Chapter 390 Arrows are like locusts, soldiers are like ants
The heavy shield hit the ground hard, and there was a deafening bang. Almost instantly, the Hu Bing heavy armored infantry formation that slowly moved forward turned into a mountain made of steel, standing steadily in the endless sky.
in the rain of arrows.
They are the first line of defense for the Hu soldiers to survey and protect the city gate. If the Han army in the city attacks, they will serve as a stumbling block and resist the impact of the Han army's cavalry. They will either die in battle or support the Jin army behind them.
The wolf army arrived.
Wuji and Wuweituo, who were shocked by the huge destructive power of the Huben Camp in the battle outside the South Gate, did not dare to be careless in the slightest. Otherwise, the Huben Camp rushed out of the city and destroyed these attacks that they had worked so hard to defeat.
When the city's utensils were burned down or directly destroyed, everyone would burst into tears.
Sixty steps later, this group of heavy infantrymen holding heavy shields and wearing two layers of iron armor advanced until they were sixty steps away from the front of Wengcheng before stopping. And thirty or forty steps behind them, a car
There is a ten-foot-high ram chariot in the center, with fourteen tall ram chariots on both sides. Seven huge ram chariots are in the shape of an anti-arc, covering the left and right sides of the urn city.
There is a well lan on each wing as a node, which happens to be attached to the two ends of the row of thousands of heavily armored infantry in the front row, always maintaining a distance of a hundred steps from the corresponding points in the urn city.
Regret! Looking at the Hu soldiers arrayed in orderly formation outside Wengcheng, which was not affected much by the arrow rain, Zhu Biao and the others who were watching the formation on the north gate tower looked at each other, and they felt a little sad in their hearts.
Regret.
"If there were more bed crossbows installed in the Wengcheng... ugh!" Zhu Biao sighed in his heart. Why did he feel sorry for the cost of the bed crossbows and become obsessed with it? There is no disc tower on the Wengcheng. The bed crossbows are not well protected.
, it’s nothing if you lose it!
How much are they worth? This must be corrected after this battle. There are bed crossbows arranged in the towers of the city wall, but the distance is too far or the angle is wrong, so most of them cannot help.
"The bow is made of a heavy stringed wood, and the feathered spear is used as the arrow. It is used as a trigger, and it can shoot more than a thousand steps from a distance, killing many people." - Bed Crossbow.
This kind of powerful weapon has a range of up to one thousand meters. Zhu Biao placed a total of 160 of them on the northern city wall [Lianweng City], accounting for half of the number in Beiling City. Currently, the only ones that can be used are on the Weng City.
The ten of them and some in the surrounding cities were only more than one-fifth of the total number, which was really a miscalculation.
"Ready - let go!" A long, hysterical howl.
The long bow was held in his hand, and the sharp arrow was placed on the string. After the bombardment of stone bullets, the fourteen jinglan and eight rush chariots rushed to the front of Wengcheng. More than 3,000 Hu soldiers and archers above followed this order and gave the order -
—Everyone drew their bows, buckled their strings, and pointed their sharp arrows straight into the sky. Their movements were neat and tidy, and all of them had tears in their eyes.
After suffering so many stone bullets, I can finally fight back!
There are twenty-two wells and chariots. The low ones are ten feet high, and the tall ones are eleven or twenty feet long. But the Beiling city wall is only ten feet long.
The base of the well is five feet square, and the top is three feet long and wide. It is impossible for a siege equipment ten feet high to only be equipped with archers on the next floor. The highest top and the two floors below are all
Archers were deployed, and each well was loaded onto the cart. The number of archers ranged from a hundred to a hundred and forty-five. There were also countless barbarian soldiers under the equipment. As long as an order was given, everyone could quickly take over from the archers.
Location. Such a density of arrows is far better than Beiling Wengcheng. [Note 1]
Thousands of sharp wolf-fang arrows shot into the air, and a piercing scream sounded in the air.
"Papa...", but the arrows from the two armies collided in the air. Although the threat from the Han army's arrows to the Hu soldiers was almost negligible, a counterattack was still necessary.
There is a high shield on the urn city. Archers stand under it and shoot through the opening on the top. Crossbowmen lie down below and shoot through the shooting hole. The effect is not only for heavy shields and heavy armor soldiers who are within the shooting range, but also for those who are within the shooting range.
The Hu soldiers' formations outside are better than nothing.
The distance of a hundred steps came in an instant. After the collision, countless arrows fired by Hu soldiers still flew through the sky unaffected, and instantly landed on the Wengcheng of Beiling City, carrying with them the wolf-fang arrows with huge lethality.
It poured down like raindrops.
There was no need to wait for the warning from the leading generals guarding the city. All the Han troops on Wengcheng had already hid under the battlements, high oars, giant shields, shields and other objects. The remaining hundreds of crossbowmen continued to use the shields and high oars.
, shielded by giant shields and other objects, bent bow and arrows to return the color.
In fact, the real counterattack depends on the crossbows that can reach the Hu soldiers' formation. The fire feather arrows they shoot are the real trump card against wells, chariots and other objects.
On Hu Bing's side, among the hundreds of sharp arrows fired by the defenders in front of Wengcheng, only half of them could still fly after a collision, and of these half, only half could fly to the well, and only half of them hit the top of the car. The arrows at the end of the strong crossbow
After being blocked by the well barrier and the wooden wall on top of the car, the lethality is completely negligible.
But the difference is that the flaming feather arrows kept the Hu Bing camp busy. Some crossbows that were too far away failed to hit the equipment, but caused the same disaster as the previous stone bullets.
Reaching the fish in the pond next to it, hundreds of armored soldiers were reduced to candied haws in their attack.
It is also inevitable that the archers who step forward in Wengcheng will be killed or wounded in the shooting.
"Dududu" - a low, muffled sound. This is an arrow hitting a shield or a high oar.
"Dang Dang Dang" - crisp and sharp, this is the arrow hitting the blue bricks of the city wall.
"Pu Chi...ah...", the sound of an arrow penetrating into the flesh, followed by the dying, painful scream.
The arrows falling densely like raindrops are like God sharpening one person one after another, constantly testing the nerves of the Han soldiers; they are also like waves of questioning, constantly beating the guards at the top of the city.
Jun's heart. If you can't withstand the test, the result of crazy panic will be death.
"Uh-huh - don't squeeze..." There was an inevitable sound of panic.
"Keep your heart in your stomach, the wild dogs can't shoot us." The steady voice was from a battlefield veteran in the team, a corps commander, a senior soldier or a junior officer such as a team leader.
"Damn, it's still crowded!!! Isn't it a shame? Look at the brothers from the Bu Gong camp..."
Faced with a scene of arrows raining down like rain, recruits who have never fought with real swords and guns will inevitably become panicked. Although their previous training and rational requirements can allow them to hide in battlements and under large shields in accordance with regulations, but outside the
The need for psychological safety - squeeze others aside, and you are safest in the middle.
Crowding and swearing are inevitable.
On the battlefield of Luozhou, even if the Zhongshan Army joined, new soldiers would continue to report every day of the month.
"They're all pretty good. There's no one running like crazy towards the city." Xie Shuyan smiled lightly. He knew the quality of the tens of thousands of soldiers left behind by Li Huizu's army during the Northern Expedition. The 10,000 troops under his command were pretty much the same.
, most of those county-level garrison soldiers are new recruits or novices on the battlefield.
The most satisfying one is the Bu Gong Battalion. Although it has always been at a disadvantage, it never gave up until the general ordered to avoid fighting... It has a commendable fighting spirit and is worthy of being transferred by his subordinates.
In the Golden Wolf Army formation, Uwetuo looked serious and said in a tone as if he was talking about nothing: "Send the order, the archers come forward - attack!"
"Woo-"
The messenger behind him immediately blew the horn in his hand.
"Archers—advance!"
Moments later, with the sound of passionate horns, the Hu soldiers marched a hundred steps behind the battle formation. Ten thousand dismounted cavalry lined up neatly, holding the long bows of the Han army and the Zhongshan army infantry who were not very comfortable in using them, quickly walked from the well to the chariot.
, passed through the gap of the ladder, and formed an array behind the shield wall of the heavily armored infantry, and then gradually extended from the center to both sides.
Ten thousand archers, ten layers of array. "Swish, swish, swish..." The rain of arrows completely flooded the North Gate Urn City.
Even from the tower where Zhu Biao and others were located, arrows occasionally flew towards them.
"Hey..." A sharp arrow fell through the shooting hole and landed one step away from Zhu Biao.
The moment it landed, the sharp arrow clusters picked up a few small debris on the wall and made a small crater on the blue brick floor.
At the same time, two more sharp arrows penetrated. One was blocked by the soldiers, but the other shot straight at Xie Shuyan.
Xie Shuyan's big hand flipped over and grabbed it in the palm of his hand. "The best wolf fang arrows can't defeat our Beiling. These hundreds of thousands of good arrows alone are enough to make a bad dog feel distressed for a while."
Zhu Biao bent down and picked up the arrow on the ground. It had a sharpness of 52 and was indeed of high quality. After the polished arrow cluster hit the green brick floor, it was not damaged at all. "Then thank Hu Gou for this gift.
Come on! Give us some more arrows."
The arrows flying in the sky are like locusts, and the soldiers on the ground are as numerous as ants.
With the passionate sound of the horn, accompanied by bursts of shouts that made people's blood boil, one ladder after another began to approach the urn city.
Stone bullets damaged a third of them, but there were still sixty or seventy left.
In more than a quarter of an hour, the ladder was set up on the top of the city, and the hand-to-hand fighting began!
"Whoosh!" The sound of crossbows and crossbows was heard endlessly, and the screams from the city also never stopped.
The closer the Hu soldiers got to Wengcheng, the more harvest they gained from the Han army's crossbowmen at the top of the city. Although they were outnumbered and weak, they could not stop the Hu soldiers' advance.
The bed crossbow did not change its target. Zhu Biao's order to them was to continue shooting at the wells and the chariots. The ants gnawed at the elephants, gathering less to make more. The majestic wells and chariots, as majestic as a tower, were fired with fire arrows.
Under the greetings, they gradually fell into the sea of fire. They were covered with rawhide on the outside, poured with cold water, and even initially covered with ice. They were also burned through and burned under the fire grease of the fire arrows.
"诱辘辘, 豱辘辘..." The twenty well rams continued to advance, and the two rams at the two corners were caught in the sea of fire. Whoever made it take the most fire arrows, and whose other purpose was to hit the city
It, the huge wooden pillar hanging in front of it, makes its overall structure stronger and more solid than the well...
ps:
Linchong Lv Gong Cha, also known as Chong Cha, is a five-story siege tower with eight wheels. The bottom floor is for soldiers who push the chariot forward, and the other four floors are for combat soldiers who siege the city. The chariot is about 12 meters high.
, 6 meters wide and 8 meters long.
"Book of the Later Han Dynasty. Astronomical Chronicles" says: There were more than a hundred camps built, and the siege was heavily sieged. Some were rammed chariots to ram into the city, or cloud chariots ten feet high to overlook the city.
