Chapter 46: The Battle of Jiangxia (4)

However, the Wei army was protected by iron armor, shields, and city walls, and those recruits who had never seen blood under the threat of death quickly learned how to protect themselves.

When the second wave of arrows of the Wu army hit, except for the kind of stunned species whose brains are full of muscles, most of the recruits and soldiers found a place to hide, and even if they did not find a recruit to hide, they immediately dragged the bodies of their comrades as meat shields.

Therefore, except for the first wave of arrow rain that caused large casualties to the Wei army, the subsequent waves of arrow rain strikes had little effect.

Twelve arrows were shot in full force, and the arrows of the quiver were missed, and the arms were so weak that the Wu army crossbowmen began to retreat.

At the same time, the soldiers in front of the formation immediately spread out in formation, quickly filling the passage previously reserved for the bow and crossbow to move forward.

"Hah!" The heavily armored warriors shouted, and Qi Qi raised his shield in front of him, because ...... The bows and crossbows of the Wei army at the head of the city have begun to pay tribute to the Wu army.

The rest of the Wei soldiers raised their heads from under their shields and battlements, opened their mouths, and slammed their chests while roaring wildly and demonstrating loudly at the Wu crossbowmen under the city.

The arrows that fell high and heavily fell from the Wei army smashed violently on the shields and heavy armor of the Wu army's heavy soldiers, making a crisp sound of ding dong dong, and the ding dong sound was occasionally mixed with a few muffled snorts of the Wu army's heavy soldiers, and the arrows shot these unlucky eggs from the necks and cracks, piercing their bodies.

"Humph! Belch! Yes! ”

From time to time, when the heavy pawns who were hit by the arrow fell to the ground, the soldiers in the back row immediately stepped forward to drag them to the rear for treatment, and filled the vacant position of the arrow-hit person.

The crossbowmen of the Wu army below the city looked indifferent and unmoved, and quickly retreated to the rear, almost unscathed.

After the bow and crossbow were withdrawn, the heavy soldiers of the Wu army scattered to both sides, and then thousands of light soldiers and dead soldiers poured out, each light soldier and dead soldier carried a sack, which was filled with dirt, and after leaving the battle, they rushed to the moat of Shiyang City.

Although the crossbowmen of the Wei army desperately suppressed, but the disadvantage in numbers, so that the Wei army could not stop the Wu army at all, less than half an hour, the Wu army's light soldiers, the dead soldiers filled in the moat to fill a few passages, and then the horn sound in the Wu army's array sounded again, in the impassioned horn sound, the dead soldiers, the people pushed ten ladders and siege vehicles to the east wall of Shiyang.

Around the ladders and siege engines were groups of light soldiers with halberds and swords, who were agile and swift and rushed through the passage paved with sacks, and rushed to the city walls in black pressure.

At the head of Shiyang City, the Wei soldiers also drew their swords and raised their halberds and pasted them in front of the plate stack.

War is on the verge of breaking out!

"Hey, ouch!"

"Hey, ouch!"

"Hey, ouch!"

The tragic siege battle finally began, ten ladders approached the city wall almost at the same time, dozens of strong people under the ladder immediately struggled to pull the ladder cable, the city rolled wood, stones fell like rain, there were Wu soldiers and people screaming and falling, and soon there were follow-up people to pick up.

In the sound of Wu Junminfu's trumpet, the upper half of the movable ladder that could be folded and moved slowly stretched in the air, and in less than a moment, it was inclined to press towards the head of Shiyang City.

"Boom! Boom! ”

With a few roars in the east city, five ladders have pressed on the head of the city, and the sound of the squeaking wooden bearing shaft turning, the upper and lower ladders are connected into an inclined passage to the head of the city.

The next moment, the light soldiers gathered by the ladder poured up the ladder like ants, howling and rushing up to the city.

Seeing that the cloud ladder had already landed at the head of Shiyang City, Ding Feng, who was immediately next to the chariot, immediately turned around and shouted to Sun Quan: "King, the people have put the cloud ladder on the city!" ”

On the chariot, Sun Quan still looked indifferent, nodded, and looked at the siege with a solemn expression, as if he was there.

"Let's go! Lookout Car! Leaving a sentence, Sun Quan turned around abruptly, got off the chariot, and strode towards the towering chariot in the center of the array.

When the generals heard the news, they all turned over and dismounted, and followed Sun Quan.

Under the car, Sun Quan's left hand was already leaning on the railing, and when he was about to climb the ladder, he suddenly turned his head to Sun Huan behind him and said: "Ji Ming, you go to the front and command the battle!" ”

"No!" Sun Huan was stunned for a moment, and then immediately clenched his fists and agreed.

The light soldiers of the Wu army attached themselves along the erected ladder ants, and the head of Shiyang City immediately started a melee with hand-to-hand combat.

"Kill!" Two light soldiers of the Wu army, lightly armored and holding swords, rushed up the stairs, and jumped up before they could take the last step, and pounced on the Wei army at the head of the city without fear of death. They were greeted by more than a dozen cold and sharp halberds that pierced like poisonous snakes, and stabbed into the chests and abdomen of the two light soldiers in a flash.

Huang Li's eyes widened, he choked a few times in his throat, and he was a little afraid, he had killed someone, this was the first time he had killed someone. He, along with the halberd of Pao Ze, penetrated the abdomen of the Wu soldiers who flew up at once. Just like killing a pig, the knife is sent to the pig's neck, and it is slightly stagnant and astringent, and then smoothly penetrates deeply.

A light soldier of the Wu army was killed on the spot, but the other light soldier did not die on the spot, accompanied by a painful wail of the beast's wounded, he threw the short sword in his hand with all his strength, and the Wei soldier in front of him could not dodge, and was hit by the throat, rising a blood mist, followed by a muffled sound of a heavy object hitting the ground, and the corpse was obviously planted on the ground.

And Huang Li was beside this Wei soldier, and the blood mist sprayed Huang Li's face, feeling the hot blood with body temperature on his face, Huang Li screamed, and he was stupid there.

"Hah!" A thunderclap suddenly sounded in his ears, and Huang Li came back to his senses, only to find that General Wen Ping had flashed in front of the battlement at some point.

Wen Ping's cold gaze glanced at the recruit, who could be seen to be still very immature, and quickly looked away and shouted loudly: "Destroy the cloud ladder!" Stop Wu Jun from ascending the city! ”

Immediately, Wen Ping raised the long knife in his hand and rushed towards a battlement where the Wu army was surging more and more, leaving only a sharp roar echoing in Huang Li's ears.

"Soldier, come with me!"

Huang Li was agitated and followed in a daze.

With the idea of attracting the defenders with the two light soldiers in front, a whole group of light soldiers of the Wu army has climbed to the top of the city.

When the light soldiers of the Wu army in Natun saw a general of the Wei army suddenly appear in front of them, they suddenly burst into flames, screaming and rushing up.

"Die!"

Wen Ping held a long knife and swept it, and a light soldier of the Wu army was cut in half on the spot, and the bloody, colorful belly and intestines were instantly sprinkled on the ground, and the Wu army light soldier was also hard, dragging his mutilated upper body to death, and struggling to raise the halberd to stab Wen Ping.

Wen Ping ignored it, raised his big knife and slashed into the crowd of Wu soldiers, but the half-cut Wu soldier was beheaded by the yellow scales behind him.

"Hah!"

It was another diagonal split, and the commander of Wu Juntun, who had come to pick up Wen Ping, was unloaded half of his body with a knife, and his halberd blade stopped forever in front of Wen Ping's heavy armor two inches!

At the same time as drawing the knife, Wen Ping took advantage of the situation and kicked hard, and the body of the Wu Juntun commander who flew backwards knocked over several Wu army light soldiers in a row, and all rolled down the city.

Three more steps and two steps to grab the battlement, Wen Ping's hand picked up the knife and slashed on the ladder.

A thin layer of iron wrapped in the wooden edge of the ladder could not block the sharp blade at all, making a "click" crisp sound, and the power of a long knife weighing twenty catties was no less than that of chopping with a heavy axe, how could it be blocked by a thin iron sheet.

In the sound of "click", the wooden edge of the ladder broke in response, lost the confinement of the top barb, and the ladder at the head of the city fell weakly under the city. Dozens of Wu army light soldiers who were climbing on the ladder screamed and fell down the ladder.

The hundreds of Wu soldiers who were crowded next to the ladder couldn't dodge, and were smashed on their bodies by their fallen comrades, and dozens of people were immediately crushed and seriously injured.

With the exemplary soldiers of Wen Ping, the Wei troops on the east gate were inspired by the heroic and fearless performance of their own generals, and their morale was high, and they broke out into a tsunami-like cheer.

Then they relied on the gourd to draw a scoop, scrambling to destroy the ladder car of the Wu army, and there was no follow-up continuous force, and the remnants of the Wu army on the city immediately fell into a dilemma, and then they were annihilated by the Wei soldiers who swarmed up.

Looking at the car, Sun Quan's joy at Wu Jun's successful landing in the city had faded, and his expression was a little gloomy.

The Shiyang city wall is more than seven feet high, and the city wall is more than seven feet high, and the scene of the city head is unobstructed, but the Shiyang City, which is far from being able to compare with the city walls of Chang'an, Luoyang and Chengdu, seems to have become a moat that cannot be crossed.

Since ancient times, fighting and attacking fortifications has been a big problem!

There is no doubt that today, the first tentative offensive ...... Failed!

Shouldering his hands, Sun Quan ordered lightly in a tone without joy or sorrow: "Blow the trumpet, withdraw the army!" ”

Suddenly, a low and vicissitudes of trumpets sounded in the formation of the Wu army......

"Doot~Doot~~"

In the low and distant sound of the horn, the light soldiers, dead soldiers and people of the Wu army who were originally crowded under the city wall turned around one after another when they heard the sound, pushing ten broken ladder trucks and seriously damaged siege vehicles to slowly retreat.

At this point, the first attack of the Wu army had been completely repulsed.

At the same time as the Wu army retreated, the Wei soldiers who crowded the city raised their heads to the sky and roared, and the huge cheers almost wanted to shatter the eardrums of the Wu soldiers.

The people of Wen Ping also smiled happily, the morale of our army is available, but the spirit of the Wu army has been lost.

Under the city, the Wu army was in front

Seeing the unscrupulous ridicule of the Wei army, Sun Huan's already ugly face became more and more ugly, the two armies paid attention to the battle, and there was no battle today, and if you want to capture this city in the future, you will have to fill it with human lives. exchange the lives of countless soldiers for a lonely city on the north bank of the river...... Normal people know how to calculate this arithmetic problem.

Sighing, Sun Huan didn't even have the last illusion of conquering Shiyang.