In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 150: Forced on the city wall
Under the cover of the longbowmen, it only took the two siege vehicles more than an hour to dig out five large and deep holes in the earthen wall.

Each hole is only two feet apart, and a gunpowder barrel weighing a hundred kilograms can just fit inside.

After the siege vehicle evacuated to both sides along the wall, ten warriors holding torches quickly rushed to the ten entrances, lit the fuses, then threw away the torches and ran backwards.

boom boom boom…

Not long after, ten shocking loud noises were heard one after another. The slaves at the top of the wall and under the wall felt that the ground was shaking. Many people close to this section of the city wall were knocked to the ground directly, and their ears rang.

For a while, clods of soil were flying and smoke was billowing. It was not until the dust fell and blew away that the outline of this section of the city wall appeared in everyone's eyes.

I saw that the several-mile-long earth wall was blasted across the middle, creating a large gap nearly twenty feet wide. A gentle slope had been formed in the huge gap, and the surrounding area was full of large and small scattered clods of earth.

"attack!"

Following Lin Rui's order, the three thousand pikemen, spearmen and sword and shield soldiers who had been prepared immediately moved towards the gap with neat steps.

"Quickly, shoot the arrow and stop them."

"Obai, bring me three thousand warriors to block the gap."

Hauge also reacted from the shock and shouted anxiously.

The slaves on the city walls at both ends of the gap no longer considered the consumption of their arrows, and they all tried their best to hurl rain of arrows at the pressing Lin army.

The long archers naturally fought back desperately.

Even two thousand Mongolian cavalry dismounted, and under the cover of shield bearers, they rushed to the city wall forty steps away and fired at the Jurchens on the top of the city.

Facing the incoming arrows, the attacking Thousand Sword Shieldmen held their shields above their heads one after another. Even the Thousand Spearmen held a spear in one hand and a shield in the other. This caused the entire team's heads to be covered with dense shields. Cover it up tightly.

I could only hear the banging of arrows falling on the shield. Occasionally, one or two fish slipped through the gap. It was not a big problem and it couldn't stop the team from approaching.

"kill!"

Until they were forced into the gap, the three hundred spearmen and spearmen at the front stepped on the broken soil with their spears and shouted slogans and rushed up the gentle slope.

"kill!"

Obai also shouted loudly, and hundreds of slaves rushed forward to kill him.

The two sides started a bloody battle at the twenty-foot-wide gap.

Although the Jiannu were stabbed by spears and short spears and fell in pieces, more Jiannu would pounce on them from both sides.

Similarly, even if the pikemen and pikemen were covered by shieldmen, they would still suffer heavy casualties from the Jiannu on the walls on both sides. The wounded were constantly being dragged away, and new pikemen and pikemen would fill in from behind. superior.

Until four ladders, one left and one right, slowly came up from both sides towards the edge of the gap, spearmen and Mongolian archers launched an attack on the two city heads, and Jiannu no longer had the energy to attack the gap. Shoot arrows and throw rocks.

As the Jiannu on the wall had nothing to do, and the pikemen and pikemen in the gap were free to assassinate them, Jiannu's casualties skyrocketed.

No matter how powerful you are in martial arts, no matter how sophisticated your armor is, no matter how brave you are and not afraid of death, facing a dozen people thrusting their spears at the same time, you can only fall in the gap with hatred.

You can avoid one spearhead, but you can't avoid the second one. You can deflect the second one, but you can't ward off the third one in time.

But the Lin family army just got stuck in the gap, neither going in nor retreating.

This made Obai and other slaves who were ambushing at the base of the walls on both sides, waiting for the spearmen and pikemen to rush in from the side to fight hand-to-hand, also felt itchy with hatred.

After only half an hour of fighting, nearly a thousand Jian Nu fell. The gap was already stained red with blood and covered with corpses.

It was only then that the attacking Lin Army retreated down the gentle slope and made way toward the walls on both sides.

A thousand Mongolian cavalry rushed straight through the gap with a rumble, charging all the way. Countless Jiannu had no time to avoid and were knocked away or hacked to death.

The infantry boys then climbed over the slope and rushed in, but they were still a team of dozens or hundreds of people, advancing slowly, always avoiding getting into a melee.

The city is not as narrow as the city head. Facing the cooperation of sword and shield soldiers, spearmen and spearmen, Jiannu's advantage in melee combat has disappeared.

With the addition of a thousand cavalry, they were wreaking havoc in the city, and Guihua City was no better than the cities in the Central Plains region. There were many houses, neighborhood walls everywhere, and some were just mud houses and large stables.

"Your Majesty, we can't stop it anymore, so we should retreat quickly!"

Seeing more and more Lin family troops pouring into the city from the gap, Ao Bai's 3000 men were almost exhausted, and an Eight Banners general beside Hauge also said anxiously.

"You must not leave the city, otherwise you will be massacred by the cavalry in vain. Let all the warriors retreat to the city wall and fight with the Han people. Even if they die, they will have to drag one or two back!"

Although Hauge seemed crazy at the moment, he still remembered not to leave the city.

"Your Majesty is right, we may be able to hold on to the three walls until the reinforcements arrive." Everyone also reacted at this time, and a glimmer of hope once again appeared in their hearts. They strangled the idea of ​​leaving the city and called out to the warriors in the city. Back up the wall.

Obviously, the Jurchens who were born in the cavalry knew better than anyone that if they evacuated the city on foot at this time, they might not be able to run five or six miles before they would be directly overwhelmed by the cavalry.

Sure enough, as Jiannu retreated to the three city walls and blocked the stairs with corpses, the advantage of close combat was once again demonstrated. The Lin family army that invaded the city was once again blocked.

After Lin Rui learned the news, in order to avoid excessive casualties, he had to order a temporary halt to the attack.

Then he ordered the use of trebuchets and archers to deal with the slaves on the wall.

More than 5000 Jian slaves were crowded on the wall. Every stone fired by the trebuchet, as long as it was accurately thrown to the wall, could kill almost a dozen Jian slaves. However, the hit rate was too low, so archers had to rely on them.

Faced with nearly [-] long archers and [-] Mongolian archers, with fire from inside and outside the city, the slaves on the three walls had no place to hide. Although they were also firing arrows to fight back, by the time it got dark, there were only There are only about [-] people left.

These 2000 people relied on the corpses of their companions to escape the rain of arrows.

Even though there were only 2000 people left, when the Lin family army launched another attack from the ladder to the wall, they were still repelled by two thousand Jurchens like mad dogs.

General Lin Rui was very angry, but he also knew that the opponent had become a trapped beast, and a forced attack at this time would only increase casualties.

Indeed, at this time, Hauge and the only two thousand Jiannu were no different from wild beasts.

As soon as the Lin family army retreated, they lay on the corpses of their companions one by one, sucking blood crazily to replenish their physical strength.

This scene made the young soldiers who saw it turn pale, their legs trembled, and they felt a chill in their hearts.

"Commander, why don't we use siege engines to directly knock down the section of the city wall occupied by Jiannu?" Huang Ben suggested carefully.

The scene of Jiannu sucking blood just now scared him, and now he was still a little frightened, so he really didn't have the confidence to rush forward and eliminate them.

"The east wall they occupy is at least three or four miles long. How long will it take for two siege engines to completely collapse it?"

Lin Rui waved his hand and rejected his bad idea.

"Rui Lang, how about we just set fire to them and burn them to death?" Na Mu Zhong said suddenly.

"Well, this is a good idea, but the wood and fire starters are a bit troublesome, and Jiannu won't just watch us pile these things under the city wall..."

Lin Rui's eyes lit up, and then he shook his head.

After all, the earth wall is three to four miles long, two feet high and two feet thick. If you want to smoke and scald all the people on the top of the city, a large amount of combustible materials must be piled under the walls on both sides.

Apart from corpses, there was nothing to burn in the city. Although they had a lot of ladders and wooden ladders outside the city, and even siege engines and trebuchets that could be dismantled, they were probably not enough.

Cutting down trees would waste too much time, and continuing to dismantle the carriage would be too wasteful.

What's more, they shot a large number of arrows at the top of the city. With Jiannu's archery skills, it was better to attack by force than to pile corpses and wood under the wall.

In today's battle, although they killed Jiannu and left only 2000 defeated soldiers, they also suffered more than [-] casualties. Adding the casualties suffered a while ago, the number had reached [-], so he really did not want to add more casualties. casualties.

If it weren't for the reinforcements from Jiannu, he wouldn't have cared about the two thousand defeated soldiers and saw how long they could stay on the wall.

Seeing that Lin Rui once again rejected Huo Shao's strategy, everyone scratched their heads and had no good ideas.

"Haha, actually having a slave guarding the wall is not necessarily a bad thing!" At this time, Lin Rui smiled sadly.

"what?"

Everyone looked over in confusion. The Jiannu reinforcements were about to arrive. At this time, it was natural to eliminate the remaining enemies on the wall as soon as possible, and then completely occupy the entire Guihua City.

"Think about it, you guys, what would you do if the reinforcements of the Jiannu slaves came and found that although the city was destroyed, there were still many Jiannu slaves clinging to the top of the city with neither food nor drink?"

"They will definitely go to any lengths to rescue."

Na Muzhong blurted out, and everyone else also reacted, and their spirits were shaken.

"Yes, in this way, we have become a defensive party. Anyway, with those [-] reinforcements, we now occupy Guihua City. I am afraid that we cannot transport the green bricks to reinforce it immediately, so we might as well use the top of the city to Use Jiannu as bait to consume Jiannu’s reinforcements as much as possible.”

Lin Rui nodded. If Jiannu still occupied part of the city, it would be too dangerous to do this. But now that there is only a lonely city wall left, there is no problem.

So Lin Rui immediately began to make new arrangements and moved the army directly to the city. The cavalry stationed in the west city camp, and then asked Huang Ben to lead 1 people to build fortifications outside the east city, waiting for the arrival of slave reinforcements.

The fortification is also very simple. Just dig a ditch and build a wall a hundred steps away from the east city wall, and then place two rows of horse-repelling stakes fifty steps away.

The entire fortification is a long and narrow arc, five miles long and fifty steps wide, which just surrounds the east city wall. Thirty trebuchets are also placed in the fortification.

(End of this chapter)