Li Yuan's eyes caught sight of several burning boats stuck at the mouth of the river. Because the boats were small, they burned all the way after catching fire. When they got stuck at the mouth of the river, most of them were wrecks and the fire was not big. But Li Yuan suddenly With a flash of inspiration, he pointed at the seven approaching ships with great power and shouted an order.
"Attack the big ships with rockets and burn them!"
Li Yuan personally controlled a bed crossbow and braved the rain of arrows to shoot grease bag crossbow arrows at a Jin army ship on the river. Several bed crossbows immediately concentrated on shooting at the ship. All the Wuyue archers also turned their arrows and fired a round of rockets at the big ships. They saw flames rising from the two big ships, and soon they burned into a raging fire.
The Jin archers on the boat began to dive to escape one after another. Under Li Yuan's expectant gaze, the two unmanned large boats that burned into fireballs swept along the current and soon reached the mouth of the river. They were lying between the city walls. The barrier burned into a wall of fire.
Li Yuan laughed loudly and said: "Look how you still come in, now you are catching a turtle in an urn."
Only then did everyone understand Li Yuan's intention. It turned out that he wanted to use the two burning ships as a barrier to prevent the Jin troops on the small boats that were rushing in from entering the city. This was a good idea.
A wall of fire blocked the mouth of the river, and dozens of small boats behind were immediately dumbfounded. Of course, they could not rush into the fire, nor could they stop on the river to be beaten, so they turned around and began to escape from the range of their bows and arrows.
After the two large ships caught fire, the remaining five large ships also realized the danger and hurriedly retreated out of the range of the defenders. This wall of fire actually forced the opponent to stop the subsequent attack.
As soon as they retreated, the pressure on the city head suddenly eased, and the Wuyue defenders were able to shoot down the river calmly.
Li Yuan laughed loudly and said, "Damn it, I'd like to thank you for teaching me a fire wall defense method. Come here, ask the people in the city to carry firewood and use boats to add firewood to the fire. Don't let the fire go out. This A wall of fire needs to be kept burning to prevent the enemy from attacking. The archers continue to shoot on the city, and everyone else follows me to the river bank to kill the enemy. I am afraid that the people below will not be able to withstand it."
Li Yuan led more than a thousand soldiers to rush down the city wall, crossed the wide square and went straight to the dock. There was already a fierce battle there. Two groups of nearly 10,000 Jin troops swam into the city. The second group all came ashore from the west bank and took advantage of their numbers to advance to the dock on the river embankment.
Although the two thousand defenders led by Xing Zhidao and Fang Tongming began to occupy the advantageous location, after all, the opponent had too many people. At this moment, only a few hundred people were left to resist. As more and more Jin troops came ashore in the river, they had already I can't resist it anymore.
"Kill!" Li Yuan led more than 2,000 defenders to charge towards them, shouting killing sounds that shook the sky.
Xing Zhidao was fighting hard and was overjoyed when reinforcements arrived. In his eyes, a man riding a black horse rushed down the slope above the pier, the sword in his hand shining with dazzling light, and rushed straight into the crowd of Jin troops. As the sword light flashed, the rebels behind his horse fell down like straw, and corpses lay scattered on the ground.
"Who is that? So fierce." Xing Zhidao said in shock.
"It's Lieutenant Li, he's so powerful!" Several Wuyue soldiers shouted loudly.
Xing Zhidao looked at the spear in his hand, spat, suddenly took off his armor and threw it aside, and rushed into the enemy army without saying a word.
He usually prides himself on his strong martial arts skills, but today he was a little timid when facing many enemies. So just now he had only maintained his formation to fight the Jin army, and even put on armor. But now when he saw Li Yuan rushing into the enemy group one by one, he realized that no matter how high his martial arts skills were, he would not be able to defeat the Jin army. Li Yuan also outshone Li Yuan in his courage to charge and kill the enemy.
No wonder Li Yuan is invincible in every battle, his actions can be called leading by example, and such actions can boost morale. Looking at the soldiers around him, all of them looked like they had been injected with chicken blood, you can see how inspiring his actions were.
Xing Zhidao no longer hesitated, and rushed into the enemy group with his sword. The soldiers' morale was high, and they shouted to kill and pressed down the slope to kill.
Thousands of Jin troops who thought they were about to attack the river embankment were suddenly caught off guard by a fierce attack from the reinforcements defending the city. They were soon overwhelmed.
They were forced to compress under the slope of the pier, and soon they retreated down the river embankment under the fierce and fearless attack of the defenders. But once you reach the bottom of the river embankment, you will reach a dead end. There is no way to retreat here, and the terrain is even more disadvantageous. After this, the fate of being slaughtered is inevitable.
Li Yuan himself was very enthusiastic about killing. He rode his horse back and forth on the river embankment to kill, and he killed no one knew how many people he was using with the long sword in his hand. After the last Jin army standing fell, Li Yuan was already covered in blood, his head and face were covered with flesh and blood residue, and his whole body looked like a bloodthirsty ghost. The big black horse also became a big red horse, and the horse was covered in blood.
When the soldiers cheered, Li Yuan realized that the war was over. The cold wind blew, and my fevered brain became much calmer. Looking around, the river pier was full of corpses, and the scene was shocking.
In the charge just now, those Jin soldiers who climbed up from the river dripping wet were like wooden stakes in Li Yuan's eyes. He chopped them down one after another without thinking too much.
Many Jin soldiers actually raised their hands and surrendered in front of Li Yuan, but Li Yuan was killing them like crazy and slashed them with his sword. This move also served as a demonstration. Later, many Jin soldiers actually lost their weapons and shouted for mercy, but their heads were beheaded indiscriminately by others.
During the fighting just now, along the river, the people of Suzhou on both sides were almost going crazy.
Many Jin troops drifted down the river. They did not dare to go ashore, so the people held fires, wooden sticks and pitchforks and chased them along the river bank. Those who came ashore were all beaten to death. In the end, these people drowned in the river, not a single one of them. A person can die a good death in front of a city full of angry people.
Suzhou City is still a city that never sleeps, but in the past, Suzhou City was full of lights, wine, music and music. People stay up all night to have fun and enjoy life. But today, people in this city that never sleeps are killing people all night long, and each one of them is killing happily and without restraint.
Tonight's battle started on the second watch, and it was not until halfway through the fifth watch that the war finally ended temporarily.
For the Jin army, this battle was a loss to Lao Lao's family, and they paid huge casualties and costs. Fifteen thousand casualties and the price of dozens of ships were the huge losses paid by the Jin army tonight. If it weren't for the large boats that later rescued many soldiers who fell into the water on the river, reducing the number of deaths by thousands, almost 20,000 soldiers and horses would have been lost in this battle.
The defenders also suffered a lot of losses. Seven to eight hundred people were killed and injured when the suspension bridge was burned, and more than 500 people were killed by the Jin army's bows and arrows. The biggest casualty was the fight between the Jin troops who invaded the city and the piers on both sides of the river.
It is true that the Suzhou defenders were not very powerful, but more than a thousand soldiers were killed in hand-to-hand combat, and more than a thousand others were injured, resulting in a total of nearly 4,000 casualties. Although these were insignificant compared with the losses of the Jin army. .
Xu Ruchang originally wanted to attack the city regardless of the cost, but the result now is that he did pay a huge price, but did not get the results he wanted.
Halfway through the battle, Xu Ruchang had to terminate the attack because his own burning warship blocked the passage to the city. As a result, dozens of soldiers on board were unable to approach the river mouth entering the city.
The only flaw in the plan made it difficult to continue the war halfway through, which made Xu Ruchang indescribably angry and uncomfortable. It's like halfway through sex, when the other person is about to die, but the other person gets up and pats his butt and runs away. That feeling is really the worst experience in the world.
Xu Ruchang held on to the hope that the two groups of soldiers and horses rushing into the city could do something in the city. But standing on the bow of the ship and looking at it for a long time, he could only hear the loud shouts of killing in the city, which finally subsided. However, the Suzhou City Gate in the north of the city was always safe and sound, and the defenders at the head of the city did not move. Xu Ruchang knew in his heart that those two groups The troops and horses have been completely wiped out.
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