Chapter 454: The panicked Itagaki Junji
"Enemy attack!"
"Siege of the Guards!"
"Prepare for war! Array! Counterattack! ”
When the war guards rushed to a hundred meters outside the city wall, the Japanese at the top of the city wall noticed the abnormality, and they immediately beat the drum and trumpet, and as soon as the drum sounded, the Japanese soldiers immediately drew their bows and arrows and put them on the city wall and fired indiscriminately downward. As soon as the trumpet sounded, the Japanese soldiers in the city immediately went out to assemble, the siege soldiers began to arrange defensive equipment, and the cavalry and infantry stood in the inner city to prepare for support.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey......"
Outside the city wall, the four shield corps of the battle guard army advanced in two waves, the first wave was two legions, the shield soldiers carried the huge shield to ten meters away from the city wall, after the formation was arranged in a rectangular formation, the shield soldiers were like a torrent of steel in front of the south city, the shield soldiers crossed both sides of the city wall, and the team spread out for more than 20 miles, and its thick and solid formation was like a fortress.
The first wave of shield corps just arrived at the predetermined position, the second group of shield corps covered the wall climbing corps to assemble under the city wall, after they passed through the first wave of corps, they immediately squatted at the foot of the city wall to prepare for battle, the shield soldiers leaned the giant shield on the edge of the city wall, using the principle of triangular brackets, with the help of the city wall to support the shield, which can not only stabilize the giant shield, but also save the soldiers' physical strength.
When the shield soldiers put the huge shield diagonally on the wall, the soldiers of the wall climber regiment began to prepare for battle, they untied the iron hooks and ropes on their shoulders, put special iron claws on their hands, pulled out the waist and bit into their mouths, and then half-crouched to climb the wall, as long as the guards on the wall were eliminated, they would throw the hook and chain on the city wall, and climb along the rope to the top of the wall.
"Ding Ding Dong ......"
Facing the long snake formation posed by the shield soldiers of the battle guards, the Japanese soldiers on the city wall immediately used bows and arrows and siege crossbows to counterattack, when the arrows and crossbow arrows hit the surface of the shield, there was a sudden sound of tinkling and clanging gold and iron, and when they used bows and arrows and siege crossbows to counterattack, the Japanese also carried out the heavy killing weapon of the wall-breaking crossbow, and after aiming, they fired the crossbow pillars.
The shield soldiers can ignore the attacks of arrows and crossbow arrows, but they cannot resist the wall-breaking crossbows, when the crossbow pillars of the wall-breaking crossbow shoot with the wind whistle hit the shield, they immediately pierce the iron shield several centimeters thick, and smash the soldiers into the ground together with the shields.
"Are the crossbowmen ready? We're struggling with the wall-breaking crossbows, so can you hurry up and build siege crossbows? Seeing that batch after batch of shield soldiers were defeated, the commander of the shield soldier was a little anxious, urging the crossbowmen under the shield to hurry up and build a bow and crossbow frame.
Just when the shield soldiers were a little unbearable in the face of the counterattack of the Japanese invaders, suddenly, the commander of the crossbow corps roared, and when he heard this roar, the shield soldiers immediately put away the shield covering their heads, erected their shields and squatted on the spot, and at this time, a "launch" shouted from the crossbow soldiers' camp, and in an instant, tens of thousands of siege crossbow arrows were fired in an arc towards the top of the opposite city wall.
The end of these crossbow arrows is all tied to a gray jar, the range of the bow and crossbow arrows is about a hundred meters, even if the end of the arrow shaft is tied to a ten-pound jar, the jar drags the strength of the crossbow arrows, but the crossbow arrows can still fly dozens of meters, and the city wall in front of you is only more than ten meters high, so the arrow shaft of the siege crossbow can easily fly to the top of the city wall, and the height is just right.
The crossbow corps was divided into several echelons, and each echelon fired crossbow arrows in turn. When the first batch of crossbow arrows with jars flew over the top of the city wall, the crossbow arrows of the second echelon flew over with a whistling sound, and the tail of these crossbow arrows was also tied to a jar, and these crossbow arrows were connected in time, and after the crossbow arrows flew into the sky, they happened to break the jars tied to the tails of the crossbow arrows in front.
When the jar tied to the tail of the first wave of crossbow arrows was shattered by the crossbow arrows behind, countless white powders instantly scattered from the broken jars to the top of the city wall, and at the same time, the crossbow arrows of the third echelon smashed the jars at the tail of the crossbow shafts of the second echelon, and then the crossbow arrows of the fourth echelon smashed the jars shot by the third echelon, and the next few echelons all used this method.
Ling Xia's design of this chain crossbow shooting tactics is extremely ingenious, when those crossbow arrows tail tied to the jar is broken, the crossbow arrows will still continue to fly, because the crossbow soldiers use projectile tactics, which also makes the crossbow arrows get rid of the tail tied to the jar, will continue to fly in an arc towards the city, although the crossbow arrows crossed the city wall, did not hit the wall on the top of the wall, but the powder scattered in those jars happened to fall on the top of the city wall, and the crossbow arrows shot the city in the city.
When the crossbowmen of the Guards turned on the attack mode, the Japanese soldiers on the city walls were attracted by the crossbow arrows that swept overhead, and they secretly wondered in their hearts, "Why are the Guards so poor in archery?" Didn't even hit the top of the wall with an arrow? Just as the Japanese soldiers looked up in surprise, suddenly, countless white powders fell and spread from above their heads like snowflakes.
Seeing the white powder falling from the air with the wind, the Japanese soldiers on the top of the wall were all stunned, looking at the white dust in front of them, everyone didn't come back to their senses, but at this moment, there was a panicked roar from Junji Itagaki next to him: "Damn, why did you let me encounter this powder again?" Everyone immediately holds their breath and never inhale the powder into their bodies. ”
Although Itagaki Junji shouted in time, it was still too late, the soldiers had already inadvertently sniffed the powder, and no one noticed anything unusual at the beginning, but after just a few breaths, the soldiers on the city wall all felt dizzy, their eyelids were heavy, and a wave of fatigue came to their minds, and the bodies of these Japanese soldiers shook, and then fell on the top of the city wall in pieces.
Itagaki Junji immediately held his breath after shouting, he tore off a strip of cloth and tied it to his face, he had just finished this action, the soldiers on the city wall had all fallen into a coma, seeing this scene, he was suddenly frightened.
At this time, there were two legions of soldiers on the city wall, although the soldiers in the distance at both ends were not unconscious, but the soldiers in the middle of the entire city wall were all unconscious, looking at both sides of the city wall, there was at least a blank area more than ten miles long.
Seeing that at this time, the battle guards were still firing crossbow arrows into the city in waves, and the sound of the jar breaking in the air crackled like firecrackers during the New Year, and the white powder was scattered everywhere like snow, Itagaki Junji was so frightened that he covered his nose and jumped off the city wall, seeing that the soldiers and horses in the city happened to be gathered in the powder-covered area, he was frightened, he didn't think much about it, and hurriedly ordered the whole army to retreat 500 meters.