To deal with the tentative attack of the Timurid tribe, the Heavenly Association only sent a brigade of 1,000 men and ten ballistas. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

As a group of pirates, the Silai tribe is obviously more capable of fighting at sea than on land. However, in fleet combat, in addition to broadside combat, the bow and crossbow are the preferred weapon.

The bows and arrows and ballistas of the Silai warriors are quite powerful.

Among the two approaching teams outside the fortress, the heavy cavalry was the first to charge and enter the attack range.

Yan Chengzhi, the small leader of the Xilai clan's bow and crossbow team, gave an order, and bows and arrows were fired everywhere in the corner of the fortress.

From the shooting holes near the ground to the crossbow machine room at the top of the city wall, hundreds of feathered arrows were directed at Belintai's heavy cavalry from all directions and at various angles.

In the midst of the screams, the people turned on their backs, and this round of bow and arrow strikes immediately produced dozens of killings.

In field battles and siege warfare, most of the time they need to deal with bow and arrow throwing, and only a large wooden shield in their hands is needed to resist a large number of attacks.

However, this kind of all-round cross-fire has highlighted the problem of the defense of the Tutu heavy cavalry.

After the Tutu heavy cavalry entered the attack position, the experienced warriors first raised their shields in front of their heads, and watched the movement on the walls through the edge of the shield.

Unexpectedly, the city wall was empty, and feathered arrows attacked from all directions. The veteran paid for their experience this time, and was shot with the rookie.

The lucky ones were stuck in the thick of the armor, and the bad ones shot in the face, and fell under the horse in a scream, and were trampled into flesh by the iron hooves that followed.

Belintai was taken aback by the arrow attack of the Xilai tribe, and hurriedly greeted, and all the heavy cavalry stimulated the spirit of wolf smoke, and the ten commanders and above puffed up their anger and supported a defensive formation in the heavy cavalry formation.

In the second round of random arrow volleys, the effect was immediately weakened a lot, and only a few people were shot by powerful arrows above the captain level among the archers of the Xilai clan.

At this time, I suddenly heard the sound of bed crossbow strings vibrating, and five large bed crossbows came **** to the ground. These bed crossbows are the size of spears, and arrows are like shovels, and they are incredibly powerful when stimulated by steel leaf springs.

Even if he had a strong spirit, he couldn't resist it, and the crossbow was like being hit in the chest by a sledgehammer, and he flew out upside down screaming. There were also two war horses that were shot, and most of them entered the body, and the blood was raging, and the war horses neighed and overturned.

Although these five bed crossbows brought only four or five casualties, their deterrent effect was staggering. The Tutu warriors in the gallop bowed their bodies and held their wooden shields in front of their horses' necks. Although the wooden shield can't resist the bow and crossbow, it can be regarded as a little more psychological comfort.

Sure enough, within a hundred meters, five other crossbow arrows were fired, taking away three heavy riders. The rain of arrows brought gaps in the formation through the bed crossbows, causing more than ten casualties.

After three rounds of firing, the Tutu heavy cavalry advanced to a distance of 200 meters from the recess of the fortress and rushed up the inclined embankment. Because of the slopes, the speed of the heavy ride began to slow down.

At this moment, the light cavalry, which had been behind the heavy cavalry, suddenly stepped forward and shot long arrows at the city wall.

The Tutu light cavalry opened their bows like lightning, except for the first time when they were full, the rest of the time they were half-full, relying on the angle to throw at the city wall. In an instant, each hussar fired no less than ten feathered arrows, covering the entire section of the castle.

This is the famous arrow rain strike of the Tutu people. Despite being only a team of 1,000 people, tens of thousands of arrows were shot in a few blinks of an eye. If there were defenders on the city walls, under such a rain of arrows, there would definitely be heavy losses.

However, to Belinck's dismay, the tens of thousands of arrows did not seem to cause many casualties among the Silai warriors.

In particular, except for a few feather arrows inserted under the city wall, most of the feather arrows shot on the wall were like wooden poles hitting iron blocks, and they were directly bounced out, and fell to the ground crookedly and weakly.

The Xilai warriors, except for a few lookout posts on the roofs of the towers, were accidentally shot into a hornet's nest. The others were unharmed and took advantage of the hussars to come forward and launched a cross-strike at the hussars.

The Tutu light cavalry, wearing only leather armor, had even worse defenses, and suffered many casualties from the fire of the Silai archers. Belink's blow was ineffective, and he quickly withdrew from the range of his bow and arrows with his light horse.

With the help of the light cavalry, Belintai had already rushed to the first inclined wall.

Belintai brandished his scimitar and shouted: "Break the formation and bite!" Nearly a thousand heavy horsemen rolled up and condensed into a huge wolf head.

With one slash, countless wolf fangs appeared in dozens of zhang of swords, and they bombarded the sloping embankment city wall fiercely.

After the loud bang, Belintai looked at it and saw that on the white ashlar slab of the sloping embankment wall, there was a knife mark about four feet long and half an inch deep, and there was no other damage.

Belintai gasped, and the combined force of Tuju's heavy cavalry slashed, if it was an ordinary masonry city wall, it was enough to break through several zhang, even if it was protected by a rune, it could basically destroy the rune completely.

Tuju Iron Cavalry once swept the world, entering the field to break through the fortified city, naturally there were a few brushes, but I didn't expect the masonry here to be so hard.

After trying the color of the fortress, Belintai waved his army and withdrew.

Although the sloping embankment wall was only more than two feet high, a high-level elite warrior could easily climb over it. But most of the Tutu warriors were on horseback, especially the heavy cavalry, which had heavy armor, and if they left the horses, they would become turtles and crawl.

In a tentative attack, the Xilai defenders killed five observation sentinels, and the 2,000 Tutu knights lost more than 200 people, and the only result was to leave a shallow sword mark on the city wall.

The brothers Belintai and Belinke, who had returned, reported the battle to the little khan Turil. Turiel frowned slightly, the sturdiness of this fancy and fragile looking fortress was far greater than he could have imagined.

After thinking about it, Turil laughed and said, "Well, such a strong fortress is the best base camp of our Timurid tribe. This cowardly bunch of pirates simply doesn't deserve it. Whoever takes it down for me?

The captains were in high spirits: "Khan, I'll go! I'll go! I will definitely knock this turtle shell open!"

Seeing that the army was available, Turil selected five commanders, with Bode as the vanguard, and 50,000 Tutu warriors began to attack from the flank. In the left and right directions, 10,000 soldiers were also sent to attack on standby.

The sound of killing on the battlefield shook the sky, and tens of thousands of people rushed to the fortress like a tide.

Gu Wen got the front-line report from the command center, and said with a smile: "This is like a word, only this kind of big scene can be worthy of the true strength of the fortress." ”

The Heavenly Association was calm and composed, and the orders were issued like flowing water, calmly responding to the tactics of the Tutu people.

The dark fort of the sloping embankment wall, and the bow and crossbow room on the upper floor of the second concave fort, shot the arrows and crossbows at the enemy like a torrential rain.

The Tutu warriors were not afraid, and rushed to the wall of the inclined embankment under the rain of arrows, and the first wave of soldiers with better light skills flew up the wall and climbed onto the wall of the inclined embankment.

Unexpectedly, the city wall was empty, and a group of warriors raised their scimitars and looked at each other in astonishment, and then they were immediately set on fire by the crossbows on the concave fort behind them, and they fell to the ground one after another.

Then the Tutus sent thousands of light horsemen to rush under the city wall, remove the noose from the back of the horse, throw it at the wall battlement, and then straighten it back.

Thousands of warriors carried their shields on foot, pushing the wooden shields up the ropes one by one, and in less than half an hour, hundreds of inclined wooden bridges were drawn.

The Tutu light horsemen screamed in unison, brandished their scimitars, and rushed up the city wall along the sloping wooden bridge. Then jump down.

Unexpectedly, behind the sloping embankment wall was a deep trench, and the trench was full of sharp thorn traps. The warrior who jumped down even pierced the horse with a man and tried the tragic death of "riding a wooden donkey".

Seeing that the situation was not good, the subsequent Tutu knights had to dismount and carry their shields, and carefully shuttled down the back of the inclined embankment wall, while facing the fire in all directions, and on the other hand, they swung their knives and cut the spiked wooden stakes, and advanced with difficulty towards the second concave wall.

After a half-day trek, the Tutu warriors, who had suffered heavy casualties, finally cleared the trap and rushed to the base of the concave wall.

They fought back with their bows and arrows, and threw ropes as they prepared to climb the concave walls.

Since the head of the concave wall was more promising than the root, the Tutu warriors who were climbing could only hang in the air, relying on ropes with their arms to climb upwards.

Halfway up, hundreds of sharp guillotines more than a foot long suddenly popped out at the top of the city wall, cutting the rope and breaking it.

In vain, the Tutu warriors tugged at the broken rope and fell heavily to the ground, either dead or maimed.

Relatively speaking, these people are relatively lucky, and a few climbers enjoy the reward of decapitation.

After this round of blows, the Tutu warriors suffered nearly 8,000 damage. Turil had to temporarily withdraw his troops and start preparing some siege equipment such as ladders.

At present, apart from wild grasses and shrubs, there are no large trees in the western Gobi. In addition to dismantling a small number of vehicles, Turil also used air-dried "two-legged sheep" carcasses as materials for erecting ladders.

At noon, dozens of "sheep" ladders were built. With another wave of his hand, Turriel launched another round of strong attacks. (To be continued.) )