The thieves like grasshoppers rushed towards the small city, covering the sky and the wilderness.\\

Of course, it looked like the whole army was pressing, but in fact, only the five or six thousand people in the front were pressing and attacking, and the thieves in the back were resting in place. As I have emphasized many times in this book, not everyone is embraced together in a war, there is no such a wide battlefield in the world, and almost all battles are to put soldiers into battle in waves, and it is impossible for the whole army to press together, and this is why. Numerical superiority does not necessarily make you fight with two against one, or three against one, more often, even if you have a numerical advantage, the soldiers are fighting in a state of one against one on the battlefield, but the side with more people has an advantage in personnel rotation, mental and physical strength, etc.

The leader of the thief army in charge of the first wave of the attack was named Yidougu, which is the name of a rotten street, and in the entire peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, three heroes who joined the rebel army with the name Yidougu were recorded in the history books, and there were even more small people who were not written down by the history books.

This Yidougu in front of him is one of the three guys who have been recorded in history, he is not a strong man from the border army, just a farmer, but he is bold, dare to fight, and ruthless enough! He has done a lot of work like this, although it is easy to cause great losses when taking the lead, but at the same time, it is also possible to be the first to rush into the city and grab more money and food.

Ittoya liked to do this kind of work, and he rode a tall horse and charged forward with his army.

The crossbowmen at the head of the castle shot a decisive bolt of arrows at the thief army of Itogaku. Because the arrows fired by the crossbow are short and thick, the center of mass is in the front of the aerodynamic center, and the arrow is easy to fall when flying in the air, so the lethality is stronger than the bow at close range, and when defending the city, because the enemy soldiers are under the city, the crossbowmen are condescendingly fired, so the range affected by the arrow falling is not a problem at all.

The range is solved, while the power is increased. This is where a crossbow has an advantage over a bow to defend the city! Of course, in the era of the current dynasty, the real big cities were equipped with Franco cannons at the head of the city, and the soldiers also had firearms such as bird guns and three-eyed guns, and crossbows could not be eaten.

At this time, the thief army was still a hundred steps away from the city. The first wave of crossbow bolts flew under the city. In an instant, a large number of thieves who rushed to the front were brought down, and these thieves were not dead after being hit by an arrow, but the friendly troops behind were rushing forward, and the bigfoot kept stepping forward. Before these fallen thieves could get up, they were crushed by countless pairs of feet......

Someone wants to bend down and pull up the wounded allies, but it is also extremely dangerous to bend down in the formation, and with a bow, they will be hit by the allies behind them. Then he fell to the ground, and then he was trampled flat by countless pairs of feet.

These thieves who stepped on their comrades to move forward were thinking in their hearts: After a rain of arrows, the opponent uses a crossbow, and the loading speed is extremely slow, there should be no arrows for more than ten breaths, and we can rush forward for a long time.

As soon as they thought of this, they suddenly saw another rain of arrows flying up from the city, and they flew over in black......

"Huh? Why so fast? ”

A rain of arrows fell into the midst of the thieves. A large number of people fell with a bang. Then countless feet trampled on it......

Anyway, don't thieves have brains? There is obviously a rain of arrows flying ahead, so they should pay proper attention to their feet, right?

No! It's impossible!

The more they were within range of the bow and arrow, the more panicked the besieging thieves became, and they saw their comrades in front of them fall and become front rows themselves. The panic will be even more violent, and at that point, they will think, "I have to rush to the city as soon as possible so that I don't get shot......"

With such thoughts. All the thieves in the entire army formation will move forward. Desperately running, just trying to run this distance of death as soon as possible, so they didn't have time to think about trampling their comrades to death, they only knew that they were holding back their strength and running forward desperately.

So the later ones pushed the predecessors, and the predecessors pushed the people who were further ahead, and the whole army was like a wild horse that had escaped from the reins, only knowing how to move forward, but unable to retreat.

They thought to themselves, after two waves of arrows, there can't be a third wave, right?

Nothing is impossible! There really is a third wave......

Another rain of arrows erupted from the city...... The arrows swooped into the flesh, and the hundreds of thieves who rushed to the front fell to the ground, and without exception, many feet ran over them......

A hundred paces had already been run, and after losing seven or eight hundred men, the thieves finally rushed to the bottom of the city, but in fact it was only a dozen seconds before they charged from a hundred paces away.

"Climb the city!"

"Rush forward!"

"Crossbows are very slow to reload, and these crossbowmen will not be able to fight again for a short time!" The thieves shouted loudly.

However, they suddenly found that the crossbowmen defending the city actually poked their heads out of the city and fired fiercely at the nearest place under the city walls......

"Huh? And also! ”

"Ahh

There were a large number of thieves under the city, pushing and shouting, densely packed, this wave of arrows shot them holding the rats, and before they could catch a breath, the crossbowmen who had just shot arrows retreated, and another group of crossbowmen fell on the top of the city and shot wildly below......

"What's going on? How can they shoot arrows so continuously? Ichitoya was taken aback and dumbfounded. If it was an authentic military general of the imperial court who was commanding the siege army at this time, he might have heard of the three-stage shooting invented by Chengzu Zhu Di, but it was just a bucket valley, but he was just a hoe, where had he seen such a clever shooting formation?

The thieves who rushed to the city were not just surprised, but they were going to eat arrows...... I saw that the arrows at the head of the city were like flying locusts, and the thieves under the city were shot on their backs, and the thieves who were about to build a human bridge and climb the strong city were all shot under the city holding their heads, rolling, howling, wailing, where do they still have the strength to climb what city?

At this time, the thieves suffered a big loss, but the morale of the villagers in the city was greatly boosted, they were originally frightened by the huge thief army array, but at this time, they saw the thousand crossbowmen led by Xu Renjie showing great might, and the sluggish morale suddenly lifted: "It turns out that our side has such a powerful army to suppress the formation, it is too powerful!" ”

"With such friendly troops, why worry that the city can't hold it?"

"Lord Baishui County is really a powerful method, and he actually trained such a powerful militia group."

"Don't just let the brothers from Baishui be in the limelight, we can do it too......"

"Yes, let's go too!"

Luochuan Li Panlong was also a little red-eyed at this time, although he was trained by Zhu Yuanzhang not to make a big contribution, but only to make a small contribution, but seeing that Baishui Rice Shang was actually in the limelight, where could he still sit still? shouted: "Luochuan Township Warriors, work hard for me...... If you kill a thief, I will reward you with five taels of silver......"

"Five taels?" When the villagers heard this, they immediately screamed. If this reward was heard by the border soldiers of the imperial court, it would definitely be dismissive, but for a group of villagers who were too poor to be pants, it was a huge amount of money.

A thief soldier who was good at jumping put a force on the shoulders of friendly soldiers, and finally jumped on the city wall, and before he could be happy, he saw a group of Luochuan Xiangyong rushing over with red eyes, this man waved his knife, but more than a dozen bamboo spears stabbed him at the same time, his knife did not even hit a single Xiangyong, and more than a dozen holes were stabbed in his body.

"Hahaha, my hometown Yong in Luochuan also has to make great contributions......" Li Panlong jumped up and down and shouted loudly.

The hundred household officials of Huaxian County have been hiding in the crowd, and when he saw Xu Renjie and Li Panlong actually jumping at the head of the city, he couldn't stand it a little, a mere rice merchant and a mere showman dared to go up to the city wall, if I didn't go up, would there still be prestige in the eyes of the soldiers? But if you go up, you may be shot by a stray arrow...... What to do?

Baihu Guan thought for a long time, found a fish scale armor to put on his body, thought about it, one was not enough, and found a second fish scale armor cover, double armor, this is safe, but in this way he can't move, the two layers of armor are so important that he can hardly move, so he had to move up the city wall at the speed of a turtle, standing beside Xu Renjie and Li Panlong, glaring at the two of them proudly, that means: "Don't think that you are bold, I am not a cowardly goods!" ”

Xu Renjie spread his hands: "This general, what are you...... Are you pretending to be a door god? ”

100 households: "......"

"Be careful, the arrows are coming......" Li Panlong shouted.

Although the hundred household officials were wearing two layers of armor, they still habitually threw themselves to the ground when they heard the arrows coming, and the result was ...... If you pounce on this, you will never be able to fight again...... The two-layer armor is not very suitable for people to wear, it is very suitable for turtles! Whereas, turtles do not walk on two legs, they are animals that crawl on all fours.

The dense rain of arrows was still falling towards the city, the bandits stormed the city, but they were repelled by Li Panlong's village bravery, the thieves suffered heavy casualties, and soldiers began to retreat one after another, and the offensive was no longer fierce, and the troops of Yidougu soon could no longer maintain the offensive, leaving behind the corpses in one place, and retreated!

"Wow!"

"Hahaha!"

"Repel the attack of the thieves!"

"We won!"

The villagers cheered, but the few leaders were solemn, for they knew that only one part of the thief army had been repulsed, about 5,000 men, and they would soon begin to organize a second wave of offensive.

I saw that Itogube, who had retreated, gave way to the front of the castle and retreated to the north of the thief army's large array to lick his wounds. Next, the starry army pressed up again, and this time the number of thieves was ...... It's 10,000 ......

"More thieves are coming...... Xu Renjie laughed: "Funny, so funny, hahahaha......"

Li Panlong glared at him unsightly: "Xu Yuanwai, you are really strange, there are more thieves, you are not depressed, but laughing?" ”

Xu Renjie said with flying eyebrows: "The eldest husband was born in troubled times, and he should bring a three-foot sword and make immortal achievements...... Wowha, that's why I laughed. ”

Li Panlong said angrily: "You must have read very few books, and you often lose half of your books...... There is still half of this sentence behind you: what you have tried now, but you have to die. ”

After a pause, waiting for Xu Renjie to recall the meaning of this sentence, he said again: "At this moment, you actually cursed yourself to death, hahaha!" ”

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