Five hundred paces, this is the best range of a bow and crossbow. Especially for those crossbows and bed crossbows, although the range can reach 800 or even 1,000 steps, but if you want to give full play to the best power of the bow and crossbow and want to maintain safety to a large extent, 500 steps is the best choice.

At this range, the enemy can only threaten itself with large bows, and those crossbows without 100 steps are actually the end of the strong crossbows at this distance, let alone ordinary crossbows with 300 steps.

Sure enough, before he could finish speaking, the arrows were already whistling.

The whistling sound of the iron arrows released by the bed crossbow was no weaker than that of the catapult, and the thick iron arrows jumped directly onto the city wall, wantonly piercing through one flesh and blood body after another. Even the smaller crossbow arrows came with an irresistible momentum, and shields, especially those made of wood, had little resistance to such arrows.

Almost instantly, there was a river of blood on the walls.

Without using the trebuchet, Xiao Shilian had already achieved his goal.

Where did the enemy get so many bed crossbows?

Seeing the scene in front of him, He Ruobi could only gasp.

The enemy is clearly more difficult to deal with than you think.

At this time, He Ruobi found out what the right decision his guards had made. The two guards in front of him had already fallen from arrows, and in the face of such arrows, the shields in their hands had almost no effect, and they could only use their flesh and blood as the next shield to block death for He Ruobi.

"Whoosh!" The bed crossbow on the head of the city also began to fire back at this time, but compared to the Han army, this arrow shot out like a stone thrown into the vast sea, and then dissipated after a little ripple.

The difference in strength between the two sides seems to have doomed the Northern Zhou army to be difficult to stop the advance of the Han army, at this time He Ruobi and Gao Xi also knew why it was difficult for Nanyang and Xiyang County to organize effective long-term resistance, but Hou Mo Chen Ying, who had been killed in battle, and the partial general of Xiyang County seemed to be difficult to clear their names.

And Gao Xi and He Ruobi couldn't let themselves follow in their footsteps, so they could only grit their teeth and hold on, even if it was just one more day. Otherwise, they are also destined to be nailed to the pillar of shame like that kid from the Hou Mo family.

The current Yang Jian's army was like an open palm, with five fingers responding to threats from all directions, while the opponents they faced were fists that converged.

It's not a symmetrical war.

He Ruobi smiled bitterly. Even dying here in direct battle is not a relief, and there is a name to take into account after death······

The Han trebuchets did not stop because the attack began, but were just throwing stones behind the city walls at a slower frequency than before, and it was obvious that they had also received the news that the Shangluo granary had been burned down, so they were trying to destroy the ancillary facilities in Wuguan City. If the granaries in the city are also destroyed, then the defenders will directly face the threat of running out of food.

But now whether it is He Ruobi or Gao Xi, they can't take care of it so much, so they can only resign themselves to fate, hoping that the granaries and equipment warehouses in the city are strong enough.

As if to refute their expectations, soon there was a muffled sound in the city, and the Shuai Mansion in the center of the city was hit by a stone bullet, which fell directly from the roof of the council hall, knocking over most of the roof, and the remaining broken walls and ruins also lost their support, and finally fell down, making a "hulala" sound.

Standing on the city wall and looking back, the most obvious buildings in the city were already shrouded in billowing smoke, and only He Ruobi's handsome flag was still fluttering alone.

There was silence in the city.

"The handsome flag will not fall, and the whole army will not retreat! So-and-so is with you, kill the enemy! The long sword in He Ruobi's hand pointed forward.

And the soldiers only reacted at this time: "Kill the enemy!" ”

Only this time there was some trepidation in their voices.

Looking at the collapsed gap in the city, and then at the houses that were randomly torn apart by stones, they felt their own smallness for the first time.

The ladder truck didn't know when it was already in front of him, and the trench filling truck rushed in front of the ladder truck as early as possible.

"Shoot the arrows!" On the urn city, Gao Xi shouted loudly.

The enemy used three ladder trucks at once, and rushed towards the side of the urn city, and the supporting trench filling trucks were as high as nine, undoubtedly telling Gao Xi that the enemy's ladder trucks could transport a large number of soldiers to the city at one time.

Arrows poured down from the city like waterfalls. The Han soldiers who pushed the trench filling cart fell one after another, but the shield bearers who came up behind them all raised their shields high, and the arrows just "crackled" down, but they did not pose any substantial threat to the soldiers under the shields. In addition, the Han crossbowmen finally found their opponents and began to desperately fire arrows at the city, and the suppressed Northern Zhou crossbowmen couldn't raise their heads at all.

The urn city that protruded forward was only that big in total, and there weren't many people standing on it. In contrast, the Han army under the city was one huge phalanx after another.

"We have to stop them from carrying the trench carts under the walls!" At this time, Gao Xi had already given up using arrows to stop the enemy, and their arrows didn't seem to have much effect at all, "Please give the general the order to move the trebuchet out!" ”

"That will only expose our trebuchet, and it is very likely to hurt our own people by mistake, too close!" He Ruobi decisively vetoed.

"General!" Gao Xi frowned.

He Ruobi waved his hand: "Prepare to meet the enemy!" ”

In the previous battle, almost all of the trebuchets of the Northern Zhou were destroyed, and only the remaining three could only be dismantled on the spot. Now it takes a lot of manpower to assemble it, not to mention whether it can play a role, you must know that the enemy's trench trucks are about to rush to the city. It is impossible to block the trench filling truck, and whether it can stop the ladder truck or not depends on two questions.

Now that the gap in equipment between the Northern Zhou and the Great Han is too obvious, He Ruobi does not plan to be reckless, putting the enemy in front of him, and then hand-to-hand combat is the easiest way.

Of course, He Ruobi knew what Gao Xi was worried about, once the white-knuckle battle couldn't stop the enemy, then they really had no other options.

But at this point, they could only do this, and the rest was just delays and impractical······

"What a helpless war." He Ruobi looked at the ladder truck that was getting closer and closer, and sighed with emotion.

The Northern Zhou soldiers also lit the strips of cloth soaked in oil on the iron arrows, trying to shoot them out through the bed crossbow in order to ignite the ladder cart. But He Ruobi knew that the enemy's ladder cart was walking the folded line very cunningly—and he didn't know how many battles these Nanban had gone through to hone such a skillful technique.