Chapter 90: The Hammer

"I was a carpenter, and I finished the war, but now you're in my hands." Rushing at the army of more than 2,000 stragglers, Ye Tao said. His expression was so indifferent, as if he wasn't going to lead them to a bloody bath, but to a sauna. "The western wall has been beaten for two hours, and the north and south sides have been beaten for a while. There are still enemies lining up behind them waiting to attack. The 2,000 heavy infantry are now too tired to fight, and it is up to us to fight for two hours. If you don't want to die at the head of the city, say now, when you get to the city, I don't bother to send any overseers. It's not interesting to cut off your own head. …… No one? That's the best. Ascend the city in batches and replace several banners of heavy infantry. Will play the god arm bow and stone cart, and the ballista will hurry up and hand over. Remember, two hours. If we can get through it, then tonight will be over, and if we can't, everyone knows the consequences. ”

Ye Tao's "mobilization" made everyone look at each other. But Ye Tao's current mentality is indeed like this, for him, dying in battle is not a too bad ending. But his posture of wearing armor at the moment, casually holding a stone hammer, and the flatness and truth of his tone, still made everyone feel reassured. The blood stains on the stone hammer that could not be washed away and had become black made everyone understand that this was a general who would follow them to fight hard. As for the identity of "carpenter...... , right? This is what the vast majority of soldiers think.

Ye Tao's opening in the city is magnificent. His hammer smashed into the shield of Captain Xiling, who had rushed to the head of the city with a shield. The shield shattered. The lieutenant let out a scream and fell to the head of the city.

"All the Blood Qi Army will go down to the city, and we will take over here." Pulling Qiu Haohui over, Ye Tao commanded.

"I can't go down." The gorgeous cloisonné decoration on the heavy armor on Qiu Haohui's body has been covered with a thick layer of blood.

"You can't even walk. Give it to me. Ye Tao waved his hand and asked people to put Qiu Haohui down.

When the miscellaneous army led by Ye Tao landed in the city to fight, it was just when one battalion on the Xiling side was crippled and was gradually shrinking while another battalion was taking over the offensive. Didn't run into too many obstacles. The two thousand stragglers took over the entire western wall. And according to everyone's previous troops, they each took up their weapons and began to enter the battle in an orderly manner. Among the 2,000 people, there are more than 200 non-commissioned officers and officers from the Blood Qi Army, who will become the backbone of the organization's defense.

Looking at the waves of enemies under the city lined up one by one and began to storm the city wall, Ye Tao couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart: "Damn! How did you run into the elite? ”

From the first batch of enemies to rush through the three-dimensional strike of a variety of ranged weapons, the enemy can attack the walls continuously. Although the whole process will still be constantly attacked and harassed by long-range weapons, due to the different proficiency of the soldiers in the city. and the need to constantly adjust the target, which can no longer form a salvo, this piecemeal attack, although the casualties are increasing, are not as shocking as when the salvo is started.

This group of Xiling soldiers who attacked was no different from the previous waves of enemies in terms of equipment, but they were different at a glance. From assembling beyond the range of ballistas and catapults, to rushing to the bottom of the city and erecting ladders and starting to climb, the offensive came faster than before. Xiling has no way to organize archers to concentrate on projectiles now. But in this round of the offensive, the scattered archers mixed in the ranks of the infantry, concentrating on the constant blind fire at the castle heads around the ladder. Arrows with long, narrow white tail feathers crushed the soldiers, who were now obviously not well armoured, and could not lift their heads. The other side also seemed keenly aware that the physical strength of the heavy infantry could not withstand it, and knew that now in the direction of their main attack, there was only a much weaker defensive force in comparison.

"Hold the left and right. Put them up in the middle of the ladder! "Can't go on like this, Ye Tao decisively ordered and changed the way of defense. Instead of letting the other party suppress them with arrows like this, it is better to fight whether the other party is faster to get into the city or the soldiers at the head of the city to kill faster. "Protect the equipment. Hand crossbow preparation. ”

The Xiling soldiers immediately rushed to the head of the city. The first thing they were greeted by a dense array of arrows from crossbows. Immediately, the wolf-like soldiers pounced on them, and the movements of those who were hit by the arrows were always slightly frozen by the wound, and these people were immediately pushed or thrown off the city. Gravity will do the rest. After a scuffle with the Xiling soldiers, the Xiling archers under the city had no choice but to stop shooting arrows at the city head where they could not see clearly, so as not to hurt their own people. But while the soldiers of Dongping were fighting, they drew out some of them and shot the archers who had already fallen to the ground at the head of the city with their crossbows. Leaning out of the city wall, he pulled the trigger when he saw the archers roughly aiming down, anyway, the enemy under the city was so dense that the possibility of missing was not very large. But many of the Xilingdi archers were unlucky in this way, almost helplessly, after all, they couldn't always shoot the guys poking out of the city wall with their bows full, and the wound hand crossbows were so fast that these archers didn't have time to react.

Wielding the stone hammer, Ye Tao gradually became a little fanatical. At first, he was a little scared. I saw hideous faces roaring and pounced on me. In his hand he wielded a snow-shiny and bloodstained knife. Fear is really an instinctive reaction. If you don't want to be killed, you can only swing the stone hammer in your hand and smash the frightening face.

One, two, three...... After solving a few enemies in the melee, Ye Tao even found a strange sense of rhythm in wielding a stone hammer. The panic in my heart turned into a dull one, and then gradually rose into a frenzy. As long as he saw where his comrades-in-arms were faltering to resist the attack, or a few people were besieged by more people, Ye Tao would instinctively pounce on him and smash the enemy with the hammer in his hand. There are no more moves, it is completely a desperate posture, and the well-made armor on his body can save him from being hurt to the greatest extent, but when he found that unless the enemy concentrates the weak points on the armor with positive force, although the knock will make him feel painful, but it will not really hurt him, he started everyone's exchange style of fighting, although Lu Dan, who followed him closely, was frightened, but this style of play was indeed the most effective for Ye Tao, who was not very skilled.

"Chop that one with the hammer!" The general of the city pointed to the head of the city and rushed to swing the stone hammer in his hand. Ye Tao, who knocked down a small soldier who could climb up to the top of the city like a whack-a-mole, ordered. Beside him, several masked soldiers in leather armor obediently took the order and jumped towards the ladder. Their steps were far lighter and more powerful than those of ordinary soldiers, and with a few taps of the ground, they followed the ladder to the top of the city, and their steps even stepped on the shoulders and heads of their comrades, but they seemed to be only a little light. There is no weight.

"Beware!" Rudan's exclamation was too late. At the same time as he exclaimed, three crossbow arrows had already shot towards Ye Tao one after another.

Almost subconsciously, Ye Tao raised his arm and turned sideways, but the crossbow arrow was still nailed to his body. Blocked by the tough armor and the copper mesh underneath the armor, a crossbow bolt bounced off, one stuck in the gap in the armor, and yet another was embedded in Ye Tao's ribs.

He let out a low roar. Like a wounded beast of prey. He snapped the shaft of the arrow and without hesitation lunged at the enemy of unknown strength.

Lu Dan wanted to rush up to protect Ye Tao, but was entangled by two Xiling soldiers who had climbed to the top of the city. He quickly cut through the two miscellaneous soldiers and hurriedly rushed forward.

Those masked soldiers are the secret force of Zang Keming, the commander of the Moshui Battalion, and they are always in the middle of a big battle to capture the pass. Snipe important opponents. This is known as a group of men and horses in the Wolf Guard, and there are less than twenty people under Zang Keming's command, and now, in such a battering battle with great damage, he has invested six people at once. It's already a huge gesture. And the general under the head of the city instructed the wolf guard to raid Ye Tao, but he can be regarded as a good person.

If Ye Tao's mind was still tightened with the strings of reason, he would never pounce and fight such an enemy, but the continuous death of enemies and comrades-in-arms had already broken this string of his body. The two wolf guards pounced on one left and one right, and instead of the broadsword, spear, scimitar, or short sword used by ordinary sergeants, they held a deep blood groove without a gauntlet.

Ye Tao's strength was unexpectedly great, and a wolf guard actually didn't block Ye Tao's hammer. It was in this wolf guard that he took two steps back. The leg rested on the female wall behind him, and at the moment of balancing the center of gravity, the Dongping soldiers, who were already very accustomed to finding a cheap pick-up, killed the wolf guard on the spot with a stab, and threw the body off the city.

Mo Shui Ying is Zang Keming's disciple soldiers, especially the few but countless wolf guards among them, almost everyone has their own unique skills. These people are put on the rivers and lakes. may not be a master. But in the army there are skills and means of doing things in the army, on the battlefield. These people can play the role of the so-called first-class masters several times. Throwing the wolf guard into a bloody and simple siege battle, Zang Keming was indeed angry. This wolf guard who hung up immediately has made Zang Keming's heart ache for a long time.

Ye Tao is a rookie after all, and his bravery and the careful and solid armor on his body can indeed make him invincible when facing ordinary soldiers, but once he faces the wolf guards who have been on the battlefield for a long time and are already familiar with the fighting, he will inevitably fall into a crisis. As if in an instant, a wolf guard invaded Ye Tao's back, and his palms slammed on Ye Tao's back, and then he turned over and jumped away very confidently, dodging the spears in the hands of the surrounding Dongping soldiers, and then jumped directly off the city. The wolf guards, who knew that they were not good at this kind of meat grinder-style fighting, withdrew from the current battle as soon as they saw that someone had succeeded, and although the walls of White Rock City were not low, they were not very high for them.

Ye Tao fell. The two palms in the back were not painful for a moment in the middle palm, and the powerful impact of the random arrival of Pei Ran Mo Yu reminded Ye Tao of the mechanical stamping machine that was placed in a workshop in Danyang and has now become the treasure of many technical officials of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry. Almost immediately, he spurted out two mouthfuls of blood and fell limply to the ground.

"Ye Tao!" Lu Dan grabbed it, his face full of anger. But after all, this is a battlefield, years of military training, the princess's palace guards and the nature of playing tickets to participate in the many exercises of the two armies to check the palace have made him a little accustomed to the various casualties that may occur in such a confusing place as the battlefield, but once it really happened to the people around him, especially the object of his duty, he still broke out in an instant.

Regardless of life or death, he brushed a few knives to get him closer to the place where Ye Tao fell, but the surging war group rushed him away again. Just as a Xiling soldier was holding a spear and piercing Ye Tao to the ground, a guy in coarse cloth overalls on the side grabbed it. kicked the Xiling soldier away with one kick and pulled Ye Tao down.

Lu Dan knew this person, he was too familiar. This guy is an apprentice sent by Ye's workshop in the barracks of the Blood Qi Army, responsible for the repair of various equipment, this time the Blood Qi Army attacked with the whole army, and was not going to bring these "non-combatants", but most of the apprentices still came, and they also played a great role in building the pontoon bridge. But Rudan didn't expect it. Among these apprentices, this guy named Xu Ping is actually a master. Looking at the majesty of the kick he kicked out, and the arc of the poor Xiling soldier flying out, it is probably impossible to have ten or twenty years of skill, but no matter how Xu Ping looks at it, he is twenty-five or sixteen years old.

"I'm from the Princess's Mansion." Xu Ping said that this immediately answered all of Lu Dan's questions. That magical princess, that great princess, how could she not arrange a few reliable guards by Ye Tao's side? "Master Lu. I'll take the young master down to settle down, and you command everyone to take a while first. I'll let General Yu come up. By the time Lu Dan rushed to Xu Ping's side, Xu Ping had already carried Ye Tao on his back. Regarding Xu Ping's statement, Lu Dan deeply agreed, although now Ye Tao is injured. It seems that he has fallen into a coma, but since there is someone like Xu Ping, he must be able to make a good arrangement. And Lu Dan, the most important duty now is to stabilize the battle formation. Don't let Ye Taodi's hard work be in vain, and don't let the deaths and injuries of so many brothers be in vain.

Rudan lifted the stone hammer. Nodding vigorously, Lu Dan shouted, inspiring the original stragglers who had fallen into a frenzy, wielding a stone hammer to save the field. Although the Moshui camp is the elite in Zang Keming's hands, no matter how elite the soldiers are, they can't compete with the desperate people. Although the Dongping soldiers on the city were becoming more and more sparse, the battle situation was strangely stabilized.

Not long after, Yu Kang, who had just withdrawn, rushed up with a team of people. Although Yu Kang was also tired and wanted to die. But compared to those heavy infantry of the Blood Qi Army who have been fighting for a long time in heavy armor, they still have some spare strength, and the group of people he brought with him can be regarded as the last civil servants in Baishi City to approve the battle, among these people are the guards of the city guard, the guards of his own palace, the subordinates who usually guard the city gate and do not belong to the military, and even the jailers of the Baishi City prison. The fresh force of nearly 300 people, regardless of their combat effectiveness, injected a new blood into the stalemate of the battle at the head of the city. With a three-plate axe that rushes and slams. A small section of the city wall was also recovered.

Finally, the Blood Qi Army still hadn't repaired for two hours. A little more than an hour and a half, Qiu Haohui came up with a part of the soldiers who claimed to have recovered, whether they were really recovered or just reckless and reluctant themselves, they couldn't care about it at this time. And Qiu Haohui, in desperation, also resorted to a super scoundrel tactic. A group of several heavy infantry rushed towards the most dense area of Xiling soldiers, and then the archers who followed behind covered the shooting, regardless of their own men or the enemy. The Blood Qi Army's heavy infantry was so well-organized that the perverted armor made them not worry about arrows at any angle, but the Xiling soldiers who were attracted to them fell one by one.

As more and more heavy infantry and archers returned to the battle, the all-night battle finally came to an end. When the great fire at the head and beneath the city was extinguished, and when the light reappeared on the horizon, one of the fiercest sieges since the siege ended. The Blood Qi Army, the defenders of Baishi City and the stragglers gathered were of course scarred and wounded, but the Xiling army was even more miserable, this night, all the troops were put into the round battle, including the Moshui Battalion, several main forces were disabled, and in just one night, the casualties of the Xiling army were more than 12,000. This figure was more than three times the loss of the defenders of White Rock City with the Blood Qi Army as the core, and the comparison of forces inside and outside the city had undergone subtle changes.

Zang Keming could only send a military intelligence document to Tong Bingwen asking for help, and Tong Bingwen was surprised by the strength of the Blood Qi Army, but he had no choice but to mobilize a large army to besiege Baishi City. The battle situation in Ningshicheng was stalemate, but Tong Bingwen chose to surround but not fight, in comparison, he still felt that it was more certain to take Baishicheng, which was weaker in terms of troops and city defense. In any case, he needs to have a strong support point on this front line, a city that can be used as a bargaining chip in the future.

This is just as Ye Tao and the others expected.