Chapter 186: Fierce Battle on the City Wall
The walls of the city have been added several times, and now it is a large city with a wall of three feet high.
But now it doesn't seem to be so high, the corpses are piled up all over the wall, and in order to push the ladder to the city wall, the Cheng army directly covers the corpses to build a road, and a large slope is formed outside the city wall, swallowing the height of the city wall.
Nearly half of the men and horses of the Baihu King Shouye have been killed or wounded, and he himself has been blocked on the slope and cannot advance or retreat. The enemy soldiers on the city walls on both sides held bows and crossbows and fired at them non-stop, and Wang Shouye felt more and more that his own people were like live targets on the execution ground.
"Ah......" Another soldier on Wang Shouye's left was hit by a crossbow arrow, and the soldier dropped the weapon in his hand and fell off the slope, clutching his chest and screaming. A moment later, the trebuchet behind him roared like thunder, and a stone fell from it, and the earth and stones at the head of the city were splashed, which was very terrifying.
The roar of trebuchets and the roar of people resonated, and the foggy air was mixed with the choking smell of loess and blood, the smell of sweat, the golden juice (boiling dung), and the filth of the incontinence of the dead. Wang Shouye only felt that it was difficult to breathe, and the feeling of wanting to retch and stuffiness filled his chest all the time.
Wang Baihu still had dozens of people, but he couldn't retreat, because another army of soldiers and horses below the slope was already blocking there, and they were about to climb up!
Wang Shouye suddenly remembered what Old Man Liu said when they first came up: Li Baihu in front of him was dead, his subordinates were killed and wounded, and Wang Baihu's people were on the list.
Aren't the people who are now blocked under the slope just like Wang Baihu before to fill in the position? Perhaps in the eyes of the general, his Wang Shouye's men and horses are finished!
There was no military order to retreat if the attack was frustrated, and now Wang Shouye was blocked on the slope by friendly troops, and he could not advance in front and retreat in the rear. Even if they desperately squeeze it out, there is only one end waiting for them, the crime of escaping!
Wang Shouye felt that his hands and feet were getting cold.
From time to time, there was a scream from the brothers in front of the battlements, and people were constantly falling from the top of the slope and falling under the corners, and there was only one more body piled up in the pile. The crossbows on the walls on both sides were between a few and twenty paces away, and the situation was simply miserable to see from the side of the people on the slope.
Just when Wang Shouye's head was "buzzing", a voice said loudly: "Wang Baihu, you have to work hard!" ”
Wang Shouye wiped the sweat on his face, and glared at it, and the person standing in front of him was Wu Chang Liu. Old man Liu pointed to it with his finger and said, "The brother next door has attacked the city from the cloud ladder, we have to seize the opportunity to go up, otherwise we will die sooner or later if we are here!" ”
Wang Shouye looked up, and sure enough, he saw knives and guns dancing on the left wall, killing each other in a mess, and the melee made the bow and crossbow on the left side also stopped. Wang Shouye picked up a shield from among the dead, took a breath, gritted his teeth and shouted, "Brothers, follow me!" ”
Old man Liu also echoed and shouted: "We have no way out, we want to live, go to the city!" ”
"Kill! Kill ......" all the soldiers desperately shouted out the last momentum, and the struggle for survival made everyone's courage like a return to the light.
The soldiers at the front of the slope desperately rushed to the battlement, and were instantly stabbed by spears. When a soldier pressed his gun and shield against the wall, he flipped upwards and was immediately stabbed in the face by an enemy soldier with a forked and sharpened bamboo pole, whose face immediately became bloody and fleshy, and let out a scream that ripped his lungs.
There was a thud, a string sound came from the cacophony of sounds, and an arrow feather was almost inserted into the head of the enemy soldier, who did not even scream and fell on his back.
The soldiers of the Cheng Army, who were poked in the face, actually jumped hard while screaming, and the person turned over directly! But immediately he was surrounded by many soldiers of the Confederacy Army, and they were stabbed indiscriminately. At this time, two soldiers with guns and shields turned over again.
Wang Shouye saw an emptiness, stretched out the battlement with a sword and shield in his hand, and held the battlement with his arm, he also quickly turned up, and immediately turned back and shouted: "Brothers, kill!" ”
Wang Shouye immediately turned around and prepared to fight. I saw a soldier in front of him whose shoulder armor had been deformed, with an arrow stuck in his shoulder, and only a knife in his right hand, screaming and rushing at the enemy; He didn't hide from his sword or gun, but only rushed at an enemy soldier and slashed at someone, and he himself was quickly stabbed to the ground.
The head of the slope wall was slightly lost, and more soldiers took advantage of the situation. The chaotic Wavin coalition forces were outnumbered and fled to the right. On the right is the east side, and the castle tower is over there, and reinforcements from the Wa Confederate army are coming! The Vavat army on this side was routed, and almost all of them ran to the place where there were many people.
Although Wang Shouye is not yet 20 years old, he has been on the battlefield for a long time and knows what to do. He spotted the gap and immediately shouted, "Array! ”
At this time, more than half of his more than 100 people had been lost, and there were few generals left under his command, but fortunately, 100 households were alive, and all the soldiers obeyed his orders and reluctantly gathered into a phalanx. At this time, the other hundred households team behind also turned in from the slope here.
"Whoosh......" The city wall was shot indiscriminately, and the arrows hit the shields and armor of the army with a clanging sound, and from time to time someone screamed and fell to the ground.
Wang Shouye took a tattered bloodstained military flag with the word "Cheng" written on it from the hand of a military general, roared, and rushed towards the dense reinforcements of the Tile Confederation Army. The morale of the hundred households who had just entered the city was high, regardless of the confusion of the formation, they also shouted when they saw this, and then rushed forward.
The two armies soon engaged in close combat, and the enemy soldiers who had just finished firing their arrows were immediately killed crying and crying for their mothers, and then the clashing of weapons, shields, and armor was overwhelming. The crowd on both sides was very dense, and when they rushed together, the white swords and spears were waving messily, as if the water surface of the big net was just about to come out of the water, and countless fish and shrimp were jumping in a hurry.
Wang Shouye clenched the military flag in his hand and shouted to boost morale: "Brothers bravely kill the enemy, millions of soldiers under the city are watching, and the world will praise ......"
But at this time, the air was gray and full of smoke, and the people and horses outside the city were busy rushing up desperately, and no one cared about anyone.
When Wang Shouye gasped, he glanced into the city and was dumbfounded. On the two avenues of the north and south, countless war elephants are slowly surging towards the south of the city. On either side there were also hordes of infantry, swords and spears erected like woods, and elephants chirping one after another, like trumpets in the sound of cannons.
The density of the enemy soldiers in Wabang City is not necessarily less than the number of besieging the city!!
The road on the city wall is quite wide, and there are at least two carriages in parallel. The two armies were crowded together in battle, and the Cheng army soon gained the upper hand and continued to advance to the east.
However, at the passage of the upper wall in the city, the Wa Confederate army had already taken precautions, and they brought in many repulsive rifles made of sharpened bamboo, and deployed seven or eight dense obstacles, and the crowds of enemy soldiers were behind the obstacles, taking turns to shoot at the city wall.