Chapter 1201: Crushing
Mangchai was anxious in an instant, because he felt that Datang would not really besiege and not attack, but obviously...... Hou Junji had no intention of betraying him at all, and when the two thousand soldiers went straight to their back, in the barracks in front of them, the three thousand soldiers who were originally stationed here also began to advance quickly.
And when they were advancing, in the jungle behind the camp, another 5,000 soldiers swarmed out from the mountains and forests, and when they saw so many Tang soldiers approaching quickly with neat steps, Mangchai's face changed wildly.
Datang actually hid so many soldiers? Could it be that they have been waiting for their own army to arrive?
But at this time, Mangchai didn't care about it so much, and even those soldiers who went to copy their retreat didn't bother to pay attention to it, because now the soldiers of Datang were ready to attack, and if they couldn't stop the other party's attack, they would also die.
What's more, if they want to run at this time, it's too late. They rushed out of the village, and they would also collide head-on with the more than 2,000 soldiers.
In this flat valley, when they came in, their large army could sneak into the cottage from the halfway point of the mountain, because the enemy did not know when they came, but when they wanted to leave, only two or three hundred soldiers on the path could block their escape route.
If you want to retreat directly with a large army, you can only leave directly from the main road in the valley.
But when it comes to the main road, the opponent's 2,000 troops are enough to block all the roads, and they have nowhere to run if they want to.
So, let's stop the Tang Dynasty army first.
It's just that what Mangchai didn't see was that the eight thousand Tang troops lined up, except for the one thousand soldiers at the front, five hundred of whom carried a huge steel shield in their hands that was large enough to completely cover a person's figure, all the troops in the back carried a bow in their hands, and they also carried a quiver around their waists.
Each person had thirty arrows in his quiver.
The remaining 500 soldiers in the front row were two of the three carrying medium-sized bed crossbows and one carrying the crossbow arrows of medium-sized bed crossbows.
A total of more than 100 medium-sized bed crossbows stood directly at a distance of about 100 meters from the city wall, and at this distance, even if they stood on the city wall, Manbe's bows and arrows could not attack at all.
Under the horrified gaze of all the soldiers on the city wall, more than a hundred medium-sized bed crossbows took the lead in pulling the crossbow strings, and then as a flag waved down without hesitation, a low buzzing sound sounded, and more than three hundred crossbow arrows rushed straight towards the city wall at a terrifying speed.
"Boom", "Ah", loud noises and screams instantly resounded throughout the city wall.
The terrifying sound was caused by the crossbow arrows of the bed crossbow directly hitting the wood of the city wall, and some wooden stakes with the thickness of the calf were directly pierced by the terrifying crossbow arrows, and the exploding wood even directly injured many soldiers around.
And with more screams, countless soldiers seemed to be directly hit head-on by the invisible bison, and fell directly upside down from under the city wall.
Even many soldiers directly two or three people seemed to be skewered into kebabs, and two or three people flew out together.
Blood was sprinkled all over most of the city wall in an instant, not to mention the ordinary Mangbu soldiers, even the patriarchs of Mangchai and Songbu were already frightened.
But the Tang soldiers under the city did not hesitate at all, and when the first wave of crossbow arrows was shot from the medium-sized bed crossbow, the soldiers holding giant shields in the front row directly began to charge, and the Tang soldiers who followed them also swarmed towards the city wall like a tide.
"Shoot back, shoot back." Manchai shivered for a while, and then came back to his senses and shouted loudly.
But he didn't need to shout, in fact, the soldiers on the city wall had already begun to frantically start to fight back with the bows and arrows in their hands.
It's just that their bow arms can't shoot at such a long distance, and their bows and arrows are only forty or fifty meters away, especially since they are still wooden arrows.
But when they could shoot the Tang soldiers, in addition to the shield soldiers in the front row, the soldiers in the second row in the back also directly pulled out the longbow in their hands.
With a "buzz", more than a thousand arrows slammed into the city wall at a terrifying speed.
The wooden city wall is not like the city wall of the traditional city of the Tang Dynasty, it does not have a high enough female wall to block the arrows, not to mention, the walled city of Songbe is not large, and it is impossible to stand on the city wall with 10,000 soldiers, in fact, there are more than 3,000 soldiers standing on the city wall at most.
The rest are in the walled city, ready to be replenished at any time.
But now many arrows that crossed the walls caused terrible damage to the soldiers behind.
The Tang soldiers standing under the city wall did not hesitate at all, but kept pulling their bows as fast as they could, and the arrows in the quivers around their waists were constantly decreasing.
When five arrows are fired quickly, the soldier will quickly retreat, and the soldiers will be constantly filling in the back, and the number of soldiers shooting arrows at the same time is guaranteed to remain at 2,000.
But it was the continuous arrows fired by the soldiers of these two thousand people that formed a terrifying rain of arrows, and the arrows of the three-edged armor-piercing arrows were an unprecedented terrifying experience for these Mangbe soldiers who used wooden arrows.
The leather armor and rattan armor on their bodies are as if they do not exist, and if they hit, they can be easily pierced by these arrows.
As long as they are hit by arrows, what awaits them is almost death, the companions around them are constantly falling, the soldiers of Mangbe have been frightened, and there are still many people who dare to stand up and attack, but when the soldiers of Datang advanced a distance of about fifty meters and began to shoot arrows, the soldiers of Mangbe have been pressed and did not dare to raise their heads.
Many people hid like shrunken turtles on stakes or behind the city walls, and the Mangbe soldiers inside the city walls fled in all directions.
It was only a few rounds of arrow rain, and the blood had already stained the ground inside the Songbe Walled City red.
Manchai was stunned, and before he could come back to his senses, the giant shield soldiers who had already rushed to the bottom of the city walls tied some special sealing tarpaulins to the load-bearing wooden pillars of the wooden walls.
When the sharp whistle sounded, all the shield soldiers quickly used the fire fold that had already been lit in their hands to directly ignite the lead on the broken city mine!
When the fuse was lit, all the shield soldiers quickly carried the military shield and began to retreat frantically, although the lead of the broken city mine was enough for them to run sixty or seventy meters away, but what if?
The men on the city wall didn't know what they were doing, and the shield soldiers who rushed in front of the archers quickly lowered the huge shields in their hands, and all the shields were close together, forming a temporary steel wall.
When Manchai didn't know what they were doing, suddenly a terrifying loud bang resounded throughout the valley, and a huge roar was accompanied by the tremor of the earth, and a large section of their wooden wall was thrown directly into the sky like a child's toy.