Chapter 30: Hand-to-hand combat
Uyan's army quickly approached the city.
"Order the archers to stop advancing, and the shield men to cover and continue firing."
"Order the infantry squad to set up a ladder."
At the sound of an order, five hundred soldiers suddenly rushed out of the whole procession, and they were in groups of ten, carrying huge ladders and running and raising their shields, and their mouths roared loudly and shot at the walls like wild horses on the loose.
Cheng Pu shouted loudly with an expressionless face: "The archers in the front row come forward to block the infantry under the city!" The archers in the back row continued to shoot from distance. ”
Uyan's soldiers quickly advanced to the city, braving a dense rain of arrows to successfully erect the ladder. The four soldiers then held the base of the ladder to make it secure, and the other soldiers held their shields high on either side of the ladder to protect the lives of the four soldiers.
The loud horn of the charge resounded throughout the battlefield in an instant, and a thousand assault soldiers divided into fifty squads, screaming like beasts breaking out of the cage, rushed to the ladder to prepare for the battle.
Uyan shouted: "Archers fire a continuous volley!" Continuous salvo. ”
As soon as Wuyan's cry fell, the dense long arrows suddenly roared like madness, and they continued to roar and shoot towards the top of the city wall, and the dense long arrows fell to the top of the city wall like a raging storm.
The two guards standing behind Cheng Pu were shocked and immediately rushed forward and raised their shields. The fierce arrows slammed into the shield continuously, and the force was so great that the two guards had to take a step back with their shields in both hands.
The assault infantry, under the cover of the archers, quickly approached the ladder, and one by one they climbed up the ladder like agile apes.
The archers suddenly stopped shooting.
Cheng Pu separated the guards in front of him and stretched out his head to look under the city wall. Enemy soldiers were following the ladder to quickly approach the top of the city wall.
He took a step back and raised his gun and shouted, "Kill... Ah......h
The drums of war were like thunder, and the morale of the soldiers was like a rainbow, and they shouted with the voice: "Kill ......"
The battle for the side floor has begun.
Liu He cut off the heads of the enemy soldiers who had just emerged with a single sword, and the other soldiers defending the city began to shoot with stones, rolling wood, and arrows. The enemy soldiers screamed and fell onto the hillside or on the earthen platform they had built themselves. After the initial contact, some of the Xianbei soldiers had already jumped on the battlements, and some had already killed the walls, and the hand-to-hand combat became more and more intense.
The Liangtun people led by Xu Rong were firmly suppressed at the battlement by the Xianbei archers, and they could not go down to support at all. He led the team to try to rush down several times, but the casualties were too great and he had to give up, and he could only use a bow and arrow to shoot from the side to help the defenders relieve a little pressure. And the people guarding between the main wall and the auxiliary wall were even more overwhelmed by the condescending archers.
Now only the one that Guan Yu is in the middle of the auxiliary wall desperately blocking.
The siege battle in the direction of the main city wall has entered a white heat. Arrows flew in the air, huge stones were smashed down one by one, rows of logs rolled down the ladders, and the enemy's besieging soldiers were either killed by the arrows or knocked away by its tremendous impact, and none of them were spared or injured or killed. The soldiers hiding at the base of the city walls were either scalded by boiling water or doused with hot oil. The corpses of the enemy soldiers were scattered everywhere under the city walls, and the wails of the wounded soldiers were particularly piercing in the sound of fighting.
Uyan concentrated the main forces on the left side of the city wall, and a large group of five hundred soldiers took turns to storm the fortress. The Han army on the right side of the city wall launched intermittent attacks, forcing them to be unable to draw forces to support the left side.
More soldiers poured into the city on the side walls.
Liu He had no way to deal with it, so he had to shrink his troops and occupy a dead corner to block the enemy soldiers.
"Xuande! Fast! Come here! Dodge arrows. Liu He shouted.
At this time, Liu Bei was unusually fierce, holding a double-strand sword, attacking left and right, and the tiger roared and circled with the enemy. At this time, the three Xianbei soldiers leaned out from the city wall and saw that their comrades were killed by Liu Bei's sword, and in anger, they jumped over and surrounded Liu Bei.
I saw Liu Bei shouting: "Look for death!" ”
He grabbed the enemy's knife and kicked it on the opponent's calf bone, and the enemy roared and screamed, but then he was slashed by Liu Bei's sword on the waist and flew out. Not to be outdone, the other two attacked left and right! Liu Bei ran in the direction of Liu He, and when he was about to arrive, he suddenly turned around and thundered, only for a moment! Double Kill!
"What a fast sword!" Liu He praised in his heart.
Liu He yelled at Xu Rong with all his might: "Support, ......"
Xu Rong's heart was bleeding, and if he didn't rush down, there would be no one on the defensive side of the auxiliary wall, and it had basically been completely broken through by the enemy. He raised his sword and shouted, "Brothers, kill it!" Death is also a form of death. ”
Xu Rong raised his shield and rushed out: "Kill, ......"
He bravely took the lead in the face of the enemy's dense rain of arrows, and the soldiers behind were inspired by Xu Rong's bravery, holding shields and roaring, each rushing out of their own hidden places and rushing down with him.
The long arrow screamed through the soldiers' bodies. Xu Rong's sturdy body shook, but he still ran forward tenaciously, still screaming loudly in his mouth.
Liu He was stunned! He saw that Xu Rong's shield was full of arrows, and there were also one or two arrows on his arms and calves, but he still ran and rushed down with the roaring soldiers behind him.
After losing more than 50 people, Xu Rong's Liangtun people finally broke through the death line and entered the fierce hand-to-hand combat battlefield. The more than eighty Xianbei soldiers on the city wall were immediately wrapped in dumplings, and all of them were killed on the top of the city wall by the angry soldiers.
Standing on the hill in the distance, Su Li shouted, "The second team of men and horses will rush up for me." ”
On the main building, Cheng Pu commanded the troops to finally repel the enemy's first fierce attack, and the soldiers cheered as they watched the rapidly retreating enemy troops. A soldier ran back and forth on the city wall holding the Han military flag high, shouting to vent the happiness in his heart.
Liu He strode over and the armor was covered with bloodstains, and Cheng Pu met him and asked with concern: "Shunzhi, how about the casualties?" ”
"Sixty-four killed and thirty-nine seriously wounded."
"How can there be so many?" Cheng Pu was a little surprised.
As the defender of the city, if the casualties are so large, there will be almost no people in a few days.
"Demou! Many soldiers were fighting for the first time, and their lack of combat experience led to an increase in unnecessary casualties. The next wave of attacks may improve a lot. Liu He hurriedly comforted Cheng Pudao.
Cheng Pu nodded: "Let the brothers save materials as much as possible and don't waste them." If they all swarm down like they just did, how many will not be enough. ”
Liu He agreed to salute and hurriedly walked to the right side of the city wall, he wanted to gather a few soldiers to quickly convey the requirements of this matter.
The enemies on the side walls increased again, and the battlefield gradually expanded. The Xianbei archers who suppressed the Han army stopped shooting for fear of injuring their own people by mistake. Zhang Fei, who had long been angry, took a whole bunch of soldiers to take advantage of this gap to fly to the defensive area in the middle of the auxiliary wall to kill, and for a while, the flesh and blood on the city wall were entangled and killed.
Zhang Fei's hands and feet were already weak, and after he received a knife from the enemy, for the first time he felt that he was powerless and staggered back, leaning against the city wall and gasping for breath. He saw that his comrades were cut down by the enemy in front of him, but he just didn't have the strength to raise his knife and rush over to save him, and his sad tears flowed.
The horns of the enemy's attack sounded again under the city of Luronse, and then the earth-shattering war drums rushed straight into the sky above Lulongsai, and the sound shook the sky.
The second enemy attack began.