On the ladder, the soldiers of the Jin army filed up and climbed quickly towards the top of the Suzhou city. The defenders at the top of the city launched a desperate battle to defend the city. They stoned them, used rolling logs to throw them down, and used long wooden poles against the ladders to push them away from the city wall. They used all kinds of methods to withstand several rounds. attack.
At the same time, the second echelon of the Jin army, 15,000 soldiers and horses, also rushed to the foot of Suzhou City. They brought more ladders and more opportunities to break through the city wall.
After adding more than a hundred siege ladders, it was obvious that the number of defenders at the top of the city was seriously insufficient. Less than an hour into the siege, the first Jin soldier climbed onto the top of the city. Although he was quickly hacked to death by the soldiers defending the city, his breach of the city wall showed that the defenders were no longer able to hold the wall.
Li Yuan stood upright on the Suzhou City Tower from beginning to end, his eyes taking in everything above and below the city.
The first Jin soldier to attack the city wall is a sign, which means that strong action must be taken immediately to repel this wave of attacks, otherwise more and more soldiers will attack the city wall soon, and the situation will become It was uncontrollable, and looking at these soldiers climbing up the city wall like ants, this was the time to use secret weapons.
"Send the order and let them have a taste of the big mallet." Li Yuan ordered in a deep voice.
The messenger quickly spread the order throughout the city, but Li Yuan stood up in person and came to the top of a battlement, slowly drawing out the long sword from his waist. There was a flash of cold light, and a thick cable tied to a battlement was cut off.
At the same time, there was a huge scraping sound along the city wall. A large wooden stake, as thick as a millstone and about ten feet long, was originally hung on the outer wall of the city wall and tied with two ropes across the battlements. began to sweep along the outer wall of the city wall.
Like a huge wooden hammer, the swinging force of the giant wood swept away all the ladders set up on the wall within the area, sweeping away several ladders that were crawling like lice with the Jin army attacking the city, and the soldiers above screamed in agony. Fly into the air. Those who were directly hit by the giant tree suffered broken muscles and fractures in the air and lost their lives. Those who were not hit also fell heavily to the foot of Suzhou City as the ladder slipped, and fell into the crowd.
There was more than one giant pendulum-like tree in front of Li Yuan. There were hundreds of such giant trees hanging on the battlements of the outer city wall. After Li Yuan cut off the rope of a giant tree, the ropes everywhere were cut off one after another.
Suddenly, hundreds of giant trees on the city wall began to fall one after another, and hundreds of heavy hammer-like pendulums swung across the outer wall of the city wall. What followed was a jaw-dropping moment. These giant trees horizontally knocked away hundreds of ladders erected on the city wall, turning thousands of Jin soldiers who were attacking the city into flying trapezes with no place to stay.
The next moment, screams could be heard endlessly. Thousands of Jin soldiers flew up like mud balls and fell directly from the ladder to the city. The Jin soldiers attacking the city below screamed loudly. Thousands of them suffered broken bones and muscles. Hundreds of people died instantly.
In this short moment, the crawling Jin army troops and countless ladders on the city wall seemed to have been wiped away by a big hand, instantly making the Suzhou city wall clear and clean, with only a few scattered hiding places. The siege soldiers on the dozen or so ladders that had passed through the disaster stood on the ladders and stared blankly at all this, shivering.
The casualties were the second most important. The key was that at the critical moment when the siege was about to succeed, almost all the ladders were knocked down by this sudden pendulum-like wooden hammer, which made people feel a little overwhelmed.
The defenders at the top of the city took advantage of the chaos below and frantically smashed down a round of rolling logs and stones, causing the disorganized Jin soldiers below to scream and run away with their heads in their hands. The originally critical situation was alleviated in an instant. If the Jin army wants to organize an siege again, it will take at least half an hour to reorganize.
Due to limited time, the power of these giant trees was not strong enough. In fact, according to Li Yuan's idea, these giant trees were to be filled with iron nails to make a huge mace shape.
As a result, no Jin soldiers who come into contact with the giant trees will survive, and there will be deep blood holes in their bodies. Moreover, after driving pointed iron nails, these giant trees can form a thorny path on the outer edge of the city wall. The barrier makes it difficult for siege soldiers to overcome.
All these ideas failed to come true due to time constraints, but even so, the terrifying effect brought by the giant wooden pendulum still made everyone stunned.
tongue-tied. Because the city wall was about to be breached, the passion of the Jin troops who swarmed into the city was ruthlessly extinguished by these monsters. What was left was soldiers with broken muscles and bones all over the ground and endless fear.
"Smash these bastards to death!" The morale of the Wuyue garrison at the top of the city was greatly boosted. They roared and shouted and smashed rolling logs and rocks down the city.
The Jin army under the city wall was smashed and had nowhere to hide. Some of the siege soldiers were frightened and began to turn around and run back. This run made the Jin army's morale even more shaken. Many soldiers stood at the foot of the city at a loss, not knowing whether to run back or continue to attack the city.
On the other side of the moat, thousands of archers stood in formation. Facing some of the siege Jin soldiers who were fleeing, they used their bows and arrows to tell them that no deserters were allowed in this battle. The arrows whined, and the fleeing Jin soldiers were all killed by the oncoming arrows. They escaped the disaster of rolling logs and stones at the top of the city, but they could not escape the bows and arrows of their own men.
"Commander Xu has an order to attack the city today. There will be no advance but no retreat. Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed without mercy!" A Jin army general leading the archers shouted sternly.
The Jin troops began to understand their situation. They knew that in today's battle, they would either die or invade Suzhou. There was no third option. These thousands of archers are not only a powerful force to suppress the enemy, but also a life-threatening ghost who supervises the battle. Any opportunistic and fearful behavior will be punished. With no choice, they can only choose to turn around and fight again.
In the Jin army formation, the sound of war drums rumbled again. After witnessing the huge defeat in the siege, Xu Ruchang made a desperate move and ordered the last nearly 10,000 troops to be put into the siege. This move not only strengthens the power of a comprehensive siege, but also conveys to everyone the determination to win this battle.
Soon, the last group of Jin soldiers and horses swarmed in carrying ladders. There was no need to maintain a square formation to bluff people. What they had to do now was to rush to the city as quickly as possible and fight with the more than 20,000 people under the city. The soldiers and horses reorganized to attack the city.
More than a dozen city ramming vehicles were rumbled towards the city gate, and dozens of crossbows also approached the city gate and began to fire fiercely up and down the city tower. After being swept away by the giant wooden pendulum of the Wu and Yue defenders for most of an hour, the Jin army successfully organized a more ferocious attack.
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