Chapter 1126 War and Peace (2)(1/2)
In July, the city is filled with sunshine and the scorching sun shines, making the city walls hot.
Behind the arrow tower and the female wall, countless trembling new recruits in Dayuan looked nervously at the dense Hun army on the fields outside the city wall.
The flags of the Huns were as spectacular as the waves of the ocean, and their cavalry were as numerous as stars.
A large number of infantry soldiers lined up next to tall instruments.
These wooden equipment are raised high, and there are a large number of polished stones piled up next to them.
"Damn it!" Yu Chengcheng's governor Yuan Ge looked at the scene and couldn't help but curse: "How could these barbarians make wild donkeys?"
Almost two hundred years ago, Ptolemy's Keterspius improved the Greek trench and developed a brand new torsional trench. Later, during the Eastern Expedition of Antioch, he brought this terrible weapon to the Eastern battlefield.
This terrible weapon swept across all its enemies with a destructive and destructive force.
Because it fires stones, it is called a wild donkey because it is like a wild donkey sticking its hooves.
More than ten years ago, when the Han Dynasty attacked Dayuan, it used a large number of catapults.
The people of Dayuan did not understand why, so they used the name of the torsion catapult from their motherland to describe the Han car.
However, they never expected that the Huns actually mastered the manufacturing technology of torsion catapults and used it in their attacks!
Fortunately, Yu Chengcheng is strong enough!
Last time, the Han Dynasty army siege for half a year, and used countless means to shake Yu Cheng's city wall.
In the end, I had to rely on the water cut off to capture Yu Chengcheng.
Now, Yu Chengcheng has learned the lessons of the last fall and dug dozens of wells in the city. Even if the Huns cut off water, they can persist.
Thinking of this, Yuan Ge felt a little relieved.
He raised his arms and urged his soldiers: "My warriors! Sons of Ares, God of War, do not fear your enemies, for they are just a group of wild beasts. As long as we are united, they will not be able to conquer the great Yucheng City, a city blessed and protected by Ares, the God of War!"
Listening to Yuan Ge's encouragement, the soldiers finally cheered up their morale, held the bow and sword in their hands tightly, took a deep breath, and faced their enemies.
And at this time, the Huns' attack began.
Under the command of craftsmen, dozens of trenchers were rotated by slaves, tightened the noose, and their long wooden arms bent to the extreme under the pull of the winch.
Then, with a command, the winch loosened, the wooden arm bounced up, and threw the stones loaded into a wooden spoon weighing several to ten pounds towards Yu Chengcheng.
Bang bang bang bang!
Suddenly, the stone fell like rain and hit the walls of Yucheng City, making a harsh sound.
There were at least eight stone bullets that directly hit Yu Chengcheng's city. The stone bullets had huge kinetic energy and immediately created a bloody massacre. At least dozens of Dayuan soldiers were smashed to the ground.
Those who were hit directly by the stone bomb were even more terrible. They died before they even wailed.
"Don't panic!" Yuan Ge pulled out his sword and ordered loudly: "Stay on the position!"
Following his order, the army responsible for supervising the battle immediately suppressed the panic of the recruits.
This means that the military literacy of the Dayuan people is praised.
Although most of the city walls are recruits, they are extremely high in terms of organizationalism and obedience to orders.
Unfortunately, for the people of Dayuan today, this is a kind of sadness.
Because, the number of enemies they face is several times, or even ten times, they are!
Yucheng City, although it is a heroic city in Dayuan.
However, its permanent population is only more than 20,000.
Even though a large number of refugees have poured in due to war, the total population does not exceed 40,000.
In a city with 40,000 people, only more than 20,000 young and strong people can truly defend the city walls if they deduct the elderly, weak women and children.
Just a little young and strong, he had to divide the parts to create arrows, transport wounded soldiers, maintain order, and cook food.
As for the defenders of Yu Chengcheng?
Their number is even smaller!
There is only an army of only four thousand people in the entire Yucheng City.
This is because Yuan Ge gathered more than a thousand defeated troops.
Such a limited elite can naturally not be consumed on the city wall in vain.
They can only serve as firefighters and reserves, and they can supplement and respond to loopholes in city defense at any time.
And their enemies, cavalry alone, were almost 20,000 to 30,000.
Infantry, archers, at least 60,000.
In other words, the Huns could take turns to attack, consume Yu Cheng's defenders from morning to night, from wheels to wheel battles.
What's even more terrible is that the Huns' cavalry have now completely cut off the connection between Yu Chengcheng and the outside world.
Starting yesterday morning, the water and land transportation to Ershi City and Guishan City was completely cut off.
From now on, Yu Chengcheng will have no reinforcements and no supplies, and can only fight independently!
Therefore, at the beginning of the battle, Yu Chengcheng fell into a destined fate.
The only difference lies in the length of time.
The Huns knew this fact naturally!
So, from the beginning, they did not intend to give Yu Chengcheng a chance to breathe.
Dozens of cars bombarded Yucheng City's walls from morning to night.
At the same time, the troops of various servant countries took turns to attack the city under the cover of the bombardment of vehicles, testing Yu Chengcheng's defense loopholes, and at the same time creating pressure on the defenders in the city.
The siege lasted for three days.
Yu Chengcheng still stands tall from the outside.
But, everyone knows, this is just the beginning.
The Huns have been tempting for the past three days and have never really attacked the city.
Most attacks usually retreat when entering the range of the defenders' bow and arrow, or retreat in an orderly manner when they are subjected to rapid shooting from the defenders.
Obviously, the Huns were just teasing Yu Chengcheng defenders.
Spend their physical strength, energy and arrow reserves, and at the same time paralyzing the defenders and waiting for opportunities.
Sure enough, on the afternoon of the fourth day, when the defenders of Yu Chengcheng thought that this time was the same as before, the Huns would withdraw from the city wall under the cover of shields and stone bombs.
A team of bare-handed and rammed hammers suddenly rushed out of the attacking crowd.
They instantly emerged from the crowd, and then shouted and rushed towards Yu Chengcheng's gate.
At the same time, the attacking troops holding the ladder quickly followed and set the ladder onto the city wall.
Then, thousands of soldiers, under the supervision of their officers and nobles, climbed up the city wall like ants along hundreds of ladders.
It was not until this moment that the defenders of Yu Chengcheng woke up as if they were dreaming and immediately commanded the archers to attack.
Unfortunately, it was still one step slower.
The vanguard of the Huns quickly climbed to the city head through the ladder, and then fought fiercely with the defenders guarding the city wall.
These people almost seized a city head. Fortunately, Yuan Ge was prepared for it. At this critical moment, the regular Dayuan army, who had been on standby under the city tower, quickly rushed up to the city wall and drove the Huns down the city wall with spears and shields, and barely defended this wave of attacks.
But the Huns tasted the sweetness, and the subsequent attack troops kept climbing up from the ladder.
At the same time, at the gate of the city, the Hun warriors carrying the attacking rams took advantage of this opportunity to continuously hit Yu Chengcheng's gate again and again.
Fortunately, Yu Cheng's defenders were prepared for a long time and had already blocked the city gate with sandbags and gravel, so the Huns did not succeed.
Even so, during the impact of half an hour, Yu Chengcheng's originally solid city gate was somewhat deformed or even broken.
At dusk, the Huns finally ended this attack. In the fear of the Yucheng City defenders, they left behind thousands of corpses, took siege ladders and other siege equipment, and retreated under the city wall.
It seems that Yu Cheng defenders won.
But in fact, everyone knows that this city will definitely not last long.
Especially when the Huns showed Yu Cheng's defenders their achievements in Wubao and villages near Yucheng City, the bodies of the people of Dayuan and the soldiers and civilians.
These terrible barbarians did not hesitate to insert the corpses of the people they slaughtered and the defeated army in front of Yu Cheng's defenders, nailed them to the cross, and then lined up to show them to the defenders.
"Listen to the Dayuan people in Yucheng City: Now, abandon your weapons and surrender, born to heaven and earth, established by the sun and the moon, the king of all kings, the great Majesty of Zhuli Gutu, surrenders, and you can survive! Otherwise, the day the city is broken, there will be no chicken or dog left!" A powerful Hun nobleman, holding a captured Dayuan spear, carried the body of a nobleman killed from nearby Wubao, shouted loudly under the tower of Yucheng City, intimidating the defenders.
Suddenly, the entire Yucheng City was silent.
Anger, fear, fear, and all kinds of emotions are intertwined.
It then transformed into a rumble of fighting spirit!
Unlike other Dayuan nobles and cities, the Dayuan people in Yucheng City had their ancestors from the Laconia Plain, and their bodies were well-known as Dorian blood.
Even though he has been away from his hometown for hundreds of years, even in the East, with the Sai people, Aryans and other mixed races, Yu Chengren still follows the traditions of their ancestors and is absolutely martial! He will never surrender!
"Sparta!" Governor Yu Cheng, Yuan Ge, pulled off his armor and let his body be exposed. He shouted first: "The great Ares will protect us! The gods of Olympus are above me. I swear with my soul that I will definitely take revenge on these cruel barbarians!"
"Sparta!" Thousands of Dayuan soldiers shouted loudly with their governor.
To be continued...