Chapter 22: The Battle of Weinan [2]
In the face of an enemy several times their own, the defenders in the east of the city were inspired by Ma Yue's words to fight passionately, one by one screaming for the big crossbow, holding bows and arrows and aiming at the enemy.
Standing at the head of the city, Ma Yue took a longbow and held it in his hand, shouting loudly and ordering the city corporal to carry the oil canister up the city gatehouse.
The armoured armoured armoured men carried jars of fire oil up the tower, and bundles of scythes, axes, and sacks of sheep and stones were carried up. Two bags of arrows were tied around the waist of each defender. If the siege competition is that those soldiers are more fearless of death, then defending the city is fighting for money, arrows and materials.
The people have died, but the supplies have not been used up, indicating that the defense of the city is not strong enough. The supplies are used up, the people are not dead, and the city can still be defended, but if there is a chance to break through, you can consider it.
There were not enough fortifications to defend the city, and it was difficult to hold on to an empty wall.
The earth-shattering war drums sounded from all directions, and each city gate was defended by Ma Yue's cronies, and all the decisions that could be made by manpower had been made, and the rest was only up to ...... Fortune is constant.
"Get on the arrow!" Ma Yue hunched his waist and hid behind the stomping of the city, beckoning the soldiers to draw their bows and arrows, and the enemy was about to approach the moat. Ma Yue expected that the defenders of Zhongchengtou would suffer the first round of back-fired arrows. He had to strike first, and suddenly drew his bow and arrows, and the horse was higher and aimed his longbow at the bottom of the city, pushing the ladder and running with a dirt bag, and shot it, accompanied by the clear roar of the arrows, "Shoot!" ”
The Liangzhou soldiers at the head of the city did the same, shouting and bending their bows with crossbows to shoot arrows at the city.
For a while, the arrows flew like locusts, and they nailed the Black Mountain soldiers near the moat under the city to the ground.
The Montenegrin army is just like their predecessor Yellow Turban Thieves, the morale is high and not afraid of death, but the gap between the armor and the regular army of the Han Dynasty is too big, even after nearly ten years of recuperation and recuperation, it is still controlled by the huge number of development, and their leader is simply unable to assemble even the cheaper leather armor for every soldier, let alone the iron armor.
The Montenegrin army, dressed in cloth armor and linen and holding a machete rake, could not resist the arrows from the city at all, and those who were hit by the arrows could only be nailed to the ground and wail, and the Jizhou men who were lucky enough to avoid the arrow rain rushed down the moat even more violently without a trace of hesitation.
In this era when lives are trampled on at will, people have the courage to come out in the end if they don't die, and they throw their blood on the battlefield again and again for different ideas in order to get ahead.
"Battering ram!" There was a shout from the city gate, Ma Yue hurriedly turned his head to look, and more than 30 Montenegrin soldiers under the city rushed to the other side of the moat with a huge ram made of huge logs. The moat is to defend the ladder and the moat, creating more living space for the city gate. Ma Yue raised his head and shouted: "Shoot them, don't let them approach the drawbridge!" ”
Although the drawbridge is suspended by iron cables, who knows what will happen if it is climbed up by these black men with short axes.
In addition to the plains, Jizhou also has vast mountains and forests, if these Jizhou men living in the black mountains can climb some skills to run on the suspension bridge and destroy the sling, Ma Yue is not surprising at all.
The siege of the city was still in full swing, Xu Huang was hoarse on the city tower with a strong crossbow, and the ladders were still climbing up to the top of the city one by one.
"Lord, there are too many enemies!" A burst of arrows shot up from under the city, and Ma Yue couldn't dodge being pushed behind the city by the quick-eyed Xu Huang, and said eagerly: "We must destroy all the enemy ladders!" ”
"You can't use the fire oil, use someone to push it!" As soon as the rain of arrows passed, Ma Yue immediately dropped his longbow and lifted a huge log with Xu Huang on the head of the ladder exposed by the cloud ladder, and shouted together: "Push, push down!" ”
With the strength of the two of them, they actually asked the ladder to leave the city wall a few inches, and when they were about to arch the ladder down, a rain of arrows suddenly shot under the city, and the two hurriedly threw down the logs and rolled to both sides, and once again called the ladder to smash on the head of the city. At the top of the ladder, you can already see a black mountain man with a machete in his mouth climbing up, Ma Yue glanced fiercely into the distance, and once again he grabbed the log with both hands, calling Xu Huang to ask him to exert his strength together.
The two of them hugged the log with arrows again and pushed the ladder away for a few minutes, and the black thief at the top jumped up to the top of the city from a distance of a foot, stepped on the log and rushed towards Ma Yue.
"Fuck you!" Before the black mountain thief could run two steps, he suddenly pulled out a sturdy arm wheel on his leg, only to knock him over on the spot, and then Ma Yue saw a young man from Liangzhou with braided hair and grabbed the arm of the black mountain man and dragged him down from the city. Then the majestic young man turned his head and grinned, picked up the log with both hands and said, "General, I'll help you!" ”
The three of them worked together, and this time it was much easier, and they overturned the ladder violently, and slapped the black mountain thief who climbed on it to the ground.
'Good fellows! Ma Yue secretly said to himself, this young man has so much strength, and he feels that his strength is on par with himself.
He is also a character with natural powers!
"Let's go, there's still one over there!" The battlefield is changing rapidly, Ma Yue didn't have time to say anything to this mighty Liangzhou general, seeing that he was wearing a leather jacket with loose hair, he didn't say much, raised his hand to clasp his finely made pocket on his head and patted him on the shoulder and said: "You have a loud voice, shout to me, and push the ladder down with logs!" ”
"No!" The Liangzhou teenager was still a little annoyed at first when Ma Yue buckled the hood on his head, and after a reaction, he realized that Ma Yue had given him his helmet, and he smiled and promised, and shouted loudly: "The general has an order, use a log to push the ladder down!" ”
"Push the ladder down with a log!"
This roar was terrible, and the sergeants of the whole city moved, and five or six people held logs on the ladder one after another, and in a few moments, nearly half of the ladders erected at the head of the city were all pushed down, and the sound and screams of the ladders slapping on the ground resounded on the battlefield one after another.
"General, these bastards are climbing up again!" Hearing the shout of the young general, Ma Yue hurriedly looked at the head of the city, isn't it, the ladder is easy to deal with, but these Black Mountain troops not only have the ladder, but also the simple and crude climbing tool such as the rope grappling hook. I saw that a moment after the ladder was pushed down, there were more than ten grappling hooks hanging on the city stomp in front of Ma Yue alone, which was still lost, and more grappling hooks had already slipped and fallen when they were thrown up.
"Fuck, copy the axe and chop it for Lao Tzu, see how many more things they have!"
There was no need for Ma Yue to give orders again, and the defenders at the head of the city did not hesitate to draw their short swords and battle axes when they threw the grappling hook on the city, and stabbed or smashed to the ground to beckon to the grappling hook.
The grappling hook rope is most afraid of slipping halfway, so the ropes are quite strong hemp ropes, and some are the ropes after the vines mixed with animal tendons in the Taihang Mountains of Jizhou are boiled with animal oil lacquer, and the axe splits continuously, and the knife cannot be broken. The Liangzhou army had no choice but to take a strong crossbow and shoot down to the city, and the rain of arrows was thrown as if they didn't want money.
"Throw wood and smash, throw sheep and stones!" More and more Montenegrin troops climbed up from the city, the moat was full of corpses, and the mouth and nose were filled with blood, even if it was so tragic, it was difficult to stop the tide of the Montenegrin army's offensive.
Rolling wood and sheep stones were smashed down one after another, and the Liangzhou army that was hit by the arrow was carried down the city by the reserve soldiers, and the Black Mountain army smashed in the moat every moment, and the Liangzhou army fell on the city with arrows.
Ma Yue had already changed into a battle axe, and hid next to him behind the city stomping, and the two Montenegrin sergeants on the city stomp had just climbed up, and they didn't have time to take down the machete in their mouths, so they were startled by Ma Yue's huge body that suddenly got up, and then the round battle axe smashed on the body, and the two screamed and fell down from the city.
Xu Huang had already given up the battle axe, holding a round shield in one hand and a two-foot short sword in the other, and the Black Mountain army that attacked the city faced him, even if he dodged the short sword, it was difficult to avoid the round shield smashing on his face, but he killed the enemy and steadily surpassed Ma Yue.
The young general who wore a leather jacket but wore a general's sash on the battlefield was even more powerful, with a battle axe in one hand and a short sword in the other, one would appear on the city stomp on the left side of Ma Yue and force four or five Montenegrin soldiers down the city, and one would be on the right side of Ma Yue screaming wildly and rushing away several enemy soldiers, and the swords and axes came out to kill the leather jacket on his body like a blood gourd.
Unstoppable.
The tide of Black Mountain soldiers stormed the city again and again, but they were driven down again and again by the tough Xiliang army, and they were never able to occupy the city.
This battle was fought from noon to dusk, and the retreating golden drums of the enemy army sounded again on the main front.
The Montenegrin army resorted to any means, and although it inflicted several thrilling attacks on the city, it was killed and retreated without exception each time.
There were 5,000 armored troops in the city, and only 500 reinforcements could kill the Montenegrin army in a moment. The Black Mountain Army and the Armored Army are two extremes, one without armor and the other with a heavy armor tomahawk. It hardly takes any competition to see who wins.
Leaning on the head of the city to shine on the sunset, Ma Yue looked at the young Liangzhou general with braided hair sitting opposite, looked up with a smile and asked, "Good man, not bad." What's your name and where are you from? ”
"General Hui, I am a native of Longxi Didao, named Wang Shuang." Wang Shuang wiped the blood on his face with a smile, knocked his finger on the top of his head and asked, "General, can you ask me to join the armored army?" ”
"Wang Shuang?" Ma Yue was stunned for a moment, sixty pounds of big axe, iron tire bow yellow horse? Looking at the respectful Liangzhou little barbarian in front of him, he smiled and asked, "Why did you join the armored army?" ”
"The bravest men in Liangzhou should be in the armored army, right? The general and I just killed more than 20 enemy cubs at the head of the city, isn't it brave? ”
"The armored army is not only brave, you still need a small test before you join the army."
"What a test!" Wang Shuang was eager to try.
Ma Yue looked at the sunset red glow on the horizon and the flags fluttering in the boundless military array of Yuan Shao's own formation, and suddenly smiled comfortably.
"Go back to the state to study for a year!"