The battle in Dingxiang City has reached its final moment. Both sides know that whoever loses this battle will be in disaster.
Li Jing lost. Just as he vowed, he would live and die with Dingxiang City, and the price he paid was his life!
If King Zuo Xian had not captured Dingxiang City, what awaited him would be the censure of the entire Western Turks and the Khan's punishment. Although his fate would not be death, living would sometimes be more painful than death.
Therefore, both sides did not allow themselves to fail. The battle became intense at the beginning, and Li Jing pulled everyone up without reservation.
Everyone knew that as long as they persisted for one more day, reinforcements would arrive, so everyone tried their best to block the Western Turks' attack. The wooden lumps were thrown down as if they were free, and the artillery never stopped from the beginning of the battle. The barriers were smashed down even harder.
This effect is significant. Since the battle started in the morning, the Western Turkic army has never climbed the city wall, and the losses can be said to be heavy.
And Dingxiangcheng is not without paying a price. Their price is that the wood knots are consumed very quickly. Although the ammunition of the artillery is sufficient, the artillery is somewhat unable to support it. Due to the long-term uninterrupted firing, the barrel of the artillery is very hot. It can fry eggs. According to Luo Zhang's explanation, such artillery can no longer be used, otherwise there will be a danger of exploding the barrel.
Luo Zhang also described the consequences of the bombardment, but how could he worry about so much now? As long as he could hold on until the end of the battle, the bombardment would be bombardment. Li Jing and the others no longer had time to think about it that much.
In addition to wooden knots and artillery, although there were a lot of rolling wooden fortifications and stones in the past, they were consumed a lot in the war for several days. Now, they are almost exhausted. Without the rolling wooden fortifications and stones, the enemy can easily climb the city wall. , the consequence of this is hand-to-hand combat on the city wall.
Hand-to-hand combat is not scary. What is scary is that they have too few soldiers, how can they withstand an army of hundreds of thousands.
The only thing that was sufficient was the crossbow arrows. With the crossbow arrows, the Western Turks who were attacking the city could be temporarily suppressed.
But you have crossbows, and the Western Turks also have them. You suppress me, and I suppress you too. Both sides go back and forth, causing extremely heavy casualties.
As for boiling oil and kerosene, they were depleted not long after the battle started.
In this regard, Li Jing was powerless and could only try his best to coordinate the deficiencies everywhere and do his best to defend the city.
But at this time, his subordinates came to report that all the enemies on the west wall had retreated, which made Li Jing stunned for a while.
"What happened? Did the enemies on the west wall really retreat?" Li Jing asked.
"Retreat, all retreat. They fought fiercely at the beginning, but for some reason they all retreated. I saw with my own eyes that they not only retreated, but also broke away from the Western Turkic army, as if they were running away!" explained.
This news stunned Li Jing for a while, but it was good news for him. He immediately ordered the artillery from the West City Gate to be mobilized to the East City Wall to resist the enemy's fierce attack. Muzoda was also mobilized to the North City Wall. , to supply the crazy consumption of wooden lumps here.
However, the soldiers did not move for the time being and still guarded the west wall to prevent the enemy from playing tricks.
The same news reached the ears of King Zuoxian immediately.
When he heard the report from his men, Changsun Chong led the foreigners away from the battlefield and headed west, he immediately said angrily: "What does Changsun Chong want to do? If he doesn't attack the city well, where does he want to go?"
"Come here, come and capture Changsun Chong. If you want to see him alive, if you want to see his body if you die!!!"
Since Changsun Chong and the foreigners left the battlefield, there was no enemy on the west wall. King Zuo Xian could not spare any troops to attack, so he had to abandon the west wall and attack the north and east walls with all his strength.
However, because all the resources of the west city wall were mobilized to the north and east walls, the attack of the Western Turks was not smooth. Even if they risked their lives, they would only get to the bottom of the city wall at most, and it was completely impossible to climb up the city wall. As for attacking the city After arriving at the city gate, the chisel was doused with kerosene, and a roaring fire broke out.
These news kept coming back to King Zuo Xian, making him furious!
"Attack, attack! Hundreds of thousands of people can't attack the city. What do you do for food? If you can't attack again, you all come to see me!!!" King Zuo Xian said on the road.
Not to mention, after these generals left, the generals who had been sent to capture Changsun Chong came back in embarrassment.
"Your Majesty, Changsun Chong ran away. The people we went to catch him were all killed by the aliens. If I hadn't fought my way out of the siege, I might not have been able to come back. Those aliens rebelled! Everyone listened to Changsun Chong!!! "
"What!!!"
