After looking around the city with his clairvoyance, Jiang Liangping carefully folded up the clairvoyance and stuffed it into his pocket.
Then he took a deep breath and let it out slowly.
A tough battle.
Definitely a tough battle.
The Jin Army is powerful and has a profound foundation. The siege equipment alone is enough for Hejian City to drink a pot, not to mention the densely packed Jin Army soldiers who can't see the edge at a glance.
Chong chariots, ladders, trebuchets, floor chariots, large wooden curtains, trammel chariots, crash chariots, trench bridges, eight-oxen crossbows, and so on.
Countless siege engines are preparing to launch a fierce attack on Hejian City.
Those huge heavy siege equipment such as Linchong Chariots, etc., even if you look at them from a distance, you can see their huge figures, their height is almost the same as the river wall.
Jiang Liangping calmed down, walked down to the watchtower high on the city wall, and ordered the troops defending the city to prepare for defense.
The Jin army has many soldiers and siege equipment, but this does not mean that the Liberation Army has nothing.
In fact, the Hejian City itself is the strongest defensive weapon controlled by the Liberation Army. In addition to this defensive weapon, there are many others.
Individual crossbows, bed crossbows, trebuchets, firearms, rolling logs and stones, super large bronze tripods for heating hot water and cooking shit, defensive wooden signs, bumping poles, door-blocking knife carts, etc.
Even if these are not mentioned, the city gates have been renovated. In addition to the original city gate, an iron fence has also been arranged. Once the city gate is broken, the iron fence will be lowered and become the second city gate.
Hejian City also has all the defensive equipment that can be used. On the opposite side, there is the Jin Army who has almost all the siege equipment.
One attack and one defense, one spear and one shield, an unprecedented fierce offensive and defensive battle is about to begin.
Wan Yanliang woke up very early that day. After breakfast, Wan Yanliang walked out of his tent, took a breath of cold air, and felt that his spirit became clearer and clearer.
At four o'clock in the morning, the sky and the earth were clear. The Jin army's 20,000 siege troops were divided into four teams and completely surrounded Hejian City from four directions.
Wanyan Benjian still suggested the same old method, surrounding three and missing one, to reduce the fighting will of the defenders in the city.
But what Wan Yanliang meant was to apply extreme pressure first, then suddenly withdraw his strength, and then launch a fierce attack. This can greatly weaken the fighting will of the defenders in the city, and in this way, the defenders in the city can collapse faster. Siege efficiency is higher.
Wanyan Benjian didn't know who Wanyan Liang used this method to deal with, but could the method used to deal with one person be used to deal with an army?
Wanyan Ben saw that he had such doubts but did not dare to say anything, so he followed the emperor's wishes and ordered the army to implement this tactic.
The Jin army besieged the city from all sides, and a large number of siege equipment slowly approached Hejian City from all sides. The dark clouds pressing down on the city and the feeling that the city was about to be destroyed swept through the hearts of every soldier who defended the city.
Even so, they were not afraid.
Because they knew very well that there were twenty-nine other cities fighting with them. In addition, their leader Su Yonglin was leading a powerful field force ready to attack at any time.
They are not fighting alone, they are not hopeless, and they are not resisting in vain.
Their resistance is to achieve final victory.
As long as they can consume the Jin Army's strength, as long as they can consume the Jin Army's motivation to move forward, then everything will be worth it.
In Jiang Liangping's field of vision, he saw the Jin army constantly approaching the military obstacle area outside the moat.
This area is filled with all kinds of pits and horses. It is very difficult for large equipment to pass through here safely. It is necessary to fill in the pits and remove the horses to successfully advance within the scope of the moat, and then use the moat bridge to cross the moat. , and then launched an attack on the city wall.
During this period, the defenders on the city wall would not just watch and do nothing. From the beginning of the siege's attack, they had already entered the attack range of the defenders.
Long-range attack weapons such as bed crossbows and trebuchets have reached the point where they can launch attacks.
What are you waiting for?
Jiang Liangping gave an order, and Hejian City began a fierce attack.
At the beginning of this offensive and defensive battle, the Liberation Army took the lead in attacking, while the Jin Army had to fill the pits against the Liberation Army's attack and pave a way for subsequent troops to attack.
Of course, those who perform these tasks will not be elite main forces, but mostly cannon-fodder troops like the signed army. Sometimes they will even intimidate civilians into going into battle.
The supervising team behind threatened the signing troops with swords, guns and crossbows, forcing them to use their lives to pave a flesh-and-blood road for the warrior masters.
The soldiers who signed the army were helpless. Even if they were unwilling to step forward, they would be killed by the soldiers with knives or stabbed to death with guns. If they dared to retreat after entering the battle, they would be shot to death by arrows fired by the crossbowmen who were in a safe position behind them. .
They have no way out and no way forward. They are the most tragic group of people on the entire battlefield.
And this is just an insignificant microcosm of this cruel war.
Jiang Liangping gave an order, and the defenders on the city wall began to take action. They quickly loaded the crossbows and loaded the trebuchets.
Following the command of the commander, the bed crossbow was launched with a bang, piercing the air and rushing straight to the location of the Jin Army outside the city. It hit the ground hard and raised a cloud of dust. If you were lucky, the Jin soldiers could escape, but if you were unlucky, the Jin soldiers could escape. The bumps and bruises were all serious injuries at the beginning and death at the end.
The stone bullets launched by the trebuchet soared into the sky, drew a ferocious arc in the air, and fell hard to the ground with a loud bang, which shocked a large group of surrounding soldiers who could feel the violent vibration. .
Soldiers who are lucky can escape, but those who are unlucky will end up in a puddle of flesh, or they may have their legs, feet, or arms injured, and become a complete useless person.
The cripples in the feudal army are the most miserable, because the feudal army does not need cripples. No one will spend huge medical costs to save a cripple. It is better to be a dead man than to be a cripple.
Even if a kind-hearted comrade rescues him or a kind-hearted military doctor stops the bleeding, he will most likely freeze to death or starve to death later. The chance of survival is even lower than if he returns home alive after signing for the army.
These soldiers who signed the army did not understand why they had to suffer such suffering. It was obvious that they had done nothing wrong and they had not done anything harmful to nature.
However, on the battlefield, no one would care about this.
Once the Liberation Army's attack started, it would not stop easily. Thick arrows and huge stones effectively hindered the Jin Army's actions to fill the pits, causing a certain degree of chaos.
In panic, some soldiers forgot that going back would lead to death, so they turned around and ran back. As a result, they were killed by three or five crossbow arrows within a few steps.
If a group of people tried to run back, they were greeted by a hail of arrows.
The cold arrows told them that they could either successfully complete the mission and come back alive, or turn into a corpse. There was no third option.
They could only grit their teeth and return to the dangerous front line with great sorrow. Under the protection of limited wooden curtains, they filled the pits and pulled out the resisting horses. They exhausted their strength and fought for their lives in the rapid wind of the Liberation Army. They finished their work under a rain of blows.
During this period, they were continuously shot to death and smashed to death. Broken corpses and strange flesh were all over the ground, turning the land from a desolate yellow to a strange black.
As the color of the land changed, the military barrier area outside Hejian City was gradually destroyed.
The horses were uprooted, the caltrops were removed, the pits were filled, and the soldiers and civilians used their own flesh and blood as sacrifices, so that the way forward for the warriors was guaranteed.
But no one will appreciate them.
Absolutely not.
