Chapter 644 The bloody battle with Tongan
The stone as big as a dustpan whizzed across a distance of hundreds of steps and hit the opposite city wall hard. Even if it was a thick wall covered with blue bricks, after this blow, the bricks flew into the air and the wall was more than ten feet long. Some of the stacks disappeared, some collapsed, and in more places, long cracks extended. It was expected that they would collapse if they could not hold on for long.
Feather arrows with shrill whistling sounds were overwhelming like locusts scuttling through the sky. There were so many of them that they would even collide in the air and then fall to the ground.
Under the city, countless young men pushed carts and carried sacks and rushed towards the city wall. These people were all dressed alone. Some of them were holding a shield in their hands, but more of them were only carrying a wooden board to block arrows.
Rush to the front, throw the sacks filled with earth and rocks into the moat, then turn around and run.
Three times per person completed today's quota.
If you are alive, you can receive one hundred catties of grain from the army. If you die.
This is war.
The most unlucky ones are always ordinary people.
They don't have any choice.
Compassion does not command troops,
Kang Zhen didn't even blink when he used these young men as vanguards to attack the city.
Of course he couldn't use his soldiers to do these jobs.
The strength of the soldiers must of course face the war.
These menial tasks are naturally performed by ordinary people.
Living is luck, dying is fate!
This is the second day of the siege of Erdaoqiao County, Tongan County.
In just one day, the attackers built a terrifying long-range attack weapon that could throw rocks weighing several hundred kilograms hundreds of meters.
Kang Zhen withdrew from Ruyin and after arriving in Tong'an County, he took over the command to annihilate the Chu army in Tong'an County, and the first point of attack he chose was Erdao Bridge.
Xiang Ying built a center in Tong'an County to connect the four bases. If one side is in trouble, support can be launched from at least three directions, thus increasing the difficulty for the attacker.
On paper, there were no loopholes in the plan, but one thing was that one side of the Erdao Bridge faced the river, which posed a problem for the supporting troops coming from Qili Pagoda.
Because the enemy can come along the river at any time and give the supporting troops a heavy blow.
This is a geographical problem. Xiang Ying has no other solution except to deploy more troops and horses at Erdao Bridge and reserve more ordnance supplies.
As expected, when the war started, the enemy immediately chose this place as a breakthrough point.
Both sides know very well that if one point of such a defense system is broken, the remaining points will not be able to sustain it for long.
After fighting Erdao Bridge, there were only two reinforcements from two places, one was Wangjiadian and the other was Tong'an County.
But now, the only one who can come to support is Tong'an County.
Because the troops mobilized by Li Dachui and Jiang Qian exceeded Xiang Ying's estimate.
Originally, Xiang Ying believed that Li Dachui and Jiang Qian would never give up Nanyang and would definitely compete with Li Guohua in Nanyang, which would involve a considerable part of their troops.
But he never expected that Li Dachui would cleanly abandon Nanyang, shrink his troops, and return directly to Xiangyang. Taking advantage of Xiangyang's city defense and naval forces, he could stabilize the front with only a small number of troops.
This change allows the opponent to directly attack any two points in Tong'an County, and at the same time has enough troops to attack possible supporters.
Moreover, you can't tell which of the two attack points is the focus of the opponent's attack, at least now Xiang Ying can't tell.
Li Dachui has been fighting since he was a teenager. Although his talent on the battlefield is not as good as that of Xiao Changche, it is not something that ordinary people can match.
Soon the moats and trenches were filled in one by one, and the young men returned to the rear. They completed their mission, and the rest was the soldiers' responsibility.
Amid the rumbling of war drums, the soldiers rushed towards the city wall.
The cavalry rushed towards the city wall, and the officers on horseback waved their weapons, scattering the raining arrows and falling. When approaching the city wall, the horses would naturally deflect, and the officers on horseback flew up and rushed straight to the city wall. These people, martial arts cultivators Because they are at least above Qi control. A feathered arrow suddenly shot through the air. It was a surprise attack by martial arts practitioners who were good at archery in the city.
Some people were struck by arrows and fell to the ground slumped, some pushed away the arrows but ran out of strength and fell helplessly to the bottom of the city. Others easily landed on the city wall, and the guns and knives in their hands attacked the defenders at the top of the city like a violent storm.
Naturally, there were officers from the garrison on the city who came to meet them. With the cooperation of the soldiers, they launched a crazy attack. If these people could not be knocked down from the city wall within three or five moves, there would be big trouble.
More attackers from below the city rushed over carrying ladders. With a banging sound, the barbs on the front of the ladders were firmly attached to the city wall, and the soldiers ants clung to them.
Many skilled people just relied on a bamboo pole and propped it up on the ground, and they flew over.
The soldiers on the city picked up the boiled gold juice and poured it down without any hesitation.
Before the flying soldiers landed, there was a swirling light of swords slashing across them,
Up and down the city, in an instant, countless people fell dead and countless others were injured.
The attackers are the Huben Army carefully established by Jiang Qian after he came to power in Chu State, while the defenders are the private soldiers carefully cultivated by the wealthy families gathered by Xiang Ying. The combat effectiveness of both sides is the best choice.
As for the young men in the city, standing on the city wall at this time is considered a burden and will take up everyone's space.
Ten miles away from the Erdao Bridge, Fang Maoao stood leaning on his horse, with a thousand cavalry sitting neatly cross-legged on the ground behind him. They were here waiting for reinforcements from Tong'an County.
Whether the reinforcements from Tong'an County are going to rescue Qili Pagoda or go to Erdao Bridge, this is the only way to go.
A soldier with his ear to the ground jumped up.
"Coming! Five miles away!"
Fang Xiaomao laughed and got on his horse. Behind him, a thousand cavalrymen stood up in unison and began to move their hands and feet and arrange their armor and weapons.
With a choking sound, Fang Xiaomao pulled out the tiger-wing knife from his waist, and a thousand cavalrymen got on their horses.
At this time, the red phoenix flag of Chu State appeared in everyone's sight.
Xiang Wu pulled off the holster of the spear, revealing a blade nearly two feet long.
There was an obstruction ahead, which he expected.
Chu State is good at boating, and cavalry is not a specialty. However, the quality of this cavalry of more than a thousand people, both in terms of horses and individual cavalry, is no worse than that of the northern cavalry.
Private soldiers from various wealthy families are the best choice in terms of riding skills and personal combat prowess.
Looking at Xiang Ziqi, Fang Mao Mao licked his lips with a sinister smile on his lips.
He loved cavalry fighting.
Fast, quick, and within a few moves, life or death can be determined.
Unlike infantry attacking a fortified city, each one looks like a tortoise shell. Even if you fight for a long time, you may not be able to crack the tortoise shell.
"Mao Mao, give me Xiang Wu!" Cao Hui beside Fang Mao Mao said excitedly.
"Okay!" Fang Mao Mao said, "But that guy seems to be at the ninth level of Xuanyuan, so be careful!"
"It's not like I haven't killed anyone who has surpassed the ninth rank before!" Cao Hui sneered: "Are the ninth-rank Xuanyuan brothers of these young masters as strong as the eighth-rank we brothers who fought all the way up in the wilderness?"
"I don't know!" Fang Maomao spread his hands.
“You’ll know after you try it!”
The tiger-winged sword was just raised, and then swung forward. The elites of the Thousand White Tigers roared and rushed towards the opposite side.
(End of chapter)