Chapter 1083 The Battle of the City with the Lowest Casualty Rate in the History of the Song Dynasty
Chapter 1083
After the six rounds of Yuanyou stone thrower fired, the southern gate of Xiazhou City, the capital of the Hedong Road of Liao Kingdom, was finally unable to maintain. With the continuous rumbling sound, the entire southern gate collapsed. The originally towering city gate tower and the female wall disappeared. In replacement, this was a nearly ten feet long and collapsed ruin.
Seeing this scene, Zhong Shidao made a quick decision, but asked the eight Yuanyou stone throwers to adjust their direction and began to bombard the city walls close to the collapsed position.
At this time, General Liu, whose eyes were red, led the elite soldiers of one thousand Yuanyoujia as the leader, and behind the one thousand Yuanyoujia was a complete five thousand elite soldiers of the Song Dynasty.
"Beat the drum! Attack Xiazhou!" Zhong Shidao pulled out the sword beside his waist and pointed at Xiazhou diagonally and shouted loudly. Dozens of big drums were beaten instantly, and the passionate drum beats were so exciting.
Countless warriors of the Song Dynasty roared, waved their weapons, and assaulted towards the collapsed city wall.
The Liao army above the city wall also wanted to intercept the Song army from both sides. Unfortunately, the Yuanyou stone thrower once again showed how terrifying their existence was.
The strange and shrill roar of the porous stone bombs shot out by Yuanyou's stone thrower was like the sharp smile of the hell demon, mercilessly destroying all the things that blocked them.
The female walls, iron armor, flagpoles, and flesh on the top of the city can stop them from moving forward and rolling. Wherever they pass, there will only be a straight passage, surrounded by minced meat, broken bones, armor-breaking stone foam...
The elite soldiers of the 1,000 Yuan Youjia only encountered extremely weak resistance and stumbled to the highest point of the landslide ruins.
Under the cover of several elite soldiers, the flag bearer raised the flag high and roared at the Song Wansheng. Countless brave and fearless soldiers of the Song Dynasty were around him, and continued to move forward and forward!
"How magnificent, my Western Army in the Song Dynasty..." Looking at the great Song Dynasty tiger benches who rushed towards the gap, Zhong Shidao's eyes were wet, and he murmured in a low voice. The next moment, Zhong Shidao raised his sword high. "How magnificent, my great Song Dynasty tiger bench is invincible!"
The Liao army in the city died suddenly, and many generals were buried under the Yuanyou stone throwing machine and bullets. They could see it with their own eyes. The towering and solid southern gate of Xiazhou City was easily destroyed into ruins by the Song army.
Countless young and strong people in Xiazhou mustered up their courage, struggled to break away, and even pushed down the Liao army soldiers in front of them, and fled to the city one after another.
Being able to survive in front of a weapon that is not something human power can resist, such a move became their only choice. Similarly, the morale of the Liao soldiers was like the winter snow meeting the bright summer sun. In a short while, the ice and snow melted, and there was no more fighting spirit or courage.
When the first Liao army soldier threw down his weapons and ran towards the distance, more and more Liao army soldiers ran down the city.
The Liao army soldiers in other directions were not even able to feel the atmosphere of war, but the Liao army on the southern city of Xiazhou had already begun to collapse.
Especially when a huge stone bomb crossed the city wall and smashed through several houses, the people of Liao in the city began to flee to the north of the city frantically, and the military and people in the entire Xiazhou had completely collapsed.
An hour later, Zhong Shidao stood at the southern city wall that had not yet collapsed, looked at the southern city gate section of the city wall that had turned into ruins, and then set his eyes on the Yuanyou stone throwing machine position, which was more than 80 feet away from here.
At this moment, Zhong Shidao's expression seemed very calm, but his heart was already stormy. Even though he attached great importance to these long-range weapons that Wang Zhengluo attached great importance to, it was not until this time that he realized that his attention was still too contempt for Yuanyou stone throwing machine.
Even if Xiazhou is not a dirt city like Wuyan Ancient City, and even if the walls of Xiazhou City are stronger, in the opposite face the terrifying power of the Batai Yuanyou stone throwing stone, it is more than one meter thick. The solid city wall with solid bricks as the wall and lined with rammed earth also looks so fragile and pitiful.
Originally, Zhong Shidao predicted that the southern city wall of Xiazhou would be able to be destroyed within about one day, but as a result, it took less than three hours from the first stone bomb to the Song Dynasty Tiger Ben occupying the entire Xiazhou.
This can be regarded as the easiest and shortest siege battle in the past twenty years. In the face of the devastating power of the Yuanyou stone-throwing machine, the Liao army soldiers were already exhausted, which made the assaulting Song Hu Ben not encounter any powerful counterattack.
Except for dozens of unlucky ghosts, no one died in the battle. This was definitely the lowest casualty rate in the Song Dynasty in history.
At this moment, the eight Yuanyou stone throwing machines were surrounded by five thousand elite Song troops in the center, and dozens of craftsmen were dismantling the eight Yuanyou stone throwing machines.
After the Yuanyou stone throwing machine that has made great contributions is dismantled, it will be sent to Xiazhou City and then used to defend the city.
"Tell General Zhang, if the Yuanyou Stone Thrower Camp is missing a piece, or if it is approached by those Liao people within twenty feet, the general will have his head. Do you understand?"
When he heard the words of Zhong Shidao and recalled the scene where Yuanyou rock-throwing machine was showing his might, the Song soldiers present at this moment understood more and more why Lord Wang, the Shaanxi North Road Strategy Pacifier, attached so much importance and cautious about this thing.
"Don't worry, the last general will definitely not let those Liao people and spies have any chance to get close to you." General Zhang, who was specifically responsible for the safety of Yuanyou stone throwing machine, felt awe-inspiring and immediately responded loudly.
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The fighting sounds of Sanchakou Fort continued. The Song army on the city and the Liao army under the city all fought their lives to attack each other, rocks, rolling wood, ladders, and occasionally the gunpowder bullets that roared sounds all showed the intensity of the battle situation.
But at this time, Yelu Dadun, who was supposed to be supervising the battle in front, was now in the central army's tent, staring at the messenger who was lying on the ground with a blue face.
The dozen generals in the military tent couldn't help but look at each other, and their faces looked very ugly.
They never expected that the Song State would react so quickly. They were attacking Sanchakou Fort on the other side. On the other side, the scheming and concise Song general of Zhong Shidao actually quietly crossed the surging Wuding River when the Hedong Road army of the Great Liao Dynasty gathered on the border of the Liao and Song dynasties. Tens of thousands of Song troops gathered at the city of Xiazhou.
Chapter completed!