Six rounds of bed crossbows had already been fired, and countless rebels had fallen on the steps leading to the east gate, either dead or wounded, but many more rebel sergeants trampled on the corpses of their comrades and their blood, charging forward in desperation.

Although the lethality of the bed crossbow is terrifying, it is impossible to shoot intensively.

Each bed crossbow can hold about ten arrows at a time, and twenty bed crossbows can only shoot about two hundred arrows at one time, even if one arrow can shoot two people, it is only four hundred people, and the preparation time for another wave of shooting is also very long, at least much longer than ordinary bows and crossbows, and the firing cannot be so intensive, if it is only bed crossbow shooting, it is impossible to wipe out the rebels besieging the city.

The bed crossbow arrows were not shot out intensively, and the number of rebels charging was increasing, and the rebels who rushed to the direction of the city gate to dodge the bed crossbow shots were also increasing, and the road was almost crowded, and the terrifying blow of the bed crossbow did not make them retreat. The rebels were getting closer and closer to the city gate, approaching the range of bows and arrows, and Li Chengguang and Gao Shi, who were directing the battle at the head of the city, had already ordered their sergeants to prepare to start shooting.

The current distribution of troops at the head of Tongguan City is as follows: there are more than 6,000 people in the direction of the south gate, about 3,800 people in the direction of the east gate, and about 1,000 people in the direction of the north gate, where the rebels are unlikely to attack on a large scale, and about 400 people in the direction of the west gate. Of course, this troop distribution does not include the private soldiers of the leading generals, such as Yang Xi's three hundred personal guards, as well as Li Chengguang, Wang Sili, Tian Qiuliang and other generals' personal soldiers, these people are additional combat strength, but at the beginning of the war, the private soldiers of these generals will not be immediately sent to the front line to fight.

More than 2,000 people of Pang Zhong and Li Fu have not yet entered the battle, they are resting!

The more than 3,000 troops at the head of the East Gate City were more abundant than during the attack and defense of the Hantong Pass City, and Li Chengguang, who led the defense of the East Gate, arranged for a team of 800 sergeants to form a wave, which was divided into four waves for continuous shooting, and the other 600 people were used as reserves.

Just as the rebels began to rush to the east gate near the city wall and enter the range of bows and arrows, the first wave of 800 people was already lined up in two columns on the city wall, the bows in their hands were full, and the arrows were pointed diagonally into the air.

In the midst of Li Chengguang's angry shout, a "buzzing" sound sounded, and 800 arrows with a terrifying whistling sound were shot out in a fan-shaped arrangement, flew into the sky for a certain distance, turned into a level flight, and then slanted downward, falling into the ranks of the swarming rebels. And when the arrows were fired, countless shields in the rebel array were raised, ready to block the arrows that were about to fall.

Many arrows landed on the raised shields, making a clanging sound and falling to the ground, but many arrows pierced through the gaps between the shields and shot at the fiercely charging rebel sergeants, and in the continuous screams, many sergeants fell one after another, killed or wounded, and the raised shields were immediately uneven. At this time, the second wave of arrows on the city had fallen rapidly.

The second wave of arrows was significantly more effective than the first, with more rebel sergeants falling from arrows and fewer shields raised. And the third wave of arrows of the Tang army broke through the air, and more rebel sergeants fell in screams. But the rebels seemed to ignore all of this, and continued to rush forward with their shields raised, even if they trampled on the corpses of their comrades or the wounded bodies.

No matter how dense the arrows are, there are always omissions, in the later generations, the charge of the rain of bullets, there are soldiers who can rush to the other party's trenches or fortifications, the lethality of arrows in the era of cold weapons can not be compared with bullets at all, of course, there are many sergeants who have been lucky enough to shoot the arrows and continue to rush forward.

The rebel sergeants, who were lucky enough to escape the arrows, took their bows and arrows and began to shoot at the city, taking advantage of alternate cover or the cover of the terrain.

There were also arrows shot at the head of the city, but there were too few arrows shot at the head of the city, and some of the strength was insufficient, and they did not even hit the head of the city, and almost did not cause damage to the soldiers of the Tang Army at the head of the city. The fighting remained one-sided, with casualties occurring mainly in rebel arrays.

In the face of such a large casualty of the charging sergeants, Cui Qianyou, who was commanding the battle in the back, did not frown, and continued to order his generals, lieutenant generals, and Lang generals and other commanders at all levels to speed up the attack, strive to set up the cloud ladder to the east gate as soon as possible, send more sergeants to the city, and use the advantage of troops to drag down the Tang army defending the city as soon as possible, and strive to attack the city as soon as possible.

Downstairs at the East Gate, the corpses of the rebels were slowly accumulating, but the speed of the rebels' attacks continued to accelerate.

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The battle at the East Gate was fierce, and the rebel attacks in the direction of the South Gate were also continuing, and the intensity of the battle was no less intense than that at the East Gate. Ge Shuhan, who was in a wheelchair, personally commanded from the city gate, and his generals Wang Sili, Tian Liangqiu and other important generals commanded at the head of the city. When the rebel vanguard under the command of Li Qian rushed down the forbidden ditch like a swarm, Wang Sili, who was in charge of the main command task at the head of the city, had already ordered the defenders of the 12th company to shoot at the rebels in the forbidden ditch first.

The Twelve Cities were built completely against the Forbidden Ditch, and several beacon towers even burst into the Forbidden Ditch, and the sergeants on them could strike them with arrows when the rebels rushed to the east side of the Forbidden Ditch.

The number of sergeants on each beacon tower is not much, only about one hundred and twenty, but the arrows shot by these one hundred and twenty sergeants are very lethal, and it is impossible for the rebels who want to climb the west edge of the forbidden ditch to hold their shields high as cover, their two hands are not enough at all, and the shield is not what they need to hold with their hands the most now, it can be said that the rebels who rushed down the forbidden ditch intensively were shot by the Tang army sergeants on the twelve cities.

It's a pity that the twelve beacon towers of the Twelve Liancheng are built at a certain distance according to the terrain, which is almost a city wall several miles long from the south section of the East Gate, the entire South Gate, and the east section of the West Gate. In this distance, there are only five outward beacons, that is, only the sergeants on these five beacons can strike at the rebels in the twelve cities, and the other beacons have not been able to play a role for the time being.

The sergeant on the beacon didn't need an order to shoot at the rebels who were swarming down the eastern edge of the Forbidden Ditch, ready to climb the steep cliff on the western edge of the Forbidden Ditch. The beacon tower building is very tall, higher than Tongguan City, and the lethality of the condescending shot is very large, and the rebel crossbow on the east side of the forbidden ditch is not able to shoot on the beacon tower of the Twelve Liancheng, and the rebels who go down to the bottom of the ditch can not shoot so high if they shoot at the air. It can be said that the sergeants on the Twelve Links can shoot at the rebels until they climb to the west bank of the forbidden ditch until they are exhausted, and do not worry about being shot by the rebels' arrows.

They were killing each sergeant, and each sergeant felt that they were practicing archery, and the target of the practice was the swarming rebel sergeants.

After the rebels went up to the west side of the forbidden ditch, they didn't have time to pay attention to the sergeants on the beacon towers in the Twelve Cities, because they had to face a more dense attack of arrows at the head of the city, and they had to fight back against the defenders at the head of the city, not the hundred or so sergeants on the towers in the Twelve Cities.

And when the rebels rushed to the bottom of the forbidden ditch on a large scale, preparing to climb the western edge of the forbidden ditch with ropes and ladders or with their bare hands, Wang Sili and Tian Liangqiu at the head of the city had also ordered the soldiers to counterattack the rebels' siege with bows and arrows!