517 Siege
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At the sound of the horn, the two battalions in the southeast lined up and began to line up outside the range of the Naturalization City.
Newly built and rudimentary shield carts lined up at the front of the queue, neatly arranged in two rows, leaving a gap between each shield cart more than one person wide. Behind the car stood a group of five big and three thick prisoners, and four people were responsible for pushing a car. At first glance, it looks like a moving wall.
These shield carts are simple two-wheeled vehicles with a huge baffle erected in front of them. The front of the bezel was nailed with a damp and worn quilt, and the back was firmly erected to the car with a triangular lever.
Behind these shield carts stood a group of archers. Each archer had many quivers hanging from his body. Further back, there was the Jianlu carrying the ladder, standing in the middle of each shield cart. One end of the ladder in their hands had been boarded to be used against the fence at the head of the city.
Directly in the direction of the south gate, there is also a crashing car that looks like a house. The cowhide quilt and other materials were made into a sloping roof, and inside was a huge hanging log, which was used to hit the city gate.
After the horn stopped, the Jianyu was almost finished. Although it is not very neat. The formation of nearly 2,000 people waiting for it, supplemented by the thousands of cavalry troops around, just standing there, there was an invisible murderous aura rising into the sky.
When Hu Guang saw this, he turned his head to look at the east and found that the two sides were about the same. He turned his head and immediately commanded: "Erect an anti-arrow shed, and do not fire without an order." ”
With the cover of the shield cart, it is difficult for the archers and musketeers to effectively inflict damage on them, even if it is a Fran cannon, I am afraid it will be difficult to be effective. Unless you use the Red Cannon you can destroy these rudimentary shield carts. As for the Conscienceless Cannon, if the bullet drop point is not right, it will be difficult to cause effective damage to Jianyu.
However, the Heavenly Army did not have Hongyi cannons, so they could only be effectively killed and injured by letting Jianyu attack the city.
When Hu Guang saw this, he was suddenly a little glad that Jianyu did not have Hongyi cannons. Otherwise. They can all use Hongyi cannons to smash down the city wall from beyond the ultra-long range, but the Heavenly Army has no power to fight back.
At this moment, the builders outside the city were sounding the horn of attack, and the shield car wall began to move slowly, and the builders behind these shield carts also moved together.
Mang Gurtai rode on his warhorse, looked at the head of the Naturalization City in the distance, and then looked at his own team, his brows furrowed slightly. Although he is not as smart as Huang Taiji. But after all, he is a person who has been on the battlefield for a long time, and he is not very sure about this siege.
For now, everything that can be done on your side has been done, and whether you can capture it depends on whether the other party will make a big mistake. I hope that calling the Heavenly Army is useless, and such a large formation can scare them and make them busy and make mistakes.
Mang Gurtai saw that the shield cart had been pushed within range of the Naturalization City. But there was no movement of artillery and arrows on the head of the city, and his heart suddenly sank.
But no matter how the naturalized city head copes. This war is going to be fought after all. He kept his face calm, and with a wave of his hand, Jianyu suddenly moved.
On the entire battlefield, there was only the sound of the wheel of the shield cart, the sound of the wind blowing the battle flag hunting on the grassland, and the whine of the horn.
The shield cart is getting closer and closer to the city walls. The Jianyu archers hid behind and began to shoot on their backs as they moved with the shield cart.
The bowstring vibrated with a "clang-bang-bang", and then a dense rain of arrows grabbed the sunlight, and a shadow moved rapidly towards the city. The sound of "puff puff" is like countless woodpeckers catching insects in the tree poles, and the sound is continuous.
In these sounds. Occasionally, there would be an "ah" sound, which was a few unlucky people among the soldiers of the Heavenly Army, who were shot right by an arrow that happened to penetrate through the gap in the anti-arrow shed.
At the head of the city, the heavenly army doctor with a gourd armband on his arm immediately commanded to carry these soldiers who were hit by arrows to the base of the wall under the city, and immediately began to treat the arrow wounds. The whole time, no one spoke.
The crash trucks were a bit faster than the shield cars. There were no archers with them, and the five big and three thick prisoners were hiding inside, pushing the crashing car hard, and the goal was one, pushing to the city gate as fast as possible and starting to hit the city gate.
As the shield cart got closer and closer, due to the perspective, the Jianyu archers hiding behind the shield cart finally came to light. While they were worried about the attack at the head of the city, some of the archers began to shoot arrows at the battlements of the city.
From the outside of the city, the anti-arrow shed on the head of the city has simply become a scarecrow in the arrows borrowed by Zhuge Liang's grass boat during the Three Kingdoms period, full of arrows.
Mang Gurtai didn't see the city head fighting back, as if there was no one on the city, or was so suppressed that he couldn't poke his head out to fight back. His brow furrowed, but the time had come, and if he waited any longer, his archers would be exhausted, so he waved his hand in desperation.
Suddenly, an impassioned horn sounded again, and the Jianyu carrying the ladder screamed, rushing towards the Naturalization City as fast as they could.
These captives should have been practiced, although they carried a ladder about five zhang long, but they didn't seem to be carrying anything, without the slightest incongruity, and they were running with their feet spread.
And behind these cloud-carrying ladder builders, there is a warrior in armor, or a sword and shield hand, or a heavy weapon, who also spreads his feet and rushes.
They roared and emboldened themselves and intimidated their enemies. The Naturalization City, which was originally relatively quiet, immediately changed its environment, and the shouts of killing shook the sky.
After a while, the sound of "bang bang bang" sounded, which was the sound of the ladder leaning hard against the head of the city.
The builder in charge of the ladder aimed at the fences, and as soon as he put the ladder up, he held the ladder so that it could be fixed.
The ensuing captives were like flying men, and when the ladder was just erected, they rushed up the ladder and began to attack the city. The archers covering them coordinated just right, and did not shoot arrows at this critical moment, so as not to accidentally injure their companions.
However, they didn't know that the "bang bang" sound of the ladder leaning towards the top of the city was also the signal that Hu Guang ordered to fight back.
When these prisoners had just stepped on the ladder, or before they stepped on the ladder, they saw that something the size of a millstone suddenly appeared on the top of the city, and they fell straight down, and no one hit it.
When Jianyu, who was holding the ladder, saw it, he breathed a sigh of relief. But they immediately found that there was smoke in the bags that had fallen, as if it was a fuse on the artillery.
Before they could be surprised, or understand what was going on, they heard a "boom, boom" sound, and then they didn't know anything. (To be continued.) )