Chapter 80: The Battlefield of Annihilation (12) The Bloody Battle of the Great Wall

The Qin army charged several times and broke some soldiers and horses, but never managed to capture a section of the city wall. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Li Xin came from his barracks and said to Wang Peng: "General Wang, the casualties of our army in such an attack are too great, and we must adjust our strategy as soon as possible."

Wang Peng held a torch and looked at the Great Wall of Zhao not far away and said: "Li Xin, our army will be able to break through the Great Wall if we concentrate on attacking one place, so that I will make a feint to attack the western section of the Great Wall to attract the Zhao army, you take your men and horses to quickly touch the southern section, and you will take half of the catapults here, so be sure to capture the southern section of the Great Wall."

Li Xin immediately walked to his military camp and quietly led all his men and horses to the south, and Wang Peng said to Ju Cheng and other generals who had just withdrawn: "The soldiers who are preparing to attack each hold a bundle of firewood and grass under the cover of a shield and put it into the open space outside the Great Wall to light it, and then collect the branches in the woods behind them to make torches, each person raises two torches to disrupt the formation, beating drums and shouting and throwing stones and arrows but not attacking."

The generals received the order, and Zhao Wu personally led fifty soldiers to rush up with a bundle of firewood and grass each, and the defenders of the city saw that the Qin army had attacked again and hurriedly released arrows to the city.

Zhao Wu and these fifty soldiers all raised their shields to cover themselves, Wang Peng saw that the arrows on the city fell and hurriedly ordered the catapult to throw stones, under the cover of the catapult, Zhao Wu and others successfully lit the bundles of firewood and grass and withdrew.

Clouds of smoke instantly enveloped the southern section of the Great Wall, and Yan Ju in the city saw the Qin army lighting the smoke, and expected that the Qin army would definitely increase the intensity of the attack, and before he thought about it, he heard the loud sound of flints hitting the city wall, and the chaotic sound of rain when random arrows were fired.

Yan Ju saw the light of tens of thousands of dotted torches under the city again, and soon a burst of shouts and killings accompanied by the rumbling war drums resounded.

The defenders of Yan Cheng desperately fought back at the city, and Yan Ju hurriedly transferred more than 10,000 soldiers and horses from Jiaocheng's southern city wall, and Li Xin, who was waiting for the opportunity under the southern city wall, saw that a large number of troops were transferred away, so he ordered all the soldiers to attack.

More than 100 of Li Xin's men threw ropes with flying claws onto the city wall, and thousands of Qin soldiers climbed up the ropes under the leadership of several captains.

A patrolling Zhao soldier saw that they were about to shout, and Li Xin saw a bow and an arrow that hit the man's eyebrows, and the Zhao soldier fell under the city wall with the arrow.

Li Xin climbed the city wall and led the troops towards the beacon tower, the Zhao soldiers on the Great Wall turned around to block, but were cut down to the ground by the Qin soldiers, Zhang Ying shouted to the soldiers on both sides: "Light the beacon fire, we will defeat the Qin army if we stick to this place."

Li Xin saw that the beacon fire had been ignited and thought: "Yan Ju will definitely come over for reinforcements after seeing the beacon fire, I must deal with these Zhao soldiers as soon as possible, and then kill them from the city wall."

Thinking about it, more than ten Zhao soldiers had already rushed in front of Li Xin, Li Xin dragged the four-edged and five-pointed spear to meet him, and swept the more than ten people to the ground in just two clicks.

Seeing this, Zhang Ying clenched the long knife with both hands and went straight to Li Xin, Li Xin swung his spear and swung it over, and the weapons of the two collided and made a sharp sound, and the huge impact made the two of them take a few steps back.

Li Xinxin pointed at Zhang Ying's spear and said: "Nameless young general, you are not my opponent, so you should surrender quickly, so as not to delay my time."

Zhang Ying panted and picked up the long knife again and rushed over, Li Xin shook his head and hit with a gun in both hands, and after the two fought for more than ten years, Zhang Ying felt that he couldn't resist the mahjong in his arms.

"Come and die," Li Xin smiled, and after finishing speaking, he shot Zhang Ying in the chest.

Zhang Ying quickly took a step backwards, but found that he had retreated to the edge of the city wall and had no way out, so he closed his eyes and silently waited for death.

At this time, there was a sound of fighting next to Zhang Ying's ears, accompanied by the sound of feather arrows grinding through the armor, Zhang Ying opened his eyes and saw Jiao Cheng commanding the Zhao army to counterattack.

It turned out that Yan Ju immediately ordered Jiao Cheng to lead 5,000 troops to support the southern city wall after seeing the beacon fire, and just as Li Xinting's spear rushed over and was about to stab Zhang Ying, Jiao Cheng grabbed the soldier's shield and threw it to hit the spear in Li Xin's hand, and hundreds of Zhao army crossbowmen also fired a volley at the Qin army.

Jiao Cheng shouted loudly: "Qin Gou Hugh hurts my brother."

Li Xin heard that Jiao Cheng actually scolded himself for being a "Qin dog", and was furious and led his troops to rush over, and the Zhao army's crossbowmen shot another rain of arrows and shot down dozens of people, Li Xin waved his spear to avoid the random arrows and rushed to the front of the Zhao army.

Thousands of Zhao troops surrounded and stabbed more than 100 people beside Li Xin to the ground, and Li Xin raised his gun and fired back under the protection of two spear and shield soldiers.

A lieutenant said to Li Xin: "General, the brothers are almost finished, let's quickly remove the Great Wall."

Li Xin said: "We can't withdraw, as soon as we retreat, I'm afraid that the offensive will collapse on the whole front, so we will retreat to the beacon tower to hold the Zhao army."

Wang Peng, who was on the west city wall, saw that the torches on the city tower had decreased significantly, and it was expected that Yan Ju had already divided some of his troops and horses to go to the south city wall, and took a breath towards the south and said: "Li Xin, this strategy is just for you to attract Zhao Jun, in fact, I am the real protagonist of this war, and if you don't die after the war, I will give you some credit."

Wang Peng shouted to all the officers and soldiers: "There is not a single soldier left in the whole army, and the infantry in the front and the cavalry in the rear all rush up to me, and I find that there are people who are running slowly."

Tens of thousands of Qin troops rushed up in a swarm after hearing the order, and on the southern city wall, Li Xin led the remnants of the army to support the beacon tower, and the entire beacon tower was completely surrounded by the Zhao army, and the soldiers around Li Xin were shot to the ground one after another.

Li Xin saw that it was not a way to go on like this, and hurriedly said to a captain

"Why can't General Wang's soldiers and horses come to reinforce it?"

"General, it seems that the Zhao army has no soldiers and horses to reinforce again, and General Wang led a large army to attack the city from the west."

"What, damn it......, fire the arrow for backup"

An arrow pierced the night sky with a sharp sound, and Zhao Wu, who was rushing to Wang Peng's side, saw it and said to Wang Peng: "General, the arrows have been released, it seems that General Li's situation is not optimistic, should we send troops to the rescue."

"What do you know, if we concentrate our forces to attack the western city wall like this, the Zhao army will soon be unable to resist, so we can not only break through the enemy's defense line but also relieve the siege of Li Xin"

After speaking, Wang Peng sped up and rushed forward, and the generals beside him didn't pay attention to the matter of the arrow.

Li Xin waited left and right, but he couldn't wait for reinforcements, so he said to the soldiers: "The reinforcements won't come for a while and a half, and those who want to live will rush out with me."

Li Xin immediately arranged a breakthrough deployment, and ten Qin soldiers took the fires in the beacon tower, and everyone worked together to throw these lit fires at the Zhao army.

For a while, thick smoke billowed and shrouded the beacon tower, and Li Xin led the soldiers to shoot arrows and rushed out. To find out if Li Xin can successfully break through, please see the next breakdown.