Three-five-zero, crossbowmen bloody battle

10,000 thieves pressed on, the crossbowmen once again began to shoot wildly, this time the leader of the siege is called Mantianxing, much smarter than a bucket valley, he absorbed the experience of a bucket valley's military formation trampling on each other and countless casualties, so that his infantry in the charge forward when the formation was very loose, anyway, the village warriors are in the city, will not go out of the city to fight with him spear formation, so his thief army does not need to line up at all, only need to use a loose formation to advance.\\

In this way, the squeezing force of the military formation is not so great, and the thieves who are injured by the crossbowmen in the front row will not be trampled to death by the feet that follow closely behind, but can be supported and rescued, and the advance of the entire military formation actually seems to be in order.

But there are pros and cons to things in the world, and a well-organized advance means a slower advance, giving the crossbowmen more time to shoot.

At this time, it can fully show how much effort Xu Renjie spent on training crossbowmen, and the thousand crossbowmen were divided into three groups, taking turns to shoot wildly towards the city, forward, hind legs, and winding...... Everyone's movements have been practiced countless times.

In fact, the crossbowmen were still quite scared at the beginning, but they felt that this time to meet the enemy was different from the last exercise with Xue Hongqi, when facing the enemy on the flat ground, watching the enemy rush closer and closer, the psychology would be shaken, and it was easy to make mistakes in the winding and other actions, resulting in the collapse of the entire shooting cycle, but there was no problem in the condescending shooting on the city wall.

With the protection of the city walls, the morale of the soldiers can be fully guaranteed, and the position psychology of the enemy army will be greatly reduced. The crossbowmen played with ease, and were able to fully maintain the rhythm of the practice, forward, arrow, backward, winding, forward, arrow, hind leg, winding...... It's like a wonderful dance...... Luo Chuan Xiangyong, who was beside them, was dumbfounded, it turned out that crossbow arrows could still be played like this?

Li Panlong really admired Xu Renjie's crossbow team: "It's so good, such a township warrior is really good, I really want to have one." ”

"Don't think about it, this is a militia that can only be established with the permission of the county lord, if the township warrior army you pulled up yourself is equipped with a thousand crossbows, Gai Ming'er will arrest you for treason and behead you." Xu Renjie said with a smile.

Li Panlong was dumbfounded.

The continuous rain of arrows was still falling, and when the stars pressed to a distance of about thirty-four steps under the city wall, they also began to return fire with hunting bows, and the sparse bows and arrows flew to the top of the city wall, dozens of crossbowmen were wounded, and the three-stage shooting, which had maintained a perfect rhythm, immediately had a slight confusion.

Each damage to a crossbowman disrupted a three-man team's cycle of fire, with the wounded soldier stepping back to patch his wounds, and the remaining two had to rotate in two, widening the interval between shots.

Watching the thieves' military formation get closer and closer, more and more arrows returned fire. Li Panlong was anxious: "Xu Yuanwai, how can you go on like this?" ”

"Not really!" Xu Renjie grabbed Li Panlong and said, "Let your fellow villagers replace my wounded crossbowmen and pick up their crossbows to fight." ”

"This ...... They haven't practiced ......."

"Look at ......" Xu Renjie pointed to a soldier who was winding, this action of kicking the crossbow machine is not difficult, right? Even if you haven't trained your soldiers, you can do it.

"This ...... Rather! ”

"Alright, let your soldiers just take care of the strings, and my soldiers will take care of the shooting." Xu Renjie waved the order flag, and the military band also hurriedly began to use military music to convey the order, in addition, there were countless heralds on the city wall running towards the captains of each squad, and then passing the orders to the general flag and small flag one by one, and scattering them into the ears of each crossbowman: "If you are not injured, keep shooting in three sections, and if you are injured, you will shoot in batches, and let Luochuan Xiangyong help ...... winding."

"A hundred reserve crossbows are also carried up and put on the winding ...... for Luochuan Township Yong."

Li Panlong and Xu Renjie joined forces, the city wall was in full swing, some Luochuan Xiangyong, who had strong learning ability, began to be responsible for winding, and the people in front handed the fired crossbow to their hands, they sat down and wound it, and after finishing the stringing, they handed the crossbow to the white water crossbowmen in front of them, and then they didn't get up at all, and continued to sit on the ground to wind the second crossbow......

I have to say that the tactic of splitting and stacking fire, which was commonly used by the Song Dynasty military formation, also has its advantages, that is, the soldiers who are wound up do not need much training at all, they only need to be stupid.

More and more Luochuan villagers joined the ranks of the winding, and even the people in Huaxian County had the courage to go up to the city wall and sit behind the crossbowmen to help them wind up. In this way, the crossbowmen simply did not do any rotation, replacement, switching, they swarmed to the city wall, shooting wildly below, and after shooting, they didn't care who was behind, they handed the crossbow back, and the people of Luochuan Township and Huaxian County in the back took the crossbow and put it on the wind......

As a result, there were only about 300 crossbowmen shooting in each wave, but now it became as if there were 500 crossbows shooting at the same time, and the dense rain of arrows intertwined into a net, shooting the stars in the sky under the city to the east and west.

"Don't be afraid, you can win by rushing to the city, we have 10,000 people!" The stars shouted hoarsely, regardless of whether his soldiers could hear it or not.

The large number of people brought courage to the thieves, and despite the heavy casualties, the Star Department finally came to the city under the rain of arrows.

The corpses of the people of the Yidou Valley have been piled up under the city, and the city walls are set off a little shorter. The starry men stepped on the corpses and began to climb the walls and bang on the doors.

Li Panlong was a little panicked: "These corpses ...... It has become a stepping stone for them, which is really troublesome. ”

"Don't be afraid, although corpses have the advantage of being a stepping stone, they also have obvious disadvantages!" Xu Renjie said with a smile.

"I want to hear about it!" Li Panlong hurriedly asked for advice.

"The bad thing is that it affects morale!" Xu Renjie learned the tone that Zhu Yuanzhang usually taught him, and said lightly: "People's hearts are made of flesh, not iron and stone, although it is convenient to step on the corpses of friendly soldiers and climb the city, but it is difficult to think in my heart: I will become one of these corpses and become a stepping stone for others...... In this way, the siege can still be powerful? ”

"Wow, I see?" Li Panlong suddenly realized.

Sure enough, those thieves who stepped on the corpses of friendly soldiers and climbed the city were not as difficult as the first wave of Itogube, because they were stepping on dead people under their feet, and their hearts were inevitably shaken! The ignorant are fearless, and those who don't know the horror of death will not be afraid of death, but when a person sees the tragic situation of corpses all over the ground with rivers of blood, he can still proudly say that he is not afraid of death, then it is not so easy, and he must have great perseverance.

A thief crawled the city with a corpse under his feet, and his foot happened to step on the stomach of the corpse, and coincidentally, the corpse's stomach was slashed, and when he stepped on it, blood flew up, and intestines and other things were trampled out of the corpse's stomach and splashed around. The thieves within a radius of a few feet all turned their faces and almost threw up.

There was also a thief who stepped on the leg of a corpse and climbed, he was about to climb up to the city, suddenly felt a click under his feet, it turned out that the corpse's leg bones were broken by him, this work is really not done, his heart trembled, the movements of his hands were disordered, and he fell down with his hands.

The thieves who climbed the city wall were very powerless under the joint sniping of Luochuan Xiangyong and the people, and the fire bricks, stones, and oil bottles on the city head kept smashing down, and the most terrifying weapon in it became an oil bottle, because after it fell down the city wall, it fell into the corpses of the thieves, and the fire burned, bringing up a lot of black smoke, and the smell of the human body being roasted by the fire.

The impact of this smell on people's hearts can be said to be terrifying, and even those who are bold and monstrous can't help but tremble when they smell this smell. A large number of thieves gave up climbing the city and began to use brute force to pound the city gates.

The city gate of Huaxian County is not thick, strictly speaking, it is just two huge planks, before the battle, the county order of Huaxian County is full of stones behind the city gate, blocking the city gate, in order to prevent the thieves from breaking in, but the thieves are not stupid, they have broken through many county towns in Shanxi, He*nan and other places, and they have long been familiar with the means of topping stones behind the city gate.

I saw a large group of thieves holding giant hammers, rough wood and other things, slamming into the city gate, and there were many thieves with shields, pot lids and other things to protect the thieves who hit the door, this system of attacking the door seems to be in order.

The crossbowmen and villagers on both sides of the city shot a large number of crossbow arrows, threw down several stones, and poured fire at the thieves who hit the door, but the thieves obviously attached great importance to the city gate, and invested heavy troops here, layer upon layer, wave after wave of offsets, even the crossbow arrows and falling rocks could not be stopped.

Only a loud bang was heard, the city gate was shattered, and the stones piled up behind the gate were also knocked down, and a group of thieves roared excitedly, and drilled through a small hole five feet square exposed by the city gate.

As soon as they entered, they saw a neat array of spears behind the city gate. Huaxian Township Yong and Pucheng Township Yong have been waiting here for a long time...... Due to the great advantage of the crossbowmen at the head of the city, the morale of Huaxian Township Yong and Pucheng Township Yong was also high......

Such a momentum has to take a lot of effort to stop it if the elite soldiers come, not to mention the bandits, a group of bandits who originally planned to attack the city were suddenly pierced into a honeycomb.

"Wow, you can't get in!"

"Array! Don't fucking rush inside! ”

"You have to form a spear formation to open the city gates!"

"The crossbow arrows at the head of the city are raining down, how can they be arrayed?"

The thieves panicked for a while, and they realized that if they wanted to enter the city gate, they still had to suppress the crossbowmen at the head of the city after all, otherwise the army would not be able to stand up, how could they use the spear array to storm the city gate? (To be continued.)

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