40. Siege
"What the hell? What are they doing? Jin Heng looked at the soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion outside the city wall, and suddenly felt puzzled.
I saw those soldiers just leaning over and sitting on the ground, and what was even more exaggerated was that Feng Chounian and Yang Kaishan sat on the ground as if no one was next to them and began to wrestle their wrists, and there were a lot of cheers around them......
Jin Heng was angry, these people don't take themselves in their eyes at all, thinking that their Jin family army is terrifying wherever they are in the Heyuan territory, how many officials and soldiers have to retreat when they see themselves, now it's good, a group of homeless people are just sitting under their noses and frolicking, there is such a siege? Jin Heng felt insulted and trembled with anger!
"Wang Lin! Send a team to explore the truth and reality! I'm going to see what this Jingwei camp is capable of! Jin Heng called the only rogue general available to him at the moment and commanded.
"Great!" Wang Lin responded and ordered more than 100 sharp soldiers and 300 thieves to go out of the city and gallop towards the Jingwei camp.
"It's coming!" Liu Ce really didn't expect that the thieves in the city would really dare to go out of the city to fight, and immediately ordered the army to get up and form a formation.
"Drink!" More than 800 soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion shouted in unison, and instantly completed the formation, and hundreds of cold spears were aimed at the thieves rushing in front of them!
"Rush over!" Wang Lin raised his long knife and roared towards the Jingwei camp, and the surrounding crowd of shouts and killings were deafening.
"Throw guns!" Liu Ce saw that the thieves were more than 100 steps away from the main formation, so he ordered the auxiliary soldiers ten steps away behind him to rush to the front of the formation, took out the throwing guns behind his back, and coldly aimed at the thieves who rushed up in front.
"Eighty steps!" Xu Hui shouted and calculated the distance of the thief, holding a gun with more than one person in his hand, making a throwing posture, and the surrounding auxiliaries nervously made the same posture, sweating on his forehead.
"Seventy steps!"
"Sixty steps!"
"Fifty steps!"
"Forty steps, throw!"
Xu Hui gave an order, and more than 80 people in the first row trotted forward ten steps forward, throwing the guns in their hands at the opposite crowd......
The thick spears were like black poisonous snakes, whistling into the dense group of thieves.
"Poof...... Burst...... Poof...... "More than a dozen thieves were shot on the spot by the oncoming spears on the chest, feet, hands and other body parts, and one thief's head was directly shot through, flying out a pile of red and white filth, and the death was extremely terrifying.
"Lost!" Because the distance of the first wave was still a little far, and the effect of throwing spears did not meet expectations, Xu Hui decisively ordered the second wave of more than 80 throwing spears to be thrown, and about 30 people were put down by throwing spears in this wave......
Seeing the spear whistling overhead, a sharp soldier instinctively raised the big shield in his hand, in a vain attempt to resist the impact of the short spear, but the next moment, the spear accurately pierced his shield and pierced his right wrist and plunged deep into his skull......
Another soldier who was running flashed sideways, and a throwing spear flew past his face, piercing a hapless thief behind him. But before the soldier could rejoice, another spear pierced his throat, and the force of the spear tore his entire neck to pieces, and he hung his head in the back with a layer of skin......
"Throw!" As soon as the front platoon finished throwing the spear, the auxiliary soldiers nervously and orderly retreated from the gap in the spear array behind them to the rear, and the last platoon of auxiliaries threw the spears in their hands fiercely, and they also withdrew to the rear with the first two rows of auxiliaries before they could watch the results......
The effect of this wave was much higher than the previous two throws, and the most advanced rows of thieves who rushed more than a dozen paces away were thrown to the ground with spears thrown to the ground, and when they landed, they fell to the ground like a wheat field blown by a hurricane.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way for Lao Tzu!" When a sharp soldier saw a short spear flying towards him, fear made him lose his bloodiness and judgment, and turned around to squeeze away from the thieves behind him and wanted to run towards the rear city gate, but how quickly did he turn the spear that galloped behind him? As he pushed the two men away, the spear stabbed him in the back......
Another experienced soldier threw away his weapon and grabbed a thief from each side of his hands to block him, trying to avoid the coming of death. But unfortunately, the thick spear miraculously passed through the gap between the arms of the two thieves, pierced the leather armor fiercely, and the tip of the spear came out from behind, and the whole person flew out, hitting the thieves who ran forward, and the two were pierced alive......
"Drink!" Seeing that all the auxiliaries had withdrawn to the rear, the soldiers of the Jingwei battalion quickly joined the formation with a chorion, and hundreds of spears were aimed at the thieves who were still rushing in......
"Ahh The thieves in front of the formation had already been frightened by the deadly throwing gun before, and they still rushed into battle by instinct, seeing the cold chill of the spear in front of the formation, someone immediately yelled and turned around and ran, this time hundreds of thieves instantly leaked away, and ran to the town gate behind them!
"What a chance!" Liu Ce's eyes lit up, and he wanted to take the opportunity of the thieves to rush back to the city gate to take the city gate in one go, but he immediately gave up this plan, because there were still dozens of thieves in front of him desperately slamming into the tip of the spear!
"We are the ace elite of the Jin family! For the sake of the general's kindness, kill! Knowing that he was going to die, Wang Lin still led dozens of sharp soldiers with red eyes to rush towards the silver face of the spear array.
"Courage is commendable!" Liu Ce sneered, and a feather arrow from Han Feng behind him quickly shot out, piercing Wang Lin's head......
Seeing that the main general was dead, the remaining rogue soldiers still roared angrily and rushed into the impenetrable spear array, and all of them fell in front of the formation as corpses......
"Xu Hui, clean up all the thieves on the field, don't want a single live mouth!" Seeing that some of the thieves in front of him who were shot by the guns were not dead, and they were still moaning on the ground, Liu Ce waved his hand to signal Xu Hui to "clean" the battlefield, and did not forget to remind him temporarily, "Regardless of life or death, stab it first to avoid the tragedy last night." ”
"Yes!" Xu Hui led the order to lead hundreds of auxiliary soldiers with short knives and short guns to the wounded and wailing thieves, and stabbed them to death one by one......
Jin Heng on the city wall saw all this, and was shocked and couldn't say a word, he didn't understand, when did such a strong army appear in the Heyuan Territory? Killed 400 of his own people in a short period of time and scattered and defeated? The Thunder Army doesn't have the combat power either!
"General, what now?" Behind him, a thief trembled and asked Jin Troy. He saw his companions being thrown alive with their spears, and the elite martial arts and blood of those soldiers did not change the entire situation on the battlefield, and the thieves who fled in all directions under the city were desperately shouting, shaking everyone's hearts like hell on earth.
"Let them in, archers cover!" Jin Heng ordered that for the time being, he had to keep himself awake, and not letting those routs in would definitely cause a psychological shadow to the soldiers defending the city and affect their morale.
A small gap was opened in the gate, and the soldiers outside the gate swarmed in, and were taken behind the city wall by the thieves guarding the gate. I saw that the thieves had dull faces, incoherent speech, and their eyes showed deep fear.
"I've never seen such a terrible battle in my life, ah! The spear is flying! Run for your life! One of the thieves kneeling at Jin Heng's feet was about to break down, and suddenly got up and shouted, and the thieves around him hurriedly grabbed him, and finally calmed him down.
Jin Heng had a calm face, looked at the crazy thief in front of him, and secretly said, "It's wasted!" The thief's spirit had long been frightened, his eyes were hollow and dull, his mouth was running unconsciously, and there was a foul smell from the crotch of his pants, which was obviously caused by incontinence.
"Since the establishment of my Jin Jiajun, when has I suffered from this nest? It's good now, being killed by more than 1,000 people and horses into this virtue! Is the sky going to kill my Jin Jiajun? Jin Heng was furious, and slammed his fist into the battlement, raising a piece of rubble.
"General, let's stay here, as long as we don't go out, they can't do anything with us? I don't think there are any siege equipment in the Jingwei battalion, as long as the city gate is closed, take advantage of the condescending situation, if they dare to come to attack the city, they can use the wooden rolling stones to fight back, and our octagonal crossbow is not vegetarian. At this time, Jin Heng jumped out behind a fat man with a bright eye and a bloated demeanor, named Cao En, who was a local teacher in Meihe Town, just because the court controlled by the scholars put an end to his career, and he always held a grudge against the entire Great Zhou Dynasty.
Jin Heng nodded when he heard this, at present, his people have been frightened by the Jingwei camp outside the door, and if he sends a large army to go forward, he will definitely suffer more losses, and the top priority is to hold on to Meihe Town, there is indeed no siege equipment on the other side, so he should be able to sit back and relax.
"Who will persuade you to surrender?" Liu Ce decided to delay a little longer and let Feng Ying and them step up the assembly, and at the same time paralyze the thieves to make them believe that they were just a trick to lure the enemy and were not capable of storming the city wall.
Chen Qingqiang stepped out of the horse first and said, "I'll go!" After saying that, he slapped the horse's back, and galloped towards the castle tower in front of him with a spear in his hand.
Chen Qing ran to the city gate, pulled the reins of the horse, and the war horse under his crotch suddenly rose off the ground with his front feet, and then landed steadily, and the thieves above the city tower secretly praised the equestrian skills were really good, but they didn't know that because of the distance of sight, the thieves did not notice the double stirrups under his feet......
Chen Qing pointed at the city with a spear in his hand and shouted, "Can the thief army dare to fight again?" If you don't dare to open the city gate quickly and surrender, you can spare your life! ”
Jin Heng's face on the city wall trembled with anger, and the thieves were even more frightened when they heard this, so they dared to shrink by the battlement wall.
"Do the thieves dare to fight again?" Chen Qing roared again, and his voice echoed above the city tower, and the army of thieves was silent.
"Humph! What arrogance! Jin Heng knew that the momentum could not be suppressed now, and immediately shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”
Hundreds of thieves and archers hurriedly drew arrows, due to nervousness, the bow did not open a full circle and shot towards Chen Qing, Chen Qing waved back and forth with his spear in both hands, knocked down the arrows on the ground, and took advantage of the gap to turn the horse's head and gallop towards the main formation.
When Chen Qing returned to the formation, his body was full of more than a dozen feather arrows, but due to the lack of rate of fire, they were all stuck in the gap of the iron armor and did not suffer any damage.
"Good work!" Liu Ce patted Chen Qing on the shoulder and helped him shake off the arrows hanging on his body.
"Haha! The thief's half-hung archery skills are far worse than those of the Han Feng brothers! Chen Qing laughed and laughed, which also caused several generals around him to laugh and scold together.
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Jin Heng looked at Chen Qing who was far away, and was even more sure that these people in front of him did not have siege equipment, but just wanted to lure the enemy out of the city and consume their own troops in batches, so he immediately ordered: "The whole army listens to the order!" Hold on to the town, don't leave the city! Violators! Chop! ”
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Liu Ce looked at the city tower in the distance, and then looked at the sun in the sky, estimating that Feng Ying and the others should have already assembled things, and they were waiting to push over and capture Meihe Town in one go......
While thinking about it, there was a neat shout from the rear of the army, and the three siege towers with a height of nearly ten meters were slowly driving under the joint efforts of everyone, and it looked like three mountains were approaching step by step from a distance......
"Hey, good guy, this thing ......" Sun Biao stood in the auxiliaries and saw these three behemoths, and couldn't help but feel shocked, although he didn't know what this thing was used for, but he could feel whether he could capture Meihe Town this time, these behemoths were the key......
The siege tower slowly drove through the front line of the Jingwei Battalion array, heading towards the walls of Mae Town. The soldiers of Feng Chounian, Yang Kaishan, and Yang Youhuai immediately followed behind and moved along with the siege tower......
"Not good!" When Jin Heng saw these three behemoths, he had a sense of foreboding, and if he let them get close to the city walls, it would be all over......
"Octagonal crossbow! Hurry up and reload, don't let them get into the walls! Archer! Get ready! Jin Heng ordered loudly with fear on his face, and the surrounding area was suddenly chaotic, and several thieves were squeezed off the city wall and fell to their deaths.
"Bang!" With a loud bang, when an octagonal crossbow traveled to a distance of three hundred meters in the siege tower, the crossbowman couldn't help but be afraid, and stepped on the trigger with one foot, and the crossbow arrows made of fine iron whistled away with the sound of breaking through the air......
"Bastard thing! Who shoots! Jin Hengqi's violent jump is like thunder, you must know that this octagonal crossbow is very difficult to load, so wasting an arrow will take time and effort to reopen the crossbow string, fix the trigger, and then reload the crossbow arrow.
The thief who operated the crossbow trembled with fright and did not dare to respond, so he had to pull the crossbow string on the trigger with the help of five or six people around, and then calibrate the target and put the crossbow arrow in the arrow slot......
"Two hundred and fifty steps!" The Rogue Sightkeeper loudly reported the distance between the siege tower and the wall......
"Bang! Bang! There were two loud bangs, and it was actually two octagonal crossbowmen who stepped on the trigger at the same time without pressure. Two thick crossbow arrows pierced the sky again and shot out, but the smell of "Boom! Boom! With two loud bangs, the crossbow arrows were nailed to the shield under a siege tower, piercing the shield deeply, and one of the men pushing the tower was swept away by the crossbow arrow on the spot, fainting to death, so frightened that the laborers almost collapsed.
"Keep going, don't stop!" Yang Kaishan roared, and the siege tower, which had been about to stop, moved again.
"One hundred and fifty steps, pay attention to concealment, beware of rogue archers!" Yang Youhuai took the lead in jumping into the siege tower after the order was issued, only to see that the four bamboo ladders in the tower were improved, and they were obliquely fixed on the edge of the platform divided into five sections in the siege tower, so that the soldiers could climb up, the wood in the tower was all the same hardwood structure, and it was fixed with thick hemp rope or slender iron bars, and it was absolutely safe to hide inside, but it could only accommodate forty people at a time, fortunately, the height and width of the siege tower were enough, and they were not afraid of arrows pouring down.
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