Volume 1 The First Test Chapter 54 Siege

At the north gate, at a distance of one mile from the car city, ten heavy stone throwers are erected high and lined up, and in front of them are horizontal and vertical trenches. Three hundred paces further on, twenty light stone throwers, with great effort, avoided short trenches and deep pits, and were not very neatly erected.

Outside the main camp of the pioneer battalion, the remaining 2,000 heavy armored cavalry were led by Tuoba Wenbo, abandoning the Marxist-Leninist infantry and holding a long lance. Tuoba Wenbo paced back and forth in front of the team on horseback, and when he saw that the stone thrower was already in place, he shouted to the pioneer battalion:

"The revival of the vanguard camp is at hand, you are heavy cavalry on horseback, you are heavy infantry when you dismount, the other three sides have been firmly surrounded, the enemy army has become a turtle in an urn! Why do you leave the north gate alone? It is to give you a chance, use your iron lance to break the city wall, use your iron lance to cut off the enemy's head, the enemy is only two thousand five hundred, I ask each of you to bring me a head of the enemy to avenge the dead brother, if anyone can't do it, then he should not stay in the pioneer camp!

"Revive the Pioneer Battalion! Revive the Pioneer Battalion! Revenge! Revenge!" Faced with the heavy pressure of the troops, the morale of the soldiers of the Pioneer Battalion was once again mobilized.

"Let's go!" With the sound of Tuoba Wenbo's shout, the heavy infantry marched forward in a neat pace, each step was a golden go hitting the ground, every step would bring a tremor of the earth, and the whole battalion would shout "Hi! hi...... every step. The entire battlefield was shocked by this momentum that shook the world, this is the cry of revenge, this is the heavy armor pioneer battalion, even if it has been hit hard, even if it is ridiculed, as long as it is on the battlefield, the heavy armor pioneer battalion is still the strongest in the army.

In the center of the entire battlefield, Murong Ke saw the stone-throwing cart erected high, felt the tremor that was gradually approaching behind him, and smiled slightly bitterly, he was already lacking interest in the battle behind, even if he could kill all the grain transportation team, what could he do, and he was too arrogant to delay for two days in vain!

A group of horses turned their backs to the battlefield and said to the deputy marshal Yang Qi: "Attack." He shouted "Drive!" and led the guards back to the camp, although they passed by the pioneer battalion, they didn't take a second look!

A trumpet sounded throughout the battlefield, and 30,000 infantry troops pressed through the Checheng from three sides, with a thousand archers on each side rushing to the front, and when there were still three hundred paces away from the moat, the bed crossbows on the city wall began to fire, and thirty three-foot-long crossbows shot out, taking the lives of nearly a hundred archers in an instant.

"Don't be afraid, don't stop, rush over this distance, they will fire one more fire at most, rush over!" shouted the captain of the archery.

All archers understand this truth, they can't hesitate at this time, only by pressing forward can they avoid more damage, and everyone is faster, and they are secretly praying that they will not fall in the next wave.

At a distance of 200 paces, the second round of crossbow missed and once again rushed into the formation of the archers in the charge, and the damage caused was already much worse than the first time!

The speed of the archers was even faster, and when they were about to approach a hundred paces, hundreds of feathered arrows were thrown from each side of the wall, and before the first round of arrows fell to the ground, the city was followed by the second round of feathered arrows, and at the same time the bed crossbow was shot again.

One hundred to sixty steps away from the city wall, this is the most difficult stage of the attack of the Great Yan Infantry Army, in this stage, the Yuzhou army on the city can rely on the height of the city wall, the range of more than twenty steps on the ground. The bows and arrows of the Yuzhou defenders can reach the Dayan archers, but the bows and arrows of the Dayan archers cannot reach the Yuzhou army, plus one side has battlements to protect and the other side has no protection. This distance is the death zone of the Great Yan Army. Rushing through this stage, with the numerical superiority of the Dayan army, the Yuzhou army can be fiercely suppressed. If you hesitate too much in this area, you can only take your life in vain.

Finally, after paying more than 100 casualties on each side, they rushed through the death zone, and the archers at the front steadily shot their arrows into the city, followed by an overwhelming rain of arrows falling on the city walls.

No more arrows from the defenders were fired from the walls.

Dayan archers, after paying more than 200 casualties on each side, firmly controlled the initiative in the siege battle.

The spearmen were in position, each throwing their spears high, the blades of which shone with a cold light, pointing straight at the city walls, searching for every suspicious target.

The spearmen carried a ladder about four feet long on the moat, and a group of shield-bearers gathered under the city on the ladder, in an orderly manner.

Several shaman archmages were distributed near the suspension bridge on three sides, doing it together, the ancient and obscure spells fell from the sky, resounded, and the staff was raised at the same time, and in an instant the dark clouds were thick, lightning and thunder, heavy rain poured, and the fog was filled, and the entire car city was shrouded in darkness, plus the sky was getting dark, the afterglow of the sunset was gradually swallowed up by darkness, and the Diao Dou in the center of the car city was also shrouded in clouds and darkness.

All the monks approached the moat, and this width was nothing to the Qi refining monks, and the foundation building monks sacrificed their magic weapons one after another.

All the soldiers of Dayan were waiting, waiting for the horn of the final attack, the horn after the catapult had finished shooting.

Yang Qi, the commander-in-chief of the siege, was stunned by a sudden light cavalry, and at the same time as he gave the command to launch the trebuchet, a group of light horsemen, about 200 men, galloped out of the woods in the northwest corner, rushed from behind the foot soldiers on the west side, and rushed to the stone thrower before the heavy armor vanguard battalion.

Without waiting for the soldiers of the baggage battalion to react, hundreds of rockets were fired at the ten heavy stone throwers, and more than 100 flying arrows covered the soldiers of the baggage battalion indiscriminately, and in the surprised eyes of the heavy armor pioneer battalion and Yang Yao, after shooting two rounds of arrows, they drew their knives and slashed at the ropes of the already burning trebuchets for a while, and without stopping to urge the horses to cross the trenches and rush to the twenty light stone throwing vehicles, and a rain of arrows killed countless soldiers of the baggage battalion, ignited ten stone throwing vehicles, and then dismounted people pulled their horses and dragged them, and even dragged the ten light stone throwing vehicles closest to the car city to the city!

The Great Yan Army didn't expect that the other party would ambush a group of men and horses outside the city. The stone-throwing carts of the Great Yan Army did not have any guards except for the pitchers, and the Great Yan Army, which had already controlled the overall situation, actually appeared a gap in the battlefield, between the heavy infantry vanguard battalion and the siege infantry on the west side. The time when the heavy infantry arrived early for a cup of tea, and the time for the infantry on the west side to launch a late attack for a cup of tea would fill in this gap in the battlefield. The foot soldiers on the east and west flanks tried to rush over for reinforcements, but they were blocked by a trench. Two moats three zhang wide and three zhang deep stretch out a distance of one mile from the north city wall, separating the east and west directions.

There are still two miles away from the north city wall, the heavy armored foot soldiers, slower than the ordinary foot soldiers, and they can't arrive in time, Tuoba Wenbo really regrets it, why don't you ride a horse, even if you ride to the city and then get off the horse to attack!

Yang Xuan, who has experienced countless battles, knows that the handsome man cannot look forward and backward, and must attack without the catapult, so he immediately made a decision, and under an order, ten horns sounded at the same time "Woo, woo,—— woo. "Resounding throughout the battlefield!

This was followed by a deafening shout of killing, which rang out from the east, west, north and south at the same time, and the whole earth trembled.

The pontoon bridges erected on the trenches were all erected and erected on the city wall, and 10,000 shield and sword soldiers rushed to climb the city, but fortunately, the two-zhang high city wall was one zhang shorter than the county seat, and the first ten people who entered the city were made marquis!

This led to the frenzied retaliation of the Great Yan archers, whether they had a target or not, and the spear and arrow were like flying locusts, shooting into the city, and of course, some of the foot soldiers on the ladder were accidentally injured.

More than a dozen monks' magic weapons also rose in response, shooting at the back of the battlements, indiscriminately strangling the enemies hiding behind the battlements, and several monks slashed down the drawbridge with flying swords, and more soldiers rushed to the city.

The arrows in the city were noticeably sparse, and the foot soldiers in front of them fell, providing an opportunity for the foot soldiers behind. Finally, some soldiers stepped into the battlements, and some Qi Refining Realm cultivators rushed to the city, and the arrows in the city became fewer and fewer, leaving only sporadic and barely shot to the battlements, but they were also lethal.

As the sky grew dark, there were sounds of killing, groaning, wailing, and swords and guns in the city, and nearly 20,000 soldiers were seen climbing into the city.

Yang Qi's brow finally relaxed, and the shadow of the total destruction of the catapult just now still lingered, which would affect the capture of Neiqiu. It takes a lot of time to rebuild the stone-throwing cart, and the throwing hand just now is basically the craftsman of the baggage battalion, who was killed by most of the light cavalry, how to explain to the commander! It is so hateful, these Dachen light cavalry are like flies, and they will be disgusted once before they die.

Loudly ordered Tuoba Wenbo, who was bypassing the short trenches: "Those rangers just now had better be captured alive, I will cut them with a thousand knives to relieve the hatred in my heart!"

With the ridicule of the shouts of killing, Yang Yan immediately summoned the herald

"Order, all shamans stop spells, since they have attacked, it will be dark against us!"

"The order is that all the monks gather at the north gate of the city, and they should not compete with the soldiers for any merit. ”

"Order, archers and spearmen to stop attacking, clean the battlefield, collect arrows and short spears. ”

looked at the heavily armored vanguard battalion that was about to rush to the city gate, he was a little pity, shook his head, and sighed: "It's not that I don't give you a chance, this group of Dachen army grain transportation troops is already vulnerable." ”

The shouting and killing in the city gradually subsided, the dark clouds dispersed, and the fighting in the city also appeared, the big car city was still the big car city, but it was surprisingly quiet, all the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers all passed into the city, except for some noisy noises that began to be heard, there was no movement. It's weird

What's even more strange is that suddenly a rope was thrown, and the end of the rope was tied to the stone, and it was put on the top of the ladder, and the stone went around several times with the rope, and after being bolted, the ladder was pulled into the city, causing the archers and spearthrowers outside the city to shoot again, but it did not prevent the ladder from sliding into the car city. Many soldiers pointed to the water level in the moat and shouted "look, look—ghost, ghost," and the water level in the moat dropped by more than two feet at some point!

Suddenly, twenty fire thunderbolts suddenly threw out in the already quiet northern city, which exploded like meteors in the group of heavily armored infantry soldiers who had rushed to the city. But the flames that erupted from the fire and thunder flew everywhere, and soon ignited the firewood and grass branches in the surrounding pits, and those deep pits that were not ignited were also ignited by unknown spells. A large array of fire attributes was immediately opened, and the two thousand heavy armored soldiers were immediately trapped by the large array and fell into the fire.

In the eyes of outsiders, there was obviously enough space between the fires, and those heavily armored soldiers were only spinning in place, but they couldn't see the way out. At this moment, the north gate of the car city was opened, and those heavily armored soldiers swarmed in, and when the last soldier rushed into the big car city, the north gate was slowly closed. It's like a big mouth swallowing two thousand ironclad soldiers.

The archers and spear-throwers outside the moat had stopped attacking, many of the archers had empty quivers, and the spear-throwers had only one talisman spear in their hands. Just as he was hesitating, a large number of archers suddenly appeared at the head of the city, and a rain of arrows poured down on the Dayan soldiers, and in the wailing, they fell in pieces!

Yang Yu, who saw all this, was shocked and hurriedly ordered: "Collect the troops!" and the trumpeter, who was also panicked, hurriedly blew a horn "Woo, woo." ”

The Great Yan soldiers were filled with fear in their hearts and began to flee on all fronts, in stark contrast to the swarming attack just now, and retreated back to the original place of departure in three directions, with less than 5,000 men and horses.

It was completely dark, and the impotence after counting the people almost collapsed!

What's even more strange is that none of the monks and shamans have returned!

And then they waited.