Chapter 1397 Night Attack Fire Attack(1/2)
For several consecutive days, Ning Jun did not attack, but just bombarded Meicheng with a stone-throwing cart.
One hundred and fifty stone throwing cars smashed into the city day and night, adjusting the distance of the shooting every once in a while, striving to make the rain and dew in Meicheng evenly absorb it.
In the front section of the city wall, there is almost no better battlement.
It seemed that he understood that Ning Jun did not attack, so Pei Qi's soldiers did not stick to the city wall, and if they could, they would hide.
The city gate tower has been smashed to pieces, and the roof is full of big holes. Anyway, hiding here is useless.
There are people at the bottom of the wall inside the city wall, so it should be the safest place to lean on it.
But even in such a place, it may be damaged by smashed bricks.
After several days of continuous smashing like this, Pei Qi's soldiers no longer considered going to the city wall to act, because Ning Jun would not come up anyway.
As a result, on the sixth day, they suddenly heard the sound of horns coming from Ning Jun.
Some of the lookouts left on the city wall quickly raised their heads and saw that Ning Jun was already rectifying the queue.
So the sound of trumpets on the city wall also sounded, and the soldiers of Shuzhou who were hiding under the city wall quickly stood up and ran up.
But at this time, the attack of the stone-throwing cart had not stopped yet, so they could only return to the defensive position with a meteorite-like attack.
But when they arrived at the position, Ning Jun's stone throwing cart had not stopped, so they could only carry it.
The Ning army's infantry array began to move forward neatly, and the Shuzhou army on the city wall became nervous, and the next thing they had to face was a real confrontation.
But after half an hour, I found that the Ning army had gathered together, but did not approach the city wall very quickly. I was walking forward, but the speed was not much faster than that of the snail.
It was a neat queue, not like entering the palace, but more like training to walk slowly.
Anyway, the formation is maintained very well.
As a result, the soldiers of Shuzhou Army held on the city wall for half an hour, Ning Army stopped instead.
At this time, the casualties of the defenders on the city wall were already quite tragic. For many days, the number of huge rocks that Ning army dropped on the city wall was already large.
This has led to some shortcomings in the soldiers' places of stay, and it is not convenient to hide.
As a result, after enduring such a long period of suppression, the morale of the soldiers of the Shuzhou Army collapsed.
They would rather have a fierce encounter with Ning Jun on the front battlefield, and the men in Shuzhou would never give in easily.
This kind of frustration made them not only annoyed and irritated, but also felt that they could not use it.
Pei Xuecheng had no choice but to order most of the defenders to temporarily retreat behind the city wall in order to reduce casualties.
On the side of the Ning army, watching the enemy situation in the cart, and immediately waved the flag after seeing the soldiers of Shuzhou Army retreating to the city on a large scale.
Seeing the flag, Ning Jun began to accelerate forward again.
As a result, Pei Xuecheng had to summon all the soldiers who had just gone down.
But after the soldiers of Shuzhou Army returned to the city wall, the Ning Army's infantry array stopped again.
During this process, the stone throwing cart did not stop for a while.
Pei Xuecheng, who was squatting under the city wall, looked extremely ugly. A general under his command came over with a hug, his face even worse than him.
"General, the casualties are too great. Otherwise, I'd better take the team down temporarily. It seems that Ning Jun has no intention of really siegeing the city, just to consume our troops like this."
This general is called Xue Yun, who is Pei Xuecheng's old subordinate and has more than ten years of experience in fighting.
However, this is the first time that he, a man who has led his troops for more than ten years, has fought this battle.
"It's so fucking disgusting."
Pei Xuecheng scolded
One sound.
Then he spitted a few times. Just now, a big stone flew over his head and rubbed the battlements, hitting the city wall behind him. The gravel he picked up collapsed his face and there was something in his mouth.
"It's not a solution to continue like this."
Xue Yun said: "About thirty feet east, a piece of the city wall has collapsed. Although it is not big, Ning Jun has seen it. The stones seem to be aiming at the gap of the king."
Pei Xuecheng: "It's so fucking disgusting."
Another scolding.
He raised his head and looked out. Ning Jun's phalanx was about two or three miles away from the city wall. At this distance, the crossbows on the city wall could reach it, but the lethality was not very high.
Moreover, the heavy defensive crossbows on the city wall were also smashed, which could not suppress the Ning army's attack.
"Half people go down."
Pei Xuecheng ordered.
Xue Yun responded, then hugged and left.
As soon as he moved away, a huge rock hit the city wall with a bang, directly smashing the battlements.
If Xue Yunwan left in one breath, he would be directly hit by a huge rock and battlements.
Xue Yun looked back and looked even more ugly, obviously he was still scared.
The soldiers of Shuzhou Army began to retreat. When they retreated, the Ning army seemed to have no intention of playing again, and the team turned around and retreated to the camp.
If this time is good, but Ning Jun re-used the same trick the next day, he still pressed forward in an orderly manner.
The Shuzhou army had to guard against it, and the team came up, went down, went down, went down.
After this repeated, the soldiers had already complained.
So far, there has not been a single Ning army soldier, but the tragic level of their side has made people feel scared.
In fact, it really matters how many people were killed by stones, not many were enough to affect the defense forces of the Shuzhou Army.
After all, it is a big stone. If you can hide, it is a bad life. After all, the shooting position of the stone throwing cart is fixed, and Ning Jun only adjusts it every two or three days.
What affects morale is the annoyance of being beaten but not fighting back, and the resistance of not wanting to go up to the city wall again.
What can you do when you go up? You just get hit.
After ten days of smashing, Ning Jun suddenly stopped, which made the defenders feel a little incredible.
Pei Xuecheng stood up straight and looked at Ning Jun camp with his clairvoyance, and found that Ning Jun was actually tearing off the stone throwing cart that had been used for ten days.
Pei Xuecheng was a little confused about this incident.
As a result, he understood not long after, because Ning Jun just wanted to replace it with a new one.
After two or three days of stopping, a new batch of stone throwing cars began to bombard the city walls again.
The place where the city wall was smashed and collapsed before has turned into a big hole.
Although it did not collapse to the bottom of the city, half of the city wall was gone, and the hole was very large, about two feet away from the ground.
Of course, Ning Jun could not climb up at random at this height, but Ning Jun could continue to smash it, hitting the hole until the city center.
Besides, I kept aiming at that place and smashing it, so many stones piled up under the city.
Royal Palace.
Pei Qi called Pei Xuecheng and asked him with a gloomy face: "Ning Jun has been attacking for half a month. What plan have you made?"
Pei Xuecheng knew what Pei Qi meant when he asked this. If he was beaten so passively, his morale would be completely collapsed soon.
But what can he do?
Take the initiative?
The number of defenders in the city was not even half of the Ning army. Half of them were pieced together were new recruits.
Shuzhou continuously supports Yang Xuanji and
Han Feibao fought for the Central Plains, which led to the death and injury of a large number of young and strong men in Shuzhou.
Since Li Chi entered Shuzhou, Pei Qi has not stopped recruiting troops, but the number of recruits has been far from his expectations.
"His Majesty......"
Pei Xuecheng said with a tough bullet: "I plan to stop a group of death-killing people at night and follow the gap in the city wall to attack the Ning army's stone-throwing cart at night."
This is the only way he can think of.
Pei Qi has been a chief official in the border area for so many years and has led his troops for so many years. How could he not know that the feasibility of this plan to succeed is pitifully low, even so low that it can be ignored.
But now there must be an action and a boost of morale.
Even if it was just burning a stone throwing cart in Ning Jun, it would give the soldiers in Meicheng a glimmer of hope.
"Pick a brave general."
Pei Qi said: "I will ask someone to select five hundred people from the Mujian camp. Their personal martial arts are much better than the soldiers. This kind of sneak attack...it is better to use them than to use soldiers."
Pei Xuecheng could only nodded. He knew very well that the people sent out were to die, but he could only do so.
At night, after midnight, General Xue Yun led a team of more than a thousand people down the gap in the city wall.
There are a lot of ropes falling from the city wall, which is very convenient when you go down.
For experts, even if they jump directly from a height of about two meters, it is not a big problem.
To be continued...