Chapter 71: Bloodstained Phoenix City (5)

In Phoenix City, the soldiers of Zhao Liao and Zhao Liao have started a desperate struggle for Phoenix City.

The war drums on the tower rumbled like thunder. In order to overcome the fear of the Liao army, the defenders of Phoenix City actually used all the drums in Phoenix City! This was not enough, the soldiers and civilians of Phoenix City who were shouting and cheering also rang the gong, and even took out the pots and pans at home to knock on them, just to cheer for the defenders of Phoenix!

With the sound of gongs and drums, the morale of the defenders of Phoenix City rose sharply, and they were not so afraid in the face of the surging Liao army.

As the attacker, the Liao army was also not far behind, and the Liao army's shouting and killing was shocking, and it swept towards Phoenix City. The Liao army on this expedition was all elite cavalry, but the cavalry was not suitable for attacking the city, and the advantage of cavalry could not be brought into play in the siege battle.

The Liao army's surprise attack was a light and rapid march, and the army carried not many weapons, and each person only carried a shield in addition to the attack weapons such as bows and arrows, waist knives, and spears. As for the siege equipment, there were even less, and the army only carried five ladder carts, and more than 20 ladders were made by improvised logging.

Lin Xin's hands trembled a little, he held the handle of the knife, exhaled and inhaled, telling himself that he must remain calm. The night blocked his vision, and he couldn't see how many Liao troops were attacking the city. Lin Xin judged from the shouts of the Liao army that the number of Liao troops attacking the city this time was no less than a thousand.

The other three gates of Phoenix: South Gate, East Gate, and West Gate, there is no news of the Liao army attacking the city, although Lin Xin is worried that the Liao army at the north gate is just a feint to attract the main force defending the city to the north gate, and then take the opportunity to attack any of the other three gates to take Phoenix City. However, Lin Xin gritted his teeth and transferred the main force to the north gate to guard the city. Fuck it, the north gate will be guarded first!

The 3,000 defenders in Phoenix City were transferred to the north gate by Lin Xin at this moment, accounting for more than one-third of the total troops. The north gate of Phoenix City was crowded. The soldiers of the city nervously prepared their defensive equipment.

Phoenix is a poor city, poverty is not only reflected in economic poverty, Phoenix is also a poor military town militarily. Phoenix City has scarce weapons, and Lin Xin can rely on not as many weapons as Pingshan Fort to defend Phoenix City.

"Fire!"

At night, the line of sight was not good, and he couldn't even see the situation under the city tower clearly, let alone the Liao army charging from a distance, Lin Xin completely relied on his sense of hearing to judge the distance between the Liao army besieging the city and the city gate, and used it as a reference to give orders as a reference to whether the Liao army had entered the range of artillery.

Lin Xin's waist knife slashed downward, and the five cannon muzzles sprayed hot gunpowder to spray the shells, and after the shells were shot, a burst of choking gunpowder smoke rose from the muzzles, and the surrounding soldiers were choked by this gunpowder smoke and kept coughing. These five guns were the only five guns in Phoenix, and after the five guns were fired, the artillerymen hurriedly cleaned the chambers and reloaded.

"Bed crossbow! Put! ”

Lin Xin's waist knife slashed down again, hissing and shouting.

The soldier in charge of controlling the bed crossbow had already loaded the crossbow with the crossbow arrows, and the crossbow strings were pulled to nine points full and hooked to the crossbow machine. After the bolts are secured, the soldier who controls the bed crossbow triggers the crossbow machine, and the tight strings of the crossbow have enough energy to shoot the bolts. With one sharp whistling sound after another, one after another crossbow arrows broke through the air and shot towards the Liao army in the dark.

"Archers! Crossbowmen! Put! The shouts of the Liao army became louder and louder, and through the battlements, the figure of the Liao army could already be clearly seen moving.

The archers and crossbowmen in the city fired their arrows at the surging crowd below, praying in their hearts that the arrows fired would take the lives of the Liao army.

The Liao army under the city looked up at the rain of arrows sprayed at them, and raised their shields to protect them. The archers of the Liao army stopped, stood in formation under the command of Lu Shou, held bows and built, and suppressed the crossbowmen of the Zhao army at the head of the city.

There was no suspense that the crossbowmen of the Zhao army were no match for the archers of the Liao army, and after just three or four rounds of shooting, the archers of the Zhao army were suppressed. Nearly half of the archers of the Zhao army were shot by the Liao army, either killed or wounded.

After suppressing the Zhao army's crossbowmen, Achille made a big move and beckoned the Liao army behind him to start filling the trenches.

The Liao army, which was carrying dirt bags in the future, charged forward, and the soil bags on their backs were thrown down the trench. Lin Xin saw the Liao army's intentions and ordered the archers to suppress the Liao army sappers who were filling the trenches.

Dozens of Liao soldiers who were filling in the trench were shot, and five or six unlucky ghosts standing on the edge of the trench fell into the trench after being hit by arrows, screaming and fluttering in the water. I wanted to struggle to climb out of the trench, but before they could climb out of the trench, what awaited them was a cold rain of arrows......

"Archers! Suppress the archers of the Zhao army in the city! The rest continue to fill in the trenches! Achille was not alarmed, and calmly gave the order. Achiller has been in the army since he was a child, and there are many fierce battles he has fought, and the scene in front of him is just a small scene for him, and Achiller has seen a scene ten times and a hundred times more cruel than this.

The Liao archers raised their bows and launched a counterattack against the condescending Zhao archers at the head of the city, and the Zhao archers were once again suppressed by the Liao army. The Liao army calmly filled in the trenches that stood in front of them.

Soon, the trench in front of the Liao army was filled in two ways, and Achille took the lead, charging forward with the Liao army screaming.

The Liao army rushed to Phoenix like a surging wave......

Phoenix is crumbling......

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The east was white, the sky was already cloudy, the torrential rain was still falling, the sound of heavy rain and the clatter of rain falling to the ground was endless, and the wind was whining with the rain grains.

A scout stands on the shore waving his arms and shouts to get the attention of the people on board. After confirming that it was the scout he had sent, He Tengxiao released a red horse boat from the building boat to pick up the scouts on the shore to the building boat.

"The Liao army has reached Phoenix City and is attacking the city." After two days and nights of reconnaissance in the rain, the scout was overwhelmed by the exhaustion of his body, and after saying this, the scout was relieved, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

He Tengxiao motioned for the two sailors to carry the scout to the boat to rest.

The speed of the boat going up the current was very slow, but fortunately, under the leadership of He Tengxiao, everyone paddled hard, and the three-day voyage was shortened to two days.

The news that the scouts brought that the Liao army had begun to attack Phoenix City proved that He Tengxiao's judgment was not wrong, and the focus of the Liao army's use of troops this time was indeed Phoenix City and Goryeo Kingdom. When the scout came back, he reported that the Liao army had begun to attack Phoenix City, and I don't know if the defenders of Phoenix City were holding Phoenix City at this moment, He Tengxiao's heart was full of emotions.

"All the ships are docked, the sailors stay on the boat to answer, and the rest of the people wait for the rest of the people, go ashore and go to Phoenix City immediately!"

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