Chapter 329: Assault
Tai Shi Ci and Guan Yu found that they were helpless, and they could only watch the bloody battle between Yangle City and the Xiongnu, and they couldn't do anything.
Ye Chen understood that the enemy was powerful, and he could only wait for the opportunity.
The next day, early in the morning, the Huns began to attack again.
"Sons, you must break through this city for me today, and then we will go to Liaodong, where countless riches are waiting for us." Bashuer shouted, and the Hun cavalry howled excitedly.
The wealth of Liaodong has been deeply rooted in their hearts, and although they have not been there, there are many legends there.
The Hun soldiers, who were excited, took out their weapons one after another and rushed forward.
The city first ushered in a round of arrow rain, but after the baptism of yesterday's war, many people reacted and hurriedly put up shields to resist, but some people still fell to the ground with arrows.
The Xiongnu did not have any skills, they just stormed, and of course, the rain of arrows of the Xiongnu continued, which always affected the defenders of the city, making them unable to defend every time and risking a lot.
After a few rounds of arrow rain, some of the Huns had already reached the bottom of the city wall with a ladder and began to climb the city.
And the defenders at the head of the city were firmly suppressed by the rain of arrows of the Huns, and the strength of the counterattack was not strong.
"Quick, get a few shields, raise them, and the archers will shoot them together." A general appeared at the head of the city, and he turned out to be Gongsun Yue, the younger brother of Gongsun Zhan.
It turned out that when Gongsun Chan went north, he asked Gongsun Yue to guard Yangle and was responsible for ensuring logistics for Gongsun Chan, but not long after Gongsun Chan went north, the Xiongnu suddenly invaded south, disrupting their plan.
Gongsun Yue did not appear on the first day, but while counting the materials, he went to the clans in the city and asked them to contribute, the guards of these families, etc., at least after training, will be slightly stronger than ordinary people.
Gongsun Yue's family searched for him, so he gathered three thousand trained guards and doormen.
That's why he went up to the city today to command the battle.
The enemy is fierce, but as long as he copes with it properly, he can still hold out for a while, but I don't know if he can hold out until Gongsun Chan arrives.
The appearance of Gongsun Yue made the defense of the city head a lot stronger, at least Gongsun Yue concentrated the archers to attack in a unified manner, causing a lot of casualties to the Xiongnu, and suppressed their archers to a certain extent.
The defenders at the head of the city stabilized and began a rhythmic counterattack, although the strength of the counterattack was small, but at least it was able to kill and wound the Huns.
Seeing that the defensive strength of the city head suddenly became stronger, Bashuer's eyes were full of fire, he originally planned to capture the city in one day, but he didn't expect the other party to have such a defensive force the next day.
"Arrow attack, give me the power to fight back." Bashuer was very anxious and yelled, ready to amplify the move.
The Huns began to form a whole team, and then formed a large phalanx, and after forming a phalanx, they began to charge.
"Shoot."
The Xiongnu general roared, and then thousands of arrows in the Xiongnu phalanx flew up and flew towards the city.
"Quick, quick, shield defense. The rest hid under the battlements. When the Xiongnu charged, Gongsun Yue knew what they were going to do, and urgently ordered the soldiers to hide.
Gongsun Zhan's family is in Lingzhi in western Liaoxi, close to the border, and he has also heard of the way to fight on the grassland, so Gongsun Yue knew that the Xiongnu were going to attack with an arrow array.
Although it was warned in advance, there were still many people who did not react, and there were bows and arrows that shot through the gaps in the shields, and even pierced the shields, thus killing and injuring soldiers.
The arrow array inflicted great casualties on the defending soldiers, with nearly hundreds of casualties in one round, and the shield was also broken a lot.
It was difficult for the unprotected soldiers to survive under the second round of arrows, and just after the first round of arrows, the sound of pulling bows and arrows sounded below, followed by the arrival of another round of arrows.
The defenders at the head of the city did not dare to raise their heads and hid, but every round of arrows was a disaster for the defenders.
After a few rounds of arrows, the Huns stopped, because they couldn't stand such an attack, and a few rounds of arrows were tens of thousands of arrows, and the consumption was too great.
However, a few rounds of arrow arrays went down, the effect was still good, the defenders at the head of the city suffered a lot of casualties, and had to quickly replenish a batch from the city, but the death of a part of the regular army could not be replenished in any way, they were the main force defending the city, however, now more than half of the dead and wounded.
The Xiongnu began another round of onslaught, and the defenders at the head of the city suddenly suffered more casualties, and they were replenished with several soldiers and strong men.
Day after day, this whole day except for food and a short rest, were fighting, this day the defenders on the head of the city killed and wounded more than 3,000 people, although most of them were strong men, but the number of deaths also made Gongsun more unbearable.
And the Huns were also not lightly injured, close to a thousand casualties, mainly because they attacked too fiercely, and they didn't want to die, and the casualties on both sides were not small, but if it went on like this, Yangle City would hold on for two days at most.
And the Xiongnu side was also very dissatisfied, because they originally planned to capture the city in one day, but now they have not been defeated for two days.
"General Right, I will definitely be able to capture the city tomorrow." Several of his generals saw that Bashuer's face was not good, and hurriedly stepped forward to assure.
"Hmph, one Yangle has stopped us for so long, and it has caused more than a thousand casualties, and there is a Linyu City below, what do you say we should do." Bashuer said very dissatisfied.
"General Right, why don't we attack overnight and break through the city as soon as possible." His generals suggested.
Bashuer has long wanted to break through this city and march into Liaodong as soon as possible, otherwise he would not have divided his troops into multiple ways at the beginning, and what he wanted was to sweep Liaoxi as soon as possible.
"Okay, organize an attack immediately." Bashuer made a decision, this small city, and there are not many defenders in it, have been blocking him for two days, and he really can't bear it anymore.
Two hours after the Huns stopped attacking, they began to organize an attack again.
At this time, at the head of the city, Gongsun Yue withdrew the regular army to rest and let the strong men go up to defend. Because the defenders of the city had been defending for two days in a row, they were very tired and had to rest well, so that they could have combat strength the next day.
No one expected the Huns to attack suddenly, but it was too late.
Although the attack of the Xiongnu was discovered in time, the city was poorly prepared, and the shield was also insufficiently prepared.
"Shoot."
Before the defenders of the city were ready, a rain of arrows from the Huns was discharged.
The city was full of wailing, and many people fell to the ground with arrows.
At this time, Gongsun Yue was still on the way with people, he heard the night attack of the Huns, felt bad, and knew that the strong men on the head of the city could not bear the burden of defending the city, so he hurriedly rushed over with the defenders who had only rested for less than two hours.
When Gongsun Yue rushed to the head of the city, he gasped when he saw the dead and wounded all over the ground, just in this short period of time, the dead and wounded on the head of the city reached nearly 1,000 people, you know, only more than 3,000 people were killed and wounded in a whole day of fierce fighting during the day.