Unfortunately, Zasang underestimated Dalong's ability as a skilled craftsman.
Although the Gumo garrison on the sand city immediately obeyed the order and hid behind the battlements to protect their bodies with shields, the number of garrison on the east wall was only ten thousand at most.
There are only about 3,000 soldiers who can carry shields. The eight-oxen crossbow has a range of 700 to 800 steps and can easily shoot the crossbow arrows into the city wall from a distance of only 300 steps.
The city wall of Shacheng is not the city wall built with blue bricks like Dalong's. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a city wall built with earthen blocks.
The crossbow arrows of the Eight Ox Crossbow fired directly on the battlements, causing cracks on the battlements. With a little force, the battlements would immediately roll down under the city walls!
Zasang stood on the city tower and listened to the continuous screams of the brothers on the city wall with a gloomy face. He wanted to order the archers to fight back, but after looking at the distance of the dragon army outside the city, he immediately gave up this unrealistic idea. !
"General, be careful!"
A soldier pushed Zha Sang away and fell behind the gate of the city tower. As soon as the two landed, there was a loud noise from the city tower, and rubble scattered and smoke billowed.
Zha Sang looked at the huge hole on the tower and the huge rocks rolling on the ground with lingering fear and shuddered.
If the soldiers hadn't pushed him away, he would have been turned into meat!
"Instruct our catapults to immediately attack Dalong's second wave of troops loading stones!"
"yes!"
However, what Zasang didn't expect was that the stones that flew out from the city wall fell to the ground and rolled down before even reaching half the distance. They stopped at a position more than fifty steps in front of the dragon army and lost power. !
Zasang looked at Dalong's catapult phalanx with an ugly face. His soldiers were using catapults from a high position but they couldn't even reach the edge of Dalong!
Ye Baotong asked the shield man guarding the Eight Bull Crossbowmen to withdraw. He was so nervous just now, but he didn't expect that the stones from Shacheng didn't even fly in front of him!
Ye Baotong glanced at the loaded Eight Oxen Crossbow and the catapult and gave the order again: "Let go, shoot ten rounds in three sections without interruption. Don't let the enemy troops in Shacheng poke their heads out!"
"Got the order!"
Liu Mingzhi looked at the Shacheng garrison in the telescope, who was suppressed by the catapult and eight ox crossbows and did not dare to show his head, and put down the telescope in his hand.
The reason why Liu Mingzhi attacked the city with an entire army was because he understood that all of Shacheng's 150,000 defenders could not gather at the East Gate. Attacking the city with an entire army was more advantageous than attacking separately. Han Peng's cavalry guarded Shacheng's defenders from leaving the city. If you harass yourself, you can command the army with all your strength to capture the east city gate!
"Jiang Lei, the guards on the sand city are now suppressed and unable to raise their heads to resist. The city gate is up to you!"
"yes!"
Jiang Lei held up the command flag and rushed towards the team of door-ramming vehicles. The commander and the soldiers pushed the catapult, which was all wrapped in iron armor except for a half-foot-sized catapult that could observe the enemy's situation, and quickly approached the east city gate!
When Zasang saw the door-ramming car approaching, he immediately ordered the catapult to turn around and attack the door-ramming car in reverse.
Liu Mingzhi smiled coldly: "Xiao Jin, order Cheng Kaifeng Buer to command the sword and shield soldiers and archers to cross cover and approach Shacheng. The arrow rain will cover 160,000 arrows, four in four bursts!"
"Got the order!"
Liu Mingzhi continued to look at the situation on the city wall of Shacheng. Liu Mingzhi was very pleased to see that the dragon soldiers were screaming continuously but not even a single hair was injured.
There was a loud bang and Liu Mingzhi hurriedly looked towards the northeast corner of Shacheng, not knowing what was going on.
When the dust cleared, Liu Mingzhi looked through the lens tube and discovered that the crenel at the northeast corner of Shacheng had been smashed by the stones from the catapult.
Liu Mingzhi thought for a moment: "Vice General Song!"
"exist!"
"Instruct Ye Baotong to turn half of the catapults to attack the collapsed battlements of the sand city with all their strength!"
"Got the order!"
"Du Yu!"
"exist!"
"Ning Chao was ordered to do everything possible to lead 150,000 auxiliary troops to pack soil in sacks and hand it over to Duan Buhuan, who led 30,000 cavalry to fill a road under the sand city for the cavalry to rush up the city wall... ."
"Commander, the city gate is broken!"
Liu Mingzhi was interrupted by the scout's words before he finished his sentence. He stared blankly in the direction of the city gate, feeling confused and at a loss.
He had spent three days and three nights forgetting sleep and food and made a tough battle plan before even half of the city gates were laid out?
"Commander, order the entire army to attack the city!"
Young Master Liu suddenly came to his senses: "Instruct Vice General Song to lead a team of 10,000 swordsmen to assist the swordsmen, shieldmen and archers to attack the city and attack the city wall!"
"Got the order!"
The sound of the attacking drums was heard, and the heavy cavalry cleared the way and attacked into the east gate of Shacheng. Then the infantry attacked the city like a swarm but assisted each other.
Young Master Liu was guarded by hundreds of personal guards and scratched his head in confusion and embarrassment, looking at the walls of Shacheng with a somewhat bewildered look!
"Du Yu!"
"Commander?"
"How long did we fight for? You told me that the battle actually went by very quickly, but I didn't notice it, right?"
Du Yu pressed his nose and pointed at the sundial car not far away: "It's not even half an hour away!"
"Isn't it...are the 150,000 defenders all idiots? How can you find the courage to confront me head-on when you can't resist him for half an hour?"
"Commander, didn't you yourself see it through the telescope? No one dared to show their head on the city wall covered by arrows and suppressed by the eight-oxen crossbow catapult. Isn't it natural to conquer the city?"
Liu Mingzhi stared blankly at the helpless faces of the 10,000 auxiliary soldiers not far away carrying siege ladders and couldn't help but rub his face. When did siege warfare become so easy!
The sound of fighting on the city wall brought Mr. Liu back to his senses.
"I am ordering the three armies to disarm and not to kill, not to plunder the people's property, not to have sex with women, and those who disobey the order will be subject to military law!"
"Got the order!"
Although Liu Mingzhi warned the army repeatedly not to do anything that violated his status as a soldier, he was afraid that some soldiers would become red-eyed and forget the order like a wild horse running wild!
"Put down your weapons, disarm and kill!"
"Put down your weapons, disarm and kill!"
"Put down your weapons, disarm and kill!"
Three thundering sounds rang out from the city wall and penetrated the sky.
Zasang watched in despair as the soldiers of the Great Dragon Kingdom stormed the city wall and surrounded him and his brothers. The scimitars in their hands fell weakly to the ground. Faced with the waves of attacks from the soldiers of the Great Dragon Kingdom, the fifty thousand soldiers unexpectedly They didn't even last for half an hour before the city was breached.
In Zha Sang's mind, he couldn't help but think of what Her Highness the Princess Gumo Rongrong told him, that his foolish loyalty would lead Gumo Country into the abyss.
Previously, Zha Sang didn't take it seriously, thinking that once the 200,000 reinforcements waiting for Wusun Kingdom arrived, they would be able to fight an evenly matched battle. It was only now that he realized how ridiculous his idea was.
"General Zhasang, Dalong is not as weak as you think. Brother Wang's one-sided words will destroy Gumo Kingdom!"
Zasang laughed miserably as Gu Mo Rongrong's words kept coming back to his mind: "Your Highness, I will regret not listening to your advice!"
Zasang looked at the countless Dalong soldiers standing inside and outside the city with complicated expressions. He watched helplessly as the flags on the city wall were replaced by the Dalong Dragon Banner and the flag of the Western Region Protectorate.
"Commander, our flag is raised!"
Young Master Liu had a complex expression on his face while fiddling with the hilt of the sword at his waist!
"What about the tough fight we promised?"
