It is not a simple matter to shoot the ladder truck, and even if it is hit, the people on the ladder truck must have prepared and perfect fire extinguishing methods. Even if it is really ignited, they still have more
Ladder truck.
This is nothing more than futile resistance.
I wonder if the young Hou Mo Chen Ying who stood on top of Nanyang City had similar thoughts?
After all, Gao and the others are still young and have naive ideas.
"Let go!" At this time, the general controlling the bed crossbow had already given the order.
The first iron arrow roared out and flew past one of the ladder trucks.
The second iron arrow followed quickly, and this time it hit a car accurately. However, before the Northern Zhou soldiers on the city burst into cheers, the iron arrow was thrown from the car. It was obvious that the fire had been fired.
It was extinguished, or even not ignited at all.
Fortunately, the third and fourth iron arrows were still up to par. They plunged into the ladder truck a little further away and soon started a fire. The fire engulfed the first floor of the ladder truck. You can see
Thick smoke billowed up, and someone jumped off the ladder truck in fear.
The Han army responded quickly. People carrying buckets kept catching up from behind. The fire was finally under control. However, the ladder truck with three floors in total was burned beyond recognition. Not to mention the middle floor was burned beyond recognition, and the upper and lower floors were also smoked.
It was dark. Although the ladder truck seemed to be still moving, the Han army chose to give up. The new ladder truck quickly moved out of the formation and took the place of its previous classmate.
At the same time, in order to retaliate against the arrows of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Han army's trebuchets once again bombarded the city head, without caring that their companions were almost approaching the barbican city. However, it seemed that the people who controlled the trebuchets of the Han army were still somewhat measured. None of the stone bullets fell on the barbican city.
Here, they all hit the front and back of the main city wall, especially the positions of the bed crossbows.
"Dismantle it quickly!" He Ruobi ordered loudly.
Hope it's not too late
"Bang!" There was a loud noise, and He Ruobi could only watch helplessly as a crossbow was smashed into pieces of wood.
Fortunately, the accuracy of the trebuchet was not so easy to control, and the remaining crossbows were lucky enough to survive. But He Ruobi also knew that in a short period of time, these crossbows would be difficult to use.
The two enemy ladder trucks rushing in front had already reached the edge of the trench.
The trench-filling truck made a creaking sound because it carried such a heavy behemoth, but this sound was quickly covered up by the sound of killings and arrows. The Han army's crossbowmen on the ladder truck fired arrows desperately.
The three-story ladder car is already half higher than the city wall, and the crossbowman standing on the top can even look down from a high position.
"Fire arrow, release!" Gao's voice was hoarse.
The fire arrows lit in the brazier shot toward the ladder truck intensively.
The Han troops on the ladder cart were shooting at the people on the city, while the people on the city were shooting at the cart. It was a bit funny for a while.
The pedals protruded from the ladder truck, and the barbs on them hooked directly onto the city wall.
"Kill!" The general leading the team took the lead.
"First up, first up!"
Countless Han soldiers shouted.
The soldiers of the Northern Zhou Dynasty also raised their spears and waited at the battlements. The swords and spears collided violently. The small pedal became the focus of competition between the two sides. One after another, the Han soldiers climbed onto the ladder cart and walked up the ladder to the city.
While the soldiers of the Northern Zhou Dynasty stood at the end of the pedal, they tried their best to make full use of their numerical advantage.
But the people of the Northern Zhou Dynasty also ignored a problem. When their people gathered to deal with the ladder truck, there were more Han soldiers carrying ordinary ladders trying to climb up. As expected, several Han soldiers soon arrived
The soldiers jumped to the top of the city. Those Zhou people were focusing all their attention on the ladder truck and did not see anyone coming to kill them at all.
"Ah!" A Northern Zhou soldier screamed, which brought many Northern Zhou generals, including Gao, back to their senses.
I don't know when, but the Han troops on the ladder truck hadn't rushed up yet, but more than a dozen Han troops relying on simple ladders had already rushed up.
"Drive them down!" Gao hurriedly took the lead and rushed forward.
At this time, a captain who had been blocked on the ladder car and could not move forward turned slightly to the side and showed an opening. When his opponent thrust his gun forward, he grabbed the handle of his gun and pulled it forward hard. The Northern Zhou soldier
He staggered in his steps and involuntarily threw himself on the sword that the captain stretched forward.
The captain pushed him off the pedal, took advantage of the gap, and rushed to the top of the city with three steps at a time and two steps at a time.
"Kill!" He shouted loudly, jumped down from the battlement, and chopped down two Zhou people one after another with the horizontal knife in his hand.
This guy is very smart, knowing that relying on an ordinary ring-shou knife is shorter and will not give him an advantage when facing the enemy's spear, so he just copied a horizontal knife and went into battle, chopping melons and vegetables along the way.
The technology of the new batch of Hengdao forged by the Han Dynasty has become more mature and the quality is better than before. Unfortunately, the "production" of the Han Dynasty's cavalry could not keep up with the production of Hengdao, so the Hengdao began to be gradually decentralized to the infantry.
among.
For the elite vanguards in Xiao Shilian's army, almost everyone above the generals has one.
"Climb the city!" The general on the ladder truck behind also shouted.
The soldiers swarmed forward.
The Northern Zhou army on the Wengcheng had begun to retreat in panic.
"Deploy a spear formation!" At this time, He Ruobi had already rushed over with reinforcements.
Only at this moment did the soldiers of the Northern Zhou Dynasty regain their composure, and more and more spearmen from the back row came out, pressing towards the enemy row by row.
"Shield!" the leading captains shouted.
At this time, relying solely on the horizontal knife is not enough.
The shields came up one after another and collided directly with the enemy's spears. The spears pushed forward little by little against the shields, while the shields also insisted on not retreating.
"Fire!" At this moment, a loud shout suddenly came from behind.
It turned out that under the intensive attack of Zhou people's fire arrows, one of the ladder trucks was inevitably ignited. The flames swept through the entire ladder truck from top to bottom, turning the ladder truck into a blazing torch.
Due to the lack of a ladder truck, the Han army's speed of climbing the city suddenly dropped, and they were forced back bit by bit by the Zhou people.
The Zhou army's crossbowmen on the main city wall also started shooting arrows, and another ladder cart was set alight.
"when!"
"Dang Dang!"
Xiao Shilian issued the order to withdraw his troops.
At this point, only one of the three ladder trucks is left, and there are two more that have just moved out of the formation. It is still early to support the city, and the city obviously cannot hold on until then.
"Let's go!" The only remaining ladder truck retreated slowly. This time, the crossbowman on the ladder truck did not dare to be careless and fired arrows desperately to suppress the city.
The Han troops on the city also began to retreat through the simple ladders. In fact, they just hugged the ladders and slid down.
However, as the number of people in the city became less and less, it became apparent that the remaining seven or eight people would not be able to leave.