Chapter 177: Attack (2)
And Tucheng is like a reef in the center of the waves, standing there quietly, waiting to meet this baptism of violence!
Before the rough waves cover it, the reef is empty, but what about when the rough waves come up!?
Will the waves engulf the reef, or will the reef stand tall in the middle of the waves!?
Just after the first salvo of the Wolf Tooth Army, there was finally movement on the city wall!
As soon as the arrows fell, a large number of archers suddenly appeared on the city.
Condescendingly, the formation of the rebel siege troops was unorganized, and there was almost no need to aim.
The defenders of the city had long held their breath, bent their bows and drew their rounds against the rebels rushing below.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"
Feathered arrows poured out on the heads of the rebel soldiers who were besieging the city, with the fury of the defenders of the city.
Screams rang out one after another, and among the rebel troops of the project, blood flowers bloomed from time to time.
The tragic siege began.
The rebels besieging the city flocked to the city as soon as the siege horn sounded.
These rebels each had their own thoughts, some wanted to rush to the city to make meritorious contributions, and some wanted to survive in this internal strife, so the entire charging formation became uneven, with front and back.
Those rebel soldiers who wanted to make meritorious contributions desperately rushed to the bottom of the earth city. And the soldiers who want to survive in steal are holding back. As a result, the originally neat and orderly rebel offensive formation turned into a mess.
In some places, they are even crowded together, and those who advance and those who stand still become a lump, while in other places they are sparsely populated and there are few people.
As the defenders of the city shot towards the relatively dense area of the rebels, the soldiers' faces were filled with horror and despair.
Originally, after Kobrham arranged for the Wolf Tooth Army to shoot first, the Goshawk Iron Cavalry would take over the Wolf Tooth Army and suppress the city head by its scattering method to replace the gap created by the Wolf Tooth Army when changing arrows.
But after all, it was the first time for the two armies to cooperate, and the coordination was naturally much worse.
When the wolf's tooth army released their arrows, these goshawk iron horsemen also shot arrows upward. And in the interval between the wolf's tooth army changing arrows, these goshawk iron horsemen also happened to change arrows, so it should have been continuous, suppressing the situation of the city, but there was a gap, which created a great opportunity for the defenders on the city wall!
Only a handful of goshawk horsemen shot their feathered arrows at the city.
After the defenders of the city took advantage of this gap to shoot the feathered arrows in their hands at the rebels, the rebels who were charging under the city immediately turned on their backs, and the terrible screams resounded earth-shatteringly.
The few arrows of the Goshawk Iron Cavalry, when fired at the city wall, had almost no suppressive effect, except for two or three defenders who had time to avoid being wounded.
Seeing the siege troops charging forward, they were knocked down.
Commanding the Wolf Tooth Army is another sharpshooter of the Kayan tribe, and the Wolftooth Army is worthy of being the Marksman's troops.
The action was fast, and in just a short time, the second batch of feather arrows shot towards the city again. At this time, the defenders of the earthen city had already hidden behind the city walls.
Coblehan, who was watching the battle from a distance, saw that the goshawk iron cavalry and the wolf's tooth army did not cooperate tacitly, and even let the defenders of the city find an opportunity to kill and injure a large number of the siege troops below, and couldn't help but scold loudly in anger: "Fools, it's all a bunch of fucking rubbish!"
Cabharhan was not a memediocre talent, so he asked his subordinates to immediately go and give orders, so that the Goshawk Iron Cavalry could cooperate with the Wolf Tooth Army.
Under the earth city, a ghost cried wolf.
The rebel soldiers, who were shot to the ground by feather arrows, rolled on the ground repeatedly, and their screams were even more thrilling.
From the former army to Tucheng, there is only a distance of seventy or eighty steps, and this short distance has become a road of death.
The rebel soldiers carried long ladders and braved the rain of arrows flying above their heads, and ran forward desperately.
Even those soldiers who didn't want to step forward and wanted to survive their lives were no longer lazy, and under the first blow of the defenders on the car, everyone had already found that they were already within the range of the opponent's bow and arrow, and if they stayed still, they would die faster.
Only by rushing through this distance and coming to the bottom of the earth city can you dodge the feather arrows flying down from the city.
If you want to retreat and become a deserter? That's impossible, and if you go back, you'll only be beheaded by the Overseers! Even your family will be implicated.
When the defenders of the city had just stood up and prepared to return fire after dodging the second wave of blows from the Wolf Tooth Army.
The Goshawk Iron Cavalry had already adjusted at this time, and after receiving the order from Collkham, they quickly found an opportunity to cooperate with the Wolf Tooth Army.
"Brush!"
The overwhelming scattering of the wolf tooth army hit the city appropriately!
This time it was beyond Kunsang's expectations, and suddenly several brothers were hit by arrows and planted from the city!
"Stand shield protection!"
Kunsang cried out loudly, but a little bit, and a few more brothers were injured.
The rebels who were running forward under the city saw that the defenders of the city were suppressed, and they rushed forward desperately.
The distance of seventy or eighty paces was only a dozen breaths, and there were fast rebel soldiers who were already approaching the city wall.
Kunsang regretted a little at this time, he shouldn't have let the enemy approach so close just now.
I thought that these rebel soldiers would also be like the rabble before, and I wanted to put them closer so that they could be easily attacked!
It seems that after suffering a loss, this Kobrhan has learned well and knows how to change his strategy.
At this time, if you want to shoot the soldiers who are about to rush under the city wall, the defenders of the city can only poke out most of their bodies before they can shoot their bows and arrows downward. At this time, the Wolf Tooth Army and the Goshawk Iron Cavalry cooperated very tacitly, and the shots of the two soldiers scattered back and forth to the city alternately, leaving no interval in between!
The rain of arrows shot from the bottom up is almost uninterrupted and endless!
In this way, if the defenders of the city want to stop these rebel soldiers who rush up, they can only fight back with the feathered arrows of the wolf tooth army and the goshawk iron horse, and in doing so, the casualties of the defenders in the city will only increase!
The defenders of the earthen castle stood their shields on the edge of the city walls and shot arrows indiscriminately from the gaps in the shields! The rebels' feathered arrows were too dense, and if the gap between the shields was a little larger, some stray arrows would fly in.
And the feathered arrows shot by the wolf-tooth army were very powerful, and they shot at the shield, making a loud sound of "Duo, Duo"! Even the soldiers holding the shield felt the vibration from their arms!
Kunsang was originally responsible for defending the section of the city wall on the left, but after the rebels began to attack, with the opponent's formation and the direction of the impact, Kunsang knew that these rebel soldiers were still preparing to attack the front section of the wall!
The defense of this section of the city wall in front of it was Chu Chongshan and Ye Nineteen who were defending. Kunsang was relieved, so he gave the task of defense to the old Buck commander of his clan, and he ran to the middle of the city wall as the rebels charged.
Chu Chongshan stood behind a shield, his expression was very calm, and the performance of the rebel soldiers below was indeed as he expected.
These steppe people didn't know anything about the tactics of attacking the city, and they just wanted to take this earthen city by virtue of their large numbers. Look at those rebels, like a swarm of hornets, rushing towards Tucheng.
If this is another situation in which the armies of the Central Plains countries want to attack the city, they must at least divide them into several echelons and have clear layers! Before breaking the city, it is necessary to maintain wave after wave and never stop the momentum!
Such an attack will make the defenders of the city always bear wave after wave of attacks, and they will not get any time to rest at all.
And in the end, even a wave of attacks is stronger than a wave! until the will and physical strength of the defenders of the city are all crushed, and finally the city is naturally broken!
You know, the city wall is only such a large area, and no matter how many troops you deploy, there are only so many attack points.
Even if you have tens of thousands of people attacking the city at the same time, the defenders will only have to withstand the attack range of the city wall!
So even if you use crowd tactics, it will not help, because no matter how many people there are, only so many people can attack, and the rest can only be in a hurry below, and even hinder the rhythm of the siege!
War is not just bloodshed, fighting, and death! It is an art, the art of war!
By this time, the rebels had already erected a long ladder, and the head of the ladder had reached the city wall. However, there were not many long ladders erected, and they were far from reaching the effect that Chu Chongshan was preparing to attack hard.
It seems that there are also some skilled craftsmen among the rebels, and they have already measured the height of the earthen city, and these long ladders are just a little higher than the city wall.
Up and down the city, there was already a shout of killing at this time, and the sound of shouting was deafening!
This shout turned the earth upside down, and both the rebels and the defenders of the city were all excited by this shout of killing, and they had already left life and death behind!
One by one, pieces of blood flowers, either in the ranks of the rebels or among the defenders on the city walls!
The bright red color makes people's blood boil even more!
Kunsang saw that the rebels had already erected a long ladder, and even the rebel soldiers who were eager to make meritorious contributions had already begun to climb upward!
He was very anxious in his heart, and hurriedly shouted to those defenders to hurry up and throw the Rolling Wood Thunder Stone downward!
Chu Chongshan hurriedly stopped Kunsang's order, and only ordered the defenders in the city to prepare to stab the rebels with spears when they climbed up.
Kunsang was puzzled, and even had some anger in his heart, and couldn't help shouting to Chu Chongshan: "Brother Chu, the rebels have already begun to come up, those defensive equipment you prepared, don't you need it at this time, do you want to save it until they break the city?"
Chu Chongshan smiled faintly, "It's not time yet, wait for the other party's long ladder to have more, and the rebels who climb up will use it more often!"
"But by that time, will it be a little late? Look at that rabbit cub, he has already climbed halfway up!"
There was a rebel ten-captain who was anxious to make meritorious deeds, and he was the first to grab the ladder and climb up, and the fellow was so strong that he climbed most of it in a matter of moments.