Chapter 20
After the day's fighting, although the people on the walls did not have much physical exertion. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Everyone felt tired, but the Marquis of Xi ordered that no one should go down to the city. must be strictly guarded at the head of the city, so as not to be attacked by the Chinese people.
The temperature difference between day and night in the Western Regions is very large, and the bright sun during the day is still very scorching. But at night, when the breeze blows, it immediately turns into a cold winter wax moon. Some people in later generations described it very appropriately, wearing a leather jacket in the morning and yarn in the afternoon, and eating watermelon around the stove.
More than two miles away on the opposite side, the Chinese camp is dinging and there is no play. I don't know what to do, after the daytime fiasco, the Yue people have lost the courage to go out of the city and rob the camp. Only dare to cower in the city, the arrival of contemporary reinforcements. As long as the four Marquis generals are gathered together, there is absolutely no reason why they can't defeat the Chinese.
Akasu also did not go down to the city, and now it is a time of life and death. Don't dare to be a little careless, the big moon clan city is your own life, you can't lose it.
Most of the soldiers hid behind the arrow stacks and chatted, and some of them ran into the arrow tower, where they got firewood and baked firewood to keep warm. Tightening the fur on his body, Akasu looked at the Chinese camp in the distance. I've been tossing for half a night, and I don't know what they're doing. "Quack-la-la-la" rang non-stop.
Suddenly, Akasu sensed something in the darkness flying towards Otsuki Clan. Subconsciously lowered his head, and a stone the size of a human head flew over his head with the wind. smashed on an arrow tower, and suddenly debris was scattered.
"What is this?" Akasu's eyes widened, he couldn't believe it. The other party actually threw such a large stone onto the city wall at this speed. You must know that the walls of the Great Moon Clan City are twelve zhang high. When the city was first built, no less than 100,000 prisoners of war from various tribes in the Western Regions were exhausted. It can be said that there are many white bones buried under the swarthy Otsuki Clan's castle.
Before he could close his mouth, something with flames flew over again. This time, he was lucky. The pot of oil exploded more than a dozen feet away from him. The place suddenly became a sea of fire, and leaning against the battlements of arrows, several soldiers became several burning men before they could stand up. Screaming and running around, one of them jumped off the city wall in a panic.
The light of the fire shines through the fog like a beacon in a voyage. Indicating the target to the subsequent trebuchets, this time Yun Yue brought five leveraged trebuchets. This thing is too big and bulky to be transported over long distances. That is, the Yun family has a large four-wheeled ox cart, otherwise it would be impossible to transport it so far. For half a night, the craftsmen of the Yun family were nervously assembling these behemoths. Now three have finally been assembled, and the other two are Master Geng's nephew, Geng Junhua, patted his chest and promised that they would be assembled before sunrise.
If there is anything that is least lacking in the Western Regions, it may be stones. When it was just dark, a thousand people were dispatched to pull the cart to look for it. Less than half a night of stone is enough to fill in that damn moat!
When the oil jar was thrown out, it was one after another firing stones the size of a human head. The target was the fire that smashed the soldiers of the Otsuki clan on the city wall and howled wolf. Many were scratched by the flying rubble, and some of the hapless people were scared and ran around. As a result, he was hit in the chest by a flying stone, and his chest cavity was smashed to the ground.
"Don't mess up, don't mess up. Hide behind the battlements! "Akasu didn't know if the arrow stack would be able to hold the stone, but he had to do it now. Otherwise, the soldiers will be exposed, and the casualties will be greater. I don't know, how did the Chinese people come up with so many ghost things. Akasu felt that fighting such an opponent would be a nightmare.
However, the nightmare has only just begun. Xiao Geng was obviously a cautious man, and just after midnight, five other lever trebuchets had been assembled. The five trebuchets moved in unison, and the soldiers of the Yue Clan on the city wall drilled under the arrow stacks like rats.
Aksu took people to take a hard beating in the arrow tower, anyway, although this thing is powerful, it is not enough to smash the arrow tower.
Just as everyone's attention was focused on this wall, a group of people quietly approached the wall as the clouds covered the moon. Two ladders more than ten zhang long were quickly erected on the top of the moat, and Zheng Bin rushed over like a monkey. Followed by Yun Yue's personal guards. These twenty people are all first-class good players. Picked out from the thousands of horses in the former army of Pingliang, there is no problem in loyalty and martial arts.
Yun Yue saw that Zheng Bin had succeeded, and immediately ordered the three-bow bed crossbow to be fired. At the same time, Ao Canghai shook the torch a few times. The trebuchet immediately replaced it with a cannonball, after all, it was too expensive to spare.
"Boom......!" "Boom ......!" The sound of the explosion perfectly drowned out the sound of the three-bow bed crossbow being fired, and spear spears were nailed to the walls. Zheng Bin held his sword in his mouth, and climbed up like an ape along the ladder-like spear spears, and behind him, the killers of the guards followed one by one. Not a single person made a single sound during the whole process.
The black shadow flashed, Zheng Bin jumped down from the city wall, raised the long sword in his hand, and wiped the neck of the Yue clan's soldiers. Blood gushed out at once, and the guy's screams only turned into a string of blood bubbles. There was a "grunt" and "grunt" sound in his throat, and he spurted blood in a big gulp.
The killers soon climbed up, according to the division of labor in advance. Some were responsible for covering, while others quickly threw the rope down. Then the people below put the bomb in the basket and quickly pulled it up.
"Who?" Although everything went well, there was a bit of an accident. After just killing a soldier of the Yue Clan, suddenly a few guys with lanterns came up from the city. It seems that the man in the middle seems to be a general.
Where Zheng Bin gave him a chance to speak, he stabbed with his sword. Unexpectedly, the general's kung fu was not bad, so he pulled the soldiers around him over, and forcibly used a living person to help him block a sword.
At this time, the killers had already been brought up from the city like basket bombs.
"Hurry up and capture the drawbridge noose, or we'll all die here." The current Dayue Clan City is already on first-level alert, and if more than 20 people climb the wall in the middle of the night, they will definitely be chopped into meat sauce.
Four baskets of gunpowder were placed under the iron cables that held the drawbridge, and if the eight cows were put down, everything that was left was slag. I don't believe it, the wooden gates can withstand the power of gunpowder.
"Boom......!" There was a loud bang, and the noose iron plate on the side of the suspension bridge immediately did not know where it flew. Then there was a loud "boom", and the winch on the other side was also blown into the sky.
While the Yueshi people didn't react, the third sound exploded again. The bolt of the gate, which had been overwhelmed for a long time, was immediately reduced to splinters and scum.
With the suspension bridge put down with a bang, the gate of the Great Moon City was also opened.
"Kill ......!" Ao Canghai waved his saber without hesitation, and five thousand cavalry and tens of thousands of infantry rushed towards the swarthy Dayue Clan City. (To be continued.) )