The spring breeze at the border was still cold. Fang Yizhi stood on the wall of Yongdeng County, looking at the Xiliang army that had not attacked for a long time, with a heavy heart.
Gulang County was lost the day before yesterday. After more than ten years of training by the former Daliang Marshal Han Zongwang, the Xiliang Army's combat effectiveness has been greatly enhanced.
Suddenly, a rumbling sound came from afar.
"General Ruan, the enemy has large siege equipment." A deputy general pointed at the carriage approaching from a distance, with a look of surprise on his face.
Ruan Dashui, the general of Ningyuan who was responsible for guarding the city wall, looked around. Wherever he looked, he saw carriages slowly approaching in a row.
On the carriage, there are straight fir trees that are seven to eight feet long and as thick as the waist. Triangular logs are used to nail them into flat ladders. Each ladder is about three feet high and has a grab handle at one end. The city has a large iron hook. If it is placed on the city wall, the army can rush to the top of the city along the ladder in groups.
Behind the flatbed truck, dozens of large trebuchets are lined up. These trebuchets can throw boulders weighing hundreds of kilograms five hundred paces. This heavy trebuchet, which is two feet and one foot high, originally required more than one hundred trebuchets. However, after Han Zongwang's improvement, the old trebuchet was changed to a backward pull, using the elastic force of the trebuchet's belt to shoot out, and using the pulley principle to turn the pulling force into multiple winches. In this way, a trebuchet only It takes twenty people to control it.
Between each trebuchet, there is a huge bed crossbow. This bed crossbow can shoot ten cross javelins at once, and can penetrate shields within 400 steps, with a full range of 800 steps. The bed crossbow only needs three people to control it, and with two assistants to load the arrows, there are five people in total. It can deal with the dense defenders, and the killing effect is amazing.
The cross-javelins on the bed crossbows emitted dazzling light in the sun, pointing straight at the city head like poisonous snakes that prey on people.
Fang Yizhi stood behind General Ruan. Following his gaze, he saw a series of crossbows and trebuchets forming a huge square array.
Each phalanx is flanked by a group of cavalry guards. If you try to outflank the phalanx from the left and right, you will definitely be blocked by the cavalry.
Behind the square formation, there are three groups of heavy cavalry, divided into left, middle and right formations. They are like dragons, their horses are like tigers, and their momentum is like a rainbow.
Looking at the formation covering several miles and the cold arrows pointed at the tower, the defenders of Da Chen felt numb.
What does it mean if so many crossbows and trebuchets are used intensively?
It means that the Xiliang army is bound to win.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The sound of huge drums beat loudly, and a murderous atmosphere filled the sky.
The soldiers of the Xiliang army shouted wildly and rushed towards the city like a tide.
At the front were thousands of soldiers holding shields, who were responsible for blocking the bows and arrows fired from the city. They were followed closely by ladders for climbing, and dozens of catapults were also frantically throwing boulders into the city. , covering the siege troops.
Ruan Dashui on the city commanded the troops in an orderly manner, using the archers and kerosene on the city wall to fight back.
There was a huge iron bucket every ten feet on the city wall. The bucket was filled with scalding hot oil. The defenders next to the giant bucket were all staring at the city. When the Xiliang attackers approached, they quickly poured the hot oil. Next, the Xiliang attackers who were splashed with hot oil fell to the ground one by one and rolled around.
After pouring a bucket of hot oil, the soldiers put the bucket back into place, and then some of them continued to pour oil into the bucket, while the rest kept lighting fires and adding firewood underneath, preparing for the next round. Hot oil attack.
At this time, dozens of trebuchets began to creak and twist the thick ropes, and the long projectile rods bent backwards, and the accumulated potential energy reached the extreme.
"put!"
When the order was given, the soldiers yanked the rope at the same time, threw out the long pole, and the boulder rose into the air, whizzing and smashing towards the city head.
"Cross gun, release!"
The bed crossbows were also fired at the same time, and hundreds of cross javelins fired together. The sound was no less than the roar of boulders, and it made people's eardrums hurt.
A shrill scream rang out, and boulders fell into the city. Many of Chen's defenders were unable to escape and were smashed to death alive.
Javelins all over the sky came with a roaring sound of breaking through the sky. With a strong impact, they strung the defenders into strings. The remaining momentum did not dissipate, and they were nailed to the tower, with blood splattering everywhere. It makes a "buzzing" sound.
For a time, there were screams and shouts, and the arrows that shot through the sky fell one after another, causing the city to become chaotic and chaotic for a while.
Ruan Dashui shouted loudly, quickly reorganized the defense, divided the Dachen soldiers into three rows, and took turns firing arrows and pouring boiling oil, pouring down continuously. The Xiliang soldiers who were lucky enough to survive under the city were constantly deprived of their lives in the continuous rain of arrows, Yin Hong The blood dyed the earth red.
There were bright red bloodstains everywhere on the city walls. Blood flowed across the walls, and pieces of flesh and broken limbs could be seen everywhere. There were screams and angry roars, both sides were furious, and the battle was escalating.
The city walls were covered with black masses of Dachen soldiers. Accompanied by their hoarse shouts, boulders roared down from the sky, and arrows flew in the sky. The fearless soldiers' faces were covered with blood, and their eyes showed the heroic spirit of fighting to the death. They kept shooting arrows and pouring hot oil. A large number of soldiers fell to death in a pool of blood. Someone stepped forward behind them. The sound of fighting and the sound of fighting resounded throughout the world. Everything was like a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. Purgatory on earth.
The air was filled with the disgusting smell of blood, the thick smoke was floating in the air, and the blazing fire illuminated the sky red.
Just as Fang Yizhi cut off a ladder hanging on the city wall, another round of arrows rained down like locusts passing by, and soldiers around him kept falling to the ground after being struck by arrows.
A Xiliang soldier took the opportunity to climb onto the city wall, and was immediately swarmed by several Dachen defenders with swords in their hands. Swords clashed, and screams were heard everywhere. One of them, a dark and thin Xiliang sergeant, was extremely brave. A dagger appeared and stabbed five or six defenders to death in an instant.
Fang Yizhi stepped forward, gathered the remaining energy in his body, and slapped the thin black sergeant with his palm.
The thin black sergeant flipped his wrist, and the dagger struck Fang Yizhi's wrist like lightning.
Fang Yizhi turned his palm into a finger, and his vitality came out through the finger, hitting the thin black sergeant on the chest.
The thin, black sergeant did not dodge, as if waiting for Fang Yizhi to point his finger.
Fang Yizhi felt as if his finger had pierced the dough, sinking deeply into it. A hot energy invaded his body along his finger, and his whole body was suddenly unbearably hot.
Ruan Dashui shot the Xiliang soldier in front of him with a spear, and then turned around and stabbed the black and thin soldier with a shot. He had already seen that the black and thin Xiliang soldier was very skilled, and Fang Yizhi suffered a secret loss.
The thin black sergeant swung his dagger horizontally, and actually blocked Ruan Dashui's full-strength shot. His chest and abdomen bulged high, making a thunderous noise, which made Fang Yizhi take a few steps back, and the sleeves of his right arm were shattered. Spit out a mouthful of blood.
Ruan Dashui shouted: "Surround!"
More than twenty Dachen soldiers nearby quickly formed a battle formation and surrounded the thin black sergeant.
The thin black sergeant was like a ghost, diving into the battle formation and killing towards the center of the formation.
The formation immediately changed, and the power of more than twenty soldiers seemed to be united together. With the blessing of the battle formation, they slammed into the thin black sergeant.
Seeing that more and more people were besieging them, and unable to take any advantage, the thin black sergeant shouted: "Sir Chen, you are nothing!" Then he jumped off the city wall.
The setting sun is like blood, and the afterglow of the setting sun pours on the city wall.
Fang Yizhi stood on the city tower, looking at the Xiliang army that had just retreated. He knew in his heart that when the enemy attacked again, it would be impossible to defend Yongdeng City.
At this time, Ningyuan General Ruan Dashui came over after arranging military affairs and said: "Commander Fang, does your injury hinder you?"
Fang Yizhi raised his red arm and said: "This person's skills are weird. I can't tell what state he is in. The weird energy he invaded my body has been suppressed by me in the meridians of my arm. There should be no problem in the short term. Xie Ruan The General is concerned about you!"
Ruan Dashui said: "This man's identity is by no means an ordinary soldier. I have been stationed at the border for ten years and have never heard of Taoism. He is probably a master around Prince Kan Cheng, so don't be shy. Go to the city and see General Mo. Take a look. Is there anything he can do?"
He glanced at the busy soldiers around him and continued: Go quickly, I'll go look elsewhere! "
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After walking down the tower and walking through the streets full of wounded soldiers, Fang Yizhi walked into General Dingyuan's mansion.
After Yongdeng County Magistrate Li Tingli was talking with Dingyuan General Mo Tailai, the top general here, he saw Fang Yizhi coming in, said hello, and left in a hurry.
Mo Tailai looked at Fang Yizhi, whose clothes were stained with blood and had a solemn expression, and said: Yizhi, sit down quickly and talk. "
Fang Yizhi saluted Mo Tailai and said, "General Mo, please look at my arm..."
He raised his red arm and described the situation of the thin black sergeant.
Mo Tailai only glanced at it and said in shock: "Zhiyang Zhenqi? That old monster, Zhenjun Stealing Yang, actually has disciples?"
Fang Yizhi asked in surprise: "Who is True Lord Stealing Yang? Why have I never heard of him?"
Mo Tailai pondered for a while and said: "Zhenjun Stealing Yang was a master of the True Self Realm a hundred years ago. He was a loner and cruel. He was originally from Guazhou, Xiliang. I don't know where he got a mental method. To practice this technique, you need to absorb the Yuanyang of a six-year-old boy. The inexplicable disappearance of more than ten thousand boys in the Xiliang Kingdom was all related to him. Later, he fled to our former Daliang and continued to steal the boys' practice techniques. He was The Zhenwu Sect and the Zongjian Sect were encircling and suppressing them, but with the Zhiyang Zhenqi he had cultivated, he was able to escape every time, and successively killed seven masters of the True Self Realm and more than ten masters of the Hedao Realm from the two sects. The former leader of the Zhenwu Sect Hong Daochang and the former master of the Zongjian Sect, Mo Wentian, came out of seclusion. The two masters worked together to chase and kill him, and finally killed the beast in Qixia Mountain.
He sighed and continued: "I didn't expect that Zhiyang Zhenqi would reappear a hundred years later, and this old monster would actually have a descendant..."
Fang Yizhi said: I can still survive a small injury. We repelled three enemy attacks today, and we have suffered more than half of our casualties. What I am worried about is that if the enemy attacks again tonight and tomorrow, we may not be able to hold on...
