Chapter 16: Defending the City

The soldiers who grew up on horseback got off their horses, carried ladders one after another, braved the rain of arrows to launch a ** impact on Dagang Town, Meng Chong car, siege vehicles approached Dagang Town one by one, and crashed into the solid city wall, every time it hit, the city wall seemed to shake.

The one-armed Yang Yong stood on the high city tower, holding the drumstick with one arm, beating the drum rhythmically, ignoring the cold arrows shot up from the city, his personal guards held shields, covering him from the rain of arrows, the drums did not stop, and the soldiers in the city shouted loudly in the drums, fighting to the death with the barbarian soldiers attached to the ants.

Yang Yong didn't know how long the defense of the city would last this time, so although the materials and equipment in Dagang Town were extremely well prepared, he still decided to save money, and the barbarian soldiers pressed the border, maybe when Dagang Town would become an island in the ocean, when the supply line was cut off, it was the most difficult time for Dagang Town.

Under Yang Yong's concept, although Dagang Town was also equipped with a lot of repeating crossbows, until now, the most deterrent weapon of Qin Wu's army has not been used once.

"Good steel should be used on the blade," Yang Yong said.

Although the power of the crossbow is great, his consumption is also amazing, each launch is ten arrows, if you fire continuously, the reserve of crossbow arrows will soon be informed, and now the barbarian cavalry shoots arrows at the galloping gallop to the city, in order to suppress the long-range strikes on the city, in this rapid movement, the life rate of the crossbow is not high. Therefore, Yang Yong's strategy was to ignore these cavalry and only deal a fatal blow to the besieging infantry.

Yang Yongyong did this because the soldiers of Qin Wuling were now well-armoured, and the arrows shot from the city, as long as they were not fatal, could not cause fatal injuries to the soldiers at all, and Qin Wuling's perfect medical system could quickly restore the slightly injured soldiers to combat effectiveness.

The trebuchet set up in the city made a crumbling sound every other pillar of incense, and rows of polished round stone bullets flew high from the city, smashed into the city, fell on the hard ground, jumped and rolled forward, and where they passed, the soldiers who could not avoid it were knocked into broken tendons, and the unlucky ones were crushed by the stone bullets, and after the stone bullets, the whole person was pressed to the ground and became flat.

If the huge siege equipment is hit by one in the front, there will only be a pile of tatters left, and even if it is rubbed by these round stone bullets, it will fall to the ground with a bang, and if it is not dragged back for overhaul, it will definitely not be able to go to the battlefield again. Although the life rate of the trebuchet is really not high, there are too many soldiers under the city who are as dense as ant locusts, and as long as the trebuchet hits the pre-set area, it will definitely roll out a bloody mess. As for whether you can play those heavy equipment, it depends on luck.

"Special, although it takes a lot of effort to polish this stone bullet, it really needs to be done," Yang Yong danced excitedly, but unfortunately, there are only a dozen trebuchets in the city, and they are firing at a turtle speed, otherwise these are really not enough.

The ladder was erected, the barbarians held a shield in one hand, held the ladder in the other, bit the knife in their mouths, and climbed up quickly, on the city wall of Dagang Town, which was more than a mile long, there was a ladder erected every less than ten meters away, and under the ladder, there were piles of corpses.

The soldiers of the city stood up, holding the stones in their hands, and threw them down with a roar, and the trees fell with ropes, and each time they rose and fell, they took several lives. More soldiers held push rods in their hands, forked the ladder head of the ladder, everyone joined forces, shouted, and pushed the ladder far away, everyone laughed, watching the barbarians on the ladder either fall into the air, dance and fall like a stone, or climb the ladder to the death, with the ladder fell together, but the end is the same.

A pot of boiling oil was raised, and the soldiers did not look at the situation below, but fell down with their wrists, and in an instant, there was a terrible howl that did not sound like a human voice under the city, and the hot grease was added to the feces, and it was generally difficult for the burned people to heal.

The improved bed crossbows could fire four long crossbows at a time, but their target was the large siege engines, and when everyone heard the familiar humming sound, they knew that four more long crossbows were about to shoot out.

At present, all the people in Dagang Town have been evacuated in advance, and there are only 100,000 soldiers left in the city, according to Ye Qing's requirements, they will hold on and cannot retreat. Although facing an enemy several times his size, Yang Yong was not afraid, this fierce general who was appreciated for his fame in the battle against the Anima army had a fighting cause in his bones, and the stronger the enemy, the more excited he became. And because of his merit, he was promoted to deputy lieutenant, and this time he led 50,000 regular troops and 50,000 garrison soldiers to defend Dagang Town.

Although he broke an arm, could no longer hold a bow, and could no longer shoot arrows, he relied on tenacity and perseverance to master the ability to control the horse with only his legs and fight with a knife with one arm. God closed a door to him, but opened another window for him, the one-armed Yang Yong arm strength is extremely strong, holding a knife with one hand, plus the cultivation of a large number of elixirs from Ye Qing, he is now a martial artist in the late stage of the handsome rank, and his combat effectiveness is not inferior to that of normal people.

"Master Hou once said when he taught us a lesson, the besieger, ten times the attack, five times the siege, otherwise it is difficult to break the fortified city, this husky does not know what medicine to take, actually want to attack so strongly to be able to take my Dagang Town, hum, give him a lesson, let him be safe. ”

Yang Yong sneered as he continued to beat the cowhide drum in front of him.

The husky's trebuchet was finally pushed to the range, due to technical reasons, the range of the barbarian's trebuchet was always not as far as Qin Wuling's, and the trebuchet, a large and cumbersome siege weapon, was sent to such a close distance, it was likely to be hit by the other party's focus, but the husky didn't care, his trebuchet was distributed on the attack surface more than a mile long, and this time the attack of the grassland barbarians was fully prepared, and the craftsmen were all in the camp with them, while losing, while replenishing, he was not afraid of losing these things, he only wanted these things to give Qin Wuling a certain blow, even if he only had the opportunity to shoot a stone bullet, but as long as this stone bullet fell on the city wall, the soldiers who fell on the city, the huskies felt that it was worth it.

Sure enough, when the husky's trebuchet appeared, the bed crossbow in the city adjusted the focus of the attack to hit these trebuchets, and the trebuchets in the city also adjusted their range and began to attack these weapons that could pose a threat to Dagang Town from a distance.

Although the trebuchet did not pose much threat to Dagang Town, it effectively contained the counterattack in the city, and the pressure on the siege soldiers was immediately reduced, and the siege vehicles rushed to the city. The screaming barbarian soldiers quickly jumped up the city wall along the ladder and along the siege engine, and the barbarians attacked the city wall for the first time.

Meet at close quarters.

Yang Yong waved the command flag, and his first reserve appeared on the city wall, these reserves were prepared for this moment, the soldiers brandished spears and steel knives, and pounced quickly, where there was danger, these reserves appeared, spears and swords, and drove the unstable barbarians out of the city. Those who can attack the city wall are all warriors from various departments, and their individual combat power is extremely strong, but Qin Wu's troops have always emphasized the power of collective combat, rows of spears are poked out collectively, and the division of labor is extremely clear, and the upper and lower roads are all-encompassing, no matter what you have three arms, you will also be pierced a few holes and eyes, and then picked up by a few spears, and fall heavily on the city.

When the last man who attacked the city looked at the dense spears in front of him, his eyes showed a look of despair, and he actually turned around and jumped off the high city wall, the corpses under the city wall were extremely high, if he was lucky, he might still survive, but after being poked a few times by these guns, there must be no way to live.

The day's attack was extremely fierce, up and down the city, there were lying corpses everywhere, although Qin Wu led the troops to occupy a favorable position, and the weapons were also much ahead of the opponent, but in the face of this intensity of attack, still paid a lot of casualties, when the sun sank in the west, and the barbarians blew the horn of collecting troops, Yang Yong finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the first day was finally over.

The first day is the most nervous for both ordinary soldiers and officers, after a battle, I have seen blood, I have cut people, and the rookie will quickly begin to transform, Qin Wuling is newly established, and there is a real shortage of elite soldiers, if you want to completely suppress the barbarians in the future war, and expand the territory, Ye Qing must cultivate a large number of elite soldiers who have seen blood, this time to defend the city, mixed with tens of thousands of garrison soldiers, is to train them, generally speaking, the battle of recruits is also their most dangerous time, and it is very easy to be damaged in their place* The women's battle, compared to the field battle, has a much greater chance of survival in defending the city.

Yang Yong patrolled around the city, most of the soldiers who had survived the battle for a day had already slept, and on the city wall, the soldiers lying down in their clothes were lying down, even if they were sleeping, these soldiers were holding the weapons in their hands tightly. Sleeping, some gritted their teeth, some smiled, walking through these soldiers, Yang Yong can easily distinguish the difference between veterans and recruits, those who breathe evenly, most of them are veterans, they are used to seeing dead people, and they are no longer worried about the hard fighting during the day, what they want is to nourish their spirits, so that they can wake up and devote themselves to the battle again, full of spirit, sufficient physical strength can make them survive in the next battle again and add a heavy enamel.

The recruits will not be so calm, they are either excited, or frightened, even in a dream, the dream will be a bloody battlefield, seeing these soldiers asleep along some childish faces, Yang Yong sighed silently, this battle is fought, I don't know how many of his subordinates can get out of Dagang Town alive.