Chapter 169: Take the City Gate.
Uli carried his stone hammer and ran fast, and his huge body stood out even in the dark. Boom, feathered arrows continued to fall on Uli's side, slowing him down a lot. The defenders of the city saw such a strong man coming straight to the city gate, and they didn't know his intentions, so they didn't want to mix in the army.
"Hmph, annoying fellow!" said Uli, waving his big hand in order to shoot down the feathered arrows that came from the air.
"Protect the commander!" The captain of the thousand people who immediately caught up gave an order, and the sergeants quickly organized a shield formation to surround Uli. But Uli was tall and long, and the sergeants couldn't reach him. The circumference below the waist was impermeable, but the waist up was still completely exposed to the attacks of the defenders.
"Hmph, don't worry about me, rush up and break down the city gates!" Uli shouted as he pushed the soldiers around him away, waving his arms in place like catching flies.
"Brother Uli, I'll help you!" With a shout, a rain of arrows shot from behind the camp. The defenders of the city, who were in charge of attacking the Uli men and horses, suddenly fell down.
"Hehe, it's better to care about me according to my brothers!Rush, rush!" It was the thunderstorm that came, their camp was not far from the city wall, and when they saw that Uli's movement was blocked, the thunderstorm ordered half of his team to come to reinforcements.
The city was already in chaos, and the siege team of Jiang Yin and Yu Sanjin had already reached the head of the city before the defenders had formed an effective resistance, and they were desperately fighting with the defenders who came at this time.
"Up, up, resist!" "Hua Yingjie, the Flame General who had just arrived under the city, roared and shouted. Last night, he and a few cultivators who stayed behind drank flower wine until midnight, and when the military intelligence arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, he was still lying in the fragrant nephrite and enjoying it. Hearing the news from the soldiers, he hurriedly put on his clothes and ran over, and he didn't even have time to put on his armor.
"General, I'm afraid this outer city can't be defended, instead of wasting troops here, let's retreat to the inner city!"
"No, you must defend the outer city! As soon as the outer city is broken, tens of thousands of us will all be trapped in the inner city!" Hua Yingjie glanced at him, and with a wave of his big hand, the fierce flame sergeant who commanded the continuous reinforcements rushed up to the wall.
Indeed, as he said, if the outer city is abandoned, it is only a matter of time before the inner city is destroyed. Moreover, Hua Yingjie understood that the other party needed to use a ladder to go up the city wall, and the speed was far less fast than that of the Burning Flame Army. In this case, you only need to resist this wave of attacks and hold on until dawn to ease your senses, and the tide of the battle will turn around.
Boom, boom, he was thinking about it when he heard a constant crash at the door. Outside the gate, the thousand-man team responsible for attacking the gate had already begun to ram the gate.
The siege army did not have ready-made ramming vehicles, so they were seen in groups of forty people, holding the waist of the person in front of them with one hand and the huge tree trunk on their shoulders with the other, and constantly hitting the west gate of Wolong City with the help of the power of running.
Nearly 3,000 men attacked a city gate, and the division of labor was very clear. There were only five groups of people in charge of striking the gates, and the others were all in pairs, one on the shoulders of the other, and the lower ones were responsible for moving, and the upper two hands held shields to protect the soldiers who crashed the gates.
Although the rolling stone feather arrows on it rained down like dense raindrops, with such tight protection, there were very few threats that could reach the side of the slamming sergeant.
Although the heavy gate creaked against it, it never meant to move. It was at this moment that Uli caught up from behind.
"Get out of the way, I'm coming!" With a loud roar, the sergeants slammed on the door and dodged out of the way. I saw Uli running quickly to the city gate, and with the inertia of running, he rounded the stone hammer he was carrying on his shoulder. With a loud bang, the heavy city gate shook violently a few times, and a palm-wide opening was instantly blasted out between the two doors that were originally tightly closed, and the sergeants behind the door were also shaken to the ground.
"Resist, resist!" The loud noise frightened Hua Yingjie, and when his eyes came over, he happened to see Wu Li's earth-shattering hammer, which frightened him and hurriedly came to the city gate to supervise the battle.
"Hi ... When the sergeants guarding the city gate saw that the general was behind them, no one dared to slack off, and one by one they desperately pushed the gate shut again.
When Wu Li saw that the city gate was blasted out of a gap, he wanted to pull his legs and rush in, but he didn't expect the defenders inside to close it again quickly, almost not clamping his head. Uli shook his head backwards, his head not clipped but squeezed the braid at the back of his head into the door as he closed the door.
"Ahh Grandma's, open the door!" Uli waved his arm frequently in pain, and the stone hammer continued to crash against the city gate with a loud bang.
Under the continuous bombardment of Uli, the city gate was once again knocked out of a palm-wide gap. Well, seeing the opportune thunderstorm, he opened his bow and shot an arrow along the crack in the door.
Ahh Seeing this, Uli flashed red and began to hammer the city gate even more fiercely.
"I'm here to help you!" After a shout, Lu Ji quickly killed the generals from the rear team, and smashed the city gate with the double hammer in his hand.
A loud bang sounded from the city gate, and the hammer in Lu Ji's hand was made by Ziyan Sanren with the essence of red flames, not only was it hard but also extremely heavy, and the city gate suddenly trembled backwards with a hammer, and the gap opened even wider. Taking advantage of the opportunity, the archers who followed up poured feather arrows into the gate, causing more casualties to the soldiers defending the city.
Bang, the heavy city gate finally collapsed under the constant attack of Uli and Lu Ji. "Rush!" Uli raised the stone hammer and shouted loudly, and rushed in first.
The topography of several large cities in Wolong is relatively special, with Wolong City as the center, and there is a city on each side. Among them, Lin Yi's Wuyi City is the strongest, and after Lin Yi's death, the Wolong Kingdom can be said to be already in turmoil, and it is not a threat to the Lieyan Army at all.
After a long time, the Lieyan army was less vigilant, and after seizing Wolong City, the Lieyan soldiers either bullied men and women or drank and had fun every day, and the sudden siege caught the defenders off guard, so it was difficult to form effective resistance for a while.
After the city gate was blasted open, Wu Li and Lu Ji danced the sledgehammer in their hands like a game, and rushed in first. The Manlin Army, which had caught up with the others, finally found a breakthrough and swarmed in under the leadership of the two commanders. For a while, the eyes of the city and the city were full of forest soldiers, and the earth-shaking shouts of killing resounded in the sky.
"General, the outer city can't be defended, let's retreat to the inner city!" Seeing that there was no hope of defending the city, the guards around him hurriedly suggested to Hua Yingjie.
"Order, retreat to the inner city!" Hua Yingjie saw that the situation was already like this, and decisively ordered the soldiers to gather back and retreat to the inner city.
After hearing the order, the already busy defenders did not care about any military equipment, and rushed back to the inner city like a tide, holding the city gate to death.
Taking advantage of the slackness of the defenders, the Manlin army quickly took the outer city. After Min Duwei and the others entered the city, Wu Daofeng pointed to the wall of the inner city and asked, "General, will the Lieyan Army defend the inner city to the death?"
"The city lord doesn't need to worry, since the outer city has been conquered, our army should make persistent efforts to take the inner city in a battle!" Min Duwei said as he looked at the city head by taking advantage of the already bright sky.
At this time, Hua Yingjie was standing on top of the city, looking at the city and pointing at the city with several people in different costumes, these were the cultivators who stayed behind to help him.
When defending the city just now, a few people did not make a move, firstly, they were not many in number, and they could not play a big role in such a chaotic war. Second, these cultivators also held their own identities, and Hua Yingjie didn't ask for help, so they naturally wouldn't take the initiative to get involved in the battle.
Cultivators on the Four Directions Continent are a relatively special group, although the number is small, but it is only relative to the proportion of the population of the entire continent. Cultivators generally do not hold any positions in the armies of the Empire, but their shadow is often seen in various wars. After all, before they became cultivators, they were all warriors of various empires, and they were inextricably linked with the empire from which they were born.
"Several, the other party still has to rely on you when attacking the city!" Hua Yingjie clenched his fists at several cultivators and looked around.
"General Hua's words are serious, since we were left behind, it is to help the general and guard the city!" An old man with silver hair among the cultivators stood at the head of the city with his hands behind his back and said sentence by sentence.
The old man's name is Ju Shiyue, and he is a member of the Flame Sect like Ju Changge, and he is still Ju Changge's brother. It's just that Ju Shiyue's qualifications are average, and he only cultivated to the late stage of cultivation when he was over seventy years old, and his status in the sect is not high, so he begged for a living in the army.