"shoot!"
Although there were only fifty people, they still caused considerable damage despite their condescending position.
They are not scattering aimlessly, but shooting accurately after selecting a target.
Those who are confident in their archery skills will follow the enemy's face.
People with average archery skills would pick up people in the back row who had no armor or only leather armor to shoot.
Screams continued to sound.
The arrows were like strong winds, repeatedly destroying the decaying grass. The enemy fell down in large groups, and the killing effect was very impressive.
The enemy is also fighting back.
Shao Xun stood on the wall, while Chen Yougen and Wang Queer held up large shields to protect him on the left and right.
Under the dense arrows, the sound of whistling through the air and the "dongdong" sound of being shot on the shield could be heard in the ears. Fortunately for Chen Yougen, Wang Queer, who was weak, had already taken two steps back unconsciously, and it was very difficult to raise the shield.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!" Shao Xun's eyes kept wandering around the crowd. After finding the target, he raised his hand and shot without aiming at all. He relied entirely on feeling, but his hit rate was very high.
Not to mention the military archery assessment, shooting with raised hands is one of the bonus points. During the training, some people were taking aim at them, and Shao Xun would scold them when they came up to them. If he continued to take aim at them like this, his body would be filled with arrows shot by the enemy.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!" After raising his hand and shooting, Shao Xun performed another act of shooting from left to right, and the arrows flew out, shooting one person down on the spot and knocking off the helmet of another person.
He picked valuable targets, either officers, flag bearers, advocates, or battlefield messengers running around quickly.
Under his operation, the enemy troops soon became sluggish and their formation was somewhat chaotic.
Often after the first group of people carrying simple wooden ladders to climb the wall were repelled, the second group could not quickly come forward, wasting the gains that the previous group of people had sacrificed their lives for.
But after all, there were many of them. After the sword and shield soldiers paid attention to protection, it was not that easy to shoot the officers. What's more, there are only fifty archers on Piyong's side. After each person shoots a dozen arrows, his arms begin to get weak and his strength gradually fails. As a result, the shooting speed slows down and the accuracy decreases - in short, the lethality decreases.
After a few more hasty shots, Shao Xun took advantage of the enemy's retreat, and ordered them to go down to rest, and another group of people who could only crudely wield a bow and arrows came up.
At this time, the hand-to-hand combat also reached a fever pitch.
"Kill!" Huang Biao roared angrily and thrust out the spear in his hand like lightning.
"Kill!" The sergeants also thrust out their spears.
Before the enemy who had just emerged could react, he saw several spears coming towards him.
Some people screamed loudly, some fell down, and some people mustered up the courage to charge and hit fiercely with the help of their thick armor.
For this kind of people, there are people who hold wooden poles, halberds, and long-handled axes to greet them. The core point is to take advantage of their unsteady footing to hit them head and face with heavy blunt weapons, killing or injuring them, or knocking down high walls.
This is the advantage of defensive warfare. In ancient times, there were even veterans and warriors who were knocked down by boys and hacked to death by women after climbing up the city wall.
However, Piyong's courtyard wall is not a serious city wall. It does not have professional city defense facilities and many city defense equipment cannot be deployed. However, it is much more difficult. This directly reflects on the battle situation, which means that one's own side suffers a lot of casualties.
After Shao Xun shot arrows for a while, he felt that someone was already staring at him, and his physical strength was also very high, so he decisively picked up a long-handled ax, changed his position, waved his hands, and smashed the people who climbed up. .
"Go to hell!" The enemy soldier holding the Huanshou Sword was wearing heavy armor and his whole body was covered tightly. After stepping on the wall with his legs, he held an impaling spear in his left arm and swung the knife in his right hand to cut off the spear. Then he avoided the head of Senhan's spear that was aimed at the door, ran forward, and crashed into the crowd, causing chaos in an instant.
"Pfft!" The long-handled ax slashed down diagonally, with so much force that the enemy soldier staggered a few steps and fell into the wall from the other end. The soldiers who were resting swarmed up and killed him with short soldiers.
"Bang!" Shao Xun kept moving, and the long-handled ax struck an enemy soldier who had just climbed up.
This man seemed to have been awarded three layers of armor, and he was extremely strong. With his angry eyes, he looked majestic and murderous.
The ax hit him hard in the face. Before he could even utter a cry, his face changed its shape visibly, and with a plop, he fell on his back against the wall.
This was not over yet, another warrior with heavy armor came up from the front left, and behind him, there were two more people wearing leather armor, using their hands and feet together, and jumped onto the wall.
The warrior at the front was already fighting with the defenders. Shao Xun had no time to think and subconsciously struck the two men behind him with an axe.
"Poof!" The sharp ax blade cut through the flesh and removed the man's entire arm. Blood gushed out and sprayed on the other man's face, making him stunned for a moment.
Shao Xun kept moving and took a step forward, withdrew his ax and swept it down from the city.
"Ah!" There was also a scream from the side and behind. Shao Xun turned around and saw that the heavily armored warrior had his throat cut by Huang Biao after killing one person and wounding another, and fell weakly on the city wall.
"Whoosh!" The heavy breathing was clearly audible.
Face-to-face fighting is really grueling, and the test is the courage to see red with a bayonet. In this case, your physical strength will be exhausted faster than usual, which will make you highly nervous and make you - abnormal!
"Kill!" Shao Xun casually smashed the helmet of another heavily armored warrior with a casual axe, and kicked the wall down quickly.
Later, he carried the ax and went to another place where the situation was critical to put out the fire.
People kept falling around them, and people kept coming up.
After killing an unknown number of people, Shao Xun had several arrows stuck in his body. The damage wasn't serious, it didn't even penetrate the flesh, but it showed how intense the battle was.
Do you want this?
They are just a wing within a wing, but they are playing so excitingly that the lower-level warriors are really cannon fodder!
****
At the end of the day's battle, the walls were filled with wailing.
Shao Xun took off his armor, and Wang Queer carefully bound his wounds.
Mi Huang, Yu Liang, Yang Bao and others gathered around and listened to his words.
"No need to panic." Shao Xun frowned and said calmly: "The first three days of the offensive and defensive battle are the most dangerous. After this battle, it will be basically stable."
"Today the enemy selected many elites, wearing heavy armor, hoping to break the city with one blow, but we were defeated. Not just anyone can be selected as a vanguard or elite. Once these people are used up, things will be fine. Done."
"Think about it, how much trouble these elite elites will cause us if we fight in the enemy's field, but now they are easily killed by us relying on the high wall. Isn't it a big profit?"
"Don't worry, the thieves have no plans to capture our place. Meng Chao may still be thinking about going to the east of the city to gain military exploits. We will hold on and never surrender. Seeing that he has nothing to do, he is reluctant to lose his elite soldiers. , so I retreated.”
"Be alert at night. I will patrol at any time. Those who neglect their duties or neglect military affairs have nothing to say and will be executed without mercy."
Shao Xun talked eloquently, with the tone of a chief officer, but everyone - including Mi Huang - took it for granted, nodding their heads repeatedly and loudly agreeing.
Even high-ranking disciples like Yu Liang, who used to criticize people of Shao Xun's status, are now honest. Shao Dubo is always putting out fires. He probably killed more than twenty people today, so he can be called a divine general.
Without him, it’s hard to say what would have happened to Piyong.
Based on this, no one has the right to discriminate against him - if I really look down on him, I have to keep it in my heart and not say it out loud. The whole family is here, so I don't dare to lose my temper.
"Shao Dubo's words are right. If we surrender, there will be no good consequences. We can only bear it to the end. From today on, whoever dares to surrender can blame me for being unkind." Seeing Shao Xun finish speaking, Mi Huang was the first He expressed his support in a very serious tone.
"No." Not only the governor Yang Bao and several team leaders responded, but also Yu Liang and another young man from the Xu family in the East China Sea also answered.
Shao Xun couldn't help but look at him one more time.
Like the Mi family, the Xu family is also a local noble family in Donghai Kingdom. In terms of status at this time, it is actually not that high. At least, when he was talking to Yu Liang of the Yingchuan Yu family, he obviously kept a very low profile, even though the Yu family was not a powerful person.
This young man's name is Xu Lang, he is 18 years old, and he came to the capital for some unknown reason. Anyway, he took the Mihuang route and ran to Piyong to seek refuge.
I met Shao Xun a few times and didn't say much. Even after being reduced to this state, he was still arrogant.
The legacy of caste society in the Jin Dynasty is not shallow.
Maybe in Xu Lang's heart, he didn't think Shao Xun was so powerful at all, so I could do it. After all, this is an era when both land and aircraft can serve as commanders of more than 200,000 troops. It is not surprising to have this idea.
"In that case, everyone should perform their duties and follow the procedures step by step." Shao Xun nodded, looked at Yu Liang and Yang Bao, and said: "The bandit army is so rabble-rous that they may not have the ability to fight at night, but we must be on guard against it tonight. Sorry, you two."
"No." Yu Liang and Yang Bao agreed immediately.
They also understand the general situation.
The Jizhou metropolitan area originally had 40,000 soldiers, but now it has more than 200,000 troops. Most of them are actually farmers farming and do not have much fighting capacity.
In fact, even Shibing has been corrupted a lot. Otherwise, can we allow the refugee commander to run around as if he were in no one's land?
Of course, then again, the capabilities of the Piyong garrison are not that great either, they are just worse than each other. Tonight, we will use our best to defend ourselves and try to weaken the enemy's morale for a few more days, and it will almost be over.
Shao Xun thought more than them...
