Chapter 113 Another Plan

Listening to the sound of drums and shouting and killing suddenly outside the city, Zuo Liangyu's heart jumped a few times, as if he had been grabbed by an invisible hand. For a moment, he actually made him feel a little suffocated.

After three consecutive days of bombardment, the stacks on the city wall were almost collapsed. The city wall was full of rubble. During this period, the officers and soldiers who were bombarded were mixed with broken arms and corpses. Blood flowed down the inside and outside the city wall, dyeing many places dark red, and the air was also filled with a strong corpse. There are still many injured officers and soldiers lying under the city, wailing from time to time. They have no medical officers to treat them, so they can only lie down and wait to die. Many people's wounds have rotted because the weather is too hot. A large number of flies buzzing around their wounds, like hell on earth.

Zuo Liangyu finally realized the sharpness of the artillery fire of the Xing Tianjun. When he was in Henan, he was hit by the artillery fire of the Xing Tianjun, but it was far less powerful than this time. In the past three days, the cannons outside the city have hardly stopped. They came one after another, hitting all kinds of shells into the city and hit the city wall. At the beginning, he could force people to go up to defend the city, but today, no matter how he kills, no one is willing to go up and die, so that a large number of officers and soldiers huddled at the foot of the city wall and trembled, and their faces were full of despair. If such morale could defend Jingzhou City, it would be really damned.

But Zuo Liangyu is still unwilling. After all, he has been operating here for so long. Although he knows that he can't defend Jingzhou City, he can't let Xing Tianjun occupy Jingzhou City so cheaply. Moreover, he still has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses stationed in Jingzhou City, and he can still fight.

When the sentinel on duty in the city exclaimed the news that the Xingtian Army outside the city had begun to attack, Zuo Liangyu once again caught up with his subordinates on the city wall. Some people did not want to go up and die. As a result, their heads were chopped off by his own soldiers on the spot. As a last resort, these ragged officers and pale officers and soldiers had to trembling. The fish went up to the wall, but there were rows of bullets that greeted them. Many people didn't even stand firmly on the wall, so they were immediately knocked down on the wall and rolled down with a scream, causing a scream.

Such a situation could not attract any sympathy for Zuo Liangyu. He still ordered to continue to force the soldiers to go to the city, regardless of their fate.

The rows of firearms were directly under the cover of the rowing car, approaching dozens of steps away from the city wall. In rows, under the command of the officers, rows of firecrackers were fired at the city. As soon as many officers and soldiers appeared, they would be immediately knocked over on the wall, and the bunkers on the wall have been basically destroyed by various artillery. The officers and soldiers had almost no place to hide. They could only stand on the rubble, screaming and falling, while picking up and throwing something at the bottom of the city. Some officers and soldiers lifted some boards on the wall and temporarily used them as a shelter to cover their bodies. However, Xing Tianjun brought a large number of light three-pound guns directly close to the bottom of the city wall. It fired directly at the city, and the gun chamber was loaded with large bullets and some small iron bullets. Each bombarded, the officers and soldiers in the city fell piece by piece. The corpses of officers and soldiers fell down the wall like dumplings, and the blood quickly converged into a stream and flowed down the broken wall.

A large number of Xingtian army officers rushed to the foot of the city wall with their shields under the cover of artillery fire behind them. They tried their best to erect the long ladder on the wall, and then risked the arrows dropped or shot on the city and began to land on the city, and the officers and soldiers in the city were also driven crazy. Behind them were a row of Zuo Liangyu's cronies. They stared at them one by one with snow-bright knives. They put sharp arrows on the hard bows and waited for them to turn around and escape from the city wall, so they attacked them. Under the city were a group of Xingtian army troops, who rushed up, so that they had no way to go to the sky and finally had to fight. The resistance, hoping to stop the attack of the Xingtian Army.

Under normal circumstances, if the attackers want to attack the city, it is likely to conquer the enemy city at least more than three times that of the defenders. However, this law is no longer practical for Xing Tianjun. Although Xing Tianjun's troops are not many, their combat effectiveness is strong, and the number of artillery and gun equipment is ten times higher than The enemy in the city, so they didn't think about it at all. They just wanted to attack the city as soon as possible.

At the beginning of the siege, it showed an incandescent state. The two armies fought to the death on the upper and lower walls of the north of Jingzhou. Although the defenders were not strong enough, they were condescending and occupied geographical advantages. If they casually dropped a brick, they might kill and hurt the subordinates of the Xingtian Army, but the Xingtian Army The firearms and light cannons kept shooting the defenders in the city, and the two sides fought fiercely as soon as they fought.

After half a day of fierce fighting, Xing Tianjun still failed to attack the city wall, but it killed and injured many defenders in the city, but their casualties were not too small. At noon, Xiao Tianjian ordered to withdraw and rest. After that, he fought again in the afternoon, he took advantage of almost all departments to report the losses to Xiao Tianjian and came down all morning. Xing Tianjun paid the price of the death of a deputy battalion general, two company commanders and four deputy company commanders. In addition, more than 300 soldiers were killed and basically the same number of soldiers were injured. However, on the contrary, the casualties of the defenders in the city were at least 2,000. Zuo Liangyu did not use his soldiers as people. It can be said that he was completely driving away. These people who were caught by him as cannon fodder were using human lives to stop the Xingtian army from attacking the city. The angry Xiao Tianjian couldn't help gritting his teeth and wanted to tear up Zuo Liangyu, the bastard.

All departments are a little aggrieved. Although they have killed and injured many defenders in the city, most of them are cannon fodder, not Zuo Liangyu's cronies. It can be said that they can't take much advantage of this kind of play, but they still suffer a little.

And Zuo Liangyu had a hard time in the city. Although he was not sorry for these soldiers, after all, these people also had brains. In the morning, he could still force them to go to the city, but at noon, he had found that the soldiers had signs of mutiny. If it was like this in the morning, he would force them to go to the city by killing people. If so, there will be a large-scale mutiny in the city in the afternoon, otherwise he will be in danger.

So Zuo Liangyu turned his eyes and immediately ordered his cronies to take over these cannon fodder to guard the city in the afternoon. At the same time, he sent people to take the women and even children around the city to prepare.

(The number of words in this chapter is a little less. After all, it's too late to start typing words today. I have 9,000 words a day! Ha ha!)