"One, two, three," neat shouts came from the city wall, and soon the pieces of rolling wood were moved to the crenel by the Feng Army, and then pushed directly from the edge of the city wall, falling straight down.
"Ah..." The screams and screams were mixed together, and those rolling logs smashed down several Star Troops on the ladder, and even broke the entire ladder. Several Star Troopers fell together with the rolling logs. When it fell to the ground, it was either dead or injured, and caused a large amount of chaos.
As the rolling logs fell one after another, the progress that the Star Army had worked hard for a long time was in vain. In the blink of an eye, there were not many Star Army left at the top of the ladder. Even if those people could successfully climb to the crenel, they would still be waiting for them. For a long time, Feng Jun lowered his weapons.
Amidst the screams, the Feng Army's defense methods caused a huge obstacle to the Star Army. The city was in chaos. Stones, rolling logs, and corpses of the Star Army were everywhere. Especially the grease on the logs had affected the Star Army. With the normal movement of the Star Army, the difficulty of climbing the city continued to increase, morale was naturally frustrated, and the siege force was greatly suppressed. During this period, people from the Feng Army continued to move supplies to the city to make up for the previous consumption.
"Get out of the way," amidst the chaos, shouts came from the city. The captains of the Star Army hurriedly shouted back the crowded soldiers, and then stepped forward one after another. When they were attacked by rolling logs at the top of the ladder, they directly used The weapon opened the rolling wood, but the slippery grease on the rolling wood still spread everywhere, causing them a lot of trouble in the city climbing area.
"Continue to attack the city." In any case, after those thousands of captains took the lead, the impact of the rolling logs and stones was weakened, and the Star Army resumed its normal ability to climb the city.
Immediately afterwards, the originally panicked Star Army set up the new ladder in its original position and continued to climb up. When the infantry launched a new round of charge, the Star Army's archers finally arrived, thousands of well-trained The archers were distributed on a long front and officially began to cover their own soldiers as they climbed into the city. From a distance of tens of meters, those with good archery skills showed off their skills.
"Boom, boom, boom..." Black arrows shot straight at the Feng soldiers who were carrying stones or rolling logs. Without any precautions, some Feng soldiers were hit by the arrows. In an instant, the people on the city were stunned. There were screams.
"Ah..." Those who were carrying things to throw them down tilted their bodies. The things they were carrying either fell uncontrollably to other locations below the city, or fell on the city, also to themselves. This caused a lot of trouble. A round of shooting by the Star Army directly knocked down one-tenth of the Feng Army that emerged from the city, and the Feng Army's defensive capabilities were weakened.
"Come on," seeing the Phoenix troops fall down after being hit by arrows, and some even fell from the crenel, the Xingjun who were already a little timid below were immediately inspired. After shouting, they all went up again regardless of their own safety. Climb.
When the archers started the second round of shooting, similar charging sounds were heard everywhere under the city. More and more Star Army were affected, and the psychological blow caused by the Feng Army's obstruction just now was weakening.
At the same time, the Star Army has stretched the battle line to 800 meters long. More and more Star Army people are climbing the city on the long front line. Correspondingly, there are also many Phoenix troops distributed on the extended front line. Shi Blocks and rolling logs were still being thrown down. Although they were no longer as dense and continuous as before, they still had a significant effect in blocking the Star Army from climbing the city.
As the siege party, the Star Army's casualties continue to increase, but the progress of the city climb is not in line with Lan Wu's expectations. The current situation is not good. If the situation does not improve much in a short period of time, the Star Army's casualties will continue. increase.
In addition, the Feng Army's defense methods have changed. They no longer only attack those who board the city. The archers of the Star Army are also the targets of their attacks. Their counterattacks are fast and effective, and many of the Star Army's archers are killed and injured in a short time.
As a last resort, those Star Army generals could only ask the archers to retreat, but with the distance being extended, it was more difficult for them to shoot at the Feng Army hiding behind the bunker, so that the Feng Army could concentrate on shooting at the Star Army who climbed onto the city, regardless of their cultivation level. High or low, all Star Troopers in their sight are targets of their attacks.
"Dong, dong, dong," at the same time, the Star Army's siege vehicles hit the solid city gate again and again. Under the joint efforts of dozens of soldiers, the gap between the two closed city gates continued. Expanding, the dent in the hit area on the facade is getting deeper and deeper, and the siege engines have already played a certain role.
As expected, through the crack in the door, everyone could clearly see that the rear of the city gate had been blocked by enemy troops. It was no use just smashing the city gate. They had to further clean up the things used to block the city gate.
Based on the current situation, General Lan Wutongqian has considered that Feng Jun will not easily let them break into the city. If the final result is that they cannot break in, then they have only one way to climb the city wall. After that Then think of a way to open the city gate from the inside.
In fact, Feng Jun paid enough attention to the position of the siege truck. Rolling logs were continuously thrown from the city, directly hitting the siege truck and the soldiers pushing the cart. From the beginning to now, the siege has been blocked. The car was hit many times and there were many damaged areas. Not only that, Feng Jun also dropped torches to ignite the scattered grease. Black smoke billowed out from under the city gate. If this continues, the city gate has not yet been breached. The army's siege engines will lose their effectiveness first.
Fortunately, the Star Army was well prepared. They directly covered the siege vehicle with a tarpaulin soaked in advance to extinguish the fire. Some generals and captains were guarding both sides of the siege vehicle. If arrows, stones, or rolling logs came down, , they will take action immediately to deflect or smash those things.
Under the cover of those high-level martial arts cultivators, some of the equipment flying over the city had lost its effectiveness before it got close to the siege vehicles. Except for the ballistae, they had no effect on the siege vehicles and the soldiers pushing the carts.
As time goes by, most of the defensive items piled on the thousand-meter-long city wall have been consumed. If the Feng Army had not been carrying supplies from the city to replenish it, there might be no items available on the city to prevent the Star Army from ascending the city. No matter what, He said that in terms of defensive equipment, the Feng Army was indeed fully prepared. Of course, there will always be times when they will be used up, and the Feng Army on the city will not use up their strength.
"Marshal, the stones and rolling logs have had their effect, causing a lot of inconvenience and a lot of casualties to the Star Army."
"Marshal, the speed of the Star Army's landing on the city has been greatly slowed down."
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In front of the city tower, Zhang Yuangang has been listening to his subordinates' reports on the current battle situation. He feels anxious every moment. Fortunately, the information sent back by his subordinates always makes him feel more at ease.
"Yes," Zhang Yuangang nodded with satisfaction, and a look of relief appeared on his face.
"Marshal Zhang, what should our army do next?" The tightly frowned brows gradually relaxed. Seeing that the current military situation was favorable to them, Tang Jinjian felt more and more relaxed.
Now he just wants to know Zhang Yuangang's next plan. In fact, because of Zhang Yuangang's previous conversation with Lan Xu, he is already very optimistic about Zhang Yuangang's performance. When the two armies were fighting just now, he completely believed in Zhang Yuangang.
The current situation was in line with their expectations. He was naturally very satisfied with Zhang Yuangang's performance. The next hope of defending the city still rested with Zhang Yuangang.
"Master Tang, please rest assured that I have made all arrangements for personnel. No matter what method the Star Army uses to attack the city, we will definitely be able to block the Star Army's attack today. Your Excellency, just wait patiently for the Star Army to withdraw," between words Revealing a kind of confidence, because the rift with Tang Jinjian has been eliminated, Zhang Yuangang has no worries now and can just focus on defending the city.
In fact, Zhang Yuangang's self-confidence is not unfounded. Since ancient times, siege warfare has been one of the most difficult battles. Today, the Star Army does not have large-scale siege equipment, and it cannot break through the city gates in a short time. To really calculate, There are very few people in the Star Army who can come to attack the city at the same time, probably far less than one-tenth of the total strength of the Star Army.
They only need to block one-tenth of the people, but in comparison, they have an advantage in strength. According to Zhang Yuangang's speculation, the number of ladders of the Star Army must be limited. When they use rolling logs and stones to destroy a large number of climbing ladders, After the city ladder, even if some soldiers in the Star Army can climb up the city, it will not have much impact on the overall situation.
Originally, he thought that the Star Army was very capable as a victorious force, but he did not expect that when the two sides actually fought, as the siege party, the Star Army's performance was mediocre, there was no extraordinary performance at all, everything was so ordinary. , after thinking that they could completely stop the Star Army with the help of the city wall, Zhang Yuangang didn't understand why Zhao Tianyi was defeated by Lan Wu before.
All in all, after constantly receiving good news, Zhang Yuangang is now more and more high-spirited. He gradually ignores Lan Wu and only regards Lan Wu as a commander who only relies on the superiority of troops to win. In comparison, he may still be his His ability is more outstanding. Thinking about it this way, even the star army hitting the city gate below and causing the hall to shake did not have any impact on him.
