Chapter 420: Attack and Defense
This offensive still failed, but Liu Bi was not reconciled, the 10,000 Sichuan and Shu soldiers he brought are now only 6,000, which can be described as heavy losses, while the defenders on the pass only suffered about 500 casualties, and the casualty ratio of both sides was eight to one, but at this moment there was no other way than a strong attack.
"General, do you want to continue the assault?" Zhang Yi, a general under Liu Xuan, came to ask for instructions.
"Attack! This level must be broken, otherwise, there will be no way out for Yizhou! Liu Bi replied categorically.
"No!" Zhang Yi bowed and withdrew.
After three days of rest, Zhang Yi led the men and horses to launch a fierce attack again, this young general from Wuyang County, Qianwei County is not yet a weak crown, but skilled in martial arts, steady in action, the art of war, quite a general's demeanor, is Liu Yi in the army under the command of the unearthed talents, deeply loved by him, this time by Zhang Yi personally led the attack, so that Liu Yi is also full of expectations.
"Woo~~" The horn of the warning sounded, and all the defenders of Jingzhou on the gate were ready to fight. Huo Jun stared at the Yizhou soldiers and horses who pounced below.
"Shoot the arrows!" Huo Jun shouted, the city wall and the lookout platforms on both sides of the arrow rain at the same time, shooting towards the enemy army that entered the firing range, Yizhou people and horses had already prepared, immediately raised their shields with their left hands to protect themselves, and more than a few people formed a shield array to advance together.
But there are always unlucky ghosts on the battlefield, and even if there is a shield to protect them, there are still many people who fall from arrows. Or if you are shot in the unprotected legs and feet, you will be shot as a hedgehog immediately if you stumble and expose your body. There were even arrows that drilled through the gaps in the shield, destroying a complete shield array, and immediately became the target of the Jingzhou army's massacre.
Just by reaching the city wall, the Yizhou army lost nearly fifty people, and this is still in the case of protective gear, if there is no protective gear, Zhang Yi can't imagine how many people will fall in this death zone.
Of course, not only the Jingzhou army has crossbowmen, the Yizhou army also has, just after the Jingzhou army shot a wave of arrow rain, the Yizhou army horse archers immediately launched, but the Jiamengguan city wall is very high, only half of the city wall can be shot, and the other half basically crashes into the city wall and falls, but this half of the arrows also poses a great threat to the Jingzhou defenders on the pass, because they have few people and can't afford to lose.
Taking advantage of the suppression of his own crossbowmen, Zhang Yi immediately commanded the cloud ladder and the crash car to advance, even if there were arrows shot down from the pass, but the pressure was significantly less, and after paying the price of more than 20 people, the Yizhou army finally reached the city wall.
"Boom!"
With a continuous roar, four or five ladders climbed the city wall, and immediately a sergeant began to climb upward.
"Knock the ladder down!" Immediately, the defenders ordered loudly.
But in reality, it is not easy to knock down a ladder. The ladder itself is made of thick trees, and the ladder is generally made of local materials, especially in the terrain of Yizhou, and it is impossible to transport a ladder from the Chengdu Plain to be intact. The newly cut trees were wet and heavy, and in order to be able to hold the walls, two curved iron hooks were often added to the top of the ladders, and once the walls were built, they were crawling with soldiers in the blink of an eye......
The weight of the person plus the weight of the ladder itself, it is really not so easy to push it away. Someone needs to smash the connected iron hook down first, and then a few people use a long wooden fork to hold the top of the ladder, and then push it outward, of course, only need to push it through the upright angle, and the rest of the matter will not be taken care of, even if the soldiers on the ladder do not fall, they will be either killed or injured by the heavy ladder.
Following the order of the military marquis, a nearby sergeant immediately came and rushed forward, using the wooden fork prepared in advance or the spear in his hand to push hard. But because the city wall of Jiamengguan is already tall, therefore, the ladder built by Liu Bi is even heavier in order to reach the height of the city wall. Seven or eight people didn't push it up, and then a total of fifteen or sixteen people pushed a ladder out.
"Ah~"
The Yizhou soldiers on the ladder screamed and fell, falling to the ground, like rotten meat after a mess, and there was no movement. The tall ladder fell backwards, and with a huge roar of "dong", smoke and dust rose on the ground, the ladder broke, and the Yizhou soldiers who couldn't dodge were immediately smashed into the dirt, and their broken bodies were mixed with the mud, which was miserable.
As the ladders were knocked down, Zhang Yi's charge was also contained, but fortunately, a newly acquired ladder was sent forward again and approached the city wall......
"Boom!"
A loud bang shocked everyone, it was the sound of the city gate being hit by the crashing wood, and the sergeant hiding behind the gate guarded the sound of the collision clearly heard a "click" of wood breaking.
"Whoosh!"
Huo Jun held a hard bow in his hand, and raised his hand to a man who was commanding next to the crashing car, and the man fell in response, and the attack on the crashing wood immediately paused. But Huo Jun also knew that the current city gate could not withstand several impacts, and once the city gate was breached, there would be only one way to fight hard, but the manpower under his command was getting smaller and smaller......
He had sent many distress letters to Hanzhong, but he didn't know why no reinforcements had arrived. But he knew that with his understanding of the lord Liu Yong, as long as he knew that at this time, reinforcements would definitely be sent, and he would definitely not sit idly by. There must have been something delayed.
Indeed, after the news reached Wei Yan's hands, Wei Yan was ready to send troops to rescue, but Pang Ji persuaded him that the matter should be reported to Xiangyang and decided, waiting for the news to be sent to Xiangyang, Liu Yong's injury was not yet healed, and a new practitioner Cao Peng did not look at it carefully, but just pressed it down as an ordinary table, and then waited for Zhuge Jin to find out that it was sent to Liu Yong, and many days had passed.
However, Huo Jun believed that Liu Yong would definitely send reinforcements to come, and he had been encouraging his sergeants, and at the same time, he had been encouraging himself, but unfortunately he didn't expect that the reinforcements that should have come early were delayed for a long time by his current subordinate Pang Ji.
The walls were tall, but they were not completely safe, and there were always enemy arrows that could hit the walls, hitting the defenders, and even more so that the soldiers could climb the walls from the ladders. At this moment, a cloud ladder was not pushed down in time, and two Yizhou soldiers had already jumped onto the city wall, and the Yizhou army under the city wall was greatly encouraged and rushed forward.
"Kill!" Most of these defenders were veterans, and they immediately knew that they had to defeat these enemies at once, otherwise, once more enemies rushed up, they would inevitably suffer endless trouble, so they immediately clenched their weapons and killed the enemy.
The Yizhou soldiers were obviously not ordinary sergeants, they were all centurions, they were strong, and they shot cleanly, and one of the defenders rushed up, and he was immediately caught by him and slashed to the ground.