Chapter 63: The Siege
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The Huns began to drive the more than 1,000 Ming soldiers who had surrendered last night to stand at the front of the siege team, and they were forced to go to the front by force, facing the attack from the city.
As a general of the surrendered army, General Wang does not need to go to the front line in person, he only needs to sit in the rear.
But sitting in the rear is not an easy thing, the task of the general Wang is to manage part of the troops to transport siege materials, this is not a good job, he shouted desperately, but those soldiers still can't beat the spirit, a weak look.
Surrendering troops to transport siege equipment, constantly moving forward to place yourself under the enemy's bow and arrows, I am afraid that anyone will feel powerless.
The soldiers on the city walls saw the Huns menacing, and they clenched their bows and arrows, ready to deliver a fatal blow at any time.
The Battle of the Defending City also participated in the Long Xiao Battalion, and each of them issued a strong crossbow that required strong arm strength to use, this kind of strong crossbow could only be used by martial artists, and the range was more than 500 steps, close to the level of 250 meters.
Tang Mo naturally got a strong crossbow, and at this time, the barracks had already approached five hundred steps, and Tang Mo could already order an attack.
But the Huns were still seven or eight hundred paces away, outside the range of the crossbow attack.
Tang Mo thought about it for a while, after all, these soldiers were Ming people, and now they were acting as cannon fodder for the Huns to attack the city, and their fate was very tragic.
There was no reason for her to shoot the soldiers.
Tang Mo only wanted to kill the Huns, so he surrendered his troops and approached, and Tang Mo ordered to wait and see what happened.
The commander was dissatisfied with Tang Mo's decision and came to Tang Mo, "Since they have surrendered the Huns, they are the enemies of my Ming Dynasty, why don't they order the Long Xiao battalion to shoot them?"
Tang Mo said, "Their surrender is just a last resort, and they are not the main force of the siege at all, killing them is just a waste of bows and arrows." ”
Although this statement is a bit strong, the commander couldn't find a reason to oppose it for a while, "When the Huns come, I hope that the Longxiao camp will not disappoint me again." ”
"No," Tang Mo said.
The commander went back to command the rest of the soldiers defending the city, while Tang Mo continued to pay attention to the dynamics of the siege team.
The surrenderers continued to charge forward, but the Huns stopped at a distance of six hundred paces.
Then more than ten tall wooden buildings came out of the Hun army, Tang Mo took a closer look and couldn't help but be shocked, because these wooden buildings turned out to be catapults.
In this era, catapults were extremely cruel weapons of destruction for the defenders, and a single boulder could kill a large number of defenders.
After Tang Mo saw the catapult, she had a very bad feeling in her heart, she understood that she had to stop the catapult from approaching, otherwise she might not be able to defend the city wall today.
At this time, the surrender team had rushed to a distance of 200 paces, and the ordinary soldiers defending the city began to shoot these surrenderers with bows and arrows, and under the command of the commander, these soldiers ignored the fact that the other party was also a Ming man, and mercilessly shot the approaching surrenderers with bows and arrows.
The approaching catapults were a big problem, and the catapults, which were wrapped in solid wood and yak skins, were difficult to hurt either with bows and arrows, nor rockets, but did not stop when they were close to 500 paces, but continued on.
Tang Mo raised the crossbow arrow and shot the first arrow directly.
The arrow whizzed off the string, then struck a soldier in the face who had accidentally peeked half of his face from the catapult, knocking him to the ground.
"Shoot!" Tang Mo ordered.
The warriors of the Long Xiao Battalion also began to shoot strong crossbows, and the speed of the crossbow arrows like meteors galloped towards the catapult, and the soldiers pushing the catapult instantly fell more than halfway, and the speed of the catapult slowed down suddenly.
But soon more soldiers joined the team pushing the catapult, and Tang Mo led the Long Xiao battalion to continue sniping, which finally made the catapult's advance extremely slow.
However, the catapults continued to move forward, and the Huns hid behind the catapults, making it difficult for the attack from the city walls to work, and most of the soldiers who were shot were surrendered.
As the catapult approached, the commander almost killed hundreds of soldiers under the city walls.
At a distance of three hundred paces, the catapult finally stopped.
Huge boulders were loaded onto the catapult, and the eyes of the soldiers on the city walls were filled with fear, and countless sharp arrows were fired at the catapult, but by the time they arrived, it was already the end of the crossbow.
Only the crossbows of the Longxiao battalion can effectively kill the soldiers next to the catapults, but the number of crossbows and warriors is too small after all, and most of the Huns are hiding behind the catapults, so the damage is not very large.
Finally, the first boulder was projected, and the boulder flew directly over the castle tower into the city, and a group of soldiers patrolling the street were hit by the boulder falling from the sky, and more than a dozen people died in an instant.
The second boulder flew and fell directly on the city wall, dozens of soldiers were directly stoned to death, and the boulder also left a big gap in the city wall.
With a whistling sound, more boulders flew into the city or landed on the walls.
More than a dozen catapults were launched, and the number of dead and wounded soldiers reached thousands.
Thankfully, the catapult can only be fired once, but even then, the catapult has caused a lot of damage to the defending side.
Next, the Huns began the real siege of the city, 30,000 Hun cavalry galloped towards the Black Iron City, they were extremely fast, directly rushed to the city wall, in the middle of these cavalry, a group of foot soldiers pushed the city crash car towards the city gate.
Due to the death of a large number of soldiers, the rain of arrows of the defending troops became very sparse, but the Xiongnu who besieged the city directly threw bows and arrows at the city tower, and many bows and arrows fell from above, and the soldiers on the city wall were in a more difficult situation.
Tang Mo was hiding in the battlements of the city tower at the moment, and she had been waiting for an opportunity.
From time to time, he showed his head to observe the siege troops below, what Tang Mo wanted to find was the general of the Huns, the Huns were a society with a high concentration of power, as long as they killed their generals, the Huns would definitely retreat.
His gaze wandered among tens of thousands of people, and Tang Mo gradually locked his gaze on a team of Huns that was denser than other places.
Tang Mo took out a crossbow arrow and tentatively shot an arrow there.
The bolts fell, striking one of them, and the team immediately let out an exclamation and moved closer to the center, guarding a tall Hun in the center.
"That's you. Tang Mo's gaze locked on the tall Hun man, and then shot an arrow.
This is the full force of the innate master's arrow, and its target is the heart of the Hun general Lancet.
Perhaps there was providence in the dark, and Lancet sensed the danger, and instinctively ducked backwards.
The crossbow bolt that was supposed to shoot at Ranster's heart only pierced Ranster's arm.
"Ah!" With a scream from Ranster, the Huns began to retreat.