Chapter 390: Arrows are like locusts, and soldiers are like ants
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The heavy shield slammed into the ground, and suddenly there was a deafening loud noise, and almost instantly, the Hu soldiers and heavy armored infantry formations that were slowly advancing turned into a mountain made of steel, standing steadily in the endless rain of arrows.
They were the first line of defense for Hu soldiers to survey and protect the city gates. If the Han army in the city attacked, they would act as a stumbling stone, resisting the impact of the Han army's iron cavalry, either all of them would be killed, or the golden wolf army behind them would rush over.
Wuji and Uweida, who were shocked by the huge destructive power of the Tiger Camp in World War I outside the South Gate, did not dare to be negligent. Otherwise, the Tiger Battalion rushed out of the city and burned the siege equipment that they had worked so hard to make, or directly destroyed it, and everyone would want to cry without tears.
Sixty paces, this group of heavy shields, wearing two layers of iron armor, advanced until they were sixty paces away from the front of the urn city before stopping. And thirty or forty paces behind them, with a ten-zhang high chariot as the center, two wings of fourteen tall wells, seven huge chariots in an anti-arc shape, wrapped to the left and right of the urn city.
The two wings were each with a well, which happened to be attached to the two ends of the horizontal row formed by the thousands of heavily armored foot soldiers in the forefront, and always maintained a distance of one hundred steps from the corresponding points of the urn city.
Regret it! Looking at the Hu soldiers who were not affected by the rain of arrows, and arranged in an orderly manner outside the urn city, Zhu Biao, who was watching the formation on the tower of the north gate, glanced at each other, and felt a little remorse in their hearts.
"If you put ten more bed crossbows in the urn city...... Alas! Zhu Biao sighed in his heart. Why do you feel distressed about the cost of the bed crossbow and lose your mind? That is, there is no disc tower on the urn city. The bed crossbow is not well protected, so it's nothing if you lose it!
How much is it worth? This must be corrected after the war. There are bed crossbows in the castle walls, but the distance is too far or the angle is wrong, and most of them can't help.
"The string is a big wood for the bow, the feather spear is the arrow, the machine is launched, and the long shot is more than a thousand steps, and many are killed." - Bed crossbow.
This powerful weapon has a range of up to 1,000 meters, and Zhu Biao placed as many as 160 in the north city wall. It occupies half of the number in Beiling Castle. At present, only ten corpses on the urn city and some on the surrounding cities can be used, only more than one-fifth of the total amount, which is really a miscalculation.
"Ready-go!" A long, hissing howl.
The longbow is in his hand, and the arrow is on the string. Fourteen wells and eight rushing carts rushed to the front of the urn city through the bombardment of stone bullets, and more than 3,000 Hu soldiers and archers on them followed this order--everyone stretched their bows, buckled their strings, and pointed their sharp arrows straight into the sky, and their eyes were full of tears in their neat movements.
After suffering so many stone bullets, I can finally fight back!
Twenty-two wells and carts. The low ones are also ten zhang high, and the high ones are eleven or twelve zhang long. However, the city wall of Beiling is only ten zhang.
The base of the well and the chariot is five zhang square, and the length and width of the top are also three zhang huge, and the siege equipment outside the height of ten zhang is impossible to arrange only the archers of the next layer. The top of the highest and the two lower floors were covered with archers, and on each well, the number of archers ranged from a hundred or so to a hundred and fourteen. And there are countless Hu soldiers under the equipment, as long as an order is given, everyone can quickly take over the position of the archer. Such a density of arrows is far better than that of Beiling Urn City.
Thousands of sharp wolf's tooth arrows burst through the air, resounding with a piercing scream in the air.
"Pop ......", but it was the rain of arrows of the two armies that collided together in the air. Although the threat of the Han army's arrows to the Hu soldiers was almost minimal, the counterattack should still be counterattacked.
There was a high shield on the urn city, under which the archers stood and shot through the openings above, and the crossbowmen lay down and shot through the firing holes. The effect is better than nothing for the heavy shield and heavy armor soldiers who are in the range or the Hu soldiers who are out of range.
A hundred steps apart, in an instant. After the collision. The arrows sent by countless Hu soldiers still swept through the sky unaffected, and landed on the urn city of Beiling City in an instant, carrying wolf tooth arrows with huge lethality pouring down like raindrops.
There is no need to be reminded by leading generals such as defending the city, and the Han troops on the urn city have already hidden under the battlements, high turrets, giant shields, shields and other objects. And the remaining hundreds of crossbowmen continued to use the shields of arrows, high oars, giant shields and other objects to bend their bows and arrows to return color.
In fact, the real counterattack depends on the bed crossbows that can be reached by the Hu soldiers' army formation, and the fire feather arrows they shoot are the real killer weapons to deal with things such as wells and rushing cars.
On Hu Bing's side, only half of the hundreds of sharp arrows shot by the defenders in front of the urn city could fly after a collision, and only half of them could fly to the top of the well and the head of the rushing car.
But the difference is that the flaming arrows keep the Hu Bing camp busy. There were even some bed crossbows that were too far away, and they failed to shoot the equipment, but hit the pond fish on the side like the previous stone bullets, and hundreds of ironclad Hu soldiers became a string of sugar gourds in their attacks.
It is inevitable that the archers on the upper foot of the urn city will be killed and injured by the shooting.
"Doodoo" -- a low, muffled sound, this is an arrow hitting a shield or a high oar.
"Bell, bell, bell" - crisp, sharp, this is the arrow hitting the blue bricks of the city wall.
"Flutter...... Ah......h
The arrows that rained down like raindrops were like God sharpening a person one after another, always training the nerves of the Han soldiers; It was like wave after wave of interrogation, constantly knocking on the hearts of the defenders at the head of the city. If you can't support the test, the result of crazy panic is death.
"Uh-don't squeeze ......," was an indispensable panic sound.
"Put all your hearts in your stomach, and the dogs won't be able to shoot us." The calm voice is the battlefield veteran in the team, the head of the army and the captain of the team or the grassroots officer such as the team leader.
"Damn, it's still crowded!! Shame on people, look at the brothers in the bow camp......"
Faced with the scene of rain of arrows, recruits who have not done it with real knives and guns will inevitably be flustered. Although the previous training and rational requirements allowed them to hide under the battlements and shields according to the regulations, it was out of the need for psychological safety - to squeeze others aside, and it was safest to be in the middle.
Crowding, swearing, inevitable.
In the battlefield of Luozhou, even if the Zhongshan Army joined, there were new recruits who came to report every day of the month.
"It's all good, not that crazy to run down the city." Xie Shuyan smiled faintly, he knew what kind of quality the tens of thousands of soldiers left behind by Li Huizu's army in the Northern Expedition. The 10,000 troops under his command are about the same, and a large part of those county-level guards are rookies or novices on the battlefield.
The most satisfying is the infantry battalion, although it has always been at a disadvantage, but never gave up, until the commander ordered to avoid the battle...... The fighting spirit is commendable, and it is worthy of being transferred by his own command.
In the formation of the Golden Wolf Army, Uwei Dao's expression was stern, and his tone was as if he had nothing to say: "Order, the archers come forward - attack!" ”
"Woo-"
The herald behind him immediately blew the horn in his hand.
"Archers - forward!"
After a while, with the sound of the passionate horn, the 10,000 dismounted cavalry of the Hu soldiers were 100 paces behind the battle formation, and the 10,000 dismounted cavalry who were neatly arranged, holding the longbows of the Han army and the Zhongshan army, which were not very handy, quickly passed through the gaps in the wells, rushing cars, and ladders, and lined up behind the shield wall of the heavily armored foot soldiers, and then gradually extended from the center to both sides.
10,000 step archers, 10 arrays. "Whoosh Whoosh ......" rainstorm-like arrows completely flooded the North Gate Urn City.
Even the city tower where Zhu Biao and others are located, there are also occasional arrows flying.
"......", a sharp arrow fell through the shooting hole and landed next to Zhu Biao one step away.
The moment it landed, a few small pieces of debris were stretched up on the wall by sharp arrow clusters, and a small pit was made in the blue brick floor.
At the same time, two more sharp arrows pierced in, one was blocked by his own soldiers, and the other shot straight towards Xie Shuyan.
was grabbed in the palm of his hand by Xie Shuyan's big hand. "Superior wolf's fangs. can't take our Beiling, just these hundreds of thousands of good arrows are enough for Hu Gou to feel distressed for a while. ”
Zhu Biao bent down and picked up the arrow on the ground, sharp 52, and the quality was really good. After the bright arrow clusters collided with the blue brick floor, they were not damaged in the slightest. "Then thank Hu Dog for this great gift! Let's add arrows. ”
Arrows fly like locusts in the sky, and soldiers on the ground are like ants.
The sound of the horn was accompanied by a burst of shouts that made people's blood boil, and a cloud ladder began to move closer to the urn city.
A third of them were broken by stone bullets, but there were still sixty or seventy left.
In more than a quarter of an hour, the ladder reached the head of the city, and the hand-to-hand combat began!
"Whoosh-" The sound of bows and crossbows was incessant, and the screams of the city never stopped.
The closer the Hu soldiers got to the city, the more the crossbowmen of the Han army at the head of the city gained more. Although they were few and weak, they couldn't stop Hu Bing's advance at all.
The bed crossbow did not shift the target, and Zhu Biao's order to them was to continue shooting at the well and the car. Ants gnaw on elephants, gathering less to become more. The tower-like wells rushed into the sea of fire little by little under the beckoning of the flaming arrows. They were covered with hides, poured cold water, and even the first days were icy and burned through under the fiery grease of the fiery arrows.
"Wheels, wheels......" Twenty wells and rushing cars were still moving forward, and the two rushing cars at the two corners fell into the sea of fire. Whoever let it suffer the most fire arrows, and it has another purpose of hitting the city, the huge wooden pillar hanging in front of it makes its overall structure not as strong and solid as the well......
ps:
Linchong Lu bus, that is, Chong car, is a siege tower with eight wheels and five stories high. The lowest level is the soldiers who push the cart forward, and the other four layers are filled with siege soldiers. The vehicle is about 12 meters high, 6 meters wide and 8 meters long.
Book of the Later Han Dynasty. Astronomical Chronicles: More than 100 camps, several sieges of the city, or for the rush of the car to hit the city, for the cloud car to be ten zhang high to overlook the city.