Chapter 181: The Bitter Battle (1)

Seeing this scene, some of the people of the five counties of Yingzhou who were standing at the head of the city and watching flashed hatred in their eyes. Because when the Northern Barbarians filled the Yingshui River, they killed countless Daning people.

In addition to hatred, these people also secretly rejoiced in their hearts, fortunately they and others followed the Fierce Eagle Army to Yunshan Pass, otherwise, they would probably be driven to this river to kill and fill the river.

I saw that some Northern barbarian soldiers threw stones thrown from the trebuchet at the head of the city into the moat. Ye Ying asked people to stop using trebuchets to throw stones, and instead command the archers in the city to shoot at the Northern Barbarian soldiers who were trying to fill the moat.

Because almost all of the wooden curtain carts were smashed by boulders, there were no Northern Barbarian soldiers protected by the wooden planks on the wooden curtain carts. Once again, they were exposed to the range of the opponent's bow and arrow, and many of the Northern Barbarians were shot by the bows and arrows of the Eagle Army soldiers in the city, and fell to the ground and screamed repeatedly.

These Northern Barbarians are really not afraid of death, their comrades-in-arms fell in front of their eyes, they did not have the slightest fear, but were aroused by blood.

The Northern Barbarians held a shield in one hand and all sorts of things that would help fill the moat in the other, and threw it all into it. Because they had to dodge the bows and arrows in the city, they were much slower to fill the river.

Seeing this situation, the Heihan Mugu in the rear also gathered his own archers, stood under the city, and shot at the Dafu soldiers at the head of the city.

Since the Northern Barbarian archers shoot arrows from the bottom up, their strength is much smaller, and the crosshairs are much worse, only a few Fierce Eagle Army soldiers stand on the head of the city and are shot by the bows and arrows of the Northern Barbarians.

But in this way, the archers of the Eagle Army on the city wall could not unscrupulously launch an attack on the Chu soldiers who filled the moat under the city. As a result, with the cooperation of the Northern Barbarian archers, the speed at which the Northern Barbarians filled the river increased again.

As time went on, the Northern Barbarians paid the price of thousands of casualties. Finally, in the moat of Yunshan Pass, several passages were filled in.

But by this time, more than half of the siege time had been spent on the second day. Heihan Mugu looked at the sun that was already a little westerly overhead, and knew that in the remaining short time, it was impossible for the Northern Barbarian army to attack the city and occupy this Yunshan Pass.

Therefore, he ordered the soldiers in the rear, beat the drums of the retreating troops, and ended the siege of the day.

This night, Heihan Mugu specially asked the gang to add food to the Northern Barbarian soldiers. If they are well fed, they should return to the camp early to rest, recuperate, and strive to successfully capture the city and occupy Yunshan Pass the next day.

And Ye Ying, who was in charge of guarding the city, was not as calm as Heihan Mugu in his heart, because he knew that the Northern Barbarians' tackling of key problems in the first two days was actually just preparing for the official attack in the future. Tomorrow is the beginning of a bloody war, in which countless lives will be lost.

In the evening, Ye Ying found Zhuge Ying, Chen Gang, Shan Fu and others to discuss with them what situations they would encounter in defending the city tomorrow and what kind of response should be made.

Early in the morning of the second day, Heihan Mugu really took the Northern Barbarian soldiers and came to the bottom of Yunshan Pass. Once again, he shouted at the pass, asking Ye Ying and the Eagle Army soldiers guarding the pass to come out and surrender.

Seeing that the shouting had no effect, Heihan Mugu waved his hand, and the Northern Barbarian soldiers under his command began to attack Yunshan Pass.

Due to the preparations of the previous two days, this time, the Beiban significantly accelerated the pace of the siege, and they were in groups of several people, some of whom were responsible for holding shields, covering the heads of everyone, and blocking the bows and arrows shot from the city. The rest of the people carried long ladders and rushed towards the place where the Yunshan Pass was closed.

And in the rear of the Northern Barbarian army, still the same as the day before, many archers, holding bows and arrows, continued to shoot arrows at the city wall, trying to suppress the soldiers defending the city on the city wall.

Since the day before, numerous passages have been filled in the moat. These soldiers carrying ladders soon came to the bottom of Yunshan Pass. They built a long ladder on top of the wall of Yunshan Pass.

Some of the soldiers, holding shields in one hand, held him above their heads, while in the other, with knives and guns, quickly climbed up the ladder and quickly climbed to the top of the wall.

The soldiers who had been prepared for a long time did not panic when they saw this situation. Seeing that the Northern Barbarian soldiers were about to climb up the ladder to the top of the city, these Eagle Army soldiers turned around and picked up the jars from behind.

The soldiers of the Eagle Army, who were carrying the altar, came to the city wall and poured the boiling oil contained in the altar down the ladder to the heads of the northern barbarian soldiers. These boiling oil poured on the Northern Barbarian soldiers, and the great pain made them unable to control their bodies, and they immediately fell off the ladder and landed under the city walls, rolling and letting out a terrible scream.

At this time, some other soldiers of the Eagle Army, seeing that the northern barbarians had no time to take care of the ladder on the city wall, immediately pushed the ladder down under the city wall. The Northern Barbarian soldiers on the ladder were lucky enough to fall on others without much injury, while those who were unlucky fell and broke their hands and feet, or died on the spot.

In this very short period of time, seven or eight hundred of the Northern Barbarian soldiers who were besieging the city were burned, bruised, and shot.

Heihan Mugu stood behind the Northern Barbarian army, silently looking at the battlefield in the distance. See the Northern Barbarian soldiers who fell under the city. His heart was also very distressed. Unexpectedly, the Fierce Eagle Army in this Yunshan Pass was so tenacious and quickly caused such a large casualty to itself. This made Heihan Mugu very depressed,

But Heihan Mugu knew in his heart that this time, due to the lack of food in the army, he could not fight a protracted war. Therefore, he didn't care about the casualties, gritted his teeth and issued an order, so that the second group of Northern Barbarian soldiers would be dispatched and continue to attack the city wall.

Seeing these Northern Barbarian soldiers, they launched an attack on the city wall at any cost. Ye Ying also secretly complained in his heart, the fierceness of these Northern Barbarians was beyond his imagination, and they brought great trouble to their guard this time. But Ye Ying also knew that this Yunshan Pass could not afford to be lost, and for the sake of the nearly 100,000 people in the three counties in the pass, they could not retreat a single step.

But at this time, he couldn't think too much, Ye Ying continued to let the soldiers on the city wall boil oil and pour an altar from the city wall. At the same time, some soldiers, armed with stones and rolling logs, smashed them on the heads of the Northern Barbarian soldiers under the city walls. Some soldiers armed with spears and swords stabbed at the Northern Barbarian soldiers who were rising on the city walls.

Due to the condescending nature of the Eagle soldiers, the besieging Northern Barbarian soldiers could only climb up the city walls with the help of ladders. Therefore, the casualties of the northern barbarians were much higher than the soldiers of the Eagle Army on the city walls.

At this point in the battle, both sides were red-eyed. No one seemed to see the corpses piled up under the city walls, and the blood that flowed like a river, still desperately trying to kill.

Seeing that his soldiers had not climbed to the top of the Yunshan Pass Wall for a long time, Heihan Mugu sighed, and he muttered a few words to the herald beside him, and the herald immediately ran to the rear quickly.

After a while, the Northern Barbarian soldiers pushed out a huge iron frame car from behind, and on top of the iron frame car, there was a giant wood sharpened in front of it, and these Northern Barbarian soldiers pushed the iron frame car and rushed towards the place where the Yunshan Pass was closed.

Soon, before the iron cart came to close the gate, these barbarian soldiers slammed the sharp wood on the iron cart into the gate of the Wind Protector City.

Seeing such a move by the Northern Barbarian soldiers, Ye Ying, Zhuge Ying and others in the city were secretly happy.

Because before this, they had all estimated that Heihan Mugu was going to use this way to try to knock the door shut. Therefore, they added thick planks and iron sheets behind the city gate in advance. In addition, many stones and wooden pillars were used to support the gate behind it. Therefore, the giant wood on the opponent's iron frame car crashed into the city gate countless times, but failed to open the city gate.

The soldiers of the Eagle Army on the city wall kept throwing stones and rolling logs under the city, killing and wounding many Northern Barbarian soldiers.

The battle continued, and the soldiers on both sides paid a lot of casualties, and on the surface, the Northern Barbarian soldiers who besieged the city suffered significantly more casualties than the Fu soldiers.

But Ye Ying knew in his heart that with the consumption of materials and casualties. It will be more and more difficult to defend the city. For example, the boiling oil that made a great contribution to defending the city on this day has been almost consumed on this day. At this time, on the wall of Yunshan Pass and at the foot of the wall, there were these pitch-black boiling oils everywhere, which were mixed with the blood of the soldiers on both sides, emitting an unpleasant stench.

Zhuge Ying, who had been standing next to Ye Ying, looked at the Northern Barbarian soldiers besieging the city under the city, and suddenly thought of something, and he explained a few words to a soldier beside him. The soldier quickly departed, and in a few moments he took out several lighted torches from behind the walls.

The soldier quickly returned to the city gate, and then threw the torch in his hand towards the city, and the torch fell on the boiling oil below the city, and immediately ignited a raging flame.

A raging fire burned under the city walls, and many of the Northern Barbarian soldiers who were wounded and fell under the city, groaning in pain, were killed. They were immediately surrounded by flames, and soon there was no movement, and a stench of burning wafted from under the city walls, and it was clear that these Northern Barbarian soldiers had no chance of surviving.

On the ladder, they were about to climb up to the head of the city, and the Northern Barbarian soldiers who had seized the vantage point at the head of the city were also affected, because some of the boiling oil left on the city wall also burned. In desperation, these Northern Barbarian soldiers had no choice but to withdraw from the city wall and retreat to a safe place, and the first wave of siege of the Northern Barbarian army was repulsed.

Soon after, the flames on the top of the city gradually extinguished, and after resting for a while, the Northern Barbarian soldiers who had regained some strength saw this. Under the command of the generals, he carried a ladder and launched another attack on the city wall. The soldiers of the Eagle Army defending the city on the city wall once again held swords and guns, or raised stones, or held boiling oil, and tried their best to fight the besieging Chu army.

Boulders, long arrows, and basins of oil...... With the anger of the Eagle Army soldiers, they kept flying down from the city walls, and it didn't take long for many Northern Barbarian soldiers to fall from the city walls, groaning in pain under the city walls, and under the full defense of the Eagle Army soldiers, the Northern Barbarian Army retreated again.

Seeing that many soldiers fell under the city wall, still not stepping on the head of Yunshan Pass, Heihan Mugu's eyes showed an unbearable look. These are all warriors of the Northern Barbarians, and the Northern Barbarians are relatively small, and the loss of this force is very difficult to replenish.

However, Heihan Mugu knew in his heart that due to the serious shortage of food and grass in the army, there was no time for the army to attack calmly, and at present, he could only rely on the advantage of having more soldiers to consume the materials of the other party defending the city with the lives of the soldiers. As long as the materials for the other party to defend the city are gradually used up, they can quickly rush to the top of the city and occupy the city.

The siege of the Northern Barbarian soldiers was carried out several times, and many soldiers fell under the city walls. But there were also things that made them feel happier, because there were fewer and fewer stones and boiling oil thrown from the city. This means that the other party's such materials are about to run out.