Chapter 63: Tragic Persistence
Sure enough, two hours later, more and more fighting ships were already unable to move because they had hit the wreckage of the sunken ship, and finally had to wait for them to be hit by boulders and sink.
But what makes people feel strange is that this time the commander of the Yellow Turban Army seemed to be crazy, and when he saw that the river was about to be completely blocked, he not only did not order a retreat, but asked his subordinates to continue to step up the attack.
Now that it was difficult for the fighting ships to pass through the river, he sent a large number of Mengchong and walkers; And Meng Chong and the runners broke through the rain of arrows and arrived in front of the camp, but there was no way to set up a ladder to attack the city, so he asked those Yellow Turban soldiers to log in close to the camp and set up a ladder on land.
At this time, because the enemy was already very close to the camp, the defenders did not dare to dump fire oil to prevent them from going ashore, so they had to attack with arrows as much as possible, and at this time, the enemy was densely crowded near the landing place of the camp, so the fierce archers scattered arrows to the dense area in waves.
Although the enemy is also protected by shields, there will still be a large number of enemy arrows, some of which fall directly into the water on the boat, and the Yellow Turban Army with arrows on the shore is even more miserable, as long as they fall, they will be trampled into meat sauce by friendly troops.
However, Rao was like this, and when he paid huge casualties, the Yellow Turban Army slowly spread along the camp to both ends, and began to build a ladder to attack the city.
At this time, on the river in the distance, it was clear that the fighting ship could barely pass, but the Yellow Turban Commander continued to let the fighting ship squeeze this way as if he had no brains. And there were constant rushes and boats being sunk in that area, so the river seemed shallower.
Finally, two hours later, the casualties of the Yellow Turban Army had exceeded one million, and the militia on the side of Yunze Village had lost 15,000 people, and the elite soldiers had also lost more than 3,000 people.
At this time, the 200-500 meters of the river, due to the continuous sinking of Mengchong and walking, there are also boulders thrown there, from the water can already see the wreckage and boulders of the underwater boats, the commander of the Yellow Turban Army only then revealed his true purpose: I saw that he asked the Yellow Turban Army to fill the Mengchong or walking boats with stones or sand, and fill the river, he wanted to fill this section of the river alive! This way they can rely on this piece of land to place catapults and ballistas to suppress the defenders' ranged weapons!
And they were also very clever, knowing that even if the entire river was filled into land, it would only be burned to death by the fire oil thrown by the enemy in the first few attacks. So they just filled in the land with islands that were only big enough for catapults or ballistas, and they weren't connected to each other.
In this way, if the defenders dare to continue to throw the oil, although they also have no reason to survive, but most of the oil will definitely flow to the water, and the fire may eventually spread to the camp. So they were betting that the defenders would not dare to throw fire oil when they thought of this.
Of course, Guo Jia here already knew their countermeasures when he saw the Yellow Turban Army arranging the kind of plum blossom pile-like position, and even he had to sigh that this commander of the Yellow Turban Army was still a character, he could come up with such a solution, and his heart was so ruthless, in order to achieve this goal, they just let waves of Yellow Turban Army come to death by boat, just to attract their catapults to help them fill in the river and paralyze themselves!
Faced with such a ruthless and unscrupulous enemy, Guo Jia couldn't think of any good way for a while. It's just that in this case, those catapults and ballistas can't be pulled or pushed into the battlefield, as for lifting, not to mention the question of whether they can be lifted, and more importantly, there is no place for you to stay! So they had to take it apart and assemble it on the island.
And that's the defender's only chance: try to destroy the catapults before the opponent finishes assembling them!
However, under the transportation and assembly of the Yellow Turban Army at any cost, after ten minutes, the first catapult was assembled and began to march towards the camp, and not long after, the second was also ready, followed by the third, and the fourth...... In the end, in this area, at least hundreds of catapults were assembled and began to counterattack the water village!
The power of hundreds of catapults is not trivial, but the durability of the camp is rapidly declining again, even if the architects in the territory continue to rush to repair, it is too late!
At this time, the defenders of Yunze Village were about to reach their limit! Even the elite soldiers who had just been replaced and had just gone down to rest were killed and wounded under the intensive attack of the catapults. In front of catapults, these elite soldiers were not much stronger than the militia.
The villagers in the territory, except for those who are producing equipment and building defensive lines in the back, have basically been transformed into militias, and these people are still difficult to resist the enemy's crazy attack.
Just when Guo Jia was at a loss, Hu Zhao brought 10,000 of the 50,000 captives who surrendered during the day, and said: "Now the loyalty of these captives has reached more than 80, and they are already more loyal to our territory, you can also let them help participate in the defense, and maybe you can also use them to recruit more enemies, if we can succeed, we will be much easier." And the loyalty of another 40,000 people will soon be met! ”
Hearing Hu Zhao's words, Guo Jia was overjoyed, these are regular soldiers, although they can't be compared with those elite soldiers in the territory, but they are far worse than those ordinary militiamen.
Guo Jia asked Huang Zhong and Huang Xu to select those suitable for transfer to the fiery archers among the ten thousand people, and immediately incorporated them into the team to train the fiery archers while fighting. As a result, a total of 2,000 were selected, not only to complete Huang Zhong's troops, but also to assign another 1,000 to Huang Xu! The others are full-time to become the Great Ming Water Division, although there is no special attribute bonus before completing the special class training, but there are veterans with a hand-in-hand teaching, and there is a baptism of war, I believe that they will soon complete the transfer, but the price they need to pay may be slightly larger, and many people will die in this kind of actual combat training.
With the addition of this 10,000 fresh troops, the defensive pressure of the camp suddenly eased a lot, but looking at the enemy troops who kept pouring out of the Yellow Turban Army camp, Guo Jia was still worried, he didn't know how much time it would take for Wenmin to buy enough oil, he didn't know when Xu Shu would be able to arrange the formation, and he didn't know how long he could hold out.
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