Turbulent Times Chapter 1523: Psychological warfare
On the other side, Li Yuan had already adjusted his tactics immediately.
He ordered the remaining catapults to be scattered on the four walls and hit the Chang'an tower from different angles.
Finally, he drew out the horizontal knife from his waist again, pointed at the head of Chang'an City, and shouted loudly: "The order goes on, the first person to climb the city will be promoted to the third rank, and the land will be rewarded with a thousand mu of land, and ten thousand taels of silver!"
"Woo-woo-woo-woo!" The sound of horns was endless, the so-called great reward must have a brave man, and Li Yuan's great reward ignited the blood of all the Li family soldiers.
Fifteen teams of infantry pushing ladders on each of the four walls suddenly accelerated, bypassing their own shieldmen and archers, and heading straight for the walls of Chang'an.
In an instant, sixty ladders reached the top of the city. The pusher quickly pulled the mechanism under the carriage, and firmly nailed the ladder, box seat and city wall together.
Li Yuan's captain, Liu Yonggang, is a well-known brave general of the Li family army. At this time, he is leading the soldiers, with a dagger in his mouth, holding a shield in one hand, and the other hand and feet alternately. Climb away.
The siege equipment imitated by craftsmen dug by Li Shimin from Yancheng, Fanyang County of the Far East Army attacked Chang'an City from all directions, or crashed into the gate of Chang'an City.
However, all of these were immediately destroyed with a series of explosions, and the long-range equipment and the attack on the city gate were directly paralyzed.
But grenades are limited after all, it is impossible to abuse them at will, and the number of people who use grenades is also limited, so the generals of the Li family army who climbed the ladder have not used grenades.
"Go up, kill up, take the gold and silver in the city as you like!" Li Yuan immediately saw that he could only rely on climbing ladders to attack the city at this time, he called a soldier, and the soldier rushed forward on horseback He yelled something in his throat, which immediately caused thunderous cheers.
All the ladders were filled with people in an instant, and sixty black lines like ants moving house on the four walls moved side by side. Arrows rained down on the city wall, constantly shooting down climbers.
The following Li Jiajun warriors immediately filled the space left by the fallen, turning a deaf ear to the feathered arrows and stones that were close at hand. A pot of boiling water poured down a dozen brothers on the ladder on the far left, and the archers in charge of covering immediately launched a counterattack.
The defender on the top of the city was hit by an arrow, screamed and fell, and rushed to the ground at the same time as the wounded on the ladder. The cold earth accepts them with open arms, no matter who is in Guanzhong or Hexi.
The morale of the defending army has dropped sharply a few days ago. Although the morale has been greatly improved by the appearance of the grenade just now, their overall combat power is still weaker than that of the Li family army outside the city.
So, after paying the price of nearly a hundred lives of his subordinates, Li Yuan's fierce general Liu Yonggang led a team of elite soldiers to climb to the top of the city first.
"Kill!" He threw the shield full of feathered arrows towards the top of the city, knocking down two defenders who were trying to approach him.
Then, he jumped up vigorously with both feet, and landed on the city wall like a kite from mid-air.
However, before he could get a firm foothold, two long spears immediately pushed over, one from the left and the other from the right.
Liu Yong just dodged one of them, and slammed the blade of the other with one arm, risking his arm being cut off, and pulled the blade away from his lower abdomen.
At the moment when the enemy was stunned for a moment, he quickly took the horizontal knife from his mouth with his right hand, and pushed it against the pole. Push your feet together and run forward at a fast pace. Four fingers were neatly cut off, Liu Yonggang stopped suddenly, swiped the knife with one hand, and grabbed the lance that was about to fall with the other hand, twisting himself quickly.
A series of screams followed his movements. Two city defenders were thrown to the ground by the sweeping spears, and the other guarded his severed finger, jumping in pain. Liu Yonggang quickly wiped a knife on his neck, ending his pain.
"Liu Duwei is going up, Liu Duwei is going up!" Li's soldiers shouted like crazy, jumping onto the top of the wall one by one. Well-trained, they immediately formed a small formation, relying on their own robes, and constantly expanded the breakthrough.
However, at this moment, a group of soldiers with different equipment from the other defenders ran over and fired a few volleys of fast crossbows in their hands, killing nearly half of Liu Yonggang's group, and then passed a grenade, Most of the Li Jiajun led by Liu Yonggang who were piled up were killed at the top of the city, and the rest were all shot to death by other defenders.
Liu Yong had just been injured by a grenade, and in the end he insisted on repelling the defenders who besieged him with high-strength martial arts, and jumped off the top of the city. .
On the other side of the city wall, a wave of elite soldiers organized by Hou Junji also attacked the top of the city, and the attention of the defenders was quickly attracted by the breach. A large number of defenders shouted and ran towards here.
"Hedong people will massacre the city!" The people on the top of the city with grenades suddenly spread rumors loudly, which suddenly ignited the hatred and determination in the eyes of the defenders.
"The ancestral graves of Li Yuan's family were taken up by us, and he entered the city. No one in the family, old or young, can survive." Yin Shishi flashed his eyes, shouted loudly, and asked his soldiers to quickly pass on his words. All over the city.
When the defenders staying in Chang'an heard this, they felt that they had nowhere to go and surrender was impossible, so with red eyes, they howled and started a life-and-death fight with the soldiers of the Li family army who were besieging the city.
At this time, Hou Junji was in charge of leading the team to attack the city. He was standing among the soldiers under his command, and he was pushed by the backward flow of people, retreating steadily.
"Hold on, hold on, we can't go down!" He yelled, reminding the brothers that this is a city wall and there is no retreat.
But the effect is extremely limited. The two Paoze who stood at the outermost edge had just killed their opponents when they were pierced by the spears that charged straight over.
A brigade commander following them swung his sword one after another, beheading several armored enemy soldiers. However, he was accidentally hugged by the wounded soldier who was already lying on the ground waiting to die, unable to move his thighs, and then he was chopped into a pulp by the chaotic blades that followed.
A group of defenders held torches and rushed to the ladder with boiling oil, poured it on their heads first, and scalded the Li family soldiers who were trying to climb the top of the wall for reinforcements.
Following that, the torch was thrown down quickly, and the red snake flew on the ladder, turning into a flaming dragon that could not be climbed.
Another team of defenders rushed forward despite the rain of arrows, and threw spears at the climbers, smashing the surging ant colony into two pieces.
All kinds of sharp weapons, such as crossbow arrows, nail rackets, and iron rakes, began to concentrate near the breakthrough. The Li family army who attacked the city immediately received less and less support, and the pressure they endured increased. Their horizontal knives had long been broken, and the long lance in their hands was chopped into two pieces by the enemy with an axe.
A defender stabbed at him with a spear, and the general of the Li family army held the barrel of the gun with one hand, and stabbed the half of the spear in the other hand straight to the opponent's throat. The defender fell down screaming and screaming, but refused to let go of the wooden gun with both hands. General Li Jiajun grabbed it back forcefully, just as his arm was bent back in front of him, a huge wooden stake was pushed straight to his chest.
"Ah——" this name that can't be avoided
The general took a few steps back, vomiting blood profusely. The wooden stake held by more than a dozen defenders hit the front again, and the soldiers who tried to rescue him were knocked cleanly into the air.
The second and third stakes whizzed over, shattered the shield, knocked the horizontal knife flying, and knocked down the Li family soldiers who rushed to the top of the wall like dust. Soon, that section of the city wall was recovered by the Sui army. The general's head and his general's flag were picked out of the battlements together, dripping with blood.
"Damn Master Yin, I will definitely kill your whole family!" Li Yuan was watching the battle from the back of the city, holding a telescope in his hand, which Li Shimin bought for him. .
Li Yuan roared angrily, and organized a manpower attack again. If the enemy's reaction was a little slower just now, they might break the city. But seeing the duck he got flew away, and caught up with several of his confidants and favorite generals.
But Li Yuan thought again in a blink of an eye, just now the defenders rarely used gunpowder weapons in the battle for the top of the city, if it really came to the most critical moment, the defenders would definitely use gunpowder weapons.
Thinking of this, Li Yuan's heart sank again.
With the grenade inactive, Feather Arrow once again became the protagonist on the offensive and defensive battlefield.
In the upper and lower parts of the city, human blood gathers in one place, winding like a stream.
As if afraid that everyone could not see clearly, a gust of morning wind blew past, quickly blowing away the thick smoke covering everyone's heads. The cold sunlight instantly illuminates thousands of corpses and thousands of pairs of eyes.
Yin Shishi, who commanded and organized the defense, saw that there was hope for the defense of the city, and the last fear in his heart dissipated.
A Taiyuan soldier climbing up the ladder had just exposed half of his head when Master Yin slashed down the city wall. Another climber tried to hit his knee with a shield, and Master Yin raised his boots and kicked him, sending the shield and the shield bearer into the air.
The third fearless enemy appeared at his feet, with a horizontal knife in his mouth, and hooked the battlement with one hand. Yin Shishi raised his knife and chopped it down, but the attacker behind him held the knife with an iron fork. Before he could change his moves, the man with the knife in his mouth had already rolled onto the top of the wall, clenched his palms into fists, and hit his **** directly.
Despicable and shameless!
Master Yin Shi didn't have time to dodge, so he had to bend down as hard as he could, removing half of the force hitting his lower body. Even so, he was still too painful to speak.
As soon as the enemy soldier succeeded in the blow, he immediately took the knife from his mouth and wiped it at Yin Shishi's neck. At this moment, a soldier of the Yin Shishi rushed forward, hugged the brave Li family soldier, and jumped off the wall together.
"Kill...the one surnamed Li entered the city, no one can survive!" A hoarse voice sounded from behind Yin Shishi, which surprised him.
Yin Shishi endured the severe pain and turned back quickly, and saw Huang Wuwu, the staff member who advised him on digging the grave of the Li family ancestor, was holding a knife and leading several masters to charge back and forth, unstoppable.
You must know that Huang Wuhan has always been a literati, but now he has become a master.
Master Yin smiled wryly, without saying anything, and with the help of his own soldiers, he retreated to the back.
"Kill, the old thief Li Yuan is going to massacre the city!" Shishi Yin repeated the rumor loudly again. And let the soldiers keep shouting this sentence loudly.
PS: Today's third update has more than 3,000 words, and today's update is nearly 12,000 words. Once again, I wish everyone a hundred poisons—————