Chapter 199 Fierce Battle

The seven or eight towers at the front moved near the edge of the filled trench, and when they were about thirty feet from the wall, they spread out to the flanks as the whistle sounded, and the ones behind picked up speed, quickly filling the gap in the middle.

As they approached the walls, the towers traveled at varying speeds. Sun Jie saw clearly from the city tower that the towers were large and small, and he also used the tactic of exchanging human lives for a chance to win: the smaller towers traveled much faster, apparently trying to attract the defenders' firepower, risking the lives of the people inside, and fighting for opportunities for the relatively clumsy large towers to build up the walls. For the sake of ease of movement, the number of people inside the tower at this time will not be too large, and of course it should not be empty, and people must be left to shoot from the shooting holes to the head of the city. What made Sun Jie more emotional was that the Yi soldiers in the small tower, in order to give the clansmen a chance to win, knew that they were the victims responsible for attracting the artillery fire of the defenders, and they all regarded death as home! Sun Jie was very strict in governing the army, but seeing this scene, he couldn't help but ask himself, if he changed places, even the soldiers under his command could charge so desperately under the drive of harsh military law—would he be able to harden his heart and teach which battalion and which team to make such sacrifices?

After all, it is a life-and-death fight, Sun Jie quickly made a judgment: the small tower can only accommodate a maximum of twenty or thirty enemy soldiers, even if it is against the wall, the Changjie battalion can control the battle situation and limit the battle to a few small sections of the wall - unlike those big guys with three or five doors, the narrow tower only has one door panel that can be put down as a pedal when it is connected to the wall, and the ability to project troops is limited, which is the bottleneck: no matter how many enemy troops under the city there are, they have to squeeze together and line up! The spearmen of the Changjie battalion blocked from a distance, the sword and shield soldiers assisted in the defense, slashed and killed the individual elite Miao soldiers who broke through the spears, the crossbowmen on both wings did suppressive shooting, and the last Ding Zhuang threw fire cans and fried cans across the crowd...... The exterior of the tower is coated with a thick layer of fireproof wet mud, but not on the inside, and once the door panels are lowered, as long as you throw more oil cans and a rocket shoots at you, there will be no more threat here!

After making up his mind, he ordered Lao Shun to call the two big cannons to aim at the large tower a little farther away, Sun Jie got down from the city gate tower and walked quickly towards the two tiger squat artillery groups above the city gate. The artillery commander of the artillery group on the left is called Liu Tieniu, don't look at him as stout, his mind is very active, and he is also the commander of the artillery team, and he also has the false title of guerrilla. Shen Gang was worried about Sun Jie's safety, so he brought him to Chengdu. After Sun Jie finished explaining to Liu Tieniu, he smiled slyly when he saw this guy: "Handsome, I think it's better to play small." After speaking, he didn't pay attention to Sun Jie, and looked outside at the cannon body, jumped up suddenly in a breath, and roared, "Release!" "The gun commander on the right did the same, and gave the order to open fire almost at the same time.

"Boom", "Boom"!

The two small cannons roared one after the other.

"Reload! Don't check the results! Liu Tieniu shouted hoarsely, "Thief, hurry, hurry!" ”

Sun Jie has always encouraged his generals to make independent decisions and command independently, unless they have to give a death order and must obey it, most of the time when they are facing the enemy, they are told to let go of the fight, at most they only put forward some suggestions. But at this time, life and death are at stake, and the city gate is the top priority of the entire defense chain, and the front wall can only block a small area in front of it, in case the large tower approaches, not to mention breaking through the city wall, the small gate front wall will immediately encounter a huge threat!

A sense of anger rose in my heart...... Then it quickly faded, Sun Jie saw the effect of the shelling, and immediately understood Liu Tieniu's intentions, and couldn't help but praise it with a big victory: "Okay!" ”

The two guns did hit the two small towers at the front, but they were aimed at the lower part of the middle. Liu Tieniu's cannon iron ball is in the middle of a column, the thick trunk clicks and breaks, although the tower is very strong, the middle layer that has lost a quarter of its support still collapses a corner, skewed there and crumbling, another cannonball did not hit the pillar, smashing the oncoming wooden plank out of a big hole, the surrounding stubble is uneven, the guys inside are dying happily, through the hole, you can vaguely see, the deformed human body is embedded in the back wall like a piece of paper smashed into the mud, and the limbs are hanging softly, Through a deep hole in his chest that was bigger than a sea bowl, he could see behind him - the castrated iron ball carried the internal organs out of the wall!

The most lethal injuries were the dozens of small bullets sandwiched between the large iron ball and the gunpowder mud shield. The mass is small, and the effect of air resistance is obvious - the iron ball hits the middle and lower part of the tower, and the flying small projectiles spread even lower, although most of the Miao soldiers hide behind the tower and push hard, and the guys exposed on its sides are almost all spared! Liu Tieniu's brain is really good: compared to killing, the tactical effect of these two cannons is more significant - the two towers that lost part of the manpower were immediately paralyzed there and could not move, as long as they made up a few more times to completely collapse them, the wreckage could temporarily block this area, and those large towers behind could only go in a big circle horizontally before the road was cleared out - during this time, Liu Tieniu could still blast out several rounds!

There was a shouting from the back of the tower, and there were soldiers rushing out of the cart not far away, and some soldiers jumped down from the tower, and it was clear that the small leader was reorganizing the manpower of the cart - even if he couldn't get close to the city wall, he had to get out of the way of the large tower behind him as much as possible. The archers on the wall seized the opportunity and a rain of arrows burst out, knocking a dozen guys to the ground.

Liu Tieniu roared in anger, and in less than a cup of tea, his cannon rang out again - it was not easy for the bulky gun mount to move, so this time he aimed a little off, but the iron ball still smashed on the same side of the broken pillar, and the tower was even more crooked, Sun Jie was guessing in his heart that even if he didn't shoot the third shot, this guy couldn't push a few steps and would fall because he would lose his balance. The other tower was still shot head-on, but this time the gun commander told Ding Zhuang to pry up the gun mount from behind, and the big iron ball smashed down hard, almost straight, not only punching a big hole in the second-floor slab, but also smashing it the back wall. The back wall at the bottom of the tower was much stronger than the middle level, and it didn't penetrate this time, but a dozen Miao soldiers fell to the ground screaming and rolling on the ground - apparently, the guys who were pushing the back wall with all their might were shattered by the massive kinetic energy of the cannonballs.

Sun Jie didn't wait for Liu Tieniu to release the third round of cannons, then turned around to see the results of the other two great cannons. Although the artillery crew of Chengdu Zhongwei is far less well-trained than the gunners of Sun Jie's department, after all, the caliber is there, the upper half of a large tower has been completely torn off, and it is abandoned to the ground out of thin air without reaching the head of the city, and the situation of the other is not much better. Liu Tieniu was already instructing the people to turn the base to adjust the angle of fire of the third shot of the Tiger Squat Cannon, and the two guns had just begun the second round of reloading. Carrying his knife, Lao Shun was shouting and shouting at the ancestors of the artillery crew, and outside the wall there were already five or six small towers that could cross the filled trench, and another five or six were close to the outer edge of the trench......

Two thick iron spears, one left and one right, were nailed to the top of one tower at the same time, and the third flew past the top of the tower, which swayed violently back and forth, and there were exclamations and tumbling sounds from inside. "It's a pity!" Sun Jie sighed in his heart, "Wasted one." If you hit at the same time, this one will be overturned! Under the tower, a lot of Miao soldiers rushed over, and under the joint push and support of everyone, the tower shook two or three times and gradually stabilized, and then quickly approached again! The nearest bed crossbow was almost finished, and the battlement commander pushed away a soldier who was about to load an iron spear and shouted, "Change the bucket arrows for Lao Tzu!" "Just installed a rice bucket stuffed with dozens of feather arrows, boom, the door panel of the tower fell suddenly, slammed on the wall, the Yi soldiers inside shouted and rushed out, at the same time, a soldier next to the bed crossbow struggled to swing the mallet, a large rain of arrows split the head and face the Yi soldiers to pounce, the miserable howl suddenly sounded, overwhelmed the surrounding hustle and bustle.

Most of the Yi soldiers gathered at the top were shot to death, some fell under the wall, some withered in the building, and some were nailed to the inner wall of the tower. But the Yi soldiers under the wall saw that the passage had been built, and they were rushing up from the ladder behind them one by one with a fearless shout......

The huge bed crossbow required dozens of Ding Zhuang to turn the winch to wind, and there were so many people gathered around, and the soldiers responsible for providing protection could only stay away. "With two or three spearmen, he jumped over the gangplank and threw himself at the tower. Miao Bing, who had an arrow stuck in his shoulder socket, staggered over, and slashed the waist knife in his hand with a loud shout, embedded in the middle of the guy's head, and let go of the handle of the knife without hesitation, reached out and took the spear that Miao Bing held in his hand casually, and at the same time flew up and kicked down the gangplank with a knife, and several people who rushed into the tower together stabbed the spear in their hands through the gap at the staircase on the floor of the tower. A small flag officer of Chengdu Wei hissed and shouted: "Oil tank, oil tank!" Pour water into the house for Lao Tzu! Seven or eight Ding Zhuang also rushed into the tower, smashing the big oil tank in his arms, and a particularly bold guy squeezed into the middle of several soldiers, reversed the mouth of the tank and poured oil down the ladder......

At the same time as he jumped back to the wall with a few soldiers, a torch was thrown, and the few young soldiers who had just rushed up the ladder immediately turned into burning men, screaming, rolling, and jumping from the high tower to the wall—so that at least the pain before death would be shorter.

The tower burst into flames.

Sun Jie looked to the sides, there were already three or four towers with the treads on the battlements, there were several war groups on the walls, and the Miao soldiers who had jumped on the walls were trying to move in the direction of the cannons and bed crossbows—as long as these were destroyed, the reinforcements behind would be in a steady stream. However, their number is too small, and a few thousand men of the Changjie battalion are more than enough to deal with. Not only that, but each cannon and bed crossbow were surrounded by a double semi-circular protective ring, the inner circle of people concentrated on dealing with the threat from outside the wall, the crossbowmen shot out like crazy, several auxiliaries held large shields to block arrows, the pikemen stabbed desperately again and again, the soldiers in the outer circle watched vigilantly at the few small war groups trapped by their comrades, and the gunners were desperately busy under the scolding of Lao Shun - fortunately, every time the cannon was fired, they finally remembered to splash some water in time to cool down.

In front of the first fence in front of the gate, the corpses were already stacked more than half a person high, and Sheng Degong leaned down and tore his throat and shouted to Shi at the head of the city, and the old Shi finally understood after listening to it for a long time: There is still a large group of Yi soldiers rushing here in front, and it is time to retreat to the second fence. Covered with blood and sweat, Shi Meng couldn't open his eyes, and he couldn't wipe his arm armor with his sleeves, Shi Meng shook his head a few times, and spit out a series of orders in his mouth, seven or eight auxiliaries ran over and sprinkled black gunpowder on the first fence, and the flames rose, mixed with the smell of burnt meat and burning hair. The two oil canisters smashed over again, and the fire became even bigger, and Lao Shi's back felt a little hot. This fire can be burned for a while, Lao Shi thought in his heart, he can almost rest for a stick of incense, maybe the kung fu of two pillars of incense, but he has to take a good breath. Suddenly, Lao Shi felt as if he had been pushed hard in the back, and he couldn't help but stumble forward two steps...... "Damn, I was hit by another arrow." Lao Shi spat on the ground and twisted his waist, feeling a little pain in his back. It's okay, the Miao Bow is not very powerful, it should be able to break the armor, and the arrows are on the meat. Old Shi and several brothers around him had already stuck four or five arrows in their bodies, and they were not injured except for getting in the way. Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, his soldiers used large scissors to cut off the arrow shaft at the root - although it did not enter the flesh, it was still necessary to wait until after the battle to remove the arrow cluster, if it was pulled hard, it was likely to tear off the leather cord connecting the armor pieces, and the whole armor would be scattered if it was not done well, and the gains outweighed the losses.

The rest was shorter than expected, and the Miao ghosts took long hooks, braved the fire of the defenders to tear open the burning corpses, knocked down the wooden fence, threw several dirt bags, and the fire on the oil-soaked land was also extinguished. Lao Shi, who was drinking a lot of water, didn't get up, waved his hand tiredly, and the second group of brothers who had finished their rotation shouted and poked the spears on the second wooden fence outward......