The net height of the naked city of Huaichuan City is less than two feet, the crenellated walls are only five feet high, and the crenellations are even lower.
The soldiers saw that the two ends of the northern city wall away from the tower were weakly defended. Immediately, a dozen strong men carried round shields on their backs and held them in their mouths, divided into two groups and climbed up with ropes.
The hooks used by the Red Husbands were connected to one end by a slender rope made of cooked cowhide, which was extremely tough. In addition to the elite soldiers who had ascended to the city first, there were dozens of soldiers approaching from the city, firing bows and arrows.
cover.
The garrison generals on both sides of the city hurriedly gathered at the enemy's entrance to the city. Braving the rain of arrows like a swarm of locusts, the swordsmen and shield-hands approached the wall with their shields raised, but the ordinary long swords were not very sharp, and they were in a hurry.
How many people can cut off the tough leather cord quickly and accurately?
In the blink of an eye, dozens of soldiers climbed up the wall, and they were very powerful. When they saw the spears coming, they opened their mouths and dropped the swords.
The movement was completed in an instant, and he raised his sword to kill the defenders near the crenel. Immediately, blood and flesh flew everywhere. Several defenders had no time to retreat and were beheaded in front of the crenel.
Fortunately, there were obstacles such as horses and antlers within two steps behind the wall. Most of the defenders stood behind the door and stabbed the outside with their spears and spears, and were not killed by these early soldiers.
There are only narrow passages in and out behind the crenels, restricting the soldiers who first climbed in to attack directly.
The soldiers who first climbed up were not in a hurry to seize the entire longitudinal section of the city wall. They stood in groups of three or four at a crenel, calmly took off the shield from behind, held it in their hands, blocked more spears and spears, and covered more.
A large number of soldiers climbed up the city by rope from behind.
The northern city wall is more than 2,000 steps long, but only more than 500 defenders are deployed, and the majority of them are county captains, swordsmen and archers. Seeing this scene, who dares to say that his hands and feet are not trembling and he is not panicked?
There are still too few military officers and generals with strong martial arts skills and strong bodies; most of them have not even experienced bloody battles. At this moment, their throats are dry and their breathing is tight. They just subconsciously shout loudly to order the soldiers to resist desperately.
However, most people had completely forgotten the tactical principles taught during the training at this moment, and few people could even remember the scale claw.
Even if there are some brave people who raise their swords and shields and step forward to kill and block, in front of the elite Red Guards who are already familiar with fighting together on the chaotic battlefield, three or five brave soldiers can't even make a splash when they are filled in.
He was soon chopped down in a pool of blood.
"The enemy troops have not passed through the east and west cities. Quickly call in the reserve troops to board the city!"
Meng Jie and Xu Kang looked at both ends of the north city wall. In the blink of an eye, dozens of soldiers were hacked to death by the captive soldiers in a pool of blood. Knowing that the fighting power of the defenders at the top of the city was too weak, even if hundreds of troops were gathered at these two places,
It may not be possible to drive down the soldiers who have already reached the top of the city.
What's more, there are only a few manpower at the top of the city, and the soldiers are gathering at both ends. There will only be a larger hole in the city wall, allowing the soldiers below the city to seize the larger gap and attack the city.
Meng Jie and Xu Kang were anxious and couldn't help but loudly remind Xu Huai to quickly mobilize the reserve team to climb the city.
Xu Huai turned a deaf ear to the shouts and screams of Meng Jie, Xu Kang and others.
He just watched with cold eyes as the captive soldiers took a stand at both ends of the northern city wall, and then quickly helped more than a hundred captive soldiers climb the city wall.
If there are no other arrangements, there is no way to drive hundreds of elite soldiers down with only five to six hundred weak soldiers on the city wall.
As the fierce battle progresses, more and more soldiers will attack the city, and they will soon break the will of the defenders. At that time, the soldiers will easily capture the tower and open the city gate so that the main force of the cavalry can attack.
Drive straight in.
Xu Huai had never thought that with five to six hundred weak soldiers, such a wide city wall could be defended watertight.
Before the soldiers attacked the city, Xu Huai used the horse-facing wall and war tent as nodes as much as possible to fill in obstacles such as horseback and deer antlers.
In order to delay as much as possible the time for the soldiers to attack the city tower from both wings, Xu Huai even placed a cart filled with stones and hammers across the city wall, and placed tung oil barrels that were intended to be lit and poured over the enemy troops across the city wall.
Instead of braving the enemy's precise fire, pushing rolling stones and wooden logs out of the crenels to hit the soldiers who were distracting the enemy from attacking, and burning tung oil and pouring it down.
These obstacles not only limited the rapid expansion of the enemy's victory after they boarded the city, but also allowed the defenders at the top of the city to rely on to intercept and divide the enemy soldiers who climbed the city.
These measures can not only slightly suppress the panic in the defenders' hearts, but also restrict the defenders from running around on the city wall after being defeated.
The more than 2,000-year-old city wall has only been breached at two points, allowing the soldiers to seize two footholds. What is there to be alarmed about?
Xu Huai just urged the warriors to keep beating the war drums so that the city guards could get through the initial panic faster.
Meng Jie and Zhu Kang soon discovered that although two small groups of defenders were killed at both ends of the city wall, chaos and panic did not spread wantonly at the top of the city. The soldiers who stormed the top of the city were blocked by obstacles and could not move around unscrupulously.
Sudden killing. Although the defenders were unable to drive the captives back, more people came to their senses and tried to restrain the captives from clearing the obstacles at the top of the city.
At this time, the Chihu people were forced to send more troops and horses to forcibly climb the city from different sections of the city wall in order to create more breakthroughs.
At this time, the reserve team was guarding the inside of the city wall. The prisoners still could not see through the reality of the city, so they did not dare to easily tie ropes and go down to the city to kill. The north tower that controlled the access to the city and the city gate would be their final destination.
A natural chasm that cannot be bypassed.
The Red Husband's penetration into the south of the Huaihe River was very limited, and they did not know when the reinforcements would cross the river. They had no patience to play around with the north city wall, and soon a large group of people came directly to the north city tower.
Although the hooks and ropes made of cooked cowhide are tough, the guards and soldiers around Xu Huai are all sharp weapons, and their cutting accuracy is far ahead of ordinary soldiers. What's more, Xu Huai and Chen Zixiao can cut the hooks and ropes without knocking them.
Injury to the edge.
The soldiers could not use simple hooks to directly attack the city from under the city tower and go around to both sides. However, the city tower stretched out more than ten feet, and the walls on both sides were one hundred to one hundred and fifty steps wide. They were between Xu Huai and Chen
Within the sight of Zixiao holding a bow and shooting.
If the captive soldiers dare to attach themselves to the city and rope up, they will be pure targets for Xu Huai and Chen Zixiao.
At first, the soldiers thought that the city wall was low. They thought that if there were enough people attached to the city at the same time, the ropes could be attached quickly enough, and each person wore an extra layer of leather armor, at most three or five people would be lost; this was also their reason.
Definitely an affordable price.
Xu Huai leaned against the wall with his shoulders and stepped on the rung of the horse. He kept taking arrows from the hands of the soldiers behind him and fired rapidly with three consecutive arrows. Almost every breath, three sharp arrows were shot out one after another.
Meng Jie and others looked out from the crevices of the crenels and saw six prisoners were shot dead as they approached the base of the city wall. Then, like dumplings, 11 soldiers from the attached city were shot down by Xu Huai.
With unimaginable speed and unimaginable accuracy, Xu Huai shot a bag of arrows into the air, and in the end only four soldiers climbed up to the top of the city.
No matter how weak the garrison at the top of the city was, they knew that the crowd was bullying them. Six or seven spears were aimed at one person, making it impossible for him to gain a foothold at the top of the city. Two people were soon assassinated, and the other two were not allowed to stand.
Instead of jumping off the city wall, he limped and curled up and fled to the outside.
On the side Chen Zixiao was guarding, there were more escaped soldiers, but more than a hundred escaped soldiers were guarding the wall on this side.
These soldiers fled to Huaichuan like a frightened bird, and even made a fuss about trying to escape. However, they were able to break out of the encirclement in the huge net spread by thousands of soldiers and arrived before the first wave of red soldiers.
Under Huaichuan City, their physical strength, martial arts foundation and even their minds are stronger than ordinary generals; even more than half of the people are generals and military officials of the Xuanwei Army.
Although they were very hesitant that Huaichuan City could defend the city tonight, they still had the ability to fight off the drowned dogs. They rushed forward and quickly surrounded and killed the eleven soldiers who had forced their way to the city.
The loss of thirty or forty people was not considered a big loss, but the rhythm of the enemy's attachment to the city was interrupted. In addition to gaining a chance to breathe, the defenders at the top of the city also regained their confidence.
Especially those generals of the Xuanwei Army who had fled back. They had regained some confidence at this time. As a team of six to eight people, they could completely suppress the captive soldiers under the city, making it difficult for them to board the city with such crude equipment.
There were still too few elite soldiers and horses available at the top of the city, and the sections of the city wall that could be covered were limited. Seeing that the forceful attack near the city tower was unsuccessful, the soldiers quickly adjusted back to their previous deployment and invested more troops on the far wall to expand the results.
And divided his troops to outflank the east and west cities.
Seeing that the returning soldiers were in good use, Xu Huai sent Shi Hu and Xu Pang to each lead a team of reserve troops to reinforce the east and west cities, but also asked them to defend the vicinity of the city tower with all their strength.
The elite troops and horses he could use were too limited. Even if the far side of the city tower was massacred one-sidedly, he would still have to be hard-hearted to consider both.
The first wave of cavalry swarming around the city confirmed that Huaichuan's defense was indeed empty. In addition to more than 300 horsemen ascending the city to fight, more cavalry directly approached the city, using bows and crossbows to support the battle at the top of the city, looking for opportunities to shoot and kill people exposed from the crenels.
There were only two hundred defenders left on guard at the low hill in the northeast corner of the North Tower and as a reserve.
Under the moonlight, a cavalry galloped from the north, but the captives did not alert them, thinking they were reinforcements coming from the direction of Jiaopi.
When the cavalry arrived at the low post, they divided into three teams and launched an offensive in a cone formation. The more than two hundred cavalrymen didn't even have time to mount their horses before they were stabbed in by three teams of cavalry like sharp knives...
