Chapter 756: Lonely Mountain Fortified City
The Blood Knife King led his army toward Gushan City and summoned the surrounding troops along the way. Other troops moved closer to the main force, so that the Asura army that conquered Gushan City reached a scale of one million people.
This is another large-scale attack after the previous Gushan City offensive and defensive battle, but the purpose and principles of this attack are clearer. It is not like the past that simple siege and plunder, but that it is necessary to advance three ways to destroy the remaining forces of Emperor Asura in one fell swoop.
Now that the fall of Asura Emperor, no one can see clearly that the power of Asura Emperor was previously attached to Asura Emperor, because the soul figure of Asura Emperor was missing, it was no longer the same as before.
This is a piece of fat, a piece of fat that can nourish the fat, so whoever obtains this piece of fat and eats it in his stomach will have the possibility of becoming the next Asura emperor.
The Blood Sword King of the Central Army personally led the conquest, attacking Shaanxi from Gushan City, preparing to open the gate of the core area of the Asura Emperor and go down the road.
The Southern Army implemented the belly-exhausting plan and attacked the hinterland of the core area of the Asura Emperor via another route.
The Eastern Army set out along the river, with the focus on seizing important towns along the river and controlling waterways.
After the Blood Sword King planned to capture Gushan City, he advanced eastward to join the Southern Army, and then joined the Eastern Army on the water. Finally, the army went down the river and reached the Asura Emperor City with an unstoppable military attack.
Wherever the blood sword king's army passed, there were many important cities in the mountain city group. Due to the internal struggle between the demon god and the Asura king, they opened the city one after another. The mountain city defense system left behind by the demon gods painstakingly managed by the demon gods was almost completely collapsed.
Outside the old city of the Asura Imperial Army Base Camp, only the lonely Gushan City is left facing the surging Asura Grassland Army.
The army arrived at Diaoyu City. The imperial camp was set up on the Shizi Mountain in the east of the city, and looked at the tiny mountain city through Tianjiangou.
Previously, the surrendered general Jin Guobao, who was sent to recruit surrender, had been executed by the Song army. Mengge, who had been smoothly going, decided to punish Diaoyu City, which dared to be a chariot with a mantis arm.
In a cold and solemn atmosphere, outside Diaoyu City protects the country's gate, Song soldiers have demolished the wooden boards on the plank road. Diaoyu City has made many preparations for defense. Once the wooden plank road in front of each city gate is demolished, if people want to pass, there will be no ready-made roads to walk, and they can only climb along the mountain. It is very difficult and has added great trouble to the siegemen.
The Blood Sword King's army skillfully completed the encirclement, and one of them was stationed in the east mountain on the south bank of Gushan City, crossing the river and blocking the river surface.
The other unit was responsible for building a floating bridge on the river to facilitate the mobilization of the troops on the river. In addition, it also dispatched several troops to attack the Ximen line on the west side of Gushan City.
The other armies gathered in the north and east of the city. At the foot of Gushancheng, there was also the captain of the Blood Sword King's personal guard, who led thousands of light cavalry who were specifically responsible for patrol and maneuvering, to prevent the Gushancheng defenders from breaking through and escaping.
At this moment, the entire Gushan City was surrounded like an iron barrel, and it could be said that it was difficult to fly.
At this time, the Gushan City guards looked at the top of the city and saw the Blood Sword Army camp waving flags, swords and guns were like forests, and a heart seemed to fall into an ice cellar. I knew this time was over.
The many generals who have followed Emperor Asura and conquered the heavenly realm have already deeply experienced the horror of this scene.
A seemingly impregnable city is just a matter of how many days it can last in front of a well-prepared army.
Huge rock throwers rumbling, towering tower cars like tall buildings, solid and slow geese cars, and batches of people rushing towards the messy city walls, were local surrenders driven to fill the trenches.
If it were someone else, even a veteran who had been through the battlefield would inevitably be frustrated when he saw these millions of enemy troops besieging the city and sighed.
But this time the person responsible for defending the city was Mingtang. When he was young, Mingtang followed Emperor Asura to fight south and north and made many contributions. He once put out fires and counterattacked the Heavenly Army after the Shura Emperor's army was surrounded by heavy siege. He was a good player in mobile defense and elastic defense.
Mingtang followed Emperor Asura to his death, learned a lot of skills and honed his style of perseverance.
Not only is he skilled in the use of flexible strategic defense, his combat style is also very flexible and changeable, and he is used to leading by example when fighting.
As early as when Gushan City was fighting for offensive and defensive war, taking advantage of friendly forces to attract the attention of Asura Army on the Grassland, Mingtang personally led a small army to go deep behind enemy lines and burned down the Asura Army on the Grassland. A large number of ship materials used to build ships and cross the river, resulting in the Blood Knife King being forced to give up the entire strategic plan.
After being responsible for guarding Gushan City, Mingtang won fierce battles with the Asura Army in the grassland many times, with outstanding military achievements, and re-strengthening Gushan City and promoted to the lord general of Gushan City.
Although the Gushan City defenders under Mingtang were not many soldiers, estimated to be less than 100,000, they were the demon gods in Gushan City and the remaining elites after the internal strife.
While guarding Gushan City, Mingtang rectified its troops and reduced its defense lines, allowing them to station in several acropolises. As the local military command organization, local Asuras were organized to defend various mountain cities together, protect the enemies and stabilize the people.
Under the leadership of Mingtang, these Asura Imperial Army were not only very combat-effective, but also united the remaining troops who fled into the city.
Many of these remnants came from further north. Their hometowns were destroyed and fled. There were also residents from nearby places. They all accepted the orders of government officials to move into the city. At least the mountain city temporarily protected their personal and property safety.
When the Asura army on the grassland retreated, Mingtang led his men to seize the time to plant and harvest up and down the mountain, and hoard food.
During the war, the people actively joined the city to help prepare equipment and transport supplies. At most, the military and civilians in the city reached more than 100,000, which seemed to be a busy atmosphere.
While preparing for combat, a place in Gushan City was converted into a military workshop.
In addition to conventional cold weapons, craftsmen are also concentrated here to produce gunpowder, cast iron thunder and bullets, and create various weapons.
The Blood Sword King finally issued an attack order to the Asura army besieged in the city. After a few cannons, the war drums sounded, and the Asura army on the grassland that was about to stop began to attack the city in full swing.
Everything was done step by step, stone casters bombarded the city walls, archers suppressed the city tops, and infantry carried ladders to attack. Although the gates of Diaoyu City were built along the mountains, and the terrain outside the city gate was narrow and it was difficult to deploy heavy siege equipment, the gates were still attacked fiercely.
In order to cut off the connection between Gushan City and the outside world, especially the old city, the Navy Wharf became the target of the Asura Army's key attack on the grassland.
The Asura Army in the grassland has already transformed the naval army pier fortification. Not only has it built two east-west citys and south outer city on the slope, but it has also built many enemy building shooting platforms on the towering walls.
The vanguard of the Asura Army in the grassland, Pas is a powerful general. He has invaded Sichuan many times and captured many places such as Chengdu Prefecture.
He sent troops from the west of the city, joined forces with Shi Tianze from the East Mountain, and launched water and land together, and attacked the Nanshui Army Wharf from multiple sides.
Although the enemy ships and docks covered each other, the docks were always geographically at a prominent position. The Mongolian army invested troops in the east and west sides at the same time, which brought great pressure to the Song army with its numerical advantage.
After the Asura Army in the Grassland continued to attack the city for several days, the situation changed.
The arrows suppressing the city wall were like pouring rain. A young officer of the Asura Imperial Army was shot down with an arrow, and the defenders on the city wall suddenly became in chaos.
In high-intensity combat, losing commanders means fighting alone, unable to organize strength, and can only face failure.
Taking this opportunity, the Asura Army infantry on the grassland quickly climbed up the Xiyi City Wall and started a hand-to-hand battle with the defenders.
The Asura Army, who climbed the grassland, were selected warriors. They were wearing heavy iron armor and scimitars, and had strong combat power.
In contrast, the Asura Imperial Army had a much lower armor rate than the Asura Army on the grassland. Many soldiers only had mai and cloth clothes, which was obviously at a disadvantage in close combat.
After fierce battles at the city wall, the two armies were injured and killed.
At this time, the gap had opened, and rushed into the Asura Imperial Army, destroyed the remaining people, and occupied the entire naval army dock.
In the battle for the naval dock, both sides suffered heavy casualties and suffered huge losses, because both sides had seen the importance of this place.
However, both sides have long realized that in order to be able to compete for success, no matter how much sacrifice is, it is worth it.
Chapter completed!