Chapter 862 Attack from the front, sneak attack from the back
Under several beacon barracks around Xiaoguan, the Song army was surrounded on all sides, and the sound of killing was loud. The red tassels scattered on the tops of Fan Yang's felt hats on the heads of the Song Dynasty imperial army, which numbered more than 10,000 people, gathered together, like blazing flames. The army had just marched to
Two to three hundred paces away from the camp located halfway up the surrounding mountains, thousands more crossbowmen rushed to the front line under the command of their generals. Another order was given, and a swarm of crossbowmen came out like a rain of locusts.
Clusters of arrows poured towards the city head.
Amid the violent blows like a storm, many curtains were suddenly erected at the top of the city. They were made of hardwood as beams and cowhide as the surface. The cowhide was soaked with oil and water and had excellent toughness. Some infantry took shelter in them to observe the movements of the enemy troops outside the city.
, there were many Xixia soldiers squatting half-crouching on the top of the city. After a round of arrows and crossbows from the Song army poured out, the sound of the hard bow in their hands squeaking and the long string being pulled was endless. Immediately, the arrow clusters were drawn out and towards the top of the city.
The Song army below shot away.
Arrows that covered the sky and covered the sun like locusts were shot. Hundreds of Song soldiers were hit by sharp arrows. One or two hundred of them were killed immediately. Immediately, the pace was as fast as wind and rain, and the swordsmen behind the array immediately
General Ben came up and set up his shield to block the rain of arrows pouring down from the city. Xiao Tang sat in the middle of the army and watched the battle. Suddenly he gave an order and shouted loudly: "Treading arrows, catapults, divine arm bows, shoot!
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Because the Fengsui camp occupied by the Xia army was located on the middle of a hillside, the surrounding terrain was rugged, and large siege equipment could not be moved up. The stalwart arrows fired by the three-bow bed crossbows used hard wood as the arrow shaft and iron sheets.
Weiling is also called "One Spear, Three Swords and Arrows". The arrows are like javelins. They can not only intimidate the enemy troops defending the city, but also nail rows of stilt arrows into the city wall during the salvo, allowing the siege soldiers to climb on them.
Above. The other hand cannons operated by two military men are relatively light, with only one person holding the cannon, the single-shot cannon with four people pulling the rope, and the more flexible tiger crouching cannon and column-belly cannon, etc.
The catapults and artillery have also been positioned and aimed at the city wall.
One end of the thick rope with hooks at both ends of the three-bow crossbow was hooked on the crossbow string, and the other end was hooked on the shaft of the upper winch. Under the order of the general next to him, the top five soldiers on each crossbow joined forces.
Shouting to twist, Shengsheng opened the taut crossbow string and buckled it on the machine teeth. The crossbowman who loaded the arrow also placed the crossbow arrow with a long and thick arrow shaft and a flat chisel-shaped arrowhead. Another order was given.
Next, the crossbowmen in charge of firing behind each crossbow cart raised a sledgehammer high and hammered the trigger hard. The long pole arrows immediately made a heart-stopping whistling sound and rushed towards the city wall with a roar! The divine arm bow at the rear
, the single-tip cannon, the tiger crouching cannon, and the column-belly cannon also fired out. The crossbow stones, dense as rain and as fierce as thunder, were already smashing into the wall!
The walls of the city wall made of rammed yellow clay with strong viscosity were shattered into pieces by the crushing arrows and flying stones. Dozens of cowhide tough curtains were immediately penetrated, and many Xia
The sergeants were immediately pierced by arrows, and three or four more soldiers were nailed into "meat skewers" by the long arrow clusters. The stone bullets hit the city wall with a "boom, boom, boom, boom" sound.
!" There was a loud noise, mud waves and gravel burst out, and many Xia soldiers were immediately beaten to a bloody pulp.
The walls of the Fengsui camp began to collapse on a small scale, and the Xia defenders retreated to escape. Xiao Tang hesitated slightly when he saw this. He knew that although it was time to order the infantry to attack the city, the arrows were on the strings and had to be fired. Although Li Xiaozhong and Wu
Jie led his troops to take a circuitous route, crossing mountains and ridges to attack the back of the camp. The troops he commanded on the front also had to put great pressure on the enemy, so that the death warriors led by Li Xiaozhong and Wu Jie could act as surprise troops.
The effect can catch the enemy by surprise.
So Xiao Tang made a decisive decision and shouted loudly: "Attack the city!"
Groups of soldiers of the Song Army heard the commander's order, and they all set up their shields. Many soldiers hid under the cowhide curtains. The wooden wheels on the underside of the cowhide curtains made a muffled sound.
They began to rush towards the bottom of the city wall of the camp. Hundreds of soldiers ran vigorously. After they came to the bottom of the city wall, some soldiers put ladders up to the top of the city, while others followed the rows of arrows nailed into the wall with their hands.
Climb the pedals and start climbing upwards.
The crossbowmen below the city wall stood far away, and began to shoot at the top of the city with the highly penetrating divine arm bow. However, at this moment, dozens of two or three arrows suddenly appeared from the city wall.
As soon as the hook on the top of the ladder was placed on the city wall, it was pushed down by the protruding bumping bar. Many soldiers of the Song Army who had just climbed halfway fell backward with the ladder and hit the ground hard!
The infantry of the Xia army on the city wall also began to shoot against the suppressed fire below. They rushed to the edge of the female wall and used first-grade bows, rolling wood and stones, and rolling oil and gold juice to tilt towards the bottom of the city wall. Behind them, there were countless soldiers shuttled back and forth.
, still using city defense weapons and hard-attack crossbows to form a line of defense that harvested the lives of enemy soldiers. Hundreds of climbing Song Army soldiers could not reach the sky or the ground. They were faced with arrow clusters and rolling stones hitting their heads and faces.
, the boiling oil was unavoidable, and amid the bursts of heart-rending screams, hundreds of living human lives turned into bloody and unrecognizable corpses in mid-air before they fell to the ground!
The tragic sound of fighting was still shaking the earth. There were piles of corpses below the walled city, and blood was flowing everywhere. Human life became extremely low-level at this time. In an instant, hundreds of lives were ruthlessly wiped out, and people kept falling.
Facing the fierce counterattack at the top of the city, the Song army soldiers could not help but temporarily retreat. Although the Xia army above the city wall also lost a lot of men and horses, the number killed was far less than that of the Song army. In the second round
After the fierce attack, the Fengsui Walled City here remained unmoved.
Xiao Tang watched the battle and saw both physical pain and anger. If he had the choice, he would be least willing to command his troops to carry out such an siege that requires the loss of lives to storm the fortress, but Ci Bu Zhang
Soldiers, Xiao Tang also knew very well that at a critical moment in the battle, he must not miss important events because of a moment of impatience, not to mention if he did not attract the attention of the enemy forces here... The soldiers led by Li Xiaozhong and Wu Jie
Even if the thousands of warriors who dared to die could climb up the cliff behind the mountain, they would all be lost in the hands of the Xia army.
Now I just hope that Li Xiaozhong and Wu Jie can successfully detour back to the top of the mountain, and launch a surprise attack from the rear to catch the Xia army here off guard...
Xiao Tang gritted his teeth, and then shouted loudly: "Treading arrows, catapults, divine arm bows, shooting! Send the order, and order the troops on standby in the rear formation to prepare to press on the generals and prepare to attack!"
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Although the war in Fengsui Camp is very fierce right now, the west side of the mountains that are also located in the east of Liupan Mountain is quiet and peaceful. The hazy mountains seem to be shrouded by a layer of gauze, the dense woods in the valleys are shadowy, and the streams in the ravines are shadowy.
Gurgling, embedded in the surrounding green grass and wild fields, waterfalls flying in all directions, and vines hanging upside down. But in this scene of green gauze shrouded in thousands of piles of smoke, there are thousands of strong men wearing armor and swords, fighting on the rugged solitary ridges and sloping walls.
Hiding among the woods in the deep valleys.
Suddenly, several more "coo-coo" bird calls were heard above the cliff dozens of feet high. Li Xiaozhong, who was sitting on a blue and white stone under the cliff, heard it and immediately spat out the grass stem in his mouth and removed it from his mouth.
Jumping to the ground on the boulder, he said again: "Okay! The brothers above have heard the news. There are no soldiers and horses guarding Xia Dog above the mountain. I don't know if he can kill to the back of the camp from here! There is no time to delay at this time. Wu
General, let’s climb up the cliff right now, outflank it from the rear, and kill the Ganxia dog by surprise!”
