The soldiers of Yuan's army on the city wall looked for cover and dodge amidst the generals' scoldings, but there were still casualties. Some were hit by stone bullets and were turned into flesh and bones on the spot! Some had their towers smashed down.
Some of them were injured by rocks in the corner, and some even screamed and fell from the city wall fortifications, being shattered to pieces.
A moment of catapults and trebuchet salvos left shocking marks on the walls of the west, north and slightly near east city. This slinging attack was not Jiang Qin's exploratory attack on the first day.
The number of trebuchets and catapults has tripled, and the attack distance has also been extended a lot. Stone bullets can now easily hit the city wall fortifications, arrow stacks, and city towers are all immune to attack.
But after all, the main city wall of Shouchun has gone through the painstaking efforts of several generations. When Yuan Shu came to this place, he even made it his capital. He reinforced the various sections of Shouchun's city defense to make it not only majestic but also strong. Although some corners of the city were smashed,
However, the main body of the city wall suffered almost no damage.
Cao Jun's hurling of stones roared for a full meal before finally coming to rest. The defenders on the city wall fortifications tentatively stood up. Seeing that the opponent's attack had stopped, the generals immediately shouted and urged the soldiers to return.
Go to your post and prepare to accept the enemy's siege infantry.
Ji Ling's forehead was bleeding. His brow bone had been broken by a piece of rock during the bombardment. Now one of his eyes was covered with blood. His normally generous face was full of ferocious murderous intent. He raised his long sword and opened it.
Roared: "Fight back..."
A new round of catapult attacks on the ground behind the West City wall has just been set up. At this moment, large giant crossbows are also ready on the towers on the wall.
Ji Ling gave the order, and the defenders' counterattack immediately began enthusiastically.
The stone bullets whistling in the sky were heading towards the array of Cao's army outside the city. Ji Ling made an accurate decision. He did not pursue the ability of their stone throws to kill the enemy soldiers on a large scale. He fired most of the stone throwers
The attack target is Cao Jun's catapult array!
Stone bullets fell all over the sky for a while, knocking down some of Cao's trebuchet arrays that were too far forward. Many trebuchets were hit by the stone bullets fired by Yuan Jun in the city, and immediately burst into pieces, and some soldiers dispersed screaming.
open.
While Cao Jun made adjustments to adapt, they also began to fight back. The two sides fired stones at each other, and the stone bullets whizzed back and forth in the sky. From time to time, the soldiers could be heard screaming and howling, and blood and flesh were flying everywhere.
This exchange of bombardments lasted for about half an hour. The soldiers responsible for firing stones inside and outside the city were either injured or killed, and the survivors were so tired that they could hardly lift their arms.
Shouchun is known as the most powerful city in Yangzhou, and the defensive equipment on the city wall is naturally sufficient. However, there are very few catapults in the city, and the ammunition may not be sufficient. The originally stored stone bullets were not many, and they were wasted in vain by Yuan Yin's demonstrations.
Although Ji Ling ordered all the houses near the city wall to be demolished two days ago and replenished with stones, after all, these stone bullets were not polished and were projected. If they hit, it would be fine. If they missed the target, it would be fine.
It was wasted. Some of them were even too small and too light in weight to disintegrate in mid-air. Unlike Cao Jun's stone bullets, which were all polished into circles, even if they hit the ground and fell on the ground, there would still be no damage to the city defense.
It can be rolled and bombarded to cause casualties.
The stone-throwing attacks from both sides continued until midnight, when Cao Jun began to use artificial fire bombs coated with oil.
Those fire bombs coated with oil fell on the city defenses, and the burning stone fragments cracked and splashed out. The flames immediately spread and burned when they encountered any combustible material. Once the oil fire spread, water poured it on
The fire is not extinguished and can only be extinguished by covering it with sand and gravel.
Immediately, I saw fires igniting with roars everywhere on the fortifications of Shouchun City, and some stone bullets fell behind the city wall, which also immediately caused a fire.
Although Ji Ling had already expropriated all the houses near the city wall and moved the people away, after all, many buildings in the city were made of wood and stone. Once the fire spread and the wood burned, it would not be easy to put it out.
Fortunately, although the garrison in the city was limited, it had a large population. The many civilian men Ji Ling had recruited a few days ago were now put to use. They were assigned to carry buckets of sand, soil and water back and forth. They worked hard for half a night and finally attacked Cao Jun's round of fire bombs.
Got through it.
"Hold on!" Ji Ling stood on the tower and shouted, not caring about the stone bullets whizzing by above his head. He raised his sword and roared: "The opponent's fire oil is limited, and their attack will not last long!".
Ji Ling, who had been shouting at the top of his lungs all night, could no longer hoarse his voice, but he still stood on the tower and refused to go down to the city to rest. Ji Ling had a high prestige among Yuan's army, and he personally supervised the formation. Yuan's soldiers suffered
Great encouragement. Although they were bombarded by Cao's army all night, their morale was still high under Ji Ling's encouragement.
"The cavalry from Yuzhou is about to arrive, and Guo Gong, the governor of Yuzhou, is also on the way. His 100,000 troops will arrive soon! The reinforcements from generals Chen Lan and Lei Bo are already close to the capital. Brothers, guard the capital.
, you will have the opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune..."
Sometimes white lies on the battlefield can give many people the confidence to live. As a half-soldier, Ji Ling understands this truth very well. He does not think he has done anything wrong. He has inspired many people.
The possibility of survival. As for the 100,000 troops he mentioned, it was a fiction.
At dawn, the stone-throwing and bombardment between the two sides finally came to an end, and Cao Jun began to tentatively let the cavalry and infantry cooperate to launch an siege.
In the first wave of Cao's army's attack on the west city, an attack team of a thousand people held up shields and tried to approach the west city gate. They were quickly shot back by bows and arrows and crossbows from the city defense, causing hundreds of casualties.
Immediately in the afternoon of the same day, Jiang Qin and Lu Qian, who had gathered a large number of Cao's army's land and water troops near the east and north cities, also began their first joint attack.
A large number of Cao's troops carried ladders, ropes with iron hooks and other tools for climbing the city, and launched an afternoon's fierce attack on the east and north cities.
The result of this afternoon's fierce battle was the victory of the Shouchun defenders. After paying more than a thousand lives, Cao Jun only attacked the city defense twice, but failed to form an effective breakthrough. In the end, he was repulsed by the tenacious Yuan Jun.
Cao's army climbed onto the city wall and defended the two cities.
But the strange thing is that Cao Jun never launched a large-scale attack on the South Gate. They only carried out symbolic stone-throwing attacks when all Cao Jun launched an attack. They did not conduct an infantry siege, even if it was tentative. The upper echelons of Cao Jun
It seems that they have forgotten the information that there is a weak point in Nancheng, which makes the soldiers inside and outside the city think in their hearts that Nancheng will not be Cao's army's main attack point.
No matter what the generals of Cao's army thought, good news came to the palace in Shouchun City at dusk that day. Yuan Shu woke up!
Yuan Shu woke up slowly, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a very haggard Feng and an eager Yuan Yin. This is Yuan Shu's dormitory, and Yuan Yin usually doesn't have the chance to stay in Yuan Shu's dormitory for so long. But
Today's situation is special. Yuan Yin no longer even needs a report from the palace servants, so he can go straight to the various harems of Yuan Shu.
"Brother, you're awake. Cao Jun is really here. It's true. Thirty thousand soldiers and horses have gathered outside the city! There are more troops coming from behind..." Yuan Yin grabbed the opportunity before Feng could greet Yuan Shu.
, report a fact to Yuan Shu first.
"Ouke, Ouke, cough..." Yuan Shu, who did not want to face this fact, obviously still had a blockage in his throat. He wanted to express his anger, but he couldn't form a sentence and could only say "Ouke, cough" randomly.
Making some sounds.
"Uncle, can you wait until the emperor feels better?" Feng said to Yuan Yin with a pleading look in his eyes, while stretching out his jade hand to help Yuan Shu calm his rapidly rising chest.
Yuan Yinli ignored Feng's pleas and continued to report the battle situation: "According to the scouts' reports, Yinling has really fallen..."
"Qiao...Where is Qiao Rui?"
Yuan Yin, who was about to throw out all the news that Yuan Shu liked to hear or not, was shocked when he heard that Yuan Shu had said a whole sentence through his teeth. After being stunned, he said: "Someone saw it.
He has followed Cao Jun to the outside of Shouchun City. I'm afraid...it's true..."
"Damn...cough cough...these people deserve to die..." Yuan Shu gasped and roared. When he said this, he was so strong that his head left the pillow, but after he finished speaking, he slammed it back again.
.
"Your Majesty, calm down..." Yuan Shu muttered this sentence repeatedly while Yuan Yin and Feng were comforting him.
But because of this, he failed to hear Yuan Yin's continued hints over there. After he comforted him with "Brother, take care of the dragon body!", he continued: "Brother, Cao Zhi really wants to destroy us this time.
Brother, you should make plans early! Yuzhou... There is no news from Yuzhou yet, brother, do you think we should..."
"Your Majesty, General Ji Lingji has an urgent military report!"
Just when Yuan Yin was hinting whether Yuan Shu was going to give up Shouchun and go to Yuzhou to avoid the limelight, an eunuch who served in the palace panicked and ran into Yuan Shu's dormitory to preach.
"Why did he come here to guard Xicheng City? No..."
When Yuan Yindai wanted to stop Ji Ling's request for an audience, Yuan Shu spoke hoarsely: "Xuan..."
Yuan Yin unexpectedly glanced back at Yuan Shu on the hospital bed, coughed twice to cover up his embarrassment, and stepped aside without making a sound.
Immediately, the sound of armor scraping together could be heard in the huge dormitory, and Ji Ling, who was dressed in armor and with blood stains on the iron plates, walked quickly into the dormitory.
"Your Majesty, Ji Ling!" Ji Ling, who had a bandage around his forehead and a voice as hoarse as a duck's quacking, knelt down ten feet away from Yuan Shu's bed as soon as he saw Yuan Shu.
"Ji Ling, how is the battle going?" When Yuan Shu saw Ji Ling, he didn't have time to take stock of his injury and asked about the battle situation.
"Thanks to Your Majesty Hongfu, Cao's army violently attacked our city for two days, but we were able to block it. Our city's four gates were not lost, and more than a thousand enemies were wiped out!" Ji Ling kowtowed and reported back. After speaking, he straightened up his upper body, with triumph in his eyes.
He looked victorious. At the same time, he glanced at Yuan Yin aside, his eyes full of contempt.