Chapter 187: Restraining the Elephant Soldiers
The besiegers of the Cheng army were blocked, and they fired with bows and crossbows at the walls, and later even trebuchets were brought up, roaring on the walls, and the dust was even greater.
The scuffle above has spread to the south gate tower, and half of the southern city wall of Wabang City has been occupied by the Cheng army.
The scuffle in the tower was even more severe, and the staircase to the upper city was very narrow, but the reinforcements of the Confederacy rushed up one after another......
Like the Cheng army on the slope of the fortification, they did not want to rush forward bravely, but the retreat route had already been blocked by the crowd behind, and they could not even squeeze back.
The corpses piled up at the staircase, and the opening was almost blocked. At this moment, a trebuchet faced the exit, and suddenly there was a loud "boom", and the city tower shook endlessly, and the flying dust immediately spread throughout the city tower.
On the stairs below, the cries and screams were like hell on earth. Inside the tower, there was a sound of coughing and swearing.
"Knock, knock......" The castle tower trembled with a loud noise.
After the gate was defenced by the defenders on the tower, a huge rushing cart reached the gate. Countless people shouted and shouted, rushing to the car, a hundred-year-old tree trunk transported from the West Mountain, hitting the city gate again and again.
Outside the castle tower, "Boom! A loud bang shook the masonry on the ground cracked, the dust rose from the ground and continued to impact around, the compacted fine soil flew out of the ground and splashed in all directions, and a stone of hundreds of catties roared and swept away.
The rejecting rifle on the stone steps was splashed with bamboo chips, and the stones crashed straight into the crowd, and screams broke out below.
"Kill! Killing ......" In the dust, countless figures with knives and guns rushed out of the dust.
The Cheng army captured the city wall one after another, and the situation in the southern city was like a burst of embankment, and there were troops everywhere. Bows and crossbows flickered everywhere, and a rain of arrows flew into the air.
With the sound of huge wood grinding, the south gate slowly opened. Countless army of foot riders began to advance directly towards the city gate.
On the street in front, hordes of war elephants and countless infantry of the Wa Confederate army were also marching towards the city gate. The Vavat coalition army dispatched a large number of men and horses, and in order to counterattack, thousands of troops seemed to be able to fill all the roads.
In the dust of the southern city of Wabang, the sound of footsteps and horses' hooves resounded through the world. Patches of red tassels swayed on the ground, and the wide-eaves iron helmets and Rulin knives and spears spread like a torrent to the north.
The Donghu army on the opposite side seemed to be more numerous, and the herds of war elephants were armed to the teeth, and the infantry followed closely to the left and right. The heavy footsteps of countless war elephants stepped on the brick floor together, and the earth seemed to tremble.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom......" Suddenly, piles of rocks were thrown high in front of the crowd.
Whoosh...... The rain of arrows flew into the sky like locusts, and a large cloud of dust and gravel rose in a sound like thunder.
"Woo......" the elephants chirped in horror. The elephants, clad in leather armor and sharp weapons, were tall and terrifying, but as soon as the weapons sounded, they turned around and ran away, ignoring the cries of the tamers.
There was chaos in the Donghu army, and the infantry avoided the hasty elephants.
At this moment, the infantry in the south gradually moved to the sides, as if opening a floodgate in the phalanx. The sound of horses' hooves behind suddenly roared through the sky, and a stream of brightly colored cavalry rushed out!
Those war horses are very eye-catching and dazzling, and they are all covered in colorful tiger skins! General Zhao Gong knew that there were many war elephants in the Donghu Army, and the tiger skin that was drawn by someone was wrapped around the war horse.
This trick was not the first of Zhao Gong's creation, Yang Qi learned that the Donghu people were good at training elephant soldiers, and only elite troops would deploy elephants.
Yang Qi has many ways to restrain the elephant soldiers, but in Du Ying's war book, he saw how Du Ying used to fight the elephant soldiers of Tusi, and the effect was good, so Yang Qi taught Zhao Gong and asked him to repeat the old tricks.
As a result, the cavalry of the Cheng Army looked as if they were riding a tiger, and the tiger stripes were colorful and very eye-catching.
A cavalryman riding a tiger-striped war horse in front of him, a dozen steps away from the Donghu army, was hit by several arrows, and even the war horse screamed and neighed and fell to his knees. The cavalry behind continued to charge and went straight into the crowd, and many of the Taungoo soldiers lost their weapons and fled.
The war elephants had long since run away, and the remaining infantry of the Taungoo Army were driven out by the Cheng army and kept retreating.
Soon, the infantry in front and behind the Donghu Army all poured together, and the crowd became denser and denser. For a while, the street was like an explosion, and the dense crowd was boiling.
Many Taungoo soldiers were squeezed to the ground. Several horses trampled back and forth on a soldier, whose screams were soon drowned out in the hustle and bustle of the crowd.
The cavalry rushed to the crowd and rode straight up, and the knight was very brave, and with a loud roar, he stabbed to death an infantry of the Eastern Woo Army in front of him.
Then the knight condescendingly swept with his rifle and knocked another soldier to the ground. The horse rushed into the crowd, unable to move on, its hooves suddenly raised in the air.
The infantry of the Donghu Army also wanted to dodge in the face of the condescending onslaught of the iron cavalry, but at this time, the crowd was already very congested, and people had nowhere to hide.
"Ahh The cavalryman of the enemy squad screamed in pain, and was stabbed in the back by an infantryman with a spear. Then more infantry rushed up from the surroundings, and soon dragged the stopped cavalry off their horses, and soon disappeared, except for a scream.
After a while, there was a chaotic sound like a hail behind the horses, the sound of the infantry running up and stepping on the bricks of the street.
In the midst of the shouts of "......kill and kill", the infantry of the army, which had long been out of formation, rushed straight into the enemy crowd with spears, swords and shields and other weapons. The torrent-like infantry and the colorful cavalry rushed up to the crowd of the Eastern Warriors.
Many fell to the ground and never got back up. The streets were in chaos, people were struggling and shouting on the ground, and the soldiers who rushed up were only interested in slashing and killing the rebels on the ground. It was as if everyone was shouting, and the sound was deafening.
With a "boom", suddenly a cloud of dust rose up, and a bamboo building collapsed. The soldiers still jumped into the smoke, their knives looming, and they slashed anyone they caught.
Iron spears were thrown out, leaving a trail of death in the air.
The infantry of the Donghu Army were shot through several and in a line, screaming and falling down many people, and the chaos spread deeper and deeper.
The huge war elephant was too timid, and when it was caught up by the Cheng army, it was running north, with its butt facing the Cheng army. A war elephant was stabbed with spears and slashed with axes and bloodied, and it struggled wildly in the crowd, and the Donghu soldiers on its back screamed in amazement that they had been thrown down.
A war elephant was lying in a pool of blood, still whimpering, with only its nose wiggling from time to time, watching as a Tohwu soldier in front of him was crying and being desperately stabbed by a few cherry spears.