Chapter 101: Ant Attachment
On the north bank of the chasm, the Qin cavalry attacked the artillery array of the Chu army, the city of the king of Liang, and the battle for the city wall was already fierce. Apex The only ten artillery pieces of the Wei people were all arranged at the south gate, aiming at the Qin army under the city. Hundreds of trebuchets in the city frequently slashed out bullets or fire oil bombs, jumping bullets and flaming fire bombs to turn the open space in front of the south gate into a slaughterhouse for harvesting human lives. The tall wreckage of the car burned like a torch, and the corpses of Qin pawns were everywhere.
However, no amount of fierce resistance could stop the Qin attack, and after drinking, the soldiers who had just entered the city were like soldiers in battle, erecting long ladders put together, picking up earth and stones in bamboo baskets, holding shields, and stumbling towards the tall city wall in the shout. These people rushed to within fifty paces, and the Wei people on the city wall began to fire arrows. The arrows are the armor-piercing heavy arrows of the Chu State, and these arrows are all fired with crossbows, and the arrows are deadly at such a close distance.
The arrows rained down, and there were countless people who fell to the ground with arrows, and the previous shouts turned into wails at this time, and the drunkenness dissipated, and some of the soldiers no longer ran forward but backwards. There is no way to live after running, fifty steps away, the short soldiers who protect the formation have long been surrounded, looking at these soldiers who fled for their lives, the short soldiers waved their swords and shouted, while slashing and killing while forcing them to run back, and drove these soldiers back.
An Qi, who organized the attack of the pawns, looked at the pawns who were driven back, and they soon died from the rolling wood stones of the Wei people, just like those who did not run back. The long ladders they erected and the bamboo baskets they carried were not so much siege tools as siege props. This made them think that they were besieging the city, but in fact they were asking them to consume the Wei people's rocket arrows and rolling wood and stones.
"General Bai can't bear it?" Looking back, I just saw Bai Lin sighing, and Anqi asked with a smile.
"It's unbearable, and it's impatient." The pawns consumed the arrows and stones of the Wei army, but also consumed the time of the Qin army. Time was precious, and the shogunate's military order was changed to ask him to pull down the royal castle before dawn tomorrow.
"The twelve methods of siege, the fastest is ant possession." Anchi still felt that Bai Lin was unbearable, although he didn't admit it. "Otherwise, how does General Bai think to attack the city? Bombing the city with witch medicine? ”
"There is no magic cure for our army." The Shaofu of the Qin State may still have witch medicine, but it is definitely not enough to blow up the city. If it was enough to blow up the city, Wang Jian would have used it to blow up the city a long time ago. Bai Lin looked at the slaughter under the royal city and said, "However, the ants are all powerful pawns, and there is no way to pull out the city." I thought that the soldiers should also be attached to the ants, so that the city could be pulled out as soon as possible. Otherwise, once it gets night......"
At the end of November, the sun sets in early spring. The winter morning is only a quarter of an hour, the sun sets and night falls in a quarter of an hour, and the situation is that it will be dark in another hour. At this time, the Qin army was no longer the previous Qin army, and once it was night, many soldiers could not see and could not fight at all. Most of the soldiers who attacked the night before yesterday were carefully selected, and Rao was like this, or let the Empress Dowager Zhao and King Zhao escape from the beam.
Anchi came with the military orders of the shogunate, and it smacked of taking over the command. Before he arrived, Bai Lin had organized several attacks, and the ten cannons at the head of the city were extremely accurate, and in less than two hours he had carefully built more than forty temporary vehicles. As soon as Bai Lin mentioned the night, An Qi reacted instantly, not only did he react, but he also expected that he would definitely not be able to pull out the royal city before dawn, because the soldiers couldn't see clearly at night.
"How should this be?!" The confident Anqi was immediately stunned after understanding this, he thought that with these tens of thousands of soldiers, he would definitely be able to pull down the royal city before dawn, but he didn't expect that the real siege time was only one hour.
"What else," Bai Lin smiled helplessly. He took the cloth handed by the short soldier and put it on his head, and said, "It can only be attached to ants." ”
The pawn only had a long ladder made up improvisedly, only the earth and stones in the bamboo basket, while the Qin pawn had a well-made ladder, and a batch of huge armor given by the shogunate came with the pawn. It's just that the armor is heavy, and at this time, the Qin Pawn people prefer light cloth armor. Bai Lin put on the cloth and turned away, and Anqi watched him leave speechless for a moment.
The drums did not stop, there were not many soldiers left under the city, and the falling bullets and arrows became sporadic, only the ten artillery pieces at the head of the city roared from time to time, intimidating the Qin army outside the range. Seeing that the Qin people under the city sent people to die again, some tired Wei soldiers had to cheer up some energy to deal with it, in the eyes of the Wei people, these rushing soldiers under the city were all sons-in-law, Jia people and the like, and the Qin people rushed to send them to death.
Bai Lin was mixed in with these strokes, but he was wearing a long shirt pulled from the pawn, and under the long shirt was a gray and tough cloth armor. The cloth he wore was covered with a tattered leather jacket, and he looked like a pawn except for his figure.
Walking on the battlefield full of corpses and stumps, the artillery at the head of the city was sparsely fired, the bullets thrown by trebuchets smashed on the already potholed ground as if the ground was moving, and the fire oil bombs were like gorgeous blooming summer flowers, and the landing point was surrounded by flames. The most lethal were the arrows, and despite the carelessness of the tired Wei pawns, they rained down, killing and injuring those unarmoured pawns. Everything turned into a rope and tied it to Bai Lin's neck, making his heartbeat intensify and he couldn't breathe smoothly.
'Knock knock ......' The drum beat suddenly changed at this time, and the Qin pawn who was mixed with the force of the stroke suddenly burst out. Although they did not carry a ladder, the long ladder that they had carried to the city was enough to use. These long ladders were quickly lifted and erected, and some of the soldiers holding their shields held on to the long ladders to prevent the Wei soldiers in the city from being knocked down with hooks and sickles, while others quickly climbed the ladders to the top of the city, which was four feet eight feet high.
In order to block the arrows shot from under the city, there were patches of canals hanging at the head of the city, which blocked the view of the Wei army, but hundreds of long ladders were suddenly erected at the head of the city, and the soldiers who heard the sound immediately panicked. Defend the city for a day, the city, the stone rolling wood in the city has long been used up, the south city is not other city gates, other city gates can also be removed from the palace garden beams and pillars and tiles, behind the south gate is the big court, the big court is the temple and the society, and then there are all kinds of warehouses, there is no way to demolish it.
If there is no rolling wood and stone, then you can only shoot arrows, and what makes Wei soldiers afraid is that even if these Qin soldiers in long robes are hit by dozens of arrows or hundreds of arrows, they will not die. If they are wearing huge armor and Mo Xiangjia, they can still understand, but when they shoot, they can't hear any metal clashing, only the sound of the arrow's 'peeling'.
The arrows were useless, and by the time the Wei soldiers used their spears to repel the enemy, the Qin soldiers had already climbed the city wall. The Qin pawn at the front could still poke down the long ladder, but when the Qin pawn who was dying and fell grabbed the Yi spear to drag the Wei pawn off the city wall, the Qin pawn with arrows on the long ladder had already jumped into the city.
'Dangdangdang', the Nancheng Que Tower sounded the golden gong of the alarm, and the drums outside the city were even louder, and tens of thousands of Qin soldiers shouted while pushing the ladder car straight to the city. Behind them were hundreds of trebuchets that had reached a distance of 150 paces from the city walls and fired fire bombs. The Wei army in the city never thought that the Qin army also had trebuchets, and the fire bombs fell frequently, and the place where the fire oil bombs were piled up was ignited once they were hit, and they were caught off guard and there was chaos for a while.
The chaos in the city and the fighting in the city were only the beginning of the uprooting of the city. At the same time that the Qin soldiers ascended the city from the long ladder and the cloud ladder, a group of Wei soldiers rushed to the city wall in small steps amid the sound of gongs. This is the last soldier, the down-drawn visor makes people look invisible, but the neat pace and the almost uniform sound of the impact of the armor under the neat step make people awe-inspiring. All the Wei pawns along the way gave way, and watched them rush to the fighting Nancheng.
The lookout guard on the tower of Nancheng Que saw the warrior getting closer and closer, and shouted loudly to the city: "The warrior is here!" Martial Soldier Zhi also ......"
This shouting made the two sides of the fight suddenly startled. When the Wei pawn, who was about to be defeated, heard that the warrior was coming, the last trace of strength burst out of his body, and the spear in his hand slammed forward. A close-range spear could not pierce the cloth armor of the Qin army, not to mention that the Qin pawn still had a shield in his hand, but countless Yi spears pushed forward together, and still pushed the Qin pawn in the city back.
Bai Lin, who ascended to the top of the city, was standing on the narrow female wall to command the Qin soldiers to fight, and with him, the general, the morale of the Qin soldiers who rushed to the head of the city was greatly boosted, and the Wei people were defeated. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but be anxious, and waved his sword and shouted: "Attack! Attack! ”
"Attack!" The Qin soldiers in the city echoed excitedly, and when they squatted down to raise their shields to recoil, there was a bang of the crossbow on the tower, and the arrows shot directly at Bai Lin, who shouted the order.
"General......" Several Qin soldiers in the distance heard the sound of the crossbow arm hitting the crossbow frame, and they subconsciously shouted, but they saw the Bai Lin kite with the crossbow arrow floating out of the female wall and falling out of the wall.
"Ah...... "The sun has set, and the sky and the earth are cold and howling north winds except for the low black clouds. Bai Lin was shot down by a crossbow and let Anqi, Su Fu, Huang Lang, Fan Mu, and the seven chiefs of the Ba people who watched the battle under the city be taken aback. Su Fu, who was good friends with Bai Lin, even took a few steps forward, even if the city was dim, he stared at the city in the hope of seeing Bai Lin stand up, but he didn't see anything.
Su Fu stared at the city, and Anqi and the others stared at the city. The group of soldiers had already arrived, and before they arrived, someone in the city had already shouted again: "The soldiers are here, the Wei people are temporarily sheltering!" The soldiers arrived, and the Wei people took refuge temporarily. ”
The north wind blew down the shouts of the wall, and when the soldiers attacked from the west, the east side sounded a sharp 'put!' with a Chu sound. ’。 The cannon roared, and the artillery used to defend the city was bombarding the Qin soldiers at the head of the city with shotguns. The cloth armor can block the arrows, but it can't stop the shotguns, after a cannon, the Qin soldiers were killed and wounded, and the Qin soldiers who were unwilling to fail quickly rushed to the artillery, but the artillery was not one, the two guns were loaded in turn, and the Qin soldiers who rushed forward were stared at by the Wei people with razed spears.
'Boom! In the firelight, the spearheads flew one after another, and together with the spearheads were the Qin pawns who rushed forward to fight for their lives. The shotgun pierced directly through them, and the upside-down flesh and blood splashed Wei Zu's body and face.
"Mingjin, Mingjin......" artillery and soldiers flanked, and the space at the head of the city shrank little by little. Fan Mu knew that the Ba chieftains could not bear the heavy casualties, and shouted for Mingjin.
"It's getting dark, don't sing gold!" An Qi hurriedly objected, night was approaching, this was the last chance for the Qin army.