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Part 2 Seeing the Dragon in the Field Chapter 812 Luoyang Attack and Defense (Part 2)

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    "Target: City Head, Release!"

    The two armies of the Yue Kingdom were extremely sophisticated in their tactical movements, and they quickly reached the attack position. However, upon hearing the order from Li Su, who was in charge of covering, dozens of trebuchets and large ballistae that had been prepared were launched one after another, and huge stone volleys were launched.  Bullets and thick iron arrows roared across the sky, hitting the city head like a bolt from the blue.

    "Target: Enemy trebuchet position, release!"

    Of course, not only the King of Yue's army had trebuchets, but also the garrison at the top of the city. Not only did they exist, but there were a lot of them. Not to mention anything else, when the Hexi army was still weak, it relied on these tricks that were regarded as strange/obscene tricks by the authentic Confucian disciples.  The mechanical device of the Hexi Army defeated the powerful Tubo army. Although artillery came out later and replaced the heavy and inefficient trebuchet, the Hexi Army's ability to build trebuchets was still there. All the guards of the East Palace were  The Hexi Army is old. After several days of preparations, it has already built a lot of large trebuchets. How could it be possible to sit back and watch the Yue King's army show off its power indiscriminately? Almost at the same time that Li Su, the leader of the Yue King's army, gave the shooting order,  The new captain Fang Xiaoshan, who was responsible for commanding the trebuchet position operations, also roared and issued the shooting order. In an instant, various types of trebuchets arranged on the top of the city and in the urn behind the city wall started to move. More than 150 trebuchets were fired.  A huge stone bomb roared out, covering the sky and hitting the trebuchet position of the Yue King Army. The sound was obviously several times more powerful than that of the Yue King Army.

    ¡°Boom, boom¡­¡±

    Two dark clouds composed of stone bullets crossed in the sky. Several stone bullets collided hard and exploded into a rain of gravel in the sky. However, most of the stone bullets were unimpeded and rushed towards the direction quickly.  They hit their respective targets, and in an instant there was a burst of miserable howling sounds above and below the city. The rubble was splashed everywhere, and flesh and blood flew everywhere. The situation was really horrifying.

    "Put it on, let it go again!"

    Although the large trebuchets built by the Yue King's army were quite powerful, they were not only smaller in number than the defenders, but also had a shorter range. They could only barely bombard the defenders on the city wall. For the large trebuchets huddled behind the urn city  There was nothing they could do about the trebuchet. Moreover, the defenders had already adjusted their shooting standards, and their accuracy was much better than that of the Yue Wang Army. After the first round of the battle between the two sides, the defenders only had one shot.  One trebuchet was completely destroyed and two were scratched, but it did not affect the battle. On the other hand, the Yue Wang Army was in bad luck. Not only four trebuchets were destroyed, there were still many who stayed at the starting position.  The soldiers were affected by the defenders' artillery fire, and more than two hundred of them were killed or injured in vain. When this happened, Li Su was so angry that his nose almost twisted. He yelled and ordered the guards to suppress the panicked trebuchet position.  The officers and soldiers.

    "River-filling truck, get on!"

    Throwing, and then throwing, after several rounds of trebuchets from both sides, the Yue King's army was completely at a disadvantage. Not only did they fail to achieve the goal of suppressing the defenders at the city head, but they were beaten to a miserable state by the defenders. They were suppressed before their eyes.  There was no hope. Gan Zhuangwu, who was responsible for the first round of charging into the city, was impatient and didn't want to wait any longer. He gave the order to attack with a dark face!

    "Dong dong"

    As soon as the general gave the order, the drums in the front line of the Yue King's army started to beat loudly. Under the pressure of the supervising team, more than two thousand people had to push the heavy river-filling truck forward. At the same time, two groups of one thousand each  The five hundred cavalry also began to press forward slowly, apparently intending to use cavalry shooting to cover the offensive of their own river-filling troops.

    ??Mediocre, nothing outstanding!

    Although the siege battle had just begun, Li Xian, who had clearly seen Li Zhen's formation, was not only not nervous, but actually relaxed. For no other reason than that Li Xian understood Li Zhen's entire strategic thinking.  It seems that they just rely on their superiority in military strength to launch wave after wave of strong attacks. Although it is not wrong, there is nothing surprising and magical about it. It seems that even if these offensives are stronger, the defenders can easily  After dealing with it, it was obvious that Li Xian's guess before the war was indeed correct. Li Zhen was really just a rookie who had never been in a battle. He only knew how to copy the regulations. It was really impossible to win against such an opponent.  There was too much pressure. In view of this, Li Xian didn't bother to think too much and simply handed over the command authority to Zhang Mingwu. He just stood silently at the city gate tower and watched the battle at leisure.

    "Stand up your shield!"

    Zhang Mingwu became famous because of his defense. In Hexi, with less than 2,000 troops, he blocked the attack of tens of thousands of Tibetan troops and defended the small town of Panhan, thus buying precious time for Li Xian to mobilize various troops.  , when he saw the cavalry of the King of Yue Army attacking, he immediately guessed the plan of the King of Yue Army, snorted disdainfully, waved his hand, and gave the order loudly.

    "Shoot the arrow, shoot the arrow!"

    The two cavalrymen of the Yue King rushed very fast, and within a short time they were already on the edge of the moat. However, two loud roars were heard from the cavalry formation. The two cavalrymen were going back and forth, constantly spraying arrows towards the top of the city. The momentum was quite overwhelming.  Not small, but helplessThe defender's shield formation, apart from making the shield formation crackle with fire, had no commendable results. It just seemed to suppress the defenders, creating a great opportunity for the smooth advancement of our own river-filling truck troops.  fighter plane.

    "They say Li Xian is good at fighting as a child, but it doesn't matter if you look at him alone. Hey, it's just a deserved reputation!"

    Seeing that his own river-filling troops were progressing smoothly and were already close to the moat, but the defenders had no chance of counterattack. Li Zhen, who immediately rushed to the center of the army, couldn't help but feel very proud. He stroked his long beard on his chest with a smile and shook his head.  Li Xian was disparaged.

    "Father, Shengming, that kid just won a few battles by luck. He has mediocre abilities. How can he defeat the power of my army of more than 100,000 people? The city is just around the corner!"

    "Your Majesty said it well, we will be able to break into the city today. This is a big event in life!"

    "That's true. After entering the city, I'll wait until I'm drunk!"

    ¡­¡­

    Seeing that Li Zhen was so happy, Li Chong and many other generals surrounding him were so happy to praise her. But Chen Wushuang couldn't be happy anymore. He opened his mouth with a sad expression, as if he wanted to say something, but at the end of the day  , still did not say that he would come out, not for anything else, just because since the war started, Li Zhen seemed to be a different person, very headstrong, and could not listen to anyone else's words. For this reason, Chen Wushuang touched her one after another.  After several times, he no longer dared to persuade, and could only look at the city head full of worry.

    "shoot!"

    Li Zhen was obviously happy too early. How could Zhang Mingwu be an incompetent person? He had long taken advantage of the shield formation to quietly lay a trap until the Yue King's river-filling troops approached the moat.  But after Zhang Mingwu roared, a gap suddenly opened in the originally tight shield array, revealing two hundred and fifty Dong Palace guards who were densely arrayed. They aimed at the Yue Wang Army's river-filling troops like a forest of serial crossbows.  It's a wild shot.

    "Whizzing¡­¡­"

    The serial crossbows in the hands of the East Palace guards fired ten steel arrows at a time. Under such intensive shooting, 2,500 steel arrows shot like dark clouds into the unprepared formation of the Yue King's army filling the river. In an instant,  Then he shot the Minzhuang who was pushing the cart at hundreds of people. The remaining people were so frightened that they dared not stand still. They all fled back in panic. No matter how many times the supervising team killed, beat and scolded them, they did not dare to stop.  Turning back to push the cart, at this point, the Yue Wang Army's first wave of offensive had not yet started, but it had been forced to a halt.

    "Trash, tell Gan Zhuangwu, don't be afraid of losing your troops, go ahead and fill in the moat!"

    Li Zhenzheng was smiling proudly. When he suddenly saw that his river-filling troops came back defeated like this, his face immediately turned ugly. He waved his hand coldly and gave the death order bitterly.

    Attack, attack again!  Since Li Zhen had given the death order, Gan Zhuangwu did not dare to neglect it. After ordering to kill a dozen Minzhuang who had escaped the fastest, he ordered the supervising team to come forward with swords and escorted the river filling troops to charge forward again.  As they went forward, they were, as expected, ransacked by a hail of arrows from the defenders. Even if the two cavalry units they sent tried their best to suppress it, they could not withstand the dense rain of arrows from the city head. With heavy casualties, the offensive was forced again.  After a pause, Gan Zhuangwu, who was just furious, refused to give up. He simply sent a thousand shield swordsmen and archers each to cover the progress of the river filling troops together with the cavalry, but they were again attacked by trebuchets from the city head.  After a fierce greeting and losing most of their troops, they finally built dozens of earth embankments on the moat at the cost of human lives, opening a way for the ladder troops to approach the city wall.

    "Army attack!"

    Seeing that the embankment on the moat was completed, Gan Zhuangwu could not care less about his own heavy losses. He pulled out the horizontal knife from his waist, slashed forward with all his strength, and shouted the order to attack, but he heard a burst of passionate drums.  Amidst the sudden loud noise, three thousand infantrymen escorted ten siege ladders and more than twenty ladders and rushed towards the moat.

    ¡°Every battle position is ready, target: enemy siege brigade, release!¡±

    The defenders' trebuchets had already defeated the stubborn resistance of the Yue King's trebuchet troops. Although they paid a high price, nearly a hundred trebuchets of various types were still intact. At this time, when Gan Zhuangwu's troops saw Gan Zhuangwu's troops, they began to  After a strong attack, Fang Xiaoshan did not dare to be careless. He roared and gave the order to counterattack. However, when he heard the loud sound of the machine's springs, a dense burst of stone bullets rose into the sky again and unceremoniously smashed into the running people.  The Yue King's army brigade, more than a hundred infantry were immediately smashed into mud by huge stone bullets, but the rest lowered their heads and rushed forward regardless, and soon swarmed along the moat embankment to the bottom of the city. First, a  A ladder stood upright and climbed over to the top of the city with force. At the same time, ten extremely heavy siege ladders were also driven by Minzhuang and slowly drove to a place not far from the moat. The most tragic scene  The offensive and defensive battle has come to a point where the knife sees red
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