Chapter 141: Xuanwu Goes Out of the City
The fiery sun, which had been raging for a day, was gradually moving westward, and it would not be long before night fell! The scorching heat still covers the whole land!
Stone bullets are flying, and the upper and lower sides of the city wall of Chengwu County are fighting that seems to be about to come to an end! The rich smell of blood began to accumulate in the twilight, boiling, spreading!
Now the situation on the city wall has become clearer and clearer, although the Qin soldiers defending the city are trying their best to resist, regardless of the stone bullets that fell from the sky above their heads, but the Qin soldiers are too few!
There are more than 80,000 soldiers besieging the city on all four walls! Almost the small Chengwu County is surrounded by water! If you don't throw down a piece of rolling stone or a bucket of gold juice, dozens of Qin soldiers will be stoned to death by stone bullets falling from the sky!
And Xiang Liang's soldiers have become smart now! Only a few of the rebel soldiers who climbed the city wall before were killed by the Qin army defending the city, and most of the rest died on the stone bullets thrown by the trebuchet behind their homes, so they no longer desperately climbed up, took the ladder, and then held a shield to cover their heads and shouted desperately under the city wall! Anyway, the Qin army didn't dare to retreat, so they could only passively stick to the city wall against the stone bullets that kept falling on their heads!
Many of the battlements on the city wall have now been smashed by the non-stop stone bullets!
10,000 veterans of the Six Kingdoms who had fought with the Qin army silently opened the camp under the banner of "Xiang"! Among these 10,000 people is a thick wooden pillar more than ten zhang long, two feet thick, and with a conical angle at the top, carried by hundreds of people!
This wooden pillar is what Xiang Liang used to ram the city gate!
Since the launch, Xiang Liang has not used his troops to storm the city gate, just to wait for the moment when the Qin army is difficult to take care of!
Attacking the city wall is just to attract the Qin army to defend the city, so that the trebuchet can kill and injure the Qin army, which is not many in number, and it is too troublesome to really break the city and walk from the city wall!
These veterans of the 10,000 Six Nations were obviously different from the rebel soldiers who had swarmed up before, their pace was neat, and they didn't seem to see the stone bullets flying out of the city, and they were centered on the hundreds of soldiers carrying the cone that hit the city, and they quickly approached the south gate of Chengwu City!
Everywhere on the city wall, you can see the soldiers of the Qin army who have fallen to the ground. Originally, the injured Qin soldiers could be quickly transferred to the city for treatment, but now with the sudden force of Xiang Liang's trebuchet army, the casualties of the Qin soldiers increased sharply, and many Qin soldiers who were knocked down and injured by stone bullets fell on the city wall, and then were hit by flying stone bullets for the second and third time, until they died!
The hot blood soaked the mud and sand that Hu Hai ordered Long Xuan to lay on the aisle of the city wall, and the city wall was muddy!
A ** Qin army soldier or Chengwu people threw themselves into the city wall, and then they were swept away by the flying stone bullets in less than a moment!
Since the start of the war, just over an hour has passed, and the soldiers of the Qin army, including the Chengwu civilians who were temporarily enlisted, have suffered casualties as high as 10,000 people! At the beginning, there were still wounded soldiers carried down in the first half hour, and now the soldiers of the Qin army who are carried down are all a blur of flesh and blood!
Among these 10,000 people, there were nearly 6,000 elite Qin troops who followed Hu Hai to the north, and the remaining 4,000 were Cheng Wu soldiers!
The center of Chengwu City has now become a huge field hospital, where more than 2,000 injured soldiers of the Qin army are temporarily treated! And Hu Hai has been staying in the square since he went down to the city!
Seeing the wounded all over the city and more and more Qin soldiers being stoned to death by the stone bullets flying overhead, Hu Hai knew that if this continued, he was afraid that if it continued like this, he was afraid that in two more hours at most, there would be no soldiers under his command to use!
Do you want to use the unarmed people to go up to the city to defend it? And then let them be stoned to death by Xiang Liang's catapults on the city wall?
"Your Majesty, the 10,000 elite soldiers of the rebels on the city wall are carrying the cone of the city and coming straight to the south gate!" Long Xuan, who was covered in blood, has been leading the dragon guard to treat the injured soldiers on the city wall!
"Elite soldiers? Baiyue barbarian? Hu Hai frowned and asked suspiciously!
"It's not a Baiyue barbarian, it's all elite soldiers who are stubborn and stubborn, and their murderous aura is hidden but not revealed! If the subordinate didn't guess wrong, this should be a veteran of the Six Kingdoms that Xiang Liang had gathered! Long Xuan said worriedly!
Carrying the city cone, it was obvious that Xiang Liang felt that the time had come, and wanted to break through the city gate with these veterans in one fell swoop!
We can't go on like this!
"Go and give the order, and order all the soldiers defending the city to retreat from the city walls." Hu Hai ordered in his heart!
"Your Majesty, now those rebel soldiers in the lower city are about to climb the city wall!" Long Xuan was shocked when he heard this!
"Before going down to the city, pour all the oil and other things I prepared on the city walls! Don't they want to come up? I'll let them up!" You, Du Teng, Xiahou Ying, and Fan Xu each led 2,000 soldiers to guard the lower city road for me, and not a single rebel soldier was allowed to come down! Just go and call Weng Zhong here! Just go! Hu Hai licked his chapped lips and said sharply!
"Whoa!"
Long Xuan also knew that if he continued to consume like this, he was afraid that it would not be long before all the soldiers in the city would die! Hurriedly answered! The width of the city wall is no more than a zhang, and all the soldiers have to go through the road to go down the city, and it is obviously no problem for two thousand Qin soldiers to guard the city wall!
It won't be long before Weng Zhong arrives!
"Order the Xuanwu soldiers to put on their armor and assemble at the West Gate! The heavy cavalry followed the foot soldiers with a can of fire oil with them, and when I ordered the city gate to be opened, you personally led the people to kill a passage, and then you dragged the tens of thousands of rebels under the city for me, and let the cavalry destroy the trebuchets around the four walls! ”
Hu Hai ordered directly!
The rebel soldiers gathered under the city wall were all rabble, except for Baiyue Barbarian, who was fierce, and Hu Hai didn't take it to heart, and now the most important thing is to get rid of Xiang Liang's hundreds of trebuchets!
There are now more than 200 trebuchets in the city! However, because the base of Xiang Liang's original trebuchet was there, coupled with the continuous rush system, the destruction in the city was always in the same state as Xiang Liang's supplementary trebuchet!
However, if Xiang Liang's trebuchet is destroyed, with the number of trebuchets in the city now, it will immediately gain an overwhelming advantage, ensuring that Xiang Liang's trebuchet will be destroyed when it is sent, so that the city will no longer face the threat of Xiang Liang's trebuchet!
And under the southern city wall, nearly 20,000 Xiangliang rebels gathered, and the other three walls were the same! But there is a difference, it is inevitable that there are still 10,000 veterans of the Six Nations who have just pounced under the city wall!
The heavy armored infantry of the Xuanwu Army has only 1,600 people left, and there are more than 1,800 heavy armored cavalry! With the cavalry's rapid assault ability, coupled with fire oil, Xiang Liang's catapult will definitely be able to quickly destroy Xiang Liang's catapult!
"The last will obey!"
When Weng Zhong heard that there was a battle to be fought, he gladly accepted the order!
"Weng Zhong!" Hu Hai stopped Weng Zhong, who turned around and was about to leave! This is the first time he has called Weng Zhong's name seriously!
"The last general!" Weng Zhong heard Hu Hai's words, and hurriedly turned around and bowed!
"Remember, let the cavalry destroy the catapults outside the four walls!" Hu Hai didn't say much, just repeated again!
"Your Majesty, rest assured! Those Rausch catapults will all be destroyed by His Majesty! Weng Zhong hummed!
"Go ahead!"
Xiang Liang's 10,000 veterans quickly crossed the five trenches, less than five hundred steps away from the city wall!
And at this time, Weng Zhong's Xuanwu army of 3,500 people was already ready at the West Gate!
Under every city wall, there is a shout of slaughter, but the city gate is quiet!
"Open the gates!"
With Hu Hai's order, the west gate of Chengwu City, which is nearly two feet high, opened with a "crunch" sound!
To the west of Chengwu City is the camp of Xiangzhuang!
The rebel soldiers, who had been crowded under the city walls, soon noticed the wide open West Gate!
After being stunned for a moment, he suddenly let out a cheer, and swarmed towards the wide open Xicheng to kill the generals!
The first thing that greeted them was the countless cold rays shining at the city gate! It was the glitter of the sharp barbs on the mace!
The city gate is only three zhang wide, and Weng Zhong is still in the lead, and the remaining Xuanwu soldiers are ten in a column, and they rush out quickly! Behind the heavy armored foot soldiers of the Xuanwu Army, the heavy armored cavalry of the Xuanwu Army with 1,800 horses stood on horseback, waiting for the Xuanwu Army to open a bloody road for them!
If there is time, it is naturally much faster to use heavy armored cavalry to open the way, but there are too many soldiers outside the city, once the heavy armored cavalry falls into the rebel formation, then this operation will be wasted!
After all, the people in Xiang Liang's rebel army are not stupid, and they may not know what the cavalry is going out of the city for, but if Xiang Liang still doesn't know what the cavalry is coming out for after destroying the trebuchet outside the western city wall, then he doesn't deserve to be mixed up to this day!
The sound of bones breaking and tendons that make people sore suddenly sounded from the city gate!
As more than a thousand Xuanwu troops rushed out, the rebel soldiers who rushed up rolled back one after another! Accompanied by the severed arms and limbs flying all over the sky, more than 1,600 heavily armored foot soldiers of the Xuanwu Army covered in armor appeared in front of the Xiang Liang rebel soldiers who surrounded them!
The power of the heavy armored cavalry, although the middle army and the rear army of Xiang Liang's rebel army have not seen it with their own eyes, but the soldiers in Xiang Liang's front army are many people who have seen it with their own eyes!
And Weng Zhong's last volley throw was deeply engraved in the hearts of every former soldier who witnessed the battle that happened yesterday in the wilderness outside the city!
As the former soldiers were collected and incorporated into the army, rumors of steel monsters in the Qin army could not help but quietly circulate among the rebels!
The rebel soldiers, who didn't quite believe in these rumors, were stunned when they saw the two columns of giants who appeared in front of the city gate with only a faint and cold glow in their eyes, their whole bodies wrapped in steel, and the hideous sticks in their hands!
The rebels were in a daze, but the movements of the heavily armored foot soldiers of the Xuanwu Army did not stop at all, and after driving out of the city, they were immediately divided into two groups, one to the left and the other to the right, and quickly crushed the rebels who were surrounded under the city walls on both sides of the city gate!
Weng Zhong took a step forward and quickly ran towards the more than 100 catapults that were still throwing stone bombs!
In front of the city gate behind Weng Zhong, with the crushing of the two heavily armored infantry of the Xuanwu Army, an avenue without the slightest obstacle appeared in front of the heavy armored cavalry!
(To be continued)