Chapter 18: The Siege (1)

The watchtower is higher than the city wall, so it can see the battles everywhere clearly, and it is also convenient for Li Ye to capture fighters and dispatch troops.

The company camp was behind the watchtower, and in front of the watchtower was an army of 100,000 in a neat array. Of course, outside Li Ye's city wall, there are only about 50,000 soldiers and horses, but it is also spread out in a large area, covering a radius of several miles. Looking beyond the city wall, Li Ye could also see the large array of officials and troops at the other end.

In front of the large array of officers and troops spread out on three sides, Dengzhou City seemed very small, like an isolated island in the sea.

The arrangement of the large array is very exquisite, the small phalanx of the infantry army forms a large phalanx, and the two wings of the large phalanx are guarded by cavalry, which are connected into a piece, and finally form a sea of iron armor.

There are large passages between the large phalanxes, and there are small passages between the small phalanxes, one is to facilitate the heralds to gallop and give orders, but to draw a boundary between each other's subordinates, and the actions do not affect each other.

In the phalanx, the shield-bearers were in front, the pikemen followed, and again the archers. As for the horizontal knife...... In the army of the Tang Dynasty, everyone carries a horizontal sword.

Li Ye stood with his hands in his hands, and from time to time he felt out the folding fan and shook it gently on his chest.

Today's first combat mission is to fill in the moat.

In fact, when Zhu Wen attacked Dengzhou, he had already filled in the moat, and during this time, he worked day and night, but he only dug a trench, and he was still far from restoring his original appearance. The officers and soldiers had already prepared sacks filled with soil, and the ones responsible for filling the trenches were naturally Caizhou soldiers.

As Li Ye's military order was issued, the earth-shattering war drums sounded, and the phalanx in front began to move, looking like the ocean had divided a lake out. The speed is not very fast, but the smoke and dust are already filling under his feet, and from Li Ye's position, it looks a bit like an ant moving.

After approaching the range of the bows and arrows of the defenders of Dengzhou, a rain of arrows like dark clouds splashed on the city wall, and the arrow clouds slid through an arc in mid-air and fell into the large array of officers and soldiers.

At this time, the large array of officers and troops had begun to gallop, the people in front rushed up with shields, and the people behind risked their bodies to follow. At last they stopped in front of the trench, and the soldiers dragging the sacks rushed out, threw the sacks into the trenches, and ran back again.

In this process, many people were shot by sharp arrows, but not many really fell to the ground, the officers and soldiers were well-armoured, and it was not easy for sharp arrows to shoot through the iron armor, unless they were shot into the gaps, otherwise they would have to be ironarmed.

And the sharp arrow that shoots through the iron armor has to shoot into the flesh and skin, and it is even more difficult to further injure the internal organs. At this distance, the bow and arrow are not so powerful, and only the unlucky ones will fall if they are shot in the face, neck, and thigh. Even if the rest were hit, no one was lying on the ground crying dad and mother, what should they do.

As the battle progressed, most of the soldiers who ran had a few arrows stuck in their bodies, but they were still agile. When it comes to the battlefield, it is a basic requirement to not get out of the line of fire with minor injuries, and when you are wearing iron armor, you don't even have time to bandage.

Those self-righteous and brave soldiers were about to be hit by the range hedgehogs, and they were still running and carrying sacks into the trenches, they were not injured, although the sharp arrows were stuck in the armor, but they did not penetrate into the viscera, and they were not seriously injured.

However, as the fighting continued, the rain of arrows fell one after another, and the casualties gradually increased. The covering blow, although stupid, is not useless, wave after wave of arrows, there is always bad luck, being shot at the vital point and falling to the ground.

And once the rain of arrows continues to fall to a certain extent, those who are not shot are considered lucky.

The archers at the head of the city have changed several waves, and a normal archer can shoot a dozen arrows in a row to the end, and no more arms can stand it. At this time, the value of the monk is reflected, the monk who shoots the arrow is not so easy to get tired, and the monk who is shot is not so easy to get injured.

The trench filling lasted for half a day, and the officers and soldiers were well prepared and the trench was almost filled. So the soldiers in front of them withdrew.

The Great Array sent a second phalanx, and they pushed siege carts, nest carts, boxcars, and ladders to start running at full speed. The soldiers rushed through the trench with their shields, and in the rain of arrows they set up the ladder on the wall, and pushed the nest cart onto the wall.

Holding a horizontal sword and a round shield, the armor began to climb the ladder with the stones and rolling wood, and the planks stretched out from the nest cart and put it on the city wall, and a team of soldiers rushed out, and there were also archers in the nest cart, shooting at the city wall.

The battle is carried out here, it is the process of ant possession, the most bloody and cruel, the casualties are multiplied, and it is also the time for the monks to show their means, they climb the city wall, which is much easier than ordinary soldiers.

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On the first day, the Caizhou soldiers went to war, and they were lackluster.

On the second day, the Pinglu Army and the Zhongwu Army went into battle one after another.

After the army received the city, a group of officers and soldiers, suddenly rushed out of the military formation, they were vigorous, the movement was fast, they did not hold a shield, just held a knife, they did not climb the ladder, the toes on the ladder a few points, a few jumps, on the head of the city, the long knife chopped, the white light flickered, the Dengzhou soldiers in front of them fell one by one.

The generals and monks of Dengzhou went out one after another to meet these officers and monks, and each of them caught and killed each other.

The head of the city fell into a scuffle, like a pot of boiling water, and everywhere there were soldiers and monks on both sides who were fighting.

The Dengzhou soldiers who appeared in front of Shangguan Allure were a sword-wielding Qi practitioner, he rushed over, and the long knife in his hand waved out of the Dao Training, and the nearby Pinglu Army soldiers were either killed or injured, and he cleared out a clearing for a while.

When he saw Shangguan Allure, who was holding a silver spear and was on the thin side, his eyes lit up, and he immediately rushed over, his eyes flashing with bloodthirsty light, and his hideous smile was full of murderous intent.

"Boy, give me death!" the qi practitioner quickly approached, urged the aura, and slashed with all his might. In his mind, the picture of Shangguan Allure's corpse being separated had already emerged.

Then he saw that the silver armor general in front of him moved, it seemed to move, because in a trance, the other party's figure was a little blurred, which made him feel strange, he was a qi practitioner, in the eyes of the qi practitioner, there should not be a time when the other party's figure was blurred.

It's just that before the qi practitioner could come up with a reason, he felt a pain in his chest, his limbs suddenly stiffened, and the long knife he raised could no longer fall, and the aura around his body dissipated like the wind, and the power was like a flood, and it disappeared in an instant.

Stunned and bowing his head, the Qi Practitioner's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe that a silver spear had pierced his chest!

In an instant, he finally reacted, and the other party's vague figure was because the other party approached instantly, because the speed was too fast, and he suddenly disappeared in place and suddenly appeared in front of him, so he had the illusion of a vague figure!

"You...... Master!" The Qi Practitioner's eyes were full of fear, and he looked at Shangguan Chengcheng, who had a calm expression and deep eyes in front of him, and barely finished saying this, and he fell.

Drawing back the silver spear, Shangguan Chengcheng did not stay in place and rushed to the next opponent.

Not far in front of him, a monk from the second level of the Dengzhou Army's Qi training was slashing off the arm of a Pinglu Army junior colonel with a knife and slashing at his neck.

The Pinglu Army Colonel, who was a first-level Qi practitioner, showed a look of horror in his eyes, retreated again and again, stuck his back to the city wall, and finally had no way to retreat, seeing that he was about to be beheaded by the other party, his eyes were full of despair.

Shangguan Chengcheng arrived in time, picked up the silver spear, opened the long knife of the qi practitioner, grabbed the little colonel, dragged him behind, handed it to his comrades behind him, and pointed the silver spear directly at the door of the qi practitioner.

"Dare to stand in your grandfather's way, look for death!" The qi practitioner was furious, and he raised his knife and slashed at Shangguan Chengcheng, and in an instant, he slashed several times, and Dao Dao Pi Lian attacked Shangguan Qicheng.

The fluctuating aura carried a strong wind in an instant, and before it was even in front of him, it blew Shangguan Allure's battle robe, and its power could not be underestimated.

Shangguan Chengcheng's eyebrows were calm, snatched out like a dragon, and crashed into the horse training, which was still extremely powerful, and when it came into contact with his spear, it dissipated one after another, and the silver spear went castration unabated, and went straight to the throat of the other party!

The qi practitioner was shocked, and hurriedly returned the knife to protect his throat. In an instant, the swords and guns intersected, and the sound of impact was crisp and pleasant.

The qi practitioner thought that his defense was foolproof, but the long knife was bounced off as soon as it came into contact with the silver spear, and the majestic aura from the silver spear made his arm numb, as if he had been pricked by a needle, which made him frightened, and he knew that he had encountered a strong enemy, so he hurriedly withdrew and retreated.

Late.

Shangguan poured into the city and ran forward, and the silver spear entered again, like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter. The qi practitioner lost his long knife to protect his throat, and suddenly the door was wide open, no matter how he dodged, he did not escape the fate of being bitten by the silver spear on his neck.

"Ahh

The qi practitioner was powerless to fall, Shangguan Chengcheng swept past him, and the soldiers of the Pinglu army who surrounded him chopped him to death with knives, and before he died, the qi practitioner was still terrified: "What a strong strength......

With the monks opening the way, they grabbed territory at the head of the city, and covered the officers and soldiers on the ladder to enter the city, and the officers and soldiers attacked rapidly, and soon there were elite soldiers who crossed the female wall one after another and killed in front of the defenders of Dengzhou City.

In front of Shangguan Allure, a battle formation of the Dengzhou army was rushing over, and more than a dozen armor soldiers were holding shields and holding swords, all of them were tall and big, like a small mountain, giving people great deterrence.

The knives and guns in the hands of the officers and soldiers finally broke through the shields and found a gap to stab them, but they could not break through the armor and could not hurt them at all, and the knives and axes in their hands were so powerful that they killed the officers and soldiers with their backhands.

Shangguan Chengcheng glanced at those Dengzhou military armor soldiers, and knew that they were the absolute elite of the army, although they were not monks, but they were also the best among the mortal martial artists.

In the military formation, such elites are the sharp knives that break through the enemy formation, and they have a special name, called "trappers". The so-called trapping soldiers, breaking the army and trapping the battle, tearing the enemy formation, destroying the city and pulling out the village, invincible, is the trump card in the hands of the general.