The front end of the collision ship is a triangular piece of pig iron as the head. It is extremely powerful and can break a cargo ship weighing 500 stone in half. The faster it goes, the greater the power it accumulates.
Three feet away from the Shuicheng Gate, more than a dozen Song soldiers on the boat lowered the mast and the sail. The soldiers fell down one after another. "Dang!" There was a loud noise, and the iron fence as thick as an arm was uprooted.
It broke and fell into the water.
Two thousand stones collided with the ship and rushed into the Shuicheng Gate, breaking most of the iron gate inside. Unfortunately, they were not able to break all of it, and soldiers still needed to manually break it.
Dutou Lugui stood up and rushed towards the bow of the ship with a forty-pound hammer in his hand. Dozens of soldiers also got off the ship and ran towards the iron gate of the inner city with sharp axes in their hands.
"Boom!" There was a loud noise. The rotten iron rod could not withstand Lu Gui's hammer blow, and two fences were broken immediately. The soldiers used sharp axes to chop, and the effect was better. A few axes broke ten pieces.
Several iron fences.
Lu Gui was a little jealous. He threw away the hammer, took a 30-pound sharp ax from the soldier's hand, and started chopping hard again. With a 'click!', he actually cut down five fences with one axe.
He yelled repeatedly and struck more than a dozen axes. Finally, all the iron gates inside were cut off. The gate suddenly fell into the water. The soldiers struggled to hold up the bamboo poles, and the two-thousand-stone collision ship actually sailed into the city.
Chen Qing was well prepared. Nearly a hundred small boats filled with elite soldiers followed the collision. Chen Qing himself was in the first small boat. When the boat entered the city, he jumped ashore and shouted: "Follow me."
Come!"
He led dozens of soldiers and rushed to the side corridor, only to see thousands of puppet Qi soldiers running along the base of the city wall towards Shuicheng...
Chen Qing rushed to the top of the city, roared, and killed more than a dozen soldiers who were running towards him. He killed seven of them in an instant. The other soldiers recognized Chen Qing's Fangtian Painted Halberd and turned around in fear and ran away.
Shouting, "The demons are coming to the city! The demons are coming to the city!"
Hundreds of soldiers of the puppet Qi army who were on the way heard that the human demon Chen Qing was in front. They were all frightened and ran away in fear.
Chen Qing led more than 300 elite soldiers to capture the city head above Shuicheng Gate without any effort.
At this time, there was a series of explosions under the city wall. This was the soldiers from the firearms battalion entering the city. They threw thirty double-layered gunpowder barrels, which exploded in front of the enemy army. Poison nails flew out, and pieces of puppet Qi troops were killed.
The soldiers screamed and fell down, and the soldiers of the Puppet Qi Army behind them were so frightened that they fell to the ground.
Before the smoke cleared, another thirty double-layered gunpowder barrels were thrown in the second round, once again suppressing the puppet Qi army. The two rounds of suppression bought precious time for the Song soldiers to enter the city. When the enemy troops came again, two rounds of suppression were launched.
The Thousand Shields and Short Spears Army has completed its formation and formed a dense square formation.
At this time, Chen Qing led 300 soldiers with heavy shields and short spears at the top of the city and also deployed a defensive formation, firmly controlling the top of the city above the Shuicheng Gate.
A dozen 3,000-stone ships loaded with Song soldiers are heading here. They will be connected to form a long channel, and 15,000 soldiers, including cavalry, will enter the city from here.
The first 3,000-stone warship arrived in front of the water city gate. The huge ship ladder hooked the bow. The three hundred soldiers on the ship lined up and ran towards the city. Planks were put between the big ships. Groups of Song troops marched toward the city.
The main ship rushed over and went directly to the city, and the cavalry also appeared behind.
Seeing that the situation was basically settled, Chen Qing ordered the soldiers: "Shoot gunpowder arrows!"
Three gunpowder arrows shot into the sky, like three shooting stars, which were particularly bright in the sky.
The fierce battle in the West City was still in a stalemate. The Song army attacked the city twice and was driven back twice. The dense crossbows and divine arm crossbows continued to kill the Song soldiers. More than 900 soldiers were killed.
Even the commander Zhao Hong was unfortunately hit by an arrow and fell into the city, but the Song army still had difficulty in attacking the city.
But it was precisely because the Xicheng attack successfully attracted a large amount of combat resources from the Puppet Qi Army, including all bed crossbows, divine arm crossbows, heavy armor soldiers, kerosene, and the most elite 7,000 soldiers in the city, etc. that the Song Army
The attack at Shuicheng Gate did not encounter severe resistance.
This is a very classic example of building a plank road and secretly crossing Chencang. From the beginning to the end, Chen Qing was exaggerating the illusion of using ships to attack the city, and even parked twenty attacking ships on the river where the opponent could see it at a glance.
, even all Song generals including Li Gang thought that Chen Qing was going to use warships to attack the city.
But in fact, he adopted Jiang Yanxian's suggestion and took advantage of Shuicheng's weakness to enter the city.
Zheng Ping also saw three gunpowder arrows flying into the sky. He shouted: "Retreat! Retreat!"
'Dang! Dang! Dang!'
On the big ship, the retreat bell rang, and the soldiers of the Song Army who were fighting the enemy retreated back to the big ship. However, the soldiers retreated but were not attacked by the crossbows and divine arm crossbows, and the enemy also retreated.
All the fighting soldiers returned to the big ship, and the fleet also began to retreat to the other side of the moat, and soon broke away from the warship.
At the same time, in the coach's camp in the south, Li Gang stayed up all night, pacing back and forth in the tent with his hands behind his hands. He hoped to hear good news, but was worried that the news of Chen Qing's defeat would come. Just half an hour later,
Before that, he received news that the defenders at the top of the city were well prepared and that Chen Qing's army was unable to attack the city and suffered heavy casualties, which made him feel worried.
Is it true that Chen Qing failed due to lack of preparation as Zhe Yanzhi and Xie Qian said?
At this moment, rapid footsteps were heard outside, and Zhe Yanzhi rushed into the tent and said urgently: "Envoy Xuanfu, Chen Qing's army has entered the city!"
Li Gang's expression was mixed with joy and sadness. He slowly closed his eyes while looking at the ceiling, and his heart finally dropped.
After a while, he finally showed a look of joy on his face and asked: "His nest ship tactic finally succeeded!"
Zheyanzhi quickly shook his head, "It's not the nest ship tactic. The nest ship tactic didn't succeed. He broke through the water city gate and entered the city through the water city gate."
Li Gang was stunned, "Does he have two more strategies?"
"It should be, and attacking Shuicheng Gate is the real strategy. He personally led the army to attack Shuicheng Gate. I heard that he used a ramming boat to break open the iron fence of Shuicheng Gate. The iron fence was in disrepair and was rotten.
, was discovered by Chen Qing and seized the opportunity."
Li Gang felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, but he soon felt relieved. This was the real strategic general who took strategic deception to the extreme, even hiding it from his own commander. If he told him too early, maybe his army
There will be abnormal movements, which will be noticed by the other party.
At this time, the sound of running footsteps came from the tent, and a soldier reported, "Report to the Xuanfu envoy, Chen Qing sent someone to ask for an audience!"
"Announce him to come in!"
Soon a person walked in from outside the account, it was Zhao Xiaoyi, the deputy commander of the scout battalion. He came to see Li Gang on Chen Qing's order.
Zhao Xiaoyi knelt down on one knee and saluted, "See the Xuanfu Envoy!"
Li Gang knew Zhao Xiaoyi, nodded and said with a smile: "So it's General Zhao. What's going on with your family?"
"The commander-in-chief sincerely requests the Xuanfu envoy to immediately send troops to surround the west city gate and make sure to intercept the enemy's escape."
Li Gang woke up and quickly confronted Zheyan: "Immediately lead 10,000 troops to the west gate to intercept the enemy's escape!"
"Follow the order!"
Zhe Yanzhi took the command arrow and turned around to leave. Li Gang then asked Zhao Xiaoyi with a smile: "General Zhao, tell me in detail, how did your family break through the water gate?"
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Although Zheng Ping's army was in Xicheng, they withdrew Chen Qing's West Camp. The West Camp was empty, with only a thousand logistics troops. If the enemy took the opportunity to capture it, the consequences would be serious.
Zheng Ping and his four thousand troops wanted to defend the camp, so they did not go to surround the defeated army at the west gate.
Dong Xian had already realized that Xiangyang was difficult to protect, so he took advantage of Chen Qing's main force entering the city through Shuicheng Gate and ordered the west city gate to be opened to escape. He knew that Chen Qing was guarding the west city and his main force was inside the city, so the outside of the west city must be empty.
Dong Xian's judgment was correct. There was no army outside the west city to intercept them. Dong Xian did not bother to attack Chen Qing's camp. He immediately led an army of 20,000 to evacuate towards Fangzhou. Jingxiang could not hold it anymore, so he had to withdraw his troops back to the Central Plains.
, no matter how much the emperor blamed him, he would admit it.
But when Zhe Yanzhi arrived with his army, most of the city's defenders had been transferred. They only intercepted five thousand troops. Excluding the soldiers who died in battle, there was no longer a single soldier of the puppet Qi army in the city.