The catapults kept smashing the kerosene cans over, and the pirates were burned to the point of screaming. However, the number of catapults was too small, only five, and the pirates numbered 60,000, so they could only disrupt the formation.
"It would be nice if we could bring the coal tar here."
Zhang Qian looked at the densely packed pirates coming, and she missed the coal tar used in Linjiang City very much.
Dugu Jiali raised her bow, followed by two thousand crossbowmen.
"put!"
Two thousand feathered arrows whizzed out, falling on the pirates like locusts crossing the border, and a large piece of the pirates fell down.
Arrows kept flying out, and the pirates fell one by one.
Dugu Jiali holds a bow and specializes in shooting the leader of the pirates.
The pirates hid behind the siege vehicles and rushed forward. The archers slowly approached. When they were a hundred steps away from the city, the pirates began to fight back.
Arrows flew up from under the city, and some soldiers fell to the ground after being hit by arrows.
Wu Xiangyun quickly carried the wounded soldiers down, and medical treatment had been arranged in the city.
Bai Tingting saw the pirates rushing forward slowly, feeling itchy in her heart, and said, "Sir, I want to go down!"
Zhang Qian objected: "You go down and die alone!"
Bai Tingting couldn't bear the itch and said, "I can still kill these little minions."
Long Chen said: "If there are too many ants, they will kill the elephant. They are much more powerful than the ants. Why are you going down there?"
Bai Tingting's martial arts skills are not strong enough to join the army alone, and she will definitely not be able to come back.
Bai Tingting curled her lips, picked up the crossbow and shot the overcoming pirates.
The swarming pirates rushed over, shooting random arrows at each other from both sides. The pirates kept approaching the city wall, and the siege engines were pushed to the edge of the city wall.
Wu Chuchu slashed the pirates who climbed up with a simple sword, and Bai Tingting also drew her sword to fight, and the two sides finally faced each other.
Long Chen carried a spear and charged back and forth on the city. When he saw the pirates climbing up, he provoked them and threw the corpses down.
The pirates go up Climbing, Xiangtian, Mentaro and his gang were directing from behind.
Long Chen looked at the pirates climbing up and felt that these pirates were not trying their best.
"Old Wu, I'm going to take a look at the west gate!"
The west gate is the weakest defense point, and part of the city wall there has collapsed. It was repaired urgently in the past two days.
Wu Jian instantly understood what Long Chen meant and immediately brought a horse over.
Long Chen rode his horse towards the west gate. The doors of the shops along the street were closed tightly. The people closed their doors and windows and did not dare to come out. Only the soldiers were running back and forth.
Long Chen quickly arrived at the west gate and saw a group of men holding swords fighting with the soldiers guarding the west gate.
Two siege engines outside the city were pushed to the edge of the city wall, and the pirates had already climbed up.
Long Chen's Pegasus rushed over and stabbed him with his spear. Within a dozen of them, he should have been pierced.
When the soldiers who were forced into the corner saw Long Chen coming to kill, their morale was boosted and they shouted: "Master Long is here, kill him!"
Long Chen killed a dozen more and then jumped onto the city wall. More than a hundred pirates were fighting with the soldiers defending the city. Long Chen ignored them and kicked over the siege vehicle.
The siege vehicle collapsed, and the pirates who attacked the west city gate fell down.
There were more than 3,000 pirates under the city. Long Chen jumped down, carrying a spear and killing anyone on sight. The pirates were killed and fled in all directions.
The pirates who had climbed up the city wall saw that the army was defeated, and in order to escape for their lives, they jumped over the wall one after another.
After killing the pirates, Long Chen did not continue to pursue them. He turned around and climbed up the city wall and rode towards the east city gate.
When we arrived at the east city gate, the fighting was still going on. Almost 10,000 corpses had been piled up under the city wall, and there were more than 1,000 wounded soldiers on the wall. The fighting was very fierce.
When Long Chen came back, Zhang Qian asked: "Sir, have you gone to Ximen?"
Long Chen said: "The insiders in the city wanted to break through the west gate wall, but they have been eliminated."
Dugu Jiali and Han Ziping were still bending their bows to kill each other's archers, Wu Chuchu and Wu Xiangyun were fighting hard, and Wu Jian commanded the catapult to continue throwing kerosene cans.
Long Chen looked at Xiang Tian and Menduo Lang in the distance. A horse hurriedly came to the two of them. The man said something.
Long Chen probably reported the failure of Ximen's sneak attack.
Menduo Lang and Xiang Tian turned to look at Long Chen, then discussed a few words with each other, and the pirates began to withdraw their troops.
The pirates retreated, and Qianjiang County withstood the first wave of attacks.
Zhang Qian ordered to check the casualties, and the wounded soldiers were treated immediately. Everyone hurried to eat, drink water and rest.
"The attack at the East City Gate is a feint, the West City Gate is their target."
Bai Tingting understood what the shouting was about.
Long Chen shook his head and said: "No, the east city gate is also their attack target, and the west is their breakthrough point. This is called using the right combination to win by surprise."
It would be difficult to achieve results by simply attacking from Dongdaemun, so a new breakthrough was needed.
Wu Chuchu and Wu Xiangyun were so tired that they collapsed on the ground, but they were very happy.
Sixty thousand pirates attacked the city, but they were repulsed and more than ten thousand were killed.
"Sister, we avenged our parents."
"No, not yet. Kill Mendoro and Xiang Tianzi to take revenge."
The soldiers brought by Wu Chuchu also killed very happily today.
Long Chen said: "Everyone should seize the time to rest, repair the damaged city quickly, check the bows and crossbows again, and be ready to face the enemy at any time."
Wu Jian got up and went to check immediately.
Long Chen climbed onto the city wall and looked at the retreating pirates. He knew that the battle was not over yet.
outside the city. Wang Da entered the military tent with his clothes hanging on his body and cursed, "Why are you retreating? They all rushed forward!"
Xiang Tian said coldly: "There is no internal support in the city, and the frontal attack on the city has failed!"
Mentaro didn't understand and asked a young general next to him: "You have more than 3,000 people and siege engines. Why can't you get in?"
The young general shook his head and said: "We went up to take a look, and there were only more than 100 people inside. They couldn't open the city gate, so we had to climb up. Then a powerful general came, and we had no choice."
Xu Yuan felt strange and asked: "How come there are only more than 100 people in charge? We have put so many people in, where are the people?"
Xiangtian smiled helplessly and said: "Didn't you hear that Long Chengen divided the family property of the third ancestor? They are no longer slaves, but masters. Who is still willing to be your spy?"
In fact, Xiangtian himself overestimated the number of internal troops. He thought that the internal troops were enough to break through the west gate, and they only needed to wait outside.
After all, they underestimated Long Chen's power in conquering local tyrants and dividing their land. These people got the benefit and ran away with Long Chen long ago.
"What should we do? Are we finished like this?"
Wang Da stuck his sword on the ground and found a place to sit down. He wanted to invade the city and kill Long Chen to take revenge.
"We will attack again at night. We are good at night fighting and sneak attacks."
Mentaro said.
The pirates raided homes and homes, and were very good at night battles and sneak attacks, especially when individual soldiers were strong in night battles. It would indeed be much better if they chose to attack at night.
Bai Guimaru said: "That female general's archery skills are too accurate. It is too dangerous to attack during the day. They are blind at night. I agree to attack at night."
Everyone is waiting for Xiangtian's decision.
Xiang Tian shook his head and said, "No, we can't attack the city anymore. More than 10,000 brothers died today. We have to change our approach."
Mentaro asked: "Change the way of fighting? How to fight?"
