The six people of the Halal Mountain Six Pythons or Ma Yuan, Huang Fuxiong, and other six people scattered around to assist in the defense, and they were hiding behind the battlements and holding their usual long weapons. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the blink of an eye, they were about to face the Liao army that was ferocious in killing the head of the city, and they were going to kill the barbarians for the first time, and they and more than 20 subordinates were all excited and nervous.

They don't understand, the enemy has climbed the ladder to the bottom of the city, how come the people of Zhaozhuang neither use bows and crossbows to intercept and attack remotely in advance to reduce the impact, nor attack the Liao army that gathers the screaming under the city, and they don't see the rolling wood and stones defending the city, nor the equipment such as hitting the wood, but many people are lying in wait with a strange-looking stick in their hands, what is the matter?

Ma Yuan has been a soldier as a Song general for many years, but when it comes to it, he has never experienced a serious war, and he usually fights just some water thieves and thieves who want to gather and rob copper ingots, even if the rogue invades countless cities during the battle of nearly a thousand miles, it is mostly the rebellion of the defenders in the city who are easy to fight, but he is a well-trained soldier, not a beginner brother on the battlefield, no need to stare at it, hiding behind the battlements and just by hearing the sound can accurately judge the nearby enemy climbing the ladder to climb the city.

His five sworn brothers and subordinates are not lacking in this ability, after all, they are not soldiers who guard the mines and escort copper, but also smugglers, and they are all good at killing in the security robbery.

The centurion who had taken the lead happened to be outside the battlements where Ma Yuan was.

Hearing the sound of climbing quickly approaching the city, Ma Yuan knew that this Liao man must be brave and courageous, and his skills were not weak.

In the blink of an eye, the man had crawled to the top of the city, and the sound of rapid breathing seemed to ring in his ears.

Ma Yuan heard it in his ears, and he was excited and nervous, Lao Tzu is going to be the first melee to slaughter Liaokou today!

He excitedly didn't care about the instructions of Zhao Zhuang Zhuang Ding beside him, and couldn't help it anymore, so he got up and aimed the big knife at the battlement and swept it over.

The centurion was holding his shield and leaping fiercely towards the city, and his other hand was drawing a scimitar, and he was slashed horizontally by Ma Yuanshi, who suddenly rose up.

The shield of the rush was chopped up.

The centurion snorted, the arm holding the shield was broken, and the majestic but light body jumped in the air without any support, and was beaten out of the city, falling backwards and falling down the city, slapping down in the Liao army group under the city, and then there was time to let out an oozing exclamation, but the sound stopped abruptly, and it turned out that the head was down, and the neck was broken first.

After being a soldier for many years, it was the first time in his life that he killed a Liao Kou with his own hands, which was really different from the taste of killing the Han people, and he only felt relaxed and happy.

Ma Yuan became more and more excited, and he was so excited that he could hardly restrain himself.

Hands-on, how to quench your thirst by beating one?

He put up the two-meter-long iron-handled broadsword in an instant, and rushed at the Liao army who followed the centurion to climb up, and stabbed down fiercely.

The Liao army was frightened when he saw the centurion elder suddenly flying, looked up and saw the big knife stabbing him, and raised his shield in horror to resist, but how could he resist the condescending dozens of pounds of heavy knives and the force, the light cowhide wooden shield cracked in response, and the person took off his feet and slid down the ladder and smashed the brothers behind, followed by the string below.

The Liao army on the ladder rolled into a ball and fell down screaming, slapping into the crowd below. The ladder that climbed all over the Liao army became empty in a blink of an eye.

Ma Yuan laughed, only feeling that he had never been so happy in his life, and it seemed that the joy of being a king was nothing more than that.

He was in high spirits, standing at the edge of the battlement, and shouted majestically at the Liao army below: "Dirty barbarian, come up if you are not afraid of death." See how grandpa teaches you to be a man. ”

The soldier of the Northern Army beside him smiled and gave Ma Yuan a thumbs up, and silently praised the brave battle, which made Ma Yuan laugh more and more, and then under Ma Yuan's gaze, he pulled the board machine with the strange stick in his hand diagonally against a nearby ladder.

Ma Yuan was surprised to see a short but powerful thing shot out of the stick, like an electric strike on the cloud ladder that was the first to climb the Liao army to the head of the city, penetrating the iron armor into the side ribs.

It turned out to be a short crossbow bolt.

The officer of the Liao army should have been stabbed in the heart, screamed, and fell down with his hands and feet, and even smashed the Liao army below with a shield.

Ma Yuan looked around again in surprise.

The people of Zhao Zhuang, who were lurking silently, had already tacitly got up at some point, aimed the strange stick in his hand at the enemy, and shot crossbow arrows that were equally short but fast and sharp.

Some people were facing the ladder, and the head of the stick was downward to hit the Liao army who was struggling to climb, and the crossbow arrows pierced the enemy's face and even eyes, screaming and falling down, the scene was terrifying. On the opposite side, there is no ladder, but he turns around and reaches out to hold the stick and shoots at the enemy on the side ladder, focusing on the enemy's upper body vital points.

Hand crossbows have a short range, but they are too easy to defend against targets that are close at hand.

Even if they can resist the speed of crossbow arrows, people can't stand the up, left and right sides, and one shield can't defend against it at all, and they are completely passively beaten on the ladder.

What is also frightening is that the crossbowmen are well-trained, cooperate tacitly, attack in a very orderly manner, and strike the enemy up and down the ladder according to the convenience of distance and proximity, and there will never be a situation where an enemy is shot and wastes crossbow arrows, and at most three of them will be injured to the point of being planted.

Obviously, the purpose of Zhao Zhuang's counterattack was not just to prevent the enemy from reaching the city, but to take the enemy's life.

At the very least, let the enemy suffer heavy losses and lose their combat effectiveness.

Ma Yuan and the others stood at the head of the city with their weapons in their hands, with their strength and skills, and they also condensed their bloody ambition and murderous energy, but they were invincible to kill.

The Liao army was really fierce, and went forward to attack the city one after another in the sound of the horn that constantly urged the attack, but no enemy could climb close to the city, but it was carried down by groups of screams.

Idle, Ma Yuan and the others watched in amazement as the strange sticks shot crossbow arrows in succession.

In this tentative attack, there were only a dozen cloud ladders, and the enemy who could climb the ladder to attack the city was not enough to kill, and the crossbowmen who were okay shot at the Liao army group under the city, and they were killed and wounded in a moment.

This kind of hand crossbow can be fired continuously, the operation is simple and labor-saving, the rate of fire is too fast, and the strike effect is sharp and violent.

But the Liao army was not given in vain, it was not like the Song army that was overwhelmed by heavy losses, or like the Jin army, which they were afraid of from the bones, and they were afraid to collapse as soon as they suffered many casualties.

The Liao army under the city quickly raised their shields and joined them together, forming a shield to block the rapid burst of fire overhead.

The crossbow is sharp, but the power is not enough to make a thick shield, and the crossbow arrow can only snatch the meaningless hollow on the shield.

Almost at the same time, the commander of the leading team commanded from a distance gave a new order, and the Liao troops around him raised their bows and arrows to throw them at the city, covering the besieging troops with a rain of arrows.

The Liao army besieging the city no longer blindly climbed the ladder to death in vain, and quickly put the ladder together in pairs under the command of the officer. The Liao army climbed the ladder at the same time, each with a shield to protect the outside to block the attack on the left and right sides of their upper body, and marched together, the Liao army at the top was heavily armoured, and raised a shield to protect the top of the head to resist the head-on attack. In this way, although it cannot completely block the blow, as long as you quickly climb through the inclined ladder of more than ten meters, you will have the opportunity to attack the city with crossbow arrows.

However, the Liao army used bows and arrows to assist, and the spare crossbowmen on the side of the crossbowmen in the city immediately raised a large strange shield that could cover the front and above, and put one end on the battlements and supported the other side, saving effort but effectively protecting themselves and their comrades. The arrows fired head-on from outside the city were blocked, but it did not prevent the crossbowman from stretching out his arm from the battlement to continue shooting.

If you can't effectively shoot the enemy's upper body on the ladder, you can adjust it in time and shoot your thigh, so close, almost under your nose, one shot at a time.

Man is not a monoganglionic insect, and he cannot be injured in one place like an insect, and the other parts can still be alive and unconscious. The human neural network is not limited to the upper body and head. He was deeply pierced in the leg by a crossbow arrow, and that was not a human being. You can't die on the spot, it's not a big threat to your life, and you can't support it on the ladder.

The Liao army who was recruited screamed and rolled down, revealing loopholes in the protection, and the companions on the ladder immediately wanted to kill the recruit......

There is a brave Liao army that can resist a leg injury, gritting his teeth and continuing. The top officers of the heavy armor also resisted.

These people roared and rushed upwards with all their might, but unfortunately they were hit by one blow after another, and their necks, hands and legs that could not be protected were hit by arrows one after another, and the end was also death. There were a few who could rush to the top of the city, but there were too few people, and they were stabbed by oncoming spears as soon as they outcropped in the battlements.

Siege warfare, regardless of the comparison of weapons between the two sides, is essentially a war of attrition of human life, energy, and physical strength.

The besieging side is destined to be the passive side.

If the defenders of the city resist resolutely, fight to the death and do not retreat, and do not fight hard, they are so few that they are unable to seal the defense, and it is difficult for the besieging side to succeed.

In history, the Jin army's breakthrough of the Song capital Tokyo was not so brave and unstoppable, it only meant that the Song army was rotten, the civil and military bureaucrats were incompetent, afraid of death, ridiculous and dissident.

Otherwise, with hundreds of thousands of defenders, tall and impregnable cities, sufficient and sophisticated weapons and equipment, sufficient manpower, material and logistical supplies, and even local army militias rushing to the rescue from all directions to threaten the Jin army and logistics support from the flank, the Jin army wants to take Tokyo, not to mention about 200,000 barbarians, even if it is twice as much, it will have to be exhausted in the city of Tokyo.

Wars are fought first and foremost by people.

Even if the enemy has a nuclear bomb, as long as it is an invasion, ground troops are sent, and the resistance dares to fight, the invaders will have to pay a heavy human life and economic price.

The history of Chinese and foreign wars in later generations has clear examples to illustrate the problem.

Since China has become a great power in history, it should not be weak and easy to bully in resisting aggression. Unfortunately, they are always bullied and slaughtered.

Confucianism advocated reading, developed the people's intellectual mind, and created a prosperous civilization, but weakened the human physique and hot-blooded spirit, forming a numb and lame bureaucratic power.

Back to business.

The Liao army tried its best to change a variety of tactics but failed to succeed, and saw that a thousand-strong team would die after a hard fight, and the temptation achieved its goal, so it retreated in embarrassment.

Han Chang was afraid of being plotted by the bed crossbow, so he watched the battle from a distance, and couldn't see what was happening in the siege, so he naturally couldn't dispatch and command in a timely and effective manner.

He only saw that the siege troops had fallen a lot, the figures on the ladder had fallen, the retreating Liao army had fallen a lot, and very few could come back alive, and only the commander could come back without a single injury.

In fact, it was not that the commander was far away, wore armor with good protective performance, or had high martial arts, but that Zhao Zhuang deliberately let him go and did not use the Divine Arm Crossbow bed crossbow to mess with him.

Tentative attack, fiasco.

But Han Chang was shocked after learning that Zhao Zhuang had a kind of rapid continuous crossbow, and couldn't help but marvel that the people of the Cangzhao family were really smart, but they were also more numerous.

It turned out that the Liao army that came before was defeated under the blows of bed crossbows and hand crossbows.

But Zhao Zhuang only lacks crossbow guns. The Liao army did not worry about not being able to break the castle. It's just that there is no shortage of crossbow guns, Zhao Zhuang is cheating, and there is also a way to break the city.

In the afternoon of the same day, Han Chang did not organize another attack, and there was no movement when he collected his troops and returned to the camp.

The people of Zhao Zhuang couldn't figure out whether the Liao army wanted to give up the attack and discuss withdrawing the army to grab other places, or whether there was another conspiracy.

These days are the time of the waning moon, and the night is almost dark.

In the dark night, Zhaozhuang City was not brightly lit during the war, only a few torches flashed at the head of the city, only faint human voices were heard, and the barking of dogs was loud and far away.

After suffering several losses, Han Chang became more and more jealous, seeing that Zhao Zhuang and other wartime castles behaved very differently at night, he couldn't help but have doubts, he didn't know what kind of deadly secrets could be hidden in this rural Zhuang Castle, but he would not retreat.

The third correction in the middle of the night is when people are sleepy and slacking off on summer nights. The Liao army came out of the camp again.

This time, the troops were divided into three routes, attacking the castle on three sides, east, west, and south at the same time. Two thousand soldiers on each side, a total of six thousand troops, with hundreds of ladders at one time.

There was also a follow-up assaulting army.

Han Chang wanted to use the cover of the night, take advantage of the unclear vision to avoid the interception and attack of the bed crossbow, etc., relying on the large number of soldiers and being more brave than the opponent, and wanted to capture Zhaozhuang in one go.

This time, he also carried out the selfish tasks of the Liao Emperor and the Yan King, wanting to use the knife to skillfully kill people, and also use it as cannon fodder waste to give full play to the surplus value as much as possible, and effectively mobilize the remaining noble army in eastern Liao and the tribal army that lost their leader in the siege army with the slogans of revenge and breaking the city to make a fortune.

The Liao army explored in the dark and moved slowly, trying to slow down as much as possible, no one made a sound, and finally quietly touched the three sides, wanting to strive for the maximum effect of the raid.

Suddenly, there was a barking of dogs in the city, and immediately shot out from different directions, and the white light that the Liao army couldn't understand but felt weird and terrifying penetrated the darkness far away, scanning the Liao army everywhere.

What kind of light is this?

How can you shoot so far and tear the night apart?

Could it be the devil's eyes?

Cangzhao's rise is so rapid, powerful and magical, could it be that with the help of the gods, there are really ghosts and gods protecting them in secret?

The ignorant and superstitious Liao army did not know that there was such an electrical appliance as a flashlight in the world, and there were too many casualties in one day today, and the lesson was profound.

But the military order could not be disobeyed. The arrow had to be fired.

Now that it was exposed, the Liao army no longer concealed its movements, and rushed to the city with all their strength.

Hundreds of ladders were set up.

Some of the leading officers immediately took the lead in jumping on the ladder and climbing violently.

The small and easily broken fence gates leading to the main city of each fortress also quietly pounced on the Liao army.