Chapter 227: The Battle of Martial Arts 11

The trebuchets of the Xiliang Army were finally deployed in place, and if they didn't aim at them, they would throw countless boulders into the camp of the Yizhou Army. This is also a matter of no choice, at this moment the two sides are very close to the battle, if you directly use trebuchets to suppress the earthen wall, there will be a great chance of accidentally injuring friendly troops, Li Dao had to order trebuchets to attack the inside of the Yizhou camp, hoping to cause chaos within the Yizhou army.

The soldiers of the Yizhou Army either climbed the earthen wall or clung to the earthen wall and were ready to support it, and the trebuchets of the Xiliang Army only smashed one trebuchet and killed and injured five operators, and only the empty barracks wreaked havoc on them......

After the Yizhou army trebuchet operators fired the first wave of stone bullets, six soldiers with wide bodies and strong bodies worked together to pull the rope tied to the long tip, and used manpower to fight gravity, just to fulfill the celebrity's victory, the arm was slowly pressed down, when the position arrived, their own soldiers tied to the rope bolt inserted into the card slot on the base, after fixing the pin, two soldiers from the side to pick up a piece of more than 100 pounds of boulder and put it heavily in the "ammunition box", which completed the loading. After all the soldiers had dodged away, the firing soldiers pulled the bolt out of the slot by tying a long rope to the bolt, and the unrestrained tip immediately threw the boulder at the enemy under the force of gravity......

The attack of the bow and crossbow can still be resisted, but more than 100 pounds of boulders fall from the top of your head, don't have the idea of resisting, the only thing you can do is run, and don't forget to pray God forbid, don't let it fall on your head!

Fifty boulders fell one after another, and in an instant, hundreds of people turned into puddles of flesh and mud......

Li Yan was bullied miserably in the battle of Weishui, after retreating to the camp with 3,000 remnants, he felt that everyone looked at him with a strange taste, although Liu Zhang persuaded and told everyone that Li Yan's retreat was his order, but as the first Yizhou general to retreat from the enemy, he still felt deep self-blame and shame, in his words, only with the corpse of the Xiliang army to wash away his shame, so he ignored Liu Zhang's order to order his division as a reserve, repeatedly asked for battle, and finally Liu Zhang's approval, Let him assist Gao Shun in the defense of the west, Li Yan did not bring the whole division, he wanted to use the withdrawn 3,000 men and horses to prove himself again, and the rest was organized by him as a reserve, and he would not use it until the most dangerous time.

"Brothers, since the army against Dong, my Yizhou army killed Zhang Lu and pacified Jingxiang, until this Northern Expedition, no one retreated in front of the enemy, but the last battle of Weishui, we retreated, there are many reasons for this, I don't want to say more, because only the weak will justify their defeat, what I want to tell you is that I am the same as you, I have borne the shame, are we willing to do this? Are you willing to let the robes look at us with strange eyes? Are we willing to tell others that we have fled from the eyes of the enemy? ”

"I don't want to...... I don't want to ......," the three thousand soldiers shouted in unison.

"Well, I heard and felt your determination, I am the same as you, I don't want to, now, the time has come to prove us again, I command you, there is still a breath, and the battle will not stop!"

"Kill...... Kill...... Kill ......"

Li Yan smiled with satisfaction, he raised the bow and arrow in his hand and aimed at a commander of the Xiliang army who was swinging and destroying the deer, after the arrow sounded, the chief fell in response, a feather arrow trembled between his eyes, Li Yan took the arrow from the quiver with his backhand, and a commander of the Xiliang army fell under his arrow.

The 3,000 soldiers of the 1st Division, who had withdrawn from Weishui, howled and vented their anger while shooting a rain of arrows that washed away the shame at the Xiliang Army.

The officers and men of the 1st Division, whose flames of revenge were burning strongly, burst out with tremendous combat effectiveness, and batch after batch of Xiliang troops fell in front of them!

Wu Ming and Zhou Cang took 5,000 Tiger Guards to be responsible for the security of the right flank, the Tiger Guards were well-equipped, and the soldiers were the most in Yizhou, Wu Ming and Zhou Cang each held a repeating crossbow but rarely used it, it turned out that both of them were not very good at bows and crossbows, and they would definitely be able to hit if they aimed at it for a long time.

"Fuck, these bunches of shit, hurry up...... It's hard to make people die in a hurry if you can't do it like this......" Zhou Cang complained dissatisfiedly, and he even thought about whether to let the soldiers stop attacking and let the Xiliang army attack the earthen wall? Of course, this is just thinking about it, if he dares to do this, Liu Zhang will not be the first to spare him.

Wu Ming was not satisfied with this situation, to say that when he lived in the deep mountains and dense forests, he was a master who could pick up a stone and drop birds, but he was at a loss with a crossbow, he couldn't help but think about whether he should have someone build a few flying knives for himself like Dian Wei, specifically to attack enemies in the distance!

After half an hour of fighting, the Xiliang Army finally cleared all the roads in the layers of the Yizhou Army, and the Xiliang Army cheered in unison, and their morale was also boosted.

Liu Zhang, who was in the tent, always paid attention to the battle ahead, and many Tiger Guard soldiers ran between the battlefield and the tent, reporting the situation on the battlefield at any time. Liu Zhang learned that the Xiliang army attacked under the earthen wall in only half an hour, and he couldn't help but secretly admire the combat power of the Xiliang army, you must know that the defense of the battalion was built under his supervision, and the passive defense system composed of trenches and deer barricades combined with the active defense system composed of countless bed crossbows, trebuchets and countless crossbowmen can be said to be cheap, but the enemy completed the breakthrough of the trench and deer barricade in just half an hour, and the combat power can be imagined. Liu Zhang was only surprised, and he didn't worry too much, the main force of the western city defense was composed of the First Independent Infantry Brigade and the Tiger Guard Division and the First Division of Li Yan, who was determined to take revenge, all of them were the elite of Yizhou, and it was not so easy for Dong Zhuojun to easily break through their defensive line, and Gao Shun still had a strong reserve to call.

"General, the last general and others have been ordered to support, and they have all arrived, please assign a task to the general!" Three men with the rank of major on their shoulders quickly ran to Gao Shun's side.

"Okay, it's just right to come, you go down and prepare, once the city wall is tightened, I will let you come up to support at any time, as for the trebuchet, immediately set up a position, open fire on the enemy, and support our army in the battle!" Gao Shuntou can't do it.

"Yes, General!" The three majors took the order.

After the three majors left, Gao Shun ordered the drums to beat again, this time not to issue a general order, but to motivate the soldiers of the defending army with a majestic drum beat.

Dozens of leather drums of the Chinese army beat the beat without stopping, and the huge drum sound shook everyone, and the defenders bared their teeth and used all the weapons around them to fight back against the enemy.

At this time, the enemy army had already attacked the earthen wall, and the weapons in their spearmen with more than two zhang long could easily pierce the Yizhou army that was fighting on the earthen wall only two zhang high. It's not that Liu Zhang and the others don't know about this hidden danger, but in a short period of time, with limited manpower, they can only do this. In the days after the camp was set up, Liu Zhang, of course, could continue to increase the height of the earthen wall, but without suitable tamping tools, the earth wall would become unstable if it continued to be heightened, so Liu Zhang could only increase the thickness first, and then continue to develop after the thickness reached a certain level, but Dong Zhuo did not give him such sufficient time.

But seeing that the Xiliang army formed a formation, with seven or eight spears as a group, to deal with a gap in the earthen wall, they used the cry as a cry and stabbed the sharp blades at the Yizhou army with neat movements at the same time. In the moment, there seemed to be a lot of hourglass on the earthen wall, but instead of sand, they were dripping with warm blood.

The Xiliang army below was suddenly drenched in blood, but this did not make them feel frightened, many people stuck out their tongues, licked the blood from the corners of their mouths, and their cold faces showed a trace of hideousness, and stabbed the weapons in their hands towards the Yizhou army standing above them with even more brutal force......

The Yizhou army was about to guard against the archers of the Xiliang army, but also faced a major threat from its melee troops, and for a time there were countless casualties, and the formation was also slightly chaotic.

Gao Shun shouted: "Don't panic, don't panic, carry the wounded down, the soldiers of the arrow tower attack the enemy archers, and the others attack the enemy under the wall, first use rolling logs and stones to disrupt the enemy's formation......"

In the shouts of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, no matter how loud Gao Shun's voice was, it could only be heard a few feet, but fortunately, there was a drum sound that could convey his orders to every soldier.

Hearing the sound of drums and trumpets, the well-trained soldiers immediately followed Gao Shun's orders, on the arrow tower, whether the crossbowmen or the bed crossbows, all pointed to the archers of the Xiliang Army on the other side of the trench, no need to command, everyone took the way of free shooting, once ready to attack, under the dense rain of arrows, the Xiliang Army continued to fall, although in terms of firepower density, the killing effect was not good, but it also forced the archers of the Xiliang Army to hide behind the sword and shield hand, which greatly relieved the pressure on the comrades below; Shields are effective against crossbow attacks, but they are powerless against giant bed crossbows, and almost every arrow that passes takes more than two lives, even if they hold a shield with strong defense.

Just like being in a huge blacksmith shop, the sound of "Dangdang" is endless, it turns out that the Yizhou army has erected shield walls one after another, and most of the weapons of the Xiliang army are tattooed on the shields. Under the cover of the shield of the other soldiers, they picked up the rolling wood and stones next to them and threw them down along the walls of the earthen wall, and the rolling wood stones that roared down unceremoniously smashed down on the top of the heads of the Xiliang army, and the miserable screams were endless. Immediately afterwards, the Yizhou army crossbowmen took advantage of the enemy's breathing opportunity to poke out their crossbows and shoot arrows at the heads that looked up one by one.

"Ah...... My eyes ......" A Xiliang soldier felt a huge pain in his eye socket and couldn't help but scream.

"Ho, ho......" A Xiliang army was hit by an arrow in the Adam's apple, blood suddenly gushed out from his throat, mouth and nose, and he made a few unconscious sounds in pain and fell.

The most unfortunate thing is another Xiliang army, one moment he was shouting, the next moment, the crossbow arrow was shot directly into his mouth, the huge penetration force made this arrow penetrate the back of his head, revealing half an inch of bloody arrow, but he did not die immediately, he fell in pain, with unprecedented fear looking at the trembling crossbow arrow, the huge pain in his body and the fear in his heart made him have a kind of hope to end the pain and fear, but things did not make him happy, He couldn't even scream to vent his pain, because the arrow hit his tongue first......

The crossbow equipped by the Yizhou army exerted its powerful firepower at this time, and all the soldiers holding the repeater took advantage of the opportunity of the enemy being slightly suppressed to aim at the enemy's head close at handWhat a terrifying number! Although they didn't know why they didn't continue to attack, it didn't matter, they only knew that no matter what the reason was, they must take advantage of this time to suppress the Yizhou army and not give those strange crossbow arrows a chance to continue attacking, they really didn't want to face the crossbow arrows that shot like beads.

The Yizhou army did not back down, using shield walls to stabilize their positions, soldiers used bows and arrows, rolling logs to beat stones, and some even leaned out and stabbed the enemy with spears......

In the blink of an eye, the Xiliang army erected a number of ladders on top of the earthen wall, and the soldiers scrambled to climb the ladders towards the earthen wall.

"Destroy the enemy's ladder and don't give the enemy a chance to climb the wall......," Gao Shun hurriedly ordered when he saw this.

The guards then ordered the drummers to issue Gao Shun's order.

In fact, there is no need for Gao Shun's orders, the Yizhou army has already carried out this work, some of them smashed with rolling logs and stones, and some used spears, guns, ge, halberds and other long-pole weapons to knock down the ladders of the Xiliang army, and a few wounded soldiers directly smashed their bodies into the enemy as rolling logs and stones!