Chapter 45: Fifty Steps

Under the city, 3,000 arrows pierced the sky and shot straight into the sky with a roar. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, many arrows still landed on the edge of the city wall because of the distance.

Moreover, because there is a cold wind constantly blowing at this time, standing in a low place may not feel how strong the wind is, but the arrow that shoots directly at the high place will be greatly affected.

On the tower of the city, the soldiers of the Wei army were still dripping, and most of the arrows were just rushing in front of people's eyes, and they seemed to be able to shoot directly at the body in the distance. But at the last moment, the power of the arrow ended up being a little worse. Dense blows on the edge of the city walls.

The sound of ping-pong left in the air was in the ears of the Wei soldiers. There weren't many arrows that actually shot the Wei soldiers. Not even two hundred.

Many of the soldiers defending the city were frightened but only had a false alarm, and when they turned around again and thanked the god of death for just passing by, they found that they were no longer so afraid of the tens of thousands of Korean military formations.

Without fear, Ni Tao watched a crooked feather arrow under the city shoot straight at him. At the last moment, he raised the long sword in his hand and slashed the feathered arrow that had been blown away by the strong wind and had lost several layers of strength to the ground.

By the time he turned around and looked down at the city, the front soldiers of the Han army had already entered within forty paces of the city.

The longbowmen in the three-way formation had all learned their lesson and advanced to a distance of forty paces.

Just as the phalanx of longbowmen scattered once again and mounted their arrows.

Ni Tao on the city wall waved his long sword, with a cold face, and ordered: "Start shooting." ”

At the sound of an order, half of the Wei army's crossbowmen hidden in the passage close to the inner wall of the city wall appeared in unison in the blink of an eye. Their bows and crossbows were already ready for arrows.

After appearing, he just glanced down and quickly released the bowstring in his hand, allowing the arrow to go straight down.

Half of the crossbowmen shot all the arrows and then crouched down with great speed. This was followed by the other half of the crossbowmen who waited. They quickly stood up after the first group had crouched, and after the same general glance, they released the bowstring in their hands regardless of the others.

Waves of arrows rained down mercilessly.

Although the five thousand crossbowmen were divided into two groups on both sides of the wall, the number was small, and the rain of arrows fired each time was scarce.

But under such waves of non-stop shooting, the Korean army still felt great pressure.

Moreover, from the moment the Korean army entered the distance within fifty miles of the base of the city wall, they were already doomed to enter the realm of death in the siege battle.

The power of the bow and crossbow has come in handy.

At this time, most of the Korean troops marched in the fastest charge.

But what they never expected was that in addition to the rain of arrows above their heads, they also had to face the potholes under their feet.

After several days of excavation, the holes under the walls on both sides were large enough to sink the entire calf area of an adult.

Battlefields are always fought in places that are out of the reach of civilians, and the terrain is strange, which may be the case, but no one notices it. Or even if someone finds out, there is no need to fill it.

Therefore, the soldiers of the Han army who rushed to the front at the beginning thought that it was just an accidental pothole, after all, they couldn't care to look down when they were fast, and many soldiers who fell into the pit were directly trampled into half-dead by the army following behind them with extremely miserable screams.

No one gave them a chance to say that there were traps or anything like that.

Some of the soldiers grabbed one of the feet that the soldiers in front of them had just lifted as they fell to the ground, and both of them fell to the ground in an instant.

Although the hole was permanently blocked by him, his corpse was like a raised stone, and from time to time there were soldiers planting here, and there was basically no hope of this planting.

No one will go and pity them at this time.

The living soldiers only remember to charge, and only know to capture the city as soon as possible and obtain military merits. After winning the reward, I was happy when I went back.

Rushing to the front, the soldiers who were not trapped in the pit within fifty paces thought they had brushed shoulders with death. There will be no more danger like this.

But they were wrong, and they were very wrong, far from wrong. After reaching a distance of forty paces, they found that more and more of their companions were falling due to the pothole.

And looking at it, the land of the same color in front of you, the same swaying weeds, it is almost impossible to see that there is a hole dug by the Wei army.

A sense of desperation spread in the hearts of the soldiers who had first discovered the trap beneath the city.

Approaching their rear, the soldiers of the two cloud echelons in the center of the legion gritted their teeth in a hurry, lowered their heads, raised the wooden shield in their other hand, and dodged a rain of arrows in a few muffled "dong dong" sounds.

Although one of the men was injured in the shoulder, he still kept going. At this moment, all the soldiers wrapped their arms carrying the ladder around the trunks on both sides of the ladder. The dead one, the one who looks at it connects the body with the ladder.

But in the panic, the twelve people set up the ladder to see poorly, and when a soldier on the left side of the front of the ladder team raised a wooden shield to resist the next wave of arrows, one of his feet stumbled and tripped over the corpse of his companion and fell to the ground.

The arm that was wrapped around the trunk on one side of the ladder subconsciously suddenly forced, trying to pull the whole body up.

But it was his action that caused the weight of the entire ladder to tilt in an instant. As he ran, a soldier next to him also slanted his body under surprise.

The twelve people of the entire cloud echelon began all kinds of body movements because of the uneven force. Eventually, three of the soldiers were killed by indiscriminate arrows because they could not lift their shields. The heavy ladder fell directly to the ground with a thud.

In another cloud echelon, the soldiers close to the middle only felt that they were stepping on a hole under their feet, and the moment the whole person lay down, the soldiers in the rear had already stepped on his face covered with blood.

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In the phalanx of the Chinese army. Riding a horse, with the army together, I was finally able to charge freely.

A dereliction of duty a few days ago made him lose face. This made him, who has always been competitive and has extremely great physical and mental pressure, unable to raise his head for a while.

At this point, it was finally time to wash everything away. On the road of charging, even if it is death, the heart is also heroic and extremely relaxed.

However, as the closest general to charge and siege the city, when Han Ju noticed something unusual in the phalanx of soldiers on both sides, the charging infantry in front of him had already entered an extremely dense area of potholes.

Moreover, the army is attacking the city, and it seems that it is about to reach the foot of the city wall, and if the army is withdrawn and returned at this time, it will definitely be a lot of hard work. Maybe it will add another infamy.

Behind him, the drums of war, which symbolized the charge, were still beating.

The soldiers who have passed away cannot die in vain, and the only way to avenge them is to break through the city and kill all the Wei people who defend the city.