Chapter 4 Choices (four shots) The morning sun gradually rose from the city head to the back of people's heads, causing the helmet to feel hot. The clouds in the sky were slowly blown away by the wind. Then, the wind stopped, and the entire sky was pure.
The blue battle flags of both the enemy and ours hung down. The motionless sound of gurgling water placed on the flagpole disappeared, the roar of the wind also stopped, but the shouts from above and below the city became more intense, mixed with the pain of the injured.
the moans and desperate cries of the dying
The top of Yuliang Avenue is only one person's height away from the city wall. The rebels are still working hard to build the road at such a close distance. The soldiers carrying sandbags are simply targets for archers. Each layer of sandbags is piled up.
When they came up, about 10% of the transporters fell on the fish beam road. The rebel generals turned a blind eye to all this and just ordered the soldiers to beat the drums to encourage the battle more cheerfully.
"Ask Qin Canjun to send people to bring some sandbags up and raise the battlements on both sides of the Yuliang Road by two feet!" Li Xu estimated the progress of the enemy's project and ordered loudly, "There are also parapets on the outside of the enemy tower.
, and also raised two layers of sandbags to prevent the rebels' cold arrows!" He pointed to the low wall outside the enemy tower and continued to add
The archers behind the wooden shield wall below the city were not the most elite group of the enemy army. If Xuzi was commanding it himself, he would definitely have left the group of elite soldiers who attacked Dongcheng yesterday at the moment when the siege officially started. Therefore, he ordered people to
Build a barrier on the city walls on both sides of the Yuliang Road to prevent the enemy from suppressing the soldiers of the Xiongwu Camp with arrows during a formal attack.
"It may be too late to prepare so many sandbags!" Zhang Xiu reminded in a low voice.
"It's better to waste the grain bags than to make the rebels cheaper!" Yuwen Shiji made a decisive decision. After looking around, he added: "Move the partition between the watchtower and the wall facing the Weirang Road.
Yes, keep the communication between the watch tower and the city wall open!"
The Weirang Road that the rebels are building is too close to the city gate, so the watch tower and the city wall opposite the Weirang Road are almost directly adjacent to each other. The soldiers of the Xiongwu Camp divided the city wall into several sections overnight, and are also between the watch tower and the city wall.
There was a gap in the passage. This gap brought more inconvenience to the defenders than it hindered the enemy. Therefore, Yu Wenshi and his men seized the time to divert the sandbags to other places. The terrain in the enemy building was wide, and they could almost hide two soldiers.
The brigade infantry (200 people) can kill a new force from the enemy tower at a critical moment, which can definitely catch the attacker off guard.
Seeing the defenders starting to put sandbags on the city wall, the rebels below the city couldn't help but yell. It was unfair to them. Their Yuliang Avenue had to maintain a slope while increasing its height, while the defenders only needed to increase the height of the city wall.
If the wall on the city wall could be raised indefinitely, the Weirang Road would never be able to reach the top of the city.
The enemy archers behind the shield wall under the city began to shoot more crazily, and white feathers fell like hail on the city. Many soldiers were injured while carrying grain bags and sandbags. The surrounding robes quickly lifted them up and sent them down to the city.
Then someone picked up the grain bag from the pool of blood and placed it where it should be
"We only need to defend for two days. After two days, reinforcements will arrive. Everyone is a hero. I guarantee that no one will care about it!" Li Anyuan carried a shield and ran up and down the city wall to cheer up the brothers.
"The Lord Supervisor said that as long as Liyang is defended, each person will be given ten stones of wheat and two stones of polished rice. We will never be in debt!" He took a breath and continued to encourage the soldiers to distribute food. It was Yu Wenshi and the surrounding farmland who came up with the idea on the spur of the moment.
They were all destroyed by the rebels. No matter who wins this battle, the people around the city will face the problem of having no food next year. Let the newly recruited soldiers know that they have food, which is equivalent to giving their whole family a chance to survive.
In order to have enough food and clothing for their families, the soldiers had no choice but to connect their fate with the safety of Liyang City.
Yu Wenshiji did not want to compete with the enemy in building the city faster, so when the shield outside the city wall was high enough to prevent arrows from flying, he ordered the wall building operation to be stopped, "Stop transporting sandbags, seize the time to roll up the vegetable oil.
Each section of the city wall has at least five barrels!" He pointed to the open space in the watchtower, "Put a few more barrels there, and it will be convenient for everyone to use them if they are stacked like a rice store!"
"Prepare fire starters. When the enemy attacks the city, everyone will use fire to burn his grandma's house!" Li Xu thought for a while and added for Yu Wenshi.
The two people looked at each other and smiled, feeling the tacit understanding between them. Yu Wenshiji walked to Li Xu, pointed at the armored infantry that had begun to move under the city wall, and whispered a reminder: "The first wave of people rushing up along the fish beam road.
, they must be these elites and we must defeat them to curb the rebels’ arrogance!”
"Let them get closer first, then wet the fish beams with oil and burn them with fire!" Li Xu nodded without a trace of pity on his face.
"Your friend, Xu Zi, must be at the forefront. There is no father and son on the battlefield. At this time, either he dies or we die!" Yuwen Shiji was still a little worried and sighed.
"Go to Sicang Junjun and get me a three-stone bow, two ordinary infantry bows, and three pots of armor-piercing heavy arrows!" Li Xu did not reply directly to Yu Wenshiji, but conveyed the order to the soldiers.
Zhou Daniu
"Hey!" Da Niu, who was still immersed in the sadness of losing his comrade, agreed, turned around and ran to the inside of the watchtower. With a slight vertical movement of his body, he fell down like a monkey along the long rope tied to the inside.
The passages between the city walls were too narrow, making it inconvenient for the guards and order soldiers to go up and down. Therefore, the guards simply tied a few long ropes to the pillars of the enemy tower. When they needed to go down to the city, they could just take this "shortcut"
aisle"
After running for more than ten steps, Zhou Daniu realized what General Lang had ordered him to get. The strength of the bows used by Sui infantrymen was usually about one and a half stone. Many southern soldiers used bows with a strength of only one stone that could draw a two-stone bow.
He can be called a strong man in the army. Therefore, those poor scholars who look down on warriors have the saying "It is better to know a word than to draw a two-stone bow!" But the general has to go and get a three-stone bow by himself. It is really inexplicable that kind of bow.
In the military, they are just decorations. Except for those who show off their arm strength, few people can draw such a strong bow, and even fewer people can maintain the accuracy after drawing such a strong bow.
He turned his head back, wanting to recheck the general's order. Then he thought about General Lang's performance since the Battle of Liaodong, and then he quickened his pace and ran away.
"Master Lang said that three stones are three stones. With his size, he can draw a four-stone bow!" Zhou Daniu ran while making excuses for the general's orders. To his surprise, Sicang joined the army and Qin Xingshi did not care about Li at all.
After listening to Zhou Daniu's message, he quickly found the needed items from the armory, ordered someone to pull up the war horse, and helped Zhou Daniu hang three bows and three pots of armor-piercing arrows on the horse's back.
The armor-piercing arrows were slightly longer than ordinary feathered arrows, and the tip of the arrow was black and blue. It was cold and reminded of some kind of animal. The periodontal bull took out one on the road and weighed it. He felt that this arrow was much heavier than the arrows he usually used.
Before inserting the arrows back into the quiver, he found that all arrow shafts had been dipped in oil and were tough and slippery. The arrowheads were four-sided, with extremely deep grooves carved on both sides of each edge.
Zhou Daniu rode his horse and ran to the enemy tower. He asked his subordinates to use ropes to hoist the bow and arrow up. Then he handed the horse to the soldiers who were resting under the city, and climbed back to the enemy tower along the rope. He was the guard of the guard.
He didn't want to evade his responsibilities. In addition, he wanted to stand beside the general and personally avenge his good brother Qian Xiaoliu.
Yuliang Road was only half a man high from the city head, and the counterattack from the city wall was even stronger. Several groups of rebel soldiers ran forward carrying sandbags, but they were all stabbed to the ground by the spears from the city head. Li Mi saw this, and stood in the distance.
The battle flags were waved everywhere, and all the road builders were withdrawn. With the sound of whimpering horns, the shield cannons under the city slowly moved to both sides of the Weirang Road. A new group of archers quickly ran forward under the cover of the shield men.
, replacing the archers who had been shooting at the city defenders.
Xuzi hooked the string of the three-stone bow with his fingers to test its strength. Ever since he left Su Chuanbu, he has not forgotten to practice archery every day. Uncle Jiu believes that there is no other secret to archery, and being familiar with it is the first.
Secret "Actually, there is another two-word secret. Everyone knows it. It's just 'familiar'. If you practice it a few times, you will naturally understand the truth!" What Uncle Jiu said on the way out of the fortress echoed in his ears: "Nine
Is your uncle also among the rebels?" Xuzi was surprised by his bold idea, but soon he calmed himself down and used all his energy to feel the power of the bow arm.
The enemy army began to attack. The arrows shot by the archers darkened the sky. Along with the whistling sound of the air current being torn apart, the protective wall that had just been erected was filled with white feathers, yellow sand, white rice, and straw bags.
It flowed out of the hole and splashed down the city wall like a waterfall. "Hold your shield, raise your shield, squat, squat!" The officers' shouts came one after another, accompanied by the shouts of people, and the tiles above their heads cracked.
The wooden pillars around me made a "duh, duh" sound. Sparks flew from the city bricks in the distance, and the friction sound made my teeth hurt.
Some recruits raised the shield too high, and the shield in their hands became a target for arrows. More than a dozen long arrows were shot at the shield. The wooden shield could not withstand such a huge impact, and it was torn apart in an instant. The soldiers under the shield did not wait.
After recovering from the shock, his life was taken away by the arrows falling from the sky. The blood spread like a stream along the gaps in the city bricks, dyeing the clothes of his companions and the eyes of the people red.
Following the gap in the shield in front of him, Xuzi saw the rebel armored infantry begin to move. He adjusted his breathing, took out an armor-piercing arrow from the quiver, and inserted it into the grain bag next to him. The enemy advanced ten steps, and he
Pull out the second arrow and insert it next to the first arrow
The armored infantry under the city walked onto the Weirang Avenue to the sound of drums. Wu Heitai held up a giant shield and walked at the front of the team. The Weirang Avenue blocked by sandbags was not smooth enough, making it difficult for people wearing heavy armor to walk on it.
Walking Fast In order to ensure that the first wave of attacks achieved results, Wu Heitai deliberately slowed down and waited for the brothers behind him to enter the charging distance with him.
The feather arrows from the city head clanged against the iron shields of the armored infantry, without any effect. Some arrows hit the shield holder close to the edge of the shield, but they could not penetrate the heavy armor of the shield holder.
Armor is a treasure that Yang Xuangan spent all his wealth to build. There are only more than 800 pairs of armors in total. The outside of each pair of armor is lined with densely packed steel plates, and the inside is lined with thick cowhide soaked in oil. Ordinary feather arrows were shot twenty steps away.
The nail surface is basically tickling the person wearing the armor.
The armor-piercing arrows on the grain bag were slowly inserted into a neat row of eighty steps. Li Xu decided not to wait for him to lean over, pulled out a long arrow, put it on the bow arm, and then used the moment of standing up to exert force.
, and drew the three-stone bow to its full capacity.
His eyes, the cold light at the tip of the armor-piercing arrow, and Wu Heitai in the distance formed a straight line. Xuzi no longer breathed, and the arrow tip and bow arm no longer shook. His eyes fixed on Wu Heitai steadily.
Following the opponent's head, neck, shoulders, up and down, and with a "bang" sound, the armor-piercing heavy arrow rushed out of the shield wall like lightning, heading straight towards Wu Heita.
Wu Heitai quickly raised the giant shield in his hand, and then he fell down from the fish beam road. He didn't have time to block the armor-piercing arrow. Xu Zi clearly saw the armor-piercing arrow hitting Wu Heitai's shoulder guard.
A was smashed into pieces, and then his whole body was taken off the ground
"General Wu!" The armored infantrymen were stunned. They didn't expect anyone to be able to shoot so accurately. Several men in soldier uniforms climbed down the weirway in panic to rescue their general. The other soldiers shouted,
He actually started charging seventy steps away.
Wearing an iron armor weighing more than 40 kilograms and running 70 steps, he still expected to have the physical strength to climb over a city wall half a man high. Even Li Anyuan, a self-proclaimed man with strength and strength, was not sure that he could do it in the next moment. Li Anyuan was extremely pleasantly surprised.
Behind the sandbags, they shouted loudly, "Spears are ready, spears are ready to be leveled, kill!"
"Kill!" More than thirty spears suddenly pierced out from the top of the city, knocking over the heavy armored infantry who had lost their flexibility and fell to the bottom of the city. Taking advantage of the enemy's panic, the poisonous dragon-like spear points quickly retreated.
, and then quickly stabbed out and stabbed the chests of the next batch of heavy armored infantry.
"Ah!" One of the heavy armored infantrymen who had reached the battlement with one arm but had no time to lift up his body spat out a mouthful of blood and fell on his back. Behind him, Pao Ze stepped onto his body without hesitation and leaned his upper body over the city wall.
Swinging his sword, the ring-shou knife on his back swept away an empty spear shaft, which was two feet long. The defender could leave enough space between his body and the low wall to stick to the light of the ring-shou knife, and the spear was thrust back without missing a beat.
Lean, just against the attacker's chest
"Poof!" A stream of blood shot out like a spring, dyeing the battlements red, and then sprayed into the blue sky, drawing a sad arc along the direction where the corpses of the war dead fell.
"Poof!" Countless feather arrows fell from mid-air, hitting the spear-bearer. The blood lines of the enemy and ourselves intertwined, falling on the city head, colorful like rain.
"Ten stones of polished rice!" The spearman, covered with arrows, staggered and lay dying at the top of the city. The only thing he was thinking about was Yuwen Shiji's promise of ten stones of polished rice, which was enough for his family to eat for a whole year.
After the autumn harvest next year, you can buy a buffalo after selling the grain. The land burned by wildfires is still fertile. If you dig it, it will be grain.
"Let brothers work harder. Whoever enters the city first will be rewarded with eight hundred catties of rice and ten stones of grain!" Outside the city wall, Li Mi waved his feather fan and gave the order for a general attack.
Countless ladders were carried up, countless feather arrows were shot up, and countless soldiers without armor rushed up with kitchen knives and wooden clubs in their hands.
Countless innocent souls flew up in the blood light, flying towards the blue sky, as pure as water.
