Chapter 660: Yang Army Siege City

"Shoot the arrows," as the rate of the drums of war on the city changed, and the men on the long walls who commanded the battle immediately gave instructions to the archers around them.

At the same time, Zhao Xu asked Lin Xuanzhong and the others to stand by in their respective cities, and then left Yan Nantian alone to command the battle, while he and the other two main generals returned to the main hall of the city tower to discuss military affairs. The enemy army does not have large-scale siege weapons, as long as a large number of enemy soldiers do not climb the city wall in a short period of time, Zhao Xu and the others will not be affected at all in the main hall of the city tower.

"Boom, boom, boom......" A rain of arrows fell, and before the enemy archers could attack, the night archers in the city had already launched the first round of attacks.

"Jingle bell," a voice rang out, and the Yang soldiers carrying the ladder kept holding their shields and waving them. The nimble shields kept them at bay, but many were still shot with bows and arrows, but surprisingly few of those who were shot fell from their injuries, because the armor they wore covered them from above, and the greatest damage inflicted on them by those bows and arrows was the impact of their strength.

The armor worn by those Yang soldiers is made of unknown materials, and it is difficult to shoot through the bows and arrows of the night army, so that those Yang soldiers only need to protect the key positions without being injured, and it is even more difficult to be killed by bows and arrows.

"Attack with fire," seeing that ordinary bow and arrow attacks have little effect, as the commander of the arrow battalion, Yan Nantian directly ordered to change the attack method and attack with arrows tied to the fire cotton, so as to improve the attack effectiveness of the archers.

In the next time, the arrows with fire quickly flew to the city, and there was a clanging sound, only to see that those arrows still did not have much effect on the group of armor soldiers, and only had some effect on the archers behind.

The archers of the Yang Kingdom did not hold their shields, but each of them held only a short sword in their hands, and when they charged forward, they only used the short sword in their hands to strike the arrows that flew towards them. All in all, for the competitive Yang soldiers, the flying arrows were an ordinary challenge to them, and they had little fear at all, until the splash of fire oil was sprinkled on them.

On the one hand, the scorching heat of the flying oil droplets affected the normal movements of some soldiers, so that some were shot in critical positions by arrows in a panic, and on the other hand, the fire oil burned the clothes of some soldiers, which had a strong effect on the soldiers.

One by one, the Yang army kept falling, and Yan Nantian's method quickly worked. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and the archers of Yangguo quickly arrived at the designated area, and after stopping fifty meters away from the city wall, they put away their short swords one by one, took off their longbows and attacked directly at the night army in the city.

"Ah......" Some of the night soldiers in the city were hit by the bows and arrows fired from below when shooting, and they fell one after another, and soon the archers in the city were directly suppressed by the Yang army below because of their numbers, and the number of people continued to decrease, and finally the people who were still alive did not dare to attack rashly.

Yan Nantian frowned in such an effective way of attacking the enemy, even if he didn't want to admit it, but in fact, before the enemy army officially landed in the city, their archers really didn't play much role. Now that the number of archers of the enemy army below is large, the city can no longer continue to use bows and arrows to attack, and after letting the remaining archers evacuate, next, Yan Nantian can only count on those foot soldiers.

"Rush," the vanguard of the enemy army finally rushed to the bottom of the city, and the ladders were leaned against the wall one after another. At the same time, Yan Nantian immediately issued defensive orders to the soldiers on both sides of the city tower.

"Ahh......h The sharp hook claws either hit the city wall night army or hooked the city wall, and in the blink of an eye, hundreds of night soldiers on the hundreds of meters long city wall suffered.

Before some of the night soldiers could drop the stones they were carrying, they were caught in the city by the three-clawed ingots, and they could not break free at all under the tugging of someone, so they could only scream and be killed by the grappling ingots. The tragic scene made the people who were still alive next to them tremble, and the Yang army had already hit the morale of the night army through their means before they began to ascend the city.

The night generals on both sides of the wall were shocked by the enemy's unexpected attack, shouting loudly to warn their soldiers to be careful, and personally intervening to help cut the chains that connected the hooks. In the face of such a bold act of the enemy army, they can only be surprised while busy responding.

At this moment, the archers of the Yang army had stopped attacking, and Yan Nantian had ordered the night army guarding the city to go to the city to support and quickly fill the vacant posts in the city.

In fact, the Yang Army's way of attacking with their hooks first was very daring, because if the hooks accidentally fell or were knocked out of the city by the night army of the city, it would affect them. In addition, because the number of ladders is always limited, this kind of behavior can't cause much casualties to the night army, but surprisingly, the effect seems to be better than the effect of Ruan Qiling using the fierce beast to take the lead, and in a blink of an eye, there are already many places in the city that are chaotic.

Fortunately, the generals who were in charge of commanding the battle were not in a big mess because of the current situation, and while reminding the soldiers below to be careful, the night army officially began to defend. The stones were thrown from the battlements one after another, and it wasn't long before a continuous scream was heard from under the city.

A stone block that goes down affects the entire person on the ladder, and even if it can't be destroyed along with the ladder, most of the soldiers on the ladder will also be affected.

After arriving at the city, the soldiers of Yangguo who were wearing armor all over their bodies took off some of their armor one after another because the armor they were wearing was too heavy, because the armor that seemed to be connected together was actually detachable, Yangguo not only had outstanding preferences in competition, but also had its strengths in ordnance manufacturing, and it can be said that the weapons and equipment of each Yangjun army were better than the night army in the city.

Of course, the combat strength of the Yang army is not determined by weapons and equipment, and whether they can successfully attack the city remains to be verified by time.

After removing part of the armor, the physical burden of those soldiers was reduced, the bearing capacity of the ladder was strengthened, and in the case of agile action, the soldiers continued to climb to the top, and the will of the Yang army to climb the city was very obvious, and in a blink of an eye, there were many people on the ladder who had climbed to the top position.

But the faster they rushed, the faster the rocks fell on them. As the stones continued to fall from above them, the soldiers on the ladder were scattered, and the soldiers who were waiting below also suffered, and their morale was greatly affected as a result.

Despite the constant urging of many officers below, many soldiers were terrified by the falling stones from above. Under the continuous suppression of the night military guarding the city in the city, in a blink of an eye, the momentum of the Yang army's charge was greatly weakened. The high walls of the city were decisive for the Yang army below, and it was not until the Yang archers who were on standby that they played a role again that the situation of the game between the two sides changed.

At a distance of several tens of meters, those well-trained Yang archers were confident enough that they would not shoot at their own people, but the night soldiers in the city who were busy throwing stones and rolling logs would be in danger as long as they exposed part of their bodies. With the reduction of the number of defenders in the city, the pressure faced by the Yang soldiers below was greatly weakened, and soon the momentum of the Yang army's charge in many places was greatly enhanced.

He had long been worried that the Yang army would once again use archers to suppress his own city defenders, but at this moment, Yan Nantian saw that the night army in the city continued to fall, and immediately ordered to block it with rolling logs, and he must not let the Yang soldiers below easily enter the city.

The Yangguo archers under the city weakened their offensive, and the night army in the city seized the time, and the two of them cooperated to lift the logs that were more than two meters long and more than two feet wide and threw them directly from the battlements. The two-meter-long log was extremely heavy, and once it fell, it would affect not only all the Yang soldiers on the ladder, but also the soldiers who were originally guarding under the ladder would be implicated.

"Ah......" One by one, the Yang army who was about to climb to the city was smashed down by the logs, not only the previous efforts were in vain, but their falling bodies also continued to affect the other soldiers below, only this round of logs blocked, Yan Nantian alleviated the situation for the night army that lacked personnel, and also won time for the support of the people under the city.

At that moment, many night troops ran up the four long ladders, one by one with weapons to quickly fill the vacant position of the troops in the city, and after defeating some of the Yang troops who had climbed to the city but had not yet had time to attack, the situation in the city soon returned to the original state, and only stones were needed to prevent the enemy from climbing the city.

"General, just now the enemy attacked with bows and arrows, and it seems that many of our soldiers have been injured," Standing next to Lin Xuanzhong, recalling the scenes in the city just now, Zhang Jiutian turned around and said to Lin Xuanzhong.

"Well," nodded, Lin Xuanzhong's speculation about Zhang Jiutian could not be denied, because after the enemy's round of shooting, reinforcements were immediately drawn from above.

"General, do you think the enemy army can attack the city?" After Lin Xuanzhong's response, Zhang Jiutian asked again.

"Very likely," Thinking of the huge formation of the coalition forces, Lin Xuanzhong naturally made an inference, not thinking about their geographical advantage at all.

"I hope the general is ready," this time it was Zhang Jiutian's turn to nod, and Zhang Jiutian did not question Lin Xuanzhong's inference according to his own opinion.

As a first-class wolf general, Lin Xuanzhong has been appointed as the leader of the second team under the city from above, and there are 10,000 foot soldiers behind Lin Xuanzhong. As long as he waited for the clear instructions from above, Lin Xuanzhong would be responsible for commanding 10,000 sergeants to participate in the battle.