Chapter Seventy-Three: The Battle of the City (I)

With the regrouping of the patriots after the re-attack, on the ten-mile battlefield, the scene of the previous two sides attacking in the air was reproduced, most of the patriotic soldiers below kept moving forward with their shields with both hands, only some of them stayed behind, standing in place, specifically responsible for suppressing the fire of the Liangguo soldiers above the city wall, bows and arrows, ballistas, catapults and other equipment specially designed for killing took turns to fight, the whole battle situation entered the white heat faster than before, and the casualties of the soldiers were rising rapidly under the two camps that killed the red eyes.

Having just successfully crossed the first ditch, which had been filled with corpses, these captives from Yanzhou did not care about the heartfelt soft feeling under their feet, as well as the uncomfortable feeling in their hearts.

Even if the person who was stepped on even let out some slight moans, obviously not completely dead, but they were only a trance illusion, in this kind of tragic battlefield where everyone could die, who was in the mood to care about anything else?

For so many days in the enemy camp in a very poor environment, they only relied on a little gruel with a few grains of rice to survive, in fact, they were already extremely weak, and at this time, they forcibly squeezed out the last bit of strength of their bodies by relying on a will to survive, and stumbled forward.

There was no danger of passing through the area where the horse stakes were originally placed, and the first group of prisoners did not pay attention to it at all, or the trap was not something that could be found by paying attention alone, Leng Buding stepped on the air all of a sudden, and the row of people running in front disappeared in an instant, followed by an unusually terrible scream from the bottom of the pit.

Needless to say, there must be another row of "meat skewers" underneath.

The soldiers of the Liang Kingdom above, especially those who were originally from the Xiong Zhen Army, were very unbearable when they saw this terrible scene, but what could they do, they were already very drained just now, could it be that they had to deliberately remind the other party that there was a trap in front of them?

Previously, they felt that these were their own people in the end, and that as soldiers, they could not kill the defenseless people, and secondly, they felt that it was meaningless to waste their limited firepower on these ineffective prisoners.

So they have been focusing on attacking the patriotic soldiers who are coming after them, which is why these prisoners who will fall if they are touched casually can go all the way forward smoothly, but in any case, they can't specifically remind these people of what traps lie ahead, and which is more important must be distinguished.

"Go down to Lao Tzu!"

Seeing that these prisoners, who were originally used to find a way for themselves in front, dared to stop in front of the trench and stopped, the patriotic soldiers who had been silently enduring the rain of arrows above their heads were unwilling.

At this time, there is no need for anyone to command anything, even if they were not ruthless people before they became soldiers, but the battlefield is the battlefield, and it can easily turn a gentle and elegant scholar into a soldier who is full of swear words and kills without blinking.

What's more, the people of Liangguo are enemies to them, and there is only you here to live or die, so these patriotic soldiers caught up from behind, and went up directly to kick these captives who had no power to resist, although immediately after, several people who were poisoned were immediately killed by the Liangguo soldiers above, and the corpse staggered into the trench, but his purpose had been achieved.

That's why the meaning of bringing these captives to Liangzhou for thousands of miles, and wasting food to feed them for many days, is to use their lives as meat shields for their own side to explore the way and fill the pits, so the patriotic soldiers who were told what to do early on didn't even have to push, they either went up and kicked them down directly, or cut them down with a knife,

Then throw the body into the trench.

"Ahh

"Don't!"

"Don't, don't, don't!"

"Don't kill me!"

"Lao Tzu fought with you!"

"Ahh

With the pain of the patriotic soldiers, in front of this second trench, suddenly became a pot of porridge, almost every breath dozens of people are dying with this, and there is no need for the people behind to specially move the "bridge car" specially for the trench, this trench is being filled by corpses at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The so-called bridge car, in fact, is a kind of wooden car that can build a small bridge for people to pass in a short time, pushed to the edge of the trench by four people, shake the mechanism, there is a thick wooden board is put down, and then spliced and assembled, just because after the rain, the land is too muddy, it is really difficult to pass, and the number is not much, so it was not used immediately.

At this time, human life is as humble as mud on the ground, it is worthless at all, and there are no ordinary people who lose their lives at every moment, and all kinds of equipment and tricks used to attack or defend the city are also taking turns to compete with each other.

The so-called is that you have a good plan, I have a bridge and ladder, the two sides are showing their magic at the moment, relying on each other, like two martial arts masters duel, you come and go, non-stop moves, in a short period of time, it seems that the battle situation has been stalemate, but the next moment, something that makes the defenders of Liangguo on the city wall feel frightened.

It was a behemoth of almost the same height as the city wall on this side, with a square head on the top, with some arrow holes on the side facing this side, and a staggered support shelf below, and eight wheels on each side of the bottom, which were stuck in the mud, and it required more than twenty people to push forward on both sides, and many more people were holding shields and other objects to accompany the protection, and to replace the unfortunate comrades who were shot at any time.

This is the "Cloud Tower" that is far more terrifying than catapults and ballistas in siege warfare.

Although catapults are said to be powerful and have a very long range, because they are difficult to control, in siege warfare, the damage they cause is mainly for buildings, and the damage they cause is not much to the people above, most of them are just incidental, and the ballista is the same on the attacking side, because it cannot break through the barrier of the thick city wall, so it is difficult to directly hurt the defenders above.

But the cloud tower is completely different from them, although the real participants in the cloud tower are actually the soldiers hidden in the square "small room" above, so in fact, the range and surface power are far inferior to catapults and ballistas, but because its height is enough, once it breaks through to the place closer to the city wall, it can cause a powerful fire suppression to the enemy on the city wall.

And what makes the people of Liangguo feel helpless the most is that although the rain above their heads has gradually become smaller, it has been raining for so long, not to mention that the wood that makes up the main body of the cloud building has long been soaked by the rain, and it is difficult to ignite it directly, and most of the fire attack things they specially prepared before have also been extinguished by the rain.

The fire attack that poses the greatest threat to the cloud tower cannot be carried out smoothly because of the time, but if it is forced, the other party is hiding in the cloud tower, separated by a "shield", and only shoots from the small hole to the outside, in fact, it is more difficult to be targeted than those of them who are shrinking in the middle of the battlements.

Although it is said that because the distance between the two sides has become closer, in fact, the new ballista on the side of Liangguo has also caused great damage to it, but the situation on the entire battlefield has begun to gradually favor the side of the country, for no other reason, when the defenders on the city wall can no longer occupy the advantage of firepower to suppress, the soldiers can come from the rear very calmly.

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It was so dense that the terrible rain of arrows that killed the patriotic soldiers fell on this cloud tower like a high platform, but basically all of them were inserted on the surface, even if this wooden wall had been shot full, but there was no threat to the patriotic soldiers inside.

Wanyan Keni grabbed the handle inside the shield, held it diagonally, and leaned low to block Gu Cang's side, resisting the rain of arrows falling from the enemy from time to time for him, and at the same time asked him loudly, "Prince, what should I do?"

Gu Cang's eyes looked at those extremely terrifying siege cloud towers, and after observing them for a while, he sighed and said helplessly: "Alas, what else? Only by letting the ballista and stone cannon attack at the bracket below them can it be useful, so that the other soldiers can focus on intercepting the enemy army below." ”

The stone cannon is a weapon that fires boulders by trapping, similar to catapults, but it cannot move, and it is far less than the catapult, relying on a long lever, it can throw a thousand pounds of boulders to 300 meters away, and the stone cannon is a kind of defensive equipment specially prepared for those enemies who have broken through.

Gu Cang's order was quickly executed under Wanyan Keni's loud transmission, but he saw that the arrow rain attack on the city wall quickly changed from the original target of Yunlou to continue to suppress the enemy below.

Although their own casualties are still increasing, but first, there is a victory just now as the foundation support, so the morale here is not reduced at all, and the courage is enough, so naturally it will not retreat, and the second is because it is in it, everything around is proceeding rapidly, and the nerves of the whole person are in a state of high tension。

Although the gap in the number of people between the two sides is large, it is not said that tens of thousands of people are shooting at these 150,000 people on the battlefield, in fact, the number of people who are really participating in the fight is not much, so the advantage of the defense side in terms of numbers in a short period of time is not too much.

"Boom!"

Hearing the roaring vibration of the stone cannon, I saw that pieces of stones that were one size smaller flew out from the city wall and landed on the support below the cloud tower, and they were simply smashed off at the waist.

No matter how strong the archers are, because of the limitations of the bow and arrows themselves, it is difficult for the arrows to penetrate these thick woods, but such a large stone is thrown down from above and falls on it, isn't it a matter of breaking it all at once?

It doesn't matter if one is broken, the soldiers above just feel that the whole thing below is shaking, a little crooked, but the next moment, after the same side breaks a pillar again, the top of the cloud tower, that is, the place where these soldiers shoot arrows and wait to climb the city wall, its appearance is like a small room that the back wall has not had time to build, so the whole tilted to the side, and the soldiers inside were caught off guard, and they slipped all of a sudden, and then all fell on the crooked wall, which suddenly aggravated the shift of its center of gravity。

"Squeak!"

The entire cloud building slowly made an overwhelmed sound, and the soldiers above were so frightened that they didn't dare to delay, so they hurriedly picked up the back, poked their heads out and looked down, the ladder that was originally convenient for them to go up and down had already been smashed, and when they were hesitating, the whole "room" suddenly shook again, they didn't dare to hesitate anymore, they all screamed, and tried to wave their arms and jump down.

It's a pity that this cloud tower as high as the city wall is more than ten meters vertical up and down, how can these people have a reason to live when they fall?

Unless it is particularly athletic and can hold some climbing objects halfway, it will definitely be a dead word when it falls. ()

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