Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 305 Siege
Thanks to Zhao Dezhao, after coming here, civil servants and generals have repeatedly raised the defense level of the city.

There is no lack of defensive equipment, but the opponent is a so-called [-] army after all. Once they attack frantically, the situation is very urgent.

For a while, the two sides were at a stalemate, and the scene was very anxious.

However, it seemed that the Northern Han had suffered a great loss. After an hour, the Northern Han army had already left a circle of thousands of corpses outside the city wall.

At the same time, the Great Song Army suffered less than ten casualties.

The main reason is that these defensive equipment have played a huge role, with sufficient materials and powerful power.

Throwing a log down would kill and injure at least several Northern Han soldiers. Then, in order to prevent the Northern Han army from using the log as a ladder to attack the city, someone would immediately pour down several bowls of boiling oil.

With luck, a few Northern Han soldiers could still be burned to death or injured. Even if they couldn’t, the kerosene ignited the logs and burned them. Not only could the Northern Han soldiers not be able to move them away, but they would also be surrounded by blazing temperature and thick smoke.

But on the city wall several feet high, these threats are much reduced, so the Song army is very comfortable.

As for the watermelon-sized lightning stone, it is an important weapon for fixed-point direct throwing.

Shi Yuanliang demanded that every stone thrown down should injure at least one Northern Han person.

The Great Song Army stationed here are all experienced and well-trained elite soldiers.Anyone who can be sent to protect Zhao Dezhao can't be wrong.

With these brave sergeants and sufficient defense equipment, the first day of battle was very easy.

The Northern Han army retreated into the woods outside the city after losing their troops, but they still besieged Yunzhou City on all sides.

Shi Yuanliang sent someone to tie the sergeant with a rope, and went down to the ground to move the rolling logs and rocks back to the city for reuse tomorrow.

He didn't dare to send people out of the city to pick them up, because he was worried that if the Northern Han army took the opportunity to kill them, it would be too late to close the city gate, and it would be much safer to use ropes.

Early the next morning, the Northern Han army carried the siege tree that was hastily felled last night to hit the gate of Yunzhou City.

However, the Great Song Army had been prepared for a long time. First, the archers shot accurately and killed the soldiers of the Northern Han Army who were carrying the big tree, and then poured fire oil and smashed them with wood...

In short, the Northern Han army tossed and tossed all morning, but it was all in vain, and hundreds of people were killed or injured.

They have also made a lot of siege ladders, but the workmanship is very rough.And once it got close to the city wall, it was immediately poured down with a ladle of fire oil, and the burning hot oil burned everyone who came into contact with the siege ladder.

Once people left the ladder, the kerosene burned the entire siege ladder.

It quickly turned into pieces of charcoal.

Slowly, the Northern Han army was tossed and lost its strength and morale.

Zhao Dezhao had been observing on the city wall, and saw that these barbaric soldiers from the Northern Han Dynasty, although brave, seemed to be not very intelligent.

Under the command of its own invention and advanced tactics, the Great Song Army fought much smarter.

After losing nearly a thousand people, Cheng Yuanling temporarily withdrew his troops again.

The Great Song Army on Zhao Dezhao's side, because everyone has more experience than yesterday, only five or six people were injured, and no one was killed in battle.

Cheng Yuanling began to scratch his head. He thought that because of his large number of people, the Han people would be scared to death even if they were scared.

This small county should have been taken easily. Unexpectedly, the Song Army had many tactics and the sergeants were also very brave. My own side suffered a bit of a loss.

Of course, he can afford to lose the 2000 people.

Zhao Dezhao!Great Song Army!Wait until I enter the city to see what you have to resist, I want you all to die!

On the city wall, Zhao Dezhao sighed, these low-intelligence and high-valor northern Han barbarians are actually the best fighters, and even if they die, there is no need to be sad. It would be great if I could use all these people for me.

Turning around, he asked Shi Yuanliang, "Shi! When will the reinforcements arrive? Will the carrier pigeon reply?"

"Your Highness! The reinforcements from the west route will arrive tonight, and the reinforcements from the east route will arrive tomorrow morning. Although the numbers are small, only 5000 each, I believe it will be no problem to turn defeat into victory."

"Flying pigeons to send a letter again, telling them not to show up when they arrive, according to my order, so and so, so and so..."

"...As ordered!"

After hearing Zhao Dezhao's strategy, Shi Yuanliang's eyes flashed with admiration, "But Your Highness... Although this strategy is clever, you are more dangerous."

"It's okay, I just want to use me as bait to win a big victory!"

After an hour of silence, the northern Han army on the opposite side attacked again after resting.

This time the Northern Han army played a new trick. First, thousands of archers, under the cover of sword and shield soldiers, entered and exited at a very short distance, and fired several rounds of arrows at the tower.

These Southern barbarian soldiers are good at archery, because of the needs of daily life, in order to make a living, they all have exquisite archery skills without training.

In the past few rounds of arrow rain, although the Great Song Army defended tightly, they still killed or injured more than a dozen sergeants.

After that, it was the Northern Han soldiers of the brigade who carried the siege tree and the siege ladder and rushed up.

Shi Yuanliang immediately began to get busy directing.

But this time the Northern Han army rushed up too many people, probably more than 1 people.

A small Yunzhou City was completely surrounded by the entire city wall.

The sight was shocking to look at.

Before the Northern Han army rushed to the tower, those archers continued to shoot in rounds, and the arrows shot to the top of the city one after another, causing the Song army to be killed and injured by arrows.

Once the Song sergeant was killed or injured, there would be a big hole in the city wall on the side he was in charge of.

Sergeants of the Northern Han Dynasty have already begun to climb the city wall.

Fortunately, the Great Song Army was fortunate that once the soldiers of the Northern Han Dynasty rushed to the city wall, the rain of arrows supporting them stopped.

The Northern Han army was worried that their arrows would kill the warriors on their side who had finally managed to attack the city wall.

But after all, there are still many Sergeants of the Great Song Dynasty on the tower, and these Sergeants of the Great Song Dynasty are very well trained, and the ability to kill the enemy alone is not inferior to anyone.

So within a short while, the Northern Han army who managed to kill the city tower was completely slaughtered.

These are the spearmen arranged by Shi Yuanliang, and there is a spearman standing in the middle of each battlement.

Once it is found that an enemy army is rushing to the top of the city, without saying a word, it will be stabbed with a spear immediately.

Outside the city, Cheng Yuanling's face darkened again.

He originally thought that he would definitely be able to occupy the top of the city this time, but after one round, it was still a fiasco.

Nearly 3000 men and horses were lost before and after, but they still could not capture this small city.

This can't help but remind people of the time when the Northern Han Dynasty attacked Shuiluo City.

However, a new discovery suddenly made Cheng Yuanling angry again.

(End of this chapter)