Chapter 084: Black Clouds Crush the City and the City is Indestructible (I)
The exhibition bird stands on a high platform, and its body is as tall as a green pine. If it was on a formal battlefield, exposing his body to the enemy's sight like this would be tantamount to killing himself. Fortunately, there is nothing more than a group of bandits on the other side who have not been formally trained, and there is also a lack of real long-range means. Zhan Bird's expression was very indifferent, as if there were not fierce bandits outside the wall, but just a group of harmless lambs to humans and animals. Because he knows in his heart that as long as he stands here, for Xie Fu Jiading, it is confidence and spiritual support. The calmer you are, the more stable your family will be. As for the true thoughts in the heart, of course, they will not be revealed.
Zhan Bird's gaze paused only slightly in the cheering crowd, and then bet on the bandit formation in the distance. He instinctively felt a little weird, since the other party had already shown the ability to not be the first brother on the battlefield, what was the use of gathering the elite now? But if the thief chief's brain is not broken, he should know that the battle at the head of the wall is not easy to fight. Whether it is elite or not, it is only reflected in the combat effectiveness, and it can't be transformed into a superman, can it still fly over the wall?
His eyes repeatedly wandered through the enemy formation, and suddenly behind the elite sword and shield hand, he saw something, and his heart couldn't help but sink suddenly.
For Zhan Bird, he is not afraid of tough battles. Because of the preparation three days in advance, five barrels of vegetable oil were hoarded, and just after repelling the first round of attacks, only one barrel of vegetable oil was consumed. In addition to oil, he also prepared logs nailed with iron nails, bamboos with countless forks sharpened at the tips, and lime powder calcined from mountain stones...... Even if the above materials are used up, boiling water can be used instead of hot oil, although the effect is not as good as boiling oil, but the advantage is that the source of boiling water is almost inexhaustible. To put it simply, if the bandits only care about the stupid battle for the wall, the Xie Mansion is almost invincible.
Compared to the bandits, Xie Fu has two disadvantages. The first is that the number of people is too small, only less than one-tenth of the bandit side, and it is almost a turnip and a pit when defending, once there is damage to a point, it is likely to form a chain reaction and cause a rout on the whole line. The second disadvantage is the lack of ability to confront the enemy head-on.
Therefore, for the exhibition birds, the most worrying thing is not the battle on the wall. The area of the courtyard wall is limited, and it is enough for two teams of ten people to guard the wall, as long as the material consumption can keep up, there is almost no need to consider the possibility of bandits attacking the wall. In fact, the weakest link in the Xie Mansion is the gate on the front of the compound. After all, time is in a hurry, and it is simply unrealistic to find a sufficiently heavy plank to reinforce the gate in a short period of time. Although there is a breastwork wall surrounded by sandbags inside the door, it will turn the battle into hand-to-hand combat, and casualties are inevitable. Compare the numbers and combat power of the two sides of the war, and once the battle is short-handed, the end is obvious.
Judging from the reconnaissance results of the dispatched personnel, Zhan Bird was worried about a problem. The opponent is a bandit, who has been active in the mountains all year round, and even the rugged mountain roads are as smooth as they are, so why does the report show that the opponent's marching speed is slower than that of ordinary people? Of course, there is a large group of people and horses slowing down, but the bandits have no baggage, so why slow down?
It wasn't until he saw the things in the thief's array that Zhan Bird understood the reason.
It was a straight, shaved tree trunk about ten meters long, sharpened, and clean-shaven, hidden at the back of the sword and shield ranks. If it weren't for the ability to show off the birds' eyesight, it would be easy to ignore the past.
This thing is very common in siege warfare, commonly known as hitting wood, and its only use is to hit doors. But when it comes to it, it doesn't seem so simple. You must know that it is located in the southwest of the continent, the climate is hot, most of the trees that grow belong to fast-growing trees, the wood is crisp, easy to fold and deform, and it is not suitable for the use of the wood that needs to withstand strong impacts.
On the other hand, if the timber used for the collision may have been obtained by chance, it is impossible for another thing to be prepared on the fly.
From the gap in the crowd, the exhibition bird clearly saw that the front end of the hit wood, that is, the sharpened end, was faintly reflected under the reflection of the firelight. It is no stranger to this exhibition bird, which is an iron bumper head used by striking wood to enhance impact and increase durability.
As the main body of the impact, the front end of the collision wood is sharpened to reduce the force surface of the tip and enhance the impact force. However, wood products are easy to be brittle, and under the huge impact, they will often be knocked bald in three or two strokes. Therefore, it is necessary to wrap a layer of iron head three to five fingers thick on the tip of the striking wood, commonly known as the striking head.
The head of the collision can effectively prevent the tip of the collision wood from wearing and deforming, but the collision head fits the tip of the collision wood, and the size cannot be fixed, only according to the size of the collision wood to determine, and it must be prepared in advance. From this point of view, the bandits were prepared to hit the door for a long time, which can also explain why the bandits' march speed was slowed down, presumably to transport this thing.
"Group C and Group D, block the door of the hospital with logs and stones! The rest of the people are waiting for their place! ”
The only way to do at this time is to temporarily strengthen the gate. In fact, he also knew that the compound was no better than the city gate, and there was no deep space. Even if the gate is blocked with wood and stones, because of the emptiness around it, it can only temporarily delay the impact of hitting the wood a little. But this is also a helpless thing, the thief chieftain has a vicious eye, and he immediately found the weakest link in Xie Fu. Now it can only be done to fulfill the personnel and the destiny of heaven.
Just as the family was busy carrying wood and stone to block the door, the bandits outside the courtyard moved.
As expected, the first to come out was indeed thirty elite sword and shield bandits. They line up in a triangular formation, with the shield in front and behind the knife, and the shield face is connected to the shield face. Behind the sword and shield hand, in the center of the triangular array, a passage is left. In the passage, ten sturdy bandits with big shoulders and round waists and bare bodies wore belts on their shoulders, and at the lower end of the belts hung the huge bumping log.
Because of the weight of the crashing wood, the attack array did not travel very fast. Because of this, their pace is quite heavy. Gradually, the pace of the forty became unanimous. The sound of heavy footsteps converged, and if the heavy drum was beaten, it was dull and heavy, and every step seemed to hit the atrium of people's hearts, and an inexplicable pressure diffused.
The family members who were still screaming on the wall of the Xie Mansion were intimidated by this inexplicable pressure and gradually fell silent. Even if they didn't know what it meant by the appearance of the crashing wood, the compelling momentum could be felt by anyone who wasn't an idiot. For a while, everyone on the battlefield invariably stopped the noise, and countless eyes focused on this attacking team.