Chapter 221: Fierce Battle at the City Gate
A city gate less than five meters wide, with thousands of people busy working, in less than ten minutes, several gravel, burlap bags piled up to build a fortification, if anyone here has seen the anti-Japanese war film, this kind of fortification is absolutely familiar.
The boxes containing the repeaters were opened by the craftsmen, and after quickly loading the arrow boxes, the repeaters were placed on the sandbags of the fortifications, and the boxes of arrows were carried by the craftsmen and placed in the open space behind the fortifications.
"Those who can use a repeater are responsible for holding a crossbow behind the cover to kill the enemy, and those who can't can learn to use it, or bend down under the cover to help load arrows, pay attention to covering their bodies with shields, and the people go up to the city wall to continue to control the catapults, hurry up and ??????"
Seeing that the city gate was burned with thousands of holes, Sun Xiangfu shouted urgently.
"Boom."
The city gate collapsed violently, and a cruel smile appeared on the face of Tu Li outside the city, and the horse whip in his hand waved, and suddenly, more than 3,000 horsemen poured towards the city gate cave like a torrent.
On the city wall, although Wang Xu couldn't see the city gate, he also heard the roar of the city gate collapsing, and knew that it was time to fight for his life, so he shouted loudly, so he opened his bow and threw three long arrows out.
"Woo Woo ??????"
There are also more than 200 archers in the city defense soldiers of the unity battalion, all of them are currently concentrated in the east city gate, plus Wang Xu's guards, a total of more than 300 people can shoot arrows, however, more than 300 arrows have also shot more than 100 Turks, and less than 100 people have fallen off the horse, for more than 10,000 people, not even one percent, which has no decisive damage at all.
Therefore, soon, this torrent penetrated into the city gate hole, and the Turkic cavalry close to the city gate hole behind the team also began to shoot arrows at the city head with their bows, although the power of this long-distance upward shot is not large, but it can directly kill people when it hits the head, and from time to time, screams also sounded on the city wall.
The shaking of the ground made the guards and craftsmen lying on the bunkers panic, but now that it was war, panic was useless, and subconsciously, they pulled the trigger when they saw the first row of Turkic cavalry rushing from the hole in the city gate.
"Click??????"
The sound is magical, and the arrows are dense.
A few Turkic cavalrymen who were lucky enough to rush from the rain of arrows on the city wall were shot into hedgehogs by dozens of crossbow arrows just by taking a look inside the city gate.
The repeater crossbow is in the short distance range, it can not be said that it is comparable to the machine guns of the previous generations, but the shooting speed of the earthen rifle is not slow than pulling a bolt and firing a shot, Sun Xiangfu's guards and craftsmen can use crossbows in total, more than 300 crossbows defend a city gate hole less than five meters wide, it is conceivable how dense the shooting can be.
The results of the battle were obvious, each person just pulled the trigger, and the few enemies who rushed over died no longer, and with the first experience of killing the enemy, the craftsmen were not so panicked, so the city gate cave became a dead area for the Turks.
"Woo Woo ??????"
As the Turks continued to rush in, the crossbow arrows shot into the city gate hole like no money, and on the ground, human corpses, horse corpses, layer by layer, soon blocked the Turkic soldiers who poured in behind.
"What's going on?"
Seeing the cavalry crowded in front of the city gate cave and being stoned to death by the defenders on the city wall, Tuli roared angrily.
"It seems that there is something behind the city gate blocking the road of the war horses." Abu Tusi had already noticed the strangeness of the city gate, took a closer look, and returned to report to Tuliyu.
"Hmph, the city is about to be broken, you personally bring the wrestlers around Ben Khan to rush over, if you encounter obstacles, you can get off your horse and cross the obstacles, burn them with fire, and burn a way for Ben Khan."
With a wave of his hand, hundreds of Turkic men who were obviously stronger than ordinary people leaned in, holding chain hammers and a jar of fire oil in their hands that could kill the enemy from afar.
Abu Tusi received the order, and did not dare to delay, but also picked up a chain hammer, waved a circle above his head, and rushed towards the wall of the wall, so that he could strike away many arrows that fell from it.
However, when he arrived at the city gate, he realized what was blocking the way of the cavalry, and it turned out to be the corpses of his own soldiers and war horses.
"Dismount, climb up to the pile of corpses, and throw the jar of oil over."
There were so many corpses piled up in front of the doorway that Abu Tusi had little room to play, but he managed to throw some canisters of fire oil in front of the defenders' fortifications.
Sun Xiangfu, who commanded the battle under the last fortification, twitched his nose, this smell is very familiar to him, a bit like gasoline in later generations, but the purity is not high, it should be that the people of the Western Regions have not mastered any clever refining methods, those black and hemp things are more like crude oil, no wonder Tang Fengyi used water before, and did not extinguish the fire in the city gate cave.
"The men in the front row of fortifications retreat, ?????? quickly"
"The men who loaded the arrows should go out in half to get dirt and sand, and if the fortifications in front of them catch fire, do not pour them with water, but bury them with mud and sand??????
After Sun Xiangfu came to this world, he often sang, and his voice was high enough, and after he shouted, the guards and craftsmen all moved according to his requirements.
However, while they were burying the burning oil with mud and sand, Abstu did not stop, and some of the horse carcasses were dragged away by the wrestlers, and from the corpses of the horses, he learned the characteristics of the fortifications inside the city gates, the sharpness of the crossbow arrows.
So, after they just shot a few rockets through the gap, they let Lux carry the corpses of the Turkic soldiers who were shot dead as a shield and rush inside.
"Shoot the arrows."
Seeing the Turks rushing in on foot from the firelight, Sun Xiangfu shouted.
The fortifications were semicircular, and the Turks blocked the front, but not the sides, and several people were killed on the flanks, but there was no situation where they died instantly as soon as they rushed in, as before.
Yes, several large chain hammers flew in over the bunker.
"Shield, be careful."
Although Sun Xiangfu in the rear saw the situation in front clearly, the reaction of the people in front could not be faster than the speed of the flying hammer, and several guards were immediately hit, but fortunately, they were all wearing iron armor, and the spikes on the chain hammer did not break through their armor, but only shocked their bodies out of some internal injuries, and only one of the unlucky ones was smashed on the head, I don't know if they were dead or fainted.
As more and more chain hammers flew towards the fortifications, the bunker could no longer fully guarantee everyone's safety.
"Old Tang, let the people move stones and smash them down from the city??????"
Sun Xiangfu shouted at the city wall, and Tang Fengyi, who was directing the people to control the catapult to smash the enemy outside the city, faintly heard his shout, and when he turned to look into the city, he found that many Turkic wrestlers were holding corpses and pouring out of the hole in the city gate.
"The big guy listened to my orders, moved the rocks, and stoned those dog-day Turkic soldiers to death."
The corpse may be able to block the crossbow arrows of the escorts, but it is difficult to block the stones smashed on the top of the head, and with the two or three thousand people led by Tang Fengyi to smash together, a large number of Turkic wrestlers who burst in suddenly died.
"Don't stop the crossbow arrows, the double crossbow shots that can shoot with double crossbows, suppress them in the hole in the city gate."
With the people in the city joining the stone, the pressure on the fortifications suddenly lightened, and Sun Xiangfu's crossbow arrows shot like money, and the hundreds of Turkic wrestlers were pressed back after dropping half of their corpses.
However, without the people to control the catapult to suppress the Turkic soldiers outside the city, and most of the archers on the city wall who opened their bows and arrows were exhausted, the Turks outside the city completely suppressed the city head with projectiles, and the casualties on the city head became bigger and bigger, and more Turkic soldiers outside the city also rushed into the city gate without any danger.