Chapter 54 Siege 3
The impact from outside the city gate was like an evil ghost slamming the door. With the "bang bang" making, the whole Chen Ying seemed to be shaking. After a panic, the officials quickly blessed Zhimu Hengzi, and the chiseled doors on the city gate were also opened. The powerful crossbows shot out one after another. Only the screams of enemy soldiers outside the door were heard, but the impact was still constant.
"Report to Sima, the Qin people rushed to our middle gate." On the north city tower, more than a thousand Qin soldiers fought stubbornly. The county soldiers rushed several times and were repelled by the sharpies holding beryllium. The arrows of the archers under the city were shot away, but they were blocked by their big shields. The two sides were in a stalemate.
"Running my gate?" Chen Bu's throat was already hoarse. He was not surprised to hear that the Qin people rushed to the gate. He said, "I told the city that if the Qin people break the door, I should send the Qin people to the gate quickly, so that the Qin people should not enter the city."
The Xuanmen is a thousand-jin gate. A small city hundreds of years ago was equipped. Chen Ying's middle gate is more than three meters wide, and the Xuanmen weighs more than two thousand jin. Although this gate will be destroyed by the enemy, it can always delay the enemy's entry into the city and buy time for the downward movement of troops and generals. Chen Bu's orders are not contrary to normal. The gatekeeper who is full of sweat immediately retreated and went to the city to inform the county soldiers to inspire the Xuanmen in time.
At the same time, Chen Gan on the west city also ordered the same order, but unlike Chen Bu, the northern city wall had enough troops to counterattack the enemy. He had insufficient troops to trap three towers and waited for reinforcements quickly.
"How could there be so many Wei troops!" The royal city to the east and Shucheng to the west are the existing structure of the Yingdu of Chu State. The county government, Sima's mansion, and reinforcements are all in Dongcheng. The second batch of reinforcements who rushed to the north city had fought with the Qin people for a while, and Chen Gai, who reinforced the west city, hurried to the west city. When he climbed the city tower, he saw the dense Wei troops on the city walls with the help of the fire, and had to gasp.
"Yes!" Chen Gan looked at the 1,500 reinforcements brought by Chen Gai and gasped. He said disappointedly: "Zuo Sima, have the 5,000 horses in the city been exhausted?"
There were 1,500 reinforcements, and the soldiers were all county officials. The county officials could deal with the common people, but they were not good at fighting. Although the soldiers they brought were all complete, they were not here to kill people no matter how they looked at it. The spears in their hands were not stable at all.
"No, no." Chen Gai realized that the situation was completely opposite to what he thought when he arrived in Xicheng. The Wei army's attack was no less than that of the Qin army. At this time, the county soldiers stationed in the city tower were defeated by the Wei soldiers step by step. "There are more than 3,000 sanitation palace armors in the royal city."
"Please ask Sima Zuo to ask for reinforcements, otherwise the west city will be lost!" Chen Gan said loudly,
"You can go to Sima Mansion at a time. Xicheng City is about to break out. Please send three thousand reinforcements." Chen Gai hurriedly rushed to Sima Mansion in the county east of the city, but he didn't know when the reinforcements would arrive.
"Report the army, Wei people, Wei people..." The county soldiers were dying at both ends of the city tower and capturing the Wei army on the wall. When the person came, he said that the Wei people were like this, Chen Dan jumped up, and he drew his sword and said, "The Wei people came in?"
"The people of Wei want to go down to the city." The visitor wailed, and he pointed his finger behind and was about to burst into tears.
At this moment, the ladders that climbed the city outside the city had been dismantled and sent to the top of the city. The Wei army was carrying these ladders down the inner city in order to enter the city along the ladders. Twenty people assisted in every fifty steps in the inner city, but there were not enough soldiers in the city, and most of them were transferred to the top of the city by Chen Gan. In fact, these people were originally some powerful men and women, and they had no combat power. Even if they were not transferred, they could not stop the elite soldiers of the Wei army.
"Please lead people to the city as soon as possible and do not let the Wei people go down to the city." There was no soldier in his hands, so Chen Dan could only let Chen Gai rob and kill the Wei people.
Chen Gai also knew that the Wei people should not be allowed to go down the city easily, otherwise the whole city would be in chaos. Chaos at night was the most terrifying. If the county soldiers on the city thought that the city was broken, then Chen Ying would be lost.
"Go down to the city quickly, go down to the city quickly!" The reinforcements, who were still breathing in a hurry, were led down by Chen Gai again. Fortunately, some county officials went down to run back and ran back, but they really couldn't run. The long-term soldiers could not run, and the soldiers who followed them naturally did not dare to run fast. The team of 1,500 people was growing longer and longer, and the first one could not take care of each other at all.
"The Wei people are down the city! The Wei people are down the city!" When the ladder reaches the city, the Lifu Ding Nu, who is carrying the rocks and rolling wood under the city, dare not take the weapons placed beside her, but scatters and runs away.
"Where are the Wei people? Where are the Wei people?" Chen Gai shouted loudly, and the running Lifu had to point backwards.
"Kill!" The city was dim and Chen Gai was running in the front, only seeing some figures. When the long halberd in the hand of the armored soldiers next to him stabbed him, a few screams from a woman came. This was not a Wei person, but a Ding girl.
"Where are the Wei people? Where are the Wei people?" Chen Gai hurriedly stopped him and asked loudly again.
"Your eldest father Wei He is here!" A tall figure shouted in a deep voice, and a cool breeze followed. Before Chen Gai could react, he cut off his head with beryllium.
"Kill!" More than a hundred Wei soldiers had already walked down the city along the ladder. They were here to seize the gate. The leader was Wei He, who was the leader of the Daliang City Wharf, who used to take the lead in snatching Chu goods with the Xiangbang butler. "Kill them all!" Wei He shouted.
The long beryllium held by Wei He swept away again. The county officials and soldiers who had no time to raise troops were all injured by the long beryllium. Before they retreated, they lined up to fight, and the other Wei soldiers rushed up. The men were holding short spears, copper spears were swept together, and the county soldiers retreated again. The Wei soldiers rushed again. This time, before they swept the spears, the leading county officials abandoned their troops and fled with a loud voice.
"Kill!" The people in front took the lead in running, and those who had not passed the battle formation behind followed him. There was no idea how many Wei soldiers were killing him in the dark.
"Report the army! The Wei people entered the city and our army was defeated!" The city was pitch black, but some black shadows could still be seen on the city tower.
"Ah!?" Chen Gan was shocked. He grabbed the county steward who reported the news and shouted, "Is it true?"
"That's true, it's true." The county soldiers were also shocked. He saw two groups of people in front and one behind, and even heard the shouts of the county soldiers when they ran for their lives.
"Come on! Come down to the city and kill the Wei people." Chen Gan couldn't control the city tower anymore. He shouted and rushed down the city tower. The soldiers on both sides and some injured county soldiers also followed him down.
"Chen dares to come here, he must not retreat! Chen dares to come here, he must not retreat!" Chen dared to come as soon as he got off the city tower and led the last dozens of county soldiers to the direction where the county officials fled.
"Call with me, Chen Gan is here..." After wielding his sword to kill several defeated soldiers, Chen Gan asked the county soldiers beside him to shout with him.
"Don't retreat here, Chen dares not to retreat!" The county soldiers immediately shouted loudly with him.
"It's a bit worse! It's a bit worse!" The city was about to break out, and Chen dared to kill even harder. The county officials and soldiers who were determined to run away were finally stopped by them, and then followed them and rushed back quickly.
"Wei He is here, where is the Chu people? Wei He is here, where is the Chu people..." Not far away, the Chu people shouted, and Wei He, who was chasing and was also shouting loudly. Without waiting for his orders, the Wei soldiers beside him also shouted wildly: "Wei He is here, where is the Chu people?! Wei He is here, where is the Chu people?..."
In the darkness, both Wei and Chu soldiers were shouting wildly. The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer. When they were just waiting for both sides to reach within fifty steps, "Kill--!" Both sides burst out with a beast-like shouting, and then they collided together.
The sound of spears fighting, the sound of halberds hitting shields, the sound of beryllium breaking through the air, the screams of soldiers... There is no way to distinguish the enemy and us in the darkness, so we can only treat the person in front of us as enemy soldiers, and the weapons in our hands are thrusting hard, and the other party is screaming, and they are screaming.
"Ten steps away from me! Ten steps away from me!" Wei He shouted in the dark. He liked to fight with Changbing. Every time he swung half a circle, several enemy soldiers were killed and injured by Changbinging. Do not block the county soldiers, and do not block the Wei soldiers who were slightly closer.
"Around the board, surrounded." Chen Gan was not rushing on the front line like Chen Gai Wei He. He retreated as soon as both sides fought. This was not because he was afraid of death, but for better command. At this time, he was standing behind the array and found that the number of Wei soldiers was very small, only one or two hundred. He immediately dispatched county soldiers to surround them. Once they surrounded them, all Wei soldiers could be strangled.
"Kill!" Wei He, who was gradually at a disadvantage, felt something was wrong while swinging beryllium, and only hoped that the comrades who entered the city would come to help.
"The army leads, the army leads..." The county soldiers beside Chen Gan suddenly pointed to the side, and fireworks were pouring into the sky not far away, crying and screaming. In the light, some black shadows could be seen standing on the roof and throwing a torch under the room. This was arson.
"That's..." Chen Gan turned his head and was shocked, but he died after saying two words - with the light of fire, the feather arrow shot by Wei Zuo hit his face, as if all the skeletons were removed, and his whole body fell down weakly.
"Chen is dead! Chen is dead!" Several Wei soldiers pointed at Chen Gan's falling down and shouted excitedly.
"Chen is dead! Chen is dead--!" Even Wei He, the leader, shouted wildly. He was exhausted and swung the long beryllium again, killing the half-surrounding Chu army pawns who were half surrounded by him and retreated.
"Kill!" Dozens of Wei soldiers followed him, just like robbing goods on the dock that day. These people rushed towards the enemy soldiers regardless of life and death. County officials were shocked when they heard that Chen Dan was dead. Now the Wei people rushed up without fear of spears and spears, and did not fear of life and death. Some people immediately turned around and ran away, and the rest naturally also threw away their armor and fled.
"The Chu people escaped! The Chu people escaped!" Wei Zhu chased and shouted. At this time, the fire became increasingly fierce at the place where the fire was on fire, and the cries of the villagers inside became increasingly urgent. However, Lumen was locked, and the people inside could not run out even if they wanted to.
"The city is broken! The city is broken!" The fire, the Wei soldiers, the defeated soldiers... With the light of the fire, the county soldiers on the city tower saw everything under the city. They could barely resist the Wei soldiers and finally could not hold it back. As the people's hearts dispersed, thousands of Wei soldiers on the top of the city flooded them like a tide.
Chapter completed!