Chapter 130 Bloody Battle with Guiyang
The so-called hiding in the stool is not to drill the whole body into the horse's belly. It is already a master of this way to drill into the body.
Xu Daofu is an immediate general. Although he has dabbled in such a small kung fu, he is far from proficient, but it was this half-hanging stool that hid and saved his life.
When Xu Daofu's arm was tied to the saddle on the horse's abdomen, Lu Qiang's arrow also shot into the horse's back and pierced Xu Daofu's arm through the horse's abdomen, connecting his arm with the horse's abdomen.
"Ah!"
Xu Dao roared in pain and fell to the ground with the war horse.
If Lu Qiang can shoot a series of arrows with the overlord bow, Xu Daofuzhen will explain here, but after all, this overlord bow is not an ordinary bow, and Lu Qiang is not a fairy. It is not that he can't shoot the second arrow, but he still needs a short time.
That is, this short empty space. Xu Daofu's own soldiers have rushed over and soon formed a shield wall with a huge shield to cover Xu Dao behind.
Xu Daofu's arms are connected with the war horse, and it is impossible to carry them away together. Xu Daofu was still sober and knew that he could not stay here for a long time. He took the steel knife from his own soldiers, fell from his hand, and cut off the arrow pole.
The vibration of the arrow led to the pain of the wound. The pain made Xu Daofu almost faint. He didn't care about dressing the wound. The cat quickly left the range of the strong bow and arrow behind the shield wall, and then jumped on the war horse of his own soldiers and left.
The severe pain has made him have no time to scold Lu Qiang's treachery, but as he ran, he still ordered the deputy general to transfer troops to attack the city.
Xu Daofu hated Lu Qiang to the extreme. He vowed to smash Lu Qiang into ten thousand pieces and let the people of the city bury him.
Following Xu Daofu's order, the soldiers who had not gone far turned back. Back and forth, not to mention the morale, the formation is completely chaotic.
At this time, Xu Daofu's order for soldiers to plunder the wealth in the city and women to be enjoyed by soldiers also spread, and the morale that had just been decadent was stimulated.
There is no need for catapults, siege hammers and other siege instruments. The soldiers rushed to the wall like a swarm of ladders.
After Lu Qiang shot Xu Daofu, Han Yanzhi had already ordered the soldiers to be on alert. Just now, Lu Qiang had told the soldiers that once the city was broken, it would be a situation of slaughtering the city, and the enemy who rushed up also confirmed Lu Qiang's words, so the soldiers were already ready to attack the enemy.
After the enemy entered the range, under the order of Han Yan, 3,000 archers threw into the sky. As 3,000 feather arrows flew into the air, the sky suddenly became dark.
However, Xu Daofu's army was not a mob like Huan Wei. The soldiers running in front of them carried shields. Although many soldiers were shot down, the first group of enemy troops still arrived at the bank of the moat and quickly put the ladder densely on the moat, flattening the way forward for the later soldiers.
Lu Qiang's vision was no longer old after the war. Looking at the charge of Xu Daofu's army, he couldn't help nodding secretly. Sure enough, he looked like a few hundred war veterans.
At this time, under the cover of the shield, the archers in Xu Dao's overturned army squatted by the moat and began to shoot up at the city. Although this angle was not very effective, it still caused some damage to the defenders.
As the shooting force in the city weakened, dozens of ladders finally reached the city wall.
Just like defending the city in Jiangling, Lu Qiang did not participate in the command, and the command was in Han Yanzhi's hands, which was not a test for Han Yanzhi.
However, Lu Qiang was soon relieved. Looking at Han Yanzhi's command in the face of danger, he remembered that when Han Yanzhi was an official, Zhao Lunwen and others were just the head soldiers in the army and could not be compared at all.
Han Yan ordered the archers to continue to shoot to prevent the enemy's successors from rushing on. At the same time, he ordered the archers in front of him to ignite the bow and shoot down, which was also to burn the temporary bridge built on the moat.
Under the protection of the shield, the soldiers pushed away the ladder on the wall with big forks, and as the ladder was pushed away, countless enemy soldiers who had climbed half of them screamed and fell down.
There was no time to push the ladder away, and the defenders greeted the enemy with rolling stones. This kind of defense is much more cruel than pushing the ladder. After rolling wood and gravel smashing down the enemy who climbed the ladder, it hit the enemy gathered under the wall. Although the strength is weakened, it can still hurt people.
For a moment, when shouting and tragic shouting were mixed with the opening of the ladder, the cheers of the soldiers and various voices were mixed together, playing a shocking song, which changed the color of heaven and earth.
Xu Dao wrapped up the wound and returned to the battlefield. Looking at the tragic offensive and defensive battle, his anger slowly cooled down.
Guiyang County's tenacious resistance was expected, and he would never care about the life and death of the soldiers. However, if it goes on like this, how can he deal with Jingzhou reinforcements if there are too many casualties?
After making up his mind, he ordered the army to be withdrawn.
At this time, Lu Qiang led his own guards to join the defense, and under his example and Han Yanzhi's calm command, Xu Daofu's soldiers never stepped up the wall.
Only due to the lack of training and actual combat of soldiers, casualties are also increasing rapidly. The walls were covered with blood stains, especially at the piles, which were stained with blood black, and blood filled the city.
However, the soldiers guarding the city are not afraid at all. Lu Qiang believes that after this battle, these soldiers will become qualified soldiers.
With the sound of gold in Xu's army, the siege soldiers suddenly receded like a tide.
This offensive and defensive battle has not yet entered the white-hot stage, and the enemy suddenly retreated. Obviously, it is going to attack the city in a different way.
While encouraging the soldiers, Lu Qiang and Han Yanzhi asked them to be vigilant and respond to the enemy's second attack at any time.
Sure enough, as the soldiers retreated, several tall catapults were pushed out. Next to the catapult was a siege hammer with an iron sheet on its head.
This siege hammer is undoubtedly a nightmare for ordinary city gates. Once it hits with enough strength, it will send out nearly 10,000 catties of huge force and can smash the gate in an instant.
However, this siege hammer also has a huge weakness, that is, it is inconvenient to move and needs to be dragged by more than a dozen cows on both sides. If these cows are shot down by the defenders, the huge siege hammer will turn into a pile of waste.
Of course, the attacker also thought of this. They not only put a layer of iron armor on the cow, but also put a layer of shelter on it to protect bows and arrows, so that they don't have to be afraid of bows and arrows and rolling stones.
You can imagine what kind of scene it will be once this thing is close to the city gate.
When the catapult just came into sight, Han Yanzhi had put more than a dozen large crossbow machines on the city stack.
The pitching distance of the catapult is obviously farther than the crossbow, but if it is too far away, the stone will not produce much power, so knowing that there is a strong crossbow aimed at the catapult in the city, the enemy has to push the catapult forward.
Almost at the same time, the mutual shooting distance was reached, and the crossbow and the stone were launched almost at the same time. The number of catapults is far less than that of crossbows, but the damage caused is several times that of crossbows.
With a few loud noises, the wall was suddenly smashed into several gaps, and many soldiers hiding behind the city stacks were smashed into meat cakes, and the boulder had been rolling out with blood stains for a long time before stopping.
And those trebators were also shot and scattered by thick crossbows, and only one of them can still be used.
Xu Daofuyuan did not expect to open the city gate with a catapult. At the moment when the boulders flew out, countless soldiers carrying sandbags on their shoulders rushed to the moat with shields under the cover of archers. Even many soldiers dragged the bodies of their robes on the battlefield to the moat.
The siege hammer needs a flat passage, and Xu Daofu's move is to fill the moat.
Xu Daofu is indeed an experienced anti-thief. The timing is very good. When the soldiers dodging the boulder in the city react, his soldiers have thrown the sandbag into the moat and then returned. The soldiers behind him repeated this action over and over again.
Soon the moat was filled with sandbags and enemy corpses, and the city wall was finally ** in front of the overthrow of Xu Dao.
Seeing this scene, Xu Jun immediately cheered.
Xu Daofu led the men and horses to attack the city continuously since the morning. At this time, it was already sunset, and the remnant sun was like blood, shining on the wall soaked in blood, adding a little desolation.
Although the sky is dark, Xu Daofu is very clear that his people and horses need to rest, and those recruits in the city need to rest. As long as they persist, they may be able to attack the city with a breath.
So the flag was launched again, and the whole army suppressed it. It was necessary to break the city in one fell swoop, and his handsome flag followed to urge the soldiers. However, with the arrow before Lu Qiang, he would not get too close to death.
For a while, Xu Jun once again rushed to the city wall like a tide.
Lu Qiang knew that this was the real time to test the defenders. Looking at the huge siege hammer mixed with the enemy, he told Han Yanzhi to find a way to destroy it, and then brought his own bodyguards to the gap opened by the boulder.
This gap is the largest and can accommodate three people to climb at the same time. Lu Qiang believes that the enemy will take this place as the key attack direction.
Looking at Lu Qiang's back, Han Yanzhi's mouth moved. In fact, with Lu Qiang's current status, there is no need to fight in person at all, and with Han Yanzhi's experience, although the enemy is fierce, the strength of the defenders of the city is not much loss, so it is not so easy to attack.
But seeing that Lu Qiang had rushed over first, Han Yanzhi understood that he could not persuade him at all. People say that the son of a daughter can't sit in the hall and assist such an adult. I really don't know whether it's a blessing or a curse.
In Han Yanzhi's emotion, the enemy killed again.
Looking at the siege hammer under the heavy protection of soldiers, Han Yanzhi sneered and wanted to break my Guiyang County with such a thing? It's simply delusional.
As Lu Qiang expected, the enemy saw the gap. After the ladder was put up, they climbed up like ants, completely ignoring the rolling stone left above.
There are archers under the city covering the soldiers climbing the city, so the defenders in the city dare not poke their heads out at all. Just after a slight pause in the rolling stone, enemy soldiers have climbed up from the gap.
The soldiers below saw their companions climbing up and immediately cheered, and then more soldiers poured into the gap.
There are soldiers everywhere in the city, and Fang Tianzhen can't exert its power at all, so Lu Qiang has long changed two mace sticks. This thing is covered with spikes. Under Lu Qiang's dance, he really died next to death and met him. In a blink of an eye, the soldiers who climbed up were killed by him.
At this time, the siege hammer was finally pulled under the city.
Han Yanzhi was well prepared. Under the order, countless flammable objects were thrown on the siege hammer, including the lamp oil used by the people to light the lamp, and then the ignited rocket also fell.
The protective baffle above the siege hammer is also covered with a layer of cowhide, which is also a flammable thing. It is then drenched with lamp oil. After encountering a flame, it burns up.
Under the baffle is an old cow pulled by the soldiers. After the cow was frightened by the fire, it suddenly escaped from the soldiers and ran around. As long as it leaves the protection of the baffle, both the cow and the person will soon be shot down by the arrows from there.
In this way, the siege hammer suddenly stopped.
The firelight reflected the city like day. Xu Dao, who was watching the battle in the rear, couldn't help but be very anxious. He had also encountered the situation of the enemy's desperate resistance before, but as long as he personally led the troops to rush up, there was nothing invincible, but now he can't do it. Not to mention one of his arms hanging, there are still A Lu Qiang who can kill him at any time, how dare he rush forward?
How can this be good?
Excited, Xu Daofu kept spinning on the chariot.
At this moment, the ground suddenly shook...