096 Bloody Battle Kettle Pass
After intense preparations, nearly a thousand infantry troops gathered again in front of Huguan Pass, and the arrow blocking car, the well block, and the rushing car (as for the catapult, the apprentice can say very calmly that the protagonist is sometimes not omnipotent) and so on, in addition, after many days of searching for wood, the battle array finally appeared for the first time five ladders that can ride the four-zhang height of the city wall.
After more than ten days of actual combat exercises, the Julu Army has already been very familiar with siege warfare, first of all, it is still the largest number of arrow blocking vehicles to protect the archers close to the firing range, and the well is close behind, and when they can suppress the crossbowmen at the head of the city, they will push the rushing carts and cloud ladders to the front.
After more than ten days of repeated battles, the Huguan defenders gradually began to be stingy with the few arrows in their hands, and the Huguan defenders no longer cared about the arrow blocking vehicles that were completely used to restrain the bow and crossbow, and their goals had begun to change to sniping soldiers, or concentrating rockets to burn the more threatening wells. As for dealing with the rushing car, they will not be polite in the slightest, there are mountains everywhere on both sides of the kettle, and the stones that are casually hewn down are powerful weapons in their hands. It was only because the Julu Army had been fighting with archers and chariots before, that the boulders piled up everywhere on the city were almost useless.
However, this time, the defenders at the head of the city had very solemn expressions, and their eyes stared at the five tall ladders without blinking.
Siege warfare, ladder is always the most effective weapon, the defender of the city is at a disadvantage in terms of troops, morale is generally not high, and as long as the attacker can climb the city, it will be greatly inspired, so only with the siege ladder that can quickly send soldiers to the head of the city, is the most important and widely used siege equipment.
So when they saw five huge ladders appear in the siege array, the faces of the defenders of Huguan also became solemn.
The arrow blocking car was quickly pushed to the front row, and the more than 100 archers hidden behind the car began to launch a suppressive attack on the city, these soldiers were no longer as quick as when they attacked the city, but stared at the city very carefully, waiting for some of the unsightly guys to show their heads and give him a fierce and fatal attack.
Lack of siege ladders, the five-zhang high well has naturally become the biggest weapon to kill the defenders of the Huguan Pass, when the ten wells are seventy steps away from the pass, the density of arrow rain inside and outside the pass suddenly intensified, countless like a comet in the night towards the well to shoot over, under the city pass, hundreds of giant deer archers also struggled to suppress, and strive to reduce the pressure on the well pass
One or two, the wells were burned under the care of the city's firepower, the archers on the wells gritted their teeth and jumped off the firestands and broke their legs, and the seriously wounded or dead soldiers were burned to ashes by the raging flames
You come and go inside and outside the gate, the air within a range of 100 meters is full of the whistling sound of arrows flying wildly, and from time to time there are unlucky giant deer soldiers who are killed by arrows shot from nowhere, but they still hold on calmly, and their eyes reveal a beast-like ferocity
Wen Yuan looked at it with a solemn face, maybe today, it was another fruitless ending.
At this time, on the official road on the other side of Huguan, thirty horsemen rushed from the north, and the defenders of Huguan Xiguan discovered the thirty horsemen rushing to the cavalry early, and they tightened their vigilance.
The thirty cavalry marched straight to the pass, and before the city could shout, the black-faced man with a burly figure and a steel beard had already raised his voice and shouted: "Open the city gate quickly!" I am the scout cavalry under the command of General Geng of Jinyang City, General Geng heard that the giant deer soldiers had committed Huguan, and he had sent a large army to help, and the army had reached thirty miles north of Guan! The general prepares early! ”
Huguan is dangerous, Taihang Mountain stretches north and south for thousands of miles, the military generals guarding the pass saw that everyone was wearing military uniforms and states, and there were only 30 people, and there was no army behind them, so they did not have any suspicions, and immediately ordered people to open the city gate.
The guard saw that the thirty horsemen entered the pot pass, and was about to order someone to close the door, when he suddenly heard a burst of chaos at the pass, and only heard a pretending voice laughing: "Hahaha!" I am the former captain Zhou Cang of the giant deer guarding the tent, and those who know each other will obediently bow down and be arrested! Then I saw an arrow shoot into the sky! Then, black smoke began to billowing from the nearby houses that closed the door!
In an instant, the guard's heart fell to the bottom with the lifting of the arrow!
In the col two miles away, hundreds of giant deer army rushed towards the wall like wolves, they had already had a day's rest, and at this time, they spread out one by one, and the speed was terrifying!
"If you don't want to die, surrender quickly! Otherwise, when the army arrives, you will be told to die and have no place to be buried! Hahaha! ”
"Surrender or die! Whoever resists will be killed! ”
“……”
Zhou Cang roared and slashed hard, the big knife in his hand set off a bloody rain of blood, and the stumps and arms were broken. He was like a heavy tank running all the way over, blocking everyone who was cut into several pieces with weapons, and no one was his enemy at all!
However, although he looked heroic, he felt a little aggrieved in his heart, these slogans Guo Jia has kept him memorized since yesterday, just with his mushy brain, doing this job is more torturous than letting him go into battle to kill the enemy, but every time he sees the sick appearance of the military advisor who may not wake up at any time, Zhou Cang forces himself to memorize these words in his mind! .
But don't say it, after Zhou Cang's loudspeaker-like voice, it was transmitted far away, and the Huguan defenders heard that they were really powerless to resist, and many people saw these thirty fierce and vicious enemy troops rushing close, and they all ran away, Zhou Cang led his subordinates to rush left and right among hundreds of state soldiers, as if they were in a no-man's land! I can see that the military generals who guard the pass scolded their mothers again and again!
Assault! Assault! Assault!
However, there were only 30 people who rushed into the city pass, and there were at least 500 Shangdang troops stationed at Xiguan.
Under his shout, dozens of archers gathered around him and began to shoot a dense rain of arrows, although Xuan Yingwei was wearing iron armor, but the distance of forty or fifty steps could still be protected by the bow and crossbow, after a few rounds of volleys, there were only more than ten people left around Zhou Cang!
Zhou Cang had more than ten arrows inserted into the hanger at this time, and blood slowly overflowed from the wounds on his body, soaking through his military uniform.
"Wu Na thief, look at your grandfather of the Zhou family to take your dog's life!"
Zhou Cang soon saw the guard general who commanded the defenders to fight! With a finger of the blade, he slammed into the guard like a tiger descending from the mountain! The guard saw that the sturdy black man who was the leader of the enemy army rushed straight towards him, and the sergeant in front of him did not dare to pick up his edge, and walked to both sides one after another, his heart was cold, and he gritted his teeth to meet him!