Chapter Seventy-Nine: A Battle of Wits and Courage
"The Wind Word Team and the Lin Word Team are guarding the city with strong crossbows!"
"Obey!"
"Qiankun Zhenxun's four special operations squads, the city head moves freely, and gives priority to hunting down the small leaders and archers in the Yellow Turban Army!"
"Obey!"
"Wen hired 500 young people to carry arrows, bricks and other materials, there must be no shortage!"
"Obey!"
"Zhang Yan, take 10 medical soldiers and 100 young people, and if there are wounded, they will all be carried down to the city to the infirmary for treatment!"
"Obey!"
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One command after another came out of Wen Xiang's mouth, simple and short, clear and clear!
Compared with yesterday's appetizers, today is the beginning of the short-handed battle between the two sides, and the battle will be more intense and cruel!
The crossbow has successfully destroyed two wooden bridges, and hundreds of pioneers of the Yellow Turban Army have already carried ladders and lock hooks, using the remaining three wooden bridges, crossed the water, shouted an earth-shattering "kill", and began to officially attack the city!
The 500 archers sent by Zhang Mancheng to support also crossed the water, set up a formation not far away, and began to shoot arrows at the crossbow convoy on the city wall! Their purpose is to interfere with these extremely destructive machines and prevent them from continuing to destroy the wooden bridge that has been erected with great difficulty!
However, the effect doesn't seem to be noticeable!
Wenxiang has been prepared for this!
The mountain's shield protected the sergeants of the ballista well, and although there was some interference, it did not prevent them from loading the birch arrows and targeting the third wooden bridge!
And the four special operations teams of Qiankun Zhenxun are also eyeing this 500-person bow and arrow team! Concentrate your firepower and strike a major blow at this team! There are no repeater carts, they have hand crossbows! The range of the crossbow is not far, but relying on the height advantage of the head of the city, it is not difficult to hit the archers a little further below the city! What's more, the teenagers of these special squads are not those shooters who can only cover shooting, and each of them has a super high degree of accuracy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoNot everyone is a marksman, but their hit rate is definitely a lot higher than their opponents!
The archers of the Yellow Turbans, as long as they stand up and shoot, cannot protect their bodies with shields. Then, they will be shot by those tricky crossbow arrows above the wall, and they will be killed or wounded. Soon, more than 100 of the 500 archers who were regarded as elite archers by Zhang Mancheng suffered casualties, and the loss ratio exceeded 2 layers!
And at the head of the wall of Hejiabao, those crossbow cars are still in full swing! They just destroyed a wooden bridge! Now, only the last wooden bridge remains!
The Fengzi team and the Linzi team, who were in charge of defending the city, had already put away their crossbows, and the weapons in their hands had been replaced with yellow bricks! Follow the ladder and lock hook leaning against the city wall, smash a brick in your left hand and a brick in your right hand, and the hit rate and damage are no worse than that of a crossbow, and the cost of bricks is much lower than that of arrows! It's really a must-have thing to keep the city at home!
In the rain of bricks falling from the sky, these Yellow Turban soldiers who climbed with knives could not approach the city at all, so they were smashed down the ladder by the oncoming bricks! The head was broken and bleeding, miserable and inexplicable, but not dead. These wounded Yellow Turban soldiers didn't have the courage to climb the ladder again, nor did they dare to turn around and retreat to approach the steel knives of the Overseer, so they could only lie on the ground helplessly and wail!
The battle lasted from early morning to noon, and at the head of the city of Hejiazhuang, the "fire" team and the "people" team of the face armor army had already taken over the "wind" team and the "forest" team to defend the city, and the four special operations teams of Kanli Gendui took over from Qiankun Zhenxun and continued to hunt down the small leaders of the Yellow Turban Army who participated in the command.
The 500-man archery team of the Yellow Turban Army has withdrawn from the battlefield after losing 3 floors of personnel. Compared with those soldiers who have no technical content, these archers, but the elite in Zhang Mancheng's hands, cannot be completely lost.
The wooden bridges erected on the Weishui River have all been destroyed, and the Yellow Turban Army that has crossed the river still has hundreds of people who continue to climb using the undamaged ladders and hooks!
Without the wooden bridge, there is no way to cross the river, Zhang Mancheng's Chinese army is no longer sending people to fight, and the battlefield is slowly cooling down!
"Zhang Mancheng is ready to withdraw his troops!" Wen Xiang was keenly aware of Zhang Mancheng's intentions, and ordered his own soldiers to make all the soldiers and young men in the city shout in unison: "The Yellow Turban Thief has been defeated!" Those who descend will not be killed! ”
"The Yellow Turban Thief is defeated! Those who descend will not be killed! ”
"The Yellow Turban Thief is defeated! Those who descend will not be killed! ”
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The hundreds of Yellow Turban soldiers who were abandoned only then reacted, looking back at the camp behind them, the retreat route has been broken, the reinforcements have not arrived, they have become outcasts! Either die on the spot, or there is only one way left to surrender!
"Brothers, you can't surrender to Hangou! Kill one and don't lose, kill two and earn a ......" A man who looked like a small leader of the Yellow Turban Army shouted loudly, trying to arouse these remnants to fight to the death. was raised by He Kan and strengthened the crossbow, and he gave his life!
There were also a few die-hard believers who wanted to jump out and agitate, but they were also terminated by the members of the special operations team one by one with hand crossbows! Some of the Yellow Turban soldiers, who did not want to be sent to death and did not want to surrender, turned around and fled. Ignoring the cold river in winter, he jumped into the river and swam to the other side, I don't know how Zhang Mancheng will deal with these deserters, because the sound of Ming Jin has never sounded! According to Zhang Mancheng's thoughts, these abandoned sons should fight to the death and dedicate their lives to the Yellow Sky God!
The remaining more than 300 people, seeing that the general trend had gone, were also afraid that they would be executed after going back, so they finally threw away the weapons in their hands and surrendered on their knees!
This day's war is finally over!
Wen Xiang ordered Wen to lead the Shanzi team to the city to accept prisoners of war. After collecting the weapons of the more than 300 Yellow Turban soldiers, Wen Ping began to clean up the battlefield. Those Yellow Turban soldiers who were wounded and did not die were killed by the mask armor sergeant of the mountain team with a spear! During the war, there was no kindness for women, and Hejiabao did not have extra medicinal materials and food to feed these wounded soldiers. Subsequently, Wen Ping drove these soldiers to dig a big pit in the wet area on the east side of Hejiabao, threw all the dead bodies of the Yellow Turban Army into the pit and buried them, and then sprinkled a thick layer of quicklime in it to disinfect and prevent the occurrence of the plague.
At the same time, the young men in the fort, under the leadership of Li Yan, recovered the equipment under the city. In particular, the crossbow arrows and yellow bricks that can be used again are important materials for defending the city! Weapons that could not be recovered, such as the broken ladders, were dragged into the fort and used as civilian supplies for cooking on fires.
The forces of Hejiazhuang, under the leadership of Wen Xiang and Li Yan, were effectively mobilized. Everyone is busy at their posts, but He Xian has become the most idle one. Simply, He Xian hid in the martial arts training ground in the mansion and concentrated on following Wang Yue to practice swords!