044 Defending the City(3)
For the next two days, the rebels did not launch a single attack, but the sound of the rebel camp and the neighing of horses could still be heard from the valley a few miles away.
In the past two days, Chencang City was extremely heavily guarded, rotating six shifts every day, and Gao Fei would climb the city tower from time to time to inspect the enemy's situation.
"Hou Ye, you have been here ten times today, the rebels still have not moved, it is cold here, please go to the county government to rest, once there is an enemy, I will immediately send someone to inform Hou Ye." Zhou Cang, who was in charge of guarding the city, saw Gao Fei once again brave the wind and snow and walked up to the city tower, and he couldn't bear to say in his heart.
"It's okay, I'm bored in the county office, so it's better to come to the city and talk to you." Gao Fei is telling the truth, in such an era, it is really a crime to have nothing to do, and besides, he has been running around in the mall for many years, and he has already developed a work attitude that he can't be idle.
Zhou Cang said: "Master Hou, I don't know what's going on in the past two days, the rebels don't attack or retreat, what the hell are they doing?" ”
"No matter what the rebels do, our Han army is Zhong Kui, and we can always catch the little ghost."
"Who is Zhong Kui?" Zhou Cang asked.
Gao Fei smiled: "It's the one who catches ghosts." ”
Then Gao Fei saw that everyone was standing guard hard enough, so he told Zhou Cang and others the story of Zhong Kui catching ghosts, but he didn't expect Zhou Cang and others to be fascinated by this talk, they always like to listen to legends such as ghosts and gods. Gao Fei kept talking until Guan Hai brought people to change shifts, Zhou Cang and the others were still reluctant to leave, anyway, they were bored, and the rebels did not attack, Gao Fei simply spoke a happy story, and even Guan Hai and the others were fascinated by it.
Later, Gao Fei said that his mouth was dry, and it was getting late, so he stopped talking about it and said that he would talk about it next time.
It snowed heavily for three days and three nights, and in the early morning of the fourth day, with a whimpering trumpet, the brief peace was broken, and 10,000 rebel foot soldiers quickly filled the mountain road outside Chencang City under the leadership of Han Sui.
The 5,000 soldiers in Chencang City are waiting for battle, and there are still 15,000 soldiers and horses on the mountain road outside the east city gate, all of whom are ready to hold Chencang at all times.
Gao Fei took Zhao Yun and Xiahou Lan to the city tower, and the archers led by Zhou Cang also drew their bows one after another, and had the experience of defending the city three days ago, Zhou Cang, Guan Hai, Liao Hua, and Lu Heng each led a thousand crossbowmen of different ranges were quietly waiting in Chen Cang City.
Han Sui walked straight towards Chen Cangcheng with 10,000 foot soldiers, after three days of preparation, today he can finally let Gao Fei understand his power, and his heart is still a little beautiful. The rebels still stayed five hundred meters away, but this time they were no longer cavalry, but infantry, infantry with square wooden shields, and soldiers behind them carrying many ladders.
Seeing everything under the city, Gao Fei seemed to understand, these days he always heard the sound of trees being cut down in the mountains, it seemed that Han Sui used the cut trees to make these wooden shields and ladders. His brows furrowed slightly, and he shouted to the archers beside him, "It's still the same as before, ten people aim at one, this time they have wooden shields in their hands, try to aim and shoot again." ”
"Woo ......"
With a gesture from Han Sui, the horn of the marching troops sounded, and a row of ten infantry with wooden shields rushed up step by step, and the whole team formed a unanimous unity.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
This time the advance of the rebels is very well-behaved, unlike the last time the cavalry rushed up in one go, and these wooden shield soldiers of the rebels only walked forward a hundred meters, and then stopped temporarily, the soldiers behind used wooden shields to stand on the soldiers in the front row, the two wooden shields were erected together, about one meter eight, completely covering the soldiers of the rebels, and only twenty-five wooden walls could be seen walking forward at an even pace, and each step made a unified footstep.
"Master Hou, what do the rebels want to do?" Zhao Yun looked at such a scene and was puzzled.
Gao Fei couldn't figure out that the rebels were not in a hurry to attack the city, but first used the five hundred infantry as a wooden wall to push forward, he did not answer, but further observed the movement on the battlefield.
"Master Hou, it's three hundred steps!" Zhou Cang and his subordinates were drawing their bows and arrows, and when they saw that the rebels were almost within the range of their bows and arrows, they reminded.
"No shooting without my orders!" The arrows shot by the invisible people can only be nailed to the wooden shield, which has no effect on this group of people, and when Gao Fei saw this scene, he shouted to the people around him, "Prepare to roll the wood and stones!" ”
Xiahou Lan and Zhao Yun hurriedly took three hundred soldiers to carry the rolling wood and stones to the city tower, and through the battlements, they were ready to smash the rebel infantry close to the city wall.
The rebel infantry came to a complete halt when they reached a hundred paces, and then from a distance of five hundred meters a large echelon of infantry carrying ladders poured out, this time all the infantry rushed up together, shouting an exhilarating shout and striding vigorously under their feet.
"Archers prepare, shoot at the infantry carrying ladders! Shoot the arrows! Goofy hurriedly shouted.
At the sound of the order, the arrows shot out like a burst of air, and the dense arrows fell into the rebel formations carrying ladders and scimitars, and some of the rebel soldiers immediately fell. The front one fell, and the back hurriedly made up for it to make a brave and fearless sacrifice, in order to get close to the city wall, and then set up a ladder to climb the city wall of Chen Cang.
The four crossbow teams of Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, Guan Hai, and Lu Heng began to change, and thousands of arrows fell from the sky, killing and wounding the rebels in the narrow mountain pass.
Just when the Han army was busy dealing with those rebels in the distance, the rebel wooden shield that ran a hundred steps outside the city gate formed a wall and began to move forward, and the wooden shield suddenly flashed a hole, revealing a group of archers holding strong crossbows, and shot fiercely at the guards on the city tower, and when a wave of arrows was finished, the wooden shield closed the exposed opening again, and so on and so on repeatedly at close range.
The guards on the city tower were caught off guard, and immediately more than 100 people were hit by crossbow arrows, some fell from the city tower, and some were shot through the heart, and the defensive formation on the city tower immediately became vacant.
Gao Fei never thought that the rebels still had this hand, so he shouted loudly: "Let the wounded go down, make up for the ones in the back, the crossbowmen on the left half of the tower will deal with the wooden wall below, and the right half will shoot at the soldiers of the rebels carrying the ladder!" ”
The wounded soldier ran down the tower and entered the inner city from the urn, where the military doctor who had been waiting there took care of him, removed the crossbow arrows, and bandaged his wounds.
The group of crossbowmen behind the wooden wall fired very irregularly, and every time the wooden wall showed a hole, crossbow arrows would shoot up the tower, but when the crossbowmen on the tower fired crossbow arrows, the wooden walls were closed, and the crossbow arrows could only be nailed to those wooden shields, always one step later than the rebel crossbowmen behind the wooden wall.
Not only that, the infantry carrying the ladder also got closer and closer, and soon came to the back of the wooden wall, only to see that the wooden wall suddenly changed into two, and an opening was opened in the middle, and four rebel soldiers with wooden shields protected an infantry carrying a ladder, and quickly ran to the vicinity of the city wall, and the rebels behind followed suit, and for a time the rebels were really in the city.
Lu Heng commanded the other half of the crossbowmen to continue shooting, but the effect was much worse than before, only the archers led by Zhou Cang, Guan Hai, and Liao Hua in the back could shoot arrows over the tower, and they would not be attacked.
"Smash! Smash it hard! Smash this bunch of shit! Gao Fei had already handed over the long-range troops on the castle tower to Lu Heng and Xiahou Lan to command, and he and Zhao Yun respectively commanded the other soldiers on both sides of the castle tower to throw rolling logs and stones under the city wall, and pushed them down whenever the ladder came up.
In just a moment, the ant-like rebels continued to pour up from behind, and the group of archers who were good at shooting from behind also began to shoot at the city tower, and the Han army defending the city continued to shoot, plus the group of crossbowmen behind the nearby wooden wall, and soon suppressed the Han army on the city wall, Gao Fei, Zhao Yun, Lu Heng, Xiahoulan and others had to hide behind the battlements, and could only hope for the three thousand archers near the urn city, and they were responsible for not letting the rebel ladders come up.
Gao Fei looked through the battlements and saw that the rebels under the city gate were already densely packed, and there were still many people advancing on foot behind the mountain road a few miles away.
"Whoosh!" An arrow flew over Gao Fei's head, it was fucking dangerous.
"Master Hou, it's not a way to go on like this, there are too many rebels, but the walls of Chencang are narrow and can't accommodate so many people, this is undoubtedly equivalent to using more than 1,000 people to fight tens of thousands of rebels." Zhao Yun shouted to Gao Fei as he threw stones at the bottom of the city tower.
"You're right, it looks like you'll have to use a catapult." Gao Fei picked up the stone and smashed it under the city wall, looking back at the rolling wood and stones on the city wall, it was almost used up, he called a soldier and said to him, "You go down, let Pang De, Pei Yuanshao, and Bian Xi start to launch with catapults!" ”
Chencang City is like a city wall with a convex surname, the front point is the city wall between the two mountains, the back is the repaired urn city, and then the back is the inner city that is artificially dug up to eight miles wide, although the Han army also has almost 20,000 people, but they are all unable to exert their strength, and the rebels who are attacking the city are completely two concepts.
The rebels at the bottom of the city wall tried to climb the wall and slashed the wall with their sharp blades, and those who were farther away kept shooting arrows at the tower with their bows and arrows, and the soldiers standing on the wall were shot through the body by the slightest mistake.
In a clearing five hundred meters away from Chen Cang, Han Sui rode a horse, looked at these soldiers who kept rushing past him, and saw that the Han army on the upper floor of Chen Cang City was suppressed, so he showed a satisfied smile and said to himself: "I don't believe it, my 100,000 army can't capture a small Chen Cang!" Look at it like this, Chen Cang can be captured today! Goofy, if I catch you, I'm going to break you to pieces, hahahaha! ”