Chapter 387: Ascending the Tower
Bang bang bang - the thunderbolt car was started for the second time, and thousands of wine jars and oil cans were thrown into the city of Hanzhong, and the fragile jars were smashed into various parts of the city with a crackle, and the fragile jars shattered in the first time, tilting out the spirits and oil stored inside, and these flammable liquids immediately became the fuel for the flames, making the raging sea of fire even more surging. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Everywhere in the city was on fire, and more and more people were burning on fire, and the screams and shouts were incessant. In the midst of a wail, a sergeant shouted in a sharp voice: "Oh no, the armaments are on fire, come and put out the fire!"
Hearing this shout, Ling Bud immediately turned around and looked in the direction of the materials for the defense of the city, the military resources that had only been slightly affected before were now shrouded in the roaring flames, and I believe that it would not be long before all the materials would turn into a pile of ashes. Ling Bao was in a hurry, and hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up, hurry up, put out the fire! Haven't the people who dug up the sand come back yet?"
Lei Tong came to Lingbao's side with scorching flames. asked loudly: "What can I do about this?" Ling Bao's brows furrowed tightly, what should I do? I can only take one step at a time, what else can I do? Ling Bao patted Lei Tong's shoulder and said in a low voice: "Now is the time for survival, we must not mess with ourselves." You hurry up and take the soldiers to the battlements and set up defenses, believing that the Yan army will attack soon. Stay here!"
Lei Tong agreed loudly, snatched the wet cowhide from a passing sergeant, draped it on his body with his backhand, and then shouted to his subordinate sergeants: "Follow a certain to set up defenses!" Lei Tong's subordinate soldiers followed Lei Tong's practice. He took the wet cowhide from the hands of his comrades, and shared a piece of it with every three people, followed behind Lei Tong, rushed through the sea of fire, and came to the battlements.
There is no flame here, Lei Tong pulled off the cowhide on his body, and then handed it to a personal soldier beside him, ordering: "Bring people back and pick up more people!" There are only more than 100 wet cowhides. Therefore, there were only more than 300 people who passed through the flames, and together with the Yizhou army that had been deployed here before, there were less than 5,000 people, and it was absolutely impossible to block the attack of Zhang Chong's troops with this manpower. So Lei Copper needs more manpower.
The soldier took the cowhide and rushed back into the sea of fire with more than a hundred men, and after some scorching pain, passed through the sea of fire. When they came to the middle of the wall, more than 200 people gathered in the same way as before. Sharing one or two dog skins for each of them, they turned and rushed towards the battlements.
After this cycle three times, this personal soldier only led more than 600 people through the flames to the battlements, but at this time, the Yan army's arrow rain offensive was launched!
Lei Tong looked at the rain of arrows and powerful crossbows in the sky, and immediately realized that something was wrong in his heart, and hurriedly shouted loudly: "Quick! Shield! Hurry up!" Although affected by the night, Lei Tong couldn't see how many arrows rained down on the city he was defending, but Lei Tong was also a strong general after all, just by virtue of the sound of the blade breaking the wind, he deduced that the red-clothed ballista had been launched.
Lei Tong's order was given in time, and at the moment before the arrow was about to reach his body, he all erected their shields and blocked them in front of him. However, because of the flames on the city, the Yan army saw the situation on the city head clearly, so the arrows shot were also purposefully accurate, while the defenders on the city were dazzled by the flames, and the reason that the sky was dark, they couldn't see where the arrows were shooting at all, and they were holding up the shield close to the body to minimize the body area exposed outside the shield to prevent being shot by the arrows.
As the saying goes, open guns are easy to dodge and dark arrows are difficult to defend against, and the arrows that are being shot now are like deadly hidden arrows for these defenders who are illuminated by flames in the dark! The next moment, the sound of sharp arrows hitting shields and piercing bodies sounded one after another.
Lei Tong held the shield with both hands, and constantly heard the painful cries and screams of the soldiers around him, and almost every time he breathed, at least five people fell to the ground in the middle! Lei Tong's luck was still good, only a dozen arrows hit his shield one after another, but there was no crossbow to patronize his shield.
After this round of arrow rain, Lei Tong emerged from behind the shield, and by the light of the fire behind him, he saw that only more than 2,000 people could still stand, and the remaining 3,000 people were either killed or seriously injured and fell to the ground, unable to get up again.
Without waiting for Lei Tong to give the next order, the arrow tower commanded by the veteran Huang Yong began to play a role again, and the thousands of archers standing on the arrow tower immediately launched a targeted elimination operation after the arrow rain of their own army, and the sharp arrows were like long eyes, shooting at the defenders who came out from behind the shields and were ready to check the situation, and Lei Tong was also among their sniper targets.
Because of the targeted killing, the timing of the sharpshooters' arrows was not consistent, and the sound of the bowstring vibrating did not resonate. In the noisy battlefield, it was almost inaudible, so Lei Tong did not hear the sound of the enemy pulling the bowstring this time, until the sharp arrow shot in front of him with cold light, Lei Tong saw the arrow under the light of the fire, and hurriedly lowered his body, so that the arrow grazed his shoulder and avoided the cold arrow.
But not everyone can have such agile skills as Lei Tong, and many people have not even reacted to what is going on, and they are pierced through their bodies by sharp arrows shot by the enemy. They were killed by cold, merciless arrows.
Lei Tong hid behind his shield and shouted: "Avoid the arrows! Quickly, hide all your bodies behind the battlements! Raise your shield to protect the top of your head" With the enemy's two rounds of arrow rain shooting, the original more than 5,000 people are now less than 2,000 people left, and if this continues, his men and horses will be shot and killed, how can they resist the enemy's siege troops? Therefore, Lei Tong hurriedly asked his subordinates to take protective actions to prevent them from being attacked by the enemy's arrow rain again. Now there is no other better way. Due to the darkness of the sky, he could not organize an effective counterattack at all, because they could not see the enemy troops under the city at all, and they were all under the cover of night. On the contrary, if Lei Tong prevents the counterattack, once his subordinates are exposed, the enemy can take advantage of the fire at the head of the city. Inflict precision strikes on yourself and others.
Surprisingly, Lei Tong hid behind the shield for ten breaths, but never waited for the next round of arrow rain. Lei Tong thought for a moment, quickly stood up, threw away his shield, and shouted loudly: "Hurry up! The siege troops are coming up!"
That's right! The reason why the enemy stopped the attack of the arrow rain was because the soldiers of Zhang Chong's department had already climbed to the top of Hanzhong City along the ladder, and Huang Yong stopped the arrow attack in order to avoid accidental injury.
Taking a step forward, Lei Tong leaned his upper body out of the battlements, wanting to see how far the enemy army was from the city. When he looked down at the city, he suddenly found a face like purple jade, less than five feet away from him! Behind him, countless Yan troops were still climbing densely on the cloud ladder!
The person whose face is like purple jade, there is only one person under Yuan Qi's command, and that is Zhang Chong, the general of Zhengnan and the Marquis of Jinyang! Zhang Chong actually pulled the corners of his mouth at the first glance of Lei Tong, revealing a sneer, and before Lei Tong understood the meaning of this sneer, Zhang Chong suddenly raised his right arm and aimed at Lei Tong, and with a slight clasp of his fingers, he pulled the trigger of the Xizi crossbow on his arm. A three-inch-long crossbow bolt shot out and sank into Lei Tong's heart at close range, killing Lei Tong on the spot.
Quickly put away the crossbow, Zhang Chong used both hands, quickly climbed up a few steps, and then reached out his left hand, resisting Lei Tong's corpse that was about to fall under the city, still keeping him in the posture before he died.
"Kill!" Zhang Chong slammed his left hand and dragged Lei Tong's body off the city, and at the same time issued an order to his subordinates to attack the city. Zhang Chong was the first to attack, without the barrier of Lei Tong's corpse, Zhang Chong quickly climbed to the top of the city, pulled out the steel knife on his waist with his right hand, and slashed the two defenders away!