113 Fire attack
"Crossbowman, shoot back!"
Han Wen in the city was furious when he saw that the soldiers controlling the artillery were shot, and he drew his sword, angrily pointed at the straggler archers under him, and roared.
The archers at the head of the city, who heard Han Wen's roar, fired at the cavalry below them with strong bows and crossbows.
In the blink of an eye, more than 100 people fell off their horses, and most of the rest of the men and horses were wounded by arrows, and they turned their horses back.
Only after this moment, the siege chess had already rushed to the bottom of the city, and the newly replaced artillery soldiers at the head of the city loaded their cannons and immediately set fire to them, but they were behind the elephant cavalry. The elephant rider was too close to be out of range.
"Shoot the arrows!"
Above the city, under the command of Han Wen, feather arrows rained down on the besieging elephants below.
It's just that in an instant, the war elephant that rushed to the front has been shot with countless arrow feathers all over its body, like several monsters with strange feathers. But these war elephants are heavily armoured, and their skin is rough and thick, even though they are surrounded by arrows, they still scream strangely, and rush to the city gate like madness.
The round and thorny rolling logs and huge moats on the city immediately poured down, knocking down more than a dozen war elephants that rushed to the front, but there were still more than a hundred or so war elephants behind them, carrying siege trees and crashing wood, stepping on the corpses of elephants that had fallen to the ground, and howling forward with feathered arrows and rolling wood and stones.
The city's defenses were temporarily unsupplied, and a war elephant had already rushed under the city gate, "Boom! The bumping wood on the back of the war elephant running wildly was hitting the iron gate, and with a loud bang, the three palm-wide iron bolts behind the city gate were all bent.
Dozens of soldiers behind the door who were shoulder-to-shoulder were knocked down by nearly half, and before these soldiers could get up, the shaking came again.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! ……”
The elephant riders slammed into the city gate one after another, and the huge iron gate more than three feet high also shook violently, and the iron bolt behind it quickly twisted and deformed......
"Boom!"
The two rushing war elephants slammed into the city gate at the same time, and the city gate could no longer withstand such a crazy impact, "Click! ”
With a bang, the gates opened to the left and right, and the soldiers behind the gates were immediately squeezed into meatloaf. The elephant rider behind then rushed in, and the intercepting soldiers were knocked and trampled, and for a time blood splattered and screams were incessant.
"Haha, the city is broken, rush me!"
Wang Mo, the main general of the heavy armored cavalry in the aftermath, saw the ecstasy on his originally tangled face, he shouted, waved the big sword in his hand and commanded the army to kill the city.
Tens of thousands of heavily armored cavalry rushed into the south gate like a tide of war elephants charging ahead.
Half a moment later, there was a scene that puzzled Wang Mo.
The heavy cavalry, after rushing to the south of the city, but they did not enter, people shouted and neighed, trampled on each other, and many cavalry died under their own iron cavalry.
"Report, General Qi Shu, two city gates have been built in the south gate of Yanjing City, and our army is blocking them, trampling on each other, and suffering heavy losses!"
A sentry rider with a bloody face and a broken arrow stuck in his shoulder rushed to the king's approach, turned over and dismounted, fell on one knee and shouted a loud report.
"What? There are also two walls inside, and the elephants who rushed into it didn't break open the gates again? Wang Mo asked in surprise.
"This, the little one doesn't know, none of the sentry riders who rushed in came out, and the small one hurried back to report to the general when he heard the city shouting that there were two city gates."
The sentry wiped the blood from his face and panted.
"Rubbish!"
Wang Mo was furious and kicked the sentry horseman. Then he turned around and went straight to a wooden ladder support tower used for observation in front of the formation, and called down the soldiers on it, he raised his hands and feet, and climbed to the top of the tower a few feet high, looking into the city.
At this look, Wang Mo's body shook and almost fell from under the wooden tower.
Inside the south gate is a bluestone road, into which more than 100 war elephants rushed into it and ran but stopped after dozens of steps.
In front is the second city gate, outside the city gate is blocked dozens of huge stones, some are big and some are small, the big ones are the size of a hut, and they weigh more than 10,000 catties, which are much larger than these war elephants, and the small ones are also weighing thousands of catties, blocking the gap between the big stones, and the enemy is close to the city gate.
Even if these war elephants are not afraid of death, they do not have the courage to hit on this boulder, and they have already exhausted their strength to break through the first city gate. War elephants rely on their huge bodies and extremely powerful impacts, and once they stop, their power is greatly reduced. At this time, some war elephants shook their heads and shook their noses, turned around and retreated outside the city, but the heavy cavalry behind them poured into the city like a tide, and were colliding with the war elephants.
And at this moment, the soldiers on the city threw down many oil barrels and oil bottles, and for a time there seemed to be an oil rain between the first and second city gates of the southern city, and the ground was full of fierce fire oil, which was slippery and greasy, and many war elephants and cavalry fell on the ground, and were trampled into a pile of meat paste. The cavalry outside the city still rushed to the city like crazy, and in this short distance of dozens of zhang, a large number of heavily armored cavalry were embraced, and it was difficult to enter, and it was even more powerful to retreat, and they were forcibly squeezed in this limited space, in which they screamed like horses and neighed, and made a mess.
"Retreat, quickly order the cavalry to retreat!"
Wang Mo, who was standing on the top of the watchtower and saw all this, his face changed greatly, and he shouted loudly to the guards below.
And at this moment, a salvo of rockets suddenly shot out of the city, and a little bit of fire cut out the flying snake, instantly covering the inner and outer city gates.
The fierce fire oil caught fire, and in an instant the fire burst out, and the flames soared, and there was a rattle in it.
The giant elephants and cavalry turned into tumbling fireballs one by one, rushing and screaming, clash left and right, but it was difficult to get out, and they fell into the sea of fire screaming in a short time, turning into piles of charred meat.
"Ahh
Wang Mo screamed miserably on top of the wooden tower, and when he leaned up, he fell directly from above.