Chapter 42: The Siege
The next day
Sun Jian ordered Huang Gai and Cheng Pu to lead 3,000 elite archers and 1,000 sword and shield soldiers to cover on the left and right sides, and Han Dang led 300 elite soldiers to carry a hundred siege crossbows specially supported by Liu Bei and squatted at a distance of 300 meters from Wuyi Village.
Farther away, tens of thousands of elite Han soldiers formed a phalanx and stared at Wuyi Village, as if they would pounce at any time. Sun Jian felt his own incomparably strong army for a while, for many years of fighting, for the first time there was a feeling of bullying people and beating children, in addition to terrain factors, whether it was the number of people, equipment, equipment, equipment, his own side suppressed the enemy in all aspects.
Taking a deep breath, Sun Jian waved his big hand, holding a knife and raising a shield to charge towards Wuyi Village, and Zu Mao behind him led two thousand elite soldiers to follow closely with a shield.
Without Sun Jian's orders, the yellow cover and Cheng Pu's bowstrings on the left and right sides were half-drawn, and the leading troops slowly pressed closer. When Sun Jian stepped into the range of the enemy's bow and arrows, a hundred crossbow arrows as thick as spears directly nailed the Xianbei archer who had just emerged and flew out. Taking advantage of the enemy's fear, Sun Jian and the others immediately accelerated their attack.
When the Northern Xiongnu reorganized their archers and prepared to come with a rain of arrows to stop Sun Jian's advance, before his head was revealed, Huang Gai's 3,000 arrows rained down on the planks of the walled tower.
"Kill!"
After the tooth-souring sudden sound stopped, Jin Cheng, who was huddled in the arrow tower, burst into a loud shout, ignoring the other wave of arrow rain that had risen into the air, and led the two thousand headquarters to forcibly shoot a wave of arrow rain at Sun Jian, who had already broken through to Wuyi Village, which was less than 100 steps away from Wuyi Village.
Because if he didn't fight again, the Han army would rush into his face without injury, and Zahu, who was already frightened by the Han army, would be even more frightened. It's a pity that in the face of Sun Jian, who neatly held the big shield on top of his head, he didn't get as much as Cheng Pu shot his own department.
"Dare to show your head!"
Huang Gai snorted coldly, and led his subordinates to rush forward thirty steps and once again burst out a wave of arrows, beating the Northern Huns so much that they couldn't raise their heads. The task of him and Cheng Pu was simple, to ensure that Sun Jian would not be attacked by the enemy's archers before he broke through to the north gate of Wuyizhai.
It's not that Wuyizhai itself is not strong enough, but that Zahu underestimated Zahu's fear of the Han army, and thought that there was his own Northern Xiongnu headquarters to suppress it, and he didn't want these Zahu to have strong combat effectiveness, at least they should have the courage to fight.
Who knew that when the traitors in the village spread the size of the Han army, these miscellaneous hues almost lost control on the spot. And after seeing the terrifying military momentum of the Han army with his own eyes when he climbed the tower to fight today, a large number of miscellaneous beards directly fried the pot, and many of them immediately began to flee. As soon as he made a move, he cut off the heads of more than 100 fleeing people, which barely suppressed the situation, but this also caused a temporary weakening of the defensive force in the north of Wuyi Village.
This is also why Jin Cheng can only lead his own headquarters to fight.
"Those who dare to flee again, Lao Tzu swears that he will slaughter his family!"
The furious Jincheng slashed a cowering Xianbei head man with a backhand, his eyes were red, and he viciously glanced at the Zahu who had come up to guard again.
In order to hit that wave of arrows, he fell more than sixty clansmen, all because of this garbage!
Sou~
An arrow nailed to the head of a Northern Hun warrior behind Jin Cheng with a sound that broke through the air.
"Hey, my hand slipped"
Under the protection of the sword and shield soldiers, Huang Gai, who had already broken through to within 100 steps, held the big yellow bow in his hand, and looked sneering, originally he wanted to shoot the Northern Hun general, who knows, slapped in the face.
And Cheng Pu, who also rushed in on the opposite side, squinted at Huang Gai and said: You Huang Gongfu really lost the face of Jiangdong archers! Then he raised his hand and an arrow shot out, and Jin Cheng, who had been alert for a long time, swept the arrow away with a cold face.
These elite archers of the Han army had already advanced too close, and they had already begun to suppress them by point shot. And his own Xianbei archers have not even been formed yet, and the long-range attack methods that they originally had an advantage over have now become an advantage for others.
"Abandon the bow and hold the sword!"
Jin Cheng shouted, the distance is unreliable, and he can only fight closely. Sweeping the Xianbei people who smashed the stone without looking at it, Jin Cheng was so angry that he was helpless, stepped forward in two steps, and kicked it down with one kick.
"Head, head, let's escape, there are 70,000 Han troops."
Cheng Lubi turned his head to look at his eyes in horror, and kept pulling his cronies and shouted
"If you want to die, don't talk nonsense!"
Cheng Lubi was also extremely panicked in his heart, he was the strongest Xianbei tribe in Wuyi Village, and he couldn't run away if he wanted to, but in his current form, it was only a matter of time before the village was broken, and it was only a matter of time before they died.
"Leader, either ~, or let's turn it over, help the Han army open the north gate, maybe they will spare our lives, the Han family is more reasonable than the Northern Huns"
Chenglu will hear this, his heart will light up, this is a road, help the Northern Xiongnu to defend the village will die, but help the Han army to attack the village may live! Glancing at another clansman who had been cut down by Jinchengjue, Cheng Lubi gritted his teeth and lowered his head and whispered to the cronies beside him
"You go and gather the warriors of the clan and tell them that if you want to live, wait for Lao Tzu to fight to the death!"
The cronies' eyes lit up, and they nodded again and again and immediately turned to leave.
"Da Rong, don't fall in love!"
Sun Jian, who had already gained a firm foothold in Wuyi Village, saw that Zu Mao was getting more and more ruthless, and he had the momentum of pushing past in one fell swoop, and shouted hurriedly.
To be honest, he really has the idea of pulling out this Wuyi Village in one fell swoop, because everything is so smooth, he didn't get any decent resistance at all and climbed up to the heavy village of Wuwei County, it's incredible, and he even wonders if he has fallen into the trick or something.
The previous brave Northern Xiongnu headquarters began to retreat to the side when they came up, and then drove some soft-footed shrimp-like Xianbei to block themselves, what does this mean? When he Sun Jian is a third-rate miscellaneous soldier?
"Lord, it's better to directly capture this village and take the lead!"
Zu Mao, who came over, was fierce, and in his opinion, in the current situation, it was completely possible to take this village.
"I'm afraid of deception, don't be careless, pass the order, all the soldiers must not enter the village, and be ready to evacuate at any time!"
Seeing that the Northern Huns began to slowly withdraw to the village, leaving only some Xianbei still resisting, with the intention of giving up the North Gate, Sun Jian sneered, although he likes military exploits, but he is not an idiot, this strange behavior is obviously problematic.
And Huang Gai and Cheng Pu, who had already touched the north gate of Wuyi Village, were also confused, what was the situation? If they climbed up with thousands of men and horses, the north gate would be broken, would the Northern Huns give up treatment?
Suddenly, Cheng Pu sniffled, as if there was a pungent smell, but it was very light, and then poked left and right, picked up a broken wooden board that fell next to him and sniffed it.
"That's not right! This smell~, publicly, you smell it. ”
Huang Gai took the plank suspiciously, poked his nose, and suddenly his eyes burst into anger
"Tung oil!"
Cheng Pu was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly raised his head and yelled
"Wentai! Hurry back! ”
Sun Jian, who already had some ominous premonitions in his heart, heard Cheng Pu's roar, and immediately grabbed Zu Mao, who was about to go to fight
"Quick, lead the troops to evacuate!"
Zu Mao was stunned, he seemed to hear someone's roar just now, but he didn't hear it clearly, but Sun Jian had an order, and he always carried it out without asking.
"Withdrawn?"
The archers who led the fifty headquarters to hide in the shadows were ready to burst out a wave of fire arrows to send the Han army back to the west, frowned, and then exhaled heavily. Withdrawing or not, this method was not intended to be used now.
Even if the Han army knew that they had arranged tung oil, they were not afraid, these tung oils were prepared as early as when they captured Wuyi Village, and they deliberately hid buckets in the dark lattices carved out of the stones on both sides of the north gate and the dark layers in the towers. And it can't be ignited from the outside, so it can only be broken from the inside to start the fire.
And not only the North Gate, but also the South Gate and even the entire Wuyi Village have been hidden a lot, in the plan of the Northern Huns, no matter what the result of this battle is, Wuyi Village will inevitably become a piece of ashes. It's just that it's been left for a long time, and the nearby are contaminated with some smell of tung oil, but fortunately, these Xianbei are dull-minded, even if they smell some peculiar smells, no one will pay attention to them.
Sun Jian squinted and glanced at Jin Chengju, who was leading the headquarters of the three thousand Northern Huns in the village to look at him, slowly made a movement to wipe his neck, turned over and slipped down the north gate wall.
"What's going on?"
After meeting with Huang Gai and the others, Sun Jian immediately asked, although he believed that his brother would not cheat him, but he also had to give an explanation to his soldiers and Liu Bei and other generals.
"I smell tung oil, it's not strong, but it's definitely there."
Although it was Cheng Pu who called for Sun Jian to evacuate, Huang Gai still took over the conversation and explained that he was quite familiar with tung oil, who likes to play with fire, and dared to guarantee that a large amount of tung oil was definitely hidden at the north gate.
Sun Jian was a little puzzled when he heard this, if the north gate was splashed with tung oil, he wouldn't be unable to smell it, even if it was covered by the smell of blood, he could see it, but he still chose to believe his brother, anyway, they were all feints, and it was not a weak attack, and in that case, there was a great chance of a pit, as for Liu Bei and the others, believe it or not, you didn't go up, of course what I said was what it was.