Chapter 107: Battle of the Ascending City

The sky was so bright that people couldn't open their eyes, and the people in Longyang City felt that the atmosphere had become a little different as they watched the soldiers rushing to the four city walls on the street.

Almost noon, Wang Chengwu rode to the West Gate City Tower, dismounted and quickly walked up to the city with a group of personal soldiers, the city tower has set up a fire, in the huge copper pot, the tung oil is winding around the hot air, the foot shields are beating the shield with small hammers and stones, doing the final inspection and repair, a large number of young people carrying rolling wood, stones and other objects to defend the city are piled up under the wall one by one.

The line of sight stretches out, and the last preparations stretch across the walls.

After receiving the news, the rebels cut down a large number of trees and made siege equipment, judging from the quantity, Wang Chengwu found out that something was wrong for the first time, and this amount of siege could not be limited to the West Gate.

When he ascended the city wall, he had already sent two other henchmen to the north and south gates.

The opponent's combat intentions have become more and more clearly generated in their minds, and the forces on both sides are almost the same, but the defending side is more advantageous.

"Divide the troops to attack three gates, the rebel general is really confident."

He stood under the city tower and looked out, there was already the movement of soldiers and horses, spreading to this side, Yu defended the city's tactics to the extreme, Wang Chengwu had expected it before, he had done everything well, just waiting for the other party to start attacking the city.

The wind blew, Wang Chengwu stood in the shadow cast by the city tower, looking at the gradually appearing banners and the cavalry running around. After he was silent for a long time, he suddenly laughed, attracting the surrounding generals and young men to look at him.

"Today, the enemy army is exhausted, there is no other way, I will wait for a battle, the horse leather shroud, the husband should be like this!" Wang Chengwu shouted with a smile.

In the distance, the rebels came with banners, and the smoke and dust were filled, and then stood outside the city, and at the forefront was a military formation of 10,000 people, which was the vanguard of Yantang Pass's troops to build a ladder and cover the siege equipment.

The four battalions of soldiers and horses separated from the Bingzhou and Xiliang armies, totaling 8,000 people, were the main force for the siege, led by Zhang Liao and Dong Zhuo.

A large number of craftsmen and people pulled the carts and brought the parts of the siege equipment to the front of the battle, and assembled them as quickly as possible.

Su Chen stood on the chariot, looking at the city in the distance, as if he saw the figure standing on the city tower, he smiled, and ordered Wu Zixun on the side: "Pass the order to General Lu and harass the city here!" ”

Woo woo - woo woo -

The horn sounded, Lu Bu on the side of the escort army raised his face, and then erected the Fang Tian painting halberd, and the Bingzhou cavalry behind him stepped on the roaring hooves of the horses, and sprinted out from his side one by one, more than 2,000 war horses galloped together, instantly covering the noise above and below the city, and rushed directly towards the city wall, and then held the bow and arrow on the horseback.

"Cavalry, watch out for the arrows!"

The wind blew through the flags standing at the head of the city, and the moment the general and colonel on the city wall shouted, dense black shadows rose into the sky, covering a section of the city wall like a cover.

The captains and military commanders on the defending side were all shouting: "Emperor!"

The rain of arrows flew up to the cityβ€”

There was a crackling sound all around, nailed to shields, city walls, and Longyang soldiers who were shot by arrows and fell down the wall.

And the state wolf rode with a bow outside the city wall more than ten zhang distance cruise, running to pull the bow, arrows from time to time coldly flew up to the city head to harass, at this time, the accuracy of the bow and arrow is not so important, as long as the arrow is shot to the city, give the other party some threat and suppression, is their purpose.

Riding and shooting, and it's still going on.

……

North Gate.

Two battalions of Xiliang soldiers, one battalion and state soldiers, totaling 6,000 people, have set up a position outside the city tower. In the open space between the military formations, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhou Cang, and Li Dao were each making preparations before the siege.

Guan Yu rubbed Liu Bei's spirit card and said lightly: "Big brother, the three brothers can kill the enemy together again today." ”

He put the spirit card into the placket, took the Qinglong Yanyue handed by Zhou Cang, stepped on the stirrup, and turned over on the horse's back.

On both sides, Zhang Fei, Zhou Cang, and Li Dao also mounted their horses, and Li Dao arched his hand towards the three of them, and then led the 600 Flying Bear Army to clean up the enemy scouts outside the city.

Zhang Fei jumped out of the array and rushed to the front of the city tower.

"Your grandfather Zhang is here, you and the other juniors don't know that the war is together, and they will be in a different place, why should they give their lives for the mediocre king, he is the emperor of the countryside, and he doesn't understand ......."

persuaded him to surrender one by one, and scolded the emperor for passing the words to the city tower, and a group of soldiers looked at him silently.

……

South Gate.

Gao Shun raised his head to let the sun shine on his face, and after a long time, he opened his eyes and said to Ma Chao and Niu Gai on both sides: "Wait for my camp, let's go up first." ”

Ma Chao stroked the horse's mane and smiled: "Yes, remember to take the city gate first!" ”

"Hehe, I didn't expect to be able to mix a dragon here, and I'm going to be a marquis." Niu Gai laughed along.

There was a slight smile at the corner of Gao Shun's mouth.

"Then it's up to whoever breaks the city first!"

……

An eagle chirped through the sky, and almost everyone looked up at the soaring figure.

All thoughts and thoughts freeze at almost the same time.

On the field, Su Chen, who was dressed in armor, slowly pulled out a slender long knife: "-Attack." ”

Boom! Boom!

The sound of war drums suddenly sounded, Qi Youhu rode on the back of the horse and glanced back, he drew his saber and gave the order.

"Siege!"

Ordered the cavalry to gallop, all kinds of flags were played, the Yantang Pass border army of 10,000 people escorted their comrades with shields and ladders to rush to the city wall, and on their side, there was a ten-zhang high, pushable arrow tower, dozens of hundreds of people pushed the horizontal wood on both sides of the arrow tower, slowly moving on the plain, above the platform, one by one archers, spears, foot shields crouching.

Downstairs at the West City Gate, Wang Chengwu looked at the behemoth in shock, and kept issuing orders to adjust the position of the defense, "Send a few more teams of soldiers to guard over there, don't let that thing get close!" ”

The order was delivered, and the heralds galloped, and the arrows fell in the air like locusts.

On the top of the city and under the city walls, there were people who were hit by arrows and blood splashed with blood. Behind the battlements, the archers under the big shield managed to dodge a flying arrow, gritted their teeth, pulled out a feather arrow from the quiver behind their backs and buckled it to the string, stood up with a loud roar, and leaned out half of their bodies to shoot an arrow at the rebel soldiers rushing down.

The running and roaring border soldiers ran out of the shield cover range with the ladder in their arms, and before the ladder in their hands was erected, the feather arrows on their necks pierced into it, and in his blurred vision, the figures of their companions passed by him one by one, took the ladder, and continued to charge forward.

Then, someone else fell, and more figures came to take over.

The archer on the city wall shot an enemy to death, retracted behind the shield and set up an arrow, and the moment he got up, Lu Bu drew his bow and shot the archer down from above.

The archer defending the city had not yet died immediately, his hands and feet twitched, and a few miserable groans came out of his mouth, and after a few breaths, he was still in pain.

Soon, ladders hung on the city walls that stretched for miles.

Qi Youhu rode on horseback and waved his knife: "Go to the city!" ”

The border troops descended like an ant colony surging up the ladder and climbed up, grabbed the blade in their mouths, and frantically fought with the spears that stabbed down.

Wang Chengwu clenched the sword of the Son of Heaven, turned his head to dodge an arrow that was fired, and poked his head out to look out, the city wall stretched for several miles, and the rebel soldiers were rushing towards this side.

"Hold on!" He yelled

The wooden building of the siege of the city, at this time, was covered, pushed towards a section of the city wall in the distance, the long wooden bridge knocked down and set up on the wall, the soldiers defending the city struggled to push, more than ten Xiliang and state soldiers who were crouching in the building car swarmed out, stepping on the shaking wooden bridge and directly killing the Longyang soldiers who defended the city.

Behind the wooden ladder, more soldiers climbed up and rushed down the building car to the city wall.

The chariot that slammed into the city gate was escorted forward by the border troops with shields.

All kinds of rolling logs and gravel fell, smashed on the shields, and even people with shields pressed on the ground, and the boiling tung oil and gold juice poured down on the city walls, resounding a heart-rending scream.

Below, dozens of flaming rockets flew up the city, some nailed to the walls or people's bodies, and some landed on the city towers, igniting the eaves, and the fire rose with black smoke sweeping through the sky.

North Gate.

"Ahh

Hysterical cries of battle filled the city, blood splashed into people's eyes, blinked, and then was slashed to the ground by the Xiliang soldiers who rushed to the city.

Between the battlements of the wall hanging on the ladder, the sword light pushed wildly, and the Longyang soldiers defending the city were smashed and staggered, constantly moving backwards, and the rebel soldiers who rushed to the head of the city pushed forward desperately.

The guards on this side are also brave people, but they can't go up easily, he constantly commands the prepared soldiers to go to support immediately, and the moment the words fall, on the other side of the vision, seven or eight soldiers are sent flying like monkeys.

A thick snake spear swung horizontally, and the sturdy figure in black armor and black robe was laughing wildly, grabbing the spear that stabbed him with his hand and directly holding the person up with one hand, "While playing." Then, throw it out of the city walls.

"Three generals, the enemy generalsβ€”"

Zhou Cang, who led people up from another ladder, pointed to the figure of the city tower on the right who was guarded by his own soldiers.

The general of the arch guard turned his head, passed through the gap between the layers of personal soldiers and guards, and met a pair of copper bell big eyes, couldn't help but shudder, his heart was furious, and he hurriedly commanded the surrounding soldiers to rush towards the other party.

"Stop him! Stop him! ”

Zhang Fei knocked the rushing military horse away with a spear, and rushed towards the city tower a mile away with a few Xiliang soldiers.

South Gate.

"General, the enemy has landed in the city, and there are not enough rolling logs and stones!"

On the southern city wall, the rebels' offensive was like a sea tide taking on a beat, and the pressure on the Longyang soldiers on this side made them almost breathless, and even the young men in the city who were recruited were pulled to the top of the city to help defend the city.

However, the defenses on the city walls were still stretched.

The rebel army in the south only launched a fierce offensive against one or two points of the entire section of the city wall, and the 800 people who rushed to the head of the city were like a whirlpool, firmly absorbing the surrounding defenders and horses, and using the constantly changing formation to kill the guns and shield arrays that rushed to the ground.

As the commander of the army, Gao Shun will not risk his life and rush to the front, but will command the soldiers of the trapped camp around him to stand on the city wall with an angry attack, and after gaining a firm foothold, he will attract more defenders to besiege him, thereby reducing the pressure on the other side.

Niu Gai also ascended the city and rushed with 700 soldiers to the stone steps of the inner city wall.

In the sound of war drums that shook the sky, the Bingzhou cavalry led by Lu Bu kept circling the three gates to disperse the Longyang County scouts who were trying to create chaos in the rear, and from time to time they would also ride and shoot at the city wall to suppress the opponent's archers.

In just one hour, the defenders of the three gates resisted hard, and their numbers were sharply reduced, and they were hurriedly replaced by soldiers on call in the city to rest and replenish the formed soldiers.

The benefits of the rotation were soon reflected, and the new battalions of Longyang soldiers took over from their comrades in front, and with their intact formation, they killed the rebels on the west wall and kept retreating, and many border troops were squeezed out of the city and fell to their deaths in the battle.

In the shield halberd phalanx in the field outside the city, Su Chen looked at the city head where there were constantly falling soldiers, and he didn't have much feeling for such a tragedy.

"Dian Wei!"

He narrowed his eyes and called softly, and the giant man outside the ancestral car approached, "But it's my turn?!" ”

"You bring a battalion of state soldiers, Dong Zhuo leads a battalion of Xiliang soldiers to reinforce the city wall, the border army of the Qi family has not fought for many years, which is a bit disappointing."

"Then the lord be careful, Dian Wei will come back after taking the guard's head."

Looking at the fierce battle for the city wall, Dian Wei had already itchy hands, bowed, turned around and squeezed away a few shield halberders, his thick legs gradually accelerated to step away, and when he crossed the array of the state army, he roared: "Come to a battalion, follow me!" Immediately rushed to the building car, and the two battalions and the state army divided two thousand people to follow under Zhang Liao's gesture.

After dodging a few arrows, he cut down the soldiers on the wooden ladder, stepped on the ladder and climbed up, and the moment he pulled out his halberd, he shouted: "Get out of the way, let me come!" ”

The roar was like thunder, and the wooden bridge of the giant man's body sank downward, and then, like a chariot, rushed into the battle group fighting on the city wall.

Swords, spears, and arrows fell on him, blocked by iron armor, and blocked by terrible flesh and skin, like an ancient demon god, knocking several people into the air, and the halberds were swung away, all of which were human stumps and minced flesh.

- The Evil of the Ancients is coming!

His body swelled a little, and the iron armor on his body was tightened, and then he led the border army of the city wall to surrender troops, and the Bingzhou army that followed up to kill the city tower, and the tall body was like a wall advancing on the city wall, and there were constantly soldiers defending the city who were knocked over by his halberd, or directly knocked down the city wall; Dong Zhuo on the other side also climbed the city wall, and he glanced down with palpitations.

"Damn, the old man is so old, and he still climbs so high."

In the murmur, he turned his face, a fierce expression appeared, holding the sawtooth knife and shocking, the dense red aura spread from his side, he put down the sawtooth knife, slashed at the pile of people, and roared: "Xiliang!" ”

- Bloodthirsty and cruel!

"Xiliang!"

The eyes of the surrounding Xiliang soldiers were slightly red, their faces were protruding with green tendons and blood vessels, and they let out a roar hysterically, and rushed to the surrounding guards with the most ferocious attitude, wanting to push the city tower two or three miles away.

(End of chapter)