The morning sun gradually rose from under the city head to the back of people's heads, causing helmets to become hot. The clouds in the sky were slowly blown away by the wind. Then, the wind stopped, and the entire sky was pure blue. The battle between the enemy and ourselves
The flags all hung down and stood motionless on the flagpole. The sound of gurgling water disappeared, the rustling wind also stopped, but the shouts from above and below the city became more intense, mixed with the painful cries of the injured and the dying.
A cry of despair.
The top of the Yuliang Avenue is only one person's height away from the city wall, and the rebels are still working hard to build the road. At such a close distance, the soldiers carrying sandbags are simply easy targets for the archers. Every level
Sandbags were piled up, and about 10% of the transporters fell on the fish beam. The rebel general turned a blind eye to all this, and just ordered the soldiers to beat the drums to encourage the battle more loudly.
"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 women on the outside of the enemy tower.
The wall should also be raised with 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 under the city were not the most elite group of enemy troops. 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
A barrier was built 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.
"Use grain sacks. It's better to waste them than to gain money for the rebels!" Yuwen Shiji made a decisive decision. After looking around, he added: "Put the one between the watchtower and the city wall facing the Weirang Road.
The partition has been moved to 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 watchtower and the city wall opposite the Weirang Road are almost right next to each other. Last night, the soldiers of the Xiongwu Camp divided the city wall into several sections overnight, and they were also between the watchtower and the city wall.
There was a gap in the passage. This gap brought more inconvenience to the defenders than it hindered the enemy, so Yuwenshi and his orders seized the time to transfer the sandbags to other places. The terrain inside the enemy building was wide and almost
It can hide two brigades of infantry (200 people). If a fresh force emerges from the enemy tower at a critical moment, it 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 curse. For them, this was too unfair. Their Weirang Avenue had to maintain a slope while increasing its height, while the defenders only needed to put up the city wall.
Heightening the outside would cost them three times or more. If the low walls on the city wall could be raised indefinitely, the Weirway would never be able to reach the top of the city.
The enemy archers behind the shield wall began to shoot more wildly, and white feathers fell like hailstones to the city. Many soldiers were injured while carrying grain bags and sandbags, and the surrounding robes quickly lifted them up and sent them down to the city.
Go. 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 what happened in the past!" Li Anyuan ran up and down the city wall with a shield to encourage his brothers.
Son.
"The supervisor of the army 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. Distributing food to the soldiers was an idea that Yuwen Shiji came up with on the spur of the moment.
All the farmland in the city has been 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. Letting the newly recruited soldiers know that they have food is equivalent to giving them a family
The hope of survival. In order for their families to have enough food and clothing, the soldiers had no choice but to link their own fate to 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, hurry up and roll the vegetable oil up."
, at least five barrels for each section of the city wall!" He pointed to the open space in the watchtower, "Put a few more barrels there, stack them like a rice store. It will be convenient for everyone to use them later!"
"Prepare the fire starter. When the enemy attacks the city, everyone will use fire to burn his grandmother'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: "The first wave is coming up along the Weirang Road.
Yes, they must be these elites. We must defeat them and curb the arrogance of the rebels!"
"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.
"That friend of yours must be at the forefront. Xuzi, there is no father or son on the battlefield. At this time, either he dies or we die!" Yu Wenshiji was still a little worried and sighed.
"Go to Sicang Junjun and get me a three-stone bow and two ordinary infantry bows. Then mix three pots of armor-piercing heavy arrows!" Li Xu did not reply directly to Yuwen Shiji, but conveyed the order to the soldiers.
The great bull of the first week.
"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 like a monkey along the long rope tied to the inside. He was divided into several sections.
The passages between the city walls were too narrow, making it inconvenient for the guards and messengers 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 route.
"Fast passage".
After running for more than ten steps, Zhou Daniu realized what General Lang ordered him to get. The strength of the bow used by the Sui infantry was usually about one and a half stone, and the strength of the bow used by many southern soldiers was only one stone. Those who could draw the two-stone bow
A man 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, the general, actually wants to fetch a three-stone bow by himself. It is really
It's inexplicable. That kind of bow is usually just a decoration in the army. Except for those who show off their arm strength, few people can draw it, and even fewer people can maintain the accuracy after drawing such a strong and strong bow.
He turned his head and wanted to recheck the general's order. Then he thought about General Lang's performance since the Battle of Liaodong, and 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 order. To his surprise, Sicang joined the army and Qin Xingshi did not care at all.
General Li Lang was surprised by the order. After listening to Zhou Daniu's message, he quickly found the needed items from the armory, and 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.
superior.
The armor-piercing arrows are slightly longer than ordinary feathered arrows. The tip of the arrow is black and blue, and the coldness is reminiscent of the teeth of some animal. Zhou Daniu 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 arrow pot, he found that all arrow shafts had been soaked 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, and asked his subordinates to use ropes to hoist the bow and arrow up. Then he handed the horse to the soldiers resting under the city, and climbed back to the enemy tower along the rope. He was a member of the Guards
Zheng, 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. When Li Mi saw this,
The battle flag was waved in the distance and all the road builders were withdrawn. With the sound of whimpering horns, the shield masts under the city slowly moved to both sides of the Weirang Road. A new group of archers were covered by the shield men.
He quickly ran forward and replaced the archers who had been shooting at the city's defenders.
Xuzi hooked the string of the three-stone bow with his fingers to test its strength. Since leaving Su Chuanbu, he has not forgotten to practice archery every day. Uncle Jiu believes that there is no other secret to archery, and the key is to be familiar with it.
The first secret. "Actually, there is another two-word secret that everyone understands. It's just 'familiarity'. If you practice a few more times, you will naturally understand the truth!" What Uncle Jiu said on the way out of the fortress was in his mind.
Echoing in his ears, "Could Uncle Jiu be among the rebels?" Xuzi was surprised by his bold idea, but he soon calmed himself down and used all his energy to feel the power of the bow arm.
The enemy army began to attack, and the arrows fired by the archers darkened the sky. With the roar of the air flow being torn apart, the newly erected protective wall was filled with white feathers. Yellow sand, white rice, from the grass
The bag flowed out from the hole in the bag and splashed down along the city wall like a waterfall. "Hold your shield, raise your shield, squat, squat!" the officers shouted one after another. Accompanied by the shouts of people, the tiles above their heads made "snap bang" sounds.
", the wooden pillars around me made a "duh, duh" crashing sound. Sparks flew from the city bricks in the distance, and the friction sound was sour.
Some recruits raised the shield too high, and the shield in their hands became a target for arrows. More than a dozen long arrows hit the shield at once. The wooden shield could not withstand such a huge impact and fell apart in an instant. The soldiers under the shield
Before he could recover from the shock, his life was snatched away by arrows falling from the sky. The blood spread like a stream along the gaps in the city bricks, staining the clothes of his companions and the people.
Eye.
Following the gap in the shield in front of him, Xuzi saw the rebel armored infantry begin to move. He breathed evenly, took out an armor-piercing arrow from the quiver, and inserted it into the grain bag next to him. The enemy advanced ten steps.
, he took out the second arrow and inserted it next to the first arrow.
The armored infantrymen under the city walked onto the Weirang Road to the sound of drums. Wu Heitai held up a giant shield and walked at the front of the team. The Weirang Road blocked by sandbags was not smooth enough, and people wearing heavy armor were on it.
It was difficult to walk 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 could not penetrate the heavy armor of the shield holder.
These heavy armors are the treasures that Yang Xuangan spent all his wealth to build. There are only more than 800 pairs in total. The outside of each pair of armor is lined with densely packed steel sheets, and the inside is lined with thick cowhide soaked in oil. Ordinary feather arrows can be seen at twenty paces.
Shooting it externally on 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. Eighty steps later, Li Xu decided not to wait any longer. He leaned over, pulled out a long arrow, put it on the bow arm, and took advantage of the moment he stood up.
He exerted his strength 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 stopped shaking. His eyes were firmly fixed on Wu Heita.
Tao, followed the opponent's head, neck, shoulders, up and down. With the sound of "bang", the armor-piercing heavy arrow rushed out of the shield wall like lightning and headed straight towards Wu Heitao.
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. Xuzi clearly saw the armor-piercing arrow hitting Wu Heitai's body.
The shoulder armor was smashed into pieces, and then his entire body was lifted off the ground.
"General Wu!" The armored infantrymen were stunned. They didn't expect anyone to be able to shoot so accurately and so quickly. Several men in soldier uniforms climbed down the weirway in panic to rescue their general. The other soldiers let out a cry.
Shouting, he actually started charging seventy steps away.
Wearing an iron armor weighing more than 40 kilograms, running 70 steps, and expecting to have the physical strength to climb over a city wall that is half a man high, even Li Anyuan, a self-proclaimed man with strength, was not sure of doing it. The next moment, he was pleasantly surprised.
Li Anyuan shouted loudly from behind the sandbag, "Spear ready, spear ready. Duanping, 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 shock, the poisonous dragon-like spear points quickly returned.
Withdrew, then quickly stabbed out and stabbed the chests of the next batch of heavy armored infantry.
"Ah!" A heavy armored infantryman who had reached the battlement with his arms but had no time to lift his body spat out a mouthful of blood and fell on his back. The robe behind him stepped onto his body without hesitation and leaned his upper body over the city wall.
, swung the sword, but the ring-shou knife on his back swept away. The spear shaft was two feet long, and the defenders could leave enough space between their bodies and the low wall. Following the light of the ring-shou knife, the spear stabbed
Come back. Be impartial and just hit 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 and hit the spear holder. The blood lines of the enemy and ourselves were intertwined and fell on the city head, colorful like rain.
"Ten stones of polished rice!" The spearman, covered with arrows, staggered to the top of the city. As he lay dying, the only thing he was thinking about was Yuwen Shiji's promise. Ten stones of polished rice was enough for his family.
The whole year. After the autumn harvest next year, you can buy a buffalo after selling the grain. The land trampled by horses' hooves and burned by wildfires is still fertile. If you dig it, you will get 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 feathered arrows were shot up, and countless soldiers without armor holding kitchen knives and wooden clubs shouted and rushed forward.
Countless innocent souls flew up in the blood light, flying towards the blue sky, as pure as water. (To be continued)
