Chapter 812: Luoyang Offensive and Defensive Battle (Part 2)
"Target: City head, release!"
The two armies of the Yue Kingdom were extremely sophisticated in their tactical movements, and they quickly reached the attack position. However, upon hearing the order from Li Su, who was in charge of covering, dozens of trebuchets and large ballistae that had been prepared were launched one after another, and huge stone volleys were launched.
The thick iron arrows roared through the sky and hit the city head like a bolt from the blue.
"Target: Enemy trebuchet position, release!"
Of course, not only the King of Yue's army had trebuchets, but also the garrison at the top of the city. Not only did they exist, but there were a lot of them. If nothing else, when the Hexi army was still weak, it relied on these tricks that were regarded by the authentic Confucian disciples as cunning tricks.
The mechanical device forcibly defeated the powerful Tubo army. Although artillery came out later and replaced the heavy and inefficient trebuchets, the Hexi Army's ability to build trebuchets was still there. All the guards of the East Palace were Hexi
The old man in the army had built many large trebuchets in the past few days. How could he sit back and watch the Yue King's army show off its power indiscriminately? Almost at the same time that Li Su, the leader of the Yue King's army, gave the shooting order, he was responsible for
The newly promoted captain Fang Xiaoshan, who was commanding the trebuchet position, also roared and issued the shooting order. In an instant, various types of trebuchets arranged on the top of the city and in the urn behind the city wall started to move. More than 150 trebuchets were fired.
The huge stone roared out, covering the sky and hitting the trebuchet position of the Yue Wang Army. The sound was obviously several times more powerful than that of the Yue Wang Army.
"Boom, boom..." [
Dark clouds composed of two pieces of stone crossed each other in the sky. Several stones collided fiercely, and instantly exploded into a rain of gravel. However, most of the stones were in the way and rushed towards their respective goals.
, in an instant, there was a burst of miserable howling sounds above and below the city, rubble was splashed everywhere, and flesh and blood flew everywhere. The situation was really horrifying.
"Put it on, let it go again!"
Although the large trebuchets built by the Yue King's army were quite powerful, they were not only smaller in number than the defenders, but also had a shorter range. They could only barely bombard the defenders on the city wall. For the large trebuchets huddled behind the urn city
There was nothing they could do about the trebuchet. Moreover, the defenders had already adjusted their shooting standards, and their accuracy was much better than that of the Yue King's army. After the first round of the battle between the two sides, the defenders only had
One trebuchet was completely destroyed and two were scratched, but it did not affect the battle. On the other hand, the King of Yue Army was in bad luck. Not only four trebuchets were destroyed, many of them stayed at the starting position.
The soldiers were affected by the defenders' artillery fire, and more than two hundred of them were killed or injured in vain. When this situation happened, Li Su was so angry that his nose almost twisted. He yelled and ordered the guards to suppress the panicked trebuchets.
Officers and soldiers on the battlefield.
"River filling truck, get on!"
Throwing, and then throwing, after several rounds of trebuchets from both sides, the Yue King's army was completely at a disadvantage. Not only did they fail to achieve the goal of suppressing the defenders at the city head, but they were beaten to a miserable state by the defenders. They were suppressed before their eyes.
Hope, Gan Zhuangwu, who was responsible for the first round of charging into the city, was impatient and didn't want to wait any longer, so he gave the order to attack with a dark face!
"Dong dong..."
As soon as the general gave the order, the drums in the front line of the Yue King's army started to beat loudly. Under the pressure of the supervising team, more than 2,000 civilians had to push forward with heavy river-filling trucks. At the same time, two groups of 1,500 people each
The famous cavalry also began to slowly press forward, apparently intending to use cavalry shooting to cover the offensive of our own river-filling troops.
It's quite satisfactory, nothing outstanding!
Although the siege battle had just begun, Li Xian, who had clearly seen Li Zhen's formation, was not only not nervous, but also relaxed. For no other reason than that Li Xian understood Li Zhen's entire strategic thinking.
It is just relying on the superiority of troops to launch wave after wave of strong attacks. Although it is not wrong, it is not surprising and magical. It seems that even if these offensives are stronger, the defenders can easily handle them.
, Obviously, Li Xian's guess before the war was indeed correct. Li Zhen is really just a rookie who has never been in a battle. He only knows how to copy the regulations. It seems that there is really nothing to win against such an opponent.
In view of the huge pressure, Li Xian didn't bother to think too much and simply handed over the command authority to Zhang Mingwu. He just stood silently at the city gate tower and watched the battle at leisure.
"Stand up your shield!"
Zhang Mingwu became famous because of his defense. In Hexi, with less than 2,000 troops, he blocked the attack of tens of thousands of Tibetan troops and defended the small town of Panhan, thus buying precious time for Li Xian to mobilize various troops.
, when he saw the cavalry of the King of Yue Army attacking, he immediately guessed the plan of the King of Yue Army, snorted disdainfully, waved his hand, and gave the order loudly.
"Shoot the arrow, shoot the arrow!"
Two cavalry units of the Yue King's Army rushed very fast, and within a short time they were already on the edge of the city moat. However, two loud roars were heard from the cavalry formation. The two cavalry units were going back and forth, constantly raining down arrows on the top of the city. The momentum was overwhelming.
It's not small, but it's hard to help the defenders' shield array. Apart from making the shield array crackle with shots, it's not a very commendable result. It just seems to suppress the defenders and pave the way for the smooth progress of our own river-filling truck troops.
Created a great fighter plane.
"It is said that Li Xian is good at fighting as a child, but it doesn't matter if you look at him alone. Hey, it's just a deserved reputation!"
Seeing that his own river-filling troops were progressing smoothly and were already close to the moat, but the defenders had no chance of counterattack. Li Zhen, who immediately rushed to the center of the army, couldn't help but feel very proud. He stroked his long beard on his chest with a smile and shook his head in a derogatory way.
Li Xian was given a hand.
"Father, Shengming, that kid just won a few battles by luck. He has mediocre abilities. How can he defeat the might of my army of more than 100,000 men? The city will be destroyed soon!"
"Your Majesty said it well, we will break into the city today. This will be a big event in our life!"
"It's true. After entering the city, I'll wait until I get drunk!"
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Seeing that Li Zhen was so happy, Li Chong and many other generals surrounding him were so happy to praise her. But Chen Shuang was the only one who couldn't be happy. He opened his mouth with a sad expression, as if he wanted to say something, but then he arrived.
In the end, he still didn't say what he was going to do, not for any other reason, but because since the beginning of the war, Li Zhen seemed to be a different person, very headstrong, and could not listen to anyone else's words. For this reason, Chen Shuang continued to
Having hit the wall several times, I no longer dared to persuade him any more, I could only look at the city head full of worry.
"shoot!"
Li Zhen was obviously too happy. How could Zhang Mingwu be a capable person? He had already taken advantage of the shield formation to quietly lay a trap until the Yue Wang Army's river-filling troops approached the moat.
But after Zhang Mingwu roared, a gap suddenly opened in the originally tight shield formation, revealing two hundred and fifty Dong Palace guards who were densely arrayed. They aimed at the Yue King's river filling troops like a forest of serial crossbows.
It's a wild shot.
"Whizzing……"
The serial crossbows in the hands of the guards of the East Palace fired ten steel arrows at a time. Under such intensive shooting, 2,500 steel arrows shot like dark clouds into the unprepared formation of the Yue King's army filling the river. In an instant,
Then he shot the minzhuang of the car into hundreds of people. The remaining people were so frightened that they dared not stand still. They all panicked and fled back. No matter how many times they killed, beat and scolded them, they did not dare to look back.
Che, at this point, the Yue Wang Army's first wave of offensive has not even started yet, but it has been forced to a halt.
"Trash, tell Gan Zhuangwu, don't be afraid of losing your troops, go ahead and fill in the moat!"
Li Zhenzheng was smiling proudly. Suddenly, when he saw that his river-filling troops came back defeated like this, his face suddenly turned ugly. He waved his hand coldly and issued a death order bitterly.
Attack, attack again! Since Li Zhen had given the death order, Gan Zhuangwu did not dare to neglect it. After ordering to kill a dozen Minzhuang who had escaped the fastest, he ordered the supervising team to come forward with swords and escort the people to fill the river.
The troops rushed forward again, but as expected they were ransacked by a hail of arrows from the defenders. Even if the two cavalry units they sent tried their best to suppress it, they could not withstand the dense rain of arrows at the top of the city. They suffered heavy casualties.
, the offensive was forced to pause again, but Gan Zhuangwu, who was furious, refused to stop. He simply sent a thousand shield swordsmen and archers each to cover the progress of the river filling troops together with the cavalry, but they were defeated again.
After the trebuchets at the top of the city gave a desperate call, and after losing most of their troops, they finally built a dozen earthen embankments on the moat at the cost of human lives, opening a way for the ladder troops to approach the city wall.
"Army attack!"
Seeing that the embankment on the moat was completed, Gan Zhuangwu could not care less about his own heavy losses. He pulled out the horizontal knife from his waist, slashed forward with all his strength, and shouted the order to attack, but he heard a burst of passionate drums.
Amidst the sudden loud noise, three thousand infantrymen guarding ten siege ladders and more than twenty ladders rushed towards the moat.
"Every battle position is ready, target: enemy siege brigade, release!"
The defenders' trebuchets had already defeated the stubborn resistance of the Yue King's trebuchet troops. Although they paid a high price, nearly a hundred trebuchets of various types were still intact. At this time, when Gan Zhuangwu's troops saw Gan Zhuangwu's troops, they began to attack.
After a strong attack, Fang Xiaoshan did not dare to be careless. He roared and issued the order to counterattack. However, when he heard the loud sound of the machine's spring, a dense burst of rocks rose into the air again and unceremoniously smashed into the running people.
More than a hundred infantrymen of the King of Yue Army were immediately smashed into mud by huge rocks, but the rest kept their heads down and rushed forward regardless, and soon poured into the city along the embankment of the moat, first one by one ladder.
He stood upright and rolled over to the top of the city with all his strength. At the same time, under the movement of Minzhuang, ten heavy and heavy siege ladders slowly drove to a place not far from the moat. The most brutal offensive and defensive battle began.