Chapter 39 Digging the Channel
The shelling lasted for three days and three nights. In addition to the cooling time, the three heavy artillery fired bombardment. Until the morning of the fourth day, the arrow tower, corner tower, fort, and city gate tower of Lijia City Village broke and collapsed one after another. The female wall battlements turned into dogs, and the bricks outside the city wall also collapsed on a large scale. The Lijia City Village was already devastated and unrecognizable, just like a handsome and handsome man suddenly fell seriously ill and was beaten to a pig's head.
Various siege weapons have been built, and you can launch the final general attack on the city wall just by waiting for Li Laiheng to give the order.
Just when Li Laiheng was about to order an attack, he heard Ye Busuo come to report: "A large army appeared behind him. Judging from the flag, it was General Gao and General Luo's troops."
General Gao is Gao Yigong and Li Zicheng's brother-in-law; General Luo is Luo Hu, known as the number one strong general under Li Zicheng's command. The sudden appearance of these two people made Li Laiheng feel a little uncomfortable: "It must be here to grab the spoils!"
The artillery fired for three days and three nights in a row, and the sound of cannons was like thunder. If it were not alarmed by other generals of the Shun Army, it would be strange. But Li Laiheng had no choice but to invite Gao Yigong to him.
"Hahaha! General Li is so excited! Why did you find such a good place in Tongzhou? You didn't discuss it with us elders, so you brought someone with you?" Gao Yigong walked to Li Laiheng and said with a smile.
After all, Gao Yigong's seniority is there. He is Li Zicheng's brother-in-law, while Li Laiheng is Li Guo's adopted son, and Li Guo is Li Zicheng's nephew. In terms of seniority, Li Laiheng has to call Li Zicheng "Uncle". Gao Yigong is a grandfather in front of Li Laiheng, and even Li Guo dare not act rashly in front of Gao Yigong.
Li Laiheng knelt respectfully on one knee and bowed and bowed: "God of General Gao, isn't this military pay yet? The brothers haven't had enough food for several days. General Zhao from the Jinyiwei pointed out a clear way for General Mo. General Mo took his brothers here, hoping to get some food back so that the brothers could have a few full meals."
Gao Yigong laughed: "General Li Xiao, this is yours. If you have money, everyone will make money together. If you make money without saying a word, it is not interesting enough!"
Li Laiheng replied awkwardly: "God of General Gao, the last general can't make the decision. The way is General Zhao Xiao’s. His adoptive father slapped the high fives with General Zhao Xiao’s oath. Both sides divided the four and six. General Zhao Xiao’s take four, and his adoptive father took six."
Gao Yigong smiled and said, "How about this, including Gao's share, you both sides will take out one and give it to Gao. Your adoptive father takes half of it, and General Zhao takes three. Gao is not greedy, just take 20% away!"
"But my adoptive father..." Li Laiheng said with a disgrace.
"Gao will go and talk to your adoptive father in person." Gao Yigong laughed.
When Gao Yigong turned around and ordered the troops, Zhao Peng muttered: "It's just robbed it! We attacked for three days and three nights, and it was about to capture it. He was about to take away a large piece as soon as he arrived!"
Li Laiheng sighed: "Oh, what's the solution? He has a high seniority."
It seemed that there was no way, so Zhao Peng could only decide to cut a piece of meat for Gao Yigong to block his mouth. So he asked Li Laiheng to order the attack.
"Attack!" Li Laiheng personally beat the drum, and Hao shook the flag.
The drums rumbling, and shield chariots loaded with macao bags were pushed out from the Shunjun camp behind the pile of earth. The armorless auxiliary soldiers turned from refugees pushed the shield chariots and advanced towards the moat.
Several shells were sent out from the top of the city, hitting one of the shield cars. The wooden boards in the front of the shield cars were crushed like broken egg shells. The shield cars were tilted to one side, and the mashed buns on the car fell to the ground one after another. The shells that smashed the wooden boards smashed and two auxiliary soldiers, and then they plunged into the mashed buns and lost their kinetic energy.
The counterattack at the top of the city was immediately retaliated by even more violent revenge under the city. The Francs, tiger squat cannons and turtledove guns were fired together, and the artillery that counterattacked at the top of the city was quickly hovered.
As the shield car advanced, the servants at the city headed the city fired fiercely at the approaching shield carriage with bird guns and bows. However, the female walls on the city headed the city had been broken, and the defenders lost their protection. The Franchise, turtledove guns, tiger squat cannons, bird guns and bows under the city also poured firepower into the city headed, making the defenders on the city almost untenable.
The shield car soon approached the moat. The auxiliary soldiers ran out from behind the shield car with Mabao in their arms, threw Mabao into the moat, and ran back to the back of the shield car quickly. Some people just threw Mabao, but were hit by the arrow projectile shot from the top of the city and fell by the river; some people were hit before they could throw Mabao, and fell into the moat with Mabao; some people turned around and ran back to the shelter area of the shield car, and were nailed to the ground halfway.
The Shun Army under the city also relied on the cover of the trench to shoot fiercely at the top of the city. Both sides suffered casualties. However, the casualties of the Shun Army were refugees who acted as cannon fodder, while the casualties of the archers, bird gunners and gunners on the top of the city were regular guards. It was obvious that the Li family was not worth it.
This kind of attack method of digging trenches is unprecedented in Li Jiaguo. If you want to crack such a siege method, the only way is to have enough troops to go out of the city to fight back. However, Li Jiaguo only has a few people, most of them are long-range troops, so where can they have the power to go out of the city to fight back? You can only watch your opponent destroy your city defense bit by bit.
After an hour and a half, the auxiliary soldiers of the Shun Army finally filled a moat two meters wide. Then the defenders on the top of the city could see a strange thing coming out of the Shun Army formation. The thing was an upside down ship with the bottom facing the sky and a wet felt covered with thick mud. The felt was face down, and there was a wooden rack below, with a row of wheels installed on the rack. It seemed that many auxiliary soldiers were hiding under the protection of the ship and pushing the boat forward.
This thing was changed directly from the canal ships. After the canal transportation was interrupted, a large number of canal ships were idle on the shore. Shunjun demolished some of the ships and turned them into ladders, trenches, towers, etc., leaving three more ships to be turned upside down. The wheel racks were installed below and turned into ships pushed on the land. The thick bottom of the ship was covered with felt and mud, which could resist the arrows and projectiles at the top of the city.
The upside down ship slowly advanced, pushing through the filled moat, and pushing it under the platform under the city. The auxiliary soldiers of the Shun Army in the ship waved various tools and began to dig out the platform under the city wall.
"The thief wants to dig the city wall, throw the turbulent oil tank!" Li Jiaguo shouted anxiously.
The downward ship is invulnerable to swords and guns, and the general cannons that can destroy the ship have been wiped out by the opponent. Now the only way left is fire attack.
The tenants who heard the order picked up the tincture oil tanks at the top of the city and threw them to the bottom of the city. The Shun Army under the city shot at the top of the city with bows and arrows and bird guns. Many tenants just picked up the tincture oil tanks, but before they could smash them out, they were shot and arrows. The tiger squat cannons and Franchises under the city sprayed a burst of shots, and the bullets were scattered at the top of the city, and a large body fell down from the top of the city.
The Shunjun under the city also shot rockets at the top of the city. The rockets hit the turbulent oil tank, and a raging fire lit up on the top of the city. Countless tenants struggled and cried in the fire, and finally fell powerlessly into the sea of fire.
But the people living on the city wall fought to the death. From time to time, tinder oil tanks were smashed down from the city wall and landed on the ground under the city. They smashed and smashed them, and the tinder oil flowed on the ground. Then several rockets were shot at the top of the city wall, and a huge fire suddenly ignited under the city wall.
Dozens of Shun Army auxiliary soldiers were burned and cried and fled out of the bottom of the ship, desperately fleeing back, but were hit on the back by projectile arrows shot from the top of the city, and fell one after another on the roadside or fell into the moat.
One of the upside-down ships was also ignited by tinder oil, and the entire ship ignited a raging fire. Although it was protected by wet felt and soil, the ship was hit by too many tinder oil tanks, and the protective facilities could not stop the fire. In the end, the ship was burned to ashes in the flames.
With the fierce attack of the Shun Army at the city, the defenders at the city were killed and injured, and the counterattack became lower and lower. The turbulent oil tanks at the city were smashed to pieces by shells one after another, and were ignited by rockets. The fire on the front of the city shot into the sky, and the bricks were burned red. Some gunpowder on the corpses of the defenders at the top of the city were also ignited and exploded one after another.
Chapter completed!