Chapter 21: The Battle of Crescent Island (3)
"Good! All right! As the saying goes, a chopstick is easy to break, but a chopstick is hard to break! Today, so many of our warriors from different places and different factions can unite together to resist Xiang Tian, the devil, this is definitely an unprecedented event! Even if we lose today, we will definitely be able to leave a name in history! Seeing that these soldiers from other factions had also joined the defense on the city wall, Shi Jinshui couldn't help but laugh arrogantly at the top of the wall. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Shi Jinshui is right, throughout the ages, it seems that there has never been a battle, and there have been so many different factions united to fight against one faction. When those archaeologists discover this ancient battlefield in the future, it will definitely be eye-catching.
With the addition of these faction leaders, Shi Jinshui's forces for defense became more abundant, and for a while, the javelins, slings, and feather arrows of various bows and crossbows on the city wall were tilted down like a torrential rain, beating the killing soldiers who were pushing the corpses forward so that they couldn't even lift their heads.
"Pour the boiling oil on me!" With Shi Jinshui's order, a large vat of boiling oil was poured from the top of the city wall, and as soon as the boiling oil, which was as high as several hundred degrees, touched the skin of those soldiers, it immediately made a sizzling sound. Even if you are wearing armor, it is useless, and the boiling oil will quickly penetrate through the gaps in your clothes, burning it to the point of screaming.
But these were just appetizers, after pouring boiling oil, a large wave of rockets was fired from above the city walls, and in an instant, a huge fire burst into flames under the city walls, and in a short time all the slaughtering soldiers who were rushing upwards and the corpses they were pushing were all charred.
In this skyrocketing fire, another attack by the killing army was finally repulsed. At this time, the area of the port was hundreds of square meters, but the corpses of nearly 20,000 people were piled up, and most of them died in a terrible state, either being shot into hedgehogs by the rain of arrows, or being burned into human shapes in the fire just now. From a distance, it's hell!
However, due to Shi Jinshui's desperate resistance, the slope under the city wall could not be piled up even a little higher. Xiang Tian, who was on the deck of the battleship opposite, looked at this scene, and his eyes were red with anger: "Damn it! As soon as the flames are extinguished, give me the order to continue the attack, and I don't believe that these guys will not get tired and that they will not run out of arrows! ”
"Lord God of War, do you need to change your strategy, if you fight like this, the losses are too great, and the soldiers below are all complaining!" After hearing Xiang Tian's decision, Tie Xiong persuaded with some hesitation on the side.
After hearing the words of his subordinates, Xiang Tian couldn't help but be stunned, and then after thinking about it for a while, he understood that those people had complaints, this must be the soldiers of those countries who were recruited, and as cannon fodder, they just died the most. Often, those who participated in the attack were not able to come back alive, and in this case, there would be complaints from any army!
But! So what! A sneer appeared at the corner of Xiang Tian's mouth, these people who had no loyalty and sense of belonging to the killing country were originally a group of guys who would be disposed of sooner or later in his eyes, and now they can make their deaths worthwhile, isn't it just right! As for the complaints of those guys, who cares about him!
"You go and tell those guys that if you don't want their family members who stay in the rear to be sent to the labor camp, they will be beaten well, risking their lives!" Without any psychological pressure, Xiang Tian used the other party's family to threaten these soldiers who he regarded as cannon fodder.
Xiang Tian's decision also made his generals see his boss's determination to capture this small island, and it was really at any cost.
Under Shi Jinshui's gaze, the killing fleet actually gathered most of the warships in the process of waiting for the flames to be extinguished, and then connected the battleships with iron chains, and finally laid wooden planks to make all the battleships connected into a whole, so that the deployment of troops is much faster, not to have to send another one to rush up without the soldiers on one battleship dying, but to send troops one after another, one after another! This is completely prepared not to give Shi Jinshui a little respite.
Of course, in order to prevent the back road from being copied by the naval fleet under Shi Jinshui's subordinates who had not appeared since the beginning of the war, Xiang Tian still divided a detachment of more than 20 warships and constantly patrolled around. And the command of this fleet, he also handed over to his most trusted general, Iron Bear.
As soon as the flames were extinguished, the killing country launched an attack again, and at this time, the sky was already beginning to gradually darken.
"Alas! What an abomination! I don't give labor and management a chance to rest at all, and since you don't let me have a good time, then I won't let you have a good time! Give me arrows! On the city wall, Shi Jinshui sighed helplessly, and then continued to plunge into the tense battle to defend the city.
But this time, I don't know what's going on, those killing soldiers are even more desperate, in order to cover those comrades who are pushing the corpses, some of the killing soldiers, knowing that they will die, still drive the ladder to attack the city wall. And under the crossfire from the rain of arrows from three sides, they naturally couldn't escape the fate of death one by one.
In this way, the two sides fought for a whole night, and when the sky was bright again, the more than 60,000 cannon fodder soldiers brought by Xiang Tian were basically all consumed, and at this time, the slope under the city wall was only about half a meter away from the top of the city wall, and the height of more than two meters was completely piled up with corpses.
"Lord God of War, all those cannon fodder have been consumed, but the height is still a little short, do you want to send the warriors of your clan up next?" On the opposite flagship, a country-killing general, with a pair of bloodshot eyes, asked Xiang Tian. After a day and a night of fierce fighting, these generals were a little out of energy.
"If you're dead, you're dead! But aren't there still many slaves on those ships who are responsible for paddling! We're afraid we won't need so many ships, so let's send these slaves!" It's just half a meter, and after adding more than 20,000 slaves, it should be almost done! In an understated tone, Xiang Tian sentenced the slaves who were responsible for paddling to death.
After giving this order, Xiang Tian returned to the cabin and prepared to catch up on sleep.
Xiang Tian can sleep with peace of mind here, but Shi Jinshui doesn't dare to sleep, in order to deal with the continuous offensive of killing the country, he has already mobilized all the people who can be mobilized on this island, and divided them into several groups to continuously go to the city wall to defend in turn. In addition to the regular army soldiers under Shi Jinshui and those faction leaders, the slaves on Crescent Island, as well as the refugees, were also hurriedly armed and thrown into battle.
Fortunately, these people all know the brutal style of killing the country, and they have witnessed the other party's practice of not taking the lives of the soldiers under them seriously at all. Therefore, they all hated the same enemy, and fought with all their strength, and worked together to repel the opponent's attacks again and again.
However, seeing that the slope under the city wall was piled up with corpses higher and higher, the worries in everyone's hearts became more and more serious.
Originally, they thought that after the more than 60,000 cannon fodder soldiers were wiped out, they could breathe a sigh of relief. But they didn't expect that the other party would be so mad that they drove the paddling slaves to attack again.
Driven by the soldiers who killed the country, these slaves were still wearing armor and weapons in their hands, and they were pushed onto the battlefield one by one with weak legs. Knowing that he was certain to die, Yixin didn't even start to attack, but he howled and cried on the spot.
But the cry soon died down, because those who dared to cry out were all cut off by the soldiers who killed the country in charge of supervising the war, so as not to affect the morale of these guys.
Looking at the miserable appearance of these slaves, Shi Jinshui and they couldn't bear to do it, but they had to kill the killers, because if they didn't kill these slaves, they would die in the end.
Under the repeated urging of the killing generals, these slaves finally launched an attack, but slaves are slaves, and they are completely incomparable with real soldiers.
This can anger the killing general who is responsible for directing the attack, and after these slaves retreat, the killing general immediately waved his hand and ordered all these slaves to be beheaded. The corpses were then put on carts and handed over to the next group of slaves who were about to attack.
After seeing the miserable fate of their companions, the second group of attacking slaves no longer dared to retreat so easily, even though they had to suffer huge casualties every moment on the way forward, they still gritted their teeth and continued to approach the city wall.
It's a pity that even those soldiers who were experienced in battle before could do something that was extremely difficult to do, how could these slaves who only knew how to paddle be able to do it! When they were still more than fifty meters away from the city wall, they were routed again, but this time there were not many who could escape back, because in the process of advancing, more than 2,000 slaves were actually almost dead. At this distance, it is also the distance where the heavy crossbow can exert its most power, and the armor and shields of this era are not able to block the ability of the heavy crossbow to shoot at this distance. The crossbow, a terrifying long-range weapon that has dominated the era of cold weapons for almost a thousand years, fully demonstrated its easy-to-grasp characteristics and powerful armor-piercing characteristics in this defensive battle.