Chapter 374: No. 8 Fortress, Offensive and Defensive Battle (1)
When Tang Linkun and the others were still on the road, a legion-level battle broke out in the No. 8 fortress. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The sky was as red as blood, and five or six vultures hovered high in the air.
The 50,000 forward troops of Kuxian Hu stood solemnly, and it had been half an hour, and the sunset was smeared on the black chain mail and emitted a brilliant gold color, and the bundles of red tassels on the iron helmets were as red as if they were dripping blood.
The leading Kuxian Huyun general, Luda, was more than a foot tall, riding a giant war horse with long hair on four legs, dragging a 250-pound mountain axe in front of the formation, patrolling back and forth. The tip of the axe hits the stone quickly, and from time to time it knocks out sparks.
Not far ahead, the city wall of the No. 8 well fortress is more than ten zhang high, the banner of the heavenly court hunts on the wall, and the coffin-red city gate is like an open mouth of blood.
Suddenly, there was a low "whining" sound from a large conch behind the city gate, and no less than 20,000 strong crossbowmen stood up on the high city wall. Over the city gate, hundreds of arrows with small red cloth at their tails whistling out for more than 50 zhang, diagonally inserted into the grass and connected into a red line. The heavy cast-iron gate slowly opened, and two marsupial lions with teeth and claws rushed out, and were firmly held by two boys with childish faces with iron chains.
With the footsteps of "Teng Teng", a shirtless man with a height of two feet walked out of the city gate wearing a black coat, holding a long chain of fine copper on his arm, and his green tendons were violent, he was the first warrior Ya Buzi among the reinforcements of the Heavenly Court. He is one of the three thousand grass-headed gods under the command of Erlang God, and he has the courage of ten thousand people.
Behind Yabuzi, four thousand elite cavalry galloped out quickly in two columns, grabbing his position.
He rode his horse with a single axe, and a shower of smoking arrows shot from behind him, which went over his head, and formed a straight row fifty feet away, and suddenly a fire burst into flames.
General Yunlu Luda and Yabuzi each crossed the arrow mark and stood three zhang apart.
"It stinks...... Come and report the name, my cliff cloth copper chain does not lock the nameless people......"
The smell of 50,000 war horses and the smell of mutton on the 50,000 bitter fairy stinky men, the cliff cloth at the downwind was almost not fainted, and he used the palm of his hand as a pu fan and kept fanning it between his nose.
"Don't talk nonsense, look at the axe ......"
Ruda's mountain-opening axe slashed diagonally towards the cliff cloth, and Luda was completely enraged by this stinking sentence, don't you Heavenly Court soldiers still haven't bathed for many years? Why do you say that the stench that pollutes the battlefield is emitted by our Kuxian Hu soldiers?
Ya Buzi jumped away a step, did not retreat but advanced, the copper chain was like a stick swept towards the thick waist of Ruda, Ruda horizontal axe stopped, the head of the copper chain was like a live snake wrapped around the axe, Ya Buzi forced, the copper chain was stretched straight, a male macaque rushed out from behind the Ya Buzi Da, along the copper chain to the Ruda, the Ya Buzi shook the copper chain, the macaque jumped high, the cold light flashed with ten fingers of the steel claw, condescendingly scratched towards the face of the Ruda.
Ruda didn't let go again, a pair of eyes were not guaranteed, and the mountain axe flew high in an instant and fell to the ground. Yabu shook the copper chain, and the chain danced out of a flower and wrapped it around Ruda's waist again. The copper chain kung fu of the innate divine power cliff cloth has been instructed by the masters, and the copper chain that overcomes the rigidity with softness dances in his hand, and the power is naturally not to be underestimated.
As soon as the cliff cloth let go, the male macaque dragged the copper chain, and his neck was busy in the crotch, and he was instantly tied up like a zongzi.
The macaque stood scratching its red buttocks, and looked at the cliff cloth with a pair of big eyes.
Seeing that his master was in danger, he raised his front hooves and stepped on the male macaque. Ya Buzi took a few steps forward, his shoulder slammed into the horse's belly, and the horse's hooves fell heavily on the macaque's side, and the huge shock frightened the macaque and jumped onto Ya Buzi's body. The foal staggered away, dodging the hard punch from the cliff cloth to the bridge of its nose.
Ruda was still rolling around on the ground and struggling, Ya Buzi kicked his head without saying a word, Ya Ruda suddenly fainted, Ya Buzi picked up the copper chain, pulled up Lu Da and left, with a pick, Lu Da's mountain axe was also in Ya Buzi's hand.
There was a commotion in the team of the Kuxian Hu's forwards, and they rushed out of the four light horses, bent their bows and arrows, and chased after them. The team of 50,000 people pressed up in unison with a shout, and the heavens and the earth roared.
As soon as the two boys who were pulling the marsupial lion let go, the two giant lions pounced on the four horsemen, and the four thousand elite cavalry of the heavenly court came up from both sides to cover their cliff cloth, and thousands of arrows were fired on the city wall, covering the sky and the sun to form the first line of defense fifty zhang away.
At this time, the gong suddenly sounded at the back of the Kuxian Hu forward team, and more than 50,000 horsemen pulled the reins in time and stopped in front of the arrow rain, and the spears of the first row of cavalry more than two zhang remained protruding, and there was no panic, and the rear army turned their horses' heads and slowly retreated.
A huge cyan high-toothed giant of the bitter fairy was gradually revealed in the dust, and a falcon embroidered with gold thread on the banner was ready to come out. On the platform pulled by the two mammoths, there sat Jin Dan, the iron-shouldered prince of the bitter immortal hu, who was wearing a falcon-shaped golden mask, and could not see his joys, sorrows and sorrows clearly, and two beautiful girls with exposed navel eyes knelt on both sides of him with veils covered.
The four thousand cavalry of the Heavenly Court did not pursue, and slowly withdrew to the city.
The most pitiful thing is that the personal guards of the four horsemen who rushed to the front were all thrown to the ground by the thylaced lion, two of them were bitten off their necks by the thylacial lion, two of them had been disemboweled, and the softest and most nutritious kidney was held in the mouth of the marsupial lion. The two boys whistled sharply, and the bag lion ran back to the door unwillingly, and dragged it more than ten meters long into the water, and the city gate slammed shut.
The sound of the copper drums outside the city wall became more and more intense, and countless fires were lit along the city wall.
Zhao Yun stood on the gatehouse of "Manglan", looking at the endless army under the city wall with a stern face, and the black pressure was boundless. The terrain around the No. 8 fortress is flat, and the only thing that can be relied on is this city wall, if the city wall is breached, it is a question whether the nearly one million Heavenly Court troops can retreat in their entirety.
"Vice General Zhao, I captured the striker of Kuxian Hu just now, did you see it?" Ya Buzi ran to the door in a hurry, and the brave Ya Buzi was still like a child.
Zhao Yun smiled and nodded, his fluffy long beard trembling slightly.
"Vice General Zhao, did you cut off this waste sacrificial flag?"
"No, let him go. ”
"Why? Vice General Zhao, I dragged him back with great difficulty after half a mile. ”
"Let's put it on, I can delay a little time, and wait for Erlang God to arrive with the 'dead soldiers who defend the city'. ”
"Yes, Vice Admiral Zhao. ”
Ya Buzi rushed to the city, at this time Ruda had not yet woken up, his back was all worn out, a bloody person, Ya Buzi untied the copper chain tied to Lu Da's body, and pulled out a small dagger more than two feet long from his legs, only to see a cold light flash, Lu Da's left ear ten centimeters long fell to the ground, under the great pain, Lu Da woke up slowly, and Ya Buzi lifted him up.
"...... Stinky pig, go home and chop wood. Cliff Cloth kicked Ruda hard in the ass
A crack was opened in the heavy city gate, and the two hands tied behind his back were stumbled out of the city wall, bent into a circle by the cliff cloth, and the two hundred and fifty pounds of mountain axe was put around his neck, so embarrassed......
The night fog rose, the main force of Kuxian Hu was divided into ten phalanxes, the copper drum shook the sky, the flag covered the sky, advanced to a place about two miles away from the city wall before stopping, startled countless vultures perched on the corpse of a feast, a group of hyenas fell with a heavy belly, and fled back to the mountains and forests in terror.
The fast rider in the red coat held the command flag, went back and forth, and quickly transmitted Jindan's instructions to the various columns.
The trombone sounded suddenly, and ten heavy stone throwers in the middle of the phalanx revealed their colossal bodies in the mist. These heavy siege engines were specially built by Jin Dan for this battle, 2,000 catties of boulders, which can be thrown four miles away, each requiring more than 3,000 people to pull ropes, and 500 baggage horses to twist the winch.
A 2,000-pound boulder bounced into the air, and as a black shadow on the ground quickly crashed into the city wall, there was a loud "bang", and the city wall was smashed out of a big pit, and the smashed stone fragments flew away like a splash.
Ten heavy stone throwers, aiming at the direction where the first stone landed, began to bombard continuously, and the city wall was quickly collapsed by two-thirds, and boulders continued to pass through the gap and roll into the reserve phalanx behind the city wall, pressing and slipping, and the Heavenly Court Army suffered heavy losses.
A large number of fierce generals, such as Yabuzi, Da Yak and Li Dongqian, asked Zhao Yun to attack no less than five times, and if they did not destroy this long-distance siege weapon, they would only be beaten.
"Don't attack, anyone who disobeys the order will be cut off. "Zhao Yun has been fighting horses all his life, has seen countless vicious battles and death battles, smelling the smell of blood on the battlefield, Zhao Yun's mind is getting clearer and clearer, how can the sensitivity to the battlefield be compared to the cliff cloth in his early twenties?
The catapult began to shift the bombardment area, and two gaps were smashed open at both ends of a section of the city wall of hundreds of feet. The 2,000 crossbowmen on the lonely section of the city wall did not receive the order to withdraw, and stood still with their bows and crossbows.
"Remove the crossbowmen and prepare the punching bags. Zhao Yun calmly gave the order.
Less than half an hour after more than 2,000 crossbowmen retreated, the stone-throwing machines began a concentrated attack on the walls between the gaps. In less than half an hour, the city wall finally collapsed.
The trombone sound of Kuxian Hu sounded for the second time, and in front of the big gap, 100,000 long vine players launched a charge first, not fast, but the march was very steady, 200,000 strong crossbowmen followed, and 10,000 death squads in the city bare their chests and breasts, with an iron hook in one hand and a short axe in the other, covering them were more than 5,000 three-bow bed crossbows on both sides. Half a million hoplites slowly followed.
A huge battering ram was pushed by thousands of people, and rushed towards the gate of Manglan.
Countless wells (arrow towers) and ladders are like leaf-cutting ants holding leaves and leaning towards the city wall.
"Close the gap, and the crossbowmen prepare. Zhao Yun's order was passed down through the chorus of ten guards, and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians carrying sandbags on their backs said "hey", picked up hundreds of pounds of sandbags from the ground and rushed to the gap. (To be continued.) )