Chapter Seventy-Two: Up and Down the City
The crunching sound of a winch rattled behind the formation, accompanied by a huge roar, and boulders rose into the air. Some of them flew into the city, while others smashed accurately on the walls, shattered human bodies and fragments of the walls shattered into mud and stone flew everywhere.
The ten trebuchets finally began to exert their might, and the remaining less than 20,000 thieves, or more than 10,000 officers and soldiers dressed in thieves' armor and less than 10,000 real thieves, also began to attack the city under Yang Fu's order, holding huge shields or carrying ladders.
The city gates, they don't dare to think about it anymore. Ma Teng and Pang De's Xiliang Iron Cavalry collected the remaining troops under Cheng Yin like chopping melons and vegetables.
The Xiliang Iron Cavalry in the front row roared wildly, riding horses and surging, these Xiliang Iron Cavalry had no place in the siege war earlier, and they were looked down upon by those county soldiers and the people of Fufeng County, and they had long held back the fire in their stomachs. And at this time, when they finally seized this opportunity, they only had one crazy thought in their minds: kill, kill all these thieves! Let everyone know who is invincible in the land of Yongliang!
Pity these remnants of Cheng Yin's troops, their unorganized stubborn resistance at this time is more like a target for the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to vent their anger, and at the same time, it is just a tool to delay time: without their stubborn resistance, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry will soon turn around and devour Yang Fu's officers and soldiers!
Yang Fu's subordinates are the most elite troops in this gang of thieves. And as they moved, the bows and crossbows on the city walls, which had gradually fallen silent, began to exert their power again.
At the city gate, Pound and Ma Teng had already converged, and they had long been out of the range of accidental injuries. And this timing is also the time when Yang Fu's subordinates are halfway down and are caught off guard. Yang Fu wanted to know at this time, on the city wall, who was the general who commanded the county soldiers? There is such a subtle command talent!
For a moment, space seemed to condense. In the face of the rain of fierce and powerful crossbow arrows, although the instincts of those elite soldiers are still agile and agile as ever, it is undeniable that their lives are still so fragile...... The sound of the strings of the crossbow machine, the whistling of the rain of arrows, the dull sound of the body being shot, and the screams of the dying reappeared in front of Fufeng County.
Ma Chao seemed to see Yang Fu's astonishment in the distance, but at this time, he didn't have the heart to pay attention to Yang Fu at all, because a guard in front of him had already rushed over: "Young master, we don't have enough arrows!" ”
"yes, got it!" Ma Chao's heart sank. Although I knew that there would be such a moment, I didn't expect this moment to come so early: the thieves can be said to have organized three attacks before, and Li Kan didn't use crossbow arrows that time, and the remaining two attacks, well... Cheng Yin said that it was a group attack towards the city gate, and the loss of crossbow arrows was less.
But Yang Fu's subordinates were different, they were experienced in all-out attacks that bloomed on all sides and did not focus on the key points, so that the county soldiers on the city wall had to block with all their strength, and at the same time, the consumption of arrows greatly exceeded Ma Chao's expectations.
In fact, if there were enough arrows and crossbows, Mo said that the enemy still had 20,000 left, that is, 30,000 or 40,000, and in the absence of the necessary suppressive siege weapons and strong armor and thick shields, with the leather armor spears in front of them, they would not be able to get even half a step close to this Fufeng county city, and the entire battlefield would only be a one-sided massacre.
However, the real fact is that after these seven or eight days of attrition, there are no arrows left in the city.
Archers, although extremely powerful, are really a very financially draining and limited class!
Once the arrows are exhausted, a crossbow machine that consumes a lot of copper and iron is not as good as a dagger.
However, the real war has just begun!
Next, Ma Chao must exchange the blood of his own soldiers for the blood of the enemy, and use the soldier's body to block the enemy's progress!
Attacking from eight sides, with countless corpses and bones, in exchange for the exchange of advantages?
Hmph, if you're waiting, this is the moment. Then I, Ma Chao, can tell you: You're finished!
"Light up the signal and let Dai'er attack......" Ma Chao turned back to Ma Xiu and said, the next moment, his expression became solemn: although everything is expected now, this is also the most critical time. If these county soldiers can't hold back those thieves, I'm afraid all the plans will have to be changed.
The so-called signal is the Kong Ming lantern. Poor Zhuge Liang was just a little kid at this time, and someone came to plagiarize his invention and creation.
At this moment, Yang Fu saw the lights floating in the sky, and there was an indescribable sense of fear in his heart: everything seemed to have been calculated. First, he used a trick to lure his own side to attack the city, but he did not dare to invest all his forces to attack the city, and then used the traps that had been arranged in the city to catch turtles in the urn and consume part of his own troops; Later, he took advantage of his own eagerness to break through the city gate, so that the antlers were arranged by the blinding method, and the power of the antlers was successfully exerted to the maximum; In the end, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry surrounded and killed the remnants, which completely exerted all the effective forces of Fufeng County to a great effect. Such scheming and means certainly did not come from the handiwork of the generous and dull Ma Teng!
Could it be that during this period of time, Fufeng County ushered in a military strategy master to visit?
And now the situation is completely under the master's control. At this time, if there is another ambush behind him, he will definitely die without a place to bury himself, who has lost the protection of the army!
Looking at the flickering lights in the sky, Yang Fu smiled miserably: How could such a scheming master not think of this? Those lights should be the signal of the ambush, right?
Sure enough, a member of the detective horse galloped back like the wind and clouds: "The military advisor ~ has an urgent report ~~"
Yang Fu tried his best to pretend to be calm, and asked loudly, "What's the matter?!" ”
"Three miles behind us, we found a Xiliang cavalry!"
The miserable gloom in Yang Fu's eyes swept away, and he asked again in a deep voice, "How many people are there?" ”
"About 5,000 riders!"
"Huh!?" Yang Fu's face changed, and then he fell down, and said secretly: "Sure enough, in Fufeng County, there are only Ma Teng's five thousand Xiliang Iron Riders......
Tanma was frightened and asked, "How did the military advisor, Pound, and this cavalry, get out of the city?" How do we know nothing? ”
To be honest, Yang Fu didn't know when the fifteen thousand cavalry were ambushed out of the city. However, at this time, there was no need for him to explain, because a pro-soldier beside him suddenly pointed his finger in front of him and shouted, Yang Fu looked back in shock, only to see a faint black line floating on the faint grassland, and vaguely, the black line was slowly squirming~~
Yang Fu's eyebrows tightened for a moment, and he looked around at the vast plains, and there was no danger to defend! And if you call for the army in front to come to the rescue, then everything will be wasted!
"Order, don't take care of the cavalry behind you, and attack the city with all your might!"
At the same moment, Ma Chao at the head of the city also coldly spit out an order:
"Order, give up those bows and crossbows, and transfer all the three thousand veterans reserved before to the city wall and defend the city with all your might!"