OBS Chapter 314: Capture 2 Cities in 2 Days
Chapter 314: Capture 2 Cities in 2 Days
Cheng Yu, carrying the three hundred divine arm bows and thirty small-sized thunder bombs allocated by His Royal Highness the Regent, led fifteen thousand troops to attack Mozhou and Yingzhou.
Mozhou City was not very big, and its garrison consisted of only more than 3,000 soldiers. When they learned that Zhuozhou City had been captured by the Song army, cutting off the retreat routes of Mozhou and Yingzhou, the people were already panicked and the army was in chaos.
At this moment, with 15,000 Song soldiers approaching the city, the defenders on the city wall no longer had the determination to defend the city to the death. Especially the half of the Han army, they were secretly thinking about how to save their lives and surrender.
Cheng Yu ordered the Divine Arm Archers to go forward and provide cover fire with arrows. Several small-sized thunder bombs were thrown onto the city wall by the catapults. After the violent explosion, there was chaos on the city wall.
These small thunder bombs had little killing power, but they were extremely intimidating. The Liao army garrison commander's desperate shouting of military orders was ineffective. Not only did the Liao army's Khitan soldiers scream and run for their lives, but the Han army, under the command of several generals, turned against them and killed the Khitan soldiers.
Cheng Yu slapped his thigh with joy!
: "Damn it! The enemy has rebelled. Hurry up and get up the siege ladders. Speed up the siege."
In less than an hour, Mozhou City was captured, the city lord was shot to death, and the Khitan soldiers were annihilated by the Han soldiers and the Song army that climbed up the city wall.
When Cheng Yu and several lieutenants rode their war horses into Mozhou City, they were still grinning from ear to ear. This battle was so easy and fun!
It wasn't difficult and there wasn't much loss of soldiers, so there's no need to rest. Let's attack Yingzhou City directly tomorrow!
Yingzhou City had 12,000 defenders, 6,000 Khitan soldiers and 6,000 Han soldiers.
When Cheng Yu led his army to the city, he did not rush to attack the city. Instead, he sent out a thousand Han army heroes who had turned against Mozhou to launch a round of psychological warfare under the city wall.
The Han soldiers held loudspeakers made of thin iron sheets and shouted at the Han soldiers on the city wall to persuade them to surrender.
"Brothers of the Han army on the city!... His Highness the Regent Prince, the God of War of the Song Dynasty, has led his army to capture Zhuozhou City!... We are the Han army of Mozhou City. We turned the tables and surrendered, and we got the first credit for breaking the city! Not only will we save our lives, but we will also be rewarded with ten taels of silver!... Brothers! Hurry up and pick up your weapons, turn the tables, kill the Khitans, and surrender the city to gain merit!..."
The defenders on the city wall were in a commotion, and the Han soldiers, in their panic, had another kind of eager thought.
The defending general Satu was so angry that smoke came out of his head. The commander of the Song army who was attacking the city was too wicked. Instead of attacking the city, he disrupted the morale of my troops and tried to stir up a rebellion among me. How insidious he was.
He drew out his sword and raised it high, frowning and glaring, and shouted in a threatening voice: "Whoever dares to have a disloyal heart will be killed!"
The agitated Han army was frightened, but once they had their minds split, their fighting power was greatly reduced. With nearly half of the troops thinking about escaping and surrendering, how could they still have the morale to defend the city to the death?
After the Song army cooked and rested for a while, they launched another round of psychological warfare to disrupt the enemy's morale. Then, the Song army, with high morale, began the siege.
The three trebuchet teams assigned by Regent Zhao Defang hid in the Song army's trebuchet positions. The captain adjusted the target parameters with a ruler and waved the small flag!
The eighteen thunder bombs from the three catapults, mixed with the millstone-sized stones fired from other catapults, flew towards the Liao army on the city wall.
Most of the soldiers operating the catapults on the city wall were smart Han soldiers. After the commander Satu gave the order to launch, they had different ideas and hesitated in preparing to launch the catapults, thus losing the initiative in the first round of attack.
The millstone-sized stone hit the city wall accurately, and then, mixed in with the thunder, there were explosions one after another, "BOOM!... BOOM!... BOOM!..."
The flames and smoke filled the air, the Liao army's limbs flew everywhere, blood and flesh were blurred, and there were cries of the souls who had fled away...
Some of the frightened Han soldiers came to their senses, looked at each other, suddenly picked up their weapons, turned around and attacked the Khitan soldiers.
The siege troops prepared under the city wall immediately took action. The archers with the divine arm archery ran forward and raised their heads to fire to provide cover fire. Three thousand soldiers carrying siege ladders ran towards the city wall.
: "Hold on!... Kill these rebels and hold on to the enemy's siege!..." The commander, Satu, swung his sword at the rebellious Han army one by one, and desperately shouted to his subordinates to hold on!
Satu's decisive move to kill the rebels with his personal soldiers did not have a deterrent effect, but instead aroused more rebellion among the Han army.
More and more Han soldiers, who were usually inferior to others and bullied by Khitan soldiers and whose families were enslaved by Khitan nobles, took up their weapons and killed the Khitan soldiers.
Satu urgently mobilized the reserve troops under the city wall to go up to the city. The Khitan soldiers not only had to deal with the Song army attacking the city, but also had to deal with the increasing number of rebellious Han troops on the city wall. It was really miserable and extremely dangerous.
The first wave of Song troops that leapt onto the city wall from the siege ladders immediately engaged in a melee with the Liao army. As more and more Song troops climbed up the city wall using the siege ladders, the outcome became one-sided.
Satu roared in anger and jumped up with a knife in both hands. He split a Song army general in half with one blow, and his blood and intestines dyed the ground red.
With anger burning in Satu's scarlet eyes, he rushed towards the Song army that was climbing up the city wall on a siege ladder, brandishing the steel knife in his hand like a madman, killing several enemies.
A short arrow shot him in the face. A young general of the Song army holding a Zhuge Crossbow laughed wildly, "The Liao army commander was shot dead by someone. Why don't you surrender quickly!"
Satu's personal soldiers rushed over like crazy, but were shot to the ground by a volley of arrows. As the city gate was opened from the inside, the Song army's lightly armored cavalry rushed into the city, and Yingzhou City was breached.
The Song army and the Han army that surrendered in the city chased the fleeing Khitan soldiers hard. The Liao soldiers fled into the homes of the common people in panic, but were surrounded and beaten with wooden sticks and kitchen knives by the Han people who hated them so much.
After capturing two cities in two days, Cheng Yu was riding on a tall horse with high spirits. I, Cheng Yu, am able to create such a brilliant record in my life. This is really a proud and glorious moment in my life!
Such a brilliant record was all thanks to the magic bows and crossbows and thunder bombs allocated by His Royal Highness the Regent, which intimidated the enemy. If one wants to achieve great success, be rewarded for one's merits and have one's children honored, and leave one's name in history, choosing the right person is the most important thing.
Cheng Yuzhi walked into the government office of Yingzhou City with a sense of triumph, and ordered the treasury and granary to be sealed, and the property of the Khitan nobles to be confiscated and registered, waiting for the arrival of the civil servants to take over.
In accordance with the instructions of His Royal Highness the Regent, Cheng Yu ordered someone to send a letter to Yue Zhuangcheng, the governor of Cangzhou Prefecture, to transfer him to Yingzhou City to preside over government affairs.
When Yue Zhuangcheng learned that His Royal Highness the Regent had transferred him to Yingzhou City to serve as prefect, he immediately instructed the Tongpan to temporarily take charge of the government affairs of Cangzhou Prefecture. He packed his luggage and rushed to the newly recovered Yingzhou City to take up his post with great excitement.