Chapter 222: Bloody Nanyang City (1)
Outside Nanyang City, break into camp.
Li Zicheng sat in the tent, his brows furrowed, it was too bizarre, the current Sun Chuanting, only when the army had just arrived, launched a fierce attack, and then there was no movement, not only did there be no movement, the four gates of the entire Nanyang City were closed, and no one was allowed to enter or leave!
You know, just relying on Nanyang City itself, without obtaining resources from the outside world, it will definitely not last long, at least to make a fire for cooking, you need dry firewood, right?
What the hell is Sun Chuanting doing?
"Li Guo, tell me, before we arrived, did anything change in this Nanyang City? What exactly does this Sun Chuanting mean? ”
Li Zicheng asked in a deep voice.
Li Guo hurriedly replied: "King Chuang, this, I thought, it should be their lack of food and grass, insufficient troops, the first battle did not make any progress, because they dare not rush to fight again, in my opinion, we should immediately concentrate all the artillery and attack the city with all our might!" ”
"Siege?"
Li Zicheng said dissatisfiedly: "Now the wall of this Nanyang City is almost not damaged at all, so we can take it by throwing the army into attacking?" ”
Li Guo's face turned red and he stopped talking.
Li Yan on the side said in a deep voice: "King Chuang, I thought that what the little general said may not be true, but one thing is obvious, that is, the current Sun Chuanting is in trouble, otherwise, he will not avoid fighting!" If Ji or Sun Chuanting wants to hold on, then we must also enter the big war, now Sun Chuanting has almost 100,000 troops under him, and we have a certain advantage in terms of troops, but if Sun Chuanting comes to the rear to reinforce, then we will encounter real big trouble! ”
Li Zicheng was shocked and wondered: "Now, there are other armies in the Ming Dynasty that can be mobilized?" ”
Li Yan said in a deep voice: "There should be no troops in Henan now, but in Shandong and Nanzhili, but there are a lot of troops, in my opinion, accelerate the attack, no matter what changes have in Nanyang Mansion, now knock it down!" ”
Li Zicheng gritted his teeth and shouted: "Okay, since this is the case, then give an order, mobilize all our artillery, launch an attack on Nanyang City, Gao Yigong, lead the infantry, and prepare to attack the city, I want to see what kind of medicine this Nanyang City sells!" ”
Li Zicheng gave an order, and Gao Yigong mobilized all the heavy artillery in the camp, all of them were concentrated under Nanyang City, and began to bomb the head of Nanyang City! Behind are tens of thousands of homeless people driven by Gao Yigong, rushing towards the city!
To say, the artillery skills of the soldiers who broke into the camp need to be improved, and the cannonballs on such a tall city wall will even fail, and some even fall far under the city, which does not pose the slightest threat to the city wall at all.
However, even if one of the five shells fell on the head of the city, the threat and deterrence to the Qin army in Nanyang City was immeasurable!
Huge cannonballs fall on the city, in an instant, the city head will be smashed out of a big pit, if it falls in the city, even the houses will be sparse, and the bricks and stones flying everywhere have caused a fatal threat to the Qin army, once it is sharpened, it will either be dead or injured!
Sun Chuanting, who got the news, came to Nanyang City in person, only to see that the teams of displaced people under the city had begun to attack, and they all carried ladders and pushed siege hammers to the foot of Nanyang City, and they would soon launch a battle to climb the city!
On the top of the city, although the bows and arrows of the Qin army are also very dense, but now the morale of the Qin army has fallen to the valley due to the impact of the plague.
"Gao Jie, Gao Jie! Mobilize the elite of the forward battalion, give me a dead stand on the head of the city, never allow anyone to break into the city, order the artillery battalion, launch a counterattack, don't spare the shells, give me a hard beat! ”
Sun Chuanting roared angrily.
"Yes, Overseer!"
Gao Jie personally sat at the head of Nancheng in Nanyang City, and began to command the soldiers to counterattack!
The artillery of the Ming army also began to sound violently!
Amid the rumbling cannons on both sides, the soldiers who broke into the camp had already attacked the city, began to hit the ladder on the city wall, and began to climb towards the city!
"Archery, archery!"
Gao Jie held a strong bow in his hand, kept shooting, and almost couldn't hit, one by one the soldiers screamed and fell down the ladder and fell off the city wall!
With Gao Jie in charge, the elite of the pioneer battalion naturally had a surge in morale and began to release arrows constantly!
All of a sudden, the head of Nanyang City, arrows rained down, and the soldiers who broke into the camp kept falling down like dumplings, and in just half an hour, the city head was already full of dead bodies and wounded!
However, even if the Qin army's counterattack was fierce, there were still soldiers who broke into the camp and lay on top of the city, the steel knives in their hands were constantly chopping, and the other hand was climbing on the wall battlements!
The soldiers of the pioneer battalion had already prepared, and one by one spears suddenly stretched out from behind, as long as the intruding soldiers showed their bodies, they would stab them viciously, and they would be stabbed to the heart!
Even so, many of the soldiers of the pioneer battalion still died under the attack of the invading army, after all, the current combat strength of the pioneer battalion has fallen seriously compared with the first battle, and it is simply unrealistic to rely on Gao Jie alone to boost morale to the peak.
When the brave meet on a narrow road, the forward battalion loses its original high momentum and bravery, and naturally it is a little powerless.
In the distance, Gao Yigong commanded the army to carry out continuous assaults, and even mobilized 3,000 elites, constantly firing arrows under the city to cover the charge of his own soldiers.
Li Yan and Li Zicheng stood on an earthen platform and watched from afar.
"King Chuang, have you found out, the combat power of this Ming army has decreased a lot compared with a few days ago, and at the same time, the combat power of a Ming army is so different, something has definitely happened in Nanyang City!"
Li Yan said in a deep voice.
Li Zicheng has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, and he is more sensitive to the changes in the battle situation on the battlefield than Li Yan, so he is naturally familiar with it.
"Yes, Brother Li Yan, you are very right, hehe, something has definitely happened in Nanyang City, this is the elite of the Qin army, not to mention facing our homeless people, even in the face of our elite cavalry, they will not fall into an obvious disadvantage! It seems that we are one step closer to defeating Sun Chuanting and capturing Nanyang City, and I have ordered Li Guo to press the 10,000 infantry under his command to me and attack with all my might! In three days, I want to take Nanyang City and capture Sun Chuanting alive! ”
Li Zicheng shouted.
"Yes, King Chuang!"
Li Guo waved his hand on the side and shouted: "Order, infantry battalion, attack!" ”