11. Tenacity

A rapid horn sound came from a distance, and the hand that had been playing the fire sickle was stopped, sighed, put the cigarette stick into the cigarette pouch and tied it around his waist, and raised the spear to give Xu Hui a look. Xu Hui wiped the corners of his mouth that were a little wet with his sleeve, and mustered up the courage to follow Zeng Yan with his waist knife......

On the other side, Liu Ce was busy disassembling the door panels in the fort and the flat plates on the board carts, and had just put the wooden planks at the mouth of the alley, and before he could reinforce them, he heard the horn of the thieves attacking again. Everyone has different expressions, and the thieves have launched another offensive so quickly? The fire hasn't been extinguished yet.

"Leave him alone, fix the door panel, and whether it can hold on is here!" After Liu Ce finished speaking, he smashed a log with the thickness of a calf and smashed it down with a hammer found in the house, but fortunately, the land of Houtu Fort was relatively soft, and the log was fixed on the ground in a few strokes, and there were two or three logs behind each plank as a fixed frame.

Several other soldiers laid the door panel flat on the ground and found a few thick and long deadbolts to fix together, because there were no nails, they could only break the arrows from Han Feng and several other archers to use as nails, and the scabbard gradually embedded the arrows into the door bolt...... After a period of busy work, a thick "giant shield" with a length of four meters and a height of about 2 meters 2 was completed.

This "giant shield" has four door panels, leaving a gap of half a person in the middle of each door, which was built by Liu Ce temporarily, because there are too few sword and shield hands, there are 12 people, and after careful consideration, he did so, and specially found those heavy door panels to act as "sword and shield hands".

The thieves' shouts were deafening, and Dong Lun and the other defenders on the earthen wall could not see the exact number due to the black smoke blocking the view, but it was certain that this attack was much fiercer than before.

Bursts of sand and smoke rose from the burning ground, and the thieves carried sandbags and threw them at the fire, and the fire was gradually brought under control.

When the fire was almost extinguished, countless thieves and locusts poured in over the wall, and when the smoke had dissipated somewhat, Dong Lun saw with his own eyes that there were dozens of ladders moving forward not far from the wall.

"Archer, shoot!" Dong Lun hurriedly ordered, and more than 30 archers drew their bows and shot at the thieves below.

Shout! Shout! Shout!

Burst! Burst! Burst!

The sound of arrows breaking through the air and the sound of entering the flesh were so loud that there was no need to aim at all, and almost every arrow in the dense crowd was shot by a thief. After two rounds like this, Dong Lun hurriedly shouted to stop, because he found that this was meaningless, in the face of the crazy homeless, this was just trying to drain his strength, it was better to leave some arrows to shoot those thieves who resisted the cloud ladder......

The ladder finally approached the earthen wall step by step, and under the orders of Dong Lun and other commanders, more than 30 archers once again poured arrows on the thieves carrying the ladder.

The thief carrying the ladder was hit by an arrow in the head, cheeks, neck, or arm, calf, and chest, and dozens of ladders fell in an instant, but soon the thieves below lifted the ladder again and walked towards the earthen wall.

"Damn!" Seeing that the ladder was finally erected and tilted towards the earthen wall, Dong Lun slammed his hand on the earthen wall, raising a small piece of dust, and then drew his sword and said, "Prepare to fight!" ”

Countless thieves were stabbed and fell by the defenders, and countless thieves climbed the ladder and were picked off again...... Seeing that the situation was stalemate, suddenly the corner of the earthen wall of the first line of defense completely collapsed, and a simple crash car slowly approached, and a piercing roar erupted around it, and the thieves became even more crazy.

"This ...... When did the thieves crash into the car? Dong Lun was surprised and overwhelmed, and he had the impression that the thief did not have the ability to attack fortifications at all, but now he ......

I saw that the four wooden wheels of the crashing car slowly advanced, a huge log was hung with three hemp ropes by the bracket made of six thigh-thick wooden strips on the car, the front of the log was cut into an oval shape, and a thick layer of copper was inlaid, and there were two wooden planks long and 3 meters wide and 1.5 meters wide in front of the crashing car to prevent arrow attacks, more than a dozen thieves pushed the crash car towards the gate of the earthen wall, and there were many thieves around to cover it, and they could join the ranks of the cart at any time. Dozens of thugs risked burns to move the charred bodies out of the way for the crashing car......

"Archer, aim and don't let him get close! Go and a few people against the gate! The overseer battalion took a hundred spearmen to the door, ready for hand-to-hand combat! Dong Lun hurriedly ordered to try to stop the rushing car from approaching.

The archers on the earthen wall pointed their arrows at the rushing car, but most of them were blocked by the baffles and could not do much damage. An archer was about to let go of the hand that was pulling the string when he suddenly felt a pain in his chest, and his whole strength seemed to have been drained, and he looked at the feathered arrow that had sunk into his chest in disbelief and fell.

Whew~poof~

Another sharp weapon slashed through the air, and another archer was knocked over.

"Rogues have archers!" The commander shouted! But then, the commander was also shot through the head with an arrow, accompanied by a splash of red and white filth, and fell.

Under the earthen wall, three strange-looking aliens cowered in front of the car baffle and slowly moved with the car. These three people are fishing and hunting people in the Far East, because of the rise of the Mengluo Empire in the grassland, the various tribes on the grassland outside the Saiwai have been continuously slaughtered and swallowed, and they have fled into the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty and joined the camp of thieves. Because the three of them rode ** Zhan, they had a very high status in the camp of the thieves, and the leader of the thieves was reluctant to send them out, but this time they all took the initiative to ask for help, and the leader had no choice but to send more soldiers to protect them.

The shooters on the earthen wall were constantly shot over by them, and it was really a good example, and every shot was missed. A stranger with a scar on his forehead didn't know what to say to the people around him, and then pulled a heavy arrow from his quiver box, which was in the shape of a half-moon, and aimed it at an archer with only half of his head exposed on the earthen wall......

The archer hid under the earthen wall and did not dare to come out, just when he thought he was safe, he felt a chill above his head, and a spearman behind him was shot through the stomach, lying on his back, spitting blood....... the archer was secretly glad that he had escaped, and suddenly felt that the top of his head was wet, and when he reached out and touched it, he immediately let out an inhuman cry - half of his skull was shot away, and his face was red and white, and he died in fright, his expression was extremely terrifying......

After losing the threat of the archers, the rushing car came to the gate of the earthen wall as he wished, and the twelve thieves pulled the hemp rope and smashed it towards the gate, a lot of gravel and dust fell from the wall, and the row of soldiers behind the door was shocked and numb, but they still tried to stop the rushing car from breaking through the door.

The impact shook the entire earthen wall, and finally the log smashed open a huge hole, and a soldier was shattered by the log that rushed in, and his heart flew out, and the blood in his mouth flowed to death...... Seeing this, the rest of the soldiers knew that it was pointless to go back to the door, so they retreated to the spearman array behind them and prepared to fight......

The car smashed the hole wider again, and the sound of the wooden bolt about to break stimulated everyone's eardrums, and finally in the sound of shouting outside the door, the log smashed again, completely knocking down the wooden shabu and the door, and then raising a puff of dust, countless thieves swarmed towards the soldiers on the steps, and the battle entered the white heat again......

On the earthen wall, Sun Cheng stared coldly at a thief who was about to climb the wall, and cut him off the wall with a knife in his hand.

"Ninth ......," he secretly calculated, how many people had been killed today. On the other side, Yang Fan also stabbed a thief who had landed on the ground alive against the wall......

"Sun Cheng, I won't lose to you......" Yang Fan secretly swore in his heart.

"Keep up." In the middle of the earthen wall, Zeng strictly instructed Xu Hui, and stabbed a thief into the earthen wall with a shot, and then a flower spear rotated, and the two thieves who intended to come forward were swept out alive...... Xu Hui was dumbfounded, the skills of the old armor chief were not inferior to the Liu Ce brothers......

In the alleyway, more than 100 people behind the wooden planks were half-squatting, silently waiting for the thieves to come over, Liu Ce handed the long knife behind him to a young man named Guo Tao, and exchanged spears with him.

"We're just waiting?" One of the soldiers, Chen Qing, asked boredly, "I am afraid that I will be corrected on the spot if I am ordered to make it known to my lords." ”

Liu Ce glanced at the young man who was two months younger than himself and said, "If you are in such a hurry to find death, I won't stop you, and you don't need Zong Sheng to do it, that group of thieves will soon take your life." As he spoke, he pointed to the battlefield outside the gap, Chen Qing stuck out his tongue and grimaced, causing everyone around him to laugh.

Liu Ce was stunned and looked at everyone and said slowly: "Thank you brothers for believing in me, an inconspicuous little soldier, if we can survive this time, I hope to do a career together, and from now on we will be friends of life and death." ”

Listening to Liu Ce's heartfelt words, everyone also laughed and didn't care about it......

"Thirteen ......" Sun Cheng's hand holding the knife trembled a little, the shield had long been broken and thrown aside, the number of thieves was too much, there were already many thieves who had climbed the earthen wall one after another, and these were no longer the hungry people before, but the backbone of the thieves. Sun Cheng's eyes were still cold, his pale face did not show any expression, looking at a thief who rushed up, Sun Cheng raised his knife and slashed......

On the other side, after cutting down a rogue, Yang Fan was out of breath, but the thieves who climbed the wall of the building had already been killing him in a steady stream, and he couldn't tolerate the slightest negligence......

"Stinky boy, pick up that shield." once strictly provoked a thief and instructed Xu Hui: "Forgot when you trained? With a shield on your chest in your left hand and a knife in your right hand, don't treat them as human beings, just as animals, and your psychological burden will be much smaller. As he spoke, another thief approached, and with a sharp turn of the gun, he slammed into the thief's skull like a thunderbolt......

"General, it's not good, the steps have been broken through by the thieves, hurry up and retreat to the last line of defense, it's too late to be surrounded." A guard beside Dong Lun said in a panic.

"Damn, the whole army obeys orders! Prepare to ......" However, before the order was given, a wolf tooth arrow shot through the chain mail he was wearing, and it did not enter the abdomen, and a chill hit Dong Lun's whole body, and he staggered against the earthen wall behind him, and before he could speak, another wolf tooth arrow sank into his lungs, and suddenly a mouthful of blood gushed out.

"General! Someone, the general has been hit by an arrow! The guard hurriedly shouted, but as soon as he finished speaking, an arrow shot into his mouth and pierced the back of his head......

The three aliens under the earthen wall looked at each other and muttered a few words after seeing the iron-clad commander on the upper floor, then turned around and ran towards the outermost earthen wall, and disappeared into the sea of people after a while......