Although this is a bit heavier, it is more effective for defending against artillery bombardment. The shells hit the cart, damaging at most the logs in the front layer. The logs on the back floor also protect the soldiers.

Just as Liu Pei expected, the rebels at the head of the city were relatively lax in defense. Even the artillery was only hastily aimed and fired, and it did not cause any damage to Liu Pei's soldiers at all.

It wasn't until they got close to the city that the bows and arrows and birds on the top of the city became dense. However, under the suppression of the artillery under the city, it still did not cause much damage.

Approaching the city, a large number of musketeers fired a dense barrage of lead bullets at the city walls. The soldiers approached the walls. The sword and shield men who rushed to the front put their shields on their heads. While the other soldiers pushed the ladder and carried the hook ladder, they charged towards the city wall under the cover of the sword and shield hands.

In everyone's impression, the ladder is a long ladder. Actually, that's not the case at all! A real ladder is a heavy wooden four-wheeled base with a heavy wooden ladder that can be erected movably attached. At the tip of the wooden ladder are two huge iron hooks!

When the ladder is dragged by a rope and leans against the wall, the ladder will retreat, allowing the iron hook to hook the wall. so that the defenders at the head of the city could not easily push the ladder away. So the ladder is actually a heavy siege weapon.

Only the hook ladder is the kind of long ladder that everyone often sees on TV. However, there are also two small hooks in front of him that can be hooked into the wall.

The big hook on the ladder is very difficult to deal with! If you want to knock down the ladder, you can only use the hammer to hammer the hook at the front of the ladder and hammer it flat or break it before you have a chance to push the ladder away. And when you push it away, it's not just a matter of pushing it with your hands. It would take several, or even a dozen, of soldiers to work together to continuously hit the front end of the ladder with a pole with a fork at the end.

Since the rebels found that most of Liu Pei's men were firecrackers, many of the defenses on the city wall were useless. For example, the hanging curtain to block the arrows was not hung. But they still use other means.

As soon as the ladder was erected, someone threw a large number of rolling wood thunder stones at the soldiers! There are even ash bottles and poisons

Fireball! However, these things have been used in previous battles, and the soldiers have become accustomed to their presence and have a way to deal with them.

Although there are constantly soldiers who are injured and even killed. But the soldiers managed to erect the ladder and hook it to the wall. At this time, the benefits of a few feints can be seen. The most powerful boiling oil was not heated at all. At the same time, no one rushed up to tap the iron hook of the ladder. Everyone waited for Liu Pei, and they retreated after shouting for a while.

However, the rebel soldiers who monitored the walls from above were still sent out again and again. Although most of them were killed, the surveillance under the city walls was not relaxed.

Just as one of the rebel soldiers risked his head outside the city walls. He let out a terrible scream: "Climb the wall!" They climbed the wall! ”

Then a buckshot flew over and hit him on his helmet! The helmet stopped the buckshot, but the huge impact broke his neck bone! The rebel soldier immediately fell limply to the ground!

But his scream was enough to remind more people to look under the walls. After they were sure that Liu Pei's soldiers were really climbing the city, they immediately threw more stones, and even the wolf slings were tightened.

Liu Pei's operation this time reached the suddenness of the battle. The rebels thought they would retreat after erecting the ladder, but they didn't expect them to climb the city!

So when the first sword and shield men have climbed more than halfway up the ladder! The reason why they can rush so fast is because the ladder is different from the long ladder, the ladder pedal of the ladder is very wide, which can completely allow people to stand firmly on it. Therefore, the soldiers who climb the city can easily hold a shield in one hand and stride up with a weapon in the other.

At this time, the firecrackers also didn't care about casualties, and forced the bows and arrows and lead bullets thrown at the wall, and fired dense lead bullets at the wall, so as to cover the soldiers who climbed the city!

At this time, five ladders and ten ladders climbed up to the dense crowd of soldiers at the same time. And the rebel soldiers at the head of the city had already picked up the pole at this time, desperately hitting the front end of the ladder, trying to knock the ladder down! However, in their panic, they forgot to break the iron hook at the front of the ladder. This made every impact of theirs hook the iron to the masonry

Pierce deeper, stronger!

By the time one of the soldiers reacted and grabbed the hammer, a sword and shield hand had already climbed directly from the ladder to the battlement and jumped in!

The rebel soldier with the hammer roared and slammed the hammer at the unstable sword and shield hand! The shield bearer was obviously an experienced fellow, and he quickly took a step to the left, raising his shield to meet the hammer as he got out of the way!

The further back the heavy hammer glides down the trajectory, the more powerful it becomes! On the contrary, if it takes the initiative to meet it, it will interrupt his trajectory and slow down its energy accumulation. So with a loud "bang"! The hammer smashed against the shield and bounced!

The sword and shield hand staggered back half a step, and slammed his back into the battlement. But this sword and shield man does not retreat, but advances! With the force of the impact, he lunged forward, and now the sword in his hand pierced through the abdomen of the rebel soldier with a sledgehammer!

The Blade and Shield Man kicked the rebel soldier down and drew his sword! But by this time, two knives had already been slashed. The left hand of the sword and shield hand has been numb by the heavy hammer, and it is too late to hold the shield to block! So he could only twist his body hard and suffer these two knives with his breastplate!

Listen to only the "sonorous" twice! Two knives slashed in succession at the position of the belly of the breastplate. The excellent plate armor blocked these two knives! But the sword and shield hands were also shaken back again and again, and had to lean against the city wall. But he already had the strength to pull the shield in front of him!

But his right side was already completely exposed to the enemy. And it was not his own people who saved him, but the rebels.

Because at this time, the second sword and shield hand had already rushed up the ladder! Just as he rushed to the battlement, there was a mistake among the six rebel soldiers with poles due to lack of command!

The six rebel soldiers were holding a long pole together, so someone inside wanted to twist the pole to stab the first shield bearer to climb up, because the right side of his entire body was exposed. But there were still people who wanted to push back the sword and shield hand who had just climbed up the battlement with a pole. As a result, the consequence of the uneven strength of the six people was that the pole poked the wall in vain, and neither target was harmed!