Chapter 985: Mobilization (1)
The Jin people did not sit still, their catapults bombarded the Wei army's catapult array almost at the same time, and fireballs rose in the Wei army's catapult array.
The bombardment of the two sides lasted for nearly an hour, the roar of the Wei army's catapults was still the same, and the Jin people's catapults were basically dumb, the vast majority of the Jin country's catapults were basically destroyed in the kind of unfettered barbaric confrontation just now, and the Wei army also lost many catapults, but the number of the Wei army's catapults was several times that of the Jin people, so it had little impact.
The Wei army's catapults continued to sweep on the city wall of the Jin people, and after half an hour, the front of the Jin city wall was full of potholes, which were all potholes smashed out by stone bullets, and only the lower half of the city gate tower was left, and the wall buttresses and a small piece of the wall below had collapsed in some places.
The red flag on the command tower pointed forward, and the 30,000 troops of the First Army shouted violently, pushing all kinds of siege equipment towards the city wall.
At this time, there seemed to be no movement on the walls of the Jin Kingdom, as if everyone had died in the previous bombardment.
The Wei army advanced to a place only two hundred steps away from the city wall, and there was still no movement on the city wall.
When the Wei army advanced to a place only fifty paces away from the city wall, countless Jin archers seemed to appear out of thin air, and suddenly released a dense rain of arrows.
Fortunately, the officers and men of the First Legion did not take it lightly, and the tower shield and sword shield men guarded the entire assault force step by step.
The rain of arrows crackled on the shield, just as the rain hit a banana leaf, and occasionally Wei soldiers were knocked to the ground by arrows that passed through the gaps in the shields.
Immediately, the tower shield behind the Wei army was spread, and thousands of Wei army strong crossbowmen showed their figures, and with a strong sound, a puff of arrows roared towards the city, and nearly a hundred Jin archers who had no time to dodge were shot to the ground.
In the moment before the Jin archers retaliated, the strong crossbowmen of the Wei army quickly retracted into the protection of the tower shield, from appearing, attacking to re-hiding, the whole action was like a cloud of water, it can be seen that these Wei troops are not only well-trained, but also battle-hardened, and they are definitely the iron-blooded elite that the Wei army is proud of.
The rain of arrows of the Jin people fell again, and the result was no different from the first wave of attacks, most of the arrows hit the shields of the Wei army, and only a few were favored by the goddess of luck through the gaps between the shields and were captured, which made the Jin soldiers a little crazy.
The Wei army approached the city wall, and climbed the city ladder and flew up one after another, and then the Wei soldiers rushed to the city wall.
Barrels of boiling oil poured down, and the wood and stones were like waterfalls, and in this case, the Wei soldiers could only hold on to it.
A Wei soldier was about to climb the city, but was smashed down by a falling log, and when a knife soldier climbed to the middle of the ladder, he was suddenly drenched from head to foot by boiling oil, and he couldn't help but let out a scream, and his whole body sat down to the side, and at the last moment, his left hand grabbed the foot of the ladder, but only lasted for a moment before falling.
A Wei soldier whose face was burned with boiling oil finally climbed to the top of the city, several spears stabbed at him almost at the same time, the blood flashed, and the two spears pierced his body, he actually held the barrel of the gun and shouted, the barrier knife violently cut off the two spears that pierced his body, and then flew up, the barrier knife pierced the body of a Jin soldier, and he pushed the Jin soldier to break out of the encirclement and fall down from the other side of the city wall.
The Wei soldiers who rushed to the city wall fell one by one in the fierce fighting, and finally dozens of Wei soldiers made a bridgehead position on the western section of the city wall near the city gate.
The Wei soldiers immediately converged on this side, but the strong attack from other directions did not weaken.
"General, no! The Wei army occupied a bridgehead! A bloodied officer rushed to Tokhtobuhua to report.
Totobuhua was taken aback: "How is it possible?!" ”
The officer showed a hint of fear: "None of them are afraid of death!" I've never seen anything like this!! ”
Totoku frowned and shouted: "It's just a bridgehead, what are you panicking about!" Order the hidden catapult to Ben to fight! ”
"Your Majesty, look!!" Ma Chao pointed to the firing position on the city wall.
Cao Cao looked in the direction that Ma Chao pointed, and saw more than a dozen catapults actually appear on the firing position, which protruded five to ten meters from the city wall, so the small catapults and strong crossbows of the Jin Kingdom on this could bombard the enemy troops attacking the city wall under the city wall more accurately.
Cao Cao frowned, "Quick!" Let the catapult knock them out!! ”
However, Cao Cao's voice just fell. The catapults of the Jin people rang out, and the whistling stone bullets fell into the Wei soldiers under the city, and more than a dozen Wei soldiers were stoned to death and burned to death!
Stone bullets continued to fall into the Wei army. In the blink of an eye, more than 100 Wei soldiers fell, but in this case, the Wei army did not panic, they immediately dispersed, and at the same time the crossbowmen changed direction to suppress the shooting positions on the city wall, and the Wei army that attacked the city wall still attacked the city wall, but the momentum of the attack was obviously affected, and in this case, the general army was only afraid that it had been chaotic.
The Wei crossbowmen counterattacked at the first moment of attack, and the arrows whizzed past, only to see several Jin army slingers screaming and falling from the city wall.
The Wei army's catapults began to counterattack, and the whistling sound of stone bullets tore through all the noise on the battlefield, and then pillars of smoke and fireballs rose one after another.
The Wei catapults continued to fire, but the Jin catapults were still spewing flames intermittently at the siege troops beneath the city walls.
Cao Cao frowned as he looked at the soldiers who were constantly being engulfed by enemy artillery fire.
"Order the catapult to take fifty steps forward and bombard the enemy's city defense indiscriminately! Leave a small squad to continue suppressing! Cao Cao ordered.
Hundreds of heavy catapults slowly advanced under the drag of the soldiers, advanced fifty paces and re-arrayed, and then the roar of the catapults sounded again, and the stone bullets like a meteor shower whistled over the city walls, followed by pillars of smoke and flames along with debris and stumps rising in succession.
This caught the Jin **** who was reinforcing the city wall by surprise, and the Jin **** soldiers hid on the spot.
At the same time, the Wei siege forces continued to storm the city walls, braving the enemy's "artillery fire" against the falling wood and stones that kept falling from the walls.
The soldiers of the First Army of the Wei Army sacrificed their lives and forgot to die. The roar resounded through the sky.
About half an hour later. The Wei army had already occupied five bridgehead positions.
The battle was very tragic! I saw that the corpses of the soldiers on both sides of the city wall were accumulating like a mountain. Blood stained the entire wall mottled red. Broken ladders and flying cuddles burned. However, the fierce fighting continued. Roars, sonorous sounds, and screams rang out. Blood rolled in the air, and the color of blood met the cold sword light.
There was no way out, and Totobuhua ordered the Blue Wolf Legion as a reserve to enter the battlefield, and Totobuhua originally didn't expect to put the Blue Wolf Legion into the battlefield so early on the first day! (To be continued.) )