After his feet touched the ground, Zhao Mengqi knocked twice on the ladder. After the city heard this, he pulled up all the ladders.
It was pitch black under the south city wall, and there were some faint moans all around, which gradually disappeared as the sounds of sharp weapons entering flesh were heard again and again.
There are also many water bandits here who have lost the ability to move after being injured. The squad members who came down first are cleaning up the wounds to prevent any accidents.
Qian Xiaopang reminded in a low voice, "Your Highness, be careful where you step. The ground is messy, so don't step on any sharp objects."
Zhao Mengqi smelled the strong smell of blood, but he was somewhat used to it. After all the squad members had finished their work, he softly ordered, "Go west."
After a while, Zhao Mengqi led more than fifty people and slowly came to the corner of the city wall close to the south wall. Hidden in the darkness, they began to observe the ongoing battle under the west wall.
At this moment, the water bandits' troops climbing the city suffered heavy casualties, but there were still more than a thousand people. Perhaps they were red-eyed, perhaps numb, or perhaps their fear of the soldiers had gained inertia. They did not dare to retreat and could only He desperately tried to climb up the city, but it seemed that this was the only way to survive in his mind.
Dozens of ladders were set up on the wall, appearing densely packed, and the water bandits climbing on the ladders were equally densely packed.
The trebuchets and crossbows that required a lot of manpower to operate on the city were stopped, and all hands were concentrated to use all means to deal with the water bandits who climbed the city. In this case, naturally they could not take care of the water bandits' archers.
Without the threat to their lives, the archers naturally felt much more at ease and no longer panicked.
Seizing this opportunity, the soldiers no longer paid attention to any formation, and immediately ordered the archers to move forward quickly, and also rushed all the shieldmen to participate in the city climb.
More than a thousand archers gathered together only twenty feet away from the city wall and began to calmly rain down arrows on the top of the city.
Hundreds of arrows accurately landed on the top of the city, immediately killing and injuring many unarmored civilians, arousing screams. The scene gradually became chaotic, and gaps appeared in the defense of the city.
When Xuanhe saw this, he was overjoyed. He took the horn from the guard and blew the signal to intensify the attack.
But at this moment, a sudden change occurred in the darkness to the south, and an unknown number of soldiers rushed towards the archer array.
what's the situation?
How dare they go out of the city to fight back! ?
Xuanhe was stunned for a moment, biting his horn and not knowing why.
"bomb!"
Zhao Mengqi roared angrily and threw the iron egg with sparks in his hand into the air.
More than fifty other sparks immediately took off to catch up, drawing brilliant parabolas, smashing into the archer array at random, and exploding with a bang.
The dazzling flowers of death bloomed one after another, thunder rumbled, the earth shook, and flesh and blood flew everywhere.
Thunder?
No, it's impossible, even a hundred thunderbolts don't have such power!
And this was not projected from the city, it was thrown from the hands of these counterattackers. The thunder was not that small.
Xuanhe's heart was overturned, and he had an ominous premonition.
The guard shouted, "Commander, they are coming for us!"
Xuanhe came back to his senses and saw three people from the counterattack team running toward him. .cao
"withdraw!"
Xuanhe ran away.
His act of blowing the horn just now exposed his position and his commanding status, so Zhao Mengqi arranged for Chang Geng to hunt him down.
Zhao Mengqi led the others and decisively attacked the archers who were blown to pieces.
This time he learned the lesson, and used instead of a horizontal sword, a spear that was helpful for rushing into the formation. He stubbornly seized the sharp edge of the conical formation and took the lead in attacking the panicked water bandits.
With the momentum, Zhang Feng easily penetrated the chest of a water bandit. Zhao Mengqi took advantage of the momentum and threw the water bandit's body of more than 100 kilograms into the air.
The smelly hot blood spurted out, splashing all over Zhao Mengqi's head and face, making the ferocious mask even more fierce. Under the light of the fire, it was like a demon god coming to the world.
"Anyone who stands in my way will die!"
roaring angrily
, Zhao Mengqi kept walking and continued to charge forward, Wu Qiong and Geng Zhi followed closely on the left and right, and the other Ban Zhi also rushed and killed regardless of their own safety.
The cone-shaped array crashed into the scattered group of archers with overwhelming force, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, causing countless bloody storms.
These archers were first blown out of their souls and had already collapsed. Then they were so rushed that they had no idea how many officers and soldiers were coming. Escape became their only option.
The water bandits under the wall noticed that something had changed behind them, and all of them were filled with dead souls. Those on the ladder, including the water bandits who were about to climb to the top of the city, all became at a loss to advance or retreat.
But the morale of the people at the top of the city was greatly boosted, shouting, "Reinforcements are coming! Reinforcements are coming! The imperial army is coming! The bandits have been surrounded, kill the thieves, kill the thieves!"
Boiling oil, gold juice, lime bottles, stones, rolling logs, etc., became denser in an instant, harvesting human lives crazily.
Like an avalanche, the water bandits attached to the ladder fell one after another, and everyone who could still move on the ground dispersed and fled towards the north where they thought they were safe.
Even the soldiers were also devastated at this time. They dropped their swords and started running away, only regretting that their parents had lost two legs.
But before they could run far, they ran into a steel jungle.
Chen Xiaokun didn't consider the thickness of the array at all, and lined up the six hundred people in a line, like a giant net, to catch the fleeing water bandits.
"Fenghua Army, kill the thieves!"
Row after row of officers and soldiers rushed towards the water bandits with sharp spears, sending them into hell.
In front of the regular army formation, these water bandits with no morale were as weak as lambs. They could only be slaughtered and could not even struggle.
Thrust, pull out.
Thrust, pull out.
Thrust, pull out!
The sergeants mechanically repeated simple but efficient tactical actions, killing mercilessly.
The giant net tightened tighter and tighter, leaving the water bandits with nowhere to escape, and the officers and soldiers simply did not accept surrender, so they could only become dead fish.
After more than a quarter of an hour, no more standing water bandits could be seen on this battlefield. The sergeants stopped breathing heavily. No one could remember how many bodies they had stabbed through.
According to custom, at this time, it was time to clean the battlefield and cut off heads, but Chen Xiaokun remembered King Yan's previous instructions and immediately began to gather the sergeants in the entire team, "Fenghua Army, assemble, assemble!"
Zhao Mengqi, covered in blood, stood in the center of the battlefield and looked around. He could see that the area was covered with the corpses of water bandits. It was impossible to count the number, and there was no way to know how many water bandits escaped into the darkness.
But that doesn't matter. The purpose of the battle has been achieved, and the escaped water pirates are not a problem.
At this time, Chang Geng and the others ran back from the west, still holding Xuanhe's head in their hands. When they saw Zhao Mengqi, they immediately shouted, "Your Highness, there are a large number of boats coming on the lake. It should be Liu Xiuli's guy."
"We came quite quickly. Let's go back to the city first." Zhao Mengqi frowned and gave the order decisively.
The Fenghua army had already assembled. After giving the order, everyone left the battlefield and returned to the city from the blocked north gate to prepare for the next battle.
This night is destined to be long.
