Chapter 281 The soldiers of the directly subordinate army in front of the city were frightened to avoid left and right, and retreated far away, the war tiger did not care about others, and continued to wheel his sledgehammer, and smashed it three times in a row against the city gate, and the hammer head of the giant hammer slammed on the copper gate, and the sparks were all soaring high, making a violent roar and rushing straight into the sky, as if the whole city was trembling.
Mao An on the head of the city trembled, almost sat on the ground, and asked urgently: "What's going on down there, who is smashing the city gate" He obviously didn't see that the Tianyuan Army had large siege weapons, how could there be the sound of a thunderbolt crashing into the city gate A soldier hurriedly ran over from the city gate, and when he came to Mao An's approach, he hurriedly said: "My lord, there is a big man outside the city gate who is smashing the city gate, and his strength is amazing, and the city gate latch is about to be bent."
"What" Mao An couldn't believe his ears after hearing this, only a big man was smashing the city gate, he could make such a loud noise, and if he had such a great power, even the city gate latch weighing hundreds of pounds could be bent, then how much strength did this person have to be a human or a monster His face changed suddenly, he pondered for a moment, and said urgently: "Hold the city gate with a wooden stake, block the city gate with stone and soil, no matter what method is used, even if the city gate is completely sealed, you must not let the other party break through the city gate and rush closer."
"Yes," the soldier agreed, and ran down the wall as fast as he could.
Mao An knew very well in his heart that his own side could only withstand the other party with the help of the strong city defense of Jicheng, and once the other party rushed into the city, how could his 20,000 people be able to defeat the 100,000 people of the Tianyuan army In accordance with Mao An's order, the defenders in the city of Ji found more than 20 tree stumps, held the two city gates to the death, and then organized the people of the whole city to transport stones and soil over, starting from the inside of the city gate, and blocking the city gate hole tightly, even if the enemy knocked the city gate down, it still could not rush close.
Under the command of Mao An, the Peng army reacted quickly and immediately responded to block the city gate.
Zhan Hu took hundreds of hammers outside the city gate, and the bronze city gate was covered with large and small dents, but the city gate was not shaken open, and in the end, Zhan Hu was so vigorous that people were tired, and they were panting heavily.
The onslaught of the 90,000 Tianyuan army was fought from noon to afternoon, during which there were several attacks on the city, but they were all desperately withstood by the defenders.
At this time, Qiu Zhen began to shake his head secretly, and he whispered to Tang Yin: "My lord, we can't attack anymore, now our army doesn't have large-scale siege equipment, it's completely using people to go up, the loss is too great, it's better to temporarily collect the troops, and it's not too late to attack after the rear baggage arrives."
"This," Tang Yin muttered.
Originally, in his mind, this small Jicheng was not to worry about at all, and his more than 100,000 troops could be leveled in a single walk, but he didn't expect that the city defense of Jicheng was so strong, and the defenders could be so tenacious, which caused his own attack to be greatly frustrated.
He was silent for a moment, nodded, and said quietly: "Mingjin, collect the troops" "My lord is wise" Qiu Zhen agreed, as if he was afraid that Tang Yin would regret it, and hurriedly sent an order, sounded the golden gong, and asked all the soldiers attacking the city in front to retreat.
In this battle, the army directly under the army fought from morning to afternoon, did not make any progress, but suffered thousands of casualties, of course, the loss of Jicheng was not small, there were also two or three thousand casualties, the two sides were half a pound and eight taels, no one took advantage, but the pace of the army directly under Tang Yin's direct command was blocked by Jicheng, and the morale of the whole army was also dropped a lot because of the unfavorable attack.
The direct army gave up the siege, but did not retreat, and more than 100,000 troops surrounded Jicheng and set up camp, making it an isolated city.
This was expected by Mao An for a long time, and now he only waited for Geng Qiang to command the county army to come to reinforce him, and he could break Tang Yin's army by combining inside and outside.
In the evening, Tang Yin sat in the big tent, his brows twisted into a pimple.
He had just received news from the rear that his logistics troops carrying siege equipment would have to wait two days to reach Jicheng, that is to say, they would have to wait for two days outside Jicheng, which would greatly slow down the speed of their attack, and similarly, it would leave the enemy plenty of time to prepare for battle.
Qiu Zhen, Zhang Zhe, Gu Yue, Wu Guang, Zhan Hu and others were also in the big tent, Tang Yin's face was gloomy, and everyone was silent, not daring to speak rashly.
At this time, Cheng Jin's eyes rolled, he took two steps forward, and said softly: "My lord, I think it is better for me to lead the dark arrow brothers to sneak into the city at night, kill the enemy army by surprise, take advantage of the chaos to open the city gate, and welcome my army into the city."
"Oh" Tang Yin's eyes lit up after hearing this, this is a good way.
He knocked on his forehead, looked at Qiu Zhen again, and asked, "Lord Qiu, what do you mean?"
Qiu Zhen thought about it carefully, nodded, and said: "This plan can also be tried, but Mao Anqi is shrewd and cautious, I am afraid that he has expected that our army will use the night attack strategy, and has already made arrangements in the city."
"Haha" Cheng Jin smiled proudly and said: "Mao An is not an immortal, how could he have calculated that our army would sneak attack at night, and even if he could expect it, even if my secret arrow soldiers could not succeed, they would be able to retreat with no loss."
This is also Qiu Zhen thinking about it, and thinks that what Cheng Jin said is also reasonable, you might as well give it a try, or you can really succeed in the battle Seeing that Qiu Zhen did not stop him, Tang Yin no longer hesitated, he nodded at Cheng Jin, and said: "Cheng Jin, just do what you want, once you succeed, ignite the fire."
"Yes," Cheng Jin gave the order.
The dark arrow personnel led by Cheng Jin quietly sneaked towards Jicheng, surprisingly the other party's defense at night was very lax, not only no one on the watchtower, even the guards at the head of the city were few, if it was an experienced veteran, seeing such a scene would definitely give birth to a sense of vigilance, but Cheng Jin was inexperienced, only when the other party was really defenseless, rest assured and bold to lead the dark arrow personnel to sneak to the city, and then cast a shadow drift, more than 30 dark arrow personnel went up to the city, and then flashed to the city at a gallop.
But as soon as he entered the city, he heard the war drums beating in front of him, shouting and killing, and before Cheng Jin and the others could react to what was going on, barrels of fire oil flew in the air.
The fire oil was first loaded into the barrel and launched by the trebuchet, when it flew into the air, the fire oil had all been poured out, overwhelming, and there was no place to hide, Cheng Jin and the others were not well prepared, and the shadow drift had no time to be used, so they were poured all over the face by the fire oil sprinkled in the air, at this time, Cheng Jin suddenly realized that something was not good, and hurriedly ordered a retreat.
But at this time, it was too late to retreat, and I saw that the surrounding streets and rooftops were all Peng soldiers, with all the rockets in their hands, and launched a salvo at Cheng Jin and his party.
The dark arrow personnel can dodge the arrows that come from the flying arrows, but after the rocket landed, it immediately ignited the fire oil on the ground, and the fire snake was swift and fast, scurrying around, burning all over the body along the feet of the dark arrow personnel, but in an instant, more than 30 people led by Cheng Jin became fire people.
Cheng Jin howled: "Retreat, retreat" Between the words, he didn't have time to extinguish the flames on his body, and flashed to the city with a shadow drift, and then jumped outside the city.
As soon as they arrived outside, there were several dark arrow personnel who couldn't stand the fire, and hurriedly scattered the spirit armor on their bodies, and as the spirit armor melted away, the flames attached to it disappeared, but where did they think, the city suddenly rained arrows on the city, and several dark arrow personnel who flashed off the spirit armor didn't even see what was going on, so they were shot by the rain of arrows, and several people were covered with carved feathers, and they died in an instant.
Seeing several brothers die tragically under each other's arrows, Cheng Jin was heartbroken, grabbed the two corpses, and shouted repeatedly: "Don't disperse the spirit armor and withdraw, withdraw, withdraw, withdraw quickly" The dark arrow personnel carried the corpses of their companions, and their bodies were still burning with fire, and they were defeated in the rain of arrows of the Peng army.
In this night attack, the dark arrow personnel did not even see the enemy's appearance clearly, so they were burned out of Jicheng alive, and five people were killed by random arrows, which can be described as a fiasco.
There are only thirty people in the dark arrow team, all of them are the elite of the dark spirit cultivators, Tang Yin is usually very precious, and he lost five people in just one battle, which made Tang Yin heartbroken and angry to the extreme.
At this time, Cheng Jin, who had returned from defeat, also wilted, lowered his head, and was silent.
Because of the spirit armor to protect the body, he was not burned, but his two eyes were red and swollen from the smoke, as if he had two big red hearts hanging on his face, seeing him like this, Tang Yin couldn't bear to blame him anymore, and immediately conveyed to the generals that he would attack the city overnight to avenge the blood hatred of his brothers who died in battle.
Hearing this, Qiu Zhen and Zhang Zhe and other strategists came out to stop it, not only is it not conducive to attacking the city at night, but the enemy is fully prepared, and even heard Cheng Jin say that there are sharp weapons such as trebuchets in the city, and it is really difficult for them to take advantage of it if they attack the city now.
Under the persuasion of Qiu Zhen and others, Tang Yin gradually calmed down, and the sneak attack of the dark arrow personnel could not be said to be nothing, at least he knew that there were still large sharp weapons such as trebuchets hidden in Jicheng, but when he attacked the city during the day, the other party did not use it, it seems that it was Mao An's trump card.
If the opponent uses the trick of dealing with hidden arrows on his own siege soldiers when he is attacking the city, he doesn't know how many soldiers will be burned to death.
Thinking about it carefully, Tang Yin couldn't help but feel a chill.
"Mao An is extremely hateful, when I capture this person, I will kill him alive" Tang Yin paced back and forth in the tent angrily, but now he really can't do anything about the other party.
He had words in his mouth, and he muttered for a while before his mood slowly calmed down, and he said to Cheng Jin: "Cheng Jin, you go back to rest first, remember to go to the military doctor to get medicine, and cure the eye injury first."
Cheng Jin was ashamed and ashamed, his face was red, and he said in a low voice: "My lord, my subordinates' night attacks are not good, please punish your lordship."
Tang Yin waved his hand, sighed lightly, and said quietly: "It's not your fault, if you want to talk about fault, I am much older than you, and I have to treat myself first":