Chapter 0051: The Battle of Defending the City
"The second black tiger is in charge, and the front is Qingfeng Town. ”
A big man riding a war horse pointed to Xia Cheng in front of him and said.
"I didn't expect a small family to be able to build a huge city, but fortunately we are ready to have a siege ladder. ”
The black tiger stared at Xia Cheng and smiled coldly: "Pass the order, set up camp on the spot, and surround the entire Qingfeng Town, and not a single fly can fly away." ”
Subsequently, 100,000 bandit troops built a camp and surrounded the entire summer city, which was impassable.
If there are more than 10,000 people, there will be no boundaries, and the 100,000 cloud and mist 36 village coalition army can be described as a sea of people.
Densely tied outside the city, it makes people's scalp tingle.
On the city wall, even though they were mentally prepared to fight to the death with the bandits, everyone couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts when they saw so many menacing bandits.
After the bandits set up camp, they immediately began to form an army to prepare for the siege.
I saw that in the camp of the bandits, twenty or thirty thousand people came out of the array, and a large area of black pressure was suppressed.
Then the war drums thundered, the horn sounded, and under the leadership of a high-ranking bandit army, the tide of bandit troops preparing to attack the city rushed to the main gate.
"Brave rats, dare someone to go out of the city to fight with Lao Tzu!"
The high-ranking bandit army rode horses outside the main gate of Xia City, shouting loudly.
"Woo woo woo~"
More than 20,000 bandits also shouted excitedly.
On the wall of the main gate, Dongfang Haotian personally led the personal guards, Xuan Tiewei, two battalions of soldiers, and 10,000 militiamen to guard here.
As for Mu Yingxiong's 1st Infantry Brigade and the other 20,000 militiamen, they were responsible for guarding the deputy gate.
The entire summer city is also the main gate and the secondary gate.
Seeing the arrogant shouting on the other side, Pan Feng's temper couldn't help it, and he asked for his life in a loud voice: "Lord, the last general is willing to fight!"
Hu Yanzhuo and Mu Ying couldn't help but say: "Lord, the last general is also willing to go out to meet the bandit generals for a while." ”
Dongfang Haotian looked at the bandit army that had become dense and arrogant, and said with a cold smile: "Let them shout, don't pay attention to it, we just need to defend Xia City." ”
Dongfang Haotian has already made up his mind to defend the city and never go out of the city to face the battle, and when the bandit army runs out of food and grass, he will naturally retreat.
"The last general obeys!"
The faces of the three of them turned extremely red.
As a military general, he naturally couldn't see the enemy army so arrogant, but Dongfang Haotian was the lord, he didn't agree, so he naturally didn't dare to go out to fight.
After shouting for a while, he saw that there was no one in Xia Cheng to fight, and no one even stood up to pay attention.
The bandit army also lost patience, so they directly issued the order to siege the city.
"Rush!"
The earth-shattering sound sounded, and I saw more than 20,000 bandit troops holding siege ladders and rushing up to the main gate.
Looking at the bandit army besieging the city, Dongfang Haotian coldly gave an order: "The bandit army has begun to attack the city, let the soldiers prepare to release arrows!"
Immediately, the herald immediately galloped and put the order in the ears of all the soldiers on the city wall.
So, the soldiers of the two battalions and the personal guards picked up their crossbows, drew their arrows, put them on the bowstrings, and pulled them into a full moon.
When the bandit army entered the effective range of the bow and crossbow, Dongfang Haotian gave an order, "Release!"
More than 2,000 crossbowmen shot arrows in volleys, forming a rain of black arrows in the air.
After the dense rain of arrows landed, the screams of the bandit army in the siege camp suddenly rang out continuously, and the bandit army was shot to the ground.
Many people have been shot into hedgehogs, and their bodies are full of arrows.
However, this group is not an ordinary mountain bandit, but a well-trained bandit army, naturally not frightened by the rain of arrows, and is still desperately rushing towards Xia City.
Soon, some bandits rushed under the city walls.
However, at this time, what made their faces change greatly was that the ground suddenly sunken down, and a large wave of bandits fell into the pit.
And below the pit, there are countless sharp bamboo thorns waiting for them, and the end is naturally needless to say.
Many of the bandits even fell out of their intestines, which was very terrifying.
This group of bandits are all burning, killing and looting, doing all kinds of evil, living on the knife every day, and not wanting to die.
Their siege did not stop at all, and soon the traps were filled with the corpses of the bandits.
Stepping on the corpses of their companions, the bandits began to climb the ladder and began to attack the city.
At this time, Dongfang Haotian decisively gave an order: "Pour fire oil and throw rolling stones!"
The boiling hot oil poured from the city wall in an instant.
"Ahh~"
The hot fire oil pounced on the bodies of the bandits, and it was immediately miserable, making their skin and flesh rotten, and their whole bodies exuded a burnt fragrance.
At the same time, the fire oil also caused the ladder to burn, interrupting a wave of siege by the bandit army.
The rolling stones and sassalwoods also fell in unison, and the brains of the smashed bandits burst out, and the mixed liquid of white and red was sprinkled all over the ground.
Such a terrifying scene of hell on earth, the militia on the city wall who watched it were disgusted and wanted to vomit.
After all, they were all a group of peasants who had been temporarily recruited, and they had never seen blood in their hands before.
The bandit army obviously didn't expect that Xia City's defending force was so strong and so well prepared.
Under one round of siege, without even going up the city walls, their own side lost thousands of soldiers.
As a result, the Black Tiger issued an order to retreat, leaving behind a corpse with incomplete flesh and countless battle flags and blades on the ground.
Seeing the first wave of siege that repelled the bandit army, the soldiers in Xia Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, and their faces were extremely happy.
How can you not be excited if you have lost thousands of people by yourself and others without any damage.
Then, Dongfang Haotian did not have the slightest look of joy.
The first attack of the bandit army was able to be repelled so easily and without any damage.
First, the bandit army underestimated Xia Cheng and was not fully prepared.
Come, his side has a lot of weapons to defend the city, to wait for work.
However, fire oil, rolling stones, wood, arrows. It's all consumables, and in the battle just now, almost half of the stock was used.
The next wave of bandit attacks will definitely be more numerous, and the offensive will be more sharp and ferocious.
Dongfang Haotian immediately ordered: "Let the soldiers immediately eat, rest and adjust, and prepare for the next attack of the bandits." ”
"Yes, my lord!"
Sure enough, two hours later, the bandit army organized another wave of attacks.
This time, the number of troops dispatched was as high as 50,000.
A large piece of black pressure makes people's scalps numb.
However, with the use of fire oil, rolling stones, sasswood, bows and arrows and other sharp weapons to defend the city, he once again repelled the attack of the bandits.
Leaving behind a few thousand corpses, they retreated in ashes.
This time, the bandit army also used crossbowmen to suppress it.
Of course, their bows and arrows were not good, they had a low range and low power, and they simply could not shoot through the heavy armor of the soldiers of the two battalions.
Only a few unlucky, defenseless militiamen died under the arrows.
Even, in this attack, a small number of bandits killed on the city wall.
Of course, the Xuan Tie Guard immediately dispatched and killed them all.
It was getting dark, and at this time, Dongfang Haotian was also relieved, and the first day was held.
At night, it is extremely unfavorable for the besieging side, the line of sight is low, and the soldiers also need to rest and eat.
However, at this time, Dongfang Haotian also received a bad news, there was only a small stock of fire oil, rolling stones, and arrows.
Tomorrow's defense of the city seems to be very difficult, and it is likely that a large area of hand-to-hand combat will be required.
After instructing Pan Feng and Hu Yanzhuo to pay attention to the night patrol, Dongfang Haotian also returned to Dongfang Mansion to rest and prepare for the most difficult battle tomorrow.