Yue Fei looked at the increasingly dilapidated fortified city in front of him, slowly pulled out his sword from his waist, and then pointed to the sky and shouted: "Attack with the whole army."
"Kill...kill...kill..."
A siege army composed of ten thousand people marched in neat steps, united as one, and their momentum was like a rainbow, soaring into the sky.
On the city wall, Zhu Yuanzhang, Liu Xiu and the others looked shocked.
At the beginning, the Jin army still dropped troops and elites to attack, but in recent days, the Jin army has replaced all the soldiers attacking the city with their own elites.
This also put a sudden increase in pressure on the defenders in Jiangling City. The offensive intensity of a mixture of surrendered troops and elites, and the offensive intensity of an attack entirely carried out by the Jin army, an elite group of hundreds of battles, are definitely not the same concept.
At the same time, Liu Xiu, Zhu Yuanzhang, and Yang Su also knew very well that in the past few days, the Jin army had really started to fight hard!
When he saw the Jin army blowing the charge horn, Liu Xiu pulled out the sword from his waist and shouted: "Prepare the catapult... to release."
The Jin army's artillery doctrine was already quite famous at this time. Once it encountered a siege battle, it would mobilize its absolutely superior siege equipment to carry out an indiscriminate bombardment at the beginning, using the siege equipment to consume the opponent's vitality. , and it is also depleting the opponent's morale.
Even some low city walls, under the continuous bombardment, would even be forced to break a hole in the wall because they could not withstand the intensity of the attack.
Therefore, both Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Xiu knew very well that during the battle to defend the city, they could not suffer losses in terms of equipment. Otherwise, it is easy to fall into passivity.
It is precisely for this reason that when they had the idea of consuming the Jin army's strength by relying on defense, Liu Xiu and Zhu Yuanzhang consciously accumulated a large number of garrison equipment in Jiangling to prepare for a long battle with the Jin army. The confrontation of time.
Following Liu Xiu's order, hundreds of boulders flew together in an instant and slammed into the Jin army's formation.
The Battle of Jiangling has been going on for so long, and Yue Fei naturally knows that the opponent does not suffer in terms of equipment.
Even in this aspect of the catapult, in a certain sense, the other party still takes advantage. The performance of the Thunderbolt Chariot is superior to that of the Jin Army's catapults in all aspects, and it also occupies a condescending advantage.
However, the Jin army, which holds the territory of the five states, is not comparable to the opponent in terms of background. Even if they can't compare in terms of quality, they can be forcibly suppressed in terms of quantity.
Yue Fei could continuously mobilize resources from the two states of Yongsi, but Liu Xiuke did not have that ability.
Moreover, Yue Fei had already guarded against the catapults on Jiangling City Wall.
When the order was issued to start the attack, the generals of all levels under the Jin army had already taken the initiative to have the army charge in a loose formation, thus avoiding being hit by flying rocks to the greatest extent.
However, under the large number of flying rocks, no matter how loose the Jin army's formation is, there will still be unlucky people who will be hit by the flying rocks, and once they are hit, it means certain death.
"Continue! Let go!" Before the soldiers launched the charge, the Jin army's catapults and crossbows had already begun to vent their anger on the city wall, and until now, they still have not stopped.
Although the catapult does not have eyes, it will accidentally injure one's own people while attacking. However, this phenomenon will not occur until one's own army approaches a certain distance from the city wall. Grain stalks
Therefore, these catapults and bed crossbows will not stop attacking until the siege troops advance to a certain distance.
"Boom...boom...boom..."
The flying rocks in the sky were like bombers, constantly wreaking havoc on the Jin army's queue, and bombarded the Jin army in an instant.
Miserable shouts rang out one after another, but the Jin soldiers still held their shields high and charged with gritted teeth at the risk of being hit by flying rocks.
Soon, the Jin army rushed through the attack range of the catapult. The catapult has a certain attack distance. As long as it rushes into a certain distance within the city wall, the opponent's catapult cannot easily attack this area. But what they have to face next is a rain of arrows.
"Quick! Raise your shield! Push up the ladder and the city ram!" A general shouted, and then a large number of Jin soldiers holding shields began to push the ladder and the city ram forward.
At the same time, a large number of wells were pushed up from the rear. Although a small part was damaged by the opponent's catapult halfway, the rest were still a huge threat to Jiangling City.
Above the well, a large number of archers began to shoot in an orderly manner, using bows and arrows to suppress the enemy soldiers on the city wall, providing as much fire support as possible to their comrades.
Not only on the well, but even on both sides of the well, some archers gathered to shoot at the city wall. However, due to the height difference between the enemy and ourselves, the pressure this group of archers can put on the enemy is limited.
The large number of archers also attracted a large part of the enemy's firepower. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the ladder trucks and battering rams also rushed up. After the ladder team set up the ladder, the rear soldiers immediately climbed up quickly, and The city rush vehicle hit the city gate wildly.
Not just the city gate, after all, more than twenty battering rams were pushed at once, and only one was enough to hit the city gate, while the rest were frantically hitting various positions on the city wall.
No matter it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat. In the same way, whether it is hitting the city gate or bombarding the city wall, as long as the city can be broken open, it will be useful to Yue Fei.
"boom……"
The sound of violent collisions continued to sound, and under the continuous collisions, it seemed that the entire city wall began to shake.
"Quick! Rolling logs and thunder stones! Smash them! Smash them all to death!" Holding a shield in one hand to defend against the cold arrows that might fly around, Liu Xiu pointed at the battering ram below and shouted.
A large number of rolling wooden thunder stones were thrown down, but the top of each battering ram had a huge thick wooden board wrapped with iron sheets to provide a simple protection for the soldiers who controlled the battering ram. Therefore, the battering ram is still working in an orderly manner.
"Don't stop! Keep smashing!" Liu Xiu continued to yell.
Although it seemed to have no effect just now, such a simple layer of protection would not be able to withstand this level of attack for a long time.
Therefore, as long as you continue to smash it one after another, it will eventually produce actual results.
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