Chapter 1059: Snowballing Growth (14)
The guards inside the castle only panicked, but quickly quieted down, and the people outside were only surprised and calmed down. After cheering even more, the Kurokawa army also fell into calm.
Because, very simply, the gates of the castles of this world are more difficult to attack than the other, and it can be said that the outermost gate is the weakest one in the entire city defense system.
That's right, the core of this world's city defense is layers of resistance, and the castle tower of the main city can continue to resist, and the more it shrinks to the side of the castle tower, the thicker, stronger and more difficult the defense of each level will be. When you get to the castle tower, it's as difficult as entering a narrow labyrinth.
This is a headache for the besieging side, and even a lot of siege battles have already entered the castle tower, and the defenders can still hold on, and really hold on until the reinforcements arrive, but instead the besieging side is wiped out in front and back, and there are endless examples of magical battles from imminent destruction to great victory.
Therefore, unless the castle tower is captured, the defending side is not a defeat at all, and the same is true for the besieging side, unless the other side surrenders or the castle tower is breached, so that the castle is truly defeated.
Because of these, breaking the city gate at the beginning is not a big deal at all, and it can only be regarded as the current chance of victory is temporarily on Zhang Zhongjun's side.
Although it seems that the trend is obvious, no one dares to say that the Kurokawa family has won, even if the Kurokawa family has 50,000 cavalry, and even has entered the first gate of Boyang Town, but still no one dares to say that the Kurokawa family has won.
Because no one knows what means a martial artist has to press the bottom of the box, and no one knows if any neurotic will suddenly lead an army to the rescue. This kind of thing can be seen many times in history! Sometimes, when they know that the other party has been cut off from foreign aid, they just wait for death, but they don't expect that the former enemy actually tried their best to help, and after success, these two feuds actually became the World Alliance.
In this world, in war, no one dares to say who won and who lost until the final result came out.
Especially now, don't look at the inner castle surrounded by the Kurokawa army, but every time you enter a city gate, the area inside will be reduced by half, and then the passage will be restricted, and the terrain will be more and more precipitous. Because a lot of awesome siege equipment and a large number of people can only be used in the outermost gates, the more you get to the back, the more you can only rely on the personal bravery of the soldiers.
Now the Kurokawa army is blocked by the second city gate, the gap between the second city gate and the first city gate, although it can accommodate a lot of people, and there are still a lot of farmland, shops and other facilities in it, but 50,000 cavalry really can't pour in, looking at this way, it can only accommodate 10,000 soldiers at most.
There was nothing they could do about it, so officers at all levels had to order the troops that were still coming from behind to stop and withdraw, and the siege warfare could only rely on the rotation system. No, don't look at the tens of thousands of people crowded in front, but the people who can really exchange fire with the city gates on the second floor are only about 100 people on one side, and everyone else is watching from behind, and the soldiers crowded in the second gate are all like this, not to mention the 40,000 soldiers who have not yet poured in behind.
Looking at the scene of the siege battle, Zhang Zhongjun was a little speechless, this kind of city gate built on a steep mountain road is really not so easy to attack, just look at these two gates to know that each attack can only be about a hundred people, and it is already a three-layer attack, only about a hundred people.
And the defenders on the city gate only need dozens of people to easily defend it, after all, bows and arrows are not very harmful to the defenders, but to the engineers.
Even if Zhang Zhongjun's side was fully armed, and the rain of arrows he suffered bounced off the armor and shield, the attacks such as rolling stones and rolling trees could not be stopped, so casualties had already appeared.
Zhang Zhongjun turned his head to look at the five thousand soldiers he had picked out before, all of them looked tired, and couldn't help waving his hand, letting them out to rest, and then asking people to prepare the troops for a queue of 2,000 people.
Seeing Zhang Zhongjun walking into one of the queues with the Four Heavenly Kings, everyone couldn't help but feel a surge of hope and watched with a bang.
Zhang Zhongjun's mind moved, and a faint military aura spread from him, and soon enveloped this team of 2,000 people, and when the military qi penetrated into the small soldiers, the small soldiers also felt it, and this feeling made them naturally have a mentality of serving their lives together.
As soon as this mentality appeared, the originally very weak military qi naturally began to come, and then quickly condensed into a cloud of qi above the head.
Of course, this qi cloud was only a faint red color, and the concentration was also very low, which could not be compared to the qi cloud condensed by the five thousand elites before.
But in any case, this is also a military qi cloud, but any army that can condense the qi cloud belongs to the elite, which is well known, and as long as the chief officer knows how to do it, this military qi cloud can play a role even if it is weak.
Those who know how to read qi can't help but be a little sluggish after seeing Zhang Zhongjun condense his military qi again: "Isn't it, can it be like this? Won't he get tired? He only controlled the military qi of 5,000 people before, and now he actually controls the military qi of 2,000 people?"
With the chirping of these people, the cloud qi of the two thousand people began to condense into an arrow again, and they were still guarding the city gate before, and they dared to make all kinds of insulting poses at the Kurokawa army, cursing the soldiers of Boyang Town of the Kurokawa army, although most of them have no ability to see qi, but there are always one or two of so many people who have this ability, right?
As soon as they saw the shadow of the arrow that had been condensed, they immediately remembered the terrifying scene when the middle gate was blown open by this kind of military arrow in one blow, and they were immediately frightened and hurriedly fled backwards.
And since they are one of the very few people who can see the military spirit, their status must be very high among these guards, and the appearance of them fleeing in terror does not need to be said to have played a leading role. Although the other soldiers didn't know what was going on, they also hurriedly fled.
Just when some people angrily stopped those few people who could be angry, and were about to reprimand them for knowing that their side had an advantage, and they were not ready to surrender to the Kurokawa army because Mao wanted to flee, the shadow of the military spirit arrow of the two thousand people fell like this.
Rumbling a series of loud noises, these city defenders were all blown by the air waves and rolled all over the ground, dizzy and dizzy to get up and turn their heads to see, the city gate they guarded before had become a ruin, countless Kurokawa soldiers were roaring and rushing in, looking at this scene, naturally they didn't want to think about it, and ran towards the third city gate with a scream.