Chapter 762: Breaking Ezhou (Part 2)
The throwing arms of dozens of stone trenchers were rising one after another, smashing dozens of kilograms of stones at the top of the city. The stones fell on the city wall and made a huge sound. The city wall wrapped in stone was smashed into pits. More of them fell into the group of defensive soldiers on the city, causing great casualties to the soldiers guarding the city.
Groups of crossbow soldiers advanced to the river and poured the crossbow arrows in their hands towards the city wall. On the surface of the river, on the dozens of floating bridges that were rebuilt at a huge price, the Liang army soldiers yelled and rushed towards the opposite bank at the fastest speed. For them, even though there were not many footholds on the opposite bank, they were always safer than on the floating bridge.
There were countless large haystacks covered with grease flying on their heads, even if they fell on the water, and stone bullets would fall on the water from time to time, splashing waves of several people high. The pontoon bridge would often be broken, but it would be repaired by Liang Jun immediately.
Liang Jun did not care about casualties at all.
Zhu Youzhen brazenly pushed his chief general flag to his own trencher position. Here, the trencher above the city can already threaten his safety.
The flying flag of Zhu's character "Zhu" and the rumbling war drums all show Zhu Youzhen's determination to fight to the death. And from Liu Xinda, all generals, all the big and small, know that there is no way out at this time.
The main attack was still in the north. Liu Xinda organized wave after wave of offensives regardless of the cost of casualties. From the rising sun to the gradually setting west, both sides were exhausted, but the Liang army had no intention of stopping.
What made the city embarrassed was that in the direction of the west city, another Liang army appeared, and it was not Zhu Youzhen's main troops, which forced them to worry that the Liang army was attacking the North City in order to attract the main elite forces in the city, and the one who gave them a fatal blow was Zhu Youzhen's main troops.
After all, any military force directly led by the chief general must be the most elite force in a unit. This forced them to transfer part of their power to the West City and stare at the army.
As the troops began to prepare for siege equipment, this trend became increasingly obvious.
Liu Xinda quickly felt the weakening of the power on the city because his soldiers finally broke into the city wall after many days and were able to hold on to it for a little while.
"General Tian, it's now!" Zhu Youzhen looked at Tian Guofeng beside him and said.
"The Third Prince, but I saw that I broke the city!" Tian Guoba grabbed the helmet placed on the ground, put it on his head, tied up the strap, lifted the sabre inserted on the ground, and strode forward.
A thousand elite armored soldiers rushed toward the moat with him.
Qian Feng, the governor of Eyue Jie, has been supervising the battle on the city for many days.
As Zhu Youzhen guessed earlier, when the Liang army launched a large-scale attack, Qian Feng did withdraw all the elite forces, and at the same time, he laid some strength outside. These forces were inconspicuous and even worth mentioning, but if Zhu Youzhen did not make any progress under the city of Ezhou for a long time, these backs will play a role.
At the critical moment of the two armies' competition, any tilt of power is enough to affect the overall situation. What ultimately crushes the camel is just a straw.
Qian Feng's calculation was undoubtedly successful. The biggest problem was that he underestimated the combat effectiveness of Liang's army and overestimated the combat effectiveness of E Yue's army.
This power comparison between in and out is reflected in the real war process, which is far beyond Qian Feng's estimate.
This made this war even more difficult to deal with as time goes by. Although the defensive side has an absolute advantage in terms of geographical location, it has become more and more difficult to deal with.
But today, at the most critical moment of the war, Qian Feng actually made another big mistake.
The Liang army never thought of breaking the Ezhou city from other directions. They were all determined to open a gap from the north. The so-called transfer of Zhu Youzhen's troops to the East City was just a trick to doubt the enemy. For the Liang army, as long as they could transfer some of the elite troops of the city, no matter how much they were, they would make a profit.
The time when Tian Guofeng, the thousand elite soldiers entered the battlefield was very deadly. After a fierce battle, the sun gradually set. The night battle was naturally more unfavorable for the siege. According to past experience, the battle at this time was almost coming to an end.
The soldiers guarding the city who had worked hard for a day did feel at this moment that the enemy's attack was gradually weakening, and their hearts gradually relaxed.
The city was covered with corpses, and the howlings of the injured were dripping blood. Before they knew it in the fierce battle before the intensity of the war came, the sounds became clearer and clearer.
The soldiers were glad that they had survived another hurdle.
Laziness first appears on the psychology, and then it is reflected on the spirit and physical strength.
The weapons in my hand seemed to have regained a lot.
The hunger in my stomach became even more obvious at this moment.
They wanted to have a good sleep, a good meal, and wanted to use the victory of defending the city today to ask the governor for more rewards. Even if they gave them two more kilograms of meat and a little wine, they could sleep comfortably until dawn.
The war has been fought so far, both sides have been red. If there were people who would have surrendered at the earliest, but now when looking at the layers of corpses covered with the city and the city, who has the intention to do this?
E Yue implemented a typical system of government troops. In the army, father, son, brother, neighbors and fellow villagers can all be related to each other. The war is so fierce that no relative dies at the hands of each other.
Apart from fighting with your opponent, there are no other thoughts.
If the enemy who fails and suffers heavy losses, how can they let them live?
Revenge is inevitable.
What kind of disaster does not affect your wife and children? In this era, it does not exist at all.
The E Yue army relaxed, and the Liang army, who had been preparing for almost a day, had just thrown out.
Accompanied by shouts, countless bamboos of bowl-sized sizes that were carried by Liu Xinda's soldiers were lifted from the ground by the soldiers.
On the top of each bamboo, there was a Liang army soldier climbing.
The two people in front are Tian Guofeng and Chen Fu.
Hundreds of bamboos and hundreds of soldiers suddenly came to the air from the ground. To the eyes of the soldiers on the city, it seemed that these people jumped to such a high place.
Chen Fu had bamboo on both legs, and the bowstrings in his hand sounded like beads. With every sound, a soldier from E Yue screamed and fell off the city.
These soldiers saw the opportunity very quickly. When the bamboo was just raised, they immediately reacted. However, Chen Fu's archery technique was too accurate. He made a small gap in the city wall with dozens of arrows. Tian Guofeng, wearing two iron armor, seized this small space and jumped from the bamboo to the city wall.
"Go to die!" He roared and waved the sabre in his hand.
Sweep all directions.
Blood splattered everywhere, and four or five E Yue soldiers were in different places.
One by one, the bamboos leaned against the city wall, and the soldiers jumped up one by one.
The soldiers on the city finally realized it, howling and waving swords and guns, surrounding them.
Some soldiers had just stood on the city wall and had not yet gained a foothold, but were pushed down by the soldiers on the city. Some were still above the bamboo. They were quickly shot by the enemy with crossbow arrows and fell down to the city with a loud bang.
But in the end, nearly two hundred people stood on the top of the city with Tian Guofeng and Chen Fu. More importantly, they were concentrated on a wall less than fifty meters away.
"Call me!" Tian Guofeng roared, holding the slashing sabre in both hands, slashing horizontally and vertically, while Chen Fu followed him tightly, constantly shooting.
The enemy is too close, so he doesn't need to aim at it at all. He only needs to open a string and a half, which is enough to take human life, because his arrows are shooting the enemy's face.
There was Tian Guofeng leading the way in front. On both sides, there were several armored soldiers carrying shields and enemy swords to protect his flanks. This small combination instantly brought together more than a hundred armored soldiers around them.
At this moment, Tian Guofeng was still at the forefront of the team, while Chen Fu was in the middle of the team.
He did not have to take on the task of opening the way, but instead focused on the officers who killed the enemy.
The E Yue army rushed over from several directions. Everyone understood that if they didn't quickly drive the enemy down the city wall, E Yue City would be over today.
But the problem is that the hundreds of people who came up were the most elite part of the Liang army, and the number of such people was increasing continuously.
Tian Guofeng took the last attempt with a thousand soldiers, successfully climbed the city wall and formed a military formation alive. They formed two groups, only dozens of steps away from each other.
"It's done!" Zhu Youzhen slapped the high-high on the other side of the moat excitedly and shouted, while Liu Xinda on the front line was even more accused on the battlefield. How could he miss such a great opportunity? Liang Jun, who had just been exhausted, was excited as if he was injected with chicken blood. Ladders stood up one by one and climbed up like an ant.
The head of Zhu Youzhen in Dongcheng has officially started to attack the city at this moment. They have to restrain this part of the E Yue army in Dongcheng and prevent them from having the opportunity to move to the north wall.
As more and more Liang soldiers climbed up the city wall, Tian Guofeng and his group had begun to move towards the city tower, because there was Qian Feng, the governor of Eyue Jiedu.
Chapter completed!