With Gao Yanzong's order, the archers on the city wall released arrows at the same time, and the arrows rained down for a while.

The thieves and thieves under the city wall were ragged and defenseless against bows and arrows, and the falling arrows were for them the life and death pen of the Lord of Yama

Looking down from the city wall, the thieves are like ants hit by heavy rain, falling down in pieces.

But this does not organize the thieves to sacrifice their lives to advance,

The thief in the rear jumped over his companion in front of him and continued to shout slogans and rush forward.

Some people step on the trap with one foot, and all those who pull on the surrounding cushions fall into the pit, and those who are lucky enough to escape the robbery or bypass the trap, or simply go into the earth, and soon fill the trap.

Others stepped on a one-legged pit, and the thieves behind them pushed them forward into the second trench.

Those who were unlucky and had not yet lost their breath and rolled to the ditch not far in front of them with their last breath.

Under the shot of bows and arrows on the city wall, there are no thieves who can retreat and refill the soil, for the thieves, this is no longer a ghost gate, this is simply a rush to reincarnate, and the thieves are tired of it.

In this way, the thieves filled the second trench with a more desperate attack than the outermost trench, and rushed to the last trench outside the moat without diminishing the momentum.

Lan Ziyi pinched the bricks on the city wall hard, and he was about to squeeze his fingers out of blood, although the thieves who fought before were also people who were bewitched by witchcraft, but they had already taken up weapons and abandoned the peasants as soldiers, and they were more or less reasonable in their hearts when they fought.

But now the people who rushed forward to send them to death were the unarmed people, and they knew by looking at their outfits that they had just been captured by the thieves after they hit the river **, and in the face of such an attempt to kill Lan Ziyi, he really couldn't find a reason to let himself be a killer.

The city wall was already busy, the archers kept releasing arrows outward, and Gao Yanzong directed the people to bundle bundles of arrows on the city wall with a hoarse voice.

Seeing that Lan Ziyi was a little distracted, Tao Zhutu stepped forward and grabbed him by the shoulder and said:

"Wei Hou stepped back, this place is too far forward, and the thieves have already leaned over."

Sure enough, the thieves had filled in the last trench and were desperately trying to fill the moat.

Gao Yanzong stepped forward at this time, saw Lan Ziyi's uncertain appearance and said:

"What's wrong with Wei Hou? If not, go down to the city to rest first? “

Lan Ziyi heard Gao Yanzong say this, and his heart was filled with a sharp sourness, obviously the reason why he came here just now was because he was worried that Ximen would not have a guard, but now he was going to be replaced by Gao Yanzong, which was really ironic.

Lan Ziyi, who was stabbed by Gao Yanzong's words, looked at the people outside the city shouting "Reincarnation Avenue", and his heart hardened little by little, the thieves had already bewitched so many people into evil magic and sacrificed their lives for them as soon as they arrived in the river. The thieves must not be allowed to move on any longer.

Lan Ziyi looked out of the city, the confusion in his eyes gradually dissipated, and the sharp spirit burst out from the bottom of his heart again, burning the army of thieves watching from a distance through his eyes.

Lan Ziyi turned back to Gao Yanzong and said:

"Stop shooting arrows at these people! They won't go back.

It was only a matter of time before the moat was filled, and the time spent by firing the arrows was not worth the cost of the arrows. “

Gao Yanzong nodded and said:

"Exactly, this is pure slaughter!"

Then Gao Yanzong ordered the soldiers in the city to stop firing arrows.

The thieves and the people of the city had already filled half of the river, and countless dead bodies were floating in the river, and the muddy water mixed with the blood was extremely stinking.

But the thieves were not shaken by the sight of corpses all over the field and rivers of blood in front of them, but because the officials and soldiers no longer fired arrows to step up the offensive.

In the distance, the army of thieves saw that the city had stopped firing arrows, and there was a new movement, and there was no longer a ragged people charging with dirt bags on their backs, and the various phalanxes of the thieves spread their wings, connected with each other, and then steadily advanced towards the city wall.

At the forefront were the thieves with large shields, who covered the archers behind them, and behind the archers were all kinds of thieves and warriors who could not see the end.

After seeing the army of thieves approaching the city wall, Gao Yanzong once again ordered the archers to prepare and ordered the stone throwers in the city to prepare,

After watching the dense thief phalanx enter the firing range, Gao Yanzong immediately waved his hand and ordered, shouting:

"Put!"

After that, the arrows and crossbows on the city wall were fired in unison, and the stone throwers in the city were pulled by a dozen strong men at the same time, and the stones or gunpowder jars at the other end of the long pole were thrown out.

When the stone hit the ground, it knocked down a group of thieves, and the shattered fragments of the earthquake bounced up again, causing a new round of damage.

The powder canister was even more effective when it hit the ground, and the air wave from the explosion overturned the crowd, and the flames ignited the surroundings, and the thieves in a dense array could only watch themselves be burned.

It's just that there are too few stone throwers in the city, and the entire long city wall on the west side is only equipped with six gates.

Lan Ziyi said to Gao Yanzong next to him:

"It's a pity, if only there were more stone throwers."

Gao Yanzong sighed:

"Who's to say it's not, but now that I have a gun and a cannon, the stone thrower is long gone.

He** is not a Sifang border town, since the Dazheng Dynasty has not seen a war for two hundred years, the imperial court has not equipped this road with firearms at all, and now these stone throwers in my small county town are still the goods of the previous dynasty that I found out from the warehouse.

Alas, the slack of armament has collided with the thieves again, can it not collapse for a thousand miles? “

桃追兔 says:

"It's a good thing the thieves don't have a stone thrower, otherwise we would have suffered."

Lan Ziyi shook his head and said:

"The thieves just don't have time to build them, and if there were a stone thrower, they wouldn't fill the trench with human lives like they are now.

If the thieves attack the city with all their might, it will definitely be built in a few days, and there will be many more than in the city. “

Due to the condescending position of the officers and soldiers, the only ones whose shields could cover were only one or two rows of archers close to the forefront, and the rest of the thieves either had a small shield on their own or had no cover.

The dense rain of arrows washed the thieves phalanx, and the thieves in armor were okay, and the arrows didn't cause much damage to them.

But most of the remaining unarmored thieves were not so lucky, and the arrows hit their heads, necks, limbs, and torsos.

There are thieves who are pierced through the heart by an arrow and fall to the ground; Some thieves were shot in the eye, and they lay on the ground screaming and writhing together; But many more thieves were still moving after sticking three or five arrows into their bodies, and even more of them pulled out the arrows and continued to move forward, regardless of the danger of the wind. Lan Ziyi saw with his own eyes an arrow in the mouth of a thief, an arrow running through his cheeks, and the blood flowing from his mouth stained his neck and chest red, even if this was the case, the thief was still advancing.

Seeing this scene with the courage of Gao Yanzong, he took a breath and said:

"What kind of magic have these people fallen into? Why do you lay down your life so much? ”

Lan Ziyi was no longer surprised, and said lightly:

"According to the thief, we are demons and monsters, and the thief is doing the right thing for heaven, beheading me is a blessing, and I can be reincarnated and ascended to the immortal before I die, can I not sell my life?"

As he spoke, the thieves under the city had already reached a distance where they could shoot back with arrows, and a group of thieves and archers braved the rain of arrows to shoot arrows at the city wall to shoot back.

Arrows rain down like locusts,

Someone in the city began to fall under the city with arrows, and arrows flew by Lan Ziyi's face.

Tao Zhutu hurriedly escorted Lan Ziyi to retreat, Gao Yanzong commanded the defenders loudly, the soldiers in the city sat behind the female wall with weapons in hand under Gao Yanzong's order to avoid the thieves' shooting, the archers will only stand up when they release arrows, at this time there is no need to aim, the city is full of people, and the arrows can be shot with their eyes closed

The moat, the last defense outside the city, had been filled, and one after another of thieves rushed out from behind the thieves with ladders.

These thieves carrying ladders are much better than those who used to fill in the ditch as cannon fodder, and they seem to have a higher status than those cannon fodder, but they still have no armor and no weapons, they are not unarmored thieves and warriors, but thieves and ordinary people who are living a little better

Behind them was a group of warriors armed with short arms and wearing thin armor.

Many of these thieves and warriors were half naked, and they did not wear any clothes except for the two pieces of armor on the front and back of their bodies, and it seemed that they were the first to climb the ladder, but these thieves were not all going to climb the ladder to reach the city, because it could be clearly seen that more than half of them still had flying claws and ropes hanging from their waists, and they would definitely climb the city wall when they leaned under the city wall.

As soon as one of those carrying ladders was hit by an arrow, the thieves on the side immediately followed, and more than a dozen people shouted to erect ladders to the city wall, and these ladders had barbs at the end, and once they reached the top of the city wall, they firmly hung on the edge of the bricks, and they couldn't retreat no matter what.

When the thin-armored dead soldiers among the thieves saw that the ladder had been erected, they all took short soldiers in their mouths and climbed the ladder to fish up.

The thieves who did not go up the ladder untied the rope claws from their waists, threw them up the city wall with all their might, and then climbed up the rope.

Seeing this, Lan Ziyi pulled out the saber at his waist and shouted:

"Brothers, don't let the thieves climb the walls!"

When the soldiers defending the city heard this, they all drew their swords, picked up spears, bones, and axes, and prepared for hand-to-hand combat.

The archers gathered by Gao Yanzong were still firing arrows, and the rest of the people picked up the long poles in the shape of "Ya" placed on the city wall.

Lan Ziyi looked at these poles and asked puzzledly:

"Master Gao, what are these long poles used for?"

Gao Yanzong smiled:

"Wei Hou will know when he sees it."

At this time, the vanguard warriors of the thieves had climbed up to the top of the city, and saw that the militia with a long pole on the side stepped on the top of an arrow, and pushed the long pole out with both hands.

The sergeant who was cowering under the female wall poked a saber and spear into the ribs of the thief, and the thief screamed and fell off the city wall with a scream, dragging the friendly troops behind him into the water.

The same tactics were used throughout the entire city wall to defend against the bandits, and the results were so great that none of the dead thieves who landed on the city could climb the walls.

Lan Ziyi saw the wonderful use of the long rod, suddenly realized, and said:

"I see, the long pole has such a wonderful use, the tall man is really ingenious!"

Gao Yanzong laughed when he heard this, and said:

"Wei Hou just look carefully, it's more useful than that!"

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