The sound of the trumpet resounded throughout heaven and earth, rolling like thunder.
Huang Yuanzhang left 20,000 troops to guard the camp, and then led an army of 130,000 to advance, and finally arrived outside Lishuiguan.
At this time, at Lishuiguan, the officers and soldiers of the Beiyou Army were also ready to fight at any time.
At this moment,
Huang Yuanzhang sent troops to shout: "Rebel Ling Ning, you are unfaithful and unjust. You have betrayed the love and respect the court has for your Ling family. I hope you will regret it soon, go out of the city, surrender and be crowned, so as not to harm the lives of hundreds of thousands of Beiyou Army soldiers." , don’t let them become unfaithful, unjust and unfilial people…”
The cunning Huang Yuanzhang also wanted to use scheming to shake the morale of the army before attacking the key point.
Ling Ning sneered and glanced at Huo Zilong.
Huo Zilong took out his strong bow and shot an arrow through the clouds at the enemy soldier who was delivering the message several hundred meters away.
"Snapped!"
The arrow landed right in front of him, and he was so frightened that he told the enemy soldiers to take a few steps back.
Later, the enemy soldier saw the brocade cloth on the arrow. He took it off and saw that there were dense writings on it. He immediately returned and presented it to Huang Yuanzhang.
Huang Yuanzhang spread out the brocade cloth and looked at it. It turned out to be a crusade against Daliang.
The article describes the ugliness of Liang Dynasty, the ugliness of Emperor Liang, and the great cause of rebelling against Liang. The slogan is written vividly, and the sins of Liang are revealed in every line, as well as the people's deep hatred of the imperial court.
"That's unreasonable!"
Huang Yuanzhang was furious, threw the memorial on the ground, cursed angrily, drew his sword directly, and shouted again: "Blow the attack horn and order the front army to attack!"
The military commander immediately waved the battle flag and conveyed the order.
The military commanders distributed in each army read the flags and immediately executed the orders.
Li Chongfeng was one of Huang Yuanzhang's four generals and a general of the former army. He had an army of 40,000 under his command. After receiving the military order to attack, Li Chongfeng quickly began to respond.
The mighty army continued to approach Lishuiguan, and when the trebuchets and crossbows reached within shooting range, they immediately began to attack.
"Swish swish..."
Huge boulders were thrown by trebuchets, and powerful crossbow arrows were fired by bed crossbows, blocking the sky and the sun, and shot towards Lishuiguan.
At the same time, fierce war drums also sounded at Lishuiguan Pass. Facing the huge rocks and crossbow arrows, the Beiyou Army soldiers on the city wall did not change their expressions and were not surprised at all. They were obviously warriors who had experienced hundreds of battles. At the same time, they also Counterattack with trebuchets and bed crossbows.
What you need to know is that Ling Ning's side is standing on the city wall, standing high and shooting far, so the same trebuchet and crossbow arrows, Ling Ning's side's attack range is farther.
In addition, Lingning's side had a towering city wall as a bunker. On the other hand, although Li Chongfeng's front army had bunker trucks, it was of no avail.
Most of the bunker trucks are made of wood, which can withstand arrow fire. However, when faced with thrown boulders, which weigh tens to hundreds of kilograms, and then increase the acceleration through a parabola, the power is extremely terrifying, and the bunker trucks will be smashed directly. The enemy's defense line is destroyed.
Other stones and arrows fell into the enemy's ranks, instantly causing casualties.
Why has siege been the last resort since ancient times?
It's because the battle loss ratio is too high.
Relying on the casualties of soldiers to make up for the disadvantages of the attacking party, one can imagine how many casualties there will be.
Faced with the sacrifice of his own side, Li Chongfeng remained calm, and then ordered the dispatch of death squads to begin cleaning up various deer camps and traps deployed in front of Lishui Pass, and also to fill in the trenches.
Although there was no moat in front of Lishuiguan, trenches were dug.
These trenches will greatly affect the attack of Li Chongfeng's side, and the most important thing is the movement of ladders and rush vehicles.
Cloud ladders are essential equipment for siege. Without large siege equipment such as cloud ladders, it would be difficult to capture Lishuiguan if it is close to flying ladders or wooden ladders.
Therefore, the obstacles placed in front of the pass must be cleared, and this step can only be done by the death squads. Of course, the casualties will be extremely horrific.
Ling Ning was in charge of Lishui Pass, but handed over the command to Huo Zilong.
Huo Zilong has learned the true legacy of Ling Ning's father, Ling Xingshuang, and has excellent troop command skills and is also good at defending cities. Therefore, it caused terrible damage to the attacking enemy troops.
Others may not have an intuitive understanding, but Ling Ning is very intuitive.
[Kill an enemy...]
[Kill eight enemies...]
[Kill four enemies...]
【…】
There were a lot of buzzing sounds in the system, and they kept ringing.
Each sound means that at least one enemy has been eliminated, and at least one more warrior has been added to Ling Ning's hands.
More than two hours later.
The enemy had basically secured the traps and trenches in front of Lishuiguan, and the death toll had exceeded 5,000.
The rockets fired by the Beiyou Army hit the corpse, first setting fire to the clothes and then the body.
The human body has fats and oils that support combustion and burn directly when exposed to fire.
The smell of burnt meat mixed with the smell of meat permeated the battlefield. This smell was so unpleasant that even battle-hardened soldiers felt nauseous when they smelled it.
What's even better is that today's wind is also conducive to Lishuiguan. The smell of burnt smoke drifts southward, and the hundreds of thousands of troops have tense faces and feel a little nauseous.
After clearing the passage, Li Chongfeng ordered a further attack.
At this time, a large number of ladders began to advance, and the enemy began to get closer to Lishuiguan.
Seeing the movement of the enemy army, Jia Huaiying stretched out his hand, felt the wind direction on his fingertips, and said with a smile: "My lord, the wind direction today is in favor of our army. It seems that even God is helping my lord."
"Mr. Jia, let's get started. Let me see the good things you have prepared!" Ling Ning said with a smile.
Jia Huaiying nodded and immediately informed Huo Zilong.
Huo Zilong immediately ordered: "Use the poisonous smoke array!"
After giving an order, the soldiers responsible for throwing took out iron cages one by one. The iron cages were filled with medicinal herbs. If you were knowledgeable, you would find that these medicinal herbs were firewood, mugwort leaves, young bean leaves and the like.
Then, light the medicinal herbs and throw the iron cage directly.
The iron cage fell to the ground, causing no damage, but it ignited thick gray smoke, and then, with the help of the wind, it blew towards the enemy.
When the enemy soldiers encountered this gray smoke, they couldn't open their eyes for a moment, tears flowed out, and they couldn't stand it anymore, and they kept coughing.
Immediately afterwards,
The soldiers placed a large number of braziers outside the city and sprinkled a large amount of unknown medicinal powder into the pots. In an instant, yellow smoke rose and was blown by the wind towards the enemy again.
If the gray smoke just now was tear gas, then the yellow smoke this time was poison gas bombs.
The enemy soldiers at the front soon found it difficult to breathe after inhaling the yellow smoke. Some soldiers even had blood coming out of their mouths and noses, and even felt dizzy.
"No! This is poisonous smoke! Wet your clothes with water quickly and cover your mouth and nose!"
Li Chongfeng's expression changed drastically, and he immediately sent a messenger to inform him. At the same time, he was so angry that he gritted his teeth.
Although Li Chongfeng issued a response, it took a lot of time from ordering to responding and then following the instructions. A large number of soldiers fell into coma after being poisoned by the poisonous smoke and then lost their lives.
[Killed twenty-three enemies...]
[Kill fifty-six enemies...]
[Kill seventy-two enemies...]
【…】
Alerts kept ringing in Ling Ning's mind.
Ling Ning enjoyed the reminder of killing enemies, so she didn't turn off the reminder sound.
Within half an hour, more than 2,000 enemies died directly or indirectly in the poisonous smoke.
Ling Ning couldn't help but praise: "Mr. Jia, your poisonous smoke is really wonderful!"
"Let my lord laugh. This poisonous smoke needs to be driven by the wind. Otherwise, it will hurt the enemy a thousand times and damage yourself three hundred." Jia Huaiying said with a smile.
Jia Huaiying, who can be evaluated by Ling Xingshuang as a "poisoner in troubled times", has a terrible poisonous plan hidden under his smiling expression.
For example, this poisonous smoke was invented by him.
It contains aconite, wolfsbane, arsenic and other major poisons, and is mixed with some traditional Chinese medicines and other materials such as maru, bamboo root, tung oil, yellow wax, and charcoal.
Definitely the most advanced biochemical weapon of this era.
