Chapter 19: The Siege (1)
Emperor Han Xian looked at the two people who were arguing endlessly in front of him, and he couldn't make up his mind for a while.
Gu Dao is a respected father, but Xiang Ming is not simple, he is not only the eldest son and grandson of the Fang family in the four great families, but also the son-in-law of the head of the Tang family in the four great families. If it weren't for the Fang family's ancestral training, I'm afraid he would have become a general long ago. Therefore, although his official position is only the deputy general of the first battalion, he is fighting on the basis of reason in the face of Gu Dao and does not show weakness.
"Your Majesty, since General Fang is sure, why don't you let him try, even if he doesn't succeed, it's just a loss of three thousand slave soldiers."
At this time, a minister came out and spoke to Emperor Han Xian. This remark immediately aroused a chorus of approval.
Gu Dao sighed secretly, the Fang family's strength in the military department is indeed strong, although he is the best official and commands the Western Front battalion, but his strength in the court is still far less than the Fang family's foundation. The reason why he opposed it was not because he had any good intentions, but because he had a trace of worry about Xu Haifeng's commanding ability, afraid that he would make miraculous achievements again, thus ruining his scheme. However, at this moment, seeing that most of the ministers agreed, knowing that nothing could be done, and it was useless to oppose it, so he had to retreat.
Since Gu Dao Fu no longer objected, there was no need to discuss this matter again. After getting permission from Emperor Han Xian, Xiang Ming took the token and went to the front line.
Commanding the more than 200,000 troops as a deputy general, even if they hold the token, the generals will not dare to blatantly violate it, but it is always inevitable to procrastinate. But Xiang Ming, as the eldest grandson of the Fang family, made great achievements in the previous battle, and most of the senior generals in the army were more or less related to the Fang family, so naturally no one dared to neglect and neglect it.
Under the command of Xiang Ming, the most peculiar scene on the battlefield appeared.
The tens of thousands of horses lined up in front of them retreated neatly, and there was no one within a kilometer in front of the main gate of Lin'an City. Such a move immediately attracted the attention of everyone on both sides, and as long as they could see it, their eyes involuntarily focused on this place.
A tower cart slowly approached the city gates, guarded by thousands of soldiers. The commander of the Caesar main gate frowned, puzzled. He really couldn't think of what the hell the Han people were doing. Such a tower cart is made of solid wood, more than ten feet high, and is equipped with stairs and slides on one side, from which the soldiers ascend to the top of the cart. Standing on the top platform can directly climb the city wall, or the archers can shoot arrows condescendingly on the top of the tower, which can suppress the opponent's archers, and it is indeed a good tool for attacking the city. But it has two fatal flaws, one is that it is slow to move, and the other is that it is not strong enough.
Because it was built too high, it was not able to get up quickly, even though it was equipped with pulleys at the bottom, because for the same reason, it was more than a step less sturdy. Because of these two fatal weaknesses, it is of little use in large-scale engagements.
The trebuchet is its biggest nemesis, because it is slow, it becomes the target of the trebuchet, because it is not firm, so it cannot withstand the hit.
In the attack a few days ago, the Han people also used this thing, but the effect was not good, and several trebuchets on the city wall were broken, and they had to retreat.
I saw these thousands of foot soldiers come to stand 800 meters in front of the city gate, divided into three teams, each team of 1,000 people. The first team in the middle is the most strange, the first man is very burly, at least a head taller than others, only to see him cloaked in a hair, like a demon god. Behind him, there were twenty people carrying two large platforms, and on these two platforms were two bronze lions. The Caesar people were so talkative that they couldn't figure out why they had brought the bronze lion to battle. One of Caesar's soldiers mocked, "He didn't want to use those two lions as weapons?" This sentence immediately caused everyone to burst into laughter.
The 3,000 foot soldiers lined up in formation, and another 3,000 cavalry came out from behind, and these cavalry Caesar were no strangers, that is, the famous Red Sea Lancers.
Hundreds of baggage teams followed, each of them carrying two bundles of arrows, and galloped to the top of the cart to put the arrows away. Looking at this situation, it seems that the archers were asked to carry out suppressive shooting.
"Trebuchet ready, once the opponent's cart is six hundred meters in, throw it at me." Officer Caesar sneered and gave the order, but no one expected that this order would be the last order in his life.
When all the baggage teams left, the top platform of more than ten square meters was full of arrows except for a few empty seats.
Then, a group of five people walked through the cavalry, followed the stairs, and slowly climbed to the top platform. One of them untied an oversized bow from his back, took the arrow, and slowly stretched the bow to shoot.
"Is he crazy? It's 800 meters from the city gate. ”
Whether it was Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty and his ministers on the hillside, the Caesar people on the city wall, or the Han army on the ground, such questions surged at the same time.
The entire battlefield was eerily quiet at this moment, and everyone watched with bated breath as this person's every move was watched. In hundreds of thousands of pairs of eyes full of surprise, disbelief and mockery, he finally shot this earth-shattering arrow.
Like thunder, like lightning, no one can see the trajectory of this arrow at all, they only saw this person's right hand loosened, almost at the same time, the stone pole hanging with the Caesar flag on the tower at the main gate of Lin'an City seemed to be hit by a thousand catties of boulders, making a loud "bang", the rubble scattered, the stone pole broke from the middle, and fell down in countless pairs of eyes full of disbelief.
The Caesar commander standing by the stone pole turned his head stupidly, and he saw that the man on the top of the cart had released the bowstring again, and then he only felt that something had flown in from his open mouth, and with great force he lifted his whole body up, what was this? Is it the devil? This was his last thought before he died.
Standing on the top platform was the archer Jebe, whose peerless archery skills were at their best at this moment.
With the first arrow, he knocked down the flag of the proud Caesar and gave him a blow to the head. The second arrow, his arrow passed through the mouth of the opponent's forward commander-in-chief, and what was even more exaggerated was that it actually brought up the opponent's fat body and nailed it deep into the wooden board behind him, and a wisp of blood snaked down his back, indescribably terrifying and terrible.
Then, Jebel's arrows were faster than the other, and the arrows in front of him were quickly shot out, and the two soldiers behind him kept putting the arrows around him to his right hand for him to reach.
The afterimages of arrows were left in the sky, and there was a thunderous "whoosh" sound breaking through the air. Yes, it was precisely because the speed of the arrow was so fast, almost the moment Jebel let go, the arrow had already reached the destination of its journey, so that only afterimages could be left in the air, and such a fast arrow had exceeded the speed of the sound wave, so people only heard the previous sound.
Such a terrifying archery technique has exceeded the scope of human cognition, since he can't even see, how to resist, each arrow of Jebel will take more than one human life, Caesar officers are the object of his key care, and all officers who appear within his range are spared. Soon, when Jebe shot the 500th arrow, there was no longer half a living person on the 100-meter wall of the main gate. He actually managed to control the entire 100-meter battle line with the power of one person, such a powerful and such a record, even if he saw it with his own eyes, it was unbelievable.
A normal person who can shoot at a target 100 meters away is already a rare archer skill, and those who can shoot most targets in 150 meters* can be called a sharpshooter, but I have never heard of anyone who can shoot anything 200 meters away. However, Jebe actually showed a level far beyond the limits of human beings in this battle, and was able to achieve no missing arrows from a distance of 800 meters, and all the arrows were three points into the stone, obviously still having spare strength.
Manpower is sometimes poor, and even the range of trebuchets is only within 600 meters. Moreover, there is no bow in the world that has a range of eight hundred meters. What's more, even with such a bow and arrow, how can a person's eyes see clearly what is 800 meters away, and make sure that the arrow does not miss.
"Devil ......," the Caesar man screamed in grief.
"God......" the Han people cheered loudly.
On the hillside, Emperor Han Xian and others were also dumbfounded, for a long time, Emperor Han Xian only felt cold in his throat, involuntarily touched his throat, looked up, and saw that most of the people around him had made the same action as himself. Swallowing and spitting, he asked astringently, "Who is this person?" Is there such a warrior in my Han army? ”
Naturally, no one could answer this question, Emperor Han Xian thought of Xu Haifeng from the Western camp, and asked, "Gu Aiqing......"
"The minister is here." The ancient road came out of the line and bowed down.
"This man should be from the Western Front battalion, who is he?"
Gu Dao was stunned, how did he know who this person who suddenly became powerful, and he was speechless for a while.
"What? Don't you know such warriors? How did you lead the troops? Emperor Han Xian said angrily.
Gu Dao is really dumb and eats Coptis chinensis - he can't say what he is suffering, he scolded Xu Haifeng and Xiang Ming's ancestors for eighteen generations in his heart, and finally squeezed out a few words from his mouth: "The minister only knows that this person is a warrior under General Xu Haifeng, and after this battle, the minister will definitely investigate in detail." ”
"Hmph......" Emperor Han Xian turned his head dissatisfiedly and continued to watch.
Gu Dao wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, he had already guessed at this moment that the person on the top of the platform was holding the Heaven Opening Bow that he had given to Qin Yong. When he gave the bow at the beginning, he never imagined that the power of this bow would be so huge, and he never imagined that there was anyone in this world besides Qin Yong who could pull this bow. And this bow was like a fish in water in the man's hand, and it played an incredible effect. He regretted it in his heart, if he had known this, this Open Heaven Bow would never have been able to be sent. Xu Haifeng has this person and Qin Yong's help, how can there be an army in the world that can be stopped.
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