jdhmnovel Chapter 174 The Delicate Little Emperor Is So Unruly (55)
Chapter 174 The Delicate Little Emperor Is So Unruly (55)
After Wen Luo arranged everything in Yining, he said goodbye to Wu Hong and rushed to Anhua with Wei Rong without stopping.
After secretly meeting with the garrison commander of Anhua, he made the same arrangements for Anhua City as for Yining, and finally rushed to Dingyuan City.
When we arrived in Dingyuan, it was already the morning of New Year's Eve.
Every household in Dingyuan City stayed indoors, and the only sound in the entire city was the sound of soldiers patrolling.
There were no sounds of firecrackers and no crowds gathering. The city was incredibly quiet on this New Year's Eve.
As people living in the border area, everyone has this understanding, and everyone knows that a bloody battle is about to come.
Wen Luo gathered several of his generals and began to hurriedly adjust the defense.
He asked every household in the city to check whether their water tanks and buckets were full, and to fill all objects that could hold water with water.
If there is still energy to spare, all the exposed wooden beams in the house where firewood is piled up can be directly wetted with water and then covered with a layer of mud.
It is best to dig a pile of soil in every yard in advance for emergency use in fire fighting.
All the people in the city, including women, children, the elderly, the weak and the disabled, were moved to the northern area of the city and gathered.
As soon as Wen Luo came back, his men immediately regained their full energy, and the orders they gave spread quickly throughout the city.
The originally quiet city suddenly became bustling and busy.
While everyone was busy outside, Wen Luo took several generals to calculate in detail the time required for the other two cities to march quickly to Dingyuan City.
Before they arrived, Dingyuan City had to form a stalemate with the Liang army outside the city and cleverly show some signs of fatigue to them.
Only by giving the Liang army hope of the city being captured can we retain them.
By the time everything was arranged in detail, New Year's Eve had already passed.
Wen Luo stood outside the tent and looked at the sky quietly.
"Tomorrow, Kyoto will be a sunny day."
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On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the sky in southern Xinjiang, which had been gloomy for many days, finally cleared up.
The rising sun emits brilliant rays of light in the sky.
The Liang army was approaching and surrounded Dingyuan City in a dark mass.
The defenders of Dingyuan City refused to leave.
No matter how the Liang army outside the city cursed, no one responded.
Soon, the Liang army launched the first round of offensive.
Catapults dropped huge stones from the sky. Some of them hit the city walls heavily, while others flew over the walls and hit the houses in the city. It looked like a scene of people and horses falling to the ground.
After throwing the stones, the defenders symbolically hid in the battlements and shot some arrows at the army outside, and soon peace was restored on the city wall.
After some discussion, the Liang army determined the next offensive strategy.
At noon, the second round of offensive began.
Following the commander's order, the Liang army soldiers got busy. They dipped a brush in kerosene and smeared it on stones and arrows, then lit the flames and shot the burning stones and arrows into the city.
For a moment, countless fireballs drew arcs in the air and fell into the city with raging flames.
The fire spread, and black smoke continued to rise in the city, filling the air. The soldiers on the city wall ran around in panic, looking very flustered.
This time the defenders didn't even shoot an arrow.
But the black smoke in the city did not last long, as if the fire was quickly put out.
The Liang army could see that the defenders in the city had made some preparations, but without Wen Luo, they seemed to have no plan at all and were just trying desperately to defend the city.
Although the first two rounds of offensive had little effect, they allowed the Liang army to see the weakness of the Dingyuan City defenders without Wen Luo, which gave them great confidence.
The Liang army decided to break into the city by force.
In the evening, the advance siege team surged towards the city like a tide.
The soldiers on the city wall noticed the movement and carefully leaned their heads out from behind the battlements to scan the enemy troops below the city.
At this time, the archers who were cooperating in the siege began to shoot arrows at them, and many soldiers on the city wall just shrank back as soon as they stuck their heads out.
The Liang army pushed the huge siege vehicle quickly towards the city gate. The thick battering ram in front of the vehicle was wrapped with fine iron. After careful polishing, it flashed a cold light under the winter sunset.
With an order, the Liang army soldiers shouted in unison, and the siege vehicle suddenly accelerated.
Soon, the battering ram rushed towards the huge and solid city gate with amazing force.
The defenders of Dingyuan City finally began to fight back.
A mixture of wine and hot oil was poured down from the city wall, and then fire pots were thrown down and shattered, igniting a scorching flame on the siege vehicle.
Rocks and arrows rained down, shooting at the soldiers below the city.
The Liang army in the distance was not willing to be outdone. When the soldiers on the city finally showed up, they shot arrows at the city wall in a swarm.
Every dull and loud thumping sound of the battering ram caused the city gate to tremble and groan.
The defenders on the city wall continued to throw Molotov cocktails down, eventually setting the entire siege vehicle on fire, and the sound of the collision disappeared.
After losing the siege vehicle, the Liang soldiers who had rushed to the bottom of the city wall raised the ladders while dodging the falling rocks and arrows above their heads.
Soon, many ladders were erected on the city walls, and the soldiers climbed up nimbly.
The defenders of Dingyuan attacked from afar and nearby, and before the Liang soldiers could climb up, they threw huge rocks down the ladders, which were enough to knock down the entire row of Liang soldiers who had climbed up.
If they have climbed to the top with the cooperation of the archers, they will extend their spears and stab down fiercely.
The two sides started a desperate fight, and the shouts of killing shook the sky.
The roar of war drums and the clanging of weapons resounded through the sky at the same time.
Until night fell completely, the first day of the siege ended with the Liang army retreating outside the city.
After a night's rest, the Liang army's offensive became more fierce the next day.
After another day of struggling, the defenders of Dingyuan City were exhausted and were on the verge of collapse.
The Liang army fought more and more smoothly and their morale became higher and higher.
On the third day, at dawn, a new day's offensive began.
A new siege vehicle rushed towards the city gate again.
The huge door was smashed with a loud bang, and wood chips flew everywhere. The structure of the city gate loosened little by little.
Finally, with another violent impact, the city gate collapsed like a giant beast.
Amid shouts of victory, the Liang army poured into Dingyuan City like a tide.
The resistance of the defenders behind the gate was forced to retreat quickly, and the Liang army quickly rushed to the extensive avenues in the city.
They rampaged through the streets, hacking at anyone they saw.
Soon, the scattered fleeing defenders disappeared, and after the Liang army rushed into the streets and alleys, there was no one to be seen anywhere.
Some soldiers kicked open the locked houses on both sides of the street and found that everything inside was in order, except that there was no one.
Seeing that the follow-up soldiers were still pouring into the city, the leading general of the Liang army suddenly became nervous.
At his command, all the soldiers rushed towards the surrounding houses.
However, after walking around all the houses, there was no one to be seen.
The general of the Liang army turned pale instantly.
He sat high on his horse, turned around suddenly, tightened the reins, and rushed back to the city gate regardless of the trampling!
"There's a fraud in the city!"
"retreat!"
"Get out, everyone get out!"
However, the soldiers were still in extreme excitement and could not hear what he was shouting.
The people outside were pouring in like a tide, blocking the city gate tightly. Everyone was rushing in, making it impossible to retreat.
Soon, the general's horse was also blocked.
The soldiers crowded together in front of him, and looking at the city gate not far away, his face was full of despair.
"Don't come in, retreat, retreat!" He roared with all his strength.
At this moment, he suddenly noticed from the corner of his eye a figure standing quietly on the high city gate tower.
The moment the general turned his head to look, he looked as if he had seen a ghost, his eyes were bloodshot.
"Wen...It's Wen Luo!"