Woo, woo.
Outside the city of Hezhou, the extremely boring horn horn suddenly started to sound again.
Beidi infantry wearing animal robes and armor, marching in square formations, accompanied by the command of each Di captain, set up the city ladder and approached the city gate.
The goshawks flying in the sky began to swoop down towards the city with a long whistle.
"Drive them away with torches. The remaining people should protect their eyes immediately!" Lian Yong shouted immediately.
On the top of the city, countless halberds were wrapped in fire cloth, and they kept burning towards the swooping eagles.
Xu Mu gritted his teeth and stared straight ahead.
Beside him, two or three goshawks flew towards him, but Si Hu slapped them so that their feathers flew away.
"Brother Mu, these eagles are useless."
"it works."
Xu Mu took a deep breath. The so-called goshawk was nothing more than seizing air supremacy and deceiving others. As Xu Mu expected, before the goshawks could escape, the Di people's infantry below were already approaching the city.
There is only a dry moat left from the city's ancient walls.
"Lean over!" several generals shouted in surprise.
As soon as the voice fell and the defenders on the city lowered their heads, there was a burst of fire and rocks that roared past the sky.
Densely packed flying arrows were also thrown down, covering the sky and the sun, and Di Gou's cheers roared crazily from a distance.
Taking shelter under the female wall, no one dared to move. The goshawks, slinging stones, and those densely packed flying arrows all did nothing more than push the siege equipment under the city wall, allowing the infantry phalanx to approach the city gate.
"Kick the rocks out for me!" A commanding general said through clenched teeth.
In the open space near the city gate, five catapults were waiting, not to be outdone, they filled the fire-collapsed rocks and roared towards the outside of the city.
Vaguely, Xu Mu could hear the screams of the Qingbei Di people.
As if to relieve their energy, the catapults on both sides desperately threw fire and rocks at each other, dragging out streaks of smoke, and thick smoke enveloped the entire sky.
This type of fighting with cold weapons has always been a matter of life and death.
On the top of the city, even if they took shelter on the female wall, there were still many unlucky people who were either shattered to pieces when the fire and rocks fell, or were burned by the fire and jumped off the city wall.
All around, one could see clearly filled with gunpowder smoke and corpses lying in robes.
The horn horn outside the city suddenly changed to a long and aggressive tone. The roaring catapult also stopped making noise for a moment.
Xu Mu knew that at this moment, the Beidi people were already approaching the city gate.
"Ascend the city -" a Beidi Duhou, riding a horse and jumping across the moat, raised his scimitar and shouted.
The Beidi infantry carrying the city ladder roared forward.
A huge ladder truck ran over the simple bridge built and pressed under the city gate.
"rise!"
Veteran General Lian Yong's beard and hair grew wild, and after roaring angrily, the countless defenders who had been hiding behind the female wall also stood up coldly.
"Pull the strings full!"
"call."
Thousands of city garrison troops filled the city walls of Hezhou. Listening to Lian Yong's order, they all raised their bows and fired at the city gates.
The first group of Beidi people who rushed forward suffered heavy casualties immediately.
"Diaozaki!"
Yaksha Lei, full of thorns from wolf fangs, rolled down when the civilian husband behind him suddenly let go.
They crushed the city ladder and killed many Beidi people who climbed the city.
"Pour the fire oil!"
Jars of kerosene dripped down the city wall. A hidden divine archer ignited the fire with a kerosene arrow, and the sky was filled with fire, and it immediately started burning.
Three or four teams of Beidi people, carrying mud-covered curtains, quickly approached the city wall and quickly wiped out the fire.
"How can these Beidi dogs be so powerful?" Even Si Hu couldn't help but be surprised.
Xu Mu also frowned. It has to be said that this generation of Beidi Khan is indeed a tyrant and has absorbed many offensive and defensive methods from the Central Plains.
The most basic strategy is to use soldiers to block it and water to cover it with soil.
"Shoot them to death!" Yu Wen was furious, commanding the walking bow beside him, and threw the flying arrows into the sky, forming a dense rain of arrows, killing most of the groups of Di people fighting the fire.
"Fire barrel! Throw the fire barrel now!"
The fire barrels filled with fire and broken rocks roared and rolled down from the top of the city. Fortunately, two or three of them rolled down to Beidi's infantry phalanx, which suddenly exploded.
The fire started in layers, and it didn't take long before it rolled into a small sea of flames.
"The injured are leaving the city! The third battalion of Yuzhou is going to the top of the city immediately!"
Groups of reserve defenders showed no signs of panic on their faces as they roared towards the city to die.
"Be careful that Digou gets there first——"
Lian Yong raised his knife and chopped the body of a Di man who had climbed into the city, blood splattered all over his body.
"Exchange your bow for a long halberd, and knock over Di Gou's city ladder."
With the halberds, the Beidi soldiers who climbed up first were stabbed to death and rolled down.
Xu Mu could clearly see that there were corpses everywhere under the city ravine at this time, like a purgatory on earth.
"General, Di Gou's ladder is close to the city wall!"
Hearing this sentence, Xu Mu's face became darker and darker.
In the ancient ladder car, the ladder body was a folding structure connected by rotating shafts. The main ladder stopped at the bottom of the city, and the auxiliary ladder supported the city and went up. In this way, the danger of erecting ladders in front of the city is reduced.
Before the advent of fire barrel-type pipe guns, the ladder was almost the overlord of the siege party, and it must be used to its extreme.
"Climb the wall!"
The ladder truck stopped at an extremely tricky angle on the city wall. Then, countless Beidi people held up their leather shields and roared as they climbed up the ladder and jumped to the top of the city.
Many defenders at the top of the city wanted to shoot kerosene arrows at the ladder truck.
Unexpectedly, a huge bamboo shield coated with mud was raised to protect the entire ladder truck.
Neither ordinary arrows nor kerosene arrows can penetrate it. But if you throw the flint stone directly, where will the strength come from?
"Si Hu, go get the flying musket."
Xu Mu was a little lucky that he had used some flint-breaking stones to prepare a killing weapon in advance.
Hearing Xu Mu's words, Si Hu's face suddenly became happy and he hurried down the city wall. Not long after, he carried four or five iron guns on his back and walked back up.
On these iron guns, there is a thin bamboo tube tied to them. In the bamboo tube, there was not only gunpowder taken from the flint stone, but also iron fragments, arsenic and other things were added according to Xu Mu's wishes.
When ignited, have Si Hu throw it directly towards the target.
Even if the target is farther away, with Si Hu's strength, he should still be able to hit it. Of course, we can only pray for accuracy.
"Brother Mu, please see clearly."
Si Hu laughed innocently, grabbed an iron gun, and threw it forward with a muffled sound.
The ladder truck missed, but instead hit a Di people's phalanx hundreds of steps away. After more than a dozen people were killed, they yelled and cursed their mothers.
Xu Mu hesitated for a while, wondering whether to switch to Chang Wei.
"Brother Mu, look again!"
Si Hu also lost his temper, grabbed two flying muskets, and roared in the direction of the ladder truck.
In front of Xu Mu, the arrogant ladder car, the overlord of the city siege, first had its protective bamboo curtain and shield blown apart, and then, a corner of the side body of the car collapsed and was on the verge of crumbling.
On the ladder car, the faces of many Beidi people who were still jumping into the city with knives in their mouths suddenly turned white.
