Chapter 176: History of the Spring and Autumn War (25)
With Xiao Wuji's order, a small number of Qin troops who had prepared siege equipment began to attack Yucheng in an orderly manner. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info ladders, siege vehicles, and catapults were all in place, different from the very lazy look in Xiao Wuji's eyes before, at this time, Qin Jun, everyone had an excited expression on their faces, as if going to the battlefield to kill people was a very exciting and pleasant thing. This kind of momentum made Xiao Wuji also infected, and he had some good feelings for this army that originally didn't have much of a good impression of himself.
The siege first began with a long-range attack by the trebuchet, and the well-trained Qin army first tried to throw a few boulders with the trebuchet, no doubt that the initial boulder was thrown missed, and then several soldiers with trebuchets began to tinker with the ropes of the trebuchet, and the next few shots became accurate, and then each boulder was accurately thrown onto the walls of the rain city, killing many rebels in the rain city. Xiao Wuji wanted to directly order to climb the city wall, but seeing this way of killing and injuring the enemy with zero casualties, Xiao Wuji still watched silently with interest. He's been waiting for seven days, so what if he waits a little longer?
But the trebuchet attack took much longer than Xiao Wuji had imagined.
By the time they stopped using the trebuchet, the rebels on the city walls were almost all in hiding, and there was not a single figure on the walls, and there were broken boulders everywhere. and casualties from the first waves of attacks. At this time, the Qin army in the front array began to march, and almost unhurriedly set up the cloud ladder on the city wall. At this time, when the rebels in Yucheng reacted and climbed the city wall to release arrows again, the Qin army silently retreated, and the trebuchet launched an offensive again.
This reciprocating cycle continued throughout the afternoon.
Throughout the afternoon, there was no hand-to-hand combat close to the body, and the Qin army did not lose a single soldier. The rebels on the Rain City side were exhausted by torture, and the casualties were not small. This kind of tactic is very different from Xiao Wuji's impression of the Qin army, in his impression, oh shouldn't be the rumors he heard, the Qin army is a group of very savage troops who don't know anything about the art of war, and when they encounter the Qin army, they will pounce on them like beasts and kill them. The curious Xiao Wuji called the previous herald and asked him, "Our army is fighting, and it is very good to take people's heads, why do you need to use ...... at this time?"
"Uh...... Was Xiao Qianfeng commanding the siege for the first time? ”
Xiao Wuji nodded, there is nothing to hide this, as a striker, it is normal that he has not attacked the city.
"The heads now killed by trebuchets are counted as one-third of the total number of leaders in a battle, and this part of the heads is divided evenly among each soldier. Of course, this kind of rule, Xiao Qianfeng, you know it, is all a trick played by those of us below, and there is no such thing in the law. ”
Xiao Wuji expressed understanding.
However, this herald actually brought him Xiao Wuji into the classification of the people below...... Well, it seems that the military rank of this vanguard is indeed not high.
This kite flying style of fighting did not end until the Qin army ran out of boulders mined from nearby hills in seven days.
Hand-to-hand combat is about to begin.
Shouting to kill the heavens, the remnant sun is like blood.
Xiao Wuji did not just observe the battlefield like Fang Cai, but took advantage of the lack of attention from the heralds around him, and rushed into the Qin army alone. The purpose of this battle was not to ask the Qin army to break through Rain City, but just to infiltrate it. After the herald reacted, he shouted a few times, but it had no effect at all, and he didn't dare to fake the order, and the officials below Xiao Wuji rushed over in the lead, although the herald felt that it was a little inappropriate for Xiao Wuji to kill alone as the current commander of this army, but there was no way to stop it.
After Xiao Wuji rushed into the military formation, he immediately found that the earth-shattering shouts of killing were all emitted by the rebels in Rain City. The Qin army beside him, each eye glowed green, but it was very quiet, even when killing, they rarely used roars to strengthen their courage, and their every move, although carried out in excitement, seemed to be generally calm.
They don't fight alone, and even if they do, they lean on each other with at least two or three of their companions, but there must be one of these makeshift groups who is responsible for collecting heads, and each of them carries sacks behind them.
In a short period of time, many dotted areas on the walls of Yucheng have been filled with the shadow of the Qin army, although compared with the number of rebels on Yucheng, this Qin army is only a drop in the box, but first of all, the combat effectiveness of the Qin army is several times higher than that of the rebels, if these points are connected into a line and then form a surface, this rain city does not need Xiao Wuji to declare the city broken.
The defenders of Rain City would not be so useless.
The elite began to move closer to the Qin army, which had already climbed the city walls, while the worse ones focused on shooting arrows at the city and destroying siege engines and ladders under the city.
The counteroffensive of the rebels entrenched in Rain City could no longer arouse Xiao Wouji's interest. He had now successfully climbed the city wall, and was overjoyed that he was about to rush into the interior of the Rain City, but when he looked down, he was stunned.
The structure of this rain city looks like a castle in the Central Plains.
But this kind of city is just a purely military fortress, and there are no residents, and generally the city walls are camps. However, Xiao Wuji took a look inside Rain City, only to find that the interior of Rain City was very different from the Central Plains City and the previously destroyed Black Bird City!
Inside the city walls, there are also city walls!
There are three layers of relatively low city walls like a set of rings, and further inside, it is dense and strange, as if it is a labyrinth. The tents of the defenders of Rain City are scattered in this labyrinth!
Such a design seems to be specially designed to resist people like Xiao Wuji.
After all, such a design, although it looks gorgeous, has no effect on the attack of the large army! As long as the city gate is broken, the siege vehicles come in, or there is no siege vehicle at all, as long as the layers of walls are pushed through, the scattered defenders inside have no defensive power at all.
Such a design can only serve one purpose.
That is to prevent a meticulous work like Xiao Wou-Ki from sneaking in!
"Damn!"
Xiao Wuji roared angrily.
This...... Does it really depend on the Qin army?
If that's the case, it's not just about delaying time. Now the Qin army is not fully prepared, so it rashly attacked under his own orders, and if it is not successful, the loss of troops this time will be completely unjustifiable. Even if Sun Yan didn't hold him accountable, Xiao Wuji couldn't bear it...... may be underestimated by Diyunhuan!
Xiao Wuji gritted his teeth, but decided to go to the interior of Rain City!
The road of the city gate directly connects to the heart of the rain city.
If Xiao Wuji wants to open the city gate with his own strength, he must first break into the core of Rain City!
Xiao Wuji, who was in a terrible mood, began to frantically kill the rebels who came to find death in front of him, and killed and advanced.
He climbed over layer after layer of short city walls that could not even be said to be city walls, and the rebels who blocked him had almost been killed by him, but although the barrier of the city wall did not play the role of a labyrinth, at least there was an advantage, that is, the defenders of the inner layer of the city wall did not see the demeanor of Xiao Wuji who was killing all sides outside, and at least their morale was at their peak when facing Xiao Wuji.
This was probably the longest infiltration that Xiao Wuji had ever taken.
In two hours, Xiao Wuji had only traveled less than half of the road, but fortunately, until here, Xiao Wuji had not encountered any masters who had come to stop him.
Yucheng, there shouldn't be a master of martial arts, right?
Xiao Wuji thought so.
As the saying goes, what is afraid of what comes.
In order to block an infiltrating military master like Xiao Wuji, Yucheng established layers of inner walls in the city, and in the end it still ushered in Xiao Wuji, a person who may be second only to Di Yunhuan today.
Xiao Wuji hoped that no master would come to make trouble in front of him at this time, and trouble would still come.
After Xiao Wuji entered another layer of the city wall, he was surprised to find that the defenders had dispersed automatically.
A silver-haired old man walked to the very center of the open field in the rebels' spontaneous wayway, facing Xiao Wuji. Xiao Wuji looked at the old man, the old man looked mighty, his posture was majestic, he had a pair of upside-down eyebrows, he was not angry and arrogant, and he was extremely murderous. This kind of temperament made Xiao Wuji raise a trace of vigilance and asked, "Your Excellency should be the master of this rain city, right?" ”
"Since you know that I am the lord of the rain city, why do you offend me?"
"After all, your rain city is in the territory of the Qin State."
"This is Shu of the Shu people! It's not your Qin people's Shu! ”
"I'm not a Qin person, but a Chu person."
"Hmph, embarrassed, a raccoon dog!"
Xiao Wuji stared at the eyes of this old man who actually gave him some respect, and said in Di Yunhuan's tone: "Please report your name, I won't kill the nameless person." ”
The old man shouted, "Tell you! The old man does not change his name, and he does not change his surname, it is the owner of Rain City!! ”
"It's a bit vulgar in the name of appearance."
"Presumptuous!"
The old man pulled out the long knife at his waist.
The weapons used by the military and civilians in the Central Plains are especially swords, and most of the knives are straight knives.
The blood groove of this scimitar that shone with a cold glow was extremely deep, and the blood groove had a blackened dark red inside, which made Xiao Wuji feel a trace of fishy qi, it should be the enemy blood that had already dried up.
Xiao Wuji put down the Qin Sword in his hand and pulled out his short sword from his waist.
After that, Xiao Wuji and Hai Wild Waves took a step forward almost at the same time.
The sea waves immediately slashed, but at this distance, Xiao Wuji's short sword could not stab the sea waves.
So, Xiao Wuji suddenly took another step, facing the frontal slash, retreating is sometimes not the best way to dodge, continuing to rush and attack is. It's just this extremely fast rush that makes Hai Wild Waves swoop into the air, and when Hai Wild Waves looks for Xiao Wuji who disappeared from sight, he suddenly feels a pain in his lower abdomen, and Hai Wild Waves bent down slightly, looking down, but saw that Xiao Wuji had already stabbed the short sword into his abdomen, and his body was low, as if he had sensed, and at the same time that Hai Wild Waves lowered his head, Xiao Wuji raised his head and smiled.
"You're probably not really a sea storm."
Hai Wild Waves spat out a mouthful of old blood.
He still had a smile on his face before he died.
He is, of course, the wild waves of the sea.
It's just that it's not the Lord of Rain City.
The rebels around him couldn't help but be frightened when they saw that this person had stabbed to death the city lord's general, Hai Ragtao. He didn't dare to move forward, and Xiao Wuji, who was in a hurry, didn't bother to entangle with them, so he entered the next layer of the city wall.
There are no rebels guarding this floor, and there are no masters. It's just that between the two low city walls, there is a kind of scarlet flower planted full, this kind of flower seems to be extremely vigorous, Xiao Wuji didn't even see a single weed among the flowers, not even on the ridge outside. There are also no traces of hoeing and pulling weeds inside. This made Xiao Wuji more vigilant, and the initial alertness was the moment he saw the flowers.
Liu Rufeng's lesson taught him that the breath was probably poisonous.
Therefore, the moment he saw these flowers, Xiao Wuji held his breath.
Then, he just glanced at it one more time and moved on to the next level.
"Blame...... Manshukihua's trickery was useless to him. ”
"Maybe he stayed too short."
"No, as long as you inhale even half a mouthful, the smell of this Manshuki flower is toxic enough to be disabled, and if you take a whole mouthful, it will definitely be fatal."
"Sister Shiyu, you're exaggerating, maybe it's windy?"
"There can't be wind there. Never mind...... Since he's already here...... I'll meet him myself. ”
"Sister Shiyu, you are the king of this rain city, how could you be arrested so quickly, ah, my sister is so talkative, with your identity, how can you show up in person so quickly? This time, let's let my sister go. ”
"It's fine."
……
Liu Rufeng untied the Gu on those people as promised.
The thief was also released as promised.
After the convoy of Fengrun Dart Bureau left, the girl who had just regained consciousness was dissatisfied: "Boss! How can you just let them go? If this spreads, where will the face of our world's number one thief go! ”
The thief smiled bitterly: "What can I do if I don't let go?" ”
"Of course I've done one!"
"Fight, you've already lost."
The girl was puzzled: "We lost, but the boss didn't lose, as long as you release the poison......"
"Let it go."
The thief smiled a little weakly: "But it's useless." Their leader...... I'm still underestimating. Just now I lied to him and said that I still had a killer weapon that I didn't use, so I tricked him into coming over and curing the poison on your body! ”
"The poison he uses seems to be very similar to the boss."
The thief is still concerned: "Yes, but I'm just a pawn, and people are a combination of the car and the car." ”
"Boss, is there really someone you can't poison......"
"Yes...... There is one in the Central Plains, but I didn't expect it, no, I should have understood a long time ago that the barbarian one was not something I dealt with. Alright, you guys go back today, I have something else to do. ”
Before leaving, the scholar said again: "If we have more people, we can kill him if we rely on people to fill in." ”
The thief did not respond.
There is a lot of speculation about him.
No one knew that these people, plus himself, were already all members of this force.