Chapter 874: Heavenly Ladder

(Thank you niuyutu, your eyes are a little bad for your support, thank you!) )

Abaoji clearly felt the weakening of the long-range fire support from behind him, and the Qin army on the head of the city suddenly became fierce again. He heard his commander shouting loudly from above: "The southern barbarians are crazy, resist everyone and follow up!" He hurriedly shouted: "Resist, rush up!" "Use your hands and feet together, and climb quickly.

Then the situation was worse than expected, overhead, the screaming sound of the huge bomb dropped from the city as it swept through the air, making Abaoji feel his scalp tighten for a while.

"The sun god is above!" He silently read in his heart, not daring to look back. But with the violent explosion behind him, as well as the abrupt support of the Stonehenge, he knew that the Southern Barbarians were even more cunning than they imagined, and their initial artillery array was not full strength. They lost again, and the catapults, which numbered 500, were all finished. However, there are at least half of the Qin people's giant cannons, at least exceeding the initial number.

He gritted his teeth and climbed up at a faster pace.

The sound of the boulder falling to the ground and the bursting of explosives kept coming behind him, and the huge fear made him more and more determined, if he couldn't capture Yunzhou, those of them on the ladder would never live to see the sun tomorrow.

Even if he was a child, he was told that he was conceived by swallowing the sun in his mother's dream, and that he was the son of the sun.

Among the Khitan people, the sun is the highest god. Khitan, the original meaning is the meaning of the oriental sun god, and the Khitan country. It is the country of the sun gods of the East. Khitan. It is the Eastern Sun God Clan. He was born from his mother swallowing the sun, and he was the son of the sun.

But God will fall, let alone on this battlefield where arrows fly.

There is no way back for them.

The other warriors may have chosen to continue the fight later, but for him and his tart tribe, this is the decisive battle.

Victory or death.

He felt that the camp of the guards composed of the bravest warriors of the tribes was also beginning to waver a little, and there was no retreat. Rushing forward, rushing to the city in one breath may still have the possibility of survival, but at this time retreating, the only difference between them is the difference between dying at the head of the city and dying at the foot of the city wall.

"Whoever ascends to the top of the city first will be rewarded with five hundred taels of gold!"

There must be brave men under the heavy reward, Abaoji is young, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't have insight into people's hearts. Five hundred taels of gold, which is almost equivalent to the four thousand guan money on the side of the Southern Barbarian, is still the most credible Qin Man's Flying Tiger copper coin. That's enough money to buy a hundred horses. Or five hundred cows, and even a few stout slave girls. Live the rest of your life peacefully.

The warriors, who had been a little hesitant, were immediately encouraged when they heard this reward, and one by one they shouted, put their swords in their mouths, and used their hands and feet together, and climbed up quickly.

It's a pity that the effect of money is only for a short time.

I heard a scream of "ah-" from the ground, and the commander who rushed to the top was hit by a piece of wood and fell down the ladder several feet high. Before his brain could react, he heard another scream, and a tribal warrior was drenched in boiling water, and immediately could not hold the ladder, and fell from it

Screams came one after another, coming from the surrounding ladders.

The most tragic thing is that there is a Goguryeo warrior on a cloud ladder, first by the people at the head of the city with the gold juice boiled into the dung, the thick and disgusting smell of the gold juice is extremely hot, more powerful than boiling water and boiling oil, once it is drenched, it sticks to it, not only will it cause great burns, but the biggest harm is that the gold juice is poisonous. Even if you don't die at that time, it's hard to survive.

The Goguryeo warriors were drenched in gold juice, followed by a bucket of boiling oil, and then rockets were fired, and the entire ladder burst into flames. The fire burned so fast that the samurai were either burned to death or fell to death, one after another fierce warriors fell from the ladder screaming with their whole bodies burning, and some even fell down and did not die, they were still scurrying around, and even ignited the ladder next to them.

"Son of a bitch!"

Abaoji's eyes were full of blood-red, and it was really time to fight hard.

Hu Ren's tall cloud car was still moving slowly behind at this time. These cloud carts are extremely tall, but they are also extremely heavy, and even if a group of warriors hide behind them and push them, they are still as slow as snails. The soldiers pushing the cart under the cart are mostly old and weak, and the soldiers on the roof of the cart are the elite warriors of various tribes. They held their breath, their armor on their armour, their shields in hand, their bows and arrows, and waited for their chariots to approach the walls.

Reinhardt was on a cloud cart at this time, he was a ruined aristocrat of the Roman Empire far away from the West, because after hearing the tempting news spread by the sea-going merchants who came from the East that the East was a golden country, a paradise of freedom, and so on, he had the idea of coming to the East to adventure. However, he couldn't afford the boat fare from Rome to the Tang Dynasty, so he finally chose to travel by land and follow the Silk Road to the East. Along the way, I crossed the mountains and mountains, and finally reached the east with great difficulty, but before I entered the border of the Tang Dynasty, I was robbed by a warrior of the grassland tribe, and even the entire caravan became a prisoner.

Later, he was sold to the Khitan several times and became a Khitan slave. By chance, because his ancestors had also led soldiers, he also had some skills in cavalry and archery, and he could also draw some war equipment, which was finally appreciated by his master and made him a craftsman leader.

Most of these instruments of the Khitan people this time were built under his command. It's a pity that just now he not only failed to defeat the Qin people's giant cannon, but was retaliated by the Qin people and destroyed his own artillery array. In a fit of rage, Jerushorus let him board the carriage and let him go to the battlefield to tear him up in order to atone for his sins.

From the building car, you can clearly see every move on the head of Yunzhou City.

The Qin people were carrying large iron cylinders up to the city, and he could see at once that these were the flying thunder cannons that had been used at several critical moments in the previous battles. This cannon has a short firing interval, a long duration and, most importantly, lightness. Comes with an explosives pack. But it's amazingly powerful. Especially against a large-scale siege of soldiers and horses, the more people, the greater the power. The only drawback is that the accuracy is slightly worse, but in the face of tens of thousands of siegers, the accuracy is no longer important, because if you shoot casually, you can always hit the enemy group.

In addition to these flying thunder cannons, he also saw the many corner towers and arrow towers at the head of the city. There are also people waving flags.

He immediately thought of what he had said in the notebook left by his father, in the battle of attacking and defending the city. The side defending the city generally places the huge catapult in the city, which cannot be placed on the head of the city, and secondly, it can protect the catapult in the city, so that the enemy does not know the location of the road. Therefore, it was necessary to arrange for men to be at the head of the city, responsible for observing and directing the azimuth distance of the projectile with the flag. If there is no one to command, no matter how powerful the catapult is, he will be blind.

Reinhardt became excited. He said to the cameo archers who were sent to charge like him: "Look carefully, don't care about anything else for a while." Just stare at those who wave the red and blue flags, and shoot them. ”

Reinhardt said as he picked up the double heavy crossbow in his hand, but he opened his mouth alone, aimed at one of the standard-bearers on the wall, and with a whoosh crossbow, the standard-bearer had already been knocked down.

The gunners on the building immediately understood, and began to hold crossbow bows and arrows to block the standard-bearers who commanded the attacks of the ballistae and giant cannons in the city. The other Hu people on the cloud car also immediately noticed the movement here, and immediately understood it, and they did the same. For a moment, as soon as the standard-bearers on the head of the city showed their heads, several arrows would be fired at the same time almost immediately. By the time Song Jirong received the report, dozens of heralds had already fallen. Song Jirong immediately understood the other party's plan, and hurriedly asked them to come down from the conspicuous corner tower arrow tower, close behind the female wall, observe from the battlement, only expose the flag, and continue to command.

This time, even a sharpshooter like Reinhardt on the cloud car was helpless.

"Heavy ballista carts, catapults, aim at those cloud carts for Lao Tzu, and hit them hard!" Cui Decheng jumped to his feet and scolded, as soon as he showed his head, he immediately attracted several bows and arrows to block it, and there was a clanging sound, fortunately, he was wearing an inner armor, a plate armor jacket, and a rope armor, which was fine, but it really scared him a lot, and he hurriedly squatted down.

Reinhardt, who was on the cloud car outside the city, saw that an arrow shot the other party's guy who was obviously a general, and he didn't know if Lu Dao had been shot, and when he was showing off his laughter, he suddenly found several stone bullets whistling. Kankan brushed their cloud cart past, they didn't have anything to do, but there was a cloud cart next to it that was smashed and immediately burned, and the other party threw not stone bombs, but oil bombs. Reinhardt recognized it at once, "It's Greek fire!" ”

He wiped his forehead, he didn't expect that the secret of the royal family of the Eastern Roman Empire would actually appear on this battlefield in the East. As a Roman, he knew the power of this Greek fire, and he would die if he touched it, and he would die if he touched it.

The cloud cart quickly burned and broke off in the middle and collapsed, and dozens of Hu warriors on it caught fire one after another, screaming and jumping from the air. The soldiers who were hiding in the cart below also shouted in horror and fled in all directions.

Then, there were several loud rumbling noises, and several of Hu's cloud carts were hit and smashed into piles of wood.

The few remaining catapults and heavy crossbows of the Hu people also began to return fire, but the advantage of the Qin army as a defender was fully reflected at this time. They lived high in the city, and it was protected by walls, especially those catapults and ballistas, which were placed in the city, and the attacks of the Hu people did not really hit the target. On the contrary, as soon as they attacked, they immediately attracted retaliatory fire from the Qin army's stone bullets, crossbow spears, fireballs, and bombs.

The climbing troops that were rushing to the top of the city were weakened by the support of long-range weapons in the rear, and the situation immediately became more difficult.

The Song army at the head of the city shot down rows of crossbow arrows, and from time to time there were a few thunderbolts and earth-shattering thunder, plus those people also followed behind pouring boiling water, pouring boiling water, pouring gold juice, throwing rolling stones, and putting wood, which really exhausted the various advantages of defense, and it was clear that the Hu people attacked the city with a tenfold advantage in numbers, but they were suppressed by the defenders of the city step by step.

Abaoji and their city-climbing troops, for most of the day, could only climb up repeatedly, and they were knocked down halfway up, or they finally rushed up, and then they were knocked down. If you are lucky, you will only hurt your arms and legs if you fall, but if you are unlucky, you will fall directly into a pulp.

Abaoji felt as if he was climbing a ladder, and he had been trying hard to climb up, but there was never an end. (To be continued......)