Chapter 862 Quarrying
Caishi City.
From the third update last night to noon today, Shan Xiongxin led 50,000 Zhennan Army to launch eleven waves of attacks on Caishi City. The Zhennan Army's offensives became fiercer and fiercer.
At the beginning, Xu Shiji was able to stick to the various fortifications on the city.
Beating wood, rolling stones, hot oil, gold juice, catapult cart, bed crossbow!
In the end, bows, crossbows, even gunpowder packs, grenades, turbulent oil bombs, fierce trains, and poisonous gas bombs were thrown out without reservation.
However, although Caishi was built as a fortress to defend the Yangtze River Ferry, the entire city has an inner city, an outer city, acropolis, and a urn city. There are also a large number of moats, secret passages and obstacles. It is precisely through these fortifications that the three thousand defenders were able to retreat step by step. However, the Chen army had only 3,000 people in total, while the Wu army had 50,000. The huge gap in strength between the two sides was more difficult to cross than the huge moat outside Caishi City.
After eleven waves of attacks in a row, Caishi City's three thousand defenders also lost one-third. The remaining two thousand men and a large number of wounded people. If Caishi hadn't been the extraordinary strength of Caishi City and its perfect defense, Caishi would have fallen.
Shan Xiongxin, who was in charge of the attack, faced this quarry city like a meat grinder, and had a toothache. This was not a city, it was a meat grinder, bone grinding. Every step forward, he had to fill it with his life. The wide city protection, the high walls, and the strong iron city gate.
He used the lives of countless soldiers to fill more than a dozen passages on the wide moat. He spent more soldiers to attack the city and seize the city gate. But this was just a urn. Once he entered the urn, he was shot and killed by the defenders in the inner city without any stop. In this urn, the bodies of the fallen Wu army were piled up.
City Tower, Arrow Tower, Mogou, Secret Path!
After eleven waves of attacks, they advanced to the inner city, but the Wu army had already suffered more than 5,000 soldiers. Such losses made Shan Xiongxin shocked.
"Bang!"
With the huge attack of the broken city, the extremely strong iron-pack door of the inner city was finally knocked open.
The Wu soldiers shouted excitedly and rushed into the city with their swords. But as soon as they rushed into the city, they were happy for a moment. Wu Jun was stunned.
After breaking through the inner city gate, they did not take down Caishi City as they imagined. What appeared in their eyes was a huge ditch. Behind the huge ditch that was several meters wide and several meters deep, there was still a tall city wall. In the inner city, there was a sturdy fortress.
At this moment, many Wu soldiers were already cursing out in anger, cursing that Caishicheng was like a lady, taking off the clothes outside, and there was a skirt inside. When they took off the petticoat, they thought it would be a slut that made people squirt. But there was a petticoat inside, and there was countless rope joints tied to it. How could they not make people scold me?
After these countless petticoats, no matter how good the desire is, it gradually faded at this time.
Now the Wu army soldiers under the castle felt this way. After launching eleven waves of fierce attacks one after another, they attacked fiercely for almost a day. After taking down the acropolis, moats, outer walls, urns, and inner gates, there were even stronger ditches and castles inside. How could they bear this? The original fierce morale could not help but slacken at this time.
Wu Jun was cursing, and Xu Shiji was cursing in his heart.
This good brother Shan Xiongxin is really rude. From last night to now, he has launched eleven attacks without a moment of rest. Not to mention brothers, even the hatred of killing his father and the hatred of taking his wife would not have such a fierce attack. If it weren't for the solid quarry, he would have become a prisoner at the ranks. But even if it wasn't now, he would not have been able to hold on for long. With the remaining more than a thousand people, there were still a shortage of arrows and bows, so he could only last for one or two hours.
Xu Shiji stared at Chen Kedi with his sword on his back and said with a smile: "Commander Chen, when will Your Majesty's reinforcements arrive? If you don't come again, I can only drag you to show your loyalty to Your Majesty."
"The only regret is that if I could think more about it, I wouldn't have fallen into such a situation, and I wouldn't have lost my troops and lost my country."
"Wait a minute." Chen Kedi, who was also covered in blood, grabbed Xu Shiji's hand.
Xu Shiji smiled bitterly: "If Caishi City is lost, what face can I have to live to see Your Majesty again?"
"No, Wu Jun seemed to have stopped."
The Wu army did stop. The Wu army soldiers who had already rushed to the castle and ditch did not attack immediately as before. Instead, the messengers kept waving their flags and running, and then more Wu soldiers began to turn around and walk back. Many Wu army even made fearful sounds, which made Chen Kedi happy.
Xu Shiji and Chen Kedi looked at each other and said in surprise: "Is it because of the reinforcements? Is it because of Liyang's reinforcements, or is it because of His Majesty's reinforcements?"
"From Wu's reaction, it seems to be in the southeast direction. I guess Governor Hu received the sacred edict and returned to the army to collect quarry."
"Soldiers appeared in the southeast!"
"It's the black flying eagle battle flag, the black flying eagle battle flag, the reinforcements, the reinforcements arrived."
"There are cavalry charging ahead, and they are rushing over!"
"It is the general flag of Li, and it is the two generals of Li Chengyi and Li Chengli from Jiangbei!"
As if in response to Chen Jun's call on the castle, a striking shout suddenly sounded on the plains to the southeast: "Long live Pojun!"
After the huge roar, the Chen army light cavalry, which had about 3,000 cavalry, had already formed a charge formation in a storm and quickly charged towards Caishi City. Behind the three thousand light cavalry, there were more infantry about 20,000 following the killing.
Under Caishi City, Li Chengyi danced with a long spear and shouted: "The whole army charges!"
When his younger brother Li Chengli saw that although Caishi outer city was broken, the banner of Chen Jun was still flying high in the inner castle, he couldn't help but say cautiously: "General, our army is coming all the way, the soldiers are tired, should we rest first before launching an attack?"
Li Chengyi said loudly: "Our army has arrived and its morale is strong. But the Wu army has been sieging the city for half a day, but it has not yet taken down Caishi. This is the time for morale to be lazy. At this time, we can just take the Wu army off guard. What's more, there are only tens of thousands of Wu troops here. If it is delayed, more Wu troops may arrive. Your Majesty has an order to protect Caishi at all costs. We cannot hesitate! Kill!"
Shan Xiongxin was also caught off guard by the sudden attack from Chen Jun. He immediately sent an order to gather his troops, gather in an array, and turn around to respond to the enemy.
However, in a hurry, most of the Wu army rushed into the urn city, and more soldiers were exhausted and were lying everywhere in rest. For a moment, they only hurriedly mobilized several soldiers from the camp and hurriedly set up a phalanx of infantry in the southeast.
As long as he is given some time, Shan Xiongxin will be confident in dealing with the more than 20,000 Chen Jun that he has won.
"Range the array and welcome the enemy!"
"Hold on your feet!"
One square array after another, one spear after another piercing pierced out obliquely.
However, Chen Jun, who had already launched a thunder charge, was not afraid of this. The Wu army's infantry rifle instinct was too weak and there was no depth at all. Such a few people stood in front of their cavalry, and Chen cavalry sneered as light bamboo.
The three thousand light cavalry roared in unison: "Long live Pojun!"
The horse's hooves were thunderous. The cavalry with the two light cavalry battalions of the Li brothers as the core was like a huge moving wall, quickly squeezed in front of the infantry formation that the Wu army had formed in a hurry with huge momentum.
"Raging wind!"
The cavalry in the charge suddenly shook several flags in front of the formation, and a huge and strange bird embroidered on it. The flag flew, and the light cavalry of the flag roared out the name of a strong wind. The strange bird painted on the flag was the ancient sacred bird, the strong wind. According to legend, this kind of bird will flap its wings and will swell, which is a famous ferocious beast. In the Chen army, the flag dancing in the wind represents crossbow arrow shooting.
Amid the roar of strong wind, one handful of crossbows after another were lifted by the cavalry.
Three hundred steps, two hundred steps, one hundred steps.
Eighty steps, shoot!
Eighty steps away, it is difficult for ordinary archers to shoot, but crossbow arrows have the highest hit rate.
Three thousand hand crossbows shot volleys, shooting seven arrows in a row.
More than 20,000 arrows carried a strong wind, like a storm or a sudden rain, and quickly poured on the soldiers of the Wu army's formation.
A metal whirlwind blew up, and the Wu army fell in pieces. In front of such a chain of hand crossbows that are rarely imitated by other forces, there are few who can make the edges of the hand.
After the seven crossbow arrows were quickly fired, the knights immediately changed into their rifles.
After a metal storm baptism, Wu Jun's already weak square formation was full of loopholes and sparse at this time.
"kill!"
Knights are like dragons, and fighters are like tigers!
With the high-speed impact force, spears after spear easily pierced the bodies of Wu Jun soldiers. The huge impact force brought by high-speed caused the spears to explode in the bodies of Wu Jun soldiers one after another.
The knights quickly abandoned the broken cavalry and quickly pulled out the standard sabre equipped by the Chen army cavalry.
Swish swish swish swish!
The swords were pulled out, and the sharp blade body emitted a dazzling light. The sword lights of the three thousand swords gathered into a dazzling light training, lighting up the entire battlefield.
Three cavalry and one small team, nine cavalry and one small triangle formation. Chen Qi, who already has advantageous equipment, cooperated with this insidious and shameless 33 battlefield team, even covered each other and was covered in everything.
One after another, the Wu army fell down, and the infantry gun array formed in a hurry, in a short while, with just one charge, it had already become rotten under the horse's hooves.
The iron hooves were like thunder, and the shouts were as loud as the sky! Cavalry rolled by, and more infantry rushed up like wolves and tigers!
Chapter completed!