Chapter 199: Assault
The gap was held for the time being, but Lou Qian saw through the smoke and dust that the Jin army had regrouped and about four or five hundred people launched another attack, and with the more than 20 people in front of him, they could not hold the gap no matter what. At this critical moment, Yidu, who was preparing to take on the task of building the bridge, and C, who was transporting supplies, rushed up one after another, and one after another went down the mountain like a tiger, braving the rain of arrows and shooting at the platoon guns to block the enemy, temporarily stabilizing the situation. However, there was no barrier to the gap, and when the Jin army saw that it was impossible to seize the gap from the front for a while, they went up to the city one after another to make a detour to both sides of the engineer battalion from the horse roads on the west and north walls, and condescendingly shot arrows and stones from above, blocking the breakthrough with crossfire.
"Go to the city, drive out the enemy, build a defensive line!" Lou Qian saw that he was being attacked on three sides, and the casualties increased, and the follow-up troops had not yet come up, so he loudly ordered Liu Peng, the head of the capital of Yidu, to go to the city and seize the city wall.
Liu Peng immediately organized an assault team to set up a human ladder to climb the city wall, but several times he was stabbed down by the golden saber guarding the city wall. Red-eyed, Liu Peng suddenly saw several explosive bags scattered on the ground, and he grabbed a lit fuse and threw it on the city wall with his backhand. There was a loud bang, bricks and stones flew sideways, flesh and blood fell like raindrops, and the soldiers of the Jin Army on the broken wall almost did not survive, and the assault team took the opportunity to climb the city wall.
A more fierce battle broke out, and the Jin army also understood very well that once they lost the protection of the city wall, they would not be able to hold the city no matter what, and they rushed up again without fear of death in the rain of bullets. The assault team quickly ran out of bullets from their guns, and there was no time to reload, so the enemy rushed closer, and they picked up the swords left behind by the golden army in the city to meet them, and a fierce white-knuckle battle broke out.
The Baggage Brigade was also subject to rigorous military training as a later unit. But they rarely had the opportunity to engage the enemy head-on, let alone face to face with their swords. But at the moment of life and death, they burst out with incomparable combat effectiveness, and repelled the elite of the Jin army guarding the palace city again and again. Hold a foothold on the head of the city. When Lou Qian led reinforcements to the city, the assault team was almost completely wounded, and the survivors were all wounded.
The soldiers of the engineer battalion in Shangcheng quickly used the broken bricks and tiles, rolling wood and stones, and even the corpses of the enemy soldiers to build two low walls to resist the continuous influx of Jin soldiers, and established a defensive line about fifty steps long at the head of the city, shooting and killing the enemy troops who were rushing to the gap, holding the breakthrough to the death, and relying on the female wall on the inner side of the city wall to block the Jin army trying to plug the gap. And the Jin army also sacrificed his life at the moment of strict orders and life and death. Braving the rain of bullets, he shouldered bags of earth to fill the gap, the front one fell, and the one behind stepped on the corpses of his companions and rushed up, and the corpses piled higher and higher, and the gap became smaller and smaller.
"Loyalty, courage and might, my emperor will win!" Another soldier of the baggage brigade shouted, picked up the explosive bag and jumped off the broken wall, 'boom', with the sound of explosions. The flames burst out, flesh and blood flew sideways, and the gap became smaller and smaller, while the Jin army behind continued to rush up the carts full of firewood, grass and sand. An attempt was made to rebuild a wall at the gap to close the breach. Due to the lack of heavy weapons in the baggage brigade, some fighters rushed forward with explosive packs and re-exploded them.
"Plant the flag of our baggage brigade!" The bullets in Lou Qian's pistol had long since run out. With a long knife in his hand, he slashed down the walls of an enemy soldier who had climbed the city. He wiped his face with his sleeve, wiped the sweat, blood, and tears from it, and yelled loudly.
"Today's flag is in the position. The officers and men of the baggage brigade are not allowed to take a step back, they are loyal and brave! Lou Qian planted the flag of the baggage brigade on the ruins with one hand and shouted loudly.
"Loyal and mighty!" Most of the veterans in the army were born in the loyal and brave army, of course, they knew the meaning of this sentence shouted by the commanders of the Dao, and they used to shout this slogan to follow the emperor to fight in all directions.
"Mighty, loyal and brave will win!"
"The Great Song Dynasty is mighty, and he will kill the gold thief!" β¦ The soldiers shouted slogans, desperately blocking the enemy, swarming the enemy again and again, when the assault battalion of the Tiger General Brigade rushed up to the city, he could not believe his eyes, the city was full of blood, and when this drop of water turned into ice, the blood did not freeze, but was melted by the blood that flowed continuously. At the breach, the corpses of the Jin army were piled up, almost flush with gaps, and there were nearly a thousand corpses, but these were indeed those pack horse soldiers who transported supplies, rescued the wounded and doctors, repaired ordnance craftsmen, and bought vegetables and cooked fireheads... The formation of the baggage troops did it!
These usually unknown people can burst out with such great combat effectiveness at a critical moment, have the courage to die with the enemy, and become the first army to climb the head of Yanjing City, who can not be in awe, the soldiers who ascended the city to the living, dead baggage brigade officers and soldiers, all of them gave a solemn military salute, this is the highest honor that every soldier can receive, and it is also what the officers and soldiers of the baggage brigade deserve...
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Seeing that three red signal flares were raised in the south of the city, Zhao Lian's Zhilu Road, who was attacking the north of the city, had already succeeded and took the lead in Yanjing City.
"Go and ask Wu Tao, the south of the city has been breached, what is he still inking, if it doesn't work and let him come back, I will replace him immediately!" The wolf general Liu Biao whipped the dead trees around him with a horsewhip and shouted, he felt really embarrassed and thrown home, as the only full-fledged infantry army in the army, what they did was the work of attacking the city and pulling out the village, and the second brigade focused on siege training, but now it was pulled out by others and lost the title of 'Yanjing Brigade'. If he knew that Lu Dao would be the first to enter the city, but it was the baggage brigade, and he didn't know what color his face would become.
At this time, Wu Tao had already moved the brigade headquarters forward to a half-demolished land temple in front of the city, which was within the range of the heavy trebuchet of the Jin army. Because the beginning of the construction of Yanjing City was to defend against the nomads in the north, there was a Luo City in front of the main city in the north of the city, and there was an additional moat. Now that they have captured Luocheng, they are attacking Gongchen Gate, the northeast gate of the main city.
Now the Gongchen Gate Tower, the corner tower, and the wooden tower on the city have all collapsed under the bombardment of the 1st Artillery Brigade, and they are bare like giants whose heads have been cut off. Although most of the trebuchets arranged by the Jin army on and behind the city were defeated, some of them were still hidden in the streets, which were difficult to find and even more difficult to destroy. The power of those thunderbolts was not enough to pose a threat to the attacking soldiers, but the poisonous smoke emitted caused a lot of trouble to the Song army, and many people were stunned and smoked.
"Did the assault battalion go up?" Wu Tao, who was reprimanded, was also very annoyed in his heart, the purpose of building Yanjing City was to defend the nomads in the north from going south, so there was an additional Luo City and a moat outside the main city, compared to the South Route Army that attacked the palace city, it was not easy at all, and now they had broken through Luocheng and were attacking the main city, but the difference was that they did not break through the main city wall, and they missed the 'first'.
"Commander, a battalion went up under the cover of artillery fire, but the Jin army set up many obstacles in front of the main city, they broke the barriers and assaulted, and lost contact after passing the moat, and now the smoke under the city is very large, the lookout post can't see the situation clearly, listening to the direction of the explosion, it should be attacking the city gate!" A soldier reported to Wu Tao.
"Order the second and third battalions to move forward, and once the city gate is successfully blasted, rush up immediately!" Wu Tao said, "Contact the artillerymen and let them shoot behind the city to knock out the enemy's catapults." β
"Thisβ" The army hesitated for a moment and did not say a word.
"Any questions?" Wu Tao said with some displeasure.
"Commander, the artillery brigade said that the enemy's catapult is hidden in the square, where the population is dense and there are many houses, it is difficult to accurately find the target, and the people are afraid of accidentally injuring the people and refuse to extend the shot, and our artillery is all small cannons, and the range is small and cannot be hit!" Said the army.
"Damn, I still want to think about those things, the emperor's order is to capture the city in three days, and then it will be us who will lose our heads, the artillery brigade will not do it, we will do it ourselves, I don't believe that the brigade aircraft and artillery team will move forward, they will not fight without them, if it is investigated, I will bear it!" Wu Tao said hatefully...
After the battle to attack the main city began, the wolf commander Guo Lin led his troops to rush forward, and they braved the rain of arrows to rely on the cover of the demolished ruins in front of the city to approach the city, and the demolition team carried out blasts one after another to blow up several deer barbs. The Jin army did not expect that the Song army would break through Luocheng so quickly, so they did not destroy the ice in the second trench, and the assault battalion rushed from the ice to the bottom of the city.
Finding that the Song army had rushed through the moat, the archers of the Jin Army at the head of the city shot a torrential rain of arrows under the city, and the Jin soldiers in Feng Yuan in front of the city were not idle, eager to grow two more hands so that they could shoot arrows faster. The assault battalion was immediately flanked by the upper and lower flanks, and immediately suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat to the moat to meet the hostile fire.
"The machine gun concentrates its fire to suppress the archers in the city, cover the demolition team to go up, blow up Feng Yuan, destroy the enemy under the city, and capture the city gate!" Guo Lin quickly judged the current situation and ordered that it was dawn now, and the attacking troops would be completely exposed to enemy fire at dawn, and it would be even more difficult to break through the city gates.
Under the cover of heavy fire, the demolition team rushed forward and blew Feng Yuan out of several gaps, and the assault battalion immediately rushed up and fought with the enemy troops behind Feng Yuan. Under the fierce attack of the assault battalion, the Jin army gradually became weak, and retreated to the city gate while fighting, and the Jin army in the city saw that the Song army was approaching the city gate, regardless of the fact that there were still their own people outside the city, grabbed and closed the city gate, put down the gates, barricades, and locked them all outside the city.
The assault battalion was forced to retreat to the moat again, and at this moment the machine guns of the artillery team fired, and the enemy on the city was swept down like wheat, and the demolition team attacked again, and with an earth-shattering loud noise, the city gate opened... (To be continued......)