Chapter 245 Night Attack

Without the threat of the catapult, the defenders can finally fight back in an all-round way.

The Wei army's horse shot sharply. If it is an ordinary city, those horses can still make the defenders unable to raise their heads, but now both the city wall and the moat have been raised and widened. In this way, the threat of riding is not great.

The rider lost its role, and the soldiers behind who were preparing to build a bridge on the moat suddenly became the target of the defenders and were shot down in pieces under the dense rain of arrows by the defenders.

Seeing this, Tuoba Kui couldn't help frowning and ordered to move the tower forward, so that the soldiers could stand on the tower and shoot against the soldiers in the city.

Seeing this, Lu Qiang couldn't help shaking his head secretly. Tuoba's people and horses can dominate the grassland and fight on land. I'm afraid that there are few enemies, but in this siege, they still have too little experience.

Without Lu Qiang's instructions, Tan Daoji saw the tower approaching and immediately ordered the soldiers to change into rockets. The towers are all made of wood, and an arrow may be useless, but it can't stand it!

Under the dense rocket, the tower soon caught fire. Seeing this, Tuoba Kui quickly ordered people to pull the tower back. Fortunately, he reacted fast enough, otherwise the tower would be destroyed, and the soldiers inside would be burned alive.

This method doesn't work. Tuoba Kui ordered 3,000 soldiers to lean together, put their heads on the shield, and slowly lean forward. Three thousand shields gathered together to form a huge turtle shell. Not to mention, the defenders' arrows did not work.

The shield is iron, can't be clicked, and the distance is far away, and there is no need for rolling stones or stones. The defenders can only watch the big turtle near the moat.

Soon, countless ladders protrude from under the turtle shell and put them on the moat. Then the Wei army under the turtle shell moved like an ant, spreading boards on the ladder.

Because of the turtle shell protection, the arrows of the defenders pose little threat to the Wei army.

After paying the price of nearly 1,000 people, the Wei army finally succeeded in building the bridge, and the 10,000 Wei army waiting behind finally rushed up like a tide.

The war has only been real since the beginning.

After crossing the moat, the Wei army can also shoot up at the city. In this way, the casualties of the defenders began to increase again, but with the approach of the Wei army, the rolling wood rocks in the city also came in handy.

Every time it is thrown down, a large number of lives will be harvested, and the flying life reflects how fragile life is.

For a moment, under the city, arrows were like flying locusts, shouting and screaming intertwined and playing a strange music.

Although there were casualties on both sides, it is obvious that the main Wei army is more than the Jin army defending the city.

Seeing this, Tuoba Kui waved the flag and sent 10,000 troops again to help attack the city. He had already thought that even if he could not break through the city in one fell swoop, he would leave an indelible impression on the defenders.

The fierce attack of the Wei army can be said to have contained the defenders. At this time, the frightening siege hammer slowly leaned towards the wall under the escort of the soldiers.

This thing is too threatening. Once he comes, the city wall is easy to collapse.

Lu Qiang ordered to set up several small catapults, aim at the siege hammer, and try to destroy it in the shortest time.

Modern people often say that technology drives productivity. At the level of science and technology in this era, Lu Qiang has never thought about muskets and cannons. However, he attaches the most importance to the development of these offensive and defensive weapons. In Jin, these skilled craftsmen are also paid the most.

With the attention of Lu Qiang, heavy weapons such as catapults and crossbows were all the most advanced at that time. Nowadays, this kind of catapult is small and simple. Although the projected stone is not big, it is more accurate and faster.

With the order of Tan Daoji, in the rain of arrows all over the sky, dozens of inconspicuous stones shot at the scalpers pulling the siege hammer at a very fast speed.

In order not to hurt the scalper, there is a protective cover above the scalper, and there are soldiers with shields next to it.

But this kind of protection is like a child's play for the stone. As the stone fell accurately, several old scalpers fell to the ground with a scream, and as the stones fell more and more, the wooden frame supporting the siege hammer also fell off with a "clap", and the huge siege hammer fell to the ground with a "bang".

Tuoba Kui was still puzzled in the back. He didn't see anything falling on the city! How could the siege hammer collapse? I didn't know until I sent someone to ask that it was smashed by the stones left on the city.

The siege hammer can't be made, and because it is too bulky, there is only one in the army.

Tuoba Kui had no choice but to continue to pile up with human life.

With the continuous casualties of the Wei soldiers, the bodies of the soldiers in the city were quickly piled up like hills.

Finally, a ladder was successfully built on the wall, and then the Wei soldiers climbed up crazily like ants.

But in the current situation, this crazy move obviously has little effect. The defenders don't even have to get too close. They just push the ladder away with a fork, and the soldiers who climb on it will fall like dumplings.

Throughout the morning, the Wei army finally retreated helplessly after leaving countless corpses, but it can't be said that they did not achieve any results, because they successfully blocked the moat with the bodies of the soldiers killed in the battle.

Without the protection of the moat, it will bring great convenience to the next attack.

Looking at the Wei army retreating like a tide, the soldiers defending the city immediately cheered, as if they had completely defeated the Wei army.

Gongsun's fifth floor finally showed a smile and said to Lu Qiang, "I heard that Your Majesty's iron army is strong. When I see you today, it really lives up to its reputation."

Lu Qiang smiled and said that this and that's why? The real war hasn't started yet!

In the siege one morning, the Wei army lost 56,000 people and more than 3,000 casualties in the city. No one could say whether Tuoba Miao would attack in the afternoon, so Lu Qiang ordered to quickly treat the wounded, clean up the head of the city, and at the same time let some of the personnel go down from the head of the city to clean up the bodies of the Wei army on the edge of the wall.

With these corpses, the distance between the ground and the city head has been much closer, so it must be cleaned up. At the same time, the weather is hot for a long time, and it is prone to epidemics.

This is a very normal practice. Wei soldiers will not interfere when they see it, let alone take advantage of the situation.

Compared with the joy in the city, Tuobagui's mood is not so bad. Today's battle made him feel that although the city is taller than the party and the defense is tighter than there, it is not unbreakable.

The reason why he thought so can be said that he had accumulated a lot of experience in fighting with the Jin army in the Siege of the Shang Party. The only thing that puzzled him was the stones that broke the siege hammer, because he watched the battle in the rear and did not see wood as tall as his catapher. So in the end, he thought that these stones were thrown down from the city with manpower.

A total of 20,000 people were used to attack the city today. Tomorrow, he will use 30,000 troops to attack the city. The army will cycle and vow to break through it in one fell swoop.

In the afternoon, Tuoba Kui did not launch another attack. While letting the soldiers rest, he ordered people to cut down trees and build a batch of cloud ladders.

When the last ray of sunlight disappeared on the horizon, the sky gradually darkened.

Under the same sky, Yanmen is closed.

The houses in Yanmen Pass have been burned down when Deng Xiang retreated. At the same time, no less than 30,000 troops are stationed in Guanzhong, so most of the troops are camped in Guan.

With the arrival of night, the fatigue of repairing the wall during the day and the empty-handed return of going out to loot, let the resentful Wei soldiers spread their temper on the wine.

Grasslanders like to sing and dance. With the power of wine, many soldiers still sang and danced in front of the bonfire, but soon returned to the tent to rest with the wine.

The night was like ink, and no one noticed. On the hillside, pieces of turf suddenly moved as if they had life. In the night, they seemed to be monsters, moving slowly but non-stop towards the fence outside the Wei military camp.

There were more than 200,000 troops besieging the city of the Central Plains, and there were 30,000 troops in the camp, so these grassland people never dreamed that anyone would dare to attack them.

The fence has a watchtower at intervals, on which three to five soldiers are vigilantly observing the situation around them. The defense is not strict, but no matter how bright the torch is, it can't shine too far, not to mention the Jin soldiers who came from the ground.

The patrolling soldiers chatted and looked around. At this moment, a night owl flew out of there, flew to the soldiers' sentry watchtower, and then flew into the darkness.

The Wei soldiers did not know that this Ye Xiao was raised by a barbarian in the Jin army, and the Ye Xiao's cry was also the signal to launch an attack.

Almost at the same time, the Wei sentries on the fence on this side fell down without warning, as if they had been hit by a shadowless arrow.

And this is also a poisonous arrow unique to barbarian soldiers. After seeing the blood sealed the throat and being shot, there was no sound at all.

Seeing this, Kuan, who was hidden in the dark, once again ordered his men to make a sad cry, and then commanded his men to climb over the fence and silently kill the camp.

10,000 soldiers of the Jin army with disguise jumped up one after another and entered the Wei army camp, which had been silent like a ghost in the night.

This is an almost slaughter-like killing. The soldiers of the Jin army rushed into the camp and cut at the sleeping Wei army. After no one was alive, they continued to kill another camp.

After a while, a Wei soldier who was awakened by urine found someone breaking in, but he only had time to shout two enemy attacks and was shot by the poison arrows of the Jin soldiers.

However, these two shouts finally worked. After the sentry on the other side of the fence faintly heard the shout, he looked this way and soon found the problem, and then the alarm finally cut through the night sky and shouted sadly.

Seeing this, Koon simply ordered the soldiers to light the tents where they passed, so that they didn't have to go in tents to kill people.

With Kuai En's order, the Wei army camp soon ignited a fire, which was even more cruel than killing one by one. Countless Wei soldiers were burned to death in their sleep.

Before those soldiers crawled out in a daze, they were shot down by the Jin soldiers head-on.

The fire was accompanied by howls and countless soldiers struggling in the fire. The whole camp looked like hell on earth, which was terrible.

Gongsun Lan lived in Guancheng and escaped the disaster. When he was awakened by his men in his sleep and rubbed his eyes and climbed up the wall to look at the camp, he was completely stunned by the scene in front of him...