Chang Siguo waited for a long time and didn't hear what was going on. He looked at Yi Shangyan, who looked obviously unhappy.
"Be prepared, today is going to be a fierce battle..."
Yi Shangyan thought for a while, then approached the big black man and added in a low voice: "The Beirong people have increased their troops. In Beicheng alone, we face more than 10,000 enemies, and there are many more flags that have never appeared before."
These days, as a marksman and a body refiner, he carried a big bow and went around to support the tight city.
He has considerable understanding of the Beirong forces besieging Sihuang City.
These extra enemies were not transferred from the other three places in the east, south and west. He could identify them at a glance.
Chang Siguo frowned and thought for a while, then whispered: "Last night, Brother An and I made a long circle outside the Beirong camp. We ran as far north as more than forty miles, and we We didn’t meet the Beirong army. It was windy and snowy, so they couldn’t have marched all night to get here, right?”
Yi Shangyan shook his head and changed the topic, "Forget it, I don't want to think so much. While we still have some free time, let's pick up some more arrows for later use. We'll be busy later."
In his pot full of arrows, there are five specially made arrows, which cost a lot of money and are what he uses to deal with masters.
To kill enemies on the battlefield, it is more cost-effective to use ordinary arrows that are readily available, and it is easy to replenish them.
He walked to the large iron pot where golden juice was boiled and brought two bundles of clean arrows over.
Those arrows were being soaked in the boiling juice in the golden juice pot one by one.
Even if an arrow stained with gold juice and dung water breaks a wound, if it is not treated in time, there is a high chance that the wound will become inflamed for a tall and thick man, and his body will be overheated and lose his fighting ability.
Yi Shangyan opened the bundle of arrows, picked them one by one, and put aside the ones that were suitable.
Chang Siguo also brought two bundles of clean arrows over. To deal with the pawns, he almost didn't need the second arrow, but to deal with the body refiners, the little bit of poison stained with excrement was not enough.
Untie the rope and carefully select arrows. Do not discard arrows with missing tail feathers or slightly uneven shafts.
Since he had a conditional choice, he had to do his best preparations and not miss the target just because of a slight difference.
Yi Shangyan selected more than two hundred arrows, bundled them with twenty arrows, tied them with strings, and put them all in a wooden box individually for easy access. He told the nearby team leader not to let the soldiers use them. After picking out the arrows, Hei Wa picked out two large piles of about 300 arrows. He also bundled the remaining arrows and put them back. He also brought two more bundles. He couldn't help but remind him:
"Hei Wa, there are so many choices, can you use them all?"
After using up, people are almost exhausted.
Chang Siguo patted the two-stone bow on his waist and said with a smile: "Isn't there this? Use it interchangeably with the five-stone bow. It can return power easily without delaying business. Brother Yi, which stone bow are you using?"
Yi Shangyan said: "I use a seven-stone bow. I'm used to it." After thinking about it, he shook his head and said: "Forget it, I'm not used to using a bow that is too light. It's too light to be effective. To deal with ordinary soldiers, half a bow is enough. use."
Chang Siguo selected more than a hundred arrows before giving up, filling the arrow pot, and tying the rest with strings for packing.
The weather is nice today, it has finally cleared up.
The early sun shines slantingly on the snow, and the golden vitality dances.
The Beirong soldiers and horses stopped about three miles away from the city wall. The soldiers assembled siege equipment in the snow. Huge siege vehicles, ordinary ladders, and simple trebuchets gradually took shape.
Yi Shangyan wondered: "It's strange. Apart from loess, where are the stones available in the wasteland?"
Chang Siguo had not experienced the city defense battles of the past few days, and he did not understand what the Beirong people were doing by getting the trebuchet. He vaguely felt that it was not a good thing, and asked: "Brother Yi, the Beirong people attacked the city two days ago. Did you use a trebuchet?”
Yi Shangyan stared forward, shook his head and said: "It's useless, there are only siege vehicles and ladders."
The Beirong soldiers laid planks on the snow, and laid out more than 20 plank passages, which were separated by 20 to 30 feet and extended towards the city. Every soldier who laid the planks was carefully protected by soldiers holding wooden shields.
There were soldiers pushing a wheelbarrow behind them. There were shovels and pickaxes in the cart, and cloth bags of various colors were pressed underneath.
Chang Siguo had good eyesight and could see clearly from a high position. He suddenly remembered something and asked, "Brother Yi, how do they fill up the ditches when they attack the city these days? Or do they throw sandbags on their horses?"
Yi Shangyan's eyes narrowed, and he suddenly turned to look at Chang Siguo, and whispered: "You mean, they used local materials and used trebuchets to throw sandbags?"
Chang Siguo nodded and said, "We have to guard against it!"
He really couldn't think of any better use for the Beirong people to assemble trebuchets besides throwing sandbags.
It’s impossible to use a trebuchet to throw sandbags at the Nanping soldiers on the city wall, right?
If you want to hit the city head that is nine feet high, you have to get close enough with the simple trebuchet you have now, so that you will be within the bow and arrow attack range of the soldiers on the city head.
"It's possible. I'll come back as soon as I go. Hei Wa, please wait here."
Yi Shangyan warned, ducked and swam among the soldiers at the top of the city like a fish, and went west to find Shan Liwen at the fastest speed. Shan Liwen had to make the decision.
Chang Siguo stared outside the city for a cup of tea, becoming more and more sure of his guess.
The Beirong soldiers parked their wheelbarrows about a hundred feet away from the city wall, dug out the ice and snow with shovels, took soil and filled sandbags, and started working in more than 20 places at the same time, working in full swing.
The effective throwing distance of the trebuchet is only about one hundred feet.
And the place where one arrow can reach is about forty-five feet, and the soldiers on the city are far away from attacking the Beirong trebuchet.
Chang thought that he could use a two-stone bow or a five-stone bow to shoot the soldiers digging from a long distance, but every soldier digging was surrounded by defensive soldiers holding shields. With a full bow, shoot through the wooden shield and kill the soldiers behind, right?
Even though he was exhausted, he could not kill many Beirong soldiers.
The Beirong people were guarding against him and Yi Shangyan, the two sharpshooters among the body refiners. Therefore, they were so far away and asked the shield-bearing soldiers to protect them carefully.
Perhaps, they deliberately used the lives of the pawns to lure each other and consume the two of them's true energy?
Chang Siguo rubbed his forehead. This battle is not easy to fight. Beicheng is probably the main direction of Beirong's attack. He was so obsessed that he agreed to deliver a message for An Xuelun and trapped himself in the city. There is no way to advance or retreat like this now.
Your life is not guaranteed, no matter how much credit you have, it will be of no use!
Which one is more important, face or life? I have to be more careful next time. I hope there will be a next time.
I often thought about putting all the distracting thoughts behind me and no longer thinking about whether I could hold it or not. My mind was spinning rapidly, thinking about how to kill more enemies, how to assist the defense of the city according to local conditions, and wait until reinforcements arrived?
In addition to the stench of feces in the cold wind, there was suddenly a pungent and strong smell that was a bit like rotten eggs.
The nearby soldiers covered their noses and moved to the side to avoid the brick road with ice and snow shoveled in the middle, allowing the two soldiers carrying the big black buckets to pass through, for fear that they would fall here and cause a fire.
"Fierce oil!"
Chang Siguo's eyes lit up, how could he forget this big killer weapon?
It's so inappropriate. Although he is not a man of science and engineering, it seems that he can't help but use porcelain bottles and pottery pots and local materials to make simple earthen Molotov cocktails...
