Chapter 275: The South Extension of Hanjiang
After hearing Yan Yan's words, Feng Yu laughed and said, "The credit guarantee of Seleucau Legion--as long as you pay them on time, you can treat them as your own people. Seleucau Sulphur just now asked us to withdraw the siege, but Gu agreed. Gu was not taking a gambling risk, but testing their credit again!"
Zhuge Liang praised: "The king is wise. What is the king's plan now?"
Feng Yu expressed his solemn expression and said loudly to everyone around him: "Sir, I will order you to immediately send troops to Shawadi City, drive the Zhuluo people out of Hongshawadi, incorporate the entire territory of Hongshawadi into our Liang Kingdom, and open the border for our Han territory. This is the time for you to make achievements." The soldiers of the Liang army around him responded with a loud bang.
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On the north of Shawadi City, the Liang army once again came to the city. The difference is that this time there were more troops than last time. When attacking Shawadi, Feng Yu assembled five thousand infantry and thousands of war elephants. The airships that were only used for transportation of baggage were also pulled by the war elephants.
There are hundreds of Viking warships distributed in the Dulong River waterway and various rivers and lakes. Some of the warships have entered the ocean and even sneaked into the Shawadi port to harass them.
Around Shawadi City, Liang army scouts riding southern war horses and elephants can be seen from time to time. Even in some dense forests around, there are Liang army mountain scouts moving.
Although Shawadi has not been besieged yet, its internal and external ties have been cut off. It is almost impossible to see the shadow of merchant ships again, which was once prosperous and busy.
Galawa sent scouts from the city, and only one out of ten could return safely. Galawa knew that he was at the end of his life, so he could only sigh and sigh every day, but he was helpless.
The day of Liang's general attack has finally come. On this day, the leaves of the coconut trees by the sea remained motionless, and the sea surface was as calm as a small pond.
The defenders of Shawadi City were stretching their heads and looking at Liang's army gathering in the distance, but they heard strange sounds coming from the air.
They looked up and saw more than a dozen mountain-like giants floating in the air. Some of them had seen this thing and knew it was Liang Jun's airship. But unlike usual, the airship was not pulled by an elephant or a horse, but was slowly moving. From time to time, "smoke" sprayed out from behind their tails from time to time
The Zhuluo crossbowmen on the top of the city opened their bows and shot arrows, and the arrows shot at the airships, but these arrows were still far from these airships and fell to the ground.
Then, a group of arrows were immediately shot at the city head on the airship. These were heavy arrows shot by the longbowman, and the target was mainly to set up crossbowmen who manipulated the city head.
These crossbow gunners themselves do not have armor. Under the precise heavy arrows, they were shot into hedgehogs by arrows. The survivors hurriedly looked for a hidden place to hide.
Taking advantage of the screams and wailings at the top of the city, the Liang army's crossbow gunman under the city pushed the cannon cart, and under the cover of the gun and shield soldiers, he approached the eighty battles of the city wall and began to shoot various projectiles at the top of the city.
Some crossbow gunners braved the rain of arrows and adjusted the crossbow cannons, trying to bombard the approaching Liang Jun crossbow cannons. One of the crossbow gunners had just lifted a stone bullet and wanted to put it into the pocket. A heavy arrow instantly shot into his chest. The stone bullet fell to the ground and hit the foot of another crossbow gunner.
Before the latter could wail, a "fireball" was tilted and fell on the ground of the city wall near them. A piece of flames with high heights soared into the air, turning all the nearby Zhuluo soldiers into firemen, and engulfing the crossbow into the flames.
Most of the crossbow gunners were sniped by the longbowers on the airship before they could counterattack. The crossbow guns under the city became more and more accurate. In the end, a considerable part of the city was covered in flames, and most of the crossbow guns were also destroyed. At this time, the defenders at the Shawadi city were only beaten and had no power to fight back.
"Boom" With a loud bang, the city wall in Shawadi began to shake slightly. It turned out that Liang Jun's counterweight trencher began to bombard the city wall, and the huge rocks continued to bombard the city wall, and only the earth was crushed and the mountains were shaking and the earth was shaking.
The crossbows under the city moved forward for ten battles and began to shoot the projectiles into the city. The airship in the air also slowly "floats" over Shawadi City, and the longbowers in the airship sniped any target in the city at will.
Zhu Luo's army on the north side had run away, and the rest of the city and the defenders in the city were also in chaos. They all looked for places that could cover themselves and tried their best to avoid arrows and crossbows. Fires began to ignite in some parts of the city.
Under the continuous bombardment of giant trenchers, cracks began to appear in the city wall on the north. One hour later, with a series of loud noises of the earth and mountains, a section of the city wall that lasted for more than twenty battles finally collapsed. The dust rose into the air and mixed with the smoke from the fire, covering most of the city.
Outside the city, the Liang army's guns and shield soldiers who had already formed an attacking phalanx began to advance towards the gap. The Liang army's crossbow gunners, the longbowers on the ground, and the longbowers in the airship concentrated the projectile arrows behind the gap in the city wall. They made a cover projection to open up the road for the guns and shield soldiers.
When the gun and shield soldiers lined up to cross the ruins, the dust was settled and they discovered that the Zhu Luo soldiers did not gather behind the ruins to defend.
There were only dozens of scattered corpses of Zhuluo soldiers on the ground behind the gap. In fact, the Zhuluo army in the city was already in chaos at this time and could not carry out a large-scale organized counterattack and resistance.
Only when the guns and shield soldiers entered the city and spread into several parts to advance along the street, a few Zhuluo soldiers were carrying out weak resistance under the leadership of low and intermediate generals. These resistances were often crushed by a round of javelin projection.
While Liang's soldiers attacked Shawadi City, hundreds of Viking warships also attacked Shawadi Port in the south of the city. The soldiers jumped onto the dock, rushed bravely, and rushed into the city along the corridors on both sides of the water gate in the south.
For a moment, the sound of killing in the city and the sound of weapons clashed everywhere. Half an hour later, there was no organized resistance in Shawadi City. Zhu Luo soldiers sneaked into the houses and hid, and the Liang army soldiers began to disperse, clearing out the remaining enemies from house to house.
The sound of fighting in the city gradually subsided, and groups of Zhu Luo prisoners were escorted and walked up the streets in the city. More Liang troops lined up into the city.
After Zhang Ren, who was commanding the battle in front of him and Yan Yan confirmed that the city had been basically controlled, Feng Yu also rode into Shawadi City in a battle elephant surrounded by a large group of soldiers. He entered Galawa's "King Palace" and only then did he know that Galawa had died of poison when the city was broken.
Feng Yu looked at Galava's body and his group of crying and poisonous concubines, sighed and ordered: "He was buried with the king's specifications. These concubines will be placed in the Liang Palace in Yibin for the time being."
Then, Feng Yu climbed up to the city tower surrounded by the generals. He looked at the ocean to the west, and a wider world appeared before him.
Chapter completed!