Dark clouds are threatening to destroy the city!
This black cloud is not in the sky, but right in front of the city wall.
As the arrows went back and forth, blood and flowers bloomed, and screams and screams of pain came and went, playing the melody of death.
"Crossbow formation!"
The orders were shouted with all their strength, and the defenders leaned out of the crenels one after another, pointed at the rebel crossbow formation twenty feet away, and lowered their hanging knives. The teeth of their machines fell over, the bow strings came loose, and they roared back violently. The two-foot-long crossbows The arrow shaft, carrying two ounces of cone-shaped armor-piercing arrow clusters, left the string and shot out into the air.
The dense and sharp whistling sound was overwhelming, piercing the rebel crossbow array like a sudden rain.
"Beware of arrows! Beware of arrows!" Officers at all levels shouted urgently.
The rebel crossbowmen who were kneeling and preparing to shoot all quickly lowered their heads, hid their faces, and curled up their bodies as much as possible in a defensive posture.
The crossbow bolt fell and hit the armor, making a clanging sound.
Some were bounced away, but more penetrated the armor and penetrated deeply into the flesh and blood.
Amidst the chaotic wailing, the officers' orders sounded again.
"Counterattack! Counterattack!"
"You motherfucker, as long as you're not dead, cum for me!"
"Don't be a coward, shoot back, shoot back, hold down the city. The brothers in front have already reached the city!"
"Don't stop, wind it up immediately after cumming and cum again!"
Under the urging of the officers, the rebel crossbowmen no longer followed the volley, but raised their crossbows and fired towards the top of the city.
Immediately after shooting, sit down on the ground, straighten your feet, put the push ring at the front of the crossbow arm into the sole of your foot, clamp the crossbow arm between your legs, pull the crossbow string with both hands, use the strength of your legs and waist to pull back, and buckle the crossbow string on After the machine teeth, he then stood up and knelt on one knee, took out the crossbow bolt and put it into the groove on the crossbow arm, aimed at the crenel at the top of the city through Wangshan, and fired again.
Crossbow arrows kept flying accurately into the crenel, knocking the outcropping defenders to the ground. Although the defenders were all armored, their faces were undefended. Once they were shot, they would almost die.
Relying on the suppression of the crossbowmen, the rebel forces climbing the city continued to advance, and some people had already rushed to the base of the wall.
The row of cars stopped five or six feet away from the city wall, and there would be no shielding effect if it went any further.
The rebels carrying ladders poured out from both sides of the row of cars and ran towards the city. When they arrived, they immediately put the ladders on the city wall.
Braving the rain of arrows, the defenders at the top of the city held the exposed ladder with a push rod and tried their best to push it out. However, the rebels below the city gathered in piles at the foot of the ladder, desperately holding the ladder down to prevent the defenders from pushing it down.
Soon, forty or fifty ladders were leaning against the city wall. Some brave rebels simply took off their heavy armor, hung their weapons on their bodies, stepped on the bodies of their comrades, jumped on the ladders, and climbed up quickly. .
Clay pots kept falling from the top of the city. After hitting hard objects, they broke into pieces, throwing out white lime powder. It rose up and spread under the city, fell into the crowd, and stained their heads, faces, and bodies.
"Bah, bah..."
"Ah! My eyes..."
Before they could react, boiling hot and pungent golden juice poured down.
When the golden juice was poured on his body, he suddenly screamed loudly. Even if he was covered with armor, it would not help at all. The hot juice would still get in from the gaps.
When the fallen quicklime met the water, it immediately reacted violently, releasing terrifying heat instantly. For a moment, the city seemed to have turned into a steamer, and white smoke rose up, wrapping everyone in it.
Even if the rebel soldiers were not dead, they could not bear the pain of their flesh being burned. After losing their vision, they became even more panicked. They danced and bumped around, not even bothering to hold down the ladder.
As a result, many ladders were pushed away from the city and fell outwards. The rebels on the ladders fell one after another and hit the crowd below, adding to the chaos.
However, the crossbow arrows fired by the rebel crossbowmen were more dense, and screams continued to be heard from the top of the city. It was unknown how many people died under the arrows.
The crossbow did not stop shooting for a moment. As long as the thick and huge crossbow could land accurately on the top of the city, it would definitely cause damage.
In order to attack the rebels who were climbing the city, the defenders often had to lean out of the city wall and died as a result.
The injury is worse.
Even so, the defenders tried to prevent the rebels from reaching the city at all costs.
The reason why ancient armies often made climbing a city their first priority was because once someone successfully climbed up, it would open a hole, and then a steady stream of people would pour in through the gap.
At this time, the defenders will focus on one thing and not the other, and it will be difficult to attack the city. Therefore, an avalanche effect will occur, and more and more places will be breached.
That is to say, Wujiang City has few soldiers and is not an important border town. It was an accident that it was attacked this time. Otherwise, the first defensive battle should not have taken place in front of the city wall.
The city wall can give the defenders a height advantage, but the width of the city wall limits the investment of troops. The siege side often has stronger troops and wider tactical space.
As a result, the limited firepower output is often difficult to prevent the siege party from approaching the city wall, unless troops are organized to go out of the city to harass.
To defend a city normally, a complete fortification system will be established on the periphery, with fortresses and forts, which echo each other, making it impossible for the enemy to completely surround the city.
When a war breaks out, the defenders will do their best to ensure the perfection of the peripheral system. No matter where there is a crisis, as long as there are mobile troops in the city, they will be dispatched to rescue.
Once the outer perimeter is lost, not only will it be tightly surrounded by the enemy, but it will also be cut off from reinforcements and material channels, turning it into a dead and lonely city.
Sometimes, the defenders would even abandon the protection of the city wall and form formations directly outside the city to fight with the siege. Anyway, as long as they had the choice, they would easily prevent the enemy from attacking the city wall.
If there is really no other way, we must try our best to prevent the enemy from ascending to the top of the city. This often means that the city defense begins to collapse, and the enemy's superior strength gradually loses control of the city wall.
As for the street fighting, it was simply a big joke, and at best it was just a death struggle.
The city wall can keep people out and lock people in at the same time.
With ancient organizational capabilities and communication methods, when the losing side disperses its troops into the city, it is basically letting the sheep go. Don't expect them to actively resist.
Moreover, ancient buildings are all made of wood, so the enemy doesn't have to do much else. As long as they occupy the city wall and set fire to the city, you can also engage in street fighting with a hammer.
As long as the general who defends the city is not caught in the door and refuses to surrender after seeing that the city is destined to be lost, he would rather organize an army to break out than stay in the city and struggle pointlessly.
Therefore, for the current Wujiang City, although the city wall is the first line of defense, it is also the last line of defense.
The defenders tried every means to prevent the rebels from ascending the city. Hot oil, rolling logs, rocks, and thunderbolts were constantly thrown at the city. There were fires and thick smoke billowing under the city.
In just over a quarter of an hour, nearly a thousand rebels were killed or injured, but the remaining rebels, even if they risked such huge casualties, would fight to the death to climb up the city.
If a person climbing the city falls, replace the person and continue climbing. If the ladder is pushed down, help him up and put it up again. If he can't hold it down anymore, heap up the corpses.
All the rebels who were still alive under the city were red-eyed at this moment. They had only one thought in their minds, climb up!
The 600 Fenghua troops at the top of the city suffered more than 400 casualties, and most of the more than 1,000 civilians were also killed and wounded. They still fought to the death, but the defense strength was inevitably getting lower and lower.
Under a burning ladder, the rebels saw for the first time that most of their men were dead and wounded, with less than a dozen people left. They felt furious and looked around. Junqu Pavilion
Then he saw that although a ladder had been pushed away from the wall, it did not fall because of the pile of corpses at the foot of the ladder. Instead, it stood upright, and the defenders at the top of the city did not seem to pay attention.
He gritted his teeth, picked up an iron bone stick, and thrust it into his back, "Fuck you, come with me!"
Stepping on the pile of corpses, the rebels jumped on the ladder, put it back on the city wall, and then climbed up.
Maybe this guy was just lucky, or maybe there was black smoke coming from his ancestral grave, and he actually managed to climb up to the top of the city.
He stepped onto the crenel with joy, but he didn't know that there was a wounded soldier sitting under the crenellation. He turned around when he heard the movement and was shocked.
Phew, "The thieves are coming up..."
The rebels all jumped down, pulled out the iron bone flower and smashed the wounded soldier's head, but the brains spurted out all over his face.
He hurriedly reached out to wipe it, but then Minzhuang, who heard the cry, saw him, "There is an army of thieves! There is an army of thieves!"
While Minzhuang was shouting, he had no time to find a weapon. He rushed forward unarmed, threw himself on the rebel Dutou, hugged him tightly, and then used inertia to push him to the crenel with all his strength, and then the two Together they climbed over the female wall and fell down into the city.
Although Dutou fell down, the rebels who followed him emerged from the crenel again.
There were only four or five minzhuangs responsible for carrying wounded soldiers in the nearest place, and they all witnessed the scene just now.
Perhaps they were imitating the others, and all these strong men rushed over. One of the middle-aged men who ran first jumped on the rebels who were about to jump off the crenel without even thinking about it.
After seeing that their companions fell into the city together with the rebels again, the other civilians had no time to feel sad. They lay on the wall and looked down, and saw that the densely packed rebels were still climbing up the ladder.
"There are still thieves! There are still thieves!"
"We can't let these prisoners come up!"
"Damn it! Three hundred guan! It's worth it!"
"Mom and dad! I'll earn you three acres of land!"
Four young and old people stacked up against the ladder, kicked off the wall, pushed out with all their strength, and fell out together holding the ladder.
Then the defenders who were a little further away came over. Looking down, they saw that the four people at the end of the fallen ladder were twitching slightly, but they were still holding on to the ladder, and six or seven were still pressed under the ladder. Rebels with varying degrees of injuries.
Chen Xiaokun and Zhao Mengqi also discovered this scene, and their expressions were very ugly. They knew that there were less than 200 people left in the Fenghua Army, and it was really impossible to take care of the defense of the entire city wall. However, except for more than 60 Banzhi, there were no more troops in the city that could be supplemented. .
"Bring in all the people who are showing off."
"However, Liu Xiuli still has more than two hundred elites that have not been used." Chen Xiaokun frowned.
The more than 200 garrison troops in Maoliang were slightly weaker and were arranged to defend the other three walls. They were also intended to serve as the final reserve.
"Look at the present first. If the city is breached, everything will stop."
Zhao Mengqi couldn't think of any other solution for the time being. The iron eggs he brought had been used up last night. Although he had already arranged for Geng Zhi to go to the city to collect raw materials to prepare new gunpowder, he didn't know when or how long it would be ready. How much.
Charcoal is easy to find, and saltpeter can be used to make ice, so many wealthy people will have some on hand in the summer. However, although sulfur is a traditional Chinese medicine, the available amount is usually very small, and even drug stores don't have much.
If there is really no other way, the rebels' more than two hundred heavy infantry who have been recuperating can only rely on sixty squads to fight.
