Chapter 1242: Offense and Defense
It's finally time to get started!
At noon, the repaired thief army outside Wuhu City began to assemble, Wang Zamao stood on the high platform and roared in a hoarse voice: "You have eaten all the remaining food just now, if you can't break the city, all the big guys will wait to die!" ”
"Kill into the city and grab food!" Nearly 10,000 people shouted. Wang Zamao on the high platform looked at the distant city head and his smile gradually became hideous, the sky was cloudy and the rain was dripping and dripping, the thieves and soldiers outside the city were making the final preparations for the siege, more than ten stone throwers were all dragged to the southwest and two outside the city to standby, the archers were lined up and ready to go, twenty wanderers carried a ladder to climb the city, a total of more than fifty could rush to the base of the city wall at any time just waiting for the fire cover, and two siege vehicles were used to hit the city gate.
It can be said that Wang Zamao has made full preparations for the siege of the city, and even sent a 500-strong thief army with five ladders to assist from the two cities in the northeast in order to disperse the troops of the officers and soldiers defending the city.
Once the horn of the thief army blows, it will inevitably use bows and arrows and stone-throwing machines to suppress and cover those displaced people to enter the city, but what is frustrating is that the officers and soldiers have no long-range fire to suppress it, and the small county town has no artillery and not enough bows and arrows and other armaments.
"At the beginning of the siege, the morale of the army was at its peak, although our bows and arrows were limited, we had to give them a blow at this time to hit the morale and morale of the thief army!" Guo Ren said in a low voice with a solemn face, Jin Shenghuan nodded slightly: "Good steel is used on the blade, and the bows and arrows we have at hand are only enough to support a wave of blows, so let's choose when it attacks, and then we have to fight hand-to-hand."
"We are the defender of the city, condescending to have the advantage, the thief army is the strongest when it enters the city, we try to defend as the attack, once the thief army goes to the city, their fire cover will be withdrawn, that is the best time for us to counterattack, but it is also the most dangerous time, a careless may lose the city, at this time it should respond to the narrow road to meet the brave wins!"
"It's just a few outcasts, how can the bravery be compared to the soldiers under the adult." Jin Shenghuan took advantage of the situation to pat himself on the back, shook his head and chuckled: "This can only rely on dozens of soldiers to keep the army from being disturbed, and defending the city against the enemy depends on the bloody nature of those villagers who sacrifice their lives to protect their families."
The two of them discussed for a long time and quickly formulated a plan to deal with the enemy, avoiding the heavy and light, and enduring the thief's firepower when suppressing. When the thieves attacked the city and withdrew their firepower, the guards were good at shooting for long-range strikes, and Jin Shenghuan's soldiers and horses were guarding the battlements to slash and kill the thieves who climbed the city, and the villagers threw stones to resist the enemy.
Seeing that the thief army under the city transferred a group of soldiers and horses to the northeast wings, he knew that he wanted to contain and disperse the troops defending the city, and only divided troops to defend, so he could not be careless at this time.
Knock knock! The storm is rising, and the drums of war are beating.
Wang Zamao personally beat the drum, and then the sound of killing was everywhere, thousands of thieves and homeless people rushed towards the city wall, more than ten stone-throwing poles were launched, basin-sized stones were smashed towards the city, hundreds of thieves and archers held their bows and shot wildly, arrows were falling to the city head like rain, hundreds of homeless people carried the ladder to the city wall under the cover of fire, and rushed towards the city wall, followed by thousands of sword-wielding thieves.
"Get down and stick to the battlement!" When the thieves attacked with drums, he had already transferred nearly 1,000 main battle troops and village warriors to the southwest of the city, and there were three or five people in each battlement.
Stones fell from the sky and fell to the ground, where the stone nitrate flew, smashed on the people and didn't even have time to scream and became meat slurry, the arrow rain fell like locusts one after another, from time to time someone snorted coldly and hit the arrow, the long-range firepower of the thief army was extremely fierce, only half a cup of tea smashed the positions of the officers and soldiers in the city beyond recognition, and the injured people were all screaming and wailing for a while.
The shield on his head poked his head out of the battlement and took a look, and when he saw that the siege force of the thief army was close to the firing range, he yelled hard: "Fuck it!" ”
The officers and soldiers hiding under the battlement immediately got up and opened their bows and shot fiercely, and the thieves below were killed and wounded in a chaotic formation, but they still rushed forward desperately under the drive of the thieves behind them, in fact, they didn't need to supervise the thieves behind them to rush forward, after all, there was no way out, and if they didn't break the city, they had nothing to eat but to die!
Wang Zamao gasped on the high platform and watched the battle with a sneer, watching the dense thief army have rushed to the city wall and the smile was even stronger, and the momentum of the homeless people who were not afraid of life and death was very unexpected to him.
"The thieves have arrived in the city and stoned these sons of bitches to death!" Jin Shenghuan guarded the southern city and saw that the thieves below rushed to the city wall and began to build a ladder and scolded for a while, and the villagers who were hiding under the battlements immediately lifted the stones and threw them down, and then the city howled miserably, and countless cannon fodder were smashed into a blur of flesh and blood, and the bones were broken and the weight turned into flesh.
Wang Zamao's face changed, he originally expected that there were only more than a thousand officers and soldiers, and even when he fired arrows to return fire, he was only few, but suddenly the city was crowded with people and frantically threw stones down, and he was suddenly shocked, but immediately reflected that these were not officers and soldiers, but the people in the city!
Fuck, I knew that I would kill you all at that time, and Wang Zamao hated these people in the city for helping the officers and soldiers to resist the rebels! Damn, shit, damn it!
"Pass the order, rush into the city and rob the three people without leaving the chickens and dogs, whoever robs it doesn't have to hand it over!" Wang Zamao roared hysterically.
The long-range firepower of the thief army is getting more and more fierce to cover the siege troops, the defenders of the city originally hid under the battlements and suffered few casualties, but at this time they got up and immediately paid a heavy price for counterattacking, many soldiers and villagers were either stoned to death or shot to death, looking at the corpses all over the ground and listening to the screams endlessly, as well as the crazy shouting and killing sound under the city and the dense surge of thieves, many people began to feel frightened, their legs were weak and even wanted to run down the city.
At this time, dozens of guards who supervised the war played a decisive role: "Those who retreat in fear of the war die, you are not fighting for others for your own family, think about if these thieves come in, will your wives and children still live!" ”
Yes, either he dies or I die! Blood makes people fearful, but it can also make people crazy! There is still a way to survive in the counterattack, and there is only death to retreat! The defenders of the city began to be ruthless, the officers and soldiers opened their bows and shot at the thieves, and the village Yong threw stones and smashed the thieves who climbed the city.
The sound of killing became louder and louder, the fighting became more and more intense, and the rain gradually became heavier.
Wang Zamao's eyes were red, because there was already a thief army about to enter the city: "Rush up, rush up, kill them all......" He waved his hands and roared, imagining that he would descend on the city like a god and swing his sword to cut those officers and soldiers into two pieces before relieving his hatred.
"General, general" A bloodied thief army panted and rushed: "The city gate can't be opened, maybe it's blocked from the inside......" Wang Zamao squinted his eyes, and saw that the corpses under the west city gate were piled up into the mountain, nearly a hundred cannon fodder pushed siege vehicles and slammed the city gate, and the stones and sassalwoods on the city rained down, and the thief army suffered heavy casualties, but still moved forward bravely.
But no matter how the siege vehicle slammed the city gate, it was obvious that the officers and soldiers sealed the city gate with stones from the inside, that is, it was meaningless to attack the gate, and the casualties were increased, Wang Zamao was about to transfer troops, and suddenly saw a thief army on the city, and immediately shouted excitedly: "Go up, go up, kill them all........."
"The thief army has landed in the city, take the bait, take the bait!" The city was tough and shouted, and the knife fell to cut a thief over and let a villager beside him, only to see him holding a wooden stick with a sickle-like hook, leaning over the top of the ladder to climb the city, and several villagers behind him worked hard together, and pushed the entire ladder down, and the thieves hanging on the top screamed that they were not killed but also seriously injured, but at the same time, several villagers were also shot by the thieves under the city and fell to the side screaming......
The height of the ladder has never been higher than the city wall, because in this way, it will be pushed down by the people on the city as soon as it is close to the city, so it is usually low on the city wall, and if you want to push, you can not reach it by leaning out, you can only push it out with a hook, but even then it is not easy to push down, first of all, there are more than a dozen people hanging on the ladder, and secondly, some of the climbing ladders are also nailed with a grappling hook, which can hang the battlements or wall cracks, not to mention that there are bows and arrows to cover the bottom.
Therefore, even if the city has prepared a hook to push the ladder of the city, it is still difficult to stop the thief army from attacking the city, and in a blink of an eye, there are thief armies on the city one after another, and the defenders and villagers rush up and desperately slash down and even jump directly to the city.
The situation of the thief army in the city is critical, but there is also a little advantage, that is, its long-range suppression firepower is much smaller, after all, it is not easy to go to the city and then be killed by friendly firepower, who is reasonable.
"Brothers and dog thieves fight!" There are thieves on both sides of the southwest to climb the city, the situation is tough while opening the bow and shooting while shouting, the officers and soldiers defending the city are brave to throw stones and trees to the city while holding knives to rush to the city thieves, for a time the city head killing screams resounded in the sky.
And the king of the city, Zamao, looked at the more and more thieves ascending to the top of the city, and couldn't help laughing!
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