Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 2424 Wen Zhong defeats Yelü, Grand Historian beheads the Liao Emperor
As the Han army officially began its siege, the siege engines behind the Han lines roared.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The light catapult swung its arm violently, launching polished stone projectiles toward the city wall.

The stones struck the hard bluestone city wall with a dull thud, sending fragments flying and leaving white spots and shallow craters, but the main body of the city wall remained unmoved.

More stones flew over the city walls and landed inside the city, causing a commotion.

The crossbow bolts, whistling shrilly, hurtled towards the city walls and battlements, attempting to destroy the defenders' fortifications and inflict casualties.

One of the giant crossbow bolts even hit a crenellation directly, sending the two Dongyi archers behind it flying along with the bricks and stones of the crenellation!
"Hold your ground! Aim at their archers and siege weapons!" Leonidas commanded steadily as he ran along the city walls.

"Ding! The second effect of the Lion of Leonidas skill has been activated. When commanding troops in battle, your own leadership increases by 1. When leading troops into battle to the death, your own leadership increases by an additional 2."

Leonidas's leadership increased by 1, bringing his current leadership stat to 96.

Braving a hail of arrows and stones, the soldiers defending the hot spring city struggled to push the prepared logs and rolling stones off the city wall.

Huge logs and stones rolled down the steep slope of the city wall with an unstoppable force, crashing into the Han army's shield formation. The shields shattered instantly, clearing away patches of bloody open ground.

Even more shockingly, the soldiers used long-handled iron ladles to scoop up the scalding hot molten gold and vigorously splash it onto the ground.

The foul-smelling, viscous liquid poured over the Han soldiers attacking the city, instantly tearing their skin and causing them to scream in agony, a pain far exceeding that of sword wounds.

At the same time, the Han army's siege towers, pushed by the soldiers, slowly moved closer to the city wall.

The Han archers on top of the siege tower were at almost the same height as the defenders on the city wall. The two sides exchanged fire, and people were constantly hit by arrows and fell from the height.

The most brutal battles were fought over the siege ladders and the city gates.

Countless Han soldiers carried long siege ladders, braving arrows and stones, and rushed to the base of the city wall, struggling to erect them. The defenders, on the other hand, desperately pushed the ladders away with long forks or used swords and axes to cut off the ladder's grappling hooks.

Once a ladder is successfully erected, fearless Han soldiers, with sharp blades in their mouths and shields in their hands, immediately begin to climb upwards.

The defenders on the city wall used spears to thrust downwards, threw short axes and stones, and even lifted logs to smash down the ladders!

Beneath each siege ladder, corpses and wounded soldiers quickly piled up, their blood staining the foundation of the city walls. The battle had become fierce from the very beginning, and both sides knew that there was no way out.

"General Wanyan, how about I lead the troops into battle for once?"

"Let's see if we can break through the city walls!" Xing Tian, ​​standing next to Wanyan Xieye, said in a low voice after seeing the heavy casualties among the attacking troops.

"Not urgent!"

"This is just the beginning. Hot Spring City cannot be taken so quickly. It's not time to trouble the general to take action yet!" Wanyan Xie also slowly shook his head and said.

The siege of the hot spring city has just begun, and the defending Dongyi forces are currently at their peak in all aspects.

At this point, even if Xing Tian were to lead the team, it would be difficult to break the deadlock directly. If a flaming oil canister were to fall from above, Xing Tian would have to temporarily avoid the attack, and he might even be in danger himself.

At the very least, we need to deplete the enemy's resources first. In fact, Wanyan Xie doesn't have a good way to take Wenquan City for the time being. Due to its geographical location, although he has an army of 100,000, he can only commit less than 10,000 to each siege.

However, if the city were to be forcibly destroyed by manpower, Wanyan Xie only gave a rough estimate, and he couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache.

While Wanyan Xie was currently struggling with how to capture the hot spring city, Wen Zhong was having a much smoother time in all aspects.

The city he attacked, while considered a fortified city, was far inferior in many ways to a strategically important city like Hot Spring City, which was built against a mountainside.

Most importantly, due to geographical reasons, Wen Zhong was not like Wanyan Xieye, who had a numerical advantage but was unable to utilize it.

The city he was in charge of was mostly located in a plain area, so his troops could be used entirely for siege.

The commander guarding this city was Yelü Wuzhi, a general of the Eastern Yi.

Yelü Wuzhi was a member of the Khitan royal family and a minister in the early Liao Dynasty. He served under five emperors: Emperor Taizu, Emperor Taizong, Emperor Shizong, Emperor Muzong, and Emperor Jingzong. He played a decisive role in the two struggles for the throne among the Khitan royal family.

He was also a general who led troops into battle, a man of both literary and military talent, and the second person in the Liao Dynasty after Yelü Helu to gain great fame in Yue.

Yelü Abaoji placed such a talented member of his clan in this position because he knew very well that the city he was in charge of was not easy to defend.

In such terrain, once surrounded, even if one wanted to break out, it was not certain that one would have a chance to escape on their own.

If Yelü Abaoji were to send troops to provide support, the Han army, given its strength, would certainly take precautions against this in advance.

Therefore, the commander of this city must meet both the criteria of ability and loyalty. After all, barring any unforeseen circumstances, if this city falls, the commander stationed there will face a near-certain death.

After Yelü Wuzhi arrived in the city and took over its defenses, he strengthened the city's defenses and actively drove most of the people out of the city, leaving only a small number of able-bodied men to assist in the defense.

After that, Yelü Wuzhi continued to renovate the houses in the city, connecting them together and digging out a large number of traps and mechanisms, turning the entire city's houses into war fortresses.

Therefore, preparations were made to conduct street fighting within the city if the outer city walls could not be defended.

In fact, his preparations were very farsighted.

Upon arrival, Wen Zhong immediately launched a fierce attack, disregarding casualties. In fact, as the commander-in-chief, he personally led his troops into battle more than once.

To this end, he brought out all the resources accumulated by the Kwantung Army and the Yixie Army over the years, throwing all kinds of siege equipment at the enemy without regard for losses. Even if three or four catapults destroyed one of the enemy's catapults, Wen Zhong was willing to fight them to the bitter end.

Under these circumstances, the outer city walls had already fallen in just half a month.

After all, Yelü Wuzhi only had a little over 10,000 troops at his disposal; the rest were just temporarily assembled able-bodied men, not regular soldiers.

With his defensive equipment nearly depleted and the city's renovations largely complete, Yelü Wuzhi intentionally abandoned the outer defenses, actively dragging the Han army into street fighting.

Therefore, in the same half-month period, Wanyan Xie only managed to reach the edge of the hot spring city, while Wen Zhong had already broken through the outer city wall.

During this two-week period, the Han general Taishi Ci even shot and killed the Liao emperor in history with a single arrow...