Volume 1 The Quiet River Section 7 Rain of Arrows
With a "release", a white rain of arrows rose from the Baoji Village, flying through an arc trajectory and falling towards these armored sword and shield soldiers. The sword and shield soldiers, who had already been prepared, hid their heads behind the shields, and while protecting their heads, the round shields also protected the vital points on their chests.
The arrows under the influence of gravity had already begun to land, and most of the feathered arrows that hit the people were glued to the shields and armor, and the few threatening arrows were gently broken by the sword and shield soldiers with their shields.
The sword and shield soldiers stood in the rain of arrows as if bathed in the nectar of spring, and only about two of them fell to the ground from arrows in the legs. By this time, the archers and spearmen behind them had already stood up and formed an attack formation.
This situation made Zhao Hong very worried in his heart, and the enemy's sword and shield hand was obviously consuming Zhai Ding's physical strength. The average archer is exhausted with a dozen arrows. However, the pavilion chief had to give the order to release the arrows, which showed that the morale and discipline of the Zhaiding were very suspicious.
About fifty paces from the wall, the enemy's sword and shield soldiers were still approaching. The archers of Baoji Village poured two more feathered arrows at the sword and shield soldiers who were getting closer and closer, which only caused three enemy soldiers to fall with arrows in the legs, and some brave sword and shield soldiers even broke the shafts of their arrows and continued to follow the group. At the same time, the archers behind followed quickly.
It was only thirty meters away, and only a "rush" was heard not far away, and the thieves' archers rushed to the wall from a distance at a speed of 100 meters. The strong men on the walled wall also noticed the strange situation, and desperately poured a rain of arrows towards the running archers, and suddenly more than a dozen archers fell to the ground with arrows, and the archers behind them ran over them mercilessly.
Two steps behind the sword and shield men, the charging archers dropped their last momentum one by one knee. While being sheltered by the sword and shield soldiers, the glittering cold light on the bow in his hand had already pointed to the strong man on the wall.
Along with the standard kneeling movements of these archers, hundreds of bowstrings immediately thunderclaped, and a rain of arrows on a larger scale rushed towards the walls of Baoji Village. The lightning-like white feathered arrows were like a flock of white doves flying towards them, bringing not peace, but death. The fierce feather arrows suddenly shrouded the wall in a white expanse.
The close-range shooting immediately caused serious casualties to the villagers, and more than 10 people fell from arrows, accompanied by screams one after another on the wall, which dealt a serious blow to the already shaky morale.
After the catastrophe, the villagers who survived the disaster looked for wooden piles, stomping on walls and other places to hide their figures, which made the next round of feather arrows that returned was very sparse, and only about five or six enemies fell. And the enemy archers replied, and the feather arrows caused nearly ten strong men in the stockade to fall.
After repeating it several times, the tragic casualties made Zhai Ding no longer dare to lean out to attack, and he did not have the courage to shoot. The strong men who have lost the ability to fight back have been suppressed by the enemy's archers and cannot raise their heads, so that they are no longer threatened by the siege actions of other classes of thieves. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the strong man with the siege equipment also followed.
Zhao Hong, who was located on the right side of the walled gate, was also holding the door panel at this time, struggling to support it under the enemy's arrow rain. Just now, Zhao Hong felt like raindrops falling on the eaves, and the dense sound of "Tingting" came through the door panel, which made the right hand holding the door panel slightly numb.
Fortunately, Zhao Hong's team had a door panel covered, so the personnel were intact. The people next to him were not so lucky, there were already three people who had been hit by arrows, one of them was shot through his left eye, rolling on the ground in pain and screaming heartbreakingly, and then rolled straight down from the wall, and the others around him shuddered.
"Cao Peng, Liu Song, the boss of the Wang family. Shoot these dogs. Wang Ming and I cover you. Seeing that the enemy's arrows were no longer so dense, Zhao Hong shouted hoarsely and covered Cao Peng, who had already lowered the door panel beside him, with the door panel at the same time. At the same time, the eldest of the Wang family was also firmly covered by his younger brother Wang Ming with a door panel.
A door panel also rushed towards Liu Song, and Zhao Hong, who was surprised, looked at it and saw that it was Li Yong. Just now, Li Yong was also shot by the enemy's arrows and couldn't hide his body, so he hurriedly hid under the door panel of the boss of the Wang family to avoid the rain. Just as the boss of the Wang family took the bow and arrow from his waist and lowered the door panel, Li Yong saw that Liu Song was uncovered, so he grabbed the door panel and rushed over.
The recuperated trio drew their bows and arrows from their waists. He quickly aimed his bow and arrow at the enemy below, and before he could fully see the enemy's face, he had already released his bowstring. The enemy archers, caught off guard, were immediately sniped by three white feathered arrows at close range.
The two fell immediately after being shot with a hunting bow. The enemy archer who was hit by the recurve compound bow was not so lucky, and suddenly his body was firmly nailed to the ground, and the archer, who could not die for a while, waved his hands and feet and struggled for a long time before finally swallowing his breath.
"Don't observe the results, come back quickly!" Zhao Hong shouted at the three of them. Before Cao Peng could fully retract his body into the cover of the door panel, five or six feathered arrows had already swooped down on the position he was standing just now. While the shaft of the arrow was deeply pierced into the side of the wall, the white arrow feathers were still trembling like a blooming lily.
"Ahh A miserable scream sounded, and Zhao Hong turned his head to see that the boss of the Wang family, who couldn't retreat, had been hit by an arrow in the chest. "Cut off the shaft of the arrow on your brother's chest, and don't pull out the arrow." Zhao Hong shouted anxiously at Wang Ming, the second child of the Wang family, for fear that he would make a mistake and not know the reason, and added, "Otherwise, the wound will continue to bleed, and if you lose too much blood, it will be dangerous!" ”
The grappling between Zhao Hong and the others and the enemy archers could not seriously hinder the enemy's siege operations. Already attracted by the archers, the Zhaiding had no time to care about the enemy who was carrying siege equipment.
Without the threat of feathered arrows, the ladder thieves had the time to lay more than a dozen short ladders on top of the trench, and the six-foot-long trench trench had already set up a path.
The trenches were followed by spearmen carrying long ladders, and they were seen to cross the trench without stopping. At the same time that the spearmen reached the bottom of the wall, seven or eight flying ladders also quickly stood up, and the long hooks on them had firmly bitten the battlements.
While many of the ladders had not yet been stabilized by the thieves of the escalators, the first dead men hidden among the spearmen had already jumped up the ladders.
Each of these pioneers had short knives in their mouths, and they could climb faster than the agile bodies of monkeys without the drag of armor. In the blink of an eye, he was already close to the wall.
They were followed by spear-wielding thieves, with only one escalator making them less agile than the first to die. But their spears, always prepared, were ready to crush the enemy who came into range.
(I reacted two sentences, why are there so many forbidden words on the vertical and horizontal!) A lot of forbidden words I don't know why? For example, I replaced all the content with the boss of the Wang family, because Wang Ming's brother is a prohibited word, why is a person's name banned? I'm very puzzled, and there are many more that I can't say, because I can't post them at all, and I don't know if other authors have this problem. Let's report it to the editor. )