Chapter 165 Concentrating Firepower
The next day, before dawn, a trumpet sounded in the distance. You can feel that Sun Qing couldn't wait this time. He was put on so many words yesterday, and today they were completely angry. Qing Cang did not return to the main city last night, but just stayed on the city tower for one night.
Fortunately, more and more people joined the battle, and in the end more than 5,000 people helped. However, these people were not good at close-up or archery, and could only operate crossbows. However, Qing Cang still asked the soldiers to teach them to use crossbows, thus leaving more than 2,000 soldiers for dispatch.
"Commander, all the Black Mountain Army's crossing bridges have been added!"
Guo Jia is now very smooth using a telescope. He saw the Black Mountain Army approaching Huaxia City quickly.
"I'll take a look!"
Qing Cang used a telescope to see that it was true, but he found a clue.
"These baffles are probably loose and they must have been made."
“That’s what it is for us?”
Qing Cang sighed: "It can only be said to be a short-term advantage. After all, the ones that are driven can also withstand one or two waves of attacks from us. Once our offensive is eased by them, our landing battle will be welcomed. In this way, all our traps, rocks and rolling woods will be released."
Siege is a war of attrition. Once the defense of the defender is exhausted, the next hand-to-hand combat between the offensive and defensive sides will depend on who has more soldiers, more strategies, and more advanced weapons.
He continued: "But things are not all bad. At least we delayed the attack and harassed them overnight to deal with two thousand people. This is another kind of victory."
Although the size of 2,000 people is still smaller than that of 30,000 people, it has to be said that the gap between the two sides has been slightly closer, which is quite inspiring in this regard.
Guo Jia replied: "Maybe, it depends on how long we can last."
The situation is not optimistic, the only thing you can do is pray for more time.
Qing Cang put down his telescope. "Yes, time is very precious. At this time, Captain Zhao should be halfway, right?"
Guo Jia whispered: "By calculations, you can arrive as early as the afternoon."
The soldiers Zhao Zilong and Zhang Liao were not all knights, and a large part of them were infantry, so they did not move very quickly. If you don’t rest, you would need two days to marching quickly. This method is a huge consumption of the soldiers’ physical strength and spirit, and it is rarely used unless the situation is urgent.
"Okay, let's start!"
Looking at the enemy's gradual advancement, you can see from a distance that a middle-aged man wearing golden armor behind the Black Mountain Army. Such dazzling armor must be Sun Qingwuhu, but he was hiding three kilometers away, and at such a long distance, it was not easy to kill him. Moreover, this guy was moving all the time, especially with as many guards around him.
"The soldiers of the Chinese Legion, the enemy is right in front of us. In order to defend our homeland, we must fight and resist foreign invasions! The Chinese Legion is proud of you! The Chinese people think you are proud! Take up the weapons in your hands and we fight for glory!"
All the soldiers cheered in unison.
"Fight for glory!"
"Fight for glory!"
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The soldiers were excited when they heard it. Even the people who came to help temporarily had an impulse to pick up the weapons in their hands and fight the enemy.
I have to say that Qing Cang has indeed had a way of inspiring people, and everyone present was infected by him, including Guo Jia.
The people who came to help yesterday couldn't help asking here. "City Lord, and we are also here! We must fight for Huaxia City!"
Qing Cang nodded to the people.
"Everyone present today is the heroes of Huaxia City. I am proud of you! Please join me to defeat the foreign enemies!"
"Defeat foreign enemies"
"Defeat foreign enemies"
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"Okay, so people have the ballista ready! Let's give the enemy a blow! Blow me hard!"
With his order, everyone immediately took their seats and began to manipulate the crossbows. Just wait for him to issue the firing order. These thousand crossbows forces will be launched with astonishing force and give the enemy a head-on blow.
The enemy was still advancing, and the bridge with a baffle had a certain impact on their sight, so they were moving a little slowly.
The forward was led by Luo Xiu, and he was very tired from his face. When their crossings reached the range of the crossings.
Qing Cang immediately ordered:
"shooting!"
A thousand crossbow arrows with flames flew out, and the scene was very spectacular.
However, when the crossbow arrows hit the bridge baffle, half of them were blocked. A small half were only hit, and the splashed tinder burned the baffle, but because the wooden board used for the baffle was not dry yet, it could not be burned. Nearly 300 bridges on the other side did not play a substantial role in this attack. Only a dozen bridges were not able to move forward, and the others ignored these attacks.
"As expected, due to angle issues and the parabola principle, these crossbow arrows cannot penetrate the baffle."
You have to come up with another way, otherwise once you are mounted on the bridge, the enemy will inevitably rush across the moat wildly.
The enemy became very crazy now, because the crossbows can no longer resist them, and it was only a matter of time before they could cross the moat.
"Huaxia City is already at the end of its strength. Let's fight. The head of the city lord will have 100 taels of gold!"
"Roll! For a hundred taels of gold, we will rally!"
If you gain power, you will advance; if you lose power, you will retreat. Without the threat of attack, they will advance rapidly.
The people on the city wall were almost depressed because the attack just now did not work, and their mood came to the bottom.
"Prepawn the crossbows, aim at the thirty crossing bridges at the straight distance of the city!"
People didn't know what Qing Cang wanted to do, so they had to do it.
"Why is the Commander?"
Dian Wei, who had been silent, asked.
Since the crossbows have no effect, why did Qing Cang continue to use the crossbows? Isn’t this a useless task? He doesn’t understand it very much. Therefore, he has this question.
Guo Jia whispered: "Commander is going to concentrate the power of the crossbow to repel them?"
"emission!"
One thousand crossbows were aimed at the thirty crossbows in the straight line of Wengcheng. They rushed towards the crossbows with great force. Thirty crossbows were against a thousand crossbows. Each of them had to bear about thirty crossbows. This was amazing. How big is the area of the entire baffle?
Boom boom boom boom
Sure enough, under the large bombardment of crossbows, the thirty bridges were bombarded with no bones. The soldiers behind them were also pushed out dozens of meters away, killing and injured nearly a hundred people.
"That's great, the enemy will not dare to advance rashly now!"
"The City Lord is wise and can find a way to attack in the shortest time."
"Young and promising! This is our city lord!"
"Long live the Chinese Legion."
Qing Cang felt very happy about people's praises, but he was only one-tenth of the enemy's crossing bridge, so he was still a little earlier. Each time he loaded the crossbow arrows, it took several minutes, and the several minutes added up to be very terrifying. He didn't know how many more he could attack, three times? Five times? or more. However, there was no time to consider him now, because the enemy was advancing again.
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