The county guard yelled and cursed for a while below, and found that Nie Chen had not said a word from beginning to end, and had no intention of leaving the city to fight, so he could only order the army to attack the city.
He knew that Nie Chen could not be killed by scolding him. No matter how difficult the city was to defeat, he had to defeat it, and he had to defeat it regardless of casualties.
He had also thought about directly besieging the city, cutting off the grain roads, and trapping the people inside to death, but he didn't know how much grain and grass there was in the county now. If there was enough grain and grass for the whole city to eat for several months, he would have to besiege the city for a few more months. Isn’t it a month?
Once the news of the loss of the Qingshui County seat reaches King Anton, King Anton will definitely be furious and reprimand him severely. Then seeing that he cannot even defeat a group of bandits for several months, he will probably withdraw. As for his position, let him pack up and get out.
Therefore, no matter what, the county guard had to capture the county seat in a short time to make up for the loss of the county seat.
Outside the city, trebuchets have been assembled. Qingshui County is mountainous and full of stones, which can be mined nearby and transported to attack the city wall.
"Squat down!"
Nie Chen shouted loudly and took the lead to squat down and hide behind the battlements. The other soldiers immediately squatted down to avoid the stone bullets thrown from above.
The huge stone bullets were accompanied by the whistling wind, and some hit the city wall, knocking the soldiers hiding behind off their backs and killing them on the spot.
Some fell into the city and destroyed people's houses.
"Dazhuang, have you brought the trebuchet I built in Qingfeng Village?"
Nie Chen shouted loudly.
The city wall in Qingshui County is not wide, only three meters wide. It cannot be damaged by smashing, but there is no way to deploy city-breaking crossbows to target the opponent's trebuchet.
The best way to deal with trebuchets is to use trebuchets to fight back and smash each other's trebuchets to see who can smash the other's trebuchet first.
Da Zhuang raised his head and said while avoiding the stone bullets,
"Bring it. In the past few days since you left, some more trebuchets have been built in the village. I have brought the trebuchets, some crossbow arrows, and food and grass."
"I also asked people to make some a few days ago. Go quickly, assemble the trebuchets and push them all down to the city!"
"But we don't have any stone bullets. Where can we find stone bullets in this city?"
Da Zhuang said through gritted teeth.
"Didn't the enemy throw stone bombs at us? Find the ones that haven't been smashed and use the trebuchet to return them to them!"
"knew!"
Da Zhuang immediately ran down the city wall, led a team of soldiers and horses to the county government arsenal to pull stones.
"Qi Huan!"
Nie Chen then yelled,
"arrive!"
Qi Huan ran over with his back bent.
At this time, as the enemy army advanced, archers began to shoot arrows at the city wall.
"You go to the city to recruit brave soldiers. We don't have enough troops to fight back. Find some young men and give them weapons and bows. You don't need many elite troops to defend the city. They only need to be able to wield a sword and draw a bow. We will slowly work later. train!
Tell them that once the county guard breaks the city, they will also be implicated! "
"As you command!"
Qi Huan also ran down immediately.
Nie Chen quietly bent down and looked down. He saw that the opponent's trebuchet had stopped firing, and the front row of the siege army was only a hundred steps away from the city wall. They were charging forward with the ladder. Woolen cloth.
The role of the trebuchet is to kill the defenders and cover the charge of the siege army. When the army rushes not far from the city wall, the trebuchet has to stop, because the accuracy of the trebuchet is so low that almost no general will know how to do it. When our own troops climbed the city wall, they also ordered stones to be thrown.
This will accidentally injure one's own troops.
"beat!"
Nie Chen roared angrily, picked up the repeating crossbow, and fired downwards.
Wang Hao stood up and shouted,
"Archers, launch a hundred and fifty steps to cut off the enemy's follow-up troops!"
Two rows of archers, totaling two thousand people, stood side by side, stretched their bows and nocked arrows, and shot into the distance.
The crossbowmen who were closer to the edge of the city wall picked up their repeating crossbows, aimed at the army below and began to attack.
A brutal siege broke out, with both sides going back and forth and attacking constantly.
Nie Chen and the others were better off. Standing on the city wall, they were able to deal an effective blow to the enemy from a high position.
But the siege army below was miserable. They had to bear the heavy rain of arrows above their heads, and the broken crossbows that roared from time to time from the enemy's city top.
The power of the army-breaking crossbow was so great that it could pierce several people with one arrow each time. This terrifying scene frightened the soldiers and made them cower and dare not move forward.
But if they don't move, the siege army behind them will force them to move forward, and they can only bite the bullet and charge forward.
Whoosh whoosh!
From the sky, arrows continued to fall, some pierced into the soil, and some pierced into people's bodies.
The soldiers and horses attacking the city soon fell to the ground. The surviving soldiers rushed to the bottom of the city, set up the ladders, and began to climb up.
One soldier was lucky. He successfully rushed to the bottom of the city, climbed up the ladder, and followed the people above to climb up.
Suddenly, the person above him let go of the ladder with both hands and fell down weakly. He quickly ducked sideways and was lucky not to be hit.
He was overjoyed and immediately climbed up quickly.
When he was about to climb to the top, he turned around happily and wanted to call his comrades to come up. However, the scene in front of him shocked him.
There was no one behind him.
Although the phalanx in the distance was still moving forward, it was still hundreds of steps away from him.
He turned his head in surprise, looked up, and saw a repeating crossbow sticking out from the top of the city.
The crossbow arrow broke away from the bowstring and pierced his forehead in the blink of an eye.
He fell weakly, and until his death he never understood why there was no one behind him.
After Nie Chen shot the last siege soldier to death, he shouted loudly,
"Carry down the bodies of the wounded and fallen brothers, and bring up the crossbows. The enemy's next wave of offensive is coming!"
Previously, Wang Hao directed the archers to attack forward, cutting off the enemy's follow-up troops, leaving the enemy at the front alone and quickly disintegrating the first wave of enemy attacks.
At this moment, Lin Guang suddenly shouted,
"Squat down! The trebuchet is coming!"
Upon hearing this, everyone immediately squatted down.
A moment later, the big rock above his head crashed down, stirring up countless rubbles.
With the operation of the trebuchet, the phalanx in the distance began to charge again.
When the county guards were attacking the city, they were organized into battalions. One battalion formed ten phalanxes, with one hundred men per phalanx, charging toward the front.
Not all of the first batch of 1,000 people were killed, but half of them were reduced to the point where they were no longer organized and were ordered to be withdrawn by the county governor.
While Nie Chen was staring at the army below, Da Zhuang hurriedly came to the top of the city and asked,
"The trebuchets are assembled. Should we attack their trebuchets or their siege troops?"
