Qiming 1158

Chapter 200 The Restoration Army's Bloody Battle in Nanle City
In fact, before this battle, the Daming House had already judged the direction of the Restoration Army's attack.

So they moved all the old, weak, women and children in Nanle City out of the city in advance.

Many people were unable to leave their homeland and did not want to leave, so they were driven away. Jin Bing scolded them roughly with a steel knife and forced them away.

Only young and strong men are left in the city as civilian husbands. They can also help the soldiers repair equipment, handle chores, and can also go to the city to fight when necessary.

Everything in the city was requisitioned during the war, and all buildings and buildings became ready-made weapons for defending the city, and there was no longer any normal order.

It can be said that Nanle County is already a war fortress.

In the face of such a war fortress, even if the Restoration Army is surrounded by three and one is missing, the effect is actually not great.

Without other burdens of eating food, the food and water reserves in the city are quite sufficient. As long as there are no accidents, it will not be a problem to eat for three to five months or even half a year.

And three to five months is actually enough for the Daming House to ask for help from the Central Golden State.

Daming Prefecture knew about the chaos in Shandong for a long time, and knew that the crisis was imminent. Because of his distrust of Shuhu Siji, Li Zhong, the governor of Daming Prefecture, refused to send him more troops and resources, and chose to use these troops and resources. from Bao.

Now it seems that Li Zhong's choice is right, because Zhuhusiji defeated the entire Shandong resistance force in the first battle, and the Shandong East Road and the Shandong East Road completely collapsed, and all belonged to the Restoration Army.

And now the Restoration Army really came to the Daming Mansion to attack the city, which made him worry.

Thinking of the various coercion and inducements that Tu Shanjing had done to him before, Li Zhong was very emotional, thinking that his insistence on the end and never compromise was correct. Although he was a little suspicious of the friendly army, he was also waiting for the preservation of the Daming Palace. Reinforcements brought a silver lining.

Otherwise, as soon as the Restoration Army arrives, the Daming Mansion will surrender directly. What will they fight?

Local protectionism still seems to make a bit of sense...

As long as the central army of the Jin Empire can arrive for rescue before the food is exhausted, then there is still room for recovery. When the time comes, can the Restoration Army hold up?

Li Zhong is full of confidence.

So Zhao Kaishan had a headache.

The [-]-strong army attacked a city violently. It took half a day of hard work. Before sunset, they failed to remove all obstacles and failed to get close to the moat. Instead, they lost hundreds of troops in the process.

Among them, Zhao Xiang's department lost the most.

He is only responsible to Zhao Kaishan and doesn't care about the lives of soldiers.

He unfoundedly demanded a rapid and violent attack by the army, forced the soldiers to storm the obstacle area many times, and did not provide the soldiers with sufficient protection, which eventually led to the mass death of the soldiers in the obstacle area.

The weapons of the Jin Army defending the city are very sharp. There are a lot of bows and crossbows. There are also long-range weapons such as bed crossbows. They are erected on the city wall and fired at every turn.

The Restoration Army still had some experience in sieging cities, but it was the first time they had attacked such a well-defended city.

After attacking for an afternoon without getting any effective progress, this can be regarded as a minor setback for the Restoration Army.

After withdrawing the troops, Zhao Kaishan expressed his dissatisfaction with the fact that the troops of the four sides had not made any progress, criticized them, and demanded that the main generals of all sides increase their siege efforts.

"Don't worry about casualties! We can continue to recruit for lack of troops, but if we lose the battle, it will be very difficult to get them back! We can't be defeated! Absolutely not! So give me all your strength to attack the city! On the day when the city is broken, don't let anyone in the city let go! !"

Zhao Kaishan was extremely angry, and he personally oversaw the battle the next day. While watching his army continue to advance, he also paid a huge price.

A large number of soldiers fell in the process of advancing, and blood was spilled on the spot.

But Zhao Kaishan doesn't care much about the cost. He cares more about whether his army can make greater progress.

On the second day of the war, the Restoration Army did indeed make progress.

For example, the horse was finally leveled, the pits were filled, the caltrops and other obstacles were removed, and they were ready to cross the moat to attack.

The moat is indeed very wide, but the Restoration Army also has corresponding tools for crossing the river. It is a kind of equipment. It is basically a simple wooden bridge, but there is a top design above the wooden bridge, which can block the attack of arrows and facilitate the soldiers to cross the moat. Attack the city wall directly.

The mechanical ladders of the Restoration Army are also equipped. As long as they are close to the city wall, unless they are burned by fire, there is absolutely no way to destroy these ladders, and there is no such thing as toppling them.

Under the rain of arrows from the Golden Army, the soldiers of the Restoration Army crossed the moat one after another and attacked the city wall with the ladder.

The Jin Army's long-range blocking failed, and they began to attack the soldiers of the Restoration Army under the city at close range by using logs, firearms, and hot boiling water.

The huge stone was smashed directly down, and as long as you aimed, a single stone could smash to death several soldiers of the Restoration Army in a series, seriously injuring them, or directly fall to death.

Firearms with combustion and explosion functions caused a huge deterrent to the Restoration Army. The huge roar made the firearms enough to kill a large number of Restoration Army soldiers even if they did not have much lethality.

There are quite a few soldiers running around on fire and even jumping into the moat.

The scalding boiling water was poured even more accurately, pouring a pot of boiling water down, the city was filled with the miserable screams of the soldiers of the Restoration Army, their hair fell off and their skin was broken, and there were not a few people who were burned to death on the spot.

It's cruel, but this is the normal state of siege warfare, and people with a little experience have become accustomed to seeing it, and there is a lack of fluctuations in their hearts.

They are still under the supervision of their superiors and driven by their interests, and they continue to move forward.

While the Jin Army caused huge damage to the Restoration Army, the building vehicles of the Restoration Army kept approaching the city wall and launched bow arrows to attack the golden soldiers on the city. operation.

As a result, the golden soldiers on the city wall were once suppressed by the Restoration Army.

At the southern gate where Li Xiao was in charge of the main attack, many soldiers from the Wei Army took this opportunity to rush to the city wall and fight against the golden soldiers. The bloody battle between the two sides continued.

Pucha Sixiang was shocked and felt that he had underestimated the fighting power of the Restoration Army. He immediately dispatched the reserve team, that is, his own soldiers to fight against the southern city wall and the soldiers who rushed up from the Beiwei Army.

At the same time, he ordered the bed crossbow on the city to immediately aim at the building and dust trucks of the Restoration Army, and destroy them as soon as possible.

He was also worried that the counterattack on the city wall was insufficient, so he ordered the catapults placed in the city to launch a large number of stone bullets as a response, so under the repeated blows of stone bullets and crossbows, the siege equipment of the Restoration Army suffered a lot. blow.

And Pucha Sixiang's personal soldiers' forge ahead also caused the part of the soldiers who rushed to the city wall to fail miserably. They were all killed, and their bodies were all pushed under the city tower.

When things got to this point, this time the siege battle failed again.

Zhao Kaishan, who was watching the battle from a distance, was very angry and stomped his feet fiercely. He only hated that the soldiers were not strong enough, so he decided to send his own guards out to fight and forcefully seize the city.

He ordered half of the soldiers of the personal guard to go into battle, to take over the Beiwei Army to launch an attack, preparing for the ants to attach to the city. Zhao Yucheng was shocked by this.

"Leader! The attack is blocked. Mingjin should withdraw his troops and regroup to reduce casualties. If we continue to attack, the casualties will be very large! Moreover, the leader and guards are all absolute elites. You can't go into the siege battle unless you have to!"

Zhao Kaishan pushed Zhao Yucheng away.

"At this point, if you can't take the city, it's meaningless! And I'm the commander-in-chief, what I say is what I say! Order! Strike me!!!"

Zhao Kaishan lost his mind in anger, and ordered his most elite guards to attack half of them, letting these field elites, who had finally selected and trained their weapons, attack the city wall.

As a result, a considerable part of them was damaged during the impact, and another part was damaged during the climbing process, and was hit by the rolling stones and hot water, resulting in serious losses.

Of course, in the end, quite a few climbed up the city wall and fought bloody battles with the Jin soldiers. However, due to the lack of backup, the Jin soldiers on the city had an advantage in numbers, so the attack of the commander-in-chief guards also failed. completely annihilated.

Zhao Kaishan's offensive was once again blocked.

(End of this chapter)