Chapter 023 General Attack
Xie Yongliang in the distance was a little anxious. There were constant boos from the crowd watching the battle. There were many bandits from the big bandits who were invited to watch the battle, and they did not give face to the owner of Xiejiazhai. Seeing that only a dozen or so of the hundred minions were left to flee back, they began to laugh and coax. Although the villagers did not dare to applaud, their faces all showed expressions of joy and schadenfreude.
Xie Yongliang didn't expect that his carefully arranged report performance would be so embarrassing, and he was furious.
It was time for a general offensive, he secretly decided.
The situation outside the city is almost understood, as long as the city walls can be attacked, this battle will be won. The peasants in the city are only using weapons and tricks to trick themselves. Rush to the head of the city in hand-to-hand combat, and those people will be vulnerable.
Xie Yongliang once again ordered that except for the two hundred of the most elite cronies who were on standby, the remaining five hundred people would all attack.
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Five shield carts slowly drove out of the crowd, followed by twenty or thirty bandits carrying ladders. The rest of the hundreds of robbers scattered in groups of three or five, slowly approaching Qinjia Village.
Xie Yongliang was indeed not weak against the enemy, he let the shield cart open the way and took the lead in entering the range of fire of the catapult. The shield cart moved slowly on top of the flying rocks, and the robbers under the car kept cleaning the road of thistles as they walked. The five shield wagons quickly cleared a wide safe passage.
Most of the remaining centaurs were divided into countless squads, and slowly entered the Flying Stone area without hurrying.
With no thistles on the ground, the robbers only need to watch out for the flying stones in the sky. And there are only a dozen people at a time at most, so there's plenty of room for them to move around and dodge. The power of the Qin family's catapult was suddenly greatly reduced. After more than a dozen rounds of bombing, less than 10 bandits were killed or wounded. And the stone is very consumed, and it looks like it is about to run out.
Qin Feng on the city tower nodded secretly, feeling that Xie Yongliang still had some ability, and he could think of the best way to deal with it in the shortest time. It seems that catapults are not going to do much of a job. But he was not in a hurry, everything was still expected by himself.
Mo Bing also saw that the catapult was no longer a big threat, so he ordered the launch to be stopped and the remaining robbers were let in.
One after another, the five hundred bandits came to a stop at a distance of more than four hundred paces and regrouped the whole group.
Seeing that his brigade passed through the area covered by the catapult safely, Xie Yongliang in the distance let out a sneer and continued to give orders.
Soon the five hundred robbers were divided into five teams, all of them followed behind the shield carts, and began to move forward in a long straight line. They knew they were going to face the ballistas on the city walls next. However, the ballista carts are all direct fire, there is no parabola, and it is impossible to hit the back of the shield cart.
Sure enough, the robbers advanced smoothly to a distance of dozens of paces under the city wall, and met no more resistance during this time.
The sound of the siege drums kept coming from afar, and Xie Yongliang couldn't wait. It's so close to the city, as long as you kill the city wall, you're done. He kept his men beating drums and cheering, urging the five hundred minions in front of him to attack the city.
"Shoot, hold down the archers on the walls. Several small leaders shouted from behind the shield cart. Immediately, nearly a hundred robbers flashed out from behind the shield cart, raised their hands and fired arrows at the city wall.
The arrows were fired, but the robbers were stupid, and only then did they realize that the castle tower was empty.
"What's the matter, people, what about the defenders of the city?" several small leaders also stood up from behind the shield cart, looking at the city wall with some inexplicability.
The drums of war grew more and more urgent.
Looking at the empty city, several small leaders had no bottom in their hearts, but they didn't dare to disobey Xie Yongliang's orders. After lingering for a while, he gritted his teeth and beckoned everyone to start attacking the city.
The large planks on the five shield wagons were removed and placed on the moats. The first wave of dozens of robbers rushed to the city wall with the ladder and quickly set it up.
"Kill"
"Kill... Kill it and the chickens and dogs will not be left."
"Brothers, kill a defender with a hundred taels of silver, and a poor man with fifty taels. Kill!"
"Kill! Rush in, grab money, grab food, rob women. Whoever grabs it first will be theirs!"
The robbers shouted and poured under the walls to climb the ladder.
The defenders of the city finally moved, and no one showed their heads. Countless rolling wood thunderstones flew out of the city walls.
The recruits of the Qin family army have spent most of their time practicing spears in the past month, and their archery skills are far inferior to those of the robbers outside the city. If you stand at the top of the city and shoot at the bandits, you will suffer heavy casualties. Qin Feng would never do such a stupid thing. He told all the soldiers to crouch under the arrows of the city wall so that they would not show their heads, and when the robbers attacked the city, they would smash them with rolling logs and thunder stones, and pour dung water and gold juice.
The walls of the city were filled with countless rolling wood thunder stones and barrels of gold juice. The soldiers crouched behind the battlements of arrows, and threw them down the city, without looking up. Others stood on the inner side of the city wall, pouring spoonfuls of gold juice under the city.
This time, many of the robbers rushed up with shields on their heads. With the shield in the way, the gold juice is much less powerful. But the rolling wood thunder stone shield could not be stopped, and dozens of pounds of stones were smashed down from a height of more than two zhang, often smashing people and shields to pieces together.
Watching countless rolling wood, thunder stones, dung and water golden juice fly out of the city. The robbers under the cover of the losers of the city have no choice. Two or three hundred robbers drew their bows and arrows, but they didn't know where to shoot. None of the defenders of the city showed their heads, and they were all cats throwing things down from behind the battlements of arrows. If you don't just stand on the inside of the city wall, you can't shoot at all.
The robbers who were besieging the city were so killed and wounded that dozens of people were soon lying down.
"Rush! Just rush up to one, and we'll win!" the eyes of several small leaders were a little red. They knew that now they could only rush forward with all their might, and there was no way back.
The robbers desperately climbed up the ladder with rolling wood, thunder, stones, dung, and gold juice. Finally, after dropping countless corpses, a dozen robbers jumped onto the city walls.
However, the moment they landed on the wall, two long swords and a spear as black as ink met them.
The three main officers of the Qin family army made a move.
Before the war, Qin Feng made arrangements. All the soldiers just smashed the wood and thunder stones under the city desperately. There were robbers who went to the city, and they were all handed over to him, Yuan Yun, and Mo Bing.
As a last resort, Qin Feng was reluctant to let the soldiers and robbers fight directly. There are many people in Xie Jiazhai, even if ten fight out one Qin family. In the end, they won. For robbers who jumped up sporadically like now, it was enough to have three commanders to do it. Kill as many as you can, so as to preserve your strength for the next fierce battle.
Qin Feng's strength, all the recruits have seen it in the school field, and he can pick ten scarecrows in the blink of an eye, and he is definitely the champion of the three armies. But the two chief officials, Yuan Yun and Mo Bing, are really not clear. Everyone felt that Yuan Yun should only be superb in archery, and Mo Bing looked fair-skinned and weak, and he couldn't think much better. But as soon as the two men made a move, the recruits realized that they were wrong. These two guys are definitely not weaker than Qin Feng, and they are even more terrifying.
Mo Bing, in particular, is simply a cold-blooded killer. This guy is lightning fast with his sword, and every sword is straight to the enemy's vital point. Without any tricks, the sword is deadly. The most terrifying thing is that Mo Bing's long sword never knows what defense is. He clearly saw that the enemy's weapon had stabbed at him, but he did not dodge at all, and only swung his sword to the opponent's vital point. Several times, the enemy's weapon narrowly slashed an inch or two in front of him, and he didn't even blink an eye, and the long sword in his hand pierced straight into the opponent's throat.
The robbers who fell under Mo Bing's sword all had only one sword wound, either in the throat or in the heart. What they encounter is a complete killer.
Yuan Yun Yuan is much better, his swordsmanship is the same as that of a human, light and elegant, and it looks very pleasing to the eye. The "Star" longsword is also as fast as lightning like Mo Bing's longsword, but most of them are tricks, and the killing speed is far less than that of Mo Bing. The soldiers felt that this guy definitely had more desire to perform on the battlefield than to kill the enemy. Every move and every style is danced decently, which is very good-looking.
As soon as the three main officers of the Qin family army made a move, the dozen or so robbers who jumped on the city wall were miserable. After more than a dozen rounds, three people were stabbed to death by Qin Feng's spear, and six people fell under the Mo Bing sword. Only Yuan Yun and Yuan were the weakest, wielding the "Xingchen" long sword and jumping for a long time before killing two enemies. However, these two people were the worst, and they didn't know how many times they were stabbed by the flying long sword of Master Yuan, and they completely turned into bloody people. It is estimated that in the end, he was not stabbed to death, but bled alive.