Huyang County Magistrate Lian Feng and County Lieutenant Guo Deng may not be outstanding people, but they are indeed good at defending the city.
Li Yi and his troops entered Huyang for nearly a month. Lian Feng and Guo Deng remained locked up. However, they were not idle in the city. They gathered the strong men in full swing and stored a large number of rolling logs and stones on the top of the city.
And kerosene, ready to be ready.
The next morning, according to Liu Xiu's tactics, Li Yi's troops and Deng Yu's troops left the camp one after another.
Li Yi's group went straight to Nancheng, while Deng Yu's group went to Dongcheng. At the same time, 300 elites headed by Liu Xiu left the camp along the south gate of the camp and marched all the way south.
They were traveling in the opposite direction to Huyang City, and seemed to be heading back to Caiyang. However, after walking two or three miles, Liu Xiu changed the direction of travel, made a large circle, and quietly headed towards the west city of Huyang.
At half past midnight in the morning, when the agreed attack time came, Deng Yu and Li Yi both issued orders to attack the city. Neither of them launched an all-out attack at the beginning, but sent small groups of troops to conduct a tentative attack.
When the attacking soldiers entered within a hundred steps of Huyang, they were already within the shooting range of Huyang City, but the strange thing was that no arrows were shot down from the top of the city.
Seeing this, Li Yi raised the corners of his lips and ordered the left and right to beat the drums. Beat the drums to march, and shout gold to retreat. This is a military signal that has remained unchanged for thousands of years.
As the drums sounded, the two hundred soldiers sent by Li Yi used all their strength and ran towards Huyang City at full speed.
When they were less than thirty steps away from Huyang City, a sharp whistle suddenly sounded from the top of the city, and a loud arrow flew up into the sky, drew an arc, and plummeted down from the sky.
Following the sound of the arrow, hundreds of officers and soldiers suddenly stood up behind the arrow stacks at the top of the city. They all held bows and arrows and released arrows from the gaps between the arrow stacks.
Buzz!
A large rain of arrows flew down from the top of the city and smashed into the soldiers of the Chongling Army. In just an instant, twenty or thirty people fell to the ground. Their bodies, arms, and legs were all covered with arrows.
Arrow.
After the first row of officers and soldiers shot the arrows, they immediately retreated. The officers and soldiers behind them with fully drawn bows stepped forward to take up their positions and continued to release arrows along the gaps between the arrow stacks.
After shooting the arrows, people did not check whether they hit the enemy outside the city, but immediately retreated, allowing the officers and soldiers behind to continue to step forward to fill their positions.
Repeatedly, I saw arrows flying down from the top of Huyang City, one after another, like raindrops, in an endless stream. Poor those two hundred soldiers of the Chung Ling Army who were leading the battle, under the constant stream of arrows,
The shields in people's hands have become useless. They can't block the upper ones, and they can't block the upper ones. Once people are hit by arrows and fall to the ground, they have no chance to stand up again. Their bodies are immediately covered by arrows.
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Most of the two hundred soldiers had already fallen down in less than half a stick of incense. Seeing that they could not fight, the remaining people turned around and ran back. But in this way, they fell faster.
They were only twenty or thirty steps away from Huyang City. Even if they ran twenty, thirty, or even fifty steps, they would still be within shooting range.
The soldiers of the defeated Chung Ling Army were not struck by arrows and fell to the ground one by one, but groups of them were nailed to the ground by the rain of arrows.
It wasn't until the last soldier screamed and fell to the ground, and more than a dozen arrows hit him, that Li Yi, who was watching the battle, came back to his senses.
He roared angrily, drew out the sword from his side, and shouted: "Avenge the brothers who died in the battle! All brothers, follow me to attack the city!"
The three thousand Chung Ling Army led by Li Yi were arranged into six square formations in units of Qu (five hundred people per Qu), and advanced forward in unison.
After the Chung Ling Army formation entered within a hundred steps of Huyang City, Li Yi shouted: "Everyone raise their shields!"
The messengers around Li Yi ran quickly between the various formations, shouting as they ran: "Raise your shields! Everyone raise your shields!"
The soldiers of each group raised their wooden shields high above their heads. In this way, a large combined giant shield was formed above the heads of each formation.
When he entered within eighty steps of Huyang City, Li Yi ordered the third song and the fourth song to come forward, and the other four songs to follow.
Li Yi had indeed worked hard on the formation of troops. He commanded the siege of three thousand troops in an orderly manner. No matter who was allowed to watch the battle, it would be difficult to find fault with his formation.
The siege of a city by three thousand troops cannot be compared with the siege by two hundred men. At least it put great pressure on the defenders mentally.
When the Chung Ling Army's third and fourth phalanxes were still sixty steps away from Huyang City, the arrow formations on the top of the city were smashed down.
Duh, duh, duh——
Arrows like raindrops hit the Choling Army's camp. The shield on the head of the phalanx was quickly covered with a layer of 'black grass' at a speed visible to the naked eye, and this layer of black grass continued to become denser.
The shield array can indeed effectively defend against the arrow array, but the shield array is not airtight. From time to time, arrows are shot through the gaps in the shield array, and the screams of soldiers can be heard from below the shield array.
However, in the square formation, after one person fell, the people behind him immediately stepped forward to take over and continue to maintain the integrity of the shield formation.
Under the cover of the shield formation, although the advancing Chongling Army also suffered casualties, the casualties were so few that they were almost negligible.
When the phalanx advanced to about thirty steps away from Huyang, suddenly, several huge stones flew out from the city of Huyang.
These stones flew into the air, crossed the city wall, and made a piercing whistling sound. They fell from the air, hit the ground with a roar, and smashed into the crowd in the phalanx. Suddenly, there were screams.
Li Yi and others who were walking behind were frightened for a moment when they saw these huge rocks flying out of the city.
After a while, Li Yi came back to his senses and shouted: "Trebuchet! There is a trebuchet in the city! Send an order to the whole army to speed up! The whole army speeds up!"
Under the double attack of the defenders' trebuchets and arrow arrays, the casualties of the advancing Chongling Army began to rise sharply.
People did not dare to continue advancing step by step, and could only charge forward with all their strength. As a result, the shield array could no longer remain monolithic. During the charge, the soldiers were shot to the ground one by one by arrows.
The third and fourth troops who led the front, with a total of 1,000 people, finally rushed to the bottom of the city wall at the cost of more than 300 casualties. Then people set up ladders and began to climb to the top of the city. At the same time, the top of the city
The rolling logs, stones, and kerosene poured down one after another.
The battle on the Nancheng side has gradually become fierce, and the battle on the Dongcheng side has also fully begun. Compared with Nancheng, the defense of Huyang Dongcheng is relatively weak. Although trebuchets have been deployed, there are only three of them.
The military threat is not great.
Li Yi's First Division and Deng Yu's First Division had launched an all-out battle with the defenders. Liu Xiu led 300 elite troops and undetected to a depression outside the West City of Huyang. Liu Xiu lay on the ground, Slowly climb to the edge of the depression and look up at Huyang City in the distance. This place is about five miles away from Huyang. Even at such a long distance, the sound of fighting can be vaguely heard, which shows the fierce fighting between the two sides.
After watching for a moment, Liu Xiu retreated into the depression. He looked around and asked, "Is everyone ready?"
Everyone squatting in the depression nodded to Liu Xiu and said in unison: "Ready!"
Liu Xiu nodded and said: "We are five miles away from Huyang City. Everyone, follow me and rush over!"
"yes!"
Liu Xiu climbed out of the depression first and ran towards Huyang City. Feng Yi, Fu Jun, Zhu You, and Gai Yan followed closely behind, followed by 300 elite soldiers. People followed Liu Xiu, And ran towards Huyang City.
At this time, the main strength of Huyang City's defenders was in Nancheng and Dongcheng. The number of defenders on the West City side was really small, less than 300 at full strength, and their attention was not focused outside the West City. People were sitting on the top of the city, discussing the battles taking place in Nancheng and Dongcheng.
It wasn't until Liu Xiu and his party were within a hundred paces that the defenders on the top of the city noticed. A soldier pointed to the outside of the city and shouted: "Why is someone running over? Who is it?"
Hearing the shouts, the defenders on the top of the city stood up one after another and looked outside the city. After a while, no one knew who it was, and they screamed: "Rebels! It's the rebels who came to the west city to attack. Got it!"
Wow——
Following this voice, the defenders on the city suddenly became a mess. One of the leading military commanders shouted repeatedly: "Don't be chaotic! Everyone, don't be chaotic! Archers! Archers shoot arrows! Come on, go to Nancheng quickly." , report the enemy situation to Magistrate Lian and Lieutenant of Guo County! Go quickly!"
There were only a dozen or so pitiful archers left behind in the West City. They watched the enemies outside the city getting closer and closer, especially the leader, who was running very fast.
More than a dozen archers bent their bows and set arrows, and shot arrows at Liu Xiu, who was the fastest.
Dozens of arrows flew towards him. Instead of slowing down, Liu Xiu's running speed became faster. However, while running, his waist also bent forward, turning into a hairy waist as he ran forward.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
The arrow whizzed past his head and hit the ground behind him. On top of the city, the leading military commander could see it clearly. He pointed at Liu Xiu who was approaching the city wall and shouted: "Shoot." Kill this thief! Shoot this thief first!"
It was not that the archers did not want to shoot Liu Xiu, but that he was too fast and he had already run past before the arrow could fly to him.
In this moment, beads of sweat appeared on the archers' foreheads. People re-cocked their bows and continued to shoot arrows at Liu Xiu.
The distance between the two sides was too close, and it was no longer possible to dodge the arrows by relying on speed. This time Liu Xiu changed to an S-shaped route, and the arrows falling from the sky clattered onto the ground beside him.
Until Liu Xiu rushed to the city wall, no arrows hit him. An archer jumped on the arrow stack, intending to continue shooting arrows at Liu Xiu at the base of the wall.
At this time, there was a whooshing sound, and an arrow suddenly shot up from outside the city, hitting his neck. The archer didn't even make a cry, and fell on his back. This arrow came from the tight arrow. Fu Jun followed Liu Xiu.
"It's him! It's him who is shooting arrows..." An officer and soldier stuck his head out, pointed at Fu Jun outside the city, and shouted to his companions around him.
But before he could finish his words, Fu Jun's arrows hit him in the jaw.
