Chapter 238: Climbing the City

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On the hill, Li Chongjiu looked down. In the northeast corner of Liucheng, dressed in gray clothes and wearing soap towels on their heads, thousands of Cangtou Han soldiers carried dirt bags on their shoulders and rushed towards the city of Liucheng like a gray tide.

On the top of the city built of yellow rammed earth, hundreds of soldiers of Luo Yijun gathered here to defend it. The defenders moved the three tents and used them as enemy towers, and the archers who defended the city took cover from the tents and took refuge in them to shoot arrows. The North Gate Tower dismantled a three-arrow ballista and pushed it up from the distant city road. After the ballista was fixed, several crossbowmen wrenched the winch, and the three-arrow ballista made a terrible gurgling sound, and the three iron arrows as high as half a man shone with a metallic glow.

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When Ke Mulun picked up the second dirt bag and was ready to go, he saw the head of a Han soldier dozens of meters in front of him, which burst open with a pop, and the plasma on his neck sprayed three feet high, blooming in mid-air like a blood flower, and the yellow-white brain slurry smeared all over the ground. A young man of the Xi nationality beside Ke Mulun trembled in his legs, and as soon as he threw away the dirt bag in his hand, the whole person suddenly jumped upwards and suddenly cried loudly.

Ke Mulun held his breath, his legs trembled a little, he was not afraid of death, but he was afraid of dying so miserably. He closed his eyes slightly, and Eminem's appearance appeared in his mind, and when he opened his eyes, he was still surrounded by arrows like rain, like hell on earth.

"The building carts are pressed up, and the enemy ballistas and stone throwers are suppressed with arrows!" At this time, he saw the forehead of the commander, riding his horse, holding a scimitar, and shouted loudly.

Ke Mulun saw the soldiers under the building car on the left and right, and they also exerted their strength together, and more than a dozen rugged and powerful, muscular big men, each pushing a building car and trying to move forward. The six wooden wheels that supported the downstairs car moved slowly, and the wheels rolled over the mud floor one by one, carrying the ballista on the upstairs car forward. And the archers and crossbowmen on the building cart, as the building cart advanced, also struggled to spread a rain of arrows towards the city.

Immediately, the chariot advanced to a distance of a hundred paces from the city, and the power of the archer's arrows increased, and in a blink of an eye, Komulan saw a crossbowman with an iron arrow behind the enemy's crossbow, and he was shot in the chest. The iron arrow in the opponent's hand smashed to the ground, and a mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth, and then fell straight from the head of the city through the gap in the battlements.

When Ke Mulun saw this scene, he couldn't help but shout a good word. However, before half of the call was called, the commander of the army waved the red flag and signaled that he was ready to fill the river.

Ke Mulun spat into the palm of his hand, and at the same time, the cat leaned down, and also saw the counterattack of the enemy behind the tent, which was also getting stronger and stronger. The crossbowmen on the building car braved the opponent's arrows and stones, and had to shoot close and suppress with arrows, which was simply a building to break the building. Not to be outdone, the defenders went up to the city wall in a row of crossbowmen, soaked cotton cloth in tung oil, and then wrapped themselves in arrows and fired at them. The arrow swept through the front like a stream of fire, and after hitting the building car, it stuck on it and burned. In the blink of an eye, flames were already burning on five or six building cars.

The building car caught fire, and the soldiers up and down all exclaimed. The blue-headed soldiers below hurriedly took off their clothes, shook their clothes desperately, and threw up the flames on the building car.

Bang bang! The war drums behind him rushed quickly, and the red flag in front of him suddenly shook off.

And Ke Mulun pulled his legs one by one, and his body carrying the dirt bag rushed away like an arrow off the string, and the rockets whirred one after another above his head, and the sound of whirring arrows breaking through the air and the screams of the dying man were in his ears. Ke Mulun knew that the archers and crossbowmen on the side of the building car were almost buying time for them with his life.

Komulun walked very loudly, and the dirt bag on his shoulder shook and shook, and a brother in front of him was shot in the right leg by a rocket, and the fire immediately set his clothes on fire, and he immediately fell to the ground, rolling on the ground and screaming miserably. This arrow was originally aimed at Ke Mulun, but somehow it was blocked by the other party, but he didn't feel it at all in his heart, and he didn't see the slightest fear.

Ke Mulun rushed forward with his head buried in his head, leaving behind the screams of the brother who had blocked an arrow for him. This time he didn't have to take a few steps to get to the moat. With the efforts of the robes, this moat has already been half filled. The dirt bag smashed into the moat, and with a pop, muddy water splashed all over his face, and his clothes were all over his face. Instead, Ke Mulun loosened his body and quickly ran back to the starting place.

And in the southwest corner of the city, the earthen mountain built by the warriors of the Ugunai Ya was several feet higher than the head of the city. The defenders were obviously under-strengthened, and the building cars in the northeast corner had limited a lot of attention from the defenders, so there were only a few dozen defenders in the southwest corner, and the advance of Ugunai could be described as fast.

After the earth mountain was higher than the head of the city, the archers of the Yan Yan climbed the earth mountain, and used bows and arrows to suppress the defenders from high to low. At the same time, taking advantage of the cover of the tall earth mountain, the warriors pushed dozens of large stones and giant trees. This willow city is surrounded by mountains and rocks, and they are covered by dense forests, and the most important thing is the boulders and big trees.

The boulder was pushed from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain, and then the boulder was rolled down from the mountain to the bottom of the city. The warriors shouted loudly, and the boulders and trees rolled from the mountain, and the scene was very spectacular. I saw that after the earth and rocks rolled down the mountain, they fell into the moat one after another. The river splashed and made a high splash. An hour passed, and the moat was finally filled with earth and rock.

At the northeastern city wall, the drumming turns high-pitched. The soldiers of the Han army and the Xi army marched together with the drums.

Half of the more than 30 building wagons that were besieged were destroyed by the rocks or burned into flames. A war tent on the opponent's city wall was also sunk into the fire, and a stone thrower was half crooked. On the yellow earthen wall, it was like splashing ink, and blood and water hung vertically. And the corpses of more than a dozen city soldiers were crooked, resting on the battlements.

Now six ladders, surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, run over the filling moat and reach the bottom of the city walls. This siege ladder is not an ordinary bamboo ladder, there is a carriage under the ladder, and there are rollers built into it. The carriage is completely enclosed and covered with raw cowhide. The soldiers who moved the ladder hid inside, and when they reached the city, they were not afraid of bows and arrows.

After reaching the city wall, the ladder stretched out and bit the female wall with a grappling hook, and hooked firmly to the city wall. Under the ladder, the soldiers of the Xi Department came out of the van, holding leather shields and steel knives, and fought with the defenders through the city. Ke Mulun was already the first soldier at this time, picked up his big sword, and followed a Xi soldier with a love bow on his back to climb the ladder.

Komulan looked up, and saw a line of defending archers behind the battlements showing their heads and their bows and arrows, and lowering their arrows downward. His present brethren, with his shield not covered, was shot down by an arrow. Komulun was the arrow that flew towards his door, and he quickly climbed the ladder with a leather shield in his hand.

After the archers retreated, more than a dozen hooks stretched out from the battlements of the women's wall, and rows of logs poked and pushed on the ladder, making all kinds of solutions. Ke Mulun waited for them to destroy, but after walking a few steps quickly, he threw his body, and the whole person jumped onto the battlements like a big bird. As soon as he landed, two defenders stabbed him with spears.

Ke Mulun twisted his body to avoid the two robberies, and jumped onto the battlement on his right hand, but the brother who followed behind him was not so good, and unfortunately a shot stabbed him in the lower abdomen. The brother looked up to the sky and screamed, and grabbed the gun with a dead hand. The two defenders pushed him out of the wall, and the blood threw a splash of blood on the outer wall, and the brother rolled in the air and fell from the top of the city with a reluctant eye, landing with a muffled thud.

Komulan saw the defenders standing in a line behind the walls, holding their swords and shields, and arrows shot mercilessly from behind them. Kemulan shielded himself with a leather shield and jumped in.

Under the cloud ladder, Qi Ashu led dozens of Xi soldiers and quietly approached the city wall with various tools in their hands. The walls are made of rammed earth, and even after years of exposure to the wind and sun, they are very hard. Qi Ashu pulled out the scimitar from his waist and slashed it, leaving only a white mark on the wall.

Qi Ashu snorted, waved his hand, and his subordinates began to work.

Dozens of Xi soldiers first used shovels to dig a half-person-high soil pit under the city wall, stacked the excavated soil behind them and compacted it, then covered it with wooden boards, and then draped a layer of cowhide on the wooden board, poured water on the cowhide, and covered it with a layer of soil, and built a wooden shed that could prevent arrows, fire attacks, and hide.

Under the wooden shed, the Xi soldiers took off their clothes, sweat hung from the tip of their noses, and began to chisel the earthen wall with a chisel and hammer. The rammed earth layer peeled off little by little, and Qi Ashu also came on the field in person, knocked left and right dozens of times, and then struggled to pull out a large lump of soil with a large face plate that was picked off.

Qi Ashu nodded in satisfaction and continued to bury his head.

Li Chongjiu looked from the top of the mountain, and on the city wall in the northeast corner, dozens of Han Xi warriors had gained a foothold for the siege soldiers. At this moment, the sky is already dark, and the city and the city are all lit with pine light, the air is dead, and the cold stars in the sky are flickering, which is murderous.

Both armies are fighting at night, and the walls of Liucheng can be described as bright.

In the southwest corner, Ugunai was in a hurry to attack the city, pinning down part of the defenders' troops, and the war horses galloped back and forth to report the military situation, Li Chongjiu knew that although they had also gained a foothold on the city wall, their progress was slow. In the northeast corner, two large holes have been dug under the city that can accommodate one person to enter and exit. When the defenders found out, it was too late, so they had to drag a row of women from the city, block behind the rammed earth wall, and set up a second line of defense to resist stubbornly.

However, with the stabilization of the foothold of the city wall, the earthwork under the city wall will ram the earth city hole, inch by inch. The hustle and bustle in the northeast corner and the southwest corner are getting bigger and bigger, and Li Chongjiu's attack deliberately chose two corners of the city wall, and avoided the city gate, which is to take into account the nails, ballistas and stone throwers of the defenders on the city tower.

Therefore, the troops were distributed on the walls on both sides, although the casualties were reduced, but the progress was also a little slower.