Chapter 102 Yuyang City (2)
Seeing the order from the standard-bearer, Shi Jia understood what Yuan Qi meant. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info don't say it's the Yuan Qi, it's Shi Jia himself, and he can't wait to put the arrow tower into the battlefield immediately, the brothers in front are bleeding, facing death at all times, Shi Jia knows how much they need their own support, but the arrow tower is a huge big guy, just by manpower to push, the movement speed is too slow, and some can't keep up with the rhythm of the battle.
Seeing that the soldiers on the ladder were smashed down one after another, Shi Jia's eyes turned red, and he shouted angrily at the soldiers around him: "All of them for me to go up and push the arrow tower, until it is fifty steps away from Yuyang City, hurry up." ”
Jia Yuan whispered to Yuan Qi: "My lord, the Yuyang City Wall is seven zhang high, and the middle and lower two layers of the arrow tower are useless, but it will increase the weight of the arrow tower and slow down the movement speed. Jia Yuan's character of being good at self-preservation is deep-rooted, even in such a fierce battlefield, he only speaks for seven points, leaving three points for Yuan Qi to think.
"Huh? Great idea. "Who is Yuan Qi? I immediately understood what Jia Yuan meant. The arrow tower in the Yuan Qi army is nine zhang high, every three zhang is a layer, a total of three floors, and each floor has a platform for soldiers to stand. Yuyang's city wall is seven zhang high, which means that the archers on the middle and lower floors of the arrow tower have no conditions to play a role at all, rather than standing on the arrow tower to increase the weight, it is better to let them come down and support the troops in front of Pang De on foot, so that the weight of the arrow tower will be greatly reduced, and the movement speed will become much faster.
After a little thought about this question in Yuan Qi's mind, he had already thought about it clearly, and quickly told the standard-bearer to convey the order to Shi Jia.
Seeing the flag from the Yuanqi Central Army, Shi Jia was a rough man, and while directing the archers on the upper, middle and lower floors of the arrow tower to walk down the arrow tower, he thought about Yuan Qi's intentions. After only the topmost archers were left on the arrow tower, the movement speed of the entire arrow tower increased sharply, and seeing the running speed of the arrow tower as if it had taken a stimulant, Shi Jia reacted.
Soon, the arrow tower was pushed to a distance of fifty steps away from Yuyang City, and as soon as the soldiers pushing the arrow tower stopped the arrow tower, Shi Jia couldn't wait to shout: "Shoot! Shoot me hard! Shoot hard!" The archers on the arrow tower raised their longbows that had already set up their arrows, and shot towards the head of Yuyang City with a little aim.
As early as when the arrow tower first appeared, the rebels at the head of Yuyang City were already frightened, of course they knew that it was the arrow tower, and naturally they also knew that the arrow tower was one of the great killing weapons for the siege of the city, but no one had ever seen a moving arrow tower, and there were still so many people standing on the arrow tower! They really couldn't understand how Yuan Qi did it. The unknown is always scary. As soon as the arrow tower commanded by Shi Jia entered the battlefield, it caused huge psychological pressure on the rebels.
After Shi Jia gave the order, as the bowstring vibrated and made a series of Peng Peng sounds, the rebels finally determined that the big ones that could move outside the city were undoubtedly the arrow towers. The archers who stood on the towers were two feet taller than the rebels at the head of the city, and with the advantage of the height, thousands of arrows whizzed at the rebels at the head of the city.
"Oh my God, run-"
"Damn, find cover!"
"What about the shield, what about my shield?
The rebels at the head of the city witnessed the volley of nearly a thousand archers on the arrow tower, and immediately fell into panic. To say that the salvo of a thousand people originally posed no threat at all on such a large battlefield, but the archers on the arrow tower were carefully selected by Yuan Qi from among the 100,000 male soldiers, and on the premise of not requiring accuracy, each of them could shoot two arrows with one stone, and only one stroke of the bowstring could shoot two arrows. Although this greatly reduced their accuracy, in the crowded Yuyang City, tens of thousands of rebels were crowded together, and they didn't need to aim at all, as long as they found the right direction, they could always gain something. On the other hand, the arrow tower that has been transformed by Yuan Qi has exceeded the prediction in the hearts of the rebels, infinitely magnified the fear in the hearts of the rebels, and has already defeated the rebels psychologically.
Puff puff puff -
Thousands of arrows were in the despair of the rebels, and the sharp arrows drove the shafts of the arrows, and they were inserted into the bodies of the rebels, bringing up a slick of blood. Just this round of volleys almost broke through the rebels' defenses, making Pang De's department, who was climbing on the ladder, suddenly feel a sense of relief, and took the opportunity to speed up the climb.
Seeing that a rain of arrows worked, Shi Jia's somewhat ugly face finally had a relaxed look, and then his head became clear, and he hurriedly ordered: "Go up and stand in the middle of the arrow tower with a thousand more people to shoot." Immediately a thousand archers stepped forward, climbed up to the middle level of the tower, and began to shoot at the head of the city, which was only a foot higher than the middle level of the tower where they were.
Pang De saw that Shi Jia suppressed the rebels at the head of the city, just like when he attacked Yongnu City, he immediately ripped off the cloak behind his back, raised his steel knife and shouted angrily: "Meritorious service is in the present dynasty, brothers follow a certain one!" After speaking, he took the lead and rushed forward. The soldiers who followed Pound were infected by Pound's bravery, roared and raised their weapons, and followed closely behind Pound.
At a distance of fifty paces, Pound quickly rushed over. Coming to a ladder, Pound bit the steel knife to his mouth, grabbed the ladder with both hands, and climbed towards the city. Seeing that the main general was fighting bravely, the emotions of the soldiers under Pang De's department were immediately aroused, and they crawled towards the city even more desperately, lest they fall behind the robe.
Huang Yong, who was between the vanguard of Pang De's department and the Chinese army of Yuan Qi, keenly saw Pang De's figure climbing on the ladder, worried that Pang De would lose, and immediately bent his bow and arrows, and shot sharply at the city wall at the end of the cloud ladder where Pang De was, and shouted at the same time: "Everyone look carefully, carry out a precise attack on the head of the city, and shoot immediately as soon as a rebel army comes up!" The five thousand archers of Huang Yong's department immediately raised their spirits, stared at the city head one by one, and waited for the prey that was about to appear. As soon as a rebel shows his head on the city wall, he will immediately become their dead spirit.
With the suppression of the arrow tower and Huang Yong's subordinates, the official army finally reached the top of the city sporadically. Although the rebels were suppressed and did not dare to show their heads, they still showed a certain amount of bravery in the face of the officers and soldiers who climbed the city wall. Led by Zhang Ju's die-hard soldiers, the rebels rushed over like a tidal wave, slashing all the scattered officers and soldiers to the ground.
A spark can start a prairie fire. Although the sporadic officers and soldiers could not open the gap after reaching the top of the city, there were soldiers on dozens of ladders who continued to climb to the top of the city and fiercely engaged the rebels at the head of the city. As the officers and troops landed in the city one after another, Shi Jia stopped the scattering of the arrow tower, for the same reason as the stone thrower, he didn't want to accidentally injure the robe.
In front of him, Pound finally climbed to the top of the city, the first thing that entered his sight was dozens of corpses piled up by the city wall, most of the officers and soldiers who had previously climbed the city head had been hacked to death by the rebels, and each corpse had at least three or five fatal wounds.
Looking at the unshapedly corpses of these robes being trampled, Pang De was stunned with anger, reached out and took the steel knife that bit his mouth, and shouted angrily towards the rebels. Pang De is very famous in Xiliang, but in Youzhou, there are not many people who know Pang De, so more than a dozen rebels habitually want to hack Pang De to death like the previous officers and soldiers in order to come up. But Pound is Pound after all, not a pawn can be compared. Facing the rebels who came up from the siege, Pang De snorted coldly, and the steel knife in his hand was swung out, and there were two snorts, where the steel knife passed, the heads of the two rebels fell to the ground, and the heads after landing on the ground still had a blank look on their faces, obviously not understanding that they had been in a different place.
It wasn't until Pound turned around to kill the next target that he slashed off the severed neck of the headless corpse that he slashed off with a knife that a stream of red blood erupted from the sky.
"Uh..." Pound shook the besieging rebels with a sword, and more than a dozen rebels looked at the situation in front of them in amazement, and subconsciously stopped the pace of surrounding Pound. They stopped, but Pound did not stop, and rushed forward quickly, a cold light flashed, and another rebel became Pound's ghost. Immediately after a step, Pound dodged to the side of the two rebels, and while passing quickly, the steel knife in his hand slashed, and under the action of the sharp blade, the throats of the two rebels were cut by Pound, and blood kept spraying out along the exposed trachea.
Then, Pound went to the next rebel closest to him, and then, next...
In the time of half a burnt incense, Pound had already killed and was covered in blood, and the rebels who died under his knife had reached more than 30 people. Pound's whole body was covered with the blood of the rebels, as if he had become a demon crawling out of hell. A rebel general saw that Pound was brave and bullied Pound with only a sword in his hand and no long-handled weapon, and after shouting, he danced the spear in his hand and killed Pound. The grim look on Pound's face remained unchanged, and he was not afraid at all because the other party was in possession of the convenience of the weapon, and the steel knife took the remnant of the Dao under Pound's dance, and met the spear of the rebel general.
Bell――
Click――
Two voices rang out one after the other.
Although the weapon in Pound's hand was a one-handed steel knife, it was extremely heavy and extremely sharp. The first sound was that Pound relied on his own strength and the weight of the steel knife to forcibly knock away the rebel's spear, and then Pound took advantage of the wrong body to stab forward with his backhand and end the battle.
At this time, Yuan Qi's various benefits for his subordinates were revealed, Yuan Qi really didn't say anything about the welfare of his subordinate generals, not to mention that the military salary was twice that of other places, and the main generals could also get Yuan Qi's rewards - those magic weapons taken out of the secret treasure, even if they were generals with poor status, Yuan Qi would also order the blacksmith to tailor weapons for them. Pang De's Eight Great Blades were originally given to him by Yuan Qi in the secret treasure. However, because it was inconvenient to go to the city, Pang De did not bring the eighth-level broadsword with him, and the steel knife he was using now was the same as the weapons of those generals under the command of Yuan Qi, which were carefully crafted by Yuan Qi's people, because Pang De had an eighth-level broadsword, so he chose a single knife. Before the rebels could see clearly, Pound's knife slashed again...