Chapter 143: Defending the City
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After spending a day and a night to renovate and start a family.
The Bandits' offensive has also changed, and it has been reported that the Thieves are harassing all day, but there are not many threatening offensives.
But the spies in the distance reported that the trees in the forest were constantly being cut down, and it was clear that the thieves were building siege equipment.
Li Chongjiu climbed to the top of the city, and looked around, except for a Juma River surrounded by a Juma River, most of the people under Feihu County were covered with loess, and only the distant mountains could see that there was a lush scenery.
If the thieves are building siege equipment in the distance, then it will undoubtedly take a lot of effort to carry them to the city, but for the tens of thousands of troops of the pseudo-Yan, the most important thing at the moment is manpower.
Although the enemy army was outnumbered, Li Chongjiu was not very worried about the situation under the city.
The cold winter is coming, and for the thieves who lack food and clothing, if the heavy snow comes, there is no doubt that they will have to reduce their personnel greatly in the wild, and it is impossible to hold out for a few days.
Therefore, as long as this period of time is supported, the enemy army can retreat without a fight.
The next day, the thieves seemed to know that winter was coming, so they began to attack the city in a big way.
In this era, the siege of the city has always been surrounded by three and one according to the convention, and if all of them are surrounded, it will arouse the resistance of the defenders, which is not conducive to the besieging side.
The puppet Yan army did the same, surrounding the east, south, and north of the city, leaving the west side of the city alone to give the defenders room to flee.
Although it was surrounded on three sides, the enemy army did not attack at the same time, but divided the main and secondary areas, taking the north of the city as the direction of the main attack, and the south and east of the city as harassment and containment.
So in front of the head of the city in the north of the city, the enemy's siege lineup appeared, and the equipment of the thieves was still as simple as ever.
Except for a few leaders in leather armor, the rest of the people were dressed in sackcloth and rags, like beggars on patrol.
The weapons in the hands of the thieves are crude long knives, and the bamboo guns are slightly better, and many people still use hoes and firewood knives.
The swallow-shaped banner with black characters on a white background in the distance is the invincible king of the heavens, and the flag of the king must be pulled.
Now the flag is slowly moving forward, and the army of thieves holding ladders, large wooden hammers and other siege equipment behind it has also begun to move forward.
The thieves began to gather like ants and began to attack the city.
In front of the thieves were a thousand archers, and according to the customary siege practice, they came to the first line and raised their bows against the defenders at the head of the city, ready to cover them with a round of arrows.
When Li Chongjiu saw Gao Chu, the lord of the northern city, and saw the thousands of enemy archers coming forward, he didn't say a word, and couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Why don't you let the brothers raise their shields, or reflect with bows and arrows!" ”
Gao Chu laughed and said: "Master Hou, the two hundred cavalry field battles are invincible, Gao admires it, but when it comes to defending the city, Gao is confident that he has some strengths, and Lord Hou will wait and see." ”
Li Chongjiu knew Gao Chu, a lonely city in Linghu County, and resisted the siege of Wang Suba's army for two months, so he decided not to ask any more questions.
The enemy's 1,000 archers, divided into two groups, approached the city thirty paces, but were blocked by the plum blossom piles densely scattered under the city, and then they all raised their bows and shot at the city.
The enemy archers fired their arrows from thirty paces away, hitting the wall more than three feet high, but they were all missed, or they were all out of strength, and they fell in mid-air.
Occasionally, it shot at the city wall, but it couldn't penetrate the armor of the villagers, and it was like tickling.
Seeing the scene, the defenders of the Great Sui at the head of the city all laughed.
Gao Chu said to Li Chongjiu a little pretentiously: "This is the plum blossom pile I set up, which is blocked under the city, which can not only divide the enemy's position and prevent it from killing the city in one breath, but also prevent the enemy army from digging my city wall with a wall-breaking hammer." ”
Li Chongjiu couldn't help but nod when he saw it.
The enemy archers were thirty paces away, and they shot twice, but they had no effect, and the enemy generals were helpless when they saw it, so they hurriedly ordered these archers to withdraw and replace them with new forces.
At this time, Gao Chu's face was a little more serious.
Hey! Hey! Hey!
The enemy soldiers who carried the ladder and hit the city hammer shouted loudly and cheered loudly. Before going into battle, everyone drank a bowl of send-off wine, knowing that most of them were dead or alive, so they took advantage of the surging of wine, simply stripped off their clothes and went into battle shirtless.
Garrisoned in Beicheng was a brigade of less than 100 villagers, while the temporary number of people was 300.
Seeing that the enemy army was attacking the northern city, Li Chongjiu sent a team of cavalry to garrison the city, and at the same time, from the west of the city, where no enemy troops appeared, a team of village soldiers, plus 100 people.
Therefore, here in the north of the city, there are also six or seven hundred people, seeing that the enemy army is carrying a ladder and preparing to enter the city, the village soldiers and cavalry all raise their bows and arrows together and start shooting arrows at the city!
Unlike the short hunting bow, which the enemy cannot reach, the defenders are equipped with at least one or two foot bows.
At the same time, it is convenient for the location, and the condescending thief army has no way to hide.
Therefore, every round of arrow rain falls, and there is a bloody storm under the city.
The thieves took advantage of the large number of people, and they were still approaching the city walls.
"Up!"
"Up!"
"Up!"
The enemy was in full swing.
The ladders that had just been built were erected one after another and fell from the sky on top of the city.
As soon as each ladder was erected, there were thieves who bit their knives, grabbed the ladder with both hands, and used their limbs and feet together to start climbing the city.
Behind each ladder were more than twenty thieves, densely clustered behind, and they climbed from the ladder.
Seeing that the enemy army began to climb the city, Gao Chu gave an order, and immediately the people began to come out of the Tibetan soldier cave, lift the stones piled on the side of the female wall, and smash them towards the battlement.
A stone the size of a basin fell from the top of the city, which was more than three feet high, and it was almost smashed to death and wounded.
Screams arose beneath the walls.
Taking this opportunity, three or four people picked up the hook and pushed it at the end of the ladder.
"It's down!"
"It's down!"
"Run!"
Listening to the exclamations of exclamation from below, the ladder fell from the top of the city, knocking down a large number of thieves.
As for the direction of the city gate, it was the place where the fierce battle was fiercest, and the thieves with the hammer in their hands swarmed in.
Although the arrows shot from the top of the city were like rain, the strong men of the thieves were desperate to move forward, and no one dared to retreat.
If it is the one who retreats, the row of overseers standing behind the thief, with the knife in his hand, will never show the slightest mercy.
Immediately after each thief was hit by an arrow and lay on the ground, another person immediately took the other's place and rushed forward bravely in the face of the rain of arrows on the city.
"Put it on the nail shoot!" Seeing this scene, Gao Chu showed a cruel smile on his face.
Each nail is about a zhang in size, several feet wide, and weighs more than 100 catties, and the thick wooden board is covered with rusty iron nails.
With the sound of iron chains, more than a dozen nails were dropped from the city gate in one breath and smashed into the dense enemy army at the city gate.