Chapter 349: The Battle for Liyang (3)

With dozens of archers led by Tang Xian and Tang Feng condescendingly suppressed, Zhang Xun's soldiers could no longer release arrows without scruples, and the pressure on Pang De and the others was immediately much less.

Pound looked into the distance from the gap between the two oars, and saw that the enemy was suppressed, and there were many fewer feathered arrows shooting at him, so he immediately ordered: "Forward!" ”

The soldiers cowered behind the two rows of canopies in front of them, and slowly pressed forward.

The dozens of enemy archers on the opposite side were suppressed and could not make an effective counterattack, and the men led by Pound moved forward, which was suddenly much more convenient.

It didn't take long for them to reach a position where they were only twenty paces away from each other.

On the roof, Tang Xian bent his bow and arrows, squatted down, and looked at the other party. He saw that behind a pile of sandbags and planks, there were hundreds of enemy soldiers, spears and steel knives raised at the same time, waiting for the Xuzhou army to approach.

Judging from the current situation, if the Xuzhou army wants to push away the sandbags and partitions, they must come out from under the cover of the shield, so that they will inevitably be exposed to local bows and spears, and the casualties will not be small! This is also Zhang Xun's wishful thinking.

Tang Xian smiled slightly, his eyes no longer paying attention to this obstacle, but looking at the roof and the courtyard wall, as well as the places that the rest of the Xuzhou army ground soldiers could not see. His enemies, the main ones are there!

Approaching twenty paces, Pound ordered the team to stop.

In accordance with the practice discussed in advance, half of the team stopped, and the other half advanced five steps. In this way, there is still a whole row of canopies on the front, and the enemy's bow and arrow are difficult to hurt, but the Xuzhou soldiers can come out of the formation.

Pang De looked at Brother He Yi, who was burdened with heavy responsibilities, and nodded slightly.

He Yi nodded heavily, and took a five-pound canister of hot oil from the soldier behind him. The jar was netted with a net made of hemp rope, a bit like the one given by the vendors when buying watermelons today.

He Yi wore cowhide gloves in both hands, grabbed the top of the net pocket with his right hand, and the soldiers beside him lit the oil can, and He Yi immediately threw the oil tank up. The jar was thrown faster and faster, and after He Yi felt that the speed was enough, he suddenly jumped out with a big stride, and then threw out the canister of hot oil. The oil tank made a beautiful curve in the air and flew straight into the crowd of soldiers behind the opponent's partition and sandbags!

If Tian Fan sees it, he will definitely shout beautifully, this is a home run!

The fire pot fell into the enemy's pawns, shattered and burst into flames, and the enemy soldiers immediately became chaotic!

Then, several more fire canisters were thrown and landed in similar positions, and Sergeant Zhang Xun was completely confused.

Pound shouted, "Rush! ”

The soldiers immediately pushed the canopy down, and He Yi, He Man, Tang Yi, Tang Er, and the four of them advanced at high speed side by side, and they came to the obstacle in a short time. The four of them roared in unison, and the four maces slammed into the partition or sandbag with the powerful momentum of running at high speed, and the half-person-high wall formed by the sandbag was immediately pushed down, and the partition more than one person high was also pushed to the ground, overwhelming the dozen or so Yuan Shu soldiers behind him.

The sandbags and partitions that fell to the ground are no longer obstacles for these elites in the army, but they can go up with a big jump. Under the leadership of the four people, the Xuzhou soldiers swarmed up and rushed into the enemy formation that was already chaotic behind the obstacles.

The four maces hung with the sound of "whirring", and they smashed over without any tricks, they really knocked and died, and they died when they touched it! In less than a quarter of an hour, hundreds of Yuan Shu's soldiers behind the obstacle were slaughtered.

The fire ignited by the oil tank was successfully extinguished by the soldiers using the soil in the sandbags, and it did not cause any harm to the Xuzhou soldiers at all. I was afraid that Zhang Xun would be extremely angry when he found out, but he didn't expect that the sandbag that blocked the enemy's attack would become a stepping stone for others.

As the Yuan Shu soldiers were killed, the next obstacle, that is, the Yuan Shu Army archers in that position fifty paces away, began to release arrows, and Pang De hurriedly instructed the soldiers to retreat and hide behind the Lulu formation again. …,

The archers led by Tang Xian and Tang Feng also encountered many archers from the enemy, and fell into a bitter battle, and from time to time some people were injured and fell.

Outside the city, Wei Yan took two thousand soldiers and pushed the toad cart and came to the moat outside the city.

Braving the incessant feathered arrows, the soldiers struggled to dump the soil from the toad carts into the moats under the cover of their own archers.

Pulling a soldier who was wounded and fell to the ground behind the toad cart, and dodging two feathered arrows from the enemy, Wei Yan shouted: "Brothers, work hard! ”

Carefully poking his head out of the toad cart, Wei Yan saw that countless enemy soldiers on the city wall were struggling to fire feather arrows, and the crossbows on the arrow tower were also firing non-stop. Seeing that there were many people on the other side and they were all struggling to shoot arrows, Wei Yan was not only not worried, but like Zhao Yun, he also smiled......

On the city wall, Yuan Shu's soldiers felt very strange, they always felt that the Xuzhou army shouted very strongly, but they did not show the strong combat effectiveness they should have. The efficiency of the toad cart is also very low, and after such a long time, I haven't seen how much dirt those toad carts spill.

Some knowledgeable officers and soldiers of the Yuan Shujun also noticed a problem, the toad car of the Xuzhou army was very strange. The main role of the general toad truck is to load soil and fill trenches, and the protection of the soldiers is not strong, especially the soldiers who are responsible for cleaning up the mud like a river on the car. However, the image of this batch of toad carts is completely different, there are a large number of large shields on the carts, and the space for loading dirt is much smaller, but it seems to be specially designed to prevent damage from enemy feather arrows.

But these generals had no choice, they could only keep letting the soldiers take turns to fire arrows to prevent the Xuzhou army from filling the trenches.

A whole hour passed, and the soldiers of Yuan Shujun were so tired that they died, but they shot and killed many Xuzhou soldiers, but compared to the loss of feather arrows, it was a drop in the middle.

On the city wall in the south of the city, on the tower where Tian Fan was, no one made a sound, only the sound of the wind and the sound of the soldiers fighting in the distance.

From time to time, a small school came to report to him and reported to him the progress everywhere, Tian Fan just nodded and didn't say a word.

There was still a constant influx of soldiers in the urn city, as if countless soldiers would pour in.

On the wall of the southern city, next to the two arrow towers controlled by the Xuzhou army, Liyi and Gao Shun each quietly watched the soldiers attack the arrow tower controlled by Yuan Shujun along the city wall.

The walls were wide, and the passage at the top was large enough to accommodate two carriages running side by side. The two rows of soldiers in front carried large shields, and the soldiers in the back were a mixture of sword and shield soldiers and crossbowmen.

The two arrow towers are about a mile on both sides, which is the arrow tower controlled by Yuan Shujun, dozens of archers are gathered on the arrow tower, and there are countless soldiers lined up in a neat queue at a distance of dozens of steps in front of the arrow tower, quietly waiting for the Xuzhou soldiers who are swarming to come.

The Xuzhou sergeant had just walked a hundred steps, and there were still two hundred steps away from the place, when the crossbowmen mixed with the sword and shield soldiers began to shoot arrows! They were the crossbowmen of the first battalion, and their maximum range was more than two hundred paces.

As a result, the seemingly calm battlefield finally began to show casualties. The archers of the Yuan Shujun on the arrow tower were immediately shot down, like a stone thrown into the calm lake water, and it was no longer calm.

Closer, one hundred and fifty steps away, the soldiers of Yuan Shujun on the arrow tower immediately began to fight back, dozens of feather arrows were fired, but they could only hurt a few people. The Xuzhou sergeant was protected by a large shield in front of his death, and behind him was protected by archers and crossbowmen with superb archery skills, so he was not worried.

The Xuzhou archers and crossbowmen also returned fire, and for a while, the two sides kept shooting feathered arrows, and after meeting in the air, they quickly separated and plunged into the opponent's camp.

In the end, the soldiers who arrived in the camp first were powerful, and dozens of people could shoot half of the enemy's archers with just one round of feather arrows. Zhang Xun's archers kept pouring up from the other side of the turret, taking the place of dead or wounded archers, but no matter what, they couldn't always fight with a full crew. As a result, they had to return all the arrows aimed at the enemy's archers. …,

Downstairs in the city, the two armies finally collided together. The soldiers who ascended to the camp roared wildly, grabbed the handle behind the big shield with both hands, and slammed into each other.

Like a pack of mad bulls, slammed into the opposing camp. The rows of soldiers in front of Sergeant Yuan Shu were immediately pushed together, and there was not even a gap to take out their weapons. The soldiers in the front row were the most painful, only to feel that after being squeezed vigorously by the enemy, the air in their lungs was squeezed out, and it was just a moment, the strong need for fresh air and the pain in their bodies made their faces red.

Wang Da Cake was at the front, and he poked out a strong arm as thick as a thigh through the canopy, grabbed a Yuan Shu sergeant, pulled it hard, and threw the other party off the city wall. The soldier's lungs were finally able to breathe, but before he could make a sound, he fell to the bottom of the city and became a puddle of flesh.

Then, Wang Dabao took two steps forward, entered the enemy's pile, waved the steel knife in his hand, and after a ghost crying wolf, he killed five enemy soldiers in a row, making the gap in front of the battle much larger, and his own robe had room to turn, and more soldiers were able to fight with steel swords.

The soldiers of the first camp were tall and strong, holding a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, and after swinging the shield and swords, the soldiers of Yuan Shu were compressed and retreated step by step. But the rear was crowded with countless soldiers of their own side, and they had to howl and desperately wield their swords and guns to confront the soldiers who had ascended to the camp first. Although they were numerous, there was very little room on the city wall for them to exert themselves, only a few soldiers at the front were desperate, and the rest could only work in a hurry at the back. Therefore, at this time, the winner is not determined by the number of people, but by the difference in combat power of the most advanced soldiers.

Obviously, there is a big gap between the combat power of the two soldiers!

The crossbowmen who had arrived first stopped at a distance of fifty paces, and they kept firing their arrows, shooting the enemy archers, and protecting their robes as they advanced.

The archers of Yuan Shujun's army can be said to have suffered heavy casualties, as long as they climb the arrow tower, as long as they show their heads, they will be sniped before they can shoot any feather arrows, and there are quite a few of them. A large area on the arrow tower that could be used by dozens of soldiers has been completely occupied by dead corpses, and the archers who came up behind had no place to stay, so they could only throw the dead off the tower, or pile them up haphazardly.

The blood, bubbling down the wound, gradually moistened the entire arrow tower, and slowly, there was already blood flowing down from the arrow tower.

A Du Bo under Zhang Xun couldn't help but be a little anxious when he saw him retreating step by step. He stood under the arrow tower and shouted: "Brothers, there are few soldiers in Xuzhou, they are dying, hold on, victory belongs to us!" ”

The place where he stood was in the middle of the arrow tower. The arrow tower is made of wood, erected on the city wall, and can accommodate soldiers to pass underneath, and there are stairs next to it to reach the arrow tower. This Duber was standing in the middle of the stairs, shouting and brandishing a steel sword.

In the distance, Peng Hai heard his scream, and as soon as he saw the other party's location, he immediately understood that he could snipe him!

The battlements on the outside of the walls were high, about a man tall, but not so high on the inside. Peng Hai quickly jumped onto the battlements, and the five-stone crossbow aimed at the Dubo who was still yelling, and roared with one arrow!

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