The scimitar they are accustomed to can be used to chop down trees, but compared with the logging axe, it is a joke.

Not to mention the backwardness of the barbarians' knife-making technology, the shape of the scimitar alone is not suitable for cutting trees. To cut down a tree as thick as the mouth of a bowl, three scimitars need to be chopped off.

The most troublesome thing is that there are no tools for making siege equipment.

They could only cut down the trees and make simple ladders to climb the city. Even the outer bark of the trees could not be processed, which seemed extremely primitive.

Don't even think about the chariots that hit the city gates, the rams that hit the city walls, the catapults that threw stones, the columbines that were taller than the city walls and could carry archers, etc.

Not to mention that the barbarians present did not understand the production technology at all. Even if they did, without professional tools, making these siege equipment would not be much more difficult than rubbing an AK by hand.

After two busy days, hundreds of horses were exhausted, and more than 300 scimitars were cut off, the barbarian cavalry made more than 70 wooden ladders.

In the early morning of the third day, Haruyi could no longer bear it and launched a second attack on the city.

More than three thousand cavalrymen rushed straight towards the city wall.

Haruyu still plans to use the human sea tactic this time.

After all, he had already counted the number of soldiers on the walls of this small county town.

There are only about two hundred people.

Not to mention anything else, the city can be easily broken by just changing the cavalry.

But what Haruyi never expected was that just when the cavalry rushed a hundred meters away from the city wall, the horses rushing at the front broke their hooves one after another, and the huge horses rolled forward and fell.

For a cavalryman on horseback, no matter how superb his horse control skills are, it will be of no use at this time.

They were either thrown away or pinned down by the horses.

But even if it is thrown away, it will be trampled to death by the horses that follow.

And being pinned down by a war horse, you can't escape the fate of serious injury or death.

A war horse weighing at least 600-700 kilograms, after rolling over and pressing on a person, would result in direct internal rupture.

This is actually the horse trap hole that Fang Xiaoyue sent people to dig outside the city every day at night.

To this end, he also asked the blacksmith to create special digging tools.

A shovel similar to the Luoyang shovel can be inserted into the ground and stepped on with one leg to dig out a hole with a depth of one foot and a diameter of fifteen centimeters in one go.

As long as a war horse steps on such a pothole, the horse's own huge strength will directly break the horse's legs.

In the past few days, the people of Qiongshui County have dug countless such holes within a radius of 100 meters.

According to Fang Xiaoyue's estimate, this is almost five per square meter.

Therefore, as long as these barbarian cavalry ride their horses and charge within a hundred meters, they basically cannot escape the fate of their horses' legs being broken.

Of course, this would not be difficult for those barbarian cavalry at all.

Since there is a horse trap, it is better to dismount and walk for a while.

But just as they reined in their horses and dismounted to walk, arrows from the city wall were shot sparsely.

At this time, the barbarian cavalry not only had to be careful to identify the horse trap holes under their feet to prevent themselves from accidentally sinking their legs, but they also had to rush forward despite missing arrows.

The number of casualties caused by the broken legs of the war horses was over a hundred. Later, when arrows were missing and they slowly charged forward, more than a hundred were lost.

If Haruyu hadn't asked some cavalry to fire arrows on the spot in time to counterattack, more people would have died.

In other words, by the time they rushed to the city wall, their losses had exceeded three hundred.

Before they could put the wooden ladders they were carrying on the city wall, wooden spoons stretched out from the city wall, pouring down spoonfuls of golden juice, which made the cavalry scream in agony.

Of course, there will be losses when attacking a city, and Haruyi admits this.

What's more, these siege cavalry are actually just herdsmen summoned, not elites.

In this way, Haruya will not feel so painful.

What's more, he also led more than 600 elite cavalrymen to serve as a formation supervisor, guarding behind those cavalrymen. If anyone dared to escape, a row of arrows would miss.

Under such circumstances, the herdsmen and cavalry had to desperately put up wooden ladders on the city wall, then put their scimitars in their mouths and climbed up as hard as they could.

It has to be said that when people work hard, they can do many things that they cannot usually do.

After losing more than two hundred cavalry, the herdsmen cavalry finally fought and opened a gap in the city wall.

More than a dozen herdsmen cavalrymen waved their scimitars desperately and forced the county soldiers back. The following herdsmen cavalrymen climbed up the city wall and joined the battle.

But at this time, with the sound of a high-pitched gong, the county soldiers retreated from the city wall one after another, and quickly withdrew to the second city wall in accordance with the regulations of the previous drill.

"The city is broken!"

Haruya couldn't help but become happy when he saw this scene, and he ran in a hurry and rushed to the bottom of the city wall.

But when he climbed up the city wall, he couldn't help but froze.

Those Daze people actually built another city wall behind the city wall!

Although the second city wall looks far less strong than the first city wall, many of the walls were built using existing houses. The wood, bricks and stones are mixed together, and it looks like they will fall down if pushed.

But it was this city wall that firmly blocked the ecstatic cavalry from outside.

In fact, at this time, many cavalrymen had already jumped off the city wall and rushed towards the second city wall.

But what made Haruya furious was that there were many remaining ruins of houses between the two city walls.

When the cavalry rushed along the narrow streets, a spear would stab out from the ruins of the houses from time to time, stabbing the unprepared cavalry to the ground.

What's even more terrible is that the second city wall is more than two meters higher than the first city wall. More than thirty archers stand on it, shooting down a sparse rain of arrows towards the first city wall.

Due to the direction and angle, when the arrow shot from the second city wall missed, the barbarian cavalry standing on the first city wall had no room to hide and could only watch the arrow miss and enter their bodies.

"#@%#&!*"

Haruya didn't know what to curse when he saw this scene.

Is the enemy too cunning, or is he too stupid?

And even Haruya himself didn't know how to deal with this situation.

Withdraw?

So before, more than 300 people were killed just by attacking the city, and dozens of people have been killed since climbing the city wall.

This is a loss of almost four hundred people.

If we retreat, these four hundred men will be lost in vain.

Will we have to fill in so many people for the next siege?

But if we hold on or continue to attack, we will undoubtedly continue to lose more cavalry.

However, the attack in Qiongshui County did not stop because of Haruyu's dumbfounded appearance.

Archers kept shooting arrows, and spears were thrust out from the ruins on both sides of the street. Even the cavalry who rushed into the ruins to engage in street fighting could not please them.

The passages in those ruins have been carefully designed. There is only one passage for one person to rush in, but those who stay inside can have several people stabbing spears at the same time.

Under such circumstances, the cavalry without horses would be doomed.

Even if Haru opened the city gate and allowed the cavalry to ride in on their horses, the narrow roads and ruins were not a smooth path for the cavalry to charge.

After hesitating for a moment, Haruya suddenly saw something in his eyes.

It's a bed crossbow!

Those Daze people actually forgot to take away their bed crossbows!

The excited Haruyu immediately ordered his men to turn the heavy crossbow in an attempt to attack the enemy with their weapons.

But when the cavalrymen panted and turned their bed crossbows at the risk of missing arrows, they discovered that the two bed crossbows couldn't be used at all.

The damn Daze people actually pulled out the most critical trigger.

The bed crossbow is entirely made of fine mahogany, but the trigger is made of metal iron.

Without this thing, the bed crossbow can't shoot.

As for building a trigger on site?

It's simply impossible. Even the blacksmiths in Qiongshui County can't make it, let alone these barbarian cavalry who don't understand anything at all.

Of course, the most important thing is that the Daze people also took away all the crossbow arrows specially designed for bed crossbows.

In short, Haru was excited for a long time, and after the cavalry put in a lot of effort, the bed crossbow couldn't be used.

Under such circumstances, Haruyi finally had no choice but to order a retreat.

Before, he had thought about using a riding bow to shoot at the enemy.

Unfortunately, the shooting range of the cavalry bow is only fifty meters. Standing on the city wall, there is no way to shoot to the second city wall. And if you rush to the street and shoot, you will undoubtedly only give the enemies ambushing in the ruins a chance.

Of course, Haruyi also made up his mind to make more wooden shields before attacking the city next time!

With wooden shields, you can at least defend the outer city wall! Then slowly wear down the opponent's troops.

When Haru's soldiers withdrew with the barbarian cavalry, the county soldiers of Qiongshui County quickly reoccupied the city wall, and completely blocked and filled the city gates destroyed by Haru's soldiers with stones and soil.

Haruyi had thought about ambushing some people on the city wall, but unfortunately there was no place to ambush.
To be continued...