Chapter 100: Hell on Earth
Just as Zhou Cang thought, under the constant attack of the demon magicians, the ammunition of the two thousand demon magicians was exhausted in one day, but Liu Meng was not without countermeasures.
The next day, the thieves arrived as scheduled, because of the casualties of the bandits from all walks of life, so the proportion of Montenegrin soldiers who participated in the siege increased.
The thieves roared and attacked, much more motivated than yesterday, as their leader told them that the enemy's little jar that had left them helpless was gone.
For the sake of safety, they still braved the arrows in a column to hit the city wall, until the first thief boarded the city wall, did not find those small jars, not only let these thieves put their hearts at ease, but also let Zhou Cang and others who were observing from a distance feel relieved, the thieves no longer cautiously marched forward in columns, but swarmed forward like a tide.
Yesterday, the leaders of all walks of life suppressed together, and all the thieves knew that if they didn't capture Hedong, they would starve to death, so there was no mutiny, if today was the same as yesterday, they really didn't dare to guarantee that no one under them would dare to attack the city.
As long as people have hope, they have motivation, and the morale of the thieves has actually improved, and they have changed from calm to high morale.
There are too many thieves, and judging from yesterday's situation, Liu Meng learned that the other party planned to implement the tactics of exhausting the army, and would not give the army time to breathe at all, so Liu Meng also had to deal with this, it was not enough to rely on the Cangya battalion alone, and some ordinary soldiers were also sent by Liu Meng, and even invested some people, these people have adapted to yesterday, and their psychological quality has been greatly improved and they will not be afraid of their hands.
Both parties are fighting for ownership of the city walls in order to survive, and there are countless thieves waiting to climb the walls under the walls.
Liu Meng had just killed a thief who had climbed the city wall, and when he looked down the city wall, he found that there were dense thieves lined up under the city.
"It's time. Shoot arrows. Liu Meng ordered.
This order was not given to the archers, but to Guo Jia's generals.
This is Liu Meng's countermeasure, and it is also the reason why although the morale of the enemy army has been improved, and his combat effectiveness has been enhanced, he has not let Xu Chu show a lot of alcohol to reduce the morale of the enemy army.
The archers on the walls were not idle, so that twenty more arrows in the rain of arrows would not attract the attention of the enemy, and the arrows were scattered in their places, and some of them shot and killed one of the enemy. Some of them fell directly to the ground, but the arrows of these scheming horsemen were slowly exerting their effects.
After a while, the thieves around these arrows changed, and they felt that their strength was suddenly much greater, and there was a force in their bodies that wanted to vent, as if they would explode if they didn't vent.
At first, they could resist this feeling, but as time went on, this feeling gradually lost their minds, and the eyes were the windows of the soul, and if someone looked closely at their eyes at this time, they would find that these people only had bloodthirsty killing intent in their eyes.
A thief first swung a butcher's knife at his comrade-in-arms, and the other party was killed defenselessly. This move quickly caused a chain reaction, and the thieves who were affected by the medicine powder could no longer suppress the killing intent in their hearts, and attacked each other one after another, because these people's combat power increased and they were defenseless against their comrades, those thieves who were not poisoned were killed without the strength to fight back, even if the thieves who were also poisoned were only attacking and not defending between the two, a fighting style of fighting for their lives, and one of them would die within a few seconds.
These thieves are not the same person. The rest of the soldiers who were not affected by the powder did not know why, and they were stunned when they saw someone attacking their brothers. After that, he was angry, and he didn't ask the reason for it, and he swung his knife directly at the thieves who were not his own people around him, and of course the people who were attacked would fight back, so the scene became more and more chaotic, and after a while, no one attacked the city, just fought under the city walls.
Zhou Cang, who was supervising the battle in the rear, and the leaders of all walks of life were also stunned. What is the situation, how did the army fight, if you capture Hedong County, it is understandable to fight because of the uneven distribution of spoils, but these eight characters have not been skimmed yet, you will fight yourself first, what is going on?
Although the Montenegrin army is small in number, its combat effectiveness is the strongest. Those Montenegrin warriors who have not been able to exert their combat power are even more invincible after being hit by the medicine powder, so just this time the thieves are suffering heavy casualties.
"Stop, stop, what are you doing, are you all crazy?" Zhou Cang and the two commanders hurriedly slapped their horses and shouted to their soldiers.
Not to mention that the shouting of a few people could not be transmitted far at all on the battlefield where the sound of fighting was earth-shattering, even the thieves who heard the words of their own leader were also red-eyed, how could they listen to it?
Liu Meng stood on the city wall and watched this farcical battle, he didn't expect that the role of the conspiracy generals would be so great, but it could only be used as a surprise soldier, if the enemy army was prepared, it would not be able to achieve such a big result.
Zhou Cang and the others couldn't help but shout at their soldiers, and they had to see the meaningless sacrifices of their subordinates, especially the two leaders were even pale, these people were all their dependents, and without their subordinates, they were just ordinary bandits.
As time passed, there were fewer and fewer soldiers surviving on the battlefield, until only 1,000 of the 50,000 thieves were left at night, and the walls were littered with severed limbs and remains, like hell on earth.
Even the leaders of all walks of life, who regard killing as a daily routine, are also numb when they see this scene, they have killed people like numb, some have slaughtered villages, some have even slaughtered small towns, but at most they have never seen what the battlefield looks like when they kill hundreds of thousands of people and nearly 50,000 corpses.
Liu Meng has never seen it, he has experienced many major battles, but he has never encountered such a heavy number of casualties, and he also felt shocked when he looked at this scene on the city wall.
However, Liu Meng did not feel unbearable, the opposite side was a thief, who came to rob him of the food in the east of the river, if the city was broken, it would be more than these thieves who died, and hundreds of thousands of people in the city would starve to death even if they were not killed by the thieves, benevolence and righteousness also had to be divided into occasions, there is a good saying, being merciful to the enemy is cruel to oneself, Liu Meng felt that this was very reasonable.
After Zhou Cang ordered the withdrawal of the army, he silently returned to the camp of the Montenegrin army, and the rest of the leaders did not know what happened, but they all secretly guessed in their hearts that they didn't know the reason for the powder, but wondered if the Montenegrin army was going to do something to them.
Lei Ming was originally very dissatisfied with Zhou Cang's behavior, but seeing today's incident made him even more suspicious, and his eyes kept rolling to think about how he should protect himself. (To be continued......)