Chapter 76: Tug of War
The Wuhuan did not attack that day.
The next day, another team of soldiers and horses drove over, it turned out to be 10,000 soldiers and horses who went to the Liao team to come back, and there were more than 10,000 Wuhuan cavalry surrounding Yejiabao.
The clouds of war shrouded Yejiabao, but the guard battalion on the city wall stared at it and did not move.
"King, this time I brought nine thousand soldiers, and the Liao team resisted quite strongly, losing a thousand men and horses." Bo Gen said loudly to Wushu.
The Wuhuan people of 14,000 surrounded Yejiabao and began a tentative attack that afternoon, first starting to fill in the third trench.
Ye Chen also carried out a tentative attack when filling the trench, but the effect was not good, and later they got some door panels from somewhere to cover the people who filled the trench.
In order to avoid wasting arrows, Ye Chen ordered to suspend the attack on the Wuhuan people and let them fill the first trench.
After filling the first trench, the Wuhuan cavalry began to move towards the second trench.
"Archer, shoot me."
When the Wuhuan people filled the second trench, Ye Chen decisively ordered the archers to shoot.
The Wuhuan people were not good at stubble, and their cavalry also began to shoot at the city.
The two sides come and go, so it's not lively, but there are many people on the other side, and the guard battalion is at a disadvantage all of a sudden.
"It's not going to work, it's too much of a loss." There were more than 2,000 bows and arrows in the guard battalion, and 10,000 were used by the other side to shoot arrows.
"Let the archers be concentrated, more than five hundred people in four directions, and a salvo will be fired, forming a rain of arrows."
Originally, the entire Yejiabao was surrounded, and the archers were scattered in various places, but this was too much of a loss, and the lack of arrow rain would have limited damage to the Wuhuan people, and it was easy to be suppressed.
When Ye Chen gathered the archers, the effect was obvious, and when the arrow rain fell, the Wuhuan people were useless whether they blocked or dodged, and the lethality of the arrow rain was immediately reflected.
"Warriors, let the despicable Han people see how the warriors of our steppe shoot arrows."
Ushu ordered the Wuhuan cavalry to start a counterattack, and they organized a rain of arrows twice as large as the escort battalion to attack the escort battalion.
After all, there are many Wuhuan people, and the guard battalion has been suppressed, but the guard battalion has done a good job of protection, although there are arrows from time to time, there are many injuries and few deaths.
The Wuhuan people did not wear armor at all, did not have any protection, and once they were shot by bows and arrows, they were either killed or wounded, and the casualties were many times greater than those of the escort battalion.
Ye Chen asked all the armor made of stainless steel for the archers to wear, and the Wuhuan people were in the position of this second trench, and the bow and arrow were not powerful enough to penetrate the armor.
"What, why is this happening, cunning Han people." Wushu was satisfied at first when he saw his own people suppressing the opponent's archers, but a quarter of an hour passed, and the opponent's arrow rain did not weaken and still maintained its original intensity.
Every round of arrow rain down, the Wuhuan people will kill and injure dozens of people, and after a few rounds, hundreds of Wuhuan people will be reimbursed, which makes Wushu very angry.
The Wuhuan people had no choice but to accept this loss, but the progress of their ditch filling was not very fast, not much faster than the previous speed of Utun, there were fewer Utun people at the beginning, just filled a few passages, and this time there were many Wuhuan people, and all the ditches must be filled.
"The loss of arrows is too great." Ye Chen, who was watching the battle at the head of the city, knew that this round of bow and arrows was fired, although the effect was good, but the loss was too great, more than 2,000 arrows in one round, and one-third of Ye Chen's arrows were consumed in more than a dozen rounds.
"Collect the bows and arrows from the city, and send the bad ones to the blacksmith's workshop for repair, and there are not enough people for them to draw from the village, and they need to draw as much as they need."
In this wall defense battle, the role of the bow and arrow is the greatest, and it cannot be carried out without the bow and arrow, whether it is offensive or defensive.
Although Ye Chen's loss is greater, the loss of the Wuhuan people will not be much less than Ye Chen's, but they have brought a large number of arrows, but they are basically pure losses, and they have no way to replenish them.
The second trench was filled in by them, but at the cost of more than a thousand dead and wounded.
There was also the last trench, but at this time Wushu had no idea of attacking the last trench, because his warriors were tired and had fought repeatedly, and now they couldn't attack for a long time, and their morale was a little low, so they chose to rest.
The Wuhuan people retreated, and Ye Chen also hurriedly let the soldiers rest, and his arms were numb from high-intensity archery.
Although the Wuhuan people are born warriors, many of them have no advantage compared to the escort battalion, and they have no strength to continue to attack after more than an hour of drawing bows and shooting arrows.
"Lord Taishou, why did this Wuhuan people run to besiege Yejiabao?" The people in Xiangping City now know that the Wuhuan people retreated to fight Yejiabao.
"Maybe Yejiabao has something they like." Li Wei would never have thought that it was because Ye Chen had eaten too many of their troops and raised troops to retaliate.
Li Wei also thought that Yejiabao was too rich and was coveted by the Wuhuan people, after all, they went south to plunder.
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Calm returned to Yejiabao, Ye Chen asked a few people to observe on the city wall, and the rest went to the tents under the city wall to rest, the soldiers needed to have enough physical strength to deal with the high-intensity battle, Ye Chen knew that the battle situation tomorrow would be very fierce.
That night, the Wuhuan people did not attack again, and Ye Chen did not plan to attack at night.
The next morning, the Wuhuan people got up, and after eating, they began to attack.
"Kill!"
With an order, the Wuhuan cavalry began to charge, and after entering the range of bows and arrows, all the cavalry began to throw, and the arrows rained down, and the guard battalion on the city wall hurriedly held up their shields.
Ye Chen used the overlord halberd to push away the flying arrows and looked at the cavalry charging below.
The first round of arrow rain did not have any effect, the guard battalion on the city wall was already prepared, and soon the second round of arrow rain came down, hitting the shield ding, some of them had already passed through the shield, but they could not give the guard battalion any damage.
"Archers, rain of arrows attack."
Seeing that the Wuhuan cavalry was almost in front of the last trench, Ye Chen decisively ordered a counterattack.
After a round of arrow rain, many Wuhuan cavalry fell off their horses one after another, and after falling off their horses, they were trampled by the cavalry behind them and became meat puree.
The Wuhuan stopped under the last trench and shot arrows at the wall.
At this distance, the bow and arrow are much more powerful, and they can already penetrate the armor, but the lethality is not enough after penetrating the armor, and the arrow usually only penetrates a little bit into the flesh, causing minor injuries.
After the Wuhuan cavalry took control of the situation and suppressed the bows and arrows on the city, the horses behind pulled bags of soil and filled the first trench.
This time they were smart, and with this large number of punching bags, they were fast.
But the rain of arrows from the escort battalion also gave them great damage, and they attacked close to the city wall, and the horses did not run, and for a time they suffered great losses.
"Run me in circles."
The Wuhuan cavalry moved and began to run in circles, shooting as they ran. It has to be said that the steppe people are born to ride and shoot, although the horses are circling in circles, but the accuracy of the bow and arrow is still there.
In doing so, they reduced their own casualties, but those behind could not come forward to fill the trenches.
"Shield defense, pause attack."
Their horses ran up, and if they shot at them again, the effect would be much worse, and Ye Chen didn't have many arrows, so they didn't dare to waste them.
Seeing that the counterattack on the city wall stopped, Wushu was very satisfied, and continued to shoot a few rounds, then let the horses stop, and the people behind wanted to come forward to fill the trench.
"Target, pit filling team, three rounds of rapid fire."
"Whoosh..."
A sudden rain of arrows shot from the city wall, and the teams that filled the pits were defenseless, and more than 200 people were immediately wounded.
"Ah, ah, I'm going to kill you, kill you."
Wushu looked at the retreating pit filling team, jumped to his feet angrily, and this round of attacks made more than 200 of his warriors not come back.
"Keep attacking for me."
This time, the Wuhuan cavalry did not run in circles again, and stopped to shoot at Ye Chen. Round after round of arrow rain was fired, both sides had to withstand a lot of pressure, and a large number of people were killed and injured in each round of arrow rain.
The injured escort battalion was constantly carried down for treatment, and some of them had several arrows on their bodies, but Ye Chen knew that they were not seriously injured, because many of them were injured by penetrating shields or planks, and the penetration of bows and arrows was limited at this time.
The last ditch was also filled, but this time the Wuhuan suffered even greater losses, killing more than 2,000 people. And Ye Chen's side also killed and injured nearly a thousand people, but most of them were injured, and only more than a hundred people died.
The attack stopped in the morning, and the Wuhuan people could not launch an attack at this time, they had killed too many in battle, and the warriors also needed to rest.
Taking advantage of this time, the guard battalion also hurried to rest and rest, and replenished the materials consumed, mainly because the arrows were consumed too much.
Ye Chen heard that the blacksmith workshop was working day and night, and many farmers volunteered to help, and many of the arrows shot by the Wuhuan people at the head of the city were just broken arrows, and the arrows were still good, so they were all collected and repaired.
There are also not enough shields, many of the door panels are full of holes, and they are full of arrows.
"Young master, the blacksmith workshop has sent a batch of shields." A soldier reported to Ye Chen at the head of the city.
Shields are a must, the bows and arrows of the Wuhuan people are too powerful, but the blacksmith workshop has been fully equipped a few days ago to create weapon armor and arrows, and it is indeed rare to be able to make a batch of shields at this time.
Ye Chen hurriedly went to take a look, where was the shield, it was the door panel, but two pieces of iron were added to the front and back of the door panel.
With two pieces of iron, the defensive power of this shield was greatly enhanced, I didn't expect them to come up with this method, Ye Chen was busy with the war and didn't pay attention to these.
With this batch of shields, the defense of the city has been greatly strengthened, and the Wuhuan people must pay a lot of price if they want to attack it.