From a distance, the infantry's movement seemed very slow, but in a flash, a large group of infantry had rushed to the edge of the moat. The floating bridge on the moat was burned several times by the Song army in repeated competitions for many days, and was rebuilt by the attackers again and again. Every time it was rebuilt, the Mongolian army worked hard to strengthen the floating bridge. Today, the floating bridge could not only pass through ordinary infantry, but even heavy siege equipment could barely pass through.

In the middle of the first wave of shock, the soldiers not only carried a ladder, but also a cowhide hole cart and a rushing cart. The buoyant bridge that enhanced the buoyancy also passed through these weapons safely. The roof of the cowhide and the rushing cart was covered with more than ten layers of cowhide, which could protect against arrows and resist small stones. A cloth strip for anti-arrows was hung on both sides of the rushing cart. The cowhide cart forced against the base of the wall and set up a ladder on the hole. The soldiers wearing armor went up the ladder. The rushing cart was directly concentrated near the door hole, trying to directly destroy the city gate of Xiangyang with a collision wood.

After Yang Xuan's reconstruction, the city gate in Xiangyang was particularly strengthened. Although there was no time to renovate the Qianjin Gate that Zheng Yunming had drawn by himself, it could not be perfect when fighting the rushing car. However, enough defensive forces had gathered on the top of the city, and the rolling wood was rolling down with lime bottles, and tens of thousands of enemies rolled down, especially the rushing enemy, immediately burst into flames when they threw it into the entrance of the city gate, and ignited fire near the city gate, burning the arrow strips on both sides of the rushing car, causing the soldiers who were pushing the wood to suffer burns to varying degrees. In addition, the boiling oil splashed from the mouth of the iron swallowing beast on the city, and the gold juice splashed directly from the city gate, making the gate a place of fear for the Mongolian army. What they could not expect was that even if they increased their troops and fought to break through the city gate, there was still a urn city full of secret passages and hidden soldiers caves waiting for them.

The focus of the two sides' competition was on the ladder. The ladder inserted in the cave cart was strong and difficult to shake. The Song army's hook fork and big gun could not shake the ladder on the top of the city. However, this did not prevent the Song army from constantly throwing heavy rolling wood and stones at the cowhide. In order to deal with the cowhide, Zheng Yunming even ordered the demolition of the blue brick houses of the rich people in Xiangyang City, and use the blue stones as the foundation as the stones. The roof of the cowhide can barely support the ordinary stones, but it can't deal with hundreds of kilograms of stones. A bluestone was thrown down and smashed the cowhide and the soldiers inside to pieces.

But even so, the armored warriors could not stop waving their scimitars and advancing one after another. The two armies repeated the scenes of these days on the city. First, the Mongolian army advanced bravely, and then the Song army received reinforcements from the new forces under the city and counterattacked, and kept oppressing the enemy to retreat near the cloud ladder. After receiving reinforcements, the Mongolian army counterattacked again. Such a tug-of-war was staged on the entire western city wall.

Quei looked at the towering city walls in the distance, and watched the Mongolian military flags almost penetrated the city to the top of the city several times and were removed by the Song army that counterattacked. Sure enough, the result of simply accumulating troops did not change. In this battle, he dispatched about 5,000 siege infantry. It can be inferred from the number of Song army flags on the city walls that Zheng Yunming also mobilized more than twice the usual defenders to fight. The bravery of the Mongolian army was much balanced by the power of the firearms, but in the most critical number comparison, the Song army had an advantage.

This is the most ironic thing. Faced with the dense population of Jiangnan, the powerful empire in the north of the Frontier achieved a strategic concentration of troops through its outstanding cavalry strength, and achieved a military advantage over an isolated city in Xiangyang. However, this military advantage cannot be exerted in the on-site attack and defense of the city, because the space for siege combat is narrow, and it is impossible to make more than 100,000 people go to battle at the same time. The Song army mobilized troops and gathered new forces with the protection of the tall city walls than the besieged army outside the city.

If this continues, the ending will still end in fruitless like the previous times. What made Qu Chu even more frustrated is that after these months of war, the morale, food and weapons of Xiangyang's military and civilians showed no sign of exhaustion. You should know that since the army headed south, Xiangyang has never received support from the outside world with one soldier, one arrow and one grain of rice. This can only prove how powerful Xiangyang itself is, as the strong city in the western frontier, and it is impossible to deal with such a powerful city. The Mongolian army has never had a precedent that the siege of the city can be broken by a siege, and this time it is impossible.

It is an acceptable result for Tasi to weaken Xiangyang to a point where he can be guided through plundering within three years, and then conquer Xiangyang through several months of hard siege. If the planning is not effective, it may evolve into a long-term battle like Fengxiang Mansion. It may even lead to the fact that the Mongols are unable to enter for twenty years, just like the Yellow River defense line. This is the worst outcome.

Zhang Rou, who was as heavy as water, had two layers of armor hanging on her body, and a sharp knife in her hand. She came to Tasi and held the knife in her hands to bow down for worship.

Tath turned his head and asked, "What are you doing?"

"The war ahead is not good. The last general wants to lead twenty death soldiers to charge to capture the west gate of Xiangyang for Your Highness!" Zhang Rou said in a deep voice: "After joining the Mongolian power, the last general will win the battle and win the attack. There has never been a defeat of being scared away by firearms at the top of Xiangyang City. This is my lifelong shame. Please allow me to capture Zheng Yunming alive with my own hands to avenge my previous shame!"

I can still use your life, don't take the suicide squad to die meaninglessly. Of course, Tasi won't really say these words. After dealing with the Han people for a long time, he also learned the three-point tactful and cunning way of the Han people's speech.

"Foxes like to come out to steal tiger food when they return to their nests. When our warriors are exhausted, Zheng Yunming will never sit in Xiangyang City without any movement." He comforted Zhang Ju and said, "Sleep well with your subordinates. When this cunning fox comes out of the hole, it is time for you to show your might."

"The battle here is left to those Batulu who bet on their lives."

The description of King Tasi is really no longer appropriate. The Batulu, who used his life as his last bet, exerted amazing energy while siegeing the city in order to gain the last glimmer of life.

The Badulu Army, who first climbed the city, was a nine-foot-long strong man. He was once the bravest soldier in the headquarters, but he was convicted of a female slave from the Western Regions of the Qiexue Guard and was punished to serve in the Badulu Army because he was the first to stand on the city wall. When he was the first to stand on the city wall, the two Tulong Army's musketmen were preparing to set up the gun with a bowl-mouth gun under their arms. The Badulu Army did not hesitate for a moment, and rushed forward with a tiger roar and blocked the gun of the bowl-mouth gun with his chest.

Such heroic behavior inspired the blood of successors, and the Badu Lu army rushed to the city wall roared loudly.

Not only was the momentum taken away by the enemy, the Tulong Army even more frightened to find that the muskets they rely on to drive out the Mongolian army seemed a little uninspiring to deal with the Batulu Army. The iron sand and small lead shots ejected from the bowl gun could not penetrate the two cowhide armor. Although the lead bullets holding the musket could injure Batulu, they could not lose most of their combat capabilities like they were against other Mongolian troops. The Batulu people rushed around the city with their tough cowhide armor. Whether it was swords, shields, bows and arrows, the killing of these heavy armored warriors was very limited.

With the advantage of this small group of heavy soldiers establishing on the city wall, the Mongolian infantry followed one after another under the guidance of Badulu and gained a foothold on the city. Dozens of Badulu in front of them, wearing heavy brass and heavy cabbages became the arrows for the Mongolian army to expand its positions.

Seeing the enemy's vanguard approaching the Xicheng Gate Tower again, Ma Guangzu became anxious again.

"The enemy is too close to the deputy commander! Please take the deputy commander down the city immediately!" He was the leader of the army. Once he said this, Jiao Jin immediately took three steps forward and stood in Zheng Yunming's lower position. Once the leader nodded and agreed, he immediately began to move the formation to a safer place.

Zheng Yunming put down the mirror in his hand, brushed the brocade robe behind him with his hand unhappy, and shouted loudly: "If we were to be clashed by the horse team in the wild, we still have a reason to avoid it. Today, we are the infantry at the top of the city, will our Song Dynasty still be at a disadvantage?"

He picked up the sword in his hand and handed it to Jiao Jin and said, "Go to you three hundred Beiwei, hold this sword in your hand and drive the enemy down the city!" Although he did not say it clearly, everyone understood the meaning of the sword given by the general. Anyone who retreated would use this sword to kill it. Even if Zheng Yunming's troops clearly stated, they had already made a clear attitude.

Jiao Jin received the sword and immediately took away most of the elite soldiers of Beiwei who were guarding the city. Ma Guangzu's heart was even more jumping. If he repeats the extremely scary blow of Zhang Rou that day, he might not be sure that the commander who was born as a white-faced scholar today would be safe.

Zheng Yunming was quite confident. Whether in the wild or on the city wall, the Song army was not inferior to others in the battle for infantry. If there were people like Zhang Rou, who were brave and desperate in the Mongolian army, his Jingchu army was also the leader of the Song army in Jinghu. Even if the Badulu army was heavily armored and fought bravely, this was not the home court of the Mongolians.
Chapter completed!