Chapter 475 Huaishan attack and defense

Seeing that the vanguard of the Xifan Army had retreated to the hillside, Gao Tu waved his arm forward and shouted loudly: "Shoot the arrow--"

With his order, tens of thousands of arrows were fired at the fortress city. Then, a buzzing sound was heard, and a dark cloud made of arrows rose into the air, hanging with a creepy howling sound, hitting the enemy troops halfway up the mountain.

At this time, there were also shouts in the camp of the Xifan Army.

"Top the shield!"

"Shield--"

Hurry!

Shields spread out on the heads of the Xifan Army formation, and countless small shields were connected into one piece, forming an extremely huge shield formation.

Crackling!

The arrow formation fell and hit the shield formation, with crackling sounds endlessly. The soldiers of the Xifan Army who were advancing were often caught and fell down from time to time.

However, the lethality of the Zhou army's arrow formation was mostly caused by the shield formation of the Xifan army.

The Xifan military formation continued to advance forward with dense arrow formations.

Gao Tu stared at the Xifan Army formation that was advancing, waved his arm forward, and shouted, "Stone!"

The Zhou army soldiers immediately cut off the ropes that fixed the stones.

As the rope broke, the wooden stakes that were against the groups of stones fell one after another. Without the wooden stakes blocked, a large number of stones rolled down from the fortress on the top of the mountain.

I saw big stones rolling down the hillside, like rushing troops and horses, with roars connected together.

The soldiers in the front row of the Xifan Army also planned to use shields to block the stones.

But it's useless at all.

The stone hit the shield man, the shield was broken, and the person behind him was also crushed.

A huge rock rolled over the crowd, leaving a shocking long blood mark on the ground.

Under the attack of the Shishi, the attacking Xifan army was suffering heavy casualties.

However, the commander of the army did not order a retreat, and none of the soldiers in the Xifan army dared to turn around and run back, and people continued to attack the fortress on the top of the mountain.

As the Xifan Army approached further, Gao Tu ordered again: "Roll the wood!"

Boom-

Thick and long rolling wood rolled down from the fortress. As soon as the rolling wood passed, it was not one person who knocked down, but a large group of people.

Some people were knocked out on the spot, some were crushed to break their bones and tendons, lying on the ground, and others were knocked down and rolling down the hillside.

The originally neat phalanx of the Xifan Army Legion has become chaotic at this time.

Radpur, who was rushing into the formation at the foot of the mountain, waved his arm and sent two more legions to the battle.

These two legions joined the battle and finally stabilized the unfavorable situation of the two legions in front.

But the good times didn't last long, and the Zhou army in the fortress came up with new tricks.

Rush the car!

These rushers are made of wood, and are wrapped in thick ground. The rushers are filled with stones. The weight of a rusher is estimated to be several hundred kilograms. In the front of the rusher, there are spears inserted.

The rushing car slid down from the top of the mountain, and was as powerful as a tremendous force. Even if the soldiers blocked with shields, they were even strung on the spear of the rushing car.

A chariot slid down, like a bulldozer, and a row of soldiers from the Xifan Army disappeared.

The spear in front of the chariot was filled with the bodies of the soldiers of the Xifan Army.

Arrows, rolling wood, rocks, rushing cars...

These defensive weapons gave the Xifan army, which attacked Huaishan, a head-on attack.

The four legions, totaling 40,000 people, attacked the top of the mountain several times in a row, but each time they were knocked back just after crossing the hill.

The repeated fierce battles between the two sides certainly consumed a lot of defensive weapons at Huaishan Fortress, but similarly, the casualties of the Xifan Army also increased sharply.

Seeing that the soldiers of the four legions were defeated and were about to suffer more than half of the casualties, Radpur had no choice but to order the temporary withdrawal.

The soldiers of the four legions of Xifan Army retreated from the hillside, and then looked at the hillside of Huaishan. The ground was covered with the bodies of the Xifan Army. Some of the corpses on the gentle slopes were already very high.

Radpur held his hands behind his back and looked up at the fortress on the top of the mountain with a serious expression.

He thought that with his army of 200,000, he could easily take down Huaishan Fortress, but he never expected that Huaishan Fortress was so well prepared and his defense system was so perfect.

Arrows, rolling wood, rocks, rushing cars, etc., throw them down as if they don't have money.

With such a fierce defense system, no matter how many troops you invest, you may not be able to attack.

After thinking about it, Radpur sent a message to commander Salman and asked Salman to send the Elephant Legion to the battle.

After receiving Radpur's request for help, Salman frowned.

According to the information obtained by our side, there were less than 100,000 defenders in Huaishan Fortress, and even Radpur led a 200,000 army to attack, it was useless to have to fight the Elephant Legion for him by himself.

Salman had looked down on the commanders of these military regions, believing that they had to climb to the position of commander of the army because of their status as a nobleman and good at flattering the emperor.

Now, he even disliked Radpur.

However, no matter how disgusted you are, the battle will continue to be fought.

Salman eventually sent the Elephant Legion to Radpur.

The arrival of more than 300 battle elephants made Radpur very confident.

He asked his army to rest for a while.

After lunch, in the afternoon, the Xifan Army sounded the horn of the attack again.

However, this time the Xifan Army was leading the battle, no longer ordinary soldiers, but tall and mighty war elephants.

The war elephant moved slowly, and it took a long time to walk from the foot of the mountain to the hillside. However, in contrast, the war elephant's defense is too strong.

The dense array of arrows flew down, and the thick armor on the battlefield elephant could basically block all of them.

The rolling wooden stone rolled down from the top of the mountain and hit the elephant's legs. It was really painless or itchy.

Even if you rush to the car and slide into the war elephant, you will be pulled open by the war elephant's nose.

A few hundred kilograms of rushing the car can be pulled over with just one elephant trunk.

Seeing the arrow formations, rolling wood, rocks, and rushing cars on our side, they all did not constitute a killing and injury to the battle elephants. Gao Tu, Qin Shengying, and the soldiers below were all stunned.

Now, they finally understood why their cavalry were defeated against the battle elephant.

This monster with a huge size, thick skin, and infinite strength is not something that humans can do to compete with.

More than 300 battle elephants were still moving slowly towards the top of the mountain.

This slow, but irresistible advance really brought a huge sense of oppression to the defenders on the top of the mountain.

The extremely frightened soldiers desperately threw mixed woods, rocks and rushing to the bottom of the mountain.

But it's completely useless.

These things can neither kill and injure war elephants nor stop war elephants. They are just consuming their own city defense weapons for nothing.

Sweat beads flowed down Gao Tu and Qin Shengying's foreheads.

As the war elephant gradually advanced, the Xifan military formation followed behind was approaching the fortress step by step. At this time, the two of them were really anxious...
Chapter completed!