Chapter 199

"Shoot!"

Today is the seventh day when Yao LAN and Yao Jing led their troops to arrive. The previous days seemed dull and calm, but the false calm was destined to be broken.

The arrows shot from the city head do not appear too dense. They are launched by archers standing in a straight line within about 2000 meters of the horizontal line. They roar forward in mid air and fall down after losing most of their kinetic energy, which is a projectile.

The troops attacking the city looked quite miscellaneous. They were not only dressed in a variety of clothes, but also mixed up by the Yao family army and the Qingzhou army, with a number of about 5000.

The advancing siege side in the front row carried a shield nailed with wood in his hand. When the arrows were fired from the wall, the shield had been held high. When the arrows fell, bursts of metal into the wood sounded frequently, which also brought a scream.

The total number of soldiers who are shooting arrows is 1400. Each archery is launched by 700 archers. One wave of arrows is followed by the next wave. The pause time of each wave is only about two breaths, forming a low density but continuous blocking. Each wave can always take the lives of dozens of siege parties, causing more people to be injured and lose combat power.

About 5000 enemy troops lost about 300 or 400 people and approached the bottom of the city wall. Because it is not an angular city wall, archers need to lean out of their upper bodies to shoot arrows, which will cause unnecessary casualties.

"The archer retreats, and the auxiliary soldiers throw logs and rolling stones!"

A large number of auxiliary soldiers rushed up, picked up thick and long logs and stones and threw them down. After starting to drop logs and rolling stones, there were frequent and shrill screams below. It can be seen how crowded the people below were to avoid the arrows of the city wall.

After a few dull sounds, the siege party erected the wooden ladder. Those dull sounds were that the hooks of the wooden ladder were nailed on the city wall.

Li Kuang walked quickly to a battlement with a war knife. After a few cuts, he cut off the hook of the wooden ladder.

Some soldiers nailed the wooden ladder with a long push handle and pushed forward together. The wooden ladder was pushed backward. The soldiers of the siege side who climbed to half shouted to loosen the wooden ladder and jumped away. The wooden ladder hit the crowded crowd back and caused endless howls.

Most of the wooden ladders hooked on the battlements were pushed down, and cheers sounded in the wall, but the next moment was covered up by a burst of drums. It turned out that there were enemy troops approaching again, and those newly approaching enemy troops looked like archers.

"Archers, shoot at enemy archers!"

The archers of the city wall stand on a high terrain and naturally have the advantage of range. Obviously, the attacker knows this, so he didn't invest in the archers at the beginning. He first used the troops to approach the city wall to force the defenders to defend, which would squeeze the space of the archers at the head of the city, and then sent archers to cover the city.

Looking at the situation above the city wall, the auxiliary soldiers need to throw down logs and rolling stones, which is destined to occupy the position of the battlements. In addition, some melee soldiers need to occupy the position to prevent the enemy from climbing up the siege ladder, leaving less space for the archers. In that case, it is obvious that the strategy of the siege party has succeeded.

Although the defending archers reacted quickly and stayed behind the city wall and followed the command to shoot arrows, the siege side had reached the position where they could shoot arrows before that.

Another shot, But this time it came from the siege's mouth. Their archery doesn't pay attention to continuity. It's just the whole archery at the same time, resulting in a "dark cloud" rising in the flat land and rushing towards the city.

Pitiful "vertical shield!" And "escape" were yelled out of the mouths of officers at all levels of the city wall.

At the next moment, the archers at the head of the city shot their arrows, and the shield soldiers who had been prepared on the side of the archers raised their shields.

It was the arrows of the siege side that arrived first. Although there had been a prompt in advance, it was impossible for people with individual consciousness to respond immediately when they heard the prompt. At the moment when the dense arrow rain fell, the people who were hit by the arrow burst into bleeding flowers, and a dull hum first appeared, followed by a scream. Stuffy hum is directly shot at the key and immediately killed, and the scream is the cry of the injured.

Screams, sounds and arrows staring at the walls and shields are very dense. The next moment, I don't know who is shouting "crack". The shield soldiers protecting the archers remove the shields, and the archers are "shooting!" Launch the arrow in the command sound.

Taking advantage of the gap, Li Kuang raised his head slightly and looked out from the arrow stack. He saw that the enemy archers below fired dense arrow rain again. He couldn't help shouting: "erect the shield!"

Some prying defenders quickly shrunk. People crowded behind the battlements. Among them, there were pale people and people who could laugh. All kinds of human forms were staged on the battlefield where they might lose their lives at any time.

First, several bleak horns were sounded, and then bursts of sour voices suddenly sounded. Li Kuang turned his head and saw that the voice came from the specially raised position, on which a bed crossbow was arranged.

There are many facilities that are specially raised and covered with skin. They are machines with wheels that can move. There are not only bed crossbows, but even stone throwing carts on them.

The large crossbows shot at high speed cannot be captured by the naked eye at the beginning of launch. They fly out for a distance and lose the initial off chord kinetic energy. They show their figure only when the speed slows down. They can be seen and indicate that they are not far from falling.

Yao LAN and Yao Jing, who were about kilometers away from the city wall, could still relax, talk and laugh. They saw that the sent archers were covered by at least 30 bed crossbows. The thick crossbows and arrows with strong kinetic energy shot into the crowd, penetrated at least three or four people, and could "pull" people back. Their expressions immediately froze.

The Heavy Crossbow shot by the bed crossbow has terrible lethality. It can kill at least 100 in just one round of volley, which is equivalent to a heavy bed crossbow with three results.

For the number of people over 2000, the loss of 100 people may not be so much, but it was the killing of a bed crossbow. In addition, the appearance of the people shot to death was so miserable that people who saw that scene could not help shaking their legs.

The noise of the battlefield suddenly quieted down, and then a louder voice was sent out. The defenders at the head of the city were cheering, and the siege party below was making an uproar.

Li Kuang frowned slightly and thought, "put the crossbow into the bed so soon?"

Large urban defense equipment will be used in an emergency. Li Kuang doesn't think it's a crisis now.

This is only a local battlefield, and there are battles in other directions.

The enemy of the Han Dynasty not only launched an attack on one wall, they even didn't talk about the routine of encircling the three que at all. They surrounded all the walls on all sides, and launched the attack on all sides at the same time.

Encircling the three que first is a routine that Chinese civilization pays attention to. At the beginning, it is to leave a way back so that the defenders do not want to die. At the back, it is to encircle the three que first in order to encircle the three que first.

The simplest example is that even in the face of a weak garrison, the attackers of Chinese civilization will still surround the three que one. That is not to let the garrison have a fluke, but a rigid copy. What's more, even when defending, they will leave a deliberately weak position. They are afraid of God's jealousy of the routine of "not perfect". For example, the original Xiami city has deliberately left a weak wall, which is blocked by the Han Dynasty behind. This idea has continued to modern times. For example, in the famous Sino Japanese naval battle, there were even some shells that could not be fired deliberately. (later, it is said that Krupp's shells are loaded with sand. Don't you know that the "individual" cost in the production line is higher? The labor cost is higher than the gunpowder originally supposed to be loaded!)

Although the Hu people entered the Central Plains, they did not integrate into the Chinese civilization, so they would not follow the routine of the Chinese civilization army.

The war took place not only on the wall defended by Li Kuang, but also on the four dense walls. It is just how many troops should be invested by both sides.

The new armed forces arranged in Zicheng are also meeting their own challenges. Wei Wang Pu of the new armed forces academy is still the deputy. Three thousand new armed forces cooperate with a song of Han soldiers to defend Zicheng, but LV Yi is the main general.

Liu Zheng was in charge of the main attack on Zicheng. He used a routine similar to Yao's army, that is, he sent some troops to bear the losses and attract the attention of the city. He wanted to send archers to take advantage of the attention of the defenders, and then our side sent archers to cover the defenders on the city wall.

Zicheng is not the square and straight wall of Xiami main city pool. It is a kind of edge and corner with the shape of hexagram star. There is no shooting dead corner in this kind of wall. Liu Zheng sent troops to attract the garrison at the head of the city to bear the losses and reach under the wall, but they were not safe under the wall. They were shot like rabbits by the archers at the head of the city, Happily and without difficulty, they shot and killed one after another, resulting in the following attackers collapsing and fleeing within half an hour.

The camp, as a corner, is also under attack. Different from the other two directions supported by the city wall, the war here fell into hand to hand combat after the first few waves of arrows.

Wars broke out in Xiami's main city, Zicheng and yingzhai. Yao's army and Qingzhou army occupied an absolute number advantage and bullied few people in the Han Dynasty.

Yao LAN and Yao Jing supervise the attack on Xiami's main city. When they find that there is a crossbow at the head of the city, they temporarily withdraw the troops attacking the city and adopt the strategy of attacking Xiami's main city, that is, they don't want the defenders of Xiami's main city to live in peace and turn their attention to the camp caught in hand to hand combat.

Liu Yan has a indifferent attitude towards Yao's army turning its main attack target to the camp. LV Yi, who is in Zicheng, is worried that Yao's main attack object has been changed to the camp.

In the final analysis, the Han people really don't have an advantage in the number of people. If you count the auxiliary soldiers, civilian men, servant soldiers, new auxiliary troops and slave soldiers, there are 37000 people in the main city of Xiami, 4000 in the sub city and 7000 in the camp.

"There are two thousand tribal forces in the camp..." Lv Yi thought anxiously, "is there such a sharp one that can be guarded?"