Volume 10 Chapter 142
The direct army entered Xishankou and advanced very smoothly without any resistance from any soldier. Tang Yin was also very ambitious and said to the generals around him: "Today, our army will break through Fengyang City and take over the entire Xishan County within ten days. Although Xishan County was not our target in advance, it is a major grain-producing county in Mo State. Since we have chased the enemy here, we will take it down. In the future, it can also provide a lot of food and grass for our army!"
"Haha——" All the generals laughed and echoed: "The king is wise!"
"The king overestimated the Mo army! It will take ten days to take over this county. My Dafeng soldiers will easily take over this county and capture the bandit leader in just a few steps!"
"Haha!" The bold words of the wind general drew another round of laughter.
At this time, a wind soldier came to report that Shao Jun wanted to see him. Tang Yin was just slightly stunned, and snorted and laughed: "The war is imminent, why does this rat want to see me? No!" After speaking, he looked around at the generals and asked: "Which general is willing to take the lead and seize Fengyang?"
"My king, I am willing to be the vanguard!" With a loud shout, Zhan Hu came out with a hammer and volunteered to fight.
Before Tang Yin could speak, Li Sheng stepped forward and said: "Why use a butcher knife to kill a chicken? General Zhan Hu is a general of our army. It is enough for me to go to the small city of Fengyang!"
Tang Yin smiled leisurely, nodded at Li Sheng, and said to Zhan Hu: "Zhan Hu, you should follow me to hold the line. Let Li Sheng fight the first battle!"
Li Sheng is a young general selected by Tang Yin when he issued a military order. Compared with the successful Zhan Hu, he needs more military exploits to prove his value in the army.
Zhan Hu was not a fool, and since Tang Yin had already said so, he could not force it, so he intervened and said, "I obey your order!"
Tang Yin sent 20,000 soldiers to Li Sheng as his vanguard to attack Fengyang first.
In the eyes of Tang Yin and the Feng generals, the Mo army had been scared out of their wits. There were so many fortresses and checkpoints in Xishankou that they were not even defended, and the defense of Fengyang City was not that strong. Although they could not say that they could capture it by just walking through it, it would definitely be no problem to take it easily.
But when the Feng army approached Fengyang, they were all dumbfounded.
Fengyang was built in Xishankou, with mountains on both sides and a city in the middle. The city wall was as high as ten meters. This was not a big deal. The most terrible thing was that the canyon in Xishankou was not straight, but winding. There was a big bend about a hundred steps in front of Fengyang City. In other words, the catapults and crossbows of the Feng Army could not directly attack Fengyang City. If they wanted to attack Fengyang's city defense, they had to cross this bend and get within a hundred steps of the city. In addition, Fengyang was built on a gentle slope. Although the slope was not steep, it would more or less cause some resistance to the attackers.
After seeing the terrain of Fengyang, Li Sheng, as a pioneer, couldn't help but take a breath. What a city that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and was blessed by nature. The danger of this city was even higher than Tongmen and Baguan!
Seeing Li Sheng's solemn expression, the two corps commanders who came with him asked, "General Li, Fengyang is dangerous, shall we fight?"
Li Sheng came back to his senses, glared at the two men, and said, "Even if Fengyang is a dangerous place, we must take it today!" After a pause, he shouted, "Send the message to my commander, the whole army will attack the city!"
Dong, dong, dongdong, dongdongdong--With Li Sheng's order, the drums in the Feng Army camp sounded loudly. In the valley, the drums became extremely loud and the echoes lasted for a long time. At the same time as the drums sounded, the two corps of the Feng Army slowly walked out from behind the bend and advanced straight to Fengyang City in front.
The range of the bow and arrow is 100 steps, and as the side relying on the city for defense, because of the advantage of height, the range is farther. It can be said that the Feng Army has entered the range of Fengyang as soon as it turned the corner and showed its head. However, the forward movement of the Feng army did not attract the arrows of the Mo army. Looking at the top of Fengyang City, only flags were seen, but no shadow of the Mo army could be seen.
Li Sheng, who was advancing with the army, was confused and could not figure out what was going on. Logically, the arrows of the Mo army should have started long ago, but why was there no movement, and even no ghost could be seen. Could it be that the Mo army in the city knew that they were no match for the enemy and had abandoned the city and fled? If so, his work as a vanguard officer was too boring.
He was thinking in his heart, and before he knew it, the Feng army in the front was fifty steps away from Fengyang.
At this moment, people suddenly heard a dull buzzing sound coming from above their heads. The soldiers of the Feng army subconsciously looked up and saw a huge black shadow flying down from the sky. Before people could figure out what it was, the huge black shadow had already pressed down on the Feng army camp. A muffled rumble was heard in the earlobes. The three Feng soldiers who were hit by the black shadow did not make a sound. They turned into meat patties on the spot, and blood spurted out. It was not until this time that people could see clearly that it was a round boulder that fell from the sky.
The boulder did not stop after it fell. With the inertia of falling and the gentle slope outside Fengyang City, the boulder continued to roll forward. The Feng Army soldiers standing in front of the boulder just wanted to dodge, but it was too late. The boulder ruthlessly rolled over their bodies. For a while, the screams and exclamations of the Feng Army were connected.
This was just the beginning. With a series of buzzing sounds, Fengyang City continued to take off round boulders, flying over the city wall and smashing towards the Feng Army camp fiercely. This was not all. There were whistles on the top of Fengyang City. Countless Mo soldiers stood up behind the arrow stacks and aimed at the outside of the city, firing arrows at the same time.
In just an instant, the Feng Army camps of the two regiments were thrown into chaos. Huge boulders falling from the sky blossomed everywhere in the Feng Army camp, crushing the Feng Army soldiers mercilessly. People managed to avoid the rolling rocks. The boulder was hit by dense arrows again.
The soldiers of the Feng Army fell to the ground in groups. There were corpses shot into hedgehogs and broken limbs that were crushed to pieces throughout the camp. People's wailings and screams came one after another. The condition was too horrible to see. .
Oops! Mo Jun did not abandon the city, but was well prepared for his own attack! Li Sheng was on horseback, firing arrows to avoid falling rocks, and at the same time issued an order: "The whole army forms an array and fire arrows back! Let the rear army bring up all the trebuchets and city-breaking crossbows, and smash Fengyang's city defense for me." !”
It was easy for him to say it, but where could the Feng army form an array at this time?
The boulders thrown out from Fengyang City are the biggest threat to the Feng Army's formation. The boulders weighing hundreds of kilograms cannot be resisted by the shield formation. Once they are hit or crushed by them, the Feng Army soldiers will be destroyed. Even the people and the shields were crushed together. The most important point of the formation was to maintain the integrity of the overall formation. If a loophole appeared, they might be subject to concentrated arrows from the enemy. Not to mention that after the boulder attack, the Feng Army camp was full of enemies. It was a loophole, and the Feng army gathered in formation would only become a target for the Mo army on the city.
In addition, the trebuchets and city-breaking crossbows launched by the Feng Army were not much better. Mo Jun on Fengyang City was able to shoot the arrows directly. Before the Feng Army's trebuchets and city-breaking crossbows were launched, The surrounding Feng soldiers were shot dead first, and there were also a large number of rockets fired at the racks of the trebuchet and the city-breaking crossbow. As long as a few rockets were hit, a trebuchet or the city-breaking crossbow could be destroyed in an instant. The crossbow will be burned, and it will be too late for the soldiers to save it despite the rain of arrows.
Under the leadership of Li Sheng, the two corps of the Directly Affiliated Army, let alone launch any offensive against Fengyang, even self-protection is a problem. Under such circumstances, someone else would have ordered the withdrawal long ago, and this battle would not be fought at all. He went down, but Li Sheng was unwilling to give in. He finally found an opportunity to make a contribution. If he was beaten back by the enemy before he even reached the edge of the city, how could he have the dignity to go back and report to the king?
At the critical moment, Li Sheng temporarily organized a group of death squads and personally led more than a dozen spiritual cultivators and more than a thousand elite soldiers to launch a strong attack on Fengyang City, intending to tear a hole in the opponent's defense line.
They held shields in one hand and knives and swords in the other. While charging forward, they kept dodging falling boulders and blocking flying arrows.
Soon, the Mo army on the top of the city also discovered this small group of wind troops rushing forward crazily. They naturally became the targets of the Mo army's concentrated attack.
Above the city, the arrows flying towards them were as dense as raindrops. Even though the soldiers of the Feng Army held shields to block, some people still fell to the ground after being hit by arrows. In this case, once they fell to the ground, they could not get up again. If they don't get up, the dense array of arrows will cover them mercilessly.
What a fierce arrow shot! Li Sheng secretly exclaimed while charging, this was not the Mozambique army that his side encountered two or three days ago. It was simply a regular central army of a country! The oncoming arrow rain left him no extra energy to think about it. At this time, he only wanted to rush to Fengyang City, then climb up and engage in close combat with the enemy.
Li Sheng's spiritual martial arts is good, but under the continuous arrows, the spiritual armor on his body can't stand it. When he rushed to less than thirty steps away from Fengyang City, the spiritual armor on his body had been shot by arrows countless times. It was covered with cracks and could be completely broken at any time.
He wanted to continue to charge forward. At this time, the two corps commanders who were following him in the charge stepped forward and shouted: "General Li, the enemy's arrow array is fierce. We can't withstand it. We must withdraw quickly!"
Li Sheng raised his shield high and turned around and shouted angrily: "No retreat! Just follow me and charge to the top of the city to kill the enemy!"
"General Li, how can we rush to the city when all our brothers are almost dead! General Li, retreat first!" a regiment leader shouted.
Li Sheng took a closer look and saw that there were only about a hundred people left behind him. The ground was littered with corpses. Most of the thousands of death squads had been killed by Mo Jun's arrow array, including the soldiers who were running away carrying the ladders. .
oops! When Li Sheng saw this, he couldn't help but lament in his heart. Before he could make a decision whether to attack or retreat, a flying arrow hit him in the left shoulder.
This arrow became the last straw that broke the camel's back. Li Sheng's spiritual armor could no longer bear it. With a crisp click, the spiritual armor on his left shoulder shattered and the arrow penetrated deeply into his flesh. among.