Chapter Thirty-Six: A Husband and a Wife
The ladders, one by one, crossed the moat and rested on the Bone City of Susheng, which had lost its battlements.
The defenders of the city desperately threw a rain of arrows out of the moat, and more Goguryeo people desperately poured down the fire oil that had been prepared, and it was immediately ignited; In addition, rocks the size of sheep's heads rained down, and even pushed down the hugging logs along the ladder, and smashed a group of climbers when they landed.
Defending a city always has too many advantages over attacking a city.
Dian Wei is the first group of people to climb the ladder, groups of Yan Zhao warriors rushed to erect the ladder from under the city, and climbed up quickly, the so-called first climber is the first to climb the city and pull out the village, this kind of warrior is brave in the army at any time.
The Yan Zhao warriors were naturally unwilling to be left behind.
Dian Wei was carrying heavy armor and weapons, and every step he took up the ladder made the wooden ladder creak under his feet, but he did not hesitate at all, and climbed up faster and faster step by step.
In the whistling sound, a cloud ladder not far from Dian Wei's side was swept down from the city by the Goguryeo defenders with a giant tree, and the Han soldiers who climbed on it let out a terrified scream, some people fell to the city when the ladder was unstable, and some fell to the ground with the cloud ladder.
If you fall like this, you may not fall to your death. Many of the Han soldiers on the ladder fell right in the moat, but their armor prevented them from swimming to the shore, and if they couldn't untie their armor, they would probably drown.
Just when he was distracted, the shouts of the Goguryeo soldiers overhead were mixed with whistling sounds, and he only had time to take a hurried glance before he saw the heavy rolling log fall on his head.
Call!
In a hurry, Dian Wei's iron halberd slammed horizontally towards the earthen wall on his side, and the huge force smashed the outer city bricks, and the iron halberd was fiercely inserted into the earthen wall, and the whole person also used this power to break away from the cloud ladder and hang on the city wall. And there was a heavy crash sound on the cloud ladder on the side, and the soldiers who were lucky enough to fall down the cloud ladder could still let out a few exclamations, if they were directly smashed by hundreds of catties of rolling wood, even the thickest iron armor in the Han army on the Yan Zhao warrior was smashed into iron pieces, and the whole person was crushed into a puddle of flesh.
Dian Wei dodged in time, but compared to the heavy rolling log, it was a full beat after all, his shoulder was pressed by the rolling log, and his whole body sank suddenly, even the big iron halberd inserted in the earthen wall couldn't hang the heavy him, and the whole body slowly slid down from the earthen wall, and the iron halberd rubbed a long spark on the masonry of the city wall, and it didn't stop until it was seven feet on the ground.
After all, there are a few people like Dian Wei who are as agile and nimble, and in the blink of an eye, two ladders have been overturned, one was crushed by rolling logs, two were ignited by fire oil, and nearly 100 soldiers were killed and wounded.
The Goguryeo soldiers took advantage of the geographical advantage of defending the city and the abundant supplies of the border fortress, and coveted the Yanbei army to meet the attack at the first time when the siege began. Yesterday, two huge and tragic battles in the whole day only brought less than 1,000 casualties to northern Yanbei, and today's short-handed combat only took a moment, and hundreds of casualties were already inflicted.
Storm the city.
If it were easy to storm the city, wouldn't it be ridiculous to be surrounded by a war that lasted in March or May or even more than a year!
Although the enemy was choked by the throat at the first charge, the general who commanded the siege was not a mediocre man after all, and made a cruel and correct decision on the spot...... Lu Yi took the reins and let the horses spin around the Chinese army, and raised his kind lance to the midday sun and shouted: "Crossbowmen, go to the moat, and fire a volley at the defenders of the city!" ”
The Han army under the city is desperately climbing, and at this time, firing a volley towards the city is likely to hurt their own soldiers.
But it was also the only chance to kill and wound more Goguryeo defenders. Under the continuous bombardment of stone cannons yesterday, the western battlements of the Susheng Bone City were smashed everywhere, and at this time, in order to threaten the Han troops who were bravely attacking the city with the defending armaments, they had given up the means of using the big shield to protect themselves...... At this time, if you fire a volley, you will definitely get the maximum effect of damage.
Winning the maximum damage with the least loss is originally the job of an excellent general.
And now, it is this path that is in front of Lu Yi, at the cost of potentially harming some of his own soldiers, to eliminate the threat of the city for them.
On the battlefield, the commander's order was more effective than the emperor's dictation, and with the order of Lu Yi, thousands of crossbowmen lined up and stepped forward, crossing their own heavy army formation to the west bank of the moat. ”
Whoosh!
Thousands of arrows rushed towards the city like a black cloud, and some of the sergeants who had climbed to the top of the ladder had to turn back in a hurry, and their first reaction was to let their bodies fall from the ladder. Falling down a ladder won't necessarily lead to death, but an arrow from behind will surely make them into a hornet's nest!
Some of the sergeants on the more than ten ladders jumped down by themselves, and some were dropped off the ladder by the arrows shot by their own side through their back armor, but there was only one result, and the soldiers below were smashed to the ground by nearly two hundred catties of robes before they could dodge...... In an instant, there were more than 100 casualties.
Dian Wei was smashed by the previous rolling log, and although he was embarrassed to cut off the city, he avoided it without danger.
However, the Goguryeo soldiers at the head of the city did not have such good luck, there were only more than 1,000 battlements on the west wall of the city of Susheng, and there were only more than 300 left after the stone cannon bombardment, and at this moment it was obvious that those battlements could not give them enough cover, and on the other hand, the city defense equipment in their hands also became a nightmare for them to bring casualties.
The greatest casualties came from the rain of arrows that fell from the sky, and the defenders on the city fell like wheat fields receiving locusts passing through, and the fire oil that was about to be poured on the city became the culprit of the secondary damage, and the oil cans and torches fell to the ground at the same time, and the city suddenly burst into flames that could not be extinguished.
The siege soldiers under the city received a rain of arrows from their backs, and they did not dare to climb to help, which gave the archers in the rear a chance to fire a salvo with peace of mind, and the skilled rapid-fire archers continued to fire arrows after just two breaths after the first rain of arrows, and scattered arrows shot towards the Goguryeo soldiers who were still standing at the head of the city and escaped the catastrophe. The interval was only more than ten breaths, and as the Han army archers and generals gave another order, a new arrow rain suddenly flew from under the city.
After three rains of arrows, the defenders of the city suffered heavy losses, and there were hardly many Goguryeo soldiers who could still stand in the gaps in the battlements.
This time, the sergeants under the city could not hesitate any longer, and the shouts of the surge in the rear and the tidal wave of robes almost pushed them towards the ladder, not to mention that more ladders were erected on the top of the city, and those junior military attachés bravely drew their swords and shouted and climbed up the ladder.
"The general has an order, and the first to ascend will be rewarded with thirty!"
No one didn't care about the bounty, and the previous Yan Zhao warriors suppressed the anger of the arrows fired from the rear by the robes, and climbed the city with a more courageous attitude. Dian Wei was not far behind, and his huge body stepped on the ladder and almost shook the robe on his head down.
The first landing had nothing to do with him, which did not have much to expect from Dian Wei when he decided to participate in this siege...... This is the first time he has participated in a battle under Yanbei, and it is also a rare opportunity for him to make meritorious service to the public as the leader of the general's personal guard, and he wants the first merit!
There is only one first skill, grab the suspension bridge!
The previous rain of arrows shot the defenders of the city into hedgehogs, and in a moment there were not many enemy troops in the city, and without those formidable defending ordnance, climbing the ladder became the first priority for Dian Wei and the others.
On the cloud ladder on the other side of Dian Wei, Pan Ling bit the ring knife in his mouth and struggled to climb, looking around, no one climbed faster than him. Although Pan Ling was not the first of Dian Wei's vanguard to attack the city, he had already driven several of his men across the pontoon bridge during the second rain of arrows, and was bound to take the lead in this attack.
Pan Ling didn't care who won the first prize, he only cared if it was his person who got the reward.
Around him, on the three ladders, dozens of warriors were his men.
"Ahh
Seeing that the city was approaching, the robe above Pan Ling suddenly let out a miserable scream, and his whole body was sprinkled with hot blood and fell down the city with the edge of Pan Ling's body.
The Goguryeo people are killing again!
Pan Ling's eyes were quick, he couldn't care much at all, his feet made a force to rush up two levels, raised his hand to clasp the corner of the city wall, and the other only grabbed the ankle of the Goguryeo defenders and threw it into the city, raised his hand and threw the stones he grabbed into the face of the nearby Goguryeo soldiers, and took this opportunity to climb the city, but there was a strong force on the side of the knife that was about to catch the knife, and he was kicked to the edge of the battlement, if it wasn't for half of the battlements that had not been knocked down, he would have been kicked off the city.
However, the Goguryeo soldiers couldn't get any benefits, and they were chopped into meat sauce by the Han army that poured out of the ladder. Pan Ling panted and looked at the city three or four people high, which made him feel dizzy, and he took the ring knife from his mouth and scolded and shouted at the Han army in the city: "Damn, kill me!" But whoever kills people and sees blood, Lao Tzu will reward you with leather armor again! ”
The head of the city was chaotic since the Pan Ling Department was killed, and the Han army and the Goguryeo soldiers gathered in one place to slash and slaughter wantonly, relieving the pressure on the surrounding siege soldiers.
"Kill someone!"
Dian Wei didn't say much, and after throwing a small halberd to kill a person nearby, he stood at the head of the city to protect the Yan Zhao warriors behind him and climbed up to the city head, and the horizontal halberd urn said a word, and assigned his subordinates to go to help the Pan Ling Department who was besieged by the defenders, and then led a Wu Yan Zhao warrior to kill the city gate tower with a slight bow.
This Chen Liuju man walked around the city not fast, but a seven-foot iron halberd smashed out, along the way Goguryeo soldiers were killed and wounded, although there were only six heavily armored soldiers behind him, it was like entering a no-man's land, straight from the city head of the Goguryeo rebellion to kill a bloody road, close to the city gate tower, but even more in the lead to charge, relying on the heavy armor only with the arm to protect the cheeks, the surrounding Goguryeo soldiers slashed the sword without dodging or dodging, towards the city gate tower rushed away.
Rumble!
Suddenly, where could the gate tower with wooden doors and windows withstand the collision of a giant man like him, he smashed the gate when he landed, and put the sergeant behind him into the gatehouse, without saying a word, he stood at the door with a big iron halberd, and swung towards the soldiers who attacked on the left and right, and said in a loud voice: "Open the drawbridge!" ”