The order to come to Hu'er was quickly conveyed by the flag and the drum and trumpet, the archers of the Sui army wearing leather armor, like a tide surging towards the front, a hundred steps away from the city wall, thousands of large shields were erected, the archers behind the shield were in a unit, about a line of archers lined up in front of the city wall more than six miles wide, three steps apart, there were six or seven hundred people in a row, after walking out of the shield, on the city wall is to pull the bow and release arrows, with the sound of the neat bowstring, a black pressure arrow cloud rose into the air, straight to the city, At the same time, the archers who had spared the arrows quickly retreated behind their shields, and the archers of the next wave stepped forward to continue firing.

Waves of arrows rained up into the sky, ruthlessly cleaning the head of Liyang Cangcheng, the sound of the three-edged arrow hitting the stone battlements and the city wall, even Yang Guang, who was five miles away, could hear it clearly, in this position that was almost level with the head of Liyang Cangcheng, he saw that there was still no movement at the head of the city on the opposite side, and from his point of view, it was impossible for any living creature to survive under such a high-intensity blow.

In this way, the Sui army's arrow rain storm lasted for half an hour, and as the head of Liyang Cangcheng was completely suppressed, the archers of the Sui army also began to step out from behind their shields and gradually advance, one hundred steps, eighty steps, sixty steps, fifty steps!

At this distance of fifty paces, the archers of the Sui army began to stand still, these archers with strong arm strength could shoot through five-inch thick wooden targets at a distance of fifty paces, and even some guys with super arm strength shot arrows directly into some mud city wall sections, the tips of the arrows entered the wall, and the feathers on the tail were still vibrating.

Yang Guang was overjoyed, and nodded again and again: "Our army's attack is very smooth, General Dugu, with such a long-range attack of our army, it is difficult for the Wei army to gain a foothold in the city, at most it is hiding in the battlements and the dark corners of the gutter, it seems that as long as we hurry up and let the infantry dispatch, we can quickly climb to the head of Liyang City, right!?" ”

Dugu Sheng's brows furrowed slightly, shook his head, and was about to say something, suddenly, a dull sound of drums and horns sounded in the distant Liyang City, followed by the sound of bangzi and gongs one after another, Dugu Sheng's face changed, and he lost his voice: "It's not good, the Wei army has gone to the city wall, quickly signal to the Chinese army, ask the catapult to continue firing, order, the archers are not allowed to stop!" Resist~! ”

Then, Dugu Sheng continued to order: "Dugu Lingyun, you take the shield hand up and cover the archers to suppress the city!" Fast! ”

"No~!" Dugu Lingyun promised loudly, personally picked up a large shield, and led the shield hand who had been prepared a long time ago to quickly run to the archer array in front.

As soon as Dugu Sheng's words left his mouth, the head of Liyang Cangcheng, which had not moved, suddenly unfurled its flags, and countless shields were raised, which were filled with dense arrows, it turned out to be the archers of the Wei army, taking advantage of the Sui army's catapult to stop firing, and then lay down or lie under these shields early, in order to resist the stormy sea of arrows and stones, the Wei army under the shields may have paid hundreds of casualties, but no one moved, and no one got up, It was not until now, that the archers of the Sui army broke away from the protection of the shield wall and boldly approached to a distance of fifty steps from the city wall, and they finally showed up to strike!

The battlements of the city wall are the best protection for the archers, they stand behind these battlements, and they do not aim for direct shots, but directly at an elevation angle to the sky with a rain of arrows, crossing a high parabola, towards dozens of steps away, densely packed together Sui archers, the implementation of the rain of arrows covered.

Many archers of the Sui army, at this time, were bowing their heads to exchange arrows from the quiver, and did not have time to look at the situation at the head of the city, only heard a burst of bangzi and gongs, and suddenly the light became dim, as if something blocked the sun, the archers of the Sui army instinctively raised their heads to look, but only saw the sea of bows and arrows flying in the sky covering the sky, almost blocking the light of the entire sun, the only light that they could see was those three-edged arrows flashing, with a cold and cold glow of death.

"Puff~!"

The sound of bows and arrows entering the body was endless, and the high parabolic hanging shots of the archers of the Wei army made these bows and arrows fly to a height of five or six zhang above the ground before they began to fall, with huge potential energy, and fell fiercely, not to mention that the archers of the Sui army were lightly armed and only wore leather armor. Even if they wore those double iron armors of the Xiaoguo knights, it was impossible to completely protect the whole body, some arrows directly shot through the front and back layers of leather armor of the Sui archers, and the arrows drilled out from the armor skin on the back, while the white feathers at the end of the arrows remained on the chest, stained red by blood.

The archers of the Sui army were swept down piece by piece by piece like the wind cutting ears of wheat under such a sudden blow by the Wei army, and only four or five rounds of salvo firing were enough for thousands of Sui archers to lie on the ground forever, and they could no longer get up. It's hard to find a place to stay.

The six or seven thousand archers of the Sui army in this round, that is, nearly half of them were killed and wounded in a short period of time, and the rest of the people did not care about suppressing the bow and arrow on the head of the city, and fled back to the shield soldiers who could rush dozens of paces away, only those poor wounded soldiers who could not escape remained in place and turned in pain.

"Puff~!"

These wounded soldiers, who were difficult to move, were soon covered by a new rain of Wei arrows, and were crucified to the ground alive, becoming corpses full of arrows that could not even be seen in human form.

Yang Guang couldn't close his mouth when he saw it, and the archers of the Wei army took advantage of the height and cover of the city wall, and took advantage of it! Although their equipment and training were not as good as those of the Sui archers, the battlefield situation was almost one-sided to suppress the Sui archers, and the natural advantage of the city wall was huge!

Yang Guang also saw the real siege battle for the first time, and the shadow of the predecessor Emperor Yang of Sui under Liaodong City once again clearly appeared in his mind, and the appearance of those violent corpses under Liaodong City soldiers dying is still vivid in Yang Guang's recollection! At this time, he finally understood why the siege was so difficult to fight, why the besieging side suffered, and why the war book said that at least six times the enemy's strength could be used to besiege the city.

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