Chapter 1024: Siege (2)
After the Jin soldiers continued to advance, the shooting effect of the second round of the bed crossbow was significantly weakened. The ladder raised by the Jin soldiers effectively blocked the powerful bed crossbow arrow.
Seeing that the bed crossbow was not effective, Yan Qing ordered: "Removing the bed crossbow, ready to shake the sky!"
Since the bed crossbow has poor effect, the effect of the Divine Arm crossbow will not be very good. Yan Qing simply showed their killer weapon, a giant thunderclap.
Without dense arrows on the top of the city, the Jin soldiers started running faster, three hundred steps...two hundred steps...one hundred fifty steps.
After a hundred steps, the Jin soldiers finally entered the range of the artillery. The red flag in Zhong Lie's hand finally waved, "Shoot!" Several Song army commanders shouted almost at the same time.
The heavy artillery was launched, and sixty consecutive collisions smashed sixty giant black and giant thunders into the Jin soldiers' formation. The fuse rope of the thunders was hissing and white smoke in the air. The iron ball like winter melon rolled in the air and appeared rapidly above the Jin soldiers' heads. The Jin soldiers shouted and lay on the ground one after another. This was their experience of avoiding the thunders.
A muffled sound of 'Boom!', a thunder that had not yet exploded fell, and dust flew. A Jin soldier could not dodge and his head was smashed into meat sauce. The powerful impact force caused the circular thunder to continue rolling, rushing straight into the group of Jin soldiers, and exploded with a bang.
Suddenly, there was a scream. Hundreds of soldiers within a radius of twenty feet were blown to death on the spot. Some were so blew up to the point of being confused, but some were not damaged, and blood was leaking from their mouths and eyes. This was shocked to death.
Another earth-shaking noise, a giant thunder exploded in the crowd not far away, a large pit was blown up underground, and dozens of soldiers were blown up.
The first round of sixty thunders caused nearly three thousand casualties. At this time, the second round of artillery fired again, and sixty giant thunders rolled in the air and roared in.
This time, most of the explosions were on the heads of the Jin soldiers. The Jin cavalrymen were surging their horses, the soldiers flew with flesh and blood, the bodies were broken, and the ladders were broken. Then, the third round of shooting was shot, and two or three thousand casualties were killed and killed.
The three-wheeled thunderstorm caused more than 6,000 Jin soldiers to suffer casualties. Although the thunderstorm was powerful, the number was slightly small and could not form huge lethality. Nine thousand Jin soldiers had already rushed to the city. On the city, the Song army fired thousands of arrows at the city, and the arrows were like hail and rain, covering the sky and shooting towards the Jin soldiers.
Jin soldiers raised their shields to greet them, and people were constantly killed by arrows. In the rain of arrows, Jin soldiers placed several meters of ladders "boom!" on the moat, forming more than twenty temporary tree bridges. Then, wide ladders several meters high were mounted on the top of the city, and groups of fierce Jin soldiers rushed up the ladder and began to climb upwards.
The Song army's arrows came in a slanted rain, and the rolling wooden stones were smashed head-on. A series of Jin soldiers fell down from the stairs screaming and were shot by arrows, their heads were smashed, and corpses were piled up under the city walls. Then Jin soldiers climbed up the stairs frantically and charged upwards regardless of everything.
At this time, the sound of drums in the Jin army camp was loud again, and another ten thousand Jurchen cavalry rushed over, with dust flying. They passed through the range of two hundred to three hundred steps at the fastest speed, but they could not escape the shooting of the divine arm crossbow on the city.
Tens of thousands of divine arm crossbow arrows roared over, smashing the cavalry. The divine arm crossbow arrows were powerful and fast, and one arrow could penetrate the enemy's leather armor. The war horses were neighing, and the soldiers rolled to the ground. Under the trampling of iron hooves, there were terrible corpses everywhere.
At this moment, the Jin soldiers had invested 25,000 siege soldiers, and the city attack and defense battle entered the most intense stage.
At this moment, Yan Qing took out the most vicious move of the Song army. With his order, a thousand thunderbolters quietly pressed on him. Under the cover of other soldiers, they threw three hundred giant thunders that had been lit into the fuse ten feet above the city, and just fell into the dense crowd of Jin soldiers.
A series of earth-shaking explosions sounded under the city, thick smoke filled the city, the siege ladders were blown off, and the Jin soldiers fell from the air one after another, and the screams under the city were drowned by the explosion.
Wanyan Zongfu in the distance was stunned. When the smoke gradually faded away, his intuition told him that the Jin soldiers under the city had lost at least 30%.
At this time, a cavalry rushed over, "General Zongfu, Marshal Du ordered you to withdraw your troops immediately!"
"Woo"
Wanyan Zongfu raised his horn helplessly and blew it. The Jin soldiers under the city were defeated like a mountain of fallen. Tens of thousands of arrows were shot at the Jin soldiers who were fleeing in panic. The Jin soldiers were shot down one after another.
In this battle of less than an hour, 25,000 Jin soldiers actually lost 60% and only 10,000 soldiers fled back. Many soldiers who were still alive on the battlefield were shot and killed by the Song army on the top of the city.
The battle on the Central Plains was also in full swing. In the battle for Luoyang, three troops surrounding Luoyang seemed to be a competition. Wu Jie used the sky-shaking thunder to blew the west gate, but the first to climb to the top of the city was Yue Fei's army.
The five hundred suicide squad sent by Yue Fei made an effort to grab the city and opened the south city gate. Yue Fei and Wu's army entered the city almost at the same time, and Zhang Jun then attacked the north city.
Liu Lin led 20,000 troops to break out in fierce street battles with the Song army in the city, but his troops were too weak. After only less than half an hour, he was captured by the Song army. Liu Lin was also captured by the Song army in the City God Temple, and the Song army successfully recaptured Luoyang.
Li Yanqing immediately ordered Wu Jie and Zhang Jun's army to return to Hedong Road and prepare to cooperate with Liu Qi's 100,000 troops to attack Hebei. Yue Fei's army left 10,000 troops to guard Luoyang. The remaining 70,000 troops rushed to Bianliang to participate in the battle to siege Bianliang.
Liu Yu's Qi army was defeated repeatedly, leaving only a big city in Bianliang in the entire Central Plains, and only 25,000 troops were left. Liu Yu immediately ordered the recruitment of 50,000 troops in the city, but was strongly resisted by the people of Bianliang. Only more than a thousand people signed up in three days.
The attitude of the people of Bianliang aroused Liu Yu's anger. He ordered the forcibly arresting civilians in the city, but was persuaded by Fan Qiong. If these resentful new recruits opened the city and surrendered to the Song army, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Liu Yu also realized that it was inappropriate and finally canceled the order to arrest the civilians. However, even so, it still aroused strong anger among the people in the city, and news of the killing of single soldiers kept coming from the city.
At this time, the 100,000 troops of Han Shizhong and Liu Guangshi had arrived at the southern city of Bianliang, and the 100,000 troops led by Li Yanqing also arrived at the eastern city of Bianliang. The 70,000 troops led by Yue Fei were rushing towards Bianliang. The 270,000 Song troops would hunt Bianliang, which was ten times more than the Qi army, which made Liu Yu panic all day long.
Liu Yu's only hope now is to wait for Wanyan Xieye's Jin soldiers to kill across the Yellow River to save himself.
Liu Yu stood on the city almost every day and looked north. He hoped that the Jin cavalry suddenly came to the sky. Unfortunately, he looked day after day, but there was still nothing in the north, and he didn't see the shadow of the Jin soldiers.
"Your Highness, go back! The sun is so poisonous."
Now it is the hot summer, and the scorching sun is like a fire. After standing for only a moment, I feel sweaty.
Liu Yu sighed and turned to walk down the city. At this moment, the sound of war drums under the city suddenly rumbling. The soldiers of Qi who were resting against the city wall rushed to the top of the city, waiting for the battle. The drums of war in the Song army camp continued to stop, but there was no sign of attack. Although the soldiers were sweating heavily and in great pain, they did not dare to go down to the city.
At this moment, a large army came from the west, with the word "Yue" written on the flag, which was Yue Fei's army coming.
But Yue Fei's army did not launch an attack, and was very good at merging into the camp and joining the main force of the Song army.
"Your Highness, the Song army is probably only consuming the soldiers' energy and physical strength, and has no intention of siege."
Liu Yu shook his head, but even so, he dared not take the defense at the top of the city lightly. At this time, Fan Qiong came to suggest: "Your Highness, it is better to let the soldiers go to the city to defend in three shifts, so that most of the soldiers can rest."
Liu Yu thought for a while, "Then let's decide like this!"
Under Fan Qiong's order, a group of troops began to withdraw from the city, and only six thousand people were left at the city wall.
Liu Yu observed for a while and saw that the Song army did not show any sign of siege, he also went down to the city.
Chapter completed!