With the dispatch of the cavalry, the horn of the Xia army sounded again, and the longitudinal queue composed of shield-raising soldiers was like an iron centipede, rushing towards the city wall. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Song army on the city wall also began to shout, and all the defending infantry did not immediately pull out their weapons, but picked up a stone the size of a human head under their feet, peeked at the bottom of the city wall, and saw that a Xia army ran to the wall, so they threw the stone in their hands.

The cavalry of the Xia army was extremely fast, and as soon as the siege infantry with shields in front of them ran under the city wall, the cavalry had already galloped behind them, and at a distance of about fifty or sixty paces from the city wall, they began to shoot arrows at the top of the city wall.

The cavalry was very organized, and after the first row of cavalry rushed up to shoot at the wall, they turned their horses and retreated, while the second row of cavalry immediately replenished and began a new round of cavalry shooting, and so on.

And in the team of shield-raising soldiers, there were many ladders made of tall poplar trunks, which were as long as four or five zhang.

Unlike the ordinary two-pole ladder that Yang Huairen is accustomed to, and the kind of ladder that fixes the upper crossbar at a certain distance in between, this kind of ladder made of poplar trunks has only one vertical pole thicker than the thigh.

The sides of the vertical pole are nailed with rectangular wooden blocks, and when climbing the ladder, you can quickly climb by holding the stout vertical pole with both hands and stepping on the sturdy wooden blocks nailed to the vertical pole.

Under this ladder, a fixed tripod was also added to prevent the ladder from slipping sideways or being pushed back by the Song military hook gun on the city wall.

The role of the heavy shield soldier at this time is to sprint to the bottom of the city wall and erect this kind of wall climbing ladder, and then raise the shield to resist the stones thrown down from the city wall and the arrows that are shot down, while being responsible for holding the vertical ladder to prevent it from toppling.

The light infantry, who had been hiding behind the heavy shield infantry, immediately jumped up the ladder and charged towards the city wall.

The battalion officers on the Song army's side loudly reminded their subordinate soldiers not to panic and defend as they usually trained.

Huang Dayin saw that Yang Huairen was still lying on a notch in the women's wall and looking down, so he immediately rushed over and dragged him off by the back of his placket.

"Master Yang, you just need to help throw stones down, you don't have to worry about the rest!"

At this time, the shouting of killing shook the sky, Yang Huairen was in a very excited mood, glared and shouted at Huang Dayin, "Huang Dutou, I don't see people clearly, why did I aim at the stone and throw it?" ”

"You don't need to aim, as long as you throw it out, you are not afraid that you will not be able to hit the Xixia people, but if you are always lying on the wall, it is easy to be targeted by the archers on the opposite side, remember, don't show your head!"

Huang Dayin turned his head to look at the other white-faced short soldier beside Yang Huairen, pointed at Yang Huairen and said, "You are responsible for watching Master Hou, you must not let it show its head!" ”

If it is placed in normal times, Lan Ruoxin, a rough person like Huang Dayin, is not in her eyes at all, no matter how she says it, she is also the second leader of a big gang with thousands of people.

But in this situation, Lan Ruoxin didn't know what was wrong, and he obeyed Huang Dayin's orders, gritted his teeth happily and nodded heavily.

Yang Huairen was a little unconvinced, but after thinking about it, what the experienced Huang Dutou said made sense.

Now the defenders on the city wall and the Xia army attacking under the city wall are all messy, throwing stones, aiming at this kind of thing, you may not be able to hit people, and you don't need to look at it and throw it directly, and it is not necessarily impossible to hit people.

The arrows on both sides came and went like raindrops, and the lightly armored soldiers of the Xia Army who had just climbed the wall fell down with an arrow; On the Song army's side, standing behind the infantry defending the city, the archers without the protection of the female wall also kept some people falling down after being hit by flying arrows.

The Minzhuang troops who had been summoned to assist in defending the city also began to storm the walls, carrying stones and arrows from under the walls, and carrying the wounded or killed Song soldiers down the city.

Xia Jun's vertical ladder looks very simple, but the effect is much better than that of ordinary rope ladders, and the two Song soldiers armed with hook guns can't overturn the fixed heavy vertical ladder at all.

Li Heiniu, Chen Tianba, Ke Xiaochuan, Xiao Qi and Xuan Shen didn't care about their companions who were constantly injured and fell, and desperately defended the notch they were responsible for, and every time a Xia soldier climbed the wall, they immediately slashed and killed them.

There were constantly Xia soldiers falling from the wall, falling to the ground, seeing a mouthful of blood spurting out of their mouths and losing their breath, but there was no time to give them a chance to pity their comrades, and a steady stream of soldiers rushed up the vertical ladder again.

At this time, Yang Huairen also found that it was relatively useless to say that martial arts were good in the real confrontation between the two armies, or siege warfare like now.

In a solo competition between martial artists, perhaps the decisive factor is the level of martial arts of the two, but on the battlefield, in a narrow space, there is no chance for you to put on a posture at all, let alone compete in moves.

The Song army defending the city and the Xia army attacking the city, every move, every time they slashed each other, they did not exceed three moves.

Within three moves, either you die, or I die, all in the blink of an eye, fancy moves are useless in this situation, the more simple and practical horizontal and vertical slashing, the more effective it can be.

As soon as the short-handed offensive and defensive battle began, it immediately entered the white heat!

Yang Huairen didn't know how many stones he threw under the city wall, but the soldiers of the Xia army not only did not decrease, but more and more, and the infantry with light armor in the rear of the Xia army continued to rush to the bottom of the city wall.

The kind of blood in Yang Huairen's fantasy has now turned into a kind of helpless tragedy, and it only takes a moment of work inside and outside the city wall to seem to have been dyed that dazzling blood red.

Everyone has blood on their faces, and they can't tell whether it's their own or the enemy's, and even if it flows into their mouths, it's a simple smell of blood, which doesn't make people fearful, but becomes bloodthirsty and crazy.

Yang Huairen's arm began to lose his strength, every time he threw a stone down, he felt the soreness in his arm, he felt that the strength in his body was hollowed out, he wanted to lie down, take a breath, and rest for a while.

But he couldn't do this, his brothers around him were still fighting to the death, he couldn't help, he could only throw stones under the city wall, even if he could throw a Western Xia soldier who climbed up, he felt that he was not a waste who needed to be protected.

Everyone's strength is showing signs of inadequacy, but the Xia army's crazy attack at any cost has not stopped, and more and more Xia soldiers have attacked the city wall, and it seems that they are gradually beginning to gain the upper hand!