Chapter 243: Siege
Their soldiers, since the battle with the Huns' cavalry, can be said to attach great importance to the use of military fortifications. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Most of the soldiers were both sappers and soldiers. They were very good at building all kinds of marching fortifications.
In a few moments, the wooden walls were built. Everyone worked together to push the several sections of the wooden city wall to a distance of 20 meters opposite Huaxian County.
There are a lot of people here, and the flame is high, so it doesn't take much time to build such a section of the wooden wall.
When the wooden city wall was erected in front of Huaxian County, the siege began.
And, of course, the siege was not just about these few sections of wooden walls. Don't forget that they also have catapults. Catapults are also siege weapons in this era! How could they not use it?
At that moment, Lin Yi led the people up to the wooden city wall, and He Cai also commanded the people to swing the catapult, and they launched a fierce attack on the city of Huaxian.
He Cai commanded the men, and the first thing was to destroy the tower above the city wall. Huge stones were thrown at the tower one after another. After a while, the tower, which had been hit by several bullets, collapsed under the continuous bombardment of the huge momentum.
After the tower was overturned, the catapults began to throw large stone projectiles at the head of the city. Huge stones smashed into the walls, and the battlements shattered. The defenders of the city hurriedly dodged.
The big stone bomb has caused chaos in the city. Lin Yi's archers, at this time, also began to snipe intensively on the enemy soldiers on the wooden city wall.
Lin Yi's archers, because Lin Yi's own archery skills are excellent, the trained archers are also more accurate than others.
For a while, the powerful attack firepower suppressed the defenders of the opponent's city head, and they could barely raise their heads.
Zheng Tong looked at the catapult of Ritsukagawa at the head of the city, and the power was so great, he couldn't help but be secretly surprised in his heart.
And what is especially strange is that the other party actually built several sections of the city wall and stood in front of their city to fight against them.
This idea is simply unheard of. No wonder Li Dao specially instructed him to deal with it carefully. It seems that this Ritsukagawa is really insidious and cunning!
However, although the other party's wooden city wall was built quickly, was it as strong as their original city wall? If you attack with fire, will the wall that the opponent has worked so hard to build be destroyed immediately?
Zheng Tong sneered in his heart, Ritsu Kagawa is smart and mistaken by smart!
Thinking of this, Zheng Tong immediately issued an order to his subordinates, asking them to withstand the pressure and use rockets to attack the wooden city wall that Lin Yi led the people to hold.
Zheng Tong's subordinates also felt a lot of pressure on the wooden city walls that suddenly appeared in front of them.
He Cai's cart, although the power is powerful, they can still dodge. Because catapults can't attack so accurately.
The role of catapults was to destroy the fortifications on their walls and to deter them. The lethality to personnel is actually limited.
But Lin Yi's archers can be eliminated at a fixed point.
Because of the walls of the other side, they were built higher than their old walls. Lin Yi could see clearly where they were hiding in the city, which was a mortal threat to them.
Therefore, the Li soldiers at the head of the city, of course, first wanted to destroy these sections of the wooden city wall built by Ritsu Kagawa. After receiving the order of the Shangguan, they immediately complied with it and attacked it in groups.
For a time, countless rockets were launched. The sections of the wooden city wall that Lin Yi and they were guarding were flying in.
Of course, Lin Yi knew the other party's purpose very clearly, and the thieves wanted to rely on firepower to destroy these sections of their city walls.
However, the enemy will think of using fire to burn down these sections of their wall, but won't they think of a way to prepare the wooden wall for fire prevention in advance?
When the thieves did this, they inevitably thought that their sections of wooden walls were too simple.
Their wooden walls were originally hollowed out in the middle. But on the front, a net was made of thick hemp rope, and hung in front of it, and it was covered with mud, and the rocket was shot up, but it was blocked by the hemp rope, and it could not be shot again.
The fire on the arrow, on the other hand, does not have a burning effect on the mud. It can only be slowly extinguished by itself. This is the oldest and most primitive fire prevention method, although it is crude, but the opponent's fire attack is also the most primitive. Primitive to primitive, just restrained.
Because he knows his wooden walls, he is not afraid of the other party's rockets for the time being. Therefore, when the enemy was busy attacking their city walls, Lin Yi led his subordinates and launched a fierce arrow attack on the opponent's defending archers.
For a while, the two sides flew like arrows, killing a world upside down. But this also made Zheng Tong's army, which was defending the city in the city, suffer a big loss.
They originally thought that when Lin Yi and these people saw them attacking their wooden city with rockets, the other party would panic and flee for their lives.
But what he didn't expect was that Lin Yi and the others were not afraid of their fire attack at all. This inappropriate prediction made them all exposed to the bow and arrow attacks of Lin Yi and these people.
In this way, will they still be able to get good?
All of a sudden, the city defenders were shot countless by Lin Yi's group of siege soldiers.
Moreover, not only was the height of the city wall inferior to theirs, but there were also several catapults on Ritsukagawa's side, which were frantically throwing stone bombs at them without stopping. This makes their situation even worse.
Those stone bullets can't hit each of them with precision, though. But the attack power is amazing. Every stone bullet that falls will make the mountain shake the ground on the top of the city wall, as if the city wall under this foot is about to collapse at any time.
And the debris splashed by the attack also made them have to dodge. If someone is hit by a fragmentation bullet, it is also very likely to be injured. Who would dare to guard against this?
Under such a fierce double attack, the defenders on the city wall of Huaxian County can be said to have suffered heavy casualties. For a while, he was beaten by Ritsu Kagawa's side, and he couldn't raise his head.
And Liu Zhi saw that the attack on his side had formed a powerful suppression of the defenders in the city, and he also seized the opportunity to lead a group of people to rush under the city wall of Huaxian City.
The attack on the city wall is only to suppress the opponent's offensive. It is up to them to decide the outcome of this siege battle. Someone still had to storm their gates and start a storm.
As long as they broke through the opponent's city gate and their army entered it, they basically won this battle.
City street fighting, they are absolutely confident in themselves.
Zheng Tong was shocked when he saw Liu Zhi leading his troops to rush to the city on the city wall, and he hurriedly shouted loudly, ordering his subordinates to fight to the death to block Liu Zhi and these people.
For a while, above the city, arrows rained down one after another, and it was difficult for them to walk.
After all, the other party is outnumbered, and they know the importance of the city gate to them, so of course they will fight to protect it. Liu Zhi them, so they couldn't help the other party for a while.
Ritsu Kagawa was under the city, and saw that above the head of the Huaxian city wall, a general was wearing black armor and a red robe, and was directing the battle.
He knew that this person must be the other party's main general, so he suddenly had a plan in his heart, and said to his subordinates: "You guys, go and call Lin Yi to me."