Kaifeng Mansion has been managed by King Xiaoyao for many years. The city is high, the pond is deep, the food and grass are abundant, and the water of the big river is drawn into the moat. It is by no means easy to capture.
The Taipingdao army went deep into the hinterland of the Central Plains, and attracted Hu Qi to help, besieged Kaifeng for more than three months, and only pulled out the eight outer camps. There were more than 100 battles against Kaifeng, with nearly 10,000 casualties on both sides, and they were still helpless.
Since Hu Qi's arrival, he quoted the strategy of Han Shichang, the so-called "Northern Spear King", he piled up soil as a mountain and pressed forward step by step, which tilted the balance of victory slightly towards his side.
After expelling hundreds of thousands of people to work, the earth mountain as high as the city wall kept moving towards the city wall. Even if it was only a few feet a day, it would advance more than a hundred feet in one month.
Now the enemy's crossbowmen, standing on the earth hill, can shoot at each other with the guards on the city wall. According to this situation, there is no need to push the earth mountain under the wall, and they can attack the top of the city in one go.
Three directions, three earth mountains, forced the Kaifeng government to take several actions to destroy the earth mountains, but Taipingdao had already prepared, not only behind the earth mountains were equipped with spear infantry, but also those horsemen would take the opportunity to attack, Inflicted severe damage on the generals of Kaifeng Mansion.
But with the news of the end of the martial arts conference, Taipingdao and Hu Qi have also undergone changes. Obviously, whether to retreat or not is a problem.
However, there is obviously not much time left for the two parties to hesitate.
Early the next morning, when Ye Qingxuan and others were still waiting for the arrival of Eagle King's reinforcements, Taipingdao and Hu Qi organized a large-scale attack, which was a test and a risky one.
The bullhorn is blown all over the battalion.
A large group of green scarf soldiers poured out of the camp all over the mountains and plains, and they were divided into five huge squares, each of which had more than ten thousand people, lined up in an orderly manner.
Long, long, long!
Dozens of war drums pulled by bullock carts were launched in the team. The rumbling drums continued to sound, and banners were waving everywhere, directing the brigade to move forward.
At the forefront of the team, more than twenty siege vehicles and Yunlou were slowly pushed forward.
Already advancing to the dirt hill sixty feet away, the crowd was surging, and countless sharpshooters were in place. They began to shoot arrows tentatively from this distance to measure the distance between the two sides.
The defenders of Kaifeng Mansion on the top of the city were also very busy, constantly moving the defense equipment into place, and large bundles of feathered arrows were also carried up and distributed behind each soldier.
The soldiers trained by King Xiaoyao for many years are all mighty and majestic. Except for the crossbowmen, everyone holds spears and broadswords.
Woo, woo...
The horn sounded.
The sound of war drums and shouts of killing suddenly broke out, and a line of ten thousand people shouted forward, and the archers on the earth hill and the cloud tower began to bend their bows and set arrows, and shot towards the top of the city.
At the same time, the team of ten thousand people launched more than ten ladders, and rushed towards the top of the city together with more than twenty siege vehicles.
On the top of the city, Ye Qingxuan took a deep breath, the scene of this ancient battlefield stimulated his blood to boil.
Compared with the so-called big scenes seen on TV, they are not even one ten-thousandth worse than real wars.
In real ancient wars, no one would rush to the city with a long ladder. The last thing is the ladder, which is a huge war machine, with a huge wooden bed underneath, with six wheels, and the long ladder is arranged on the body. On the chassis, it is tilted at a certain angle, and a movable "auxiliary ladder" is added outside the main ladder. A pair of windlass is installed on the top. When climbing the city, the ladder can move up and down freely along the city wall without shouldering it hand lift.
In addition to the ladder, most of the assault fighters will hide under the "siege vehicle", which is an ancient troop carrier, a movable triangular tent with wheels, thick cowhide and armor , What bows and arrows, stones, and gold juice can't do anything to it.
"Left string five, upper arm four, release!"
On the head of one's own side of the city, a military officer waved a pennant and loudly directed the stone throwing machine under the inner part of the city wall.
call-
With a gust of bad wind, a 300-jin boulder was thrown out across a distance of fifty feet, passing a cloud tower, hitting the ground with a bang, rolling over a distance of more than ten feet, and knocking down a row of green scarf soldiers.
Peng!
Another rain of arrows shot out from the top of the city, like a dark cloud, towards the archers on the cloud tower and the earth mountain.
Our own oppression has begun.
The opponent's 10,000 Green Turban Army, the first batch of 3,000 soldiers, were all under the cover of ladders and siege vehicles. Even if they aimed at them, it would not achieve much effect.
The generals commanding the battle are all men of hundreds of battles. They set their targets on the delayed and unprotected Green Turban Army, cut off the close connection between the siege equipment and most of the troops, and at the same time took good care of them. The enemy shooters on the cloud tower and the earth mountain were suppressed, making it difficult for them to assist the besiegers.
Only the enemies in those ladders and siege vehicles rushed under the city wall smoothly.
Boom, boom!
The siege engine and the ladder crashed into the base of the city wall at the same time.
Slap!
The auxiliary ladder on the ladder bounced off, and the claws at the top were firmly grasped on the city wall.
Shout out loud!
Countless enemy soldiers got out from the inside of the ladder and the siege vehicles, and rushed up along the ladder.
The ladder on the top of the city cannot be overthrown by manpower at all, but it can be cut off.
Almost instantly, several fierce warriors with huge axes appeared at the head of each ladder, roaring and slashing down the ladders with their big axes.
Soldiers holding crutches more than two feet long stick out their long guns from the side parapet, constantly poking at the enemy soldiers on the ladder.
With a puff sound, several fierce-faced green scarf soldiers screamed and rolled down the ladder, hitting the top of the siege vehicle below, making a loud noise.
Rolling logs and rocks were completely useless at this time, and experienced generals shouted to dump tung oil and burn these siege equipment with fire.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
The enemy's archers kept harassing. A strong man with an ax was shot through the neck with an arrow. , and the second enemy rolled down the ladder and smashed down the top of the city.
"Let the arrow, let the arrow!"
A school captain hissed and roared, and a large number of archers turned their targets to Yunlou, which was eighty feet away, but although a large number of sharp arrows could shoot far away, they were nailed to the shield outside the Yunlou, unable to cause any damage to the archers in front of them. Effective killing.
On the contrary, after a stone bullet was fired several times, finally one hit and knocked down a cloud building.
Ye Qingxuan vividly remembered it, snorted coldly, and casually picked up a 300-jin stone bullet used for a trebuchet, weighed it in his hand, took a little aim, and then threw it over with a whimper.
boom!
Sawdust flew, and flesh and blood splattered.
The top floor of the Yunlou was smashed to pieces by stone bullets in an instant, screams came from inside the Yunlou, and the shooters on the lower floors suddenly became a mess.
After a moment of silence, the cheers of our own soldiers rose.
Ye Qingxuan was very interested, and threw out another stone bullet—
boom!
The people on the dirt mountain turned their backs on their backs, and the smoke and dust billowed. The formerly arrogant marksman of the green scarf army was so frightened that he abandoned his bow and arrow and hid behind the mountain.