The losses on both sides were heavy. From the moment the soldiers from both sides came into contact with each other to the present, it only took a few breaths. There were already more than a hundred corpses lying on the Weirang Road. And on the wall facing the Weirang Road,
The defenders also changed three times. Yu Wenshiji kept sending out the soldiers hiding in the enemy tower, and kept seeing the bodies of the brothers being carried into the enemy tower.
"Damn it, I didn't have a chance to set up a trap!" Yu Wenshiji muttered, wishing he could drag out the commander of the enemy archers and tear him in half alive.
"This man must be from the army of the Sui Dynasty!" Xuzi frowned and made this judgment on the general who commanded the rebel archers. According to Master Yang's notes, when Yang Su, the Duke of Yue, was training his troops, he was very knowledgeable about generals and archery skills.
The requirements for soldiers' shooting skills are completely different. His requirement for generals is to be accurate, and those who can shoot the head of a hare popping up from the ground within fifty steps are preferred. But for soldiers, his requirement is to be able to shoot at the fastest speed in the shortest time.
, shoot the most arrows into the general’s designated area.
This requirement sounds puzzling, but when you see the scene in front of you, you will be greatly impressed by Yang Su's military skills. The situation on the battlefield changes rapidly, and it is impossible for the general to have time to designate a target for each archer. Therefore
, he will judge the approximate distance between the enemy and himself, and then ask his soldiers to shoot all the feather arrows to that distance. Hundreds of feather arrows will be smashed down overwhelmingly. It does not need to be accurate at all. It can be done just by the density.
Leave the enemy nowhere to escape.
Another round of feather arrows fell from mid-air, causing rubble to fly from the city wall. The moment Bai Yu took off, Xuzi saw a corner flag swaying behind the shield wall made of tree branches.
"There it is!" Xuzi bowed, pulled up the second feather arrow, aimed at the shield wall in front of the corner flag, and shot. Then he quickly bowed, pulled up the third feather arrow, and shot it in the same way as the second feather arrow.
The heavy arrow was shot in a certain trajectory. There was no wind. The first arrow hit the shield wall silently, knocking the branch shield in front of the enemy general away. The second arrow followed and shot solidly into the chest of the person protected by the shield.
Chest.
Xuzi threw down the three-stone bow. He did not have the strength to fire such a strong bow three times. In fact, there was no need for him to fire the third time. The enemy general who directed the archers to suppress the city fell on his back.
The flag flew up into the air, causing confusion among the archers.
"Pierce the oil drum and push it down from the top of the city!" Yu Wenshiji and Xu Zi cooperated very well. Taking advantage of the pause between the enemy's arrows, they shouted the order.
The spearmen thrust forward at the same time, forcing the armored infantry approaching the city head a few feet away. The soldiers in the back row rushed up, and the two men lifted a barrel filled with vegetable oil, stabbed several times randomly with their daggers, and worked together to kill
Oil drums were smashed into the Weirang Road.
"Gululu" The oil barrel rolled down the slope quickly, knocking over several armored infantrymen and spilling vegetable oil all over the road. Several rebels who were about to rush to the battlements yelled curses, but they were not paying attention when they stepped on their feet, and they were sprinkled again.
The dirt bag filled with vegetable oil stumbled and slid to the ground along the edge of the fish beam channel like a rolling gourd.
"Throw it again and make more holes!" Yu Wenshiji refused.
The second batch of wooden barrels filled with vegetable oil were thrown off the city wall, knocking the armored infantry on the fish beam to stagger. The angry armored soldiers slashed with their swords, cutting huge holes in the barrels. The clear
The vegetable oil drips out, moistening the sand on which the fish beam channel is built like water. The aroma of the oil is so fragrant that it makes people salivate.
The smell of blood was diluted, and the air was filled with the fragrance of vegetable oil. "Get out of the way!" In the astonished eyes of the enemy, Li Anyuan rushed out of the enemy tower with a rocket carried by his horn bow. As soon as he let go, he shot the rocket into the weir beam.
The armored infantry on the road fell under their feet. Immediately afterwards, more than 20 veterans rushed out with rockets, shooting the Weirang Avenue into a fiery dragon.
The armored infantry who were charging forward had never encountered such a shameless tactic, and fled backwards in a chaotic manner. "Add fuel to the fire!" Yuwen Shiji shouted frantically. More oil barrels were punctured and rolled down the weirway.
, chasing the footsteps of the armored soldiers and drawing the fire to them.
The fighting stopped instantly. The rebels who were charging forward with the ladder stopped in shock and watched helplessly as their elite armored infantry, equipped with equipment costing more than ten thousand dollars, rolled and struggled in the sea of fire. They had just recovered from the blow of their general's death.
The archers opened their mouths, unable to judge whether the disasters that were coming one after another were nightmares or reality.
The defenders on the top of the city were also shocked. They did not expect the destructive power of the fire to be so powerful. Of the more than 300 armored infantry near the city wall, only a dozen people at the end of the team escaped safely, and the rest were all involved.
A sea of fire. Someone stumbled to the side of the weirway and rolled down. The armor stained with vegetable oil brought the flames to the oil puddle under the weirway, where it triggered another burst of flames.
There were still more than 300 lucky armored infantrymen who were the second echelon and did not participate in the storming. After losing their leader and witnessing the tragic death of their companions, they lost their courage and reason. They stood on the Weirang Road one by one, leaning on their shields and holding their knives.
The tail end is like a clay sculpture. No matter how hard the drums behind him beat, no one is willing to move forward even half a step.
"Continue to attack, continue to attack, put out the fire with sand and earth!" A golden-armored general riding a war horse rushed to the city with dozens of guards, and used a whip to wake up the stunned rebel soldiers. It was like he had just woken up from a nightmare.
The rebel soldiers who woke up let out a scream and rushed towards the city wall in a chaotic manner.
Infantrymen carrying soil ran forward from the enemy's main position and tried to use sand and soil to extinguish the fire on the Weirang Road. However, the fire was too strong and their actions had no obvious results for a while. The golden armored general angrily
Running under the city wall, he directly gave orders to various low-level generals. Under his supervision, the ladder began to move forward again, the flow of people began to creep forward again, and the archers behind the shield wall began to shoot white feathers towards the city head again. It was just that
The rhythm of all the movements has slowed down, and the shouts of death are no longer as powerful as before.
Xuzi grabbed an ordinary walking bow and put the armor-piercing arrow on the bow arm again. The long arrow flew towards the golden-armored general, but missed it because of the running of the horse. The whistling sound caused by the feathered arrow scared the man.
He jumped and quickly looked towards the enemy tower. He hit his horse and ran out of the attack range of the feather arrow.
"This man is Han Shihe. If you had just shot him to death, we would have won half of today's battle!" Yu Wenshiji stepped forward, pointed at the golden-armored general, and shouted loudly.
Li Xu answered Yuwen Shiji with a wry smile. He fired the strong bow three times in a very short period of time, and his arms are still weak. Otherwise, the last arrow would not have gone astray.
Another batch of ladders was set up on the top of the city, and the rebels braved rolling logs and rocks to climb up quickly. Several brave defenders leaned out from the battlements and tried to pull the ladder over with hooks, but they were shot down by the rebel archers.
One shot to death.
"Can you send someone to use rockets to destroy the shield wall?" Li Xu pointed at the shield wall of tree branches used by the enemy under the city to protect the archers, and shouted at Yu Wenshiji.
"What did you say, Rocket, let me think about it!" Yuwen Shiji covered his ears with his hands and responded. After a while, he began to order people to collect cloth strips, the general's cloak, the soldier's sleeves, trousers, and everything around that could be pulled.
He collected all the Gebu that came down for emergency use. Then, he took a bucket of vegetable oil, moistened the cloth strips, and ordered people to wrap the oil cloth strips on the arrows and distribute them one by one to the archers.
Rockets began to be fired from each crenel, and they were nailed to the enemy's shield wall under the city one after another, causing puffs of light smoke. The shields made of tree branches were not fireproof, so the enemy's shield-hands panicked, stretched out their weapons from behind the shields, and beat them desperately.
The light smoke gradually became thicker, and as the number of rockets hitting the shield increased, the flames finally started to rise.
The shirtless shield bearers dropped their "torches" one after another and froze on the spot. Their upper bodies immediately attracted the attention of the defenders on the city. Countless feather arrows flew over and whizzed around their chests. "I
Damn it!" The shirtless men screamed, turned around and ran away, overwhelming the archer team.
"Go around, go around and gather two hundred steps away. Our formation will send shields soon!" Han Shihe's nose was turned upside down by the performance of the soldiers. Under the protection of several guards, he rode forward to intercept the escapees.
Seeing that he had entered the range of the feather arrow again, Li Xu raised his bow and aimed at Han Shihe's neck. Before the arrow could be released, a guard had blocked his sight. He pointed the arrow tip down and aimed at Han Shihe's chest.
The target soon became the guard's shield. Adjusting the angle of the bow arm slightly, Xuzi let go of the bow string, and the armor-piercing arrow flew across the battlefield like a meteor, and pierced the neck of the war horse.
Han Shihe's figure suddenly disappeared from the battlefield, and dozens of guards surrounded him at the same time. "Han Shihe was hit by an arrow, Han Shihe was hit by an arrow!" Zhang Xiu shouted loudly in the enemy tower. Immediately afterwards, Zhou Daniu led Li Xu's guards.
They shouted with one voice, spreading the news to the ears of everyone on the battlefield.
The rebel attack stalled again, and almost everyone looked towards the position where Han Shihe fell. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the defenders on the top of the city raised their hooks and pulled the ladder they had just erected to the side as hard as they could.
Reluctantly, he let out a squeaking protest, then collapsed with a crash.
"Set fire, set fire!" Yu Wenshiji ordered loudly.
The vegetable oil that had been placed on various sections of the city wall was poured down. The defenders dropped fire starters from the top of the city, and ignited the corpses under the city, the ladders, and the wounded soldiers who had no time to escape. Thick smoke rose billowingly.
In the smoke, screams could be heard endlessly.
"General Han is not dead, General Han is not dead. Don't be fooled, don't be fooled!" Han Shihe's guards shouted in unison, trying to stabilize the morale of the army. The enemy is too despicable. From the beginning of the fight to the present, they have not been able to win a single move.
However, these shameful tricks were so effective that they actually allowed him to seize Hulao with his backhand. General Han, who had two dangerous city gates in Xingyang, could do nothing to Liyang City, which had no security.
"My general is still here!" Han Shihe walked out from the surrounding guards, raised his sword and shouted. As soon as he finished speaking, an arrow flew over with a "whoosh!" and splashed a stream of dust at his feet. The guards hurried up.
In front of him, he surrounded the shield Han Shihe, hugged him, and slowly retreated.
Li Xu put down the bow with regret. He was not the one who shot that arrow. Someone jumped first and startled Han Shihe. He turned his head and saw Zhou Daniu holding up the walking bow and placing another armor-piercing arrow on the bow arm. "
Don't waste it, use ordinary arrows to shoot at nearby targets!" Li Xu quickly reminded. "Oh!" Zhou Daniu, who was still in excitement, turned around after hearing the words, put down the armor-piercing arrows apologetically, and hid at the junction of the watchtower and the city wall.
"Dang, Dang, Dang, Dang, Dang!" A clear gong sounded from the enemy's main line, and Li Mi withdrew all his soldiers. Morale was greatly depressed, and there was too much fire under the city wall. There was no point in continuing the first wave of attacks.
.He is not a foolhardy player and knows how to adjust the offensive rhythm.
"Let the reserve team come up and replace the soldiers guarding the city this morning and go down to eat!" Li Xu put down his bow and reached out to wipe the sweat from his forehead.
Sobs could be heard from various parts of the west city wall. Many of the soldiers who were forcibly incorporated into the Xiongwu Camp were from the same hometown. They had played with each other since childhood. Last time, everyone had a chance to escape death together. After a few days of good times, they were pulled away again.
Return to death.
"Carry the deceased down and put him in the empty courtyard. After the enemy troops retreat, he can bury him alive!" Yu Wenshiji sighed and ordered in a low voice.
This order made many soldiers cry even more sadly, almost turning into howls. "What's the shout, what's the shout, no one will die in a war!" The junior officers scolded loudly and suppressed the crying. Everyone stood up sobbing.
They carried their fellow countrymen and companions through the small gates between the city sections and walked along the horse path to the bottom of the city. The brothers in charge of food carried steaming white rice and stewed horse meat. The soldiers picked up the bowls and used chopsticks.
I picked up something delicious that I had never tasted many times in my life, but I couldn't put the food in my mouth.
"Eat, this battle is still going on!" A "veteran" of the Xiongwu Camp who had just become a team leader patted the new soldier in front of him and comforted him.
"Still fighting?" The new soldier's eyes widened with tears and he made a silent protest. "Why not fight?" He lowered his head and muttered in a low voice, "There is no injustice or enmity!"
"You think I want to fight! If they hadn't rebelled, I wouldn't have made many military exploits in Liaodong!" The veteran put down his job and cursed bitterly.
The new soldier lowered his head and stopped talking. He didn't understand what the captain said. He knew that when the crops were growing in the fields, Master Yang said that the master had rebelled and asked everyone to serve as soldiers to eliminate traitors for the country. Then the traitors
He became the current emperor again, and the charges were written on a large piece of paper, which rhymed, but unfortunately he could not understand a word. Then his identity became a righteous man, led by Lord Yuan to defend Liyang. Then Lord Yuan became
He turned out to be a rebel thief, was caught by the officers and soldiers in front of him, and had his head chopped off. Then, his identity changed from a rebel thief to an officer, and the enemy he faced changed from a righteous man to a rebel. After changing, the whole
Everyone has become confused. But the chief's promises are getting better and better, and there are more and more dead people around.
"Anyway, if you persist for one and a half days and get the rice alive, it will be a victory!" The veteran polished off the rice and meat in the bowl, put down his chopsticks, and confessed the truth.
"Get the rice alive!" The recruit wiped away his tears and swallowed the piece of meat whole. Master Yuan also made a promise to get rice, but after he died, there were no more promises to be made. Now this group of people is fulfilling their promise.
The days are coming, and I have to live on no matter what, until the moment when my promise is fulfilled.
"Xu Zi, believe it or not, after this battle, our Xiongwu Camp will become an elite that can dominate the world!" Yu Wenshiji put down his chopsticks, pointed at the veterans and new soldiers who were walking back to the city wall one after another, and whispered.
"Ah, elites!" Li Xu, who was immersed in eating, almost choked and asked hesitantly. The elites in his heart were the tiger and horse cavalry mentioned by Bu Xiaowei. They have been galloping on the fort for many years, and how many of his subordinates have just gone to the battlefield?
How can Tian's recruits compare? However, when Yu Wenshiji reminded him, Xu Zi really felt that the soldiers in front of him had changed. It turned out that most of them looked blank and lifeless.
There is still not much life, but there is a strong murderous aura.
"This will be the foundation for the two of us to gain a foothold in the court!" Yu Wenshiji looked at the groups of loyal and brave soldiers and thought silently. Without the support of the family, it is not bad to have a family completely under his control. With this
If you have a strong team, you won’t have to worry about being unable to make achievements.
The fame will be obtained immediately. (To be continued)
