Turbulent Times Chapter 1546: I don’t like Wang Junlin’s Huang Weiyang

"Way out of position! Cut!"

"Wounded and screaming! Cut!"

Liu Zhifei's face turned pale with anger. He seemed to have overestimated the strength and morale of the troops gathered by the second son, so he kept sternly shouting.

One of his personal soldiers went up and cut off the head of a defender who only had a personal wound on his head but was screaming like a pig. The rest of the injured people suppressed their voices, no longer screaming, just moaning.

"Fortunately, what the enemy threw was not gunpowder." Liu Zhifei was terrified, but heaved a sigh of relief. As long as he didn't use gunpowder, it would be no problem to stick to it for a day, and the second son would be able to finish it in half a day at most. Regarding Jiangdu Palace's matter, lead the army to Yangzhou City, and respond internally and externally at that time, encircling Huang Shaoqiu and attacking Huang Shaoqiu, I am afraid that he will not be able to destroy the opponent.

The morale of the Far Eastern Army was like a rainbow. Huang Shaoqiu gave an order, flags flew, drums thundered, and the army pushed shield carts and ladders, and began to attack the city under the cover of catapults and archers.

There is a reason why Huang Shaoqiu didn't use gunpowder weapons to attack the city - after they captured Yangzhou City, they would immediately face Yuwen Zhiji's army to attack the city. If the city wall is blown up now, it will be troublesome to build it later , Besides, gunpowder packs don’t cost money!

The Far Eastern Army has a set of strict procedures and methods for calculating military exploits. The consumption of weapons, equipment and equipment on the battlefield is the same.

Before the infantry of the Far Eastern Army carrying ladders and other equipment ran a few steps, and before Liu Zhifei completely stabilized the defenders on the Yangzhou city wall, he saw the more than 30 catapults raising their poles again. From then on, more than 30 stone bullets flew out from the tip of the pole, still as before, hitting the city wall of Yangzhou City accurately, and the fatal one was the one just now, which terrified the defenders precisely.

Liu Zhifei could no longer maintain his composure, leaning on the battlements, he said to himself in a daze: "How could it be so accurate? I just heard about it before, but I didn't expect the Far Eastern Army's equipment to be so powerful!"

When the siege troops of the Far Eastern Army rushed under the city wall, the catapults had smashed five rounds at this section of the city wall. Except for a small number of catapults that missed the first two rounds, almost every round stones

It hit the city wall accurately.

Furthermore, after five rounds, the Yangzhou City Wall, which has always been known for its strength, finally collapsed in the upper half.

When the Far Eastern Army's ladder was built on this wall, the defenders on the wall had already fled far away, but in order not to hit their own people, at this time the catapult could only shift its target to another piece After Liu Zhifei desperately called out and beheaded three more soldiers who wanted to escape, at the last moment, he dispatched men with rolling stones, giant logs, kerosene and other sharp weapons to repel the first batch of Far Eastern troops. .

However, another half of the city wall was also smashed and broken. Fortunately, Yu Wenzhi and the people who stayed behind in Yangzhou City had quite a few generals with rich experience in battle, and some of his elite soldiers led them and scattered them in various places. Only then did they hold the first wave.

The catapults of the Far Eastern Army were still projecting non-stop, throwing stone bullets weighing more than twenty catties towards the city.

It's just that, due to the astonishingly fast launch speed, the more than 3,000 stones that Huang Shaoqiu had worked so hard to prepare these days were all projected out in less than an hour.

Before all the stone bullets were exhausted, amidst the cheers of Huang Shaoqiu's men and horses, three parts of the city walls of Yangzhou collapsed.

The most important thing is that such a precise strike has almost brought the morale of the defenders to the bottom. Liu Zhifei saw that many soldiers and even some generals were terrified and flinched.

At this time, some spies had discovered that the Far Eastern Army's catapults were no longer firing stone bombs, and guessed that the Far Eastern Army had run out of stone bombs.

Although three parts of the city wall collapsed, fortunately, the Yangzhou city wall is high enough, and his troops are two or three times that of the Far East Army, and there are sufficient equipment to defend the city. As long as the morale is low for a while , Yangzhou City can be defended today.

Cruel offensive and defensive battles are going on on the city walls outside Yangzhou City, but the soldiers in charge of guarding the four city gates can only listen to the shouts of killing and screams from the top of the wall and outside the wall, holding knives and guns in their hands. , always pay attention to the movement outside the city gate. As long as someone hits the door from outside the city, they will firmly block it with the stone slab carts prepared in advance.

In the direction of the north city gate, there is a two-story attic on the side of the road, which is a place for the generals guarding the gate to rest.

In the hall on the first floor of the attic, Xu Jingzong watched Huang Weiyang walking back and forth in the middle of the hall while drinking tea, while Shen Guang sat at the door with his back against the door frame and closed his eyes to rest.

Rushing out of this hall is only a matter of an instant. The key positions outside the gate and the edge of the city gate are all masters of the Blue Clothes Guard and the Military Intelligence Office. Only one-tenth of them are in the army, but these people are so powerful that one can stop ten, or even one can stop dozens of people.

As long as the plum blossom drum sounds outside the city, they can occupy the main position in front of the city gate before other people react, keep others out, and then open the city gate.

Although Huang Weiyang agreed to join Wang Junlin, Wang Junlin himself did not promise him personally, and he himself was born in a powerful family in the south of the Yangtze River. It is not very optimistic that the Far Eastern Army, which has offended all the powerful people, can conquer the world.

So, he felt that following Wang Junlin might be a success for a while, but in the end, he might not have a good future. This caused him to think about it in panic all day.

At this time, when he turned around and saw Xu Jingzong's appearance, his heart trembled inexplicably. This person had always been very kind in front of him, but for some reason he felt faintly afraid.

Including Xu Jingzong and Shen Guang, there are only six people in the room. At this time, they are scattered all over the hall. They seem to be scattered, but in fact they are all within a distance where they can immediately support each other. In addition, seven of his henchmen were scattered around him.

Different from Xu Jingzong's sinister feeling, Huang Weiyang could feel a distinctive toughness from the behavior of the other six people, especially Shen Guang gave him an extremely dangerous feeling.

He is also a master himself, and there are some elite soldiers in his subordinates, and there are masters in the guards, but few people have such a magnanimity.

In addition to these people, Shen Guang sent a hundred people in more than ten batches from nowhere before. Huang Weiyang found them the clothes of the guards and arranged them in the guards guarding the north gate. These people looked indifferent and had a hard temperament, and they looked like tough people from the look of their gestures.

"These people are the masters of the Far East Army's military intelligence office." Huang Weiyang thought to himself.