Font
Large
Medium
Small
Night
Prev Index    Favorite Next

148. The Fall of Wuzhou (1)

At the same time, outside Wuzhou City, there were also large troops siege the city. However, the Yuan army was siege, and the Song army was guarding the city.

Dozens of Yuan army marched forward in a mighty manner, and the horns kept ringing in the army. The leader of the general stood on the chariot with silver armor, holding a spear, and his face was solemn.

This person was not Boyan, the marshal of the Yuan army to conquer Song capital, but Kong Yuan, the vanguard of the Song Dynasty who was appointed as General Wuyi.

Kong Yuan, whose courtesy name was Yanheng, was born in Xingyan Village, Xinhe County. He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child and has extraordinary talent. At the age of seventeen, he was summoned to join the Yuan army as a soldier. He then went to war with the army and made many military achievements. He was appointed as the general commander of the army.

In the 11th year of Yuan Dynasty, he attacked Song Dynasty in a large-scale manner, Boyan was the marshal of the capital, Kong Yuan was the vanguard, promoted General Wuyi, marched into Jiangnan, and now stationed troops in Guangnan East Road.

There were only a few civil rebels left in the entire Guangnan East Road, and even the Guangzhou City, which was previously captured by the commander Ling Zhen and the transshipment judge Wang Daofu, had been captured again by the Yuan army. Ling Zhen and Wang Daofu became wandering troops and could only deal with the Yuan army in the Guangnan East Road, which was difficult to become a general trend.

When this happened, Zhang Shijie, who was in Leizhou, was so scared that he was sweating all over, and was very afraid. However, he was very impressed by Zhao Dongting's actions of defending Benzhou. If he had really listened to him and led his people to Yashan, he would have been destroyed by the Yuan army after the city of Guangzhou was destroyed.

Zhao Dongting insisted on not going to Yashan, which could be said to have escaped the death disaster.

As the commander-in-chief of the Song Dynasty, Boyan led the central army to occupy 250,000 troops to control the civilian rebels. At this time, he only needed a little force to deal with the civil rebels. After receiving the letter of help from Ali Hague, he immediately sent Kong Yuan, a Han general who was good at fighting, to seize Wuzhou and rush to Ali Hague to help.

People like Kong Yuan who were born in the Yuan Dynasty were not surrendered to the Southern Song Dynasty, but were not discriminated against in the Yuan court.

Although Kong Yuan was not as loyal to the Yuan court, he was also loyal to the Yuan court.

Leading his army to hundreds of meters in front of Wuzhou City, he raised his gun and ordered the three armies to "stop!"

Dozens of Yuan army formations slowly stopped, and the solemn aura rushed into the sky.

They used a thousand people as a formation. Looking roughly, they were afraid that there were 60,000 or 70,000 people, horses, and infantry.

Kong Yuan was tall and thin, but his eyes were extremely aggressive, with the wildness of the Yuan general. His eyes slowly swept across the towering Wuzhou city walls, and the guard camps with steep mountains below the sides, with a hint of clarity in his eyes, and then he ordered: "The army took turns to attack the city without taking into account the mountain villages on both sides, just take the city gates. He ordered the navy to attack the Song army's water camps at the same time, without seeking to break the camps, just restrain their troops."

"Abide by the order!"

Several messengers waiting beside the chariots led the order and left.

Kong Yuan looked at the city again.

Judging from the arrangement of the mountain and water villages, the Song general who guarded the city had some skills. But Kong Yuan felt that he was still secretly secretly, and the Song army was only ten thousand people. The Yuan army only had to break the city gate, and Wuzhou would be lost. This mountain and water village seemed useful, but in fact, it was useless except that it could annihilate more Yuan troops. Once the city gate was broken, it would become a decoration.

As for the towering city wall, it is even more useless.

Kong Yuan marched from Guangzhou to Wuzhou, and the army did not carry much siege equipment, not even a stone castle or an arrow tower, but only a siege hammer and a small number of ladders.

He had known about the situation in Wuzhou for a long time and had already made up his mind to get the city gate. Although the casualties would be greater, it was also the fastest way to break the city.

The city gate must be the most tightly defended place in the Song army, but at the same time, it is also a weakness. Choose the strong position and attack it, and use the strong to defeat the strong, and the Yuan army will win.

On the top of the city, Qin Han and Wanyan Zhang stood on the edge of the wall. Qin Han still looked indifferent, while Wanyan Zhang was a little solemn, "Military advisor, the Yuan army is so powerful that it is several times or even ten times that of our army. Can we really stop them?"

Qin Han answered the question irrelevantly, "Wuzhou City is a majestic city..."

But he was right. The height of the city wall of Wuzhou City is even the Jingjiang Mansion of Guangxi. After all, this is a key military base. Countless dynasties from ancient times to the present have no idea how many times the city wall has been raised and widened.

Wanyan Zhang frowned, "It's true that Wuzhou is majestic, but our army's forces are so scattered, you even dispatched 4,000 to guard the water camp, and two thousand each guard the mountain camp. There are less than 2,000 people at the main city gate. Even if the people help you, can you stop the Yuan army?"

Qin Han just shook his head but stopped talking.

Dissatisfaction flashed in Wanyan Zhang's eyes, but he could not help but. He could not guess Qin Han's intention.

After only ten minutes, he turned his head to look at Qin Han, his eyes full of admiration.

Five front rows of the Yuan army walked towards the city, shouting loudly, but there was no other siege equipment in the army except for the siege cars.

Wanyan Zhang exclaimed: "How did the military advisor know that they would go straight to the city gate?"

Qin Han said only: "The situation in Ali Hague is critical. In order to save him, Boyan will inevitably be eager to break the city. The Yuan army does not have so much time to carry siege equipment, delay the speed of the marching, and there is no time to consume with us. If you are the chief general of the Yuan army, would you choose to break the city along the line, or would you choose to concentrate your troops to capture the city gate?"

Wanyan Zhang pondered slightly and said, "The road in front of the city is only more than a hundred meters wide, and the army cannot be expanded. If it were me, I would definitely choose to attack the city gate."

Qin Han nodded and stopped talking.

Wanyan Zhang looked at the mountain villages on both sides, and then at the Yuan army on the avenue in front of the city. He grinned and shouted loudly: "Prepare to fight the enemy!"

The Song soldiers on the city wall quickly moved the stones to the catapult cart. The archers and crossbow charts also hurriedly put the arrows on Xuan and were ready to go.

The five Yuan army formations of about 5,000 people arrived at 500 meters in front of the city, and did not rush to the city. One of them was in front of the army. The big star in the army quickly shook, and the soldiers swayed. They quickly turned the square formation into a front arrow formation and took the lead in attacking the city gate. The four armies behind were connected to each other, shaped like long snakes, and followed closely.

As the name suggests, the front arrow formation is a formation that is shaped like an arrow.

The front has the most soldiers, in a diamond shape, pushing the siege cart and siege the city gate. The soldiers behind are considered substitutes, ready to fill the vacancy in front at any time.

In other words, the entire formation is centered on the huge siege car, including the four armies behind it.

As long as the siege carts are still there, the Yuan army will be able to fill up the city walls continuously and constantly bump into the city walls.

And they set up a long snake formation and squeezed within more than 30 meters in the middle of the road, which made the mountain villages on both sides of Wuzhou City far beyond reach. They could only attack with catapults and crossbows. Even archers would not be able to shoot into the middle of the army, and their lethality was weakened to the minimum.

When Wanyan Zhang saw this scene on the top of the city, he secretly cursed in his heart that he deserved to die.

Even Qin Han murmured: "This Yuan army commander has some skills..."

There were no grenade launchers or thunder in their army. It was really a bit constrained to deal with this formation. If Zhao Dongting's army was here, the situation would probably be different. If the shells were enough, one round of shells would pour down, no matter what kind of formation the Yuan army had set up, it would be bombarded into slag.

"put!"

After the Yuan army was only about four hundred meters away from the city gate, Wanyan Zhang raised his mace and shouted loudly.

The flag soldiers next to him waved the yellow flag and pressed forward.

On the Wuzhou city wall that stretched across the two mountains, dozens of catapults shaking at the same time, dozens of huge stone bombs were projected out and landed in the Yuan army formation.

However, when casting a stone car is a powerful weapon, it is inevitable that it will appear a bit thin when defending the city.

If the stone bomb falls, it can kill several Yuan troops at most, or even only one or two, and its lethality is too small.

Wanyan Zhang sighed in his heart, but there was no way. The Yuan army was powerful, so he could only use any means that could consume the Yuan army.

Suddenly, the drum sounded in the central army of the Yuan army.

However, a few rounds of stone bullets, the Yuan army front arrow at the front had already run to only more than 200 meters away from the city wall.

"crossbow!"

Wanyan Zhanggu stared at her eyes and shouted again.

The flag soldiers raised the red flag again and waved it forward.

There was endless sound of breaking through the air, and rows of arrows shot towards the Yuan army formation under the city wall from the crossbow foundations.

Some people kept shouting in the Yuan army, and some soldiers who were pushing siege cars fell to the ground. However, someone would make up for it immediately.

The siege car was always pushed towards the city gate at an extremely fast speed.

The Song army had only five hundred crossbowmen, and they were all single-shot crossbows, which failed to stop the Yuan army's pace.

It was not until the Yuan army was only a hundred meters away from the city wall at the city, and arrows suddenly fell on the top of the city, that the Yuan army was finally hit by a head-on attack.

Under Qin Han's arrangement, although there were only two thousand soldiers stationed on the city wall, there were still thousands of volunteers. In this era, countless people knew how to fist, kick and arrow. Although these people were not as good as soldiers, they still had basic accuracy.

For a moment, thousands of arrows fell into the Yuan army formation at the top of the city at the same time.

There were only a thousand soldiers in the front of the Yuan army. Under this round of arrow feathers, countless casualties were killed or injured, and even the rear army was damaged.

However, the drum sounds of the Central Military Office of the Yuan army did not stop.

After another wave of arrow feathers fell, five more military formations rushed towards the city gate.

Kong Yuan completely planned to use his life to break the Wuzhou city gate.
Chapter completed!
Prev Index    Favorite Next