Chapter 565: The Battle of Shaanzhou (2)
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Outside the city of Shaanzhou, the 10,000 Heyang army was divided into ten phalanxes, pushing a group of turtle shells and slowly advancing towards the city wall. There were also carts in the back, loaded with dirt, apparently intended to fill in the moats so that the turtle shells could cover the soldiers as they approached the walls.
"Defender, the Heyang army has begun to attack the city again."
"How many are there?"
Chang Xingru asked subconsciously.
"It should be 10,000 people, and the enemy army is divided into ten phalanxes, and each phalanx should be about a thousand people, which is a good number."
"It's just 10,000 people, let them attack, the envoy doesn't believe that this Shaanzhou soldier can attack the city."
"Defender, but the Heyang army has created a siege ladder, like a turtle shell, our bows and arrows can't shoot through!"
As the Heyang army attacked the city again, the Shaanzhou defenders in the city realized that it was different.
In the tentative siege two days ago, the Heyang army only relied on shields to defend, and in the face of the crossbow array, it could not achieve all-round protection, so there were many casualties.
But today, the Heyang army created these turtle shells, although they were only put together with wooden planks, but they could block a lot of arrows.
The soldiers in the back also raised their shields on their heads, effectively restraining the arrow attacks of the Shaanzhou soldiers in the city.
In the past, if you wanted to approach the city wall, you would have to pay a lot of price, but now the proportion of casualties has dropped suddenly, which means that more Heyang troops can get close to the city wall and attack the city with the help of cloud ladders.
In this way, the offensive and defensive battles became fierce.
The Heyang soldiers close to the city wall also began to shoot at the Shaanzhou soldiers in the city, and for a while, the arrows on both sides came and went, and the casualties on both sides became more and more, especially the Shaanzhou soldiers in the city.
"Father, let our cavalry out of the city, shall we? Take advantage of this time to attack the enemy camp! Chang Wei asked for battle on the side.
"Attacking the enemy camp? Now there are at least more than 10,000 troops in the enemy's battalion, do you want to fill in the name of cavalry? ”
The Heyang army outside the city knew that the cavalry in Shaanzhou was relatively strong, and it was impossible not to be on guard, so they must have left a back hand in the big camp.
Cavalry is strong in field encounters, but to attack a barracks defended by a large army is not to say whether it will succeed or not. Even if it succeeds, there will be heavy casualties, and there is no need for Chang Xingru to take this risk.
In the end, Chang Xingru finally said that the general of the Right Heaven Ce Army was moved, and the other party agreed to use the Heaven-shaking Thunder.
So in the surprise of the Shaanzhou soldiers, a group of soldiers who were very different from them came to the city wall neatly, and they also carried wooden boxes.
The soldiers were in groups of four, two holding shields to block arrows from outside the city, one standing next to a wooden box, and one pulling out a fire breaker from his body.
"Ready!"
At the sound of the command, the soldier standing next to the wooden box took out a black lump of iron with a rope from the box and handed it to the soldier holding the fire fold.
"Hurry up, stand back for me! Back off! ”
Seeing that these soldiers of the Right Tiance Army had already begun to prepare, some Shaanzhou generals on the city wall began to order their men to hide.
"Ready, put!"
With a command, the lightning fuses were ignited, and then they were thrown out with great force by the specialized grenadier.
Of course, at the beginning, it can be neat, but it is still a lot worse than the crossbowman. However, the rest is up to these grenadiers themselves, but the goal is very clear, either a place where the enemy army is concentrated, or the enemy's ladders and other siege equipment.
Soon, hundreds of earth-shattering thunderbolts were thrown out and landed inside and outside the moat, of course, this thing fell in the moat, and there was a chance that it wouldn't explode. Therefore, the choice of the grenadiers was either to throw it hard outside the moat and throw it under the city walls without trouble.
The Heyang soldiers have never seen the earth-shaking thunder, although the earth-shaking thunder was used when it was used by Li Ke in Hedong in Pingding, but the last battle was Pingyao, and it was not used later, where did the Heyang soldiers see such a big killing weapon.
When they saw the black and burning iron bumps thrown down, some of the Heyang soldiers didn't realize what they were, and some picked them up and looked at them.
Suddenly....
Bursts of earth-shattering explosions rang out in the camp of the Heyang soldiers!
The violent explosion made the Heyang soldiers and Shaanzhou soldiers on the entire battlefield a little confused, but the explosion continued.
The incessant sound of explosions formed small shock waves, scattering the fragments in the Heaven-Shattering Thunder in all directions along with the explosion, destroying everything around that could be destroyed.
One by one, the soldiers of Heyang were swept away, the tall ladders collapsed one after another, explosions and wails were everywhere, and the smell of blood mixed with the choking smell of gunsmoke.
The soldiers of the Right Tiance Army did not stop, and the earth-shaking thunder in their hands was still being thrown out, and it only stopped after almost ten rounds.
Thick black smoke rose outside the city walls, and when the smoke faded, the soldiers on the city walls were stunned when they saw the scene outside the city.
Just now, there were enemy troops all over the outside of the city, but now they are still full of enemy troops.
However, compared to the previous enemy armies who were all proudly attacking the city, those enemy troops at this time seemed to have lost their souls.
In particular, there were few enemy troops within 30 meters of the city wall, and there were few stumps and broken arms everywhere on the ground, and even the tall siege ladder was destroyed a lot at this time.
"What are you doing? Shoot them all for me, shoot those Heyang soldiers. ”
Seeing that the soldiers of the Right Tiance Army had withdrawn, although Li Fan was shocked, he quickly reacted from the shock, patted the head of the nearest soldier hard, and ordered loudly.
"Oh!"
Reacting, the soldiers of Shaanzhou woke up from the shock, and then picked up their bows and arrows and drew their bows and shot arrows, and the crossbowmen in the city also began to fight back.
And the Heyang soldiers outside the city have not yet woken up from the sound of thunder exploding in their ears just now, until there were screams around them, and then they found that the sharp arrows shot by the Shaanzhou soldiers picked up their shields to resist.
After all, there were only a few people who reacted, and for a while, in the camp of the Heyang soldiers covered by the rain of arrows, there were screams one after another. Before many people could react from the shock, they were shot into hedgehogs by the dense rain of arrows.
"Father, let's get out of the city, if we go out at this time, we will definitely be able to keep these 10,000 Heyang troops in the city."
Seeing the movement outside the city, the young and competitive Chang Wei couldn't help it.
And Chang Xingru was also a little moved, so he asked Li Fan to open the city gate with 5,000 steps and take the opportunity to go out of the city.
On the city tower, although these Shaanzhou soldiers saw the tragic situation outside the city, they really arrived outside the city and realized that the outside of the city had become hell.
Although shocked, under Li Fan's order, these five thousand Shaanzhou infantry began to harvest the remnants of Heyang outside the city! I want to talk about "Rebirth of Tang Zhongxing" with more like-minded people, and pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~