Chapter 423: Thunder Strike (II)

More than a dozen horsemen galloped into Moling City with two generals, hundreds of steps apart, pointing at Moling City, talking a few words from time to time, although they were far away, but Xu Ji vaguely saw that one of the young generals was Jiang Kui, the main general of the Changsheng Division deployed in Luofeng Changqi in Dingzhou, and the other older general, Xu Ji did not recognize it for a while. The pen and the fun and the pavilion www.biquge.info Tian Feng returned to Dingzhou, and both sides did not make a noise, Xiao Shi thought that this was a great shame, so he naturally would not make a noise, and Li Qing was cheap, but he would not be obedient, after all, at this moment, the two sides were still allies in name.

Although he didn't know Tian Feng, from the attitude of the two, this person's status was definitely not lower than Jiang Kui, and Xu Ji was even more uneasy in his heart, which showed that Dingzhou was bound to win this battle.

"Xu Ji is experienced, and Moling's city defense is very good!" Jiang Kui looked at the city defense system of Moling, although he could only see things on the surface, but with rich battlefield experience, he could naturally guess the dangers that were covered up, "The marshal wants us to fight quickly, and it is not easy!" ”

Li Qing's request to them was that when he appeared, the Moling should have been in the hands of the Dingzhou army, and the time was pressing, and the time given to Jiang Kui and Tian Feng was only three days, and in three days, to take down a Moling that had been prepared for a long time and was heavily garrisoned, it was indeed a great test for the Dingzhou army. This is mainly because Dingzhou has been eyeing Luzhou for a long time, if it is a sudden sneak attack when the opponent is defenseless, then it can be captured, and now, Jiang Kui can't help but be a little worried that he can't complete the task within the time limit.

"General Jiang doesn't have to worry, I expect that we can take Moling before the commander arrives." Tian Feng looked at Moling City and was confident.

"Oh, Brother Tian, why do you say that?" Jiang Kui asked.

"There are many factors related to the victory or defeat of the war, but when it comes down to it, it is nothing more than the time, the location, and the people, and now the enemy and us share the time, the other party has the advantage, and our army has people and people, it seems that they are evenly divided, but in my opinion, before the war starts, our army has already won."

"I'd like to listen to my brother's explanation!"

Tian Feng smiled slightly, he has been with Jiang Kui for a long time, but he likes this young general more and more, he is simply a military general, like his nephew, studious and motivated, not ashamed to ask, never think that it is shameful to not understand, and he also maintains considerable respect for himself, an old guy who came halfway.

"The small wall of Moling City is short, although it has been reinforced by Xu Ji, but these things that were rushed out are actually vulnerable, and it is just to improve a little psychological comfort for the other party, although the other party has a standing army in Moling, 10,000 new troops, it seems that the troops are strong, but the combat effectiveness is low, compared with our army of a hundred battles, it is too pitiful, just look at Xu Ji even gave up the outer defense of Moling, just want to rely on the city wall to resist our army, you can see the fear of the other party, the main general is still like this, and the soldiers below are even more unbearable. At the beginning of the war, the other side may still be able to raise some will to resist, but as long as our army breaks through a little, it will become the last straw that crushes them. Tian Feng talked eloquently, pointing to the city wall of Moling, "General Jiang, you have been in Luofeng for a year, you won't be unprepared for this!" ”

Jiang Kui laughed, "I have made some good things, but I have never used them in actual combat, and I don't know how effective it is." ”

Tian Feng smiled: "The effect can be seen immediately." How's that, let's get started! ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, circled their horses and returned, when they returned to their horses, the Dingzhou infantry that had been in the rear had already stepped on neat steps and pressed to the city, and on their two wings, the cavalry was also riding horses, only countless traveling sentinels swept past the city from time to time.

The soldiers began to busily equip heavy long-range strike weapons such as trebuchets and eight-ox crossbows, and the battle was on the verge of breaking out.

As long as it is a siege war, it always clears the outer obstacles at the beginning, and since Moling completely abandoned the outer defense line, these sweeping work becomes a bit tedious, filling in the trenches, sweeping the horses and antlers, and finding out the thistles scattered in the grass, which began in the counterattack of the trebuchets and the eight oxen crossbows in the city.

And once these trebuchets start shooting, they will be hit by a fixed point under the city, unlike Dingzhou, which can be moved, these trebuchets in Luzhou are still old-fashioned fixed types, once installed, they can no longer move, can only make some changes to adjust the angle of fire and distance, which makes them vulnerable to damage once exposed.

Xu Ji did not reveal all of his strength, and these trebuchets would be more effective in the event of a massive attack by the enemy. Right now, he could only watch as the other party methodically approached the city step by step.

The sweeping work was carried out all day, and when night fell, the city was already a smooth road, but the Dingzhou army did not seem to have the intention of attacking the city overnight, but Mingjin withdrew its troops.

As Tian Feng expected before the war, when the Dingzhou army was approaching Moling in a big way, the Luzhou defenders in the four counties of Chenkang, Sangsu and Chen Kang not only came to the rescue of Moling, but closed the city gate and closed the city to defend themselves. I'm afraid that they are still secretly happy, the Dingzhou army chose a hard bone to gnaw first, giving them more choices, if Xu Jisheng wins, they can naturally take advantage of the fire to rob, if Moling is lost, they also have plenty of time to smear the soles of their feet and slip away.

In fact, in Jiang Kui's barracks, except for the troops who served as guards and the baggage battalion were busy all night, although the other soldiers did not take off their armor, but they slept very sweetly, these soldiers were trained in the war, the more cruel the war, the more they could sleep, and a good rest could ensure more physical strength. More physical strength will increase their chances of survival, but the battlefield wisdom honed by these people in the war is not something that Lu Zhoubing can experience as a beginner in the battlefield.

Xu Ji, who had been sleepless all night, closed his eyes in a daze in the early hours of the morning, but before he slept for a quarter of an hour, the opposite Dingzhou military camp suddenly made a drum and trumpet, and his eyes were not fully opened.

By the faint light of dawn, Xu Ji was stunned by the scene in front of him, not far from Moling City, rows of huge monsters appeared in front of him, and countless Dingzhou soldiers were shouting trumpets to push these huge monsters towards the city wall slowly.

After a few more glances, Xu Ji already understood what this was, the siege equipment in front of him was the same height as Moling City, one side near the city wall was straight, and hundreds of cold and shining spears were installed on it, and on the other side, there was a gentle slope, once this thing hit the city wall, hundreds of spears would inevitably penetrate deep into the city wall, and this thing would be firmly nailed to the city wall, and the cavalry of Dingzhou, which was the best in the world, could gallop along the gentle slope on their side and go straight to Shangcheng.

Xu Ji's lips trembled, he couldn't have imagined that the other party would actually create such a monster, this kind of siege method has never been seen before, of course, this is also related to Moling City, which is really not high enough, if it is the high wall and thick base of Dingzhou City, this kind of nest car will not be able to reach it at all.

"Trebuchet, eight-bull crossbow, aim for me and hit them hard, defeat them, once they are allowed to lean against the city wall, the Moling will be finished!" Xu Ji hissed and shouted: "Prepare the rocket, grease!" ”

Like their main general, the Luzhou soldiers, who were also stunned, came to their senses, and the trebuchets and eight-bull crossbows began to aim at the nest car outside the city, shooting wildly.

Outside the city immediately began to counteract, and Dingzhou used a winch, only a few horses can pull the trebuchet, the trebuchet in the city is too cumbersome, forty or fifty people can operate a trebuchet, pull the rope to fire the stone projectile, as long as some of them are uneven, the stone projectile is very easy to deviate from the set trajectory. And the rate of fire cannot be compared with the outside. A trebuchet in the city has just shot a stone bullet, and it will immediately attract an overwhelming stone bullet strike, although these trebuchets are installed in some blind spots that are difficult to hit directly, but the soldiers who manipulate him are unobstructed, when they see countless stone bullets jumping all the way, the soldier's direct reaction is to pull out his feet and fly away, and they rub next to each other, and immediately it is the end of broken tendons.

The nest cart under the city approached the city wall step by step, and the soldiers under the rain of arrows shouted and pushed the cart forward step by step, and once someone fell, someone immediately made up for it, although slowly, but it was unswervingly moving forward inch by inch, foot by foot.

With the loud bang, the entire Moling city wall seemed to shake violently, and there were huge cheers from the city, and the cavalry in the distance also broke out with a huge killing sound, and then Xu Ji saw the galloping horse team surging.

"Pour the oil, light the fire!" Rows of soldiers poured grease on top of the nest cart, and rockets shot at it, and the wooden nest cart burst into flames.

However, the cavalry galloping in the distance did not seem to see that there was a sea of fire at the top of the wall, and one by one the knights rode up the wooden slope, brandished their swords, straightened their spears, and galloped wildly.

War is always cruel, when the first cavalry jumped into the city from the fire, the whole body, including his horse, had turned into a fireball, but when the huge fireball fell heavily on the city wall, it still represented a symbolic meaning, the Moling city wall will not be an obstacle for the Dingzhou soldiers.

More and more cavalry passed through the wall of fire, jumped on horseback to the head of the city, above the city, immediately broke out a cruel white-knuckle battle, the narrow city head was actually extremely unfavorable to the cavalry, first of all, the cavalry on the city quickly lost power, even people and horses were trapped in the enemy group, and in a moment they would be hacked to death by people and horses. However, the Dingzhou soldiers wanted to use the huge impact of the cavalry to disrupt the defense of the city head and win a certain space for the subsequent infantry to enter the city, and the role of the cavalry was to establish a bridgehead at the city head.

Some of the nest carts were burned down, and the cavalry who were ascending the city immediately carried them down with the collapsed nest carts, and the unlucky ones either fell to death or were crushed to death, and the luckier ones were also broken to the bones.

The Dingzhou soldiers immediately dragged the collapsed nest car away, and a new nest car crashed into it with a bang. ro！ ~！