Chapter 0418: The Ballista Roars
After paying a heavy price, the Yellow Turbans finally approached the walls of Bonggao City. The ladder was erected, and the Yellow Turban soldiers climbed up the ladder like ants.
The defenders on the city wall were fully concentrated, and they clenched the spears in their hands, and countless sharp spear tips were aimed at the front, like a fierce beast waiting to be devoured.
The Yellow Turban soldiers finally climbed up the ladder to the battlement. The close combat between the soldiers of the two sides finally began, and some of the Yellow Turban soldiers who had climbed the city wall were killed by spear piercing; Some were pushed down by the defenders on the city wall along with the ladder, rolling and falling off the city wall, and the screams and screams were painful; Some overcame the defenders on their opposite side and climbed the city walls.
The defenders on the city wall were armed with weapons and went around intercepting the Yellow Turban soldiers who climbed the wall. The Yellow Turban sergeants were in groups of three or five, covering each other, fighting hard to open the passage.
The Yellow Turban soldiers on the city walls became more and more dense, and the first line of defense of the defenders was soon cut to pieces.
At this time, the sky in front of the city wall was already black, and the dense long arrows almost covered the blue sky. The two sides exchanged arrows and arrows, killing the sky in the dark.
The ballista, which had been filled with bolts, was pushed out again, "Boom...... The sound of "boom ......" resounded throughout the battlefield in an instant. The Yellow Turban soldiers who were charging towards the city walls were like weeds that had been attacked by a storm, and suddenly they fell one after another, and many were already dying before they could even see what weapon had hit them.
Enraged by the bloody corpses on the ground, the Yellow Turban soldiers attacked even more fiercely, the sound of charging bull horns resounding through the field, and countless long arrows roaring towards the walls. Although the crossbow soldiers who were about to withdraw were covered by shield soldiers, they could not hide under such a fierce blow, and they were killed by arrows, and the soldiers squatting on the car were pierced through the chest and abdomen by sharp long arrows. One by one, they flew upside down.
The Yellow Turban soldiers who had lost their strong support on the city wall were also killed by the defenders on the city wall. The defenders raised their swords hoarsely and shouted: "Drive the enemy down, drive down ......"
However, as soon as the city head was emptied, the Yellow Turban army under the city launched another fierce attack, and they took advantage of the gap in the crossbow carts to fill the city and once again rushed to the walls of Fenggao City.
"Seize the city...... Seize the city...... "Sima Ju galloped on horseback, raised his sword and shouted, "Kill the defenders...... None of ...... left One doesn't leave ...... behind."
Yuwen Chengdu looked up to the sky and roared angrily, kicking off the railing in front of him. Rushing to the city, he shouted, "Brothers, come with me and kill the Yellow Turbans...... Kill them ......"
Lu Wenlong held high the battle flag, looked back at the elite of the three hundred Chinese army, raised his gun and shouted: "Brothers, today's bloody battle, never die, kill ......"
Three hundred people roared in unison. Following Yuwen Chengdu and Lu Wenlong, they rushed towards the most dangerous place on the city wall.
"Drumming...... Drumming and cheering...... With all your strength, beat the drums of war......"
The defenders on the city walls were attacked by the Yellow Turbans in a frenzy, and the mighty flood crashed into the thick embankment. There was an earth-shattering roar. The soldiers of both sides engaged in a desperate struggle on the attack surface that was a mile long.
A soldier shouted forward, plunged a spear into the enemy's horse, and then rushed up and chopped off the enemy's head with a knife, and the wind behind him was like thunder. A huge mace smashed at the waist, and the military warrior sword swept back and blocked it fiercely. "When ......" a muffled sound. The army waited for the war knife to take off his hand and retreated more than a dozen steps in a row. At this time, a headless corpse smashed into the air, and the soldiers couldn't dodge, so they were hit by the headless corpse and fell to the ground. The soldier got up dizzily and opened his mouth to spurt out a mouthful of blood.
A voice came from behind him and asked, "Junhou, how are you?" ”
The soldier looked up and saw that it was the commander of the ballista tun who was holding him. The soldier broke free of his hand and asked weakly, "Is the ballista reloaded?" ”
The man still had an arrow stuck in his shoulder, and his beard was bloodstained, but he replied, "It's loaded." ”
"Then don't let it go." The soldier roared angrily.
"There are people in front, and our brothers, how to put it?"
The soldier was so angry that he slapped him and scolded angrily: "Do you wait until you are dead to let go?" out for me immediately. ”
The tun chief hurriedly stood up, and kept shouting loudly as he ran back, "Brothers, I'm going to release the arrows, I'm going to release the arrows, everyone lie down, lie down, lie down......"
The shield soldiers standing in front of the sixty ballistas all removed their large shields, and the sixty giant beasts lined up in a row, and the momentum was terrifying. The tun commander saw that the front was densely packed with guards guarding the city, so he was so anxious that he stomped his feet and shouted: "Get down, get down...... down"
The soldier who followed behind kicked him away, his bloody sword pointed at the crossbow rider who controlled the mechanism, glared at his eyes and shouted, "Shoot, shoot me......"
"Boom......" sounded, and twenty crossbow arrows roared out, knocking down more than a dozen at once. The soldiers of both sides who were fighting on the city wall were startled by this loud noise and looked in the direction of the sound in unison.
"Get down, get down......" the ballistae shouted in unison.
The guards of the city didn't think about it, and fell to the ground in various postures, and the soldiers guarding the city around them scattered in a hurry.
The Yellow Turban Army was stunned for a moment, and then reacted, one by one they were so shocked that their faces were colorless, some wanted to turn over and go down the city wall, some wanted to kill the ballista, and some tore their throats and shouted in fear, "Hide, ...... quickly"
The "......boom" ballista roared at the same time, deafening, and as soon as the sound started, more than 1,000 crossbow arrows "buzzed" into the group of Yellow Turban soldiers on the city wall. The Yellow Turbans screamed in despair and terror as they watched as the crossbow arrows pierced through them. Hundreds of strong Yellow Turban soldiers were powerless to fight back, and one by one they fell under the city, and a small leader who rushed in front was shot off his head by a huge crossbow arrow.
The soldiers defending the city cheered in unison, their morale was greatly boosted, and they roared to kill.
The soldier spat out a mouthful of blood in confusion and shouted: "Fill the arrows, shoot when you are filled, shoot the Yellow Turban thief to death." ”
"Tell the commanders to kill the enemy with a ballista, shoot nearby, shoot nearby......"
"Kill the Yellow Turban Thief at any cost, ...... at any cost"
……
The ballistas on the city wall roared one after another, and the Yellow Turban Army had just climbed the city wall, and the target was high and concentrated, and they were suddenly shot on their backs, killing and wounding, and the strong momentum of the attack was immediately contained.
The Yellow Turbans saw the power of the ballista. Frightened and frightened, they attacked even more fiercely under the command of their respective leaders, and the Yellow Turbans intended to break directly behind the city walls and destroy the defenders' ballistas.
These powerful guys are too lethal to the Yellow Turban Army, if they keep stuck in the rear like this and shoot it from time to time, the Yellow Turban Army will be killed by it sooner or later.
The defenders have gone crazy, and in order to kill the enemy, they have no regard for their own lives. If you shoot by mistake, you will shoot by mistake, as long as you can kill the Yellow Turbans, they are willing to pay several times the loss.
………………
The two small leaders of the Yellow Turban Army rushed one after the other, leading the army to kill the defenders of a section of the city wall, and just when the defenders were on the verge of collapse, Yuwen Chengdu and Lu Wenlong led people to rush in, and after a bloody battle, they finally barely stabilized their position.
The Yellow Turbans gritted their teeth at the defenders' ballistas, and one of the leaders personally led his guards to the front. All the way to a distance of more than twenty paces from the ballista.
A garrison commander and his soldiers resisted desperately, not giving in a single step.
If you retreat again, the ballista will be cut down by the Yellow Turbans.
The leader of the Yellow Turbans rose into the air and pierced the two defenders with a single spear. The defenders' eyes were cracking. Flying up, he slashed the spear of the leader of the Yellow Turbans and knocked him to the ground with a single punch. But the leader of the Yellow Turbans was a well-known warrior and a fierce man. He rolled over and jumped up, drew his knife and slashed down. The commander of the defenders blocked three swords in a row, and finally couldn't resist the courage of the leader of the Yellow Turban Army. He was slashed in the shoulder blade and fell to the ground.
At this time, the ballista was loaded, and the anxious cry of the ballista soldier came: "Get down, get down, get down......"
The leader of the Yellow Turban Army was quick-eyed, grabbed the wounded defender and blocked him.
The defender's subordinates were enraged, and they didn't care about their own lives and fought hard.
The ballista soldier was stunned, and the hand on the mechanism was slow to pull off. The soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army saw that the ballista was about to be launched, and the speed of the attack was faster, and the defending sergeants could not resist it, and fell down one after another.
The defender tun endured the pain and shouted loudly: "Shoot, shoot quickly......"
"Tun Chang ......"
Tun Chang's eyes were so angry that he shouted and cursed as he pulled a long arrow from the corpse under his feet and plunged it into his throat, causing blood to burst out.
"Tun Chang......" The ballista soldier screamed heartbreakingly, and pulled the mechanism open with all his strength.
Seven crossbow arrows pierced the body of the Tun Chief, penetrated the body of the leader of the Yellow Turban Army, and shot at the enemy soldiers farther away with seven strings of blood beads.
Almost at the same time, Yuwen Chengdu and his soldiers surrounded another leader who had climbed the city wall in the center of the wall, and Yuwen Chengdu killed him in one move.
The Yellow Turbans suddenly lost all two of their leaders who had climbed the city walls, and they were in disarray. The defending sergeants' desperate fighting style made their casualties bigger and bigger, and the more the Yellow Turban Army killed, the more chilled they became, and they gradually retreated.
And at this moment, the ballista that made them extremely frightened began to roar and rage again, and the Yellow Turban sergeant was terrified, turned around and fled.
The Yellow Turban soldiers, who were fighting behind, did not know what was happening in front of them, and when they heard the cheers of the defenders, they thought that the defenders had come for reinforcements, so they also turned and ran back.
The Yellow Turbans first turned back with a few hundred, and then several thousand turned around and fled.
Sima Ju, who was commanding under the city, was taken aback when he saw someone fleeing, and shouted: "Quick, stop them, stop them......"
The horn of the alarm rose to the sky, and Sima Ju's personal guards intercepted and killed like a raging wind.
The fleeing soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army were even more distraught when they heard the commander's horn to call the police. They thought that the defenders had really come to reinforcements, and the army could no longer resist them, and one by one they desperately ran towards the battlements of the city wall.
Sima Ju's guards fought hard to intercept them, killing more than a dozen in a row, but this killing only increased their fear, and the Yellow Turban soldiers fled for their lives.
The horn of the alarm also alarmed the other Yellow Turban soldiers who were rushing to kill, and everyone looked up one after another, and saw a soldier who had climbed the city wall and fled quickly to the city, thinking that something serious had happened, and the momentum of the attack suddenly failed.
The defenders were thunderous with joy, their morale was like a rainbow, and they were killing more and more heartily.
Sima Ju looked at the soldiers who were gradually retreating, and his mind was blank.
Xu He shook his head in pain, his hands covering his eyes.
The clarion call for retreat echoed helplessly and desolate over the bloody fields. (To be continued.) )