Nanming Engineer

Chapter 173 Siege
Diaoyu City is actually a huge rocky mountain with a circumference of five miles. The Yangtze River winds down the mountain and draws a "ji" shape around Diaoyu Mountain. Diaoyu Mountain is just wrapped in the word "ji", forming a The peninsula, so Diaoyu City is surrounded by water on three sides, and on three sides surrounded by water, there are cliffs as high as tens of feet, almost straight up and down, with nowhere to stay, and there is no way for apes to climb.

On the side without water, there is a thin mountain ridge, which was called Bodao Ridge in ancient times. The width of the ridge is less than one foot, and there are steep slopes on both sides. There is a stone road up the mountain, and there are natural stones along the city wall. The cliff surrounds the mountain for a week, and a fishing city has been built. There is a city gate on Bodao Ridge. The three characters "Huguomen" inscribed by Yu Jie in the Southern Song Dynasty stand out on it, forming a natural danger that only one man guards the gate and ten thousand men cannot open it.

The entire city is a fortress. It can accommodate 10 people on the mountain. It has cultivated land and wells and is self-sufficient. As long as the defenders are determined and the defense is strong, it can withstand an attack by a hundred times more powerful soldiers. Back then, this city defended half of the historical sites of the Southern Song Dynasty. It is indeed not covered.

At this moment, Ma Long, the deputy general of the Kuizhou Army, was wearing a rattan armor and white robe, standing on the tall tower of the National Guard Gate. He looked up and saw countless flags flying among the high mountains and mountains in front of him. He was standing at the foot of the mountain, pointing towards Diaoyu City.

Zeng Ying looked at Ma Long on the side of the official road under Bodaoling. Although they could not see each other clearly due to the distance, the strong hostility could penetrate the distance of hundreds of steps and attack the two of them. state of mind.

There was a bomb crater on the official road in front of Zeng Ying. A solid iron bullet lay quietly under a large pine tree surrounded by two people on the roadside. The pine tree had been broken at waist level more than two feet above the ground. , was beaten into two pieces.

"The cannon used by the Shizhu rebels was pulled from the city of Chongqing?" Zeng Yinghan asked in a loud voice.

Jiang Li, a thousand households of Jin Yiwei beside him, coughed, knowing that he was asking himself, and stepped forward to answer: "Yes, Shizhu has never heard of iron cannons, and according to reports from the spies, the Folang machine guns in the city of Chongqing have been captured." He was taken away without a trace, it seems that he must have been dragged here by the Shizhu traitor."

Zeng Ying's expression was ugly, his eyes were squinted and his face was filled with anger. Yang Zhan took a peek at Zeng Ying's face and added: "Junmen, as Jiang Qianhu said, the Folang machine gun that fired just now must be the original one. There is no doubt that it is at the top of Chongqing City. This cannon weighs [-] kilograms. It is a large-scale Franco machine cannon. It is six feet long and can fire iron bullets as far as a thousand steps. That's why the cannon fired by the rebels just now almost hit the military gate. .”

"How many of these cannons do we have on top of the Chongqing city?" Zeng Ying's tone became colder and colder. It's no wonder that his own cannon was snatched away by others and turned back to hit him. Anyone would do it. I'm so angry.

"Well, there are two large Folang cannons, four medium Folang cannons, and four small Folang cannons in the official warehouse." Jiang Li replied in a low voice.

Zeng Ying gritted her teeth and said bitterly: "How much money did we spend to buy these cannons? How much money did we leave? I remember that it cost tens of thousands of dollars just to feed those eunuchs from the military bureau. Two silver coins, right?"

Yang Zhan and Jiang Li looked at each other, not daring to make a sound.

Zeng Ying became furious, and shouted angrily: "Now we are being used by Shizhu barbarians to beat us! What the hell is this!"

Ten cannons, standing on the top of the city, are enough to cover a large area of ​​the official road under Bodao Ridge. Anyone who wants to pass by, as long as the Kuizhou soldiers on the top of the city are in a bad mood, they can kill him at any time. No one could stand the heavy iron bullets hitting the flesh.

But if you want to enter Chongqing Mansion, this is the only way. If you want to detour, you have to go back to Shunqing Mansion and change the way to go from Xuzhou Mansion. There are many landslides and mud, and it is difficult for the army to walk.

It can be said that Diaoyu City is a nail guarding the choke point between eastern Sichuan and central Sichuan. If it is not pulled out, any people who want to go east or west will be blocked here. That was how Meng Ge Khan was blocked back then. exhausted.

"Attack! Attack now!" Zeng Ying yelled violently, drew out the sword at his waist and pointed at Bo Dao Ridge: "Yang Zhan, you lead the vanguard army and horses. If you attack it, it will be your first achievement, and Kuizhou Mansion will be yours!"

Yang Zhan was overjoyed, bowed down and took the order and said in a deep voice: "The last general takes the order!"

Jiang Li looked at Yang Zhan, saw his face full of joy, sighed secretly, shook his head, glanced at Zeng Ying again, wanted to say something, thought for a while but shut up.

Seeing Yang Zhan leaving in a hurry, Zeng Ying's complexion improved slightly, and she immediately turned around and left. Just now, the cannon shot on the top of the Huguomen City was hit more than ten steps away in front of her. Wherever you hit, it's better to stay away from dangerous places.

Yang Zhan did what he said, and the huge benefits made him highly motivated. He led the [-]-odd barracks under his command, lined up under Bodao Ridge, and pressed up.

"Brothers, there are only a few cannons in the city. They are useless. They can't hit us. As long as you rush up, climbing to the top of the city is a great achievement. Yang Junmen said that everyone who breaks the city will be rewarded with silver. Go up!" Chief Qian shouted loudly to the generals, driving the infantry under him to move forward enthusiastically, stimulating the enthusiasm of the soldiers with rewards.

"Woo~~! Go!"

"Kill the barbarians!"

The grim-faced infantry held up their shields, brandished their long knives and spears, roared, and rushed up all over the mountains and plains along the rugged mountain road under Bodao Ridge. The simple long ladder made by the people is used to climb the city when they are going to rush to the city wall.

The cannon on the top of the city has not made a sound, which makes the generals of the Qibing Battalion very happy. It seems that the barbarians don't have many shells and are reluctant to use them. This is a good deal for us.

But when they got to the front of the ridge, the soldiers were dumbfounded. Three deep trenches lay in front of them. The trenches were densely covered with barbs from bamboo sticks. If you fell into them, you would lose your skin. The trenches were so wide that no one could jump except kangaroos. Can get through, so thousands of people suddenly crowded around the trench, helpless.

The trench was only fifty steps away from the city wall, and the city wall was built on the cliff. The city wall, which was only about one foot high, was raised out of thin air to about ten feet high. Standing on the city wall, Ma Long looked down at the ants-like officers and soldiers staying behind. Yelling at the edge of the trench.

"Let's shoot the arrows, don't make them wait too long." Holding the mountain-destroying crossbow, Ma Long shouted with a smile.

Two thousand of the three thousand white-robed soldiers guarded the front of Bodao Ridge, and the rest were scattered on other city walls. Each of the two thousand white-robed soldiers had a mountain-destroying crossbow and a box of ten arrows with two arrows each, almost like shooting at a target. , aiming at the red-clothed officers huddled together at the foot of the mountain, and started shooting.

This kind of shooting is not about speed, but about accuracy. Shooting down from the bottom of the city, standing on the edge of the narrow crenel is not at all dangerous, but it is difficult for the archers in the Qibing Battalion to fight back. It is not easy to shoot from the back. The crenels of the city wall are thin, and it is even more difficult to shoot bows and arrows through the narrow gaps. Therefore, without any suspense, the first wave of crossbow arrows took away dozens of lives, and the screams of the arrows were instantly extinguished. The fighting spirit of Yang Zhan's infantry was like swarming up Bodao Ridge. The infantry stayed in the trench for a short time before retreating like a tide.

(End of this chapter)