Chapter 236

In a blink of an eye, the situation on the city wall changed dramatically, Zhao Wu successively ordered the infantry to come up to help the existing soldiers on the city wall resist the strong enemy, fortunately, the defenders had a numerical advantage, and now the situation on the city wall is still under control.

After the fighting between the two sides on the city walls became more and more intense, the situation on the side of the Snow Army under the city improved greatly. Without the need for defensive arrows, the number of snow troops rushing from the opposite side of the river bank increased.

One by one, the Snow Country soldiers bravely climbed from the ladder to the city wall, and then fought the defenders of the city with weapons. Sometimes, one of the ladders of the Snow Army was knocked down by the defenders, and the entire ladder fell directly backwards with the people on it and fell to the ground, or slipped against the city wall and fell to the soldiers who were climbing the ladder next to them, causing a chain reaction.

Those who fell down smashed on the other snow soldiers were fine, and they could get up if they slowed down, but if they hit sharp weapons, arrows, or other things with protrusions, they would die directly, or they would die at worst, and the situation was very miserable.

The screams never stopped, but the soldiers of Snow Country knew more and more that if they all climbed up and fought the defenders of the city, they would win.

Their generals had made it clear in their morale that the defenders of the Night Country were far smaller than their own, so many soldiers had to follow their leader's instructions in times of danger.

Time passed little by little, and one by one the snow soldiers were not afraid of death to help up the ladder that fell to the ground, and then climbed to the top without being killed, and the offensive of the snow army has not weakened.

By the time the situation in the city had completely changed, the archers of the Snow Country had retreated to safety, and their infantry were constantly climbing the walls, disrupting the enemy army, leaving the enemy army with few opportunities to attack them with arrows, and in order to avoid injuring their own soldiers, the generals of the Snow Army simply asked their archers to stop attacking.

At this moment, the commander of the Snow Army, "Marshal, General Zhang, they have successfully passed, no accident, the drawbridge will soon be lowered by them, should we be ready to attack" A general saw that the situation in front of him was very good, as they discussed, everything went well, and immediately smiled and asked Marshal Xu for instructions.

At the same time, the other generals also looked at their marshals when they heard the voice.

"Well," I saw the white-bearded old man nodding and said with a smile: "It is reasonable that our army's casualties exceed expectations, and this casualty will not affect the general situation, as long as General Zhang and they complete their mission, the cavalry can follow behind the siege troops and rush in." ”

"Yes," Marshal Xu affirmatively instructed, and the generals smiled and received the order.

Now that the advantage is entirely on their side, it is inevitable to storm the city, so these generals are gearing up and waiting for the time to come. As for the general Zhang and the others they mentioned, they were the generals who were hidden in the ordinary soldiers before, four seventh-order martial cultivators, and at this moment, the four of them were leading a group of subordinates to erect the cloud ladder under General Zhao Wu, and the two places on the city wall connected to the iron lock of the drawbridge.

The iron lock of the ladder is a key position, and naturally there are many defenders to protect it, so the speed of the four generals is a little slow, and the ordinary soldiers on the ladder are constantly being shot down by the defenders who are on standby, and the four generals of the snow army are mixed in the ordinary soldiers and climb up in a low-key manner.

After some time, the four of them arrived at the iron lock in succession, and the iron lock connecting the drawbridge on the city wall had two places, and it was best for them to break the iron lock leading to the city wall at the same time.

In the chaos, the four looked at each other, and then Qi Qi drew his swords and prepared to attack. The archers above who were specifically responsible for protecting the drawbridge immediately noticed the actions of the four of them, and they all pointed their arrows in the direction of the four people.

A burst of sharp shots, a distance of a few meters away arrows were extremely powerful, even a seventh-order martial cultivator would not be able to face such a continuous attack, but those ordinary arrow attacks did not delay the actions of the four people.

The four of them kept slashing the rough iron lock with their swords, and in order not to cut the iron lock at different times, the suspension bridge could not fall to the ground normally when it turned over, and the suspension bridge might be broken. In the midst of the tension, the four of them had to force their movements to move in unison, and above each of them was a soldier holding a shield to defend them from arrows from all sides.

Judging from the current situation, they are also fully prepared to cut the iron locks.

"General, it's not good, someone will cut the iron lock again," an archer saw that their attack was useless, and hurriedly shouted to Zhao Wu in a hurry, and Zhao Wu, who had already retreated to the back, looked stunned, and then became relieved.

The Snow Army's desire to lower the drawbridge was naturally under consideration, as evidenced by the Snow Cavalry waiting outside the riverbank. Zhao Wu's strategy is actually related to the suspension bridge, and the destruction of the suspension bridge is exactly what Zhao Wu wants to see.

Of course, the Xue Army couldn't easily destroy the drawbridge, and after a brief consideration, Zhao Wu immediately ordered the two arrow battalion generals next to him: "Go and help them." ”

The two generals understood what Zhao Wu meant, and immediately took the order, replacing the original archers, and they shot at those below who were about to break the iron lock from the best position of sight.

The location of the two generals is the key position to attack the personnel below, and the archers specially arranged by Zhao Wu here before are all capable people in the arrow battalion, both in terms of personal strength and archery skills, and now even they can't stop the generals of the Snow Country, so the only way to do this is to let the generals of the arrow battalion take action in person.

Due to the strength of the generals of the Snow Army who attacked the sling, Zhao Wu's approach could not be more suitable. Back in the city tower, Zhao Wu was testing whether the sergeants of the city wall could hold out until the time to implement the plan.

At the same time, a hundred meters behind the city gate, Zhao Xu and a group of generals were waiting for them, they didn't know anything about the situation on and outside the city tower like Lin Xuanzhong, but they were closer, they heard their voices more clearly, and their hearts were more impatient.

When the snow army first arrived, Zhao Xu was ordered to take a group of generals to surround the rear of the city gate, and behind them were all cavalry, with foot soldiers and archers on both sides.

If the snow army can break the city gate, what awaits the two sides is a more tragic battle, in terms of the number of defenders, the generals of the snow army guessed correctly, aside from those wounded soldiers, the defenders are actually only 70,000 troops. Once the two armies engage head-on, the night army's numerical inferiority will be directly revealed, so the snow army must not be allowed to easily break through the city gate.

For the generals of the Night Army, when they heard Marshal Xu threaten to mobilize 200,000 troops, in their opinion, it must be a boasted number. Even if the Snow Nation had long been prepared to send troops to the Night Country, this was still a convincing pose, but they also couldn't underestimate the strength of the Snow Army.

Since the Snow Army really dared to attack the city, there must be more troops than them, but the specific numbers could not be found, so the generals who had been waiting were very anxious, especially Zhao Wu's continuous deployment of troops to support, which made Zhao Xu and the others impatient. It's a pity that as long as Zhao Wu didn't give the order, they had to wait here.

In addition, Zhao Xu also knew that some of Zhao Wu's important strategies were related to catching out of the gap, and the other generals of the border army did not know the strategy, Zhao Xu knew that if he disrupted the plan at the moment, then he would never be able to find out who was the gap, so although he was anxious about the implementation of Zhao Wu's strategy, Zhao Xu never dared to act privately.

Those generals behind Zhao Xu obeyed the command, and since Zhao Xu was waiting patiently, there was no need for them to be anxious. The sound of fighting in the city kept coming, accompanied by all kinds of screams, and the two sides had been fighting for a long time from the beginning to now.

Lin Xuanzhong and the others, who had been observing the situation, became more and more anxious, now there was no war drums or horns at the city pass, and what they could hear was the impact of weapons.

Judging from the sound, the two sergeants at the Chengguan were fighting very fiercely, so that the three of them wanted to know the specific situation over there.

However, as before, the three of them felt that they could not pass. So, they could only look over there for a while, and look at each other for a while, and the fear of the unknown brought a lot of negative emotions, and even made the three of them consider whether to take advantage of the fact that the people of the Night Country were busy guarding the city, and they quietly escaped from here.

"Why don't we sneak out of here?" Not long after, after panic and excessive nervousness in his heart, Ming Buregret finally proposed the idea of leaving this place while the chaos was in place.

"Where are you going?" Qing Yi's question blurted out, obviously Qing Yi subconsciously also leaned towards this idea.

"If we leave now and are discovered, then we are deserters, have you forgotten their military orders?" By the time Lin Xuanzhong spoke, Lin Xuanzhong was already very clear about the current situation.

"Perhaps, no one is around now, and we won't be spotted now, so it shouldn't be difficult for us to be careful and get out of here," he said.

"Then have you ever thought that once someone finds us, then the three of us really have no way to escape. When Lin Xuanzhong denied the idea of Ming without regrets, Qingyi calmed down a lot, and still agreed with Lin Xuanzhong's statement, so he turned to very tactfully dissuade Ming from not regretting.

"Then what do you say?" Ming Buregret is really anxious, looking like a broken jar.

"Wait slowly, if the night army can't hold the city, there will definitely be chaos at the city pass, we can go over there to see the situation." If it is confirmed that the night army is defeated, as long as he escapes with the rebel army, "Knowing that it is not a wise move to flee now, Lin Xuanzhong can only make another plan.

"Qingfeng is right, let's wait for now. If the defenders win, wouldn't it be unjust for us to escape and be caught," Qing Yi, who calmed down, became more and more calm when he saw that what Lin Xuanzhong said was reasonable.