Chapter 146: Yellow Turban Lux
The stone projectiles that were thrown out smashed into the city wall, and the whole wall shook, and it was a rammed earth city, not even a triple earth, so I really couldn't expect it to be too strong.
Guangzong is not a giant city, and the city wall is less than five meters, so maybe the soldiers will go up the ladder.
Of course, this method will not be used unless the brain is pumped. Before he could go up, the other party had already stabbed him...... With both hands on the wall, there is no way to defend it, and it is completely a lamb to the slaughter.
The long ladder is rudimentary, at least with both feet on the top of the ladder, and you can also have a little free hand to defend or counterattack.
The baggage soldiers were still trying to throw burlap bags into the moat. The moat, which was two or three meters deep, began to be gradually filled in after sandbags were thrown into it.
The arrows on the walls were desperately shot down, and at the same time, the archers on the walls began to be suppressed by the crossbowmen who reached the front line. The three city gates launched an attack at the same time, and even if there were 30,000 thieves, the problem of insufficient limited materials was at a loss.
"The weather is getting hotter and hotter...... "It's time in the blink of an eye, just filling the moat, it took half an hour, the siege soldiers are okay, at least they can hold on, the thieves on the city wall are already sweating.
"It's not even noon, why is it so hot?" There were also thieves who complained.
"The key is that on this hot day, I still have to fight in armor, and I guess I haven't been killed by officers and soldiers, but I have already died of heat." Another thief complained, now wearing a suit of armor and already sweating.
"Why aren't the officers and soldiers afraid of the heat?" Finally someone asked the key question.
"Yes, why aren't the officers and soldiers afraid of the heat?" Soon everyone else realized this problem, after all, they were also heavily armed over there, and the one in armor was said to be hotter than them, so why didn't there be a reaction?
"Don't complain, focus on defending the city!" The officer couldn't stand it, so he could only come forward and stop, "If you don't guard the city well, it will really be cool then." ”
These words made the surrounding soldiers suddenly feel excited, and they actually cooled down for a while, although it was only for a short moment.
But it was not that they were afraid, but that as soon as they spoke, a stone bullet flew in front of them, and the officer, who was still complaining to them just now, had now been knocked out, and the coolness was caused by the wind that the stone bullet had brought up when it flew by.
The stone bomb fell into the city, smashing one of the houses, and after a while two people fled with a shout, and then wailed around their home, apparently with relatives inside.
A few soldiers didn't like it, but they didn't want to see arrows shooting at them one after another at this time.
"Keep your head down!" Fortunately, they also mixed from recruits to veterans, and they lowered their heads at the first time, barely avoiding these arrows. But even if they avoided it, seeing that the thieves had already filled in a passage in the moat, most of the thieves were confused in their hearts.
The well cart began to push up, along with the ladder truck and the long ladder. The way forward has been opened, and it is time for regular siege engines.
The first thing to fill in was naturally the location of the city gate, and the first time the city car was pushed by the soldiers to go towards the city. Due to the limited travel distance, the style of the storming vehicle has been changed to the style of the swingarm battering ram.
With the help of four soldiers, pull the suspended ram and continuously attack the city gate at a fixed location. Of course, this kind of impact force is not as strong as the force that hits it after borrowing force for a distance, but the situation is limited, and there is no way to ask for it.
"Follow me!" Shangguan Yu gave an order, and the crossbowmen boarded the five well chariots one after another. The well chariot is three to four meters high, and the archers who come to the top can shoot almost at the thieves on the city walls.
According to the instructions, Yang Jie had already come to the front line of the battlefield for the first time and boarded the well car. Liu Tao gave him an order to find the officers on the city wall to shoot. With the power of the two-stone bow, as well as his archery skills, sniping enemy officers is not a problem.
With the input of the well cart, the thieves were further suppressed, but unfortunately limited by space, the five well carts could only go up about a hundred crossbowmen.
"Brother, I'll go back as soon as I go!" Seeing that the long ladder had begun to be put into use, Guan Yu couldn't sit still. Signaled to Liu Tao, and then took the headquarters and ran to the front line with a long ladder.
"Speaking of which, he's also one of your brothers-in-law?" Lu Zhi looked at Guan Yu, who had been mentioned by the messenger earlier.
"This person is a good person in Hedong, his surname is Guan Mingyu, and his words are long. Yun Chang is brave and good at fighting, all the way down, but all the thieves and generals he faces can't survive his three swords. Of course, Liu Tao would not say that Guan Yu fled to Zhuo County because of a crime.
"It's a great general, and let's see how far he can go in the future." Lu Zhi nodded, he somewhat understood the strength of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, but compared to these two people, he was more concerned about Liu Tao and Lu Yan.
"Stones, logs, gold juice ready!" Zhang Liang had already come to the front line at this moment, and when he really came, he found that the situation here was very bad. The officers and soldiers are constantly pushing out siege equipment, the key is this weather, this damn weather!
Let's just say that he is now fully armed and running all the way, but when he comes here, he is already sweating, and his armor is like a retort, and it is piping hot.
God knows why the officers and soldiers chose to attack the city in such a ghost weather? Why, have they been able to hold out until now?
"General, the offensive of the officers and soldiers is very fierce, and it is difficult for us to raise our heads now." The officer on the front line cried out, don't talk about bowing your head now, if you don't want to bow your head, there may be a stone bullet that will suddenly fly over.
Speaking of which, one of them smashed over, and not far from them, the entire battlement was smashed away, and the thieves behind were estimated to be more than lucky.
"Did the officers and soldiers have this kind of stone thrower before?" Zhang Liang's face turned a little pale. The officers and soldiers who besieged the city this time were completely different from the officers and soldiers in their memory, so they said that the siege equipment was too numerous and too powerful.
"No, absolutely not!" The thief next to him cried, and it was too stressful to defend the city in such an environment.
Especially the boiling gold juice, the taste itself is terrible, not to mention the heat wave, the mentality of the people around the three meters has collapsed. If you are not careful, the other party's stone bullet smashes on it, and the taste is really memorable for a lifetime......
Officers and soldiers have begun to erect long ladders, and stones and logs have been dropped one after another, including gold juice. So for the first time, there were real casualties among officers and soldiers, and the number began to increase.
In the end, there are 30,000 thieves in the city, constantly replenished, several people work together to knock down or cut down the long ladder, and there are a large number of special soldiers who hold sledgehammers and seem to have great strength.
Officially, this special group of soldiers forcibly slowed down the progress of the siege.
"Those soldiers are so strange......" Liu Tao watched from afar, his brows furrowed.
Lu Zhi was not surprised, and replied: "That is the strongest army of the Yellow Turban Thieves, called the Yellow Turban Warrior!" ”