"Shoot" Today is the seventh day of the arrival of Yao Lan and Yao Jing's army, and the former Liutian seems dull and calm, but the false calm is destined to be broken.
The arrows fired from the city's head did not appear to be too dense, they were fired by archers standing in a straight line within about two kilometers of the horizontal line, and they roared through the air and forward, losing most of their kinetic energy and falling downward, forming a projectile.
The siege troops looked quite mixed, not only dressed in a variety of clothes, but in fact they were also a mixture of the Yao family army and the Qingzhou army, with about 5,000 people.
The besiegers who were in the front line carried shields made of wooden nails, and when the arrows were fired from the wall, the shields were already held high, and when the arrows fell, the sound of metal entering the wood sounded frequently, and it also brought a scream.
The total number of soldiers who were shooting arrows was 1,400, and each shot was fired by 700 archers, one wave of arrows followed by the next wave, and the pause time of each wave was only about two breaths, forming a dense but continuous blockade, each wave could always take the lives of dozens of besieging parties, causing more people to be injured and lose their combat power.
The enemy lost about 3,000 or 400 men to the bottom of the city wall, and because the wall was not angular and angular, the archers had to stick out of their upper bodies to shoot arrows, which would cause unnecessary casualties.
"The archers retreated, and the auxiliaries threw wood and rolling stones" A large number of auxiliaries rushed up, picked up the thick pieces of wood and stones, and threw them down.
After they began to drop the logs and rolling stones, there were frequent and terrible screams from below, which showed how crowded the people below were to avoid the arrows of the walls.
After a few dull sounds, the besieging side erected the wooden ladder, which was nailed to the wall with its hook.
Li Kuang walked quickly to a battlement with his sword, and after a few slashes, he cut off the hook of the wooden ladder.
Some soldiers carried a long push handle to nail the wooden ladder, and a piece of force pushed forward, and the wooden ladder was pushed backwards like that, and the besieging soldiers who had climbed halfway up screamed and let go of the wooden ladder and jumped away, and the wooden ladder smashed backwards and slammed into the crowd of people huddled together, causing endless howls.
Most of the wooden stairs hooked to the battlements were toppled down, and cheers rang out in the walls, but the next moment they were muffled by a burst of drums, and it turned out that there were another enemy approaching, and those who were new to the city were archers.
"Archer, shoot arrows at enemy archers" The archers of the city wall stand on high ground, which naturally has the advantage of range, and the attacking side obviously knows this so it does not invest in the archer troops at the beginning, but first uses the troops to force the defenders to hold on to the city wall, which will squeeze the space of the archers at the head of the city, and the besieging side will send archers with the intention of covering the shot.
Looking at the situation above the city walls, the auxiliaries need to throw out the rafts and rolling stones, which are destined to occupy the battlements, and some of the melee soldiers need to take positions to prevent the enemy from climbing up the siege ladder, leaving less room for the archers, so it is clear that the besieging team's strategy has succeeded.
Although the defending archers were quick to react and stay at the back of the wall and follow orders to shoot arrows, the besieging side had already reached a position where they could shoot arrows.
Another "shot", but this time from the mouth of the besieging side.
Their archery is not continuous, but purely the whole at the same time, causing a "dark cloud" to rise in the flat ground and rush to the city.
The terrible "erection of shields" and "dodging" were roared out of the mouths of officers of all ranks on the city wall.
The next moment it was the archers at the head of the city who shot their arrows, and the shieldmen who had been prepared at the side of the archers raised their shields.
It was the arrows of the besieging side that arrived first, although there had been a hint in advance, but it was not possible for people with individual consciousness to hear the hint and everyone could react immediately, and the moment the dense arrow rain fell, blood flowers appeared on the body of the person who was hit by the arrow, and a muffled snort appeared first, followed by a scream.
The muffled hum is directly shot to the vital point and killed instantly, and the scream is shouted by the injured person.
The screams, voices, and arrows staring at the walls and shields were very dense, and the next moment it was a "crack" shouted from the mouths of unknown people, and the shield guards guarding the archers removed their shields, and the archers fired arrows at the command to "shoot".
Li Kuang took advantage of the gap to raise his head slightly and looked out from the arrow stack, and saw the enemy archers below shooting a dense rain of arrows again, and couldn't help but shout: "Erect a shield" Some of the defenders who were probing their brains quickly shrank back, and people crowded behind the battlements to hide behind the battlements, and among them there were pale-faced people and some who could still smile, and all kinds of human situations were staged on the battlefield where they could lose their lives at any time.
First, a few desolate horns were blown, and then a series of tooth-souring sounds sounded suddenly, Li Kuang turned his head to look, and the sound came from a deliberately raised position, on which a bed crossbow was arranged.
There are many similar facilities that have been specially raised and covered with skin, and they are machines that can be moved on wheels, not only with bed crossbows, but even with stone throwers.
Thick crossbow arrows fired at high speed cannot be caught with the naked eye at the beginning of the launch, they have lost their initial off-string kinetic energy after flying out for a certain distance, and their speed slows down before their figures appear, which can be seen and indicate that they are not far from falling.
Yao Lan and Yao Jing, who were about a kilometer away from the city wall, could still relax and talk and laugh, but when they saw that the archers sent out were covered by at least thirty bed crossbows for shooting, the thick crossbow arrows shot into the pile of people with extremely strong kinetic energy, penetrating at least three or four people and "pulling up" people and crashing backwards, the expressions of the two immediately froze.
The thick crossbow arrows fired by the bed crossbow are terrifyingly lethal, and at least a hundred can be killed in just one salvo, which is equivalent to three results for a thick bed crossbow.
For a number of more than 2,000 people, the loss of a hundred people may not be so much, but it was the killing of a bed crossbow, and the appearance of the person who was shot to death was so miserable that those who saw that scene could not help but tremble with their legs.
The commotion of the battlefield was quiet suddenly, and then louder noises were heard, cheering from the defenders at the head of the city and the besieging party below.
Li Kuang frowned slightly, thinking, "Throw yourself into the bed crossbow so soon" Large-scale urban defense equipment is only used in an emergency, and Li Kuang does not think that it is a time of crisis.
This is only a local battlefield, and there are also battles in other directions.
The enemy army of the Han Department did not only launch an attack on one city wall, they did not even talk about the routine of encircling three walls and one at all, but surrounded all four city walls, and launched on all four sides at the same time when attacking.
Surrounding the three ques is a routine that Chinese civilization pays attention to, at the beginning, it was to leave a back road so that the defenders did not have the heart to die, and in the back, it was to encircle the three ques and encircle the three ques.
The simplest example is that even in the face of the weaker defenders, the attackers of the Chinese civilization will still surround them, which is no longer to let the defenders have a fluke mentality, it is a kind of rigid copying.
What's more, even when defending, there will be a deliberately weak position, talking about the fear that God will be jealous of the routine of "imperfect", such as the original Lower Secret City has a deliberately left weak city wall, or the Han Department will block it later.
This kind of thinking has continued into modern times, for example, in the famous Sino-Japanese naval battle, there were even some deliberately unfired shells.
Later, it was deliberately loaded with sand, and Krupp's shells were loaded with sand, don't you know that the cost of individual cases in assembly line production is higher, and the labor cost is more expensive than the gunpowder that should have been installed 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 battle did not only take place on the city wall defended by Li Kuang, but there were battles on the four walls of the lower dense city, just how many troops should have been invested by both sides.
The new annexed army that was arranged in Zicheng is also meeting its own challenges, Wang Pu, the captain of the new attached military academy, is still as a deputy, and the three thousand new attached troops cooperate with a song of Han soldiers to defend Zicheng, but the main general is Lu Yi.
Liu Zheng, who was in charge of the main attack on Zicheng, used a routine similar to Yao's army, that is, to send some troops to bear losses and attract the attention of the city head, wanting to send archers to take advantage of the attention of the defenders, and then send archers to cover the defenders on the city wall.
The sub-city is not the kind of boxy straight city wall of the main city of Xiami, it is a kind of edges and corners with the shape of a six-pointed star, and there is no shooting blind spot in this kind of city wall, Liu Zheng sent to attract the troops of the defenders of the city head to bear the losses and arrive under the city wall, but they were not safe under the city wall, and they were shot one after another by the archers at the head of the city like shooting rabbits, happily and without difficulty, causing the attackers below to collapse and flee after just staying for less than half an hour.
The camp was also under attack, and unlike the other two directions, which had the walls as its backing, the fighting here was fought in hand-to-hand combat from the first few waves of arrows.
The main city, the sub-city, and the camp are all in the middle of a big war, and the Yao family army and the Qingzhou army occupy an absolute numerical advantage and bully the Han people.
Yao Lan and Yao Jing supervised the attack on the main city of Xiami, and after discovering that there was a bed crossbow at the head of the city, they temporarily withdrew the troops besieging the city, and adopted the strategy of attacking and harassing the main city of Xiami, just because they did not want the defenders of the main city of Xiami to live in peace, and turned their attention to the camp that fell into hand-to-hand combat.
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Liu Yan had an indifferent attitude towards Yao's army's shift to the camp, while Lu Yi, who was in Zicheng, was worried when he found that Yao's army's main target had been changed to the camp.
In the final analysis, the Han Department really does not have an advantage in numbers, counting the auxiliary soldiers, the people, the servant army, the new annex army, and the slave soldiers, there are 37,000 people from the Han Department in the main city of Xiami, 4,000 people in the sub-city, and 7,000 people on the camp side.
"There are 2,000 tribal armed forces in the camp" Lu Yi thought worriedly: "There is such an elite, can it be defended":