Chapter 36: Sweeping (Part II)
For the reason that they had to fight in their hearts, the two nations abandoned all and fought hard. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Han army threw the boulder down fiercely, and the boulder smashed on the head of the Hun soldier who rushed to the front, losing the strength to grasp the cloud ladder and falling down, but at the moment when he fell down, he also had to adjust his body to avoid more damage to his comrades behind him.
The boulder fell sharply downward, two, three, four, and finally bounced off when it hit the fifth person, changing the trajectory of the fall.
The Hun soldiers who were lucky enough to survive did not stop for a moment, and continued to climb upward, and they were greeted by another boulder.
The Xiongnu climbed up one after another, and were smashed down one after another, and the falling rocks of the Han army kept smashing at the cloud ladder and the Xiongnu who were about to reach the city wall.
"Bang!"
The ladders on the city of Wuyuan were broken one after another, and the general of the Huns, who commanded the army in the distance, saw that the ladder was broken, and immediately ordered the team to blow the horn of the army.
The situation was similar in several other cities, and the Xiongnu who attacked five cities successively collected troops.
Watching the Huns retreat like a tide under the city tower, the Wuyuan city guard knew that today's battle was over, and ordered the soldiers to light the casualties and clean up the city tower.
"My lord, the Huns have just begun to attack the city, and the casualties are not large, but the enemy attack is too fierce, and our bows and arrows and falling rocks have consumed almost half, and there will be large casualties tomorrow." After finishing the post-war inventory, one of the staff members said to the city guard worriedly.
The castle guard looked at the ground and said calmly, "Well, I see. β
"Tell the soldiers to adjust, tomorrow will be a bad battle." Then the castle guard turned and left to inspect the city.
In order to prevent the Xiongnu from sneaking up at night, the soldiers of the cities of Wuyuan did not go down to the city wall to rest, most of them slept in the city tower, and took turns to send out people to be on duty on the city tower.
However, it seems that the Huns did not want to do any sneak attack, and the only advantage of the Han army's numerical disadvantage was that the city wall was even more unlikely to go out of the city and steal the camp, and the two sides spent the night without incident.
The next morning, as soon as it was dawn, the Hun army blew their horns and launched an attack on the cities of Wuyuan, this time the attack was obviously more ferocious than yesterday.
The Huns carrying the ladder ran fast, but after four rounds of arrow rain, they arrived at the city, and began to set up the ladder under the protection of the people around them.
Finally the ladder was built, some of the Huns today took the round shield in their hands, the ladder was built as soon as the first one climbed upward, the Han army threw the falling stones, smashed the first Hun and was led astray by the round shield in his hand, and the Huns behind were able to continue to climb up.
The battlefield is still repeating yesterday's situation, the Han army in charge of throwing stones on the city tower is only in his early twenties, his face is full of war-infected black, his eyes are firmly focused on the progress of the Huns climbing the ladder, his body leans back and stretches out his hand to take the falling stone handed to him by his comrades, throws it hard, and then reaches out again to ask for it. Repeatedly, like a machine, it kept going back and forth doing simple movements.
"Huh?"
The young Han Jun suddenly woke up from the simple and boring exercise, because he felt that there was no weight in his hands, and the boulder that should have come as soon as he reached out had not been placed in his hand, and when he turned around, he saw that his robe was looking at him with a wry smile on his face.
"Nope."
With the undaunted offensive of the Xiongnu army, the Han army defending the city finally used up their last falling stone, which means that they will use their weapons to defend against the Xiongnu who are trying to rush to the city wall.
This siege battle also officially entered the white heat with the exhaustion of the resources to defend the city.
The originally relatively quiet battlefield instantly became noisy, and there were shouts, screams, and the sound of weapons intersecting everywhere, and it was no longer possible for the soldiers on both sides to fall into the simple and boring mental state they had before, and now their nerves were tense every second of their life on the battlefield.
The Han army on the city wall gathered at the top of each ladder, always paying attention to killing every Hun who entered the attack range with the weapons in their hands, and also paying attention to the number of Huns who climbed the ladder, as long as the Huns did not have enough people to press on the ladder to add weight to it, the Han army would immediately ignore the Huns at the top and take this opportunity to push the ladder at the risk of being hacked to death.
The Hun general rode a horse and stood in the distance where he could see the overall situation, looking with respect at the Hun soldiers who were now constantly falling from the ladder like dumplings in order to attack the city, they were all dying for the sake of the clansmen behind them to live, worthy of adhering to the will of the steppe wolf god, and the people who survived could only continue to pay admiration and their own debts.
As the battle progressed, finally, a Hun soldier successfully blocked all the attacks directed at him, slashed the throat of a Han soldier and rushed up the city wall, and then was stabbed to death by the surrounding Han army in less than a second, pushing down the tower.
The second and third, slowly, sometimes up to as many as four or five Huns, were soon taken back by the Han army, and reverted to the way they had been killed as soon as they approached.
But the situation has indeed been opened, from the original can only be unilaterally killed by the Han army, to the current tug-of-war around the cloud ladder point.
The city guard watched the Han army clear the Xiongnu again and again, forcing the battle line back to the edge of the city wall, and his heart sank, although according to past experience, such tug-of-war would last for a long time, and sometimes even hold out until the enemy retreated at night, and the enemy had to start all over again the next day. But it was basically a matter of time before the city was broken, and the next thing was that the enemy would slowly push the battle line through the ladder with the lives of the soldiers, and establish a solid bridgehead so that the subsequent Hun soldiers could safely rush up the tower, and then fight on the city wall.
The city guard shook his head to make himself calmer, suppressed the prediction in his heart about the fate of the people in the city after the city was broken, and pulled out the long sword in his hand and threw himself into the battle. If the destruction of the city is a foregone conclusion, let me postpone this time a little longer.
"Oh~oh~"
The soldiers of Wuyuan City, who were struggling to fight, suddenly heard the earth-shattering cheers in the distance in the west, and from a distance, they could vaguely see that the ant-sized Hun soldiers in the distance had rushed to the city wall of Xi'anyang and began to fight on the city wall. In less than half an hour, the Han army on the city wall of Xi'anyang will be swept away, the Huns open the city gate, and then the two sides began the last step in the siege battle, street fighting.
Xi'anyang, which has the commander-in-chief of King Zuo Xian to supervise the battle, is indeed the city that is about to usher in the tragedy of breaking the city the fastest. All the Han troops defending the city were covered with a layer of defeat on their faces, and the Hun soldiers were more and more excited to fight, and slowly the battle line was pushed to the front of the cloud ladder, and the situation became more and more unfavorable to the Han army defending the city.
The Xiongnu generals who attacked Wuyuan City were proud that they were about to break the city, and they were thinking that they could have endless food and Han beauties after breaking the city, when they suddenly heard a burst of chaos mixed with screams from the camp behind them.
"Ah......h
"The Han army is coming to sneak attack!"
"No, this is their reinforcements, all cavalry!"
"And the state of iron riding? Didn't they go to resist Xianbei? β
"Run away, you'll be fine if you join the besiegers!"
One by one, the Hun soldiers who had not participated in the siege and were taking turns to rest ran in all directions, shouting frantically for their lives, and there was chaos in the unguarded and organized camp.
"Castle guard, look!" A sharp-eyed city guard found that the enemy camp was in chaos, and hurriedly shouted to the red-eyed city guard not far away, and immediately after shouting this sentence, he was cut off by the Hun soldiers on the side because of distraction.
"Ahh As soon as the city guard heard the call, he turned around and saw the guards who had been hacked to death, and rushed up with a loud shout to solve the Hun soldier who killed the guards, and confirmed that the surroundings were temporarily safe, and then raised his head and looked at the Hun camp in the distance.
In the distance, a group of cavalry wearing Han military uniforms was rushing around in the enemy camp, a team of people chased and killed those Hun soldiers who had no time to ride on horses and escape, and a team of people were setting fire everywhere, burning the camp and burning grain, slaughtering and dispersing the war horses in the camp tent. Judging by the number of thousands of cavalry, it is tantamount to a vital force for the soldiers on both sides who have been fighting so far.
The city guard looked at the Han army outside the city, and the hope of defending the city was ignited in his heart, and he waved his sword and shouted excitedly.
"Soldiers, our reinforcements have arrived! After holding out for a while, victory is not far off! β
Not only the city guards, but also many of the soldiers fighting on the city walls also saw the cavalry charging in the large camp outside the city, and they all shouted excitedly.
"Reinforcements are coming!"
"Great! Gohara Castle has been saved! β
The morale of the defenders on the city of Wuyuan was greatly boosted, and they all frantically attacked the Huns next to them one by one, and the Huns saw that the camp was attacked, and they were restless, and after a while, they were forced to the cloud ladder and were congested, and the Huns below could not come up, so they could only do it in a hurry below.
The Hun general was also anxious, not knowing whether to turn back and repel those Han troops first or hurry up to capture Wuyuan City, seeing that the advantage on the city wall disappeared again, the Hun general gritted his teeth.
"Collect the troops! Go back and deal with those Han troops first! β
"Woo~Woo~"
The Xiongnu soldiers besieging the city heard the signal to retreat, and hurriedly retreated, not even having time to take away the ladder, and took the road back as if defeated.
Lu Bu was wearing beast armor, a mixed iron helmet, holding a Fang Tian painting halberd with a fierce cold light, and riding a black-maned horse to pick up one tent after another.
"Women and old men?"
Lu Bu looked at the many old and weak women and children in the tent who were looking at him with hatred with a frowning brow, and felt a strange feeling in his heart. The camp tent for several miles can hold 20,000 people, but the siege soldiers look like only 8,000, and I thought that there were many soldiers left to rest in the camp tent, but it turned out that there were nearly 5,000 women and old people all the way, and more than 8,000 soldiers in the camp who had no resistance were chased and killed all the way, and the dead and wounded were all left, leaving only a huge number of these Huns who may be relatives of the soldiers, and there was no Han army to kill them, but they found everything that could be used as weapons to find the Han army everywhere to fight, However, every Guyang City defender brought by Lu Bu was riding a war horse, and they couldn't catch up with them on foot, and after chasing for dozens of meters, one of them fell to the ground and cried bitterly.
"Cut, boring!"
Lu Bu looked at the remaining Hun women and children who were crying and crying in the camp, and said without interest.
"Woo~Woo~"
"Huh?"
LΓΌ Bu raised his head and saw that the Xiongnu besieging the city had stopped their offensive, apparently wanting to gather an army to come back and recapture the camp.
"Just in time!" Lu Bu pointed at the Hun soldiers who had not yet assembled in the distance, "It's too boring to fight with this group of unarmed Huns in the camp, and there are so many women and children left." The soldiers will follow me and teach the Huns outside a lesson. β
Cheng Lian looked at the Huns outside the camp, although most of them did not have war horses, but they were well-equipped, and the number was at least three times that of our side, and he was about to open his mouth to dissuade Lu Bu but immediately swallowed the words in his throat, and he remembered the miraculous victory in Guyang City two days ago, and the ratio of numbers this time was four to one.
"This man may be able to create another miracle." Cheng Lian muttered, and immediately commanded the army to follow Lu Bu closely.
Many of the Xiongnu relatives in the camp were still crying for their dead soldiers, and with the cries of these people, LΓΌ Bu led the defenders of Guyang to gallop away against the Xiongnu who were besieging the city.
In fact, they shouldn't cry, because since they put on their armor and went to the battlefield, the men automatically signed a kind of contract without regrets, and dying on the battlefield became a kind of destination instead of sorrow, this is a gorgeous stage intertwined with iron and blood, and it is a stage where you can conquer with your own strength and wisdom, and boast of your glory with the blood of the enemy, how honored to die here.