly, inspiring these panicked people to fight bloodily for their own survival.
Each man who got a weapon could get a hundred yuan, although the money was very small, but Yuan Hui promised that as long as Luoyang was held, as long as reinforcements came, as long as the Luoyang battle was won, every surviving man could exchange this hundred money for a hundred acres of land.
The reinforcements are dozens of miles away, as long as Luoyang is firmly held, the Northern Xinjiang Army will be defeated, and then each person will be able to get a hundred acres of land. Almost all of them forgot about danger and death in the face of a rich reward. They only have a hundred acres of land in their eyes, and a hundred acres of land belongs to them.
"Brothers, come with me to kill the rebels." Lu Weikuang galloped on the avenue, "A rebellious person exchanges his head for a hundred acres of land, and the more he kills, the more land he has." ”
Dozens of elites shouted in unison behind Lu Weikuang, as if the head of a rebellious person was like a mustard on the ground, within reach.
The people are boiling, their blood is burning, the dream of a good day is around them, what is their own life? If his life can be exchanged for food and clothing for his whole family, he would rather be broken than get back land and food.
"Kill the ......" The people who had lost their minds raised their arms and shouted, and rushed to the battlefield with the rumbling drums.
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One hundred and twenty wells were advancing synchronously on the three-mile-long battlefield, and they were overwhelming.
The well was getting closer and closer to the city wall, and the breath of death surged up like a stormy wave, overwhelmingly crashing into the city wall.
Dense arrows have no effect on it. The mighty ballista could only bow down to its large, hard body. Although a few stone bullets occasionally hit them, this thing is too big, and one or two stone bullets of a few catties or a dozen catties cannot pose a threat to it at all.
"Shoot people, shoot people for me......" Frustrated Professor raised his sword and shouted, "Concentrate all the bows and crossbows, shoot, shoot ......"
The defenders shifted the direction of their fire and fired wildly at the northern frontier soldiers below the well.
The well is pulled forward and pushed back, and although the soldiers in front of the well hold their shields high, casualties are inevitable.
At this moment, the catapults, ballistas, and crossbowmen of the Northern Xinjiang Army had stopped shooting for fear of accidentally injuring their own people, and could only rely on the assault soldiers in the well huts to return fire through the arrow holes to suppress the enemy troops on the city wall.
The advance speed of the well is getting faster and faster, and as long as you enter the enemy's shooting corner, the soldiers in front of the well will be safe.
The war drums of the Northern Xinjiang Army became more and more violent, and the roars of the Northern Xinjiang soldiers resounded in the sky.
The rush was still fifty steps away from the city gate.
The defenders of the city were in a hurry, and they climbed to the gatehouse, which had become a ruin, regardless of the danger, and fired down from a higher position. After the collapse of the two-story gatehouse, it was submerged by stone bullets and became a small stone mountain.
The officers and men of the Northern Xinjiang Army guarded both sides of the rushing car, controlling the speed and direction of the rushing car, because the speed of the rushing car gradually accelerated, the assault formation was a little messy, cracks appeared in the shield array, and many soldiers fell down with arrows.
The ballista on the rear crossbow platform roared again. The soldiers of the chariot battalion did not hesitate to launch a salvo after discovering that the enemy soldiers were exposing themselves regardless of the danger. Twenty crossbow carts and hundreds of strong bows fired wildly at the gatehouse, and the enemy soldiers turned into dead bodies in the blink of an eye.
The rush approached the city gate.
The gates of Yongmen are wide, tall and thick, and there are dozens of movable perforations for shooting on them. In order to defend against fire, the defenders also nailed a number of staggered round-headed wooden stakes to the outside of the gate, and then tamped a thick layer of earth between the stakes.
The perforation in the city gate suddenly opened, and for a moment the arrows were wildly sprayed.
The assault northern Xinjiang soldiers had already prepared, and they were arrayed on both sides of the city gate before rushing the carts, and set up high shield formations to cover the cart soldiers to advance with all their might.
Rush to kill. The ramshell on the car is more than 100 feet long and more than 20 feet thick, the body of the hammer is covered with raw cowhide, and the head of the mallet is wrapped in thick iron, which is a sharp cone. The ramming hammer is suspended on the five booms of the rushing car, and there are hundreds of hemp ropes under it for the soldiers to pull the ram.
One hundred elites of the Northern Xinjiang Army struggled to pull the hemp rope, shouted a neat trumpet, and pulled up the ramming hammer high. The ram slammed into the city gate with the momentum of thunder.
The gates shook violently, and splinters of earth and wood flew all over the sky. The Yongmen tower shook violently in the impact, and the defenders on the city wall all changed color in shock, and their hearts and galls were broken.
Hundreds of ballistae in the rear fired at the gatehouse in turn. More than 2,000 strong archers advanced a hundred paces from the gatehouse, and suppressed the defenders on the gatehouse with a dense volley, preventing them from having the slightest chance of returning the favor.
The defenders on the gatehouse hid behind the women's wall and used the shooting hole to frantically return fire, but they had no way to attack the charging car in the shooting corner directly below the gatehouse, so they could only throw the earthen pot filled with fire oil down through the shooting hole, and then throw the ignited firewood under the city in an attempt to burn the rushing car.
The assault soldiers who were guarding the rushing car tried everything they could to extinguish the fire. In fact, even if this rushing vehicle is destroyed, there are still four rushing vehicles in the rear that are ready to fight at any time under the city to continue fighting.
"Boom, boom, boom......" The impact speed of the ramshell is getting faster and faster. The city gate howled miserably in the impact, the city walls trembled in the impact, and the city of Luoyang groaned miserably.
With the momentum of destroying and decaying, the well rumbled and approached the city wall.
Arrows rained down. All the wooden components on the well were hit wildly by clusters of arrows, and the huge gangplank above the well that faced the city wall was full of arrows. The defenders had no choice but to vent their fears by shooting.
The soldiers under the well were able to adjust the distance between the well and the city wall as quickly as possible. The gangplank on the well is only forty feet, and beyond this distance the gangplank cannot be built on the city wall. In order to ensure that all the assault soldiers could enter the city to fight, the soldiers did everything they could to push the well as close to the city wall as possible. Under the city wall is a shooting corner, and the casualties of the soldiers have been greatly reduced.
Huang Zhong opened the back door of the shack and stretched out his head to look down. Below the well, a soldier held high the red order flag and shook it vigorously.
"Jing Yan has arrived at the position, brothers, get ready......" Huang Zhong roared and waved his hand vigorously, "Check your weapons and wait for the order to attack."
The elite soldiers of the Northern Xinjiang Army promised in unison.
The giant springboard in the upper part of the shaft suddenly fell and slammed into the female wall battlement. Several defenders of the city were caught off guard and were stoned to death and wounded several people on the spot. The soldiers who were lying under the women's wall and shooting were so frightened that they crawled backwards and fled.
The time is too short, and there are still many stone bullets on the top of the city wall that have not been cleaned up, but the Northern Frontier Army is about to enter the city, and it is too late. Fu ordered all the people to withdraw behind Fu Yan, and 10,000 soldiers defending the city lined up in a dense formation on the narrow wall three miles long, and confronted the assault troops of the Northern Xinjiang Army head-on. At this moment, either you die or I live, there is no choice.
"Boom, boom......"
The gangplanks on the one hundred and twenty wells fell almost all in the same time, and the top of the city wall roared.
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The guards of the city were frightened, and the people in the front row subconsciously retreated, but the people in the back row had no way to retreat, their backs were against the cold city wall, and there was no way to retreat.
Feng Ji's eyes widened suddenly, and he let out a long breath from his mouth, then turned around and raised his sword, shouting hoarsely: "Drumming...... Beat the drums, fight to the death......"
"Knock knock knock ......" The war drums thundered, and the sky fell apart.
Fu Zhu, Gao Rou, Chun Yuqiong, Zhao Rui, Su You and others all raised their arms and shouted, and more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in the city roared in unison, "Kill ......"
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"Attack, attack...... Yang Ye pointed at the front of his sword, and roared like thunder, "Kill, kill out......"
"Kill ......" The elites of Northern Xinjiang roared like thunder, and the battle array was rapidly promoted.
The soldiers in the front row of the battle formation roared, the shields were struck, and the shack was opened.
All of a sudden, crossbow arrows rained down. The archers on the city wall immediately shot all the arrows in their hands into the hut.
The shield array is impermeable to the wind, and it does not move at all.
As soon as the rain of arrows was exhausted, the shield array suddenly shattered, and the assault soldiers roared out, and one after another roaring crossbow arrows were nailed into the enemy formation.
"Killing ......" 25 elites of the Northern Xinjiang Army rushed over the gangplank and rushed onto the city wall like a hurricane.
"Kill ......" Yang Ye was in the air, the war knife in his hand thundered out, the shield was crooked in the enemy's exclamation, blood burst out, and half of his face was gone, "Brothers, kill ......"
The sound of killing rose to the sky.
Three thousand elites from the north of Xinjiang climbed the city wall, and the two sides were entangled in a fierce battle, and flesh and blood flew everywhere.
Approaching, 3,000 elite soldiers from the lower shacks also slaughtered the city walls. On the city wall, there was a sea of people for a while, and severed limbs and stumps flew all over the sky. Dead bodies are scattered like autumn leaves.
A group of soldiers from the northern frontier rushed up to the well and climbed rapidly along the spiral ladder. After a few moments, there was probably no place for a pin on the city wall.
The Northern Frontier Assault Soldiers are too strong and extremely experienced in combat, even at the top of this narrow city wall, they are in groups of three, cooperating with each other, and each group coordinates to attack and defend, using every possible opportunity to snipe the enemy.