Chapter 292
Seeing the proud look on Liang Qi's face, Bai Yong, the deputy commander of the Sanshui Army, said worriedly: "General, Zhang Xiaoting is commanding 20,000 Ning troops to resist the wind. No matter how brave General Yuan Rang is, he can't resist it. Latest Chapter! Should we... send a wave of troops to assist him? "
Liang Qi waved his hand and said: "Shangguanyuan Rang is known for his bravery. Even if he cannot defeat so many Ning troops, he should be able to protect himself. The primary target of our army is Tongmen. Everything should be focused on Tongmen and must be concentrated. With all our strength, we can attack Tongmen in one go in the shortest possible time!”
Bai Yong grinned secretly and said anxiously: "What if the general is trapped in a tight siege and it is difficult to escape..."
"If the earthen pot is not broken away from the well mouth, the general will inevitably die in front of the battle. Whether life or death in front of the two armies is left to fate. You and I can't control that much!" At this time, Liang Qi's ruthless side was revealed again. It is not difficult to see his character. In order to achieve his goals, he would pay any price. Even Shangguan Yuanrang, whom Tang Yin valued so much, was expendable in his eyes.
In the past two days, Liang Qi had quietly hidden the main force of the Sanshui Army and a large number of siege equipment near Tongmen, waiting for the opportunity when Tongmen was empty. Now that the opportunity had finally come, how could he miss it? Liang Qi calculated the time and felt that Zhang Xiaoting and his men were almost at Jufeng, so he immediately informed the generals and the whole army attacked Tongmen.
The spies of Tianyan and Diwang both used carrier pigeons as a tool to transmit messages. As soon as Liang Qi's military order was issued, the spies of Tianyan and Diwang immediately released a large number of carrier pigeons and distributed them to the Sanshui Army hidden around Tongmen. . After receiving the carrier pigeon, the Sanshui Army, which was ready to go, immediately poured out from the ravines, valleys, and jungles, and quickly gathered in front of Tongmen.
Due to the different hiding locations, the various regiments of the Sanshui Army arrived at Tongmen City at different times. Liang Qi and Bai Yong were the fastest. Twenty-three thousand navy troops suddenly appeared at Tongmen as if falling from the sky. Outside the city, there was not even time to raise the flag.
Seeing so many Feng Jun in black armor suddenly coming outside the city, Ning Jun on the top of the city was a little unable to react.
Liang Qi didn't give them time to react. He didn't even wait for the arrival of other regiments and already issued the order to attack the city.
Following his order, the twenty-three thousand navy troops under his command rushed toward Tongmen like a tide.
At this time, Ning Jun, who was stationed at Tongmen, finally realized that the enemy troops were appearing outside the city. For a moment, there were shouts and alarm bells ringing on the city top. While Ning Jun closed the gate of Tongmen, he dispatched manpower to the top of the city to launch arrows at the Sanshui Army outside the city.
At this time, the Ning army had only a thousand men on the east wall of Tongmen, but the power of its arrow array was still astonishing, and it was a condescending arrow shot with an extremely long range. The Sanshui Army was still 200 steps away from the Tongmen wall. When he was far away, a dense number of arrows fell on his head.
Following bursts of screams, some of the Sanshui soldiers who charged forward were pierced by eagle feathers from time to time, rolling forward and falling to the ground. The Sanshui soldiers behind seemed unable to see the bodies of their companions. Continue to press forward with all your strength. The officers and soldiers of the Sanshui Army knew very well that now that we are deep in the enemy's hinterland, if we can capture Tongmen, there may be a glimmer of hope. If we cannot capture Tongmen, none of the 90,000 people on our side will survive.
This is a desperate battle, either victory or death. Under such circumstances, how can the soldiers of the Sanshui Army not fight tooth and nail?
More and more soldiers were shot down by arrows, but this could not stop the charge of the Sanshui Army at all. People stepped on the corpses of their companions and moved closer and closer to the city wall. When they entered the shooting range, the Sanshui Army's counterattack had already begun. The soldiers took off their bows and arrows as they ran, pointed them at the city head, and fired arrows in unison.
In an instant, there were screams on the top of the city. From time to time, Ning Jun, who had been hit by an arrow, screamed and fell from the city wall. At this time, the Ning army's counselors and generals in the city had also climbed up the city wall. Seeing that the enemy's attack was extremely fierce, one of the counselors shouted: "Let the generals return to the city to support!"
Upon hearing the counselor's words, Ning's soldiers immediately lit all the beacon fires, and thick smoke billowed from the top of Tongmen City, rising straight into the sky.
Liang Qi, who was commanding the battle, saw clearly and secretly screamed that it was not good. He immediately ordered that the generals' city-breaking crossbows and army-breaking crossbows be brought out and fired at the top of the city.
The generals on the left and right immediately conveyed the message to their generals. With a rumbling sound, dozens of city-breaking crossbows and army-breaking crossbows were pushed out. People opened the crossbow strings and aimed at the city head of Tongmen. shoot.
Buzz!
Dozens of giant crossbow machines fired volleys, and what they shot were not crossbow arrows at all, but wooden stakes. Especially the city-breaking crossbows were so powerful that they looked like lightning bolts from such a long distance. The wind flew to the top of the city and hit the arrow stack, even the thick arrow stack was pierced.
Ning Jun, who was hiding behind the arrow stack and still twisting his bow and nocking arrows or carrying rolling logs and rocks, didn't even understand what was going on. He pushed the man out and flew him out. While he was still flying in the air, his seven holes were bleeding and he died. His body flew into the crowd of Ning soldiers behind him and rolled down the city wall with a group of people.
After just one volley, the Ning Army on the top of the city was in chaos, with screams and howls everywhere. Even the counselors and generals in the Ning Army were dumbfounded. They had never seen anything like this. The siege weapons can even shoot through the arrow stacks, how powerful is that! The generals wearing spiritual armor looked at the wooden stakes stuck in the arrow stacks and broke into cold sweat involuntarily. They are confident that the spiritual armor on their body will not be stronger than the arrow stack.
Just as Liang Qi was commanding the siege, a group of soldiers and horses suddenly rushed up from the rear. The leading general whipped his horse and shouted loudly while running: "General, the Eighth Corps of Sanshui Army has arrived--"
Liang Qi did not even turn his head, but waved the flag in his hand forward and ordered the Eighth Corps to go forward.
The corps commander saw this and did not order the army to stop and rest. He led his soldiers to pass by Liang Qi's main camp and threw them into the battlefield. Not long after, the dust rose again in the rear. The distance was so far, and the leading general shouted: "Report-General, the Third Corps of Sanshui Army has arrived--"
Liang Qi still waved the flag forward without turning his head.
"Report-General, the Sixth Corps of Sanshui Army has arrived--"
"Report-General, the Seventh Corps of Sanshui Army has arrived--"
With the loud shouts, two more soldiers and horses rushed up from the left and right sides of Liang Qi's main camp. Liang Qi was too lazy to wave the flag at this time. He looked at the battlefield in front of him and said to Bai Yong beside him: "Beat the drum! Order the whole army to attack!"
"Yes! General!" Bai Yong agreed and passed the message to his generals.
Liang Qi said again: "Send someone to tell the generals in front that no matter what means are used, no matter how many brothers die, even if they have to pile up people, they must be piled into the city within half an hour!"
"Yes!"
Liang Qi has always been strict in military orders. There is no room for negotiation when his orders are passed down. They can only be executed. The generals below must either complete the military orders and return victorious, or return with their heads.
After receiving Liang Qi's death order, the corps commanders of each corps personally went to the battlefield and commanded their soldiers to launch a fierce attack on Tongmen. As the corps arrived one after another, the manpower for the siege expanded from 20,000 to 90,000 in a very short time. Looking outside Tongmen City, it was full of Fengjun.
Soon, the soldiers of the Sanshui Army holding crossbows began to climb up the city along the cloud ladder. The power of the crossbows for long-range shooting could not be compared with bows and arrows, but the effect of close combat was extremely good. The soldiers could shoot crossbow arrows upwards even when climbing the cloud ladder, which was too threatening to the defenders who threw rolling logs and stones.
Many Ning soldiers had already raised rolling logs and stones, and when they were about to smash them down, the Sanshui soldiers below had already started to pull the trigger and shoot crossbow arrows. At such a close distance, the crossbow arrows could penetrate the steel armor of the Ning soldiers. With the sound of armor breaking, the Ning soldiers on the top of the city were full of crossbow arrows and fell down in a row.
Taking advantage of the gap in the enemy, the soldiers of the Sanshui Army accelerated their climbing and rushed to the top of the city in one go. The first batch of soldiers who killed the top of the city suffered the most sharp counterattack from the Ning Army. Long halberds and spears stabbed from all directions. The soldiers could not dodge in time, and their bodies were instantly stabbed into a hornet's nest, screaming and falling off the city wall.
The several groups of soldiers who came up later were not spared and were knocked off the city wall by the Ning army one by one, until some soldiers rushed to the Ning army without hesitation, willing to be pierced into a sieve, but also to break up the Ning army camp. Only then did they finally open a gap, and then a large number of soldiers who followed took advantage of the gap and fought a bloody battle with the Ning army.
When there is danger to be taken, the Ning army has a huge advantage, but once the three water troops kill on the top of the city, they will engage in close combat with them, and the advantages of the defenders will certainly disappear. The Feng people are brave and good at close combat, and the Ning army has strong armor and sharp weapons, but close combat has always been a weakness. As the three water troops come up again and again, the Ning army began to be unable to resist and was defeated in groups.
Liang Qi, who was in command of the main camp, could no longer sit still when he saw that his soldiers had successfully killed their way to the top of the city wall. He drew his sword and shouted loudly: "Kill——" Before he finished shouting, he had already pulled a warhorse over himself, turned over and stepped on it, and then rushed straight to the battlefield in front. He was the commander of the Sanshui Army. He personally went into battle, which scared the surrounding Bai Yong, the generals, and the personal guards. How dare people delay? They each held their weapons and followed Liang Qi to the battlefield.
Liang Qi's personal participation in the battle pushed the morale of the Sanshui Army to the peak. The soldiers seemed to have forgotten life and death. They roared and rushed to the top of the city wall along the cloud ladder, waving their swords and slashing wildly at the Ning Army.
More and more defense lines were breached. In the end, there were almost no Ning soldiers on the top of the city wall. Looking around, there were only the black Feng Army.
The defeat was like a mountain collapsing! Once defeated, how easy is it to stop the decline? What's more, there were only a few thousand people left in the Ning army, while the Sanshui army had more than 80,000 people. It was a close battle inside the city, and the Ning army could not hold on at all. One group of people fled to the west of the city, while another group fled to the General's Mansion in the center of the city.