Chapter 159: Siege Battle
Besiege!
Although Songpa City is not very large, it is indeed the first real siege battle for Ma Jiajun.
A ladder is actually a simple wooden ladder with a slight treatment at the front end, which can directly grasp the wall.
These ladders were built on the spot, and the heavy soldiers used nearby trees to build nearly 100 of these simple ladders in one day. Songpa Castle is not large, and the frontal attack is actually only one of the walls, so a hundred ladders are enough.
Songpa Castle is indeed not large, the height of the city wall is only about three meters, and it is dilapidated in many places. In addition, the barbarians have always been accustomed to tribal life and are very unfamiliar with building cities, so after they captured Songpa City, they did not repair the city walls as soon as possible.
Therefore, such a Songpa City is really nothing in the eyes of Ma Shuo and others. Not only that, but outside Songpa Castle, there is not even a moat, and it is a flat river.
The wooden word battalion, the fire word battalion, and the righteous army battalion were besieged by three battalions. However, it was the Muzi Battalion that carried out the main attack mission, because if the three battalions joined at the same time, it would not be able to be used at all. The Fire Battalion and the Rebel Battalion mainly performed the task of guarding the barbarians from escaping from other directions.
Kill!
With the order of Lu Kuang, the commander of the Muzi Battalion, the soldiers of the Muzi Battalion, who had been prepared for a long time, carried the ladder and rushed towards Songpa City. This time, Ma Shuo handed over the command of the scene to Lu Kuang, and he needed to use these opportunities to train his generals.
The wooden battalion, the main force is full. However, there are only about 10,000 veterans with strong combat effectiveness, and the remaining 10,000 are recruited recently. This time, in order to train the new soldiers, Lu Kuang adopted the method of bringing the old with the new, and every two veterans took a new recruit to form a three-person attack team.
Of the three, a new and an old man were in charge of carrying the ladder, while the other veteran was carrying a shield in front of him to defend his companion from arrows that might fly at any moment.
Lu Kuang gave an order, and a hundred ladders rushed out at the same time, each ladder was carried by ten people, plus the companions who defended it with shields, and there were thirty people near one ladder. Each ladder is twenty or thirty meters apart, and the men and horses who are ready to climb the ladder to attack the city march in between, and at the same time, some archers are also among them, once they are within range, they will use their bows and arrows to suppress the barbarians at the head of the wall and cover the attack of the ladder.
"Pick up the bows and arrows in your hands and wipe out all these Qin people below!"
At this time, the barbarian leader standing on the wall of Songpa Castle also issued an order to attack. Suddenly, arrows shot out one after another, heading towards the soldiers of the wooden character battalion below.
Poof, poof!
Soon, some of the unfortunate soldiers who were hit by the arrow fell straight down. However, the other soldiers did not stop their advance, and continued to rush towards the side of the city wall with ladders and shields and weapons.
At the same time, the archers in the team also began to attack.
This time, the wooden battalion dispatched a total of nearly 3,000 archers. Three thousand people shot together, although the state of shooting from the back was not dominant, but the dense arrows were still very shocking. At the same time, after these arrows fell on the city wall, they also caused a lot of damage to those barbarians.
The three-meter-high city wall is still too low, and the height advantage is not clearly demonstrated.
Here, the speed of the soldiers of the wooden battalion was still very fast, although they lost some manpower along the way, but in the face of the rain of arrows from the other side, the ladder still successfully reached the city wall. Immediately, the soldiers set up the ladder as fast as they could.
"Follow Lao Tzu on-rush-"
The officers of the wooden battalion, such as those fifty and hundred, took the lead and climbed up the ladder with their long knives in their mouths, their waists bent, and their hands together, and they climbed up the ladder at a rapid speed.
The three-meter-high city wall, the length of the ladder is only four or five meters, and at a distance of four or five meters, these grassroots officers of the Muzi battalion who took the lead in the charge quickly climbed to the middle and upper parts. During this time, some unfortunate people were shot by the barbarians' bows and arrows and fell down the ladder, but this did not deter the people behind them, and the people behind continued to climb upwards quickly.
Of course, the barbarians naturally would not tolerate the soldiers of the wooden battalion to easily go up to the wall. They are not very good at defending the city, but they still know how to kill the enemy in front of them with the weapons in their hands.
When they were within range of the attack, the barbarians on the city walls unceremoniously attacked.
He who pierces with a spear in his hand, who slashes with a large knife in his hand, and who uses other weapons. However, at this time, the soldiers of the Muzi Battalion did not show weakness, directly picked up the weapon in their mouths, and desperately slashed and killed the opponent.
"Kill—"
A wooden battalion leader roared, and the long knife in his hand slashed at a barbarian in front of him.
With a click, the long knife first slashed the opponent's weapon in two. Then, the momentum of the knife continued to slash towards the opponent's neck, and with a whoosh, a huge head had already flown out.
Taking advantage of this gap, the hundred chief kicked violently, jumped up with his body, directly crossed the wall, and landed on the city wall. However, before he could stand firm, the barbarian, who had noticed him, unceremoniously stabbed him with the spear in his hand.
Three spears, three directions, blocked this person's retreat tightly. However, this Baichang did not panic, and with the knife in his hand, with a twist, the three spears were directly cut off.
The iron knives were far sharper than those bronze weapons. What's more, the main body of these spears is still wooden, which is simply not enough in the face of iron weapons.
However, before the hundred chief could breathe, another barbarian slashed at him with a sword, and five or six people rushed over at once.
Flutter!
Finally, by accident, this hundred chief was still stabbed by one of them, and a huge wound appeared directly on his back. Suddenly, this Baichang stumbled and almost fell to the ground.
The barbarian's reaction was extremely fast, and before this hundred chief could stand firm again, the follow-up attack had already descended on him again. Hit by several weapons at the same time, the Baichang directly spurted out a mouthful of blood and lost his life.
However, before he died, he still tried to hold all the weapons that attacked him in his hands, and held on to it. His purpose was obvious, to be able to stop the barbarian attack for a while, and to buy a little safe time for his companions to go to the city.
In fact, this hundred chief did not die in vain, and when he finally fell, there were already seven or eight soldiers of the wooden battalion behind him who had successfully climbed the city wall, and with the cooperation of each other, they successfully won a small piece of territory, creating an opportunity for their companions to climb the city in the future.
There are many similar scenes on the walls of Songpa Castle.
Many of the soldiers of the Wooden Battalion were cut down to the ground by the barbarians, but many more of the soldiers of the Wooden Battalion managed to stand firm on the wall, and cooperated with each other to continuously expand the results of the battle.