Chapter 351: Attack and Defense of Guiyu City (1)
In a sea of silver, dozens of heavy stone throwers and siege towers slowly moved forward.
"Gunners prepare!" Zhao Jian shouted.
Hearing this, the gunners hurriedly adjusted the angle of the artillery, aiming the muzzles of the black holes at those huge siege engines.
Zhao Jian constantly observed the enemy's distance through the telescope, and when the enemy entered the range of the artillery, he shouted: "Release!" ”
"Zizizi!"
One cannon after another was lit with fuses, and the rumbling sound of cannons resounded through the heavens and the earth, and dozens of shells went straight to the enemy's military formation.
Seeing dozens of iron balls roaring towards him, the formation of the dinosaur people suddenly panicked.
"Whoosh!"
The cannonballs fell, and several bloody paths were immediately cleared, and countless stumps and broken arms stained the ground red.
A catapult was hit directly by a cannonball and collapsed, and the thick logs fell heavily, smashing the flesh and blood of the nearby dinosaur people into the air.
Before he could touch the enemy, his side lost dozens of people, and the general of the dinosaur people became very ugly.
With the sound of a whining horn, the dinosaur people began to charge.
The infantry covered the archers and ran forward quickly, and the dinosaur people ran extremely fast, and soon rushed to a place hundreds of meters away from the city.
At such a high speed, the artillery simply did not have time to aim.
The dinosaur generals found the weakness of the artillery, the mysterious weapon of the human race, which can deal with long-distance targets, but as long as they rush quickly, they will not pose any threat to themselves.
With a wave of his hand, a phalanx of thousands of people walked out of the army, and the soldiers of the dinosaur people carried the ladder and charged towards the city.
The archers defending the city bent their bows and waited quietly for the enemy to come within range of their bows.
The constant roar of the artillery, the condescending bombardment, so that the range of the artillery increased a lot, with the advantage of range, the dinosaur man stone thrower could not carry out an effective return fire at all, can only face the shells to push the heavy stone thrower forward.
The soldiers near the stone throwers and siege towers suffered heavy casualties, and this hastily built wooden siege equipment basically fell apart as long as it was hit by a cannonball, and the fallen wood caused more casualties than the direct hit of the cannonball.
The dinosaur infantry slowed down when they were more than two hundred meters away from the city wall, and the shield hand bent over with his shield and slowly advanced.
As the enemy came into range, a dense rain of arrows seemed to obscure the sky after the defender's order.
The arrows fell with a whizz, clanging against the shield.
From time to time, an enemy was hit by an arrow and fell to the ground with a muffled grunt, and the exposed gap was quickly filled by the soldiers behind.
"Whoa!"
There was a sound of grinding of armor, and the shield-bearer quickly opened a gap a man-wide, and the empty archers quickly stepped forward, bent their bows and arrows, and began to shoot at the head of the city.
The archers on both sides come and go, and countless arrows shuttle through the air, harvesting fresh lives.
After destroying more than a dozen of the enemy's catapults, they finally advanced to the firing range, and the taste of being passively beaten made the dinosaur general's extremely depressed.
As soon as the catapult stopped, it gave the order to start firing back.
"Whoosh!"
Dozens of flaming fireballs pierced the sky and slammed into the city walls, making the soldiers on the walls feel as if they had experienced an earthquake.
Fireballs fell on the city, setting the houses on fire, and the militiamen hurriedly fetched water to extinguish the fire. If the fire is not extinguished in time, the fire is likely to spread quickly.
The screams and shouts of killing seemed to be the only sound in the world.
The wounded soldiers on the city wall let out a terrible howl, and the auxiliaries kept shuttling on the city wall, carrying stretchers to carry the wounded soldiers down the city wall in a hurry.
The sound of killing under the fish city shook the sky, and the dinosaur people carried the ladder, and after falling a large number of corpses, they finally rushed to the city wall.
With the agility behind him, the dinosaur man quickly climbed towards the city wall.
"Grenadier!"
The grenadiers sprang forward, lit the fuse, and threw the grenade off the wall.
Explosions rang out one after another, and the dinosaur people screamed and fell down the walls several meters high.
"Whoosh!"
The archers condescendingly shoot at the enemies on the ladder.
In the distance, several huge fireballs flew quickly.
A soldier at the head of the city was about to bend down to dodge, but it was too late.
A huge fireball skimmed over the city and crashed directly into him.
The bones of the human body, which were so violently impacted, shattered all the bones of the body, and the miserable soldier flew upside down without even screaming, and the fire ignited his clothes, and the air was filled with the smell of burning.
Under the cover of the soldiers who climbed the city wall, the dinosaur man pushed the crash car and rushed to the city gate, and the huge ram continued to bombard the heavy city gate.
The violent vibration made the bricks at the city gate loosen a little, and the dust was constantly scattered.
"Quick, get the oil ready!"
The soldiers at the city gate poured barrels of oil down the city walls, and the viscous oil was sprinkled on the crashing car, dyeing the crashed car's body black.
"Set fire!"
Torches were thrown down, and the flames ignited the oil in an instant.
The dinosaur people hiding in the crash let out a terrible scream, and one by one the fire people ran out of the crash, constantly churning on the ground, wailing and wailing, and it didn't take long for them to fall to the ground and die.
The heavy casualties did not stop the enemy's attack.
The huge siege towers, under the cover of the archers, slowly advanced forward.
This kind of siege equipment, Zhao Jian has never seen it, but he doesn't have to think about it to know that if he lets this thing get close, it will definitely cause heavy casualties to his side.
"Artilleryman, aim at those things and give me a hard shot!"
The gunners quickly adjusted their angles, and one shell after another flew out towards the siege towers.
But in the face of such a big guy, the solid cannonball can't do much damage at all, and after breaking a few logs, the siege tower still stands, slowly approaching the city wall.
Seeing this, Zhao Jian was in a hurry, his eyes flickered, and when he saw the burning corpse at the city gate, he hurriedly shouted: "Archer, release the rocket!" ”
The archers hurriedly dipped their arrows in the oil drums, and there were small flames burning everywhere, and they quickly lit the arrows and shot them in the direction of the siege tower.
The flaming arrows rained down on the siege tower, and soon the thing was ignited, and the flames spread rapidly, and the siege tower several meters high burst into flames.
A large number of dinosaur people jumped from the height in fear, screaming and falling to the ground.
But the enemy's attack was so fast that the human soldiers could not lift their heads from the shells fired by dozens of catapults.
Under the cover of the trebuchets and archers, a few siege towers finally approached the walls, but the moment the plank bridge was built on the walls.
The dinosaurs were horrified to find several sparkling bumps flying towards them.
They already knew the horror of this thing, and the dinosaur people crowded into the small space could not avoid it, and could only watch the grenades fall on their side.
As the rumbling explosions rang out, the flames flew into the sky, the corpses of witchcraft rained down with blood, and the stumps and internal organs scattered along with the collapse of the siege towers, making the city walls look like hell beneath the walls.
But the courage of the dinosaur people still managed to climb the city wall.
With a body much stronger than that of humans, the defenders of the city who were killed in an instant were defeated and retreated.
The soldiers waiting on the steps, constantly climbing the city wall, and the enemy started a fierce battle, in the face of hand-to-hand combat, the human soldiers can only rely on the advantage of numbers, to stabilize the battle situation, Wang Lang four or five soldiers can kill an enemy wearing heavy armor.
Seeing that his side had finally made progress, the commander of the dinosaur people naturally would not let go of this rare opportunity, and immediately ordered a fierce attack towards the city gate.
The crash car was pushed by dozens of dinosaur people to quickly approach the city gate, with the cover of the soldiers on the city wall, the pressure of attacking the city gate was greatly reduced, and after gathering under the city wall, the archers of the dinosaur people suppressed the firepower of the human soldiers with their superb archery skills.
The human soldiers at the top of the city screamed and fell off the walls, being hacked to death by the enemies who rushed up.
The grenadiers hid behind the battlements and threw grenades frantically at the city, and they didn't have time to check the results of the battle, and the rumbling explosions came and went.
Soon a large number of corpses fell at the city gates.
The general of the dinosaur people had a gloomy face, and at least thousands of Ming warriors were killed in this round of attacks on his side, and such huge casualties were basically the same as the war in the countries of the Old Continent.
The attack on the west gate was the most violent, and the south gate guarded by Shi Yue was also facing the attack of the dinosaurs.
In order to share the pressure of the West City Gate, the Dinosaur People sent 10,000 men to attack the South City Gate.
The gate of the south city gate has been cut off by a stone thrower, and the broken city tower is on fire, and the strong smell of blood in the air all shows the tragedy of the battle here.
The dinosaurs who attacked the city wall gathered more and more, and it was obvious that it became a key target for the enemy, and a large number of corpses fell at a distance of less than ten meters.
The fallen soldiers of two different races were piled up into a mountain of corpses.
The dinosaur man crossed the pile of corpses and grinned, and the enemy was wrapped in hard armor, leaving the human soldiers helpless, and the steel knife slashing on it did no harm at all.
The bloody soldier pounced on the dinosaur man's body, but the enemy in front of him, who was like a steel monster, although he was wearing heavy armor, was indeed extremely agile, kicked the human soldier away, and cut off the soldier's head with a backhand.
The headless corpse fell heavily with blood sprayed on it.
The humans who had just come from the wilderness had not yet faded from their ruthlessness, and the splashes of blood and scattered stumps had not affected their courage.
The soldiers in front fell, the soldiers in the back pounced, and under the attack one after another, four or five soldiers seized the opportunity to fly on the enemy's body, and forcibly pressed the enemy to the ground with the weight of their bodies.
The dinosaur man's heavy fist hit the soldier's body, denting the helmet on his head, and even though the soldier spat blood from his mouth and his eyes were full of gold stars, his hands strangled the dinosaur man's neck to fight for the rest of his companions.
The steel knife passed through the slit in its neck, and with a muffled crack of bone, the dinosaur man's head left its body and rolled off like a leather ball.
But there was more than one enemy in heavy armor like this, and it took a lot of effort to barely kill one, and the enemy behind him killed these soldiers in the blink of an eye.
The soldiers poured in, and after a lot of fighting, they finally succeeded in driving the enemy off the wall, and at this time, the narrow wall was full of lodging corpses, and there was not even a place to stay, and the internal organs were mixed with blood, making the wall under his feet extremely slippery.
The city gate was under the attack of various city defense equipment, and after the enemy paid heavy casualties, he finally gave up the attack and slowly retreated.
The sun was setting in the west, the battlefield was filled with gunsmoke, and the broken flags were planted crookedly on the ground, burning with sparks.
The enemy's attack began at noon and did not gradually subside until dusk, and the retreat of the dinosaur people gave Guiyu City a rare respite.
On the city wall, the soldiers rested on the battlements tiredly, and today's battle was extremely tragic, so that human beings, who had experienced such a large-scale war for the first time, felt the horror of war for the first time.
Human life is barely insignificant in such a war, and the blood on the walls has been cleansed, and a fire has been lit to dispel the coldness of the night.
Shi Zhao and the others listened to the casualty figures reported, and their faces were extremely solemn.
More than 700 soldiers were killed in today's battle, nearly 2,000 wounded, and nearly 10 percent of their troops were lost in just one day, which made the two men very unoptimistic about the future defense.
Although with the advantage of the city wall, the enemy's losses were much greater than those of the human side, but the enemy's huge number of troops did not reach the level of breaking the bones at all.
"If reinforcements don't come, we're in danger." Shi Yue said in a deep voice.
Zhao Jian nodded and said, "Calculate the time, the two marshals are almost here, we can only try our best to hold on." ”
"Hey, the dinosaur people came too suddenly this time, the two marshals will gather the troops in the north, it will take at least a month, can you and I hold on for that long?" Shi Yue sighed.
"I can only do my best, even if the soldiers are dead, aren't there still people in the city, and they won't survive after the city is broken, I don't believe it, so many people can't beat them." Zhao Jian said fiercely.
Shi Yue nodded and said, "I'll go to the Guiyu Prefect in a while, and ask him to tell the people about the situation, and we must not lose Guiyu City." ”
The next day, the dinosaur people did not launch a large-scale attack, and after firing a few shells, they quietly became silent, which made Shi Zhao and the others very strange and did not know what the enemy was doing.
Yesterday's attack, although it did not hurt the dinosaurs, but the number of casualties also made their generals feel painful, in the face of such a strong city, if they want to attack it, unless they spell out the death of the general manpower to attack it, this is the price they can't afford.