Chapter 956 Lejia's Private Army Sieges the City for the First Time
"Let it go!" "Let it go!" "Let it go!"
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
A dark cloud of gleaming arrows and flaming oil cans flew towards the city in an arc.
"Archers, shoot down the oil tanks that can hit the city wall. Hide the others for me!" Xue Chong held a gun in one arm and stood at the crenellation looking down at the city.
As soon as he finished speaking, more than a dozen attack points at the main gate of Hengfu City flew out of the black line, hitting the oil tank behind Arrow Cloud, and more than a dozen fireballs exploded in the air.
With a crackle, the first rain of arrows fell on the top of the city. Some wooden structures looked like hedgehogs, while arrow branches fell all over the other stone structures.
Boom, boom, boom, seven or eight fire oil cans hit the front of the city wall because they were not high enough, and several streaks of flames hung on the fifty-meter-high city wall.
"Why don't our archers attack first? Give the enemy a prestige first." Shaodian Luan was watching from the top of the city tower, with Ding Kun and Qian Bu standing on both sides.
"Hengfu City has carried out many performances before. There are no magicians involved in the attack. It is impossible for these attacks to cause damage. The ordnance reserves in the city are limited. We must use them as efficiently as possible. The first attack will not hurt a few enemy soldiers."
Qian Bu explained to the eldest princess.
The city defense reinforcement of Hengfu City was designed by Qian Bu. He knew very well how strong the city wall could withstand an attack.
The Lejia private army on the attacking side is not without magicians, but there are more than 20 people standing in the sky above the city tower, three of whom are wearing white magic robes. In fact, the attacking side has five tower-opening magicians, but they know that there are magicians in the city.
No one with level 6 combat power would dare to get too close.
"Adjust the distance and prepare for the second wave of attacks." The commander of our country shouted an order.
The open space on the other side of the city gate was less than a hundred meters wide. The Lejia private army barely set up twenty trebuchets and arranged two thousand archers in front. This was the largest force capable of attacking Hengfu City.
Several hundred meters away from the rear, several leaders from the Jiangzhou War Zone were watching the battle from the commander's platform.
"Nothing can be used to fill up the swamps on both sides. So many boulders were sunk yesterday that they haven't even reached the bottom yet."
Lang Chun's expression was a little embarrassed. Yesterday he patted his chest to ensure that he could widen the attack zone.
This is the most terrifying feature of the swamp. No matter whether birds, animals or humans are stuck in it, they cannot get out. You can imagine how unexpected Ding Kui was when he discovered the grassland.
"It would be great if Master Ge was still here. If a forbidden curse hits it, the city wall will have a hole even if it doesn't collapse. Alas." Jiman's heart began to hurt again.
"When the Northern Route Army completes the construction of the camp, we will go to those Shaodian men to transport rocks. As long as they keep smashing them, a hole will be made." Gong Jun was secretly dissatisfied with the eldest prince's attempt to undermine his own morale.
"Will those archers waste their arrows when they shoot like this? I don't see anyone on the top of the city getting hit by an arrow." Jiman didn't hear the sarcasm hidden in Gong Jun's words.
"No, without the threat of those arrows, the defenders would attack our trebuchets." Le Pi sighed inwardly, and Gong Jun rolled his eyes secretly. This prince seemed to have led troops before, but he didn't know much about basic tactics.
"Let it go!" "Let it go!" "Let it go!"
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
The cloud of arrows and oil cans flew towards the city again.
"Does it make sense for them to attack like this?" Shao Dianluan watched for half an hour, becoming more and more bored as he watched.
The Chinese people shot arrows and threw oil cans again and again, but they did not cause any damage to the defenders.
"It makes sense," Liu Yu also came to the top of the city tower. "As long as the enemy attacks, it will bring physical and psychological pressure to us. The troops responsible for guarding the city wall will consume their physical strength, and the people's hearts in the city will be unstable.
This is just a probing attack by the enemy. The real siege troops are waiting behind the trebuchet." He pointed to several square formations behind the trebuchet, "Once we relax, those cannon fodder troops will rush up to build the bridge."
It is true that Shao Dianluan had no knowledge of marching formations. Shao Dianhuan raised her as his heir. The key was the cultivation of fighting spirit. The sooner she could be promoted to a high combat level, the better. There was no need to learn otherworldly things.
"That's it." She immediately became energetic when she heard that the enemy had a backup plan.
The last time she faced a siege in Zhuoshui Town was a monster siege. There were not as many tactics as humans. This time, she really experienced siege warfare.
About half an hour later, Qian Bu suddenly said: "The real archers are coming up."
The first group of archers under the city were evacuating in full, and a new group of archers from behind entered the attack position.
"How does Mr. Qian know that the ones coming up now are real archers?" Shao Dianluan asked because she didn't understand. In her opinion, there was no difference between the two groups of archers.
"Look at the arrows in their quivers. The first batch of quivers only had one type of arrow. Real archers need to use armor-piercing arrows, magic-breaking arrows and ordinary heavy arrows. The archers coming up now are equipped with them.
These kinds of arrows." Although Qian Bu's eyes were small, he could see very clearly.
"Oh, Youya is ready. Kong Wei's reaction is very quick." Liu Yu was observing the city defense situation.
There are two protruding archery towers built on both sides of the main entrance of Hengfu City, which look a bit like two tiger teeth, so they are called left teeth and right teeth. Kong Wei is responsible for guarding the right teeth and commands a brigade of quasi-combatants. The archery towers can only accommodate two
A brigade of about a hundred people is responsible for all-weather defense.
The general on the second floor was waving his flag, indicating that the left and right teeth were ready to attack.
The commander of the city defense forces in Hengfu City is concurrently served by the commander of the training camp. Now all the troops in the city are under the command of Zhong, but he has to listen to the mayor of Hengfu City, Qian Bu, who is under the leadership of the lord's wife.
The commander of the Juyang City defense army withdrew and became the temporary infantry regiment leader. Xue Chong was responsible for commanding the battle on the wall. When he saw the flags waving, he immediately ordered: "Everyone is here, prepare for long-range attacks!"
Some soldiers drew arrows, some held throwing spears, some soldiers pulled baskets filled with stones closer, some soldiers pulled out throwing axes, etc. All kinds of sounds came together and broke the original sound on the wall.
of quietness.
The soldiers defending the city do not necessarily use bows and arrows when attacking from a distance. They can use any weapon that can kill the enemy. The key is to have a long and sustained attack capability. Bows and arrows have the greatest advantage in this regard.
"Let it go!" "Let it go!" "Let it go!"
The Lejia private army attacked again, but the infantry phalanx behind the trebuchet suddenly moved, and two groups of soldiers rushed towards the drawbridge with shields in hand.
There are two suspension bridges at the entrance of Hengfu City, one on the north bank and one on the south bank. The suspension bridge on the south bank has been pulled up, while the suspension bridge on the north bank has long been stripped of its bridge decks, leaving only the iron frame.
If the Lejia private army wants to attack the city wall, they must first cross the river. The fastest way to cross the river is to build a pontoon bridge. The pontoon bridge should not be too long. It is best to lower the north bank suspension bridge as a fulcrum, but before that, the bridge deck must be installed.
As soon as the rain of arrows fired from the city hit the ground, Kong Wei's cry of "let go" came from the right tooth.
Boom, the booms of the two trebuchets were raised high, and two rocks the size of water tanks flew out.
After a few breaths, two stones flew out of the left tooth.
The arrow tower can only accommodate two trebuchets, but they have the largest attack range and angle and can block the attack zone under the city.
"Attack at will!" Xue Chong took out his gun and pointed out the gun light to attack an enemy with a shield raised.
Boom, the defenders' shouts exploded on the wall, sharp arrows, spears, flying axes, stones, sword gleams and spear gleams rained down like raindrops, and more stones flew out from behind the city wall.
"Fire arrows! Attack freely!" the archer commander below the city also shouted an order.
When the defenders at the top of the city began to counterattack, they naturally had to come out of their hiding spots and enter the attacking sight of the archers below the city.
Ding, Zhang Xiaoxia's helmet was shot, and the momentum brought him to the ground. "Bah!" He spat and shook his head hard, "I'm so dizzy."
"Xiao Xia, go to the bunker first, take a rest, drink some water, and then fight again after you have calmed down!" Zhang Xiao Xia's squad leader discovered something was wrong with him.
"Oh." Zhang Xiaoxia crawled back to the bunker after crawling on the ground. A comrade had just been shot away, so he crawled back in the same way.
"Fortunately you are wearing a fine armor helmet. That arrow should have been shot by the wind archer in the later period. The ordinary helmet would have been shot through." A veteran covered his chest and said to Zhang Xiaoxia. He had just been hit by an arrow in his chest and had to
Rest after returning to the bunker.
"What about the one who shot you? Brother Wu, look at you, you're vomiting blood." Zhang Xiaoxia unscrewed the lid of the kettle and drank some water.
"Take it easy, we have to guard until noon, don't drink up the water so quickly. The one who shot me was also a wind archer. I wanted to kill a shield hand too much. The shot was thrown too hard and my body didn't have time to retract.
." Veteran Brother Wu rubbed his chest through the fine armor, "I would be doomed without this armor."
"Fortunately, Madam agreed that all the quasi-combatants who guarded the city would wear fine armor, otherwise we would not be able to wear such good armor." Zhang Xiaoxia screwed on the lid and put away the kettle, "Is the shield hand dead?"
"Hey, hey, insert it through the chest, get ten points of merit. Cough, cough, cough." Brother Wu's excitement affected the wound.
Brother Wu looked at Zhang Xiaoxia's concerned eyes, waved his hand and said, "It's okay, just take a rest. There are more achievements below."
An army doctor ran over, grabbed Brother Wu's wrist and felt his pulse for a while, then put his ear to his chest and listened for a while, and then said: "Old Wu, your injury can't continue fighting. Go down to the city by yourself to the wounded soldier camp."
Report.”
"Doctor Li, am I right? I can persist!"
"Don't listen? Then I'll report it to the squadron leader."
"Listen, listen, listen, don't worry, I'll go down to the city after a while and promise to report to the wounded barracks." Brother Wu immediately put on a smile.
Doctor Li stopped paying attention to Brother Wu, turned around and supported Zhang Xiaoxia, rolled his eyelids and looked at his tongue, checked for a while, and said: "You sit here for a while, and then go to fight when you wake up, do you understand?"
Zhang Xiaoxia nodded vigorously regardless of his dizziness, fearing that Doctor Li would change his mind and let him go to the city.
"Oh ho!"
Cheers came from the front.
"Zhang Xiaoxia, Deputy Director Wan will avenge you!" the squad leader shouted from the front.
Zhang Xiaoxia poked his head out of the bunker and saw Wan Ban put away his bow and arrows with satisfaction, and Mao lowered his waist and moved to another place.
Those operating the trebuchets behind the city wall were people from the Urban Management Bureau, and Wan Ban was responsible for leading the team and checking the landing point of the trebuchets.