Chapter 29 Offensive and Defensive Confrontation
Cheng Pu was dressed in military uniform and holding an iron-ridged snake spear. He looked at the enemy troops who were ready to go out, waved his hand behind him, and made a gesture to the flag soldiers standing on the inner wall.
A violent drum sounded suddenly over Lulongsai.
The horn of the war has sounded and the war drum has begun. The decisive battle is about to begin.
The soldiers on this side of the fortress's main building looked at the movements of the enemy camp and on the main wall of their homes, with a very nervous expression. Especially Liu He's newly recruited soldiers, most of them had never participated in the real battle. They held their weapons tightly, opened their mouths slightly, and their hearts were beating violently.
At this time, Liu He's eyes suddenly opened, and he shouted a shocking roar: "Go on the shield."
He saw a black cloud floating over the woods, and he could hear the shrill cry of the black cloud tearing the air in his ears.
Suli's troops took the lead in attacking.
Liu He's roar awakened many people. The shield hand couldn't help but raise the shield and looked back at Liu He who was tightly pressed against the city wall. Then he heard the sound of bows and arrows shooting. They screamed in horror and immediately squatted down and raised a large shield. The soldiers without shields were like frightened rabbits. In the blink of an eye, they rolled and crawled to the inside of the city wall, and instinctively held their heads close to the base of the wall. For a moment, there was no trace of soldiers hiding behind the shield on the top of the city wall.
A huge rain of black arrows roared, and the long arrows were nailed to the main building with a sharp sound of wind and thunder. A terrifying "swoosh, dong, crackling" sound appeared on the city wall. Some arrows fell outside the city wall because the range was not enough, and some arrows flew out of the city wall because the range was too far, while the long arrows fell on the city wall blew huge power. Some shield soldiers were knocked down by the huge force shot from many long arrows; some arrows shot on the ground and bounced up, but they still penetrated into the soldiers' bodies with great force. The wooden roof and wooden pillars of the main building were full of long arrows inserted obliquely on the doors and windows.
Su Li stood on the hillside and was very satisfied with the wonderful performances made by his soldiers. He shouted to the messenger standing behind him: "Order the bow team to continue shooting."
"Blow the trumpet and order the front army to throw the earth bags near the city wall." Su Li turned his head and shouted at the trumpet soldiers.
The five hundred soldiers who had been arranged behind the earth bags were all strong men. They stood near more than a dozen piles of earth bags and were ready to attack at any time.
A thousand-man commander heard the sound of a horn and immediately shouted: "On shoulder..."
The soldiers cooperated in a tacit way, one squatted on the ground and the other grabbed a bag of soil and put it on each other's shoulders.
"Run..." With the command of the commander of the thousand-man, more than 200 soldiers roared and ran towards the city wall quickly with earth bags. A denser rain of arrows roared past them.
Cheng Pu calmly glanced at it lightly, then stared at it with all his attention, and the Hu army that was slowly coming out of the camp was unmoved at all.
Liu He took advantage of the break of the arrow rain and stretched out his head to look outside the city wall. When he was exposed, he was swept over by an arrow shot from the head. However, he heard the shouts of hundreds of soldiers, running sounds, and the sound of throwing heavy objects under the base of the city wall.
"Lord! It seems that they will fill out the platform on the mountainside to set up a ladder to attack." Xu Rong said with a shield.
"Damn it! But now the arrows in the sky are flying like locusts, and I can't stretch my head at all! Not to mention blocking them," Liu He cursed.
At this time, Wuyan, Queji, and the new Xiong leader led a seven thousand army lined up under the city of Lulongsai, and the flags were flying like a tide, which was quite spectacular.
The main attack direction they chose on the battlefield was on the left side of the main building of the fortress. At this time, Su Li led his troops to attack the deputy building on the right. The Han army had no way to help the troops on the left side of the main wall defend.
Cheng Pu stood on the city wall and saw the enemy's intentions, he shouted loudly: "Yi Gong!"
Han Dang was directing the defense of the people on the left city wall not far from him, and hurried over when he heard the shouts.
"The enemy's main attack direction must be on the left! Tell your brothers to firmly defeat the enemy."
"promise."
As the horns sounded, Wuyan's troops began to unfold their formations. The crossbowmen and cavalry and archers began to advance. Each ten assault infantry carried an eight-meter-long city ladder. There were twenty assault teams behind each city ladder. These small teams of soldiers were holding swords and shields in one hand and looked as if they were ready to die.
Under the cover of bows and arrows, Suli's soldiers successfully threw more than a thousand bags of earth bags under the base of the city wall. A small mound of earth that can accommodate more than a dozen cloud ladders has been formed.
Su Li waved his arms vigorously, and the front army who had just thrown the earth bag immediately retreated to both sides. One hundred soldiers who set up ladders roared, carrying the cross ladders and rushing towards the city wall with their shields.
The dense cover of bows and arrows stopped.
Liu He looked at the sky without any crazy shooting. He slowly stood up and saw the siege soldiers rushing out of the woods. He shouted: "The enemy is going to attack! Bo Yu, Han Shengle ordered his troops to prepare for battle."
"Bowman shoot! Shoot at will..." Liu He shouted loudly and shot out the first arrow of Lu Longse soldiers' resistance to the invasion.
The enemy raised his shield and fought forward while resisting the long arrows shot from the city. The power of the two or three hundred people was too small. The long arrows sprinkled into the enemy's impact formation, as if a little water splashed on the surface of the pond. Then, from the cloud tower, the Han soldiers shot angry long arrows at the enemy running under the city from other defensive surfaces of the city wall from the cloud tower.
Suli's strong bow shooting troops suddenly appeared on the hillside. Their strong bows are the most famous arch of the Xianbei people and are a specialty of the Xianbei Longbow tribe in the eastern part. The strong range is far more solid and easier to use than ordinary bows. Although the soldiers of the strong bow troops are exposed to the range of the Han army's bows and arrows, they are not afraid of the roar of a centurion and begin to suppress the Han army on the city tower to protect their infantry brothers from approaching the city wall.
The Han soldiers were immediately pierced by a strong long arrow, but facing more enemy soldiers siege under the city walls, they no longer had to avoid the enemy's shooting and could only do their best to block the more threatening enemy.
Huang Zhong's roar sounded: "Zuotun soldiers shot the enemy archer! Shoot..."
Xianbei soldiers advanced firmly and stubbornly under the city wall. The soldiers put their shields on their heads and quickly set up the city ladder. Because there was a gap between the earth bags, the feet of the cloud ladder were deeply inserted into the earth bags, which was obviously stronger than placed on the ground and less likely to be pushed down by the soldiers guarding the city.
Su Li ordered again that three hundred first batch of siege soldiers rushed out of the mountainside like a tide under the command of the horn. They roared wildly, and rushed towards the cross-mountain ladder with one sword and the other.
Guan Yu led another soldiers in the village to replenish him. He pulled out his ring-headed knife and shouted loudly at the soldiers around him: "Shoot! Shoot intensively..."
The running enemy soldiers kept falling down by arrows, screaming, whistling arrows, and shouting and killing filled the entire battlefield.
The enemy began to climb the ladder.
Cheng Pu ignored the fierce battle in the vice building. He believed that it was the enemy's harassment tactic and nothing worth paying attention to. Moreover, the hillside was steep and high, and even if the enemy wanted to attack the city, it would not be able to find a place to place the ladder, and the siege team was difficult to unfold. The soldiers were in unfavorable terrain and suffered huge casualties. No one would focus on the attack unless they were an ignorant madman.
Seeing the enemy entering the shooting range, Cheng Pu turned around and shouted loudly: "Bang the drum! The shield player is in front and the archer is behind, prepare for a volley."
The order was heard by commanders at all levels in the ears of soldiers as the battle flags waved, and the shield hands squatted down together.
Wu Yan, who was under the city, turned around and shouted behind him: "Order the shield soldiers to raise the shields, and the archers to prepare! Continue to move forward in an interlaced manner."
Cheng Pu raised the iron-ridge snake spear and tried hard to "shoot..."
Almost at the same moment, hundreds of long arrows jumped out of the sky.
Wu Yan shouted: "Cum..."
The two sides began to shoot each other! The Wuhuan army followed closely behind the Han army and shot out two thousand long arrows. The huge black cloud shot into the sky, breaking through a small black cloud and pouring down on the city wall. The two armies were almost at the same time. Soldiers on both sides fell. The brief contact caused a small chaos, but then the archers on both sides shot out a round again under the command of their respective commanders.
Arrows in the air flew over Lulongsai and shouted happily. The war drums on the city were shaking the earth and the sound of the ox horns under the city resounded throughout the battlefield.
Chapter completed!