Chapter 32 The Widowmaker
Liu Tong wanted to attack overnight, but just arrived at the city and found that the city had begun to increase troops. A frightened soldier accidentally shot an arrow, but failed to attack, which turned into a strong attack. Unfortunately, they only had a simple siege ladder, which was actually just prepared to steal the city. At this time, the defenders had discovered that the ladder had very limited effect.
Liu Lan, the nephew of Liu Tong, looked at Liu Tong and said, "Uncle, what should I do now?"
"We can't fight like this, we are at a disadvantage!" When Liu Tong defected to Liang Shidu, the more than 300 children of the Liu family in Lingzhou led the army. Now he was leading the army for the first time. Liu Tong generalized the Liu family's children as officers at all levels in the army. Just now, his other nephew Liu Yishan was penetrated by arrows and died tragically under the city of Lingzhou. Even his biological son Liu Tianyi was shot into the calf bone. According to the medical skills of this era, Liu Tianyi could only lie in bed for the rest of his life.
Thinking about the fact that his son almost died under Lingzhou City, Liu Tong was full of hatred. But looking at the endless means of Lingzhou City, especially until this time, Lingzhou City did not sound the alarm. It was obvious that the guards thought they were more than enough to deal with it.
Liu Tong gritted his teeth and said angrily: "Retreat for the time being, create siege equipment, and continue to attack after dawn!"
After hearing Liu Tong's order, the Liang army soldiers were as if they were amnesty and retreated quickly. In fact, Lingzhou City did not kill much to the Liang army under the city, but only caused more than 200 casualties. However, this kind of sudden incendiary bomb fell from the sky, like a moth throwing a fire. The dense arrows made them feel unavoidable and unavoidable. It was so frustrating.
What's more, the weather was cold, and they crawled on the snow, their hands and feet were numb. Not only did they have no accurate head, but they had no strength. Even if the blind cat hit a dead mouse, the enemy was caught in an arrow, and nothing happened. They pulled the arrow and shot at them in turn.
Seeing the Liang army retreating slowly like a tide, Liang Zan exclaimed: "General Manager Chen is born with a seed, and even the enemy has calculated the enemy's stealing camp. Otherwise, if the enemy takes advantage of a loophole, we will suffer a great loss!"
"Uh..." Chen Ying didn't know how to take Liang Zan's words. He didn't plan to attack Liang Jun at all. The real reason was even hard to say. He Yue'er used all kinds of slap in his room. As a normal man, Chen Ying almost couldn't control it. But thinking that He Yue'er was sent by Li Xiuning again. If He Yue'er was not instructed or implied by Li Xiuning, Chen Ying dared to put his eyes out as a snail.
"What are you talking about!" Chen Ying said with a stern face in order to hide his embarrassment: "Now hurry up and treat the wounded soldiers, eat, rest, and even fight a bad battle!"
At this time, whether it was the defenders of Lingzhou City or the Right Guard, he was a god to serve Chen Ying, and Chen Ying's orders were carried out without any discount.
Chen Ying did not stand by the female wall and blew the cold wind. He returned to the city gate tower and carefully analyzed the current situation. Xue Ju in Hexi was already destroyed, and now there was still a king of Yongle Li Gui. Although Chen Ying was not clear about how the Tang Dynasty pacified Li Gui, he remembered that in the second year of Wude, Li Tang captured all the land in Hexi. Then Li Gui was not far from the destruction.
The sky gradually became brighter, and the heads in the city lifted the whole bucket of food onto the city wall. Because Chen Ying seized a large number of injured and dead horses, the horse meat was served openly, even for breakfast, with a bowl of rice, plus two pieces of horse meat weighing half a pound. Although the horse meat didn't taste good, these ordinary soldiers who were hard to see meat all year round had a very happy meal.
His vision had become wide open. Chen Ying stood on the city wall and looked at the Liang army soldiers trembling in the cold wind outside the city. At this time, the Liang army formation did not seem to have smoke rising.
Seeing this scene, Chen Ying thought about it.
"Liang Zan, go find a few loud soldiers to come!"
After a while, Liang Zan called more than 20 loud soldiers to Chen Ying.
Chen Ying said: "You are standing on the city wall and shouting at Liang Jun, Brothers, please be hungry, we have food here, we have meat to eat when we defect to the Tang Dynasty!"
This sentence is very short and very simple. More than twenty soldiers learned it once. More than twenty soldiers shouted at the city: "Brothers of Liang Army, are you hungry? We have food here, and we have meat to join the Tang Dynasty!"
But after shouting for more than ten times, there was no reaction in Liang's formation.
Liang Zan looked at Chen Ying eating the rice with great enthusiasm and said, "Master, it seems useless?"
"It's weird if you are useful!" Chen Ying said vaguely: "This is just disgusting Liang Jun!"
"Disgusting them?"
"Of course, if they are allowed to prepare the siege equipment smoothly, it will be enough for us to have a pot of it!" Chen Ying smiled and said, "So, they shouted, there is no effect now, it will be effective in the future!"
When the Liang army under the city heard the Tang army shouting on the city, it was actually not without any effect, and the effect was very great. Deng Jichang was originally a merchant in Feng'an County, Lingzhou. When he was about to escape back to Guanzhong a few months ago, he was captured by the Liang army. There were quite a few people like Deng Jichang, but the Liang army did not open a good hall. They captured these people and picked out useful young, weak, women and children, and let them die on their own.
Because Deng Jichang knew a few words and knew how to arithmetic, he naturally became the clerk of the Liang army's baggage. It was pure nonsense to say how loyal Deng Jichang was to the Liang army. However, Deng Jichang did not dare not act without following Liang Jun's orders, because his parents, wife and children were both detained in Yanzhou as hostages.
As long as they dare to escape privately, the families detained in Yanzhou will definitely be killed, and their wives and daughters will be sold to the Turks as slaves and maids. When the shouting on the city wall began, Deng Jichang looked at the people whispering beside them.
Although they couldn't hear what they were discussing, in fact, Deng Jichang also knew that these people were discussing how to surrender to the Tang army.
At this moment, the war drums of the Left Commander of the Liang army began to sound.
"Dongdong..."
The thick drum sounded completely in the sky. In fact, the preparations for the Liang army's attack were not completed. However, as the Tang army shouted on the city wall, the morale of the Liang army fluctuated. Liu Tong had to order the attack in advance.
With the issuance of Liu Tong's order, a dignified and pure Chinese style offensive and defensive battle began.
Since the Liang Shidu was not sufficiently well-off, hundreds of thieves aimed at the city wall day and night, Liu Tong could not afford such a wealthy battle. He had to use a powerful crossbow to suppress the archers on the city wall and continue to advance.
More than 200 powerful crossbowmen of the two powers were slowly approaching with heavy crossbows on their backs, and shields were covering them next to them. They sat together at the distance that the generals calculated accurately and used their waist force to drive the crossbow! This was not the most terrifying, the most terrifying one was eight flat four-wheeled wooden cars. Under the push of dozens of soldiers, they slowly climbed up the city wall.
Chen Ying saw Liang Jun’s powerful crossbowman appearing and his face was quite natural, but when he saw the four-wheeled wooden car, his face suddenly changed: “Widow maker?”
Chapter completed!