Chapter 163: Forced Breakthrough
On the first day, both sides launched a tentative attack on the cottage at the same time, in addition to the cavalry, the current infantry has more than 900 armor, according to Wei Xuan's requirements, first test the number of bows and arrows of the bandits, so these heavy infantry wearing armor walk in the front, and behind are the crossbowmen.
The main attack at the northeast entrance was still led by Wei Yan, and the six hundred heavy infantry were divided into three waves, when the simple ladder was erected on the wall of the cottage, the response to the officers and soldiers was countless rolling logs and gravels, although the walls of the cottage were not high, but the terrain outside the walls was relatively steep, and the threat of rolling logs and gravels was still relatively large. Some of the more regular rolling logs even rolled all the way down to the flat ground at the foot of the mountain before stopping, often all the way to meet three or five people, fast movements can still dodge, a little hesitation can not avoid injury. Fortunately, most of the people wore helmets, and the armor on their bodies also had a certain protective ability, so there would be no large-scale casualties.
Even so, the results of the battle were still unacceptable to Wei Xuan, the first wave of 200 people rushed up, but more than 20 people were injured in a cup of tea, seeing this situation, Xi Zhi glanced at Wei Xuan, and saw that his expression was also solemn so he sent someone to ??????????????? Inform Wei Yan to temporarily remove the people.
Wei Yan was unwilling but reluctant, but he had no choice but to retreat, but he knew that Wei Xuan and Xi Zhicai had repeatedly told him that his subordinates and the soldiers of the entire military camp were elite, and Wei Xuan would never agree to exchange his life for bandits.
But the attack continued, and the previous temptation had taught him the power of rolling wood and stone, but it was also true that the bandits lacked a bow and crossbow.
So Xi Zhicai proposed to choose some agile ones among a few steps, bring a bow and crossbow, and approach the wall of the cottage.
Wei Xuan thought about it and agreed, Wei Yan still wanted to lead the troops to go up again, but Xi Zhicai stopped him and asked him to lead people to let the middle of the area of a hundred or so paces come out, so that those infantry who were not wearing any equipment were scattered close to the wall. The speed of these people is significantly more adapted to steep hills.
The officers and soldiers who watched the attack also wrote their bows and crossbows, and the thieves' rolling logs and stones still did not dare to stop, because as long as they stopped, people kept rushing up and shooting crossbows at the wall. The walls of the cottages are not the walls of the towns, they are simply piled up with wooden fences, and the height is not high enough to block the bow and arrows.
However, there are also bandits who are not afraid of death, and they brave the rain of arrows to constantly push a large number of rolling logs and gravel outside the wall.
Although the officers and soldiers of the attacking side were selected, the casualties continued, and they were basically one for the bandits on the wall, because those bandits needed to stand up and lean out of the outer wall when they rolled wood and stones, and the crossbowmen among the officers and soldiers outside would naturally seize the opportunity to shoot a few.
In this way, the two sides were deadlocked for about two hours, and in the face of more and more wounded soldiers who were carried down, Wei Xuan and Xi Zhicai showed smiles on their faces at the same time, because it could be seen that although the bandits were prepared, but now after such a long time, the rolling wood has run out, and there are not many stones, and even sometimes some bandits throw stones that are no bigger than their fists out, although this can also smash and hurt people, but if they are replaced with heavily armed heavy infantry, they don't have to be afraid.
The two discussed for a while and called Wei Yan over, Wei Yan had been watching the battle from the sidelines, and naturally knew that the opportunity to attack with all his might had come.
Sure enough, Wei Xuan and Xi Zhicai were also thinking the same thing, and they saw Wei Xuan calling Dian Wei and Xu Chu over. Then I heard Xi Zhicai instruct the soldiers: "The heavy infantry is divided into four teams, Wei Yan, Li Yan, Dian Wei, and Xu Chu will lead a team to approach the wall in a column, and each team will take turns to storm the wall of the cottage to attack, Yang Ling and Pei Yuanshao will each bring a hundred crossbowmen to suppress the position, and the thieves will shoot back when they counterattack." ”
The soldiers received the order and soon became lively outside, and everyone knew that the next attack was coming. Wei Yan still took the lead, and rushed out with the allocated one hundred and fifty people, Wei Yan braved the scattered stones to reach the wall first, and helped up the ladder that was overturned by the thieves, but he did not immediately climb up, but let the two people behind him hold the ladder, and then put the ring knife in his mouth, and climbed up with both hands on the ladder. Compared with the previous county city walls, the walls of this cottage are much shorter, so it doesn't take much time to climb.
At the same time, Li Yan, Dian Wei and Xu Chu next to them also came to the wall with a column of columns, and without exception they chose to be the first to rush after lifting the ladder??????????????? up.
Each team has one hundred and fifty people, and naturally the people behind can also set up other ladders. But obviously, the thieves also focused on taking care of the first four people.
Wei Yan was the first to climb the wall, and during the climb there were at least four fist-sized rocks that smashed on the top of his head, shoulders, and back. He didn't care at all, when he was two bars away from the wall, he used the method taught by Du Peng and others, squatted deeply, his chin was almost fixed to his knees, and then tentatively raised half of his body, and the bandits who had been prepared for a long time greeted him in unison, and Wei Yan immediately squatted down quickly. When he stood up again, the spears of the three bandits were all piercing the air and were pulling back, Wei Yan immediately quickly climbed a step, and then flew up to the wall, and then swung the ring knife left and right, and one of them had his spear broken at the waist.
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Dangdang, the spears of the two bandits next to him had already withdrawn and stabbed out again. Wei Yan turned sideways, overturned the thief who had lost his spear with his shoulder, and then swept his knife to the left, cutting off the arm of the other thief.
That wasn't the end, Wei Yan stepped forward and grabbed his body and pushed him in front, and then the spear of another bandit companion stabbed him in the abdomen, and the bandit looked at his companion in surprise.
Wei Yan didn't wait for the bandit to pull out the spear, he directly pushed the bandit in front of him forward, and pressed the spear of the bandit companion under him, Wei Yan's long knife immediately slashed at the bandit who lost his weapon, and the cold light flashed, and the entire left shoulder was neatly chopped off! The thief suddenly crouched on the ground in pain, and retreated with a panicked expression.
All this happened with lightning and thunder, and by the time the others reacted, the second officer and soldier on the ladder had already climbed up smoothly, because there was no interference from the bandits, he quickly stood on Wei Yan's right side, and then the third and fourth heavy infantry appeared on the wall one after another. Without exception, just like the training in front of the station, they all chose to stand on Wei Yan's right side, and as soon as they came up, they used the ring head knife to slash the thieves on the opposite side.
Once faced head-on, the thieves were clearly no match for heavily armed officers and soldiers. And Wei Yan rushed left and right like a killing god, and soon there were no thieves two or three steps in front of him. Wei Yan immediately looked to the right, several thieves were looking at the officers and soldiers who had just come up, Wei Yan turned around and killed to the right, and soon returned to the mouth of the ladder smoothly, and the other heavy infantry who climbed up firmly guarded the ladder, and soon more officers and soldiers climbed the wall, and then the ladder next to it also had officers and soldiers successfully killed. After coming up, he also learned Wei Yan to protect the exit of the pillar ladder.
The commandos led by Li Yan, Dian Wei, Xu Chu and others basically operated the same way, just a cup of tea, there were six cloud ladder entrances without bandits, and the officers and soldiers swarmed up, and then quickly gathered on the wall to kill the defending thieves. As more and more people climbed the city wall, the officers and soldiers became unstoppable. Their ability to bomb individually is much stronger than that of thieves, and the cooperation between them is incomparable to that of bandits.
At the same time, two hundred crossbowmen were using their crossbows on both sides of the gate to suppress the thieves inside the wall. Because the wall was not high enough or wide enough, it provided an opportunity for the crossbowmen to keep throwing into the wall to force the thieves to ??????????????? Breaking back, there was a break in the middle of the originally tight formation, so that the thieves on the wall could not get support, and there was a gap in the stupid cocks of the officers and soldiers, but the officers and soldiers continued to climb the city wall along the ladder, and the thieves were quickly defeated. The Ze soldiers on the wall knew that they couldn't stop it, so they simply gave up the battle for the wall.
Wei Yan chased after him, and followed the thieves down the wall and killed them inside the cottage. After he cut down the thieves in front of him, Wei Yan looked back and saw that the people who came up from his side had completely taken the advantage, and the crossbowmen outside the wall were still continuing to fire, Wei Yan glanced at the gate of the cottage and shouted to the few infantry beside him: "Follow me to take the door!" ”
The door was quickly opened from the inside by Wei Yan and others, and Zhou Cang and the others, who had been holding back outside for a long time, had been waiting at the door for a long time, and rushed in as soon as the door was opened, almost knocking Wei Yan over at the scene.
And the bandits seemed to lose their ability to resist in an instant when they saw the gate being opened, and retreated like a tide.
Where are Wei Yan and the others willing to stop there, these guys hid in the wall and threw rolling logs and stones, and scattered joy, letting hundreds of people on their side.
The gate of the cottage was built in the valley, and when a large group of officers and soldiers rushed into the cottage, they found that the cottage was really big, and the bandits took advantage of their familiarity with the terrain and the lack of armor to drag them down and quickly disappeared from the sight of the officers and soldiers.
When Wei Xuan entered the cottage, Wei Yan, Li Yan and others led the soldiers to search everywhere, but as time went by, the entire cottage was almost turned over, but no trace of the bandits was found.
Soon Zhang Liao also led people into the cottage from another direction, and they didn't see the fleeing thieves.
Wei Xuan frowned, this cottage gathered at least thirteen or four hundred people, the previous attack, although the bow and crossbow also injured a lot of people, Wei Yan and the others fiercely killed directly on the wall, plus the other bow and crossbow suppression, at most three hundred thieves were killed before and after.
Of course, thousands of people could not disappear out of thin air, so Wei Xuan immediately ordered Wang Qiang to take people out of the cottage and search along the perimeter of the cottage to see if there were other entrances and exits.