The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 137
The most important thing in the siege is who will take the lead. Everyone wants to be the vanguard, and they can't stop arguing. In the end, it was Wang Quanbin.

Why?It was because of the Black Banner Army, otherwise it would not be his turn to be the vanguard of the siege, but who would dare to compete with him in terms of the combat effectiveness of the Black Banner Army?

However, Wang Quanbin, the pioneer, was only talking about the west gate of Yangzhou, which is the main battlefield, and there are three other gates in Yangzhou City.

The remaining three city gates were in charge of by several other people, and they were very unhappy.

The next day, outside the west gate of Yangzhou early in the morning, there were thousands of men in black uniforms lined up in front of the formation. This was the Black Banner Army that ran rampant on the battlefield yesterday.

At this time, not only the Song Dynasty's own army was watching them, but even the Yangzhou army guarding the city wall kept watching them.

Yesterday they only heard about how powerful the Black Banner Army was, but they had never seen it before, and now they just happened to see it.

These black flag troops can't just attack the city like this, Yangzhou City is not what it used to be now, the city wall just built can be described as high and strong.

It is impossible to attack at all. As for the city gate, you don't even think about it. How tightly guarded the city gate is, can you go below?

At this time, a large number of siege equipment, such as ladders and the like, were brought in from behind, which was very traditional anyway.

In addition, there are a large number of trebuchets, but this trebuchet looks quite simple, and it is simply made temporarily.

They didn't expect that they would attack the city so soon, and it was unrealistic to transport the trebuchets from other places, so they only made a few temporarily.

This is the siege weapon for the Black Banner Army, and there will be nothing else. At this time, the Black Banner Army is automatically divided into three teams, each with about 1000 people.

Of course, there are about a few hundred people wearing other clothes. These people are the imperial guards, and they are the people who are responsible for operating these siege equipment.

The group of people in the middle of the Black Banner Army, everyone held a heavy knife in their hands, exactly the kind of knife that was used when the Jiezhou Army finally fought against each other yesterday.

Each of the team on the left is holding arrows the size of a javelin. Don't think about it, these are arrows for strong bows.They also carry hand crossbows, which can be used in close combat.

The team on the right is the spear formation, which is intended to be the first to clear the way when they first enter the city, and deal with the resisters in the city.

Then the men with crossbows entered again and shot and killed the enemies in the distance. As for the broadsword team, they were the field army, fighting those who resisted in close quarters.

At this time, three more carts appeared in front of the world under the strenuous push and pull of dozens of soldiers.

These looked like three large carts, with only a super big bow and arrow on them. This was a special bed crossbow. Although it was crudely made, it was very lethal.

"Brothers, get ready to shoot arrows as soon as they approach."

The guard of Yangzhou City is a confidant of Li Chongjin, and he spared no effort to carry out Li Chongjin's orders.

Seeing that the Song army below was constantly mobilizing, he immediately issued an order, his tone full of chills.

For a person like him, killing people is really a piece of cake, so he is very indifferent to life.

But no one thought that this order turned out to be the last order in his life, and he never had a chance to issue any orders since then.

"Sir, let's see if it's time to attack?" Zhao Xu asked Miao Xun beside him. They all stood at a distance and did not go down in person.

"My lord, I think the preparations are almost ready and we can start. I'm still a little worried about how many soldiers' lives we will have to pay for this battle." Miao Xun sighed.

"Sir, no one is immortal in a war. What we do is to end these wars as soon as possible, so that no more people will suffer from the war. Send an order to start attacking the city."

"The prince has an order to start attacking the city."

"The prince has an order to start attacking the city."

The orders were passed down step by step. At this time, the soldiers began to get busy, and the bed crossbow was also placed in the right position, facing the city wall.The trebuchet is also ready, and all the targets are the position of the city wall.

It turned out that those soldiers with arrows the size of javelins put the arrows in their hands on the bed crossbow.

After a few swishes, many arrows shot at the head of the city, and some soldiers defending the city who had no time to dodge were shot right through each other.

The confidant of Li Chongjin just now was also bruised, and Zhao hurriedly took cover to hide, and the banner with the word "Li" on the top of the city was also shot down.

This kind of arrow is too redundant and heavy, but as long as it is shot, there is almost no possibility of survival, but the number is not very large. After several rounds of shooting, the arrow is gone. '

Just like this, the defenders who had already become the city's head caused great difficulties, and there were many casualties, and the sound of wailing was spread far away.

"It seems that the effect of this bed crossbow is not bad, but there are too few arrows, but I don't intend to use it to open the city gate, just to test it, let's take a look at our trebuchet next."

Zhao Xu stood in the distance and said to himself.

Li Chongjin also knew that Da Song's army wanted to forcibly attack the city, but he didn't have time to check it out.

In Yangzhou, every city gate was being attacked, and the troops had to be divided to guard it.

Although these four city gates are said to be the most important west gates, at this time, there must be no mistakes in any of them, otherwise I and others will become the soft-shelled turtle.

So Li Chongjin and his younger brother kept dispatching troops. Now Li Chongzan went to the east gate, Li Yanfu led the troops to the north gate, and a general brought by Li Chongzan was guarding the south gate.

Li Chongjin was taking Zhang Chongxu and Xiang Meizhanjing to the west gate at this time, and before he climbed the city wall, he saw that most of the soldiers were lying on the ground and howling.

All of them had bruised noses and swollen faces, and the trebuchets outside were still firing stones. There are really a lot of stones, and it is very convenient to get materials locally.

When Li Chongjin saw this, he immediately asked the soldiers to walk up the city wall. At this moment, Song Jun's trebuchet also stopped.

It can be seen that their actions are about to force open the gates of the city. If you have less than 1 people, you dare to come here to attack the city. I think you don't want to live anymore.

As soon as Li Chongjin waved his hand, a row of archers came up behind him, and they shot the arrows out of the bow.

Many officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army who were caught off guard were shot and fell to the ground. Seeing this, the soldiers of the Black Banner Army also took out their bows and arrows.

They don't just have hand crossbows. Hand crossbows are only used in close combat. Now the range of the bows and arrows they hold is just enough to reach the top of the city wall.

The two sides came and went, and a new round of bow and arrow battles began, with mutual casualties. The Song army was also preparing to break through the city gate many times, but was shot to death before reaching the city gate.

In a short time, hundreds of people were killed or injured. At this time, Dong Zhenhai was really angry. This is completely beyond his bravery.

If he can't get close to the front, he won't be able to play any role. At this time, he put his heart on his back, and ran straight towards the city gate without any weapons.

Everyone didn't know what he was going to do, but he ran to the front and picked up the bumper.One must know that the wood used to break open the gate weighed at least a few hundred catties.

He didn't expect him to be so strong. It took a lot of people to move the bumper, but he carried it by himself.

Li Chongjin also saw this scene, shouted a monster in his heart, and immediately ordered someone to shoot him to death, and Miao Xun here also broke into a cold sweat.

In his opinion, Dong Zhenhai was doomed this time, but Zhao Xu didn't care at all. He naturally knew what kind of kung fu Dong Zhenhai practiced.

Sure enough, the arrows shot at Dong Zhenhai did not cause him any harm, but only blocked his forward speed.

Dong Zhenhai is also smart, he is always on guard against his eyes, he has practiced Kung Fu horizontally, but his eyes have not been practiced horizontally.

Or maybe he was annoyed by those bows and arrows on the top of the city. He closed his eyes and wanted to run forward quickly.

Li Chongjin was anxious seeing him getting closer and closer to the city gate, but there was nothing he could do to stop him, so what could he do.

This guy has also lost his sense of proportion now, and immediately asked his soldiers to guard the city gate strictly, and stopped attacking with bows and arrows.

At this time, Zhao Xu saw the situation and ordered a dozen people to protect Miao Xun layer by layer, before rushing down himself.

There is no threat of bows and arrows on the top of the city, and the people below can easily reach the city wall.

It stands to reason that Li Chongjin would not be so stupid in fighting for so many years, but now he has lost his mind.

Song Jun successfully set up the ladder for the siege of the city, and some people began to climb up slowly.

Here in Dong Zhenhai and the power of the crowd are constantly hitting the city gate. I don't know what material the city gate is made of, but it is so strong.

It's just that they didn't give up, and kept hitting the city gate fiercely with the thick ram.

At this time, the first group of people who climbed from the ladder to the top of the city had successfully arrived at the top of the city, and quickly attacked the bottom of the city.

"Whoever the bastard told you all to come down, stop them quickly, and don't let them down." Li Zhongjin was furious and ordered a group of soldiers to go to the top of the city to stop them immediately.

But there were those opponents who ran towards the Black Banner Army at the top of the city. After meeting each other, Lao Li's men fell to the ground.

At this moment, Zhao Xu was also coming down from the top of the city. He also came down from the ladder. He didn't expect to come here so easily.

At this time, the sound of hey yo from outside was getting closer and closer, and suddenly the gate was knocked open, and some Yangzhou soldiers were knocked to the ground unexpectedly.

"His grandma's, it took me so much effort to finally open it, you bastards, watch how I deal with you, brothers chopped up these bastards alive for me, come on."

(End of this chapter)