066 Counterinsurgency (2)
The wall of black shields was advancing at a slow pace, and Goofy, like the four hundred soldiers holding shields, could feel the impact of the arrows with their shield-holding arms, and they stepped on the white snow with neat steps, step by step towards the city wall.
After moving forward for 200 meters, Gao Fei estimated the range of the strong crossbow, and then immediately shouted loudly: "Xiahoulan, Pei Yuanshao, release the arrow!" ”
The black shield was immediately replaced, revealing a huge gap, and the strong crossbowmen with the crossbow machine in their hands began to fire crossbow arrows at the city wall, and at the same time, the archers also shot the arrows they had held, and four hundred arrows flew towards the rebels on the city wall, and the arrows of the rebels on the city wall also shot down the city, and before the black shield could be erected, a dozen crossbowmen were heard to let out a miserable cry, some were shot in the eye, some were shot in the shoulder socket, and some were shot directly in the head.
The shield blocked the gap, and Goofy looked back to see that the three men were dead, and the other injured people were gritting their teeth, covering their wounds, enduring intense pain. He saw a kind of indomitable soldier, who was still bleeding from his wounds, but his eyes were still cold, and only the moment he faced the enemy burst out their ferocity.
"The wounded should hide under their shields, and the others should be careful when shooting arrows, and the shield-bearers should speed up when they return their shields to avoid casualties as much as possible. When I count to ten, you start shooting! ”
Goofy turned his face sideways, pulled a man with an injured left eye to his side, asked him to hold his shield, and he took off the crossbow machine in his hand, loaded the crossbow arrows into it, half-crouched down, and then tilted the crossbow machine upwards, slowly tilted his head back, determined the position of the rebel soldiers on the city wall, and began to count: "One...... Two...... Three ......"
The rebels' arrows on the walls were still shooting towards the shield wall, and Goofy's ears could clearly hear the shouts of the commanders on the tower. He counted the numbers silently, and when he counted to ten, the shield in front of him was suddenly withdrawn, and he immediately pulled the trigger of the crossbow machine, and a short, sharp crossbow arrow was shot out, with a sound that pierced the sky, straight into the face of a rebel soldier on the city wall. A wave of more than 300 arrows flew up the city wall, knocking down a group of enemies, and at the same time he saw a dense array of arrows flying towards him, and finally he was blocked by the shield that had returned in time.
This time everyone cooperated very well, and only one arrow flew over the head of one of the soldiers, and plunged straight into the snow, revealing only the tail feathers, which was really dangerous. The wounded soldiers, suffering from the pain, replaced the soldiers with shields, allowing the crossbowmen to replenish.
"Move to the right, one-two-one, one-two-one......" Gao Fei thought that there were still hundreds of sword and shield soldiers on Sun Jian's side, so he wanted to join them together to form a larger shield wall. He shouted orders and training slogans, and the wounded soldiers could move to the right in unison.
The shield wall moved, rising and falling in unison, and the shield and shield were tightly connected together, and no flaws could be found in the slightest.
"Rush, rush up for me, give me the ladder to get up quickly!" Sun Jian waved the knife in his hand with one hand, while commanding the soldiers around him, climbing more than ten times in a row, in exchange for continuous casualties, he roared angrily, but he was helpless.
"Boom!"
A boulder fell on the snow on Sun Jian's left side, and the snow on the ground was mixed with mud and splashed everywhere, as long as the boulder deviated a little more to the right, Sun Jian would be killed by the boulder below.
Sun Jian looked back at the big stone at his feet, and he immediately jumped to the side, picked up the ladder under a corpse on the ground, howled loudly, and lifted the ladder, and began to swing the soldiers on the city wall with the ladder, forcing those archers to retreat. When he saw that this method worked, he dropped the long knife in his hand, held the ladder with both hands, and began to wave it along the bottom of the city wall to both sides.
When the others saw it, they were all infected, and they all pulled out the intact ladder from the pile of dead people behind, and one person couldn't lift it, so five people lifted it together, and began to run back and forth along the city wall, and the remaining more than 100 people looked for an opportunity to put the ladder up, and then held their shields and waved the long knives in their hands and began to climb the city walls.
"Aim at that guy and shoot him!" The rebel commanders on the city wall saw Sun Jian's brave scene and immediately shouted loudly.
With the man's order, the archers on both sides suddenly aimed their arrows at Sun Jian, but when they heard countless string sounds, the arrows like a rainstorm shot towards Sun Jian's left and right sides.
"Poof, poof......"
The arrows pierced into the human body, but did not hit Sun Jian, and when the six soldiers saw this scene, they rushed over from all sides, blocking those arrows for Sun Jian with their flesh and blood, and firmly pressed Sun Jian underneath.
"Now is it, release the arrows!" Goofy seized the moment, and at the sound of an order, he saw the shield-bearer remove his shield, and the crossbowman began to shoot arrows at the wall, and when the rebels were defenseless, they shot down an open space.
The archers on the wall immediately blocked the gap and began to shoot at the people below, and a dozen soldiers who had climbed halfway up the ladder were shot down again. After 20 points of siege, there was no gain.
"General Sun, please lead your soldiers here, there is great strength in numbers, you can't rely on the strength of one person alone, you must reduce casualties!" Gao Fei saw Sun Jian being pressed to the ground by six soldiers with arrows on their backs, so he shouted loudly.
Sun Jian escaped death, and immediately crawled out from under the six corpses, with a trace of horror on his face, jumped behind the high-flying shield wall, and shouted loudly: "All gather here!" ”
The remaining 183 remnants gathered with shields, and learned the way of the Flying Feather Troops, erected the shields, and formed a tight protective wall with the soldiers of the Flying Feather Troops.
Sun Jian's body and face were covered with blood, seeing that there were less than two hundred of his 1,000 subordinates left, not to mention how uncomfortable it was in his heart, he turned his face and saw that Gao Fei's Feiyu troops only had a dozen dead and wounded, this kind of gap in his heart made him unbearable, and immediately asked: "General Gao, why are your troops so tightly defended?" ”
Before Gao Fei could answer, he heard the shouts of killing behind him, and Lu Heng, Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, Guan Hai and others rushed over with the Jing Yan and siege vehicles commanded by Gai Xun. There were many archers standing on the tall wells, and as soon as the rebels came into range, they fired a volley of arrows from their bows.
The bows of the rebels were all short bows used by cavalry, and the range could not be compared with those Han soldiers standing on the well with big bows. At the same time, the catapults commanded by Cao Cao and Dong Zhuo also came in handy, and hundreds of large stones fell on the city wall in the sky.
Han Sui saw that the attack of the Han army was so fierce, he immediately went down the city tower, walked down the stairs, and shouted loudly: "Open the city gate, the cavalry will attack!" ”
Under an order, the gate of Jicheng was opened, and the two people who had been waiting at the gate of the city for a long time led a group of cavalry to rush out of the door, and once they rushed out, they were immediately divided into two groups, one was led by the right chapter, and rushed straight towards the siege weapons behind, and each person also waved a large net in his hand, and from time to time the net was cast into the crowd, and then pulled the net rope with his hand, and with the help of the pull of the horse, the group of people was pulled down.
The group of people led by Beigong Boyu were tied to two spears on the horses, the spears crossed the horse's head, and the cold, sharp spear head quickly crashed into the position composed of shields by Gao Fei and others with the help of the horse's collision force, and there was a bang, because it was very close to the city wall, but the Feiyu troops and Sun Jian's more than 100 people were hit hard, and as soon as they were hit by those thorny horses, the formation was completely dispersed, and the crossbowmen behind only shot a wave of arrows, and before they had time to load the arrows, the cavalry behind rushed over, It was a hole in the middle of the Flying Feather troops.
This sudden cavalry assault caught Gao Fei a little off guard, although the formation was scattered, but fortunately, the Feiyu troops were a strictly trained team, except for the more than 30 people in the middle who were trampled by the horses' hooves and could not survive, the rest of the people were intact, once dispersed, they immediately drew out the long knife in their waists, fought separately, and killed the Qianghu cavalry when they saw it.
At this time, the east gate of Jicheng was already in chaos, and the sudden killing of the two teams of cavalry exceeded everyone's expectations, those Qiang Hu brandished sabers and slashed the soldiers guarding near the well and siege vehicles, whether it was the flying feather troops wearing black armor or the Han army wearing orange and red, they did not let go of any of them.
The archers on the well saw the chaos below, and although the bows and arrows in their hands were aimed at the cavalry below, they did not dare to shoot rashly, for fear of injuring their own people by mistake. Bian Zhang took the cavalry to break through the defense line first, jumped off the horse, jumped to the edge of a well, raised the scimitar in his hand is more than a dozen heavy slashes, under the escort of the soldiers behind him, he was stunned to cut off a pillar of the well, the pillar of the well, the soldiers above were immediately overturned, together with the broken well, fell forward in the crowd, no matter who it was, they were smashed to pieces, **, blood all over the ground.
Gao Fei and Sun Jian were close to each other, seeing the rebel cavalry unscrupulously breaking away the camp of the Han army, and brutally slaughtering their subordinates, the anger in their hearts had already surged, and the two of them shouted at the same time, and they picked up the knife in their hands and slashed fiercely, and when they saw the cavalry, they pulled people down, and the blade raged, and there was absolutely no living mouth under the hand, plus the melee of the Feiyu troops, which soon hindered the cavalry's continued collision and firmly surrounded the cavalry that rushed in.
After the melee began, the five thousand soldiers brought out by Bian Zhang and Beigong Boyu together had been completely surrounded, but they could no longer exert the advantage of cavalry. The Flying Feather troops played a great role at this time, and they were not inferior in the face of this kind of melee, or they fought alone, or they met the enemy back to back with their companions, or three or five people cooperated with each other, in short, they could clearly see that there was a black fission in the melee. It didn't take long for the black-clad and black-armored Flying Feather Troop soldiers to turn into half-red and half-black clothes, and the corpses on the ground were constantly increasing.