Chapter 226: The Third Day (Part I)
The rumbling sound has not stopped since the outer wall was lost to the Qin army's stone-throwing cart, and the defenders of the fort have not tried to shoot arrows from the hole in the main body, and the first time they shot most of the Qin soldiers who operated the stone-throwing cart to death, and the Qin army erected a shield wall in front of the stone-throwing vehicle, and the arrows could no longer be shot.
After two consecutive days of attack by the Qin army, most of the outer walls have been demolished by the Qin army, and now in addition to the main body of the fort, there are only less than half of the remaining fortifications left in some labyrinthine tunnels.
Although the defenders of the fort knew that they were stationed here to hold back the enemy, it was inevitable that their morale would be low if they fought like this within two days. On the second day, they were able to go out and rely on the geographical advantages to block the enemy army, and on the third day, the outer corridor was almost destroyed, and they organized people to go out to destroy the stone-throwing carts that the Qin army approached, and they immediately became hedgehogs lying on the ground after a few steps out of the fort.
Some of the outer walls were lost, and the Yongdao resistance was also lost, and all of them were killed after two unsuccessful attempts to approach the catapults, and within three days of the 1,000 defenders were left with less than 500 men to hold the main body of the fort.
The Qin army's bow and arrow advantage is too terrible, just three days of fighting, there is no place for the entire fort not to insert arrows, a slight rise can always attract a rain of arrows, even if the defenders of the fort have fortifications as a support, they have never taken the initiative at the beginning.
If no 1,000 reinforcements arrive behind, the morale of the original Fort garrison will inevitably be low after losing the outer wall. Although they lost some during the period of entering the fort, the arrival of reinforcements from thirst to death finally made them feel relieved, knowing that Fort A and No. 2 had not been forgotten, and the rear would not let them be trapped alone.
As soon as the fort was facing the water, the thousand people sent by Zhou Wen came from the Han River in a small boat, and the Qin army naturally discovered this situation, they first were transferred to shoot arrows by the crossbowmen, but the shield covered by the boat was limited, and then the Qin army decided to transfer the bed and crossbow.
The volume of the bed crossbow is very large, and it is difficult to carry. Waiting for the bed crossbow to be moved, most of the reinforcements from Nanjun had already entered, and they had shot a few times before sinking four small boats because of poor accuracy.
The structure of the fort on the Hanshui side was originally designed to berth, and if a person came to the boat, the river would take the empty boat out, and it was in this way that the reinforcements would go ashore so quickly.
After the reinforcements entered the fort, the commander of the garrison of the fort immediately resealed the water gate again, and waited for the Qin soldiers to pull the empty boats over to kill, and the crossbowmen near the water gate were repelled by the crossbowmen of the fort.
The reinforcements who entered the fort informed that there were still troops coming in a steady stream, and the defenders of the fort who had been nervous for three days after learning the news were naturally demoralized.
The marquis of the reinforcements discussed with the commander of the fort, and a new force was distributed, and some of the exhausted soldiers were finally able to rest.
After the arrival of reinforcements. In addition to the stone throwing trucks, the whole battlefield is still throwing stones, and some unmanned boats on the Han River are only drifting with the current.
"The Qin army only has one stone-throwing cart left, and it is still throwing stones." This was judged by the sound of the stone hitting the wall.
As long as it is a machine, it will be damaged, and the three stone-throwing trucks of the Qin army have been smashed for two days in a row, and being able to hold out for two days is already considered to be a well-made stone-throwing vehicle.
The main body of the fort is a mixture of cement and stone, and some of the main structures even use iron bars and cement as the main frame, so that the structure is far stronger than the mud alone. However, the iron-making technology is not too good, and the life of such a building can be three or four years, which is too much, and if it exceeds this period, it will become a dangerous building, but the service time that Nanjun needs them is only these three or four years.
Of course. Not every part was constructed using cement mixed with iron bars, and the Qin army repeatedly tried to find the vulnerable parts. The area that has been smashed has cracked in the wall after being slammed continuously, and it is believed that it will not be long before a gap will appear.
The marquis of the reinforcements smelled the air filled with grease as it was lit by the lighting of torches. Listening to the words of the commander of the fort, he learned to squat down and look out from the observation hole, which was full of collapsed corridors, and the ruins were full of corpses of the war dead. Further away is a half-sloping shield wall about four meters high.
There was another thud, and after a while, there was a shout that the wall had collapsed, leaving everyone who was doing something stunned.
"Quick! Fast! Gather your forces and go over! "Maybe it's been squatting for a long time. The fort commander slumped down as he stood up.
The military marquis of the reinforcements said: "Shuo, please send a guide, I will bring people over!" ”
Only the chief officer with the name of Shuozi stood up again, and he shouted for people to follow.
Among the group of people, holding a seventy-centimeter short spear is the original defender of the fort, and holding a one-meter seven short Ge is the reinforcements, they are bending and turning in the fort, and before they reach the position, they hear a long horn sound, and Shuo's face who led the way changed greatly and quickly accelerated his pace.
The soldier's name was Mian, and he was almost dizzy from the complicated aisles, and he heard a moan in his ears as he waited to see the bright light of the sun.
Jun Hou Mian turned a corner and saw a room of about five square meters, which was dusty and foggy, and the air was full of the smell of dust.
Seeing the three defenders crushed to the ground by the collapsed wall and not trying to help, the chief officer Shuo shouted: "Archers, come and line up!" ”
Eight archers received orders to go at once.
"Goshou, stand behind the archers!" The chief officer shouted for the rest of the people to retreat into the aisle and wait for the battle.
The room of only about five square meters really could not accommodate more than fifty people, and when they were still arranging defenses, a sound of breaking the air sounded frequently, and the archers who had just lined up in front of the line to pull the bowstring let out a muffled snort and fell to the ground.
"The archers who didn't die shoot arrows outside, and the rest of the people spread out on both sides!" The chief officer shouted in grief.
All eight archers were lying on the ground, and the short men behind them were screaming in pain from the arrows.
A figure appeared in the gap, and he was about to rush in when he was stabbed to death by a short man.
The short-handed man who had stabbed the enemy to death had not had time to rejoice that the enemy had fallen and his eyes were squinted by the flickering of the sun, and he never had a chance to open his eyes again, when a spear burst out of his chest.
Almost at the moment when the short hand fell to the ground, the Qin army outside was releasing arrows again, and the sound of arrows and the ground and walls was frequently released, followed by the Qin army's signature three "hey", one, two, three...... Several figures rushed in with their backs to the sunlight.
The roar of fighting was roared out of the narrow five square meters, and the gap continued to pour into the Qin pawns, and people on both sides continued to fall to the ground.
Junhou Mian leaned against the wall of the corridor outside the room and clenched the long sword in his hand, he turned his head to look at the robe Ze crowded in the corridor, listened to the fight in the room, listened to the silence inside, and was just about to yell to remind the robe Ze to prepare to fight, a figure stumbled out of the small hole door.
It was the chief officer who had been stabbed in the lower abdomen, and he shouted and slammed into the opposite wall, turning his head to say something, a spear was pierced from the small hole door, and it was nailed to the wall.
"This ......" Junhou Mian was stunned, he really didn't expect that the chief officer here who had just come over for reinforcements would die in front of his eyes. After being stunned for a moment, he slashed out his long sword at a figure that rushed out, and suddenly a stream of blood splashed on his face, "Kill, kill, the front is empty, and the back is in!" He squatted down and kept retreating.
The army of Nanjun does not need a brave military marquis, what is needed is a military marquis who can save the soldiers under his command, and the chief officer Shuo stayed in the room just now to fight very bravely, but the death was very worthless, and even said that because of the brave death, the chief officer who was most familiar with the fort did not play his due role and died.
The spear nailed to the corpse of the chief official Shuo was pulled out and disappeared into the small hole gate, and the Qin pawn in the room was shouting, "The weapon is too long, it is too bad in the narrow room", and for a while, no Qin pawn tried to break through the small hole gate again.
One of the tun commanders in the aisle tugged at Jun Hou Mian's armor, and the tun commander picked at the wall to pull out a brick, and a ray of sunlight shone through the gap into the aisle.
Jun Hou Mian leaned sideways and looked through the gap, and there was the figure of Qin Pawn standing in the room, about ten people lined up in two rows with spears in their hands and staring at the small hole door.
"Are there 100 generals here?" The military marquis asked.
"Yes!" Someone in the aisle responded.
"You lead people to guard this aisle!" Junhou Mian's body kept retreating, "I'll go to the observation port on the second floor to see what the Qin army outside is doing." ”
Bai Jiang did not hesitate and responded loudly: "Hey! ”
The military marquis barely knew the way, he let the commander just now lead the way, and it seemed to come to the middle of the fort in a burst, and what caught his eye was a hall of about ten square meters, which was full of arrows bundled with bows and crossbows.
"Observer hand! Observe where the hand is! When the tun chief came here, he immediately shouted.
The hall has four thick logs as load-bearing columns, and when you walk to the center, you look up at a skylight with a round hole, from which the light shines downward.
The tun commander shouted, and several soldiers trotted over.
A soldier who looked to be about thirty years old hurriedly shouted before he could stand still: "The Qin army outside is lining up, and some of the squads have already touched the ruins of Yongdao. Obviously, he couldn't find the chief officer's report so anxious.
Although the new military marquis was not familiar with the fort, according to the regulations, he was the highest official in the fort after the chief officer died in battle, so he naturally became the chief officer of the fort.
"Quantity, is it close to the entrance to the fort?" The reluctance was very pertinent.
"There are about a thousand people, and the position they are attacking is the entrance of the fortress, and a team of Qin soldiers is already holding a wooden stake to break the door!" Another observer reported.
The newcomer Mian didn't know the structure of the fort at all, so he heard it a little foggy, and made what he thought was a safe arrangement: "Fifty more reinforcements will be transferred to the gap." He asked the reporting observer again, "Is there any way to kill and injure the Qin pawn who broke the door?" ”
The observer who was questioned immediately replied: "There is a shooting hole, but the Qin army erected a shield to block it, so it cannot cause damage." ”
At this time, I don't know where the voice came from shouted: "At the three entrances, Qin guards carried wooden stakes and pressed up. ”
"Bitter!" How could I not know that the slow response of the fort allowed the Qin army to discover the abnormality and seize the opportunity to carry out a general attack? But he has no choice, even if he wants to react quickly, but he doesn't know how to command the structure of the fort? (To be continued......)