Four hundred and twentieth chapters Yeluji's means
The three thousand Khitan infantrymen began to accelerate after entering the bow and arrow range of the defenders. If they slowly moved forward in a square formation, it would be a collective suicide. As the queue advanced, a heavy crossbow shot was enough to kill more than a dozen people.
, or even dozens of people. The Khitan people are not afraid of death on the battlefield, but they will not risk death.
Liu Ling had already ordered the transfer of all the crossbows from other sects, but due to the rush of time, not all of them had been delivered. And even if they were delivered, Liu Ling would not have brought all the heavy crossbows before the Khitan attack arrived.
They were all exposed. Liu Ling ordered someone to find a chair and sat in the archery tower watching Zhuo Qingzhan direct the defense of the city. In such a small-scale battle, Liu Ling would not go out and direct it personally.
Also, since Zhuo Qingzhan wanted to express himself, Liu Ling couldn't be stingy and not give him this opportunity.
"Heavy crossbow, aim at the battering ram, don't be in a hurry to shoot out. For the left heavy crossbow, test fire to determine the direction and distance. For the other heavy crossbows, adjust and fire!"
"The archers are ready to shoot one round from 250 steps away."
Zhuo Qingzhan walked back and forth on the city wall, constantly giving orders loudly. At this time, he had completely transformed from a literati into a experienced general. Watch him orderly command those with uneven equipment.
County soldier Liu Ling couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
I really don't know why Zhao Tieguai let Zhuo Qingzhan be the county guard in the first place. This man was wasted on those chores.
A person's vigor will always be diminished by too many trivial things. What is rare is that in several years of civil service career, Zhuo Qingzhan does not seem to have forgotten what he has learned. He is indeed a scholar, and he is still a great Zhou Xiande
He was ranked second in the four-year palace examination. He did not know martial arts. Although he had a sword on his waist, it was just a gesture and a fashion among literati. It is too much to say that he was powerless. Three or five ordinary farmers could not get close to him.
Although he is unarmed, he has a hundred thousand soldiers in his heart.
Three hundred steps away, the heavy crossbow cart on the left fired the first heavy crossbow. The heavy crossbow, which was three meters long and as thick as a strong man's arm, roared out. The heavy crossbow arrows carried the sound of wind and shot toward more than a hundred people as fast as thunder.
The battering ram pushed by the Khitan infantry was slightly off by more than two meters. After nailing three Khitan infantry in succession, the heavy crossbow arrow was inserted into the ground. After this arrow, all the Cangzhou County commanders who operated the heavy crossbow
The soldiers began to adjust the ballistae quickly but without panic. It didn't take long before all nine heavy ballistae placed at the north gate were adjusted.
The battering ram was too heavy and bulky, making it difficult to change its forward path and accelerate. Therefore, after the heavy crossbows were adjusted, following Zhuo Qingzhan's order, the nine heavy crossbows all fired up, and the nine heavy crossbow arrows roared like nine.
The black dragon headed straight for the huge siege ram. With nine continuous blasts, all nine heavy crossbow arrows hit the target. However, the iron-wrapped siege ram was too strong, and the nine heavy crossbow arrows actually hit the target.
It only shook the battering ram a few times, causing sawdust to fly, but the battering ram was not destroyed.
However, the Khitan soldiers pushing the cart suffered a disaster. After nine heavy crossbow arrows, more than fifty Khitan cavalry were ejected and killed. And the remaining people were obviously unable to continue pushing the siege ram.
The centurion ordered his soldiers to rush up to push the cart. At this moment, two hundred and fifty steps away, the first round of missiles from the Cangzhou Army archers also rained down.
In an instant, just that instant, the Khitan infantrymen who were attacking the city fell one after another like wheat being cut down. The leather armor on their bodies could not block the arrows falling from the sky, but the defense of their infantry shields
The effect is not that good. The grassland people who advocate offense have no love for this kind of thing. In order to increase the speed, the individual shields of the Khitan infantry are made one size smaller than the shields of the Central Plains army.
Fortunately, 3,000 people attacked in skirmish formation, and the team was not very dense. Although the first round of projectiles killed more than a hundred Khitan infantry, it had little impact on the entire battle. At this moment, the Khitan infantry will run
The speed has increased to the extreme. For them, the meaning of fast and slow is not very important. When they get to the city, what is waiting for them is the heavy stones dropped by the Han soldiers, and the heart-stopping wolf fangs.
If they shoot too slowly, they will be targeted by Han archers and then nailed to the ground one by one.
The soldiers carrying the ladders rushed forward crazily. They received intensive care from the archers, and the casualty rate was much higher than elsewhere.
"Shoot flat, let go!"
Zhuo Qingzhan ordered loudly.
Hundreds of archers leveled their rifle bows, and the second round of arrows was released all at once. Although the equipment of the county soldiers was not as good as that of regular soldiers, the rifle bows they were equipped with were the same. What they lacked was a complete set of
Armor, some soldiers don't even have single-leather body protection. What's more, their weapons can't be compared with regular soldiers. Even the standard Dazhou standard horizontal sword is not enough for each person to handle, and many soldiers use
All weapons were made by blacksmiths in the city. People in poor families could not even make weapons, so they had to stick an iron spear head on the front of a wooden stick. In this period, their weapons obviously looked very crude and shabby.
But what they didn't know was that in the following eras, this weapon called a gun gradually took over the dominant position in the equipment of soldiers in the Central Plains.
The feather arrows shot out like water. Looking down from the city wall, black lines flew straight out, nailing the Khitan soldiers wearing thick leather armor. However, there was no doubt that more feather arrows failed.
As Zhuo Qingzhan jokingly said, if he hits the target with perfect accuracy, all the Khitan enemies will be wiped out. That is definitely the most wonderful thing for the soldiers of Cangzhou County.
Unless they are heavenly soldiers and generals, this will always be just a joke.
After paying hundreds of corpses, the Khitan infantry finally rushed to the city. Once here, the door to hell actually opened.
One by one, heavy stones were smashed down from the top of the city by Cangzhou County soldiers. When the stones hit the Khitan soldiers’ heads, the heads would immediately explode like watermelons smashed by heavy hammers. Red, white,
Flying around. Brains and blood were smeared on the stone, and the stone replaced the head and was embedded in the shoulders. Strangely, the neck could not be found.
A stone hit the left shoulder of a Khitan soldier. With a bang, half of his body exploded like a bloody mess. Half of his shoulder was connected to his arm. It was cut off by a stone that was not sharp but heavy, and his arm was missing.
The flesh under his armpits was all torn off, and his white ribs were exposed, and his heart was still beating. He was not dead yet. He was wailing and crawling hard on the ground. He didn't know where he was.
Looking for his arm that was smashed by the stone, he still wanted to escape from this bloody hell. Another stone fell, and it happened to fall on his back. In an instant, his body was bent backwards after being hit, so he made
He performed an action of folding back in half that he would never be able to do while alive.
The stone became part of his body.
He didn't get shorter, he got longer.
The terrifying murder weapon, the mace, was violently dropped by the county soldiers guarding the city. It was covered with spikes several feet long. After being smashed down, the mace could even nail the Khitan soldiers below into a sieve. Sometimes
When the wolf fang pat was pulled up, the bodies of the crucified Khitan people were still hanging on it.
A few meters below the city became the Shura slaughterhouse.
Although the number of people attacking the city was not very large, only 3,000, there were not many county soldiers defending the city. According to Liu Ling's instructions, the first team of 1,000 people defended the city wall, and apart from the archers, they were responsible for using other troops to defend the city.
There were only five or six hundred soldiers who could kill the enemy. At this time, following Huo Yan's order, two thousand cavalry swarmed out, galloping back and forth under the city, and arrows kept shooting at the city wall. The grassland people
The art of cavalry and archery is world-famous, and of course it is not for nothing. The cavalry move fast, and the archers on the city wall do little damage to them, while their blow to the county soldiers on the city is heavy. There is no way, Zhuo
Qing Zhan ordered the archers to retreat.
Against the enemy's cavalry, he didn't have many methods at his disposal, but fortunately, he still had a heavy ballista.
Under Zhuo Qingzhan's order, the soldiers operating the heavy crossbows began to focus on attacking the cavalry who came and went like the wind. The huge heavy crossbows were fired out and could nail the cavalrymen and their horses to the ground.
At this time, after losing more than a hundred people, the Khitan soldiers pushing the battering ram finally arrived outside the city gate.
A large pot of boiling oil broke down from the city and poured it on the top dozen Khitan soldiers. The soldiers immediately screamed and rolled all over the ground. Some of their companions reached out to pull up the soldiers who fell to the ground.
I grabbed the man's arm and tried to pull him up, but only a layer of human skin came off.
Zhuo Qingzhan is not afraid of the battering ram hitting the city gate.
Since Yeluji had to surround the three and one missing, Zhuo Qingzhan didn't have to be polite. Except for the south gate, the other three gates had actually been blocked by his order.
The soldiers responsible for ramming the gate pushed the cart and began to ram the city gate. Under the huge impact force, it seemed that the whole city began to shake. Dust and sand fell down, and the Khitan people under the city were not only covered with dust.
His body was also heavily damaged by stones and arrows thrown from the city wall.
Although it was just a feint attack, there is no doubt that the war has always been tragic.
Huo Yan watched coldly as his soldiers struggled to attack the city, and watched his soldiers die one by one. In fact, his heart was not as peaceful as it seemed on the surface. He was hating.
He made three tentative attacks in a row, but his troops were the ones rushing to kill him. Why is this?
Because Yeluji, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the emperor's son, wanted him to become a loner.
He is not a direct descendant of Yelu Ji. He is a person promoted by His Majesty Yelu Xiongji himself. He knows what Yelu Ji wants to do. But, can he refuse?
"General!"
The messenger quickly ran over, knelt down on one knee and said: "Your Majesty has ordered that the general must attack the North Gate today!"
Huo Yan stood up suddenly, with an angry look on his face, and looked back at the King of Nanmian Palace who was sitting on a carved chair in the distance, sipping wine from the Western Regions. (To be continued)
