sweeping the world

Chapter 199
"shoot!"

Today is the seventh day since Yao Lan and Yao Jing led the army to arrive. Qianliutian seemed dull and peaceful, but the false tranquility was destined to be broken.

The arrows shot from the top of the city do not appear to be too dense. They are arrows fired by archers standing in a straight line within about 2000 meters of the horizontal line. The kinetic energy then falls downward, forming a projectile.

The siege troops looked quite mixed, not only were they dressed in various styles, but they were actually a mixed formation of the Yao family army and the Qingzhou army, with a number of about [-].

The siege party in the front row carried a wooden shield in their hands. When the arrow was shot from the city wall, the shield was already held high. When the arrow fell, there were frequent bursts of metal hitting the wood, which was also a There was a scream.

The total number of soldiers who are shooting arrows is [-]. Each shot is fired by [-] archers. One wave of arrows is followed by the next wave. The pause time of each wave is only about two breaths, forming a dense Not high but continuous blocking, each wave can always take the lives of dozens of attacking parties, causing more people to be injured and lose their combat power.

The enemy army of about 400 lost about [-] people and approached the bottom of the city wall. Because the city wall was not angular, the archers had to stick out their upper bodies to shoot arrows, which would cause unnecessary casualties.

"Archers retreat, auxiliary soldiers throw wood and rolling stones!"

A large number of auxiliary soldiers rushed forward, picked up thick and long wood and stones, and threw them down.After they began to throw down the trees and rolling stones, frequent and shrill screams came from below, which showed how densely the people below were crowded to avoid the arrows from the city wall.

After a few muffled noises, the attacking party erected the wooden ladder. Those muffled noises were the hooks of the wooden ladder being nailed to the city wall.

Li Kuang walked quickly to a battlement with his saber in hand, chopped off the hook of the wooden ladder after a few chops.

Some soldiers nailed the wooden ladder with a long push handle, and pushed forward together. The wooden ladder was pushed backwards like that. Leaving, the wooden ladder slammed back heavily into the crowded crowd, causing endless howls.

Most of the wooden ladders hooked on the battlements were pushed down, cheers sounded from the city wall, but the next moment was covered by a burst of drums, it turned out that there were more enemy troops approaching, and those newly approaching enemy troops looked like archers.

"Archers, shoot at the enemy archers!"

The archers on the city wall stand on a high ground, so they naturally have an advantage in range. The attacking side obviously knew this, so they didn't invest in the archers from the beginning. They first used troops to approach the city wall to force the defenders to stick to it. Squeeze the space for the archers at the top of the city, and the siege party sends out archers to cover and shoot.

Looking at the situation on the city wall, the auxiliary soldiers need to throw down logs and rolling stones, which are destined to occupy the positions of the battlements, and some melee soldiers need to occupy positions to prevent the enemy from climbing up from the siege ladder. There is even less space left for the archers, so it is obvious that the siege's strategy will succeed.

Although the defender's archers reacted quickly and stayed behind the city wall to follow the command and shoot arrows, the siege team had already reached a position where they could shoot arrows before that.

There was another "shoot!", but this time it came from the besieger's mouth.Their archery doesn't pay attention to what is continuous, it is simply shooting arrows as a whole at the same time, causing a "dark cloud" to rise from the flat ground and rush towards the city.

The shrill "shield upright!" and "dodge" were yelled out from the mouths of officers at all levels on the city wall.

The next moment, the archers at the head of the city shot arrows, and the shield soldiers beside the archers raised their shields.

It was the arrows from the siege party that arrived first. Although there had been a reminder in advance, it was impossible for people with individual consciousness to respond immediately after hearing the reminder. Blood flowers, muffled groans appeared first, followed by screams.Menhen means being shot directly at the vital point and killed immediately, while screaming means the injured person yells out.

The sounds of screams, voices, and arrows pointing at the city walls and shields were very dense. The next moment was the shout of "Crack" from someone's mouth. The shield soldiers protecting the archers removed their shields, and the archers Fire arrows at the command "Shoot!"

Taking advantage of the gap, Li Kuang raised his head slightly to look out from the arrow stack, and saw the enemy archers below shoot another dense rain of arrows, so he couldn't help shouting: "Vertical shield!"

Some of the defenders who were poking their heads quickly retreated, crowding people to hide behind the battlements. Some of them were pale, and some could still smile. All kinds of human states were staged on the battlefield where they could lose their lives at any time.

First, a few desolate horns were blown, and then bursts of teeth-piercing voices sounded suddenly. Li Kuang turned his head and saw that the sound came from a specially elevated position, on which a bed crossbow was arranged.

There are many facilities that have been specially heightened and covered with skins. They are mobile machines with wheels. There are not only bed crossbows on them, but also catapults.

The thick crossbow bolts fired at high speed cannot be caught by the naked eye at the beginning of the launch. They flew out for a certain distance and lost their initial kinetic energy when they left the string. The speed slowed down before they appeared. They can be seen and also indicate that they are not far away from falling.

Yao Lan and Yao Jing, who were about a thousand meters away from the city wall, could still relax and chat and laugh. They saw that the archers they sent were covered and shot by at least thirty bed crossbows. A crowd of people, penetrating at least three or four people can still "pick up" people and throw them back, the expressions of the two froze immediately.

The thick crossbow shot by the bed crossbow was so lethal that it killed at least a hundred of them in just one volley, which was equivalent to three victories for a thick bed crossbow.

For the number of people above 100, the loss of [-] people may not be that much, but it was the killing of a round of bed crossbows, and the people who were shot to death looked so miserable that they were so scared to see that scene People can't help but tremble in their legs.

The din of the battlefield suddenly quieted down for a while, and then a louder sound came out. It was the cheering of the defenders at the top of the city, and the uproar of the attacking party below.

Li Kuang frowned slightly, and thought: "Put the crossbow on the bed so soon?"

Large-scale city defense equipment is only used in emergencies, and Li Kuang does not think it is a critical moment.

This is only a local battlefield, and fighting is also taking place in other directions.

The enemy troops of the Han Dynasty did not just launch an attack on one city wall, they didn't even talk about the routine of encircling the city at all. They surrounded all four walls and launched an attack on all sides at the same time.

Encircling the Three Queyi is a routine that Chinese civilization pays attention to. At the beginning, it was to leave a back road so that the defenders did not have the will to die.

The simplest example is that even in the face of the weakest defenders, the attackers of the Chinese civilization will still besiege three and one.What's more, even when defending, they will leave deliberately weak positions, and talk about the routine of "imperfect" because they are afraid of God's jealousy. For example, the original Xiami City had a deliberately weak city wall, or it was blocked by the Han Dynasty later. superior.This kind of thinking has continued into modern times. For example, in the famous Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War, there were even some shells that were deliberately not fired. (Later, it was said that sand was deliberately installed in the novel, and Krupp’s shells were filled with sand. Don’t you know that the “individual case” in assembly line production costs more? Labor costs are more expensive than the original gunpowder that should be loaded!)
Although the Hu people entered the Central Plains, they did not integrate into the Chinese civilization, so they would not follow the routine of the Chinese civilization army.

The battle didn't just happen on the city wall defended by Li Kuang, but also on the four densely guarded city walls. It's just how much troops should be invested by both sides.

The new attached army assigned to Zicheng is also facing its own challenges. The new attached army lieutenant Wang Pu is still serving as the deputy. The three thousand new attached army cooperates with a group of Han soldiers to defend Zicheng. Proposal to take charge.

Liu Zheng was responsible for the main attack on Zicheng. He used a strategy similar to that of Yao's army, which was to send some troops to bear the losses and attract the attention of the city. He wanted to send archers while the defenders were attracted, and then send out his own troops. Archers cover the defenders on the walls.

Zicheng is not a square and straight city wall like the main city of Xiami, but a kind of corner with a hexagram shape. This kind of city wall does not have any shooting dead ends at all. The troops Liu Zheng sent to attract the defenders at the top of the city are Bearing the loss, they arrived under the city wall, but they were not safe under the city wall. They were shot one by one by the archers at the top of the city like shooting rabbits, causing the attackers below to be just After staying for less than half a quarter of an hour, he collapsed and fled.

The camp, which is the corner of the sword, is also under attack. Unlike the other two directions that have the city wall as a backing, the battle here has fallen into hand-to-hand combat after the first few waves of arrows.

The main city of Xiami, the sub-city, and the barracks were all three places where wars broke out. It was because the Yao family army and the Qingzhou army had an absolute superiority in numbers and were bullying the Han tribe.

Yao Lan and Yao Jing supervised the attack on the main city of Xiami, and temporarily withdrew the attacking troops after discovering a bed crossbow at the top of the city, adopting a strategy of harassing the main city of Xiami. Turn your attention to the side of the camp caught in hand-to-hand combat.

Liu Yan was indifferent to Yao's army turning their main attack target to the camp, but Lu Yi, who was in Zicheng, was worried when he found that Yao's army's main attack target had changed to the camp.

In the final analysis, the Han tribe really does not have an advantage in terms of numbers. If you count the auxiliary soldiers, militiamen, servants, new attached troops, and slave soldiers, there are 7000 people from the Han tribe in the main city of Xiami, and 4000 in the sub-city. People, there are 7000 people in the camp.

"There are [-] tribal armed forces in the camp..." Lu Yi thought worriedly, "Is there such an elite that can hold it?"

(End of this chapter)