Chapter 128 Master of the Liao Kingdom
Tonghua City, on the third day when Jiang Cheng and others came, the Liao army began to attack the city, and they all said that the Liao State was a nomadic people and was good at cavalry, but this did not mean that the Liao State did not have infantry, but their infantry was not as elite as the Great Wei.
"Knock, knock, knock·····"
The war drums were beating again and again, and the soldiers of the Great Wei were already fully prepared on the city wall, and the cauldron was burning with gold juice, which was filled with an extremely unpleasant smell, and the archers stuck arrows into the wooden planks in front of them, which were ready to be used, and the city walls were also full of large and small stones.
"Liaogou is coming"
The Liao army was also hunting with war drums, and then in the military column, more than 20 huge trench cars were launched, the so-called trench cars were specially used to deal with the moat, there were four wheels that could be pushed, and when they reached the trench or moat, they could push the trench carts to form a bridge for the soldiers to pass.
The carts are all the people of Tongzhou captured by the Liao army, and there are several Liao soldiers behind each trench to supervise, and there are some people carrying earth and stones around them, which are used to fill the moat, although the trench cart can allow the soldiers to pass through the moat, but it will also be broken by the defenders, and filling is the best means.
"500 Steps"
"Four hundred and fifty steps"
"Four Hundred Steps"
"Three Hundred and Fifty Steps"
"Bed crossbow ready, three hundred steps to launch"
"Three hundred steps, launch"
On the city wall, some soldiers have been calculating the distance between the trench and the city wall, and after reaching three hundred paces, the bed crossbow on the city wall began to fire, and the adult's thigh-thick crossbow arrows were fired, and at a distance of three hundred steps, if it hit a living person, even if it was wearing heavy armor, it could pierce the person.
"Put it, put it again"
The accuracy of the bed crossbow was very poor, and after the first round, only one crossbow arrow hit the trench, but it did not explode the trench, and the distance was too far.
The trench went about fifty paces, the bed crossbow was installed, and another round was placed, and this time with a little luck, a crossbow bolt not only blew up the trench, but also pierced through most of the people behind the trench.
When the enemy advanced about fifty paces, the bed crossbow could be placed in one round, and when it was one hundred and fifty paces, the trebuchets behind the walls began to fire, and less than half of the twenty or so trench carts were left when they reached the edge of the moat.
The Liao army not only dispatched a trench car, about a hundred steps behind the trench car, there were more than ten huge siege vehicles, Jiang Cheng looked like the Lu bus in his memory, the function was similar, but the name was different, it was a bottomless four-wheeled wooden car, covered with raw cowhide or iron sheet on the outside, and dozens of soldiers pushed it inside, and a large group of soldiers followed, using the Lu bus to avoid flying arrows.
The Lu bus was also destroyed by bed crossbows or trebuchets on the way forward, but it still reached the edge of the moat, the moat was not filled, and they could not push it to the edge of the city wall, but it also became a sharp weapon for them to resist bows and arrows, and the soldiers hiding behind the Lu bus began to shoot arrows to cover the besiegers, and the two sides fought with bows and arrows.
Of course, the defending side is dominant, and the condescending archery can shoot farther and more accurately, and the siege troops have suffered great losses, especially those people who were forced to fill the moat, and a large number of them were shot and killed on the edge of the moat, and the Liao army would even push the corpses into the river as materials for filling the river.
Behind Lu Gong's body are groups of soldiers pushing siege ladders, the siege ladder is not a long ladder, but with wheels, which can be folded, pushed under the city wall, it can be opened, and the ladder above has a hook, grabbed on the city wall, and then can be climbed by soldiers, the kind of simple long ladder is the most untechnical.
The siege ladder paid great losses, and also reached the edge of the moat, passed through the previous trench carts, crossed the moat, and then opened the ladder, and began to have a large number of soldiers climbing along the ladder to the city wall, and more and more Liao soldiers shot arrows below to cover.
"Kill"
The soldiers on the city wall also have corresponding means, siege and defense, is a pair of contradictions, when there are new siege means, there must be corresponding means of defending the city, now both sides are elite, for all kinds of tactics are extremely skilled.
The bed crossbow and trebuchet have never stopped, and there are also archery masters who help the strips of cloth with fire oil on the arrows to shoot at the siege equipment, trying to burn it, and today's battle depends on when these instruments are destroyed, and if they are destroyed, the Liao army will be withdrawn, because the follow-up troops will not come up, and the front will only die.
"The second wave of equipment is coming, Liaogou is going to be desperate this time, come here, prepare to recoil, and drive Liaogou down"
Shitang has been watching the movement of the enemy army, only to see that more than a dozen siege vehicles and siege ladders have been launched in the army column again, and he suddenly feels bad, the Liao army is going to attack the city with all its strength this time.
"Lord Jiang, General Shi has an order, worship and lead the team to attack and destroy the enemy's equipment"
"Good"
Finally, it was Jiang Cheng's turn to fight, and they hadn't done it before, in order to maintain their physical strength, they used it at a critical time.
Twenty worshippers fought in an instant, first along the enemy's siege ladder, all the way down, and after killing under the city walls, they pounced on the enemy's remaining siege vehicles.
"Bang"
Jiang Cheng swung his knife and went down with all his might, and a siege vehicle was broken by Jiang Cheng, and then he continued to cut a few times, and the entire siege vehicle was scrapped.
"Master Jiang..."
Twenty people each found their target, but someone ran into trouble, the Liao army secretly placed a master in the siege vehicle, but he was wearing the clothes of an ordinary soldier, and one of them stepped forward to destroy the siege engine, and was immediately sniped, but encountered danger.
"Go"
Jiang Cheng picked up a knife that had fallen from the enemy, and then threw it abruptly.
"Out of thin air, Grand Master"
As soon as Jiang Cheng made a move, he immediately attracted the attention of the enemy masters, and one of them spoke the language of Great Wei, and immediately killed Jiang Cheng.
"You Withdraw First"
Jiang Cheng left a word, and then slashed at his side, the master who had just changed his position was suddenly startled, he didn't know how he was exposed, but he still blocked the knife.
Jiang Cheng didn't say a word, he slashed with a knife, there were no moves, it was the simplest slash, slash, teasing, and stabbing a few moves, but the speed was extremely fast, and ordinary soldiers couldn't see it at all.
Both of them were fighting at a super high speed, and the soldiers around them were killed instantly, and they often turned their heads in different places before they could react, and soon, a large area was vacated around them.
"Bang"
The masters of the Liao Kingdom arrived one after another, and someone sniped Jiang Cheng with a strong bow in the distance, Jiang Cheng looked back and chopped the arrow, and the master who fought against Jiang Cheng took the opportunity to slap Jiang Cheng on him.
"You've Got It"
Jiang Cheng could have avoided this palm, but Jiang Cheng just didn't avoid it, and he slapped him hard, and then slapped it with a palm.
"Poof"
The man vomited blood and retreated more than a dozen steps back, Jiang Cheng wanted to chase after him, but another person flew up a sword and stabbed at Jiang Cheng.
"On"
Jiang Cheng suddenly gathered his breath, and with a sword, an extremely violent sword appeared, splitting the person and the sword in half.
"Withdraw, that person is not an ordinary Grand Master"
The injured man yelled at the masters of the Liao Kingdom, and the rest of the masters of the Liao Kingdom who wanted to approach retreated one after another, and then hundreds of arrows flew towards Jiang Cheng, who kept swinging the arrows with his knife and knocking them down.
"Cover Jiang-sama"
There were generals on the city wall who roared, and twenty or thirty archers gathered on the city wall to shoot at the enemy, Jiang Cheng took the opportunity to rise from the ground, borrowed his strength on the city wall, and the whole person flew up the city wall.
"Master Jiang, are you okay?"
"It's okay"
"Come in and dodge the arrows"
Someone pulled Jiang Cheng into the city tower to avoid the ubiquitous arrows.
"Lord Wu, how are you?"
Jiang Cheng saw the injured worship and stepped forward to ask.
"That master's internal strength is too powerful, extremely domineering, I'm afraid I won't be able to participate in the war in a short time"
Lord Wu replied, he was just an ordinary worship, and the person who fought with Jiang Cheng was an extremely powerful great master, he was already fated if he didn't die after being slapped in the face, if Jiang Cheng hadn't rescued him in time, he would have died.
"If you're hurt, take care of it"
Jiang Cheng nodded, Tonghua City is not only their twenty masters, there are also many masters in the border army, otherwise they would have been broken by the Liao State a long time ago.
The people and horses of the Tsing Yi Wei Worship Hall mainly absorb the martial arts masters in the Tsing Yi Guard, and occasionally absorb some masters from the rivers and lakes to come in, which can be regarded as recruiting An.
And the army also has its own training system, some of their innate masters will be taken away by the military department, given to generals, captains and other official positions to be honored, most of them also have no real power, but the army will not send all the masters, will intercept some to stay in the headquarters, enrich the strength.
It's the same on the royal side, like Li Changqing, it's still on the surface, I don't know how many masters are hidden in secret, hundreds of millions of people in the Great Wei Dynasty, it is impossible to be a master on the bright side, especially after the spread of Xianmen martial arts, the difficulty of martial artists entering the innate has been greatly reduced, even if it is a great master, it is also common.
The war continues, the second wave of equipment has arrived, and more soldiers rush to the wall through the equipment, and there are special sergeants on the wall to deal with them.
It wasn't until it was almost dark that the Liao army withdrew its troops, and the Tonghua City side also stopped fighting, watched the enemy retreat, and began to clean up the battlefield and rescue the wounded.
At night, Jiang Cheng, who was about to sleep, was called away by the soldiers and came to the camp tent in Shitang.
"General Shi, you called me?"
"Lord Jiang, thanks to Lord Jiang for leading the team to destroy the enemy's equipment today, and inadvertently forcing out the hidden master, Shi Moudai Tonghua City thanks to the general"
"This is what I should do, generals don't have to be like this"
"Lord Jiang, this time the Liao army invaded, and the army brought a lot of masters, I am afraid that the Liao army is rushing to destroy the Great Wei this time, and there may be more powerful masters in the army."
"General Shi refers to those immortals in the Tongtian Academy of the Liao Kingdom?"
"It's very likely, so I hope Lord Jiang will be more fortunate and stationed on the city wall to prevent the enemy's top master from attacking"
"If it's the immortals of Tongtian Temple, I can't stop it"
"I understand, I have already written back to Yongdu City, and the immortals of our Great Wei Ask Immortal Pavilion will also come, but this time is troublesome sir"
"I try my best"
Jiang Cheng nodded, his duty here is to protect Tonghua City from falling, there is nothing to say, just agree.