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Chapter 462: Attacking Chang'an (2)

Wu Benlang guarded the Jinguang Gate on the Filial Piety Festival, he didn't sleep well last night and all night, and he got up before dawn in the morning to inspect the city wall, and checked the equipment and arrows guarding the city. The day before yesterday, Li Yuan's rebels arrived outside Chang'an City, and he never returned home after climbing the city wall. To be honest, he never thought that the capital Chang'an, the capital city, would be besieged one day. In his opinion, the most stable and solid places in the world are Chang'an and Luoyang, with the national strength of the Great Sui and the prestige of the Great Sui army, how could there be a time when the capital was besieged?

Looking at the black and oppressive rebels outside the city, and the endless camp tents, Wei Xiaojie's heart was like blocking a thousand-pound boulder, and it was a little difficult to breathe.

The once powerful and incomparable Great Sui, the once strongest government soldier in the world, and the country that once made the people proud, are now unrecognizable.

But he never thought of surrendering, because he was the general of the Great Sui.

His duty is to guard the capital, and he must fulfill the duty of a soldier!

When he heard the sound of trumpets coming from the rebel camp outside the city, Wei Xiaojie clenched his fists. He stood between the two buttresses and slowly put his hand on the hilt of the knife.

Even if the city defense of Chang'an City cannot be called the strongest in the world, it can only be compared to Luoyang, the eastern capital. The walls were five feet high, and twenty soldiers could march side by side on the walls! A ballista was arranged every thirty meters, which was the first weapon for defending the city. Arrow towers, horse faces, everything is available, and a wolf's tooth slapper is set up between every three battlements, which can easily smash the rebels standing under the city wall into pulp!

So Wei Xiaojie didn't have much worry in his heart, and some were just sad.

What he could not accept was that the kingdom was under siege.

Seeing that the rebels outside the city had begun to pick up speed, his hand holding the hilt of the knife became harder and harder.

"Ballista!"

When the shield bearers of the rebels outside the city escorted the archers into the range of the ballista, Wei Xiaojie pulled out his horizontal knife and shouted loudly to the outside of the city: "Release!" ”

The sound of the ballista coiling was tooth-aching, like the cracking of a hard bone. The giant crossbow on the ballista has been loaded, more than a long zhang, stainless steel is the edge, thin iron is the feather, and the giant crossbow with the thickness of the calf can easily blast the war horse into two. This bed crossbow has a range of more than 300 meters, and once it is shot into a crowd, it can wear more than a dozen people into meat skewers in one go!

With Wei Xiaojie's order, dozens of giant crossbows shot out at the same time. It was like dozens of black lightning bolts that had been slashed down from the city wall, and they smashed into the formation of the Li Jiajun with great speed.

The soldier with the shield trembled at the sound of the coiled rope on the wall suddenly loosening, and then prayed in his heart that he would not be targeted by the damn crossbow. In front of the giant crossbow, manpower is simply vulnerable.

Bang!

A giant crossbow directly hit an infantry shield, the infantry shield wrapped in two layers of cowhide can easily block the wolf's tooth arrows, but it can't stop the giant crossbow that smashed like a cannonball, the crossbow arrow easily smashed the shield, the steel arrow immediately hit the shield man's head, the soldier did not have time to react, his head exploded like a watermelon smashed by a hammer, the giant crossbow shattered his head and then pierced into the chest of the archer behind him.

A huge and hideous bloody hole was blasted in the archer's chest, and the giant crossbow slammed into the body of the third person without stopping, shattering half of the third person's shoulder, and then finding the fourth person, and after burrowing into the chest of the fourth person, it was still powerful, and it hit the fifth person, the sixth person, the seventh person, and the eighth person one after another.

Four or five corpses hung on the giant crossbow to finally slow it down, and after breaking a bloody hole in the lower abdomen of the ninth man, the giant crossbow stopped its journey, taking the lives of nine people.

After a round of giant crossbow attacks, several blood lines were drawn in the formation of the Li family's army, each blood line was a small piece of emptiness, and there was no living person on this blood line.

"Rush forward, speed up! Rush forward, and the giant crossbow will be useless when you reach the city! ”

Li Biao shouted loudly, and as he shouted, he slammed the shield in his hand with a horizontal knife to attract the attention of the soldiers.

Not every giant crossbow caused casualties, and after dozens of giant crossbows were fired in a salvo, the loss of the Li family's army was only more than 200 people, but the deterrent power of this attack was large enough. Many people were so frightened that they peed their pants, cried and squatted on the ground and never dared to stand up again.

"Forward, stupid!"

The veterans pulled the frightened recruits and ran forward, scolding as they ran: "Idiots will stop!" Standing still is a target for enemy archers! ”

The shield-bearers rushed forward like crazy with their shields on their backs, as did the archers in their midst-streak. The bed crossbow shoots far from close, and when it comes to the city wall, the bed crossbow loses its usefulness.

"Archer!"

Wei Xiaojie raised the horizontal knife again and shouted loudly: "Throw!" ”

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After four rounds of feather arrows, the archers of the Li family army outside the city finally rushed within range. Under the cover of the shield array, they began to frantically return fire on the defenders on the city wall, and on a 100-meter-wide front, the density of feathered arrows was staggering. The defenders on the walls had the upper hand, but they could be killed by feathered arrows if they leaned out.

"Shoot! Suppress the ballista! ”

Li Biao shouted loudly, then turned around and cursed: "Why hasn't the battering ram come up yet!" Ladder, put the ladder up! ”

More than a dozen people rushed to the city with a ladder, the soldiers gritted their teeth and raised the ladder with red faces, and the archers immediately stood up from behind the shield and shot at the defenders on the city wall fiercely, covered with dense feather arrows, and the Sui army on the city wall was pressed and did not dare to raise their heads. The besieging soldiers took the opportunity to put the ladder on the city wall, and while the archers under the city were changing arrows, the Sui army immediately stood up and shot indiscriminately at the city. In an instant, the Li family army under the city fell one floor.

"Go up!"

Li Biao pointed to the ladder and shouted, "Archer! Stand up, don't shrink behind the shield like Wang Ba, suppress the defenders, suppress the defenders! ”

"Go up! Rush up and don't rush around, protect the ladder, and let the follow-up people go to the city! ”

Several brave soldiers put the horizontal knife in their mouths, and jumped up flexibly with two hands holding the trembling ladder monkey, but they were only halfway up, and several Sui soldiers defending the city stood up in the rain of arrows, and used a scratching hook to resist the ladder, and everyone shouted neatly, and then pushed the ladder out together. The ladder slowly shifted from leaning against the wall to vertical ground, and then gradually accelerated towards the ground.

The soldiers who climbed the ladder jumped down with a wail, and immediately broke their legs, and before they could get up, the ladder slapped them. For a moment, flesh and blood blurred.

"Put it on the nail shoot!"

Wei Xiaojie ran back and forth on the city wall, giving orders loudly.

The paddle covered with wolf teeth nails smashed down from the city wall, and the soldiers who stood under the wall to avoid the feather arrows were immediately smashed in the head, and when the Sui soldiers struggled to pull the nails up, there were still corpses hooked by nails hanging on them.

"Cut the rope!"

Li Biao roared hoarsely, his eyes already red.

The soldiers who were lucky enough to avoid the nail slap immediately brandished their horizontal knives and slashed at the nail slap, and many of the nail slaps were cut off and the ropes fell down. Li Biao roared like a beast and loudly ordered the archers to shoot. The feather arrows are incredibly dense, and they can even collide in mid-air.

The Sui army with the arrow fell from the city wall wailing, regardless of the fact that he had died after landing, the soldiers of the Li family army under the city rushed up, and more than a dozen horizontal knives chopped down frantically, and after a while, the Sui army that fell down the city wall became a pile of meat paste. Splashes of minced flesh stuck to people's faces, but no one cared.

"Shoot! Shoot! ”

While urging the archers to fight back, Li Biao organized the besieging soldiers to erect ladders.

Wei Xiaojie looked at the battering ram that was getting closer and closer, and his face became a little solemn: "Ballista, smash the battering ram first!" Don't let it come over, let it go! ”

Six or seven ballistae aimed at the huge battering ram at the same time, and the giant crossbow roared out, immediately putting down the soldiers on the cart, and the archers on the city wall also knew that once the big guy approached, no matter how strong the city gate was, it would not be able to block dozens of impacts.

Dense feathered arrows were hurled, and the giant crossbows were firing continuously. In just a few minutes, thousands of feathered arrows and more than a dozen giant crossbows fell near the battering ram!

In a few minutes, the soldiers of the Li family army pushing the cart were cleaned up!

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"This can't be done!"

Liu Wenjing didn't know when he arrived at Yin Kaishan's side, and said with a frown: "Even if you fill it with human lives, your 10,000 people can't fill the city wall as high!" ”

Liu Wenjing is the chief of the left army, and Yin Kaishan is the general of the left army, knowing how resourceful this person is, he turned around and asked, "What can Lord Liu do?" ”

"Let the soldiers withdraw first, I will ask Tang Gong to order the construction of a building car, slightly higher than the city wall, send archers to shoot on the building car to suppress the defenders, put a wooden plank on the building car, wait close to the city wall, put a wooden board on the city wall, the soldiers step on the wooden board from the building car to the city, and win the battle!"

"Not yet!"

Yin Kaishan shook his head and said, "Just after the attack, we will retreat, and the army's heart will definitely float!" ”

"You can only die a lot of soldiers for nothing!"

"Soldier, be a horse leather shroud!"

Yin Kaishan didn't listen to Liu Wenjing's suggestion, and ordered loudly: "Uncle Wang! If you take your people up, you will use people to pile up, and you will also pile up a Yuliang Avenue for me to climb the city! ”

Wang Shubao agreed loudly, and then pressed forward with three thousand soldiers.

Because the attacking Li Jiajun had almost rushed to the city, the ballista carts on the city wall had stopped bombarding, and the archers seemed to be more busy.

Wei Xiaojie was running back and forth on the city wall to command, and suddenly saw about one hundred and fifty steps down the city, dozens of shield bearers tightly guarding a general, he immediately stopped, and ordered the crossbow cart around him to turn around. Several soldiers hurriedly loaded the giant crossbow, and then wrenched the coil rope vigorously, and in the click sound, the giant crossbow slowly pulled to the back.

"Shoot that general!"

Wei Xiaojie shouted loudly.

With a thud, the giant crossbow flew out like an angry dragon. A distance of one hundred and fifty paces, in an instant.

Li Biao was directing the soldiers to set up the ladder, when he suddenly heard a loud bang, and he only had time to turn around to take a look, the giant crossbow with the thickness of his calf had smashed two shields in front of him.

Burst!

The giant crossbow slammed into Li Biao's lower abdomen, and after a muffled sound, his body was directly shattered by the giant crossbow from his waist, and the upper half of his body flew out with the giant crossbow two or three meters away and fell to the ground, and the lower half of his body shook a few times and slowly fell down. Crumbling intestines, internal organs, thrown to the ground. Just under the bloody ribs where the upper half of his body had been blown off, the heart was still beating faintly.

Li Yuan stood on the high slope and watched the battle situation, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching a few times.

"Mingjin!"

He squeezed these two words out of his mouth, and then turned and walked towards the camp with a gloomy face.

On this day, outside the eastern capital, Li Mi, the king of Wei, the great boss of Wagangzhai, decided to accept the imperial court Zhao'an and accept Yang Tong's position as the chief of Dongjun, and there was an uproar in Wagangzhai.

On this day, Li Xian, the king of Yan, stood on the platform of the generals, looking at the dozens of generals under his command, tens of thousands of elites, he raised his hand and slowly pointed to the west and shouted: "Send troops!" ”