Chapter Seventy-Five: The Battle of Jiayuan City (2)
In today's battle, the enemy attacked fiercely, with a preliminary estimate of more than 1,000 dead and wounded, and failed to capture half a step above the city wall.
In particular, the other three gates, although they also gathered a large number of soldiers, they were all immovable.
Ma Yun always felt that something was wrong in his heart, and he had an intuition that the enemy army would not be as simple as just attacking it.
Intuition sounds illusory and undescriptive, but it turns out later that it's often accurate.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, it is not very difficult to explain, because the so-called intuition is often a series of events that bring you the most intuitive feeling, which seems simple and direct, but in fact it is the most direct fusion of all your experiences and perceptions.
Just like the last battle of Xiong'an Village, Liu Jingting attacked on the surface, but privately sent a master to secretly attack, trying to attack inside and outside, and won in one fell swoop.
After the failure, he used the means of pressing the bottom of the box, and the poisonous corpse and bloody corpse in the middle of the night not only easily attacked the cottage, but also almost killed him.
Now that Xiao Tiangang's 50,000 troops are approaching the city, it is absolutely impossible to have only one means of attacking. At the very least, he wouldn't attack just one gate.
In particular, the two powerful poisonous corpses he encountered that day have not yet appeared.
Although he had already figured out how to deal with the poisonous corpses, if two poisonous corpses sneaked up on the other gates, he could break through one gate in a short time. Once the city gate is breached, this Jiayuan City is in danger.
Among the three, only Dian Jun had seen the poisonous corpse, and from Ma Yun's embarrassed appearance later, he knew the power of the poisonous corpse.
Thinking of this, Ma Yun summoned Xi Jian, Dian Jun, and Tong Guanshan to tell them about the two poisonous corpses.
If you find someone like this attacking the city gates, you will not be able to defeat them, and you will immediately send out a fireworks signal.
Between the two gates, the distance is about six miles, and it takes half an hour to speed up the horse. This half an hour is enough time to climb the city wall.
In order to prevent the siege at night, the soldiers defending the city took turns day and night. The night was uneventful.
On the second day, the huge stone carts bombarded the city wall repeatedly, and with the sound of trumpets and drums, the tortoiseshell array covered the archers to the city, and a new round of siege began.
On the battlefield, huge rocks flew one after another, arrows rained down, the sound of killing shook the sky, and thick smoke billowed out. Under the city walls, there were mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.
The ladder leaned against the city wall, and the enemy desperately climbed to the top of the city, and the soldiers on the city wall kept pushing away the ladder with their forks, and the ladder overturned was a string of people who fell over and fell into the crowd below.
In this siege, there were a few more ladder trucks, and those giant ladder trucks were equipped with anti-shield winch grappling hooks and other equipment, as well as pulley lifting equipment, and the iron ladder was buckled on the city wall and could not be pushed away. In addition to the ladder on the front that can be climbed, the gondola can also be hoisted up several people at a time.
The soldiers who climbed the city wall from the ladder car were obviously much more agile, and sometimes they were mixed with a few soldiers with the strength of intermediate martial artists, and several people shot together, and the soldiers defending the city could not react, and they were beaten out of a gap, and several people took the opportunity to climb the city wall.
The delay caused more enemy troops to climb the walls from there. This is a siege, and as long as you break through a little, you can gradually expand the area.
At this time, bows and arrows are no longer of great use, and they can only fight in close combat. Fortunately, the defending soldiers were well-armed, and Qin Ming immediately led people to kill them and retreated those enemy soldiers who attacked them.
As the defenders poured the oil on the ladder cart, the attacking enemy soldiers were stopped.
From beginning to end, Ma Yun stood on the city tower and did not make a move. He was waiting, waiting for the enemy's hidden hand.
If he continues to fight like this, he firmly believes that he can defend Jiayuan City. Siege is brutal and boring.
Repeating the same attack day after day tests the military discipline of both sides, and even more so the perseverance of the soldiers.
Looking at the enemy soldiers who knew they would die, but continued to rush up one after another, Ma Yun sighed.
In the face of war, there is no fairness, no mercy, only death and blood.
What the enemy had gained with their lives and blood was a glimmer of opportunity, a chance that could change their fate: the achievement of ascending the city.
The merit of ascending the city is one of the heaviest merits of the war, almost second only to the merit of breaking the formation of the generals and capturing the flag.
For ordinary soldiers, with this feat, they can be promoted to generals, and their fate will change accordingly.
This gives ordinary soldiers endless hope, as long as you have that ability, you can step into this threshold.
And the hope of changing one's own destiny brings cohesion and courage.
Countless figures, with round shields, climbed on the ladder, and from time to time someone screamed and planted the ladder, but they could not stop the determination of the soldiers to change their fate.
They need to exchange the blood and lives of the enemy or their own for something, and at the same time, strict military discipline and the rules of the battlefield are also restricting their behavior, the former meritorious, the latter dead.
From morning to night, Xiao Tiangang's army launched five sieges of the city, and three times attacked the city wall, although it was quickly defeated, but it also greatly improved the morale of the attacker.
Until the sky was a little dark, under the hundred-zhang long city wall, there were corpses all over the ground, and under the root of the wall, the corpses were even more high, and the stones were piled up indiscriminately.
The air was filled with the stench of blood and charred corpses, mixed with the faint groans coming from the pile of corpses. The walls of Jiayuan City have been mottled with blood.
Qin Ming's eyes were red, his body was covered with blood and flesh scraps, and he roared as he watched the retreating enemy army.
At the end of the day, the enemy suffered more than 3,000 casualties, most of them seriously, and their corpses lay outside the city.
With yesterday's experience, those ordinary soldiers without armor have been staying in the barracks, waiting only to join the battle as a last resort.
This is the advantage of defending the city, the enemy besieging the city can only go into battle lightly and easily climb, while the defenders can be fully armoured, and the bow and arrow, the main means of siege, will be much less colorful.
Today, although the enemy army climbed the city wall, it can still be said that it is a great victory, and the morale of the defenders of the city has been greatly boosted.
It's just that Ma Yun has more and more doubts in his heart, what is the enemy's backhand, and when will it be used?
I thought that after a day of fierce fighting, the night would be a calm night.
Who would have expected that just after the hour, the drums on the side of Jiayuan City were beating loudly, but it was the enemy army who attacked at night.
Most of the soldiers were still resting in the tower, and in a hurry put on their armor and rushed to the city wall with their weapons.
At this time, the enemy army had already reached the city, and a dense rain of arrows flew towards the city wall, and the siege equipment also approached. The fierce fighting was ignited again.
In the darkness, iron arrows suddenly shot inches thick, whistling and flying towards the guards on the city wall.
No matter how strong the Black Iron Armor and Red Flame Armor were, it was difficult to resist such stick-like arrows, and the iron arrows pierced directly through the armor and stabbed the city walls, sputtering bewitching sparks.
With the suppression of the well fence, soon there were enemy soldiers on the city wall, and the city wall was suddenly full of fighting.
Seeing this, Ma Yun ordered the soldiers in the building to participate in the battle.
The well fence was hidden in the darkness more than a dozen feet away, and the soldiers on the arrow tower could not see clearly at night, let alone fight back.
Only Ma Yun clearly saw a huge repeater in the well fence, constantly firing iron arrows.
He took his bow and arrows, and the bolts flew accurately towards the well fence in the darkness, and landed in the chest of the soldier who was operating the repeater.
With the positioning of the fire arrow, the huge repeater on the arrow tower immediately fired back at the well rail.
Several well bars were suppressed, and the momentum of the besieging enemy army slowed down, and the enemy troops rushing to the city wall were much smaller.
This siege lasted for half an hour, and in the darkness there were still enemy troops rushing out and rushing to the city wall desperately.
The soldiers on the city wall, who had fought many times, were already a little exhausted, and gradually became overwhelmed, and the number of enemies who climbed the city wall increased.
Ma Yun had no choice but to give an order for General Xu to bring a thousand soldiers to support the North Gate.
At this moment, in the direction of the west gate guarded by Dianjun, a purple firework suddenly rose.
Seeing this fireworks, Ma Yun's face changed greatly. This fireworks show that Simon is in danger.
"Sure enough, there was a conspiracy. Ma Yun didn't think much about it, so he ordered someone to transfer Xi Jian from the east gate to command the defense of the north gate, and ordered someone to inform General Xu to take the remaining 1,000 soldiers to support the west gate.
He flew towards Simon, and the madman followed him closely. In less than half an hour, Ma Yun arrived at the West Gate.
In the distance, two tall figures were seen wreaking havoc on the city wall, and many soldiers swarmed up, but they were knocked away.
"Those two poisonous corpses have finally struck!"
Ma Yun looked at the madman behind him, took out a pill and took it, let the madman eat one too, and then rushed forward with a spear.
"They all retreated to twenty zhang away to defend the enemy army under the city, and these two men were handed over to me. Jack Ma's roar spread throughout the city walls.
The moat at the west gate had not been filled, and many enemy soldiers were crossing the river from the ladder, and the fast ones had already erected the ladder on the city wall.
The defending soldiers on the city wall at a distance of 100 zhang have been cleaned up by two poisonous corpses.
I am afraid that if it is a little too late, hundreds of enemy soldiers will climb the city wall, and the west gate will be broken.
With Ma Yun's order, the soldiers stayed away from the poisonous corpses, and on the city wall of dozens of zhang, only Ma Yun's madman and two poisonous corpses remained.
The two poisonous corpses let out a beastly roar and pounced on Ma Yun. Seeing that the big knife was about to come, Ma Yun suddenly dodged and hid behind the madman. The sword light slashed at the madman in an instant.
The crazy man who was originally stupid and stupid, when he saw the long knife attacking, his face was cold, the light flashed in his eyes, he did not retreat but advanced, clinging to the blade of the knife, and slapped out two palms, and the original momentum of the knife light was biased to both sides.
The madman took a step forward, slapped his palms again, and struck the two poisonous corpses in the chest, and the poisonous corpses flew several feet away.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ma Yun threw the spear in his hand without hesitation, only to see a flash of lightning, and one of the poisonous corpses was pierced through the chest by the spear before it landed.
"Wooh!" the poisonous corpse roared wildly, and reached out to pull out the spear and threw it on the ground.
"Sure enough, it's immortal, it seems that it can only be pierced through the head!"
"Crazy people, hit them in the head!" Ma Yun gestured to his head, and he didn't know if the madman understood.
After the madman knocked the poisonous corpse away, he stopped, his eyes became confused, and when he heard Ma Yun's words, he slowly walked towards the poisonous corpse.
"Dare to hurt the poisonous servant of this seat, this seat makes your life worse than death!"
Suddenly there was a cold voice in the darkness, and two black shadows jumped onto the city wall.