Chapter 4 Choices (Part 2) The dozen or so nail bats arranged around the barbican city are first-class city defense weapons. Each nail bat is more than five feet long, two feet wide, weighs more than sixty kilograms, and is covered with
He picked up a rusty iron nail and smashed it down from the city wall more than two feet high. Even a camel encountered below was smashed into a watermelon, let alone a large living person who couldn't turn around.
Following the light of Yuwenshi's sword falling back, only the sounds of "Crash!" and "Crash!" could be heard incessantly. More than a dozen nails were slapped down, and then they were shaken up, shaken up, and dropped by the soldiers. In an instant, the people close to the wall were knocked down.
The rebels beat them to their knees. The rebels who were swarming in the urn city could not resist it. They had no choice but to stay away from the city wall and squeeze towards their companions. There was so much open space in the urn city. There was so much space to watch the falling nails circling in the air.
, wounding three or five more unlucky ones below, and then the Sui army on the wall shook the windlass and stirred them up with "Crash!" "Crash!" and then pushed them far away from the city wall with spears, dragging them along.
The iron chain was hovering in mid-air and smashed down.
"Squat down and raise your shield, squat down and raise your shield!" The rebel general in command in Wengcheng loudly ordered the soldiers who were closer to the base of the city wall to squat down and cover their heads with their shields.
to any target, and then was led by the iron chain to draw a beautiful arc. Before falling to the lowest point, several shields were hung up. The harsh metal scraping sound sounded above the heads of the rebels, and the soldiers hiding under the shields had expressions on their faces.
Pale, tortured almost crazy by the noise. When the harsh scratching sound ended, they knew that they had luckily escaped by relying on the strength of the group. They looked up at the companions around them, only to find that this time the arm of the gown beside them was soft under the shield.
The body was hanging softly on the side, and the whole person had already been knocked unconscious.
"The brothers in the back row retreated into the doorway, and the brothers on the left and right moved toward the center with archers to block the city wall above their heads to prevent the officers and soldiers from releasing the nail bat again!" The rebel general standing in the urn city was very clever. After discovering the attack weakness of the nail bat,
Adjust tactics again
The rebel soldiers standing near the outer gate retreated under the door opening as if they had been granted amnesty. The soldiers near the walls on both sides squeezed into their own team, squeezing the team into a noodle. In the middle of the noodle, more than twenty archers drew their rifles.
, aim at the top of the city wall directly in front of you and fire a round of rapid fire.
"Ah!" Several officers and soldiers of the Sui Dynasty who were stirring the nail racket were hit by feather arrows and fell down screaming. The nail racket that was pulled up above the inner door lost its traction and fell softly. The rebel soldiers looked at it.
When he got the chance, he used a horizontal knife and a wooden stick to hit the iron chain tied behind the nail racket. After several rounds of slamming, the thick iron chain could not withstand such strong force, and broke with a "click". A burst of cheers rang out from the rebels.
Immediately turned the target of attack to more than ten other nail rackets.
The officers and soldiers on the top of the city also picked up their bows and arrows, and started shooting with the rebels below. Among the colorful white feathers, some people risked their lives to shake the windlass, raised the nail racket, and some did not hesitate to be shot into hedgehogs by the feather arrows.
At the moment of rising, they grabbed the blood-stained iron chain and struggled to pull it down. In order to win, the soldiers on both sides paid the maximum price. Gradually, there were fewer and fewer nail rackets available, and their deterrence to the enemy became more and more powerful.
Getting worse
"Get ready to roll the logs!" Yuwen Shiji, who was squatting behind a battlement, once again ordered his soldiers to carry a large number of logs to the walls around the Wengcheng. Although they had the advantages of numbers and terrain, the archers of the official army did not get much advantage.
The enemy archers inside and outside the urn city gate were well trained, and the arrows fired from each shot could cover a certain area at the top of the city. This was not a level that the hastily assembled boatmen and civilians could achieve.
Yu Wenshiji even suspected that Yang Xuangan and Li Mi had spent at least five years preparing for the rebellion. The rebel soldiers holding shields were also elite. In the last counterattack, Yu Wenshiji saw at least a dozen people being killed.
The arrows from one's own side were hit, but those who were hit cut off the arrow shafts with their swords, then followed the team and continued to attack the officers and soldiers blocking the inner city gate.
"Let go!" Yuwen Shiji shouted, and at the same time he waved his sword to ward off a stray arrow flying towards him. The soldiers of the Xiongwu Camp squatting behind the battlements leaned out, raised the twenty-kilogram rolling log high above their heads, and then heavily
After being thrown to the ground, there was a rain of wooden stakes in the small urn city. The shield broke into pieces. The person under the shield was directly smashed by the rolling logs, his neck was broken, his spine was broken, and he screamed and struggled on the ground. Fortunately, he was not hit.
People squeezed hard towards the inner city gate, or retreated to the outer city gate, which was the safest place, and no stones or arrows would fall.
"Archers counterattack, archers counterattack, others raise their shields, raise their shields!" The enemy generals in Wengcheng shouted at the top of their lungs. Under his restraint, the archers ran out of the door and shot white feathers towards the city.
The rebels outside also shouted and approached the city wall, shooting more arrows into the air. Several Xiongwu camp brothers who raised the rolling logs fell silently, and the arrows from mid-air penetrated through the gaps in their armors.
After entering, their life was instantly cut off. New brothers ran over from a distance, picked up the rolling wood in the pool of blood, and threw it down heavily.
Feather arrows whizzed in mid-air, and the sound of rolling logs hitting shields was as loud as thunder. Both the enemy and ourselves suffered huge casualties at this moment, and countless lives were lost to dust. The reason why the rebels were injured was because the barbican city was too small, and they were unable to respond to the attacks falling from the sky.
The attack was unavoidable, but the reason why the defenders were injured was mainly due to lack of training and not knowing how to avoid dangers on the battlefield.
After a moment of stalemate, the enemy forces in the urn city gradually lost their support. The general in charge failed to escape the latest life-and-death disaster. He was shot in the eye by a stray arrow that lost its direction. The feather arrow directly penetrated his head.
, the tip of the arrow emerged from the back of the neck, bringing out a large stream of red and white things. The commander of the lost general, the rebels in the urn city suddenly lost their courage, and took advantage of the gap between the fall of a rolling log to cover their heads with shields.
Flee outside the city
The rebel general at the city wall decisively enforced military discipline. A large row of spearmen rushed forward and stabbed the cowards into skewers in front of both the enemy and ourselves. Immediately afterwards, another regiment of warriors attacked a school captain.
The front row braved arrows and rolling stones to pass through the death zone between the two city walls. After breaking into Liyang City, the back row hid under the outer city gate and waited for the soldiers in front to die in battle.
Leave some space and they will kill you without hesitation
"Fortunately, they don't have ladders!" Yuwenshi, who was leaning behind the battlements to command, was so frightened by the brave behavior of the rebels that they shivered. There were not many rebel soldiers attacking Liyang City from the east, but almost all of them were desperate.
Such heavy casualties in Tuweng City did not make them lose the courage to continue the attack. If this group of people came with ladders and battering rams, they might not be able to stop the opponent's three rounds of strong attacks with just the brothers No. 100 from the Xiongwu Camp at the top of the city wall.
"It's a pity that we didn't have time to build a ladder!" Outside the city wall, Han Shihe, the general of the Eastern Conquest, thought regretfully that he had discovered that the defensive force deployed on the east side of the city wall was very weak, whether it was when the enemy was confused by his side's meticulous work just now, or they had already
Now that order has been restored, as long as he puts up the ladder, the east wall will inevitably change hands within an hour. However, in order to ensure the speed and suddenness of this sneak attack, he cannot carry the ladder, and he does not have time to build enough siege equipment.
The current situation is extremely delicate. If we delay for one more day outside Liyang City, our brothers will be in greater danger of being annihilated.
"General Wu, you will lead the next round!" Han Shihe raised his head, looked at the bloody sky, and ordered in a low voice
"Yes!" A tall, bronze-faced general walked out of the queue and waved back. Immediately, two regiments of more than 600 elite infantrymen wearing iron armor followed them.
Wearing a hand knife on the back, everyone's eyes are shining with perseverance
"Take three steps forward without fear of death, and leave the ones without balls behind!" the bronze-faced general shouted loudly.
Six hundred heavy armored infantrymen took three steps forward in unison, without anyone hesitating. "Good brothers, we live and die together today!" the bronze-faced general shouted emotionally, then turned around and strode towards Li Yang.
east gate
"Live and die together!" The six hundred heavy armors shouted in unison, following behind the bronze-faced general, their footsteps shaking the ground.
The situation near the inner city gate has gradually tilted towards the direction of the official army. With support from above the city wall, the pressure on the brothers who were blocked near the city gate was greatly reduced. Under the command of Asahi, they moved step by step from the north, west and south.
Squeeze eastward, squeezing the enemy's defense line closer and closer to the city gate.
"Get ready to roll the logs! Smash!" Yu Wenshiji waved his sword again, and raindrops of rolling logs and rocks immediately fell down, forcing the rebels who tried to rush from the outer city gate to the inner city gate back.
"Brothers, push them out!" Li Xu keenly caught the fighter plane, pulled out the black scimitar from his waist, and took the lead in charging towards the enemy.
The rebel general standing directly in front of him was caught off guard and was chopped into two pieces by him. Then, he used a black knife to break the neck of a rebel and an archer's arm. Two rebels tried to attack him.
They were attacked from a flank, but Zhou Daniu blocked one of them with his shield.
"Protect the general!" Zhou Daniu yelled at the top of his lungs and put his knees on the shield. With his brute force, he pushed his opponent back repeatedly. Suddenly, he felt a slight resistance in front of him, and his body was almost dodged. Then, he saw Qian Xiao
Six's friendly face
"Daniu, I'll behead one level, behead one level!" Qian Xiaoliu waved the bloody horizontal knife proudly.
"What are you bluffing? Protect the general!" Zhou Daniu glared at him, waved his shield, and continued to use the shield to protect his general's left rib.
"Kill the enemy out, close the city gate. Brothers, go ahead, kill the enemy out, close the city gate!" The soldiers of the Xiongwu Camp shouted, with such momentum that they pushed the enemy into the entrance step by step, and pushed the enemy out step by step.
On the other side of the gate, the barbican city was pushed forward and gradually established a foothold in the inner city gate, pushing the rebels out of the city.
The rebels gradually retreated towards the outer gate, and the official army gradually took advantage of the Wengcheng. Yu Wenshiji wiped the sweat from his head and stood up straight with a smile.
Victory is in sight. As long as the two city gates are closed again, no one, unless they are gods, can successfully enter Liyang without siege equipment.
As long as he holds on for more than three days, Han Shihe will have to retreat from Liyang City if he wants to survive.
Suddenly, his smile froze on his face
He saw the smoke and dust outside the city. In his horrified eyes, the heavy armor of the two regiments of rebels smashed into the Wengcheng like hammers, smashing the retreating brothers and the pursuing veterans of the Xiongwu Camp at the same time.
