Chapter 170: Attack the city, capture the stronghold, armor thunder

Heze Street is located in an endless plain with no strategic location to defend, so the only option is to build the city to be stronger and taller, relying on numerous fortifications and tall city walls to defend the city.

The huge and majestic city is of a dark black color, dominating the vast plains, like a black prehistoric beast quietly crawling in the wilderness.

At the forefront of the Tang army, Flying Tiger General Li Cunxiao and White Robe General Xue Rengui stood on Li Ye's left and right.

"Your Highness, we need to attack the city as soon as possible, otherwise when the rest of Huang Chao's men return to rescue, the situation will be out of control."

Xue Rengui looked calmly at the towering city ahead and reported the situation to Li Ye.

"Why make it so complicated? Your Highness, allow me to release the power of the Ghost King. I can split this city in half with one strike!"

Li Cunxiao spoke in a muffled voice, not taking the so-called strong city seriously.

Li Ye said calmly:

"Are the siege equipment ready?"

Xue Rengui replied:

"We are ready. As long as Your Highness gives the order, we can attack the city immediately!"

The Tang army now brought out a large number of siege equipment from the Qixing Longquan, including hundreds of armored vehicles and thunder chariots, as well as several heavy crossbows.

An armored vehicle is a small vehicle covered with iron armor and has extremely strong defensive capabilities. It can carry soldiers inside and send them safely to the city to attack it.

As the name suggests, heavy crossbows are large crossbows that are used to break through city defenses from a long distance.

The Thunder Chariot is a device specially used to destroy arrow towers. When the army is attacking the bandits' stronghold, the infantry will find it particularly uncomfortable facing the arrow towers that are high above the stockade, so they have to find a way to destroy them. However, after all, not everyone has such magical powers as the Flying Tiger General Li Cunxiao and the King of Western Chu Xiang Yu, who can be brave enough to break down the city gate alone, so they used rubber bands and wood to make a thing that can throw solid objects such as rocks.

Unlike traditional catapults, the Thunder Cart is extremely easy to disassemble and carry. It is not as bulky as traditional catapults. It is a fixed target and is not convenient to disassemble and move. The Thunder Cart does not have this disadvantage. It just cannot break through the city walls, but it has no problem in effectively destroying the city defenses.

In addition, this armored vehicle is not only used to transport soldiers to siege the city. This armored vehicle made by the Tang army can not only escort infantry to siege the city, but also cooperate with the mechanism inside to clear obstacles on the battlefield. It can even ignore the gold juice and hot oil, and combine some rolling logs and stones to form a simple ladder. In comparison, the armored vehicle is the core tool of the Tang army for sieges.

These are just ordinary military equipment. In the underworld, with the blessing of spiritual materials and spiritual power, they are more sophisticated, more powerful and more effective. Various mechanisms are also added to increase functionality.

In addition, the mechanical masters in the Tang army also forged various advanced equipment that used spiritual power, such as the Vulcan Gun that relied on fire spiritual power, the Ice Spirit Cannon that relied on ice spiritual power, the Desolate Mysterious Thunder that relied on thunder spiritual power like a grenade, etc. Li Ye would naturally not use cavalry to attack the city, these were elite cavalry, and it would be a waste to use them to attack the city. Li Ye summoned a group of elite soldiers and heavy infantry wearing heavy armor from the Seven Star Dragon Spring.

When everything was ready at dusk, Li Ye ordered the elite soldiers who were familiar with the operation of armored vehicles to board these armored vehicles that were very effective in siege cities and strongholds, as well as the thunder chariots. Together with more than 10,000 heavily armored infantrymen, they marched towards the earthen cities near the city wall of Heze.

In Li Ye and Xue Rengui's conception, the initial goal was to clear the earthen city and the fortifications built by Huang Chao's army. It was not yet time to fight a formal battle to capture the city. It was just to clear a relatively comfortable offensive environment for their side.

With the help of these mechanical devices, and in coordination with the 10,000 heavily armored elite infantry, it will certainly be more than enough to accomplish this strategic goal.

Because they were very clear about the situation, morale and combat effectiveness on their side, they were not very worried about the soldiers under their command. They just wanted to suppress the opponent in momentum in the first battle, and prevent Huang Chao from being unethical and talking nonsense, and personally destroying these precious siege equipment that they had built with great difficulty and slaughtering their elite troops. Li Ye personally sat on a ladder, overlooking the battlefield from a high vantage point, and taking charge of the overall situation.

Wearing a golden dragon-patterned unicorn armor and holding his three-foot-long sword, the Seven-Star Dragon Spring, in his hand, Li Ye sat upright on the cloud ladder, as if he was sitting on a fishing platform. His eyes turned to the earthen city in the distance and looked into the distance.

A few miles ahead was the earthen city of Huang Chao's rebel army. With his amazing eyesight, Li Ye, who was a half-step great scorcher and whose physical body was extremely terrifying, could clearly see the crowds of people on the city wall and the big flags with the word "Huang" written on them fluttering in the wind.

The soldiers of Huang Chao's bandit army have already learned of their actions and are busy working nervously, apparently preparing to deal with the upcoming attack launched by their side.

And under the ladders were his ten thousand elite infantrymen. Wearing heavy armor and holding standard spears, they marched in unison, slowly and steadily towards their target with an earth-shaking momentum.

Blocking their way, less than ten miles in front of them, was the frontier position set up by Huang Chao's bandit army, about half a mile wide, lined up in a row to protect the front of the earthen city. There were many deer horns and hundreds of trenches on it, and many soldiers of Huang Chao's bandit army were lined up behind the deer horns, with sharp blades in their hands pointing directly at them.

There are arrow towers every few feet on top and behind the earthen city, and there are plenty of rebel soldiers on them, who can shoot down the attacking party at any time from a high position. Combined with the usual gold juice, hot oil, rolling logs and stones, the trouble caused to the general attacking party is extremely great.

This is not a random formation; it is obvious that they are well prepared.

However, Li Ye did not feel any wavering about these fortifications that blocked his march and prevented him from attacking Tucheng right away.

He glanced at the armored vehicles under his ladder vehicle and the thunder vehicle behind it, shrugged slightly, and a somewhat indifferent expression appeared on his face. After all, the fortifications of this earth city were unexpectedly conventional, without any new ideas. Everything was within his expectations.

"It's better to clean up these antlers and trenches first, otherwise we won't be able to launch subsequent attacks."

As for those arrow towers, they will be left to the Thunder Chariot troops.

(End of this chapter)