Chapter 323 Brutal Battle(1/3)
The three-bow bed crossbow has a long range and great power.
The effect of covering the siege troops was very obvious. Wu Yi did not want the Wei army to deal with it calmly, but he also knew that he would continue to shoot indiscriminately.
It is also difficult for the siege troops to attack the city.
In the midst of anxiety, Wu Yi suddenly said loudly: "All the bed crossbows moved forward fifty steps."
"No!"
The crossbowmen finished firing a round of shots,
He quickly pushed the bed crossbow fifty steps forward. This time the Han army attacked Hongnong with the purpose of capturing the city.
However, because Emperor Liu Chan took away 200,000 troops, the Han army could not mobilize many troops at the moment.
Wu Yi only had 35,000 men, but he also knew that Hongnong's garrison also had 30,000 men.
That's because in the last battle of Hefei, the Han army suddenly attacked Hongnong. Cao Wei naturally knew the importance of Hongnong, so he sent more defenders.
How can 35,000 men defeat a city with 30,000 defenders?
"Keep shooting!"
After the bed crossbow extended fifty steps forward, Wu Yi ordered the bed crossbow to continue attacking.
During the pause when the Han army pushed the crossbows forward, the Wei army thought that the Han army knew that their siege troops were approaching the city wall, so they stopped shooting. They had been waiting for this moment.
Feather arrows, rolling logs, and stones soon began to greet the Han army who was about to climb the city.
Suddenly, wailing sounds were heard from all over the city wall, and Han soldiers were constantly hit by arrows, or injured and killed by rolling logs and stones, and the scene fell into chaos.
But not long after the Wei army was happy, the Han army's crossbow arrows came again overwhelmingly. Seeing the black crossbow arrows flying in the sky, the Wei army was so shocked that they hurriedly stomped toward the city wall to avoid it, and at the same time shouted: "The Han army's crossbow arrows are coming again."
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"Hide quickly!"
"Hide quickly!"
"Cum!"
"Smash it quickly!"
"Shoot them to death, crush them to death."
There were various sounds and chaos throughout the city, and the Han army was climbing the city wall.
They were also a little panicked. According to their understanding, when they rushed to the base of the city wall, the crossbows would stop shooting. As for them, they had to find their own way to avoid the various threats such as arrows, rolling wood, rocks, and hot oil on the city.
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But at this moment, they also saw the dark rain of arrows in the sky.
However, before they could panic, they found that the arrows flew over the city and flew straight into the city. Soon, the soldiers at the city heard screams from the inner city.
The Wei army at the top of the city was a little confused, but the Han army was overjoyed. The short pause gave them a rare opportunity to charge.
"Hurry up!"
"Quick, quick, quick!"
Wei Jun is naturally not a puppet, and he panicked briefly.
It may cause them to panic for a short time,
But this is a battlefield after all, so they are panicking.
It was only temporary. In just a few breaths, they came back to their senses.
They also understood the purpose of the Han army.
The crossbows of the Han army had a longer range. Previously, their range was to cover the city head in order to allow the siege troops to quickly approach the city.
But now, the siege troops have begun to climb the city. Naturally, they cannot continue to shoot at the city head, because that will accidentally injure their own soldiers.
So——
They chose to use crossbows to attack the inner city indiscriminately, because the city head was so big that it could not accommodate too many soldiers defending the city. However, there were a large number of Wei troops in the city near the city gate. They were serving as backup, waiting for replenishment at any time.
Go up to the city and defend the city.
Of course, they also wanted to prevent the city gate from being breached, and they could also block the Han army entering the city here.
Crossbow arrows attacked the city, and the soldiers in the city who were close to the city gate hurriedly retreated as far away as possible, trying to get out of the range of the crossbow arrows.
However, the first round of attacks also killed hundreds of Wei soldiers.
On the edge of the city, the Han soldiers continued to risk their lives to climb to the city. Now that they had no cover from crossbows, the Wei army at the city would not let them easily climb the city.
Wang Ling personally directed the battle.
"Smash them all, and don't allow a single Han army to enter the city."
While Wang Ling was shouting, he was also bending his bow and drawing an arrow. As a prefect of a county, he is certainly not an ordinary person.
Whoosh, whoosh!
Wang Ling's archery skills are good, and almost all arrows are missed. Whenever his arrows are shot, a Han soldier will fall from the ladder.
Wails and shouts of killing occurred one after another.
In an instant, the area near the base of the city wall became a purgatory on earth.
War is cruel. Whether it is the Han army who wants to climb the city or the Wei army who wants to stop the Han army from climbing the city, they have long been used to it.
Kill kill kill——
No one retreated, and no one showed mercy.
Wu Yi in the distance looked at the Han troops rolling down the ladder, and he was very anxious.
He didn't bring many people, so if he dies, he will lose one.
"Bed crossbow moves forward fifty steps!"
Wu Yi urged his horse to follow the bed crossbow. This distance was close to the firing range of the Wei army's bed crossbow, but Wu Yi could no longer control so much.
"Get on the rocket!" Wu Yi said loudly.
"No!"
The crossbowmen were well prepared. They immediately put on flammable rockets and continued to fire towards Hongnong City. Only this time, what flew towards Hongnong City were not simple arrows, but rockets with flames.
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Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
What originally looked like a black rain of arrows turned into sparks all over the sky, and the soldiers in the city were immediately startled.
"Quickly retreat!"
"Quickly retreat!"
"The Han army is going to burn the city."
"The Han army is going to burn the city."
This was beyond Wei Jun's expectation. The city was full of houses with brick and wood structures, and Hongnong City was not big, but there were many people living in the city.
At this moment, rockets suddenly shot into the inner city, quickly setting fire to the houses in the city.
When the people and merchants who were hiding in the houses saw the rocket, they didn't care about anything else and hurriedly retreated toward the east gate.
The fire in the city is getting bigger and bigger, and the soldiers guarding the city can naturally see it.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
Wang Ling's eyes were bloodshot at this time, and he looked at the Han army in the distance fiercely. He was very upset. He did not expect that the Han army would use this move. This was a rhythm that even the people in the city would not miss.
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But Wu Yi was too far away from him, so he could only vent all his anger on the Han army who was climbing the city.
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"Smash them to death!"
"Smash them to death!"
"Shoot!"
"Shoot!"
The Han army encountered a tenacious resistance and fought fiercely for nearly an hour, but not a single soldier reached the top of the city. On the contrary, there were already piles of corpses of two to three thousand Han soldiers under the city.
"General!" Yulin Colonel Jiang Bin said with a sad face: "This can't continue like this. Our army will suffer too many losses. If we continue to fight, our army's strength will become smaller and smaller."
"General!"
Wu Yi naturally knew it too.
"Second team, enter!" Wu Yi shouted.
To be continued...