A few days later, the south of Baozhong City seemed to have turned into a ruins with broken walls.
The parapets and wall stacks on the city were heavily damaged by stone bullets, and the bricks outside the rammed earth also collapsed in pieces. There were several mounds of earth outside the city wall, which looked like piles of earth and rocks after the city wall collapsed; from a distance, the entire
The city wall was in a state of disarray.
Groups of Wei soldiers attacked along the slope of the mound. The city was crowded with people and swords and guns were brandished.
The defenders resisted tenaciously. The passages between the two or three earthen fortifications were relatively narrow, so the two armies blocked the city wall and fought in a melee. With the battle lines stalemate, the fighting area became increasingly crowded.
The timid people were crying with their mouths wide open, and the brave soldiers shouted "kill" and roared in the huge noise, but no one could advance or retreat!
The place was too narrow and the crowd was so crowded that the formation could not be maintained. The Wei soldiers in front could not rotate. So after fighting for a while, the troops could only retreat towards the city. The crowd subsided, and there were corpses scattered everywhere, as well as people who had been beaten.
The wailing wounded soldiers were dragged away.
The Wei army retreated to the trenches in the distance. After a while, the loud "boom" sound sounded again, like thunder, and huge earth pellets and stone bullets visible to the naked eye fell from the sky!
The Han army defenders were still repairing the fortifications in the gap in the slope despite the shelling. As soon as the two soldiers moved the carbine and thorns, an earthen bomb fell into the gap, and screams broke out. The carbine and the earthen bomb turned into
It was broken into pieces, and the earth and wood were mixed with dust flying.
A bed crossbow not far away was also hit by a cannonball. The heavy bed crossbow actually rolled and flew into the air. After a while, it fell into the city and made a roar.
After a long time, the trebuchet attack ceased again. The dirt slope outside the city was dazzling with light, and where the kerosene was poured, a fire took hold, with black smoke billowing from all sides.
Countless Wei soldiers appeared at the bottom of the city again, with soldiers pushing wheelbarrows in front, covering the earth and extinguishing the fire. Crossbow soldiers swarmed into the ditch under the wall, and the sound of "crackling" strings was heard continuously from up and down the city wall.
The fighting continued until evening. However, the fighting did not stop. The Wei army just changed a group of people to attack the city.
Taking advantage of the dim light left after the sun went down, guard Fu Qian stood on the dilapidated tower and once again looked at the wilderness diagonally across the Baoshui River. His eyes widened and he kept thinking in his mind: reinforcements, when will the reinforcements arrive?
Night is gradually falling, and there are bonfires everywhere on the ground outside the city, which are brighter than the stars in the sky in autumn and winter. The swimming torches look like fire dragons. The figures under the light are not reinforcements, they are all rotated up.
Cao’s army and horses!
A large number of Cao Jun soldiers attacked the city wall again! Even though both sides had a large number of torches for lighting, the firelight was to the sunlight during the day, just like fireflies to the bright moon, and visibility was still insufficient.
The soldiers, who were already miserable, were even more difficult to control by the generals. The fighting scene was even more chaotic than during the day!
"Fuck!" With a loud roar, a Cao general suddenly held a halberd in both hands and rushed over with all his might. With a "clang" sound, the halberd penetrated the armor of a Han soldier. The Han soldier screamed in pain and couldn't help but
He fell backwards and was pushed straight into the crowd behind him.
General Cao put away his halberd and swept it left and right. There were several more "ding-clang" heavy metal collision sounds. In the dim light, sparks were vaguely visible! A Han soldier was hit hard in the leg and screamed in agony.
He knelt down on one knee. But immediately Han soldiers rushed up from both sides, slashing with spears and ring-headed knives, and shouted "dangdang" to greet General Cao.
Cao's soldiers behind the general were also in a hurry and rushed forward, trying to rescue the general. The two sides slashed and hit each other desperately. The swords and armor reflected the light of the fire, the crisp metal sound, and the heavy wooden shields hitting each other "ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
There was a loud bang.
"Ah!" A soldier, Cao Cao, was hit on the head and was stunned. At this time, blood flowed to his eyes, and he blinked. But before he could react, he was immediately hit by someone.
Cao's soldier fell to the ground. His ears were facing the mouths of the Han soldiers, and then a loud scream of "haha" sounded in his ears, which could deafen people's ears!
The fighting lasted for a long time, and the Han army gradually fell behind. The chaotic battle line continued to push along the city wall. From behind the Han army crowd, loud shouts came: "Hold on! Hold on!"
However, in the melee and fighting, it was useless to let anyone shout his throat out. In the crowd of Han soldiers, people kept running towards the back, and the battle line quickly collapsed.
At this time, a huge noise of "clatter" came from the stone steps of the city wall in the distance. The sounds of countless footsteps and the sound of armor were mixed together. A group of Han infantry came up from the slope of the stone steps as reinforcements! There was a flash of torch fire on the passage.
move.
However, Cao Jun opened up space on the city wall, and more people rushed up along the earth fortifications. Groups of soldiers had already occupied a large area of the city.
Cao Jun's skirmishers in front began to retreat, and the spear formations behind them gradually revealed their lineup. One of the generals shouted: "Victory is in front of us, and those who retreat will be killed!"
"Victory! Victory..." Everyone in Cao's army shouted, and their morale was greatly boosted. The spears in the two rows in front were the first to put down their spears, and the team slowly moved forward.
The newly reinforced Han army rushed away in column, but the offensive was quickly blocked. The column was unable to break through the enemy's dense spears in two or three rows!
The two armies could only attack each other with long weapons in the middle and approach slowly. On the contrary, on the two wings, the soldiers of both sides arrived first and started fighting first.
Amid the deafening sound of killing, the Han army's formation failed to win the battle at the front and was squeezed backward again. Once the formation began to retreat, people kept taking advantage of the chaos to escape, and the law enforcement team behind them could not stop it, because most of them were just pushed back.
Pushed and forced to retreat.
At this time, there was a sound of horse hoofbeats in the city wall, and Fu Qian came with his troops and hurried over.
The general looked up and saw that Cao soldiers were everywhere on the city wall. He immediately advised: "Too many enemy soldiers are on the wall. It is impossible to drive them down! General, break out."
Fu Qian also quickly saw the situation clearly, but he raised his sword and said angrily: "The real man is wrapped in horse leather and is only dead!"
The general next to him reached out and grabbed Fu Qian's reins again, and said in a deep voice: "General Wei's troops are still near Beishan. The general should put the Han country first, save his wealth, and continue to fight against Cao's army."
The generals exhorted one after another, and the man next to him simply yanked Fu Qian's reins and turned the horse around. Then he waved his whip behind the horse without any explanation and shouted: "General, go first! Go and pass on the general's order and order all the ministries."
Then break out."
"Hiss..." Fu Qian's horse was in pain and ran towards the north. The soldiers also turned their horses' heads and kicked their horses to follow.
Fu Qian finally did not rein in his horse. He kept looking back and looking at the scene on the walls of the southern city.
An important town with perfect city defense will usually only fall when the troops are exhausted and the arrows and food are exhausted. But Baozhong City was forcibly breached. Until now, Fu Qian was still very unwilling; moreover, he was ashamed and embarrassed. Annoyed, I always feel that I haven’t performed well. After all, the defenders in the city still have a large number of troops and there is still some strength left!
...However, from ancient times to the present, as long as the city defenders lose the city gates and walls, the battle is basically over, and there are almost no defenders organizing street battles in the city.
It was reported that the Shu army had rushed out of the west and north of the city and were breaking out in all directions. Qin Liang had not surrounded Baozhong City before. In addition to preventing the defenders from fighting to the end, it was also because the city was close to water and it was inconvenient to be surrounded on all sides.
The war is not over yet, and the blocking and pursuit battles will continue.
It was late at night and the line of sight was unclear. No one knew how far the victory could be extended. However, Qin Liang's campaign goal was to capture Baozhong, not to completely annihilate Fu Qian's tribe.
Waves of cheers came from the south wall, and the soldiers' shouts also came one after another. Qin Liang dismounted and watched, feeling relieved.
A group of people led the horses and continued walking towards Baozhong City, walking through the narrow wooden planks between the ditches.
Wang Chen's voice said with emotion: "At the beginning, General Qin gathered tens of thousands of people in Baozhong, exposing more than a hundred miles of grain roads. With the rise of power, Lecheng and Nanzheng also had to be guarded by separate troops. Even though our army had a hundred thousand troops , there was also the worry of insufficient troops. I was worried that the main force would be wasted in Baozhong, and would eventually be forced to retreat due to lack of food and grass. Unexpectedly, the general used his bow and attacked Baozhong by force!"
Zhong Hui, who was next to him, echoed: "Pu Yuan also believes that the attack on the big city was not the result of ten months." He then looked back at the trenches around him, "But the general's siege method is really novel. How did he come up with it?"
Qin Liang couldn't answer this question and could only respond: "We have to find a way to break through."
Zhong Hui nodded and said: "Our army's previous arrangements are really difficult to sustain for a long time. Fortunately, the general is invincible in every battle and can conquer every attack!"
Qin Liang couldn't help but turn his head and glance at Zhong Hui, feeling that he seemed to have exaggerated too much, but he didn't see anything strange from Zhong Hui's expression.
But there was a reason for it. Qin Liang didn't think it was strange to attack the city by advancing through trenches. People at this time had never seen it before.
With the accumulation of war experience in later generations, there are many war cases in various eras, and the theory can be used for reference, but Qin Liang could not explain it to Zhong Hui and others.
For example, after the emergence of bastions in modern times, because they were very useful, for a while, modern countries were covered with bastions, and wars turned into protracted confrontations. Later, the Frenchman Vauban summed up a siege system, which was called "Voban Siege Method" contains a lot of content about advancing through trenches.
Although today's weapons and tactics are different, Qin Liang discovered that with long-range firepower in sieges, trench fortifications would still be effective, as long as the specific shape of the trench was changed.
At this time, everyone had passed the narrow plank. Qin Liang stopped, put his feet in the stirrups, and climbed onto the horse vigorously. The attendants and soldiers also mounted their horses one after another and continued to move forward. Only Baozhong City was visible in front of them. There was a firelight above and below, there were people everywhere, and there was a lot of noise from all sides. It has probably never been so lively before.