Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1067 Bloody Battle in Guazhou
The Mongols were smart and learned to behave well this time. After nearly a month of preparations, they had made adequate preparations. They no longer came to attack the city with simple siege ladders like last time, and they would never attack the city. Expose yourself to the golden army's artillery and bird guns on a large scale.

Sun Kewang still trusted Zhang Sheng, and handed over the defense of Beicheng to him.

The city of Guazhou is small, with only one city gate in the north. The three deep moats outside the city wall were all filled in, and the antlers and horses were also removed.

The equipment made by the Mongols can be regarded as relatively sophisticated, retaining some characteristics of the Yuan Dynasty.

As soon as the battle started, the defenders found that the Mongols' attack this time was more organized than the first time. They did not rush to the top of the city carrying ladders, but were organized like waves, wave after wave. go ahead.

More than a dozen siege towers and dozens of siege ladders were pushed forward, while the Mongolian soldiers hid behind the siege towers or in cave houses and pushed forward.

On the top of the city, the bows and arrows and firecrackers of the Jin army did not fire, because the Mongols had a complete range of equipment, like a cave house, shaped like a house, with a sharp top and a wide bottom, with solid wood as the frame inside, and thick felt and cowhide outside. When the cannon stone hits it, it will be covered by cowhide, making it even more difficult for bows and arrows and gunballs to shoot into it.

This kind of equipment was used by the Ming army when they attacked Luzhou. It is very difficult to tangle with bows and arrows. If a robe stone is hit on it, it will be covered by tough cowhide. The cave will not collapse. It is guaranteed that there will be no robe stones piled up on the top to cause a heavy load and affect the forward push.

Except for cave houses, soldiers walking behind the tower will not be attacked because of the tall siege tower blocking it.

The bows and arrows on the city did not fire, but the cannons and the catapults behind the city walls began to attack.

Behind the city wall, more than a dozen black dots suddenly rose up, and Zhen Tianlei was thrown high into the sky, and then drew a series of arcs, falling rapidly.

With a sound of "boom", a thunderbolt exploded above the Mongols' heads.

With a swipe, the Mongolian soldiers below the explosion all raised their round shields, and the rain of gravel and iron nails fell on the shields, making a loud clatter.

Not all the thunderbolts exploded in the air, most of them exploded the moment they hit the ground.

A thunderbolt fell right behind a shield vehicle, and seven or eight soldiers were immediately blown away by the explosion. When they landed on the ground, their bodies were covered in blood holes, and they were hit by flying gravel and iron nails from the thunderbolt. worn body.

Before, the Mongols had seen the power of Zhentianlei, and they were prepared when they met again, and they also knew that although the sound of this thing was loud, the power was actually not great. In addition, they had all the equipment this time, so the Mongol soldiers The inner fear is greatly reduced.

A thunderbolt landed next to a cave house, causing the cave house to shake a few times. The Mongolian soldiers hiding inside were bleeding from the mouth and nose, but the cave house was not blown open.

The Ming Dynasty lacked cowhide, but there were many Mongols. The cave houses they built were covered with a layer of blankets and two layers of cowhide, and their defense was stronger than the cave houses built by the Ming army.

Behind the city wall, wave after wave of shocking thunder was thrown out and smashed into the advancing Mongolian formation. From time to time, the army formation was bombed with mud and corpses flying around. The explosion in the sky made the Mongolian soldiers shrink their necks. , But it did not stop the Mongolian army from continuing to advance.

The soldiers of the Golden Army on the top of the city saw the siege tower, which was almost as high as the top of the city, getting closer and closer to the city wall. Many soldiers immediately took a deep breath.

Everyone knows that once the siege tower is on the top of the city, the Mongols will be able to swarm up.

The well-trained Mongolian soldiers hid behind the siege tower, and they were ready to attack the city immediately after the siege tower was on top of the city.

"Cannon, attack the siege tower!"

Zhang Shengzhan waved his sword and roared loudly.

Ordinary equipment can't seriously damage the siege tower. The front of this behemoth is also covered with a layer of cowhide to prevent the city from being burned by rockets.

With a sound of "Boom!", a cannon was shot from the top of the city, and a cloud of white smoke rose up. A shell roared out of the white smoke and shot towards a siege tower close to the city wall in front.

"Hoo!" A gust of wind blew by, the shell did not hit the siege tower, but missed it at once, the shell whizzed past the siege tower, and hit the ground behind directly, causing mud to splash immediately.

"Damn, miss!"

"Come again!"

The artillery on the city bombarded, and the iron bullets fired by the cannons had a much stronger impact than the stone bullets thrown by the artillery stone machine.

The stone bullets that jumped up from behind the city wall hit the siege tower, but were caught by the cowhide, and the stone bullets rolled down, but the artillery was so powerful that it could smash everything.

A siege tower close to the city wall suffered concentrated fire from several artillery shells. A shell directly tore through the cowhide and penetrated the siege tower from the front. The iron bullet smashed everything, and the wooden blocks and stairs inside were smashed. But the power of the cannonball remained undiminished, and it pierced through the back again, smashing into the Mongolian army formation behind, and immediately crushed a line of blood.

At the same time as this shell rushed out, several shells immediately hit the waist of the siege tower from different angles.

Sawdust flew, the waist of the tower body was beaten to pieces, and the tower head above it shook a few times and broke immediately, and fell to the ground.

The Mongolian soldiers who were pushing the siege tower below suddenly felt black on their heads, and the three-foot-high tower broke off, and a black shadow fell on it, and the Mongolian soldiers below were panicked and dispersed.

On the city wall, Jin Jun immediately let out a short cheer when he saw the behemoth collapse.

As soon as the siege tower was broken, the Mongolian soldiers behind were exposed. The captain of the city swung his saber, and the top of the city suddenly rang.

Many Mongolian soldiers didn't react, their bodies were shaken for a while, and they fell to the ground.

A centurion was punched with a blood hole, and the blood kept gushing out, but he continued to charge forward with a scimitar, but in the blink of an eye, another bow and arrow came from the top of the city, and a rain of arrows hit, and suddenly Shoot him a hedgehog.

"That one!"

The general at the top of the city shouted non-stop, directing the artillery to bombard the siege tower of the nearby city wall, and the tower was immediately smashed to pieces.

A group of soldiers hugged a long pole together and held it against the siege tower that was about to approach the city wall. The soldiers threw out fire cans one by one, and immediately the city of Guazhou was filled with flames.

The siege tower is the most important siege equipment, but with the development of firearms, it will inevitably withdraw from the stage of history.

Chechen stood two miles away on horseback, looking at the battered siege towers, paralyzed on the road, with a cold face.

The tribal leaders around him couldn't help showing a hint of anxiety on their faces, but Chechen gritted his teeth and waved: "Go on!"

It is not terrible that the siege tower was destroyed. The Mongols still had ladders and climbing ladders. The siege tower attracted the firepower of the Jin army, and other equipment could smoothly approach the city wall.

On the northern city of Guazhou, the sound of killing was loud, and the two armies began to fight to the death on the city wall that was several miles long.

(End of this chapter)