When the Tuyuhun generals angrily ordered the pursuit and sent people to inform the main force that the opponent's cavalry was definitely an elite group, Wei Yuancheng had already led the cavalry and fled without a trace.
At this time, Wuwei City is more dangerous than imagined.
The southeast corner gate was the focus of Tuyuhun's army's attack from the beginning, and almost all of the countless trebuchets were concentrated here.
The Tuyuhun people's choice was not wrong. The southeast corner gate is not as tall as the east gate or the south gate. There are even enemy towers on both sides to form high and low echoes. Moreover, the scale of the city gate is not large, so naturally there cannot be too many soldiers arranged above it.
With horses and concentrated trebuchets, the entire city gate can be covered.
Moreover, the city gate at Jiaomen is not equipped with iron gates, so it can be opened directly with a ram. However, He Ruobi had already expected that the enemy would arrange it this way, so he sealed the entire city gate after the troops entered the city.
Therefore, now the enemy's car can only helplessly hit the city wall. Unfortunately, the Han soldiers on the city can't let them do what they want. Zhentianlei and other ignitable fire pots are constantly thrown down, and amidst the continuous explosions,
Tuyuhun soldiers had no way of pushing the rams, so much so that He Ruobi even felt that he had reason to suspect that these explosions caused more damage to the city wall than the rams.
However, in addition to rushing vehicles, Tuyuhun's army also prepared various siege ladders. These siege ladders were originally built when they attacked Wuwei's peripheral defense line. However, after Tuyuhun's main force moved south, these things were no longer needed.
Who knew that it would eventually be used on Wu Wei.
The Tuyuhun army did not have the ability to build the kind of large ladder trucks used by the Han army when they attacked the city - it was surrounded by the Gobi desert, and it was difficult to find such thick trees, but the dense number of simple ladders was enough to give He Ruobi a headache.
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The simplest and most primitive ant siege, when the number of siege soldiers is large enough and they are not afraid of death, it will indeed put a lot of pressure on the defenders.
What's more, after concentrating their forces to capture the position outside the southeast corner gate of Wuwei in one fell swoop, the Tuyuhun army's morale was greatly boosted, and they spread out along the city wall. In addition to the southeast corner gate in the main attack direction, there were also feint attacks by the Tuyuhun army at the east gate, south gate, and north gate.
In addition, there are cavalry and a group of more than a thousand infantry to harass the position outside the west gate, so Gao Mai can only take the troops to sit at the west gate in person at this time, so as to support the south gate or the north gate at any time.
.As for the east side, he is really powerless and it all depends on He Ruobi.
A few Tuyuhun soldiers, who could tell from their size that they were very powerful, jumped onto the city wall at this time. They were either holding axes or heavy hammers in their hands, chopping and smashing. On the wall were only Han soldiers holding horizontal knives and shields.
He couldn't resist it for a moment, and the hammer hit the shield. At least the shield directly cracked, and at most the soldiers behind the shield were hit so hard that they vomited blood. It was obvious that the internal organs were directly injured.
The Han army officers and soldiers also suddenly tasted the helplessness of the Tuyuhun soldiers when facing the Han army's heavy armor. At this time, more Tuyuhun infantry also jumped to the top of the city, and gradually established a barrier not far from the southeast corner gate.
defense line and gradually moved forward. Their goal was very clear, to capture the southeast corner gate as soon as possible and establish a foothold.
"Bang bang!" The sound of muskets was accompanied by the crisp drum beat.
The swordsmen and shieldmen separated to both sides, and the musketeers advanced in sequence to the sound of exclusive snare drums.
Another row of guns fired, and the smoke filled the air.
However, the Han soldiers had no time to complain and were all staring at the scene in the smoke and dust ahead.
The few strong Tuguhun men who were invincible before were now heavily baptized by bullets. There were already many blood holes in their bodies. The blood was surging. Soon they fell to their knees weakly. The Tuguhun soldiers behind were also a little confused.
When bullets were fired, everyone was trying to huddle behind their companions to pray that the bullets would not hit them.
The sound of the snare drum suddenly stopped, and the musketeers dispersed again and threw themselves into the battle at each crenel.
The Han saber and shield bearers swarmed forward, relying on their local numerical advantage to chop down melons and vegetables like they were chopping up melons and vegetables. A few lucky ones jumped onto the crenel and slid down the ladder, leaving the city.
Looking from above, they were more or less knocked down. However, the enemy's tactics on the city wall to turn the situation around in a blink of an eye clearly shocked them. Even if they were hurt by the fall, they didn't care about it anymore and ran away one by one.
It was so fast that the Han soldiers on the city laughed.
He Ruobi, who was standing at the foot of the turret steps, couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, even though the enemy had not actually attacked the city before, he did not forget to strengthen the training of these soldiers, especially the training to deal with emergencies.
Just now, I simply ordered the drums to be beaten three times, and the Han army's musketeers quickly gathered, lined up, loaded and fired simultaneously to the beat of the drums, killed the enemy's backbone, and then quickly returned to their fighting positions. The round trip seemed to take as long as
It was just a matter of reloading and casting, but I saw that the crisis situation had been quietly reversed. If the sword and shield players could not solve the remaining problems, then there would be no need to defend the city.
He Ruobi can imagine that in the future, this kind of cooperation between the musketeers, the sword-shielders and the rest of the troops will receive more attention.
I wonder if I can still write a good report after this battle.
The premise is... you can survive.
"General, a cavalry figure was found outside the south gate. It seems to be one of ours!" At this time, a captain rushed over quickly with an arrow in his head.
He Ruobi was startled: "Go and have a look!"
Standing on the south wall, you can already see a faint figure moving towards this side quickly in the distance. Many Tuyuhun soldiers and horses also noticed the movement of this team and rushed up from all directions with the intention of blocking it.
"General, Chiqi is one of our own!" shouted the soldiers on the enemy's platform not far away.
"Reinforcements, reinforcements have arrived!" the Han soldiers suddenly shouted.
He Ruobi did not relax. It was obvious that this team only had seven or eight hundred people, and they were all cavalry. In all likelihood, they were the team sent by the main force to report the news first, which meant that the main force was still far away.
But their appearance was enough to boost morale.
"General, how do you let them in?" the captain next to him said in embarrassment.
The Tuyuhun army has already attacked, and the distance is getting closer and closer. Once the city gate is opened, it will definitely give the Tuyuhun people a chance.
"Send someone quickly to inform General Gao and lead them into the city from the west, quickly!" He Ruobi said directly, "In addition, order the cavalry in the city to prepare for the response, and inform all the ministries of the arrival of the reinforcements, also quickly!"
The South Gate or the East Gate certainly cannot be opened, so there is only the West Gate.
There are trenches and barriers outside the west gate. I hope Gao Mo can make good use of them to block the pursuit of Tuyuhun troops.