Chapter 60 Hard City Defense

While it was difficult for the soldiers in the city to come out and shoot arrows vertically, the thieves who attacked the city raised their shields, erected many ladders quickly and methodically, and began to climb up; another 20 or 30 people pushed a rush car made of simple wooden stakes, and also came down under the gate with several layers of thick cowhide, a huge collision. The sound suppressed the horn and the sound of the drum.

The defenders in the city panicked, and it seemed that many people fell to the ground. When Ma Chao saw this, he actually doubted Ma Teng's ability: Is he so useless? Why did you see that the gate was about to be broken as soon as you came?

Although Ma Chao has never had the experience of fighting in the city. But he has also seen it on TV. In this case, the defenders should immediately put down the rolling wood and falling stones, and at the same time push down the ladder with a rejection pole. With a little hesitation, let the siege army climb the wall, and then the general situation is gone.

Sure enough, Ma Chao saw that more than a dozen thieves had come up quickly!

Ma Dai saw that the situation was critical, pulled out his waist knife and seemed to fight, but Ma Chao frowned calmly and said to Ma Dai, "Calm down, it's not the time for you to fight."

"Brother, you didn't see that the city is going to be broken!" Ma Dai said urgently that if he hadn't always taken Ma Chao as his idol, he would have quarreled with Ma Chao.

"It's impossible. Even if my father is in a hurry, it can't be like this. Come to think of it, my father should have something to do..." Ma Chao never dares to underestimate any person in history, especially his cheap old man who can get to the Xiliang warlord as a poor farmer.

However, this situation doesn't seem to be lively now: the city wall is an important fortification and a psychological barrier for the defenders to resist the enemy. Now it has been quickly and suddenly broken through after a single blow, which is a great blow to the fighting spirit of the defenders, and the slightly inferior troops have collapsed directly.

"Brother, look!" Ma Dai's sudden scream made Ma Chao look up.

From Ma Chao's perspective at this time, he happened to see two thieves dragging their bloody tails and falling from the head of the city. Next is the third and fourth... After a few efforts, the thieves and soldiers who had just gone up turned into corpses and were left down the wall.

Ma Chao opened his eyes and felt a little surprised: after the cannon fodder, the vanguard of the siege was the most critical, so the one holding this position was either a warrior with outstanding martial arts in the army who regarded him as death; or a death row prisoner who violated military law and wanted to take advantage of it to make contributions. The Fufeng County soldiers were obviously attacked. It seems that the army's heart has been chaotic. Why do they now kill those dead men like cutting melons and vegetables?

"Hey, brother, look, it turned out to be Uncle Pang and Uncle Huang." Ma Dai's eyes were clear and pointed to the distance.

Ma Chao turned his head and saw a thief jump into the city. Before he stood firmly, the blood light splashed, and the head flew into the air. The head of the head was kicked back by someone, and took down several soldiers following the ladder. And the brave man still probed behind the stack wall and then quickly withdrew. It seemed that the big man wanted to see whether the trail of the thief was beautiful or not...

And the ugly brother farther away seemed to be better, but Ma Chao took a closer look and found that the ugly brother was actually even more crazy, because he never killed the enemy, but always relied on brute force to throw down the enemies who climbed up the wall alive...< /P>

"This ugly brother is really the same as usual..." Ma Chao had no choice but to cover his head and only felt that none of the generals he picked took his life seriously.

With the power of Pound and Brother Chou, the situation on the city wall has been reversed.

With this moment of breathing, the county guards had calmed down from a moment of panic and began to fight back.

More than 20 ladders were overturned by a long rejection rod. Hundreds of thieves fell down, some fell to the ground and couldn't get up for a moment; some hit others, and several people bumped into each other; some were falling on other people's blades, with a hole in their thighs, sitting on the ground.

At this time, hot oil was poured from the head of the city, followed by lit torches and hay, and the city suddenly turned into a sea of fire. Some agile soldiers rolled and crawled away, but many people were wrapped in it, screaming endlessly. More than 200 soldiers with remaining strength rushed out of the sea of fire, were on fire, and struggled to escape. Some of them were shot down by bows and arrows at the head of the city. Some of them ran halfway and fell to the ground, allowing the flames to wrap their whole body. Some of them were not seriously injured. First, they took off their oiled armor robes, rolled to the ground to put out the flames, and were gray. Run back.

And finally, the guards aimed at the car under the thick cowhide at the gate and fell down the large pot of melted tin juice or lead juice. The cowhide on the top is several layers thick and soaked in water, so it could not have been burned. But the ** that fell to the ground splashed and was sticking to one person's legs and feet. The man stood unsteadily, fell miserably, and hit other soldiers, revealing several gaps in the tight shield defense - shining ** drenched down, and the more than 20 people were all rotten, fell to the ground and turned around, and finally motionless.

Seeing this, Ma Chao understood that the rest of the county guards on the city wall, except for the veterans who manipulated the crossbow car, should be the newly recruited soldiers*. After all, although there are 10,000 county guards in Fufeng County, the siege has been at least three or four days. Even if the veterans are not many dead or injured, they should be organized into temporary mobile teams or candidates by Ma Teng to supplement and fight to the death at critical moments.

Of course, Ma Teng also has more than 20,000 Xiliang iron riders. However, those 20,000 people are cavalry and can't be used to defend the city. Perhaps, these two thousand people are Ma Teng's last card, which he intends to use to fight with the thieves in the city. Ma Teng should not be killed until the moment of life and death.

Therefore, during this period, Ma Teng should have temporarily recruited some new recruits to defend the city. In this siege, Ma Teng may also use the lives of those new soldiers to train troops.

Bless soldiers!

Ma Chao doesn't think that Ma Teng, as a general, has done something wrong. But as a county commander, it's really a little unwise to fight with the enemy like this.

Just as Ma Chao was still thinking, he suddenly heard a lot of joy and morale on the wall.

At this time, the enemy's siege equipment was destroyed, and the remaining thousands of thieves could not approach the city, and arrows and stones fell on their heads - originally it was difficult to aim because the siege army rushed too fast, but now it is very different. There was no way forward and they didn't hear Mingjin's siege soldiers in a dilemma and became live targets - there were about many excellent shooters in the garrison. They were in groups of three or five, hiding among the surging soldiers at the head of the city. They were on fire and specialized in shooting small generals such as Shichang and Dubo to shoot arrows. And those veterans who manipulate the crossbow car are even more majestic. For a while, whenever the arrow leaves the string, the target must splash blood and fall to the ground.

At this time, the siege army was dispersed, and these subordinate generals were killed, so that the soldiers lost their command. At a loss and panic, they began to turn around and flee, starting with one or two, and then more and more, and finally thousands of people turned into scattered teams and retreated.

It seems that this siege should be over today. But Ma Chao's eyebrows frowned more and more tightly...