Chapter 176: The First Battle The arrows at the head of the city rained down, and the bundles of arrows that had been carried by the people to the various parts of the city for several days were greatly reduced, and soon the bundles of arrows were carried out from the enemy towers to fill the gap again. e Reading The result of these constantly consumed arrows was the corpses under the city, increasing in a visible distance, and the battle was going on in an extremely tragic way at the very beginning, and the only purpose of these civilians, who were holding dirt bags instead of weapons, rushed to the city walls, as if to send them to death, to send them to death.
There were also people who broke down, cried and threw everything away, and then turned around and ran in the opposite direction, but soon, such people were killed on the spot by the rebels, who obviously had archers, but they chose to use broadswords or iron rods to cut these people in two or beat them to a bloody blur, and once these people died, there would definitely be a family of old and young people who were escorted out of the rebels and turned into several dead souls on the side of the battlefield in the same way in front of the battle.
In war, the lives of soldiers are like grass mustard, and grass mustard is even less valuable, full of innocent people who are ready to be coerced, rushing forward, dying one, and going back, that is the death of the whole family, and the loss of children and grandchildren.
This situation made the soldiers at the head of the city a little sad, but their hands and feet were still not slow, and they were lucky enough to avoid the shooting of the archers.
After several days of careful preparation, the defenders have too many means to deal with these unarmed civilians, even if they are not afraid of their lives, their fate can only be to become a dead corpse under the city, even the spears in the hands of the defenders, their chests have no chance to contact the spears.
When the sun just showed its head from the horizon, the battle gradually stopped, and the battle of just over an hour made the defenders at the head of the city feel as if it had passed a reality, when the last arrow fell, except for the occasional groan from the pile of dead bodies and some seriously injured and dying people who crawled back towards their wives and children, there was no longer a standing person, and the archers who had been taking turns shooting arrows could finally put down their arms that could barely be lifted up, and could breathe.
"Let all the archers on duty at night go down to recover their spirits, and those with hand injuries should be treated immediately, and the archers who rotate during the day will be at the head of the city immediately" Qian Wuzhi's face was expressionless, and he commanded to open up, "As long as the city is not broken, no one is allowed to disturb their rest, and the soldiers who rotate in this direction will be handled accordingly."
When the order was given, a group of archers breathed a sigh of relief and walked down the city wall, where the fresh troops, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately filled their vacancies.
"Coming" The archers were not yet fully positioned, and there was movement under the city, and a rebel army that seemed to drive these people to death finally began to move, and the wooden shields were raised high, looking from under the city, the rebels' heads seemed to have a huge shield wall, and under the shield wall, the rebels moved slowly, so that this huge shield slowly approached the city wall.
The arrows rained down, but this time, it had no effect, only the occasional arrow that fell into the gap in the shield made the huge shield occasionally sink a piece, but then the fallen piece bulged again, and it was the enemy under the shield, filling the position of their arrow companions.
"Do you want to fire?"
Zhang Kai looked at the approaching shield wall, and asked, the officer of the artillery team, the torch that was ready to light the fuse, has been changed a few times, but the order to open the cannon has not come down, although Zhang Kai is ashamed of the use of firearms, he is far inferior to Qian Wu, who is known all over the world in the name of firearms fighting, but he also knows that in this case, I am afraid that the bow and crossbow will not be able to make contributions.
Qian Wuxian shook his head and made the same judgment as him, this is just a tentative move by the enemy, no one will play the hole cards at the beginning, the rebels are, and so are they.
Stepping on the layers of people's corpses, the shield wall formed by the rebel soldiers who moved to the city finally did not move, and a group of rebels rushed out from under the shield wall, and they rushed towards the city head without fear of death.
A spear, poked down from the city, the archers on both sides, at the moment is basically useless, such a battle, enough to make all the archers go away, the rebels who emerge first, often poked down by several spears at the same time, some spears retracted in time, brewing the next stab, some spears, but deeply trapped in the enemy's body, with the weight of the enemy's falling corpse, almost took the soldiers at the head of the city down.
More often than not, when the first rebel was stabbed to death, and the spear was too late to be withdrawn, the second and third rebels, taking advantage of this gap, grabbed the spear and borrowed the strength, jumped quickly at the head of the city, and then began to take over the formation with red eyes, ready to meet the battle of the soldiers who had been waiting for them at the head of the city.
For a while, many of the city walls had enemy troops jumping in, Qian Wuxi looked at the number of enemy troops, looked away, and looked at the shield wall under the city, the number of enemy troops was not worth his worry, but the shield under the city was not broken, and a steady stream of enemy troops would continue to drill out of the shield wall and jump over the city.
"Fire oil can," he said coldly, "all the archers change their rockets, waiting for orders" One by one, the clay pots filled with black oil were carefully taken out of the enemy building, these days, such oil jars, each enemy building has stored a lot, this kind of black heavy oil that can be mined in the open air, Qian Wuxian also knows their other name oil.
And almost all the places where oil is found in the open air are now under the supervision of the imperial court, and Qian Wuzhi is very sure that this group of turtles under the city definitely doesn't know what a good thing this is.
A clay pot the size of a person's head fell from under the city one after another, and the rebels under the shield wall only felt that their heads were like falling countless huge hailstones, maybe it was not right, Guizhou did not have such a big hail, it was said to be a stone, maybe these rebel soldiers who were struggling to support the shield wall could understand better.
As the clay pot broke, the huge shield wall seemed to be a landscape painting that had been smeared by a urchin, and there were black ink blobs everywhere, and more and more ink were added and expanded, and soon, this landscape painting became like a black ink paper.
"Now, release the arrows" With Qian Wuxi's order, a group of flames fluttered up from the shield wall, and soon, these dotted flames slowly gathered together and turned into a huge flame, and at this time, the rebels under the shield finally couldn't support it, someone dropped the shield and began to slap the rhubarb flames, some people simply rolled in the ground, first went to the fall of the fire oil tank, their bodies more or less splashed a lot of fire oil, at this moment when they met the fire, it was really out of control, and there was a body to go to the fire to splash a lot, When he dropped the shield, he directly turned into a burning man, howling while running around aimlessly, and then, after triggering more burning men, as if he had completed the task, he fell to the ground motionless.
This kind of situation, under several shield walls under the city are playing, without the support of the shield wall reinforcements, the rebels who jump the city wall, often have to face five times ten times the defenders, even if they are brave, rows of spears poke over, they are also lifeless, jump down the city, however, it is just a fire under the city, and a little more fuel, their way has become a veritable fire pit, at the head of the city, it is a dead end, jumping down, it is also a dead end.
At this time, even if people are dead, they have to pull a few cushions, this is the commonality of people, their dying struggle, but also caused a certain number of casualties, although not big, but such casualties, enough to make Zhang Kai feel a little distressed.
"My lord, these rebels, in fact, we can not let them go at all" Zhang Kai said with some hesitation, he didn't accuse Qian Wuxi, he just reminded him wholeheartedly, as a deputy general, it is necessary to remind his main general at this time, Guizhou City, at the moment every military strength is extremely precious, such a loss of military strength is actually completely unnecessary.
"If you don't let it go, how do I know if they still have a backhand" Qian Wuxian glanced at him, with no expression, "Don't let it go, let these soldiers of ours see blood, once it comes to a critical moment, can these people be hoped" He looked at the rebels who had been replaced and retreated, and his eyebrows showed a trace of worry, "Even if you have searched the city, the old and weak army that has come up is only more than 6,000 people, these 6,000 people, who have never seen blood on the battlefield, are afraid that half of them are afraid that there are half of them, this battle of survival is not fought in one day, the rebels' temptation this time is not large, just let them see and experience it, otherwise, they think that this battle is to watch others shoot arrows at the head of the city, and throw things under the city."
"Although there are some dead and wounded, but after this battle, the remaining people, the combat power that broke out, I am afraid that the combat power of the previous 6,000 people is stronger, if the 6,000 old and weak army can be replaced by 4,000 or 3,000 or even 2,000 elite soldiers, this kind of training, I will come a few times, the old army is precious, you are an old army, you will not know, as for the new army, the weak army" Qian Wuxian looked behind him, "The arsenal in the city is very sufficient, the ordnance is not bad, these tens of thousands of people are strong, one person is issued a weapon, but it is not a new army, the head of the people, the rebels outside the city may not be our many people" aa2705221 t1706231537: