Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 523 Attack and Defense of Ten Mile Fort ([-])
Sometimes the party members shot faster, and sometimes it was the defenders of Shilibao.When a little fire fell on the top of the wall, and the defending soldiers who couldn't escape in time screamed and rolled on the ground holding their wounds, another attack came from the outside.

The wounded were still rolling on the ground, and the reinforcements were still in the distance. The soldiers behind the city wall rushed out from behind the bunkers and started fighting with the elite party members who were trying to storm in.

The person in charge of defending the west side of the city wall is a commander named Wang Jinming, who has pockmarks on his face and is called Wang Mazi, but he is six feet tall and strong like a black iron tower. A city wall ten feet wide.At this time, under the repeated attacks of the party members, the originally abundant manpower is being rapidly reduced.As far as the eye can see, there are flickering flames, running figures, shouts of orderlies, screams of the wounded, and on the ground inside the city wall, many arrows have been inserted into the soil, and some are still burning.He looked out from the city wall at this moment. On the outer slope of the city wall, the charging party soldiers scattered, shouted, and ran like a swarm of ants, only occasionally launching an attack on a certain section of the city wall.

Farther away, countless fire spots in the woods were about to rush out, but they didn't know where they were going to shoot.

"They're going to charge, they're going to charge...Wang Dongzi, let your brother prepare! Rocket, if I say fire it, light it. If I tell you to squat down, you squat down!"

He suddenly shouted that Wang Dongzi, who was leading the archery team not far away, was his brother, and then he also shouted, and the hundreds of archers around immediately picked up the arrows wrapped in oilcloth.I poured more viscous kerosene, and ran to the campfire to stand by.Wang Jinming picked up his shield and long knife: "Shoot...squat down, defend with the shield...get up...kill the enemy!"

Except for the archers, who continued to prepare for the next round of shooting, the others under his voice command, after dodging the rockets, picked up their shields and long knives and chopped down the party members who had just rushed to the top of the city. But there are also those who react slowly, and are hacked to death and injured by the enemy as soon as they get up.

Wang Jinming looked at the city wall he was in charge of, while still paying attention to the colors in the sky. At this moment, his expression changed, and he opened his eyes wide to look at the sky. It was still black, but the hairs on the back of his head stood up.

"Take cover and be careful"

Wang Jinming squatted down, raised his shield, and shouted with all his strength, and the soldiers behind him also raised their shields quickly. Afterwards, arrows rained down in the darkness. Their arrows were also killed.

In the previous period, the party members had been using rockets to suppress the defenders of Ten Mile Fort. On the one hand, the scald would indeed cause huge damage to the soldiers, and on the other hand, it would also serve as a light for their own people who were besieging the city.

And the bursts of fire arrows flying towards them basically caused the soldiers of the Song army behind the city wall to form a conditioned reflex. Once the arrows traced the light and flew towards them, they immediately made dodging movements, but at this moment, it was not the rockets that fell.

On the side of Ten Mile Fort, they immediately suffered a big loss.

"Wang Dongzi, hurry up and kill me, suppress them...the others will follow me!" Wang Jinming shook his head and yelled loudly. Several injured people beside him were screaming, and those with arrows in their thighs were crawling on the top of the wall. Next, the ladder of the party members was put on the city wall.

The uninjured soldier grabbed his long knife and stood up to kill the enemy. A party member soldier rushed in and slashed at his body with a knife, sending his arm flying away. The surrounding defenders stood up and fought on the wall.Wang Jinming roared "Ah", and joined the battle himself.

In the bloody fight, a party member soldier jumped into the wall, and his long knife slashed down with the leap. Wang Jinming raised his shield and swung it violently. The shield smashed the steel knife. His tower-like figure and that figure The burly party members bumped into each other, and the two hit the city wall with a bang, their bodies entangled, and then they slammed into blood.

"Kill the enemy--"

In the shadows, the party man fell down, Wang Jinming drew his knife and shouted, forward.The soldiers of the party members entered over the wall, and behind them, the elite of Wang Jinming and the archers who ignited the rockets also swarmed towards this side. Rush up the walls on both sides.Start to shoot arrows raining down on the area where the party members are concentrated.

Similar scenes are constantly happening in different places on this city wall.In front of the main entrance of the camp, several carts decorated with shields were directly smashed by Ye Chen with the heavy stones found in the city, and they were temporarily paralyzed.To the east, stepping on the heads and corpses in the snow, the large-scale harassment of Shilibao by the party members has not stopped for a moment.

The seven Dangxiang tribes now add up to 4000 to 1000 cavalry, and the tribes left half of them. This time, they followed them into the territory of the Song Dynasty, and there were [-]. At this time, outside the Shilipu Valley, the strength of the Dangxiang people was about [-]. They are all the elites of the tribe who followed them.In the entire Shilibao, the actual force is only more than [-], and the [-] black cavalry is enough to be comparable to more than [-] party cavalry, but this has very limited effect in the battle of defending the city.

"Northwest party members are indeed not comparable to the troops of the Southern Han and Southern Tang."

During the attack of the party members, there was also a lot of noise near the simple tower of the Shilibao city wall.All the soldiers of the Song Army have already entered the battle, and the masters of the Huaxia Weifu, who are the reserve team and the "fire brigade" at the critical moment, are also tense. Inside the tower, watching the fighting outside, the arrows coming and going in the sky, Ye Chen I also have to sigh at the power of the party members.

After being trained by the orthodox military academy of the later generations, Ye Chen is extremely accurate and keen in grasping the overall strategy, but his ability to control the cold weapon battlefield in real time is actually not strong. Liu Shijun is the best at fighting and commanding in Ten Mile Fort And the generals under his command, as for Hu Sanguang, Lian Jicheng, and Huang Louping, in this kind of battle, all kinds of control are not as good as those of these professional backgrounds.

After seeing this matter clearly at the very beginning, Ye Chen resolutely put all the heavy responsibility of command on Liu Shijun's shoulders, and he didn't make any extra speeches himself.As for Lian Jicheng, deputy envoy of the Assassination Department of Huaxia Weifu, and Huang Louping, envoy of Xifu, they are not as good as Liu Shijun in commanding the overall situation of defending the city, but they are decisive and sharp in dealing with some dangerous situations, Ye Chen let them Each led a team of masters from the Huaxia Weifu to respond to the surrounding battles and make up for the gap.

At this time, there will not be a big gap near the city wall, but the pressure has gradually appeared.Especially after the enemy spared no effort to consume arrows, and after the arrows in the city were greatly reduced and they dared not use them as much as they did at the beginning, the defenders in the city were suppressed. This made Ye Chen understand that even in the era of cold weapons, fighting is very important in many situations. The fight is still to see who has money.

However, he was still surprised by Tuoba Zhenli's quick response and accuracy outside the city, which even made him wonder for a while whether there were some powerful figures in the temple secretly commanding the party army outside the city.

The opponent is so powerful, which means that the next ten Mile Fort will face is the most difficult future... If the reinforcements from the Northwest Frontier Army of Gyeongju fail to arrive in time, Ten Mile Fort will eventually be unable to hold. With the masters who have been trained in cavalry battles in the mansion by his side, coupled with the shocking arrows he can shoot, he still has a certain degree of confidence to break out and escape, but the Song army and the people in the city may not be spared.

The sea of ​​snow spreads, day and night come and go, and morning comes.

This morning in Shilibao City was exceptionally quiet, except for the falling snowflakes and the fighting in the middle of the night, no matter outside or inside the city, people always needed to rest and eat.

However, when the tranquility is always short, the city is responsible for transporting the defense equipment. It was also busy all night, and some people were killed and injured by the arrows thrown in from outside the city. The voice came faintly and abruptly.Huge objects are passing across the sky.There was a muffled bang, in the bright sky and snow, it seemed that a wind suddenly passed by, many people shrank their bodies, they felt that the ground was moving, and someone shouted "ah" in the distance
Boom boom boom boom boom boom...

The sound of the siege reached its highest level in an instant, and the terrifying sound flooded the city, shaking everything it touched

The party members finally started to use the dozen or so trebuchets.

The stone has been on that ridge for many, many years.It was an unnamed low mountain, inconspicuous, with no scenic spots worthy of praise. That stone was just one of many stones, which had witnessed the rising and setting of the sun, experienced vicissitudes of life, and endured the changes of four seasons.Numerous cows, horses, sheep and donkeys have submerged it several times, and when people come and go around, children herding sheep and horses occasionally rest on it.For a long time, it has not moved its position.

Men in sheepskins and crude leather armor dragged it from there just as snow fell from the sky, as it had fallen for many years before.It was dragged along with many stones to a flat ground, and when the snow was about to cover its body, the people who dragged it began to hit it with things, and it was knocked rounder some, and then piled among countless other stones.

Next to it, there is a rough temporary camp, and in the distance ahead, a low city wall extends towards both sides.

The snow falls, the sun rises and sets, sometimes the stone is lively and sometimes deserted, people rush back and forth, sometimes remove the companion next to it, and sometimes put more stones around it.Light and darkness alternated, and the surroundings suddenly became more lively. The footsteps of people and horses shook the ground, and more machines with wheels were pushed from around.Restless breath mixed with falling snowflakes.

When the sky was darkened and brightened again, the humming and huge vibrations had enveloped everything, the voices of people were running, all kinds of rough and strange sounds, around it, a large number of stones were moved away quickly, those The stone streaked across the sky and disappeared.Finally, footsteps rushed over and lifted it up.

(End of this chapter)