Chapter 150 Offense and Defence (2)

"Woooo..." As soon as the genius was dawn, with a sharp sound of horns, the Jin soldiers once again launched an attack on Ningyuan City. Their attack method this time was no different from yesterday. Thousands of cavalry rushed up and suppressed the Ming army at the top of the city with bows and arrows. However, the range of the attack this time was much larger than yesterday, and the entire north wall was within their attack range. Although the Ming army had artillery with a longer range, due to Yuan Chonghuan's order, they could only confront the Jin soldiers under the city with the most primitive weapons, which could not resist the opponent's continuous advance. After a while, countless sharp arrows shot into the city.

Fortunately, with yesterday's experience, all the soldiers had already been hiding when the arrows were covered with rain. Although many people were still caught, no one would stand there stupidly and throw stones. Soon, the first wave of arrows passed, and the Ming army stood up again, picked up their weapons and prepared to fight against the Jin soldiers who took the opportunity to attack and kill them.

But when they looked down at the city, they were shocked. It turned out that they thought that the Jin people would climb up to the city with hooks as they did yesterday, but there were more than ten cloud ladders that fell into their eyes. Under the push of the Jin soldiers behind them, the cloud ladder with wheels was moving forward quickly. When they reached the city wall, the hook on the head of the cloud ladder hooked on the city wall, and the Jin soldiers behind shouted and attacked the city head along the cloud ladder.

Unexpectedly, the Jin soldiers had the equipment to attack the city. The Ming army was a little panicked at that time. Some people carried the huge stone logs and smashed them hard, while others pushed the ladder on the city wall with force. However, the iron hook of the ladder had already been deeply trapped on the city wall. It was not easy to push it away. As for the Jin soldiers under the city, some of them were knocked down by the stone wood, more of them dodged aside. Then, while taking advantage of the Ming army's panic, they kept climbing the ladder, thinking about climbing the city in anger.

At this time, Zu Dashou was guarding the city. Seeing that the enemy had launched an attack on the city head so easily, he was so angry that he screamed. He immediately ordered people to kill the Jin soldiers who were getting closer and closer to the city head. At the same time, he ordered the crossbowman to prepare and shoot the Jin soldiers who came up to the city with arrows at any time.

As the swords and axes fell, hundreds of fearless Jin soldiers were already cut off the city by the equally fearless Ming army, but the Jin army, who had already been red-eyed, would not retreat. They finally managed to reach the city, so naturally they refused to give up. So after killing more than a hundred people, more Jin soldiers came to the city. With their flexible skills and fierce style, they actually broke through a bloody road in the tight defense of the Ming army, so that all the people came to the city.

But as soon as they came out, they heard a few "swish" sounds of breaking through the air, and several feather arrows filled with force shot them out of the city. However, this could no longer stop the Jin army's determination to reach the city to death. Although many people fell down as soon as they touched the city wall, more people rushed up one after another. Slowly, the more than ten cloud ladders broke through the defense of the Ming army on the city, and people kept killing them up the city.

Zu Dashou's eyes were blood red, and he didn't care about his identity. He led the way and rushed forward with his big knife. With one knife, he cut the closest Jin soldier to him into two pieces. Then he shouted loudly: "Hold on, even if he dies, he will withstand the attack of Jiannu!" As he spoke, the machetes in his hand waved one after another, forcing the two Jin soldiers who had just climbed the city to retreat quickly. Then he heard two short screams and the two fell off the city.

Seeing General Zu so brave, the soldiers guarding the city were naturally inspired. After shouting, they all took their weapons and killed them again, and blocked several gaps. They were not the weak soldiers under Wu Jie's command, but the veterans trained on the battlefield of blood and fire. They would not have been helpless after seeing the enemy climbing to the city.

One hour later, hundreds of corpses were already covered with inside and outside the city wall, but the sudden attack of the Jin soldiers was finally repelled by the Ming army. After hearing the order to retreat, they had to stop the offensive and retreat, and even the ladders were not allowed to be taken back. The Ming army took the opportunity to cut the ladder with a sharp knife and axe and pushed it down the city.

At this time, Tang Feng, who was watching all this, felt a little relieved. He was really afraid that the Ming army would not be able to stop the attack of the Jin soldiers. Now it seemed that he was worried about it. But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air came from outside the city. It was obvious that the Jin army had used their strong bows and arrows again.

After hiding into the tower used to hide, Tang Feng smiled bitterly: "It seems that Jiannu is here prepared this time, not just thinking about robbing it." Yuan Chonghuan, who came in with him, said deeply: "Yes, if they attacked the city in the same way as before, even Jinzhou City may not be able to be broken. Judging from their performance in the past two days, there should be other siege weapons that are useless, so we have to pay more attention."

As soon as Yuan Chonghuan's voice fell, he heard a loud bang. The city wall was bombarded by a large stone, which made the stones splash to death. Several Ming soldiers hiding behind the city wall were injured. Yuan and Tang looked at each other and said in unison: "Stone-throwing cart!" After saying that, their faces seemed a little heavy.

It turned out that seeing that the attack was still unable to achieve success, Dai Shan listened to the opinions of his generals, retreated his men and horses, and then prepared to use a stone throwing machine to destroy the thick walls of the city. So as soon as he saw the men and horses retreated, he ordered people to suppress the Ming army with bows and arrows, so that they could not kill and injure the retreating Jin soldiers from behind. At the same time, he ordered people to push out the stone throwing cart that had been prepared before the Ming army could not stand out.

Dozens of stones of head size flew towards the city, smashing the city walls to pieces, and also affected many Ming troops who could not escape. The Ming troops guarding the city were nervous. If the enemy kept using this move, even if the city wall was strong enough to withstand it, the Ming army would have suffered great losses.

"Sir, let's use artillery to deal with them?" Zu Dashou, who could not bear it, suggested. Tang Feng and Yuan Chonghuan looked at each other, but finally shook their heads: "It's not possible now. Jiannu still has follow-up personnel. We cannot reveal all our bottoms."

If this continues, the city cannot be defended, what is the use of artillery? This is Zu Dashou's idea, but before he can say it, the heavy sound of breaking through the air outside the city stopped, and then the Jin army charged again. At this time, he didn't care about this opinion, and took a step and rushed out again, fighting the Jin army that was killing.

Yuan and Tang both felt a little strange. Why did the Jin army's stone throwing machine stop attacking after just using some means? When they came to the top of the city, they found out that the reason was that the Jin army had no available stones.

Although this stone throwing machine is amazing, most of the Jin army were cavalry and could not bring too many stones to supply. They had just done so that they could use the local materials at that time. They didn't expect that before they came to Ningyuan, Yuan Chonghuan had already adopted the strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields, and moved all the things outside the city to the city into the city. In this way, they would have no stones to use. Without stone throwing chariots that could be thrown, the effect of a pile of rotten wood was not much different. In desperation, Dai Shan had to use the same trick again and led his troops to charge him while the Ming army in the city was seriously injured.

After the first two battles, the Ming army in the city has now fully adapted to the attack of the Jin army, and they defended in an orderly manner. In order not to get more stones from the Jin soldiers under the city, the Ming army did not even throw wood and stone down, but only used bows and arrows to kill the enemy. Because the few ladders brought by the city had been destroyed just now, the Jin army had to continue climbing up the city with hook ropes, which greatly increased the difficulty of their siege.

Tang Feng felt uncomfortable as the soldiers on both sides chopped and killed each other. Everyone fell here was all humans. But now he could not feel any pity. Yuan Chonghuan looked at the Jin soldiers who were constantly killing, and in his heart, he calculated the strength of the Jin army that was sieging the city this time, and finally gave up the plan to use firearms. Although the Jin army siege today had a little more than yesterday, it was only seven or eight thousand people, and it was not the time to use the most powerful killing moves.

From morning to noon, and from noon to evening. When the sun sets in the west, the soldiers on both sides are exhausted. After returning in the last attack, Dai Shan had to order his troops to retreat. More than a thousand people died in the city in the battle today, which made him even more annoyed, but at the same time he also admitted that the Ming army guarding the city was indeed powerful.

"What should I do? Should I continue to attack this city, or ask for help from the army behind, or continue to advance south regardless of its existence?" Dai Shan thought in his mind, thinking that he had lost two thousand people without making any achievements, he could not bear this tone. After repeated consideration for a long time, he decided to continue to attack Ningyuan. However, he decided to use all his troops tomorrow. He really didn't believe that the Ming army guarding the city would be so powerful that he could defend it under his full attack.

At this time, Tang Feng and the others in Ningyuan City were also very busy, busy treating the injured soldiers, and then they asked people to repair the city wall that had been damaged by stones.
Chapter completed!