Taking advantage of the difficulty for the soldiers on the city to emerge and shoot arrows vertically, the bandits who attacked the city held their shields high, quickly and methodically erected numerous ladders, and began to climb up; another twenty or thirty people pushed crudely nailed ladders with large wooden stakes.
After successfully rushing into the car, they also arrived at the city gate under the protection of several layers of thick cowhide.
The huge impact sound overwhelmed the horns and military drums.
The defenders on the city were in panic, and many people seemed to have fallen to the ground.
Seeing this, Ma Chao actually had doubts about Ma Teng's ability: He is so useless, why did he see that the city gate was about to be breached as soon as he arrived?
Although Ma Chao has never had the experience of fighting in a city.
But he had also seen on TV that in such a situation, the defenders should immediately put down the rolling logs and falling rocks, and at the same time use the rods to hold the ladder down.
After a slight hesitation, the siege army should be allowed to climb the city wall, and then the situation would be over.
Sure enough, Ma Chao saw that more than a dozen thieves and bandits had already come up quickly.
Seeing how critical the situation was, Ma Dai pulled out his sword and seemed about to go into battle, but Ma Chao frowned calmly and said to Ma Dai: "Calm down, it's not time for you to fight yet."
"Brother, you didn't see that the city is about to be destroyed," Ma Dai said anxiously.
If he hadn't always regarded Ma Chao as his idol, he might have quarreled with Ma Chao.
"Impossible, even if my father prepared in a hurry, it is impossible for him to do this.
Come to think of it, my father must have some backup plans."
Ma Chao never dared to underestimate any figure in history, especially the one who could sneak into Xiliang as a poor farmer.
The warlord's cheap man.
However, it seems that there is really nothing exciting about this situation now: the city wall is an important defensive fortification of the city, and it is also the psychological barrier that the defenders rely on to resist the enemy.
Now that they were suddenly broken through after just one blow, this was a huge blow to the fighting spirit of the defenders.
Troops with lower quality would most likely collapse immediately.
"Brother, look!"
Ma Dai suddenly screamed, causing Ma Chao to look up.
From Ma Chao's perspective at this time, he happened to see the two thieves Xiandeng falling from the top of the city while dancing with blood on their tails.
Then came the third and fourth.
Within a few seconds, the thieves and bandit soldiers who had just come up turned into corpses and were thrown off the city wall.
Ma Chao opened his eyes wide and felt a little surprised: after the cannon fodder, the vanguard of the siege is the most critical, so the person who holds this position is either a warrior with outstanding martial arts skills in the army and regards death as returning home; or he has violated military law and wants to use it to make meritorious deeds. of death row.
The soldiers of Fufeng County were clearly captured by a surprise attack, and their morale seemed to be in chaos.
Why did they kill those dead soldiers like melons and vegetables?
"Hey, brother, look, it's Uncle Pang and Uncle Huang."
Ma Dai pointed to the distance with his eyes clear.
Ma Chao turned around and saw a thief jumping onto the top of the city.
Before he could stand still, a human head flew up into the air amid splashes of blood.
The headless body was kicked backwards and the ladder was thrown away.
The few soldiers who followed him were taken down.
And the brave and sturdy man still poked his head behind the wall, and then quickly retracted.
It seemed that the sturdy man wanted to see whether the falling trajectory of the bandit was beautiful or not.
The ugly brother further away seemed to be better, but Ma Chao took a closer look and found that this ugly brother was actually even more insane, because he never killed the enemy soldiers, but always relied on brute force to kill those who climbed up the city wall.
Enemies, throw them down alive "This ugly brother is indeed as cool as ever."
Ma Chao covered his head helplessly, feeling that none of the generals he had picked out took their lives seriously.
With Pang De and Brother Chou showing off their power, at this time, the situation on the city wall had reversed.
With this moment of respite, the county guards calmed down from their temporary panic and began to counterattack.
More than twenty ladders were overturned one by one by the long poles.
Hundreds of thieves fell down, some fell to the ground and couldn't get up for a while; some fell on others, and several people bumped into each other; some fell on other people's weapons, and a hole was poked in their thighs.
Sitting on the ground and howling miserably.
At this time, hot oil was poured from the top of the city, followed by lit torches and hay, and the city suddenly turned into a sea of fire.
Some agile soldiers rolled and crawled away, but many others were wrapped in it, and screams could not be heard.
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More than 200 remaining soldiers rushed out of the sea of fire, their whole bodies were on fire, and struggled to escape.
Some of them were shot down by bows and arrows from the city head, and some fell to the ground from exhaustion halfway through, letting the flames wrap their whole bodies. ; There were still some who were not seriously injured.
They first took off their oily armors and shirts, rolled to the ground, extinguished the flames, and ran back in disgrace.
Finally, the guards aimed at the rush car under the thick cowhide at the city gate and poured down a large pot of melted tin juice or lead juice.
The cowhide on the top was several layers thick and soaked in water, so it could not have been burned through.
But the liquid that fell to the ground splashed and stuck to one person's legs and feet.
The person was unsteady, fell down with a scream, and hit other soldiers, causing several shiny gaps to appear in the tight shield defense.
The liquid dripped down, and the bodies of the twenty-odd people were all rotten.
They fell to the ground and tossed and screamed, and finally became motionless.
Seeing this, Ma Chao understood somewhat.
Except for the veterans who operated the ballistas, the county guards on the city wall should all be newly recruited recruits.
After all, although Fufeng County has 10,000 garrison troops, the siege has lasted for at least three or four days.
Even if those veterans did not suffer many casualties, they should be organized by Ma Teng into a temporary mobile team or a candidate team.
Supplements and desperate efforts at critical moments.
Of course, Ma Teng also has more than 20,000 Xiliang cavalry.
However, those 20,000 people were all cavalry and could not be used to defend the city.
Perhaps, these 20,000 people are Ma Teng's last trump card, which he plans to use to fight the thieves in the city to the death.
Until the moment of life and death, Ma Teng should be able to kill him without even using it.
Therefore, during this period, Ma Teng should have temporarily recruited some new soldiers to defend the city.
In this siege, Ma Teng might have used the lives of those new soldiers to train his troops.
Compassion does not command troops In this regard, Ma Chao does not think that as a general, Ma Teng did anything wrong.
But as the commander-in-chief of a county, it is really unwise to just compete with the enemy in this way.
While Ma Chao was still thinking, he suddenly heard a cheer on the city wall and his morale was boosted.
At this time, all the enemy's siege equipment was destroyed, and the remaining thousands of bandits could not get close to the city.
Arrows and stones rained down on their heads.
Originally, it was difficult to aim because the siege army rushed too fast, but now But it's very different.
The siege soldiers, who had no way forward and no sound of gold, were in a dilemma.
They became living targets.
There were probably many excellent shooters in the defenders.
They were in groups of three or five, hiding among the swarming soldiers at the top of the city.
In the light of the fire, junior generals such as Shichang and Du Bo fired arrows to kill them.
The veterans who controlled the crossbows were even more powerful.
For a moment, whenever the arrow left the string, the target would surely fall to the ground with blood.
At this time, the siege army was disorganized.
The death of these lower-level generals left the soldiers without a command.
At a loss what to do and panicked, they began to turn around and flee, first one or two, then more and more, and finally thousands of people all turned into scattered teams and retreated.
It seems that this siege should be over today.
Ma Chao, on the other hand, frowned more and more: