Chapter 660: Wind and Snow (12)
Chen Bin never hoped that the snow in the sky would fall more violently, and the opponent's continuous attacks had damaged the city walls of Dubo Village, the only thing he was fortunate about was that on this kind of heavy snow day, he could take advantage of the gap in wartime to quickly repair the city wall, pat the snow on it, pour water on it, and in a blink of an eye, it would freeze solidly, but now, the snow in the city, and the new snow that falls every day, can no longer keep up with the loss of Cheng DΓΉ. The city wall covered by ice and snow is going down every day, and the snow platform outside the city is now higher than the city wall, and the bed crossbow installed on it is now condescending to shoot at the city, if it weren't for the more bed crossbows equipped in the city, the rate of fire is faster, and the accuracy is higher, and the other party has long been pressed to the point that he can't raise his head.
Compared with those snow platforms, what worries Chen Bin more is the siege ramp that is getting closer and closer to the city wall, the ramp about three meters wide starts to build up from outside the range of the bed crossbow, and the closer it is to the city wall, the higher it is, although the Donghu people have paid heavy losses in order to gather these three siege ramps, but this ramp is still firmly, approaching the city wall every day.
The arrival of the 3,000 foot soldiers accelerated his progress, and the foot soldiers were able to use all kinds of weapons more effectively than the cavalry to defend against attacks from the city and speed up the construction of ramps.
I don't know if the bastard came up with it, using the bamboo to make a large slingshot, two bowl-thick bamboos tied to the rope, tied to a piece of animal skin at the end, several Donghu big men pulled the rope, pulled the bamboo back, the stone wrapped on the animal skin will fly, the power should not be underestimated. The ice and snow wall of Dubanzhai was basically destroyed by these bamboos.
"Xiao Mo, how many of those things have been prepared?" He looked back at a guy beside him with a head wrapped like a dumpling.
"I've got two hundred of them."
"One ramp can be divided into almost sixty, and it should be about the same." Chen Bin muttered, "As long as they can greatly injure their opponents for the first time, they will have some scruples." β
Donghu Daying, He Tianju looked at Mo Yanlu faintly, "Tomorrow." You can send a horse team to charge, three ramps at the same time, as long as one of the gaps opens, the village is broken. β
Mo Yanlu was a little uneasy, "General He, these days, we have built up the ramp with great fanfare, Chen Bin won't know what we want to do, guess how he will deal with it?" β
"I don't know!" He Tianju shook his head and said.
"Don't know?" The Gu Jili on one side looked at each other dumbfounded. "How can you not know?"
"There are many ways to deal with it, and I don't know which one he will use, so I can only watch and talk."
"But if you look at this, it will take the lives of a lot of Donghu Jian'er." Mo Yan said angrily.
He Tianju laughed out loud, "General Mo Yandu, one general will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, you are the general who leads the army, you will not know this truth, the victory of the war." It's always been a collection of lives, and if you want to win without sacrificing, how is that possible? This is a tough battle, a war in the past. Attacking the heart is the top, attacking the city is the bottom, I tell you, above the history of our Dayan. There was once a rebellion, and on that occasion, our Dayan Standing Army attacked a city guarded by 5,000 rebels. It took three months and 20,000 lives before it finally entered the city. Four times as many casualties as the defenders, there were more than a thousand defenders in Dubozhai, and now this season, hey, even 5,000 dead, I wouldn't be surprised. β
Hearing such huge casualties, Mo Yanlu and Gu Jili both darkened their faces, "Isn't there a better way?" β
"Nope!" He Tianju shook his head and said: "If time permits, we can grind slowly, but General Yan Qi is so urgent and has set a time limit for you, so what else can you do, you can only use the corpse to build a passage to the city." Unless you don't care about General Yan Qi's military orders. β
Mo Yanlu was silent for a long time, "Tomorrow, send cavalry to charge the city." β
This night, many soldiers in the village did not sleep, they were busy for most of the night before it was completed, the ramp is only a few feet away from the city, this distance, not to mention horses, even people, can jump from the ramp to the city. Chen Bin is not worried about people, but he is worried about the horse team. Once the opponent's cavalry is allowed to rush up to the city on horseback, they can occupy an area at the head of the city, and the capital will not be able to defend it.
The sky is getting brighter, in the Donghu camp, the drums rise sharply, with the rumbling war drums sounding, above the city, lying on the ground like a dead corpse, the soldiers of the Eastern Army jumped up, and in an instant, they all went from wilting to their heads, and became colorful. The bowstring of a bed crossbow was quickly replaced, and a brand-new arm tension crossbow was brought out of the cave, and at this time, the chances of the bowstring being damaged were so great that a crossbow was scrapped if it was not careful.
The Donghu infantry held a large shield in their hands and slowly advanced, and on the snow platform in the distance, pieces of felt cloth were torn off, revealing the bed crossbow below, and the crossbowmen began to change the bowstring of the bed crossbow as in the city.
Chen Bin stood behind the battlement, but his eyes were staring at a somewhat vague figure under the banner of the foot soldier opposite, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that this person was a little familiar.
The sky gradually brightened again, Chen Bin almost leaned out of the battlements, this time, he finally saw the man's face clearly, and in an instant, his complexion changed greatly, and his teeth were gritted, He Tianju was actually He Tianju, the deputy general of General Kumamoto.
No wonder the Donghu people are still attacking the city one by one, it turns out that this person is guiding the Donghu people. Chen Bin roared in his heart, and one dodged to the edge of a bed crossbow, "Help me!" He roared under his breath.
Behind the battlements, the bed crossbow slowly turned, and an experienced crossbowman mobilized the angle and distance, aiming at He Tianju in the distance.
"Commander Chen, the distance is too far, even if you shoot there, it will not be lethal." The crossbowmen were a little embarrassed.
"I know." Chen Bin gritted his teeth and said, "This is my declaration of killing him." That's my attitude, and I'm going to let him know. β
"Who is he?" The crossbowman asked, curious.
Chen Bin sighed, "You are just a small soldier, I used to be a general, the person opposite is called He Tianju, you haven't seen him, you can go before, but I often see him in General Kumamoto's big tent, he is the deputy general of General Kumamoto." β
The crossbowman opened his mouth wide, "Then, that's a big official, why did you surrender to the Donghu people?" β
"In this world, there are always people with soft bones!" Chen Bin stroked the cold shaft of the arrow.
The crossbowman swallowed a mouthful of saliva, "Commander Chen, He Tianju has surrendered, and General Kumamoto will not also ......"
"Fart, what kind of person is General Kumamoto, how can he surrender to the Donghu people." Chen Bin took a sip, "Don't talk nonsense, aim at Luo, even if you can't shoot him, it's good to scare him into urine, in this weather, as soon as the urine comes out, it will freeze, and it's best to freeze his little cock." β
The crossbowman smiled, "Captain Chen, you're so funny. β
"Aim, shoot!"
With a muffled buzz, the crossbow arrows shot out, and flew away at the big flag in the distance, but as the crossbow soldier said, the distance was too far, and when he flew in front of He Tianju, there was no strength at all, and the porphyry fell, even so, it still scared He Tianju a lot, he thought he was safe enough at this distance, but the range of the other party's crossbow arrows was obviously farther than he judged. He raised his head and stared angrily at the city, and then he saw that above the city, Chen Bin was standing on the battlement with his legs crossed, and raised his middle finger high at him.
This gesture was learned by Chen Bin from Xu Yuan, and it is said that Xu Yuan learned it from Gao Dudu, which was a gesture of an extremely contemptuous person.
He Tianju didn't understand the meaning of this gesture, but he knew that Chen Bin made this gesture at him, definitely not to praise him, looking at this general who he couldn't even look at before, He Tianju's heart was full of shame.
The kind of person who becomes a traitor himself, he can't be a traitor all over the world.
"Shoot!" He waved his horsewhip angrily, and shouted angrily, on the snow platform, more than a dozen crossbow arrows shot at him, Chen Bin jumped to the ground and stuck to the root of the battlement, and some crossbow arrows were fiercely folded on the ice wall, which shocked Chen Bin's body and kept bouncing, but Chen Bin laughed hey, "Sure enough, scared!" β
Below the city, the drums beat rapidly, the infantry held large shields, turned themselves into a moving turtle shell, slowly pushed forward, and on the city, the soldiers silently loaded the stones onto the improvised slingshots. There is no fresh bamboo in the city, but there are a lot of bamboos used to build a shelf when the capital was built, inspired by those big slingshots outside the city, the city also began to do this thing, although because of the relationship between the material, can not shoot too far, but bounce a stone weighing ten pounds from the city to fly dozens of meters away, it is no problem. The craftsmanship of the Central Plains people is naturally not comparable to the Donghu people, these bamboos have undergone a series of quenching, with excellent elasticity, and are not easy to break, unlike the Donghu people outside, the two bowls of thick bamboo, do not need a few times, they have to be replaced.
"Crack open their tortoise shells!" A company commander lying on the wall buttress, waved his hand fiercely, dozens of stone bullets flew out of the city, fell to the shield approaching step by step in the distance, the rumbling sound kept ringing, a piece of shield was smashed, revealing the foot pawn under the head, many people were smashed to the head of the blood, bad luck, the last stone bullet smashed the shield, but the next stone fell directly on the head, on the spot is the account.
Chen Bin didn't pay attention to these, his eyes have been watching the opponent's cavalry, today, the opponent will definitely use the cavalry to charge the city.
"Be prepared." He yelled at the soldiers who had already prepared in front of a few snow platforms, "Let's serve a fresh dish to the Donghu barbarians." (To be continued......)