"Start the siege—"

Yeli Ronglai, who was severely insulted by Li *, put away the scimitar in his hand, glanced at the body of the unfortunate Han slave translator, waved his hand and ordered,

The soldiers of the two tents carefully escorted the commander of the whole army to leave the front of the city pass.

During this process, the Fuyuan crossbow in the hand of the fine seal Minda was always aimed at Yeli Ronglai, but the guards were well coordinated, with one or two shields dangling in each direction, ready to deal with the flying bow and arrows.

The general infantry round shield is absolutely unable to block the iron arrow cluster shot by the Fuyuan crossbow at this distance, but the long shield with a thickness of about three times that of the round shield is different, this shield itself is designed and manufactured to resist the fire of the crossbow machine, except for the three most perverted wooden crossbows idle in the warehouse below, other crossbow arrow attacks can basically be resisted.

It wasn't until Yeli Ronglai's figure retreated into the cavalry formation in the rear that Xifeng Minda breathed a sigh of relief, and began to lazily look at the deputy soldiers who were carrying simple ladders and cowering through the infantry formation. Those Han Chinese slaves who went to the battlefield for the first time were obviously fighting with their legs, and they walked crookedly and diagonally.

Shen Chen looked at the fine seal Minda and shook his head, and the seal Minda smiled and nodded to show understanding.

At this moment, a stray cavalry galloped out of the array, rushing through two formations of infantry towards the front line.

The lieutenants who were walking very slowly were suddenly dispersed by the twelve cavalry, and in the blink of an eye, these cavalry had galloped to twenty paces of the city pass, dismounted one after another, and formed a horizontal formation.

It's finally here...... Shen Chen took a deep breath and ordered, "Scout team, overseer team, conceal ——! ”

Following his order, the soldiers of both teams jumped into the ravine on the wall and sat down with their backs to the south side of the ravine.

Only a few officers, including Shen Chen, Li*, and Xifeng Minda, did not jump into the ravine, and still carefully observed the movements of these enemies through the battlements.

The officer in charge of the team stood on the left, he found the mark he had left yesterday, and in the same position, he arched his left leg, his right leg straightened, and his arms were full of bows, and then he began to slowly adjust the angle of the fire upwards.

He adjusted the elevation angle of his shot based on the drop between the tip of the arrow and the battlement, which was an easy task for a skilled shooter like him.

The group of rookies standing on the right side of Cheng Heng all looked nervous, tilting their heads and staring at him, for fear that they would not see the range of his movements clearly.

This kind of shooting is actually a probability shooting, which can only ensure that the arrows of this group of people are not too outrageous, and it is wishful thinking that all the arrows will fall on the city without pulling the ground, and half of each wave can fall on the city wall, which is a good result......

No one noticed that at the westernmost battlement of the city pass, an arrow with a black luster was already aimed at the leader.

"Whoa—"

With the gentle pull of the iron fangs of the thin seal Minda's fingers, a slender black shadow quickly pounced towards the leader.

The leader's reaction was very fast, and he knew it was bad when he heard the sound of breaking the sky, but at a distance of twenty paces, with the power of the crossbow, he didn't have any time to dodge—

The bolt entered the left eye socket and peeked out from the back of the head, nailing it straight to the ground.

Standard fine-seal Minda spot ......

Just when both the enemy and the enemy were stunned, the fine seal Minda had already thrown the used Fuyuan crossbow behind him, and took the second already wound Fuyuan crossbow handed over by Li *.

Each of these crossbows could fire four arrows at the same time, but each had only one arrow. The weapon of the Fuyuan crossbow was originally used for long-range covered shooting, and the accuracy of single shot was not high, but in the hands of a marksman like Thin Seal Minda, after a short period of training, a single shot within a distance of twenty paces could also be used to hit every shot.

The second arrow also did not miss, and the party soldier standing next to the leader was hit by the arrow, and the young man without armor immediately screamed and fell backwards.

Before the soldiers under the city tower could catch their breath, the third soldier on the left was hit by an arrow in the face, this time the arrow was a little off, which was inevitable for an arrow without arrow feathers, the arrow cluster hit the bridge of the soldier's nose diagonally, and the huge inertia chiseled a wound almost the size of a bowl on the soldier's face, and the soldier didn't even have time to scream, and fell to the sky......

The psychological pressure caused by this kind of sequential roll call shooting on the soldiers of the two Noli families on the front line was enormous. The remaining soldiers panicked and drew their bows to return fire, firing their first rain of arrows at the city.

The arrows without accurate heads fell in different arcs above the city tower, most of them fell on the north and south sides of the city pass, only one fell on the city tower crookedly, but the strength had already been exhausted, and a veteran of Team C reached out and grabbed the bamboo arrow in his hand. Because of the strict battlefield discipline, no one applauded, but the scout recruits around him all looked at the veteran with an indifferent look of admiration.

The fourth enemy archer rolls over and falls to the ground.

The four Fuyuan crossbows had already been shot empty, and what Xi Feng Minda had taken over this time was a Zhang crossbow.

Several of the enemy troops under the castle tower had already aimed their bows and arrows at the east side of the castle tower, and several bamboo arrows were shot from different angles.

At least in the single item of archery, the gap between the party harrier and the ordinary soldier is huge, most of the bamboo arrows shot diagonally hit the battlements of the city wall, and one of them shot high, flying over the distance of more than four feet above the head of the fine seal Minda.

Only one shot more accurately, straight towards the face of the fine seal Minda, but although the accuracy was good, the strength was not very good, the fine seal Minda only slightly turned his head, and the arrow flew from the side of his right ear.

He fired another bolt, and the fifth party soldier screamed and fell.

"Dangdangdangdang—" There was a metallic knock in the enemy line.

Almost as if they had been granted amnesty, the party soldiers in front of the city pass immediately turned around and ran towards their own formation.

One soldier seemed to be very righteous and wanted to reach out and pull up the body of a comrade, and sealed Minda with an arrow to leave his life in place.

These corpses must not be snatched back by the enemy, these crossbow machines are the biggest military secret in Luzi Pass, and they must be kept until the most intense and critical moment of the battle.

This is the reason why Minda always insists on firing a single shot, four arrows at a time, even the stupidest enemy will know that it is a crossbow shot, and the enemy's cavalry will immediately retreat - you know, so far, the enemy's entire army is within the range of the crossbow machine in the front battalion.

Of course, the enemy could not be allowed to snatch these corpses back, and the difference between crossbow arrows and ordinary arrows was very large, and officers of higher rank could see it at a glance.

"The scouts are in place—"

Fine-sealed Minda turned around and ordered.

The soldiers of the scout team immediately stood up, still divided into two teams to defend the east and west sides, and this time, several of the crossbows around the fine seal Minda were taken to the west side.

"Scouts—reload and wind—"

The soldiers began to divide their labor, methodically re-placing their arrows into the slots, and this time, the arrow slots of each crossbow machine were filled......

……

Ye Li Rong stared at the city pass a hundred paces away, a result he had not expected. The Zhangwu army in Luzi Pass obviously possessed a formidable marksman, whose archery skills were already comparable to those of the best Harriers in the Dangxiang army, and he would pose a serious threat to the attacking troops.

It's a pity that the harriers of the Yeli family were all taken to Yinzhou by their brother.

He had just silently calculated, all the attacks came from the east side of the tower, obviously the same archer, in such a short period of time to fire six arrows in a row, this is already the limit of his arm strength, obviously, the opponent's archer still seems to be at ease. He estimated that the number of consecutive shots of this archer was definitely more than ten arrows, and maybe even fifteen.

If he knew that the fine seal Minda was using a crossbow machine, he would immediately adjust the deployment of the siege, because as long as someone was responsible for the continuous loading and winding, in theory, the fine seal Minda would not have any problems with his physical strength even if he shot a hundred crossbow arrows.

Frontal attack, hand-to-hand combat in the city -

Yeli Ronglai made a decision that could not be more wrong.

From this moment on, the army of the Yeli family had actually begun to deploy operations according to Shen Chen's plan......

With Yeli Ronglai's order, the lieutenants carrying the ladder began to storm the city wall again, and behind them, the infantry array on the left began to move forward slowly......

……

"Team A is in place—"

Shen Chen shouted his final commanding order.

Under the command of the Shiwu officers, a group of soldiers of the A team, wearing infantry armor and holding wooden guns, ran up the city tower from the south side of the city quickly, and quickly assembled in the ravine and tunnel in a group of two and two in a group of two, and everyone quickly found the position where they stood in their daily training, the enemy's infantry array was still thirty paces away, and the officers and men of the first team were already in position.

The ten commanders unceremoniously approached the battlement, while Shen Chen and Li* gave up their observation and command positions and withdrew to the south side of the ditch.

Behind them, the twenty Overseers all stood in a straddle position, holding in both hands a thick-backed flat-out knife in the shape of a slice cut in the movie "Crazy Boy" from Lee*'s era, so that the tip of the knife pointed to the ground, and the blade remained perpendicular to the ground.

Li * let out a long sigh of relief, the victory or defeat of this battle depends on whether the team composed of new recruits of Team A can withstand it.

Shen Chen glanced at Ling Pu who was standing beside him, and Ling Pu nodded at him, indicating that the reserve team was ready.

From this moment on, neither Shen Chen nor Li* issued any orders, and the command of the troops was completely in the hands of those grassroots officers in Shiwu.

After crossing the warning distance of twenty paces from the enemy, all the commanders no longer looked out from the battlements of the castle towers, but looked out from the observation holes.

The stray footsteps of the enemy were getting closer.

The first ladder first appeared in the observation hole next to the third buttress on the right. The face of the enemy soldier who fought against the ladder was as white as a dead man, and he raised the ladder with trembling hands, and with the help of his comrades behind him, he put the rough and simple ladder on the head of the city.

The quality of the ladder is not very good, the top ladder has crossed the battlement, and the vertical ladders on both sides are even higher to the sky, such a ladder The enemy soldiers must climb up the whole body to climb up the city, in theory, the longer it takes the soldier to climb the city, the greater the danger of being attacked.

The commander of the army who hid in front of this observation hole for observation and command was called Jing Hai, and he himself was a recruit who had only joined Team C a few years ago, but he fought bravely in the Layue Mutiny, and was highly appreciated by Shen Chen, so he was ordered to lead a team of mercenaries to guard the city gate on the day of the mutiny. After returning to Fenglin Mountain, Li * sent veterans of Team C to form a recruit team, and he was assigned to be the captain of Team A along with the veterans of Team C, which was not easy as a recruit. Basically, he started training others before he had even finished his own cohort training.

Therefore, Jing Hai's pressure was very great, especially in the face of the veteran's complicated gaze, he had a feeling of thorns in his back. For this reason, Jing Hai has put a lot of effort into training in the past few months, often responsible for training soldiers in the army during the day, and at night he quietly ran to the playground to conduct training in various subjects such as assassination and fighting alone.

At the moment, however, he was satisfied, and no one in the battalion dared to treat him with contempt anymore.

The soldiers who were in charge of erecting the ladders had already run away, and the sounds of "tuk" and "tuk" sounded continuously, and it was obvious that several other ladders had also been erected at the head of the city.

Jing Hai had no distractions, silently staring at the cloud ladder in his observation hole.

"Ready—"

The moment the first enemy soldier with a round shield in his left hand and a scimitar in his right hand came into view, Jing Hai clenched his fists and shouted out the most critical command.

Two groups of soldiers in the army immediately took action, one rushed up the slope and came to the protruding part of the battlement to stand still, and the other group came to the back of Jing Hai along the longitudinal ditch.

This time, the ladder was erected on the part of the battlement that protruded, and the concave part was not in danger for the time being.

The hands of the four soldiers were tightly gripping the barrel of the wooden gun, and the knuckles of the fingers were a little pale because of the tension, but Jing Hai, who had already seen blood, did not care about this, and he watched the movements of the enemy soldier who had already climbed the ladder.

The enemy soldier appeared extremely cautious, adjusting his body posture with each step, as if ready to respond to an attack from a certain direction.

When Jing Hai could only see the waist of this enemy soldier, the second enemy soldier began to climb the ladder, this is a very young soldier, his face is so clean that he can't even see a little stubble, the immaturity between his eyebrows is clearly visible, Jing Hai estimates that this soldier is probably no more than fourteen years old. Although it is not new to say that people who come out to serve as soldiers at the age of 14 now, most of them are more experienced veterans who charge into battle. Now among the soldiers who charged towards the city tower, the second one to climb the cloud ladder was such a young soldier, which still made Jing Hai stunned for a moment.

He didn't froze for long, though, for the first enemy soldier was left with his feet out of sight.

"Group A - Kill"

At the same time that foot disappeared from sight, Jing Hai burst out of his chest with a resounding cry -

The sound was so loud that the ladder that was still in sight shook violently, apparently the enemy soldier who was climbing up was panicked......

The young enemy soldier who could already see the upper body clearly was even more panicked in his eyes, and the forearm of his right hand holding the knife grabbed the ladder tightly, as if he was afraid that he would not be able to grasp it firmly and fall down.

However, after this shout, the two soldiers of Group A did not move, as if they had not heard at all, and their four eyes were just staring at the protruding battlements of the wall.

Ye Li Anjie has been in the army for ten years, and he once followed the head of his family, Ye Li Rongyuan, to Yanzhou six times, and he can be regarded as a veteran, but it is the first time that he rushes to the front line and is regarded as a regular soldier.

The defenders in front of him were very different from the Zhangwu army that Ye Lianjie had seen before, the archers who were covered by the projectiles were actually shot one by one, and the deputy soldiers with weak combat effectiveness actually did not suffer any damage in the process of erecting the ladder, these two things were extremely strange. However, in the process of climbing up, he could not see the figure on the head of the city, and the huge city tower was quiet, except for the shouts and footsteps of his comrades, he could not hear the voice of the enemy at all......

All this made him more and more frightened, and he also guessed that there might be an enemy army on the head of the city that was unsheathed and ready to give him a one, so he prepared to protect the front with a round shield, and jumped on the head of the city in a jumping manner, so as to avoid a very unfavorable posture on the ladder to engage the enemy in a white-knives fight. But Jing Hai's sudden shout startled him, and his body, which had almost been pulled up, lay down on the ladder in time, pressing the ladder, which was not very strong, squeaked, trembling up and down, as if it was about to collapse at any time.

Ye Li'an Jie was also choked on this blow and his chest was sluggish, he forcibly suppressed the feeling of discomfort, looked up, but saw that there was still no movement on the city, as if the sudden cry was his hallucination.

"Group B-kill-"

Not far away, another shout was heard.

"Group A-kill-"

"Group A-kill-"

Similar shouts continued to sound over the city, causing the party warriors to be terrified, but although they were quite loud, not a single enemy soldier showed his head.

Is it just that the enemy soldiers are bluffing?

Ye Li'anjie was surprised in his heart......

The horn behind him sounded again, and Zu Ru was urging, obviously thinking that the first batch of regular soldiers in charge of hand-to-hand combat in the city were too slow.

Gritting his teeth, he straightened up on the ladder again, found his balance in the flickering, and took another step upward—the head of the city was only inches away from his head.

He gritted his teeth, and with a strain of his feet, his chest exposed the head of the city.

The sight in front of him made Ye Li'anjie's hair stand on end.

Two Zhangwu soldiers in infantry armor were looking at themselves in a daze with the blades of their wooden guns pointed at them.

For a moment, Wild Ann Jie only felt that his blood had congealed, and the shimmering metallic blade dangled in front of him like the shadow of death, and his almost instinctive reaction was to retract the head that had already exposed the city.

However, the wooden spear did not stab, and the two soldiers of the Zhangwu Army looked at him blankly, with some fear in their eyes, and as if they had some expectation......

Was the enemy stunned?

Ye Li Anjie immediately realized that his opportunity had come, and in this position he could not attack the enemy army in front of him at all, but as long as he jumped on the top of the city and stepped on the ground - the timid soldiers of the Zhangwu Army could not take advantage of themselves in hand-to-hand combat.

Ye Li Anjie immediately made a decision, shouted hard under his feet, and stepped on the penultimate step of the ladder.

By this time, his waist was already showing the head of the city.

As long as he goes up one step, he can jump up the tower and fight the enemy hand-to-hand......

At this moment, the two wooden spears shook and stabbed out—

At this time, Ye Li Anjie had already placed the round shield in his left hand on his chest, protecting the vital point of his chest and abdomen, and the wooden spear stabbed the round shield vigorously, making a muffled sound, Ye Li Anjie's body shook, and the right arm holding the knife instinctively tightened the vertical pole on the right side of the ladder.

There was a sharp pain in the right side of his waist, and then the strength of his body instantly flowed backwards to the painful place, and in the blink of an eye, Ye Li Anjie only felt that his limbs were soft, and he was dizzy in front of him, and the enemy soldier standing on his right side in his sight was pulling back the blade of the gun dripping with blood, and his expression was mixed with surprise and panic Two completely different connotations.

However, Wild Ann Jie no longer had a chance to decipher the meaning of the look on his enemy's face, and his arms that had lost his strength could no longer grasp the trembling ladder, and Wild Ann Jie fell from a height almost level with the castle tower facing the sky.

At the same time as falling, it was also in the last consciousness of Yelian Jie's life, and he vaguely heard that around him, screams rang out one after another......

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