Chapter 082: The Former Wave Dies: Under the Wall (Part I)
Soon, the team gathered by the fire dragon set up a formation more than thirty steps away from the compound. From Xie Zuo's point of view, it can be seen that the bandits are lined up in a long phalanx, but they are crooked and uneven, and they are as if they have been gnawed by dogs.
Immediately afterwards, I saw dozens of people in the bandit formation, and inserted the torches in their hands one by one into the ground ten steps away from the long phalanx. The torch is used for lighting at night, and there is no problem with holding it in your hand when you are in a hurry, but if you really want to fight, you can hold a torch in one hand, and it is no different from looking for death. Even if the bandits are not proficient in battle formations, they will not make such low-level mistakes.
Watching the bandits finish the formation, planting the torches, another person came out of the formation, and seemed to come to the front and shout something. Xie Zuo was far away, and he couldn't hear the specific content clearly, but then there was a scream of "ah", and the person seemed to have been hit by something suddenly, and flew upside down for several meters like a broken kite, and fell to the ground without any movement.
Xie Zuo was stunned for a moment, and then thought about the hunting bow on his back when he first saw Zhan Bird, and his heart was suddenly in his heart. As reported during previous reconnaissance, the bandits do not have long-range weapons. And since Zhan Bird can hunt prey with bows and arrows, it can naturally hunt bandits. It doesn't matter how the bird archery technique is, but the shouter stands less than ten steps away from the gate, and it is less than twenty meters away, as long as the person who knows the bow and crossbow is not too difficult to shoot the other party at this distance. Isn't it just looking for death when you get so close?
The man who was hit by the arrow fell to the ground, as if a spoonful of hot oil was poured into boiling water, and the bandit team immediately exploded. Even in Xie Zuo's distance, he could hear the shouting and scolding of the bandits. Immediately afterward, no one gave an order, and the bandit brigade began to move.
The rectangular array approached the front of the compound, and suddenly gushed out like a tidal wave cracking the embankment. The shouts of killing that pierced the eardrums echoed in the night sky, and countless thieves with chubby heads and heads, holding all kinds of sharp blades, rushed towards the slightly thin courtyard wall of Xie Mansion! On the other hand, Xie Fu was as silent as cold iron, exuding an icy chill in the night!
Even if he was hundreds of meters away, Xie Zuo could feel the sense of oppression brought by the impact of nearly 100 people! It is absolutely difficult for those who have not seen it to imagine that the scene of hundreds of people running wild is so shocking!
There was a slight tremor from the earth, and the smoke and dust formed a smoke screen in the air, and the roar that erupted from the chest entangled in the night sky into an inexplicable and strange sound effect, and countless bright blades formed a chilling forest on the head of the rushing man!
Even if he didn't face the impact directly, Xie Zuo already felt trembling. It is conceivable that those families in the Xie Mansion compound who have never experienced a bloody baptism should bear what a violent mental impact they should bear in the face of this frontal wave like a landslide and tsunami!
However, the miraculous thing is that I don't know what method Zhan Bird used, and there was no trace of turmoil in Xie Fuzhong. From Xie Zuo's point of view, he couldn't see the situation in the compound clearly, and the people in the compound were as if they were blind and deaf, and they didn't react to the surging bandits!
It's getting closer, it's getting closer! Xie Zuo's heart also gradually lifted as the crowd approached. Under the momentum of hundreds of people like a wave, the original tall wall of the Xie Mansion looked so thin. In just the first round of attacks, the bandits pressed one-third of the men, and the plan to extinguish the Xie family in one fell swoop was clearly revealed. Poultry ...... Can it be stopped?
Very suddenly, when the tide was about ten steps away from Xie Fu, the bandits who were charging in the front row suddenly brushed together...... Half a cut shorter!
Well, that's right, it's just half a cut shorter all of a sudden! A group of people turned on their backs, some became rolling gourds, some stuck their feet on the ground, and fell face down and gnawed on, and so on. The similarity is that a round hole has appeared under their feet.
It is a crater with an opening of about 40 centimeters in diameter, which is basically large enough for one foot to enter. The pit is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and the depth is not large, only about 30 centimeters. But the insidious part is that this depth is a very uncomfortable position if you fall into one foot! When the ball of the foot enters the hole, there will be a natural leg pulling action. However, due to the narrow upper mouth, a pull of the leg will inevitably get the ankle stuck in the exit position. And if the person is in the process of running, under the action of inertia, the impact force will be borne by the ankle Xie Zuo does not know how much damage the ankle will be in this case, but judging from the situation that none of the thieves can get up on their own after falling to the ground, I am afraid that the injury is not light!
These pits are naturally the traps arranged by the exhibition birds, and these pits are distributed within the range of ten to fifteen steps of the courtyard wall. At present, the thieves were injured and fell to the ground due to the impact of the pit, and the momentum of the charge was inevitably blocked.
And because it was not far from the courtyard wall at this time, it was too late to stop and regroup to charge. The courtyard wall is right in front of you, what should I do if this situation is swollen? Of course, there is only one way to go by continuing to attack, and you can't go back and start again, right?
Therefore, when the crowd poured under the courtyard wall, there was no longer that compelling momentum. Except for the twenty or thirty people who tripped over the pit, the rest of the thieves gathered under the courtyard wall as if they were scattered. If you rely on the inertia of the charge, you can probably try to make a run-up jump and climb the wall. But now the speed is gone, and it is facing the high wall. What else? Climb the wall honestly!
The courtyard wall is not high, only a little more than four meters. It is impossible to jump to the top of the wall at this height, and the average person can touch the height of two meters, six or seven, even if it is a professional, it is impossible to exceed four meters. But at this time, it can be seen that the bandits are indeed prepared.
The bandits stacked under the wall gathered in groups and tried to deal with them. Although it is said that the eight immortals crossed the sea and showed their magical powers, in fact, in the final analysis, the methods of the bandits are nothing more than three things: human walls, bamboo ladders, and iron hooks.
The human wall is easy to understand, a person's height is not enough to reach the top of the wall, but a person stands on the shoulders of another person, plus the length of two hands, it is about the same distance from the top of the wall, and a little effort can almost climb up. The bamboo ladder is not a long ladder in the usual sense, but is made of two long bamboo poles, tied together with hemp rope, and built on the wall, but it can also be barely borrowed to go up. As for the hook, in fact, this is a necessary tool for robbers who rob homes, a three-pronged iron head, with a soft rope at the back, is a complete hook. It's just that although this thing is simple, it must be hooked accurately when flying, stable for recycling, and able to quickly rely on a swaying soft rope to kick the wall up, and the technical content is the highest one, so the one who can use the hook is the least number of people.
It's a pity that whether it's a human wall or a hook, it is impossible to climb the four-meter-high courtyard wall overnight, and it always takes a process. Just as the bandits were showing their powers, a high-pitched shouting voice filled the night sky through the noisy shouts.