390, Battle of Breaking the Pass (2)
At this time, under the city wall of Fenglin Pass, the car that crashed into the city gate had already shattered the thick wooden city gate, but the Liu Biao guards in Fenglin Pass had also blocked the city gate with mud.
In this way, even if the city gate was broken by the pillar on the side of the Divine Arrow Battalion, and the hole in the city gate was also blocked by mud and debris, the soldiers of the Divine Arrow Battalion naturally could not directly rush in.
Obviously, Liu Biao's guards guarding Fenglin Pass can only use this means to protect the siege method of the Divine Arrow Battalion.
But even if the Divine Arrow Battalion can't directly break through the city gate with the cave house car and rush in, the soldiers around who are hiding in the cave house car and are digging the rammed earth city wall have already dug a big hole in the city wall, if they dig like this for a day, it is very easy to dig these rammed earth city walls down.
It can be said that there is no doubt that Fenglin Pass has been broken, that is, it has been a long time.
Listening to the continuous progress of the siege in front of him, Tai Shici couldn't help but hold his newly raised short beard and smile slightly, now such a tactic to attack Fenglin Pass will not consume too many troops of the Divine Arrow Battalion, but also justifiably delay time and attract Liu Biao's attention, which is really a matter of killing multiple birds with one stone.
However, Bao Long, who was checking the movements in Fenglin Pass on the Guanyin Pavilion, also sent a message that Liu Biao's defenders seemed to be using various means to build the second and third lines of defense in Fenglin Pass, obviously preparing to continue to resist the attack of the Divine Arrow Battalion in Fenglin Pass after the outer wall was destroyed.
At the same time, in order to prevent the troops of the Divine Arrow Battalion from turning over the Guanyin Pavilion and killing the rear of Fenglin Pass, there are also Liu Biao's soldiers building a wooden defense line under the northern slope of the Guanyin Pavilion.
This kind of reaction also made Tai Shici a little surprised, it seems that even if the pass wall of Fenglin Pass is dug down, it still needs to fight to get through this pass.
However, from this performance, Liu Biao's thoughts can also be analyzed, he is ready to use the outer defense line like Fenglin Pass to delay the time for Zhu Wei's army to attack Xiangyang City as much as possible, so that he can arrange more defensive means in Xiangyang City.
Of course, this is not something that Tai Shi Ci needs to care about, for Tai Shi Ci, a steady attack can attract Liu Biao's attention for Zhu Wei's main army.
In this way, with the progress of the war, Tai Shici only needs to send troops on the southern slope of Da Shou Mountain to guard against Liu Biao's soldiers coming down the mountain to sneak attack, and then he can move a horse to sit in the command area and arrange the war everywhere in an orderly manner.
Time passed little by little, and such a seemingly passionless battle went from morning to afternoon.
Soon there were soldiers in front of him, and they were about to dig through the city wall of Fenglin Pass.
At the same time, Tai Shici also ordered Bao Long on the Guanyin Pavilion to lead the troops to make a feint to attack the Liu Biao military camp under the mountain on the north slope of the Guanyin Pavilion, so that the Liu Biao soldiers had to divide their troops on both sides to slow down the offensive pressure of their own soldiers in Fenglin Pass.
In this way, after several military orders were transmitted, all places were also ready for battle.
Because Chen Ying, another subordinate of Tai Shi Ci, stayed on the side of Yicheng, so at this moment, Tai Shi Ci just let a brave military marquis take the lead, and the other military marquis commanded two thousand sword and shield men and one thousand crossbow archers rushed to the front behind the cave houses that were digging the city, waiting to enter the Fenglin Pass at any time.
On the wall of Fenglin Pass, there were no Liu Biao's guards, and they also discovered the movement of the inner wall of the city wall, knowing that the Divine Arrow Battalion had dug through the city wall, and it was meaningless to continue to guard here.
Therefore, the Liu Biao defenders on the outer wall of Fenglin Pass have basically retreated to the newly built second line of defense in Fenglin Pass at this moment, and are ready to continue to fight an offensive and defensive battle with Tai Shici's Divine Arrow Battalion soldiers in Fenglin Pass.
And because of the remaining barriers on the outer wall of Fenglin Pass, the siege equipment such as the rushing car, the cave house car, etc., on the side of the Taishi Cishen Arrow Battalion, could not be transported to Fenglin Pass in the first time, which also gave Liu Biao's defenders a certain defensive advantage.
However, this is also the way that the defenders on Liu Biao's side have no way out.
If there is a way, who is willing to throw away the condescending city wall and run to the pass to reconstruct the temporary defense line, the temporary defense line is definitely not as defensive as the city wall.
It's a pity that the battlefield doesn't care about this kind of compromise and helplessness.
Therefore, under the military order that Liu Biao's defenders could not easily retreat to Xiangyang City, they could only continue to find ways to block the pace of Zhu Wei's army to Xiangyang City.
Soon, after the soldiers digging through the outer wall of Fenglin Pass, the soldiers of the Divine Arrow Battalion rushed into the wall of Fenglin Pass through the holes dug out, and then about fifty steps away from the city wall, they encountered a temporary defense line that was two or three people high.
This temporary defense line was built by the defenders of Fenglin Pass who knocked down the houses in the pass, plus all kinds of miscellaneous things such as carriages and other miscellaneous things, and then covered with earth.
Although it looks relatively simple, it can be regarded as allowing Liu Biao's defenders to gain some condescending advantages.
Now that the soldiers of the Divine Arrow Battalion have entered Fenglin Pass, many Liu Biao soldiers who have already been prepared here have begun to shoot feather arrows at the sword and shield men who rushed into the Divine Arrow Battalion.
It's just that the sword and shield men on the side of the Divine Arrow Battalion also knew the situation in the pass for a long time, so these soldiers who dug holes in the city wall and killed each other formed a quadrangular shield array at the first time, protecting the sword and shield men and crossbow archers in the middle from being shot by feather arrows, and then moved towards the temporary defense line.
This kind of quadrangular shield array is usually based on a unit of more than 50 sword and shield men, and two crossbow archers are hidden inside, and it looks like an armored vehicle moving slowly.
The soldiers at the front used large shields against the ground, and the feather arrows of Liu Biao's defenders were not exposed at all, and the sword and shield hands in the back and on both sides used the double-arc hand shields in their hands to protect the top of their heads and bodies.
This is also a great test of the coordination of the army's soldiers, and it is a battle formation tactic that can only be realized after hard training.
But the soldiers on Zhu Wei's side can basically do this kind of cooperation, because the army on Zhu Wei's side can use the Three Kingdoms game system to assist in training, and after the training degree is as high as 100, this kind of cooperative combat is almost a move that penetrates into their soul instinct.
"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!" "Get on the spear, use the halberd, don't let them rush up!" ”
"Kill!" "Rush! ”
For a while, the sound of killing rumbled in this Fenglin Pass, but Liu Biao's defenders were obviously a little irresistible in the face of the attack of the soldiers of the Divine Arrow Battalion, and this simple defense line was about to be broken through in a short time......