Chapter 862: Attacking Frontally, Sneaking Attack from the Back
Under several beacon camps around Xiaoguan, the Song army surrounded on all sides, and the sound of killing shook the sky. The Red Tassels sprinkled on the top of the Fan Yang felt hat on the head of the Great Song Forbidden Army with more than 10,000 people gathered together, like a blazing flame, and the army had just advanced to the distance of two or three hundred steps in front of the camp located halfway up the surrounding mountainside, and immediately thousands of crossbowmen rushed to the front under the command of the generals, and another order, a cluster of arrows like locusts and rain poured towards the city.
In the midst of a violent storm, many strong-fitting mantles of cowhide soaked in oil and water were erected at the head of the city. Some foot soldiers hid in it to observe the movements of the enemy army outside the city, and there were many Western Xia soldiers who were half-squatting on the head of the city, waiting for the Song army to pour a round of arrows and crossbows, and the sound of the hard bow in their hands creaking and the long string being dragged was endless, and then the arrows were drawn out, and they also shot towards the Song army below the city head.
Hundreds of Song soldiers were shot by stray arrows, one or two hundred of them were killed instantly, and then the pace was as rapid as a storm, and the school swordsmen behind the array immediately rushed up, erecting shields to block the rain of arrows pouring down from the city. Xiao Tang sat in the Chinese army and watched the battle situation, and suddenly he gave an order and shouted loudly: "Stepping on arrows, stone throwers, divine arm bows, shoot!" ”
Because the Fengsui camp occupied by the Xia army was located halfway up the hill, the surrounding terrain was rugged, and the oversized siege equipment could not be carried up. The treadmill arrows fired by the three-bow bed crossbow are made of hard wood as the shaft of the arrow, and the iron piece is used as the feather, also called "one gun and three sword arrows", the arrows are like javelins, which can not only deter the enemy troops defending the city, but also can nail rows of pedal arrows into the city wall during the salvo, and the siege soldiers climb up. In addition, the hand cannon operated by two military soldiers is relatively light, only one person is used to set the cannon, the single-tip cannon and the base frame of the four-person tow rope are oblique triangles, and the more flexible tiger squat cannon and column belly cannon and other light stone-throwing guns have also been placed, and they are aligned with the city wall.
One end of the thick rope with hooks on both ends of the three-bow bed crossbow is hooked on the crossbow string, and the other end has hooked the shaft of the upper winch, under the order of the general next to it, the five soldiers in front of each crossbow car shouted and twisted together, and opened the taut crossbow string and buckled it on the teeth, and the crossbowman loaded with arrows also placed the crossbow arrows with thick shafts and long arrows, and the crossbow arrows in the shape of flat chisels were placed. Screaming and rushing to the walls! The rear god arm bow, single cannon, tiger squat cannon, and column belly cannon also shot out, dense like rain, and the fierce bow and crossbow stones have already smashed into the wall!
The city wall built by the ramming of very sticky yellow clay was also shattered and cracked by the devastating arrows and flying stones, and dozens of cowhide and tenacity tents were immediately pierced, and many Xia soldiers were immediately pierced through the body by the arrows, and even three or four soldiers were nailed into "meat skewers" by the long-pole arrows that were still coming, and the stone bullets hit the city wall and sent out "Boom, boom!" There was a loud bang, mud waves and gravel burst out, and many Xia soldiers were blown to a blur of flesh and blood when they landed.
The head of the Fengsui camp began to collapse on a small scale, and the defenders of the Xia Kingdom retreated one after another. Xiao Tang hesitated a little when he saw this, he knew that although he should also order the foot soldiers to attack the city at this time, the arrow was ready to be sent and had to be sent, although Li Xiaozhong and Wu Jue led their troops to make a detour, crossing the mountains and mountains and about to attack the back of the camp, and the troops under his command in front of him must also create great pressure on the enemy army, so that the daredevils led by Li Xiaozhong and Wu Jue can have the effect of surprise soldiers and kill the enemy army by surprise.
It was Xiao Tang who made a quick decision and shouted: "Siege!"
A group of Song soldiers heard the commander's order, they set up their shields in their hands, and there were many soldiers hiding under the cowhide veil, the wooden wheel under the cowhide curtain made a "creaking" sound, began to rush to the bottom of the camp wall, hundreds of soldiers rushed wildly, they came to the city wall, some soldiers set up the ladder to the city, and some followed the rows of peg arrows nailed into the wall hand by hand and foot, began to climb upward.
The crossbowmen under the city wall stood far away, and began to suppress and shoot at the city head with the powerful divine arm bow in their hands, but at this time, dozens of two or three zhang blink suddenly poked out on the city wall, and the hook on the top of the ladder was just put on the city wall, and it was pushed down by the protruding blogger, and many Song soldiers who had just climbed more than half of the ladder fell backwards with the ladder and smashed to the ground!
And the Xia army infantry on the city wall also began to suppress the shooting below, rushing to the edge of the female wall with a bow, rolling wood and stones, rolling oil and gold juice to the bottom of the city wall, there are countless countless soldiers shuttling back and forth in the back, still defending the city ordnance, strong attack hard crossbow to build a line of defense to harvest the lives of the enemy soldiers, hundreds of climbing Song army soldiers do not touch the sky, do not touch the ground, in the face of the top of the head split head and face smashed and splashed arrow clusters, rolling stones, boiling oil to avoid it, in a burst of heart-rending howls, Before hundreds of living lives could fall to the ground, they had already become bloody corpses in mid-air!
The sound of the tragic battle is still shaking the earth, the city wall has long been a mountain of corpses, blood flowing all over the ground, human life has become extremely low at this time, in an instant there are hundreds of lives are ruthlessly wiped out, people continue to fall down, in the face of the fierce counterattack of the city head Song army soldiers also can't help but temporarily retreat, although the Xia army above the city wall has also lost a lot of people, but it is far less than the number of Song army killed, after the second round of onslaught, the Fengsui city wall here is still immovable.
Xiao Tang watched the battle situation, and saw that it was both pain and anger, if there was a choice, he was the most reluctant to command his subordinates to carry out this kind of siege battle that had to fill in people's lives to storm the fortress walled, but Ci was not in charge of the troops, Xiao Tang also knew very well that at the critical time of the battle, he must not miss a major event because he couldn't bear it for a while, let alone if he didn't attract the attention of the enemy here...... Even if the thousands of brave soldiers led by Li Xiaozhong and Wu Jue could climb the cliff behind the mountain, they were afraid that they would all be buried in the hands of the Xia army.
Now I only hope that Li Xiaozhong and Wu Jue can smoothly detour back to the top of the mountain range, and launch a surprise attack from the rear to catch the Xia army off guard......
Xiao Tang gritted his teeth fiercely, and then shouted again: "Stepping arrows, stone throwers, divine arm bows, shoot!" The order goes down, and the troops who are on standby in the rear are ready to press up and prepare to attack! ”
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Although the battle in the Fengsui camp is very tragic at present, but the west side of the mountain range in the east of Liupan Mountain is quiet and quiet, the hazy mountain wall seems to be shrouded by a layer of light veil, the dense woods between the valleys are full of shadows, the streams in the ravines are murmuring, embedded in the surrounding green grass and green fields, waterfalls fly obliquely everywhere, vines and roses hang upside down, but in this scenery of blue yarn shrouded in thousands of piles of smoke, there are thousands of strong men wearing armor and blades, lurking among the woodlands in the rugged lonely mountains and deep valleys of the sloping walls.
Suddenly, above the cliff dozens of zhang high, there were a few "cooing" birdsong sounds, Li Xiaozhong, who was sitting on a blue and white stone under the cliff, immediately spit out the grass stem in his mouth after hearing it, and jumped to the ground from the boulder, and said: "Good! There was a sound from the brothers above, and the summer dog was not guarded by soldiers and horses above the mountain, and he didn't know that he was about to be able to kill the rear of the camp from here! At this time, we can't delay any longer, General Wu, let's climb the cliff, outflank from the back, and take that dry summer dog by surprise! ”