Volume 1 The Fierce and Sorrowful Wind Rises Chapter 78 The Battle of Jinyang (14)
The four doors of Jiexiu are sealed with earth and stone, and it is difficult to open for a while. Therefore, Lu Chang urgently ordered a long rope to hang down the city wall, so that Ding Miao and others could climb the city.
The enemy army besieged the city with tens of thousands of people, thinking that they had woven a net of heaven and earth, and it was difficult for birds to cross, who would have expected that Ding Miao would be bold enough to pretend to be a high-ranking official of the Huns, swaggering to hide the many checkpoints, and reach the city of Jiexiu. This time, the military and the people were all excited. When Ding Miao loudly announced that reinforcements were coming, the cheers could be heard for miles outside the city.
The cheers of the defenders did not stop, only to hear the thunderous drums of war outside the city, and another wave of siege troops pressed on all sides. This time, there were far more troops than before, and there were several new forces that had been recuperating and recuperating, clustering around the tall cloud ladders and flying towers.
The flying tower is several zhang high, and the top is flush with the city wall of Jiexiu, and the flying bridge is paved with wooden planks more than two zhang wide. Once close to the walls, the army can go straight to the head of the city along the flybridge. The flying building is covered with cowhide, and there is no way to wait for the idle arrow stone. There are ten wooden wheels under the flying building, and more than 100 big men hide in the building to push, like a giant beast running, and everyone who sees it is shocked.
It was extremely time-consuming to make the flying tower, and the Huns used all the craftsmen who accompanied the army to work day and night, and only one was built at this time, and two more were under construction. After the original preparation was completed, all the things that would be used will come out and break the city in one fell swoop. But at this moment, perhaps angered by Ding Miao's actions, the Huns directly threw a completed cloud ladder flying tower into the battlefield.
For such a huge siege machine, neither the bow nor the rolling wood and stone could cause substantial damage. The defenders urgently mobilized dozens of crossbowmen to shoot rockets, while the Hu people covered the flames with sand. Although a few fires were lit, the flying tower was too large, and I don't know how long it would be before I wanted to burn it down.
In the blink of an eye, the flying tower leaned towards the city. With a loud bang, the city walls shook. The Hu people outside the city roared and cheered, like crazy, and hundreds of particularly fierce Hu soldiers killed the city along the flying bridge.
Although the flying bridge has been built as wide as possible, after all, the specifications are limited, and the soldiers have to be densely arranged, and even the wielding of weapons from side to side is restricted. The group that rushed to the forefront was immediately subjected to concentrated fire from the Jin army's bows and arrows.
Although these Hu people are wearing heavy armor, no matter how good the armor is, it cannot achieve full body protection after all, and it is inevitable that they will be hit by arrows if they are exposed to their faces, hands and feet outside the armor. The popping sound of arrows entering the flesh seemed to be a rapid sound, and more than ten Hu people fell to the ground seriously injured in an instant. Several Hu people staggered and fell off the flying bridge, and immediately fell into the mud under the city.
But the Hu soldiers behind did not hesitate at all, they rushed forward one after another, stepping on the fallen bodies of the front row and continuing to rush and kill, and even holding the corpses of the dead as shields to attack the city wall.
The Jin army immediately pushed the archers back, and replaced them with infantry armed with spears that overwhelmed the front line. They leaned on the walls of the city and used spears that were specially lengthened to three zhang to stab. Dozens of spears stabbed back and forth, like a rolling hedgehog in front of the flybridge. Although Hu Renzhu sacrificed his life and forgot to die, he had no way to think about it for a while.
At this moment, only a thunderbolt on the flying bridge was heard like a wild roar, and one of them jumped up from the crowd, flew over the city wall, and fell straight into the Jin army formation.
This man has a leopard head and eyes, a strong body, wearing double layers of heavy armor, and holding a strange-shaped machete. This machete has a thick back and a narrow blade, weighs at least twenty or thirty pounds, and has a thick iron chain with a length of a few feet on the handle, which can not only be used in close combat, but also in distance; When the cast was unfolded, the wind was blowing in a radius of several zhang. He wielded his broadsword and fought fiercely, and with each shot, he would shout at the same time. Everywhere he went, the Jin army was separated, flesh and blood were flying, and no one was his enemy.
The Jin army did not expect the enemy to be so fierce, and there was chaos for a while. In addition, the soldiers near the battlement had their backs to the enemy generals, but they were holding spears and it was inconvenient to rotate, so they were immediately killed and collapsed. The enemy rushed back and forth to kill him, and suddenly raised his head to the sky and howled. The Hu warriors on the flying tower responded with each other, and they all rushed and beat like madness. The Hun army under the city shouted wildly, and for a while, there was only a tsunami-like cry in my ears, and even the voices of the people around me were drowned out!
In a very short period of time, more than 30 Jin soldiers fell in this narrow city. The rest of the robes and brothers were red-eyed, and they were desperately entangled with the Hu people, but the Hu people were all the elites mobilized from tens of thousands of people this time, all of them were fierce warriors who were against hundreds of people, and under the leadership of the fierce enemy general, the number of dead and wounded of the Jin army rose sharply, and the defense line was crumbling.
However, for Lu Chang, the general defending the city, he was already numb, and such a situation was not enough to shake his calm attitude.
Lu Chang was not far away with more than 100 elite subordinates, but he never issued an order for reinforcements.
He observed the changes in the battle situation with an indifferent expression, constantly assessing the limits of the opposing sides. Compared with the almost endless army of the Huns under the city, the strength of the Jiexiu defenders was too thin. He had to make sure that every time he used his troops to stop the enemy's offensive, and that every Jin soldier who died in battle was worth sacrificing.
His strategy of defending the city was not simply to accumulate forces where the enemy was attacking, but to have a strong reserve and choose the right time to launch a tough counter-assault.
Although the losses of the former enemy were reported like snowflakes, his face remained unchanged at all, except for fiddling with some small pieces of wood scattered in front of him, occasionally taking one off...... This represented the loss of combat effectiveness of another full team of fifty. Four days ago, there were twenty-eight of them, but now there are only a dozen or so left.
Ding Miao stood beside Lu Chang and didn't pay attention to Lu Chang's movements at all. He held a strange halberd in each hand that shimmered silver, and danced from time to time, revealing a look of eagerness.
"Liu Qin, the general of the Huns, went into battle in person! The brothers can't stand it, replace me! In the midst of the deafening killing sound, Ding Miao shouted at Lu Chang.
The fierce Hun warrior is Liu Qin, the general of the Huns. This gentleman is a famous general of the Huns, comparable to ordinary generals, he is the noble race of the Huns slaughtering various tribes, and the Han King Liu Yuan is of the same clan. His people are brave and fierce, and they are often sharp in the whole army. Last year, when he fought a decisive battle with Ma Teng's state army of Dongying Company, he led a group of soldiers and horses to invite the Jin army, and within ten days, he broke through the quadruple camp, won ten battles and won ten victories, beheaded more than 10,000 people, and killed the Jin people trembling. With this great martial arts, he was awarded the title of "Wuya General". It can be said that his prestige is completely based on the sea of corpses and blood of the soldiers of the Jin army.
"Such a character can be my Ding Wenhao's opponent!" Ding Miao shouted loudly: "Brother Shize, your soldiers are also sent to death when they go up; Let them back away, and don't take my credit! ”
These words were undoubtedly kind, but when they came out of Ding Miao's mouth, they were not like that. As one of the best generals under the command of Yue Shigong, Ding Miao is brave and brave, and he speaks very quickly, often making his colleagues unable to get off the stage; It's really strange that this kind of character is very popular with the soldiers.
Fortunately, Lu Chang had long known Ding Miao's fetishes, but he didn't care about it. He was far older than Ding Miao, and the two had a good personal relationship, so he scolded: "Children talk nonsense!" Wait half a minute! ”
Ding Miao glared at Lu Chang fiercely, barely holding back the fighting spirit that was almost breaking through the Heavenly Spirit, and gritted his teeth and said, "Okay!" Good! Wait half a minute! ”
In this killing field, half a moment is simply a flash. Liu Qin still roared and slashed back and forth, slowly but inexorably expanding the space they occupied at the head of the city as he and his men fought to the death. At the same time, the pressure on them is mounting.
The Jin army sacrificed their lives to attack them on three sides, and the archers on both sides of the city wall almost frantically poured arrows into the flying tower, and some even stretched their bodies out of the battlements and fired them again and again, trying their best to prevent the Xiongnu reinforcements from landing in the city.
After all, the Hu people only have this flying tower, and under the dense shooting, a layer of corpses of Hu warriors has been laid on the top of the flying tower. At a certain point in time, the number of warriors who were able to go to the city to support suddenly and dramatically decreased.
Lu Chang shouted: "Ding Wenhao, it's up to you!" ”
Before the words fell, Ding Miao had already pounced. The halberds cut through the air and whistled sharply; The castration is as fierce as a stone projectile thrown by a stone machine.
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