Chapter 66: Temptation

Liu Shiting gathered enough 666 "divine soldiers", and led everyone to practice the "Liuding Formation" in the open space in front of Baolun Temple - where did the Jianghu warlocks know what the art of war formation, but they divided the "divine soldiers" into six teams, and they went to the altar to burn a few yellow mounted paper with a peachwood sword, and muttered words in their mouths, so that everyone stepped on the direction to advance and retreat, sometimes scattering and sometimes gathering.

It's easy to say, but it's a mess to do: Liu Shenren encountered exactly the same problem as the captain of Li Baked Cake in Yanchang County: most of the guys can't even tell the difference between left and right! This made Liu Shenxian very brainless.

At the beginning, he knew that the burden of defending the city was almost entirely on his shoulders, and because he was an illiterate martial artist, his thoughts were relatively simple, Wang Jian did not resist Liu Shiting's Xuanxuan like Pan and Jing, and once came to Liu Shenxian to use the power of some "divine soldiers". When I arrived at Baolun Temple, I bumped into the "Divine Array" that Liu Shiting was rehearsing, stopped and looked at it from a distance, turned around and left, scolded the street all the way, and returned to the wall to vent to the soldiers and scolded them, as if crazy.

Liu Shiting is not a fool - how can a fool be a liar? The little abacus in his heart is that if the bamboo pole is to be knocked to death, how much can be knocked out. In case the battle is won or the reinforcements come to relieve the siege, with Ma Wensheng here, the head work must be his own, if he loses, the more than 600 cannon fodder collected is enough to resist for a while, and he takes advantage of the chaos to smear oil and carry silver on the soles of his feet.

When Liu Shiting's "mighty fight" was cast, loaded on an ox cart and dragged to the south gate, Guan Shengyun's siege preparations outside the city were also ready, and the battle began.

As soon as the day dawned, the defenders on the wall noticed a large number of figures gathering in the distance, and the morning breeze also brought a noise of people shouting and neighing.

A tight whistle sounded, and in addition to the reserves, all the defenders and the people Ding Zhuang went to the wall to prepare for battle-because of Liu Shiting, there were less than two hundred reserves in Wang Jian's hands: some were directly sucked away, and some were filled by Wang Jian into the vacancies made by Liu Shenxian Shengsheng on the wall.

Guan Shengyun appeared too suddenly, and the south of Shaanzhou Mansion was full of people's houses, so there were no plum blossom piles outside the city that hindered the passage of siege equipment, nor did they dig out obstacles and ditches, and the road was very smooth. These days, the auxiliaries have trimmed the fields on both sides of the official road, crashes and towers, and most places can be carried out.

The first thing Wang Jian noticed on the upper floor of the southern city was the lookout that had been empty for a long time. A few days ago, only a few thieves and auxiliaries nailed a simple guardrail around the platform at the top of the observation platform, and then a thick beam was installed in front of it, which was diagonally supported by several strong wooden pillars, and a section was protruded, I don't know what the purpose was.

Then the thieves stopped coming.

After pondering for a long time, he couldn't guess the intentions of the thieves, so Wang Jian decided to ignore it - maybe the thieves' auxiliaries were just dealing with errands. He specially dispatched two blacksmiths to repair and manufacture arrows and spears, and now there are only about thirty in total, and the watchtower is just a wooden shelf, if there are a few thieves who will stand on it, you can try your luck, otherwise, not to mention that it is difficult to shoot a few wooden pillars, even if you shoot, it is a waste.

At this moment, a group of unkempt men dragged a large stall of unknown objects to the front of the lookout, and then someone climbed up with a rope on his back and threw the rope off the protruding front beam. The guys below tied the rope to the big stall, and a group of thieves and auxiliaries poured out of the ditch, pulling the thick rope to hang on the other end of the ladder side, and the big stall was rising - this time Wang Jian saw it clearly: it was the quilt, and there was a door panel nailed to his side!

Damn, careless!

"Shoot it, shoot it!" Wang Jian roared in a hurry.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom......

The three bed crossbows had already been aimed and fired one after another.

Three huge arrows and spears burst out of the air with sharp whistling.

One shot too outrageously, and it was off the rails, and I don't know where it fell. The other one missed, and flew past the pillar at the top of the lookout.

With a muffled sound of "tuk", there was finally a hit!

Wang Jian's eyes widened, staring at ......

Unfortunately, although the arrow and spear hit, it did not play any role.

The thieves sewed two or three quilts together, nailed the front door panel, and pulled them up for protection. After the arrow and spear were shot, the door panel dispersed the huge kinetic energy and spread it evenly on the quilt at the back, and the entire shelter hung in the air. No matter how powerful an arrow spear is, how far can it overcome air resistance and push it?

The spearhead of the ruler was more than half a foot deep into the door panel, and the hanging cover swung backwards, floated up two or three feet, swung back again, swung a few more times, stopped, and the tail of the spear was still buzzing and trembling.

Under the lookout, a thief general emerged from the ditch, looked up for a while, and the thief soldier who carried a large bundle of five-colored flags beside him pointed to the quilt on the door panel and said something, and the two began to climb the wooden ladder with a smile.

When he saw that several more thieves and auxiliaries dragged another stall of Laoshzi out of the ditch and threw it under the lookout, Wang Jian was completely desperate: dare to love and have spare refills? Take a few more sticks, wait until the bearing capacity of the wooden beam is almost at the limit, untie this and tie that one and then pull it up? How many arrows and spears can I like this!

Forget it, if you want to see you, just watch the fuck.

Wang Jian decided not to waste his precious arrows and spears on the door panels and broken quilts, and turned his head to look at the army of thieves who were squirming closer and closer.

The field of vision is full of thieves...... Wait, it's the people! That's right, it's the people who can't be wrong! Not only can you judge from the clothes, but also from the running posture, the cowering demeanor, and the knives and guns that are forced behind...... Everything in front of them shows that most of these people are ordinary people, people who were locked up outside the city by Marven Sheng! Wang Jian was so angry that he scolded Ma Wensheng's ancestors for the eighteenth generation in his heart.

The people, numbering in the thousands, poured toward the wall. Naturally, there were some real thieves in the crowd - with shields on their arms, armor on their bodies, and knives in their hands, it was not difficult to distinguish. Most of the people who had no protection were the common people or the thieves' auxiliaries, and they just ran over with hoes and pickaxes. A stone's throw away is the phalanx of thieves' soldiers, in order to avoid the killing of bed crossbows, there is a large gap between each other, and they are far away around the battle, also waiting for an opportunity. Wang Jian knew that once he found an opportunity, the enemy general only needed to give an order, and they would close to each other and form a dense battle formation and rush over. In the gap of the battle line were thieves and horsemen, and it was clear that their task was to break into the ranks of the people who were rushing into the city, and to kill those who were cowering and retreating, and to make an example of them.

The people are the people, and they have never experienced such a battle, and at first many people thought that they would stop when they ran out of the range of the threat of the thieves behind them. Wang Jian watched more than a dozen thieves burst into the crowd brandishing their sabers, cutting down the stagnant ones and then turning their horses back without stopping, and then breaking into the ...... again The wind came and went, and the archers at the head of the city were helpless against them.

The people are the people, and it didn't take long for them to finally understand that they no longer needed the threat of sabers, and they all rushed to the wall desperately - it was much easier for the archers at the head of the city to shoot at a stationary target than a moving one! Seeing the guys standing next to them who didn't dare to move one by one were hit by arrows and wailing and rolling in the dust, they finally realized that under the wall was the dead end of the bow and arrow, so they ran over with all their might.

There were already quite a few real thieves at the base of the city walls, holding shields large or small to cover themselves and their companions. There was no need for them to threaten here, and the people and auxiliaries who rushed over were desperately digging a small hole in the wall with their hands to avoid the hot water, boiling oil, and masonry that rained down on their heads.

Fifty or sixty ladders, each of which was carried by a dozen or twenty thieves—well, or rather, the common people. Next to the ladder are thieves, still mostly auxiliaries, one by one holding a large wooden shield that is more than half a person high, covering themselves and the people who carry the ladder, and the cats are trotting briskly with their waists. On the one hand, they may not have much combat experience, and they may not care much about the safety of the people around them, they mainly focus on their own protection, and the wooden shield is obviously biased to the outside, exposing a lot of gaps. The archers on the wall are behind the battlements according to the command of the battlements, and they form a column of 3-4 people to shoot in turns, and the shots in the front row will turn to the end of the line, and the one behind them will step forward to fill the position...... Generally speaking, the physical limit of archers is about twenty rounds, and if it is a rapid fire, this number is halved. Round-robin firing can save stamina and maintain shooting density.

From time to time, the people who carried the ladder were shot by arrows on the wall and fell to the ground screaming. Those who were not hit struggled to crawl back to the line of thieves, while the others continued under the threat of the thieves next to them.

After glancing around to see the situation on the battlefield, Wang Jian's gaze was fixed on a farther place.

Dozens of shield cars and four crashed cars, only fifty or sixty paces away from him. A hundred paces away, five siege towers are slowly but surely advancing – these are the biggest threats to the Shaanzhou Mansion.

Although the number of thieves outside the city under the wall is large, the officers at the head of the city command the defenders to deal with Ding Zhuang, and the towering city wall is enough to resist them for a long time. Wang Jian walked to the back and instructed the officer leading the reserve team to say a few words: If the ladder is not blocked and there are thieves landing in the city, a timely and powerful counterattack should be able to stop the thieves' momentum for a while. He focuses on commanding the bed crossbow and must defeat the thief's biggest threat.

Takato Bean on the lookout looked at the battle situation under his feet with satisfaction. There weren't many wounded, and even fewer died - well, the vast majority of those who participated in this tentative attack were civilians, and even if most of them died, what did it have to do with themselves?

So he set his sights on the city.

There is a city wall separating it, and it is not visible near the south wall, but most of the Shaanzhou Mansion can be seen at a glance. There were no people on the streets, and every house was closed, except for some servants who hurried by. There were not a few soldiers in the city, let alone the tents of the camp, and the regular garrison should have been on the wall, at best there were hundreds of reserves under the wall. The south wall has the largest number of defenders, with hundreds of soldiers, Ding Zhuang has a thousand guards, there are three or four hundred defenders on the west wall, and the section of the east wall is the least, certainly less than two hundred.

So far, the battle process is similar to the pre-battle prediction, Gao Tengdou did not issue a new order, but let the battle continue to develop on its own, and is pondering whether to smuggle some attack equipment to You Futian at night: continue to storm the south wall tomorrow, if you can attract most of the defenders of the west wall, let Lao You launch a flank attack...... I was thinking to myself when I suddenly found that six or seven hundred people came out of a group in front of a temple and came straight to the south wall, and my heart tightened slightly-siege battle, the number of attackers should be at least three times that of the defenders, so that this battle could be fought. In this wave, more than 3,000 people and a similar number of auxiliaries can maintain a good ratio of strength, but if these six or seven hundred guys join the battle group, their own siege force will be a little thin.