This time, they defeated the Wu army with only their own strength and killed hundreds of enemies. This greatly increased the confidence of the Huainan army. So in the next two days of attack and defense, their performance became more and more proficient, relying on the solid city walls and Sufficient bows and arrows were able to repel the Wu army's offensive three times in a row, but their own casualties were negligible. This also gave them more confidence, and some people began to propose that they could take the initiative to go out of the city to defeat the enemy.
Of course, as the commander-in-chief of the first army, Peng Yongzhen was not so arrogant and confused. Even if a few reckless generals proposed to him to go to war, he rejected them with one sentence: "Stupid! You think you can only win a few small games." Can we defeat the enemy? There are still 100,000 troops outside the city. How can we easily deal with it? If it were so easy, the Shandong Army would have killed them long ago and it would be our turn?"
While he was talking, there was another drumming sound outside. It was the enemy that once again launched an attack on the north gate of Changshu. Peng Yongzhen immediately dropped the topic and said with a serious expression: "The most important thing now is to guard the north gate, don't think about other things. Let's go up and see what tricks the rebels can pull off today!"
When he led his men to the top of the city and planned to order his men to continue the defense according to the arrangements of the previous two days, he found that the expressions of the soldiers were different. Many of them looked outside with panic in their eyes. Period Ai Ai shouted: "Then... what is that?"
After Peng Yongzhen took advantage of the situation and took a look outside the city, his face that was still full of ambition suddenly turned white, and then he screamed: "It's a thunderbolt car!" He immediately knew that something was wrong, and he quickly shouted : "Quick, bring up all the shields! Archers, shoot arrows for me, don't let the rebels get close to the city!"
There was chaos at the top of the north gate city. Some people quickly went down to prepare shields, and a large number of archers moved forward, constantly throwing arrows at the enemy troops outside the city. However, the Wu army had already figured out the range of the Huainan army's bows and arrows during the two days of siege battles, and had been moving outside the area. At the same time, driven by the efforts of thousands of soldiers, several simple-looking catapults had already He was pushed two hundred steps away and stopped.
This catapult is what Peng Yongzhen calls the Thunderbolt Chariot. Legend has it that it was created by Yuan Shao's army during the Battle of Guandu, and it has been a major weapon in sieges for nearly a thousand years. Because the rocks projected by it are extremely lethal, and the rocks falling to the ground are like thunderbolts from the sky, so it is also known as the "Thunderbolt Chariot" in the military.
This was Pang Wanchun's clever plan to break the city out of nowhere.
He was indeed a little confused before. He only thought about how to destroy the ice on the city wall and ignored that his real purpose was to break the city. So as long as the entire city wall was destroyed, it didn't matter whether it was covered with ice, snow or gold nuggets. critical. But when his subordinates told him to use catapults to burn the wall with fire oil, he suddenly came to his senses, so he started to make preparations for pretending to attack the city in the past few days, but actually sending people to build several large catapults in the rear.
Now, everything has been done. As the catapult drove to the front, many soldiers were busy for a while. After giving an order, the net bag that had been left behind the catapult suddenly popped up, and the contents were immediately put inside. Countless large and small stones that were healed shot straight towards the north gate city head like raindrops.
Seeing this scene and hearing the rocks flying towards them with a sharp whistling, the defenders on the city suddenly became even more confused, screaming and running away.
But this time Wu Jun projected a large number of
, but there were only stones the size of fists. A dozen or so Thunderbolt vehicles threw hundreds or even thousands of stones at once, almost covering the entire city. How could they easily avoid it
As the stones fell, screams rose from all over the city wall. Many soldiers were hit by stones falling from the sky, with bloody heads and broken bones and tendons... without any preparation, especially without a shield. , the soldiers here carried the rain of stones entirely with their bodies, and the casualties were really miserable. If there weren't a few soldiers fighting to protect each other, even Peng Yongzhen, the commander-in-chief of the army, would have been injured, but even so, he was so frightened that his face turned pale and he couldn't even speak for a while.
After a while, he came to his senses and shouted loudly: "Hurry up and get on your shield and hide under the city wall..." Only by clinging to the city wall for shelter could he withstand this terrible stone rain attack.
Of course, the Wu army outside the city could not stop like this. Following the ruthless orders, wave after wave of stone rain continued to pour down towards the North Gate. In just half an hour, they actually Seven or eight rounds of stones were thrown at the city, leaving the city in a state of chaos and causing hundreds of casualties among the defenders.
And that's not the scariest thing. When the enemy's offensive stopped, Peng Yongzhen looked up from behind the wall under the protection of several soldiers, and was horrified to find that the inside of the city wall was full of potholes and cracked in many places. This is true even on the inside, and the outside will only be worse. Without even looking, you know that the city wall and the ice covering the outside must have been damaged too much.
Before he could come up with a countermeasure, the sound of the Thunderbolt Car suddenly came from outside again, scaring them so much that they quickly found a place to hide again. But this time, the roaring stones were louder than before, but there were only a handful of them that made no sound.
Before they could understand, there was a continuous roar on the city wall, and even the defenders above felt a shaking, as if an earth dragon turned over and was about to collapse the entire wall. Only then did everyone realize that the rebels were bombarding the city wall with large rocks.
This is exactly what happened. After throwing all the small stones he had prepared, Wu Jun also threw the collected mountain stones, such as tabletops and millstones, and immediately caused great damage to the city wall, far away. Everyone can see the cracks constantly forming on the city wall. As long as there are a few rounds in a row, this small Changshu city wall will be completely destroyed!
Faced with such a situation, the Huainan Army was completely helpless. Putting aside the confusion in military morale caused by the large number of casualties among sergeants, the enemy's tactics alone were not something they could handle. After all, when the manpower is exhausted, ordinary bows and arrows, or throwing stones, all have a maximum range, and the enemy places the Thunderbolt Chariot outside the range and relies on its own longer range to hit you, which is completely The passive side was beaten.
For the current Huainan Army, the only way is to send an elite team to risk their lives and go out of the city to destroy the enemy's catapult. But Pang Wanchun has already considered this. There is a team of thousands of people waiting next to the Pili chariot. As long as the Song army dares to leave the city, they will never come back!
Emotions of fear and despair instantly spread across the city. Even Peng Yongzhen, the commander-in-chief, was at his wits end and could only murmur: "It's over, it's really over now..."
Fortunately, Wu Jun was ready to attack at this time.
The stones had been used up, so they did not continue to bombard the city. Moreover, after several previous battles with heavy casualties, even Pang Wanchun did not dare to take too aggressive risks, so he did not take the opportunity to launch an offensive. Instead, he prepared to wait until tomorrow to collect a batch of stones and directly blast the northern city wall of Changshu completely. If things go wrong, there is no need to risk your life to attack the city.
It was not until they saw that the enemy had no intention of continuing to attack the city that the terrified Huainan army felt a little relieved. However, everyone was at a loss and looked at each other, not knowing what to say. After a long while, someone said: "Why don't we ask the Shandong Army to come and help..."
"It's all like this. Even if the gods come, they won't be able to save you. What's the use of them coming?"
Pessimistic words continued to spread, and the entire army had completely lost confidence. This made Peng Yongzhen become more and more anxious, but he was helpless.
Just when the whole army was in fear, a group of troops finally arrived in a hurry. Peng Yongzhen was moved and he hurried forward to greet him: "Sun Qianjie, you are here, we... The general is incompetent, this North The door really cannot be guarded..." At this moment, he was so anxious that he, Peng Qian, considered himself a subordinate.
Sun Tu's face was also very ugly, because he had seen everything in Beicheng from a distance just now. Seeing the North Gate defenders in such a miserable state, passively being beaten, Sun Tu was really angry at their inability to fight, and even more saddened by their incompetence.
Although even if several other sects were attacked like this, their military morale would definitely be shaken and the losses would be considerable, but they would not be as helpless as they are. And if it were anyone else facing such a critical situation, they would definitely fight to the death and send troops and horses to attack the enemy's catapult array, hoping to bite off a piece of the enemy's flesh.
But what about the Huainan Army? Their cowardice was really too much for Sun Tu to stand.
But he didn't want to blame everyone too much at this time, otherwise it would only make the morale of the soldiers even lower, so he just glanced at them lightly: "The enemy's method this time is indeed beyond my expectation, but there is always a way to remedy it." , let’s go to the city first to see the condition of the city wall.”
When he reached the top of the city and saw the mess there and the degree of damage to the outer city wall, Sun Tu's mood became heavier. He knew very well that the North City was already in danger. Maybe the Wu army would destroy the entire city wall with another bombardment tomorrow.
Beside him, Peng Yongzhen once again said those words from the bottom of his heart: "Sun Qianha, what should we do?"
"You don't have to panic, hasn't Changshu fallen yet?" Sun Tu said, and squinted his eyes to look at the Thunderbolt Car that had not been withdrawn. This car was very powerful, but it had a problem. It was too bulky, so At this time, we can only stay in place and be guarded by a group of soldiers and horses.
After a pause, he said in a confident voice: "The biggest threat is the catapults outside the city. I believe they can't prepare too many such siege weapons. As long as they are destroyed, the North City can be saved."
These words made Peng Yongzhen and others stunned for a while. What he said was so easy. How easy is it to destroy these Thunderbolt cars? But after seeing Sun Tu's confident look, they actually became somewhat convinced.
After blocking the entire north gate with ice, Sun Qianjia really convinced the Huainan Army!
For a moment, countless pairs of eyes fell on Sun Tu, just waiting for him to come up with a countermeasure...