149. Tragic
Wangping under the city.
The same tension pervades everyone's minds.
Neither the defenders.
Or the Huns.
The first attempt to siege the city, Yi Zhi was not completely sure of Yu Dan, and could only rely on the tricks he learned from the Han people he absorbed for reference.
The siege has been going on for seven or eight days.
These days, the captives of the Han people are desperately filling the sand, and whenever they slacken, they are fighting each other.
The captive Han people were almost more than 10,000, and the Huns robbed basically all the villages that could be robbed in the vicinity, and they had to go to Wangping City after they wanted to rob them.
It's not far from Xiangping.
Before taking Wangping, the Huns did not dare to go deeper, otherwise under the internal and external attacks, even if they could run, they would suffer huge losses.
"Zuo Tuqi, I think I should try it today, those Han people are also consuming food, it is better to let them consume the arrows of the Han army!"
In the battalion commander, Yizhi, the king of Zuo Guli, said in a deep voice to Yu Dan.
As Zuo Tuqi, the prince of the Huns, the next single candidate, Yi Zhi is oblivious to him, so he does not dare to be good at making claims.
Yu Shan listened and couldn't help nodding, there were more than 10,000 Han people, and they were also consuming their food every day, although the plundered villages provided a lot of food, but those were used to feed the grassland warriors.
Yu single-slap table: "Okay! Come, order the Hermes-Epitek to approach the city with their backs, and those who dare to resist! Kill! ”
"Hahaha, yes!"
Yi Zhi walked out of the battalion commander with a sinister smile, selected more than 1,000 grassland warriors, and escorted and forced more than 10,000 Han people to carry their backs forward.
He personally led more than 1,000 grassland warriors behind, but there were escapees, and they were directly killed with the power of thunder.
There was no room for ordinary people to resist, and if they stepped forward, they would die, and if they retreated, they would die, and the heavy despair weighed on the heads of all the captive Han people.
"The thieves have moved!"
"Bell, bell!"
A series of transmissions, the sound of the alarm sounded on the Wangping city wall, and the defenders got up from the resting city wall one after another, holding bows and crossbows to look down vigilantly.
"The western wall, the thieves will gather on the western wall!"
"All departments must abide by the positions of each department and must not move lightly, county lieutenant, increase the number of soldiers at the west city gate!"
"Ahh
The county lieutenant Wangping, whose soul was about to fly, couldn't say anything nervously, but fortunately, the soldiers around him still knew that they were powerful, and after whispering a few words, he snatched the talisman in the county lieutenant's hand and began to mobilize the defenders in the city.
Wangping City West.
More than 10,000 Han people rushed to the city with red eyes, and they may still be alive if they move forward, but if they retreat, they will definitely die.
On the city wall, the defender generals also found out that it was a group of ordinary people who attacked the city wall, but no one let go of the bow and crossbow in their hands, and there was no mercy at stake!
"Archery for a hundred pace-takers near the city! Make no mistake! ”
"No!"
"No!"
"No!"
“.”
The heralds kept running back and forth on the city wall, and each army, each team, and each team agreed one after another.
They also don't care that among the people under the city may be their relatives and friends, the military order has been issued, and there are enemies in front of them.
"Ahh Grandpa, Grandpa! I don't want to die! ”
Among the Han people in the city, a young man, with tears in his eyes, rushed forward with a sack of sand on his back, hoping only that the arrows that would take his life would be shot at others.
Whoosh –
"Uh——!"
Unfortunately, the gods did not favor him, and when he stormed the city wall for almost a hundred meters, dozens of arrows rushed towards where he was, and six of these dozens of arrows hit him accurately.
Blood flowed down, the young man's unwilling clenched fist slowly loosened, behind him, countless feet stepped on his body, he didn't feel anything, and it was pitch black in front of him.
Yi Zhi led more than a thousand grassland warriors to hang a hundred meters away from the Han people, and the nearest city wall was six or seven hundred meters away, which was a place where the defenders of the city wall would never shoot, and he looked at the arrows that continued to pour down on the city wall with satisfaction.
He also listened to the miserable howl like fairy music in his ears.
If someone was frightened and ran backwards, he would laugh and shoot arrows, killing chickens and monkeys.
There are not many more than 1,000 people, but it is more than enough to stop the last Han-me-Epitek.
Under the towering walls, sacks of sand and dirt were thrown over and piled up to form a slope of earth, although the height of the slope was not enough to threaten the soldiers on the wall, but if the slope continued to rise, there would always be a time to reach the wall.
The defenders of the city wall shot more and more frequently, because there was no need to aim at all, and the city was densely packed with people.
"Captain! What to do, the bow and crossbow alone can't deal with so many people, do you want to let go of the wooden rolling stones! ”
A general asked, wiping the sweat from his head.
The person known as the captain waved his hand a little resolutely: "Fire oil!" Knock the wood! Rolling stone! ”
"Put!"
"What about the bed crossbow, being targeted at the prairie people over there, put a few arrows!!"
"Let go of the wood!"
"Rolling stones!"
"Fire oil ready!!"
"Bed crossbow ready!! Target Hun cavalry! ”
The herald broke his leg on the rampart, gasping for air.
Boom.
The city is already a hell on earth, yellow, white, and red.
With the fall of the rolling stones, the Hanmes-Epitek liver and intestines were broken, but what was waiting for them was far from this, one pot after another of the heated and melted animal fat from the city wall to the bottom, and the high-temperature grease did not need to be ignited to have a good lethality.
The wails and screams were all drowned out in flames.
Buzz –
The hum of the battlefield.
A bull crossbow that was operated by dozens of people shot an arrow at Yi Zhi's side, and then the second arrow of the second one, a total of two ox crossbows on the west city wall, shot out one after another at this moment.
It is a pity that the ox crossbow at a distance of six or seven hundred meters has long lost its sights, and one arrow was nailed dozens of meters away from the Hun cavalry, while the other arrow swept several meters above the head of the Hun cavalry.
The sudden attack of the bullbow startled Yi Zhi, and although the crossbow bolt did not hit them, the distance still made him feel dangerous.
"Withdraw!"
With a shout, Yi Zhi led more than a thousand steppe cavalry backwards, and as soon as he retreated, those Han people who had already been frightened also cried and stayed away from the city wall.
The people under the city wall scattered little by little, leaving only a corpse and a few piles of sandbags that were piled up several meters high, a few meters, it is dangerous, you must know that the wall of Wangping City is also seven meters high, if the Huns come like this, they can all step on the city wall. (p1)
Fortunately, the Huns retreated, and the Han people who were coerced also retreated, and the defenders on the city wall all breathed a sigh of relief.
After running away, the first thing Yi Zhixian did was to collect the fleeing Han people, they were so useful, he had already seen the height of the pile under the city wall before leaving, as long as he did it again, it would not be difficult to attack the city wall!
Referring to a lot of literature, the ancient city wall is not a fantasy and fantasy, it is generally at a height of seven or eight meters, even if it is the highest Chenghai Building of the old dragon head of Shanhaiguan as the first pass in the world, it is only 14 meters.
The existing Xi'an Ming City Wall is only 12 meters high, note that it is the Ming City Wall.
Therefore, with the manpower of the Western Han Dynasty, the height of the city wall at eight meters is already the limit, and this is still the height of the city wall of the border pass, and the Chang'an City of the Han Dynasty is even lower in the information I checked, only six meters, I once thought that I was wrong.
(End of chapter)