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.
Even if there is an ambush, it is impossible to ambush too many people. When the enemy returns, the number of people ambushed will not be enough for the enemy to kill.
To be honest, after two consecutive failures, the Haru warrior was going crazy.
By this time, the number of cavalry lost in his hands had reached as many as 900!
If he went back like this, he would not be able to avoid Jinlu Khan's wrath alone, let alone those political opponents who tried to criticize him.
Therefore, even if Haruyi knew that evacuating now would be the way to minimize losses, he could not retreat.
After two days of delay, Haruyi led his men to make hundreds of wooden shields and then launched another siege.
This time, all the cavalry dismounted. The cavalry in the front row held up their wooden shields, carefully avoiding the horse trap, and moved closer to the city wall.
The city wall gave up after shooting a few arrows.
Obviously, the people of Daze knew that archery was useless.
This made Haruya feel happy again.
This time his preparation was not inadequate.
In addition to wooden shields, more than 600 elite cavalry also followed behind with their bows raised.
This time, their main job was not to supervise the formation, but to keep a close eye on the enemies on the city wall. As long as those enemies poked their heads out, they would miss their arrows.
In this case, the enemy who wants to pour down the gold juice will suffer heavy losses, in order to achieve the purpose of wearing down the opponent's troops in the Haru Battle.
But what Haruyi never expected was that the Daze people didn't even pour the gold juice this time.
As the first cavalryman jumped onto the city wall with a wooden shield, Haru's heart almost jumped out of his chest.
No movement!
Nothing happened.
As hundreds of cavalry climbed up the city wall, Haruyi couldn't bear it anymore and climbed up the city wall first.
After he climbed up the city wall, he saw no enemy.
There was no one from Daze on the entire section of the city wall, and there was no one on the second wall.
The entire county seemed empty. Except for the gasps brought by the cavalry, the entire county seemed to be silent.
Did those Daze people escape?
impossible!
Haruya immediately rejected his judgment.
No news came from the scout cavalry who were wandering around the periphery and patrolling the entire county.
Of course, Haruyue believed that those Daze people were hiding in the ruins below, hiding behind the second city wall, plotting some conspiracy.
After Haruyu thought about it rapidly for a long time, he gave the order.
Let the cavalry put wooden shields neatly on the city wall to prevent the opponent from sudden shooting.
At the same time, he did not send anyone to sneak attack the second city wall.
The two sides reached a stalemate.
In addition to guarding the city wall, Haruyi stayed still for fear of stepping into another trap.
But here in Qiongshui County, not even a single person can be seen.
Time passed bit by bit, and the cavalrymen took out the dried meat from their waists and started eating.
Haruya also felt a little tired.
After all, even if there is no fighting, such vigilance will make people exhausted after a long time.
In the evening, smoke rose from behind the second city wall, and the aroma of food came, causing the cavalry to lick their lips.
And this news also made Haruya feel relieved a lot.
But after nightfall, Haruya was a little dumbfounded.
Although the climate in Qiongshui County is about to enter summer, because it is located in the northwest, the temperature during the day is only 18 or 19 degrees, but after nightfall, the temperature drops sharply.
When these barbarian cavalry were dispatched with the army, they always set up tents when stationed. However, they came to Qiongshui County in a hurry and did not bring any tents. For a period of time before, they relied on their war horses to keep warm and sleep.
But at this time, everyone was on the city wall, and the horses could not be transported up.
But if you retreat to sleep under the city wall, you may be attacked by surprise.
After pondering for a long time, Haru ordered most of the cavalry to evacuate the city wall and sleep under the city wall. Some of the cavalry served as sentries to prevent sneak attacks.
But just when they were about to fall asleep leaning on their horses, a violent sound of gongs and drums sounded, causing the cavalry to jump up in surprise.
Haruyi thought it was a sneak attack by the enemy, so he immediately sent all the people on the city wall to prepare for the attack.
But after this beating of gongs and drums, the other side became completely silent again.
When Harufu became nervous and saw no movement, he simply let the cavalry fall asleep on the spot. Soon after, another burst of gongs and drums rang out, waking up all the barbarian cavalry.