Chapter 91: Bloody Battle
The enemy troops besieging the city suffered heavy losses in a burst of 'stone rain', more than 200 people were directly killed, at least 7800 people were wounded, 30% of the large and small shields were smashed by stones, and only eight of the ladders were intact.
However, after this round of raids, all the stones stored on the fort wall have been used up, and the number of stones that can be replenished later is limited, so the density of stone attacks has been greatly reduced.
In order to avoid the blow of the stones, the enemies who were besieging the city retreated one after another, and at this time, seeing that the stones falling were getting fewer and fewer, they began to rush up again, and suddenly the eight cloud ladders were full of enemies, and the shape suddenly began to reverse.
The enemy climbed up the ladder step by step, and the limited stones in the hands of the fort soldiers were no longer enough to repel them.
Soon the enemy climbed to the top of the fort wall, and fought with the fort soldiers through the female wall, and the enemy was so strong that some fort soldiers were killed from time to time.
However, the spears in the hands of the fort soldiers also poked the enemy soldiers who climbed up directly to death or knocked them to the ground, causing them to fall to death.
But after all, the disparity in strength between the two sides was too great, and the casualties of the fort soldiers were more than the casualties of the enemy, and soon there was a situation on the fort wall where everyone was wounded.
A tough enemy lieutenant slashed three pikemen in quick succession across the female wall, then leaped up and onto the fort wall, followed by the soldiers who climbed up behind him.
They jumped onto the fort wall and fought in a circle around the ladder, with the aim of getting more soldiers to come up and completely occupy the fort wall, and then descend and occupy the entire dock fort.
All the fort soldiers understood that if they did not destroy the enemy soldiers who jumped up, the enemy soldiers behind them would continue to climb up, and once a large number of enemy soldiers jumped on the fort wall, the dock fort would be in danger of being lost, and once the dock fort was lost, the lives of everyone in the fort would also end.
"Drive them down, kill!" The fort soldiers spontaneously organized themselves and took up their spears to kill the enemy who rushed up.
Under the command of the captain, the enemy soldiers who poured up rose up to fight back, smashing the attacks of the fort soldiers again and again, and everyone became anxious when they saw that the enemy soldiers were gathering more and more.
"Die." Hua An stood in front of a ladder and slashed an enemy soldier who climbed up with his sword, which was already the fifteenth enemy he had killed, and he was still thirty-five short of his goal.
The more he killed, the happier he became, completely oblivious to the fact that enemy soldiers were already pouring in. Lei Yun, Zhao Youde, Thunder Storm, and Zhao Wu also each defended a cloud ladder.
There were already thirty enemy soldiers attacking the fort wall, and the lieutenant felt that the opportunity to counterattack had come, so he shouted loudly and took the lead in attacking the surrounding fort soldiers.
Thirty enemy soldiers fought to the death against hundreds of fort soldiers on the fort wall, and although the fort soldiers had an absolute superiority in numbers, it was still difficult to stop the enemy attack.
Because these thirty enemy soldiers are all yellow-haired and blue-eyed warriors of the Qiang tribe, they are all Sun Fudu's personal guards, and they are the most elite forces under him.
Moreover, they are well-equipped, and their bodies are tightly wrapped in armor, which greatly reduces the damage they receive, and the weapons in their hands are also powerful axes.
Especially the captain who took the lead, with a wave of the big axe in his hand, several fort soldiers would be killed on the spot.
Like a god of war, he slaughtered the soldiers in front of him on the fortress wall, but the fortress soldiers were unable to resist, and the arrows fired by the archers were embedded in his armor, but they did not cause him any damage.
Even when a fort soldier raised his sword and slashed at him, he didn't use a big axe to resist, but directly stretched out his arm and let the fort soldier cut down, but his arm was fine, but the head of the fort soldier was cut off by him with an axe.
A round of bloody slashing made the fort soldiers commotion, and at the same time alarmed Hua An and others, but the enemy soldiers were surging, and Lei Yun, Zhao Youde, Thunder Storm, and Zhao Wu were all lacking in skills.
Their defensive positions were also precarious, and once they rushed over and strangled these thirty people, their original defensive positions would likely be lost immediately.
Only Hua'an's side was in a slightly better situation, he used the sharpness of the Qingyu sword, and whenever the enemy climbed up, he faced the enemy soldier's breastplate with a sword, and from time to time cut the enemy soldier's armor into two pieces.
The corpses of the fallen enemy soldiers caused a terrifying atmosphere, therefore, in the position of Hua'an's defense, the enemy soldiers were trembling and did not dare to climb up, and the enemy soldiers who climbed up from time to time were not enough for Hua'an to cut.
At this time, there were more than 30 powerful enemy soldiers in a big killing, how could Hua An tolerate it, he stabbed to death an enemy soldier who climbed up with a sword, and turned around and raised the Qingyu sword to kill the enemy soldiers.
The enemy lieutenant was enjoying killing at this time, his eyes were red, and when he saw Hua An killing him violently, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he picked up a big axe like Hua An cut it.
Hua An was naturally not to be outdone, and swung the Qingyu Sword to block Du Wei's big axe head-on.
"Click......"
An extremely crisp sound came, and the captain's axe broke in two.
This sudden change made the enemy soldier Lieutenant completely stunned, the big axe in his hand was cast by a famous craftsman in Yecheng, how could it be cut off so lightly, and the other party was still an inconspicuous sword.
Hua An didn't give him too much chance to think, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he swung the green sword again and slashed at the chest of the enemy captain.
Seeing Hua An swinging his sword and slashing, the enemy lieutenant subconsciously stretched out his arm to resist, but in an instant he realized that he had made a fatal mistake.
Since the sword in front of him can cut off his big axe, how can the little armor on his arm resist it?
But it was too late to regret it, and there was an instant pain in the arm, and the outstretched arm had been cut off.
"Ahhh......h
The enemy soldiers grinned in pain, and quickly retreated backwards with their broken arms.
Hua Anxia was also quite surprised, that sword was supposed to end the life of this captain, but he didn't expect to be blocked by his arm, and he escaped for the time being.
Hua An clenched the Qingyu Sword with both hands and strode forward to attack, more than thirty elite enemy soldiers, seeing his boss being abused like this, he was both frightened and angry in his heart.
They wielded big axes and fought with Hua An, but how could their big axes resist the sharpness of the Qing Yu Sword, one by one the big axes were cut off by Hua An one after another, and the enemy soldiers who lost their weapons retreated one by one.
Hua An did not give up, wielding the green sword to press forward step by step, and the fort soldiers behind him also launched a sharp attack on the enemy soldiers under the encouragement of Hua An.
Suddenly, the enemy soldiers lost their strength and were compressed in a small range, and behind them was the ladder, and the enemy soldier who had his arm cut off jumped over the female wall, rolled down the ladder, and knocked down the enemy soldiers who were climbing up.
The rest of the enemy soldiers were only a dozen or so after a battle, and with only half of the big axe in their hands left, the situation was very unfavorable for them.
They had been cornered, death was only a matter of time, perhaps realizing that their limit was approaching, they suddenly had red eyes and roared towards Hua'an, as if they were going to make a suicide attack.
"Good time." Hua An smiled indifferently at the corner of his mouth, and stepped forward to meet the battle with his Qingyu sword.
"Click...... Click......"
"Puff puff ......"
With the sound of metal cracking and the sound of enemy soldiers vomiting blood, there was a sound.
More than a dozen elite enemy soldiers who made suicide attacks were completely killed by Hua'an, and the fortress wall was also stabilized.
Although Hua'an successfully repelled the enemy soldiers, the overall situation was still not optimistic, due to the large number of enemy troops surging, the fort soldiers defending the fort wall continued to die.
Hua An made a rough estimate that from the beginning of the battle, the enemy soldiers besieging the city had at least 500 killed, while Thundercloud Fort had paid the lives of nearly 1,000 fort soldiers for this, and the battle damage was twice that of the enemy army.
"Whoosh ......"
The enemy archers under the city fired a volley of bows and arrows, and several fort soldiers fighting at the lookout of the female wall fell from the fort wall.
These fort soldiers were standing next to Hua'an, who were fighting side by side with Hua'an just now, and in the blink of an eye, they were shot by bows and arrows and fell off the fort wall.
This made Hua An feel that his life was fragile, and it made Hua An even more vigilant, if he continued to fight so hard, he was afraid that it would not be long before all the fort soldiers of Thundercloud Fort would be killed.
Once all the soldiers of the fort are killed, the fort will be self-defeating, and the six hundred old and weak women and children in the fort will naturally not escape death, and even suffer humiliation.
"You can't fight so hard, you have to find a way." Hua An frowned as he looked at the dense enemy troops below.
The length of the fort wall of Thundercloud Castle is two hundred steps, and the distance between the fort wall and the entrance of the first line of heaven is one hundred steps, which means that all the enemies are concentrated in a small space that is two hundred steps long and one hundred steps wide.
Moreover, they were attacking the city with all their strength at this time, and their forces were completely concentrated under the walls of the fort, which was two hundred paces long and ten paces wide, so what method could be used against them?
Hua An frowned and thought about it, if you want to defeat the strong with the weak, you often have to take advantage of the situation, at this time, there is no reinforcement to borrow at all, relying on the fortress wall is also a borrowing situation, but the disparity between the enemy and our strength is too great, and this point is not enough to reverse the contrast between the enemy and our strength.
It is also a good way to use the power of water and fire in nature, but there are no rivers here, so naturally there is no water to borrow, can you attack with fire?
"Fire attack." Hua An's mind suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
The enemy army gathered so densely that it would definitely work if it was attacked with fire, Hua An thought of a way to break the enemy, and hurriedly ran over to the castle lord Lei Yunjian.
"Uncle Lei, it's not a way to fight so hard." As soon as Hua An ran to Lei Yun's side, he hurriedly said, and after speaking, he cut down an enemy soldier who climbed up.
"What if you don't fight hard, the big stones have been used up, and there is no better way." There was some frustration in Thundercloud's tone.
"Attack with fire, attack with fire." Hua'an eagerly built yƬ road.
When Lei Yun heard this, he thought about it for a while, and his heart was suddenly shocked, he was a smart person, so he naturally understood Hua'an's intentions.