Chapter 709 Vicious Attack and Defense Plan The city is dangerous and kills
With Wang Ying's command, the soldiers on the earthen wall loosened their bowstrings, and for a while they only heard the bowstrings dense like showers, and saw that the arrows were like flying locusts.
The distance between the two sides was only about twenty paces, and those soldiers were all through the battle, and their hands were quite accurate, and they all aimed at the gap in the cloth bag on the thief's body. I only heard a burst of screams, and many of the thieves had already fallen, and several arrows were stuck in the ground.
The formation of the thieves below also began to change drastically, and every ten squads quickly gathered in one place, taking advantage of the closeness between the formations to protect each other. But even so, the thieves in front of the outside kept wailing.
Only this time, these thieves did not flinch, and still gritted their teeth and rushed forward. The man in front of him fell, and immediately someone grabbed the shield and cloth bag on the ground and blocked him. Although the arrows on the earthen wall were like a raging storm, the thieves rushed to the trench.
As soon as they arrived at the trench, the thieves threw the cloth bags in their hands desperately into the trench, and some of the thieves were killed by arrows as soon as they were halfway through.
But now the casualties could not stop these red-eyed thieves, and they went forward one after another, and the cloth bags were piled up in an instant, forming a road that could be crossed.
Some of the thieves fell to the ground after being shot by the arrow, and the red-eyed accomplices behind them threw their bodies directly into the trenches to fill the road. The bags and corpses had cleared four paths.
Whenever the person in front was knocked down by an arrow, the person behind picked up his shield and cloth bag and continued on. These thieves know that there is no way back now, only desperately moving forward, and even if they turn around and run away now, they will die under this rain of arrows.
The red-eyed thieves stepped on a path made of their companions' corpses and dirt bags and quickly came to the earthen wall, stacking their hands on top of each other, and those who held shields overlapped each other to form a large protective surface.
But in just a short period of time, only half of the more than 400 thieves who came from the impact are still alive, and almost all of them have arrow wounds. But under the desperate onslaught of these outlaws, the dirt bags piled higher and higher, and they were no longer more than a foot from the top of the earthen wall.
These people were red-eyed, and they stepped on the stacked dirt bags and quickly built a human ladder. This method of siege has been used many times in the past by the thieves on the Snake and Scorpion Mountain. Those thieves are all painted. But stepping on the steps made of his companion's body, he rushed to the earthen wall in three and two jumps.
Wang Ying had already prepared, the soldiers on the earthen wall had already taken their spears, in front of them were a row of rattan short knife hands, seeing a thief coming up, the rattan player immediately pressed forward like a wall, and the spear stabbed forward from between the rattan cards like a forest.
The thieves who had just jumped onto the city wall were either pushed off the earthen wall by the rattan players, or they were stabbed by the spears and covered in holes. But the thieves below seemed to be dying, pushing down one and jumping up and two of them, stabbing one to death and climbing up and a pair.
These thieves have now given up their lives and are gradually gaining a foothold on the earthen wall. Some of the stiff bodies slammed into the human wall formed by the rattan players, and the impact of the formation of the rattan players began to scatter.
For a while, there was a scuffle on the earthen wall, and although the number of officers and soldiers was outnumbered, the weapons were better than the thieves. But after all, these people are old, and when they encounter these young, strong, and sturdy enemies who are now killing the red eye, even if they are bullying the widows and widows, they can't take it easily.
Wang Ying and Hu Sanniang were both energetic and guarded the two breakthroughs on the earthen wall. When he was fighting, he suddenly heard a strange wind in the air, Wang Ying had been in battle for a long time, and he had heard this sound on the battlefield many times.
Shouted: "Dodge the arrows!"
A moment later, a rain of arrows fell from the sky, knocking down both sides of the scuffle. At this time, both sides were in a scuffle, and those arrows were not aimed at either side at all, but kept throwing towards the area of the melee.
Wang Ying peeked and saw that the Xiliang soldiers who were pretending to be the Yellow Turban Army a hundred steps away were firing their bows and arrows. These people have twisted several arrows in their hands, which is the Lianzhu archery method, which shows that these people are the elite of the army, and the rate of fire of their arrows is far better than that of their own side.
But now the two sides are fighting, even if they want to avoid the arrows, they can't do it, and for a while, people on the city wall kept screaming, and everyone was shot down by the rain of arrows.
The thieves who had already rushed up the earthen wall were unknown at first, and then they realized that they had been shot by their companions behind them. One by one, their eyes were split, and their eyes were almost spurting blood.
Unexpectedly, these Xiliang soldiers were so vicious, not only let their people rush to the front as cannon fodder, but also used the lives of their own people as bait, taking advantage of the melee to use arrows to shoot intensively, using a large number of kills and wounds of officers and soldiers.
Although the rain of arrows was short, the screams on the earthen wall were already loud, and not only were almost all the remaining thieves killed, but nearly 200 of the 500 officers and soldiers on the earthen wall were killed and wounded.
By the time the officers and soldiers had killed all the thieves left on the wall, and regrouped to hide behind the battlements, they had already suffered a small number of casualties. The screams of the wounded soldiers who had been hit by the arrows rang out everywhere, and the ground was littered with dead bodies and blood.
This is because Wang Ying and his wife saw the opportunity quickly, ignoring the arrows and taking the lead to quickly kill those remaining thieves, so that these officers and soldiers had the opportunity to hide in the battlements, or use the shield to reorganize the formation in time to avoid the arrows.
If it weren't for this, I'm afraid that the number of casualties among the officers and soldiers would be much higher, and those arrows that fell on Wang Ying's body were all shaken by him with his trembling force, and they were shattered the moment they touched his body.
But even so, a small half of the casualties on his side were lost in a moment, while the main forces of the Xiliang soldiers in the distance were not damaged at all, and they were waiting for their work, and they were about to launch a second wave of offensive.
Wang Ying's conjecture was not wrong, and the officers and soldiers on the earthen wall were in shock and were gasping. The soldiers of Xiliang who were a hundred paces away put their longbows on the ground. Prepare to start the onslaught.
These Xiliang soldiers held the shields and short blades they used with one hand in their hands, all the Xiliang soldiers were well-armed, and everyone had a variety of weapons, but now all of them abandoned the use of their hands.
All the other belongings on and off Zhou's body were unloaded. Only shields and one-handed blades. This is a posture of breaking the ship, and it is necessary to take down this military camp in this charge.
Chu Liancheng and the leaders of the team all stood at the forefront of the thief queue, these people were more or less familiar with the ability to strength, and rushed to the front to use their skills to quickly break through the opponent's defense.
The trenches and earthen walls in front already had four easy access roads to climb. Those roads are paved with blood and corpses, and this is the iron rule of the battlefield, and victory cannot be exchanged without sacrifice.
The rain of arrows just now had already killed and wounded a lot of the officers and soldiers on the earthen wall, and the high morale of the officers and soldiers just now had been dispelled by this heavy casualty.
Almost all of those cannon fodder died on the road in front of the barracks, but what is this as long as their five hundred comrades still maintain their combat effectiveness, how can those demoralized officers and soldiers be able to resist.
Now while the opponent is still breathing and is in chaos, he will attack upwards along the path paved with life, and it is estimated that there will not be many casualties to completely defeat the opponent.
Therefore, Chu Liancheng put all the energetic and capable people in the front, and he had to take the lead to open a smooth passage for the follow-up soldiers, and he could keep the passage open. The Xiliang soldiers can climb the earthen wall continuously, and the battle situation is estimated to be over in a stick of incense.
When those cannon fodder hit the earthen wall just now, they could see clearly, both sides of the city gate were guarded by each other's strong hands, and the cannon fodder could hardly hit it. The offensive and defensive battles at the left and right ends of the earthen wall were extremely tragic.
It seems that there are only two strong masters in the other party's military camp, a man and a woman.
Victory has already shown its own light.