Chapter 235

I don't know how to be silent without regret, Lin Xuanzhong paid careful attention to the voice coming from there, hoping to hear some information from the chaotic voice. Qing Yi had nothing else to do, but to wait silently for the battle to end.

Similar to the situation of the three people, some of the city's residents near Chengguan were also silently watching after discovering the situation of the two armies fighting. Although they believed in Zhao Wu, they were still very worried when they didn't know how big the disparity between the two countries' forces was.

No matter how much others paid attention, at the city gate, when concentrating fire on those soldiers crossing the bridge, people would constantly be shot under the bridge by arrows, and they would be drowned if they were not shot.

Shooting at those people is still a trivial matter, shooting at those bridges, the splashing of fire oil will directly make the ladder burn, and as a result, the fire will be together, and those snow troops will either continue to move forward through the flames, or change positions and take other ladders, delaying a lot of time, which will naturally increase the danger.

Of course, even so, there will be many people who will be able to cross the bridge without any problems, and after crossing the bridge, they will have to run towards the high walls with those shorter ladders. Before the gates were breached, they targeted the defenders on the towers. The Snow Army had to climb to the city wall through a ladder and fight the defenders on the wall.

According to the plan, sure enough, several generals mixed in with the crowd, and together with ordinary soldiers, they deliberately set up the ladder at the position of the rope connecting the drawbridge, and then climbed up the city with their weapons.

The army of Snow Country has rushed to the bottom of the city, and the mentality of the defenders on the city tower has changed, and seeing more and more enemy troops crossing the river, their movements have become less neat than before. And because people are constantly dying, the number of archers is now even more drastic.

The situation on the city tower was very urgent, I didn't expect the Snow Army's determination to attack the city was so strong, even these ordinary soldiers were not afraid of death under the random arrows, Zhao Wu's eyes finally changed, "Send another batch of archers to come up and replenish the missing positions." ”

"Go and bring up a group of infantry with long weapons to prevent the enemy from climbing up the city. Ordering the two generals next to him, Zhao Wu's face was not as indifferent as before.

"Yes," the two generals ordered one after the other.

"But you, general?" As soon as he turned around, a general was worried about Zhao Wu's safety.

"Don't worry, I'm fine," From the beginning to the present, there have been arrows from all directions, but there are very few arrows shooting at the position of the castle tower, and the snow army seems to deliberately avoid this position, of course, there will still be arrows.

Every time an arrow flies, the two generals next to him are responsible for shooting away all the flying arrows, and now that the two are leaving, the general will worry about Zhao Wu's safety.

As he spoke, three arrows shot at Zhao Wu from three directions almost at the same time, but if Zhao Wu was killed by random arrows, wouldn't it be a joke.

I saw Zhao Wu wave his hand lightly, and the three arrow feathers were no longer able to move forward one after another, and the two generals saw that they didn't say a word and hurriedly went to take charge of Zhao Wu's explanation.

The situation under the city is becoming more and more tense, and many soldiers from Snow Country have run to the city walls, where everyone can't see. Because they didn't know the specific situation below, the archers in the city were extremely nervous, and some even ventured to look down at the city, and then shot at the snow army that was climbing up, as a result, many people showed too much body and died directly under the snow army's random arrows.

In less than a quarter of an hour, thousands of people have been killed and wounded on the Snow Army's side because of the continuous charge, whether they were burned to death or killed by random arrows, the death was very miserable. The corpse chilled the sergeants in the rear, and the speed of the charge slowed down, but no one dared to retreat, because at this moment more people felt that it was safest to run to a position where the night army could not shoot.

In a quarter of an hour, the snow army's ladders were destroyed a lot, thanks to the snow army's good preparation, the ladders seemed to be inexhaustible, otherwise the ladders might not be enough.

It is worth mentioning that many of the sergeants of the Snow Army who walked on the ladder were just afraid, and their legs and feet were unsteady and fell into the water, and then for various reasons they were unable to climb ashore.

Seeing that someone had already put the ladder on the city wall, the sergeants in the rear were greatly emboldened, and many of them sped up and ran forward.

The defenders above saw that the situation below was becoming more urgent, and the more nervous they became, the fewer arrows they fired, and the lower the accuracy. After all, it was the first time to face a siege and the first time to face a war, and many of the defenders did not perform at the level that Zhao Wu expected.

A combination of factors led to a much more efficient charge than expected, but the number of casualties was not as high as expected. In this way, Zhao Wu understood that the morale of the enemy army would not be weakened by some casualties, but would be increased by this, and if this continued, the situation might get out of control.

If it weren't for the fact that there was still a big plan ahead, Zhao Wu would really have to worry that the snow army would break through the city, and now Zhao Wu only hoped that the defenders would hold out for a while longer.

Coming back to his senses, Zhao Wu waved his hand to block a few arrow feathers, and then continued to observe the battle situation. The two generals just now were very efficient, and they had come up from both sides of the city gate at this moment, waiting for a group of sergeants to withstand the random arrows of the snow army. Under the instructions of the two generals of the arrow battalion, the soldiers panicked and removed the corpses lying on the various cities, and then picked up their bows and arrows one by one and continued to shoot at the snow army.

While the archers were in charge of the attack, infantry with spears waited beside them, and whenever someone came up, they attacked with spears. With them there, those archers could attack the Snow Army with more confidence.

From beginning to end, the three-hundred-meter-long battle line has not been shortened, and the archers of the Night Army have basically changed, but the momentum of the Snow Army's charge has not weakened at all. The archers of the Snow Army, because they were only occasionally affected by random arrows in the rear, could shoot as they pleased, and the arrows were pulled up and shot out in a hurry, rushing towards the defenders on the towers like a harbinger of death in the night sky.

During the siege, the archers of the Snow Army played a great role. After watching the battle for so long, Zhao Wu gradually discovered this, and if he didn't solve this problem now, his archers couldn't even reach half of what they expected when they couldn't shoot safely, and there were more casualties than expected.

"Archers, aim at enemy archers," Zhao Wu gave an order, and the heralds hidden under the city walls hurriedly conveyed Zhao Wu's latest order. The archers received the order to aim their arrows at the enemy ranks of archers and fired indiscriminately.

The archers in Snow Country are basically lined up in a square every five meters, and the gap in the middle is naturally reserved for the infantry to charge, so in short, the archers are arranged in a very dense manner, and there is no protection.

Arrows flew swiftly towards the archers' phalanx.

"Uh, ah," and the archers on the castle tower were surprised to find that it was too easy to shoot the archers of the enemy, and that they could kill an enemy with any arrow, and that they could kill a single enemy with a few arrows if they used rockets.

Finding that the effect was so significant, the defenders became more and more courageous, and one by one they were like tigers, and they were embarrassed by the archers of the Snow Country.

In the case that they could be hit by an arrow at any time, the archers of the Snow Country were in a chaotic formation, and in a panic, they only cared about escaping, how could they dare to be distracted and counterattack. The defenders' attack left the unprotected archers in disarray, and they did not even listen to their commander's orders to reline, but only retreated backwards, hoping to retreat to a safe area, and as a result, even the advance of the rear sergeants was affected.

Obviously, General Zhao Wu's impromptu decision quickly disintegrated the strength of the enemy archers, and seeing that the enemy archers had lost most of their combat capabilities, General Zhao Wu quickly ordered the archers to shoot at those who crossed the bridge.

"Rush," someone in the Snow Country Sergeant shouted from time to time, and the others who shouted did not lose their momentum in the slightest. After a short while, there were more than 100 ladders on the city wall, and the height of those ladders was set according to the structure of the city wall, so that the people on them could not see them climbing, and they could jump to the city after climbing to the top of the ladder.

Not long after, some soldiers climbed up through the ladder, and when their bodies appeared in front of the Night Infantry who had been waiting for a long time, the Night Infantry screamed and stabbed them directly with the spears in their hands.

"Ah," the screams continued, and those snow soldiers who were not directly stabbed to death fell from the nearly ten-meter-high city wall, slamming on the ground with a bang, or smashing into other snow soldiers, the picture was very tragic.

Seeing that there were more and more snow troops climbing to the city, Zhao Wu ordered two arrow battalion generals to send some infantry from below to support. Now that the threat from enemy archers has been greatly reduced, infantry can climb the stairs at will, and then go around the walls to help fend off the enemy forces climbing up.

The original infantry noticed that more and more enemy troops were coming, and some of them impulsively stuck their heads through the gaps in the wall, trying to stab the enemy with their spears against the ladder in the wall.

It's okay if the other side is not prepared, if the other side is prepared, take their weapons directly when they stretch their bodies out, and then pull the impulsive defenders off the wall at once. Other Snow Soldiers waited for the Night Nation defenders to show their heads, and then swung their weapons to kill the defenders directly, so that they could easily climb the city walls.

As soon as a snow army climbed the city wall, the nearby defenders came to defend it in time. For a short time, the infantry were able to control the situation, but as time went on, more and more snow troops climbed to the city walls, and fierce battles broke out between the two sides, so that the archers could no longer continue to shoot.

In desperation, some archers simply threw away their bows and arrows, and then drew their matching swords to confront the enemy. As a result, there were more and more enemy troops in the city, and it was difficult for the remaining archers to shoot at the snow army below.