Datang Lingnan King

Chapter 219
There were tens of thousands of people, boundless, and more than 50 troops gathered, almost surrounding Beizhong City on three sides with companies and battalions.

Moreover, Su Wo Eizo is not mediocre, the layout is quite organized, and the principle of strength in numbers is deeply used. The outside of the camp is full of horses, wooden stakes, and a trench has been dug. As if to defend.

For such a stable enemy, Li Ji also had a headache. Fortunately, he had already prepared for the attack on Wa Island. Except for the barracks, there was not a single house in the city, and they were all used to build the city defense.

In Beizhong, the two cities of Izumo have not only been heightened and thickened, but also have female walls, watchtowers, enemy towers, suspension bridges, and urn castles. Even the moat has been widened to two feet. The slave attacked.

Moreover, within one mile of the city, all the trees have been cut down, and the stones have been polished into slings. There are two hundred crossbows in each city, and tens of thousands of captives have been helping to make arrows for several months. It can be said that they are armed to the teeth. Both Li Ji and Feng Daiwen are confident in the defense of the city.

Looking at the tall city wall, Suga Ezo was very helpless. At the same time, he also knew that Izumo was in the same situation. In desperation, he had to ask people to step up and build a siege ladder.

If you want to attack the city, you must first fill in the moat. Suga Eizo is also very military-minded. First, he asked people to make a lot of wooden boards and used them as shields, and collected a lot of stones. Holding up the shields began to protect the soldiers filling the moat.

It's a pity that Su Wo Ezo still underestimated Datang. The eight-ox crossbow easily pierced through the wooden board, nailed to the ground together with the soldiers behind, and kept crying. The guards were all nomadic soldiers, and they were all archery experts. Shoot the Japanese slave.

For the Wonu, the only good news is that there are not many crossbows and the attack speed is not fast, but it still caused many casualties to the Wonu, and almost every one of them would take at least one life.

Because there were too many Japanese slaves, neither Li Ji nor Feng Daiwen used catapults. After all, although it could bring casualties to the Japanese slaves, it would also increase the materials they had to bury the moat.

The soldiers didn't make any arrangements, they just selected people with outstanding archery skills to take turns to shoot arrows. As for the living targets in the city, they didn't shoot too happily. Occasionally, a few people made a bet to see who would shoot more dead.

I didn't pay much attention to the bows and arrows that were shot upwards and suppressed under the city. Firstly, they were protected by shields, secondly, they were well-equipped and could effectively defend against arrows.

This is also the biggest shortcoming of Japanese slaves. The staff are generally short, and the longbows they use are only two-thirds as long as the Tang Dynasty. A full circle is unrealistic.

Su Wo Eizo looked at the soldiers who were being shot to death with a gloomy face, and then ordered the corpses to be thrown into the moat. At the same time, he also found that Datang didn't seem to have many people, so he sent many people to start filling the moat.

It is very reasonable to have a large number of people and a large force. Under Su Wo Eizo, regardless of casualties, it only took two days to fill up the moat, but it also cost nearly [-] casualties. It can be said that several sections of the moat are completely Dead bodies piled up.

The two cities are almost the same. After all, they both have the same attack method, but the Izumo moat was only built, and it is slightly narrower, and Japanese slaves died less.

On the second day of filling up the moat, Su Wo Eizo wanted to bully the few people in Datang, so he arranged a team of ten thousand people to attack from three sides together, dreaming of taking the city with one effort.

It's a pity that the ideal is full and the reality is very skinny. Although there are not many people on the walls of the Tang Dynasty, the catapults have begun to go crazy, and the huge stones are thrown out. If they hit the soldiers, there is absolutely no possibility of survival, and they will be killed on the ground. Bouncing up, causing secondary damage to the Japanese slave.

In order to avoid the catapults, the eight-ox crossbow, and the Japanese slaves had to split up and attack in a loose formation.

Li Ji also stopped the catapult and the eight-ox crossbow at a glance, and only used bows and arrows to fight back.

In order to let the Japanese slaves see hope, they constantly sent people to die. Each city wall only arranged 2000 archers and 1000 shield soldiers. Fortunately, the city is not big, so it is easy to defend.

It's just that the physical strength of the archers is huge, but the most indispensable thing is the archers. Almost everyone can transform into an archer after putting down the knife in their hands.

The Japanese slaves climbed the city wall several times, but they were easily wiped out. They knew that the most important thing in the Tang Dynasty was commanders. These young generals may not be able to command large-scale battles, but they are handy for leading 1000 people to defend the city wall. .

Xue Rengui, Qu Tuquan, Li Chongyi, Li Dejian, Qin Huaiyu, Cheng Wuting, Liu Renshi, Cheng Chubi and other ten people took turns to defend, it was very easy.

Since this group of young people are either generals or many have already proven themselves on the battlefield, Li Ji feels at ease in using them.

On the first day of attacking the city, the Japanese slaves left thousands of corpses, but it also convinced Su Wo Eizi that the Tang Dynasty did not have many troops, so from the second day onwards, people continued to attack, thinking of using the number of people to drag down the Great Tang. Don.

They also called in many women, felled trees, moved stones, and began to pile them under the city, together with the corpses of their own people, with the intention of lowering the height of the city wall.

Su Wo Ezo has indeed added difficulty to Datang. In order to defend against the continuous attacks of Japanese slaves, rolling logs and thunder stones have also begun to be used. Fortunately, the armor and shields of Datang soldiers are really strong. Even if they suffered some minor injuries, many unlucky ones were dragged down the city wall by Japanese slaves. Of course, there was no possibility of survival.

The war lasted for 10 days, with continuous attacks, whether it was bows, arrows, stones, or logs, Datang had been completely consumed, especially the constant fighting, which could not get a good rest. The physical and mental pressure of the soldiers was too great. The corpses outside were piled up like a mountain, and the Japanese slaves could climb the city wall without using siege ladders.

It can be said that both sides have used various methods, such as digging tunnels, and there are many large vats upside down under the city wall. Any movement underground can be easily heard, and hundreds of Japanese slaves were buried underground.

Night attack?Even more impossible, each city wall has a few huge glazed mirrors, which make the outside of the city look like daylight under the reflection of the fire.

Just when Suga Eizo piled up 20 soldiers to see the dawn of victory, a fire shattered his hopes again.

Li Ji poured out all the kerosene in the city and ignited the fire. The fire burned for two days and two nights, and the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty also ushered in a rare rest time. With thick soil, it is not afraid of fire.

(End of this chapter)