Two simple arrow towers stood up outside the city, and dozens of soldiers with strong arms and skilled shooting skills climbed up, suppressing the firepower coverage of the defenders on the city’s top through rounds of shooting, disrupting their counterattack rhythm.
At the same time, the advancement on the ground continued. With the gap time gained by the offensive on the arrow tower, the sack full of earth and rocks were transported to the front line and piled up into the inner trenches that were already close to the city wall.
On the top of the city, Xu Wei, who saw the fences outside the city being filled and pushed down layer by layer, was also anxious.
As a veteran of Beizhen, he is better at Mercedes-Benz field battles, and he lacks unique insights and experience in the defense of the city bases. In the current battle, he can only make regular responses, and there are no strange and effective strategies that are beyond the norm.
The defenders on the top of the city saw that although the enemy outside the city was blocked from the defense, they were still advancing rapidly and steadily, but they had no means to stop them, and they were in a very nervous mood.
In addition, the cavalry team that rushed out of the east of the city was defeated and retreated by the enemy, which further aggravated the worry of the guards and made the atmosphere in the city more solemn.
Compared with the fierce and arduous battle, this tension and solemn atmosphere actually cause a serious loss of morale. What is more tormenting than being in suffering is that you know that suffering will come soon but you are unable to turn it around, which will make you lose your goal and lose your fighting spirit.
Therefore, all famous generals who are good at wall defense must not only be proficient in various offensive and defensive tactics, but also know how to grasp and inspire the emotions of the soldiers under their command. Not everyone has the kind of calmness that is not sarcastic when facing the siege of the enemy several times or even dozens of times, it is already a courage to not be scared to the point of being sore in the waist and knees. It is even more courageous to be able to hold the swords and guns tightly and persist in fighting.
Morale suppression is a very mysterious thing, and it is difficult to explain clearly through words. It is often necessary for generals who are in command to feel and judge. But when the naked eye can judge it through some signs, it means that the situation is already very serious.
Li Tai saw that whenever the arrow tower shot out, regardless of whether the defenders on the city were covered or not, they all shrank in the back of the city shelter for several breaths, just like the frequent urination man who was walking back between the workstation and the toilet.
So he formed a distinct formation in front and back, and advanced in batches, and the newly created siege equipment such as the rushing ladder were also sent to the front.
This overlap of stress is very effective and can continuously hit and reduce people’s expectations of their own situation and destiny. The defenders on the top of the city showed signs of shock, either unremitting bows and shooting, or shouting loudly to throw down wood and stone and other objects that resisted the enemy.
This is the psychological pressure that has reached a limit, had to use some meaningless actions to make signs of venting.
In fact, the best way to solve fear is not to face fear directly. Gather all the troops guarding the city on the city wall and see the enemy gradually advancing. It is like letting the death row prisoner look up at the guillotine and land slowly and inch by inch. It is better to arrange various tasks for them to get busy. This seems to be maintaining their physical strength, but in fact it is overdrawing morale.
Xu Wei, the general on the top of the city, also noticed the negative of the soldiers, so he shouted loudly: “Previously, the cavalry had left the city, and several soldiers had successfully broken through the thief army and asked Guancheng for reinforcements. When you hold on for a while, the reinforcements in Guancheng will arrive soon!”
As soon as this was said, the faces of the defenders on the top of the city improved slightly. Another guard down looked down and saw the enemy pushing another trench. He couldn’t help sighing with regret: “Before, we should have dug a few more trenches, so that the reinforcements will arrive before the trenches approached the city!”
This is also meaningless nonsense. If they can dig the trenches all the way to the bottom of Tongguan, the Western thieves will step by step and bump as long as they come out of the city, and they will be even more trenches. I’m afraid they can’t advance in this life.
Nearly two hours after the two sides started fighting, the layers of fortifications set up by the defenders in the city were finally leveled, and the siege men could reach the city directly.
Li Tai immediately led the two thousand troops who had been raising their strength in the back road and rushed forward. The soldiers rushed forward with large shields, covering the rear robes to send the siege equipment forward. At the same time, the crossbowmen formed a battle formation and shot fiercely at the top of the city.
Soon the loss of space under the city wall was like snowflakes flying all over the sky. From a distance, I looked like a group of floaters. Most of the loss would be lost, but the atmosphere created was enough to make people scared.
Some large shields seemed to have a hedgehog with a erect edge when they rushed under the enemy city wall. The strong soldiers supporting the shield were even more shocked because of the continuous fall and impact of the arrows. But at this moment, they are still extremely dangerous. They still need to launch a new offensive as soon as possible and strive to reverse this situation where they are passively beaten but have no way to fight back.
With the joint efforts of everyone, two ladders transformed from grain trucks rushed to the city wall. At the same time, many simple ladders were also placed outside the city wall.
The two arrow towers were struggling to shoot at the enemy’s city wall. At the same time, the two teams of cavalry who had already been on standby on the battlefield also ran around the city wall and kept shooting at the top of the city.
Under the suppression of these two rounds of long-range firepower, the defenders on the city’s front suddenly stopped, which gave the siege soldiers under the city a chance, and climbed up the ladder along the ladder with a short spear in their hands.
The defenders on the city were able to detect the climbing of the enemy soldiers through the trembling of the city wall, but because the enemy lost and covered too hard, they could not stand up on the city wall. The commander shouted and remindedThen, they suddenly remembered that they had big shields that were dealing with this situation, and they stood up against the big shields, stabbed down with guns and spears to the enemy.
At this point in the battle, any tricks are useless. What is being competed is the willpower of the soldiers on both sides.
As the defenders at the city wall resumed an organized counterattack, a large number of wood, sand and gravel were thrown down from the city wall. Even with armor and shields, the huge force could not be offset. Therefore, many siege soldiers on the ladder fell down one after another, and the hooks thrown on the city wall were constantly cut off, and few soldiers could rush to the city wall.
But this round of attack was not completely fruitless. Under this cover, the two rushers successfully rushed to the enemy’s city gate and hit the city gate violently.
Accompanied by the sound of muffled thunder, the entire city tower trembled, and the weathered soil layer outside the rammed earth wall continued to peel off. The defenders on the top of the city also became panicked by the trembling feeling from their feet, living up to their previous courage.
“Continue to attack, the first one will reward you!”
Liang Shiyan, who was supervising the battle in front of the formation, took this opportunity to shout loudly. This time, dozens of spear-cars were selected to rush into the cloud car, and while thrusting the defenders at the top of the city, climbing upwards as if they were flying. He quickly jumped along the gap that the spear had broken out of the spear, blocking the crackling stings, killing the enemy troops who were swarming in front of them, fighting for a foothold for the robes behind him.
“Beat the drum, attack with force!”
Li Tai was immediately happy when he saw that the front had already attacked the city. He quickly waved his hand and ordered, and asked the reserve soldiers to join the attack, and to capture the city in one go.
The head of the city was seized by the enemy. Xu Wei, the general guarding the city, also complained in his heart. While waving his sword, he stopped the retreating soldiers, he organized an elite team to personally lead his troops to rush back and kill the enemy troops who rushed up to the city. However, his morale was sluggish and the situation was even worse, and all kinds of efforts had little effect.
However, at this moment, a sound of horses galloping horses suddenly came from the direction of the east river valley of Chengdong. After hearing this sound, Xu Wei in Zhencheng was stunned at first, and after a moment, he suddenly burst into laughter and shouted to his subordinates: “It is reinforcements and reinforcements coming! There are no horses in the east thief army in the east, so it must be reinforcements coming! Guys, guard the city wall and kill these thief army!”