Chapter 503 Hit the stone with an egg, beyond one's own strength!
(Please give me a monthly ticket! I have lost insomnia these days, and I can only fall asleep in bed until dawn every day, and I am trying to suffer so much. I am trying to find a way to turn it over and it is in a very bad state. Let’s wait until Muzi gets better before breaking out!)
The moon was dark and the wind was high. During the day, Huang Chao, who was defeated by five thousand soldiers in the city, was angry and angry. Despite Shang Junchang's reversal, he reorganized his troops and made a comeback. This time, Shang Rang selected three thousand elite soldiers and sneaked to the east gate of Yucheng, preparing to attack the south gate. However, the city was prepared for a long time. There seemed to be no one on the top of the city, but in fact, the battlements were covered with elite soldiers.
Shang Rang stood in the night, watching hundreds of old brothers climbing up to the city with quilts, and was very happy. He listened with his ears, and suddenly heard a sound of gold and iron sounding on the city, and then he immediately returned to silence.
Looking at the dark city gate, Shang Rang's face turned blue and black, but he didn't expect that the Baiduo brothers would be ruined like this.
"General, look, the city gate is open, Lao Scar and the others have taken the city gate." Suddenly, a scream of exclamation sounded in his ears. Shang Rang raised his head and looked at the gradually opened city gate, his eyes full of disbelief.
Before he could issue the order, the three thousand thieves who were ambushing not far from the city were already shouting and rushed towards the slowly opened city gate. Shang Rang was surprised and wondered why he took down the city gate so easily. But the brothers had already rushed over, so he had to follow the charge.
Seeing that hundreds of brothers in front of him had already rushed into the city, Shang Rang's tight heart finally let go. No matter what, the city gate was finally taken down.
Shang Rang was so excited that he waved his horse spear and shouted loudly: "Crush, chase, chase!"
Seeing that nearly a centaur had rushed into the city, Shang Rang was only a few feet away from the city gate. Suddenly, there was a loud roar, and the entire East Gate Tower suddenly collapsed, and countless smoke and dust rose. Dozens of people at the city gate tower were immediately crushed into flesh.
Shang Rang's war horse stood up, and a few drops of liquid suddenly splashed on his face. Is it raining? Shang Rang looked up and it was not raining in the sky. He wiped the liquid on his face with his hand, but it still had a hint of warmth, which was the blood of his brothers.
This sudden collapse made Shang Rang stunned. Why did the city gate tower suddenly collapse?
Before he could figure it out, through a pile of gravel, countless sounds of metal and iron were heard from the other end, as well as the neighing of war horses and screaming of human voices. Shang Rang's face changed drastically, and he already understood what was going on.
They were trapped. It was not their brothers who opened the door, but Tang army. They deliberately lured them into the city, and then suddenly spread the city gate tower and divided them into two.
"Roar, rush in!" Shang Rang shouted. These three thousand people were all his capital. Now the city was halfway through a sudden collapse. How could he not be angry? What made Shang Rang happy was that although the collapse of the city gate tower separated them, it also allowed them to climb over the ruins and enter the city.
The thieves rushed to climb, using their hands and feet. Seeing that they had reached the top and were about to enter the city, they suddenly flew countless sharp arrows from all directions, and kept ringing. Hundreds of people who had just climbed up were all shot down.
Several consecutive charges only added countless corpses to the ruins.
Half an hour later, the sound of killing in the city gradually weakened, and finally stopped, and then it was silent.
Shang Rang knew that the more than a thousand old brothers were gone. He angrily smashed the ground with his hands, but it was useless.
Half an hour later, Wang Xianzhi, Shang Junchang and others led the reorganized 13,000 troops. This time, they did not bring the auxiliary troops to the army, but asked Cao Shixiong to bring the auxiliary troops to the army in the back.
When they arrived at the east city of Yucheng, they saw Shang Rang, who was only more than a thousand people left.
When Wang Xianzhi learned that Shang Rang had fallen into the Tang army's plan and lost nearly two thousand brothers, he was furious.
Now he wanted to break the city immediately, peel off all the officials in the city, and crush their bones and raise ashes.
"Siege the city, attack the city immediately!"
Shang Junchang comforted his brother a few words and said to Wang Xianzhi: "Brother, the strength of the government army lies in the elite and excellent forces, but we are in the large number of people. I think we should send 3,000 troops to attack the three walls on the west and north, with a thousand people on each side, and only do feint attacks. In addition, we will transfer 5,000 troops to attack the East City and give full play to our advantage in numbers to break the city."
"Why don't you send five thousand people together?" Wang Xianzhi was puzzled.
"This is reserved for the reserve team. Although the other three sides are feinted, if the Tang army really dares to transfer all the troops to the East City, then we will send the five thousand reserve teams to other weak places, raid the city in one fell swoop, and kill him out of the precaution." Shang Junchang said coldly.
Wang Xianzhi patted Shang Jun's long arm, "Okay, my second brother is smart, so that's what I do."
With Wang Xianzhi's military order issued, dozens of big drums on the thief were shaking like thunder. At the same time, the thief attacked the city from all sides in the dark night.
Li Jing sat in the south city gate tower, still reading the military books leisurely. The other soldiers were a little nervous, but when they saw the general's relaxed performance, they couldn't help but relax their nervous hearts a lot.
"Master, did you let someone lead his troops out of the city and rush out for a while?" Zhou Dewei asked. He had already seen that the enemy did not bring his auxiliary troops to join the army this time.
Li Jing smiled, "No need to be so troublesome. The bandits also want to fight at night, don't you know that the night battle is actually the most difficult battle besides sneak attacks? Now the sneak attack plan of the bandits army has been exposed. Not only does he not retreat, he has forced himself to attack the city, which is seeking death. The moon is dark and the wind is high. The bandits army has no siege equipment, and the second is not elite, but they actually want to fight at night. It's such a big joke. Let Liu Xun and a few kids accompany them to train the selection army."
Night battles are not something you can fight. Cold weapon wars are difficult to command even during the day. But thugs like the bandit army are difficult to command in normal times, let alone during night battles. What's more, those hungry refugees are already weak and it's even harder to have night vision. Even if they are wearing torches, they are afraid that their eyes are not good. In this case, the thugs without siege equipment actually want to attack the city guarded by elite officials, which is really a way out.
In the east of the city, most of the Cao army attacked the city fiercely.
Although it was fierce, it was just a loud shout. In fact, they had no other siege equipment except dozens of ladders. A large group of refugees in a mess rushed up.
Li Cunxiao, who was in charge of the east gate, looked coldly, and did not move at all.
Shang Junchang personally directed the gathered more than a thousand archers in an array and slowly pressed down to the city. After reaching the city sixty steps, he began to shoot arrows. Most of the archers among the thieves were hunters before, and thousands of people shot arrows, which was also quite powerful.
Some of the whistling arrows shot on the city wall, some whizzed past the heads of the defenders on the city, and some shot directly on the sandbags piled on the top of the city.
"Master, will you fight back?" Zhu Wen stood beside Li Cunxiao and asked loudly.
Li Cunxiao shook his head and looked at the city with a glance, "Don't worry, let me know when the bandits reach fifty steps."
After saying that, Li Cunxiao took off the gourd, raised his neck and took a sip. Zhu Wen whispered beside him: "Battleman, military regulations, drinking is prohibited during the battle, and violators are punished twenty-years-old. If serious consequences are caused, the worst case may be beheaded and displayed." Zhu Wen is still very grateful to this boss. He has heard that the boss had said a lot of good things to him in front of the general.
"Punish a bird!" Li Cunxiao cursed, "I have water in this gourd, so I can't drink water even when I fight?"
Zhu Wen obviously smelled the wine, but when he heard him say this, he didn't have to say much, so he had to turn around and stare at the thieves.
"Battleman, the bandits have already taken fifty steps!"
"Let me tell me when the bandits are nearly thirty steps." Li Cunxiao raised his head and drank a big sip of wine. The gourd was indeed filled with wine, but it was fruit wine, just like water. Although he was not very motivated, he did not dare to drink white wine in a battle against the wind. Even this fruit wine was also secretly drunk, which was considered a relief to the addiction.
"Yanei, the thief has reached within thirty steps!" Zhu Wen shouted.
Upon hearing this, Li Cunxiao stuffed the gourd, hung it around his waist, picked up a thrown gun, and shouted at Zhu Wen: "Brothers from the Fifth Battalion, obey the orders, get ready to throw the gun! Shoot!"
There were not many reserves of bows and arrows in the city, and most of them were handed over to archers with excellent archery skills. There was no time to create a catapult cart in the city for a while. Li Jing asked them to collect the wood in the city and rush to make many simple throwing guns. Although the throwing guns were simple, each soldier had a spear throwing weapon on his body, two plus one, and he stood on the top of the city to attack the lower body, so the effect was still excellent.
Li Cunxiao directly grabbed a pointed wooden stake about the thickness of a one-arm, without having to put the iron spear head, and held it directly in his hand, twisted his waist and raised his arms, and threw it forward suddenly. The pointed wooden stake suddenly flew towards the city like a large crossbow gun, and directly linked up three bandits. In the case of such a dense city, there was no need to prepare at all, and he shot three of them in one shot.
Li Cunxiao's brave performance attracted a warm cheers on the city.
Immediately afterwards, the other soldiers took spear throwing weapons and threw simple spears at the bandits under the city.
When the other soldiers threw their spears, Zhu Wen took more than a hundred archers from the fifth battalion to scatter on the top of the city. Seeing the enemy getting closer and closer, he had already entered within thirty steps, and he couldn't help but look a little excited on his face.
Top archers can penetrate the sun by hundreds of steps. Archers with one step can draw within sixty steps, but only sixty steps can draw, and they are usually random arrows.
And ejaculation is much more difficult, especially at night, which is even more difficult.
Li Cunxiao's order to Zhu Wen was to ask him to lead the archers to block the thief army that was attacking the city, that is, to shoot accurately. He specifically shot the officers wearing iron armor and leather armor and brave thief army. If he wanted to shoot accurately, it was impossible to take sixty steps, but if he was within thirty steps and was condescending and hiding behind the arrow pile, this greatly increased the success rate.
"Arrowman, shoot the arrow!"
Zhu Wen shouted, and the stone bow in his hand was pulled up like a full moon. When the arrows were lifted, a broken armored arrow had left the string. With the sound of the bowstring, a tall thief army in iron armor rushed under the city and fell down! (This site (.) Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile phone users please go to m.. to read.)
Chapter completed!