Chen Qing immediately ordered: "The trebuchet is in position and ready to launch!"
Forty heavy trebuchets were just behind the military formation. Following Chen Qing's order, the forty heavy trebuchets rumbled and moved in a straight line. Each trebuchet, driven by hundreds of soldiers, moved 300 steps ahead again.
go ahead.
Chen Qing once again ordered, "Tong Zongzhi, you can lead three thousand cavalry around the city to shoot at the enemy sentries under the city, and implement my Nancheng plan."
"I humbly obey the order!" Tang Qian took the military order and left.
In a moment, three thousand cavalry suddenly dispatched and rushed towards the city wall. The cavalry rushed towards the city with arrows like a rain of arrows. The sentries under the city wall were unable to escape and were shot down by random arrows.
The smarter sentry immediately lay down on the ground, waited for the enemy cavalry to run away, then got up and climbed up the ladder. The Song army had already launched an attack, and staying under the city was a dead end.
Three thousand cavalry went around Nancheng again. There were 400 sentries at the foot of Nancheng, just like the west city. During the day, several Song troops were pretending to check the terrain outside Nancheng. Li Cheng thought that Nancheng was not dangerous, but no matter whether there was danger or not, the sentries were still there.
The deployment is the same, without any carelessness.
This is the difference between ordinary generals and famous generals. Ordinary generals think that the danger is not great, so they will put this understanding into practice and send no sentries, or send fewer sentries.
But famous generals are different. A famous general will not be affected by his own subjective consciousness. He will send out sentries as usual and treat them with the same seriousness without slacking off at all.
However, it is inevitable that Baimi will be sparse. Although Li Cheng has not slacked off in Nancheng, he himself will not appear in Nancheng. His energy is limited, and he mostly appears in Xicheng, or to visit Beicheng or Dongcheng. This also leads to Nancheng going to Nancheng.
The defenders were not as nervous as Xicheng. After all, the soldiers could feel that the general did not pay attention to Nancheng, which meant that Nancheng was not at great risk.
At this time, all the sentries on the south city had climbed up the city. Arrows were fired from the top of the city. Dozens of cavalry were shot off their horses. The soldiers on the top of the city cheered.
Three thousand cavalrymen rushed towards the East City like lightning, but the few corpses lying on the ground started to move. Under the cover of night, they slipped silently into the water. Two large wooden boxes without roofs also entered the water at the same time and hid on the suspension bridge.
under.
All the sentries patrolling under the city came up to the city. Li Cheng on the top of the city also realized that this was a dangerous period. He immediately ordered: "Throw down four thousand bundles of wheat straw and light them, one thousand bundles under each city. Order all soldiers to keep an eye on them."
Every move is made in the city."
The soldiers at the top of the southern city threw down thousands of bundles of wheat straw and lit them with rockets. The base of the wall once again turned into a sea of fire, illuminating the situation below the city and leaving no opportunity for the Western Army to take advantage of.
At this time, the Song Army's trebuchets outside the West City were launched, and forty large burning kerosene tanks hit the city head. The head of the West City instantly turned into a sea of fire. Countless soldiers defending the city held wet bedding to put out the fire.
Although it was not extinguished, it did not spread into a fire all over the city. The soldiers guarding the city did not retreat. They still watched every move under the city. At the slightest movement, they fired arrows at random.
This time, the Song Army's trebuchets kept firing, and the soldiers on the city wall tried their best to put out the fire. The fire kept burning and extinguishing. The two sides seemed to be competing, especially Li Cheng, who kept asking the soldiers to collect bedding from the city. He knew very well that
Once the city head is covered by fire and cannot be extinguished, Xuchang City is doomed. The Song army can easily enter the city whether they blow up the city or attack the city.
A thousand bundles of wheat straw were gradually burned out, and it became dark again outside the city. Soldiers immediately ran to ask Li Cheng for instructions.
At this moment, three black figures climbed up from the gap on both sides of the suspension bridge, lifted a huge iron winter melon ashore, and hid under the city gate. The city gate retracted about two feet, and there was a circle on it.
They are not visible from the top of the city.
But if it is daytime, they can be seen from the horse-faced walls on both sides, but now it is a dark night, and the men in black under the city gate are also invisible from the horse-faced city.
This was a loophole in the defense of the city. Li Cheng faced various crises. He did not consider this loophole, but Chen Qing did.
The trebuchet and kerosene attack in the west city was not meaningless. Every step Chen Qing made had its own meaning. He used cavalry to surround the city and run and shoot. On the one hand, it was to drive the sentries back to the city, and on the other hand, it was to transport the scouts and iron fire thunders.
Unknowingly, the Iron Fire Thunder and Firearms Battalion soldiers quietly arrived.
The purpose of using heavy stones to attack Xicheng was actually to distract Li Cheng, making him exhausted and tired of facing the kerosene attack, so that he had no time and energy to consider this loophole under Nancheng.
Chen Qing sent a total of four soldiers, loaded two large iron fire mines in large wooden boxes, and carried out two attacks. What was about to happen now was the first attack.
At this time, another thousand bundles of wheat straw were thrown on the top of the city, and the soldiers threw down torches to light them. At the same time, two soldiers in black also lit the match ropes. They ran two steps, climbed on the ground and slid into the water.
It turned into a sea of fire again, clearly visible everywhere.
At this time, the defenders on the wall in front of the horse suddenly discovered a dark object on the city gate, like a round stone with sparks coming from it. The soldier quickly shouted: "General, what is that?"
At the city gate, Li Hong, the lord of the south city, quickly leaned forward and looked down. He could only see a small part of it. At this time, the match rope had already been burned in. There were no sparks outside, only smoke was coming out.
"It's a big stone. Wasn't it there before?" Li Hong asked.
"This big rock didn't exist before, it just appeared suddenly."
"Strange, what is this?"
At this moment, a red light burst out, and the iron fire thunder exploded. The huge explosion sound was like a mountain falling apart, the earth was shaking, and the ears of countless soldiers seemed to be deafened.
Li Cheng failed to stand firm and fell to the ground. He got up and looked towards the south gate in horror. He saw a thick white smoke rising into the sky in the darkness.
"Damn it!"
Li Cheng punched the ground hard. He never expected that the Song army was pretending to be outside Nancheng during the day, but they were actually attacking Nancheng.
"Send the whole army to go down to the city and block the gap!"
Li Cheng got up and shouted loudly, the alarm bell rang loudly, and soldiers in the city rushed towards the south gate from all directions.
The South City Gate was filled with thick smoke and dust, and no one knew the situation of the bombing. At this time, four soldiers of the Song Army rushed into the thick smoke carrying a second iron rhinoceros.
After a moment, the four soldiers escaped. At this time, the smoke had almost dissipated, and the soldiers in the city could see their figures. They immediately fired arrows. The two soldiers screamed one after another, and were shot through the body by dozens of arrows.
Falling down, the other two soldiers jumped into the moat.
At this moment, there was another earth-shattering explosion, and the southern city wall that was hundreds of feet long collapsed.
The heavy trebuchets outside the West City had already stopped attacking. When the second explosion came, Chen Qing knew that the capture of Xuchang City was half successful. He immediately ordered: "March to the South City!"
Gao Ding led 10,000 black-armored soldiers to rush towards the south city first, followed by tens of thousands of soldiers also lined up and headed towards the west city gate.
But the fastest one was Commander Gao Feng who led 5,000 crossbowmen. They were ambushing a mile outside the south city. The 5,000 crossbowmen rushed to the front of the south city and fired arrows into the city together. The crossbow bolts shot like a storm from the smoke-filled dust.
Once inside, hundreds of soldiers quickly built a pontoon bridge using large wooden boxes and planks.
Inside the city, coach Li Chenggang rushed to the city and stared dumbly at the collapse of the south city wall, followed by smoke and dust rising into the sky. The dust was so thick that nothing could be seen.
But Li Cheng knew that the city wall could no longer be defended, so of course he would not choose to escape. The city wall was lost, and the battle to attack and defend the city was only halfway through.
He drew his sword and shouted loudly: "Send the order to the whole army to prepare for street fighting!"
The crossbowmen of the Song Army suppressed the soldiers who tried to block the city with dense arrows. Lu Gui led the three thousand sword shield army to rush across the pontoon bridge first. They held a heavy shield in one hand and a sword in the other, ten people in a row, along the huge gap.
Walking towards the city step by step.
What awaited them was still a dense rain of arrows shooting from all directions.