Chapter 108 Xianbei Koubian Eight
The horn of the Xianbei people gradually became urgent, and the war drums of the Han army on Xiangping City also sounded, and the battle was about to break out. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Archer prepare, three pitches, the first row ........" As the Xianbei people rushed to the range of the bow and arrows, one order after another followed.
Now the crossbowmen in Xiangping City, after nearly a year of careful training by Huang Zhong, have long been different from what they used to be. At the head of the city, the archers of the Han army shot their bows and arrows down the city wall in waves according to the tactics taught by Huo Yu, and then there were screams under the city.
The Xianbei people are all good at shooting, and they also start to fight back without showing weakness. However, the quality of the bows and arrows of the two sides was very different, and for a time, the Xianbei people under the city were suppressed by the Han army. Looking at the rain of arrows on the city, He Lian frowned and said, "How can this Han have so many archers? ”
Su Li also wondered, it was always the Xianbei archers who suppressed the Han army in battles with the Han army, but today he changed his opinion, and it turned out that the archers of the Han army were also so sharp.
After paying huge casualties, the Xianbei people gradually approached the city wall, and just as they were about to put the ladder on the city wall, they heard a sudden voice from the city: "Crossbowmen prepare, shoot!" ”
Under an order, a batch of crossbow arrows followed, and the penetration of the crossbow arrows shot by the big yellow crossbow at close range was not something that ordinary armor could block, not to mention that the Xianbei people did not have decent armor, and although a few people held leather shields in their hands, they could not block the crossbow arrows shot at such a distance.
Many people were shot to the core, and those who were lucky not to be shot to death were lying on the ground wailing in pain! This sound makes the besieging side heartbroken to listen to it, and the defending side to listen to it excited. After paying another wave of casualties, the Xianbei people finally rushed to the wall, and the ladders were leaned against the city wall, and the Xianbei soldiers who were stimulated by the blood roared and rushed up the ladders.
Then, there was no more, and none of the people who rushed up the ladder could climb the city wall. It turned out that the cunning Huo Yu increased the height of the Xiangping city wall in this year, and the ladders of the Xianbei people were all shorter. Can't go up, can't go down, Xianbei people on the ladder have become a good target.
The Han archers risked their lives to shoot straight ahead, and with every arrow they fired, a Xianbei man fell down the ladder. Over time, with the counterattack of the Xianbei archers under the city, the casualties of the Han army's archers began to increase. Seeing this situation, Huo Yu strictly ordered the archers to shoot with their heads out, anyway, the Xianbei people couldn't get on the city wall, and the archers could be responsible for the enemy in the distance.
He Lian in the back formation looked at the ladder and scolded his mother angrily! It was still Su Li who hurriedly gave the order to withdraw the troops. The Xianbei people retreated towards the corpses that had been thrown on the ground like a tide. The first tentative attack ended in a hurry, and the Han army at the head of the city rejoiced, and even stood on the battlements to pee down to provoke the big nerves of the Xianbei people.
"It turns out that the lord asked the city wall to be raised is what it means! It's boring, I haven't made a move yet! Zhang Fei said in hindsight.
"Report, my lord. The Xianbei of the other three gates has receded. Soon a guard came to report suddenly.
Huo Yu nodded, as if he already knew. Looking at Huo Yu's harmless smile, all the soldiers were categorically sure that the Xianbei people were going to be unlucky again! Why do you say it......
After all the Xianbei retreated, Huo Yu ordered all the soldiers to seize the time to rest and recover their strength, and the Xianbei people would not come again in the morning.
In the afternoon, the Han army, which had returned from eating and drinking, was awakened by the sound of the horn of the Xianbei people. After a short period of adjustment, the Xianbei people once again carried the ladder to kill. However, this time, the Xianbei people became cunning, and before the foot soldiers arrived, they sent cavalry to shoot at the city wall, but the Han archers in the city could not help them.
The war began to develop in the direction of favor and Xianbei. In fact, as early as when Huo Yu found that the archers couldn't help the cavalry, he ordered all the archers to hide. When the Xianbei ladder appeared at the head of the city, the foot soldiers of the Han army began to knock down the ladders one by one in groups of three or five, and each time they knocked down one, there was a scream under the city wall.
was pushed down again and again, and was erected again and again, and the perseverance of the Xianbei people moved the Han army. So Huo Yu ordered the use of stone and rolling wood to let the Xianbei people taste it. For a time, the entire battlefield was filled with the screams of the Xianbei people and the shouts of the Han army. The sun gradually went west, and the Xianbei people who had attacked for a day could not even go up the city wall, but Su Li knew more or less about the Han army's way of defending the city.
After a night's rest, the two sides went to war again! In today's attack, the Xianbei people came in formation, and prepared a lot of wooden shields as defense, of course, the Xianbei cavalry still suppressed the archers of the Han army first, and Helian and Suli were separated to the two city gates to supervise the battle.
"Being able to learn the tactics of battle in battle, this Suli is really different!" Huo Yu exclaimed.
"The lord deceived me, doesn't the lord want the Xianbei people to come in formation?" Guo Jia said with a smile on the side.
"Hahaha, you can't hide anything from Fengxiao!" Huo Yu shook his head and said.
Sure enough, the archers of the Han army who were mighty yesterday encountered a large area of wooden shield defense after the formation today, and Su Li secretly rejoiced in the rear army formation. Just when Xianbei was two hundred steps away from the military wall, the Han army at the head of the city suddenly launched more than a dozen strangely shaped things.
The next moment, Su Li dared to swear that thing was definitely a murderous weapon. When the thick arrows were shot out by the bed crossbow, the Xianbei people in the formation were in bad luck. One arrow goes down to a phalanx and there is a line missing, which is miserable, and the other Xianbei people who look at it have weak legs.
After two rounds of fire from the bed crossbow, the Xianbei people no longer dared to form a formation close to the city wall, and the formation dispersed, and this time the archers in the city began to shoot happily again. After thinking hard all night about the method, he actually made a wedding dress for Han Jun, and Su Li had a gloomy face.
"Report, Chief! Shamad Khan was killed .......," a scout rushed to report.
"What? How? Shamad Khan, this idiot! Cheng Lu returned to the west gate as soon as possible to take over the command of the place. ”
Looking at his nephew Chenglu returning to receive the order, Su Li said in his heart: "It's really a disadvantage for the teacher, and the father and son are bad for me." ”
How did Shamad Khan get killed? Speaking of which, he can only blame himself, bent on avenging his father, personally participated in the siege of the city, although he was lucky not to be killed by the bed crossbow, but was shocked by the power of the bed crossbow. At this moment, he was shot in the head by Huang Zhong with an arrow, and he died!
After the death of Shama Khan, the Xianbei people in the west of the city fell into chaos, and Zhao Yun took the opportunity to lead Feiyu to ride out of the city to kill. Zhao Yun took the lead, and wherever he passed, there was no enemy in Xianbei. The main general of his own side was born and died, and another fierce general appeared on the other side, and for a while, Ximen's Xianbei was even more chaotic, but fortunately, the number of people was superior, so Zhao Yun did not expand the results of the battle.
When Cheng Lugui arrived with his personal guards, the big camp in the west of the city was prepared for Zhao Yun's Feiyu Cavalry to ignite a large area, looking at the back of Zhao Yun and Feiyu's retreating in a dashing manner, Cheng Lugui gritted his teeth in anger!