Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 664 Becoming Precarious

Although Liu Bei and Zang Ba's digging tactics had an accident, the passage dug under the north wall of Pengcheng collapsed, and at least 50 auxiliary soldiers and young men were buried alive in it, but it also caused the north wall of Pengcheng to collapse with the passage below , a part of it collapsed.

As a result, a slope collapsed on the north city wall, allowing Liu Bei and Zang Ba to send troops directly through the slope to launch an attack on the city wall.

Although the slope is relatively steep and not easy to climb, it is equivalent to a V-shaped breach in the city wall facing the outside of the city, but Liu Bei and Zang Ba's soldiers can still climb up the city wall by leaning their bodies through this breach. .

This is much easier to climb than the ninety-degree city wall. You can directly rush up the rammed earth ramp that has collapsed without using a ladder.

So Liu Bei and Zang Ba stopped digging the city, and simply sent troops to attack the breach in Pengcheng. Lu Lingqi and others who were guarding the city did not expect such a change, so they had to organize their staff to defend the breach with all their strength. .

For a while, a brutal offensive and defensive battle broke out around this suddenly collapsed city wall area.

Liu Bei and Zang Ba organized a large number of archers to cooperate with the siege of the city, suppressing the defensive strength of the defenders on the city wall with feather arrows, and then teams of elite soldiers, like death squads, held shields and knives, and went through the breach. Charge on the city wall.

And Lu Lingqi also organized archers on the city wall to fight back against the city, and then asked people to roll fallen logs and boulders on the walls on both sides of the breach, and simply poured kerosene to ignite the flames, turning the breach into a It became a burning area to prevent the attacking soldiers from approaching.

But this can only block it for a while. As the flames are extinguished by the sand, earth and rocks, Liu Bei and Zang Ba's soldiers can charge forward again.

In addition, most of the soldiers in Pengcheng are new soldiers who have not been trained much. Under the threat of feather arrows under the city, many people are unavoidably cowardly and dare not move. Although some people have the courage to fight back, they do not obey orders at all. A lot of rolling logs and stones used to defend the city were wasted, which made the defense obviously weak.

Liu Bei and Zang Ba desperately organized the most elite and fierce soldiers to charge the city. Their reckless posture made the soldiers guarding the city flustered.

Several times, Liu Bei and Zang Ba's siege soldiers had rushed to the city wall, almost killing the scattered defenders on the city wall and gaining a foothold.

In desperation, Lu Lingqi could only personally lead Wei Xu and Cao Xing on the walls on both sides to deal with some soldiers who came up to stabilize the situation temporarily.

But their energy is limited after all, and generals such as Zhang Fei, Sun Guan, etc. will come up to Liu Bei and Zang Ba at any time. At that time, even Lu Lingqi will not be an opponent at all against Zhang Fei.

Lu Lingqi also wanted to organize people to repair the collapsed city wall, but in the face of Liu Bei's and Zang Ba's troops constantly rushing to kill, how could there be time to repair it.

Therefore, Pengcheng seems to be in danger at this moment.

At this time, a large group of soldiers suddenly came up from inside Pengcheng, and then crossbow machines appeared on the city wall, shooting a crossbow arrow at the soldiers of Liu Bei and Zang Ba below the city.

These crossbowmen obviously have a tacit training cooperation. Often, after the first one shoots the crossbow, he retreats, and then the other archer who has already loaded the crossbow shoots the crossbow again towards the city, and then retreats. , replaced by the next crossbowman.

All of a sudden, a group of three crossbowmen formed a group of crossbow arrows, and the crossbow arrows appeared on the city wall. The crossbow arrows seemed to be spraying down the city wall non-stop, and the offensive of Liu Bei and Zang Ba, who were attacking below, came to a standstill. Living.

And in the area where these crossbowmen are located, there are also shieldmen holding large shields to build an arrow-proof canopy, as if low-level arrow-proof fortifications have been constructed beside the arrow stacks on the city wall, allowing arrows thrown up from the city wall Feather Arrow suddenly became less threatening.

Therefore, the crossbowmen on the city wall can look and shoot crossbow arrows more confidently and boldly.

Occasionally, someone will be accurately shot by the archers under the city wall, but no matter whether the person hit by the arrow is alive or dead, someone will come up and replace it soon, so that the crossbow array will not stagnate much.

At the same time, at the gaps in the two city walls, there were also some heavily armored soldiers filling in with large shields, like man-made walls blocking the slope of the city wall, preventing the attacking soldiers from rushing up. city ​​walls.

And behind these heavily armored soldiers are soldiers holding spears one by one. They put the spears in the notch between the splicing of the large shield, and stabbed them out forcefully, stabbing the soldiers who charged up one by one into skewers.

Then there were also crossbow archers who aimed at the gap here, and fired several rounds of crossbow arrows. It was inevitable that the attacking soldiers who had piled up under the slope of the collapsed city wall suffered heavy casualties one by one. Many of their bodies were covered with crossbow arrows, like hedgehogs. He fell to the ground.

These filled defenders were obviously much more elite than the original Xuzhou recruits in Pengcheng. For a while, the attacking soldiers of Liu Bei and Zang Ba, who could not adapt, could not approach the gap in the city wall at all.

At this moment, the totem flag of the Shenjian Battalion was also lit up on the city wall, and a general flag with the word "Xu" was erected, but it turned out that Xu Shu brought the elite soldiers of the Shenjian Battalion from Guangling City to take over the defense here. .

Obviously, the sudden collapse of the north wall of Pengcheng was discovered by Xu Shu and Zhang Liao who were paying close attention to the battle here.

Xu Shu made a judgment immediately, and Zhang Liao led the way into the city through the other gate of Pengcheng, and then quickly rushed to Beicheng for support.

It was also thanks to Xu Shu's timely response that it happened just in time to stop the siege momentum of Liu Bei and Zang Ba's allied forces, otherwise Pengcheng would probably be broken.

In addition, more than 2000 of the arrow battalion soldiers brought by Xu Shu happened to be crossbowmen, which can be regarded as a terrifying unit for defending the city.

Originally, Tai Shici left Xu Shu to guard Guangling County, so he deliberately left these crossbowmen for Xu Shu to defend against possible changes, but now these crossbowmen appeared in time for Pengcheng's defense.

A crossbow arrow array composed of three people in rotation, two thousand crossbow archers can form at least six hundred groups, so six hundred crossbow arrows can form a continuous rain of arrows almost without stopping, which is naturally more terrifying than the threat of bows and arrows shooting feather arrows .

What's more, it is now a city defense battle, and the weak point of the relatively short range of crossbow arrows has also been eliminated. Shooting condescendingly from the city wall, a crossbow arrow can penetrate three points even if it is nailed to a shield.

However, if a crossbow arrow is pierced on a person, it will definitely penetrate the head and chest in one shot. Even wearing a battle helmet and leather armor will not have much defensive effect, so Liu Bei and Zang Ba's siege soldiers couldn't help but move backwards. They all retreated.

Even the archers under the city couldn't face the rain of crossbow arrows without stopping, and they all retreated after being shot for a while, losing a little courage to fight back...

(End of this chapter)