Lin, hook, rush, ladder, 堙, ***, sudden, hollow, moth attached, cranium, xuan chariot, trebuchet, gunpowder Li Dingguo had almost exhausted these fourteen siege tactics.
The tall Xiangyang City is still in the hands of the Ming army.
The blood stained the moat red. After a short time, it was carried away by the river. As long as the siege stops, the river will become clear again.
Li Dingguo looked at the pile of corpses in Xiangyang City, took a bite of the steamed bun in his hand, and said to his deputy Zhang Guofeng: "The city is about to be destroyed. After eating, we will continue to attack! Try to get dark We took the city before!"
Zhang Guofeng, whose armor was covered in blood, said: "When I attacked just now, I already felt that the officers and soldiers were about to be overwhelmed. If it hadn't been for that damn King Xiang himself. I was able to break into the city wall just now.
After the city is broken, I must skin and cramp this King Xiang.”
Li Dingguo looked up at the head of Xiangyang City waving in the wind. Prince Xiang raised his flag, looked at the soldiers lying gasping beside him, and whispered: "Get out of the north gate, we will focus on attacking the south gate and the east gate."
"Surrounding three buildings? We have arrived. It’s time, right?”
“In four hours, the king’s army will arrive at Xiangyang City. If we haven’t captured Xiangyang City by then, the consequences will be disastrous.”
p>"King Xiang will lead the people to escape."
"There are a thousand cavalry ten miles away, they can't escape."
"General, Xiangyang City is here On the edge of the Han River, King Xiang may not necessarily take the land route. I think they will probably take the water route. We don't have a boat."
"Do as I say. This time I will attack the city and conquer the country. Feng, raise my battle flag. This time, we will not stop until we break the city!"
"General, use our own troops this time. I'm worried that something will happen if we use Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu's subordinates again! ."
Li Dingguo shook his head and said: "Guofeng, you are wrong. If I rely on my troops to capture Xiangyang, those people will go crazy. Now, with their subordinates charging into the battle, there will definitely be people after Xiangyang falls. This is their contribution.
This will calm their anger." After Li Dingguo finished speaking, a soldier stepped forward to tie his armor and picked up his long sword. Knife, carrying a round shield and shouting to the messenger, the soldiers who were stumbling around stood up one after another. Seeing that Li Dingguo was walking in the front, some people who wanted to scold them closed their mouths and looked at the tall man. Xiangyang City is worried, not knowing whether they will survive after attacking the city this time.
Seeing that the huge Li-character flag had been erected, Li Dingguo turned back to look at the group of soldiers following him and said: "This is the only time for life and death. Enter, the money and food inside, and the women are free." Enjoy it, if you can't get in, just die under the city.
Archers, shoot, Grandpa is about to charge!"
As soon as Li Dingguo finished speaking, the group of archers on the left immediately relaxed. Open the bowstring, and dense arrows will fly towards the city.At the same time, shields had been erected at the top of the city. Hundreds of officers and soldiers, Xiaoqi and other officers also ordered the soldiers to prepare to roll wood, stone, lime and gold juice.
Li Dingguo walked flexibly through the military formation. Although there were always sporadic arrows shooting down from his head, and sometimes he could hear the sound of muskets being fired, there was not an arrow or a lead bullet. Fuck him.
Compared with the ridiculously wide moat, the city wall of Xiangyang City is not a natural moat!
Li Dingguo concluded that the Xiangyang officers and soldiers did not dare to go out of the city to fight, so he used baffles made of countless giant trees to push the battle line to the edge of the moat.
These days, Xiangyang City's artillery guns have been completely consumed by him. The pontoon bridge that was previously erected at great cost is still stable, although part of it was burned by the fierce fire oil of the army. As long as the planks are laid again, you can reach the city wall!
The moat has been paved with wooden planks, and kerosene was pouring down desperately on the top of the city, and the flames that had just been extinguished started to burn again.
Li Dingguo rushed across the moat in two or two steps, raised his round shield high, turned his back to the city wall, and squatted down. A sturdy soldier stepped on his round shield, jumped up, and lay down on the sloping city wall. , climbing up slowly like a gecko.
A ladder was set up at the top of the city. Before the officers and soldiers at the top of the city pushed the ladder down with push rods, Li Dingguo rushed up the ladder, using both hands and feet, to climb up quickly. Halfway up, the ladder finally After being pushed away from the city wall with a push rod by the officers and soldiers, Li Dingguo jumped up and lay down on the city wall, climbing up with his feet on the brick cracks of less than half an inch in the city wall. (Don’t ask why there are cracks in the bricks. The question is that I climbed it myself in Nanhu Hotel in April this year. Although I fell off, I don’t think Li Dingguo will fall off).
The round shield got stuck in the gap, and a stone the size of a human head fell down. The round shield in Li Dingguo’s hand made a crunching sound. The stone bounced on the round shield and then fell. He looked up and saw Seeing that the idiot at the top of the city had his head smashed, Li Dingguo held a long knife in his mouth, dug into the cracks in the bricks with one hand and climbed up another two feet.
The soldiers he had sent up earlier were about to climb to the crenellation, but they were poured over their heads and faces by a pot of boiling golden juice. They let out shrill screams, but their hands were He held on tightly to the cracks in the bricks, refusing to let go even when the hot golden juice flowed into his mouth.
Li Dingguo Gecko generally moved three feet to the left and placed a hand under the foot of the soldier. The soldier, who had been burned crazy, once again used his strength to grab the battlement with one hand.
Four fingers fell from Li Dingguo’s eyes, and the warrior above his head finally had no place to rely on. After being pierced through the throat by a spear, he grabbed the spear with one hand and fell from the top of the city. .
Li Dingguo did not continue to climb up. The round shield was right above his head. Zhang Guofeng drove the archers across the moat. At this time, Li Dingguo needed more powerful support.
Countless fireballs were thrown onto the city by small trebuchets. Thick smoke rose from the city, and the shouts of the officers and soldiers became more urgent. Li Dingguo had already heard the despair from the shouts of these officers and soldiers. mean.
He yelled: "King Xiang has run away, capture King Xiang alive!"
At first he was the only one shouting, followed by those lying on the ladder, those on the city wall, and those standing under the city wall. The soldiers shouted together.
Seeing that two groups of people had climbed to the top of the city, shouting "The city is broken!" Li Dingguo then grabbed a ladder that had not been overthrown by the army and jumped up to the top of the city in three or two steps. .
When he climbed to the top of the city, there were no living officers and soldiers visible on the top of the one-foot-five-foot-wide city. They were quickly descending the city wall along the Wengcheng ramp towards New Taipei City. The door bolted.
Li Dingguo did not go down the city wall, but walked north along the city wall. At this time, the city wall was full of rebels, and everyone had a look of ecstasy on their faces.
The fire on the top of the city is still burning, and the fireballs thrown up will not be extinguished until they are completely burned.
Fortunately, the houses were still some distance away from the city wall, and the fireball did not affect them. However, as the rebels entered the city, many places in the city began to smoke.
When Li Dingguo walked to the new north gate, the city gate here was open. Except for some injured officers and soldiers crawling hard to the outside of the city, there was no resister in sight.
Li Dingguo went down the city wall and saw a wounded soldier trying in vain to climb on the back of a donkey. However, he was hit by an arrow in the waist and could not climb on the donkey's back. He saw Li Dingguo coming over with a knife. He knelt down and shouted: "Grandpa, please spare my life."
Li Dingguo sniffed, raised his hand to grab the wounded soldier's belt, lifted him onto the donkey's back, and slapped the donkey's butt. Said: "Whether you can survive depends on your luck!"
The donkey ran away quickly. Li Dingguo found a shabby chair, sat on it and watched the wounded soldiers crawl out one by one. city gate.
The stone road seemed to have been washed with blood, attracting countless flies to land on the road.
When the soldiers arrived, Li Dingguo had already been sitting here for a cup of tea. The wounded soldiers who could climb out of the city gate had already climbed out, and the wounded soldiers who could not climb out had to accept their fate.
Seeing these wounded soldiers who could not crawl away being hacked to death by his own soldiers one by one, Li Dingguo did not stop him.
When you go to the battlefield, you are lucky to be alive, and you have the wind to die!
The soldiers did not pursue the wounded soldiers who escaped from the city, but closed the new north gate and waited for Li Dingguo's order.
"Go on, those who should make a fortune, go and do what they should do. I will sit here for a while."
Li Dingguo took out a delicate silver coin from his arms. He picked up the jug, took a sip of wine, and continued to sit on the broken chair. At this moment, he had no sense of glory in defeating the city, he just felt bored!
After all, he had already captured this city more than a year ago.