Due to the influence of the curvature, it was difficult for the boulders to hit the city head, and most of them flew over the city head. However, the Yan army's goal was not to attack the Tang army soldiers. Their target was the trebuchet on the city head. In the first round, twenty boulders were destroyed.
Three trebuchets.
Li Sheng shouted: "The big yellow crossbow is launched!"
Nan Jiyun and Pei Xiu in the distance were also giving orders to fire the big yellow crossbow. The southern city was eighteen miles long, and Li Ye divided it into three defense areas, with Pei Xiu, Nan Jiyun and Li Sheng as the main generals, each guarding a defense area.
District, Qujiang Pool is still in charge of Guan Pei.
Li Ye walked to the battlements and stared at the trebuchet in the distance. The Tang army's large yellow crossbows began to counterattack. The dense arrows shot at the trebuchet, not straight, but high. The long and heavy arrows flew into the sky and passed over the huge stone.
The baffle fell from the sky and shot at the soldiers under the trebuchet. The Yan army soldiers suddenly screamed and more than 600 people were killed by heavy arrows.
An Lushan was furious, slammed the table and cursed: "The baffle is too far from the trebuchet. Who arranged it?"
An Shouzhong said tremblingly: "Reporting to Your Majesty, the baffle is too close, which will affect the launch of the trebuchet!"
"Wouldn't it be affected by Tang Jun's projectiles?"
An Shouzhong did not dare to argue, and quickly ordered the trebuchet and baffle to move back a mile to find a way to solve the problem.
"Cough! Cough!"
An Lushan was so angry that he coughed so hard that he couldn't breathe, and his face turned red from holding it in. The eunuch Li Zhuer hit him on the back of the neck desperately, and An Lushan finally stopped coughing, and breathed heavily and ordered:
"Pay back!"
The carriage started and returned to the big tent
Today's trebuchet was just an experimental attack. As expected, the problem with the baffle was discovered. The craftsmen only considered that the Tang army would shoot directly, and it would definitely be blocked by the baffle. However, they did not expect that the Tang army would eject the arrows and fall from the sky. How could they resist?
The craftsmen tried repeatedly and finally found a plan. They started working overnight to make a slightly smaller baffle to hold the base of the trebuchet without affecting the throwing pole and winch. The operating soldiers were protected by this small baffle.
, but the tall baffle still remains, mainly to protect the trebuchet.
That night, twenty chariots and twenty ladders appeared in front of the Yan army camp, waiting for dawn like forty giant beasts.
It was late at night, and Li Ye came to the city head to express condolences to the soldiers on duty at night. There were 25,000 soldiers on duty at night, including 10,000 troops at the south city head and 5,000 troops at each of the other three city heads.
Two to three hundred bonfires were lit on the top of the city. The soldiers were all wrapped in military blankets and sitting around the fires, warming themselves and taking a nap. The first part of today's winter was relatively warm, and the river even had only thin ice, but now it has entered the second half.
, the weather became extremely cold, especially at night, when the temperature was at least 20 degrees below zero.
Li Ye walked all the way to the east on the city wall, constantly boosting the morale of the soldiers. At this time, the general on duty, Xu Jian, ran up, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "I see you, Your Highness!"
"Thank you for your hard work, General Xu!"
Li Ye smiled and asked: "Is there any movement from the enemy outside the city?"
Xu Jian stood up and shook his head and said: "There is no movement on our side, but I heard there is movement on the other side of Qujiang Pool."
Li Ye was slightly startled. Don't make sneak attacks at night in Qujiang Pond!
He immediately told two soldiers, "Immediately go back to the military camp and find General Xu of the heavy armor camp. Tell him my order and ask him to immediately send another thousand heavy armored infantry to Quchifang. Then notify Nan Jiyun and ask him to lead 10,000."
The army rushes to Quchifang!"
"Follow the order!" The two soldiers rushed down to the city.
Li Ye also got off the city, got on his horse, and led hundreds of cavalry to Quchifang, which was more than ten miles away.
A piercing alarm bell suddenly sounded from the turret of Quchi City in the east. There were seven thousand soldiers guarding Quchifang, including three thousand on the city, three thousand troops on Leyouyuan, and one thousand soldiers guarding Quchifang.
Heavy infantry.
The sound of alarm bells woke up all the soldiers. Soldiers rushed out from various buildings. One thousand heavy armored infantry also came out from Qinglong Temple. Three thousand soldiers went up to the city and took their respective positions. The three thousand soldiers on Leyouyuan also came out.
Keep watch on all the mountain roads.
The soldiers guarding the city saw a scene that shocked them. They saw dozens of war horses running wildly on the ice. The cavalry on the horses waved their sabers, shouted loudly, and pulled a huge battering ram behind them.
Sliding on the ice, the speed is getting faster and faster.
"Fire arrows! Shoot cavalry." Guan Pei shouted.
Hundreds of Tang soldiers raised their crossbows and fired at the cavalry under the city, but the cavalry suddenly got into the belly of the horse. The horses had thick saddles and leather armor, and the dense arrows could not penetrate the backs of the horses. At this time, dozens of horses
The war horse was still three feet away from the ice wall. The cavalry suddenly stood up and cut off the rope dragging the battering ram with a sword. At the critical moment, the war horse turned around and ran sideways to avoid hitting the wall.
But the battering ram slammed into the ice wall with strong inertia. "Boom!" With a huge impact, a large hole was opened in the ice wall, and dozens of bags of sand were knocked out. The battering ram actually penetrated the ice wall.
After passing the ice wall, the ice wall cracked, and the cracks spread out in all directions like spider webs.
"here we go again!"
The soldiers pointed into the distance and shouted, and saw dozens more horses dragging huge battering rams galloping towards them.
Guan Pei realized that something was wrong, and immediately said to a soldier: "Go and report to Your Highness quickly, Qujiangfang has been attacked, and the ice wall cannot be protected!"
The soldiers rushed away, and Guan Pei shouted loudly, "All brothers, prepare to welcome the enemy's attack!"
"Boom!"
There was another extremely heavy muffled sound, and the battering ram hit the ice wall hard. The ice wall could no longer support it and collapsed suddenly.
In the distance, Zhang Zhongzhi shouted excitedly, "Fight into the city!"
The dark soldiers were running on the ice, and the 20,000 Yan troops came up like a tide. All the soldiers were holding shields and spears, and they were running closer and closer. They were less than 150 steps away from the gap in the ice wall.
The soldiers at the top of the city fired arrows together, and the arrows were like raindrops. The dense arrows were shot at the enemy troops like raindrops. The running enemy troops were felled by arrows one by one, but no one stopped. They were like the August tide, surging and surging.
Entered the gap in the ice wall.
Among the group of running soldiers, there were dozens of soldiers holding a relatively small battering ram. Their goal was to break through the second blocking wall in front.
In addition to the battering rams, there were dozens of siege ladders. They not only rushed into Quchifang, but also attacked the city.
But the Tang Dynasty had already been prepared. They did not leave the city wall. When the siege ladders were hung up on the top of the city, thousands of soldiers began to attack the city frantically. However, these siege ladders had not been modified and were still the same old ladders.
The long axe-hand chopped off the top rung with his axe, and arrows flew upward from below. A dozen long-axe-hands who were about to cut the second rung were turned into hedgehogs by the arrows, and fell down the city screaming.
Go, the siege soldiers have arrived, and they are fighting fiercely with the soldiers on the top of the city.
At this time, the soldiers of the Yan army who rushed into the city fell down one after another, holding their feet and screaming. They stepped on poisonous caltrops. Tens of thousands of poisonous caltrops were scattered so densely that they could not be seen at night. More than two thousand people who were running at the front were
The soldier was attacked.
Zhang Zhongzhi shouted: "The second army attacks Leyouyuan, and the first army lays tiles!"
With the battle flag waving, General Zhang Kui led 10,000 troops to kill Leyouyuan, a few hundred steps away to the west.
Zhang Zhongzhi was also prepared, and many soldiers brought black tiles. The more than 2,000 soldiers who were recruited retreated, and the soldiers behind began to lay black tiles on the ground and moved forward cautiously.
Not long after, a three-foot-wide road with black tiles was paved first. Seventy soldiers held thick battering rams and slammed into the wall. "Boom!" The wall shook and ice shards fell.
"Come again!"
The seventy soldiers stepped back dozens of steps and rushed forward again with the battering ram in their arms. "Boom!" The battering ram hit the wall hard. The wall shook and collapsed, and a two-foot-wide wall appeared.
gap.
Zhang Zhongzhi waved his sword and said, "Come in!"
Thousands of soldiers rushed into the gap. They rushed into the courtyard area of Quchifang. The courtyard area covering hundreds of acres had been razed to the ground. A thousand heavy armored infantry had been waiting for them for a long time.
They stepped forward like a wall, with the swords in their hands flashing like cold light, and slashed at the oncoming enemy troops.
The poisonous Tribulus was actually useful. Its greatest contribution was to delay the enemy's attack. At this time, Li Ye personally came with 10,000 reinforcements.