Chapter 2 Yan Zhao Fengyun Section 7
Li Hong saw a black cloud floating over the woods, and he seemed to be able to hear the terrible cry of the black cloud tearing through the air.
Sully attacked first. In his opinion, he has to use his own soldiers to consume the enemy anyway, and early death and late death are deaths, so it is better to have a good time first.
According to Xiong Ba's request, he had led 2,500 soldiers out of the camp quietly at noon, rushed to Meishan, and ambushed in the valley closest to Meilou. Su Li was in a hurry, and ordered his troops to line up in siege formation, ready to attack as soon as they heard the sound of the trumpet of the camp.
Li Hong's loud roar woke up many people. The shield bearer involuntarily raised his shield, looked back at Li Hong, who was clinging to the city wall, and immediately heard the sound of bows and arrows. They cried out in horror and immediately crouched down and erected their shields. The soldiers without a shield were like frightened rabbits, and in the blink of an eye they crawled to the inside of the city wall, instinctively holding their heads in their hands and clinging to the base of the wall. The soldiers near the plum tower on the mountain were like frightened birds, and they immediately dispersed in a hurry, and each found a place to escape. For a while, there was no one on the top of the city wall except for the soldiers hiding behind their shields.
A huge rain of black arrows roared, and the long arrows were nailed to the cloud tower with a piercing sound of wind and thunder, and on the city wall, there was a terrifying sound of "whoosh", "knock" and "crackling". Some arrows fell outside the city wall because of their lack of range, others flew out of the city wall because they were too long, and the long arrows that fell on the city wall exerted great power. Some shield soldiers were knocked down by the tremendous force of many long arrows shot together, and some long arrows bounced to the ground but still drilled into the soldiers' bodies with full strength, and the wooden roof and wooden pillars of the cloud tower, doors and windows, were full of long arrows inserted diagonally on them.
Standing on the mountainside, Sully was very pleased with the wonderful performance of his soldiers. He shouted to the herald standing behind him: "Order the bow troops, keep shooting." ”
"Blow the trumpet, order the front army, approach the wall, throw dirt bags." Sully turned to the Bugle Soldier and shouted.
The sound of the horn of "woo woo ......" came out from the mountains and forests and resounded throughout Meishan.
The five hundred soldiers who had all been arranged behind the dirt bags were all strong men. They stood near a dozen piles of dirt bags, ready to strike.
When a commander heard the sound of the trumpet, he immediately shouted: "...... on the shoulder". The soldiers worked in pairs, one squatting on the ground, and the other grabbed a bag of dirt and put it on each other's shoulders.
"Rushing to the ......" With the order of the commander of the thousand, more than 200 soldiers carried dirt bags, roared wildly, and ran towards the city wall quickly. Above them, a denser rain of arrows whistled by.
On the main city wall, the soldiers all looked at Meishan and looked at Meilou, they heard the dense horn trumpets rising and falling on Meishan, and saw the dense long arrows raging on Meilou.
Tian Jing was calm, glanced at Meishan lightly, and then still stared intently at the Hu army that was slowly coming out of the camp, not moved at all.
Wu Yan glanced at Meishan, smiled and said to Xiong Ba beside him: "The fat man is angry, is he exerting his might?" ”
Xiong Ba laughed: "This fat man told him to make the movement smaller, but he moved the whole Meishan as if people didn't know." ”
Li Hong took advantage of the interval between the arrow rain and stretched out his head to look outside the city wall, but before he showed his head, he was swept by an arrow fired from the head. Li Hong was so frightened that he shrank his neck and didn't dare to move. However, he heard the shouts of hundreds of soldiers outside the walls, the sound of running, and the sound of heavy objects being thrown under the walls. He thought of the dirt bags. It seems that these Xianbei people really want to fill in the platform on the mountainside, so as to set up a cloud ladder to attack the cloud tower. It's just that now the arrows in the sky are flying like locusts, and they can't stick out their heads at all, let alone block them.
A dozen shield soldiers had long been unable to withstand the bombardment of so many long arrows, and they all took advantage of the gap between the two rounds of arrow rain to run to the edge of the city wall to hide. Several soldiers were wounded by the bouncing arrows and lay moaning in pain at the base of the wall. The entire city wall was topped with long arrows.
Khan Lu Wang Wuyan, Que Ji, Xiong Ba with 5,000 troops lined up under the city of Lulongsai, the flag fluttering, the sea of people like a tide, quite spectacular.
The main direction of attack they chose on the battlefield was the left side of the Lookout Tower. At this time, Su Li and his troops were attacking Meilou, and the Han army on Meilou was too busy to help the troops on the left side of the main city wall to defend.
Tian Jing stood on the city wall and could also see the enemy's intentions, and he shouted loudly: "Jun Sima Wang Jin." Wang Jin was not far from him commanding the two tuns on the left city wall, and when he heard the shouting, he hurriedly ran over.
"The direction of the enemy's main attack is definitely on the left. You tell the soldiers to take the enemy down. ”
"Yes. Please rest assured. ”
The horn sounded. Uyan's troops began to form formation. Crossbowmen and cavalry archers began to move forward. The assault infantry were in groups of ten, carrying eight-foot ladders; Behind each ladder to the city, there is a commando team of twenty people. These squads of soldiers held knives in one hand and shields in the other, looking like they were at home.
The drums beat louder than the other. The towers were full of soldiers in full armor, and under the loud orders of the commanders of all ranks, the troops began to enter a state of imminent battle.
Below the city, the enemy army was still advancing, gradually entering the firing range.
Covered by bows and arrows, Sully's soldiers successfully threw more than 1,000 bags of earth under the base of the city wall. A small platform that can accommodate a dozen ladders has been formed.
Wave your arms with force. The horn sounded. The front army that had just thrown the dirt bags immediately retreated to both sides, and a hundred soldiers who had erected ladders roared, carrying ten ladders and holding shields, and rushed to the city walls.
The dense bow cover stopped.
Li Hong looked at the sky, as if there was no crazy shooting. He slowly stood up and saw the siege soldiers rushing out of the woods. He shouted: "Brothers, the enemy is attacking, ready to fight." ”
Li Hong's soldiers were very fortunate that the enemy's attack point was chosen on their section of the city wall. The soldiers waited for a short time and found that the enemy really did not continue to shoot. Immediately, under Li Hong's urging, they all stood up and looked out of the city.
"Shoot, shoot at will......," Li Hong shouted, firing the first arrow of the Luronse soldiers' resistance to the invasion.
The enemy raised his shield and fended off the arrows that came down from the city as he pushed forward. The firing power of the thirty men was too small, and the long arrows spilled into the enemy's shock formation were like a little water splashing on the surface of a pond. Immediately, from the cloud tower, from the other defensive surfaces of the city wall, the Han soldiers shot angry arrows at the enemy troops running below the city. However, the dense woods helped the enemy, and most of the long arrows failed to hit their targets, either blocked by branches or shot at tree trunks. But some Xianbei soldiers have already fallen from arrows.
Suli's strongbow firing unit suddenly appeared on the hillside. Their strong bow is the most famous bow of the Xianbei tribe, which is a specialty of the Xianbei longbow tribe in the east. It has a lot of power and a long range, and it is far more solid and easy to use than ordinary bows. Although the soldiers of the strongbow unit were exposed to the range of the Han army's bows and arrows, they were undaunted and, at the roar of a centurion, began to fire suppressively at the Han troops on the castle towers to cover their infantry brothers quickly approaching the city walls.
The Han soldiers were immediately pierced by the powerful long arrows. But in the face of more besieging enemy soldiers pouring under the city walls, they could no longer care about dodging the enemy's fire, and could only do their best to block the more threatening enemy. On the Mei Tower, the roar of the tun chief Zhou Hao rang out: "Zuoshi soldiers, shoot the enemy's archers, shoot ......"
The Xianbei soldiers resolutely and tenaciously advanced under the city walls. The soldiers put their shields on their heads and quickly set up a ladder to climb the city. Due to the gap between the earthen bags, the feet of the ladder were deeply inserted into the earthen bags, which was obviously more secure than placing them on the ground, and was less likely to be pushed by the soldiers defending the city.
Su Li's fat hand waved down again. The first three hundred siege soldiers poured out of the mountainside like a tidal wave under the command of the sound of the trumpet. They roared wildly, swords in one hand and shields in the other, and rushed at high speed towards the ten ladders.
Cheng Xie led another soldier to replenish it. He drew his war knife and shouted at the soldiers around him: "Shoot intensively, shoot intensively......"
The running enemy soldiers kept being hit by arrows and falling, screaming, long arrows whistling, shouting and killing, filling the entire battlefield. The enemy began to climb the ladder.
Tian Jing turned a deaf ear to the fierce fighting in Meishan. He believed that it was a harassing tactic of the enemy, and there was nothing to pay attention to. Moreover, the slope of the mountain is steep and high, and even if the enemy wants to attack the city, he cannot find a place to place the ladder, and it is difficult for the siege team to deploy. The soldiers were in unfavorable terrain, and the casualties must have been huge. No one will focus on it, unless it's a lunatic who doesn't know anything.
Seeing that the enemy entered the firing range, Tian Jing turned around and shouted: "Beat the drums." The shield-bearer is in front, the archers are in the back, ready to fire a salvo. ”
Orders were conveyed to the ears of the soldiers by commanders at all levels, one after another. As the battle flag waved, the shield-bearers crouched down in unison.
Uyan turned back to him and shouted, "Order the shield men to raise their shields, and the archers to prepare." Keep moving. ”
Tian Jing raised her spear and pointed forward, "Shoot ......"
Almost at the same moment, hundreds of long arrows leaped into the air.
Uyan shouted: "Shoot ......"
Immediately behind the Han army, the Hu coalition army launched two thousand long arrows. This huge black cloud shot into the sky, broke through a small black cloud, and poured down towards the city wall. Both armies were hit by a rain of arrows almost simultaneously. Soldiers fell on both sides. The brief contact caused a small confusion. But then the archers of both sides, under the command of their respective commanders, fired another round.
Arrows flew and shouted in the air over Luronse, the drums of war shook the ground, and the horns of the bulls resounded throughout the battlefield. The fierce battle has finally begun.
Uyan's army quickly approached the city.
"Order the archers to stop advancing, the shieldmen to take cover, and continue shooting."
"Order the infantry squad and set up the ladder."
At the sound of the order, five hundred soldiers suddenly rushed out of the whole procession, and in groups of ten they carried huge ladders, and as they ran, they raised their shields, and roared loudly in their mouths, and shot at the city wall like wild horses on the loose.
Tian Jing's face was expressionless, and he shouted loudly: "Send archers to come forward to block the infantry under the city; The archers in the back row continued to shoot from distance. ”
Uyan's soldiers quickly advanced to the city, braving a dense rain of arrows to successfully set up the ladder. The four soldiers then held the base of the ladder to make it secure, and the other soldiers held their shields high and guarded the sides of the ladder to protect the lives of the four soldiers.
The loud horn of the charge resounded through the battlefield in an instant. A thousand assault soldiers, divided into fifty squads, screamed like beasts that had broken out of a cage, and rushed to the ladder to prepare for the battle.
Uyan shouted: "Archers, continuous salvo, continuous salvo." ”
As soon as Uyan's cry fell, the dense long arrows suddenly roared and shot at the top of the city wall as if they had gone crazy. Dense long arrows smashed down to the top of the city wall.
The two guards standing behind Tian Jing were shocked, and immediately rushed forward and raised their shields. Fierce long arrows slammed into the shield in succession, and the force was so great that the two guards had to hold the shield with both hands and take a step back.
The assault infantry, under the cover of the archers, quickly approached the ladder, and then one by one, like agile apes, quickly climbed up the ladder.
The archers suddenly stopped shooting.
Tian Jing separated the guards in front of him and stretched out his head to look under the city wall. The enemy soldiers were dense and were rapidly approaching the top of the city wall along the ladder.
He took a step back, raised his gun and shouted, "Kill...... Ah......h
The war drums were like thunder, and the morale of the soldiers was like a rainbow, and they shouted: "Kill ......"