In the next two days, the rebels did not launch an attack, but the roar of people and the neighing of horses in the rebel camp could still be heard from the valley a few miles away.
The guards in Chencang City were extremely tight these two days, with six shifts every day. Gao Fei would climb the tower from time to time to check on the enemy's situation.
"Master Marquis, you have been here ten times today, but there is still no movement from the rebels. It's cold here. Please go to the county office to rest. If there is any enemy situation, I will immediately send someone to notify Master Marquis." Responsible for the guard.
Zhou Cang from the city couldn't bear to say when he saw Gao Fei once again braved the wind and snow to walk up the tower.
"It doesn't matter, I'm bored at the county government, so why don't I come to the city and chat with you." Gao Fei said the truth. In this era, it's really hard to have nothing to do. Besides, he has been in the mall for many years.
Running around here and there, I have already developed a work attitude that makes me unable to take any time off.
Zhou Cang said: "Master Hou, I don't know what's going on in the past two days. The rebels are neither attacking nor retreating. What on earth are they doing?"
"No matter what the rebels do, our Han army is Zhong Kui, and we can always catch the kid."
"Who is Zhong Kui?" Zhou Cang asked.
Gao Fei smiled and said: "He is the one who catches ghosts."
Later, Gao Fei saw that it was hard enough for everyone to stand guard, so he told Zhou Cang and others the story of Zhong Kui catching ghosts. Unexpectedly, Zhou Cang and others were fascinated by this story. They always like to listen to those ghosts and gods.
Such legends. Gao Fei kept talking about it until Guan Hai brought people to change shifts, but Zhou Cang and others were still unwilling to leave. It was boring anyway, and the rebels did not attack. Gao Fei simply told a happy story, even Guan Hai and others
Everyone was fascinated by it.
Later, Gao Fei's mouth felt dry and it was getting late, so he stopped talking and said he would talk about it next time.
It snowed heavily for three days and three nights. In the early morning of the fourth day, with a whimpering horn sound, the brief peace was broken. Ten thousand rebel infantry led by Han Sui quickly filled Chencang.
Mountain road outside the city.
Five thousand soldiers are standing ready in Chencang City, and there are 15,000 soldiers and horses stretching along the mountain road outside the east city gate, all of whom are always ready to defend Chencang.
Gao Fei took Zhao Yun and Xia Houlan to the city tower, and the archers led by Zhou Cang also drew their bows. They had the experience of defending the city three days ago. Zhou Cang, Guan Hai, Liao Hua, and Lu Heng each led
A thousand crossbowmen with different ranges are waiting quietly in Chencang City.
Han Sui walked straight towards Chencang City with 10,000 infantry. After three days of preparation, today he could finally let Gao Fei experience his power, and he felt a little pleased. The rebels still stayed at 500 meters.
Except, the difference is that this time it is no longer cavalry, but infantry, infantry holding square wooden shields, and the soldiers behind are also carrying many ladders.
Seeing everything under the city, Gao Fei seemed to understand something. In the past few days, he kept hearing the sound of felling trees in the mountains. It seemed that Han Sui used the cut trees to make these wooden shields and ladders. His brows
He frowned slightly and shouted to the archers around him: "It's still the same, ten people aiming at one. This time they have wooden shields in their hands, try to aim and shoot."
"Woooo..."
Following Han Sui's gesture, the marching horn sounded, and a row of ten infantrymen holding wooden shields rushed forward step by step. The entire team formed a unified unity. Even with such thick snow,
You can still hear the unified footsteps of the rebels lined up in fifty columns in the distance.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
This time the advancing rebels were very disciplined, unlike last time when all the cavalry rushed forward. Moreover, the wooden shield soldiers of the rebel army only moved forward a hundred meters and then stopped temporarily. The soldiers behind used their wooden shields.
The soldiers in the front row had two wooden shields placed together, which was about 1.8 meters tall, completely blocking the rebel soldiers. Only twenty-five wooden walls could be seen walking forward at an even pace, each
Taking a step, there was a unified sound of footsteps.
"Master Marquis, what do the rebels want to do?" Zhao Yun looked at this scene and asked in confusion.
Gao Fei was also confused. The rebels were not in a hurry to attack the city, but instead used the five hundred infantrymen as a wooden wall to move forward. He did not answer, but further observed the movements on the battlefield.
"Master Marquis, it's three hundred steps!" Zhou Cang and his men were drawing their bows and arrows. When they saw that the rebels had almost entered the range of the bows and arrows, they reminded them.
"No shooting without my order!" The arrows shot by the invisible man could only be nailed to the wooden shield, which had no effect on this group of people. When Gao Fei saw this scene, he shouted to the people around him,
“Get ready to roll the logs and beat the rocks!”
Xia Houlan and Zhao Yun hurriedly led three hundred soldiers to carry the rolling logs and stones to the city tower, through the battlements, ready to smash at the rebel infantry near the city wall at any time.
The rebel infantry stopped completely when they reached a hundred steps, and then a large number of infantry echelons carrying ladders poured out from five hundred meters away. This time, all the infantry rushed up together, shouting inspiring words.
shouts, with vigorous steps underfoot.
"Archers, prepare to shoot at the infantrymen carrying ladders! Fire arrows!" Gao Fei shouted hurriedly.
At the command, the arrows shot out like piercing the air, and dense arrows fell on the rebel formations carrying ladders and holding scimitars. Immediately some rebel soldiers fell. The ones in front fell.
After that, they hurriedly made up for it and made some brave and fearless sacrifices in order to get close to the city wall, then set up a ladder and climbed to the city wall of Chencang.
The four crossbow teams of Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, Guan Hai, and Lu Heng began to change. Thousands of arrows fell from the sky, killing and injuring the rebels in the narrow mountain road.
Just when the Han army was busy dealing with the rebels in the distance, the wooden shields of the rebels who were the first to run a hundred steps outside the city gate began to move forward. The wooden shields suddenly opened a hole, revealing a group of
The archer holding the crossbow fired fiercely at the guards on the tower. When the wave of arrows was shot, the wooden shield closed the exposed opening again, and the close range shooting was repeated again and again.
The guards on the tower were caught off guard. Immediately more than a hundred people were hit by crossbow arrows. Some fell from the tower, and some were shot through the heart. Immediately there was a gap in the defensive formation on the tower.
Gao Fei never thought that the rebels had this skill, so he shouted loudly: "Get down all the injured, and make up for those behind. The crossbowmen on the left half of the tower will deal with the wooden wall below, and the crossbowmen on the right half will carry it towards the rebels."
The soldiers holding the ladder shot fiercely!"
The injured soldier ran down the tower and entered the inner city from the urn city. Military doctors who had been waiting there had already treated him, pulled out the crossbow arrows, and bandaged his wounds. Everything was done as prepared as possible.
The group of strong crossbowmen behind the wooden wall fired very erratically. Every time a hole in the wooden wall was exposed, crossbow arrows would shoot up the tower. But when the crossbowmen on the tower fired the crossbow arrows, the wooden walls would close.
, the crossbow arrows could only be nailed to those wooden shields, always one step behind the group of rebel crossbowmen behind the wooden wall.
Not only that, the infantrymen carrying the ladders were getting closer and closer, and soon they came behind the wooden wall. The wooden wall suddenly changed into two, with a hole opening in the middle, and four rebels holding wooden shields came.
The army soldiers protected an infantryman carrying a ladder and quickly ran to the city wall. The rebels behind him also followed suit. In a short time, the rebels were really approaching the city.
Lu Heng commanded the other half of the crossbowmen to continue shooting, but the effect was not as good as before. Only the archers led by Zhou Cang, Guan Hai, and Liao Hua at the back could shoot arrows over the tower without being damaged.
attack.
"Smash it! Smash it hard! Smash these idiots to death!" Gao Fei has handed over the command of the long-range troops on the tower to Lu Heng and Xia Houlan. He and Zhao Yun commanded other soldiers on both sides of the tower to drop them to the bottom of the city wall.
Rolling logs and rocks, every time the ladder came up, they would be pushed down.
In just a moment, the ant-like rebels continued to surge up from behind, and the group of archers who came up from behind also began to shoot at the city tower, constantly exchanging fire with the Han troops defending the city.
The group of crossbowmen behind the wooden wall quickly suppressed the Han army on the wall. Gao Fei, Zhao Yun, Lu Heng, Xia Houlan and others had to hide behind the battlements and could only place their hopes on the people near Wengcheng.
There are three thousand archers, and they are responsible for preventing the rebel ladders from coming up.
Gao Fei peeked his head through the city battlements and saw that the rebels below the city gate were already densely packed, and there were many people walking on foot behind the mountain road a few miles away. They were all densely packed with people, and they were all dead.
The corpses of the rebels had already been trampled to pieces by those who were still alive, and it felt like dark clouds were threatening to destroy the city.
"Whoosh!" An arrow flew over Gao Fei's head. It was really dangerous.
"Master Marquis, there is no way to continue like this. There are too many rebels, but the walls of Chencang are narrow and cannot accommodate so many people. This is undoubtedly equivalent to using more than a thousand people to fight tens of thousands of rebels." Zhao Yun
While throwing stones towards the bottom of the tower, he shouted to Gao Fei.
"You're right. It seems we have to use a catapult." Gao Fei picked up the stones and threw them under the city wall. He looked back at the rolling wooden stones on the city wall and saw that they were almost used up. He called a soldier over.
He said to him, "Go down and let Pang De, Pei Yuanshao and Bian Xi start launching catapults!"
Chencang City is like a city wall with a raised surname. The front is the city wall stretched between two mountains, the back is the repaired urn city, and the back is the hand-excavated inner city that is eight miles wide. Although the Han army also had almost two
There are thousands of people, but they are all exhausted and unable to exert their strength. They are completely different from the rebels who are attacking the city.
The rebels below the city wall worked hard to climb up the city wall and slashed at the city wall with the sharp blades in their hands. The people a little further away used their bows and arrows to shoot arrows at the city tower. The soldiers standing on the city wall were slightly
If you are not careful, you will be shot through the body by an arrow.
In an open space five hundred meters away from Chencang, Han Sui was riding a horse. He looked at the soldiers rushing past him and saw that the Han army on the tower of Chencang had been suppressed. He showed a satisfied smile.
, muttering to himself: "I don't believe it. My one hundred thousand army can't capture a small Chencang! Look at it like this, Chencang can be captured today! Gao Fei, if I catch you, I will definitely