Chapter Seventy-Two: Hold Back a Big Move
In the morning, the army of the Storm City State began to assemble, standing on the wall of Qingfeng Town, looking like a group of black and oppressive ants from a distance, when all the horses in the battalion were assembled, they did not hurry to suppress Qingfeng, seeing that this posture was to attack the whole army to conquer Qingfeng Town in one fell swoop.
"Uncle Li, can you stay still?" Liu Lei asked weakly.
"If this wall is not made of wood, but a ten-meter-high wall, give me another 2,000 elite soldiers, and I won't be able to defend it for a month."
Liu Lei rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Isn't this the condition?" ”
"Then you still ask, do your best, you hurry up and get your things ready, and I'll give you a signal when the time comes."
Liu Lei found that Li Tianlong and his soldiers were doing their old job, and they were really arrogant, so he nodded boredly and walked down the city wall.
By this time all the young men who had remained had been assembled behind the wall, and all the veterans and militiamen had gone up to the wall, and twenty small trebuchets had been set up, with a bunch of bulbous clay pots beside them.
Zhu Dezhi saw Liu Lei coming over, nodded at him with a nervous and serious face, and all the young adults also had the same face as him.
"Young Master, it's all ready"
"Hmm" Liu Lei nodded and said, "Do your best to obey the destiny of heaven, it's up to Uncle Li."
In order to defend Go, everyone intends to think that the wall is used as a bait to attract the enemy to put more troops into it, and when there are enough people under the wall, they will throw out all the two hundred one-pound purple flame liquid to burn the three armies.
This plan is also simple to say, but it is very thrilling to really do, because the most important factor in success is how to attract the enemy to put all the troops into it, and the best way is to let the enemy attack the wall, so that the enemy can see the hope of victory, but today the enemy is the whole army is dispatched, unlike last night divided into two roads, once the control of a point is not well controlled, then it is easy to lose the whole line, in that case, even if the enemy can be burned to death, it will not help at all.
If the resistance is too fierce, the enemy will only devote a part of his forces to attack in turns, which can reduce casualties while consuming the physical strength and strength of the recipient army.
Out of such concerns, it is necessary to test Li Tianlong's ability to command, and he must beat the enemy in the first place, and then deliberately waterproof it so that the enemy can always see the opportunity to conquer it immediately, only in this way can the enemy invest enough troops.
At the same time, everyone was prepared for the worst, even the people who were used as logistics were wearing weapons, and "Xiong Da", who had been pampered for more than half a month as a killer weapon, finally appeared, twisting his huge ass and walking behind the door of the wall to prevent the gate from being broken by the enemy.
Soon the army of the Storm City State came to the outside of the wall, stopping outside the range of the bow and arrow, the biggest feature of the elite in the cold weapon era is that it can quickly change the battle formation, as soon as the sword and shield soldiers walking in the front stopped, the archers on both sides ran to the front, nearly a thousand people lined up in three columns, bent bows and arrows aimed at the head of the wall and stepped forward quickly.
And there was also a row of archers standing on the city wall, all of them pulled their bows full of breath and looked at Li Tianlong's raised hand, and Li Tianlong couldn't take his eyes off the distance, although there was the blessing of the height of the wall, the height of the wall was not enough to increase the range was only more than ten meters.
The archers of the Stormwind City State who were running didn't notice that there was a light red mark under their feet, which was the farthest range of the bow and arrow that Qingfeng Town had marked earlier.
Seeing the enemy's archers jumping across the red line, Li Tianlong waved his hand down: "Release!" ”
Boom! Whoosh ......
With the sound of a neat bowstring vibrating, two hundred arrows shot like a black cloud down the parabola from mid-air towards the enemy.
Although the farthest range will definitely image the lethality of the bow and arrow, but there is no way, many of the enemy's archers have some fighting spirit foundation, and their strength is much greater than that of ordinary people, so the arrows shot must be farther, and the wall bonus of these ten meters is useless at all, so Li Tianlong can only release the arrow first, so that he can shoot the second round, otherwise when more than a thousand people come over, then the bow and arrow of the defenders of Qingfeng Town can be thrown away.
The enemy did not expect that the defenders would be so far away to release the first volley, and although the archers on the run had tried their best to dodge, they were still shot down because they wanted to ensure their formation. It's just that because it is the farthest range, many arrows have insufficient rear strength, and they are either dodged, or they are blocked by leather armor and do not shoot too deep.
And the archers of Qingfeng Town did not hesitate at all, after shooting the first round, they immediately took out the second arrow, these archers are all veterans, and there are also former hunters, so the interval between the second arrows is not long, and there is no need to order the bow to shoot out, and then immediately rush to hide behind the female wall with the bow.
And at this time, the first wave of arrows of the enemy arrived, except for a few slow unlucky eggs who were shot into hedgehogs, and the casualties were not large.
The archers outside the wall experienced two waves of arrows and at least a hundred people fell, which made the commander of the archers very annoyed, and after suppressing the people on the wall not daring to raise their heads, he ordered round after round of volleys aimed at the head of the wall, so that there was not even a place to settle on the wall.
Woooooooo
Seeing that there was no threat on the city, the enemy's army immediately heard the sound of the horn of meritorious service, and the two thousand-man teams in front immediately passed through the gap in the archer queue, and rushed towards the wall with their shields, but these people did not carry a ladder or a weapon, on the contrary, everyone carried a bag on their bodies, and rushed directly to the front of the small moat and poured the soil in the bag directly, presumably General Zhang, who was in command, also found that although this small moat was not big, it affected the attack path, It is not conducive to the full-scale development of the offensive forces.
After a quarter of an hour, the archers outside the city had fired several rounds in a row, and the physical strength was almost exhausted, and the speed of the arrows slowed down, and the commander hurriedly divided the men into two teams and took turns to keep the wall under control. Taking advantage of this gap, the archers on the wall hurriedly raised their heads and shot the soldiers filling the soil from time to time, although they saw the attacking soldiers being shot down, but the archers outside the wall had no choice, taking turns to release arrows was already their limit, if they continued to fire volleys, soon their physical strength would be exhausted or even injured, if there was no suppression from them, the casualties would be greater, and the casualties caused by the cold arrows on the wall were also within an acceptable range.
The speed of filling in the earth with interference from the attacking troops also slowed down, but the creek still disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the people on the wall were in a hurry, but there was nothing they could do, if they stood up in the rain of arrows, they would definitely be shot into hedgehogs.
In half an hour, the small moat was finally filled, and two new teams of 1,000 people were replaced, carrying the ladder and rushing directly to the bottom of the wall.
"Prepare the spear"
Li Tianlong shouted loudly, and all the soldiers picked up the spears that had been prepared in advance and placed behind the women's wall, saying that the spear was actually a temporary sharpening of a wrist-thick tree trunk, and the lethality of such a spear could be imagined.
"Throwing a spear"
Li Tianlong hid behind the women's wall and rounded his arms, threw the wooden spear in his hand like under the wall, and the soldiers also obeyed the order. Three wooden spears per person, and a few strokes are all over the place.
The soldiers outside the wall, suddenly saw a spear flying out and jumped down, but soon found that it was just a wooden stick with a point, although the green on the tip was obviously a touch of poison, but as long as it was not very unlucky, there was no big problem with armor, the brave soldiers, began to scrape the ladder to the wall, and although the defenders hurriedly resisted with spears, there were still many ladders hung up.
The soldiers of the Stormwind City State climbed up the ladder, and the archers hurriedly stopped firing their arrows for fear of being injured by mistake.
The wall is much more thrilling than last night, there are ladders hanging everywhere, there is no threat of archers outside the city, the veteran with the bow, hurriedly organize people to block, and at the same time shoot the enemy with bows and arrows, and for a time shout to kill the sky.