Only a day and a half had passed since the war flag was hung on the tallest stone tower in Yongchuan City, signaling that the city had officially entered a state of war.
It started to rain that morning. The pattering rain was not too heavy, but it brought a lot of coolness, which made the soldiers on the city wall who had been highly nervous and had to endure the heat these days feel comfortable.
The rain falls down into a thin layer of rain curtain, which is fine up close, but when you look into the distance, your vision is blocked and blurred.
Precisely because of this, many Qi practitioners who were standing sentry on the city wall were already participating in the process by using their magic techniques. But I still can't see as far and clearly as on a clear day.
As noon approached, the rain began to decrease slightly, and the soldiers on the city wall who had been exposed to the rain all morning already felt a little cold.
"what is that?"
"where?"
"Over there! Do you see it? It's probably more than two miles to the right. It seems like something is moving?"
"Let me take a look? I can't see clearly. But it seems like something is really moving. Raise a flag and ask an adult to come take a look."
"yes!"
A soldier on sentry duty on a section of the city wall rubbed his eyes and nervously warned the team leader next to him. The two said a few words quickly, then raised a yellow flag, and soon a Qi practitioner ran away. come over.
Using this technique, one can clearly see the details on ordinary calligraphy and paintings several miles away. Now it is affected by the rain, but there is still no problem in places one or two miles away. When the running Qi practitioner saw clearly the direction the soldier was pointing, his expression immediately changed. He picked up the copper flute around his neck and put it in his mouth to play.
"Dudududu"
The harsh sound of the copper flute kicked off another life-and-death battle in Yongchuan City after decades.
As the rain gradually subsided, the line of sight began to become clearer. More and more people looked down from the top of the city and could see a dark "line" emerging from the undulating open land in the distance, and saw a side that belonged exclusively to the barbarians. The flag of the leading general. It seemed that the moment it appeared, it competed with the Liu character flag flying high on the city top.
First, there were bursts of roaring and dull drums, which sounded unhurriedly on the top of the city, urging the auxiliary soldiers to take out boxes of feather arrows and insert them into the red mud next to the female wall for the archers to use. At the same time, we also need to take into account the wood with sharp spikes that were transported to the city wall early, as well as the five, six or even ten kilograms of stones. The originally wide battle channel on the city wall suddenly became a bit crowded. .
Suddenly, the drumming stopped, and the surroundings seemed to change from noise to silence.
It wasn't until the "black line" that had turned into a black mass of people approached one and a half miles, that the flag bearer appeared on the eye-catching flag stand on the top of the city, and passed it to four people, ensuring that everyone on the city wall could see it clearly. semaphore.
"Trebuchet ready! One mile!"
Unlike those hurled stones weighing less than ten kilograms on the city top, the stones thrown by the trebuchet can weigh between twenty-five kilograms and thirty kilograms, and the furthest distance thrown is a little more than one mile. Even though the accuracy is not very high, it is still very useful for dealing with large targets or dense battle formations. Especially when using kerosene bombs, it is a murderous weapon.
Of course, there are also some larger trebuchets that can throw hundreds of pounds of stones several miles away. For example, there are Pengshan Pass and Pengshan City. But Yongchuan City does not have one, because that kind of trebuchet requires special materials, special magic circle coordination and spiritual stone drive, and the cost is extremely expensive. The battle in Yongchuan City happened in a hurry, and there was no chance to equip this kind of city defense weapon.
The twenty-seven trebuchets currently gathered under the city wall to face the enemy, that is, the east and south walls, were built by Liu Jianyu in a hurry over the past month. Two of them were not even painted with varnish. I finished it yesterday and pushed it over.
As the mechanism of the trebuchet sounded, the long arm was pulled down and laid flat, and then, under the transportation of each strong auxiliary soldier, stones of about thirty kilograms were put into the throwing bag of the trebuchet. It only takes ten breaths before and after.
When the calibrated soldier next to the trebuchet raised the green flag in his hand, feedback was also received on the city top.
"put!"
A trembling command sound sounded, and the warriors beside the twenty-seven trebuchets struggled to smash the sledgehammers in their hands against the launching mechanism. The sound of the mechanical power venting was accompanied by the big rocks roaring up across the city. From the top of the wall, it was thrown towards the barbarian army formation one mile away.
The offensive and defensive drama officially begins.
However, the sound of drums and orders only sounded in the ears, but it did not substantially affect the defensive pace of the industrial park outside Yongchuan City's east city.
Just looking at the number of soldiers on the city wall and the fact that there is no trebuchet under the city wall, you can tell that this is not the focus of Yongchuan City's defense.
Because half of the East City is actually surrounded by Changshui like the North City, and there is a mountainous forest area to the east. The entire terrain is narrow and is not suitable as the main attack direction, because it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. According to Liu Jianyu's judgment, at least in the early stages of the attack and defense, the barbarians would not spend any effort attacking the east wall. It would be better to concentrate on attacking the west and south.
It was precisely based on this consideration that Liu Jianyu did not let Bailang completely destroy the industrial park from the beginning, but tried to hold on for a while, and then retreated to the city wall if it was no longer possible. In this way, we can try to leave one more choice for Yongchuan City.
But just like before, Hong Chao's army's judgment on Yun Yan's side would always lead to surprises. You thought the barbarians wouldn't attack for the time being, but they came anyway.
It was just that it came so quietly that it didn't attract the attention of the lookout post on the city wall.
What came was not a large group of people, but a small group of barbarians numbering no more than fifty people. They did not move with the army, but took a detour through the mountains and forests further outside the east city, avoiding the checkpoints on the city wall, and using the cover raised by the magic circle as a barrier, they reached the vicinity of the industrial park along the way. .
The situation was similar to what Hong Chao had guessed. The Barbarian leader Meng Kui was injured and had already dragged down the army. As a result, Liu Jianyu's sudden water attack caused heavy damage to the partial army. If he went back like this, Meng Kui would definitely die without saying anything and humiliating the will of "god".
The latter point is most intolerable to Yun Yan's army.
Death is okay, but God’s glory cannot be tarnished. All stains will be washed away with the blood of the enemy!
Therefore, Meng Kui's men knew clearly how much risk they would take by insisting on attacking even though their food, grass, and ordnance were heavily damaged, but they still chose to attack.
Although Meng Kui likes to rush forward to kill, it does not mean that he will only be reckless. After calming down, he will still study his opponent and synthesize the intelligence in his hand. For example, the terrain of Yongchuan City and the focus of city defense are within the scope of intelligence. Just the lives captured when taking Shuangqing City were enough to provide these things.
In order to seize the city quickly, the enemy was not given the possibility to escape by water. Meng Kui's idea is: surprise attack and attack east and west!
Quickly break through the weak position of Yongchuan City, then destroy the city wall, creating a defensive gap in Yongchuan City, and then expand the gap to capture it in one fell swoop!
(End of chapter)
