Chapter 418: Destroying a Stronghold in One Day
The ditch was filled with dirty and turbid river water.
As if I felt something, in an instant, the river gradually became rippled.
Above the trench, the sound of arrows piercing the air was endless.
Outside the trench, screams of pain and agony could be heard one after another.
The first wave to rush up was the Yingyang Tuntian Army.
The two rows in front held large shields and tried their best to protect themselves from the arrows shot from the front and diagonally above.
While charging, there was a dense "dongdong" sound coming from the shield, which made people want to urinate.
Someone kept groaning and falling to the ground behind the big shield.
It is true that a fortress is not a city wall. First of all, it is not high enough. Secondly, there cannot be so many people standing on the wall, and the arrows fired from a high position are not that lethal.
But people will still die!
This wave of them was the vanguard of the entire army and was given special attention. Dozens of people were knocked down during the charge. By the time they got close to the trench, the number of casualties exceeded 100.
“Get out of the way!” Chief Meng Chou roared and rushed out with a sandbag on his back.
The shielders all made a few openings, and then adjusted their formation to try their best to block the arrows coming from the front - the movements were a bit messy, maybe because they didn't practice enough at ordinary times, or maybe they were nervous. shape, but no matter what, you will have to pay the price in blood at this time.
The troops carrying sandbags on their backs were unobstructed. On the way forward, the casualty rate was astonishingly high.
Meng Chou lowered his head and ran with all his strength.
He looked crazy, his eyes were red, and he was shouting words that he couldn't even understand.
People kept falling around him, but he had no time to pay attention. After rushing to the edge of the trench, he threw the sandbag into the water with all his strength, then turned around and ran away.
There was a splash of water behind him.
The sounds of "plop" and "plop" were heard endlessly, which were sandbags thrown by other robes.
But they were not so lucky. Many people were shot to death on the spot, and some were even pushed into the ditch by people rushing from behind, shouting for help.
No one cares about them.
Sandbags fell like raindrops from above their heads, gradually smashing them into the bottom of the water and becoming part of the trench.
The arrows fired from the wall became more rapid, but after a while, the number of arrows dropped significantly.
Meng Chou, who was running back, glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw the second formation coming up.
The shield-bearers were in the front, and the armored archers were in the back. They slowly moved forward and shot arrows at the place where the enemy archers gathered to suppress them.
For a time, arrows were flying across the battlefield, and people on both sides continued to fall.
"Dong dong..." The rhythmic drum sound slowly sounded from far to near.
Meng Chou took a look and saw that it was a newly built trench-filling vehicle - it was said to be a vehicle, but in fact it had baffles added to the front, sides and top to block arrows, and the sergeants pushed it forward from the inside. Just a clumsy thing.
After the enemy archers were suppressed, the trench-filling vehicle slowly approached the trench and stopped slowly.
"Boom!" A vertical wooden board in front of the car fell down, spanning both sides of the trench.
The officers shouted and rushed out with more than ten people hiding in the belly of the car. They threw sacks filled with sand, bamboo baskets filled with loess, etc. into the two wooden boards. side.
The enemy archers appeared again and shot arrows desperately.
The men filling the trenches suffered heavy casualties and retreated in embarrassment.
The silver gun soldiers covering the area saw the enemy archers' position and immediately threw a dense barrage of arrows at them.
On the camp wall, people kept falling to the ground.
Meng Chou retreated to the starting point in shock, and turned his head for one last look.
At this time, the enthusiasm gradually subsided, and he really felt scared.
It’s great to be back alive!
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As a former military commander, Jin Zheng climbed to a high platform and watched for a long time.
The first group of Yingyang garrison troops to set off have retreated, with no less than 200 casualties - injuries and deaths are actually almost the same, because no one will go to the battlefield to save them.
The second group that followed was composed of Silver Spear Army archers and Ding Zhuang from Heyang. It was larger in size, exceeding 1,300 people.
The archers were responsible for suppressing the top of the wall, while Ding Zhuang hurriedly filled the trench.
With their efforts, a considerable part of the trench was filled. While retreating, they were chased for a while by the enemy troops who rushed out from behind the trench wall, resulting in no less than 300 casualties.
The third batch of Heyang Dingzhuang went into battle.
They carried planks and were responsible for covering the last section of the trench to prevent the uneven ground from affecting their movements.
After the drums sounded, more than a thousand people first ran at small steps under the officer's order, trying to maintain their physical strength.
After approaching the trench, let out a shout and cover it with wooden planks.
Arrows were fired from the wall again, and they were much rarer than before.
The men who filled the trench were ecstatic and their hands and feet were extremely agile.
The enemy troops behind the trench wall did not come out this time. Only some archers shot arrows and harvested some lives.
The Silver Spear Army Archers who cooperated with Heyang Dingzhuang separated a part and shot towards where they were looking.
The arrows were fast and urgent, and the enemy archers quickly stopped moving.
The rumble of horse hooves sounded.
Three hundred Huns cavalry seemed to have been prepared for a long time. They suddenly rushed out from behind a camp gate and trampled directly towards the retreating Heyang Dingzhuang.
The young men were caught off guard and collapsed backwards crying for their fathers and mothers.
While running around and bumping into each other, they even disrupted some of the spearmen of the Silver Spear Army arrayed outside.
The enemy cavalry took advantage of the situation to cover them up, firing their bows and waving their sabers, harvesting lives with ease.
"Buzz!" The dense arrows covered them and shot away at close range. How many enemy riders fell off their horses?
When the Yi Congjun began to mount their horses and move out, the enemy cavalry finally couldn't hold on anymore, gave up the pursuit, and fled.
The defenders opened another camp gate, lowered the trench bridge, and admitted him inside.
While the enemy cavalry was charging, a group of infantry rushed out from the camp, carrying kerosene and firewood, and set fire to all the wooden boards covering the trench and the two trench-filling trucks that had not been pulled back.
The battlefield was filled with flames.
Amid the smoke, corpses lay scattered everywhere, which was horrifying.
Kim Zheng stepped down from the high platform and went into battle.
Looking at him from side to side, he hesitated to speak.
Jin Zheng didn't care what they thought at all. He ordered a group of six hundred soldiers in person and stepped forward menacingly.
First, the dozens of people who were running the fastest were caught. With the knife in hand, their bloody heads instantly rolled to the ground, including several veterans of the Silver Spear Army who were bundled up and fled back.
These people sighed, but did not beg for mercy.
Although he was kidnapped by the rebels, he just escaped and there is nothing to say.
Which battlefield is free of unjust deaths? You are responsible for what you do, and the law will not tolerate it.
After killing the defeated troops, the others were collected one by one and retreated to the rear to reorganize.
Kim Zhengze personally led 600 soldiers and drove the Ningping garrison carrying sledgehammers and shovels to attack the camp wall in a wave.
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"Quick! Quick!" Liu Fu, the king of Bohai, also came to the attacked camp and climbed up to look far away.
The fierce battle shocked him greatly.
The enemy troops only charged for less than an hour before they found a path that reached directly under the trench wall.
In panic, Liu Fu began to mobilize troops from other camps, especially archers, one team after another, the more the better.
The Jin army rushed over again, menacingly and moving forward inexorably.
As they got closer, two hundred archers were separated as usual and shot at the back of the trench wall and the camp wall.
The defenders fought back bravely. The battle directly entered a fierce stage.
“Come on!” the Ningping troops roared in unison and charged forward with spears, sledgehammers and shovels.
They passed through the roughly filled trench and ran to the outside of the trench wall, their faces full of ferocity.
Inside and outside the trench wall, spears were being poked back and forth, and broadswords were being brandished.
Some people kept kneeling on the ground, clutching their stomachs.
Some people kept screaming and rolling to the ground.
Some people kept covering their chests, and their arrow feathers were trembling.
There were also people wielding sledgehammers and shovels, struggling to destroy the trench walls, but as they smashed, their bodies were pierced by spears and they fell to the ground.
The corpses accumulated rapidly, almost as high as the trench wall.
"Kill the thief!" A dazzling armor light flashed, and the Silver Spear Army warriors rushed over holding spears and axes.
Relying on his heavy armor to protect himself, Jin Zheng withstood the enemy's swords and spears, climbed up, and ran into the crowd of enemy soldiers behind the trench wall.
The heavy sword was swung rapidly in his hand, like a child's toy. Wherever he passed, there was a bloody storm.
The soldiers of the Silver Spear Army climbed over the trench wall one after another and fought together with the enemy soldiers.
On the camp wall, stones, scalding water and even tables fell like raindrops, making no distinction between friend and foe, and stunned the two sides who were strangled together.
Beyond the trench wall, the soldiers of the Ninh Binh Army were still destroying the trench wall, knocking it down and smashing it one by one.
The archers on both sides were still shooting at each other, each suffering casualties.
The camp gate opened again, and hundreds of enemy soldiers swarmed out, preparing to attack from behind.
At this moment, the Yi Congjun cavalry galloped out of the formation and rushed towards them.
The enemy soldiers hesitated and retreated hastily, not daring to leave the camp.
As soon as they retreated, the opportunity to fight was fleeting, and the strangulation under the trench wall was almost over.
Jin Zheng was like a demon. At the end of the fight, the heavy sword was stuck in the enemy's body. He pulled out the Huanshou sword and killed several people in a row.
The enemy soldiers were beaten by the silver spear warriors and scattered to both sides.
Jin Zheng was furious and chased after them, slashing with his knife. In the end, he even captured an enemy schoolmate and strangled his neck with arms as thick as thighs, twisting and breaking him.
The enemy soldiers on the camp wall shot arrows at him for free as if they had seen a ghost.
The shieldmen gathered around and tried their best to cover Jin Zheng.
The people from Ningping’s field army brought ladders and put them on the wall.
Countless soldiers climbed up with short soldiers in hand.
The enemy troops on the wall retreated and were replaced by soldiers armed with various blunt weapons.
They looked nervous and swallowed dryly. Occasionally, some people turned their heads to look inside the camp. When they saw a large number of spearmen and riflemen who were waiting solemnly, they turned back in despair, with a look of madness on their faces.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!" Arrows kept passing by my ears, and from time to time someone screamed and fell to the ground.
The first batch of Silver Spear Army warriors have climbed up the wall.
The blunt weapons were swung down in unison, sweeping them off the wall one after another as they were unable to gain a firm footing.
Someone rushed up again, and this time there were far fewer people to mow down, and the two sides directly engaged in a melee.
The archers on both sides stopped, waiting quietly for the outcome of this bloody battle.
Liu Fu was stamping his feet as he watched from a distance.
The ordering soldiers went up and down, constantly passing orders.
A moment later, the defenders on the camp wall had been swept away.
The archers under the wall were in a commotion.
The officer raised his sword and killed a few people who were shouting. The rest of the people were calm.
"Buzz!" The overwhelming arrows rushed straight up, knocking down the standing Silver Spear Army warriors at a very close distance.
Liu Fu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but his heart was soon in his throat again, because the second group of silver spear warriors climbed onto the wall. They were wearing iron armor and holding up large shields, while trying their best While resisting the arrows, he pulled the long ladder over and placed it on the side of the wall.
Some people even jumped off the wall to their death.
There are also people squatting on the wall with walking bows, picking up their bows and nocking arrows.
The garrison archers were so frightened that they would have run away if it had not been for the officers to supervise the battle. At this time, he was shot by an arrow, and after a few hasty counterattacks, which caused some casualties to the Silver Spear Army, they all fled in panic.
The defenders' spearmen arrayed behind the wall were also noisy and their positions were wavering.
More than a hundred silver spear soldiers who came down to the camp rushed forward with short soldiers and spear formations.
"Puff! Puff!" The enemy subconsciously thrust out his spear.
Some of the sharp spear heads were separated by short soldiers, some were blocked by iron armor, and some were inserted through the gaps in the nail leaves in a tricky way.
The casualties of the Silver Spear Army soldiers increased sharply, but everyone was stunned. Pao Ze fell to the ground and could not feel the wounds on his body. They only know how to kill, they only know how to break through the enemy's spears, they only know how to close the distance, and then use short soldiers to kill them and turn them upside down.
On the wall behind me, people kept pouring in.
More and more sergeants went down to the camp, and some of them were assigned to open the camp gate.
A group of enemy cavalry rushed out, smashed these people into pieces, and crushed and trampled them wantonly.
The people behind continued to step forward without fear.
The space in the camp is so narrow that the cavalry cannot run at all. They can only sprint a short distance, so what is there to fear?
They surrounded the cavalry who had lost speed, pulled them off their horses, and slashed them down with their swords, like butchering pigs and dogs, killing these arrogant Huns cavalry at their feet.
The enemy soldiers guarding the camp gate dispersed in a hurry.
The Silver Spear Army warriors struggled to turn the winch, and with a "boom" sound, the trench bridge suddenly lowered, splashing smoke and dust all over the ground.
The camp gate was opened again, and the Jin troops who had been waiting for a long time swarmed in.
The enemy army hastily organized nearly a thousand men and charged head-on. The two sides fought fiercely at the camp gate, and blood flowed everywhere.
Killing and killing, the battle line moved inward little by little.
"Kill the thief!" A thunderous roar sounded from the entrance of the camp.
Jin Zheng, covered in blood, rushed into the enemy army like a whirlwind, slashing left and right, fearless and fearless.
The Silver Spear soldiers who had just lowered the trench bridge and opened the camp door attacked from the side. The enemy soldiers who were counterattacking suddenly couldn't support it and collapsed backwards.
The entire camp fell into chaos.
Liu Fu got off the high platform directly and slipped out of another camp gate surrounded by his personal guards.
After he left, the defenders had no one to command and scattered.
They opened the gates of each camp and fled from all directions, looking panicked and defeated.
Most of the people retreated towards the Chinese camp, but when they arrived at the camp, they found that the camp gate had long been closed. They were greeted by a large rain of arrows. They suddenly fell to the ground helplessly, crying. endlessly.
The Hun cavalry swept past them and ran into the distance.
The soldiers of the Silver Spear Army and the Tuntian Army chased them out from the camp gate and slaughtered all the defeated soldiers who had lost their fighting spirit.
When they were red-eyed and ran further towards the enemy's camp, a large number of arrows were shot from the wall, and they became more awake.
After snorting coldly, he cut off some heads and retreated.
Liu Fu returned to the Zhongying camp in shock and was speechless for a long time.
Stick and wait for help, stick to the bird!
The outer camp was breached in just one day. How many days can the Chinese army hold the camp?
His confidence has been shaken.
(End of this chapter)