Chapter Twenty-Nine: Give Them a Feast

When the battle came to this, Zhao Ting was also unexpected, but his brother-in-law Zhang Ping was a little anxious, many of his Xiangyong were from the surrounding villages and towns, seeing that his relatives were under the city, he couldn't help but cry, if he couldn't think of a proper solution, the soldiers were likely to mutiny, Zhao Ting hurriedly found everyone to discuss.

In fact, there is no way to come up with this kind of discussion, you are not good at proposing to surrender, the prefect said that he would defend the city to the death, but the soldiers under his command are unwilling to fight, how can this city be defended? I had to stop attacking and wait and see what happened, but I couldn't open the city gate and surrender, hoping that the rebels would fill in the trenches and disperse the people.

The rebels were triumphant, and there were some unclothed women in front of the team, walking in front naked, these women were all family members of officials, and they were the families of officials who had been killed after the city was broken, and they were captured by the rebels and used as camp prostitutes for fun, and they were also escorted up this time.

Looking at the crying and crying group of people and naked women in front of them, the throats of the people in the city were like blocking wooden blocks, seeing that the official army did not attack, the rebels were even more happy, swaggered to the edge of the trench, threw the bags of soil on their backs into the trench, thousands of people poured soil into it, just need to fill in a few roads to get out, but these people are obviously inexperienced, but along the trench hundreds of meters long to scatter soil, that is obviously not enough.

The small leader of the rebel army then had a bad plan, and even commanded his subordinates to drive the people into the trenches, and the people above continued to throw earth, isn't this burying people alive? When the people saw this, they did not know what to do, so they rebelled one after another, and the rebels were fierce one by one, slashing with their swords, people were killed, and the corpses were pushed down to fill the ditch, and the people wailed.

Such atrocities! Xiao Ming really couldn't stand it anymore, and turned back to Yang Zhen, who was furious, and said: "Those people among the generals who shoot crossbow arrows quickly gather over, we can't see death without helping."

Yang Zhen waved his hand and attracted more than 500 people, these people are usually trained hard, crossbow arrows shoot more accurate elites, plus Xiao Ming brought five hundred tiger guards, basically a hundred steps through Yang Zhi, the black god crossbow is aimed downward, this shooting does not require a salvo, but accurate shooting, according to Xiao Ming's requirements, all aimed at the "lethal three points" head, throat, heart, a rain of arrows shot down, in less than a hundred steps of distance, almost the arrow is fatal, the rebels directly planted a piece.

The rebels were intercepted and killed by the city, and the people naturally dispersed, but they were tied by ropes, and they could only desperately run towards the city gate, and after the rebels under the city were shot down by the accurate shooting of the black god crossbow, it was too late to find a meat shield to cover.

All the archers in the city were furious, every arrow was aimed at the head and throat, and the powerful mechanical force made the crossbow arrows shoot extremely fast, only the sound of "poof......" crossbow arrows into the flesh was heard continuously, and in an instant, the rebels were shot seven or eight hundred people.

The casualties were so great that some people immediately broke down, howling and fleeing back, and before they could run two steps, they were shot in the back of the head by a crossbow arrow, and the rebels' offensive formation collapsed before it could be deployed, and the rest of the people began to flee all over the mountains, banners, knives and arrows, dirt bags, broken shoes, and dead bodies were thrown to the ground......

"Boom...... Whoosh...... Poof! "The rebels under the city have already run far away, and there are still people shooting, even if the performance of the Black God crossbow is good, this time each crossbow has almost fired more than a dozen arrows, and the fatigue of the metal has also arrived, so the elastic steel plates of many crossbows are broken, and the iron nails of the composite support plates are also broken, Yang Zhen hurriedly organized people to replace the accessories.

In comparison, the tiger guards did not shoot so many arrows, on average each person only shot five arrows, but they did have the largest number of enemies, more than half of the deadly crossbow arrows of one arrow came from the tiger guard, which is related to Xiao Ming's improvement of the aiming equipment, and at the same time required the training to be carried out in accordance with the way of sniping, that is, it is necessary to talk about "efficiency", the crossbow arrow must achieve the purpose of firing after firing, if you are not sure, then aim for a while, confirm that it must be hit before shooting.

This kind of training method, in fact, the most effective is the exercise of people's psychological quality, where the tiger guard after such training, everyone is very calm, at least to do not chaos in battle, and have a strong self-confidence in themselves, calm and self-confidence is the prerequisite to ensure a high hit rate.

The rebels' attack was repulsed again, and the defending sergeant took the people into the city, and everyone was relieved that they could bring the people in, at least they could stabilize the morale of the army, and the villagers under Zhang Ping were also grateful, and they all said that they would die and live together with Hangzhou City!

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The rebels attacked the city twice, lost their troops, thousands of people were killed, Lu Shixiang was furious, and then ordered, the whole army must not rest, and then launched an attack, Lu Shixiang sent 20,000 people this time, from the southwest to Hangzhou City launched an attack, originally the Song army defending the city can concentrate its forces to deal with the enemy in the south, and now it is necessary to divide the troops on both sides, and suddenly feel that the manpower is tight, and there is no way, only a large number of people can only be sent to the city wall to help defend.

The rebels were also very well prepared this time, and they found a lot of large wooden planks, many of which were actually removed from the ship, and seven or eight people at the bottom were used to defend against arrows, and there were many ladders, covered by a group of infantry, and the archers on both sides pressed down the formation, and they were killed all over the mountains, among which there were also a large number of nest cars and siege vehicles.

The use of such a skirmish formation is of course easier to reduce casualties than a dense phalanx, and the large bed crossbow is difficult to penetrate the huge thick planks in addition to destroying large equipment due to the large firing interval, and it seems that this time the rebels seem to have used the right strategy, under the regular bow and arrow throwing, the rebels are under the pressure of people falling to the ground around them, and slowly press up.

Firearms are now used again on the city wall, only a small part of the cannons defending the city shoot cannonballs, most of them still belong to projectile weapons, the damage caused by firearms is far less than that of catapults, and there are constantly explosions, and even gunpowder explosions have caused casualties, and the use of firearms in this period is not as good as cold weapons.

The walls were filled with gunsmoke, and at the same time, the rubble was flying sideways by the rebels' stone throwers, and the rain of arrows continued to rain down from the city, and the rebels walked silently forward with shields and ladders, and soon approached the trench.

This time they didn't fill the ditch with earth, but put large planks and ladders on top of the trenches, and a large number of rebels poured under the corners of the city walls, and then they quickly pulled over the ladders and put them on the wall, and the archers below threw arrows to the city to cover the arrival of the brigade of men and horses,—— which was a very intense climbing battle!

Immediately after that, a large number of rolling wood and stones and fire oil cans on the city were smashed down, bows and arrows and bricks and stones were as dense as a torrential rain, the people on the ladder kept falling, and the people below were even more killed and wounded, because the rebels directly threatened the city wall, the long-range attack was immediately weakened, and many large siege equipment were slowly transported to the city wall, and the form began to reverse to the rebel side.

Yang Zhen had already come to the city wall to direct the battle at this time, and the other officials didn't know where to hide, and the casualties of the Song army defending the city on the city had now begun to increase, and many people were so frightened that they squatted on the ground and did not dare to show their heads, death and blood stimulated everyone's nerves, even Xiao Ming's tiger guard now had casualties, and the steel arm of the bow and crossbow also needed to be replaced.

A large number of rebels poured out of the nest car, and through the struggle to build a city tower, the southwest two city walls are attacking at the same time, but obviously the south wall is under more pressure, the rebels seem to have to break the city from here to take revenge, ants like an upward surge, soon there are rebels on the city wall, the people in the city are all brave and strong, from the mouth will bite the steel knife out, slash to death, suddenly the officers and soldiers on the city wall will be killed and wounded.

Standing on the city wall, more than a dozen Song troops wearing foot armor have now become the mainstay, under the sweep of the broadsword, the rebels have fallen to the ground, but these people are heavily armoured, inconvenient to move, more than a dozen rebels are surrounded, the foot is hooked down by the hook and sickle, the rebels swarmed up, they were slaughtered, the foot armor died, the city wall was in danger, and the Song army began to be compressed.

The situation is very critical, if the rebels are allowed to gain a foothold on the city wall, it is likely to cause the loss of the entire city wall, Xiao Ming stood on the periphery and saw very clearly, Yang Zhen has been surrounded by several rebels who have attacked the city wall, and he can't wait any longer, Xiao Ming roared: "Tiger Guard Battalion!" Kill me! "Rushed ahead of the charge.

This example was done well, and hundreds of people immediately rushed after him, but Xiao Ming didn't run two steps before he was stopped by someone and hugged him, and when he looked down, it was Bai San and Gu Xiaoliu.

"What are you doing? Let go of me! Xiao Ming roared.

"Archdeacon, you can't rush, you don't know martial arts, Instructor Luo explained that we must protect you closely" Bai San said expressionlessly with a black face.

"!" Xiao Ming scolded, "Instructor Luo? Where is it? ”

"He's already led someone to rush up!" Gu Xiaoliu said.

"You two let go of me and listen carefully to me, it's okay if I don't rush, but you can use the crossbow in your hand to rescue Brother Yang for me now, you have to aim and shoot, don't waste crossbow arrows."

"Yes! Yes," the two replied.

Luo Wen rushed up with the tiger guards, the saber he carried was very suitable for use on the narrow city wall, and drove the rebels who landed in the city with one face, and several in front of Yang Zhen were also shot down by Bai San and Gu Xiaoliu, he also quickly ran to the periphery, and the city wall was killed, and the officers and villagers were holding machetes and spears, and they were overturning the rebels on the ladder, but a large number of rebels climbed up, and the bows and arrows covering under the bottom kept shooting up, and people kept falling to the ground, and blood flowed on the entire city wall, It's already slippery and untenable.

"It's not okay to go on like this, you have to give them a big meal!" Xiao Ming shouted at Yang Zhen.

"What feast?" Yang Zhen was puzzled.

"Where are those powder kegs that you want to transform? Bring it up, quick! Xiao Ming continued to roar.

Yang Zhen patted his head, and now it is just right to use it, "I just don't know what the effect is?" While sending people to move, he was still muttering, and in a hurry, while the rebels were driven off the city wall, Yang Zhen asked the sergeants to move more than a hundred powder kegs.

The rebels under the city are basically gathered together, the troop transport towers used to climb the city are all close to the city wall, the tower "swish" to shoot arrows into the city, the ladders are built on the city wall one by one, and the top is full of people, and in less than half an hour, the city wall will be captured, and the demon rebels seem to be victorious, and the shouts of killing are louder than just now.

At this time, I saw that the Song army defending the city suddenly came out of the arrow battlement, all of them were guys with big shoulders and round waists, holding a big black wooden barrel in their hands, and the fire twist at one end was still emitting green smoke.

"Boom...... Rumble! "The earth-shattering explosions and sky-high fires continue to rise, iron sand and broken porcelain pieces fly everywhere, the crowded places under the city, the powder keg exploded and almost became a no-man's land, the towers of the boarding cars all collapsed, the nest car ignited a raging fire, the explosion site basically could not find a complete human body, the peripheral personnel also died a large piece, all of them were internal organs shattered and bleeding to death, people in the distance were not happy, one by one dementia, the ears could not hear the sound, the weapons in their hands all fell to the ground, The crotch of the pants is full of feces and urine.

Lu Shixiang, who was watching the battle from a distance, was stunned by the scene in front of him, this wave of attacks was obviously crippled in front of this kind of big killing weapon, and before the remaining siege troops cried and fled back, Lu Shixiang already knew the result......

The black clouds in the sky were piled up layer by layer, like a big mountain pressing on Lu Shixiang's heart, he could barely breathe, and the air was filled with gunsmoke and the smell of cooked meat......

"-It's over! Where is there any morale at all! Lu Shixiang was so angry that a mouthful of blood spurted out, and with his action of spurting blood, a lightning bolt swept from a distance, and then a deafening thunder sounded - a "crackle" sound seemed to hit the city, more like a hit in the heart.