Chapter 172 Battle of Quanzhou III
A total of three tall enemy buildings, namely corner buildings, were built near Linzhang Gate in Quanzhou. The function of the enemy building is to look out and shoot.
In addition, between the trenches and the city wall, there is a Sheep and Horse Wall. As the second line of defense for Quanzhou City, the Quanzhou City Wall, and behind the exterior wall, there are interior walls, a total of four lines of defense.
Outside the trench, there are dense caltrops, horse-repellent and other objects.
In addition to the slightly short walls of Quanzhou City, the city defense can be said to be relatively strong. It is not because Quanzhou was caught off guard by the attack on the city by the bandits this time, Quanzhou City is also more solid.
In order to capture the city of Quanzhou, the East China Sea bandits pushed dozens of simple trench cars up and pushed them to the moat.
The so-called trench car, also known as trench car, uses vertical bridge panels as defense, so personnel can avoid being attacked by arrows and stones when pushing trench car.
When the trench cart is pushed to the moat, the soil and stones are loaded into the trench to fill the moat, and then either set up a ladder to grab the city, or use a siege hammer to break open the city gate.
The Thousand Mile Dike collapses into an ant hole. As long as there is a flaw in one place and one place is broken, the entire Quanzhou city will be broken.
"Retaliation!" Yao Yu waited until the trench cart pushed to the moat, and waited for the East China Sea pirates to start filling the moat. He waved the flag in his hand and issued an order to attack.
At this moment, in order to fill the moat, the thieves were in chaos before the moat, and the trench cars revealed flaws. At the same time, this place was the best range for various city defense weapons in Song Dynasty.
With Yao Yu's order, the Song army, who had been depressed for a long time, poured stones, poisonous fireballs, crossbow arrows, javelins, etc. into the trench chariots pushed up by the thieves like rain.
The so-called poisonous fire ball is to mix the black medicine ball with low amount of nitrate and good combustion performance into a ball, and mix it with toxic or smoked objects, wrap it with paper or hemp, and apply pine resin to prevent moisture and aid combustion.
What makes the poisonous fireball scary is not the lethality of its fireball, but also the thick smoke generated by the burning of the poisonous fireball. The thick smoke can choke people to death and poison them to death.
Looking down at the entire Quanzhou city from mid-air, the poisonous fire ball fired by the Song army's catapult cart crossed the sky and smashed into the trench cart with long tail flames. Wherever the poisonous fire ball hit, a raging fire ignited, and thick yellow smoke appeared.
The huge rocks thrown by the catapult cart swayed and fell from mid-air, smashing the trench cars into pieces. After the trench cars were broken, the pirates hiding behind the trench were exposed to poison smoke and Song army crossbows.
The pirate was infected with poisonous smoke, or lay on the ground and foamed at the mouth, only inhaling and not venting, or kneeling on the ground, vomiting constantly, wishing to vomit all his internal organs.
In fact, the poisonous fireball thrown by the Song army and the poisonous smoke emitted are not the most deadly, or the lethality is the greatest. After all, the poisonous fireball and the poisonous smoke emitted are affected by factors such as wind direction and terrain. Once the wind direction changes, the Song army will not dare to throw the poisonous fireball anymore. If the wind direction blows towards oneself and throws the poisonous fireball, wouldn’t it poison itself? At the same time, the effect of poisonous smoke in the wilderness is extremely limited.
The most lethal and deadliest one is the Song army's crossbow.
At this moment, countless Song army crossbowmen stood up from above the city wall and shot rows of feather arrows at the pirates. The feather arrows like rain covered the sky and the sun. At this moment, the sun seemed to be much dimmed.
The rain of arrows emitted a wave of waves
The terrifying "whip" sound was overwhelming, and the attacking pirates were shot at the attacking pirates, and before the moat was shot, the pirates either fell into the moat, or fell on the edge of the river, with feather arrows inserted into the body, their stomachs were broken, and blood was flowing everywhere, almost dyeing the moat red.
The corpses are everywhere, and blood flows into a river!
The dense feather arrows were either inserted into people or on the ground. The entire moat was like rice fields before, making the hair numb.
Most of the pirates who attacked were shot and killed. Yu Ji was so desperate that he ran back to his camp, leaving behind burning trenches and incomplete corpses.
The Song army began to fight back, but also exposed the Song army's defense position, so they began to attack with a catapult.
The enemy building is the most "careful" by the opponent. The reason is that the Song army above the enemy building can not only observe the enemy's movements, but also shoot and kill the enemy from a high point.
So the stones thrown by the pirate's catapult flew towards the Song army's enemy tower like raindrops.
One of the enemy towers collapsed like a piece of tofu under the violent impact of stones. The bricks and wooden beams fell on the city wall like rain. On the city wall, the Song army hid, and they could not escape and were buried in the bricks and tiles, suffocating to death. The crossbowmen above the enemy tower also screamed and fell from the building and fell into meat mud.
However, Yao Yu and others were prepared for a long time. They had already put countless sandbags under the destroyed enemy building. After the enemy building was destroyed, they immediately built up one sandbag tower after another higher than the city wall. The crossbowman could lie on it and continue firing feather arrows.
At this moment, the battle between the Song army and the pirates had entered a white heat. The two sides fired their targets together, and countless large stones covered the sky and the sun, carrying huge kinetic energy and potential energy, flew into the air and whistled. When they fell down, they made loud noises.
"Get the bow and arrow!" Li Sanjian, who stood on the city wall, could not always stand like a door god, right? So he ordered his subordinates.
Everyone was skeptical and found Li Sanjian’s deputy treasure bow.
The top scholar wants to do it himself? Everyone thought to themselves.
In fact, Li Sanjian was able to stand on the front line of the battle from beginning to end and be with the soldiers. This was enough. Everyone did not expect Li Sanjian to fight in person.
Li Sanjian took the bow and arrow, glanced left and right, bent his bow and arrow, pulled it for a full month, then let go of his right finger, and with a "swoosh", a feather arrow flew to the city and hit a bandit with one arrow.
Li Sanjian has been exposed to the world's most fierce murderous weapon, bow and arrow, since he was over 10 years old. I dare not say how exquisite Li Sanjian's archery skills are, but he is still skilled in pulling the bow and shooting arrows. He doesn't need to be very accurate at this moment. As long as he has great power, he can shoot the arrows, and as long as he can shoot the arrows into the dense crowds under the city.
The chief officials of a state, the top scholar of the Song Dynasty, and a scholar of Wen Zou Zou all fought in person, which immediately boosted the morale of the Song army and cheered up their spirits to fight against the enemy.
At this moment, there were bursts of shouts of killing coming from the city of Quanzhou. The two sides were entangled, and no one was willing to take a step back. They were fighting to the death, but they were hard to distinguish.
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Quanzhou Zimao Mountain
"Roar, rush up!"
"Song army has few soldiers, we just need to rush up the hillside,
You can take down Zimao Mountain."
"Attacking Zimao Mountain, the king will have a great reward and kill!"
Li Sanjian's confidant Shankui led 500 troops to station in Zimao Mountain, showing a horn with Quanzhou City.
Although there were not many Song troops in Zimao Mountain, they were stuck on the throat of the pirates like a bone, making the pirates feel like they were stuck in the throat.
With the Song army in Zimao Mountain, the pirates could not attack Quanzhou city with all their strength. At the same time, they had to distribute some of their troops to strictly prevent the troops in Zimao Mountain from supporting Quanzhou city.
The fierce battle was in full swing. The Song army in Zimao Mountain rushed from the side to the back. Wouldn't it be a two-sided attack? Not to mention the attack on Quanzhou City, it is possible to even lose.
Therefore, if you want to seize the city of Quanzhou, you must first capture Zimao Mountain.
Fei Jingyang, a senator of the Haipi Army of Tongpan Mountain, was resourceful and knowledgeable. Since he used troops to attack Quanzhou City, he discovered the key here. Therefore, he ordered people to capture Zimao Mountain and threw strict orders, and at all costs he could seize Zimao Mountain.
At this time, thousands of pirates attacked Zimao Mountain, but what is frustrating is that it suddenly started to rain heavily in the sky, and the heavy rain poured down, making the mountain road extremely muddy. Not to mention attacking Zimao Mountain, it becomes extremely difficult to even go up the mountain.
Fortunately, when the pirates went up the mountain, they did not encounter any resistance from the Song army, and they did not even see a single Song army figure. The thieves were all excited and thought that the Song army in Zimao Mountain had fled in fear of war.
Only a few pirates were nervous and it was hard to guess what would happen.
"Boom." With a loud bang, just as the pirates were about to rush to Zimao Mountain, the soil and rocks in front of the hillside suddenly collapsed, forming a large crack about a width of about a meter. The crack was covered with thorns and sharpened wooden stakes. Hundreds of pirates could not hold back and fell into the pit, and hundreds of people suddenly turned out of the hillside. Hundreds of people were carrying boiled manure and pouring soup into the pit. Hundreds of people pushed huge rocks into the pit, and hundreds of people bent their bows and arrows at the pirates.
"Ah...ah..."
"Not good, there is an ambush!"
Screams and angrily shouts came one after another. The thief army that fell into the crack immediately fell into the trap of death and struggled in the deep pit. Some were hung on sharpened wooden stakes and cried and twisted in pain. Some were climbing up desperately regardless of the scalded skin on their bodies, but were shot down by a huge rock.
"Counterattack, counterattack!"
"Fill in the tunnel and rush up!"
Thousands of pirates were all bandits. Although hundreds of people were killed and injured, they were not afraid of death. While organizing troops to fight back, they filled the deep pit with wooden boards and earth and stones.
The two sides were entangled around the deep pit. After a long battle, the Song army was short of people and did not want to entangle with the enemy here, so they roared the gong and retreated to a mountain pass.
The mountain pass here is the last dangerous place in Zimao Mountain. There are steep walls and cliffs on both sides, and there is no other road to walk.
After the Song army retreated here, they never retreated again, holding swords, shields, bows and crossbows and other weapons, quietly waiting for the bandits.
"If you take a step back, you will kill me!" A powerful general of the Song army put on his armor and covered his ugly face, and ordered loudly.
The face armor is a terrifying bronze mask.
Before the Song army array, hundreds of warriors dressed exactly the same, all of whom were short armor, short swords, black shields, and black cloaks.
Chapter completed!