Chapter 609: The Shadow in My Heart
At this time, the officers and soldiers of the various pairs and units on the city wall were looking out of the city from the lookout holes in the battlement walls, or from the small holes left above the shields. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
I saw that the Black Wind Thief Shield Car under the city had stopped more than ten meters away from the city wall, and then, many Black Wind Thief soldiers who had been hiding in the shield car began to walk out.
Some of them carefully looked at the city wall under the cover of the shield cart, while some of them stood blatantly outside the shield cart, looking at the city wall with blood-red eyes, and some of them were all holding their bows and arrows, and their eyes were always staring at the movement on the city, and they could fire arrows at any time.
"Almost, it seems that the first siege battle is about to begin!" Lin Ze on the city gate tower thought secretly in his heart.
On the side of the city wall of the East City Gate, Lin Ze roughly estimated that the number of the Black Wind Bandit army was about three or four thousand.
Looking at the banners on their bodies and the thick armor, they are definitely not ordinary Black Wind Thieves, at least they are all elite soldiers in the Black Wind Legion.
Among them, there are four or five hundred Black Wind Thieves, all of whom are wearing two layers of heavy armor, especially among them, there are a few strong men who look extremely tall, more than two meters long, and the aura on their bodies is very strong, at least they are all the strength of the third layer of the day after tomorrow, and they are still wearing drums and drums, Lin Ze is estimated to be wearing three layers of heavy armor.
There was a man who looked like a leader, dressed in a drum, and in front of him, to the left and right, surrounded by very strong men, about fifty or so, all armed with heavy shields, and wearing full-coverage helmets, showing only a pair of eyes, and also wearing thick double heavy armor.
It was clear that these soldiers were the personal guards of the Black Wind Thief.
"Well, this person's strength is not bad, he has the strength of the fifth layer of the day after tomorrow, looking at the outfits of these black wind thieves around him, it is obvious that these black wind thieves are heavy infantry!" Lin Ze smiled slightly in his heart, he recognized these black-haired thieves as heavy infantry.
"Okay, let me see the combat effectiveness of the heavy infantry in the siege of the city this time!" Lin Ze thought expectantly in his heart, he was still very confident in his subordinates.
Behind the Black Wind Thief's shield cart, a huge ballista cart pushed by the Black Wind Thief's followers, loaded with heavy arrows, had rolled forward and approached the front of the city wall.
These ballistas are there to provide fire support to the Black Wind Thieves.
However, when these ballistas arrived here, they could no longer move forward.
At the foot of the city wall on both sides of the east gate of Heisha City, Lin Ze had asked people to arrange some horses before that, such as antler wood, iron thistle terrestris, etc.
These things seem inconspicuous, but they are definitely an important line of defense for the city wall, and with these things, the Black Wind Thieves army will not be able to attack the city so easily.
Lin Zezhong's military headquarters above the city tower had seen the movement under the city clearly, and saw that the Black Wind Thieves army under the city began to prepare to attack the city, and there was a trace of chaos.
Lin Ze ordered the archers of each team to fight freely and shoot outside the city to maximize the damage of the Black Wind Thieves below the city walls.
"Woo Woo Woo ........!" Countless arrows rained down from the city wall again, directly making the army of Black Wind Thieves who had just begun to assemble under the city wall bigger than a dog's bloody head.
Countless Black Wind Thieves were shot in the blink of an eye!
"Woo woo woo woo ........!" At this time, the sound of war drums from the Black Wind Thieves Array became even louder, and then, those Black Wind Thieves army did not care about the rain of arrows above their heads, and launched a counterattack towards the city wall at the same time.
The two sides are shooting at each other above and below the city!
"Woooooo.......oo
"......Boom, boom!" The sound of the trek-throwing machines and archers continued to sound, and the teams of catapults on the walls continued to shoot stone projectiles below the walls.
At this time, there were black wind thieves everywhere under the city walls, so the catapult troops no longer had to aim, as long as the bullet bag was filled with stone bullets, they could be fired.
With each launch, four or five Black Wind Thieves will be killed.
There were also archers on the city wall, sticking their bows and arrows out of the lookout holes in the battlement walls and the shooting holes below, and kept shooting out.
At the same time, the archers and ballistas in the Black Wind Thieves army were also constantly shooting, and some sharp arrows with sharp angles could even drill through the holes in the city walls, causing damage to the archers in the city.
The lookout hole above the hesitant battlements and the perforation under the battlements are not large, and the angle is not wide, so it brings inconvenience to shoot above.
There was an archer of Li Jie's third squad, who thought that the shield was blocked at the battlement and it was difficult to shoot, so he moved one shield away a little, poked his head out, and prepared to shoot an arrow, but before he could shoot an arrow, "Fufu ......", as many as seven or eight sharp arrows immediately shot at him.
"Ding, .......ding, ding!" There was a crisp sound, and the seven or eight sharp arrows hit the helmet on the door in front of him, if it weren't for the excellent quality of his helmet, these arrows were shot by the most ordinary archers, otherwise he would be 100% dead by now.
Even so, seven or eight arrows hit the helmet, causing the archer's head to be dizzy for a while, and he soon fell to the ground, and the whole person looked a little confused.
Seeing this archer like this, no archer dared to remove the shield in front of him.
The lookout hole and perforation are not big, and it is inconvenient, but at least it is safe, isn't it?!
Due to the sudden attack, the Black Wind Thieves under the city wall were once again scattered, so the Black Wind Thieves have not yet started the real battle to climb the city, and if this happens, the side fire of several horses and watchtowers will not be able to exert themselves.
Although it is not easy to shoot outward from the lookout hole and the shooting hole, it is not easy to catch the enemy, but as long as the shot, with the power of the heavy arrows specially prepared by Lin Ze, as long as there are not heavy infantry under the city wall, or quasi-warriors, warriors and other black wind thieves, as long as the general black wind thief is hit, even if he is wearing armor, he will immediately fall to the ground.
Even if they don't die for a while, or some people who are wearing two layers of heavy armor and don't break the heavy armor, but the speed of the heavy arrow, coupled with the blessing of the height of the city wall, the power is exerted to the extreme, and the impact force is not decent.
Such a strong force has to be borne by the body, and those Black Wind Thieves who were hit by arrows either had their bones shattered immediately, or their ribs on their chests were broken countless times, and they lost their ability to fight in an instant.
In a short period of time, countless screams and muffled snorts were heard from both above and below the city.
Lin Ze roughly estimated that there were hundreds of Black Wind Thieves outside the city who were killed and injured by their own soldiers, and hundreds of them were Black Wind Thieves who were about to enter the city to fight, and dozens of soldiers on the city wall were shot by the Black Wind Thieves' bows and arrows or the bows and arrows of the giant ballista under the city walls.
Because of the shield and excellent armor, the soldiers on the city wall were generally shot by arrows in their limbs, and their injuries were not serious, and there were a few unlucky ones who were directly hit by arrows in the face and fell on the city wall.
At this time, although the battle did not seem to be so fierce, it was definitely not bad, which could be clearly seen from the busy speed of the auxiliary soldiers who rescued them.
The stretcher team kept rushing in and out, carrying the wounded sergeants down from time to time for treatment.
Outside the city, the general of the heavy infantry, under the heavy protection of the heavy troops, looked solemnly in the direction of the city.
He didn't expect the vitality of the enemy at the head of the city to be so powerful, and the mastery of the fighter was so sensitive, just a trace of the fighter appeared, or a very inconspicuous fighter, the enemy on the city wall immediately found out, and it was difficult to launch a decisive attack, which greatly surprised him, and his heart couldn't help but cast a shadow.
You know, he hasn't gone to the city yet, but there are already thousands of casualties here, although most of them are ordinary Black Wind Thieves, or some auxiliaries, but such losses also make him regret in his heart.
In any case, these people are his subordinates, and they are the bargaining chips he will use to make meritorious contributions in the future, but now he has died under the city wall without any gain, how can he not feel heartache.
What's more, among these casualties, many of the Black Wind Thieves were actually wearing heavy armor, but they were still pierced through the armor and died tragically under the attack of the enemy, which was not done when they fought with other sand thieves or the army of Chu before.
Therefore, at this moment, a bad feeling surged in the general's heart, and he had a premonition that it would not be so easy to capture the extremely familiar East City Gate in front.
The general began to regret in his heart that he thought he was familiar with everything in the East City Gate, so he directly asked Lu Ming to be a pioneer.
The current East City Gate, in addition to the original terrain is still the same, where are there things he is familiar with.
Thinking of this, this general's heart is full of shadows!
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In this way, this attack lasted until about two o'clock in the afternoon, during this time, the Black Wind Thieves army under the city wall, after killing and wounding four or five hundred people, finally blocked the attack on the city wall, and also swept away a place under the city wall on the left side of the east city gate, removed the horses, staghorn wood, thistle terrestris and other things in that place, and also filled some pits on the ground.
Then, there was a sound of scattered footsteps, and a long, rudimentary ladder of food racks approached the city.
"Bang, bang, bang........!" The next moment, ten ladders were directly set up on the city wall.
"Click, click.......!" A few sounds, the nail claw at the front of the ladder firmly grasped the wall of the city wall, which made it difficult for the soldiers on the city wall to push the ladder away.
"Ding Ding Ding ........!" The soldiers on the city wall began to use their big knives to continuously cut the iron claws at the front of the ladder, trying to cut the ladder.
However, these iron claws are made of fine steel, and they are the thickness of a fist, and in a short period of time, they can be cut at all.