On the eighth day of May, the rising sun rises above the clouds, rendering a brilliant golden color.
On Taikang City, there were hysterical fighting cries. When the Xiliang army of the Xia Kingdom climbed onto the wall for the first time, they used their powerful combat power to drive back the Tuoba soldiers.
The generals at all levels of the garrison continued to organize troops to try to drive away the Xiliang soldiers who came up, but these veterans were more stubborn than they imagined. They used various survival skills on the battlefield to firmly hold on to the ladder behind them.
"Come up with a few more! Hurry!"
Several Xiliang soldiers who stood firm shouted loudly, picked up the shields on the ground, and assumed a half-squatting posture to minimize the exposed parts of the body. Although the posture is not good-looking, it works!
On the ladder at the rear, a large number of Xiliang soldiers were rushing up. They stood on the wall stacks, stepped on the shoulders of their comrades, pressed their shields in front, and rushed towards the incoming spear array with their swords.
"Ah!" The flying Xiliang soldiers pushed their shields and deflected several thrusting spears. The steel knife in their hands hit the head of one of the Tuoba soldiers opposite, and they lay down on the ground and rolled around with the knife. , slashing at the ankles of the people around him.
More and more Xiliang soldiers came up, and they advanced inch by inch along the walls in small groups. The first ones to be eliminated were the archers of the Liang Kingdom and the capture of the wood and stone that defended the city. The goal of the battle was very clear, and It's not like cutting people down when you see them.
After Liang Jun on the city understood the opponent's combat intentions, he gathered his troops and used his numerical advantage to push the Xiliang soldiers down, but the effect was not good.
"Push forward across the board!"
As soon as the battle to attack and defend the city wall began, Tuoba Zongjue finally understood what the elites of the Xia Kingdom were. He personally led a battalion of elites to rush to the nearest place for reinforcements. He rushed over desperately, and with the help of his own strong martial arts, he approached the city tower. The Xiliang soldiers on the right suppressed them.
But this is just one place. There are dozens or hundreds of ladder climbing points on the entire city wall. Even though he is extremely skilled in martial arts, it is difficult to remove every one of them.
Especially on the battlefield, although individual bravery can make you invincible, facing thousands of ordinary people, as long as the other party is determined to kill you, your martial arts will soon pale in comparison.
Tuoba Zong fought for a while, beheaded a Xiliang soldier, and forced back two Xiliang soldiers who tried to attack. Only then was he found by his guards. He retreated to a safe place behind, and he grabbed a soldier with a face full of blood. The bloody captain yelled at the opponent.
"Where are the people? Here is another battalion, mobilize the reserve battalion under the city, and let them go faster!"
"The reserve camp is almost empty..."
The captain was speaking in a trembling voice, and as he spoke, he fell down in front of Tuoba Zongjue. Only then did he realize that the captain's abdomen was bleeding continuously, and half of his intestines were exposed from the torn wound.
"Ahhh!"
Tuoba Zongjue dragged his long knife and looked at the school captain who was gradually dying on the ground. He roared hysterically and his eyes were instantly bloodshot. He rushed to the female wall and stuck his head out to take a look. The city walls that stretched for miles, there were a lot of them. Xiliang soldiers kept their shields raised and escorted their comrades who were ascending the city under the ladder.
Most of the arrows shot down were blocked by the shields. Only occasionally a few arrows were thrown down, knocking people down. However, with the shields holding them up, they did not cause much harm to these physically strong Xiliang soldiers. harm.
"Put on the kerosene! The kerosene, Duan San from Zuo Bing, the Xiliang soldiers over there are coming up soon!"
In order to easily identify the defense areas of the city wall, the generals who guard the city will generally divide the city wall into several sections, starting from the city tower and dividing them towards the left and right, A, B, C, and D. Each section has one, two, and three smaller segments.
At this time, Tuoba Zongjue said that the Xiliang soldiers on the other side were a little later than their comrades who climbed to the city from other directions. After all, the distance was too far. They could only climb to the middle of the ladder after climbing up on ladders from other directions. Location.
At this time, several Liang soldiers who were guarding the city stumbled towards the other side with hot kerosene. However, several Xiliang soldiers who were seven or eight feet away suddenly broke open the siege and attacked them. One of the Xiliang soldiers shouted : "Give me the repeating crossbow!"
The comrade behind him threw the Zhuge serial crossbow that he had not finished firing. The soldier threw the knife into the chest of the enemy rushing next to him, caught the serial crossbow in mid-air with both hands, and aimed it at the side without any hesitation. The few Liang soldiers who were burning with kerosene fired indiscriminately.
The Liang soldier who was hit by the arrow fell down, and the kerosene immediately poured down and flowed all over the ground. When it touched the burning rocket on the ground, it set off a huge fire and quickly enveloped the Liang soldier who was carrying the kerosene.
"Ah!"
The fireman let out a shrill scream and ran wildly around the city. Then he was stabbed to death on the ground by the Liang soldiers beside him with a spear.
The flames spread and arrows flew up and down.
The Xiliang army was in formation on the field. Dong Zhuo stroked his beard and looked at the battle at the top of the city. He had experienced hundreds of battles in Xiliang and was even more familiar with sieges.
"The world in this world is not that there are no generals who are accustomed to fighting, but that there are no soldiers who have experienced hundreds of battles. There has been peace for too long, and they have forgotten how to fight."
He looked at the city wall for a while, looked up at the sky, and raised his hand slightly in the eyes of Xu Mao and others.
"Send an order to Li Jue to attack the city for the last time. Finish the fight as soon as possible and go to the government office to take a nap."
When Xu Mao, Xu Jinwu, and Han Jinsu heard this, they stood on the horse with their mouths slightly open.
Soon, the war drums sounded again.
What appeared in the three people's field of vision was a huge siege tower, with densely packed shields hanging on the wooden frame below. There were hundreds of strong civilians pushing it inside and behind. The top of the tower was a tower with archers gathered on it. As well as the soldiers preparing to board the city, the front exit of the tower is the retracted Banqiao.
It doesn't have too many complicated structures, but it is a real siege weapon.
However, the size is too large, and an army can only carry one at most, and it must be disassembled and reassembled before being brought to the battlefield to be assembled. Otherwise, it will take several days to make it on the spot.
The moment Tuoba Zongjue heard the war drums, he turned his head and looked outside the city. When he saw the huge siege tower pushing towards him, he was in a bad state. He had never seen anything like this before. Just by looking at it, you know what it is used for.
"Send someone there...I'll go there myself!"
"General, no!"
Tuoba Zongjue, dragging his long sword and ignoring the dissuasion of his personal guards, led his elite battalion of more than 1,800 people to rush towards the section of the wall facing the siege tower.
Along the way, there were scenes of soldiers from Xiliang ascending the city to fight. Only then did he realize that the city wall might no longer be able to be defended. Such a high-intensity siege was more intense than the previous troops from Qi State. The defenders even The Tuoba soldiers simply couldn't adapt.
When he led his troops to kill a group of Xiliang soldiers who tried to stop him from passing by, the siege tower braved the rain of arrows and cost more than ten casualties. The giant tower stopped at the position of Section 2 on the right. In the tower, Li Jue He put on his iron helmet, pulled out his ring-shou sword, and shouted loudly to the infantry beside him: "Xiliang!"
"mighty!"
The moment dozens of people shouted in unison, the bridge board was lowered with a creaking sound, and it hit the wall stacks, and Liang Guo's foot shield and archer beside the wall stacks, smashing them to death at the same time. , Li Jue led the Xiliang soldiers in the tower and rushed out, stepping on the swaying wooden planks directly to the city head.
"Enemy general!"
When Tuoba Zong came here to fight, he directly saw Li Jue who was slashing wildly in the crowd. The latter also saw the opponent, holding up an iron shield and waving a steel knife to slash at him.
The surrounding Tuoba soldiers swarmed over and fought with the Xiliang soldiers who came up to fight. The Xiliang soldiers were all battle-experienced. Even if there were new recruits, there were many veterans with them to fight together.
The fighting spirit formed was very astonishing. As soon as they met, the Xiliang soldiers who rushed out of the tower killed almost hundreds of people.
Li Jue carried his shield and ran into the crowd from the middle under the cover of two soldiers. After cutting down a Liang soldier who was blocking the way in front, Tuoba Zongjue on the opposite side also came over and killed him. The long sword in the opponent's hand was furious. cut.
Being blocked by the iron shield in Li Jue's hand, the huge force made his arms feel numb and he couldn't help but take half a step back.
"This guy's martial arts skills are quite high!"
Li Jue spat, raised his left arm, stepped on the sticky and slippery blood on the ground, pushed it up again to block the sword, approached the opponent with his body, and slashed out with the ring-head sword in anger.
The blade sparked sparks on the opponent's armor. General Liang raised his hand and punched Li Jue in the face. Li Jue grabbed the hilt of the opponent's knife and shouted, "Kill him!"
The soldiers on the left and right rushed forward suddenly, and Tuoba Zongjue's personal guards also came to kill him. Zongjue abandoned the hilt of his sword and kicked away the nearest Xiliang soldier who was wielding a sword. Li Jue also took the opportunity to hit him. He kicked his feet on his abdomen and stumbled back, only to be held up by his bodyguards so he didn't fall down.
"kill!"
Li Jue snatched the opponent's long knife and waved it: "Press up!"
"Kill!" Tuoba Zongjue pulled out the weapon from his waist and let out a loud roar.
When the two sides suddenly became a massacre, the Xiliang army's fierce attack intensified again. The stone trebuchet advanced ten feet, and the civilians came and went, carrying the stones. The stone bullets thrown directly crossed the city wall and smashed into the inside of the city wall to suppress it. , in a crowd of people carrying equipment.
This kind of trebuchet of the Tang Dynasty completely surpassed the trebuchet of the Han Dynasty. The stone bullets poured out crazily, crossed the city wall and fell into the inner city wall, causing considerable casualties to the young men carrying the equipment below. These young men were very powerful. Duo had no armor and was hit on the head by a stone falling from mid-air. He died on the spot.
Those who were lucky enough to survive were mostly hit on the shoulders and back, but they were also crippled in the future.
This time the stone bullets were thrown, which frightened the young people in the city. There was chaos. The prefect Ye Cimi did not dare to stop. He personally went to the city to organize the young people, and even sent out the officers from the yamen.
"I can't beat it... I can't beat it..."
A young man in the city whose leg was smashed by a stone bullet fell to the ground, holding his bloody calf and crying heartbreakingly, and was then dragged away by the guards.
At this time, the army in Taikang City can be said to be the elite of the Liang Kingdom, especially the Fushan and Trekking armies. At this time, they have also been organized. Once the city is lost, they will dismount and turn to street fighting to continue fighting with the Xia Kingdom. The army resisted.
However, facing the founding army of the dynasty, many people knew that they might not be able to defeat it.
At this time, the fighting continued on the city defense line that stretched for several miles, and Liang Guo's defense was always tight. Dong Zhuo, seeing all this, suddenly stood up and dismounted, and asked his bodyguard to carry his serrated knife over.
This startled Xu Mao and others, and they quickly dismounted to dissuade them: "The grand master cannot go up in person, why not let us go!"
After they said this, Dong Zhuo gave up the idea of attacking the city.
"Assemble two of your battalions and attack the city!"
Dong Zhuo only left one battalion of 2,000 men with him, and the remaining two battalions were assigned to Xu Mao and three others to fight on the city with them.
At this time, Mushi and Shishi had basically stopped. The young men being carried in the city were frightened by the stone bullets, and their speed naturally slowed down.
Most of the wall stacks on the city wall were occupied by the Xiliang army, which gave the opponent the opportunity to throw wooden and stone stones. Instead, stone bullets continued to be shot up from outside the city, hitting the city tower or the stone steps of the inner city wall.
The young man who was carrying it was hit by a stone and fell into a pool of blood. The wood he was carrying rolled down the stone steps and knocked the people running below to the ground.
The wounded who were rescued in time were carried down and sent to the wounded barracks. These could still be saved, but there were many more that could not be saved. However, in the entire wounded barracks, the ground was full of wounded soldiers with broken arms and legs. All the doctors in the city were brought here, but there were still not enough.
The prefect Yecimi arrived here just after being appeased and mobilized from the inner city wall. His official robes were dirty and dirty, his hair was scattered around his shoulders, and there were other people's blood on his insteps and face.
He came here to see if the wound medicine was enough. When he saw the wounded soldiers in the camp, many died in mourning, and his whole body became numb and sluggish.
"Prefect, prefect...kill me..."
A wounded soldier suddenly grabbed the corner of Nocimi's robe. With only one eye and blood foam remaining in his mouth, he shouted pleadingly.
Nocimi lowered his head and saw that the wounded soldier had only one eye missing, two legs cut off, and two broken arrows still remaining on his body. He was still alive after suffering this. It was indeed a kind of torture.
This sudden tragic scene made him stunned on the spot. Then he nodded and asked his soldiers to go up and kill the wounded soldier.
At this moment, someone rushed in from outside the camp and shouted: "Xia Kingdom is attacking the city gate!"
"What?!"
Ye Cimi woke up from his dazed state, immediately rushed out of the wounded barracks, and rode to the city gate. Hundreds of Liang soldiers crowded behind the city gate and blocked the door.
Outside, there was the sound of cars crashing one after another.
"Where's the general?"
"The general is still fighting on the city wall. He can't hold it anymore..."
"Go quickly and escort the general down, and tell him that the city gate cannot be defended."
A soldier rushed towards the stairs that were full of blood, stone bullets, and stumps. When he rushed towards the city wall, there was a sudden sound from the city gate here, and the sound of the door bolt cracking.
Ye Cimi turned his head and looked over with a look of surprise on his face. He saw the city gate being blown open slightly inward. Outside the crack of the door, he could see the figures of Xiliang Army soldiers and the crashing wood of the car.
"It's over..." He murmured.
The city gate was knocked a few more times, and a larger gap was completely squeezed open by the collision of the car. Spear after spear penetrated from the outside, bringing countless blood splashes among the gatekeepers.
"The city is broken, kill!" Xu Mao mixed with the Xiliang army, riding a horse and following the soldiers in front to fight through the crack of the door. When the Xiliang soldiers pushed the door, more soldiers poured in.
Black smoke swept across the city wall, and dense soldiers spread under the city tower and entered the streets.
The generals guarding the city wall were shouting hysterically, wielding steel swords and fighting to the death.
The crowd came and overwhelmed him.
The former Xiliang general shouted fiercely, wielding a long knife and slashed at the wooden pole. The fluttering Liang flag fell down, fell down the city tower, and was trampled under the feet of countless Xiliang soldiers rushing into the city gate.
"Taikang has been defeated, the next one will be the capital of Liang Kingdom!" Li Jue stood on the wall, raised his sword and shouted.
What responded to him were countless Xiliang soldiers on the city wall raising their swords and shouting.
…
In just seven or eight days, under the strong attack of the Xiliang army, Taikang broke through the city in two hours.
The entire Liang Kingdom's Western Capital was instantly stunned after receiving the news.
Panic about war swept across.
(End of chapter)
