Great Xia archers have an effective range of within a hundred steps, but with the help of the tall city walls, the range can be extended to about one hundred and fifty steps.

When the smoke of the cloud and thunder array cleared, and the enemy's subsequent charge was still pouring in like a tidal wave, these longbowmen began to attack. In order to enhance the effectiveness of night battles, they also used rocket blasts.

Flames made shining arcs in the air, starting from the battlements of the city wall and plunging headlong into the black line that was still moving forward.

At this moment, the outline of the charging enemy is already faintly visible, and the black shadow hit by the flames, as long as the legs can still move, will still move according to the original rhythm, and even do not extinguish the fire on the body.

The flames burned more and more on the bodies that had been hit, until the flames followed the outlines of the bodies and enveloped them all.

Walking flames, burning silently, until the legs were completely burned, the fire would fall to the ground and slowly extinguish, this fire light illuminated more silent, numb expressions around them, they were not soldiers, they were just soul-drained walking corpses from hell.

"Shoot the arrows!" Captain Tian Yao strode back and forth behind his soldiers, although he knew that there was no need to command at this moment, and the soldiers had their own goals, he still gave orders one after another, so that his subordinates knew that their commander was confident enough to work with them to repel these devilish enemies.

It was too late to ignite the rockets, and in the face of the black pressure of the charging team gradually approaching the city wall, the archers did not have enough time to ignite the rockets again, but directly shot the arrows in the arrow basket next to them one by one. It's just that these arrows are no longer as powerful as rockets, and the damage to these demonic enemies is limited, because if they don't directly penetrate the tendons on these devils' legs, even if their upper bodies are full of arrows, they still won't stop moving forward.

But after all, it was still slow, and some figures who were burned to charcoal or had blood in their bodies stopped, but at the same time, there were more endless figures, breaking through the layers of defense outside Tianyao City, and looking at the arrows loudly informing their companions of the distance of the enemy's front, one hundred steps, eighty steps, sixty steps......

Flying sickle preparation, spear preparation, fire oil preparation......

Captain Tianyao was busy, giving orders one after another, and the defenders used the combat qualities they had trained countless times to hide the faint uneasiness of the entire Tianyao City.

Suddenly, with a whoosh, a defender soldier on the city wall fell to the ground in response, with a flying arrow with a black tail feather stuck in his chest, and the surrounding soldiers saw this and warned loudly, "Raise the shield, raise the shield, the enemy has already crossed an arrow." ”

Immediately, the other Great Xia defenders of Tianyao took advantage of the situation to set up shields in front of them. A rain of arrows poured down immediately.

Captain Tianyao's heart sank, this was the first time, the enemy's brigade had already attacked to a distance where it could shoot an arrow to the city wall, and in the previous battle, only a few sporadic assaults could break through to such a distance.

Suddenly, the captain thought of the most important thing, and shouted at the arrow tower, "Cover the retreat of General Chang Lao!"

A few pro-troops came up and wanted to retreat with Chang Poyu, but General Chang's eyes widened and glared at everyone, "I'm going to watch you fight off the enemy here, who dares to pull me away?" It's a shame that we relied on the strength of the city's defense to let the enemy attack a stone's throw away!"

The subordinates looked at Chang Poyu, who was thunderous, and looked at each other, everyone knew the old man's fiery temper, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

Captain Tianyao saw that Chang Poyu insisted on refusing to withdraw from the city wall, so he had to take a few of his own soldiers and personally rushed to the arrow tower, "General Chang! You are the fate of our Great Xia Fifth Army, if something happens to you, it is not something I can bear!"

"I'm going to watch you retreat from the enemy with my own eyes here, don't you understand?"

Chang Poyu didn't look at Captain Tianyao who rushed over, but pulled his hard bow, and then threw off his cloak and took off the elbow armor that affected the bow.

"I'd like to see if this bowstring can still kill the enemy!"

General Chang's decision made Captain Tianyao frown, the old general's temper was understandable, but if something really happened to him in Tianyao, it was definitely not something that Tianyao City could afford, and more importantly, if he was worried about the safety of this old man, he would not be able to concentrate on commanding the city defense.

Finally, the captain made up his mind and stomped his feet, "General Chang, in this way, don't blame him for being offended by his humble position!" The captain waved his hand behind him, and dozens of border troops rushed forward, carrying the old general and running down the city tower.

"Little rabbit cub, you are rebelling!" Although Chang Polu was tall and big, he was still lifted up by the taller border soldiers, his feet were off the ground, he twisted his body unwillingly, but he couldn't break free of the arms that locked his shoulders and back, "See if I don't cut your ......"

Captain Tianyao clenched his fist behind him and swore towards the background of General Chang Lao, "General Chang don't worry, I will wait for the Tianyao Chang Victorious Army to assure you that if those thieves want to enter Tianyao, they will not step on our corpses. ”

General Chang listened to these firm words, stopped struggling, and he quieted down, which made the soldiers holding him also let go of their arms. The old general believes in the power behind his oath,

"Little rabbit cub, from this moment on, I will listen to your arrangement, and all the Daxia people in Tianyao will listen to your arrangement, but I don't want you to die, I want you to do it, the people are in the city!

A lifetime of military career has made the old general understand that there is no change of generals in battle, and in the previous battles, Captain Tianyao also proved his command talent. Chang Po's eyes judged that this was a trustworthy subordinate.

The change in General Chang's attitude made Captain Tianyao breathe a sigh of relief, he shook off the strip of cloth that was still hanging around his neck, moved the injury on his arm, and responded loudly at General Chang's figure, "Please rest assured, the general is in the city!"

"People are in the city!"

"People are in the city!"

......

The same shout soon resounded throughout the entire Tianyao City Defense.

The dense rain of arrows began to stagger through the air, and some of the arrows on both sides would even collide in the air, even if there was a shield to protect it, there were still Daxia men who were defending the city falling.

And those besieging figures, covered by a dense rain of arrows, fell even more.

But even so, the boundless black line still spread to the foot of the city wall like a tide. It is unimaginable that the Iron Harrier and the Fang Dun Infantry, who have always been on the same footing, have formed a coalition of tens of thousands to attack this border city in Great Xia.

What makes the defenders on the city wall even more incomprehensible is that these enemies don't even have battering rams to break the city and ladders to climb, and the iron harriers only rely on the flesh and blood of the war horses, and they frantically hit the strong city gate again and again, and the heavy armor on the tall horses was smashed into pieces, and then the flesh and blood were shattered, and finally the white bones of the forest were shattered, until they died in front of the city gate and could not get up again.

Those shield infantry directly carried the shield as a ladder on their bodies, and the shield soldiers who rushed up from behind climbed on top of the shield in front, continued to carry the shield and squatted, and so on, extended, and saw that the slopes that could directly rush to the head of the city wall were built by relying on these materials mixed with square shields and flesh and blood.

The defenders' scythes attacked.

Several iron hooks, which looked like huge scythes that had been hanging from the top of the wall, were pushed down from the wall by the defenders.

These huge iron hooks, weighing thousands of pounds, were attached to the iron ropes the thickness of a child's arm, and the iron ropes were firmly nailed into the wall tiles of the city wall by iron rings. As the iron hook fell, it was pulled by the iron rope like a pendulum against the city wall, drawing a huge arc, and at the point of the arc, the iron hook cut the square shield infantry who had erected the ladder along the wall into pieces of minced flesh, and threw them out.

The human ladders that had just been erected were cut off from the root of the city wall by such flying sickles, and then the entire human ladder collapsed.

But now the siege is no longer a hopeless charge, because the soldiers who are constantly rushing to the foot of the city wall and stepping on the corpses of their comrades in front of them have seen the hope of breaking the city.

One ladder fell, several ladders continued to be erected, and the pikemen defending the city began to stab the enemies who were about to rush to the city wall with spears several feet long.

As the screams on the city wall continued to sound, Captain Tianyao knew that those soldiers who were besieging the city would not let out such screams, these screams could only be the unwillingness of the defenders who were killed, and the screams that followed could only show that more and more city walls had been broken by the enemy.

The lieutenant hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to attack!

Captain Tianyao had already activated the last line of defense outside the city wall, several huge oil drums erected on the pass of the city wall were smashed open by the guards soldiers, and along the opening, the surging fire oil poured down along the outer edge of the city wall, and those square shield infantry who were still desperately climbing towards the city wall let these pungent smell of fire oil pour all over their bodies, and still did not stop climbing upward.

Finally, the fire oil was poured, the defenders lit the fire oil with torches, and in an instant, the entire city wall in the northern section of Tianyao was all illuminated by the blazing fire, and the siege shield infantry who were soaked in fire oil all turned into groups of walking flames, these flames still stubbornly climbed a few steps towards the city wall, but they were soon burned into charcoal by the fire.

This point is the flame of the entire city wall, is Tian Yao's last line of defense, through the wall of flames up to several zhang high, after Captain Tian Yao saw the wall of fire, the enemy who was still surging black pressure, he endured the pain on his body, pulled out his cross knife, one of his wounds on his arm did not heal, but the captain understood that Tian Yao's final decisive battle was coming.

The fire oil burned violently, almost every wall brick was red, but the wall of fire slowly began to shrink and become shorter after burning for a while, and Captain Tianyao commanded all the defenders who could still fight, all of them drew their cross swords, waiting for the start of the final hand-to-hand combat.

"People are in the city!", just as the captain's eyes were staring at the wall of fire that was getting shorter and shorter, suddenly a soldier ran from behind him to report the news,

"Captain, Captain Lynx is back!"

"Lynx?!" Captain Tianyao's body shook, this was the only carrier pigeon from Tianyao City that came back. How many people were there in those black-pressed enemies, and where did they come from, these questions that had plagued the commander of Tianyao City for several days, could he find answers?

The lieutenant turned to look behind him, there, a figure that was still staggering with the support of other soldiers attracted the captain's attention, and under careful identification, it was the last group of carrier pigeon leaders who were personally sent out by Chang Poyu in the evening, the carrier pigeon lynx.