Chapter 562: Raising Dust to Defend Against the Enemy
A morning of fierce fighting left the city and the city full of dead bodies, and both sides suffered heavy casualties. Shan Xiongxin pressed the 50,000 army on the whole line, and once let the Wei army rush to the city with the advantage of troops, which also made Li Mi see the way to break the city, and in the afternoon, he exerted his spare strength to embrace all the remaining 60,000 troops and continued to use the tactics of crowds to crush the city.
This time, he also followed the example of the Sui army, and changed the big 'spoon' of the catapult with stones into a bag, and smashed the gravel into the city, and the broken stones broke through the air one by one, causing rows of Sui troops to fall in pieces.
At the same time, the rows of ladders were also pushed out, and under the encouragement of anger, the death and wailing of Pao Ze did not make Wei Jun cowardly, but one by one they went crazy over Pao Ze's corpse and continued to charge at Xiang'an County.
Although the Wei army's offensive caused greater casualties than before, the Wei soldiers who played the tactics of crowds were able to rush to the city faster than in the past, which also made the Wei soldiers think that the hope of victory was far away, and they felt that they could break the city with just a little more strength.
Under the support of this belief, the Wei soldiers were more courageous than in the morning, although their own defense was reduced a lot, so that the casualties increased, but if under the stimulus of this belief, the city of Xiang'an was breached, then these casualties were absolutely worth it for Li Mi.
Yang Tong and Du Fuwei's faces also became solemn, and at this moment, the two of them also saw that Li Mi was playing with his life, and judging from the performance of the Wei army, it was by no means comparable to the rabble, and its combat will and combat effectiveness must not be underestimated.
"This battle is a bit hard!" Yang Tong turned his head to look at Du Fuwei and said in a deep voice:
"Rest assured, the last general will never let the Wei army be able to cross the city!" Du Fuwei has been fighting for many years, and his experience is much stronger than Yang Tong, especially in offensive and defensive warfare, which makes Yang Tong even more able to reach the enemy, he knows that the Wei army is like a flash flood, menacing, but it has been weak, and the Wei army's posture of attacking the city with all its strength also let him know that the Wei army is actually at the end of the crossbow.
"If the enemy rushes to the city, I will let the Mo swordsmen help. Dispel the momentum! Yang Tong felt a pity, if all kinds of advanced weapons and equipment could be used at this time, he would not be afraid of Wei Jun's lifeless fighting style at all.
"Whoa!" Du Fuwei answered, and looked at the Wei army that was coming from the city.
At this time, the catapult of the Sui army started again, and a series of strong winds sounded, and countless fragments rose into the air, forming a dense stone formation in the air, whistling and smashing towards the head of the Wei army.
The Wei army that was running at the forefront turned on their backs, and the ore hit the soldiers, and the heads were smashed away in an instant, and the flesh and blood were blurred.
A stone rain killed and injured countless Wei troops, but also made their madness frustrated, but their offensive did not stop, and continued to kill the city one after another, at this time the second wave of gravel rain hit again, and it was a group of people on their backs, but after two rounds of stone rain, the forward troops of the Wei army were less than one hundred and thirty steps away from the city.
The crossbow arrow array of the Sui army was launched, a drum sounded, and more than 6,000 hand crossbows were launched at the same time, and a dense rain of arrows rose into the air, forming a long black arrow cloud in the air, which instantly turned into black dots, overwhelmingly shooting towards the Wei army, and the Wei soldiers raised their shields to meet each other.
But this is Yang Tong heard that Du Fuwei was in an urgent situation, specially brought weapons and equipment from Jiangxia, after modification, the Sui army's crossbow arrows dominate the world, not only the range is long, but also the strength is strong, although the Wei army is quite strong, but in addition to the limited elite troops, the rest are ordinary shields and leather armor, these have long been eliminated by the main battle corps of the Sui inferior armor, can not resist the Sui army's strong crossbows, especially the Sui army condescendingly thrown from the air, the arrow descends with its own gravity, The humble wooden shield of the Wei army became an ornament. In addition, the Wei army rushed towards the arrows, which made the arrows have an extra gravitational force.
Under the superposition of several forces, the powerful and heavy crossbow arrows pierced the shields of the Wei army and penetrated their leather armor, and the soldiers of the Wei army fell to the ground one after another, and the sound of wailing was all over the field, and then the second and third waves of crossbow arrows roared in, so dense that people were almost breathless.
The arrows rained down like a torrent of arrows, piercing the shields and piercing the faces and chests of the enemy, causing these mighty Wei troops to fall one by one in blood as if they had been ravaged by a storm.
The first attack of the Wei army was broken down by this furious offensive, and they were dealt a heavy blow, and the Sui army only fired two or six consecutive arrows, plus the continuous blows of the trebuchet, more than half of the 10,000 advance of the Wei army were killed or wounded.
Li Mi, who was watching the battle from behind, also gasped, he had never seen such a powerful and domineering arrow array, although he knew that his bow and arrows were worse than those of the Sui army, and he also knew that the Sui army's crossbow arrows were powerful. But he really didn't know much about the arrow array of the Sui army, which had never been in a head-to-head confrontation, and the arrow array of the Sui army's three-stage shooting could ensure that the arrows were fired continuously and made more powerful.
"King Wei!" Shan Xiongxin looked at the big banner of the word 'Sui' waving in the wind on the head of the city, and said in a deep voice with a worried face: "Du Fuwei obviously got the strong bow and crossbow of the Sui army, but I'm afraid there are not many, this is also our last chance, once the advanced weapons and equipment are continuously sent, it will be more difficult for our army to break through the city." So ......"
"It's a matter of success or failure!" Li Mi took Shan Xiongxin's words, and his slightly wavering heart was also firm, and he must use the tactics of crowds to capture Xiang'an County in the shortest possible time, annihilate Du Fuwei's main force here, and said to a captain beside him: "Beat the drum and give the order, let the soldiers continue to attack the city." ”
"Whoa!" The lieutenant waved his flag, and the drums rang out.
This time, the arrows at the head of the city had become quite thin, and the damage to the Wei army was much less
"Sure enough, it's not what the general expected!" Li Mi struck with both fists and said excitedly: "Du Fuwei's strong crossbow is powerful, but the arrows consumed are also huge, judging from these arrow curtains, it should be a bow and arrow, not a crossbow." ”
"Exactly!" Shan Xiongxin was also greatly relieved, if the arrows were poured like a torrential rain just now, no matter how many soldiers there were, it would not be enough for the Sui army to shoot.
As Li Mi said, although the arrows of the Sui army's strong crossbow were not dumped, they were not much, which made Yang Tong very annoyed, and he reluctantly ordered to be used at the critical moment!
Relatively speaking, Du Fuwei, who has been living a compact life, is quite happy, although he also regrets it, but he is used to living a hard life, and he is quite satisfied with the unexpected results.
Looking at the Wei army attacking like ants, and seeing the Sui army at the head of the city suffering heavy casualties under the rubble like 'Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers', Yang Tong frowned deeply, he didn't like this kind of defensive battle that was passively beaten.
At this time, a light aroma came from behind him, and when he looked sideways, Yang Qinfang, who had vomited for a long time, regained his strength and ran to the city tower again, when the west wind was tight, blowing a strand of Yang Qinfang's hair.
Seeing the direction of the hair flying, Yang Tong looked up at the battle flag of the word 'Sui' on the city tower, the battle flag flew in the wind, the hunting sound, and the direction pointed was outside the city, and suddenly he was like those famous generals, with a flash of inspiration, and he said in a deep voice to Du Fuwei, who was staring at the enemy: "Don't look at it, I already have a strategy to break the enemy, and Li Mi is finished this time." ”
Du Fuwei, Kan Ling and others turned around when they heard this.
"At this time, the west wind is tight, if the sand falls down, what do you say will be the effect?" Yang Tong asked with a smile.
Du Fuwei was ecstatic and exclaimed: "All of them have become blind." ”
"Exactly!" Yang Tong said excitedly: "We condescendingly dumped the sand, and it all happened to fall into the eyes of the Wei army looking up at the city, and when the time comes, let the Xiaoguo army and the Xuanjia army go out of the city to cut vegetables." ”
"Kan Leng, you take people to collect dry sand, the more the better." Duvowe ordered.
"Whoa!" Kan Ling responded and walked away quickly.
"Let the Xiaoguo Army and the Xuanjia Army prepare to attack." Yang Tong also gave a combat order to Yin Mingyue on the side.
"Whoa!" Yin Mingyue left in a hurry.
Xiang'an County has now become a military fortress, Du Fuwei's main force is here, in addition to the soldiers, there are countless soldiers who are ready to fight in turns, they are under the breath of Kan Leng, they have to collect sand, fortunately, Xiang'an is close to Chaohu, the soil is loose, there is a lot of sand, and everyone collected more than 3,000 bags of sand in less than an hour.
When Kan Ling came back to his life, Yang Tong, Du Fuwei and others all showed excited smiles on their faces, looked at the direction of the wind, and Du Fuwei issued a flag.
When the order was given, the soldiers at the head of the city all dropped their weapons, picked up the sacks of sand at their feet and poured them down the city.
This is the time when the west wind is blowing. As the so-called west wind blows eastward, the sand and soil in the sky are blowing towards Li Mi's siege army, and the wild east wind is blowing over with thick wind and sand.
The raging sand is like an endless yellow dragon, under the obscenity of the wind, all the Wei soldiers are outflanked, and no one of the Wei soldiers can open their eyes, and a choking "earthy smell" has been permeating the city.
Bags of sand and soil were sprinkled by the soldiers of the Sui army, and under the angry roar of the east wind, they continued to erode towards the Wei army.
Almost all of the Wei soldiers became loess people, almost everyone was recruited, and in order to prevent the mud and sand from entering their eyes, mouths and noses, they closed their eyes one after another, covered their mouths and noses with their hands and slowly retreated.
Some people run around without a head: they can't see the direction clearly, and there are many people who crash into each other to the ground, people crowd, people bump into people, and trample on each other, because they can't tell the direction, and even people who hit the city wall headfirst......
The Wei army was like an ant on a hot pot, in a mess.
Li Mi in the distance covered his mouth and nose with his hands, and squinted at the yellow sand in surprise, but his vision was covered by the yellow sand and he couldn't see clearly at all.
"Ahem, ahem! Bah Bah Bah ......" Fang Xuanzao didn't notice it for a while, and was blown into his mouth by the sand, making his mouth full of mud and sand, and he vomited wildly beside Li Mi.
Shan Xiongxin also covered his face with his sleeves and said urgently: "King Wei, give the order to retreat, right?" At this moment, the west wind is blowing from the east, and our soldiers cannot attack in this sandy earth, everyone has become blind, and if an enemy army is killed in the city, our army will suffer heavy casualties. ”
Fang Xuanzao finished spitting out the sand in his mouth, and also persuaded loudly: "The general is right, it's better to withdraw from the army at this moment." If our army can't open its eyes, it can't attack at all, and can only become a target for the enemy. The enemy will follow the wind and fight out of the city, and our army will be defeated. ”
Li Mi also knew that the situation was urgent, and immediately summoned heralds and ordered a retreat.
As soon as the retreating war drums sounded, the blind Wei army became even more chaotic.
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At this moment, Yang Tong saw that the time was ripe, and decisively ordered: "Stop squirting mud and sand, the Xuanjia army is in the center, and the Xiaoguo army is divided into left and right, and kill in the direction of the Wei army's marshal banner with the momentum of arrows, and defeat all the Wei troops that are trying to resist!" General Du, you will lead the elite soldiers, and these blind men outside the city will be handed over to you. ”
The generals gladly took the order and left.
Five thousand Xuanjia troops and 10,000 Xiaoguo troops rode war horses, stepped on the sand under the city, and rushed straight towards Li Mi's Chinese army.
Du Fuwei led the elite of the Eleventh Army to arrest people under the city.
Due to the limited terrain in front of Xiang'an City, the cavalry of the Wei army could not come to support. The besieging soldiers were usually mainly foot soldiers, and Li Mi's siege soldiers were no exception, most of them were now blind and disorganized, unable to withstand the sharp lances, swords, and surging hooves of horses.
When the sand cleared, Li Mi found a group of cavalry, with a bitter and extremely vicious aura, frantically slaughtering his own troops.
The gap between the cavalry and the infantry was immediately clear, and the three teams of cavalry tore the 50,000 siege soldiers into four in an instant, while the chaotic Wei army quickly melted and disintegrated like a piece of fire and slashed towards him with arrows.
"Another Xiaoguo Army?"
Seeing these three unparalleled and galloping iron horses, Li Mi was only frightened and frightened.
Looking at this familiar momentum, this familiar equipment, and the mountains of corpses and bones they set off, like a pool of blood in the sea, a sad sense of fate welled up in the depths of Li Mi's soul.
For the first time, the Wagang army defeated Zhang Xutuo, morale was high, and when it was about to attack Henan County, Yang Dong personally led 20,000 Xiaoguo troops from Kangcheng and killed more than 200,000 Wagang troops to the ground like a mountain.
The second time, taking advantage of the right time and place and the numerical advantage, as well as the Wagang army, which had exhausted the elite soldiers, in the battle of Xiao County, was defeated by Yu Wenhua and his subordinate commander incompetent, infighting, demoralized, and hungry Xiaoguo Army, Li Mi himself was injured by the flow of arrows, and was almost captured alive, Zhai made the founder of Wagang even more unlucky, and died directly in the chaos, if it were not for the Xiaoguo Army to be hungry and unable to fight, I am afraid that there would be no Wei army today.
And today, just when he was about to break through Xiang'an and annihilate Du Fuwei's main force, this devil's army that gradually faded out of Li Mi's memory came again.
Scenes of the past, scenes of the past...... Let Li Mi feel that he is not in agreement with the Xiaoguo Army, and the five elements are mutually restrictive, every time he is about to succeed, the Xiaoguo Army will always appear, and he will always fall from the sky.
"When the Xiaoguo Army appears, Yang Tong must be in the city, and nothing can be done!" Fang Xuanzao sighed, and then suggested: "Yang Tong is here, there must be more than so many people in the Sui army, and I think that Liyang is not safe anymore." ”
"Alas! Who would have thought that at this critical moment, the domineering Yang Tong would use such indiscriminate means. Liyang is the fundamental place of Du Fuwei, the people's hearts are attached, if you enter Liyang, the people will be welcomed, so Liyang is like chicken ribs, the food is tasteless, it is a pity to abandon it. With the current situation, if we are again pinned down by the Sui army in Liyang, it is really not far from destruction. ”
Li Mi's heart couldn't stop dripping blood, revealing a smile that was more ugly than crying, he glanced at Xiang'an City fiercely, and couldn't help roaring: "I, Li Mi, have nothing else, but I have a heart that will never admit defeat!" There are also tens of thousands of brothers who are not afraid of death. If you lose this time, it's a big deal to start over. ”
After speaking, he led the Wei army to fight and retreat.
Yang Tong saw that it was not early, and it was gradually darkening, for fear of falling into Li Mi's ambush, so in desperation, he had to give up the opportunity to take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, and recalled the soldiers.
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