Chapter 417: The Battle of Blocking the Gate 8
The earth-shattering sound of the war drums of the siege, the shocking effect produced by the dozens of war drums, the real inspiring people to forge ahead make people's blood boil, with the earth-shattering drums, a long ladder was carried by a thousand townsmen, and began to pounce on the fortress in the shouting and scolding of their own general flag.
First, a thousand villagers ran to the wide moat formed by taking soil, and put down hundreds of ladders in their hands, and the first batch of villagers howled with red eyes and rushed to the fortress.
Because the fortress was not large and round, it made it difficult for the three thousand Xiangyong to show their hands and feet, so the Xiangyong who besieged the city were divided into three batches and had to attack the fortress in the form of waves.
Cao Meng on the fortress had already seen Zhang Yuanjun's thoughts, and calmly instructed the brothers to tidy up their armor and equipment, count the explosive bags and a large number of huge ice blocks collected in the glacier in advance, and prepare to meet the enemy.
Countless ladders slammed up to the fortress, urging the frenzied roar that was always underneath, "Hurry, dead man?" Quick, you, if you dare to drag your feet any longer, I'll cut you right now. ”
Under this not only urging and scolding, ten townsmen held the bottom of the ladder, and a string of townsmen with shields on their heads and long knives in their mouths stepped on the ladders and began to climb tremblingly.
After all, it was the first time to experience such a battle formation, and all the villagers were frightened, constantly begging for the blessing of the gods and Buddhas in their hearts, holding the ladder with one hand and climbing up tremblingly, but they did not dare to retreat in the scolding of the general flag below.
Seeing that the string of people had climbed halfway, the original rattan armor on the fortress began to move, and the thieves seemed to be preparing to counterattack, Ganquan Qianhu shook the order flag in his hand and ordered loudly: "Archer, open the bow and release the arrows." ”
With the issuance of an order, a piece of whistling feather arrows flew up to the fortress like locusts, this time it did give the Black Tiger Army a lot of damage, although the bow and arrow flew more than four feet high after the strength was greatly reduced, but it still has considerable power, and also because the rattan armor on the body was taken off to form a shield array, so the protection was greatly reduced, under this dense feather arrow, there were constantly brothers in the face and neck arrows, screaming and falling, but every time there was a gap, there were brothers immediately filled, blocking here, the double rattan helmet continued to insert long feather arrows, There were constantly brothers with gurgling blood left along their heads, and there were also many feather arrows that missed shots, shooting at the back of the unprotected Xiang Yong, and one by one they fell from a place several feet high, and fell to the ground either smashing a few brothers below, or falling to pieces.
For these accidental injuries, the thousand households don't care, only when the village bravely climbs to more than half, the black thief can take away the rattan armor shield that makes him helpless, in order to make his bow and arrow play some efficiency, in principle, after all, the bow and arrow kill the enemy more than kill their own people.
Looking at the brothers who kept falling, they were helped aside by the women's army who risked their lives to bandage, Cao Meng's heart ached, but the situation was urgent, and he couldn't care about it so much, and used his saber to open a few weak feather arrows, and when he looked at it, he saw that those climbers had approached the secondary wall, and even the faces under the shield that were distorted by fear could be seen clearly.
At this time, the enemy was already too close, and the archers under the city stopped shooting arrows for fear of injuring their brothers by mistake. "All the brothers on the fortress stood up together, lifted up the huge ice blocks high and smashed them to the nearby climbing village warriors, the huge smashing force is not those who have climbed the ladder to the soft hands and feet of the village warriors can resist, and the distance is so close so the head is wonderful, the huge and heavy ice cubes smashed down the head and face, and it was immediately a wail.
The first Xiang Yong who was smashed screamed and rolled down, and the second and third also screamed and rolled down the ladder, not being stoned to death and falling to death has been broken one by one, immediately there are not many more than 20 ladders left, and the remaining lucky ones are not lucky Half a minute was smashed and fell by the ice again, Xiang Yong lost nearly a hundred at once, and the remaining Xiang Yong has been frightened and broken, looking back and looking down, hoping that the general flag can let himself go down and not die in vain.
But what disappointed them was that the hundreds of households in the general flag were shouting loudly under the bottom with red eyes, and urging another group of villagers to replace the dead and wounded brothers to continue to climb the ladder, and one of them hesitated and was immediately chopped over by the red-eyed hundreds.
After seeing this scene, all the villagers didn't dare to hesitate anymore, and they all raised their shields to climb the city with meaningless screams in their mouths, and another string of people climbed up, and they were greeted by accurate and fierce ice, in exchange for another scream.
Taking advantage of the enemy's dare not shoot arrows, several Black Tiger Army brothers lifted out a hugging tree trunk, pulled the ropes on both sides and smashed it into a cloud ladder, the giant tree was like a rolling pin to roll out all the lucky Xiang Yong on the cloud ladder into a meat pie, the giant wood was able to reach the ground, and more than a dozen brothers of the Black Tiger Army shouted and pulled the ropes on both sides, and the giant tree was immediately quickly pulled up to the head of the fortress.
This thing also has a scientific name, called defending the city, it should have been full of long iron wings, but the Black Tiger Army was in a hurry, and there was only one general, compared to rolling wood, the biggest advantage of this thing is that it can be reused, and try to save the city defense equipment, but the disadvantage is that it is very physically demanding.
With the sound of the trumpet, this round of defending the city was filmed, and dozens of township brave souls returned to other places.
Zhang Yuan's heart ached to see the continuous casualties, in just this short moment, his own townspeople were killed and injured nearly two hundred, which was his own silver, but Zhang Yuan also knew at this time that if he wanted to train into a strong army, it would not be possible to baptize his life without blood, so he also gritted his teeth and ordered to continue the attack.
Although there are heavy casualties now, but the blood has also aroused the bloody nature of these villagers, no longer as trembling as before, the children of the northwest are already fierce, and if they don't agree with each other, they will meet each other with swords and guns, after all, they have not gone through such a big battle, so they are also cowardly, but after some life and death, they are used to it, this time they no longer need the scolding of the general banner and hundreds of households, etc., they have raised their shields and held waist knives, and made a roar like a beast in their throats, and struggled to climb up.
They saw clearly that they had to be fast to get close to the city, and cowering would only give the enemy more time to stone themselves and make them die faster. Therefore, they used their hands and feet at the same time, and the speed was very fast, which attracted a lot of applause on the battlefield.
But it's a pity, this Xiangyong is fast, but down is also fast, just climbed to two-thirds of the place, a huge ice block is smashing into the shield in his hand, the huge power makes those Xiangyong can no longer grasp the ladder, the whole body and the ice together like a broken kite falling, a scream has not finished, the body smashed on the body of those brothers who shouted with their faces up, the bear-like body brought a miserable howl of broken bones and tendons, this effect is much greater than the effect of ice cubes.
The archers under the city were also exhausted by this time, and the bows were no longer as fast as they had been at the beginning, and the height was not as high as before, and the bows and arrows fired by the free force were shot to the middle of the fortress, and most of them were shot at their own brothers, which attracted a lot of revival.
Taking advantage of this time, Cao Meng and others leaned out, a few people in a group, with a big wooden support to the end of the ladder, shouted a slogan, shouted with both arms, and pushed outward, the township Yong who was holding the ladder under the city saw the enemy pushing the ladder, and also shouted afterburner, hoping to press the ladder on the city wall, and the two sides wrestled, and the ladder swayed, but it was bitter that the villagers who could not go up and down on the ladder screamed in fright.
The two sides called the force, but after all, the following did not make the strength suffered a big loss, the swaying in the ladder began to break away from the city wall, began to slowly leave outward, when reached a certain angle, the ladder accelerated to fall outward, the ladder on the village fell down like a dumpling, some of the hands and feet of the pounce to the ground, there are partners at the bottom of the hand to catch, but the person was smashed, some also hope that the partner will pick up their own, but there is a lesson from the past, all the partners dodge together, The body of the hundred catties made intimate contact with the earth in an instant, and he broke his bones and tendons.
The huge ladder fell into dust with a whistling sound, kicking up a huge amount of dust, killing and injuring more than a dozen villagers, and then breaking a few sections and making it useless.
There are more than a dozen ladders installed on the huge iron hook to hook the auxiliary wall, with the method of pushing the ladder can not be achieved, at this time, the siege beat on a huge effect, the giant wood tied to the thick rope on both sides was quickly put down, bringing a miserable howl, a siege beat too fierce, all the way to the city, but also along with the smashing and smashing of several city under the village brave, a few outlaws saw the opportunity quickly, the moment fit pounced, all of a sudden hugging the giant tree, shouting partners to cut the siege of the two ends of the rope, the rest of the few pulled out machetes to cut the ropes, this siege shot was invalidated, and for a time the city was cheering.
Inspired by this, a hundred households had an idea, shouting and organizing a group of villagers with hooks and robbers to step forward, facing those who had just put down and began to pull up the siege shoot at the moment, together stepped forward, hooked the siege shot with the hook of the hook gun and snatched the black tiger army in the city, at this time the people in the city could not rob the city, after all, there were still hundreds of catties of big wood in it, it was all it took to lift it up, not to mention that there were more than a dozen hook guns below to pull desperately, and they had to let go, which lost a few siege shots, There was another cheer from the city.
Zhang Yuan was also happy to look at it from a distance, but looking at his own townspeople, he had already lost more than half of the thousands, and his heart ached at the moment, leaning over to look at the thousands of households, and when the thousands of households saw Zhang Yuan's eyes looking at him, he knew that Zhang Yuan's heart ached, and he whispered: "Your townsmen have just performed very well, and they have learned very quickly in the siege, not for long, under the feeding of your silver and grain and grass, they will become a real strong army, but now they can't be withdrawn, they have just raised their courage and are not afraid of life and death, you withdraw." , then this blood courage will dissipate. ”
"Is that to remove the wounded soldiers first?" Zhang Yuan whispered to ask for the opinion of the old soldier of Qianhu.
"No, either." The thousand households refused at that time, the battle on the battlefield was in full swing, and you mercifully withdrew the wounded soldiers, and those who were fighting may think that you want to withdraw the army, and the blood and courage will be dispersed, and the army's heart will be shaken, so you must not withdraw at this time, even if it is your own father who is injured. ”