But at the next moment, a sword player jumped down from the ladder, holding a shield to protect Wang Zhuo's right side, blocking the crossbowman's sight.
In such local small-scale battles, the quality of soldiers is extremely important. Of course, the defenders placed elite soldiers at the entrance of the ladder, but when the attackers saw the opportunity to attack the city, how could those who rushed forward not be veterans of countless battles?
These people may not be the strongest in martial arts, but their ability to cooperate in combat and stabilize the battle formation is absolutely top-notch. They don't even need to speak, as long as they scan the battlefield situation, they can automatically find the most suitable angle to attack.
Before Wang Zhuo came up, the soldiers who rushed to the top of the city on the ladder were surrounded by several good fighters. They could hardly hold on for a moment before being quickly killed. Those who came up from behind naturally turned into a tactic of adding fuel to the wall, and came up one by one to die. .
Don't say that this is a stupid attack on the city.
Being able to reach the top of the city is already a great victory. The most cruel thing about antfu's siege is that even if they fill it with a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, they may not be able to reach the top of the city. It is common for a city to repeatedly see and see for ten and a half days.
Therefore, as long as the generals commanding below have any hope of ascending to the top of the city, they must continuously fill it with elite soldiers and strong generals. They only hope that the defending party makes a mistake, or the soldiers are tired, or there are real warriors on their own side who can withstand it. Surround them and open a gap in the city wall.
Now that Wang Zhuo is in front, the soldiers who follow can jump to the top of the city calmly without facing the danger of being surrounded by swords, guns, swords and halberds. The people who come up are all elite veterans in the army. These three people formed a formation. You can each deal with one side without being attacked from the front or back; if ten people form a formation and cover each other, the formation will become stable, and each person only needs to deal with one or two enemies in front of him.
Although the lethality of long-range crossbows is terrifying, in a densely populated environment like the city head, it is difficult for direct crossbow arrows to avoid accidentally injuring one's own people. Moreover, reinforcements under the city are also following up in a steady stream, and trebuchets are also heading toward the breach. Throw gravel sideways and deep.
Wang Zhuo is the only one among Lu Wu's registered disciples who has mastered the Nine Netherworld Sea Qi to the third level, where Qi penetrates the limbs and penetrates the muscles. That's why he can run like flying in full body armor and even jump directly onto the roof of a ladder car. . This is not necessarily because Wang Zhuo has the best qualifications, but because Wang Zhuo is originally a little fat and can temporarily withstand the pressure of this demonic version of the Nine Netherworld Sea's true energy.
On several other ladders, although most of Lu Wu's bodyguards/registered disciples have only practiced the Nine Nether Sea Zhenqi to the first and second levels, they are not fighting alone like Wang Zhuo; Cooperating with each other to climb the city one after another, it will only be easier to gain a foothold on the top of the city.
Below the city, soldiers climbed up the city one after another along the five ladders. As long as they were not blind, they could see that the situation of the defenders was gone and the city could no longer be defended.
Under the city.
Lu Wu watched the soldiers rushing to the top of the city one after another. He turned around and ordered: "Except for my own soldiers, the other cavalry will circle the city and go to the north gate to intercept and kill the fugitives."
"Yes!" The two cavalry lieutenants each nodded and rode their horses to lead the cavalry around the city along the city wall.
Lu Wu had a notorious reputation. If he refused to take the initiative to open the city and surrender, he would kill the officials in the city and destroy three large households.
Now that the city is about to be destroyed, the officials and wealthy households in the city will definitely break through and escape as long as they are not mentally retarded. Lu Wuke is also planning to use their heads to warn future generations and use their wealth to fight for war. How can he let these people escape easily?
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Xingding County finally fell one hour after the siege began.
The army entered the city, killed the officials who were guarding the city, and selected three large families to destroy their families. This was already a common practice. Lu Wu didn't need to do it himself, and the people below him were naturally very familiar with it.
This time Lu Wu brought tens of thousands of troops, with enough troops to be divided into the countryside, enough to uproot the influence of these three large families in the countryside without leaving any trace behind.
This move was much more ruthless than before. Not only did these three large households fight to the death, but even the other large households that were lucky enough not to be selected were also trembling with fear and wanted to take out all their wealth.
In the past, Lu Wu himself did not have enough men, so he could only seize the main families of these large households in the city and attack them, and had to let off the branches of various branches. Even Lu Wu himself did not know how many people in his territory were potential annihilators.
Of course, Lu Wu doesn't care about this. If you have the guts, just jump out and you won't have to worry about killing him. If you don't have the guts, just hold it in. As time goes by, it will naturally fade away.
It is never too late for a gentleman to seek revenge after ten years. Most of them are just things that add insult to injury when the situation reverses many years later.
There are not many ruthless characters in the entire history of mankind who can truly work hard and persevere for ten years to finally get revenge.
Lu Wu no longer cared about these trivial matters. He was sitting at the top of the hall, just waiting for the military chief to count the casualties. On both sides of the hall, Xiaoweiying, who was originally elated because of the successful siege, was waiting for others. The atmosphere was also... Don't dare to say anything.
Not long after, Su Zhong, the chief bookkeeper, walked into the lobby and handed over the statistics book.
Lu Wu opened it and took a look, and his face became darker and darker.
Today's siege has been considered successful.
It is a small county-level city. There are no experts or brave generals in the city, the tools for defending the city are not complete, and the city walls are not high. The only saving grace is that the morale is acceptable.
The siege equipment on our side is complete, the soldiers have enough armor, and their morale is only higher than that of the defenders. But even so, after the attack in one hour, more than 300 soldiers were killed, and more than 170 soldiers were seriously injured. There were nearly 600 lightly injured soldiers.
The medical conditions are not good these days, and the chance of recovery of seriously injured soldiers is not great. It would be good if 30% of the more than 170 people can be recovered. Most of them will die miserably, and those who do not die will also Most of them will suffer from different levels of disability or sequelae.
In other words, when they had all the advantages, they attacked a mere Xingding County town, but more than 400 people were killed, and the total number of casualties exceeded 1,000.
Even though Lu Wu led an army of ten thousand people, at this rate of casualties, it would only take ten or eight counties to exhaust all his troops.
Not to mention that Tonghefu City is an important town in the south of the Chu Kingdom. Its status is just higher than that of Nanhe City. The city wall is more than six feet (more than eight meters) high. If it is captured, how many men and horses will be needed to fill it in?
"It takes only 400 soldiers and 1,000 casualties to capture a mere county town. What do you think?"
Lu Wu threw the book on the table and asked.
Everyone was silent, you looked at me, I looked at you, no one dared to speak.
"Tonghe Prefecture has twenty-seven cities. If we continue to attack like this, how many cities can we capture?" Lu Wu said angrily.
The air pressure in the lobby suddenly dropped, as if the clouds were not raining and thunder was coming.
