Powerful Song Dynasty

Chapter 1047
A utility man in iron armor came out of the goose hole, ran a few steps, and got into the ladder car directly. He bit a freshly sharpened [-]-year-old curved knife tightly in his mouth, and wrapped it with the animal skin. ladder, struggling to climb up.

The ladder car is divided into several floors, all connected by ladders. He has to climb to the top floor and jump up the city wall from the heavy slab bridge laid on the battlements.

However, the front of the ladder between the upper and lower floors of the ladder cart is covered with several layers of thick cowhide, and some places are protected by iron plates. It is difficult for ordinary bows and arrows to penetrate, which protects the safety of officials and allows them to climb calmly.

The battle continued. The Xia army organized crossbowmen and spearmen to surround the bridge of the ladder car. Once someone came out, they would be shot with arrows. Those who rushed over by chance were also picked off by the spears. If they did not die, their bones would be broken. The tendons were broken, which was extremely tragic.

He climbed safely to the top of the ladder, which was a relatively safe area, and more than ten people had already gathered. Three of them held shields in front, three followed with crossbows, and the others held battles, ready to make final preparations.Just above their heads, several crossbowmen were fighting with the defenders with bows and crossbows, and they were having a great time fighting.

At the same time as the general in the ladder gave an order and the baffle was pulled open, more than a dozen people roared and rushed out. Fearing that they would die, they tried their best to comfort themselves. No one hesitated, and no one retreated. Of course, they could not step back.

There was a burst of short-distance crossbow arrows at the head, most of the arrows were caught by the shield, only one person was shot through the face door, and fell directly to the bottom of the city. The rest of the people approached the city wall step by step. Three crossbowmen pulled the trigger and shot down three Xia soldiers. , the crossbow was thrown down the city, and all of them drew their sharp blades to prepare for hand-to-hand combat.

The crossbowmen of the defenders retreated, and five or six spearmen came up, stabbing wildly for a while, and two of them were picked down to the city. Because they were wearing heavy armor, the spearmen could not cause fatal damage, and the two sides actually formed a stalemate.

Seeing that the stalemate was going to die, the utility held a curved knife, jumped up to the top of the wall with a loud shout, and chopped off a hot man with a single blow, scaring the defenders to retreat quickly, and the rest took the opportunity to jump up to the top of the wall.They had obviously been trained in siege, and quickly formed an arc formation on the city wall to cover the following brothers coming up.

Even wearing iron armor, it is impossible to cover everything. There are still people who are smashed by boiled copper rods and spurt blood wildly. No one cares about the dead. They are all fighting for survival, and there is still insufficient self-protection. How can they save others?
With red eyes, he jumped up with a stride, and slashed across with a knife. A defender was caught off guard, and half of his head was sliced ​​off by the sharp blade. Brain and blood sprayed out all over his body. Both are.

When he hadn't retracted his knife, a general with a big ax rushed forward. He couldn't retreat, and he had no way to retreat. He could only swing his knife horizontally and rush to the general in front. This is the consciousness of death. , Even if you retreat, you are dead, it is better to exchange your life for your life, at least there will be a glimmer of life.

In a small space, so many people fought hand-to-hand, and while they were fighting each other, two people bumped into each other heavily, tearing at each other without grace, the knife and ax fell to the ground, and their fists hit each other hard in the face.

Utility is not tall, and it is very difficult for him to be entangled in close quarters. He received two punches on the cheeks, and blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth. When he couldn't help it, he saw the general collapsed limply.

It turned out that an official seized the opportunity and greeted the general with the big gun in his hand. The two were fighting together, their weak ribs were completely exposed, and he was very lucky that he was not the one who was recruited.

The brutal hand-to-hand combat on the top of the city makes people unable to think about it. Seeing the officer assassinate the general, he was slashed on the shoulder in a blink of an eye. Fortunately, there was a heavy armor protection, the steel knife did not hurt the body, and the whole person was repelled by strength At the crenel of Daocheng, barely supporting the opponent's swords and guns, at least it is quite embarrassing.

On a hot day, under the scorching sun, the heavier the armor, the thicker the clothes. The officers who attacked the fortifications had thirty to forty catties of armor and held heavy battles. The thick layers of linen clothes were soaked in sweat. died.

The battle is still going on, it's better to say that it's desperate, and the utility shows superb fighting skills, avoiding the iron mace and smashing three people to death in a row, all without brains bursting.There are corpses everywhere under their feet, piled up in a haphazard manner, and they may be tripped if they are not careful.

In less than a hundred breaths, there were only six or seven of the ten people left, and the defenders in front of them gathered more than ten people to outflank them. Seeing this momentum, they were going to swallow them alive, and in a dangerous situation with no way out, Utility roared, waved the iron mace he snatched, and said sharply: "Kill."

Utility smashed and killed five or six people in a row, and already had three wounds on his body. Although he was not fatally wounded, he was bleeding all the time, and he was losing all his strength.

Officials on the ladder car kept jumping down and falling down again and again. When he exhausted all his strength to cut down a soldier, a feathered arrow shot at him and hit his breastplate. Due to the short distance, he I even saw a crossbowman holding a strong crossbow. The arrow pierced through the iron armor, his body suddenly lost strength, and the iron mace slipped from his hand.

When he fell down like an iron tower, almost the same thing happened at the top of each ladder car, killing or being killed, no one paid much attention.

However, fortunately, the Song Army's successive days of cannonball attacks had achieved results. A section of the city wall in the south city could no longer bear it and collapsed [-] feet. How could such a great opportunity be missed? Xiao Heda was very excited and immediately organized an assault force Charged and killed, the defenders also desperately resisted, and the two sides reproduced the brutal scene of the wall of Lingwu City being blown down.

Due to the collapse of the city wall, the defenders fell into a state of panic, and the Song army seized the opportunity. Xu Huiyan joined the reserve team to step up the offensive. Over the city wall, interspersed with artillery, stone and arrows, as well as rockets trailing smoke, added to the bloody void in the evening. a magnificent view.

The defenders were seriously insufficient, and soldiers and horses had to be deployed to block the gap to contain the Song army's crazy offensive. The reinforcements received on the city wall weakened, resulting in more and more Song troops coming up through the ladder carts.

Wang Cunli was at the head of the North City, and he kept receiving one bad news after another. Thousands of people in his area fought against tens of thousands of Song troops. He fought bloody battles for more than ten days, which was enough to make him proud, but also made him feel sad.

If, at this time, reinforcements arrive, it may be possible to force the Song army to retreat temporarily. Now that everything is over, they have used powerful projectile weapons to blow down the city wall. He will never give him another chance. He can do everything he can I have done it, and now I can only die for the country with my own body. It is an extravagant hope to persevere until the last soldier.

Inadvertently, he turned his head to look at the setting sun that was about to set, the smear of red before sinking, flashing like blood, thinking of the fate of the girl, suddenly felt that maybe he was like this smear of red, unwilling but helpless sink down.

(End of this chapter)