The scene in the south of Jiangling City is now very unbearable. The city towers, towers, and parapets have been destroyed and collapsed. It looks like a ruins, and as if it has just suffered a natural disaster. Broken tiles, broken soil, corpses are everywhere, and only the remaining
The beams are also exposed.
It doesn't snow or rain here, otherwise the tower would be completely unable to shelter from the rain. But the wind is very cold, blowing on people's faces like a knife. Jingzhou is located in the south, but winter is not warm at all.
The sky was gray, and black smoke filled the air behind the tower. The scene was indescribably miserable.
The power of the Wei army's trebuchets was astonishing, but Wang Ling still could not capture Jiangling City.
Previously, the Wei army had attacked the city gate through the pontoon bridge, broke open the south gate, and swarmed in on foot and on horseback! At that time, Wang Ling thought victory was in sight.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Ran built a new rammed earth wall in the city despite the casualties caused by the trebuchets every day. The Wei army rushed into the city and was blocked by the earth wall and could not advance; the enemy soldiers used rockets to ignite tung oil barrels and set fire to the wall.
He went up to shoot arrows. The Wei army suddenly seemed to be like a turtle in a urn. They were burned to death by explosions and shot to death. They left corpses on the ground and had to retreat outside the city.
The second time the Wei army broke open the city gate and came prepared. However, Zhu Ran had already piled stones in the doorway and built rammed earth to block the city gate!
So the trebuchets smashed against the city walls and towers again, and the loud "boom" sound was like thunder. The soldiers pushing the steel carts and cowhide carts rushed to the moat, and began to transport soil to fill the river.
There is no chance for the Wei army to break through the city gate. They have to go up the ladder and use Lu Gong's chariot to attack the city wall.
But before that, the moat must be filled in to allow heavy equipment to approach the city. The pontoon cannot bear heavy equipment.
With the continuous bombardment of trebuchets, too many people did not dare to stand on the walls of Jiangling City, and the threat to the soldiers filling the river was greatly reduced. Wang Ling's siege should be more advantageous than ordinary sieges.
However, Zhu Ran's layer-by-layer defense and step-by-step resistance strategies were undoubtedly effective and cost the Wei army a lot of time. I don't know how long it would take for the Wei army to fill up the moat and then use ladders to capture the tower.
Moreover, Jiangling City has an inner city. With Zhu Ran's determination at this time, the Wei army may have to fight again near the inner city.
Wang Ling's heart was already cold!
He felt that it would not be so easy to capture Jiangling before the beginning of spring. Especially among the people who fell from the city wall, women and the old and the weak were actually found. Zhu Ran called all the people in the city to the city wall to be cannon fodder.
The deputy commander fought to the end with the Wei army...
The Xia Shui defense line in the east would have been easier to intercept Wu's reinforcements. Large ships could not sail in Xia Shui in winter, so the Wu army could only attack by land. However, Han Guan's troops were indeed unreliable, and they were defeated near Xia Shui.
On the southwestern continent of Dajiang, Wu's army had an advantage, but Sun Li defended it very well.
Sun Li only had a few thousand men and horses. The terrain in Zhongzhou was not open and it was not convenient for cavalry to charge. However, Sun Li built a large number of fortifications. As expected, the enemy general Bu Chan came ashore from the river to attack, but he was repulsed by Sun Li and his army.
This afternoon, many warships suddenly appeared on the river, and Bu Chan's army arrived from the water again.
Sun Li stood at the edge of the camp and watched for a while, and soon said to his general: "The enemy is going to attack the pontoon bridge. Immediately send troops to reinforce and prepare the beef tendon catapult!"
The general immediately took the order and left.
The first two times Wu soldiers came, they mostly had ships to transport troops, just to seize Zhongzhou. At this time, the stern ships floating on the river could not transport many infantry, and they should be used for water warfare. Sun Li's army had no troops on the river at all.
If the warship and the enemy soldiers had not headed towards the pontoon bridge on the right wing, what would have been their plan?
A cold northwest wind was howling in the sky, and the Wu army's warships came from the west with sails set. They followed the wind and the current and came very quickly. It didn't take long before they drifted to the right wing of Zhongzhou.
At this moment, there was a heartbreaking sound of wood breaking in the wind. The enemy ship hit the iron cone on the river! One after another, warships entered the water and slowly began to capsize. Even though many Wu soldiers were not wearing armor,
He is good at water, but when people jump into the cold and biting river water, you can imagine the feeling.
In winter, the river surface is narrow, and the area is divided by Zhongzhou. The water on the right side, which is not too wide, is noisy, and many Wu soldiers fell into the water.
There were still many enemy ships that broke through the iron cone array and rushed towards the pontoon bridge. The enemy must have discovered the iron cables in front of the pontoon bridge in advance. Some ships hurriedly lowered their sails and anchored and stopped. There were also some ships that were blown directly to the iron cables by the wind, and their bows were blown.
, the mast hit the iron chain, the wood cracked, and the warship seemed to have been cut horizontally.
The catapults on the Central Continent and the North Shore made the sound of tendons rebounding, the "bang bang bang" sound of the impact when the pole stopped, and the firelight flickered in the sky.
After the tung oil cans wrapped in oil-soaked linen were ignited, they flew towards the river one after another. The black smoke from the burning tung oil formed arc-shaped tracks. Many of the flames fell into the water and were extinguished, but the ships blocked by the iron ropes
They started getting shot one after another.
The defenders on the pontoon also lit rockets wrapped in oilcloth and launched them onto the river.
Before the two armies were engaged in close combat, the shouts were already shaking the sky, and the rockets and burning oil tanks in the sky were like lights all over the sky, which was extremely spectacular.
After an enemy ship was hit, there was no time to extinguish the fire, and a raging fire soon broke out. The fire was so bright that it was dazzling even in the daytime. It was piled with firewood, reeds and tung oil. It was probably the fire ship trying to burn the pontoon.
But after being stopped by the iron rope and iron cone, it was ignited in advance, and there was a loud sound of explosion | burning sound from above.
Several enemy soldiers were covered in fire and jumped into the river like burning men.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the Wu Bing warships behind them lowered their sails and rowed their oars to retreat to the west.
The Wei soldiers on Zhongzhou were overjoyed. Looking at the fire on the river, they waved their weapons and cheered loudly as if it were a festival.
The sound of "dong dong dong..." the drum beat also stopped for the time being. Sun Li, who was beating the war drum with drumsticks himself, also stopped and watched the scene.
However, Sun Li did not celebrate with the soldiers. He looked to the north and listened to the roaring in the distance.
Even though Zhongzhou was noisy at this time, the roar in the south of Jiangling City could still be heard, which was the loud noise of large trebuchet shells falling to the ground. The Wei army had obviously not yet broken through the city, otherwise they would not have used trebuchets.
Sun Li looked at the enemy ships that had temporarily retreated, and immediately made a decision. He sent people to the Chinese army to ask for orders to retreat to the north of the Yangtze River, and re-set up a defense line at the entrance of the Mianshui River to defend it across the river.
Bu Chan came to destroy the pontoon bridge. Although he was repelled once, he would be able to destroy the iron cones and iron cables in the river sooner or later. Moreover, at this time, the eastern defense line had been broken through by Lu Kang coming from the direction of Xiakou. Sun Lijun continued
It is no longer of much use to defend the perimeter of the western front, and shrinking the defense is more suitable for the situation at this time.